The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial urging every bicycle club to establish a club-room and a track as the foundations of permanency, citing the small but vigorous Newcastle club and the Woodstock club's $1,000 track built through an athletic association; a following note flags the saddle-danger debate (Dr. Strahan, the Lancet, Scientific American, and Dr. Piper of Chicago).
- Short paragraphs on the trade press (Wheel World, Wheel Life, Wheeling), the lack of interest in cycling among Canadian ladies, Montreal's single large club, and the Citizens' Bicycle Club of New York house-warming; also corrects the claim that Clarke holds the Canadian championship, noting Lavander holds the record.
- REDNELLAC's letter on dull New York trade, the Erie Railway carrying bicycles free, the L.A.W.'s weak record in New York State, and the Thanksgiving-day fire that destroyed about a hundred machines at Geo. R. Bidwell's bicycle shop; closes with a full account of the Citizens' Bicycle Club house-warming at 313 West Fifty-eighth Street attended by Col. Albert A. Pope and Charles E. Pratt.
- Report of a bicycle and tricycle race-meeting on the Marsfield in St. Petersburg before about 30,000 spectators, with one-, two-, five- and ten-mile races won by Igoumnoff, Averianoff and Holly, and a tricycle race won by Petro.
- A Washington court case in which bicyclist Charles McKnabb, who struck Professor Cumnock on Fifteenth street, was fined $1 for negligence, the judge calling the bicycle an unmanageable vehicle in a crowd.
- Secretary-Treasurer Hal. B. Donly publishes the list of applications for C.W.A. membership received to date, including 33 names from the Belleville Club, inviting objections under Article III of the constitution.
- Letter signed 'Spoke Adjuster' describing a roughly 300-mile Manitoba tour by Captain W. W. Matthews, C. B. Keenleyside, A. J. Darch and L. R. Arnett (Brandon, Plum Creek, Shoal Lake) and a Winnipeg race-meet where Johnston of St. Catharines took the Province five-mile championship and J. Suckling the city championship.
- Statistics from the Toronto Bicycle Club's season log: 31 club runs, aggregate attendance of 549, with leading individual mileages by A. F. Webster (Capt.), Chas. Langley and R. H. McBride, and notable long runs by Webster, Langley and the club's 1st lieut. Doolittle (10,000 miles).
- From the Chicago Tribune: at the Exposition Building, Irish champion William M. Woodside, on a 60-inch Royal Mail racer and paced from thirty-three miles by Phil Hammel of the Chicago Bicycle Club, broke John S. Prince's American 50-mile record by 5 min. 13 sec., riding it in 2h 54m.
- Account, from the Cyclist, of the memorial to the late James Starley, father of the cycle industry, unveiled at Coventry before some eight thousand spectators; a twenty-foot work surmounted by a marble figure of 'Fame,' funded by working men of the trade. Includes an item on W. F. Sutton's disputed London-to-Edinburgh ride and the Maryland Bicycle Club's new Baltimore club-house corner-stone.
- Note that the new Toronto bicycle club being formed from seceders of the two existing clubs will be called the Rota Bicycle Club, with a uniform of black silk stockings, mouse-colored knee breeches and dark green coats and caps.
- Press notices praising recent numbers of The Canadian Wheelman, quoted from the Western Cyclist, the London Free Press and the Toronto Mail.
- Comic cycling song by A. S. Hibbard, set to the tune 'Over the Garden Wall,' about a rider taking a header over a wall while distracted by a girl.
- Letter from Karl Kron on the slow progress of his subscription canvass for 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' citing a tricycle tour from Sydney to Melbourne and warning that the publication price will rise to $1.50.
- Summary of a paper by Dr. B. W. Piper of Chicago, prepared for the Chicago Bicycle Club, arguing from 1,200 miles of his own riding that cycling is beneficial, especially to brain-workers, and physiologically superior to walking.
- Report of a 100-mile contest at the Apollo Skating Rink, Baltimore, between John S. Prince and Miss Elsie Von Blumen, Prince giving a nineteen-mile start; Von Blumen won though Prince finished with 99 miles 6 laps in 7h 27m.
- Reprinted from The Wheel-World (London), a discussion of Dr. Strahan's Lancet article on the dangers of narrow bicycle saddles to the perineum, especially in growing boys, with practical advice on selecting and cutting a saddle of sufficient width and setting proper saddle height.
- Concluded English letter (from the Philadelphia Press) on cycling in the English countryside, the Cyclists' Touring Club and its handbook, consuls and fixed hotel prices, and the Tricycle Union upholding cyclers' legal rights under President Dr. Benj. Ward Richardson.
- Subsection of the English letter comparing the two most popular tricycles of the year, the single-driver 'Rudge' (ridden by Mr. Pennell through the Midlands) and the two-large-wheeled racing 'Humber,' and noting American 'Victor' and 'Columbia' machines being replaced by these patterns.
- Continuation describing English women's wide use of tricycles for marketing, carrying babies and racing, including a tandem rider at the Harrowgate meet, and lamenting that tricycling is not yet as popular among American women.
- News column with items on Geo. Nash's trick riding and western reputation, a planned Chicago professional race featuring Woodside, Brocks and Mdme. Armaindo, President Cleveland as a wheelist congratulated by the Springfield Bicycle Club, George V. Bastian's planned transcontinental tour, and the Toronto Wanderers' season tally of 22 firsts and 12 seconds.