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V,AII& AT YaIH, .Y * GKAOCATE of 'tq" 2>«^^ ?> ^^-i'^ y>4L^ 6- ' Ail.Ki- •>. iiiE i 1 b;.' V-OKDKB roK IWO DOLLAR* I .l.> A»I,fc AT toSAUua I'. •■ » i.i.il.ljI.XU, WAoHlNOTON SQUARE NP:W YORK 1887 J1 4 <. » * \ 'in: i!:>ii'?i*^^i,i- '. up. i.'. mm^% *S- 2^^■5':>^^ TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE By KARL KRON ^p-^^.^J Author ok "Four Years at Ya.e, bv ^ Gradual o, -69 " s C^C^Cj^ Lyjlr-A^ flol ct- U.^^T, )^C MaILKD by the I'lBUSHBB ON RECEIPT OF M(,NKV-OKDEa TOR TWO DOLLARS PAYABLE A' SlAnON 1). PUBLISHED BY KARL KRON THE UNIVERSITY BUILDING. WASHINGTON SQUARE NEW YORK 1887 TO THB l> M E IVIORY OF (tHB very best dog WH0S8 PRESENCB EVER BLESSED THIS PLANET) THESE RECORDS OF TRAVELS WHICH WOULD HAVE BROKEN HIS HEART HAD HE EVER LIVED TO READ ABOUT THEM ARE LOVINGLY INSCRIBED U^lO Copjrirhud. 18H By UiMiir Stkiitik, .,y M ^^^^> MuufuturaA, 1885-7, I PREFACE. Assumptions for a special class of travelers. _ . , ,, This IS a book of American roads, for men who travel on the ticycle. It* More of ine ..,., , ... ..' ' -' ideal IS that of a gaietteer, a dicuonary, a eye opjedia, a statislicjl guide, a voluiiu. thesaurus of facls. The elaborateness of iis indexing shows that it is designed less for reading than for ref.n-'ice, — 'esi for amusement than for instruction, — and 'lebarsany one from obj-ctiii;; to liie inullipiiciiy of its details. No need cxisis for a weary wading through the mass of (li.sj by any s.;eker for sp.;cial knc- •'ledge. Thj iiiform.uion which he wants can be found .11 unci:, if contained in the book at all ; ."ud the pages which do not interest him can b« left severely alone. In reixitling my oww Iravelb, t iiave assumed that the reader (as a bicycler who may plan to ride along the same routes)d.-sires to know just what I was most desirous of having advance knowl- edge of, ill ev ry case ; and ' have tried to icll just those things, in the simplest language and the most conip.ict form. 1 h.ave accounted no fact too trivial for record, if it could conceiv- ably help (ir interest wheelmen when touring In thrt locality to which it relates ; and I insist that no critic, save one whose road-experience iiia '.■ ■■ niin more competent thai: 1 am lo predict what such tourists want to know, ..as iiiy riglit to censure mt. on this account, as " lacking a sense of perspective." My power to p'easc these particular people, by offering them these micro.scopic details, can be proved by eMperim.'it only : but 1 object ii: advance l.i h;'ving any one muaiiwhile misrepresent me as endeavoring to please people in general. " The geri-ral reader " m.iy justly demand of the critic that he give wa'iiiiig .igaiiist a writer-of-travels, .is well as .igainst a novel- ist or verse-maker, who is so precise and exhaustive as to Le tedious; but a chronicler who avowedly seeks to be precise and fxha'istive, in coirpiling ? special son .if gazetteer, — and who disclaims any desire of restricting it? seope to points whhh aie salient ai:'.l notably significmt and universally interesting,— may as justly demand oi the critic that he (io not condemn ttie work " because uiisuited to the general reader." Fair warnini^s for" the As regards 'le latter all-prA-erfiil personaite, I recognize that general reader." " '"^ '"""^V '^ "^ 5°°^ as anybody's "; and I intend, incidentally, to sell him a go<-'l many copies of the book; but I am bound that he shall buy it with his eyes open, if he buys i: at all, and shall have no pretext for pretending that I catered to his t.iste in preparing it, or relied upon his patronage in making it a success. I aim, rather, to pique his curiosity by proving that profit may bf ained, in defiance of him, from the support of a world of rciders whose existence he never . amed of ; and I exptct that, when- ever his cuiiosity forces hin: to pay me tribute, in order to study ;he manners and customs of those readers who inhabit this new " world on wheels," he will be civil enough to remember the motive which induced his expenditure, and to refrain from reviling me as having baited him m by false pretences, or failed to give him his money's worth. As regards " the general reader," then, I say: "Caveat emptor! Having paid up, let him shut up: If I welcome him to my show, it is avowedly for no ^iher reason than that his coin may help fill the yawning chasm at my banker's. I have not planned the performance to please him, nor have I varied my ideal of it one iota to avoid the danger of his derision. I shall be glad, incidentally, to win his good-will ; but, if his ill-will be aroused instead, I protest against his proclaiming it in such way as to obscure this truth: that what I chiefly aim to win is the good-will of the 3000 wheelmen who have subscribed to my scheme in advance, and of the 300,000 wheelmen whom those sub- scribeis represent." " Well-written and readable beyond the common " was the verdict which the reviewer of the Times passed upon my opening chapter, when It first appeared, in a mn-^nzme, four years ago ; but I have not en. deavored to make any of my regular touring reports " readable," to the uninitiated, save only Attempts ai verbal attractiveness. IV TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the one called " Straightaway for Kortv Davs " Th;. .. , j earth'. h.Mory when .u .u.f Jce was 2wVd for .!„ Jc" .t; '""""k"' T '"' """= '" ''" of a bicycle. .ee.ed worthy of exceptional t ea ^en b eaT J h"e H """""T '"" pre„i,.« .he inuginat.on of the unconverted wi.., the LcuUaTThal ^H . '" " ^T '"' '"- bilitie.. c; " wheeling large." I do no, asser haV ^ . ' '* "" "'^K'""""' P"-- power.-but .in,ply L. I J .t cl Td Ve eaL" "lo :Z: ""'T" '"' '"'' 3o5.h p.ge. in .h,s descrip.i... ha, iuerar force cnoih o ' .gT ' c:eL,:"T"'" """ >n.nd. -he strangest scene in my long tour ; and so wiihou, n,«f,- .k u ' "''' °*" accord .. the graphic .uali.y, , LntL u „ :,e on'ly ^ge ^w^ ^h', '^11;: ['T '"?" do any verbal scene-painting. "^' '" '*" attempted to Amusement and instruction for non-cyclers. As regards my two extraneous chapter, (pp. 407-472). .he general reader " is quite as -ilcely as the cycling reader dog that . loved and the queer ho!,:: .tatTre in " tl ' ^:iTt '""' """"''"« "" ''" necessarily have value to thousands of people who T 'ow nn.. r "'' *"'""." "' "^'''' ""'^ year finds a larger number of Ame. leans seeLTg rec eJi n ;,' d . '"'' t ''"""'■ '^"'' and by carriage^nves acvoss long s,re.ch-s o cou v uh?'^ ' r"" T ''""''^'" '°""' hackmen and teamsters (and .hdr fash onable 127' t''^."" ""i '""^^ " •""^"'="» "' "tally-ho coaches", ma have power r eg "^^^^^^ °" corpora.ing into ,he,r s-ock of stable V ,T T^ ^'^tements m this book as worth in- "KoughingI,,"byLrk Twin ' nf '" "'' " "'" "''' '" "" •''^'-' <" p.c.....Lou.of^Z;er.""'^:^ :^-^:::^«r:^:b,:^ii-ir:i---- Simplicity 0/ liter- I ^* regards my 'tyle of expression, though I may not have mastered ary ideal "L" '^''^''"" '"'"' °' ''^"'"^ * 'P^^' = 'P^'^^- ' "'^v' =>« ■'^ast used every . , . ■ ' °«'"'' '° ""^s'" «. fi^om the day in ,860 when I first took up the pen • and I have striven to win nothing else of the literary art. The putti, g of ider.s into written form has ever been to me a painful process, which I have sought to shorten as much as possible I nave always kept quiet unless I had something to say ; and, though this rule may not always have made my ac • ,1 words seem to other people worth the saying, it has certainly prevented me from bemg classed with " the mob of gentlemen *ho write with ease." Chatterers, for the mere pleasure of hstening to the noise, of their own mouths, may perform an acceptable function in .'musing Mks who are too stupid even to chatter ; but that function is not mine. I have about ashttle hkmg for "literary men" as has the elder Cameron of Pennsylvania, and am often tempted to apply to them the same damnatory adjective. In fact. I hardly know of a class of Jellow-humans whom I like less,-^xcepr " the political machinists " of the Cameronian type ar.d perhaps, also. " the athletes" and "sporting men." My book aims to be practical rather than " literan-." and my desire to see it serve as an effective instrument for " setting the , ,._ *°'''<1 °" wheels " forces me to be very explicit in showing that I am as different a person as possible from the "author" who is presumably conjured up in the minds of most men by the first sight of its title. I am not " an athlete." and have never a tempted anything difficult upon the bicycle. Whatever tours I have taken with it,-whatever pleasures or advantages 1 have gained from it,-may be readily taken and gained anew by any man of average strength and activity. Whether or not I may be believed to resemble Gold- am, h s more distinguished "Traveler" in being "remote, unfriended, solitary," it is certain that I resemble him m being " slow." The restless rush for the cemetery, which the English, speaking men of to-day seem absorbingly anxious to reach " in advance of all foreign oompeti- t.on. IS a race I have no share in. If my book v.ere big enough to momentarily block the progress of the generation now on the down-grade of life, I would wish it might in that moment •ay to them : Look here at the bicycle ! I, is a slower and more comfortable vehicle than he hearse, mto which you are all trying to crowd yourselves, with such unseemly haste ! " The bicyclers slmvness its charm for the elderly. ♦ ^ V f PREFACE. Quiet tourists [not showy racers) the """" •"'■'^ »ipiificance of the bicycle at a health- trut "knights of the v .H. ferv.. .bee,, of-.. ract:::rb:Vr".'T::^^^^^^^ - '7 the racers »re nothing more than the foam inH fr„ k .i T ^ ^^"^ ""' they are pre.., to .ooi: at and convenU.To c". bou. ""yet a.^; "rlaf '''^'"'\ *'""^' = the pool lie hidden in it, depth,. ,o the true .oirU anH ' \ ^^" "'"' ""^'^'^^ "' The plain story of an I Th. valu, of my worK, a, a contribution to human knowledee average man. depends largely upon the circun.s.ance that .being simply a slow- average physique) I am wil n^ToM T '""''"' °' "° '""''= "*" ""^'''"'^ »'"'"« »nd P.r.up of u'ncon d red tri V° ^e^e' Z ''""" ''"'"'^' """^ ""^"*'^' ""'^ "-' - " ' '-P- have less significance to m. of ~. mT ^'",7 '"'1?'" "^' "-="' ">V «ory could about my prowess, depreciate my hrdrivaU^^"'" ""''^ '""' "= '""P'^""" '° '^"K brow. Knowing no rivals 1 wheeling Jr ".•'"""? *""' '* '"'"^ " ''""' "-"^ mj ^.uarely. As a part of my plait ;rovc hT. Ta™ Y si ' 'k T 1^°^' '" ''^^'' ""^ '""^ notes showing ho. other tourists on the L^^L have ^Ltdtie .'''' ^""^ '^"' ''~"'- ndmg ,0,000 miles in five years was omt. r„„ »"-^ve wheeled faster ; to prove that my mere aged EngMshman wno r Je "^2 13"' ' '"' ^"" '"" '''='='"* °' "'•= '"^"^'^^'^■ happening to be the earliest mChon^.m''",'' '° "■"""" '''"' "'' '''»'°""' f^"^' «' ">/ ™i.es in .0 days." was not „rbi: as an e;^:. 'Ttav?'''' "T '"' ""'"' '"^'^^ " '- pool's boyish phenomenon, who wheeled stratht' !„'"'"%?"'=" '"' !""-'-» --^cord of Liver- with only ten hours' sleep. "^ ' """^ ^■■'=^' ^"'^'"' 86. miles in five days. Scientific and unol^ There is, indeed, no boastfulness in this book anH „,. • r , they appeared m a cycling monthly -and hi! woT T °^ "'^ '°"""8 "''^P'^"' *hen Jorthem. The precise. pUnal «y.eo r^, ^^^f^T^'"^"?'' "^^ "^ '"^^^'^ the purpose in hand, is certainly "painful " in Z u ■ P"'' *' '"°'" »""=''''« '«' diPicult. An idea of its difficuL J^ shL J ' ' "^"^ ''""'"" '° " " ""-"^'v thebookto be thus - egotistS-'-mavr '^ 7?'"'"" '" ^"''"■'S other contributors for Ve.erans"(p. 50.). exhibiting t esseraUanhTof TkT'; ""'^ '° " '"^^^ f^" "'^ myself a great man, that I feel free Te ve an 7 H ''"^•'/"'"'^•" '' " "ot because I think one, would interest the great worS luts de '" ^ ,Tk° ''"°"'' '^'^"=' "'>'=''' '^ ' «"«= solutely no account to that outsid wo^M be 1 "I- ^''"" ' "'"'' "^ P^^^^'-'y °' ^^ outsiders' studying, even as a basis for s;7casmrnH '."^ '"'u''"'' '°° '''^'°"' '° •"=-"■■"> unreservedly to the little " world on wS ^ i^i " '7'':' "' '"' '''" '° ''''''' -^-'^ Pathy with the inhabitants thereof that I have d, , ,T"' '^' '"'"s"' °' ""^ ''P-^^'"^' "V"- to a multitude of personal strangers with a, mul f T "^" '^l' "'"" '^°"-"'-- ^"d '^'k I believe they will no. misinterpTe^iror misTud .e h" '" "■ " "'' ""'^ '"'™''' '-"''^• clearly as I do that my " egotism " has norh f ' T-'""' "■ ^ ''="'=^= "^"^^ *"' '^e a. It simply fills a needed fu^Z irutl" »?!!=': '"^ '•'-^■<^''f ^^''PW or vaunting. nocence robs it of offense : the necessarv na.„„^f .u- • ■. ~ ' "' '•""""™xi,— its m- upon my story and no. upon myseTf iLw " h T '"' " ' """"'" '"'"' "'"' seems .0 need. If , canT^he coTfiden.X of ate '"^Tl r "'°" v ""^"^ ^' ''' ^'°^ air 01 a life which has done nothing .0 be concealed or tiiC'?:L Vi © T£.V TH^^SAND MILES ON A DICVCLE. as won nothing wurlhy niciil," r«tretfcd, there goe. along with it the conciHaiory nolic, of a ilfe whch h_, „ of public Uunt, and wh.ch cxi«:cls no ,,ub.,c honor i.. ihi rulure. •'The iwrjonal c'c ai l'.o(«»«r hill »ay5. " need not b: in th-- l..