Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A poem by Horace Parker Chandler opening the May 1904 issue, evoking the memories and sacred associations of the month of May.
- A reprint of Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem about two old schoolmates, introduced by the editor as one of the finest lyrics in the English language.
- A cycling poem by Quincy Kilby celebrating recreational wheelmen who ride for health and pleasure, printed with a note praising him as the latest poet of cycling.
- The issue's reader Q&A feature, answering questions from why Scots object to King Edward VII and the nature of the Hague tribunal to bicycle and foreign mile measures, the Moors of Spain, and the mystery of Casper Hauser.
- A dialect narrative poem by Joe Lincoln about Ez. Perkins, the town's greatest teller of tall tales, who dies of a rattlesnake bite still exaggerating its length.
- The L.A.W. official department giving the association's objects, officers (President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett), standing committees, dues and membership rules, with President Cooke's message appointing June 29 as League Day for 1904.
- Editor Abbot Bassett's notes column reporting League renewals, the Massachusetts Division banquet at the Revere House and the May Day gathering of four thousand wheelmen at Chestnut Hill Reservoir with Col. Albert A. Pope and Gen. Miles, plus C. C. Murphy and C. M. Darling's planned cross-country wheel trip from Jackson, Mich.