Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 6
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
A profile of seventy-year-old Major Edward Weed, who has ridden 400,000 miles in his lifetime and plans a cross-country bicycle tour to the Pacific before he dies.
- p. 2
A note on Senator Swanson of Virginia's bill to appropriate $20 million in federal funds for building post roads, drawing on a precedent dating to the original Post Road Act.
- p. 2
A report that Alvey Adee has returned from France on the La Touraine after his thirty-first annual European bicycle tour, covering some 2,000 miles as usual.
- p. 3
A notice for cyclists that accurate topographical maps from the United States Geological Survey, showing roads and altitudes, are available at five cents each from Washington.
- p. 3
An obituary for Charles Patten Shillaber, one of the founding members of the L.A.W. present at Newport in 1880, who died in Boston on July 11.
- p. 4
A startling account of how two L.A.W. members, Butler and Gilbert, survived the sinking of their launch on the treacherous Ripple Rock reef in Seymour Narrows, British Columbia.
- p. 6
A news item reporting that Connecticut's governor is an active cyclist, using his bicycle for exercise and recreation around the state capital.