The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Editorial backing C.W.A. Secretary Hal. B. Donly's protest that holding the L.A.W. meet at Buffalo on July 2nd-3rd, 1885, to suit the Big Four tourists would clash with and injure the Canadian annual meet, and reviewing the replies from the Bicycling World, The Wheel, The Cyclist and Athlete, and W. S. Bull of Buffalo.
- Short paragraphs noting the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association's Queen's Birthday tournament, the Springfield Bicycle Club's complimentary concert invitation, a proposed plan for Canadians to attend both the Montreal meet and the Big Four Tour, and Karl Kron's enrolment of subscribers to 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bi.'
- Biographical sketch in the 'Our Racing Men' series of E. F. Lavender, the Bedford-born Toronto Bicycle Club rider who beat W. G. Ross of Montreal for the Canadian one-mile championship at Toronto on July 1st, 1884, and won eleven firsts that season before breaking his arm at Buffalo.
- Reports the officers elected at the Genesee Hotel, Buffalo, on Jan. 18th (manager B. B. Ayers of Chicago, commander Fred. G. Bourne, Canadian convoy Geo. H. Orr of Toronto) and details the route from Buffalo through Rochester, across Lake Ontario to Cobourg, the Thousand Islands, the Mohawk and Hudson valleys to New York.
- Reviews the February issue of Outing, including J. R. W. Hitchcock's 'The Mont Blanc of Our Switzerland' and Norman Walker's 'Out-door Life in Louisiana,' and notes books received including 'The Canadian Pacific Railway' by Philo Veritas and a combined subscription offer with The Educational Weekly.
- Reprints complimentary press notices of The Canadian Wheelman from the Toronto Mail and the Sporting and Theatrical Journal praising the paper's contents and typography.
- Lists applications for C.W.A. membership received to date for the Winnipeg and Toronto clubs, published under Article III of the Constitution for objections to be made to Secretary Hal. B. Donly of Simcoe.
- Abstract of the C.W.A. cash-book by Treasurer Hal. B. Donly showing a balance of $253.72, with notes on the Secretary's testimonial expenditure and Guide Book advertisement accounts held by W. G. Eakins.
- Editorial urging the C.W.A. Local Consuls, whose terms expired Dec. 31st, to be active and energetic in recruiting, noting only 600 of the Dominion's 3,000 wheelmen belong to the Association and that complete consul lists will appear next issue.
- Tabulates the C.W.A. membership by club, totalling 662, with the Torontos (99), Montreal (81), Wanderers (50), Woodstock (49) and Belleville (33) among the largest.
- Correspondence from Karl Kron of Washington Square, N.Y., reporting his winter wheeling mileage, F. A. Elwell's Bermuda party sailing Jan. 22nd, and progress canvassing 2,301 (later 2,340) pledges for his book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.'
- Club notes covering the Woodstock Bicycle Club's officer elections (President J. G. Hay), the Toronto Bicycle Club's annual meeting at the Rossin House electing W. B. McMurrich president, and a letter from 'Spoke Adjuster' on the Winnipeg, Manitoba club's winter riding and annual meeting.
- Poem by 'An Early Riser' celebrating the joys of early-morning wheeling, reprinted from the Springfield Gazette.
- A wheelman's letter, signed 'Harry,' recounting a hair-raising bicycle ride on the black ice of the Red Deer River in Saskatchewan while pursued by a pack of wolves, reprinted from the Wheeling Annual.
- Reports the mystery of the Springfield Bicycle Club's missing account books, with Treasurer Fennessey claiming the 1883-84 books and vouchers disappeared from a club-room desk after the Nov. 20 meeting.
- The Edinburgh Centre of the National Cyclists' Union suspends tricyclist H. J. Webb for one year after he withdrew his Land's End to John o'Groats record claim following the departure of his witness Mr. Hall.
- Reprint of an article (attributed to Lord Bury in the Nineteenth Century) arguing the tricycle has become a necessity of daily life for butlers, footmen, country doctors, clergymen, tradesmen and mechanics across England.
- Reprint from the Bicycling World of Miss Lookabout's Boston Herald sketch describing the fashionably-dressed young woman tricyclist appearing in Central Park, New York.
- Column of brief wheeling paragraphs noting Hal. B. Donly's trip to the New Orleans Exposition, royal tricycle purchases by the Emperor of Russia and Sultan of Turkey, the reinstatement of racers Cola E. Stone and Phil Hammill, a slow bicycle race at Chicago won by Gibson, and W. H. Nourse's message to Karl Kron from up the Nile.
- Comic poem by Fred. E. Smith on a cyclist's gutter spill leading to courtship, marriage and a tricycle for the family.