Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The front-page leader explains the revised C.T.C.-L.A.W. ticket arrangement (hotel, repair-shop and consul privileges, plus the new 1911 British/Irish and Continental Handbooks), then runs into spring miscellany: the St. Louis Cycling Club's 85 members, quips from George L. Cooke and Robert C. James, 'Happy Days Pitman' recovering from pneumonia, invalid Robert Gentle, and J. B. Rich's letter marking 21 years and 100,000-plus miles in the League.
- A column of League obituaries: Elliott Mason, who helped organize the League at Newport and managed the Pope Mfg. Co.'s New York branch, died April 24 at Westfield, N.J.; Charles Perry Buchanan, L.A.W. member No. 26 and a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge engineer, died April 14 in Pittsburg after an appendicitis operation; and brief notices mark the deaths of Chicago's George K. Barrett (former editor of 'Bearings'), illustrator Harry Fenn of Montclair, N.J., and Harry L. Spencer of Pawtucket.
- The Rovers Cycle Club marked its 25th anniversary on April 28 at the Boston Athletic Club, with guests Quincy Kilby, Capt. Walter G. Kendall, Charles C. Ryder, Judge Preble, Abbot Bassett and Edward Burbeck, a regrets letter from L.A.W. President Atwater, and President Thomas H. Hall and the whole board of officers re-elected.
- The Canadian Wheelmen's Association's annual meeting at Toronto elected Robert Falconer president (retiring president Louis Rubenstein of Montreal made honorary president), with J. W. Gibson, H. E. Richards and J. Smith in the other offices; the page also carries a reader letter from J. A. King praising New York's Broadway Trust Co. and its president Lee, plus several one-line jokes (President Taft's baseball pass, a 'dogmatic' wife, and the automobile as an alibi for robbers).
- Resuming the popular feature suspended earlier, Bassett's lists L.A.W. members who joined in 1896 by their old pre-1910 numbers, names, towns and dates (from No. 1352 Temple Bowdoin of New York City through No. 1532 Thos. Yardley Field Jr. of Wayne, Pa.), continuing across several pages and promising to complete the list to Dec. 31 next month.
- After a few maxims on pessimists and old age, the department advertises a 45-page club-price catalogue of periodicals and prints sample list-versus-club prices spanning two pages, from American Magazine, Bicycling World and Scientific American to Vogue and World's Work, noting that Scribner's, Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post allow no discount.