Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Report that the Newton Bicycle Club held its 195th meeting and banquet on April 10th, electing Albert M. Beers president, Herbert A. Fuller vice president and Abbot Bassett secretary, and voting to hold its summer run at the club farm in Amherst, N. H., in July.
- Obituary of William A. Austin of Winthrop, Mass., who died March 7 and was credited with constructing the first steam carriage and the first steam bicycle, on which he rode a mile in 53 seconds racing a horse; at his death he was perfecting a gasoline lamp backed by ex-Gov. Black and John D. Rockefeller.
- Opening of a feature ("Chapter One") explaining that a man's leg swings essentially by its own weight like a pendulum, so a shorter man takes quicker, more frequent steps, giving each walker a natural rhythm set by the length of his legs.
- Extract of remarks by Mr. A. J. Balfour of England at the N. C. U. banquet in 1898, praising the cycle as the most civilizing invention of the generation, open to all classes, ages and both sexes, giving health and variety with little dependence on means.
- Prints the pledge form by which life members agree to pay a set yearly sum for five years to sustain the League of American Wheelmen and its magazine, listing pledges received by March 29 from P. J. Vetter, A. D. Wait, Frederick McOwen and Julius G. Linsley.
- A numbered roster of those who joined the League of American Wheelmen in 1886 and remain in good standing, giving each member's number, name, town and date of joining (e.g. Carl Hering of Philadelphia, Isaac B. Potter of Brooklyn, Sterling Elliott of Newton and W. K. Kellogg of Battle Creek).