Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 12
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
A satirical poem about a judge who speeds past in his automobile without stopping to help, a pointed reversal of the romantic scenario in which a judge rescues a maiden.
- p. 1
A reflection on how February has historically been the month of fiercest political contests within the League of American Wheelmen.
- p. 3
A report on the Boston Bicycle Club's annual February dinner, one of the oldest cycling traditions in America, held this year at Hendrie's.
- p. 2
An interview quotation from the poet Maeterlinck, who defends motorcycle touring as allowing more intimate contact with the landscape than an enclosed motor car.
- p. 4
A look ahead to the League of American Wheelmen's thirtieth anniversary in 1910, recalling the founding at Newport in 1880.
- p. 5
An obituary for Edward Tolman, one of the earliest members of the League, who was well known in Worcester for his business activities and his love of the high-wheel bicycle.
- p. 6
An obituary for Dr. Andrew Jackson Davis, author of more than thirty books on spiritualism and a loyal League member who continued riding almost to the end of his life at age eighty-four.
- p. 7
A report on the annual reunion of the New Haven Bicycle Club Veterans Association, with notes on the movement to erect a monument to departed members.