The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial urging every Canadian wheelman to join the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, listing its achievements (recognition abroad, an annual meet, a records system, suppression of professionalism) and pressing members and clubs to recruit and pay their fees promptly.
- Short editorial paragraphs welcoming E. H. Corson's new Star Advocate, asking correspondents to submit copy by the 4th, sparring with the New York Wheel over C.W.A. versus L.A.W. attendance, and noting the 1885 meet will likely go to Woodstock rather than Montreal.
- Reviews of recent periodicals including the twentieth-anniversary Turf, Field and Farm, the enlarged March Outing (with its sword-fishing frontispiece and Massachusetts Bicycle Club clubhouse paper), Hamilton's Portfolio, and Karl Kron's specimen chapter 'The Coral Reefs of Bermuda' from 'X.M. Miles on a Bi.'
- Biographical racing profile of 17-year-old Woodstock rider Herbert W. Clarke, recounting his record-breaking rides against Davies at the Toronto Bicycle Club's Rosedale Park meet that earned him the title 'the Canadian Hanlan on Wheels.'
- Club notes reporting officer elections at the Brantford Bicycle Club (captain L. T. Harris) and the Napanee Bicycle Club (president Dr. G. C. T. Ward), the Montreal Bicycle Club's decision to decline the C.W.A. meet in favour of Woodstock, and praise for Chas. Robinson & Co.'s new 20-page Toronto catalogue.
- Report of the League of American Wheelmen's spring meeting at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, under President Beckwith, covering the Buffalo meet invitation, the treasurer's $3622.94 receipts, the reinstatement of Fred. Jenkins, and proposed constitutional changes.
- Secretary-Treasurer Hal. B. Donly lists this year's consular appointments by district (London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, etc.), urges new memberships, and notes places such as Seaforth, Guelph and Berlin have yet to nominate consuls.
- Letter from Karl Kron of New York on cycling roads and his road-book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' followed by letters from J. G. Macoom of the Woodstock Bicycle Club applying for the 1885 meet and J. D. Miller of the Montreal Bicycle Club withdrawing Montreal's application.
- Instructional article (reprinted from The Bicycling World) advising the beginning road rider on wheel size, riding position, mounting, riding hands-off, back-pedalling, coasting and care of the machine.
- Poem by Ruth Hall (reprinted from Outing for January) voicing a girl watching her sweetheart ride off on his bicycle.
- Touring diary of Samuel Roether of Port Elgin describing a fortnight's ride through Western Ontario via Kincardine, Goderich, London, St. Thomas, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, battling head winds, gravel roads and railway charges for his wheel.
- Account (from the Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette) of the Ayrton & Perry electric tricycle motor, a 36-pound machine driven by ten accumulators that can carry a rider eight miles an hour for eight hours.
- News column noting the Pope Manufacturing Company's new Chicago branch under Major William M. Durell, the Springfield tournament dates, Harry Leeming's embezzlement charge involving Rudge & Co., the death of 'Wheel Songs' author S. Conant Foster, and Sylvester Baxter succeeding Charles E. Pratt as editor of Outing and the Wheelman.