"A nation-wide bicycle club, the League of American Wheelmen, was formed... 1880... through... efforts of ... and Charles Pratt. ...[T]he influence of its numbers [above 100,000] was an effective promoter of good roads."
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catalog_of_the_Cycle_Collection_(Smithsonian_Bulletin_204)