Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 1

Articles in this issue

• EARLY CYCLE RACING.

  Editor Abbot Bassett rebuts H. H. Griffin's claim that 1869 velocipede races count as American bicycle racing, quoting Will R. Pitman that the bicycle was unknown in the U.S. before the 1876 Centennial and that Pope Mfg. Co. sent Pitman to exhibit a wheel in New York in 1878.
• BOSTON BICYCLE DINNER.

  Account of the Boston Bicycle Club's Thirty-Sixth Annual Dinner on February 8, 1913, at the Hotel Venice, drawing 45 diners and featuring contributions from President Quincy Kilby and Mr. Bassett and the presentation of a silver loving cup to club secretary Augustus Nickerson.
• AN EARLY VELOCIPEDE RACE.

  Recounts the Hanlon Brothers bringing velocipedes from France to America and Wm. Hanlon's 1868 patent, then gives Will R. Pitman's first-person story of learning to ride in Bangor, Maine in 1867-68 and winning the one-mile Maine velocipede championship on B. Porter Brown's machine in 5 min. 5 sec.
• ANNUAL ELECTION.

  Notice from President Quincy Kilby declaring the nominated members duly elected without a mail ballot, since no office had more than one candidate, and urging attendance at the National Assembly at Boston.
• THE YEARLY GIFT

  Lists the members' payments received this year toward the fund to maintain the League's official organ, including $5 gifts from Fred Atwater, M. M. Belding Jr., Chas. Espenschied and others.