Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 4
Articles in this issue
- A poem by Hattie Whitney about a little Dutch garden of flowers and vegetables tended by a Dutch family, where the narrator loses his heart to the flaxen-haired Gretchen.
- A question-and-answer feature giving the shore-line lengths of the Great Lakes, the weight of a million gold and silver dollars, the constitutional status of the Channel Islands, and an explanation of buying stocks on margin.
- The "Tree Enigma," a riddle-poem listing trees to be guessed, followed by the answers to the previous month's "A Novel Wedding" book-title puzzle.
- A poem by Chris Wheeler likening the tightened spokes in a wheel to enduring memories of departed friends, printed beneath the L.A.W. list of officers for 1908-09 headed by President Marriott C. Morris and Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett.
- News notes reporting the Boston Bicycle Club's 440th run commemorating the 1880 "Fortunate Five" tour to England, the Rover's Cycle Club's 22nd annual dinner under president Thomas H. Hall, and the first run of the Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia.
- Reports that G. Lacy Hillier of London has launched a testimonial for E. R. Shipton, late Secretary of the C.T.C., and that James S. Reese saw Karl Kron complete his 37,000th mile on his old wheel in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, before riding off to Maine.
- A sentimental poem urging that good fortune and forgiveness be seized today while grief and rebuke be deferred to tomorrow.