-a.t an esoli,tic intrusion of srlf." An autobioi^raphy bi- \ •'•ci'l'-mally, ihtn, the volunu- is a sort of autobiography and i|« tio^m llu luus. ";.'•*'."' *""'i.'^* "-•"^"y--'^ '' " "-^ P"»""'>' ^q"a....i. •■ could be ''"'""•"«^- 1''- complexity and far-rc-acl.in,. relaiu.n.hi- ,.f niun ^ne atTa.r. are oddly .l,.,.n by th., exam, ,c of how .n.cT.ty and tl,o,...«hneH,, *v.n when .p, bed to ., rcn.o,c and .mp..r...ul an ob,..ct a, r.por.in, th. road, of a continent have powe" to r.flex.v.ly exh.bu th. re,H.rtc,N habit, and character. A, rc«..rd, mys-lf, ,hi, ...h b cam" early c.v,d--n,, that th. ......Im.n who w.r. pl.av.-d w,th my pr...ted facts al , touring. "„ grew to have a feel.ng , a. p, .,n.ance,h.p with th: narrator of ,h.m, coupled with a f .ndly pe;::randT' I" T:'- '" '"^'^ "'"""■", "'"^•'" *^^'- '"^■" -'•'^ "•-"•- '"---.com! pet.lor, and f.cl bored by non-omp.t.tor. who n„i.t on " talkiuij shop " ; |„„, ,,t n',v llu-v ar. on c,.,nn,o:, ground andean n.ver h.ar ,00 much said in prais- of th. particular hobby which has th.. abtl.ty to drl,,h. th.n 1, .arts. Reflecting „n thi,, th. notion graduallv posse,,, d L- that my own poi)ularity, as a n'])res;ntativ ' posse„( (1 me that r, ■ , , , , ' ,poke,mai, among ih,.« player, who.e h..l,by i, the bicy. c c, m,g „ b- gre.,. enoui;h ,0 try to conjure with. Henc- it happen, that-consuhring I ow my .fe. w, h all ,„tr,als and trouble,, has been a rather amusing experience-I now, on reaching the end of .. (s.nce the fun of th= thin^ must need. b. finished a. forty), p.tnt tins plain record of the things which have amns-d me most. Praise not sous^/it for, but moiify. I do it a, a duty,— "/^«r tn:ourt=;er Us n-ilrf, "; but f do it because I b--lijve "the others" will pay me well for " enconr.iKing " them. I do it to make money. Yet, a, almost all bonks are written •s a matter of vanity, I 'ear few people will Relieve me when I declare that this one is written ai a matter of business ; and that its chief significance, so far as concern, the outside world is as a ui.u;uc business enterprise, rather than as a literary curiosity, f n the latter category I think it inisht also stand alone, as I am not aw.ire of any previous " autograph edition " approaching in tnagmtuJ.: to jooo volumes,-" each one specially numbered, signed and ad hooh Ust notable Ifuxii 'hifiUJe- ^ .howin, of a wor,d.w.dc bro,h„hood wh..:^,v;;Tu 1 ;'"""' Whether or not I .h,,II re.tp ,h= ex„ecte 1 rewar 1 Z\ ^7"^^"''"^. P*--"'-^ «nd Japan. r.r. .„ well that th-y will cjuicUly force I „,! of ,1 C "T' ^''^ '^'"■■'"- '""'' J-*' «""- me «, phenomenal a pr.K.f of the peculiarly p.;.! p^'^^.TV^'V' *'" ""' '""> '° p-el,mmary exploit it.elf. I wish, too that befor, u "^ ^"' '""■"^i"'" a, doe, thi, -..^cation a, a colossal conceit. C^I^Tm T T" l"T'' "'^ ''■'"''• '" ^"•■''-"" 'h'' human animal's indisposition to pied" mo f' ";' " ""'=^'' '^"'" '^ l*"-'-'^- cf the 30..00 boo., by a simple apoeal I thTfZd , 'r :^ ,': T"' ""^ ""'"^- '"' '''='"« "CM-I.ke and unpromising and .inrea«,nable a, wa mvfir , r '""• "' " '""^ '" ""•"'*'■ nthy of those 3o<«. J ' " "'^' "^^ '^"' »"P f°r proving the substantial sym- liusiness necessity , f my I , ' '"^« = "•'^h' '» >»si»t ~'<-Sen'». my mere attempt .hat I am no. .ryi.„ ,h.ro ,0 exhibit mv« f "o ImI T'"^' ?"""' '^^' condemned. I insist no. bound there to search in pursuit oT^:om tS,:'!' s^ ; ' ^b '"" " '"= «^-"' ^^''^ " '' of an Idea " which ha, (by im-^ercen.ible rr.AW . """""' '" "'"<'/ *' "'« growth ■•business..) led n,e i,.-! \ ^chemTth / r:;; .^^^f "^ "'^ '-^'^ of publicly and .he most notorious inhabitant of ,he " wheel wo 'd'.hcTr .V ''"" '" ""^^^ -y"^" but he must remember th.nt I do no. assume hircurL-,. '^ "" ^''" '^'^'^''^ ""^^= E^ven ; other than a purely prncical purpose. IfT m .0 sT ' '" , T' ""' '" ""' ^'''' ""="' '^ -"» ..ores.-wi.hou. gr.n.in, discour. .0 eye i g , ad:!;''" '^°"'".""''°"' '"-'"'S "> the book- ou. paying much advertising money ,0 the wheel toT . """'""" '" ''"'''"= agen.s.-wi.h- ■s plainly inc.mben. upon me .0 .ell my prosp ive a , "" "' ■■"' "^ "'' ^'"^•"' P-""" and exactly why I hon. for .heir h- Ipl v ir , ", '"" "'"'^ "''^' ' ^^^' ""=-" '" do. business. The gis. of my end.-avor is o ensure con^- 7 k' '^ '"'^"'■'"'^' '"'" "' '"- boolc- book have b3., spen. sobly ;,. .hoirntes IthatTr" ' "" *'"= ^=^" '^^'"■^"'^=<^ ^y .hi, mdependence and hones.y ■ ' ^*' ^ """= ""^'^ "Cted it with absolute personal " **y ™°"'''«» P"« : my satire free from call • chi-f of m M 'Malice t^^rOs «.«. wjii^J^jJ.", ™'" ' ^ --" - calling t?dol:xtr.olr''"^^^•'^^'^^^ .ion. I alone am resplns b le for v'r' T '" ' " ""'""' ''='*''^ "^ P"-'- .s. no. ,;mply .ha. the original act of wrZf s eTn'd dTl "'.'M K ^ "^"'= '°^ '""=• electrotypmg itself has extended .hrou-^h near'v two T " '° ^' ''"' ""^^^ "-a. .he and farther beyond the limits first se. for i. TLVe TesIrTT ''' "."^ "^^ '"' «™*" '-"'" condensed forms of expn=ssion. The proDor ion f T """'' '"'' """''^ '" ^-bbreviations and the indexes of names have been unoleZX " ia .T' ""' "^^ "^'^ -^"^ '"-eased, and Ev« " Mr." ha, been banished. «t worth i.^ rZ ' n"7 ^"""^^ '""^ '" ^'='^"'=^' "" ^""- , not worth ..3 room. Ry .wo personal rcaJiugs of the proofs, Typography and proof-reading. Vlil TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I have beon able ,o " fill in " nearly every line which most books wo„M h.v. was.H in blank- • and. as „,y excellent proof-readers have perused each page four .in,es, I thinr. a" ew p eW typographic errors can ha"e escaped iheir well-trained eves Ac ,. / ^ ^ my other readers have not yet be'en di^.ed f.y'/ear ^ usa ' , Tst" h' f"' ""^'"^ '" ..pe will not prove try.n, to then, for all of ,t i^ cleaL^:t":;;r;ee ::::erun'v irtoTres^'^' Imperfiction of\ ^ ^ "°"Sh I hope my ^h pages of indexes, with their 2 2, References mav the indexes. I ''"'" "T''. '° "°"'"= '^"""^"y- =>= f---- i" nemselves a sort of phen'ome- ofi, f, r """' "^""°°"'" P'''"°f""='^""l* ^vhich falls so far below mv own ideal of .t. Its earliest nispir.ng cause, as I have explai-.ed on p ,02 was a wish fnr mately perfect indexing; but the growth of thLain .ext^fr^^.r'; t^ ^ r-^rre'd reading, of 35. b ,-and this total swallowed up .'y L io.Z':;,^^' 7l elle^thth ..me latest n, „,y r ading for the general index (embracing pp. 472- 90) were dven mnch ewer references there than they deserved ; for on ".pril .,, .he'foTrti/ nnTv rrar^otny bl • IZIT' L!: , ""'.' "'"'"' "'^' "'^ -d^ngtoafinish"; and I did/ O "ec s t also, the 2, ,600 words ,n the "Addend.," written after the nuiexes were put in type (07 h' ece,ve sl.ght reco, ,.,„,, fron, the latter. The whole number of hours spem on t e is pa J; of this book exceeds by far the number of study-hours in my four years' college cor.rse SuzS'^Si/orts to " ^ ''^ "'"'^ "f gentlemen who write with ease " reviews which censure and reviewers. ', "'' "°'" '"''"''^ '"^=- ■'" "-^ " 'i'^^'T d^'pnrtments " of journalism, will not mpn.h , , ? """'™""""' '"■"''■'" P--"^"'!"? them with the book, or with sneci- men chapters thereof, even while proclaiming that its chief significance is not " li.e ary '' 1, hJ, been said of old-time that " the title, publisher's name and price of a new book or pamihtt or author and therefore hope that the reviewers whom I hurl mv v.ork at mav be v 1 L will be accepted by m. as fully covering every obligation in the case ; but, if more be said I ha -e b,7a d'lh r.Tf ';'" '^ '"' '° '"^ -'^•" ""^"^^ °f -^ -^^- T'- theory m" be caL bad and the work bad but I may not be fairly called ,0 account for not working on some otic- theory. For reasons by no means " literary," ; :hink many reviewers mav find mv fTcts 1 Restive and my opinions provocKi.-eo^ comment bu, , expect from them merely 'Ml sir oi attention which is a wavs bestow / rwi a mr.r, ,.,t,„ 1 1 . me son 01 means to have it." ' " *''° "^"""^ "'''^' ^^ -"^""'^ --'"'' ^''''^-^ '»>-' !'e Three hopes for \ "^"^^ "='''""■ °f -•» moribund magazine, to whom I once tried to seiche the future. I '"^""^"'P« "f "'y Kentucky chapter (in the humble hope that lie minht \ v J \ printing it, help hast-n the .l.served death, which soon hanpened) siiiH when he remailed the pages : " Thon.h not without merit, they have a little too m ch ^f tie Anabasistic flavor of Enteutk.,. e.elau,.i st.t,„„ous /.„■ ,0 interest the average read r" I remark was an eminently tn„hf„; one, and it offers me a fair excuse for saving that rs I L <, . unambitious in regard to posthumous remembrance, ny ghost will be quite conti ^se ' present Story o the Ten Thousand '^ shall last as long as Xenophon's Nevertheless as , v ■ ng modern man I shall be vastly disappointed if I fail to make more money from i h an 'm t t' ^ en Grecian from his immortal chronicle. Besides this prospective profit, there are two thi e which I hope for : firs,, ,ha, 1 may always keep mv private life and my family name " out of tie newspapers ; second, that I may always live " on the Square." Washington Square. N. Y., Mav 4. 1887. Karl Kron. • TABLE OK CONTENTS. elers. iii. Fair vJarni,,,, f;.' • 'he ™i rT r;.'-"'- 1"""""'°"^ '"' => ^P^'^' ^'"-f «- Amuse.nent and instruction for non-cyclers iv Sin nii.lr ?7'' *' ""^''^ attractiveness, iii. .siowness its cl.arm for the elderly iv O n Uon iT V "' "*"'• '"■ "^''"^ ''-><^''''^ >he wheel.- v. The plain story of' In av^r g IT'l^" Sc^"7/ '^T' '"^ ''"' " ""'«'- "^ An antobiosr.phy between the lines vi Prai -.T?' ^^"/""'^'^ ^"'^ unobtrusive egotism, v. of the cycling enthusiasm, vi. The s'e in.! Til '"' '"' '"°"^^'' ^'- U-<1- P^-r s..bscrib.rs, vii. BusinesL nece.s. y 4 Za "t^ir.^ "°""^ "^' '"^ P'^^«'"« "^ ^cxx. reading, viii. Imperfection of the .Ilexes viii wl ! ""' "■ ^^P^e^P^' -'d P-"f- forth.i«jnre,viii. (Klec.ro. in Oct., '86 exc p v if c^nU " 7'"""^' "''• '''"^^ ""P" TAlrf^K OK CONTENTS, x.-xx/: t'v of the f r °"k'°°°"°^''- ■'^-''^P- ^^ > tive he.-,dlines for their principal ^ara^rapts iUnr I 'T" "^"'""'' "'"> '57 descrip. GENERAL INDEX xxlSxir • il h K ''',1 '" ^"''■' ''' = ^'""" -.°<« «ords^ ences and many special alphabets. (Elec'tr'o i., Aor and m' "^'J'" "u^^""'"' "'"' "^° ''^"- INIJEX OF PEACES xxxt Ixll. ?''''' ^''°"' '^•'^ ^''^ds.) same ; followed by these special lists :"The U - Fo/eifn'c '"''"'' I""-'*" '•^^'-"^""'' '^ ""^ Mountain Peaks, lix. ; Mountain Ranges H.ikrr f rT '"•'""■ ' '^^-'-■^""d Valleys. Krooks, Waterfalls, Bays and other dilio is o '^a I ^ p:;,': "s^"^ "°"^%"'- ' ^'^^^ -<^ leges, Public Bn.Idings, Ixii., Oco^ranhicil \\\JJ f , ^^"^'^'' '^="''°ads, Ix^. ; Col- INDEX OF PEksON.S ulr^nr^ ences to the same ; followed by these special hsts • Tn . K " , 1'"''''"'"'""' *'"' ^'^^ ^^f"" •he Wheel, Ixxii ; Literature of the Wl e Iv N ""I T''''' '''^'- = J""™''^- "' Authors and Journals, Ixxvii.; Bicycles UxviiTri; f""7^''"« «-'^^' '"-. ; Non-cyclin^ Wheeling Autobiography, Ixxx. ; ^rhis' Z^^i M f Uxli " P 1?^' ■"' r^^^""^'' '"''^- ^ Incdents and Accidents, Ixxxili. ; Women Ixxxiii rF I^ ' .^'" "'"P"^'"' ^"'^ ■''<^=ial, Ixxxi. ; ADDENDA KT CORRIGEV ^S/c ,' p'r ^^ Assurance : the retention of office by ^e; -Ed of r T /■ " '"7"' '"" '" '''' ^°"'^"'' " N. C, U." and " amateurism " xc^i Boot , u,' " =°"f«^ion of forgerv, xci. n.ileageof.80.cvi. (Elec.r, . i; ^ra .8fr.;6r 17^^ Jouma.sm, c. Notable MAV FOUKTH. .33. e.U,. :^_e^Js^f^^„,^ 3_ ^„.^^^^^^^^ I- ON THE WHEFI 1 1i • tu i^ III. WHITE Fi,ANNEL AND NICKEL PI \TF l«.«o au ,- K.vmg about costume, ,6 M.^ral idv^ntn-.. , t f , ' " ' Absurdity of advice- '"«gage.r„n, .,. Objection to b;b;Us ';„":"" f "". "-"r'^"" "^ '"^ ^^"^'-•'" Benefits of velveteen. ,,. Mora. mflu;!,^^''n. el ;;.:':! 'TZ T^ "'"'' ^"^ ^^^'' "'• (Electro, in Mar., '85 ;i;„ words; Fro;;';h;l;;t/;;;'X:°':;!8i "^^ '''=""'" '•""• II X TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. T. FOUR SEASONS ON A FORTY-SIX 24.14. m k i, •. ,,on„ f„r ,!>.. I , L J • **•'»*' My broken elbow as a cornrr- ^« ^^ .nbutanes, .,,. Experiences as boat-race mana'It at N ^' ?""" '' "^'"^ '^'''-"" "" N. L. o New Haven, ,3 .... Routes betw-e, M w '' .""r ^°"'^-- •30- Aiong the shore ig tlie shore, Notable rides be- y. 139-42. The hills of i.i.chfield l^on to the htUs of Berkshire, .46.S. Map,' „ '; ;;f"t- «"^d^. '"cl. ,.^ i,. fi,„ ,,p^' !3ee "summary" of Dec, '86, N. L. .0 New Haven , , 2 Ro , , '""" '"'"'^i-''-''- at New Londur • a»=ij, 131-2. Koutes between N M , i -r .ween N. H. and N. Y., ,33.,. Up the N ^LkJ I, "''°^''' ■"-^• .43.. he arn-inston valley, .,3. from th^^ ' ''''' explorat.ons of S.a.en Island, .56. " B Cu" e's " n! ' 1 S^'^e-books, ,54.5, ,53. ^ ,g, words, ,nc,..;oo in fine type. From Z... ; ^ ^ZT^'m ^^'^'^ '"■'-■ '«5 ; 6300 2S, -82. See pp. 84, 86-^2, ,7, 5S3.(, ) "' '^""^ ^^' ^ • ^^X -^o, '8, ; Mar. 24 and July S.atfSojSt:;;:::^.^.'"'^'^^?