Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The Christmas leader for the December 1913 issue, musing on the season and noting that 1914 will bring several changes to the Scrap Book.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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.