Vol 5, No 2

Articles in this issue

• A Scamper in the Nor'-West (opens in a new tab)

  J. A. Fraser's account of a summer trip from Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior, covering the Ashland shore, white-fish and lake-trout netting at Sand Island, the old mission church at La Pointe and the Odanah mosquitoes; illustrated by his own drawings.
• A Memorable Voyage (opens in a new tab)

  Frank H. Converse recalls a winter passage round Cape Horn in the four-masted ship Great Commonwealth, guano-laden from Callao to New York, when a seaman fell from the topsail yard, an iceberg was sighted and the ship had to limp into Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
• Ride! (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by President Bates in which Richard rides his bicycle seven miles to fetch the doctor after little Mary swallows poisoned paste, racing the horsemen and reaching home in time to save her.
• Wheeling Among the Aztecs (opens in a new tab)

  Sylvester Baxter describes bicycling in Mexico in 1884, from the custom-house at Vera Cruz to the Alameda, the Paseo de la Reforma, the Viga Canal and Chapultepec, and the first Mexican bicycle club's races at Peralvillo.
• About Tennis (opens in a new tab)

  R. B. Metcalf argues that American lawn tennis is still a young game that trails England, weighing the advantages of English schoolboy training in rackets and fives against American baseball, and naming Dr. Dwight, Mr. Sears and the Renshaws.
• A Quaint Little Maid (opens in a new tab)

  Charles Richards Dodge's serial, chapters III and IV, in which the sixteen-year-old Dorothy Drew at a New England farm-house is courted by the artist De Witte King while the wandering artist Duncan Brown is watched by the detective Horace Anandale; Dorothy's bicycle fall, a portrait commission and a letter to Anandale drive the plot.
• A Winter's Cruise in a Cat-Boat (opens in a new tab)

  J. H. S. recounts a winter voyage in 1873-74 from Boston to Fernandina, Florida, in a 26-foot cat-yacht, past Cape Cod, the Jersey coast, Barnegat, Cape May, the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds and Charleston, with several gales and a lay-to in heavy seas.
• Stolen, A Bicycle (opens in a new tab)

  Edward B. Getzé's story of a new 54-inch machine taken from his Riverdale workshop, the telegram and warrant that failed to catch the thief, and the letter that reveals the borrower to be the club man Smith, who had fled after embezzling $25,000.
• The Broken Records at Hartford and Springfield (opens in a new tab)

  Frederick Courtland Penfield reports the September 1884 meets at Hartford (Connecticut Bicycle Club, Charter Oak Park) and Springfield (Hampden Park), where Sanders Sellers took the amateur mile in 2.39, John S. Prince took the professional mile, Chambers broke the tricycle records and Lewis B. Hamilton won the ten-mile.
• Maud (opens in a new tab)

  Janet Clark's story of two young men, one of them Tom Watkins, who meet Maud and her family on Raquette Lake and the Raquette River in the Adirondacks in 1880, share a boat trip and a stage-coach ride, and part from her at Saratoga after her hat blows out of the car window and the narrator makes her a cap.
• Indian Summer Days (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by Clark W. Bryan on autumn, its fires fading to brown on the mountainsides and the twilight grief of an open grave that gives way to the promise of spring.
• The Yachtsman's Song (opens in a new tab)

  Words and music by L. F. A., a sea song of four stanzas and a chorus ("East wind! Ho, West wind!") for a yachtsman leaving harbour in the morning breeze, sailing through the noon heat and the cool evening to the lights of port.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editorial department carries three essays: Art and the Bicycle, on Henry Sandham's and Roger Donaho's cycling pictures at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association fair; Physical Training in College, on Professor Edward Hitchcock's Social Science Association paper with a quotation from Dr. Sargent of Harvard; and The Season's Yachting, on the Lake Yachting Association and the New England Yacht Racing Association.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Readers' letters and editorial replies on Political Picnics, the Larchmont cat-boat Cruiser, a reflection on the cat Queen Mab after the Boston matches, a letter by Charles Richards Dodge (printed as A Work for the L.A.W., though the box says A Word for the L.A.W.) proposing national bicycle roads built with League backing, A Question of Law about lights for small yachts, The Place for Colors, and Jinks at the A.C.A. Meet, a Harvard man's dropped watch and the Owls' canoe pranks at Eel Bay.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of recent books on sport and the outdoors, including General Rice's Indian Game, Stonehenge's sporting-gun catalogue, Yellow Body's Angling Days on Scotch Lochs, E. V. B.'s Days and Hours in a Garden, Henry James's A Little Tour in France, Thomas W. Knox's The Voyage of the Vivian and E. W. Howe's The Story of a Country Town.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  The monthly news digest for September 1884: the Hartford and Springfield tournaments and their record tables, the Pennsylvania L.A.W. meet at Philadelphia, the Toronto Bicycle Club races, Mr. Weston's sociable run to Newburyport, the Columbia works visit, the Newport tennis championship won by Sears over Taylor, and the regattas and canoe races of the season from Boston and Cape Cod to Galveston and Lake Geneva.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  A comic dialogue sketch, signed A. B., in which Captain Dix and Miss Kathie land a large eel from a punt on a river; the captain's proposal ends in an embrace and her forgiveness, with the eel sacrificed to their joy. Sub-topic An Eel.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  The publisher's notices: subscription and advertising terms, the four-part series by Thomas Stevens on his ride from San Francisco to Boston, the announcement of Volume IV, Charles E. Pratt and George J. Huss's Song of the Wheel, and the December paper on The Highlands of the Hudson.