Vol 1, No 33
Articles in this issue
- Committee meetings of 10 and 17 December 1878 accept the resignations of C. Groom, J. S. Ford, R. Walmesley, H. J. Hunter and E. Tegetmeier, and nominate next year's officers, Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer as President, M. D. Rucker jun. as Captain, F. Godlee as Treasurer and H. R. Boyce as Hon. Sec. Members are also invited to contribute up to five shillings each towards the Gazette's costs, and the first subscriptions are acknowledged.
- Frank Jolly calls a special meeting at 47 Finsbury Circus on Monday 23 December to decide whether to start the society, having already secured two first violins, a second violin, two flutes, a cornet, a double bass and a piano.
- "Argete, L.B.C." describes an August tour with his brother from Kingston Hill through Guildford (avoiding the granite-paved High Street hill by North Street), Farnham, Alton, Winchester, Romsey, the New Forest, Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth to Weymouth, rating the "Bush," "Swan," "George" and "Victoria and Great Western" inns and describing his own oak-and-nut clip to stop a multum-in-parvo bag wobbling on the spring.
- District Captain W. A. Smith reports the first social evening at the "Warrington Hotel," Maida Vale on 14 December, with about eighteen present including Alison, W. A. Smith and Thorn and A. Henry at the piano, and calls the 28th's meeting to consider the Western District's representation on the Committee.
- Norman B. Morris begins a September tour with H. Jennings and Koch from St. Malo and St. Servan through Dinan, Jugon, Lamballe, St. Brieuc, Chatelaudren, Guingamp and Pontrieux to Paimpol, logging kilometre-by-kilometre road surfaces, the zigzag descents into the Leff valley, and hotels from the "Croix Blanche" to the dear "Hotel Gicquel."
- The solution is given as MARTIN RUCKER, with correct answers acknowledged from Beak, Cyril J. Turner, F. des Voeux, N. Carr, E. P. C. and M. T.
- Alfred Henry of 32 Warwick Road argues that the "Social One's" proposal for a concert and dance is entirely feasible, since the Warrington Hotel reunions and Mr. Jolly's proposed Orchestral Society already supply the materials and could serve as rehearsals.
- "Irish Challenge" defends heavy thick-tyred machines, citing a 1.25-in.-tyred "Special Challenge" ridden from Cheltenham via Stroud to Bath on Whit-Monday and a storm-beaten run over the Isle of Wight military road from Freshwater to Chale, and lists his stud from a Michaux boneshaker to a 50-in. "Singer" weighing 69 lb. loaded.
- Contributions must be addressed to the Editors at 35 Eastcheap, E.C., bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only, and reach the office by Tuesday morning for immediate insertion.