Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Report of the thirty-fifth annual dinner of the Boston Bi Club at the Rathskellar of the Copley Square Hotel on Saturday, February 10th, where Abbot Bassett was made guest of honor for his twenty-fifth year as Secretary of the L. A. W. and new "Wheel About the Hub" souvenir badges were distributed.
- Abbot Bassett's verse, offered in response at the Boston Bi Club dinner, naming a "Big Four" of the club's worthies for a Hall of Fame: Charles Edward Pratt, Ned Hodges, Everett, and the English-born Weston.
- Tribute verses to Abbot Bassett read at the dinner, one by Quincy Kilby (unable to attend through sickness) and another sent by Lawson of New York, toasting his long service to the wheelmen and the B. Bi. Club.
- A poem by W. H. Field of Green Bay, Wis., fondly recalling the old L. A. W. and its "Bulletin" edited by Bassett, alongside men such as Pope and Potter.
- Account of the New Haven Bicycle Club Veteran Association's interest in the fate of its late member John M. Verhoeff, lost in a glacier on Peary's expedition, quoting reply letters from Commodore Peary and Dr. F. A. Cook and the club's plans to erect a monument.
- Obituary notices for L. A. W. members: John F. Clarke (no. 432) of Great Kills, N. Y., long Secretary-Treasurer of the New York Division, who died Oct. 18, 1911; Walter S. Cox of Philadelphia (no. 796); and Mrs. Theodore A. Zimmerman.
- Notice from L. A. W. President Fred Atwater of Bridgeport, Conn., declaring the nominated Representatives duly elected without a mail ballot and urging members to attend the National Assembly at Boston on September 12th, 1912.