Excerpt from Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, 1918, Vol. 16 With this issue we greet the opening of the New Year. We turn from the dead past of 1917 With all its joys and sorrows, to the living present and the future. 'the year that has passed has been one of horror and tragedy, Would that we might hope for better things to come in 1918. We are presenting a few of the incidents of 1917 so far as they relate to cycling and its followers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.