The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 4, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editorial urging wheelmen to dismount when horses take fright, reprinting Stratford Beacon remarks on incidents on the St. Marys road and near Hamilton.
- Editorial arguing that the bicycle is legally a vehicle entitled to the road, citing a Toronto Globe report of Mr. W. Robbins of the Toronto Club being crowded off near the race grounds by a driver named Rogers.
- Editorial reprinting the Indianapolis Wheelmen's Record on whether judges and referees may disqualify riders for slow ('loafing') tactics, prompted by the Brantford July 1 races and the St. Louis and Detroit cases.
- Notes that H. E. Ducker has sold the Wheelmen's Gazette to the publishers of the Indianapolis Wheelmen's Record, and laments Australia's lack of a national cycling organisation or journal.
- Reprinted Referee column criticising the fuss over records cut against the clock as opposed to genuine race times.
- Col. Pope urges the League to hire a road-improvement advocate, followed by Canadian touring notes on the Bay City (Cleveland) club's ride from Windsor and the Rowlands brothers' tour through northern Ontario.
- Toronto correspondence column by 'Pete' covering Rev. Dr. Wild's sermon praising cycling, the Toronto Bicycle Club's Chinese lantern parade, the race meet, handicapping, officer H. B. Donly, and odds and ends including Mr. Charles Robinson's new son.
- Describes Fred F. Campau of Detroit's water-borne velocipede with fourteen-foot double wheels, claimed to run 40 miles an hour and carry up to twenty passengers.
- A Philadelphia Times item on a west-end athlete who rigged an orguinette to a bicycle wheel so it plays tunes such as 'The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring' as he rides.
- The Cyclist urges the N.C.U. to sanction a proposed match between English amateur champion Illston and American professional trick-rider Temple at Birmingham.
- Account of Alphonse King of New York crossing the Niagara River below the Falls on a water bicycle on August 13, presented afterwards with a gold medal on behalf of Buffalo admirers.
- Buffalo Express report on Cleveland's new spring-mounted bicycle carriages on Euclid avenue, which Chas. G. Canfield of the Bicycle Carriage Introduction Company plans to trial again on Buffalo's Delaware avenue.
- Comic verse playing on puns for the 'bicycle man'.
- Association notices listing new applications for membership and the consul appointments for the Toronto (No. 3), Niagara (No. 2) and Ottawa (No. 5) districts.
- Globe report of A. F. Webster and C. F. Lavender riding Toronto to Kingston (about 171 miles) on August 27, setting the Canadian road record for all machines and the American safety road record.
- Details of the September 3 fifty-mile team road race between the Wanderers' and Toronto Bicycle Clubs over the Norway Hill to Highland Creek course for a $60 challenge trophy.
- Notes Charles Robinson & Co. of 22 Church Street, Toronto, advertising cut-price second-hand machines, and an Italian government order for 520 velocipedes for army use.
- Reports the C.W.A. Racing Board's new paragraph empowering the Referee to suspend riders guilty of loafing, prompted by the Brantford meet, plus notes on Dr. P. E. Doolittle's win and W. E. Tisdale's removal to Toronto.
- Reports Woodside taking English professional records from six to ten miles at Long Eaton.
- Full report of the Toronto Bicycle Club's tournament at the Toronto Athletic Grounds on August 13, with officers, an audience of over 2,000, and race-by-race results featuring Conway, Brimer, Campbell, Fane, Foster, Doolittle and Neil Campbell's fancy riding.
- Report of the Cleveland Club's three-day meet from August 11, including W. A. Rowe's fast mile and results for Canadians Fred Foster, M. F. Johnston and Russell Fitch of Brantford against riders Cushing, Crist, Wilhelm and Rich.
- Reflective poem on the wheel as a symbol of rest, reprinted from the Wheelmen's Gazette.
- Column of cycling news paragraphs including Thomas Stevens's lecture tour, Woodside's failures against Howell, Temple's English wins, Prince Wells's ten-mile unicycle record, and the Montreal Bicycle Club's eight-mile road race won by E. W. Barlow.
- Membership instructions and a printable application form addressed to Secretary Hal. B. Donly of Simcoe, with the Association's amateur definition and by-law extract.
- Comic alphabet poem narrating a bicyclist's mishap with a girl, a half-brick and a mastiff.