The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 1, No 4
Articles in this issue
- A serialized Christmas story in which Bedevale law student and keen wheelman Arthur Gresham crashes his D.H.F. bicycle while touring and is nursed by farmer's daughter Marion Hawthorne; the tale concludes on page 6 with Marion eloping with Mike the hired man on Christmas morning.
- Editorial marking roughly five months since the Canadian Wheelman was first conceived, thanking contributors and subscribers and wishing all readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
- Editorial responding to discussion of the prior issue's 'Important to Bicyclists' piece, advising wheelmen how to behave when meeting fractious horses on the road and arguing riders are unfairly blamed for accidents caused by drivers' crankiness.
- Note that Toronto jeweller Mr. T. H. Robinson has finally received the order for the Canadian Wheelmen's Association medals won on the 1st of July and is now at work on them.
- Editorial explaining that sample copies of the Canadian Wheelman have been mailed across Canada as a polite invitation to subscribe to the country's only paper of its kind.
- Column of short news items and clippings touching the Springfield tournament's disputed finances, the Wheelman magazine's merger into Outing and the Wheelman, J. G. Dalton's 'Lyra Bicyclica,' W. G. Ross declining to race, and the Belleville Bicycle Club's new hall.
- C.W.A. department listing newly received membership applications (mostly Toronto Wanderers), transfers, and W. G. Eakins's consul appointments for London, St. Thomas, Brantford, Woodstock, Simcoe and Aylmer, and urging riders to join before the Hand-Book list closes; includes a report of the League of Champions exhibition races at Jewell Park (Eck, Higham, Prince, Rollinson and Louise Armaindo).
- Notice of a new London social club, several of whose members are bicyclists, holding its first annual reception in the Masonic Temple on December 27th.
- Report on the Ariel Club's successful concert of Thursday, December 13th, featuring a solo by Mr. Chas. Mountjoy and Captain J. A. Muirhead in a quartette.
- Correspondence department with club letters from Toronto (the Wanderers' meeting, George E. Cooper's gas lecture and reading room), Ottawa (death of First Lieutenant Sidney A. Woodburn and a runaway-horse incident), and Newcastle (the young Bicycle Club's new rooms and good roads).
- Death notices for Ottawa bicyclist Mr. Sidney Woodburn, with the Citizen's account of his funeral and floral tributes from the Ottawa Bicycle Club, and for Mr. John Gunn of the Molsons' Bank, a non-cyclist who took great interest in the sport.
- A poem by a regular contributor describing the pleasures of a summer day's wheel tour into the country and the rider's homeward journey by evening train.
- Column of personal news about wheelmen including Adam Lind, S. S. McClure resigning as editor of the Wheelman, Col. Otter's return from the Old Country, Karl Kron, William Payne shipping a 54-inch bicycle to Fort Qu'Appelle, and C. H. Wallace's marriage to vocalist Miss Carrie Lazars.
- Short notes on Belleville wheelmen's machines and plans, mentioning Franklin Wills, Prof. Green's new Expert, S. G. Retallack's expected Pilot Light Roadster, and a forty-five-mile run to Brighton by Daly, Morgan and Wills.
- Brief replies to correspondents including the Coventry 'Cyclist, H. G. McL. of Goderich, R. J. Bowles of Brighton and T. H. R. of Toronto, on subscriptions, copies and advertising.