Outing and the Wheelman, Vol 3, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Arlo Bates frames a witty disquisition on the history of court and lawn tennis—from Charles VIII and James I to its 1873 revival by Captain Wingfield and champions like Renshaw—around the narrator watching a game with Captain Arthur and the coquettish Columbine.
- A short poem by J. A. Ritchie picturing a canoe sweeping down a wild, foam-flecked stretch of white water to drift among the willows.
- Frank H. Converse recounts the brutal cold of a winter passage aboard the bark "Leda" from Matanzas around Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod, battling ice-laden rigging and gales before reaching Boston Bay.
- A poem by Basil Webb invoking Sappho and Anacreon to praise the poet's cold, faithful, passionless mistress—revealed in the last line to be his bicycle wheel.
- George F. Fiske narrates a bicycle tour from Warwick through Kenilworth, Coventry, Stratford, Oxford, Henley, and Windsor on his wheel "Pixie," with notes on English roads, the C.T.C., and planning a Continental ride.
- A poem by S. Conant Foster in which a bridegroom fords a flooded stream and remounts his bicycle, urging the wheel on to carry him to his waiting bride.
- A fishing tale by President Bates blending the legend of Père Marquette's blessed maskinonge of Lake Michigan with the 1835 Grand Haven story of fisherman Jean Baptiste, young Joe Collins, his jealous sweetheart Kitty Foster, and a perilous lake rescue.
- Amanda B. Harris's essay on the New England winter, evoking the transforming beauty of snowfall, the experience of being snowed in, and the blue and crimson splendors of the wintry landscape.
- A. H. Chadbourne combines a bicycle run into rural southern Maine with detailed entomology, describing the capture and mounting of butterflies (Archippus, Idalia, Antiopa) and beetles such as the Gilded Eumolpus and eyed snapping-beetle.
- A song-poem by C. T. Mitchell set to the tune "Silver Moon," celebrating a morning ride on the bicycle over plain, forest, and hill.
- Serial fiction by Maurice Thompson (chapters IX–XII) in which artist Longley, invalid Nelville, and Southern poet Alden Lamar summer at Cedar Springs, culminating in Lamar's woodland fight with rustic suitor Louis Abbott over farm-girl Maggie Revercombe.
- C. A. Hazlett's column (Part I, concluded) chronicling American long-distance bicycle road records of 1883, including Reading, Rhode Island, Cleveland, and New Hampshire centuries, Corey's 190 miles, and the Lawrence Club's double-century run.
- L. Z. Jones describes ice-sailing on skates with a St. Vincent rig, recounting a thirty-mile run from Hartford up the Connecticut and Farmington rivers to Springfield.
- A yachting sketch by Katherine H. Van de Carr of an afternoon sail across San Francisco Bay aboard the yawl "Startled Fawn" to Mare Island naval station, ending at sunset by the Golden Gate.
- The editor's column, opening with a survey from his Boston "window" and offering reflections on Hardihood, the new "sociable" double tricycle, and the wheelman's and canoeist's "Log."
- A correspondence department with Abbot Bassett's note on disputed racing records, Robert Tyson's report on the 1884 American Canoe Association meet at Grindstone Island, and J. H. K.'s notice of the 1884 L.A.W. (Ohio Division) meet at Cleveland.
- A department on enlivening the home, with Janet Clark on interesting children in nature and collecting, and John Preston True's "A Winter Evening" on making archery arrows at the family fireside.
- Book reviews led by Alfred M. Mayer's "Sport with Gun and Rod" (quoting Charles Dudley Warner's comic trout story) and Hallock's "Sportsman's Gazetteer," plus Habberton's "Washington," Tuttle's "History of Prussia," and works by Aldrich, Thaxter, and Whittier.
- A news round-up covering amateur photography, college athletics, bicycling and tricycling clubs at home and abroad, canoeing (the "Shadow" v. "Pearl" debate), curling, rowing, shooting, yachting, and pleasure resorts and travel.
- A humor department of cartoons and light verse, including J. Ives Peake's "Ye Ancient Corydon," a satire on an aging Wall-street speculator playing the gallant, and a sugar-shop joke.
- Publisher's notes closing Volume Three of Outing and the Wheelman, announcing bound volumes and the Outing Library, previewing Volume Four, and printing words of praise from the press and readers.