^ hills. ^5C.nS: Nota^. map by the CoasUn.. ....3. MorriL^::';,:;^;^ D^ ^^^ wr g"" ^ '"^ """^^ ^i^in^-dist^^c'^^ and Ft Lee,,r,s-S. Elizabeth a„d New B swick .6. r^"' n'"' ^"='^™"' "-^ensack bur,', .69-7,. "Z. & S." tourto Greenwood - kl . ' s '''• ./^"'•'"•'' "°«hward to New- .7.-3. Tow-path from Easton to Hacket" ow ', n \T • ''"""'" '"^ P'"'-:--'P'-. •■-'-■' - , •'-'veitstown, 173. Basaltic columns of Orance Af in . -ensne Road-book of Pa. and N I " ,„ s 7p, ' ^^'^■ in finp ,.,„. c-.__. , J' '77-8- (Electro, in June, Mjps and gin'des, 174.8. '85; 13,250 words, incl. 4850 in fine tvne P.V , " ' 7"* "' ■'' '""°- (E'ectro. in June From the lake down the valley ,0 Hudson .So!^ 0, '„ ' r "" '^''' '" '-^^ ^""'^''ills, .8;.,. t-r to the lake, .92-3. Poughkeepsie to V V io. 7l f ' T'"" '""' '"■ ' ^- & ^" a.on, the river, .,7. -. Hi, ^our " tour „T fl/. WalP P " ""'^°"',:'^' '^'^^ ^^^^^^ a. -"ecS'.:?'T£^:L:":S,!;^:if ^; ^ ^-^^^^ ^"^'^-- on the tow-path The Rid.e road along Lake Erie 20.-^ ir T Cananda.gua, 202. Niag.tra ,0 Buffalo, 203 Water Gapand acros: N.w Je 'v f v' if ^T.r '" TT""' '"'■ ^°" '"^^ '" "«^'- ■•n J>n.o.'85; 6,50 words, incl. ,„ of fine vp ' F V; ,^ ^T " °'^=""' ^°^- <'^'^-- XVI. NI.AGARA AND SOMF Yv^ZT^.Z' ^''' ''' ^"'"^ ^' '"• '^' '8>) Trenton Fans. 2o>,o. Sut^-^-stions 'rthl' A^^ WATERFALLS. 200.-3: Utica to -^. Geneva Lake ,0 Avon SpHn" 1 ^^^t'T'^'^^'' T"' '^"^'"''= '^ ^^^^^ '-'". 2.7. Report, from Nia-^ara ,,c '"•' R;!r , ^'"'^ '''"''^ ^"^ '^^ fails at Portape. 2.3-,4, 'h^ -.enesee Falls and thf Ka .e.skiP '. R„ r'r' "'f " '^ ^-•'-'"' -5- V^ses on' 'he Erie r. r„ Cornin. to Bin.h m o;\' 1,,^"^::; TJT'^ T' ""'"''"' '" '^ -^'""^ bnrre. 2.0-20. Weather. hotnU ,„., -..l. J^' ^'."".'^. '^e Susquehanna, Towand, Wilkes- ern New-York Rmd-Bonk," 22,-, (Fl^r'' "'r'"" ',"" '"' '"'"' "'' Abstract of " West- 'ype. From the ;f^,/««„, j„, ^83/3^:';; '^.l^^l'' '«5 = -,800 words, incl. 5400 of fine ^^^ I XII TE.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. XVII. KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CAVK, 224-237: How the Bue Grass Region welcomed ii,e, on the first summer-day of '82, 224. Coviii^.0.1, Georgetown n.d I,ex;i>gto 1 ,-6. The midnight moon li;lits my way to Harrodsniirg, 227. Crawford's Cave and th_. bnttie-fi.ld of Perryville, 22^. Rain, mud, and brook-fording, for a groc ■ry-store sup- |)..'r at Lebanon, 229. Springfield, liaidstow- and New Haven, 229-30. Acros? the clay Kulches; the hard-st day's journ.y ,n four years, 230-31. IJy train and «a;on to Mamiroth Cave. 231. An escort out from Louisville, 232. Frankfort, Genrgetowi,, Pari.ard Mi.lersburg 233. Blue Lick .Springs to Maysville, 233-4. (leiieral advice and speci.il praise for the limestone p.kes of the Kentucky hills, 234. J. M. Verhoeff's summary of 450 m. of road explo.ed V hmi (s^counties of Indiana and 9 nf Kentucky; in brief trips from Louisville, 257. (LL-ctro. i.^ June, '85; 9200 words, incl. 2500 of fine type in the V. report. From the IV/uelm.Tn, Oct., '83. Se.- " summary " of Dec, '86, p. 590; also pp. 486, ^)^l.) XVIII. ALONG THE POTOMAC, 288 245: Centennial inspiration of this 'S. tour 238 Frederick, Hagerstown .nd WilPamsport, 239, 2,3. Benighted among the bed-bugs 01' the brick house," 239. By canal-boat through the tunnel, 240. Tramping the muddy' tow- path (with hunger, solitud.-, f,.g and d.irkness as attendants) to Cumberland, 240. A path of pain, also, in returning : Harper's Kerry to Washington, 24.. Description of the Chesap-ak- & Ohio canal, 242, 243-4. VV. H. Rideing's sketch of ' The Old National Pike," 242-3 \n •83 tour of ,000 m. by a pair of Southern cyclers, 244. Ohio men's ride to Was'liMi-ton 245 "Picturesque IJ. & O.," 245. (Electro. i„ June, '85; 5S50 words, incl. 2S50 of fine 'tvpe Prom the Bi. H'orld, June 23, July ,4, '82. See pp. 384, 497, 590, 782 ) XIX. WINTER WHEELING, 246-254: Its general advantages, 246. New Vork to Port Chester, 2,6-7. Across Connecticut, 24S-5.. Mv 6ooolh mile finished in a snow-storm 251. Christmas excursions around Springfield, 252. Blown to Hartford in January 253 Brad- ley's chart of the Springfi.-ld riding-district, 254. (Electro in June, '85 , 4900 words, incl. 500 of fine type. From the H'heelmm, May, '83.) XX. IN THE DOWN-EAST FOGS, 255-281 : Independence the distinctive charm of bicycling, 255. Why I onc3 sacrificed it for the pleasure of the discomforts which b-'ong to touring in a crowd," 256. E'v,ll's glowing prospectus, 257. The three dozen " partiHpants " m this earliest of cycling excurs ons on a large scale, 257-8 Steamboat ride from Portland 259- Stnrt of the cavalcade at Eastport, and " first blood," 260. Good c'inner and bad rain at .Jobbmston, 26.. Alone I wh-el to Calais, 262. Fascination of conquerins the mud and storm 263. Humors of " personal journalism " on the border, 263-4. A day's halt in the rain and fog, 265. The making of boots and language m Nc . Brunswick, 265. Dancing through the stormy night, 266 Adieu to Calais and its charmers, from the steam-tug's foggy deck 266 Second dinner at Robbinston, ar.d a ghostly retnrn-ride to Eastport. 267.' Steamin- through the mists to Lubec, 268. Voting for Grand ALinan and getting Campt^ bello, 269. An agreeable afternoon on that island, 270. Blazing sunshine, at last for the ride to Machias, 27-2. The p!easu:es of I-told-you-so and of Sunday loitering. 272-3 My only " square " headers in eight years' riding, 273-4. Scenes from the homeward steamer s deck, 274. Mt. Desert as a place for gratifying the " club-run ideal," bv a long and tiresome scramble for " mileage " over the rocks, 275. Details of our actual sera nble ' illus- trative of the general report, " Six b.mt handle-bars out of a possible ten," 276-8. Mornin^ J.-iunt to " the Ovens," 278. Happy finale of the tour. 279. Pictures of its scenes and of the participants," 279. Explanation of my own rule against giving away mv likeness 2S0 The discomforts of notoriety, 280-8,. A personal photograph worth publishing. 28..' Map and guide to Mt. D.sert, 28.. .Electro, in June, '85 ; i6,.)oo word", incl. 2.00 of fine type Pp 275-9 ^re from the Sf,ringfuhi H'heelmc's Grz^tte, Julv, '85, and pp. 2'o., from the Bi World, May 22, '85. See " summary " of Dec. '86. pp. 573-^ ; also pn. 765.^ ) XXI. NOVA SCOTIA AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND, 282-294: Mvsteries of the custom 5 rules and the express business, 282. Yarmouth to Weymouth in the rain^ 282-3 A moist p.cmc of the Acadian French, 283-4. Digby, Annapolis and Kentville, 284-5. Grand Pr^ and Windsor, 286. A rainv ride thronsrh ilm fr,r<.si t« ifnKfav ~s tour and its varied eujoylmt , *■"»' '""'°'''^''"'^'" ^"- «"- (fc-lecro. .n June, '85 ; 8000 words, incl. 70c of fin v^' p ^r"''"'^ g"We-books. ,,3. XMI, S I-RAIGHTA WAV FOR FOHVn ;;,<;' '■ ^" PI' 33°. 636, 790 ) ;".dd,e-a,e, .,, Longdistance .onri.^l^reLnil' '"'■'"' ^ ^'^^ ''"^'-^^^^ '-- "".f :;» '" " -"' l-ee," ,55. Gradual grow h o/jhe id M "'', '• "'"'"'^ "'"' "^ '""-"'^ .-■■ from Michigan ,0 Virginia." 3^. Mil ag" ^ i '! "'^ ' ""S'" '-•«= - monumental of . e weather-changes. ,,^.,^. tZ rain-sormM L r ^""'' '""'' ^'^'^ S-n-y --Is, .,;. Mud and moisture in cross.ng N w V Jk " S P ''"'""'"' "'■"' ^'i-^- ^y-'a».a. .99. Indian-summer haze in Vi^^inia ,0^ 7 ^"^/"'^^"'^ snow-.qualls in Penn- fir^t long trail in cycling history," 300, S«° r d ^in O ""^"'' "" '^''"° "'^^''''' «»'> " 'he .nem, 30.. Outline of the obJect-lLons w , ^ L^"' ^T ^ ' '""'""" '° ^ '^ ")">■ Potomac. 30.. Distinctive intellectual charm o cT,o ' " v """ ""^ ^'^ ^^*^^"« -'^ "'e crcumstances amid which I completed " the fi^ Amer c ', ^"7 '"""'' '°'- ^""^ -^ away," 304. The sensation of triumph ^s 'JZ i T '"'' "^ '^ '^""''"'^ -"iles straight- scone in aU mv travels ^->n.l ,h '" "'^ ^'^'^" o' " H. H " ,oi Th , ^'" ■ ^ ^'^"d 'he only one whicl' this hnni, ... ^^' -f^ht^sTangest '■'S ). 305 Falls, night-riding and mishaps o tl for ^ '"':^' "^ "■ "'^'"^ '^-^ " "-^^-P^h"- 306-;. Clothes, shoes and baggage-supplL 30 m','''.''' ^°'-^; P^-'-'-'g-al observations, ounng „,sa,iable, 30;. My comp'iime ts to 'the phv s /t" '°""^^r'''^ '""''• ^"' '"^ ''- « o.n,„en,al wheeling as an equally respectable game or f "'m "f ''°''"'"' ""' '"^ P"'- "' life, as portrayed by paraphrase of George A nokPs "'-'■ "^^ '^''"^ ■'^^«' "' a quiet words, incl. 600 of fine tvpe. Ftrst ha f f^ el "'""' '°^- ^^'"•™- '" O^'- '85 ; .0 6<» riding, fr„mVLs^o?o'tTlVn"Jhtlafa:Ti[^^ ^'''^"^ f- - -■ of swif. cumbersome customs regulations against bicycl 'ng 3 '.. M ' "''' "' ' '^'""^^ *" ^■^-<^'''» C.odench and Mi.chel!, 3,.-.4. Pr.s. Bates's "e^o "in N f TJ"' "'" '" ^° ^.-London, Hanulton, 3.4. C. H. Hepinstall's ,00 m strai^hnwa ' "v ' ™*''^ ""'' ^''^--"^ -"^ ...Western Ontario, 3 .s-.ft. Summary of mrfoni^^'mr' '^™"^ '"-'^'^' -P°«s of roads e..d.ng n, the frosty moonlight of eariy m^n, 3 ? "^'^J' l'^,, ^" «°-- - '" Toronto, .o.>fl.c., ,g r.ports from the twc Chicago to ;i ,1 ' ,„e, r""'^ f , ^'^™"'° ---^--ders, 3.8-,,, b;-> ween Toronto and Kingston, 3.0 De ils o fi' . /" '' " '" "^'^ '"'' ^^^""^ Cobourgto Kingston, 3...,. Bio^raphv of th ^'f Am.r.can straightaway road-race men's Canadian tour of Aug., '85 "3 " ' olr ' V' "" "°'"' ^""^^ ^lencal whee K f-m K. to Prescott. to com;iete';he n i of 6 "m Tt;: t""" """'''""' '''■'■ '^-'"^" -'^^ 3^5-6. Routes to Montreal and to Ottawa and 7,' "'r'""^"' <^^-^.- "-ade by me in .4 Hays Je.ikins, Ottawa to Montreal and SoreT;; S "'t.^-"- °< ^^ 3.6-7. Tour of F M. S.' 0"eb^c 330. The firs, bicycle trail in t'he Western \v'm'° r""' '''■ ^''^""'-^ f-m ^'■^.v of ,S;4, 330. Description of the " C W A C n^ P 'T -^ "' ''""'"'''' "" " ^'""■"■•"■■ 3^0-3.. Maps, 33,. (Electro, in Nov '8- • "^ ■^^^'''''^'-J'^"^ ^"<^ ^""'mary of its routes, /-. A ,r. Bu/i,ti,., Nov. and Dec, '85;' lluri^^jt' T "'"^ "' '"' '>'P- f™- ^a,f^Sve™^i:::Lt:r^-™---^ .KIDCK, aaa..: Kingston ;;■•;• Jervis, 340. Reporld Ze's^tnc?:. '/ „":: " "r'''''' ""' '''---P-^ - Delaware to the I.ehi..h. ,., t,.. .,." """ .""''^"" ""^ 'o Scrantnn, ,.0. F.n^ .k. xiv TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. : nobis " Valley pike " to Stnunton, 344-6. Topography of the Slienandoali region, fi Pond's " Canipai-ns of 1S64," 346-S. Tour of \V'a,h:„slo,i ,11-1. in 'ii, {run. Harper's om G. erry the nobi E. Pond = ^.u..i,...i;„3 ui 1004, 340-3. lonr 01 wa,n.iiglo.i nun in 'ii, [rum Harper's •■ to the Natural Bridge and back to W., 34S-9 My own pedestrian trip to the liridge, 34,;-5o. Suggesled combination of r. r. routes to the Uridge and Luray Caverji, 350 i. Other rcj <,rltd roads in Virginia, 351. Military maps in " The Campaigns of the Civil War," 352. (El.ctio. in Nov., '85; 14,200 words, incl, O500 of fine tyi)e First part, from Springfield niuclnunt Gctz-tte, Djc, '.S5. See pp. 29S-308, sn-yo, 4S6, 4^5-8, 578, 5^.) XXV, THK CORAL REEKa OK liERML UA, 3«a 370: A winter invitation from Maine, 353. Geography and topography of the islands, fnsn various authorities, 354-6. Maik Twain's ailuring account of the coral road?, 356-7. Ouv .iir-vai at Hamilic.n on Sun(!ay, 35S. Sunset and moonli-ht a'ong the Nortli road to St. George's, 35). The South road, 31:0. ' 'Ihe Midd:.- rord and Somerset, 361. My race lor the return steamer, 362-3. Incident's, expenses and conditions of the ocean voyage, 364. Pleasant impression of the blacks, 364-5. I'rnise of " the incomparable L,qiiot," 365, 367. Almanac, maps and guide-books, 366-7. Exact details of the process called " free entry " at the New Voik t. vist. m House, 36S-9. MycomjanKn appeals against our unjust tax, and wins a new djcision from the Treasury Department, 36>j-7o. This d.-cision classes passengers' cycles as " personal effects," to be admitted wiihout'duty or delay, 370. Four names for wheelmen to bold in graceful memory, 370. (Electro, in |an., 'S5, exc-'pl the List 3 pp. in Dec. ; 11,600 wo.ds, iiicl. i joo rf fine type. From Sprhis^ficld \Hieel- me„'s Gizcttf, Jan., 'S5, except the las 3 pp. from 0:itins, Mar., '85 ; reprinted'iii Tricycling Jouruil, of London, and Austr.ilian Cycling .V.-ws. The fust 15 pp. were issued as a panipl.let — 1000 ill Jan. and 2000 in El! , '35-for the attiaclinn of subscribers. See pp. -06 710 7. o ) XXVI, HULL RUN, LURAV CAVERN AND GETiySBURG, STl-Wo: kn'A^ tour, inspired by my hope of seeing " one good parade of the League," 371. Throni;h Philadel- phia and Delaware, 372. Stuck in the Marylai.a mud, 373- (^ood riding from the s'.squehanna to Baltimore and .-.Uicotl City, 3/3. By Cl.irksville pike to Washington, 373-4. Fairfax Court House and CentervilL-, 374. Across the Bull Run batlle-fi.lds to Warrenlon, 375. Washing- ton's environs, as reported by W. F. Grossman, 376. liallimnre's subinban routes, 37;. Springfield clerks' tour, Ne.v York to Washington, 377. Susquehanna tow-path, Havre-de- Grace to Columbia, 37S. My muddy advance from Warrenton and passage of the Rappahan- nock, 378-9. Sweet strawberries at Sperryviile before I climb the mountain, 3.79. Thunder and lightning c. I brate my four-miles' desccit of the ISlue Ridge, 380. Luray and its Cavern contrasted and compared 10 Mammoth Cave and Natural Bridge, 3S1-2. Over the Massanutten. 