Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 2
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
Vice-President Quincy Kilby disputes Bassett's claim that the bicycle was unknown in America before 1876, citing his personal memory of seeing Professor Brown ride a high-wheel bicycle on the Boston Theatre stage in June 1874.
- p. 6
An investigation into attempts to build bicycles in America before the 1876 Centennial, including Thomas Martin's wooden high-wheeler made in Boston around 1870–71 and Thomas Jeffery's importation of six English bicycle parts in 1873.
- p. 7
The story of English-born R. H. Hodgson who built a bicycle in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, in 1876 and went on to manufacture 'Newton Challenge' and 'Velocity' models before selling his business to McKee & Harrington of New York.
- p. 2
A selection of short witty observations contributed by 'The Tramp' of the Irish Cyclist, including the observation that an optimist is a cyclist thankful he cannot afford a motor car.
- p. 9
A brief note on the club's traditional Patriots' Day run to Lexington and back, noting it was the 461st called run and included watching marathon runners pass during the return journey.
- p. 8
Bassett's puzzlement that Chicago has remained silent about Thomas Jeffery's assembly of six English-made bicycles there around 1873, making Chicago possibly the site of the earliest road riders of the bicycle in the United States.