Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 2
Articles in this issue
- A letter from Quincy Kilby disputing the Scrap Book's claim that the bicycle was unknown in America before the 1876 Centennial, citing an 1874 Boston Theatre program in which Prof. Brown rode a high-wheel bicycle on stage.
- An editorial survey of early American bicycle builders, including Thomas Martin's 1870-71 wooden wheel for Foster Gilmore, Thomas B. Jeffery's six imported wheels, R. H. Hodgson's 'Newton Challenge' and 'Velocity' machines, and the 113-lb wheel W. S. Atwell built for Col. Pope before the Pope Mfg. Co. began manufacturing at Hartford in 1878.
- Reports the C.T.C. annual meeting at Manchester on March 7, where motions to open the club to all tourists and to bar motor-cyclists were defeated, and contrasts this with the L.A.W.'s policy of admitting anyone interested in the good-roads cause.
- The Boston Bicycle Club presents a gold medal set with five emeralds to Theodore Rothe, who has averaged 290 riding days a year for 15 years and exceeded 100,000 miles.
- Announces the New York State Division of the Century Road Club of America's 17th annual spring century over a Long Island course on Sunday, May 18th, starting from the Carnegie mansion and Prospect Park Plaza, with a sterling silver medal for each survivor.
- L.A.W. President Quincy Kilby's notice appointing George L. Cooke, Augustus Nickerson and Fred Atwater as the committee to nominate national officers for the next annual election, dated Boston, March 24, 1913.