Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 1
Articles in this issue
- A sentimental poem by a wheelman too old to ride, who keeps his rusted wheel hanging in the shed but treasures the cycling friends it gave him.
- Abbot Bassett's running stream of notes opening the seventh volume, covering President Meserole's new automobile, the history of the Saltonstall trophy, and the death in London of bicycle pioneer George Singer of England at sixty-one. Further items touch on Louis Rubinstein's election as president of the International Skating Union, the Madison Square Garden auto show, President Roosevelt's call for good roads, and C. T. C. secretary W. A. Russell's resignation.
- Report of the thirty-first annual dinner of the Boston Bicycle Club, held at Hendries' on Feb. 13, with fifty men present; Frank Weston responded to the club toast for the thirty-first time and Abbot Bassett, Quincy Kilby, Charles C. Ryder and others provided the after-dinner entertainment.
- A long biography of Frank William Weston, the English-born architect and yachtsman called the "Father of cycling in America," tracing his birth in London in 1843, his 1866 emigration to Boston, and his many cycling "firsts" including the first American bicycle paper, the founding of the Boston Bicycle Club, and the 1880 tour of Great Britain by the "Fortunate Five."
- Official L.A.W. notices signed by President Walter M. Meserole appointing delegates to the National Assembly to be held at Boston on September 9, 1909, declaring the nominated Representatives elected without a mail ballot, and inviting pledges from life members.
- A roll of members who joined the League of American Wheelmen in 1885 and remain in good standing, giving each member's number, name, city and date of joining; the page also lists recent life-member pledges from the Ways and Means Committee circular.