Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The February 1913 opening editorial notes mark the winter cycling lull, recall that the first L.A.W. president also led the Boston Bicycle Club, and report O'Reilley organizing a party of English wheelmen to visit Boston in the fall of 1913.
- A rebuttal to H. H. Griffin's charge of "spoof dates" in L.A.W. accounts of early American bicycle racing, arguing that velocipede rink races (such as the 1868 Empire City Rink meeting) should not count and citing Pierre Lallement, Alfred D. Chandler and the 1878 Harvard race at Beacon Park.
- Obituary of William Boone Eldred, a descendant of Daniel Boone, who died Jan. 19 aged 87 after taking up cycling at 70 and riding some 20,000 miles in 17 years while crediting molasses and open-air exercise for his long health.
- A comic Valentine poem in which a suitor's lady accepts his proposal only once he reveals he has half a million.
- Report of the Boston Bicycle Club's annual meeting at the Dreyfus restaurant on Jan. 8, electing Quincy Kilby president, W. G. Kendall captain and Augustus Nickerson secretary-treasurer, with notes on the Newton Bicycle Club dinner and R. J. Mecredy's silver-wedding banquet in Dublin.
- Obituary of Harry C. G. Ellard of Cincinnati, an L.A.W. life member since 1890 known as the "Cowboy Poet" and "Poet Lariat," who died Jan. 3 and was noted for his Western verse and baseball books including a history of the old Red Stockings.
- A mock-archaic comic ballad, attributed to discovery by Quincy Kilby, recounting a century ride by the Old Men's Club of Boston from Boston to Providence by way of North Attleboro, Pawtucket and Allston.
- A state-by-state list of delegates nominated for the L.A.W. National Assembly, certified by Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett.