Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 8

Articles in this issue

• NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, L. A. W.

  Report of the annual meeting of the L.A.W. National Assembly held Sept. 7th at Hotel Dreyfus, Boston, listing attendees, the Secretary's report of 1,157 members (down from 1,240), the financial statement, and the election of officers including Fred Atwater as President and Abbot Bassett as Secretary-Treasurer.
• THE WHEEL ABOUT THE HUB.

  Account of the twenty-first annual Wheel About the Hub ride, starting from Cushing's Corner, Roxbury, on Sept. 8th, naming the wheelmen and automobilists who took part and recounting the dinner at Tudor Farm and Abbot Bassett's tribute to the late Frank W. Weston.
• W. A. T. H. 1911.

  A long humorous poem by Quincy Kilby read at the Wheel About the Hub dinner, celebrating thirty-two years of the Boston wheelmen's ride and glossing the letters W.A.T.H. as "Wheeling Away To Health."
• [Editorial notes: Cooke's 50,000 miles, a forged check, and the New York Bicycle Club]

  A run of editorial notes reporting Geo. L. Cooke of Providence completing 50,000 miles on his sixty-third birthday, a check-raising fraud Bassett's printer's payment narrowly escaped, the New York Bicycle Club leaving the League, and the sale of the Bicycling World Co. to A. B. Swetland.
• PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT.

  Notice of a 45-page catalogue of periodicals with club prices and discounts, followed by sample price lists for magazines such as the American Magazine, Bicycling World, Century, Scientific American and Vogue.