The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on Hal. B. Donly of Simcoe, who after over three years as Secretary-Treasurer will either resign at the Montreal meet or continue only as a paid official, urging the C.W.A. to retain his services.
- A last appeal urging every Canadian wheelman to attend the C.W.A. annual meet in Montreal, praising the Montreal Bicycle Club's programme of races, parades and concerts.
- Notes on the smaller L.A.W. parade of '86 in Boston, the rotation of the C.W.A. presidency among regions, and praise for the Stratford Bicycle Club's prosecution of a farmer who injured a cyclist.
- A reprint from the L.A.W. Bulletin (H. B. C.) reporting an experiment weighing a set of twelve ball bearings over a thousand miles to measure their tiny wear.
- A Montreal correspondent describes preparations for the C.W.A. meet, including the decorated Victoria Skating Rink, the fancy riders Lester and Alden, the Lachine road race, and racers such as Clarke, Foster, Davies, Low, Robertson and Scales.
- A day-by-day programme from Charles Robinson & Co. of Toronto for the proposed June 28–July 3 tour to Montreal via Whitby, Cobourg, Kingston and the Thousand Islands, with fares and reduced railway rates.
- Report on the L.A.W.'s annual three-day meet at Boston, where Dr. N. M. Beckwith was elected president a fourth time, Eugene M. Aaron made permanent secretary, and championship races were held at the Union Grounds.
- Official notices listing new membership applications from the Peterboro', Simcoe, St. Thomas, Trenton and Montreal Victoria clubs, plus President Brierley's appointments of consuls, auditors and the racing-board chairman.
- Hal. B. Donly's notices of the Annual General Meeting on 1 July and the first Board of Officers meeting on 3 July at the Montreal A.A.A. club house, with club-delegate voting rules.
- Lists the management, finance, grounds, parade, races, concert and reception committees for the Montreal meet, chaired largely by J. D. Miller and Montreal Bicycle Club members.
- Single-fare return tickets on the G.T.R. and C.P.R. for wheelmen travelling to the Montreal meet, good for return up to 5 July, with free carriage of wheels.
- Extracts from Harry Ryrie's letters on the Canadian wheelmen's Continental tour through London, across the Channel to Dieppe, and on to Paris and the Rhine, with notes on French roads, meals and a mishap at Vitry.
- Club correspondence from Woodstock (signed "Bicycle") and Toronto (signed "Pete") reporting meet preparations, the Wanderers' Rosedale meet, new clubs at Chatham and Cobourg, and a Toronto road race won by Bowers.
- A Montreal C.T.C. letter on local racing men Ross, Low and Scales, the Athletic Club House at Cote des Neiges, and an invitation to wheelmen for Dominion Day.
- Notices that the L.A.W. has declared several wheelmen professionals or suspended them for racing at Lynn, Mass., and a report on the Cyclists' Touring Club's annual meeting in London showing membership over 19,000.
- Account from the Stratford Beacon of the Stratford Police Court case in which farmer Bernard Laverty was fined $50 and costs for driving his team into club member Alexander Stewart's bicycle.
- Describes E. H. Foote's scheme, adopted by the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, of a rubber-and-brass strip across the track wired to a bell to time race starts and finishes precisely.
- A letter from Thomas Stevens, circumbicycling the globe for Outing, describing his struggle through snow, blizzards and flooded streams in Khorassan, Persia, on the way to Meshed.
- Reprinted items on cyclists' road rights, including a London cabman fined for running over a tricyclist, with testimony from Mr. Trevelyan, late Chief Secretary for Ireland.
- Describes a proposed broad asphalt toll-path uniting Prospect Park and Coney Island for bicyclists and roller-skaters, backed by the Long Island Wheelmen.
- Reports the success of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s nickel-plating of Columbias and Experts, noting that Thomas Stevens rides a full-nickeled Expert on his world tour.
- Reports the formation of the American Cyclists' Union at the Hotel Vendome by Springfield, Lynn and Nonantum club members under Chief Consul H. E. Ducker, in reaction to the League's amateur rulings.
- Trade items including a note for wheelmen visiting Montreal, and a long description of the "New Rapid" tangent-wheel bicycle agented by T. Fane & Co. of Toronto.
- A short cycling poem by Chas. Richard Dodge in praise of the joys of riding a-wheel through the countryside.
- A column of brief paragraphs on racing and trade gossip, including Albert Schock's 72-hour record, Gormully & Jeffery's machinery, the Pope Mfg. Co.'s tally of makes in the L.A.W. parade, and the Woodstock Bicycle Club's officer changes.