Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 3
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
May birthday greetings celebrating the thirty-second anniversary of the League's founding, with reflections on the late John Jacob Astor's generosity to wheelmen and his donation to the Good Roads fund.
- p. 2
A report on the Detroit Wheelmen's annual dinner for 150 members, featuring a green-draped billiard room, flowers, and witty speeches from several prominent cycling figures.
- p. 5
An account of the annual dinner of the Rovers Cycle Club of Charlestown, now the oldest active L.A.W. club, with toasts, Irish and Scottish dialect stories, and the election of new officers.
- p. 3
A note on the Newton Bicycle Club's 30th annual meeting and 207th dinner, at which every member was required to make a speech, sing a song, or tell a story.
- p. 6
A humorous dialect poem by Chas. Follén Adams questioning the old proverb that man is the sturdy oak and woman the clinging vine, arguing that women frequently provide the real support in hardship.
- p. 7
George D. Gideon of Philadelphia recounts his experience racing against English cyclists William Smith and Cuthbert Vesey in a gruelling New York 50-mile race in December 1881.
- p. 4
A brief note on the annual vaudeville smoker hosted by the Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia, drawing 125 members for songs, stories, and a congenial evening.