Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 7
Articles in this issue
- A comic poem by Francis Wilson Starner about Mary, who buys half a lamb and spends thirteen days trying to use it all up.
- Mr. J. C. Percy of the Irish Cyclist, after a June visit to America, argues that English machines such as his Humber surpass American 'wheels' in finish and refinement and that Americans have done little to perfect the bicycle, having turned instead to the auto and motorcycle.
- An account of how the Brooklyn Good Roads Association and local clubs raised $3,500 by popular subscription to build the Brooklyn-to-Coney Island cycle path from 1894, which is now little used and at risk of being given over to horsemen and automobilists despite New York wheelmen fighting to save it.
- A tale of a painter, a lawyer and a doctor driving from Dijon toward Chalons, France, who are struck by a stone thrown by a roadside peasant, then capture him at revolver-point, drive him thirty miles away and make him walk home.
- A list of those who joined the L. A. W. from July to December 1897 and are still in good standing, giving each member's old-series number, name, city and date of joining, with a request for corrections.
- A notice that the Scrap Book is sending out a 45-page catalogue of periodicals with club prices and discounts, followed by sample price lists for popular magazines such as the American Magazine, Bicycling World, Century and Scientific American.