Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The issue's opening poem traces a man's life through the vehicles he rides, from a baby's wicker carriage and a boy's bicycle to a sixty-horse motor machine, a palatial private car, and finally a wheeled invalid chair.
- A comic poem strings together puns on everyday phrases, asking whether the foot of a mountain wears a shoe, whether a school of herring has a tutor, and other absurd questions about the use of taking college degrees.
- A biographical profile of Fred Atwater, the League's new second vice president, born 1870 in Birmingham (now Derby), Conn., who began riding in 1883, joined the L.A.W. in 1888, belonged to the Bridgeport Wheel Club and other clubs, and in 1903 organized the Columbia Nut and Bolt Co.
- Lists the annual five-year pledges received up to Jan. 25 in response to the Ways and Means Committee's circular, from members including Alfred L. Simmons of Dorchester, H. L. Perkins of Providence, and Chas. W. Houston of Pittsburg, to sustain the League and its official magazine.
- Lists the delegates regularly nominated for the L.A.W. National Assembly by state, including ten for Massachusetts, sixteen for New York, eleven for Pennsylvania, and single nominees from California, Kentucky, Texas and other states.
- A roll of members who joined the League in 1884 and remain in good standing, giving each one's membership number, name, town and date of joining, from no. 194 Allen Hammond of Rockville, Conn., onward.