Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 1
Articles in this issue
- The March 1910 opening editorial leader, calling March the start of the riding season, noting Italy's rule that motorcycles carry high-note horns, and reporting that the C.T.C. has moved its London office from Victoria Street to 280 Euston Road.
- A selection of Nixon Waterman's humorous verse "Monitorials" reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor, including rhymes on matches and umbrellas, Boston baked beans, the meat trust, firemen and the "prints of Wales."
- Quincy Kilby's tribute to William J. Smith, who died Jan. 15, 1910, at Bristol, England; a member of the League of American Wheelmen and the Boston Bicycle Club who began wheeling in 1876, was an amateur photographer and linguist, and rode the country roads around Boston.
- An appreciation of Francis P. Prial, longtime editor of "The Wheel," New York, who died at his home in New York City on January 31; he edited the paper from 1886, sold his interest to the "Bicycling World" in 1900, and later led the company publishing "Motorcycle Illustrated" before dying of typhoid fever.
- President Walter M. Meserole's appointment, dated Brooklyn, Feb. 12, 1910, of the New York delegates (T. T. Eckert, Jr., Henry G. Wynn, A. G. Batchelder and others) to the National Assembly of the League of American Wheelmen.
- A comic poem by H. D. Gastitt on the craze for everything motorized, coining "automo-" words for hens, cooks, caddies and the like.
- A notice that most magazines have raised their wholesale prices, explaining how to form a subscription club from the listed class numbers and giving a price list of best-selling and unclassified magazines.