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268 The Rovers' Cycle Club held its twenty-first annual dinner on Friday evening, April 26, at the B. A. A. clubhouse, Boston. About forty persons sat at table. Wm. B. Everett, Frank W. Weston and Abbot Bassett were guests. President Thomas H. Hall presided and introduced the speakers. Messrs. Weston and Everett spoke for old-time cyclers, Mr. Bassett read a poem and Henry W. Robinson spoke for the club. The club has a large fund in its treasury and it was voted that in future no dues be charged, and no new members be admitted. The club will remain a league club and league dues for the members will be paid from the treasury. This plan will keep the club alive for many years and as the members will not be taxed there will be no likelihood of withdrawal.

On April 13, the Essex Bi Club of Newark, N. J., held its annual banquet. Twenty-five of the original members gathered around the board and discussed the old days of bicycling, and the good times the club has had since its inception. The election of officers, resulted in the choice of Colonel W. S. Righter as president; Herbert W. Knight, vice-president, and Benjamin J. Coe, secretary. Of the original hundred there are now forty-two survivors, and it is the intention to keep up the club organization as long as there is a member living. The club was organized March, 1879, and is the second in line among the oldest clubs of the U. S., the Boston Club standing first under date Feb. 12, 1878.

Do you ever harken backward when you've nothing else to do; When you feel a bit disheartened, and the world seems pretty blue? Don't you like to think and ponder of those times so long ago, When your youth was present with you, and your heart was all aglow?

What a kind of funny feeling grips your heart, and makes your eyes, Sort o' moisten round the edges so, it fills you with surprise.