The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 4, No 8
Articles in this issue
- An editorial urging every wheelman to attend the C.W.A. meet at Brantford on July 1st, noting strong preparation from Belleville, Toronto's Wanderers and Torontos, and the newly formed Forest City club of London.
- Short notes on the L.A.W.'s new President and Secretary, the Bicycling World's new quarters, booming Ontario cycling and C.W.A. membership, a hinted Buffalo wheelmen's Canadian tour, the costly New York Road Book, Capt. Goodman's bereavement, Frank A. Elwell's proposed tour, and the L.A.W. meet moving west to St. Louis.
- A signed account of the Toronto Bicycle Club's Credit Valley train trip to Woodstock for the 24th of May races, where the Wanderers under Capt. Orr won the cup, Stratford came second, and Fred Foster confirmed himself Canada's fastest rider.
- A humorous poem (reprinted from Cycling World) in which the speaker lists reasons for not cycling before revealing that it is because she is a maiden and straddling is unseemly.
- Club correspondence column carrying notes from London's Forest City B.C. (officers under President J. M. Edy), St. Catharines (signed "Rudge"), and a Buffalo wheelmen's tour to the Welland House.
- The Toronto Wanderers report their 93-strong outing by special cars to Woodstock for the 24th, listing officers under Capt. G. H. Orr, celebrating Freddie Foster's wins and the cup, and rebutting a Stratford paper's slur on the club.
- The Newmarket Bicycle Club reports its new officers (Pres. J. E. Hughes, Capt. G. A. Binns) and the opening of new quarters in an 1836 brick building once used as a prison for 1837 rebels.
- A correspondent reports the St. John Bicycling Club's annual meeting and new officers under Capt. Chas. Coster, a mileage prize scheme, and good New Brunswick roads, noting Elwell's tour ended in the city last year.
- Lists the officers of the Star Bicycle Club of Detroit, including President Frank C. Blodgett and Captain A. W. Ives.
- Announces the organization of the Ariel Bicycle Club at Sarnia, with President M. Fleming and Captain J. S. Thorn.
- Reports the new Dunnville Bicycle Club's officers under President D. J. Blackhall, noting the club intends to join the C.W.A. and attend the Brantford meet.
- A letter from Karl Kron of West Springfield, Mass., announcing the completion and imminent binding of his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," with A. T. Lane of Montreal as his Canadian selling agent.
- Lists new applications for C.W.A. membership by club, including unattached members and additions from the Kincardine, Welland, Forest City (London), Echo (Chatham), St. Thomas and Sherbrooke clubs.
- Reports the C.W.A. Chief Consul and Representative elections via Secretary Hal B. Donly's and President W. A. Karn's letters, naming the men declared elected for Districts 1-6 (Begg, Tisdale, Langley, Way, Jenkins, Gnaedinger).
- C.W.A. notes on June renewals, association buttons, three new clubs (Kincardine the largest), Guide Book distribution, the membership target of 1200, Foster's one-mile record of 2.42 1-5, and expectations of 500 riders at Brantford.
- District-by-district lists of C.W.A. Consul appointments and contracted hotels for the Huron, Niagara, Toronto, Midland, Ottawa and Montreal districts.
- A letter from F. G. Gnaedinger, Chairman of the Racing Committee, certifying Fred Foster's Canadian one-mile record of 2m. 42 1-5s. made at Woodstock on May 24th.
- A poem by Karl Kron addressed to his subscribers, bidding farewell to the preface and indexes of his book and calling for thirty thousand purchasers of "X.M. Miles."
- A detailed report of the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association's Queen's Birthday race meet, with full results: C. P. Smith won the green one-mile, W. E. Crist of Washington took the half-mile dashes, and Fred Foster of Toronto won the one-mile (record 2.42 1-5) and five-mile open races.
- A signed appeal (D253, Montreal) urging 500 wheelmen to the fifth annual C.W.A. meet at Brantford, praising the solvency and standing of the Association and predicting records will fall.
- A humorous anecdote (from the Fort Wayne Gazette) in which a wheelman bluffs an obstinate farmer off the road by implying his machine is a loaded weapon.
- Signed "Carl," reports that arrangements for the July 1st Brantford meet are nearly complete, prizes including a $60 award for largest club representation, and that the presence of Foster, Crist, Davies, Brimer, Johnston and Van Sicklen ensures records will fall.
- A reprint from The Globe defending cycling against John Ruskin's attacks, citing Viscount Bury and Lacey Hillier's Badminton Library volume and the estimated 400,000 cyclists in the kingdom.
- A long news column of cycling miscellany: Thomas Stevens expelled as a professional by the L.A.W., the Howell-Woodside international races, Tom Eck's racing injuries, Elwell's planned Quebec/Saguenay tour, a Vienna bicycle-versus-trotter match, and Ohio road-law agitation by the L.A.W.
- The official programme of the C.W.A.'s fifth annual meet at Agricultural Park, Brantford, on July 1st, 1887, listing $600 in prizes across thirteen events with entries to Clarence R. Fitch.
- Continuation of the news column with items on the Overman 64-inch bicycle, the Ottawa club's reception for Lord Lansdowne, Montreal's photographers and "black horse" for the meet, the Singer six-in-hand, a Rudge five-wheel military machine, and the Newmarket club's washed-out ride to Beeton.
- An interview (from Wheeling) with American artist-journalist Joseph Pennell on his Pall Mall Gazette Safety-bicycle reconnaissance tour of the Franco-German frontier from Verdun through Metz, Strasbourg and beyond, cut short by snow.
- A London despatch describing a new military multicycle to be tested at Aldershot, a boat-shaped vehicle carrying a dozen soldiers in single file at sixteen miles an hour and able to draw eight baggage waggons.