Outing and the Wheelman, Vol 3, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Illustrated wheelmen's tour (credited to Karl Kron; signed John S. Phillips) by steamer to Eastport, Maine, and through the historic Norambega country of eastern Maine and New Brunswick, with sketches of headers, fog-riding and a ball at Calais.
- Nature essay on the beauty of the winter landscape—ostrich-fern spikes, conifers, oaks and the foraging habits of mice, squirrels and bluejays—by E. S. Gilbert, quoting Thoreau.
- Survey of fine illustrated gift-books of the season by Amanda B. Harris, dwelling on Tennyson's 'The Princess' and Howard Pyle's 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.'
- Concluding installment (III) of a story by M. H. Catherwood in which the narrator, Rogers, and June escape an exploding photographic-wagon ('car') in the Indiana woods, he on his bicycle and she on a blind horse, and are reconciled.
- A ballad in praise of bicycling through lanes and hillsides, with envoy, by Clinton Scollard.
- Essay (signed H. H. M.) on the origin, rituals and rewards of the ancient Greek Olympic games—the wild-olive crowns, candidate oaths and victors' honors—drawing lessons for modern bicycling tournaments.
- John Burroughs's meditation on the sea-shore—its rocking, breaking waves and saline savor—and a critique of sea poetry, praising Whitman above Bryant, Emerson and others.
- Poem on the dormant promise of spring within the wintry woodland, by Dora Read Goodale.
- Opening chapters (I–IV) of Maurice Thompson's serial novel: invalid Edmond Nelville and artist Willis Longley at Cedar Springs court the Southern beauty Louise Lamar and her poet brother Alden Lamar.
- Humorous sketch by President Bates of a bicycle club visiting a church sewing-circle, where Mr. Condor's kindness to lame Bertha Evans wins over the deacons' wives and he becomes engaged to Miss Wealthy.
- Short Christmas verse offering a friend health, contentment and peace rather than jewels, by S. Conant Foster.
- Charles B. Reynolds protests wanton steamboat-deck bird and alligator shooting in Florida and describes quail, wild turkey and fire-hunting deer, closing with a negro camp-cook's buzzard folk-tale.
- Robert Tyson explains the development of the A.C.A.'s canoe-classing and sailing rules from 1880 to 1883, reconciling decked and open 'Peterboro'' canoes for both paddling and sailing races.
- Reader letters including A. S. Parsons's 'A Suggestion for the L.A.W.' (scientific use of the wheel), Mrs. J. B. Wasson's 'Place aux Dames' (ladies' tricycling), 'Short Clothes' on Capital Club bicycle breeches, and J. M. Burrell's 'Cold-Weather Riding.'
- Editorials explaining the merger of Outing and The Wheelman under one name and reflecting on Christmas-tide as the season of physical recreation and games.
- Departmental news of bicycling and tricycling (Karl Kron's long ride, club formations, races at home and abroad), the N.C.U.'s professional rules, canoeing/yachting (the Winter Camp Fire), shooting and fishing, and college athletics.
- Janet Clark's account of how she and her doctor husband Tom turned a cramped, low-ceilinged New York village house into a charming home with paper, paint, carpets and pictures.
- Reviews of recent volumes including several Spanish travel books, Macdonald's 'Donald Grant,' Hubbard's 'Woods and Lakes of Maine,' Pyle's 'Robin Hood' and a study of George Eliot.
- Humor page by 'Carl Onkel' of puns and anecdotes (a Quaker at the Suffolk bar, archery-range banter), with the verses 'Mittened' by Charles E. Pratt.
- Subscription terms, 'Good Things to Come' previewing future articles, and notes on the field of travel, railroad cars and electric motors, and winter pleasure resorts.