381-2. Broiled frogs' legs at Mt. Jackson, 3'?3. Down the Shenandoah to Harper's Ferry, 3S3-4.' From the Antietam to Gettysburg, 3S4-5. Sunday morning's reflections in the National Ceme- tery, 385-6. York, Columbia, Lancaster, All ntown and Easton, 3S6-7. The 1000 m. circuit which initiated " No. 234, Jr.," 3SS, H. S. Wood's swift ride from Staunton to Columbia, and other excursions, 3S8. His summary of the Philadelphia riding-district, including rules of Fairmount Park, 3S9-90. Artistic and literary treatment of the '69 vfloce, 390. (Electro, in Dec, '85; 14,400 words, incl. 7200 of fine type. First part, from Sprivgfield ir/iechnen's Gazette, Jan., '86 ; last paragraph was crowded out from p. 404 of " Bone-Shaker Day.s." See pp. I •'2-3, 23S-45. .HI-.53, 4%, 495-S, 578.) XXVII, BONE-SHAKER DAYS, 391.406: H the Wonderful Year, " ,869," rolled in on a velocipede, 391. The load of obligations wh- bound mr, a Senior in Ya'e Col- lege, to waste no time in trifling, 392. First experiences at the rink, and decision to resist its alhiremints, 393. A sidew.ilk visioii-of-beauty on the twn-wheeler scatters my prudence to the winds, 393. I submit to destiny and become a vclocipedist, 39*. The old white horse whose ghost I sent galloping through the newspapers, 39;. Proof that the undergraduate world forms the or.ly real and universally-recognized aristocracy in America, 396-7. Trustworthiness of "journ.-.lism," as shown by eight variations of the fictitious " hor.se storv," 397.S. The bone- shaker welcomed at Yale in 1S19 as well as in '69, 35''-9- The Yale Lit. ^r.^gaz■■ne's careful chronicle of the three months which marked the rise, decline and fall of velocipediiig at New Haven, 400-2. Other testimony, from Goddard's scrappy book and the newspapers oi ' ,9, 402-4 TABLE OF CONTENTS. XV ^s<.e also p. 390). PosKoUegiate reminiscence, of th- Pl.l,. • bone-shaker, i„ -;.. a. ,1„ Crystal Palace dog!s„owt-N !'"*'' '7'- "^^ ""=" '"=>' °' 'h. •• -mpornn^ .he first .ubbcr-.ircU bicycle into ,he Un , ^, . ^ "i '" ''^ "'"^■'' ' '-''-^'' »' Kland in April of ',6. 40O. (Klectro i„ W t """; *""' ' ■^•"-^ """"^ f'-" ^n- >.alf fro,,. ^.^:u. /^W«.V, Ga^^tU. Sep!" ' ! ^^T^r^ ' '"tr^ " "'" ""-*• "'"' Oct., -85; r.prin.ed also by /-..^c/.,,; / «.w nl^ ^7'" '^'^'^ '^''-''''' "^ London. XXVIU. CURL, THE UEST oTuU^ ooSr^ 4l-^"'r:^"' ""^- -' '«» > and e,>v„o,.,„,„,, 40;. The gentle, of hearts beneaM,.f^' '' '^"'""' characteristics ances and ■' ,x,n,ts," ,0, General i.npres ,on Zll^T """°' '°'' ''^■^^""'' ^P»'-- of /'«.X, ,0,. Leaping through the window-Trss 2 ,h """:' f.' """"^^' ""' ""^ »-« ..o Relations with Lack Jacic, ostensible rd^V'U. "'-A T ",•"=""=' """'•" tended barr, r for bravery, 4,, Verses nf I. f . ^ S'^"^'" *'^"" as a pre- Raffianisn. towards a pair ll ^^ .''..e w I .g" r^^ ^ '"^ "."'^''"^ ''°=^ "' "- %h.,.. r.. fata, fascination of fi.-.orics. ,,. Conv:ft ^^ 'rest ^rT'L'V/^-'''^^'"-^' ^'^^ ''' movements 4.3-14. Winter sport with sno« cnv^ T, '"' ''""" "°'^" ^"d boating and swinnning, 4., A furtive d i.Z^ A '''"'° ^"^ /'<•-"«. ^'4- Hatred of wards the cn.s, 4,6. Tricks in food-takin " 4 ; ' 'ccl >T"'": , ''"'"'"•■' """»-•-"" '<>- 4.7. Kxpl„i,s ,s a fence-jumper and he:< 1. 4 7''./"^, ]'" '"""T' '" ""''' ^^'"<="=' eater, 4,8. Victorious over the woodchnrk l„„ T . ^* " ''y-'^^'cher and candy, "y .he elephant. 4.S. The w.^U fl'a 4. "'T^'f '^ "^ '^"■"'^'e-bees. 4.8. Abashed Religious rites with -he saw-horse, 4.9. k fetich of\lT < T " ""'"=""°"'-" ''iversion, 4,9. .ratified by head-bumping, 4.,. bL , and ^1 ' ^'p^'; "' '""'";, ^ ^'"""'^ =''<=--- sfrnng t.n.es of '6.. 433. Rare lapses from v rTu^ path 1' "S \ '' " ^^■'"°"»' " '" ">' I'V po.son, 4... Dislike of .nirrors and bed-chamb4 4 '' o , , ""^ ''""^"' "'■^P-^'^'^'l and v,s,ons in sleep. 4.3. Deliberateness of r tirtl for h ." """°' "^'"^ P"-^"'-"" .oken o „:d a,e, 434. Refusal to tarry in a world which m ■'"' ' '"'''■ "^'"'"^ P^^''^^ ^ -l.an to ■• crcling." ,.4. E.xceptional .obr.,,io fo" | n "" ^""" "'""^ '° " ^^^""8 " I-., on the final nl.ht, 4.5. Dead, at the Is of o or "'"T, "'"' "^^ ''"'^ '° ^"-^ words, incl. 3..5 of fine type. W.iuen. July'.; o A " r'-r'' I''-"'"- "' ^"^'^ ''^ '' "'^ ~^^^^i,T::^^^ -■«.: Karity of pared, 43.,.;. The only two modern cities whose 1^^ " '\''""'"" ''"" ^^^ '^-'^ com- and renders individual Isolation possible, 437 The "r^'r "' ""•^•" ""^ ''^"^^ "' '-•^'■'v traced by a quotation from Howells, 4;;/ U^^IT "^T ''""' "^ ™P"sonality iUus- - .,ed,uddingof,helea.,.censorio scityonthtr .T'^' """"^^ " '" "^-^ --- ,<^o'lese, ' tn Theodore Winthrop's novel of ,S6, 4:5^ r' ' v.""""''"" "' "' ^' " ^""rvsalis 1 l.ree oth.r accounts, in .S^o, 43.. Historv of \V k '""■• ^' '''^ "' ^^'^"<^^- '" "^'>6, 430 pa.!.e.ic pictur . of i, .s -« the ,nost d ■ S "• 4T; tT"v r^^' *'" "'"'' •^'^-'^ -- qunre, ,„ .,,s, 433. Pictures and statistics of he Hu d '" '"""'' ''■'^"""■"" "^ •'^' Its corner-stone laid in .S33 and its chances of ndowf - T" '" '"'°" ''""""^ "°^''^' «4. 37, «3-4. A more massive and in.pcsi .Tcoll f' ,''"''°^='^ ^' "'= ^"-"^^^ Pa- ic of ;h^,Wes.rn Wo.ld, 434-5. Dream of Ih! ,n r ah ^^-^^ "^"^"^'^ ^^^" ''"°*" '^ JeK. by the .nflu-nce and cash of several powerfu Tc"s L ""l'"'''"''''" combination " up. between the " University nf the fitv of M V " h .<,' "•"■. ^"^"^" confusion of identity "Collegeof theCitvofN Y " and th-,t n,l, ^, """'"'■^">' "' "''^ State of N. Y.." the '-er:,i,y by its friends, 4,. N 1 o f r.:: j'^^'^"' ^''/^^^ '" "^ ^'V ^hich is called 4,V,. A meritorious Institution, but Wf^ h i:;"'^' '"' "" '"'' "' '''"^' ^'--.ion, ■wo hundred students and instructors, wh I ,v h o, - i s h^l, ' '"""' "■''"'^' '"^- ""^^ "- "f the thirty or fortv nerm.inen, „.,„.'.. . o v! ^ ^^ '"'' '''^' =" ''' '^'"■■'k ^"^ "'e iden.itv m^rSk%im^.m-^^ XVI TEA' THOUSAND MILES OX A BI^^XLE. Dreeme," 438-9. :sketch of I'heocorc Winthrop, 439-40. Tlie mystery of so.''tude protects the Building from the incursions of the evil-minded, 440- 1. As regards us relations to womankind, 441-4. " Castle " and " Custom " contrasted, 444- " -Social pressure " in England, which ob- literates individual freedom, 445-S. Testimony of Hainerton, Burrow and Nadal, 44f)-7. The lattc 's showing why "society" car.not exist in Anurica, 44S-9. Relentlissncss of servants' tyranny over the wealthy, whether their envronment be aristocratic or democratic, 44<)-5Q. Evils of hotel-life, 45°- Disquieting social-shadows cast by the peculiar system of street-nuin- bering in use on Manhattan Island, 451-2. t ifth .Avenue, as described In 'S5 by J. II. Howard, jr.. 453-4- Brief escaiK-s from the " servitude to serv.mts " gained by a resort to the woods, or to the constant changes of travel, 454. : he only house in the world where the yoke of con- formity need never be worn, 45.. How the simple savagery of the Far West may be enjoyed, with less expense and discomfort, by the solitary camper-out on Washington Square, 455. Ai. elegant and elaborate system of liviiis also possible, without abandonment of impersonal con- ditions, 456. The janitor and his assistants, 457-^,1. Contrasts pointed by "the niiKhty concierge" who tyrannizes over I'aris, 45S-9 Lack of conveniences and of good business- management atoned for by s-ifety and independence, 4()o-i. The inspiring fiction of sole ownership, 402. Rarity of personal contact among tenants, 463. The Nestor of the Castle, 464. Artists and ccUege-bred men its chief admirers, 465. Pleasures of undergraduate life re- called without Its labors, 466. Peace secured at the Castle wiih:)ut the sacrifice of companion- ship, 467. Hamerlon's remarks on the compensations of solitude and independence, 467-9. Bohemianisin and Philistinism contrasted, 469. Visit of the Prince of Wales, in iS'jo, to this " freest spot in free America," 46<>-7i. Analogy between the lUiilding and the liicyde, 472. Poem by Robert Htrrick, 472. (Electro, in Sept., '85; 31,700 words, incl. 11,700 of tine type. Written in Sept., '84, and Aug., "Ss ; se • p. 710. A special ed. of 1000 copies, on heavy paper, with cover and small picture of the Castle, li.is been published and will be mailed fur 25 c. each ) XXX. LONG-DI.STANCE ROUTES AM) RIDERS, 473-aOl : Thomas Stevens and his 8000 m. trail, of 1884-5, fi"ni California to Persia, 473-4 (see also pp. 570-2, for ad- ventures of '86, in Afghanistan, India, China and Japan, completing his round-the-world tour). San Francisco to Boston in '8.;, 475-80. ' iverpool to Teheran in '85, 4S0-3. Comparisons be- tween his three years' journey and my ow.i three years' task of putting together this book, 483-4. Hugh J. High's 'S5 tour of 3000 m., Pennsylvania to Nebraska and back, 4S4-6. Long ride in '83 by Dr. H. Jarvis, 486-7. St. Louis to Boston in '85, by (1. W. Baker, 487-8. Ohio-to-Bos- ton tours of '80 and '81, 48S. Illinois to Wyoming in '82, by Will Rose, 489. A July fortnight of '84 in California, by H. C. Finkler, 48i>-gi. Vosemite Valley trip of '85, by the Rideout brothers, 491-2. Notable all-day runs in California, '7910 '05, 491-4. W B. Page's summer exc.irsions from Philadelphia, '82 to '85, 494-9 (see also pp. 574-8 for 1400 m. tour of '86). Eld»rly and " professional " tourists, 499. Southern trios' tours to Sp ingfield in '85 and to Boston in 'S'i, 500. M. Sheriflf's Manchester-Montreal circuit of 700 m, in '84, 500. E. R. Drew's routes in Ohio, 501. W. P. Cramer's three days' straightaway, 501. (Electro, in Jan., '86: 26,000 words, incl. only 250 of coarse type. Stevens's ride to Boston, pp. 473-So, was printed in Whrrlme't s G.izf/te. Jan., '87: and the rest of the story, pp. 4S0-4, 570-2, in Feb. issue.) XXXI. -STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS, 502.530: Difficulty of persuad- ing men to prepare personal records, 502-3. C. E. Pratt, 503-4. J. G. Dalton, 504-5. L. J. Bates, 505-6. C. A. Hazlett, 506-7. W. V. Oilman, 507-S. L. H. Johnson, 50S-9 (see also 530, 5S8), J. W. Smith's tabulation of 20,000m., July, 'So. to Dec, '85, 509. R. D. Mead, 509-10. N. P. Tyler, 510-11. H. W, Williams, 511-12. S. H. Day, 512-13. T. Midgley, 5;3-is. W. L. Perham, 515, T. Rothe, 515-16. A. S. Pardons, 516-17. W. Farrington, 517-18. E. A. Hemmenway, 517-1S. B. B. Avers, 518-19. N. H. Van Sicklen, 519. F. E. V'ates, 519-20. O. J. Taylor, 520. T. B. Somers, 520-1. J. D. Dowllng. c2i-i. G, F. Fiske, 522-3. Y.. Mason, 523. W. R. Pitman, 523-4. H. E. Pucker, 524. I. J. Kusel, 524. A. Voipig, 525. E. II. Corson, 525 (see also 577, 670-1). A. Bassett and J. G. Dean, 525-6 (see ^lso 6^)3-5). H. B. Hart, 526 (see also 660, 678). My unanswered letter to C. D. Kershaw, 526. A. Ely and 'V. G. Kendall, 526. Greatest American mileage in '85 : J. D. Macaulay's 6573 ni. and C. ^fiK' . II?. TABLE OF CO.^TEi. iS. xvii Nr (;e>ocl,Ws5c-6m..5,7. j. p.ey„„,H, ,„d ^j,^ W F W w Ka.hercr m '85, 5,5^. J. w. Hdl', long „av i„ ' n, ^^"'^ks's 467, m. a, . new,. S.eph.Mson, 5..,.3o. L. B. Crave,. V. A FUH A f n V'' "^^ ^^ ^^""""''' 5^9- J. V «'.r„l.a.n. 530. Tri. record of 5,5 „, ^s k '.^ ' '"•""' ^^ "^^ ^"''^'"'' ^"d E. !• ■n Jan.. •S6; .5,500 word,. ■JZ^ZJ^li^'-^l:-- "' 0-n.^ 53o. (Klecro. '«<•'/•! r?^z<-<,^, .\I.,r., •86.) *P*- Pi'- So<-7, from Sprin^fitld UhrrI )"-nal,s,, report, .0,053 m. covered i.f 'S, and 7J^' "' ^^ T'S-^""-"- a I.o,^o„ "■■ -/'''f-dKradua.e of 'So and a U.y;^^^^:^" " >■""• "-3. H. R. Reynold, -ly of ge,.n,g abo,„, 533. " Kned," a w .od en- ra ■ r ' , ' T"' "''"'''' " "" "— -•" npen-a,r spin for 3 years, «,„, onlv 5 e.xcep.l, Clf ""' ."^"-'s'"^''. -i">- a dailv ..«dw,n a. Manchester W.ler. takes a .TTay'. ot" °' '"''''"•' "^"^ "'< ...ncCnsh.refartner. ro„s np 53,3,3 n,. in a de e "3, / T T't"'-^' Z' '■"• •^'- '^^-"- ^ C., covers 3600 m. nf separate .....d, i:, a , years' re'cnr'l f I "'"""' °' ""^ "overstock C. •■ondon lea,her-d..le.. report, 30,.. . n,. nTvears i " '•°" ■"• "'-^°- ^"-'> "'Ves. a more than ,.« successive Sunday rides, 5,0^/ ' R p '' "''^^- "' " ""«'' '•'^'"- ^^'^y^'e -nd '" ^ -^■"■•■;; •^''"'•^-' by -on.h, and snppL,en.ed bv o,h """ T *""''' "'"^ ">■ "^ *""'"'« 54.-3. Reports fron, Ff . T. Wharlovv .,"1 7i "^' '"=°"^' "^ ""= '^''''i" B. C V-s . and W. Hinns, a Salford draper.' JT.I ^ "^ ' '"'" '' "^^ ^^ "™*"- '^'°« -• - nd.ns, 40,3 .9 m., by Rev. H. C Courln ■ v' r w ^ '"'"' ^^^ '^'°""''y '^-We of „ years' "M .S. Wha.ton. ex-cap,. Can! J^li'; ' , C """•p'n ■'^"" ^-"'--d. .o,;LT. .7.4.9m. ,n '8,.',,, 5„.5. .,^^^ a eoums-'f "'• /\^^'^^"^'' 36 monthly tables of Rushvvorth, of Bradford c ,5 .„„ '^""""'s f™'" F. W. i^ock. of Bristol and P H ' ences. and who intends to print a book nt , e t';;' t' \'''' ''"'' °^ cydin/ex'peri- nsh country gentleman, Wm. Bowles, 5,6 H F h • ' ^' ' "'^"^''^ M.-o^m., of an /' /i^^/.