The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 1, No 6
Articles in this issue
- A serialized adventure tale in which Colonel Harvie recounts outracing a pursuing tiger over ten miles on his bicycle along a native road in India, being saved at the last moment when a Shikaree shoots the beast (concluded on physical page 6).
- Editorial introducing the published correspondence for and against amalgamating the Canadian Wheelmen's Association (C.W.A.) with the League of American Wheelmen (L.A.W.), prompted by the "What say the Canadians?" letter reprinted from the Wheel.
- Three reader letters debating C.W.A./L.A.W. amalgamation, signed "A C.W.A. Member," "A Canadian 'Cycler," and "52-Inch," variously favoring affiliation to boost goodwill and L.A.W. touring in Canada or urging a fairer trial of the C.W.A.
- A deputation of London bicyclists from the Ariels (President Cameron, Secretary Begg and Private Fitzgerald) besieged the Wheelman office on 20 February to enquire after the paper, which had appeared a day late.
- Notes that E. H. Corson of the Star Wheel Club, East Rochester, N.H., has extended his guessing scheme to March 1st, alongside the Wheelman's appeal for names and addresses of every Canadian cyclist and word of the Forest City Bicycle Club's planned May 24th London tournament and W. G. Eakins's appointment to the Toronto Mail editorial staff.
- A miscellany of London and club notes, including the Ariel Touring Club's new club bugle from C. W. Hutching of Springfield, the Peoria Bicycle Club's clubhouse fire, the Overman Wheel Co.'s Victor Tricycle advertisement, and new club rooms secured by the Forest City Bicycle Club and Toronto Bicycle Club.
- C.W.A. official notices listing membership applications and transfers, consul appointments in No. 1 District by W. G. Eakins and in the Montreal District by Chief Consul Tibbs, and appeals for road information for the C.W.A. Guide Book from Montreal and eastern Ontario.
- Notice and full prospectus of Karl Kron's forthcoming road book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," to be published about June 15th, 1884 at $1.00, listing its table of contents and inviting wheelmen to subscribe via his New York address.
- Commends the Youth's Companion of Boston as wholesome reading for young people, citing its contributors such as J. T. Trowbridge, William Black, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Thomas Hardy and its circulation approaching 350,000 a week.
- Reports the Wanderers of Toronto have resolved on an annual five-to-ten-day tour in July or August (likely through Western Canada), notes their new silk club banner, E. W. Pope's offer to replace the Peoria fire-burned bicycles at cost, and a complimentary notice from the Canadian Sportsman.
- Department header introducing club correspondence, with a request to keep letters brief and newsy.
- Letter from the Toronto Bicycle Club's scribe (the Vice President of the C.W.A.) reporting new members proposed, the welcome of incoming member W. G. Eakins from Woodstock, and the club's winter skating branch in lieu of riding.
- Club note that Brantford now boasts two bicycle clubs, attends the rink Tuesday evenings in uniform, claims the Province's tallest captain at six feet four, and reports the city council has granted wheelmen two-and-a-half feet on sidewalks.
- Letter recounting the loss of rider E. G. Wilkins to Hamilton, a joint Ottawa Bicycle Club / Hockey Club skating "meet" on the Rideau Canal, the Hockey Team's showing at the Montreal Carnival, and a query about the best oil for a "King of the Road" bicycle lamp.
- Personal notes on wheelmen including R. J. Grove, Fred Leonard, Frank Boultbee, the marriage of A. H. Loft of the St. Marys club, Geo. F. Burns's election as F.C.B.C. president, J. B. Dignam's claim to London's first 1884 ride, Wm. Payne's new handle-bar straightener, and the sale of the Wheel and suspension of editor Fred Jenkins as L.A.W. Corresponding Secretary.
- Trade items noting the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s Expert Columbia and Columbia Tricycle, Wm. Payne's stock list of machines, E. H. Corson's "The Star Rider's Manual," and Pocock Bros.' bicycle shoes and tourists' valises.