The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 1, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The editor marks the completion of Volume I, announces that next month The Canadian Wheelman Company (with associate editors W. G. Eakins of Toronto and H. S. Tibbs of Montreal) will take over publication, and reports that the tricycle stolen from importer A. T. Lane of Montreal by Speechley was recovered after his capture in Brandon, Man.
- Thirteen members of the Woodstock Bicycle Club wheeled the twenty-seven miles to London, were shown the town by Captain J. A. Muirhead of the Ariel Touring Club, and spent the evening with London 'cyclists at the Grigg House.
- T. W. Harrison of the St. Mary's Bicycle Club rode 130 miles in one day (St. Mary's to Goderich and return plus a trip to Anderson), believed the longest one-day run yet recorded in Canada, with Capt. C. S. Rumsey verifying the distance and time.
- Full results of the Ramblers' Wheel Club races at the Bicycle Park, Belleville, on the 18th, with West, Garratt, Clarke, Foster, Greatrix and Retallack taking the various dashes, championship and handicap events.
- Hal B. Donly publishes the latest applications for C.W.A. membership by town, and reports the racing and membership boards' decisions, including the expulsion of Newton Myers of the Forest City Club and the case of Fred. Westbrook, who turned professional.
- Canadian Chief Consul Horace S. Tibbs lists new C.T.C. membership applications and consular appointments, and notes the League of American Wheelmen's admission of the Columbia Bicycle Prize Cup to amateur races at Cleveland and Philadelphia.
- A letter from Karl Kron of Washington Square, N.Y., reporting subscriptions for his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" reaching 1709 and describing his scheme to circulate his "Circular to Hotel Keepers" through the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette.
- The Canadian Wheelman Company, formed by twenty-four prominent members of the C.W.A., announces the enlarged and improved second volume edited by W. K. Evans (assisted by H. S. Tibbs and W. G. Eakins), signed by Secretary-Treasurer Jas. S. Brierley of St. Thomas.
- A correspondent's account of Capt. W. H. Nourse and sub-Capt. Geo. Broughall of the Winnipeg Bicycle Club making the first exploratory tour out of the city to Selkirk, and their mishaps in the mud that stranded them overnight at Parkdale station.
- Report of the Seaforth Bicycle Club's first annual tournament on August 14th, with riders from Woodstock, Goderich and elsewhere; Wm. Blackwell, Williams, Westbrook, W. McKay, Clark and Armitage took the various championship and open races.
- Messrs. Meyers, Kipp and Evans rode the twenty-eight miles by moonlight from London to Port Stanley in three hours twenty minutes, claiming the longest moonlight trip ever made in Canada despite headers over fence rails laid across the road.
- A column of humorous New York paragraphs touching on figures such as Henry E. Ducker, Mrs. Fred G. Bourne and Rev. Timothy McKelly Brown, with jokes about headers, training and a wheelman's mishap-filled riding diary.
- Notices of cycling press and personalities, welcoming The Bicycle of Montgomery, Ala. to the exchange table and an illustrated tricycling article by Joseph Pennell in the September Century, plus items on Charlie Mountjoy, Hal B. Donly and the Stark Bros. of Toronto.
- Announcement of the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association's tournament on Monday 25th of August, featuring a perfected asphalt bicycle track and a novel grand fancy-dress parade on wheels, the first of its kind in Canada.