Outing and the Wheelman, Vol 3, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Charles E. Pratt's opening poem celebrating escape from the tiresome town into hills and valleys on a bicycle of rubber and steel.
- Charles E. Pratt's illustrated biography of Pierre Lallement, the Nancy-born carriage smith who designed and rode the first pedal bicycle in Paris and Ansonia, Connecticut, patented it in 1866, and has now joined the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Edith M. Thomas's poem on forest-dwellers, fauns and squirrels gathering acorns in the misty autumn weather.
- Paul Pastnor's bicycling story of a Sorelle schoolmaster who makes a perilous nighttime coast down from Brents' Mills to warn the valley of a flood, winning the hand of Daphnis Brown.
- James Clarence Harvey's romance in which Walter Waring courts Daisy Tompkins in dress, business and Bicycle Touring Club suits, finally winning her on a wheeling tour.
- S. Conant Foster's dialect verse of a trainer coaching a young rider around the track ahead of a hundred-pound wager.
- T. R. Willard's narrative of eight friends fishing for brook trout at Siskowit and Sand rivers and cruising Lake Superior aboard the yacht 'Northern Belle' from Bayfield, Wisconsin.
- Elaine Goodale's poem on brown October woods, partridge, sportsman and squirrel.
- Karl Kron's account of a 340-mile bicycle tour through the Kentucky Blue-Grass region, from Covington to the Mammoth Cave, Lexington, Frankfort and Maysville.
- James Clarence Harvey's poem of a wheelman rolling downhill at dusk and plucking a wild rose for his love.
- Installment (chapters XXV-XXVII) of Charles Richards Dodge's serial in which Englishman Wellford Manning pursues Ruth Mayne to Washington, only to find her newly engaged to George Thorne, while Dr. Mayne courts the artist Grace.
- Ninon Neckar's poem of swallows, sea-breeze and foam-flakes as the rider and wheel fly along the shore.
- F. A. Elwell's sketch of a wheel ride out of Portland along the old Boston stage-road to Broad's Tavern, where an old caretaker recounts coaching-day stories.
- Installment (chapters VI-IX) of the serial by 'Minimum' in which Mildred Linthrop refuses the wealthy, riding-and-singing Burke Leighton in Chicago and is later urged to reconsider by his old servant Sam.
- Geo. S. Hull, M.D. argues the bicycle is an ideal cheap roadster for the practising physician's day and night work and a powerful therapeutic tonic superior to horseback-riding.
- W. Thornton Parker, M.D., U.S.A. prescribes the bicycle (and tricycle) as a health-giving remedy, praising the Columbia Expert and recalling English riders on the Ventnor Downs and Portsmouth esplanade.
- Angus S. Hibbard's poem narrated by a 'Fifty-six Premier' bicycle telling of runs over hill and dale with its rider Bob and friend Jack on his Harvard wheel.
- President Bates's humorous sketch of a bicycle club's acrimonious parliamentary debate over the color of the uniform stockings.
- Reader contributions, opening with a clipping by John St. George (from The Tricyclist) defending moderate Sunday riding while denouncing long Sabbath trips.
- Questions-and-answers column addressing L.A.W. headquarters, membership costs and badges, and the merits of the Ritchie cyclometer.
- Editorials on recent changes in League of American Wheelmen rules and on the value of meets, with the approaching Springfield meet as a counter-attraction to the New England Fair meet.
- Roundup of the Springfield meet arrangements, club news, racing results, and English, French, Australasian and South African notes, including Col. Albert A. Pope at the Harrogate meet and the Prince-Higham championship races.
- Reviews of the 'American Statesmen' lives of Jefferson and Webster, 'The Navy in the Civil War' volumes, photography, taxidermy and shorthand manuals, plus minor and literary notes.