The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 1, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Announces that J. B. Dignam has retired from the business management of the Canadian Wheelman, his interest bought by editor W. Kingsley Evans who now assumes full control, with a note that Dignam will act as the paper's agent at the July 1st Toronto tournament.
- Editorial paragraphs on the coming C.W.A. officer elections (canvassing Hal B. Donly, R. H. McBride, H. S. Tibbs, W. G. Eakins and others), the July 1st Toronto tournament programme and parade, and new member W. V. Gilman of Nashua, N.H.
- Reprints notices from The Wheel, The Bicycling World and the London Advertiser praising the Canadian Wheelmen's Association guide book compiled by Hal B. Donly, W. G. Eakins and J. S. Brierley.
- Toronto report signed "Squibbs" on the Toronto Bicycle Club's successful season, the Newcastle trip, Lieutenant Doolittle's club photography, strangers like Chief Consul Eakins and Mr. Haywood, C.W.A. meet preparations at Rosedale, and long-distance rides by Langley and Wilmott.
- B. B. Ayers of Chicago writes that the Niagara-to-Boston tour, limited to one hundred, is filling rapidly with sixty enrolled and urges intending participants to confirm their places.
- Account of a bicycle exhibition at the Brantford Roller Skating Rink on May 16th featuring fancy riding by Fred Westbrook, Harry Fair and Will Patterson, club drill by the Wanderers and Brantford clubs, and club swinging by Hurst of Toronto.
- Brief personal notes on London-area wheelmen including N. R. Butcher, R. H. McBride, Hal B. Donly's visit to the Ariel Touring Club, C. F. Lavender's mile win at the Toronto bank sports, and W. G. Ross's header on his new racer.
- Secretary Hal B. Donly's list of C.W.A. membership applications (Woodstock, Brantford, Strathroy, Napanee, Winnipeg, Stratford, St. Thomas and Ariel clubs), plus notes on the growing Winnipeg club and the Montreal club's bid for the 1885 meet.
- Lists the prizes (gold and silver medals, cups, a Butcher cyclometer, hub lamp and clock) for each of the ten races at the July 1st C.W.A. tournament, with a call for full attendance at Toronto.
- Notice from Canadian Chief Consul Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal listing C.T.C. membership applications from W. M. deBlois and W. M. Black of Nova Scotia and announcing receipt of uniform cloth and badges per S.S. Peruvian.
- Correspondent "P. E. D'Alpin" describes the Simcoe bicycle club of about twenty riders, its officers (Hon. Pres. G. W. Wells, Pres. W. S. Perry, Sec.-Treas. Hal B. Donly), runs to Waterford and Pt. Dover, and a May championship handicap won by Lieut. D. B. Tisdale.
- Secretary M. Douglas reports the Woodstock club's new asphalt quarter-mile track and the May 26th Queen's Birthday races, with C. F. Lavender of Toronto winning the one- and five-mile events before a crowd of 7,000.
- Correspondent "Nick" gives a full account of the Newcastle club's May 24th tournament, the Toronto and Wanderers clubs riding down from Bowmanville, the parade of 75 machines, the races on a six-lap track and an evening concert and torch-light procession.
- Correspondent "W. H. N." describes the Winnipeg club's Queen's Birthday outing, club drill at the skating rink, a ride to the Leland House, and mile and three-mile races won by Lieut. Peck and Captain Nourse.
- Toronto Wanderers report signed "Alaomia" covering secretary changes (G. H. Orr replaced by E. G. Fitzgerald), the Brantford concert and Newcastle race trip, and a club picture sent to the Edinburgh Museum of Art via Ottawa.
- Narrative of nine Hamilton club members under Captain Domville riding from Hamilton through Stoney Creek, Grimsby and Beamsville to St. Catharines, Queenston Heights and Niagara Falls, ending with a note on Lilley and Forsythe's Port Stanley to London ride.
- Letter from C. T. Mitchell, M.D. on the re-organised Canandaigua Bicycle Club joining the League of American Wheelmen, its officers under Dr. A. G. Coleman, and the members' mix of Columbia, Sanspareil, Harvard and British Challenge mounts.
- Reports London's Queen's Birthday celebration with fancy riding by Clarence Smith and Minnie Rouchelle of Detroit, an Ariel Touring Club benefit at the Opera House, and races won by F. Westbrook and J. Lamb of the Ariel Touring Club.
- Ariel Touring Club correspondent praises the Wheelman's enlargement and recounts the club's spring runs around London and a long Queen's Birthday tour through St. Thomas, Aylmer and atrocious roads to Woodstock, ending with a humorous club-room "house-cleaning" sketch.
- Brief notes on the Royal City Bicycle Club of Guelph gaining three Rockwood members, taking up new rooms on East Market Square, drilling under Adj't. Clarke, and running to Rockwood.
- Describes the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s new Columbia power-gear attachment for tricycles, its hill-climbing advantage, and pricing of the Columbia tricycle at $180 with the gear or $160 without.
- Notice of the June issue of Outing, praising its illustrations including Halsall's yacht-race frontispiece, Bates's account of the great Canada trip, and Hume's story of cycling in France.