Vol 5, No 3

Articles in this issue

• A Canoe Camp 'Mid Hudson Highlands (opens in a new tab)

  Kirk Munroe describes the Hudson River canoe meet at Plum Point on Newburgh Bay, reached by deck passage on a canal-boat tow past the Highlands, with the Moodna, Storm-King, West Point, the Old Furnace and Antony's Nose, the bumboat and the sailing races.
• A-wheel in Three Continents (opens in a new tab)

  C. M. Douglass recalls his bicycling in England, India and Nova Scotia, including the old dandy horses in the Alnwick Castle armoury, the 1869 machine in a Central Indian cantonment, a ride up the Mowea Pass towards Landour, and a three-day run down the St. Lawrence from Point Levi to Cacouna.
• A Canoe Song (opens in a new tab)

  R. W. Gibson's poem of a canoeist who sails across the river at dawn, reefs his sail in a gale and paddles homeward under the moon, ending in the stillness of the evening tide.
• A Quaint Little Maid (opens in a new tab)

  Charles Richards Dodge's serial (chapters V and VI): Clara finds fragments of the forged letter and love verses of the mysterious Duncan Brown in a stove, and later, at a mountain hotel, Horace Anandale confesses to Dorothy Drew that he was Brown, while De Witte King's proposal is refused.
• Romance of a Ride (opens in a new tab)

  Frank Dempster Sherman's poem of a tricycle ride through meadows, woods and villages at evening, ending at a cottage gate where the rider puts a gold ring on his companion's finger.
• Tangle-Leaf Papers. I (opens in a new tab)

  Maurice Thompson's essay on the out-door study of nature as the source of art, drawing on the mocking-bird, the yellow-billed cuckoo and the rain-crow superstition, and on reading books in the open air and touring by tricycle through the by-ways.
• Good Common Roads and How to Make Them (opens in a new tab)

  President Bates argues that wheelmen, farmers and village traders all need good roads, and sets out the case for paying road-taxes in cash, the county system of districts, bonded toll-roads, and a drained, clayed and stone-surfaced road with the aid of Ontario and Macadam.
• A Misdirected Letter. Part I (opens in a new tab)

  Frances C. Sparhawk's serial, first part: Eustace Holbrook addresses his sister Dora's invitation to a Lottie White of C., New Hampshire, instead of her Boston friend, and the unwanted guest is patronised by the Holbrook family and Major Lockwood.
• A Yacht Race off City Point (opens in a new tab)

  Peleg Aborn describes racing the keel sloop Z from City Point out past Ram's Head, Egg Rock and Harding's buoys in a fresh easterly, the balloon-jib that strained the top-mast stay, and the boat's win over the S and the V.
• That Dinner (opens in a new tab)

  An unsigned comic sketch of a camp dinner: the Commodore is to be fed by the cooks Tarantula and Henrietta, whose flapjacks serve Snake as a scouring pad and whose omelette as an anchor, and the Commodore's escape from the meal costs him his dignity.
• The Yawl-Rig (opens in a new tab)

  David Hall Rice argues that the English method of rigging a yawl's mizzen is faulty, and that a gaff, firm staying and a slide-way on the boom keep the sail full close-hauled and let it be reefed without losing windward ability.
• A Cloudy Dawn (opens in a new tab)

  J. M. Wetherell's poem on the dawn: the lark rising from the earth, dew asleep in the roses, the star-eyed skies giving up the night, and the sun waving back the stars and dark.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editor's leaders on the 1884 season: long-distance tours, notably Thomas Stevens's ride from San Francisco to Boston, and the better roads the wheel will bring; winter pleasure-travel to Florida, Bermuda and Mexico; and the canoeing fatalities at Springfield and Buffalo, likened to misusing a spirited horse.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondents' letters: a bicycle shipped to Prince Edward Island and held up by the U. S. and Dominion customs; a Montana rider's 85-mile run from Helena to Sun River; the editor's reply on a Boston women's tricycling club; the "melancholy" wheelman; a defence of the Albany canoe tent; model yachting; and a plea for an amateur class in Boston yacht racing.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of Capt. John G. Bourke's The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, Austin Dobson's Thomas Bewick and His Pupils, the New England Institute's Art Year-Book, two amateur photography handbooks (Hepworth and Wallace), and Charles Egbert Craddock's Where the Battle Was Fought.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  The monthly record of wheel, canoe, travel, tennis and yacht news for September and October 1884: the C.T.C. wheel around the Hub, the Boston Bicycle Club's one-hundred-mile road race, the Springfield and Boston tournaments, Longwood Cricket Club tennis, English record rides by English, Hillier and Gossett, and regattas of the Knickerbocker, Hull and Atlantic yacht clubs.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  An unsigned comic verse romance in four chapters, 'The Bicycle Man': a cord-suited wheelman falls at the door of old Beeswax, elopes with his daughter Bell in the rain, learns to ride at the rink and inherits Beeswax's fortune.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  The publisher's notices: subscription and binder terms, the Holiday Number, and forthcoming January and February contents, including Stevens's transcontinental bicycle papers, J. B. O'Reilly's Susquehanna canoe cruise and J. R. W. Hitchcock's account of Mount Tacoma.