Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 3
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
A note marking the League's thirty-third birthday on 31 May and listing founding members still on the roll, including Kirk Munroe, Albert Parsons, and Will Pitman, with a hope they will still be present at the half-century mark.
- p. 5
An update on Will Pitman's recovery from a serious tongue and jaw operation, crediting his rugged health and temperate habits with getting him safely through surgery that neither he nor his wife expected him to survive.
- p. 3
A brief account of the annual vaudeville smoker of the Veteran Wheelmen's Association, which Bassett attended in imagination, picturing the good fellows with pipes and stories and steins of beer.
- p. 5
A comic poem by G.H.W. listing all the famous creatures of proverb and fable — the camel broken by the last straw, the goose that laid golden eggs, the wolf in sheep's clothing — pointing out that none of them is ever actually seen.
- p. 6
A profile from the Boston Transcript of L.A.W. member William H. Porter, who became a partner of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1911 after rising through the ranks of New York banking from clerk to president of the Chemical Bank.
- p. 7
Raymond Raife's description of a curious cycling club in a London railway arch whose members wore badges cut from Swiss milk-tin lids and had barely a sound tyre among them, yet competed keenly for an annual championship bronze medal.
- p. 11
An obituary for Frank P. Kendall of Worcester, Massachusetts, who was Treasurer of the L.A.W. in 1885 and an active worker in the early cycling movement, who passed away 24 March 1913.