The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial urging Ontario wheelmen not to miss the Montreal Bicycle Club's C.W.A. meet of 1886 on July 1, and hoping the Canadian records will be lowered at either Woodstock (May 24) or Montreal.
- Calls attention to the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association's two-day meet of May 24-25, the first two-days' meet ever held in Canada, with liberal prizes including a gold medal for the Canadian professional championship.
- Short editorial items on consuls' road reports, the entry-fee-refund idea praised by Bicycling News, rising trade demand, and the L.A.W. Racing Board's new definition of a "class race" with its accompanying time table.
- Reprinted from the Montreal Gazette: an extended account of the excitement over the C.W.A. annual meet at Montreal, the city's roads (Lachine, Mount Royal), a proposed programme, and racing prospects featuring Clarke of Woodstock, Davis and Foster of Toronto, and Low and Scales of Montreal.
- A Montreal correspondent looks ahead to the city hosting the fourth annual C.W.A. meet on Dominion Day, describing the club's new quarter-mile cinder track at Cote des Neiges and calling for a Canadian rider to challenge for the world championship.
- Simcoe club notes on the opening of the wheeling season, the first appearance of the Association uniform, and the annual election of officers (President W. S. Perry, Sec.-Treas. A. R. Dobson, Captain W. V. Wallace).
- Woodstock correspondent "Bicycle" reports the season's first club run to Beachville under Capt. Karn, the expected visit of the Dufferin Rifles of Brantford for the 24th, and apologizes for omitting standard-bearer Jas. Scofield from the officer list.
- Humorous Toronto correspondence column by "Pete," with verse on spring riding, banter about Lloyd Harris of Brantford advertising his 60-inch wheel, and an account of a Wanderers' Bicycle Club run of thirty-three along the Kingston Road to the Half-way House.
- Reports tour-master B. B. Ayers's letter outlining the L.A.W. Touring Board's scheme of touring divisions (Canada placed in the Middle Division) and the 1886 annual tour route from Niagara Falls through New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania to Philadelphia.
- Lists April 1886 applications for C.W.A. membership by club (Cornwall, Westminster Touring Club, Winnipeg, Stratford and unattached) and notes J. W. Doll's appointment as consul for Berlin in place of O. Shantz.
- Secretary's notices on the special C.W.A. button and uniform yarn being manufactured, the regulation cap from Marshall & Co. of London, and the state of chief-consul and representative elections across the four districts, ballots closing May 10th.
- Letter from Secretary Hal. B. Donly appealing to members and local consuls to submit road reports for the second edition of the C.W.A. guide book, praising work done in Districts 3 and 4 while Toronto has done nothing and District No. 1 lags under Mr. Karn.
- Describes a proposed tour from Toronto to Montreal for the C.W.A. meet, organized by Chas. Robinson & Co. and commanded by Geo. H. Orr, running via the Kingston Road and Richelieu & Ontario steamer, June 28 to July 5.
- Reports the organizing meeting of the Stratford Bicycle Club on March 29, lists officers (President Mark Wade, Capt. C. E. Nasmyth) and members, and notes the standard presented by C. Robinson & Co. of Toronto.
- Hamilton club letter giving its annual-meeting officers (President Chief Stewart, Captain W. E. Rutherford), plans for a cinder path on the cricket ground, and a gold and silver medal road race to Grimsby.
- Account of the Montreal Bicycle Club's eighth annual meeting on April 8, attended by upwards of 75 members, with election of officers (President J. D. Miller); also club notes for St. Catharines, the Westminster Touring Club, Winnipeg, Newmarket, Kingston and St. Thomas, plus trade and racing news.
- A Cyclist and Athlete correspondent's discussion of safety bicycles at the Stanley Show, distinguishing a true "safety" from a mere "dwarf" and comparing the Kangaroo, Rover, Courier and Humber types.
- Humorous travel sketch by "The Tramp" recounting visits to wheelmen in Stratford (the club's annual meeting in Secretary Lawrence's office), Berlin and Waterloo, Gait and Brantford.
- Trade items including a second printing of Outing for E. S. Jaffray's steam-yachting article, R. P. Gormully's eastern order-taking trip, the Pope Company's Columbia catalogue, and George Singer's visit making Wm. Payne of London sole agent for the Singer wheels in Ontario, Manitoba and the North-West.
- Reprints the Chicago Sporting and Theatrical Journal's argument against adopting flying starts for bicycle racing, citing the difficulty of an even send-off and exhausted starters.
- Full programme of the Woodstock A.A.A. two-day meet, listing each bicycle, tricycle, foot and field event with prizes, including the Mile Bicycle Championship of Canada and the $100 professional five-mile race; entries to D. A. White, Secretary.