Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editorial opening Volume 9, explaining that the issue may seem disjointed because the editor dislocated his shoulder in a fall while looking for a leak in the water pipes.
- Running editorial items noting John E. Harder of Clearfield, Pa. and George T. Bush of Bellefonte, Pa. (who toured the world with Karl Kron), and reporting the Rhode Island Division of L.A.W. annual meeting at the Narragansett Hotel, Providence, where Richard E. Hamlin and George L. Cooke were present and officers were re-elected.
- Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", reprinted from American Magazine.
- Report of the Boston Bi Club annual dinner held February 11 at the Boston Yacht Club, Rowe's Wharf, shadowed by the death of Frank W. Weston, with tributes by Judge J. S. Dean, a reading by Quincy Kilby and an aviation talk by A. A. Merrill.
- Obituary of Frank W. Weston, the "Father of American cycling," recounting his birth in London in 1843, emigration to Boston in 1866, his founding of the first American bicycle importing house, the first bicycle paper (the American Bicycling Journal), and the Boston Bicycle Club, and his death at the Mount Pleasant Home on February 10.
- Notice from President Fred Atwater declaring the nominated Representatives duly elected without a mail ballot, since each office had only one nomination, and urging members to attend the National Assembly at Boston in September 1911.
- Announcement of a 45-page catalogue of periodicals with club prices and discounts, followed by price lists of popular magazines such as American Magazine, Bicycling World and Century Magazine at list versus club rates.