Vol 2, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Part Second of C. A. Hazlett's illustrated narrative of a marine-bicycle boat tour down the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, visiting St. John's (Queen's) Chapel, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and the frigate Constitution, Fort McClary and Kittery Point, and the old Wentworth mansion (with the Governor Benning Wentworth-Martha Hilton legend), before crossing to Whale's-Back Light and the Isles of Shoals.
- Charles Richards Dodge's short poem addressed to the moon, recalling a late-night rendezvous and a stolen kiss beneath a magnolia tree.
- Karl Kron's mock-petition poem, reprinted from the Yale Literary Magazine of April 1869, pleading with the New Haven city fathers not to banish the velocipede from the college streets.
- H. B. Hart's first-person account of introducing and building the bicycle trade in Philadelphia from 1878 to 1883, from Mr. E. W. Pope's first sales visit through the founding of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club, the fight to open Fairmount Park to wheelmen, and the Horticultural Hall fire of January 1881.
- President Bates's humorous sketch of the awkward bicycle-club courtship of shy Mr. Cubb and shy Miss Margery Flutter at Mrs. Wealthy's musical, and the club's collective scheme to outmaneuver the disapproving Major and Mrs. Podswell.
- A technical paper by G. Johnstone Stoney and G. Gerald Stoney of the Royal Dublin Society reporting indicator-diagram and kinetic-method experiments on an 'Xtraordinary' bicycle in Palmerston Park, Dublin, tabulating the foot-pounds of energy needed to ride at various speeds on level roads and hills.
- Walter D. Welford, writing from England, describes combining photography with tricycle touring, his camera apparatus, and the treasured album of touring snapshots it has produced.
- Chapters XVII-XVIII of Charles Richards Dodge's serial: Wellford Manning broods at home over Ruth Mayne after a letter from Edwin Hoyt, while in Europe Hoyt, Ruth, Doctor Mayne, George and Grace Thorne, and Professor Gantier tour the Rhine to Bonn and Konigswinter, where a jealous George Thorne spies Hoyt and Ruth on a moonlit walk.
- B. B. Ayers, chairman of the Chicago Bicycle Club's tour committee, lays out the full itinerary for a group cycling tour from Detroit through Blenheim, St. Thomas, London, Goderich, Stratford and Brantford to Hamilton, Toronto, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, guided through Ontario by Perry Doolittle of Aylmer.
- A stenographic transcript of toasts and speeches at the L.A.W.'s third annual banquet at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, May 28, 1883, featuring Dr. N. M. Beckwith, Charles E. Pratt, C. K. Munroe, President W. H. Miller, ex-Mayor Smith Ely Jr., Gen. Egbert Viele of the Park Commission, Fred G. Bourne, and a Brooklyn clergyman's tribute to the bicycle's benefits to health and family life.
- An editorial on the advantages and duty of joining the League of American Wheelmen, followed by notes on the Yale Literary Magazine origin of the poem 'Velocipede' and a correction crediting Dr. J. Emmet O'Brien, not 'J. Exnice O'Brien,' as the author of 'At the Banquet.'
- Miscellany of club, road and racing news -- including W. E. Gilman's letter on the first American bicycle tour, the Harvard Bicycle Club races, and the new L.A.W. stencil outfit -- followed by a detailed report of the third annual League of American Wheelmen meet in New York: the club-by-club parade divisions, the business meeting, and word that the west drive of Central Park had at last been opened to bicycles.