Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Opening editorial leader for the May 1912 birthday issue, noting the League's 32 years, John Jacob Astor's past support of wheelmen, and members such as Thomas H. Hall and Robert D. Mead of Newark, who reports 91,000 miles.
- Report of the Detroit Wheelmen's 33rd annual banquet, attended by 150, with speakers including Horatio S. Earle, Edward Hines, A. H. Griffith and society president William H. Steger.
- Account of the Rovers Cycle Club of Charlestown, Mass. holding its annual banquet at the Boston Athletic Club on April 27th, with guests including Quincy Kilby and Abbot Bassett, and the election of officers led by President Thomas H. Hall.
- Report of the Newton Bicycle Club's 30th annual meeting and 207th dinner at the Dreyfus hostelry, Boston, on April 6th, where officers were elected including President Herbert A. Fuller and Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett.
- A German-dialect comic poem by Chas. Follen Adams contrasting the supposedly sturdy oak (man) and the clinging vine (woman).
- George D. Gideon of Philadelphia recounts racing English riders William Smith and C. D. Vesey, leading into an account of Jack Keen's and John S. Prince's 1881 championship races in New York and Boston against Lewis T. Frye and others.
- A column of one-line epigrams and puns on love, marriage, poverty, motoring and roads.