Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 8

Articles in this issue

• OCTOBER.

  Helen Hunt Jackson's poem in praise of October's "bright blue weather," opening the October 1905 (Vol. 3, No. 8) issue.
• BROWN OCTOBER SCRAPS.

  The issue's running miscellany of autumn observations, jokes, facts and quips that fills the opening pages.
• SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.

  A question-and-answer feature explaining the origins of names and terms such as The Hague, the Flying Dutchman, the Kiel Canal, Wall Street, the Domesday Book, and Bunker Hill Monument.
• [L.A.W. Official Department: objects of the association and officers of the League]

  The League of American Wheelmen official department, listing the association's objects and its officers, including President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, and Foreign Consul Joseph Pennell in London.
• ANNUAL ELECTION.

  Notice of the L.A.W. annual election, giving the Executive Committee's grouping of States with fewer than 100 members into districts for representation in the National Assembly.
• WHEELING AND CLAMBAKES.

  President Geo. L. Cooke of Providence describes his September wheeling, the Wheel About the Hub run, and the Rehoboth, South Rehoboth and Swansea clambakes, totalling around 400 miles for the month.
• A WHEEL ABOUT THE HUB.

  An account of the Boston Bicycle Club's annual two-days' tour about the Hub and its 1879 origins under Charles E. Pratt, named after the illustrated Scribner's Magazine article, with notes on the 1905 riders including Frank W. Weston.