The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 4, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Reprints the L.A.W. Bulletin's stencil-plate road-signal regulations and urges the C.W.A. Board of Officers to adopt a similar system for marking Canadian roads.
- Looks ahead to the spring season and the C.W.A.'s coming Board of Officers meeting, suggesting Eastern Ontario between Toronto and Ottawa as the natural site for the 1887 meet.
- A humorous Belleville Intelligencer account of two Ramblers who fitted brushes to their forks and rode out onto the frozen bay, only to walk home as candidates for the hospital.
- A signed column by "Rex." objecting to the paper labelling Secretary Hal. B. Donly a "Reformer," and ribbing the Wanderers of Toronto, the A.C.U.'s loafing fines, and Will Begg's foray into politics.
- A correspondent signed "Alpha" argues the cheap L.A.W. stencil code should be adopted at the February Board of Officers meeting in place of the C.T.C.'s costly tin disks for marking dangerous Canadian roads.
- Reports the Albany Argus verdict in Scattergood v. Leddings, where the plaintiff recovered $300 after being horsewhipped while riding a tandem tricycle with Harry Hall of Boston.
- A writer (D 322) proposes the C.W.A. appoint district tailors to control supply of association cloth and buttons, and also appoint official machine repairers for touring members.
- Protests the referee's decision at the Washington Rink, Minneapolis, declaring the 100-mile race between W. J. Morgan and W. M. Woodside a hippodrome and all bets off despite Morgan's win in 6h. 6m. 20s.
- Reports the December 29th annual meeting at which J. H. McLeod was re-elected president of the 277-member association, with W. A. Karn vice-president and E. W. Nesbitt treasurer.
- A Boston Sunday Herald piece arguing that handicap, class and limit races will open the 1887 season more fairly, freeing young riders from facing Foster, Rich, Rowe, Woodside and Hendee.
- Lists the C.W.A. officers and the 1887 local-consul appointments and hotels for the Huron, Niagara, Toronto, Midland, Ottawa and Montreal districts.
- A letter from F. G. Gnaedinger, Chairman of the Racing Committee, certifying H. W. Clarke's five-mile (15m. 38 2-5s.) and one-mile (2m. 50 1-5s.) records at Woodstock.
- W. F. Bayley of Niagara writes that local consuls should be appointed in January rather than late August so they can serve the season's busy April and May.
- A correspondent signed "Score Clerk" asks why the Canadian bicycle records are not published in the official organ and who their caretaker is.
- Club notes signed "Pete." reporting the Toronto Bicycle Club's new quarters at 5 Wilton Avenue and the snow-shoeing and toboggan branches formed by it and the Wanderers.
- A Bicycling News collection of British cyclists' drink recommendations, from Theo. Staines and Thomas H. Hall to F. Freeman, ranging over soda-and-milk, limejuice, claret and water.
- Reports Thomas Stevens' round-the-world ride through Kwantung Province, where he was stoned and nearly killed by a mob before reaching Shanghai and sailing for Japan.
- From the Canton Roller, recounts a lawyer named Nicholson who willed his money to buy bicycles for the school children of his city, a will his own children mean to contest.
- A Cycle write-up of a new sliding-seat rowing tricycle with two independent fifty-inch drivers, praised for indoor winter training though doubted for road use.
- An L.A.W. Bulletin guide to roadside fixes for a bent or broken handle-bar, broken pedal shaft, sprung backbone and sprung rear fork, including Star-specific repairs.
- Describes New York wheelmen's petition to the Park Commissioners for unrestricted riding in Central Park, citing a three-year accident-free record and nearly $300,000 in wheel property.
- A correspondent's table of wheel revolutions per mile for 36- to 60-inch wheels, followed by a "Fleetwing" poem on the bicycle's mythical creation.
- A Bicycling News piece disputing the claim that the 64-inch Expert Columbia is the largest road bicycle, citing 64-, 66- and 65-inch machines built in England by Cheltenham, Surrey Machinists' and Rudge.
- A department of brief items on racing, trade and personalities, including Morgan and Woodside's 100-mile match, the rowing tricycle, Thomas Stevens joining Outing, the cycle-paper subscription war, and the move to shrink the L.A.W. board of officers.