Vol 11, No 10

Articles in this issue

• CHRISTMAS IS A-COMING (opens in a new tab)

  The Christmas leader for the December 1913 issue, musing on the season and noting that 1914 will bring several changes to the Scrap Book.
• [Resignation of Albert L. Pope from the Pope Manufacturing Co.] (opens in a new tab)

  Albert Linder Pope, eldest son of the late Col. Albert A. Pope and his father's successor as president of the Pope Manufacturing Co. (recently in the hands of receivers), has resigned, planning a rest and a trip abroad.
• NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATES. 1914 (opens in a new tab)

  Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett sets out the number of National Assembly representatives apportioned to each state from the L. A. W. membership of Dec. 1, 1913 (New York 10, Mass. 9, Penn. 8, etc.; total 61) and the nomination and election procedure.
• VITAI LAMPADA. (opens in a new tab)

  The poem by Henry Newbolt, with its refrain "Play up! play up! and play the game!", reprinted ahead of an editorial note marking the L. A. W.'s thirtieth birthday.
• [Death of Thomas B. Jeffery of Gormully & Jeffery] (opens in a new tab)

  Obituary of Thomas Buckland Jeffery, head of T. B. Jeffery & Co. of Kenosha, Wis. and formerly of Gormully & Jeffery of Chicago, who died suddenly at Pompeii, Italy; it recounts his career as a bicycle pioneer making the American Challenge, American Champion and Rambler machines.
• [J. B. Dunlop presents the first pneumatic-tired bicycle wheel to the Royal Scottish Museum] (opens in a new tab)

  J. B. Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire, has presented the front wheel of the first pneumatic-tired bicycle (tire made in 1888) to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, and a movement has begun in Scotland to erect a statue to him at his birthplace, Dreghorn.
• PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT. (opens in a new tab)

  The magazine's periodical-club department explains how members can combine subscriptions at club prices, with a worked example using McClure, Review of Reviews and Smart Set.