«^, 546-8 (see also 689-no) H S , .. '^"'"'"•"•°". projector and proprietor of ;">-;U^.". ....thor of .. Over^th" Pvrenees ^T,;- Th' '"'f'T' ^^^^ ^'^ ^'^ W A ---books, 55a G. L. Bridgman'. S. Goide and G tT ""■ "^^ ''"'""""' ^"""^"^ "' I «.h, of Ivan Zmertych. a young Ma.^yar ,-, „ p r'"' "'' ^"'" '" '«3, London to v.. 3., '84, Saxony to Naples 'and b ' ^i.. Tj/T '''"^'" "' ^"° ■"' J- « "> , rr M • '.^r^' "'■ '^-•'e-edal ride o '8, " 1'"°" "'",? ^^-^ ^""-^ """nnd 553. ^otabIe ndes in '8s bv (• H R r .... "^' ^-""'P°°"""g-^!stance men ofs. [o-nath annual winners, •„ ,0 'S5 ,-^ P j' ''"^ ^^ "' A''^"' ^-^d others, 554 Londm ' V3 .0 '86. 554-7. '.V..nde; ul cr :. ountrvTh , 'T '"' ""^ '"''"^ '-- Job O'CW " nde .n p ,^, •^t^STR.^^rsS^^^P J'^^.'V's'' --, •-'!:^' "'^^ ^='->'s '-r n-' ;:■■-- -3 m., svLrt^.s:::;:trJ::kir.°^ f ^- s.3.;" .^::^.';;, '-. I.. Budds and J. F. R„gg, ,6c 6 Th 1 ^ ' ' '" '^'^ ^'- ^^" by A. Fdwards ;tawc., to Sydney, made i'^M ^6 bv m'tI '7'''''"^^ •-'' ^ Australia ^r. Zealand's advantages for cycling 5^6 7c, / V '^' ^"'^ C. H. Lyne, 565^ nTw 'fiir n '82 and of -i 5' 5™-7, S7o (see also 652). I F V,^..;.' ' ^"5-"- ^ew »2, and of ,00 m. riders in '84, 5C7 f r,"„ . ^^' ^ accntmt of 2.2 „, f-ng ndes from Christchurch by H r TenkV " 7^ '"^ """■ =" "^= ^'"^^ "f '^3 5^^' ''"wn's ,2 n,ontl,s' recoH of So ■* ''"'^ ^- ^^ Pointer, 568-0 W H i -'- of .85, 569-70. Gu ..:,";;;,: -f J^'^Vcle, including a' ^o^of ^s m itTht ^'evens's round-the.w...^ .„... . T ^"' 'be Ant.pcxles, 570 (see also 6.=.6l rJl.JP ,'.'= xviM TEN THOUSAxVD MILES ON A DICYCLE. '87 ; 37i35" words, incl. only 300 of coarse typo. I irsl 3 pp , ii< OutiHg, Au-., '84 ; Ust j pp. Ill HhettmiH s Gi'ztttc, Feb., 'S7.) XXXIIl. SUMMARY IJY STATES, 673.5C02 M.iine imUx, 573. F. A Elwcll's K<.Miiit.-Uji. .iii>l M.K)s.'luM 1 I.ak- parlies ol '^(-5, 5/;-( VV li. Ri^i-'-, 'Sr, tour, 574-5. Guide* and maps, 575. New llampaliire index, 575. Vaiious tourisu' reports ui wlieclii.s in ihe White Mliu., '81 to '06, 575-7. Guides and maps, 577. Vermont index, 57S. Various rrportd from \\\c lircen Mins., IJonn. Valley and Lake Lliani|)lain, 578-9. Massacliusutt.s index, 57i>. My latest explorations around Springfield, at end of 'So, 57>-Ho. Kcference-bocks, 5S1. RluKie Island and Connecticut indexes, 5S1. My '86 ride acros.s Conn., with oilier rtj orts, 5S1-J. Ni-w York ind'.x, 5SJ. Corrections and changes for [he Kmjj.sbridgo region, 5SJ-3. New ferries .old r. r. lines, 58,-4. " Long Mind Road-Uock," 581. Latest reports about Central Park and Prospect I'ark, 5S5-6. Club-house changes, 5%, Palisades route to Nyack, and g(H)d road thenco to Suffern and Port Jervis, 5S6-/. Chautauqua Lake and Piiflaln, 587.8. New Jersey index, 5SS. Recommendation of t,ast Orange as a pL-asant place for ladies' !■ s.son« in tricyclin;:, 5.S3. P^-st routes between Newark ind New York, 5SS-.}. Pcni'.syUania, Dela- ware tnd Maryland indexes, 58;. District of Columbia, VIr-inia and Kenlucky iniiixes, 590. Scheme for a Mrai^lilaway race tlirough llv; Shenandoali, 590. Kentuiky routes by P. N. Myers, 590. Time and sjiace cut short my roll of States, 590. (Wiitten, Nov. 22 to Dec. 31, '86. Klectro. \n Dec, 'S6, and Jan., '87 ; 16,000 word?, incl. only 300 of coarse type. See p. 710.) XXXIV. TIU: TRANSPORTATION TAX, S'Jl-OOO: Important distinction be- tween r. r. and s. s. baggage, 591. Power of each individual tourist to r.-sist an cx.ra-bapgage tax on water-routes, 591. S. s. lines pledged by me to the free-list, 592. League's arrange- ments with a fjw s. 5. agents, 593. Scheme of r. r. trunk lines granting concessions to League, 594. Alphabetical lists of r. r.'s which seek the patronage of bicyclers, 59J. Rules and limits for handling bicycles on r. r. trains, 595. Tariff-charging roads, 596. Lib.-ral policy of South- ern lines, 597. Free carriage in Canada, 55S. C. T. C. table of r. r. rates in Great P.ritain, 598. I'ractices of the Pritish s. s. lines, home and foreign, 599. Customs regulations of France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the U. S., 599-600. (F.Iectro. in J.ily, '86; 8goo words, incl. only 50 of coarse type.) XXXV. THE HOTEL QUE.STION, 601-014 : My hatred of ilie bcd-bng and hum- bug policy called "reduced rates," 601. Testimony of ll'/ueling, Bi. ll'orU and others against the C. T. C.'s cheap device for securing cold victuals and contempt, 602, ^4. A plea for League influence in r- sing the standard of country taverns, 603. The special comforts and privileges needed by touring wheelmen, 602, 604, 606, 614. Landlords' estimate of jiatrons who ask fc " the leavings," 605. A reformed formula for hotel certificate, 605. Distinction be'ween city and coimtry hostelries, 606. "Special rates" proper for special cccasiii.s cr.ly, ^-07. Analysis of I'le "C. T. C. tariff" for Great P.ritain and France, 607. Proof that it is more expensive than the standard $2 rate ot America, 60S. California's certificate against " League hotels," 6o> List of towns whose hotel-keepers (146) have subscribed for this book, 60). Rea- sons why it should ht kept for consultation in th;! hotel-offices of as many towns as possible, 610. Restaurants and lodging-places in New York City, 611. Index to holels named in this boo!', 612. A plea for quiet bed-rooms and portable bath-tubs, 614. (Electro, in July, '86; i.j,ooo words. See later testimony against the " danger-board hotels " of the C. T. C., pp. 639-41.) XXXVI. THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN, Cl.-> C33: Organized at Newport, May 31, '80, to protect cyclers' rights upon the road, 615. Padges, 616. Annual meetings, '81 to 'S6, 616-18. Geographical statistics of membership, 617-18. Evolution of L. A. It^. nulii. ' I from Di. World, !f'/>ye/ and amateur gazette, 618-20. Facts and opinions about this official weekly, 620. Two chief arguments for the attraclion of members, 621. Sum- mary ot constitution, 622-4. Form of application for membershi]), including the definition of " amateur," 624. Road-books published by the State Divisions, 625. Pnnphl.t issues of the I.r,u,.>rl<.<:ct^oec nf \j£Dtj^^iJ Table of coxtents. xix cm, C yclMV Union " ,or-.ed. ,„ help .he SpH^M ,' ' ^^''^NS. «WI^a. ..A„,eri- "cl-K rules ^,,. Ka.lureof pro.n, euT^ f.'^ '.rrr'"'' '''• ^'-•«"-<'" -d road- ,"■ ■■;« ^ '"'■••• ^.'^- su„...^ ./• , rn.i.,^:tr '■;' "u'T' •" "^ '■''''-'' -^^^ f-rors- ,cMin,ony n.,ai,„, i,. - dangcr-board hotels "tl' Hna, " """ !"'' ''■'"'«"■ "'"• •'^"'• ...lor,,,, concrn,- 64.. .„ .ocial s.a.u, i„ A,„ r ca {!', Al h" '""f "* " " '■'-P'"'iv. - Apr.. '8S 645. Local a,.d se„eral office,, fheK'r ,'' '■''^'"^.""' ''•^' <>' i'» councilor,, a.Kl •S6, 6,6. Ohiec,-, and ,.ode of goverZ 6 I .• ' ^^T^ '>^''^-- l'"'""." '8 .lan",cr.bo.„d,, 650. Wheelmen', union, i„ Germ.nv MM f^ """"'■ '''^"'•>-' ""''-i' •""■d New Z...l,,„d. Australia and Ireland ^v-. mir "";^;""'' ."^'s'"'". France, S«„zerland, f.om •• \VI, .elnien's Reference liook," pub' M 'v'^"' "c " ' '" ' ^^''^ «-'^»- »'«> pan. XXXVU. LrrKRATURE OK TlIK w,?k.m"„':V'''-^''"''^''> a.lver,.siuK of all book, and paper, devo.ed ,0 cvclin' ;,?;"?' , ^'■="'""' '°^ '^' '-« )"'>">als, A..,,. ,. -86,654. American book, and r,in,n l," \ "' '^""™-''" =""* ^^"g'^^h Amencau CyciuR Press in An,., V, 66, n!.'; . )-"alis.ic cemetery, 655-60. advertisi... pr„u, i„ Amenca.' ^n-S^ E Hisif o '''""""' "' '""■"• P''"'^'"'='» ■■""< ""'" Australian journalism, 6S«.^. C "t^ent.^^ e^^^^^^^^^ IT 'V''!- ''-''■ "^"''^^ ^^ '" '^"'-■- '■--' ^T' . '«f-. wi.h correction, in r ee ' ' ''T '"""=•' «"'<'". 7oo. (Electro. XXXVIII. THIS 1KK)K OK MINE AND TMKMr'^n'''' "'' ' ^'"^ and wnrnin,,,o.. Unique pecuniary idea. 70, Gerl h '• "*•" •^'-P'-"""" and mfluences, 70,. Arrangement wi'h c" Pone t,, M T""""""' '°" ''^"^ -""- prophecy from l.oston. 704. H.w " ,00 - fixed me^or ..^"" .^"''•"'^' "' P^-PeCu,, 70,. A c.nvass, ;o5, K.,r,.al promi,e .0 fi, ish ' Ttr " • '7' '"'■ ^""^"^ "^ "-"•" ""V l.elpatSpringneld,;o6. Defense of the ,^W. fee ad" "f "'' '"^'^°"'' ^°^- ^"-''' ton a.d elsewhere. 70;. Ineffectiveness of .nel^,f"\'?. ,/"^' -^""""S'-- Hos- ■rnde." 70,,. Progress in writing and elec rotvn.nr'" w f ' '"'■ '"''^ff-^ce of " .he 7.0. Co!. Pope's reply .0 second propta 'r "co't^d °^"" ^'""''"^^ ^^^'-S ^o.. H..rmlessness of my "Columbia '' adv ;„ fndef d'"""", " '""""'*"' i'"^«"' 7" Objections to gift-taking, 7.3. Need of ^r v., e he „ and "" '" '''"'" ""^ P"*""' 'J' of road-book making. 7,5. Proposals for''" My Wnd Te*;: 't?"'" ^.'li """''' =""^ '°"'''"°- sona stansfcs, 7.7. Hint, ,0 authors and publishe T ' tT""'; ="''■ ^^^l""' ^^^ per- a^v," 7.8. The doctrine of intelligent selfishn ss ^ 'n H 7 """"^ P''" =""' "» " f^« «■-/6 " r ;. •. •" '* P""t- 7=7. 1 he stgntficance of " society," ,,8 My 'e " n. , "''' '^"^ •''"'' "'"P'-nson,, and „s compensations, ,,,. The ;iens, Ls of' eaC " ?' "'" "^'" ' ^'^- Sincerity published in the /.-^l.,/ of Jan. 5 '3 afd mv fr ' '"'"T"'" ^' ^^^- ^' •«3." was firs (n d..ys later). .„oo on Oc . ,8 (,8 weeks IdTol T, "':"""' ^""^ ^"^''"^'^ - Apr. , of Keb., .84, which was 5 weeksVom ,,«'„;'; Hf^he:" '' 'I'' ^^"'^^' «" "^^ '-'"=' »s monthly growth from that point may beZln l' ""^ ' '.'f ="'^- '■^' ^'^^ '' 5.9 ; and •■■,;; ....V h - ' 'yj-'340i June, 8s-,43,; July, ,,3- i~'SUi Aug., 2S7-,8oi; Sept., ,4,- /J— 07a; Apr., 28,— 47—1948 ; Ti:X TllOUSAMJ Af/LFS ON A BICVCLE. Oct , 6s — joi J ; Nov , Sj — io-)5 ; I)ec , 177— >J7> ; J»n.,iii — J184; f'rb., 1 ij— ai>)7 ; M,ir , 149 — a6*6 ; Apr., ijq — 17^7; -May. 101 — iH8«, June. X7- 1975; July, i]8 — J103; Aug., 4b — J149; Sept., 43— J '9* i l>ct., 37— 3Ja9; Nov., 35— 3164 . Dec, $4—331* ; J»n-. 3»— 3357 i Feb., 1}— 3j8j ; \Iar., 36—3418; Apr., 108— 3^16. Krom M.iy 1 to l>ec. 31, 'S6, there werr jo accenioiK, at fi jo, raising the total of the " autofp-aph edition '' to 357 ; abdut ly.o^xj words. See p|i. 794-6, (or supplementary list of 100 ii.-imes.) XL. DIKKCroKY OK WMKtLMfcN. TUmIW : Name* of 3100 «uli.cribeni, Uri.ipe I .iccordiiii; to residence-towns, which are alphabetized by .States, in the following geo- Kr.iph c.il ordt.*r : Me., ij towns, 4; aubscribers, 765 ; N. H , 14 I., jo $., ^^)l> \ Vt., 14 t., 47 s., 7'>«i; M.iss., Sq t , 341 s., 7^)6 ; R. I., j t , ?o i., 769; Ct., 31 I., 171 »., 769 ; N. V'., k/) t., 671 » , 770; N. J, 55 t , 157 «., 776; Pa., 96 t., 38a s, 77S; Del, a t., 4 s., 781 ; Md, 8 t., 81 s., 7H1 ; Dist. of Col., .,37».,7Sa; W. Va., 4 I, 6 s., 7Sa ; Va., 10 t., 17 s., 7Ra ; N. C. a t., 6 » , 7Sa ; .S. C, a I, 4 s. , 73a ; (ia., 4 t., ii ». , 7S1 ; Kla., a t, a s., 783 ; Ala., 4 t, la %., 783 ; Miss., 3 t., 4 »., 78; ; l,a., ■ t., s •', 7S3 ; Tex., 6 t., 9 » , 7S3 ; Ark., a t., 7 s. , 7S3 ; Tcr.n.,3 t., 16 ».. 783 ; Ky., 15 t., 53 »., 783 i <)., 48 t., 154 s., 7R4 ; Mith., -.1 t., 66 s , 785 ; Ind., ai t., 60 1., 78$ ; I.I., as t., 116 s., 7S6-7 ; Mo., 8 t., 25 s., 787 ; la, '4 t., ao s., 7S7 ; Wis., 11 t., 16 »., 787; Minn., 13 t., aa s., 787; Dak., 3 t., 5 s., 78S; Neb., a t, a s., 788; Kan., 14 t., ai s.,7S8; (Ind. Tor., o); N. Mex., i t., 1 s., 7S8 ; Col., 4 t , 9 »., 788 ; Wy., 3 t., 9 5., 788 ; Men., 3 t., 5«., 788; Id.,a t., 14 5, ;88; Wash., 3 t., 3 s., 788; Or., 8 »., a8 s., 788; Utah, a t., 7 s., 788 , (Nev., o t.,os., 7S9); Aril., I t, I «., 789 ; Cal, 9 t., aa s., 789 ; Ontario, ai t., 79 s , 789 ; Mani- toba, I t, I ». , 7i>o ; Ijf^ljcc, I t., 5 »., 790; New itninfcwick, a t, 6 9. , 790; Nova Scotia, 9 I., 37 »., 790; Uerinu'^a, 3 t., 5 s., 790; Mexico, i t., i s., 790; F,ngland,6i t., 138 s., 790; Scot- land, 6 t., la s., 79a ; Ireland, 51,7 s., 792 ; Coiitinent.il Kmoiie, 9 t., 9 %., 79a; Asia, 4 t., 4 »., 79a ; Australia, la t., 86 s., 7(93 ; New Zealand, 5 t., a4 s , 794. SuppUmtntary List 0/ Subicribers (Feb. to Nov., '86), 794-6. Triiie Dirfctory : Alphabetical list of 122 subscribers in whose offices this Ixxik may be consulted, t/>-t. (leograpliical list of the same, 798-9. (Electro. March to May, '86, except last six pasts in Nov. ; aa,ooo words.) XLI. THF: last word, SOO: Pliiaforic chant at the League's first annual ban- quet, Newport, May 31, '80. (Electro, in Nov., '86; 100 words.) A summing-up of the estimates for the 41 chapters shows a total of 585,400 words, whereof j6a, 400 are in fine t; e (" nonpareil ") and 223,000 in larger type ("brevier"). I have esti- mated the latter at 600 words to the page (44 lines of 14 words each), and the nonpareil at 900 words to the page (53 lines of 17 words each), except that the 66 pages devoted to subscribers' names have been credited with 18,400 words /ess than the latter estimate would give them. The half-dozen blank lines at the fop of each chapter, and the short blanks at ends of para- graphs, arc fully offset by the repetitions of chapter-t'tles at the lops of pages. Owing to the great number of abbreviations in last ten chapters, I tiiii.k their number of nonpareil .vords e ceeds the estimate, — for my actual count of p. 497 revealed 1088 words. On the other hand, the brevier words may fall a trifle short of the estimate, — for actua' count of p. 35S revealed only 573. My printer; have charged n^e with 372 brevier pages ; and a multiplication of that num- ber by 600 shows 223,200 words, o. almost exactly the result gained by adding the chapter esti- mates. Of the 311,600 words in first 39 chapters (472 pp ), all but 92,60c are in brevier; while, of the 2;ig,8oo words in last 12 chapters (328 pp ), which may be clnssed as an appendix, only 4000 are in brevier. My own road-reports and wheeling experiei.c>:.' nr? jii ■•< t ail included in the 181,000 brevier words of the first 26 chapters (390 pp.), which ^\ftt . ''i 77,000 non' 1 e words, mostly ;iven to others' reports and ge.ieral information Ti. < h.ips. , 33 (pp. 473-590) are 104,850 words, almost wholly given to others' pergonal slatistics ; and Chaps. 