Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A short dialect poem welcoming the bluebird and the coming of May, credited to the Atlanta Constitution, opening the May 1905 issue.
- A sentimental poem in which a frail child tells his Uncle Jack what he will do when he grows into a man, marked 'Author Unknown.'
- A cheering poem urging the reader to 'whistle a bit' to drive off gloom and toil, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
- A comic poem by Quincy Kilby in which the speaker's idea of the simple life is money, leisure, free travel, a rich wife and a political pull.
- A verse retelling of the fable of the improvident cricket turned away by the thrifty ant when winter comes.
- A question-and-answer feature ('Handed Out Upon Request') answering readers' queries on St. Peter's in Rome, hot shot in the navy, vowels, the Apocrypha, Rhode Island's two capitals and the nearest star.
- The League of American Wheelmen official department conducted by the Secretary-Treasurer, listing the association's objects and its officers, including President Geo. L. Cooke of Providence and Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett of Boston.
- A mock petition by President Geo. L. Cooke addressed to Aeolus and the Clerk of the Weather, praying for fair skies for the League's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration at Boston on May 30.
- Cycling notes by the Secretary-Treasurer reporting club anniversary dinners (Old Essex Bicycle Club of Newark, Rovers' Cycle Club of Charlestown, Newton Bicycle Club) and Colonel Albert A. Pope's entry of Pope-Toledo cars in the Vanderbilt and James Gordon Bennett cup races.
- The program for the League of American Wheelmen's twenty-fifth-birthday celebration on May 30, with runs to Chestnut Hill Reservoir, photographs, races and a $1 dinner at Hendries' arranged through Abbot Bassett.