Vol 3, No 1

Articles in this issue

• A Song of the Wheel (opens in a new tab)

  Charles E. Pratt's opening poem celebrating escape from the tiresome town into hills and valleys on a bicycle of rubber and steel.
• Pierre Lallement and His Bicycle (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Oak-Corn (opens in a new tab)

  Edith M. Thomas's poem on forest-dwellers, fauns and squirrels gathering acorns in the misty autumn weather.
• A Wild Whirl (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Three Suits (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Training for the Race (opens in a new tab)

  S. Conant Foster's dialect verse of a trainer coaching a young rider around the track ahead of a hundred-pound wager.
• A Fortnight Among the Apostle Islands (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• The Hunter's Merry Moon (opens in a new tab)

  Elaine Goodale's poem on brown October woods, partridge, sportsman and squirrel.
• The Hills of Kentucky (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• On the Way (opens in a new tab)

  James Clarence Harvey's poem of a wheelman rolling downhill at dusk and plucking a wild rose for his love.
• A Shadow Love (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• An Afternoon Ride (opens in a new tab)

  Ninon Neckar's poem of swallows, sea-breeze and foam-flakes as the rider and wheel fly along the shore.
• One Afternoon (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Trailing-Arbutus (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Physicians and the Bicycle (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• A New Remedy (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Bob and I (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• A Point of Order (opens in a new tab)

  President Bates's humorous sketch of a bicycle club's acrimonious parliamentary debate over the color of the uniform stockings.
• Contributors' Department (opens in a new tab)

  Reader contributions, opening with a clipping by John St. George (from The Tricyclist) defending moderate Sunday riding while denouncing long Sabbath trips.
• Notes and Queries (opens in a new tab)

  Questions-and-answers column addressing L.A.W. headquarters, membership costs and badges, and the merits of the Ritchie cyclometer.
• Editorial (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Wheel News (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Book Notices (opens in a new tab)

  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.