34-37 (pp. 59:- 699) contain 97.550 words of general information. Of the 273,800 words in last 12 chapters, the 29,400 in Chap. 38 are the only ones personal to myself. Adding these to the 6800 brevier words of Ch'ip. 27, and the 181,000 before specified, gives a total of 217,200 words which refer in some way to my own wheeling. Even if th? 11,000 words about " Curl," and the 20,000 brevier words about " the Castle," be charged to me as " personal," my entire share in the book rises to only 24? >oo words, which is much less than half its text (585,400). ^I^S^ GRNERAL INDEX. L ..on a, are no, named here are indexed an,on« ' tL • . '"''"• ^"='' =^'-"" "' me ."dcxe, are n.adc pro„..ncn. by fnli.raccd ty]^' ^^ '^"""* ^•^'"•" " 'vm. Other .pc," AbbrevUtlOM or the U. S.. w„h index for each Stale, Ivhi. Abstinence from fire-water and tobacco, Ca.« "'• "^ "8, 5J^. SJ7. 544. \i:cidenl»(«, "/ncidenis") .VUIrc.s.hM of ,..oc,. American cycler., 66.. •^>l-..,.„,R,Kxdusionoffroml k. for sake ""'"•'•""•^''ty, 7.4 ;.pecimen, of calendar, a.Kl catalogue,, 67, ; rate, in cycling paoer. "S^O^. (^«-Freeadvertfsi,:;'.r"*' AiTKR Uehr (verses), ,5 Agriculture a, a basis of prcperi.y, 30. Allegory of the New YePr, ■•.869," ' Alnw.ck Castle, Bone-shaker, a7 39 404 Amateurlim" a, defined byL A w ''-M, 633; by A. CU, 63,: bye. W. a' Oi5.byNc.U..63,S. Folly of at-empfed ...a d,s,„,c.on, in ,ac.n«. shown' by " ^"^"'£- and J. K. HoKc 63S v 7 -•ofa,i.hes.if.racin,t.f:s.Jr: f""-, 6„, 649. Supporters of theS.^' M„n«d by ,h. London A„, 650 American CycllBta- Union" (A. C n ^ J-33: Adve-tof. asaref!,tSr l; •-«ne•sexpelled■'ama.eurs,•'63. Co" ;■-"". officers and ^ove^-nmel . 6^ ' ;fi^^..onsofsocialstanding.63.. Scheme ^.ra..^^.n.erna.,onal alliance" of ..acing Americari Division of C T T a • -: •^■-'".eofGcn.Uran,:J/-''^'"'^^-''- Answers for i:,e curious, 4 Ard.itectnre of Fifth Avenue, 453 ; of the L'n.verst.y Building, 4,8-34 Aristocracy i., .AnuTica, 396 448 ^„ Asia. T. Stevens- ride acros,, 480-3. 570-. j^H Asphalt pav^„.„ -iO.Uy 01, 5S4, j88. Au.tralU.558^, Book, .. J pap^. , . *-yti.s,»' Umon "6« "P^P'-'. 5;o. t. , ' "S^- Juurnahsni. 6oh Koad-iacei. ic,w..< t 1 , '"> oyo. ^.8 ,n. .• ^"'^^~^'''<-" to book, 558, 7of^ 793-4. Tourmp, y^ ' AiMtrla: c T c \t , 4H..55.,5S1 ^ ^^^^"•'^'■'''-'^. ^:ojrvr£r'''''-^'>y-.'-« asicedfor.;.^'"^"'-'"--'^™.... Autoblopaphie. of Wheelmen. 4.,.„, . "^extr i!:-"^ -- -- /"."-ndhistor;r::i::r""""- -r:,:::;^ '"'^'^"'•"- "---•». "Average man," My attempt, ,0 report wl,eehngofandfor,he,5o c,. '^^ ,.*•'-• ^- <-. 039; c. w. A 61. ■ Central Park, Q ■ cs, . r a „r ^' ' C. U..650. ''•^•'^■^•'<"^! N- I liasgag. carrying. ,3, .7. ^^^ g liaggagemen : awed by n.ckel-plate ,0 • Civil .-tn.n. of, 3.7;Feesfor.8;,;^ ' 596; Remedy for extortion, 595. 98 ' Bagsob;ec.,onaUeonab.cycle .V' «ar.>e.f, (Gen. W. F.) manly message ,f forgiveness to the South, 386 Basaltic columns at Orange ,74 Ba.es (President), on p^h^etl power of m:r:;:^"''"-^°™"'^-«"egover:! t;? AXt^r-- '" --- ^mS;-"; ""^--^-t- and Land- mark.: Anna;x>lis. ,85. An,i.,amT n^':5Vl|;'r'--^^^""^--3.B'ri\^: n!:2-..!'f.'*.""'."S- <''".erv,lle,,,4. '"*^ ^'a.hmgton, 7,, Gettysburg, 385^. . t- xxu 7-Zr.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Goshen, 143. Great Bethel, 439. Green- wich, 139. Harper's Kerry, 2^1, 384. Jer- sey Lily, 168. !.ak-(;..;rge, 185-7. Leete's Island, 132. Lexiiigtun, 103, 386. Morris- town, 163. Newburg, 171. New York, isS. Perryvilic, 22S. Saratoga, 186. Sliarps- bnrg, 3S4. Sheffield, 147. South Mount- ain, j;**. Spiinnfield, 127. Staten Island, 158. Tarrytown, 76. Ticonderdga, 186, West Springfield, 127, White Plains, 74. Winchester, '345, 383. Wyoming, 220. Yiinkers, 78. Bays and Gulfs, Index tn, Ixi. Bed-bugs at the " danger-board bote!' of the C. T. C," 639-41 ; at the M.iryland canal house, .'39; in Ans^tralia, 566, Bed-rooms, Sn.iliglit, quiet, good air and bath- tubs wanted for, 602, 612, 614. I'eginners, I'ooks of advice for, 678. Belgitun : C T. C. members, 656. Cycling Union, 651, 700. Free entry for cycles, 599. Journals, 699. Tours, 522, 546, 549. Belts, My dislike of, iS, 22. Bermuda, The Coral Keeps of, 353-70, xiv. . 592, 790. Bicycles, Index to makes of, Ixxviii. Bicycling : as a bridge to social intercourse, 5, , 729; as a chance for charade -study, 3, 5, 10, 20, 729; as a cure for malaria, 292, 30S ; as an ini'oduction-card, 14, 730; as a solace for the solitary, 14, 34, 255, 309, 729 ; as a source of health, 53, 25S, 27S, 295, 537> 5&S1 6S5-6, 6S8 ; as a token of sincerity, 14, 701, 729. Business advantages of, 501, 507, 510, 524, 52S. Cost of four years, 41. Elation in long-distance riding, 303. Knthu- siasmfor, Unique power of the, vi., 484, 705. Kreei'om, the distinctive charm of, 255, 472. Gracefulness of, 6. Biograpllies, Index to contributors', Ixxi. BiKiiiDAv Fantasie (verse), 22. Blrihdayd, Index to, Ixxi. Request for, 717-8. Blue Ridge in a thunder-storm, My four mile descent of the, 380. Boat-race management at New London, 130. Bone-Smakek Days, 391-406, xiv., 523, 511, 543. 547- Book ok Mink, and the Next (This), 701-331. xix., Ixxxi. Books and FampMets on Cycling: Lists oi Americ.in, in the market Aug. i, '86, 655. Descriptions and reviews of, 672-80. Continental publications, 696-700. English books and maps, 68 '-8. Record-keeping, Blanks for, 676-7. Index to all the fore- going, Ixxiv. Index toajthors, publishers and printers of the same, Ixxvi. Books quoted or referred to by me, Index to non-cycling, ixxvi, ; index to authors of the same, Ixxvii. Boots and shoes, 18, 21. Boston, Out from, 101-114, x. : Books and papers of cycling, 654-9, 662-5, 673-go. Clubs, 105, 767, 793. Hotels and horse- c.irs, 105. Indilference to my subsciiption scheme, 704, 708. Irish .«ea-coast settle- ment, 372. L.u'dmarlis, 105-6. League parades at, 371, 616, 618. Maps and guides, 112-13. Pembcrton and Scollay squares contrasted, 104-5. Po'ice ineffi- ciiiicy at, 371, 616. Prince-of- Wales pro- cession, 471. Roadbook, 1 1 1, 677. Scene of my learning the bi. (March 28, ■''79), 25. Breeches vs. trousers as an " extra," 17, 22. Bridges, Bicycling on the big, 8;, 203, 225. Bristed's (C. A) admirable defense of indi- vidual freedom, 727-8. British and Colonial Records, 531-72, xvii. P>fokerage in the New York Custom House cxp). lined in detail, 368-9. Brooklyn: Clubs, 97, 586; Fc-ries, 87-8, 97; Prospect I'aik, 89, 92, 585 ; Routes to and through, 86-90. Bugle calls and tactics, Books on, 679. Bull Run, Luray Cavern and Gettys- burg, 371-90, xiv., 34S, 350-1. California: Danger signal against League lioiels in, Locj. League road-book of, 625, 799. Touring routes, 475-6, 489-94. Wel- come to T. Stevens, 572. Camel-traus in Asia, 480. Campobello, Our afternoon on, 270. Canada, Mv Fortnight in, 3!o-32, xiii. : A. C. U.'s claim to, 631. Cursed by cheap hotels, 653, 320. Deplorable customs regu- lations, 311, 324, 575. New Brunswick references, 2'i5, 270, 274, 790. Nova Scotia touring, 282-94. Priiice Edward Island, 290. Ouebec to Montreal, 575. .Subscrib- ers to this book, 7S9-90. Superiority of roads, 297- Support of C. T. C, 636-7. Tanieness of ^ceiiriv, 301. "Canadian Wheelmen's Association" (C. W. A.), 633-636 : Badge and motto, O35 , GENERAL INDEX. Constitution and government, 6,4 ; Defini- lions of socia, status, 635; Finances and mjn.bersliip,635; Fonnders, ^,34 ; Monthly or^.-.n, 63s, 65 J, 669-70; Road-b(3ok, 3i5-,r,, l^^l. 330, 636, 677. Railroads on free lists, 598. Canals, Index to, Ixiv. {Sfe '■ To«-path,") Castle Soi.ituue in thb Metkopous (/. e , the University liuildins;), 426-72 xv I lis' irentment by do;^s, 409, 4',6, 425. Ci;nieteii.'s, Index to, Ixiv. Charm of bicycling, iv., i, 14, ,-, ^j- Ch .ap and nasty hotel-syslcm'not'cconomical 606, condemned by C.T.C. s„fJerers,639-4o' Clergymen: Air of condescension, 727. I'n/es for essays on wheeling, 658. Rela- tionship to cIleRe fonndat-'ons, 435 Tour '" 5'"'^''''' ^'J-« ; '" f'"^"P<-. 499. V.I.ci- pedists H. '69, 39,, ^03. Wheeling reports '7'^' 5'2, 5(4, 5^4. 'I"tl.es,,3, '^'-". 307-8, 475, 4S5, 494, 508, 5"'', 537. 552, 5''>5- Clubs (index, Ixiii ) ; Directory of Ameri- cnn, 765-90. Drill books for, 679 Goy's Directory to Knglish, 6S8. Formation of proves the sociability of cvcling, ,4. Houses mful.nm.r.,590; lioston, ,05,767; New York and Brooklyn, 96-7, 5S6; Philadel- Ph^-|,589; St. Louis, 652 ;\Vashing,on,59o Conchn,g on the old National Pike 243 ■ as iniKated on the tallv-ho, iv., 28. 396 ' ^oAST.m; ON THE jHRsrtv H„.,.s', ,59-78, xi CoUeges (index, Ixii.), as abodes of tl,e;,lv rcMl aristocracy in America. 396: Conduct "f youth at N.Y. U.,429; Endowments, 435-7 ; Fmances of, 437 ; Newspaper treat- ment of, 397; Religious control of 4,5 Columbia College, References to, ,,,2,6 43'''-7- ' ' "Columbia. No. 234," 3S-48, X. : Axle, 37 40, 45, 46. nackbone, 39, ,„, 43. n.arl '"K^. 37. 40, 42. Drake, 40, 42. Bushing, 40. Cnm-bolts, 40. Cranks, 36, 40. 46. Handle-bn.. 43, 45, 46, 306. Head, 43 Hub, 40. Mileage memorial plac.^ul, 4^ •^^••--k. 38, 40. Nickeling, 38, 40, „, Oil <-"P^ 37. Overlapping. 43. Pedal-plus 45, 47- Pedals, 37, 47. Rawhide bearin-s' 43,336. "nebnilding"pb„s .abandoned' 47. Repairs, Cost of, 4,. Rims, 45, ,6, 350.' ^.^^dles, 37, 4.5. Spokes. 38, 45, 46, 30. ■*^pr!nc ■;- 59. iut:^, V>, 37.38, 47. 48. Wrecked by runaway mules, 44, XXIU Concierge in Paris, Tyranny of the, 458 CoNNHc , tcuT. Shore and Hil.-to. in. .29. M9,x, 248-54 (index, 58,); League road- book of, 625. (^.." New Haven," "Yale College.") * Contents-Table, ix.-xx. Co,uras.s between bicycling and other modes 01 Jong-distance travel, 303 Contributors' Records, Index to. Ixxi ■ Rules for, 71- ■ • 1 Convicts as road-builders, 355, 563 Corduroy, Praise of, ,9,21,307 Costumes for touring, .6-22, 307-8, 47s, 485, 4')4, 50S, 537, 552, 565. * Creeks and Brooke, Index to ixi Cl^L, THE Ii..sTOK BllL-IW, 407-25, XV.; Alus,onsto.305, 3,3, ,7.. p, _^^^^^ ot (facing title-iiage). Custom-Hoi^e rules as to cycles: Bel- gium, free entry ordered IVb. 6 '84 jgg. li^rmuda, discretionary, 358. Canada', pro- l'ibUoryred-tape,Aug.s,'S,,3,,. k,^,,,^ varying practice, 599, 600. Germany, vary! ins practice, 59^. Holland, free ..iitry 590- Italy, free entry ordered June ,6 '((s' 600. Mexico, ten cents a pound grosii weight 600. .Switzerland, varying practice, 59.^ United .States, free entry ordered Apr 9, 84, 370; first classed as carriage, instead of machinery. May 29, '77, 25 Cu.toms officers. Experiences with, 282,3,, ■•' = 4,333. 358, 3^..S-;o, 5, ,9, 575 "Cyclists- Touring Club" of England (C. T. C). 636-646 : "Amateurism," D..fi •mions of, 638, 643. American support 636 642-4; allusions to, 6,9. Badges and uniform, 639. " R. T C." .^s fir.st named 6-5,636,644. Bi. /^W.A„o(ices of, 60.-4' 643-4. Canada, Slight support given bv" 636,643. Chi-.f Consuls, 6,6, 645 " Co oper.ative tailoi.ng concern," 6„. Conn cil of ,25 IS constituted, ilow the. 6,6-7 Councilors i„ Apr., '86. List of, 645 Creed" of L. A. \V. vs C T C 6 Custom-Honse reforms attempted,' ;<„', 6^!' Danger-boaid hotels, 602-4. 639-4.. Dan- Ker-boards, 643-4,65,. Divisions, .Si.e of Jhe37,636. E.xecutive power all lod.,ed in the Secretary, 642. Finance committ.. 638. Finances in the U. S.. 643. Finan- Cial report of 'Sr ^,~~\-.-.^.\ ^., _ member.. "Amateurism " ^f.^jS. FWry confessed ,n court by the Secretary-Editor, xxiv rZTA' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Ixxxix. Gazette, The official, 641,687,691, Ixxrix. Goverument, Abstract of seventy rules for, 637-8. Handbook, 682, 637, 687. Hotel policy denounced by Wheeling and Bi. IVorld, 602-4, 641 ; by other sufferers, 639-40 ; tariff shown in detail,, 607. Humor- ous schemes for "a great fulure in the U. S.," 643-4. " f nternational " pretensions, 644. League tolerates C. T. C. in U. S. only as a social sentiment, 642, 644. Life memberships, 644. London region supplies a third of the membership, 636. Maps, 682. Meetings, 637, 642. Membership statistics, 636. Journalism denouncr ' by the pre- siding judge of a London ;aw-court, as " ihe lowest and vulgarest abuse," xci. N. C. U., Affiliations with, 638, 646,648. Officers, Election of, 637; in U. S., 645 ; list of in Apr,, '86, 646. Publications, 638, 642, 687-8, 691. Quorum, 642. Railroads, Tariff for, 598. Renewal list, 638, 688. Representative Councilors, 636, 645. Road- book promised for '8/, 642, 687. Secretary- Editor, Appointment, salary and duties of, 637-8 ; autocratic power of, 642 ; compla- cency of, as to badges, hotels and Gazette, 639> ^4'> 691 ; portrait gallery uf, 6iji ; repri- manded in court f(,r literary forgery, xci. State consuls in America, List of, 643. Tailoring and trading accounts, 641. Tariff ^r hotels, 607; r. r.'s. , 598. Unimpor- tant allusion.