Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 9

Articles in this issue

• DON'T PUT ON THE BRAKE TILL IT IS TIME TO STOP.

  Opening editorial leader on the St. Louis Good Roads Convention, arguing that the L.A.W., as parent of the good-roads movement, must keep working to bring the South and West roads as good as those of the North and East; closes with a stock joke about Babylon, Nineveh, and Tyre ('Punctured!').
• [News notes: Geo. D. Gideon's ride dispute, the Hoffman brothers' Gettysburg run, and a Dallas 'speed violator's chase']

  Clipped news items: Philadelphia's Geo. D. Gideon disputes being called merely 'one of the first' to cycle from Philadelphia to New York in a day, recalling his rough 1880s ride over ploughed roads; the elderly Hoffman brothers of Brooklyn cycle via Atlantic City and Chester, Pa. to the G.A.R. reunion at Gettysburg; a Dallas auto meet stages a mock 'speed violator's chase' for a silver cup; and Alvey A. Adee is hurt in Washington swerving to avoid a dog while cycling.
• THE L. A. W. AND GOOD ROADS.

  The L.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer's St. Louis Good Roads Convention address recounts how the League launched the good-roads movement from 1880: pamphlets reprinting Luther H. Porter's 'Macadam and Telford Roads' article and 1869 Massachusetts prize essays; Colonel Albert A. Pope's backing; Isaac B. Potter's 1891 'Gospel of Good Roads'; and the Good Roads Magazine (from 1892, circulation 120,000), closing on state Highway Commissions and roads built for automobile traffic.
• [Roads, rules of the road, and the Bicycling World's name change]

  Clipped notes: Birmingham library patrons petition for free bicycle storage; a San Jose judge jails three sidewalk-riding youths' bicycles for 30 days; British motorists push a universal rule of the road, Marquis de Dion urging France to copy Britain's rule; and bicycles are blamed for an 8-million drop in British rail passengers. Traces the Bicycling World's lineage from Weston's 1877 Journal to its demotion beneath 'The Motorcycle Review,' plus Pope Mfg. Co.'s 1910 earnings of $745,390.87.
• [J. M. Linscott sells his cycle jobbing business, plus motorcycle stats and a presidents' quiz]

  J. M. Linscott of Boston, for 20 years a prominent New England cycle and accessory jobber, sells the bicycle supply business of the Boston Cycle & Sundry Co. to the Hub Cycle Co. of 40 Portland St., Boston. The same pages report Massachusetts motorcycle registrations climbing to 3,042 by Sept. 1, 1910 (up 827 on the year); Hartford's Board of Trade raising funds for a 15-foot memorial fountain to Colonel Pope in Pope Park; and a ten-question reader quiz on U.S. presidents.
• THE PRICE TO PAY.

  League of American Wheelmen dues and supplies notice printed under this heading: 75 cents annual membership, $10 life membership (available after five years' prior membership), touring-abroad tickets granting Cyclists' Touring Club of England privileges, and prices for badges, ticket holders, and veteran bars, payable to Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, 221 Columbus Avenue, Boston.