Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 12

Articles in this issue

• [L.A.W. annual meeting of the National Assembly, February 8, 1905] (opens in a new tab)

  Report by secretary-treasurer Abbot Bassett of the League of American Wheelmen annual meeting held at Boston headquarters, re-electing Geo. L. Cooke president and appointing a committee for the Silver Jubilee celebration on League Day, May 30, at Boston.
• ONLY A SIGN OF TROTTBLE. (opens in a new tab)

  A humorous dialogue in which a professor puzzles over the ambiguous railway sign "This Train only Stops at New York," testing every placement of the word "only."
• THE PENCIL, THE PEN, THE GXTN. (opens in a new tab)

  Verses by Rudyard Kipling addressed to Admiral Robley D. Evans, contrasting the artist Zogbaum's pencil, Kipling's pen and the admiral's ten-inch gun, written in a copy of "Plain Tales from the Hills."
• FROM THE PROPHETS. (opens in a new tab)

  Extracts from the 1905 almanac predictions of "prophets" Old Moore, Raphael and Zadkiel, forecasting disasters, assassinations and the ill health of King Edward VII, offered so readers may check them off.
• ANSWERS. (opens in a new tab)

  The magazine's question-and-answer reference column, fielding queries on topics such as the "funny bone," woman suffrage by state, the founding of Harvard and Yale, the Mountain Meadows massacre and state flowers.
• ESSTEE'S VALENTINE. (opens in a new tab)

  Editor Abbot Bassett's column ahead of the annual meeting, noting the L.A.W.'s silver jubilee year and hopes for 100,000 members, and reporting cyclists C. M. Darling and C. C. Murphy's ride to every state and progress on Massachusetts state highways.
• [L.A.W. official department: officers, committees, dues and membership rules] (opens in a new tab)

  The League's official directory listing officers (president Geo. L. Cooke, secretary-treasurer Abbot Bassett), standing committees, dues, badges, side-path tags, and veteran/pioneer membership rules, with a note on the 1880-1905 jubilee year.