-., 601-8, 615-16, 619, 665, 667, 669, 68i-88, 693-5, ("^i-yo^i ?(>$■ Usurpa- tion of League functions resented, 644. Voting for officers, System of, 637. Weak- ness of perambulatory Council, 642. U'/tcel- iHg's crifcisms of, 602, 639, 641. Women nicnibers, 63S. Cyclometers: Butcher, 114, 127, 135, 147, 322, 374, 4S2, 50^, 506-8, 511, 517, 519-21, 524, 526, 52S, 529, 530. CInircli, 524. Ex- celsior, 12S, 138, 189, 508-11, 524, 528,666, 714. Hernu, 546, 555. Lakin, 37S, 508, 524, 526-8, 797, 799. I^amson, 506. I^iv- ingston, 714. McDonnell, 13S, 149, 237, 248.325. 38S, 484, 5o3, 509, 510, 511, 512, 5'3. 5>5-7. 5'9-2o. 524, 527-30, 553, 569, 575, 714. Pope, 24, 135, 508, 511, 5,,, 517, 520, 523, 581. Ritchie Magnetic, 172, 507, 511, 523. SpaMing, 499, 508. Stanton, 508. Thompr.nn, 517, 533. Underwood, 508. Wealemefna, 533, 532. 7)elaware (index, 5S9). Denmark ; C. T. C. members, 636-7. DiKECTORV OP Wheelmen, 765-99, xx. District of Columbia (index, 5<;o). Dog as a companion in touring, 562, 565. Dogs, Anecdotes of, in biograpny of " Curl, the best of bull-dogs," 407-25. Dow.n-East Fogs, In the, xii,, 255-81. Down-East tours of '84-'85, 575-4. Drill books for bugle, tactics and singing, 680. Klectrotyping, Dates of, ix -xx., 710. England and the English, 444-8, 530-60 636-51, 68S-96, 790-94. "Amateurism" satirized by the Bat, 650. Aiisiocracy in the newspapers. Treatment of, 396. Auto- biographies of wheelmen, 531-45, 547-58. Hook of bi.-tour made by Americans in '79. 673- liooks and pamphlets on cycling, 681-3. Class distinctions, 446-7. Conven- tional attempts at " naturalness," 448. Crystal Palace doi; show of '72 405. Cy- clists' Touring Club, 636-46, 681 (see spe- cial index, "C. T. C"). "Danger-board hotels of C. T. C," Testimony of suflerers 31,604,639-41. Diet of tourists, 537, 544. Evolution of bicycle from bone-shaker, 402. Halifax has an English atmosphere, 292. Hogg's (J. R.) exposure of "amateur- ism," 649. Humor in wheel literature, Ideal of, 693. Individuality, Obliteration of. 445-8- Journalism of cycling, 547-8, 68S-95, 706. Land's End to John O'Groat's, 53''i 554-7- London, 426-7, 436 {see spe- cial index). Longest 19 days' ride, 535-6. Longest year's record, 531-2, 558. Manners and customs in social life, 444-8. Maps, 681-7. My '76 tour which i.ever too) place, 406. Narrow-mindedness of business-men, 484. National Cyclists' Union, 646-51 (see special index, " N. C. U."). Newspaper gossiper sent to jail by Lord Coleridge, 280. Newspaper prattle .ibont the nubility and gentry, 396. Prince of Wales's visit to America, 4f'9-7>- Pacing, 532-44, 547, 553-4. Racing men, H''ieeiiHg's social classifica- tion of, 629. Railroad and s. s. rates for cy- cles, 598-9. " Rights and Liabilities of Cy- clists," Law book on, 684-5. Road-bouks and guide--, 550, 6S1-S. Ko.ul lacfs, 532-44, 553-8. Self-suppression the supreme law, 445 Servitude to servants, .,44-7. Snobbery- of the middle classes shown by " amateur- IGir., " 050. -- society 01 Cj-Ciiaia," Dl-Kleil- ire, ' GENERAL INDEX. XXV ardson's, 647. Social conditions shown by iiiu-keeping custom-! and ideals, 602; by .ibi /e porsonalliies of cycling press, 695. Subscribers to i, book, Attraction of, 706; Names of, 790-2. Subscribers to iVhtetmeHS Gazette, 66i. Sunday riding, Statistics of, 541-2. " Tri. Association" and "Tri. Union," in N. C. U., 647. Wlieeling biograpliies, 472-3. Worship of wealth, 446. Wales, Tourii. ,673,681. Yates (E.) sent to jail for 1 r,. " Er " a better termination ti . •," 673.J Soo. Khie Canal and Lake Erie, The, ig-j- 2u8, xi. Kvarts as a wlker for business only, 724. E.-ceniBtion from duty for tourists' cycles en- tering the United States, How my Ber- niud.i trip brought, 36S-70. Expenditures: Baggage and express, 41. Jijrnuida trip, 364. Custom-House cliarges, 599-600. Elbow-breaking, 35. Elwell'stouri 257. Fees to baggagemen, 86, 96, 221, 596. Horse-scaring in '6g, 395. Mammoth Cave, 231. Nova Scotia hotels, 2S8, and tour, 292. Repairs of ..lachine, 41. Riding! clothes, 41. Scotch tourist, 546. Veloci- pedes of '69, 400. lathers and sons as cyclers, 494, 517, '521, 52t, 5J', 564- Fees: A. C. U.,63,; C. T. C, 638, 643; I- A. W., 624; N. C. U., 647, 649; Bag- gagemen, 86, 96, 221, 596; Ferries, 96; Horse-car lines, 86. rifth Avenue, N. Y., 65, 45t-4, 5S3. First bicycle ride in America, 330 ; in United States, 406. Fir;t "thousand-mile trail," 304, 532^ j^^^ 55'- Food of long-distance riders, 4S0, 537. Fording the New Zealand rivers, 568. Foreign Countries, Index to, Iviii. FoKTNi.ihiT i.v Ontario, A, 310-32, xiii. KoKTv Days Straightaway, 294-309, xiii. Four name.s t(jr cyclers to honor, 370. Hoik SKAsnN-,,,N a Forty-Six, 24-34, x. France and the French: Autocratic rule of the concier-e, 458. Books and papers, 6;'^-9. Cycles at the custom house, 599' f«o- C. T. C. m-r.ocrs, 636. Hatred of originality, 46S. Invention of cycling in "Men time, i. I.allernent at Anso^-.i.T .-.t-H New Haven, ,39-42, 394. Long-distance ndes, 552-3, 558. Maps, 682. Paris, Allu- sions to, 2, 99, 2S0, 403, 406, 426, 44S, 458-9, ■t'*°. 545. 55 >, 5SS, 5^, 611, 645, 65,, 698-9, 79J- Racing free from "amateurism," C.8. Railroad rates, 559. Social ideals, 468. Stevens's ride, 4S0. Subscribers to I this book, 792. Union Velocipedique, 651, I 6>S. Velocipeding in 'tS, 3.;o, 403. "Free Advertising": Explanation and de- fense of the pohcy, 653, 707, 7,8. Gained by authors and publishers from my scheme, fc53. 7'3; by hotels which give their best treatment to wheelmen, 602, 607, 609, 6,2, 6m; by hotels which subscribe for thij book, 60s ; by r. r. and s. s. routes which c:ass cycles as baggage, 59, ; b • this book from the cycling press, 704-g, 7,S-,g; by wheel literature, 653. Given by Dt. li^orld as League organ, 618; by the Pope Mfg. Co. to the trade in general, 659, 679; by r°icing men to cycles which win, 628; by T. Ste- vens to the trade in general, 3^> i^i, l^T- Velocipeding in '69, 403. Hats aid caps for touring, i8. Health is won by cycling. Books showing how, 6?5-6, 688. Healtlifuliitbs of cycling, Lxnmplcs of the, 53, 25«, :7'<, 295. 537. S^S- Hills and Mountains, Index to, Ix. Historical Statistics : Bermuda, 354-7. Brooklyn Bridge, 86. Central P..ik. 92-5. Long Island, 155. New Haven, 132 ; Velocipei'ing at, 400-2. New York Cit'-, Scttleineiii of, 64; University of, 4335, 437-8. Prince Edward Island, 290. Pros- pect Park, 89. Shenandoah Vall»y 346-S. Staten Island, 155. Washington Square, 64-5. 432-4- Hog who thinks the roads of this continent are his private property {see " Parens Att:ericn>ius '"). Holland and the Putch: C. T. C. mem- bers, 636-7. Cyclers' Union, 651, 700. Free entry for cycles, 599. Long day's "de, 553. Subscriber, 792. Tour, 522 Wheel literature, 700. Holland (Dr. J G.) as " the American Tup- per," Carl Benson's exposure of, 728-9. Honor these four 1 370. Horseback trafHc in Kentucky, 226 ; traveler in Europe beaten by bicycler, 558. Horses, ('yclers' treatment of, 10 ; Runaways never caused by my bicycle, 57 ; Various allusions 'o, 237, 293, 321, 3S0, jr^^, 529, 566, 571. Hotels, I'he Qihstion of, 601-14, xviii., 639-41, Ivii.: Alphabetical list of, 146. Bath- tubs wnn'ed at, 601, 602, 614. Clerk's in- solence rebuked, 338. Constraini of life at, 450. Index to those nancd in this book, 6i.-. Overcrowdca b_. louring parties, 320. Recimmendations of, 201, 221, 231, 23'', 33'. 3«5. 34''. 3'''' Where this book may be consulted, 600. Women patrons of, 442, 450. Wcnen "'aiters at, 13. Hudson and Lake George, 179-98, xi. Humors of the Bcj4: .\cadians' picnic in the rain, 283. Asionislinient at the novel vehicle, 8, 272, 379. Australians' greetings, 560. Binghamton B. C.'s con- tempt for my long-distance trophy, 30?. Brave passenger and his apology, The, 380. Car-drivers' repartee, 105. Cartoons of velocipeding, 3.,o. Coaching-club photog- raphers take my back for a background, 281. Compliments from the Small Boy, 6, '3. 4?. 54- Cooking chickens in Virginia, 350. Diffident introductions, 3. Dogs, 18, 140, 565. Facetiousness of the Erie canal lers, 8-9. Forced to mount the mail-coach, 5'>o. Free-lunch at East Machias, 271. Frogging in the Shenandoah, 383. Good- bye chortle to the charmers of Calais, 266. Great American Hog, The, 10, jr '•, 615, 621. " Journalism " on the border, 263. Larrig.ms for the Blue Noses, 265. Martineti 3n Mt. Desert, 275-8. Mis- taken for an undertaker, 195. Newspaper lies about Rosenbluth's horse, 397; theo- ries as to "riding in the rain," 263. Re- torts courteous, 8-11,265, 3"''S. 3^5-6- Halifax, 292. Litchfield, [42. London, 406, 425, 448. Luray, 381-2. Mammoil, Cave, 232. 3S1. New York H,ubor,97. Peinberton Square, 104. To- rniiio, 31S. WashinKton S.,-iare, 432-3. Incidents and Accidents U.-e spc cial index, lxx.xiii ; also, " Humors of the Road"). India, T. Stevens's 1400 mile ride through, in the sumn)i>r of '."6, 571-2. Indiana: League membership, 617-18. Road- book, 625. Road-ropnrts finm 5 counties, 235. Subscribers, 785-6. Tours, 479, 486-8, 5 ), If^h'e/men's Re,'^ ' ^r-'W. Indian chief's longinj, T 731. India-rubber cloth for lugf ,~ -roll, 22; cups GENERAL INDEX. xxvn and pouches, i8, 57; drinking-tiibes, 21; overshoes, 21; soles uiisuited for louring, 20. Insvitutions, Minor Cycmnu, 633-52, x. Iiiventidiis and patents, 520, 5:6, ■,50. Ireland and the Irish: Author in Amer- ica, 674. Bull-dog fanciers, 406, 409. "C. r. C. hotels " denounced, ft Dublui and Kiliaruey," Faed's " trips Journal- ism, 65 », 695. Maps, ^. lembers of C. T. C, 6(5-6, 68S. Pamphlet of tour in Kngland, 6S6. Racing governed by I.e. A., 652. Road-guides, 6S5. Soldiers in our civil war, 422. Straightaway ride, by W. M. Woodside, 499. Subscribers, 722. Touting report, 545. Wheeling statis- tics o. VV. Howies, 545. Islands, Index to, Ix. "1st" inferior to "er" as a verbal ending, h/M, 669, 800. Italy: Uarthol's (H.) tour, 552. Bolton's (.\. M.) tour, 549 Cycles at the Cusiom House, 600. Railroad rates, 599. Sub- scribers, 792, 79S. Tricycling in, Pennells' book of, 530, 6S7. Wheel literature, 700. Japan: Stevens's tour, 572. Subscriber, 792. Journalism of the Wheel, 65 ,.700. Alpha- betical imljx to all cycling and sporting pai)ers quote-i or referred to in this book, Ixxii. American press of '86, 661-72. Argu- ment *ir free advertisement of it, 653-4, and by it, 718-9. Australian pape.s, byb, 570- Belgian papers, 697. Bound volumes for Ibraries, 662-3, 691. Circulation, State- ments and opinions about, 654, 656, 659, 661, 665, 669-70, 691, 69J-4, 6)7, 707. " Consolidation," Fallacy concerning, 659, 66S, 6)o. Dutch, 700. Editors, Sugges- tions to, 719. English press, Sketch of the, 683-95, 650, 547-9 ; French, 69S-9 ; Gerinan, 697. 699; Hungarian, 697; Italian, 700; League policy unaffected by press clamor, 61S-20, 630. List of 22 AiTi. and Eng. jour- nals, Aug. ., -86, 654. Norwegian, 700. Official organs, 6i3-2i, 650, 720. Personal abuse. Specimens of, 694-5. Postal regis- tration for second-class ratas, 619-20, 667. " Readi ig-notices," Ineffectiveness of, 70S-9. 7>8. Rivah/ between "Coventry ring" and " Wheeling crew," 690, 694-5, 2^; -J- ■ i*.^-!:rii, ~rz::i. :rjY,C.\ .'mi; rtiiti Dili- side papers support cycling, 672, 695-6. Southern papers (U. S.), 670, 672. Supple, mentary details. May ., iSS;, xciv. Swed- ish, 700. Touring reports less attractive than race reports, 716. Treatment of my subscription scheme, 704-9. Western paper* (U. S.), 660-1, 669, 671-2. Writers, pub- lishers and printers. Index to, Ixxiii. Journalism in fcenaral : index to r.ll non- cycing periodicals quoted as referred to in this book, Ixxvii. Injury of printed gossip m "soci.