Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prominent Wheelmen, and Bicycle Club Directory, of Massachusetts, 1894 In attempting a work of this kind, the publishers are aware that they are undertaking something that has never been done before, and therefore may be liable to criticism, for many reasons and from various sources. We judge a man's title to prominence by his intrinsic worth more than by the position he may hold, and yet it can be truthfully said that the men whom we read about in the affairs of cycling in Massachusetts, deserve all the prominence they receive; sometimes they deserve more credit than they actually get. In this work we have tried to be only fair and just to all concerned. Not a word has been said in any man's favor that we have not felt its justice, and we deem ourselves only doing justice to the trade and the sport, in the compilation of this work, to write as we have written. We are aware that more can be said in regard to cycling affairs in this state than we have inserted in this book, but as we intend to have an edition out each year, that which we have not in this edition, and which may be of interest to wheelmen, in Massachusetts especially, shall appear in a future work. 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.