Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Account of the Jan. 18, 1912 dinner at Dupont's restaurant, Boston, hosted by the Newton Bicycle Club to mark the 25th anniversary of Abbot Bassett's election as Secretary of the L.A.W., where he was presented with an inscribed silver fruit bowl and a bag of gold coins. Speeches came from President Herbert A. Fuller, Sterling Elliott, Frank S. Wilson, W. W. Stall, and George L. Cooke of Rhode Island, with the gift arranged by Arthur P. Benson.
- A light verse predicting that the reader will long for winter's snow and icicles once summer's heat arrives.
- Note that Otto Zeigler, who rose to fame as a racing man at the L.A.W. Meet at Denver in 1894 and was the first rider to cover a mile in under two minutes (1.50 on the Alameda straightaway), is now totally blind at his home in Alameda, Cal.
- Obituary of Leonard "Baby" Bliss, a 540-pound man familiar at League meets in the nineties, found asphyxiated Jan. 4 at his home in Bloomington, Ill.; recounts his career advertising bicycles for the Fowler Cycle Mfg. Co. and later touring with circuses as the world's heaviest man.
- Quoted remarks from President Taft on the difficulty of the good-roads question, including who should pay for and maintain roads and the cost of a proposed National road from New York to San Francisco.
- List of delegates regularly nominated for the L.A.W. National Assembly by state, signed by Abbott Bassett, Sec.-Treas., with New York (12), Massachusetts (10) and Pennsylvania (8) the largest delegations.