Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A short Memorial Day poem in the May 1910 (Vol. 8 No. 3) issue offering a rose for every soldier's grave and saluting those who reason men away from war to peace.
- May club notes: Louis Rubenstein of Montreal was re-elected President of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association; the Rovers' Cycle Club held its 24th annual dinner at the B.A.A., Boston, on April 18th with Thomas H. Hall presiding and re-elected President; the Boston Bi-Club's 453rd run on April 19th visited Woodland Park for the Marathon and the Robinsons' open house at Chestnut Hill; and the C.T.C. issued its British and Irish Handbook for 1910, available to members for a shilling.
- A dialect welcome poem opening the June 1910 (Vol. 8 No. 4) issue, greeting the arrival of June and hoping she fetched her roses along.
- An essay weighing the claim to the first American bicycle tour, recounting early rides by Will R. Pitman (1878), Charles E. Pratt and Edward C. Hodges, Wentworth Rollins, and the July 1879 White Mountains tour by William E. Gilman and Darius Hadley versus the rival August 1879 Boston-to-Portland ride by Pratt, Edward W. Pope and Winfield S. Slocum. Also notes Max Hansman and H. M. Sehooley's October 1879 ride from Washington to Boston, and the 1886 New Orleans-to-Boston Meet ride by Charles M. Fairchild, A. M. Hill and Harry W. Fairfax.
- Notes that Miss Marie de Ford Keller of Baltimore has completed a portrait of the late Conway Whittle Sams, former judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore and President of the L.A.W. in 1900 (Life Member No. 46), to hang in the Courthouse Superior Court room. Born in South Carolina in 1862 and admitted to the Maryland bar in 1886, Sams had also served as Chief Consul of the Maryland Division and chairman of the L.A.W.'s National Committee on Rights and Privileges.
- Reports the Veteran Wheelmen's Association's second annual meeting and reunion in Philadelphia on Friday, April 29, with 155 members and guests and speeches by O. S. Bunnell, Thomas Hare and Jerry Diehl among others. Thomas Hare was re-elected president (C. A. Dimon vice-president, Samuel C. Eaton secretary, Walter Gilbert treasurer), and the old Associated Cycling Clubs represented included Park Avenue, Century, Quaker City, Time, South End, Tioga and Keystone Wheelmen, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and the Turner Cyclers.
- A run of correspondence from members renewing or commenting on the L.A.W., including J. C. T. of New York, M. T. S. on the merits of life membership, A. T. Jones of Philadelphia writing during the car strike, and Owen Lawson of Kentucky joking about Halley's comet. Also reports the Roxbury Bicycle Club's 24th annual meeting at the Quincy House, at which W. H. Proudman was elected president ahead of its 25th-anniversary year.
- Describes the dispute being taken seriously in England, with the A.A.A. circularising racing cyclists that it will promote amateur cycling without over-legislation and require no licenses, while the National Cyclists' Union (with nearly 1,200 affiliated clubs) maintains it was the first English body to manage racing.
- A notice that R. J. Mecredy, editor of the Irish Cyclist, is about to issue a book called "Health's Highway," a plain-spoken account of moderation and natural living, noting Mecredy reputedly sleeps in a tent all year and remains a marvel of juvenility and vigor.
- The League of American Wheelmen nominating committee's slate of officers for the ensuing year, naming Fred. Atwater (President), Quincy Kilby (1st Vice President), Jarvis C. Howard (2d Vice President), Abbot Bassett (Secretary-Treasurer) and George W. Nash (Auditor), with the constitutional election procedure that follows.
- A humorous poem by Nixon Waterman contrasting how country rain lulls one to sleep while town noise drowns everything, finding the still country's sharp sounds hard to sleep amid.
- Explains Bassett's magazine club-order discount scheme, under which a subscriber totals the class numbers of chosen titles, multiplies by five and adds ten cents per magazine for profit; works through an example combining McClure's, Review of Reviews and Smart Set for a $4.30 club price, followed by a class-number price list of leading periodicals.