Abbot Bassett's lead editorial essay on the melancholy charms of September opens the issue's continuous scrap-book column, which folds in repeated reminders of the L. A. W. banquet of September 9, the deaths of Henry Crosby Nickerson (manager of Sterling Elliott's addressing-machine and the United Shoe Repairing Machinery companies) and John Read (of Wm. Read & Sons, American agents for the Royal Mail bicycle), the $725,000 court sale of the Pope Mfg. Co. plant at Westfield to a New York syndicate headed by Wilbur C. Walker, Ignaz Schwinn's $500 membership offer to the F. A. M., and Century Road Club reunions at New Haven, Hartford, and Staten Island.
