Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 6
Articles in this issue
- An opening note in verse on the L.A.W. National Assembly officer nominations (Freddy, Kilby, Billy Hale, A. B. and auditor Nash), followed by 70-year-old Civil War veteran Maj. Edward A. Weed announcing he will wheel from Los Angeles across the continent, claiming 400,000 miles ridden.
- Obituary of Charles Patten Shillaber, an old-time wheelman and one of the founders of the L.A.W., who died at his home in Sherborn, Mass., on July 11; born in Boston in 1853, he was a high-wheel pioneer and at one time president of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club.
- Profile of Connecticut's Governor Baldwin, a former state supreme court justice past 70, who keeps faithful to his low-geared bicycle for exercise, riding early mornings about Hamden and North Haven in a blue knickerbocker suit (from the New Haven Register).
- An essay on a Wheel About the Hub visit to the historic Brook Farm site, recounting the transcendentalist community founded by George Ripley with Hawthorne, Dana, Emerson, Margaret Fuller and others, and its 1841–1846 collapse after Albert Brisbane forced Fourierism upon it.
- Report on Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Miller of Toronto, who left June 1 on a penniless 10,000-mile bicycle tour of the continent (subsisting on photograph sales), having covered 2,000 miles puncture-free and hoping to meet President Taft in Washington in September.
- A list of members who joined the L.A.W. between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1897 and remain in good standing, given by old-series membership number, name and city, with a second half to Dec. 31, 1897 promised next month.
- Notice from Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett that the annual meeting of the National Assembly, L.A.W., will be held Sept. 7 at the Hotel Dreyfus, 6 Beach St., Boston, with a $1.25 dinner at 6 p.m. and ballots for officers already sent to delegates.