Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The February 1911 opening editorial leader jests about the magazine's perennial complaints over the weather and dismisses February as the cheap, slight 'kid month'.
- Obituary of Hoyland Smith, a leading bicycle rider of twenty years earlier, who died in New Bedford on January 20th aged forty; nicknamed the 'phantom' and 'riding skeleton,' he set world records on the Hartford track, won the national five-mile event at Niagara Falls in 1892, and beat Zimmerman at Bergen Point.
- Report on the meeting of the 'Old Guard'—former cyclists who entered automobiling—held at Madison Square Garden on January 17th, with nearly 200 veterans led by Col. George Pope and Merle L. Downs, including Birdie Munger, Charlie 'Mile-a-Minute' Murphy, George M. Hendee and Fred Titus, and proposing a national organization.
- Tribute to Al Ochs, president and leading spirit of the Press Bicycle Club and a helper to Boston book collectors at the Archway, who was killed after being run over by a dirt wagon.
- Account of the proposed Lincoln memorial highway from the White House to Gettysburg, drawing on Congressman McCleary's report likening it to the Roman Appian Way, with a bill then before Congress for its construction.
- List of delegates regularly nominated for the National Assembly of the L.A.W. by state, including Massachusetts (A. D. Peck and others), Pennsylvania, New York, and many single-delegate states.