Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 4
Articles in this issue
- An anonymous seasonal poem opening the June 1905 issue (Vol. 3, No. 4), evoking the clover, strawberries, the bobolink and butterflies of early summer.
- A comic poem in which the narrator and his friends at the betting ring fail to talk young Van Bibber out of backing the mare "Love" over horses named "Good Looks," "Pedigree," "Bank Account" and "Position."
- A poem by Robert J. Burdette urging good temper amid jostling crowds, with cycling-flavored advice to "keep to the right" and "divide the road."
- A question-and-answer feature "Handed Out Upon Request," explaining the origins of phrases and facts such as the "Parthian shot," "Mrs. Grundy," the dog's letter R, the "horse latitudes," the dropping of the letter J in lettering military companies, and the life of Russian writer Maxim Gorky.
- The L.A.W. Official Department, conducted by the Secretary-Treasurer, listing the association's objects and officers: President Geo. L. Cooke, First Vice-President Dr. Louis C. LeRoy, Second Vice-President Marriott C. Morris, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, and Foreign Consul Joseph Pennell of London.
- A report on the L.A.W.'s twenty-fifth-anniversary gathering of veteran wheelmen at the Reservoir in Boston on May 30, attended by founders Albert S. Parsons, Edward W. Pope and William B. Everett, President George L. Cooke and Secretary Abbot Bassett, with a banquet at Hendrie's and dinner at Norumbega Park.
- A devotional poem by William Croswell Doane describing his faithful dog's trust and devotion as a model for how he himself should be toward God.