Vol 8, No 11

Articles in this issue

• WE TURN UP THREE OF A KIND. (opens in a new tab)

  The January editorial leader opens 1911 with a string of poker- and New Year-themed quips on resolutions and rights, then reports the death of English cycle-industry pioneer Thomas Humber at age 60, and adds that 80,000 people attended London's Olympia cycle and motorcycle show and that United States Motor Co. president Benjamin Briscoe forecast 600,000 bicycles to be built in England in the coming year.
• BREAKLESS. (opens in a new tab)

  A humorous poem wishing for an unbreakable New Year's resolution, as strong as strong drink or the strongest cigar.
• [Editor's miscellany: a workday-hours quip, and Dr. Samuel Johnson's New Year resolutions] (opens in a new tab)

  A quip computing that school teachers effectively work only 41 days a year; then quotes Dr. Samuel Johnson's "Prayers and Meditations," a very human record of a man who fails his resolutions as often as he makes them, reproducing his 1761 list (avoiding idleness, regulating sleep, journaling, church-going) and beginning his 1769 New Year note.
• [Johnson's resolutions concluded, Attorney O'Brien's campaign bicycle tour, and the Nylaw club's December meeting] (opens in a new tab)

  Johnson's 1769 resolution to rise earlier concludes, noting he was then sixty; New Haven attorney John V. O'Brien tours Connecticut by bicycle campaigning for assistant clerk of the state house; and the Nylaw club's December 17 meeting at the New York Athletic Club opens, honoring guest Abbot Bassett on his 24th year as L.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer, with members traveling from Poughkeepsie, Elmira and Buffalo under President Wm. H. Hale.
• [The Nylaw meeting continued: 'The Abbot of Boston Town' verse tribute, and Bassett's reminiscences] (opens in a new tab)

  President Hale introduces Bassett with a verse tribute, "The Abbot of Boston Town"; Bassett then gives reminiscences beginning with his first election as Secretary in 1887.
• [Bassett's reminiscences concluded, Nylaw officer elections, and President Atwater's visit] (opens in a new tab)

  Bassett recounts his St. Louis trip and the Good Roads Convention, with Wm. M. Frisbie also speaking; new Nylaw officers are elected (President Jarvis C. Howard, Vice-President E. F. Hill, Secretary L. P. Cowell) and the club votes to meet three times a year; and a quip on League President Atwater's visit, ostensibly to check the books but really to take the writer out for a meal.
• [Congressman Weeks's opposition to a national good-roads movement] (opens in a new tab)

  Massachusetts Congressman Weeks tells the Massachusetts Highway Association he opposes nationalizing road-building, arguing highways are a local responsibility and that national road control would cost more than the Civil War; he would seek reimbursement for Massachusetts's own road spending if such a bill passed.
• [Weeks's good-roads opposition rebutted, King George becomes the C.T.C.'s Patron, and the American Association for Highways Improvement forms] (opens in a new tab)

  A rebuttal argues Massachusetts, being wealthy, can afford roads that poorer states cannot without federal help; a C.T.C. Gazette reprint announces King George V has become the Cyclists' Touring Club's Patron, the Club's first in its thirty-two-year history; and the American Association for Highways Improvement forms to coordinate a national road system, with dues of $100 (sustaining) or $5 (regular) members.
• [The Highways Improvement association's officers and directors, and Paris bicycle statistics] (opens in a new tab)

  Lists the new association's leadership -- Logan W. Page (director of the federal bureau of public roads) as president, James S. Harlan as temporary chairman, with a large board of directors including railway and industry figures; and opens a note that bicycles enormously outnumber automobiles in Paris, as in American cities where a similar count has been taken.
• PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT. (opens in a new tab)

  Advertises Bassett's 45-page periodicals catalogue and prints a multi-page club-price list of popular magazines such as Bicycling World, Century, Cosmopolitan and Outing.