Vol 5, No 1

Articles in this issue

• On and Off the Lancaster Pike (opens in a new tab)

  Jay Howe Adams's guide to the Lancaster Pike out of Philadelphia, past Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Paoli, with the Conestoga wagon, the Whitehall inn, the Paoli massacre, Old St. David's at Radnor, Dove's Mills and the toll-gate men at Ardmore.
• To a Dandelion (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by Frank Dempster Sherman that addresses the dandelion as a little mimic of the sun, which lovers may question for kisses and which knows the hour, until it is wafted off to paradise at dusk.
• A Quaint Little Maid (opens in a new tab)

  Charles Richards Dodge's serial, Chapters I. and II., in which Dorothy Drew locks the poor artist Duncan Brown in a garret, and the illustrator De Witte King, who has fallen for her, takes up a letter from Horace Anandale about the man's identity; to be continued.
• The Orchard (opens in a new tab)

  A blank-verse poem by O. C. Auringer in which the poet lies at noon under the monarch apple tree of an orchard and hears voices that teach him more than any seer or master.
• Tents for Canoeists (opens in a new tab)

  Thomas J. Kirkpatrick's illustrated guide to canoe tents, the 'A' tent, the Perfect canoe-tent over the cockpit and the Perfection shore-tent, with a Squires folding cot, the Philadome spirit-stove, a wood camp-stove and waterproofing recipes.
• Browsing and Nibbling (opens in a new tab)

  Maurice Thompson's essay on eating wild things, the buds, barks, nuts, muscadine, papaw and sweet-gum learnt from a mountain guide, from ginseng-diggers in the Carolina hills and from his own years in the American woods, arguing that the wild fare feeds the imagination.
• A Search for the Border Ruffian (opens in a new tab)

  Frederick A. Ober's satirical hunt for the Border Ruffian from Laredo to Monterey and the railway spur into Mexico, with Greasers, Baptist and Arkansas editor parties, a newspaper's 'Tooter', and a night run on a locomotive that scatters a herd of cattle.
• On Timing Races (opens in a new tab)

  R. F. Foster's practical guide for race timers: their duties at the finish, choosing and regulating watches (Waltham, Longine, Jerome and the Auburndale) with temperature tests, timing an odd-lap track, calling handicap starts, and timing oneself.
• The Wind over the Prairie (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by Sarah D. Hobart in which the wind over the prairie brings news of northern snows, autumn wrack and tropic lagoons, and the poet concludes that the best is never hidden in lands beyond our view.
• Cricket in America (opens in a new tab)

  George M. Newhall's case for cricket in America, centred on Philadelphia, with the Germantown schoolboys who took up the game in 1854, George Parr's English eleven of 1859, the club grounds and expense, and the American team's play in England.
• Rambling Notes of a Bicycle Tour on the Continent (opens in a new tab)

  C. H. Vinton's tour from Paris through Rheims, Chalons and Vitry to Strasburg and across the Black Forest by the Sand pass and the Murg valley to Baden-Baden, with German crowds, a diligence on a mountain road and the hazards of long descents.
• In the Saddle (opens in a new tab)

  George K. Holmes on long-distance horseback riding: choosing a saddle-horse, going unshod, Texas saddles and the Western seat, and his 230-mile trip through the Catskills from Berkshire to Howe's Cave, Schoharie and Slide Mountain.
• A Single-Handed Cruiser (opens in a new tab)

  An account by 'Windward' of the single-handed yawl Windward, built at West New Brighton by W. P. Stephens, covering the yawl rig for one man, her 18-foot water line, the skylight cabin, the ice-tank and the cooking arrangements.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editor's monthly essay on the growing audience for outdoor recreation and the word 'outing', with the Rev. S. J. Barrows's camp papers on Lake Memphremagog, a plea for the carriage-drive, the Adirondack forests and the C.T.C.'s road work in England.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Three readers' letters: 'Wheeling in Australia' by Ollapod, correcting the Victorian hundred-mile record to Mr. Marsh of Ballarat; 'A Man of One Header' by L. F. A. of Boston on learning to ride at a rink and to coast; and 'On a Country Road' by Observer, on seeing nature on foot.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of S. Conant Foster's Wheel Songs, the joint novel The King's Men, Virginia W. Johnson's The Fainalls of Tipton, Bellamy's Miss Ludington's Sister, Bret Harte's On the Frontier and Vosmaer's The Amazon, with brief notices of Southworth's Self-Raised, Kennedy's railway history, Howells's Three Villages and two guides.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  The monthly round of sport: bicycle race meetings and tours (Pittsfield, Louisville, the L.A.W. meet at Cleveland, the Mount Washington descent, Corey Hill and Thomas Stevens's round-the-world ride), the American Canoe Association's Thousand Islands meet with its race results, resorts and travel, shooting and fishing, tennis, yachting (the Goelet cup and the Hull Yacht Club), and foreign wheel news.
• A Song of the Wheel (opens in a new tab)

  A song in two verses, words by Charles E. Pratt and music by George J. Huss, urging the rider to take his wheel out on the road before sundown to the calm hills and fresh woodlands.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Aphorisms from the wheel-room by Arthur Penfield, puns on nickel-plate, loose tires, falls and the pool-table, followed by the verse 'Ye Luckless Wheelmen', in which two riders meet on a bridge in the rain and fall to the land-cubbers below.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  The publisher's page of reader testimonials praising the magazine's breezy out-door flavour, with a Housatonic Railroad pamphlet notice, Henry James Ten Eyck's Century remarks on summer migration, premiums for club secretaries, the launch of Volume V and a preview of Fraser's Nor'-west scamper and Sylvester Baxter's Aztec wheeling.