Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 9
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
An editorial arguing that the good roads movement's work is far from finished, with much of the American South and West still lacking adequate highways.
- p. 2
A first-person account by George D. Gideon of his solo bicycle ride from Philadelphia to New York in a single day over ploughed fields and cattle-infested roads on a high-wheel bicycle.
- p. 2
A report on two seventy-year-old Brooklyn Grand Army veterans who rode their bicycles from Brooklyn to Gettysburg to attend the dedication and reunion exercises.
- p. 4
The full text of Abbot Bassett's address to the St. Louis Good Roads Convention tracing the L.A.W.'s founding role in the American good roads movement, from the first road pamphlets of the 1880s through the Good Roads Magazine.
- p. 3
A report that veteran cyclist and diplomat Alvey Adee was thrown from his bicycle in Washington while swerving to avoid a dog, sustaining cuts to his face and a strained back.