Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 8

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume10
Issue8
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Articles in this issue

  • NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, L. A. W.
    Report of the annual meeting of the L.A.W. National Assembly held at Hotel Dreyfus, Boston, on Sept. 12th, with Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett's annual report on membership (now 1,068), finances, and the election of officers including Quincy Kilby as President.
  • THE WHEEL ABOUT THE HUB.
    Account of the annual Wheel About the Hub run starting from Cushing's Corner, Roxbury, on Friday the thirteenth, listing the bicycle and automobile participants (Capt. W. G. Kendall, Abbot Bassett, M. M. Belding and others) and reproducing Quincy Kilby's verse itinerary through West Roxbury, Dedham, Blue Hill, Canton, Hull and beyond.
  • [President John B. Kelley's account of a Pickwick Bicycle Club run from Crowborough to Brighton, England]
    John B. Kelley recounts joining the Pickwick Bicycle Club of London on a July run from Crowborough to Brighton, hosted by H. A. Coombs (Ben Allen), praising the 79-year-old rider Pipkin who covered 60 miles against the gales.
  • LAGNIAPPE.
    Closing anecdotes from the Wheel About the Hub, including Dr. and Mrs. Le Roy of New York joining the party at the Fairbanks House, a joke played on the visiting Irish correspondent O'Reilly at the Tudor Farm breakfast, proposed route changes, and Alfred D. Chandler (the first man to ride a bicycle in Boston) sending his regrets.
  • A LITTLE SCRAP WTH YOU.
    A short closing column of one-line jokes and puns.