The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 4, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Notes that the Wanderers of Toronto have enrolled 101 members in the C.W.A., reports complaints that the Grand Trunk Railway violated its agreement to carry wheels free at the Brantford meet with V.-P. W. P. Way taking the matter up, and that George M. Hendee and trainer Harry Cornish are training at Worcester.
- An editorial (from the Bicycling World) arguing that as racing wanes touring is the most delightful, sensible side of cycling, urging the tourist to take bad roads and hills with the philosophical good nature of a Mark Tapley and the pluck of a Stevens.
- Reports the New Jersey wheelmen's scheme, agitated by the L.A.W. Bulletin, to build a cinder bicycle path from New York to Philadelphia, with Trenton's Gardner Cain doubtful of its feasibility and noting the eight-mile Wilkesbarre path as the longest in the country.
- Reprints a letter from W. A. Karn, President of the Woodstock Bicycle Club, to the Brantford Expositor contradicting a Woodstock Standard item that disparaged the hospitality shown visiting wheelmen at the Brantford C.W.A. meet.
- A letter from E. W. Smith of the St. Catharines Bicycle Club, suffering sunstroke after Brantford, asking that the July 1st date of the annual C.W.A. meet be moved to a more suitable season.
- A correspondent signing himself 'A Wanderer' rebuts statements by 'Pete' in the previous month's Toronto correspondence about a city paper opposing Sunday riding.
- A letter from Karl Kron on distributing his 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle' to Canadian subscribers, offering the book on approval and naming his Montreal agent A. T. Lane of 1421 St. Catherine Street.
- Results of the Montreal Bicycle Club's eight-mile handicap road race from the M.A.A.A. gymnasium to Lachine on July 23rd, won on net time by E. P. Baird (scratch) ahead of E. W. Barlow and others, the first of a series of three.
- Toronto correspondence from 'Wander'-Or' describing the Wanderers' new ball team, visits from the Midland Tourists, Montreal, Syracuse and Brooklyn's Ilderan clubs, a Newmarket trip, and the club reaching 100 C.W.A. members.
- London correspondence denying a rumour of a $30,000 club-house, announcing new York Street headquarters, the club's annual outing ride to Goderich on August 13, and a likely October lecture by round-the-world cyclist Thomas Stevens under the Y.M.C.A.
- From the Detroit Free Press, an account of Detroit wheelmen B. J. Holcombe and C. Smith riding from Windsor to Blenheim and back, 133 miles in daylight, the longest one-day run by Michigan wheelmen, on Columbia and Champion light roadsters.
- Mile champion W. A. Illston tells the Glasgow Evening News that Rowe is the best cyclist he has seen, that American half-mile tracks are faster than English ones, and praises Howell and Temple.
- Official C.W.A. notices listing officers (President J. D. Miller, Sec.-Treas. Hal B. Donly), July applications for membership by club including 70 for the Wanderers of Toronto, and consul appointments for Toronto District No. 3.
- Race results from the Michigan Division L.A.W. meet at Detroit on July 11, with wins by J. D. Lamont of Chatham, Harry Davies of Toronto, F. X. Spranger and T. B. Nicolson, and a one-mile state championship declared 'no race' for loafing.
- Reprints the Boston Herald's scathing review of Karl Kron's 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' calling it the work of an idiot, with the Bicycling World suggesting such a notice may actually drive sales.
- Announces the Toronto Bicycle Club's sixth annual tournament at Rosedale on August 15th (civic holiday) with seven open events, the Rosedale grounds being prepared to lower Canadian records.
- A comic dialect poem (from the Boston Globe) about a dandy 'dood' who takes a header off his bicycle while trying to kiss a lady riding alongside on a tricycle.
- A humorous dialect sketch (from The Wheelmen's Record) in which a rustic narrator recounts how his friend Pete Burgess 'won' a five-mile championship at Terre Haute by staying on the track through repeated collisions.
- From the Bicycling World, the Syracuse club's Ontario tour as guests of the Wanderers at Toronto, riding via Bowmanville, Belleville and Kingston to the Thousand Islands, 225 miles in all; also notes a Portland Wheel Club party reaching Quebec from Cacouna.
- A column of short cycling news items: R. J. Mecredy's tricycle records, the American team's English and Continental engagements, L.A.W. membership by state, Woodside and Howell record times, and other home and foreign notes.
- Further short paragraphs including Thomas Stevens's London, Ontario lecture, the Victoria Rifles of Montreal forming a bicycle corps, the failure of Cunard cycle agents D. Rogers & Co. of Newark, and a fatal reckless-riding accident at Landport.