Wassersport (Water Sport) 1885 – No. 2, January 8, 1885

The second issue of 1885 of “Wassersport”, Berlin’s weekly journal for rowing, sailing, swimming and skating — now in English for the first time, in an interactive edition made for iPad and iPhone.

Turn the original 1885 pages, printed in Gothic type, and tap the EN button on any article: its complete English translation, with illustrations, slides up over the page. Afterwards the whole issue follows again in English, laid out like the original, with an Aa button to read every article in large type.

This issue asks what the future holds for German water sports and brings the rowing and sailing fixtures for 1885, with club news and programmes. Also inside: an essay on boat terminology, a report on experiments with oiling the sea to calm the waves, a letter to the editor on the medium boat type, a naval review, notes on fishes and fishing, canoeing, swimming, considerations on the design of new skate curves, skating news, miscellany and the letter box. The feuilleton continues “Among the Yakuts and Pecherais” and brings the story “Lolly and Anna”.

A few passages damaged in the surviving original are marked or carefully restored in brackets.

Translated and edited by L. S. D.