Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 7
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
An editorial welcoming September, with a note on the word's origins as the seventh month under the old Roman calendar.
- p. 1
A profile of newly elected L.A.W. president Fred Atwater of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the third Connecticut man to hold the League presidency.
- p. 2
A report on veteran track constructor Jack Prince's plans to build new board cycling tracks in Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California.
- p. 3
A complete financial and membership report from the 1910 L.A.W. National Assembly, including state-by-state membership totals and election results for all officers.
- p. 5
A report on the Third Annual Good Roads Convention held in St. Louis, at which L.A.W. Secretary Abbot Bassett represented the League's historic role in founding the movement.
- p. 6
A profile of the remarkable eighty-year-old South Attleboro cyclist William P. Shaw, who began physical training at sixty-five to cure a heart condition and now rides ninety miles per day.
- p. 7
A description of Berlin's pioneering corps of bicycle nurses who rush to accident scenes faster than horse-drawn ambulances, saving lives through their speed.