The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on the bitter transatlantic quarrel over the Springfield tournament records, taking Canada's side and rebuking the leading English cycling papers for refusing to accept the American figures as genuine.
- A facetious editorial on the Bicycling World debate over whether a male cycler should bow to a female cycler, advising the gentleman to lift his cap only if she bows first.
- Editorial thanking Dominion readers for approving the new mode of issuing the paper and asking club secretaries to send news by the 20th of each month.
- Reprints a Wheel correspondent's account of the Massachusetts Club's dazzling Chinese-and-Japanese lantern parade of over four hundred decorated bicycles and tricycles, one carrying forty-three lanterns rigged as a yacht named 'Puritan.'
- Paragraph notes on Canadian and American cycling: W. G. Ross wintering in Florida, the Torontos (Webster, Ryrie, Chandler) planning a British tour, the Marquis of Lorne's cycle patent, and a possible big Toronto meet.
- Prints a letter from Harry Etherington, editor of the English paper Wheeling, correcting an injustice over a quoted 'after a week's experience in America' paragraph written during his absence.
- Reports record attempts at Springfield on November 4, with George Hendee setting tricycle marks on his Victor and W. A. Rowe breaking the quarter-mile bicycle record in 35 1-5, paced by Illston.
- Prints reader inquiries (signed 'C 0511') seeking riders' road experience of the Spalding (Hillman, Herbert & Cooper), the American Pilot light roadster (Latta Bros.) and the laced-spoke Victor by the Overman Wheel Company.
- L. D. Munger of Detroit, attempting to break A. A. McCurdy's twenty-four-hour bicycle record from the Faneuil House, Brighton, covered 130 miles before rain halted him at 2 a.m.
- A touring narrative of J. S. Anderson, A. S. Bowers and H. J. Aldous of the T.B.C. wheeling from Toronto through Guelph, Fergus, Elora, Port Elgin, Kincardine, Goderich and Stratford back toward Berlin.
- A. A. McCurdy's twenty-four-hour record ride from the Faneuil House, Brighton, beginning October 26th, recovering the record from Ives and Rhodes with 255 miles despite an early collision at West Newton.
- Club correspondence (signed 'Sixty') describing Brantford's new four-lap cinder racing path and its bid to host next year's C.W.A. annual meet.
- Club correspondence (signed 'Mac.') reporting a booming season, the O.B.C.'s new club-room, a bicyclist-versus-roller-skater race, and a winter drill squad.
- An unheaded Toronto report on the season's growth of the Toronto, Wanderers and new Rota clubs, the rise of Safety machines, cycling court reporters, a stolen Oxford Club wheel from Charles Robinson & Co., and Geo. H. Hill's fancy-riding debut.
- Club correspondence (signed 'Rambler') introducing the Ramblers' Wheel Club under Capt. Geo. Reid, promoting Belleville's bid for the annual meet and young speed prospect L. B. Cooper.
- Reprints the L.A.W. Bulletin's reply to the C.T.C. Gazette comparing membership growth, disputing Secretary Shipton's claim that British cyclists outnumber American ones fifty to one.
- From The Wheel: Munger of Detroit, on a 57-inch Apollo, abandons a twenty-four-hour record attempt at Newton Centre after straining his ankle, having reached 185 miles.
- L. D. Munger's fourth attempt at the twenty-four-hour record at Brighton succeeds with 259 13-16 miles despite an injured knee, while W. H. Huntly of Newton, Mass. makes 257 1-16, both beating the old record.
- A column of brief cycling news items: 403 Springfield entries, Howell, Bob Neilson, the German Cyclers' Union, A. P. Engleheart's safety wins, the Missouri Wheel Club's $10,000 house, and Rowe's plan to settle at Springfield.
- Reprints The Cyclist (London) praising American trick-rider Dan Canary, who climbed and balanced an ordinary bicycle on the dining table before his Westminster Aquarium engagement.
- From The Wheel: details of W. A. Rowe's capture of the one-, two- and three-mile records at Lynn on October 23rd, paced by Chas. P. Adams and John Illston, riding three miles in 8.07 2-5.