Vol 4, No 4

Articles in this issue

• Summer Days in the Catskills (opens in a new tab)

  Abbie C. Percy's account of a summer in the Catskills, from the rail approach and the Clove road through Kaaterskill Falls, Sunset Rock and Pine Hill to Big Indian, a rain-bound day, and a climb of Slide Mountain in October; illustrated by B. B. G. Stone and E. H. Garrett.
• Grandmamma's Bonnet (opens in a new tab)

  Fanny Foster Clark's family tale, told to her daughter Adele from a Sir Thomas Lawrence portrait: Anne Brinton, a loyalist's daughter in New York, makes a sugared paper bonnet that draws flies in church, meets the French General de Cazarac and, against her father's wishes, marries him.
• En Province à Cheval Mécanique. Part II (opens in a new tab)

  James C. Hume's second instalment of his bicycle tour in France, from Avignon past the Pont du Gard to Nismes, where he watches a Spanish bull-fight in the Roman amphitheatre, then Tarascon and the legend of Matilda and Armand at Château de Clenay, Arles, and the mirage on the Camargue plain to Marseilles.
• Sylvan Life (opens in a new tab)

  A short poem by Julia R. Anagnos on nature's generosity, in which the bird sings, the brook speaks and the flowers bloom unseen, as the fairest soul and the sweetest heart do.
• At Buckhorn Lodge (opens in a new tab)

  'Minimum' tells of a Chicago writer's April visit to her sister's log lodge at Otter Tail, Minnesota: spear-fishing for pickerel, a missed shot at a doe, a duck ruined in the roasting, and a Chippewa maple-sugar camp.
• Fishing in the Spring (opens in a new tab)

  J. R. S. Birch's account of a spring afternoon at a creek, past sumach and plum, with three fish strung on a willow twig and a quiet evening on the kitchen porch.
• Bass Rocks (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by Charles R. Dodge, a dream of June over the shimmering sea, distant snowy sails and grassy slopes at Bass Rocks.
• My Wife's Tricycle (opens in a new tab)

  President L. J. Bates's humorous account of the sorrel livery horse that brought his wife to the tricycle, the family's first rides from the alley, and the 'compromise' over which street to take.
• A Canvas Canoe (opens in a new tab)

  B. T. Newman's step-by-step plan for a 14-foot canvas-covered canoe, with oak stems, an oak keel, rib-timbers, pine side-strips, a deck and a washboard, costing about $5, based on a boat he used on Lake Minnetonka.
• Summer Sweethearts (opens in a new tab)

  Chapters XXIII to XXV, concluding Maurice Thompson's serial at Cedar Springs: Nelville and Louise make up after her pony bites him at the brook, Longley's sketched 'Summer Sweethearts' paper appears in Mosely's Magazine, and the summer ends with a dance at the Lamar cottage.
• Adown the Glade (opens in a new tab)

  Clinton Scollard's pantoum of a wheelman and a girl on her pony riding through a flowery glade, whose idle chatter, under Cupid's eye, turns to matrimony.
• Walking in Belgium (opens in a new tab)

  George F. Fiske's account of walking his bicycle 'Pixie' through Belgium, from Ostend through Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and Waterloo to Antwerp and the Dutch border, with a night in a Flemish garret; he concludes the roads make Belgium no country for wheelmen.
• Wayside Notes (opens in a new tab)

  W. Whitman Bailey's essay on early spring wild-flowers: skunk-cabbage, hellebore, trailing arbutus, bluets, wood anemone, spice-bush, hepatica, marsh-marigold, violets and the mosses, with the cross-fertilisation of the bluets and the walker's sense of spring.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editor's department: the L.A.W. annual meet at Washington in May 1884, with its business meeting, parade of about 600 riders, races and banquet; the growth of steam-yachting on the Boston Yacht Club; summer study by observation rather than books; and the camera for the amateur.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondents' letters: B. T. Newman on the trout-hatching exhibit at the Fulton Market; G. F. Stillman on an early tandem he built from two large wheels; 'T. H. S. W.' of the Berlin Bicycle Club on a September tour from Berlin to Breslau, Dresden and back; and Walter Camp of Yale on the sliding seat and the Harvard stroke.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of George J. Romanes's Mental Evolution in Animals, which draws on Darwin's unpublished notes; the tricycle novel Wheels and Whims; Rod and Line in Colorado Waters; Twelve Days in the Saddle; the Essex County and Canadian Wheelmen's guide-books; the C.T.C. handbook; the Dead River guide; and Andrew Carnegie's Round the World.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  The monthly news of sport and the wheel: college athletics and the American lacrosse team in England, the L.A.W. meet at Washington, the C.T.C. meet at Poughkeepsie with its Vassar visit, club elections across America, canoe meets on the Hudson, pleasure travel, shooting and fishing, tennis in the parks, and yachting at home and abroad.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Dudley C. Hasbrouck's rhymed poem 'Her Cycling Suit', praising a girl's costume with its violet and blue eyes, with a cartoon, 'The First Bicycle in Way-back', of a high-wheeler passing children and dogs in a village lane.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  The publisher's department: subscription and advertising terms (two dollars a year), a letter of praise from a Buskirk, N.Y. subscriber, notes on the Hotel Kaaterskill and Ira Perego's outfitting business, the London office at 98 Fleet Street, and the articles promised for coming numbers.