Vol 4, No 1

Articles in this issue

• Wheelman's Song (opens in a new tab)

  Will Carleton's poem in which a pedestrian, an equestrian, a racing man and a carriage owner are each greeted in turn, ending with the wheelmen as pure philanthropists of the road.
• Reminiscences of Alaska Canoeing (opens in a new tab)

  C. E. S. Wood describes canoeing the Alaskan archipelago from Sitka: the fur trade and its contraband hoochinoo, a storm in Peril Strait, a camp by the fire, the drunkenness of the town of Koutzrnon and a Thlinkit legend of the Chilkat river.
• Nova Scotia and the Islands Beyond (opens in a new tab)

  Karl Kron's account of a bicycle tour in August 1883 from Yarmouth through Digby, Annapolis, Windsor and Halifax, with a side trip to Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton, and the roads, hotels and Acadian villages met on the way.
• Le Masq'Allonge Benedictite (opens in a new tab)

  The concluding instalment of L. J. Bates's story: Joe Collins and the Frenchman Jean Baptiste hook a huge mascallonge they believe is the blessed fish of Father Marquette, lose it when Kitty Foster cuts the line, and see the couple marry and grow old.
• A Morning Ride (opens in a new tab)

  Ninon Neckar's poem addressed to the bicycle, speeding along a wooded road and calling up memories of old friends.
• Grindstone Island and its Surroundings (opens in a new tab)

  Frank H. Taylor describes the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence: the afternoon breezes, the St. Lawrence skiff and its boatmen at Clayton and Alexandria Bay, and the choice of Delaney's Point near Grindstone Island for the 1884 American Canoe Association meet.
• Modern Archery in America (opens in a new tab)

  Maumee traces American archery from Maurice Thompson's 1877 article and the National Archery Association of 1879 to its decline, with the national tournament scores for 1879 to 1883 and a visit to the Wabash Merry Bowmen at Crawfordsville.
• How a Yacht Spoiled a Summer (opens in a new tab)

  Kate Upson Clark's story of eleven women who take the Billowton parsonage in Maine for a summer, and of Osie Brockway, whose romance with the yachtsman George Gording breaks up the party and ends in marriage.
• The Wind (opens in a new tab)

  Mary A. Allen's short poem on the wind as a fickle lover, wooing the buttercups, roses and bluebells in turn and never staying an hour with any.
• Summer Sweethearts (opens in a new tab)

  Chapters XIII to XV of Maurice Thompson's serial: a dinner at the Lamar cottage where Longley courts Louise Lamar at the fountain while Edmond Nelville broods over Miss Lartain, Longley's pony-cart drive with Louise past the disappointed Miss Brownby, and Alden Lamar's midnight search of the woods for Louis Abbott, whom he fears he has killed.
• The Rockinghams' Double Century (opens in a new tab)

  C. A. Hazlett compiles the Rockingham Bicycle Club's claim that 'Jumbo' rode about 212 miles from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 23 hours 50 minutes at Christmas 1883, printing the club and rival-club letters that dispute the cyclometer readings and the mileage.
• Bombus Terrestris (opens in a new tab)

  E. S. Gilbert's natural-history essay on the bumble-bee: its hurried foraging on clover and foxglove, its part in pollinating flowers such as the milkweed, the skunks and mice that raid its nests, and the colony's winter cycle ending with the young queens asleep under the dead leaves.
• Bicycle and Tricycle Racing Records. Part II (opens in a new tab)

  Abbot Bassett of the L.A.W. Racing Board tabulates the best English professional bicycle and tricycle times from one mile to 100 miles, with holders such as Hon. Keith Falconer, R. Howell, Fred Lees and G. W. Waller, continuing Part I in Volume III.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editor on the Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's rules and their ban on amateur matches, yachting and the dreams a sailor needs, the Montreal winter carnival, the L.A.W. annual meet at Washington on 19 and 20 May, and the Yellowstone Park bill before Congress.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondence on the intercollegiate athletic rules from Wm. M. Sloane, E. Hitchcock, Walter Chauncy Camp and undergraduates and fathers at Harvard and Yale, a London letter by L. S. H. on the Stanley Show of February 1884 at the Floral Hall, and a correction by Van Sicklen to a 100-mile ride printed by Hazlett.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of recent novels (Miss Howard's Guenn, The Bread-Winners, Arlo Bates's The Pagans, Crawford's To Leeward, A Latter Day Saint, Julian Hawthorne's Beatrix Randolph, Lathrop's Newport, Carmen Sylva's Pilgrim Sorrow, Treasure Island) and of travel books by Warner, Henry James, Caroline Leighton, Roosevelt and Ballou.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  Club and sport news: the L.A.W. spring board meeting and its 3,598 members, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's 1883 mileage, the Harvard Bicycle Club's May meet, the new Ladies' Tricycle Club of New York, the Toronto Canoe Club's races and cups, tennis tournaments, and railway and resort news.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Light verse and humour: S. Conant Foster's album verse on Rose Frost, Isaac of Iowa's dialect sayings on farm life and a Nebraska move, Harold Van Santvoord's fable 'The Critic' about a grouse and a robin, short jokes, and a cartoon captioned 'A Miss is as good as a Mile' and the drawing 'Jones on a Dog-Trot'.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  Publisher's notices: subscription and advertising terms, the English edition of Outing from Iliffe and Son of Fleet Street, bound volumes of Outing and The Wheelman at $6.50 for the set, and a preview of the May number with the first half of President Bates's Canada tour.