Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 5

Articles in this issue

• CRACKERS AND SQUIBS.

  The issue's opening running miscellany of jokes, notes and items, including a visit from former L.A.W. Secretary Charles K. Alley of Pasadena, old-time League stenographer Herbert W. Knight, and notes on Dr. Louis C. Le Roy and Milo M. Belding, Jr.; it also reports "The Philadelphia Press" winning the first round in its fight against Pennsylvania toll roads and gates.
• TO A PERFECT WIFE.

  A humorous poem in praise of a cycling wife who mends tires and rides tandem, tricycle and motor-cycle, signed F. B. S. and reprinted from the C. T. C. Gazette.
• PLEDGES FROM MEMBERS.

  A printed pledge form and a list of members' annual subscriptions promised to keep the League of American Wheelmen and its official magazine going, received up to June 28 in response to the Ways and Means Committee circular, beginning with Chas. K. Alley and Dr. Louis C. Le Roy.
• MR. TREVOR F. MYLER.

  An obituary of Trevor F. Myler, a well-known Pennsylvania cyclist and founder of the Keystone Bicycle Club who joined the L.A.W. in April 1888, killed when a car struck and ran over him while he was riding a rented motorcycle on Memorial Day; he died the following evening, the account supplied by the magazine's Pittsburg correspondent.
• HENRY E. DUCKER.

  An obituary of Henry E. Ducker, who died June 13, 1909 at Lake George, N.Y., aged 61; born in London in 1848, he was the promoter of the famed Springfield tournaments, founded "The Wheelmen's Gazette," and in 1882 brought Hendee to Boston to take the national L.A.W. one-mile championship from Lewis T. Frye.
• WHAT'S IN A NAME?

  A comic poem listing men whose surnames (Hope, Smiles, Wise, Snow, Brown, Bliss, Lowe, Swift) contradict their gloomy or contrary natures; the page also carries a short notice of the death in New York City on June 28, 1909 of Matthew Gibb, life member of the L.A.W. and former president of the Century Wheelmen.
• JOINED IN 1889.

  A roll of those who joined the League of American Wheelmen in 1889 and remain in good standing, giving member numbers, names, towns and join dates, from John M. Campbell of New York City onward and including the list of Pioneers.