The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 1, No 11
Articles in this issue
- The editor rebuts the Toronto Mail's account of the C.W.A.'s second annual meet, defends London's Forest City Club, lists the new Canadian records (one to five miles) set at the Toronto Athletic ground by C. F. Lavender, R. W. Hamlin, F. J. Campbell, W. G. Ross and C. A. Mothersill, and notes Hamilton's new Ramblers club.
- Prints the full 34-race programme for the Springfield, Mass. tournament of Sept. 16-19 at Hampden Park, detailing the amateur, professional, tricycle, tandem and novelty time-race events across four days.
- Reports the theft of A. T. Lane's Apollo front-steering tricycle in Montreal while he attended the C.W.A. Toronto tournament, the machine having been loaned to one C. A. Speechley of London, England, who absconded.
- A comic sketch in mock-chapter form telling how Horatio Fitzgomery Brown, thrown from his bicycle, is revived with an arnica bottle by Rebecca Jane Jones and eventually marries her.
- A humorous New York sketch in which a C.B.C. cyclist named James Fitzgerald is rebuffed by his sweetheart Anna Huss by the East River because he has been eating onions; signed 'Opponent.'
- C.T.C. department listing membership applications, Canadian consular appointments (J. A. Muirhead, W. G. Ross, J. H. Low and others) and official tailoring prices, plus a Free Press notice praising the new C.W.A. Guide Book.
- A comic poem about an unsuspecting boy who rides his bright machine into a roadside pool and takes a muddy fall before jeering small boys.
- Reports the Chicago Club's second annual tour, with forty-eight wheelmen landing at Toronto's Rossin House from the Niagara boat, and lists the Canadian division under captain Perry E. Doolittle bound for the Thousand Islands, Montreal and Boston.
- A column of New York jokes and notes, including jibes at Hal B. Donly and a description of the wealthy, 75-member Citizens Bicycle Club of New York whose vice-president F. G. Bourne donated their clubhouse land.
- Full report of the C.W.A.'s second annual meet at Toronto on July 1st, covering the gathering of clubs, the parade of over 300 wheelmen led by grand marshall A. F. Webster, the election of Horace S. Tibbs as president, and the race results including Lavender's and Ross's championship wins.
- Reports the first meeting of the new C.W.A. board at the Toronto Club, re-electing H. B. Donly secretary, appointing Lloyd Harris and A. McBean as representatives, constituting Manitoba and the North-West as district No. 5, and forming a company to publish the official Gazette with W. K. Evans as editor.
- Brief observations from the Toronto meet, noting the Toronto Club's record 82 riders, Hal Donly's aesthetic stockings, the Rochester Star rider, and a Mail/Globe comparison showing the C.W.A. turnout far exceeding the L.A.W.'s at Washington.
- Club correspondence opening with a Belleville letter on the Ramblers Wheel Club's growth and its May 26th tournament (T. West, W. Greatrix, W. Garratt), and noting round-the-world rider Thomas Stevens's arrival at Chicago.
- A first-person account, signed 'President Bates,' of the Detroit Bicycle Club's eight-day tour from Windsor through Leamington, Morpeth, St. Thomas, London, Exeter and Goderich to Sarnia over varied roads.
- Reviews the August Outing magazine and its articles (Frank S. Dobbins on 'Tricycling Trips in Tokio,' an Arlo Bates story), and notices S. Conant Foster's illustrated volume 'Wheel Songs' published by White, Stokes and Allen.
- A column of cycling news items, including trick rider D. J. Canary, the Prince of Wales taking up the wheel, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher riding a Columbia tricycle, and Fred Westbrook charged with selling a race at Belleville.
- A letter from Karl Kron of New York reporting only 1447 of the 3000 needed subscriptions pledged for his book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' which has delayed publication, and appealing to readers for fifteen hundred more names.