The Yonkers Motorcycle Club served as a civil defense messenger service during the earlier part of the 1900s delivering messages to various government officials throughout the country.

An article taken from the Boston Daily Globe March 11, 1921, titled Cyclists Return After Call on Vice President, describes the journey that George A. Ellis and Henry E Andrews made when they left Boston on a Sunday morning at 9 o'clock am, bearing a message from Gov.Cox to Vice President Coolidge.

They completed their first leg of the journey, a distance of 510 miles, in 22 hours and 45 minutes, arriving in Washington Monday morning.

They left Washington at 8' o'clock Tuesday morning, and stopped at Ellis' home, Yonkers, en route to Boston.

↑Boston Daily Globe Boston, United States of America March 11, 1921 Category: Other Articles