Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 10
Articles in this issue
- An old anonymous poem foretelling a hard winter when Christmas falls on a Monday, with the editor's note that the L.A.W. has seen thirty-two Christmases and that Santa has progressed from velocipede to tricycle to safety and now an automobile and aeroplane.
- George Chinn, League member No. 50, writes mourning the death of his old-time friend Karl Kron, recalling the Lamson photographs of the Elwell 'Down East Tour' of 1883 and the picture of Kron taken on the rocks at Newport.
- Prof. James K. Hosmer recounts his father's story, as a Harvard proctor in the late twenties, of reporting undergraduate Charles Sumner for shaking Stoughton Hall by riding his heavy bone-shaker velocipede in his room, for which Sumner was reprimanded by President Kirkland.
- H. Hewitt Griffin writes to the Irish Cyclist citing the Carroll-Lallement U.S. patent of 20 November 1866 and the Scientific American patent record to argue that Americans were building bicycles in the 1860s, far ahead of England by 1869.
- An official L.A.W. notice from Sec.-Treas. Abbot Bassett apportioning the 56 National Assembly representatives among the states based on the Dec. 1, 1910 membership (New York 12, Mass. 10, Penn. 8, etc.) and explaining the nomination and March election procedure.
- A subscription service offering readers magazines, American or foreign, at club prices, followed by an extensive price list of periodicals, wheeling, photography and educational titles, addressed to Abbot Bassett at Newtonville, Mass.