Vol 4, No 6
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Articles in this issue
- S. Conant Foster traces the New York Athletic Club from its founding in 1868 through its champions in running, rowing, sparring and pole-vaulting to the planned five-storey club-house at 55th Street and Sixth Avenue, with its floor plans and the 1884 governing committee.
- William H. Rideing sails with the New York pilot-boat Petrel and pilot Martin Pyne, who boards an inbound liner by yawl in a night gale, then tries to save the wrecked brig Susan Hale of Captain Sam Grimsby off the Barnegat shore.
- A short poem by Anna M. Talcott on a tiny flower, half hidden in the grass and passed over by many, that was made by God's hands to be given to a loved one.
- Ninon Neckar reports the fifth annual L.A.W. meet at Washington on 19 and 20 May 1884: the business meeting at Ford's Opera House, the twelve-mile parade past the White House and crowds said to number fifty thousand, the League championship races and the banquet at Willard's Hotel.
- Arlo Bates continues the serial at the Dysart place, where the amnesiac Tom and Columbine grow close; after a salt-meadow fire he confesses an earlier marriage to Miss Grant, faints at dawn, and recovers his name, Thomas Wainwright, and proposes.
- L. J. Bates (President Bates) of the Detroit Bicycle Club tells how Mr. Perker, the club's dandy, takes his bicycle-gun on a run into Canada, where a stray shot scatters the line, a squirrel hunt in a cornfield sends the club diving for cover, and Mr. High shoots a farmer's cat mistaken for a rabbit.
- S. J. Barrows continues the camp at Lake Memphremagog, where the Shaybacks buy the steam-launch Nymph, strike the Georgeville wharf and spring a leak, bail her back across the lake at midnight with a crew of village boys, and log 650 miles in the season, with Mrs. Shayback piloting through Fitch Bay.
- A. J. Wilson, the North London Tricycling Club vice-president known as "Faed", catalogues his cycling falls over seven years, from a Canonbury van and a cow on a hill to racing falls at Alexandra Palace and a loose tricycle tyre at Whitsuntide, closing with four maxims for safety.
- A poem by James Clarence Harvey that invokes the Muse to sing of outdoor pleasures, the shining wheel, the oar, the canoe and the woodland, but above all of the eyes divinely blue.
- A. N. Everett's bachelor photographer turns his camera on a lovely young woman across the way, and on her small dark cycling companion, until he is caught at the views by that man, Ben Hartwell, an old classmate of 1867, whose sister is the subject.
- Lavinia S. Goodwin's poem tells in verse how a ruffed grouse drums on a fallen oak to his mate, who comes timidly through the ferns and answers his love-call.
- The editor's column covers the Chicago Club's Niagara-to-Boston tour of about 700 miles in July, American lacrosse and Philadelphia cricket in England, horse-riding as an outdoor pastime, tricycling for ladies and the choice of cruising canoes.
- Readers' letters include Thomas Stevens's diary of riding through Wyoming in mud and river crossings to Fort Bridger and Carter station, a costume for English lady tricyclists, an American's London letter on a coaching meet and the Prince's stables, L. Claus's reply on Belgian cycling routes, and a home tool-bench for boys.
- Book notices cover Thomas Hughes's Gone to Texas, James Henshall's Camping and Cruising in Florida, Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor, Charles Egbert Craddock's In the Tennessee Mountains, Maud Howe's The San Rosario Ranch, Sparhawk's A Lazy Man's Work, Thoreau's Summer, Harris's Sketches in Black and White, Stevens's Fly-Fishing in Maine Lakes and Tapley's Amateur Photography.
- A news round-up covers amateur photography clubs, athletics and the Harvard-Yale eight, bicycle and tricycle races and club news across America, the Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet at Toronto on 1 July, canoe clubs and yachting, with shooting, fishing and tennis notes.
- C. E. S. Wood's verse "To an Incognita" is an idyll of a lovely girl on the Limited Express whose grandmother calls her Kitty, with a wordless illustrated episode, "An Episode without Words", printed alongside.
- Publisher's notes give subscription and remittance terms, the premium offer for volume four and the October serial by Charles Richards Dodge, an invitation to call at the Tremont Street office, the Literary World's praise and a notice of Joseph Pennell's tricycle article in the Century.