Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 7
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
An enthusiastic welcome for September as the finest cycling month of the year, with a call for those who have not yet ridden this season to get on their wheels.
- p. 2
A brief philosophical note distinguishing between those who ride a bicycle under their own power and those who drive a motor-propelled machine, arguing the distinction merits separate vocabulary.
- p. 2
A note from the London Daily Mirror that English high society has taken up the bicycle again, almost as keenly as in 1896, on medical advice that it counteracts the ill effects of excessive motoring.
- p. 5
A warm letter from former L.A.W. President Isaac B. Potter in Los Angeles, recalling old friends, reporting on L.A.W. members he has encountered in California, and expressing regret at being unable to attend the annual Boston meeting.
- p. 7
A spirited pro-cycling poem by James Clarence Jones, celebrating the bicycle as the ideal personal mount — swifter than horse or cart, as silent as a sail, and available to all.
- p. 8
A note on Assistant Secretary of State Adee, who in his seventieth year returned from his annual bicycle tour of France and attributed his robust health entirely to the bicycle.
- p. 7
A philosophical poem by Sam Walter Foss reflecting contentedly on the great machine of existence, finding pleasure in simply watching the world go on without needing to understand its ultimate purpose.