Outing and the Wheelman, Vol 3, No 5
Articles in this issue
- A travel and history essay on the St. John's River region of Florida as a winter resort, tracing its settlement from Laudonniere's 1564 Fort Caroline and the French-Spanish conflict to the modern steamer routes, orange groves, fishing and yachting at Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Palatka. By John Ransom.
- Installment (Chapters V-VIII) of Maurice Thompson's serial romance, in which magazine artist Longley, staying with the Nelvilles at Cedar Springs, rescues and falls for golden-haired Janet Wilson, daughter of an eccentric ornithologist, while a jealous rustic looms.
- A bicycling tour narrative following a club of wheelmen riding Campobello Island, Lubec, Machias and Mount Desert in eastern Maine, with island legends, hotel stops and coasting mishaps. By John S. Phillips.
- A mountaineering adventure in which two Americans and guide Carl Hofmeister cross the Ortler range's Koenigspitz glacier from Austria into Italy amid crevasses and a tourmente storm, descending to St. Caterina. By Frederic Courtland Penfield.
- A survey of Philadelphia's out-door sporting life including cricket, lawn tennis, bicycling in the Park, Schuylkill rowing clubs, the State in Schuylkill, yachting on the Delaware, skating and University of Pennsylvania athletics. By J. W. Forney.
- An account of cycling in Australia, covering the founding of the Melbourne Bicycle Club and the Australian Cyclists' Union, George Burston's Ballarat-to-Melbourne 100-mile record and the prospects of the wheel in the colonies. By Thomas A. Edwards.
- A comic tale in which wheelman Mr. Twiddle, riding a sweltering country road, discovers two abandoned babies and is flummoxed until their deaf-and-dumb guardians and Jenny Wilson appear. By President Bates.
- A whimsical essay on canoeists' devotion to their craft and the author's affectionate, almost human, partnership with his own canoe over thousands of miles of river and lake. By Orange Frazer.
- A compiled statistical table of 1883 club and individual century rides, listing dates, riders, wheel sizes, distances and times. Compiled by C. A. Hazlett.
- A narrative roundup of notable American century and long-distance rides of 1883, with detailed accounts of the Boston Bicycle Club road race, the Capital Bicycle Club track race, Karl Kron's Canadian century and many club runs. By C. A. Hazlett.
- Tabulated best American amateur and professional bicycle records and amateur tricycle records by distance, naming riders such as Hendee, Midgley, Prince and Woodside. Compiled by Abbot Bassett of the L.A.W. Racing Board.
- The editor's column, with notes "A Wish and a Word" greeting readers for the New Year, "Winter Recreations" on cold-season sports, and "Better Housed" on bicycle clubs acquiring finer club-houses.
- A letters department including Robert Tyson on the American Canoe Association's sailing rules, Julius Wilcox's long essay "The Cost of It" defending bicycle prices, and an account of the Lawrence Bicycle Club's 200-mile run.
- A domestic department on the recreative side of home life, with notes on occupation for childhood and the social value of the family table.
- Book reviews including Orvis's "Fishing with the Fly," Norris's "The Calumet of the Cotean," Greey's "The Bear Worshippers," Henshall's "Book of the Black Bass," and notices of other recent volumes.
- The news department covering bicycling and tricycling club, race and record news at home and abroad, plus "London Wheel Notes," canoeing, yachting, shooting and fishing, athletics, riding and driving, and skating and ice-yachting.
- A humor and verse page with comic anecdotes and the poems "Idyllic" and "Rather than Rota," alongside a "Valentine for 1884" illustration.
- Publisher's notes on subscription terms, the new Evans House offices, forthcoming articles, and departments on "The Pleasure Resorts," "The Field of Travel" and the Montreal Winter Carnival.