-ty papers," 281. Inventiveness of local editors on the Down-East border, 263-4. Lies told " for revenue only " : against the nobility in England,— against the collegians in America, 396.7. Remaik- able run by my white horse's ghost of '69, spurred by editorial scissors, from Maine to California, 397-8. Reminiscences c- six years' Atlas-business, in holding up the ^^^rlti, 720-1. Suggestions to reviewers, viii. Tupperism and Greeleyism rebuked by Chrrles Astor Rristed, 727-3. Kenti;ckv and its Mammoth Cavb, 224-37. xli. (index, ^90). Khorasran and Koordislan, T. Stevens's ad- ventures in, 4S1, 4S3, 570. I.AKH Georce and the Hudson, 179-98, xi. Lakes and Ponds, Index 10, Ix. Lakiii cyclometer i^rize for 1885 mileag;, 527-8. Lallement at Ansonia, 139-41, 394. Lanterns, 18, 516, 518. Larrigan manufactory, 265. Last Woku, The, 800. Lawyers as wheelmen, 503, 511, 533. Lea(;ue of American Wheelmen, xviii., 615-33 : Amateur Atklete as oSicial organ, 619, 667-8. "AmateiT," Definition of, 624 ;' racing men expelled by the, 629. Appoint- ment of officers, 622, 624. Bi IVorld as official organ, 618, 663, 665. Badge, 616, 639- Bookmaster, 623, 627, 586. Builetin, Expenses and receipts of, 620, 661, Ixxxiv. Californ:a's certificate against League ho- tels, 609 ; roadbook, 625. Chief Consuls, 617,622,623. Committees, 622, 627. Con. suN, 624. ''Creed" vs. C. T. C, 644. Defalcation of Secretary-Editor, Ixxxiv. Elections, 623, 626. E,.„,ish editors' at- tempt to discredit its "time," 547, 626. Executivr Committee, 622-3, 627, Ixxxiv. Founded on my broken elbow, 24. Gov- ernmental reform, Pres. Bates on, 626. Hand-books, 625, 677. Hostility to C. T. w xxviii 7£JV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. C. encroaclimenis, 644. Hotels, Policy denounced, 601, 641. Hotels, Appoiiitiiiciit of, by chief consuls, 614, 609. Incorpora- tion proposed, 026. Life nieiiiberships, 624. New York Division, Election law and sta- tistics of, 620. Marshals, 623,627. Meet- ings, 623. Membership, Committee on, 622,67;; IJeogr.iphical statistics of , ( -18; Modu of applying for, 624 ; Two arguaients for, 621. Officers, Duties of, 621-24 ; Elec- tion of, 623, 62O ; Meetingsof,623 ; Names of, 626-28 ; Praise 01, 618, 621. Offshoots ; A. C. U. and C. W. A., 628, 633. " Organ- ship "ill '84, Bids- of various papers for, 619. Para-ies, '80 to '86, 615-18, 21, 225, 371. Political power, Pres. Bates on, 621. Presi- dency, Argument against " rotating " the, 617. President, 616, 622-3, 627. " Pro- fessional," Definition of, 624. Publication of road-books, 625. Quorum, 622. Races at N. Y. and Boston, 616. Racing Board, 623, 627, 629-30, 633. Racing men expelled for " amateur'sm," 629. Railroads clars- ing bicycles as baggage, 594. Representa- tives, 617, 622-3. Kights and Privileges, Committee on, 621-2, 627. Road-books of State Divisions, 625, 677, 5S1-2, 584. "Rota- tion," Protest against official, 618-21. Rules and Regulations, Committee on, 622 627. Salary of Secretary-Editor, 622; of Sec- Treas. N. Y. Div., 626. State Divisions, 622, 625-6 ; officers in service Oct. 30, '86, 627-S. Steamship routes on free list, 593. Subscribers to this book, Name= ut officers who are, 765-89. Touring Board, 623, 627. Transportation Committee, Appointment of, 622 ; names of, 627 ; effective work for r. r. crncessions, 591 ; neglect of the water routes, 593. Treasurer, 617-19, 622, 627. Unimpo'tant allusions, 94, 113, 119, 128, •54, 176-', 199. 224, 242, 2S1, 37i, 372, 4S8, 493, 504, f^, 510, 516-19, 523-6, 530, 603-8, 665, 667-8, 670, 675. 693, 704-5, 715, 717, 720, 765-89, 800. Washington parade, 371. Wheel as official organ, 619, 667. Vice- President, 616, 622, 623, 627. Votes con- trolled by, 615, 621. Voting for jfficers of, 623, 626, Ixxxix. I.eeal-Ti'nder decision, Retrret for the, 464. Legislation against Cycling : Attempts in Ohio, 621; ill New Jersey, 588, 725. Com- mon law a defense, c8< 61c 680. Test I case at Central Park, 93-5, 5S5, xr. I Library of N. C. U. at London, 650. Litchfield as a typical village, 142. Loadstone Rock, Comparisons to, 354, 724 Log keeping by tourists. Books for, 676. London (set " England," " C. T. C." and " N. C. U.") : Books and pajiersof cycling, 681-8. Characterization of by Cowper, 406 ; by Dr. Joiinson, 426, 436, C. T. C. takes one-third its members from region of, 636. Dog show of 1872, 405. Halifax as a reminder of, 292. Journals of cycling, 688-95, 654, 547-<>- Maps, 681-2. Queen's progress through the mob, 441. Seclusion in. My, 405-6, 427, 471. " Secretary-Editor of C. T. C." rebuked for forgery and vulf,ar abuse, by Mr. Justice Wills, xcii. oo- ciety journalist sent to jail, by Lord Cole- ridge, 2S0. Subscribers to this book, 791. " Views" inferior to those of N. Y.. 99, 452- Lo.Nf; - Distance Routes anu Riders, 473-50', tvi. Lo.VG Island and State.n Island, 150-58, xi. ; Road book and maps, 584, 625. Loquot, The inconip?rable, 365. L".gS''i.?e-carriers, Lamsjn and Z. & S., 17, 22, 45, 7>4. Luray Cavern, Praise of, 381-2. Macadam in the U. S., The first, 242 ; Primi- tive mode of applying it on the Shen- andoah pike, 345. Machines, Breakage r.-id repairs of, 37-41, 487, 402,496,498. Guides to, 550, 675,683-7. Maine (index, 573), Touring pr.rty in, 255-81. " Maker's Amateurs " : Expulsion of by L. A. W. and N. C. U., 629-3'-, 648-9. C'assed as " promateurs " by A. C. U., 632. Definition of, 632. Makes of bitycles and tricycles mentioned in tlii.i book Indexes 10, Ixxviii. Malaria ci'red by bicycling, 295, 308. .Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, 231-2, 381-2. Manhattan Island, Geography of, 64 ; En- trance to, 84. {See " New York City.") Maps: Adironuacks, 187, 211. Berkshire Co., Ms, 112. Boston, 113. Brooklyn, 99. 5S4. Buff.ilo, 588. Canada, 331. Cats- kills, 1S7 Cnnnty, 49, 15"!, '77, iS?. 293. 33>, 352, 5/5. 577, 579. S*', 59"- Ciipples, Cp- hr.m & Co., 1 12-13. C.iM, 6S3. Hea!d, i?t. Jarrold & Co., 683. Johnson, 352.' Knight & Leonard, 245. Letts, 681-2. Mason & Payne, 68.-2. Merrill, ,98 I'anl & Bro., 588. Philip & Son, 682-3. Smith, 176. Steiger, loo. Stoddard, 187, 2.1. Taintor, 198. Walker & Co., 113,' .-"S. Wallins;, 576. Watson, 154. MP.S8a3hU8ett8 (index, 579) : Road-reports, nr-2S. (Jeneral B.inlett's message, as Ihj representative soldier of, 386. Algernon Sidney's motto variously interpreted, 3S6 466. Myself as a native of, 367, 372, 7:.2.' May Fourth, 1887 (verses), xcvi. Medals f.ir long-di.stance riding, 553, 559, 562. Medical men's experience in wheeling,' 5, o^ 522 I testimony for, 62, 658. M -mnri.-.I tributes to Cen. Bartleft and Maj. VVinthrop, as typical Yankee heroes in the civil war, 386, 439. Mexico: Cycles at the custom house, 600; subscribers to this book, 790. Mileage statistics, Annual(American), 503-30; (Ai.stralasian), 562-9; (Enslish), 531-5S Mi^l.rint of price (irjofor $2), 732, 734, 799. .Mistresses and wives, 442-4. Mountain Peaks and Ranges, Index to, Mt. Desert, Two days' wheeling on, 275-9. Mules perversity, 9, 44, ,99, j„s ^,^ ^^.S1C and songs for wheelmen, 679, (-'^o 693 My Autoblograi.hy, Index to, Ixxix My bull-dog's life an:^ adventures, 407-25 My pnze essay (which didn't take the prize) '' On THE Whhhl." ,-,4, 657-8, 702, iii. ' i My Second Ten Thousand," Proposals for, j 7if>-7. 21 r. COT. K.'7i. zr-^. I Mv 234 R-DES on"""No: 234," 49-63, X. ' Nadar.s(E. S.) imprjMion* of social life in Ix)ndon and New York, 447-9. Names: Alphabetical lists of ,4-,6 persons mentioi.ed in the main text of ilij, book. Ixv.-lxxi. ; of 3400 subscribers, 734-64, 794. 6 ; of 34S2 towns, Ixviii.-lxxviii. "National CyclUU' Union" of England (N. C. lT.),646-05i : "Amateurism," Defi- nilion of, 638 ; financial dilemma produced by, 64S ; propo-.ed abolition of, 649 ; vacil- lation in treatment of, 630, 649. " 13. U. " as first named, 647. Championship meet- mgs and gate-money, 649. Council of Dele- gates, 647. Danger-boards, 651. Exec- utive Committee in 'ij6, 646 ; in '87, Ixxx • functions of, 648 ; logical criticisms of, by J. R. Hogg, 649; threatened libel-suits against, 630, 649. Financial gains in '85 and losses in '86, 648. Libel suits, Dange? of, 630, 649. Librarian's appeal for dona- tions, 650. Local Centers, officers of, in '84, 646 i finances of in '86, 648 ; functions of, 648, 651. Medals for record-breaking, 651. Membership, C47 ; Dissatisfaction of, 649. Mismanagement of '86 races, 648. "Ob- jects " officially defined, 647. Officers, Elec tmn of, 647 ; Names of, 646, xciii. Publi- cations, 650. Quorum, 547-S. Races of 8A m.smanaged, 648. Racing-register pro- posed, 649. Record-medals, 65.. Refer- ence hbrary, 650. Representation, Mode , 647-S. Reserve-fund, 648^. R,yi„,, 1 he official quarterly, 650. Roads, Efiforts for improved, 6.;7, 650. "T. A." and "T U." absorbed, 64-. Unimportant allusions. 6'5, 6S6, '')93, 695. H'lueling'i criticist.-s. 629-30, 648-51, xciii. National Pike, The Old, 242-3. Natural Bridge and Luray Cavern, Sugges- tions for visitors to, 349-5,, 382, 495. Negroes' amusement over bicyclincr, 272, 379 ; dread of the medicine-men, 43,; neat ap- pearance at Bermuda, 364. New Brunswick: Larri-ans at St. Ste- phen's, 265, 270. Our afternoon on Campo- bello, 270, 5,5. Tour to St. John, 271 New Hampshire fi-Hlex. 575) : Tours among the White Mountains, 575-7. New Haven : Bone-shaker davs of 1S59 at 391-405. East-Rock Park (verses'), ,,6' Lallemcnt at, ,39, ,94. pi^n „f ,„ Koaos around, ,32-3, ,38, ,49. Velociped- 'ng at, 391-405. {See " Yale College.") XXX TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCI.E. New Jersey (index, s««) : Koa-'-reports, i5'j-7». buie Geological Survey and Uffi- cial Atlas, 159, 176. New 'iouth Wales: Cyclists' Union, 652. JounuIisMi, 5O4. Subscribers, 793. Tour- iiu', 5^j4-0. Ne vspa|)cr lyinj, A celebrated case of, 395-S ; i circunibtantiai case, 263-4. American and Eng iisli ideals of compared, 396-7. newspapers as factories for the making and spreadin;; of gossip by steam niacliincry, 23i. New Yokk C'itv : 64-ieo, x. ; 426-72, xv. (index, 5S2) : Applelons' Dictionary, luo. Artists' studios, 430. Battery, yS. IJIg bridge, 86. Dlackwell's Island, 6<;. Books and papers of cycling', 5^4, 6; j-s, 665-9, 674, 677. Brooklyn, S7-90, 97. Central Park, 67, 93, 5S. 5'^5- Ckib-liouses, 96-7, 586, 772-4. l.irectories, 100. Elevated r. r., 98, 584. I'ees on horse cars and ferries, 86, 96. J'erries, 81, 85, 87, 88, 91, i6S, 583. tiflli Avenue, 65, 451-4, 5S3. I'ort Lee ferry as entranre, 84. Ceograpliy, 64-5. High Bridge, 70, 5^3. Htitels and restaurants, 611. Lightness of "social pi^ssure," 427-8, 448-g. League parade and banquet, 61 7. Maps and guides, jg-ioo. Novelists' limitations, 448-9. Obelisk, Erec- tion of the, 465. Pavements, 66, 5S4. Police rules, 67, 452. Prince of Wa'-.'s's visit, 469-71. Public .spirit, or " sense of local- ity," Lack of, 427, 436. Races of League in 'Si a failure, 616. Restaurants 611. Sidewalks, 67. Social life, Limitations of, 448-52. Storage, of wheels, 86, 96. Street- system, 65, 451, 5S6. Subscribers to this book, 772-5. " ThirtLili Street," Con- trasted ideals of, 452. Trade addresses, 100. Views f.om Trinity spire, 99. Veloci- pcding in '6-), 403. Wheets support of my cnnv.T;":, yot-*^. New York State (index, 582) : Road-re- iviits. i;o-S. 179-223, 246-8. New Zealand: " Cvcli'lancs Bhvond, 3^2-94, xii. Obituary 'if Cola E. Stone, 323. " Object-lessons " in long-distance tours, 301-3 ; Ml neat riding costume, 19. Ocoans and Sounds, Index to, Ixi. Ullio: .Ailempled legislation against cycling, 621. Cycling monthly, 526, 660. League looks and maps, 625, 677. Mileage re- ports, 526. Railroads, 594. Touring re- ports, 245, 479, 488, 501, 519. Omnibus roof-iiding, 99, 406, 584. O.NTAIilO, A Foi(TNK,HT I.V, 3IO-32, xiii. {Sie "Canada.") Outside Dog i'l the Fight (verses), 412. Parades of League, 615-18; badly managed at Boston and Washington, 371; Cincin- nati velvet'. en at Chicago, 22;. Paris: AntocrT^y of ilie concierge, 458-9. Cycling litei.iiure, 698-9, 792. The invisi- ble countess, 2^*0. Velocipeding in '68, 390, 403, 40'j. " Views" and " fickleness " con- trasted with New York's, 99, 586. Park Commissioners, Contests with N. Y., 92-95, 5''5-6, xciii. Parks and Sqixares, Index to, Ixi. Patch (Sam) ?t Genesee Kalis, 215. Pathology : cramps, 59-60 ; faeces, 307, 536 ; fever, 552 ; saddle-soreness, 307, 537 ; thirst, Pennsylvania (index, 589) : Scenic impres- sions of .ny autumn ride across, 302-3, 341-4. Senator Cameron tis a phrase-maker, iv. \.,e€ " Philadelphia.") " Personal " quality of the wheel, as ;egards its rider, 592. Personal statistics. Specimens of, 473-572 ; Request for, 717. Perscnifications : nicycle, 246. Church, 324, 447. Custom, 444. Death, 254, 259, 732. Devil, 8,482. Evil One, 401. Fame, 465, 728. Fate, 45, 62, 92, 396, 731. For- tune, 380. Freedom, 472. (Jlobe, 304. God, 481. Government, 447. Justice, 459. Life, 14, 472. 733- Memory, 136. Moon, 444. Nature, 25, 5t, 63, 303, 3S2. Nep- tune, 364. New Year, 390, 399. North, 386, 439. Old Year, 591, 590. Past, 309. Pioudeiice, 457. Safety, 505- Saw-horse, 420, Scythe-Swinger, 725. Seventy, 44. South, 385, 3S6. Sun, 444. Time, 391, 465, 472, 656, 725. Truth, 63. Universe, V ClUCipCUl., 4^1 GENERAL INDEX. XXXI P.TSons named in this book, Index to i^/t (exciusive of the 3400 subscribers named on pp 7U-W), 'xv.-lxxi. Philadelphia: 'Association for Advance- ment of Cycling," 5Vj. \\ook% and papers of cycling, 654, 660, 674. Riding routes, '''4. Ml. :t'<'<-9. 4'»5. 4'y;, '.<¥>, 521. Phllo«ophicil and Social (index, ixxxi.). I'lMiUigrapli.ii-, Amateur, 260, jOy, 271, 546. I'lcture. and sketches, 27,, 475.493. 534, 552, SS'., 6;'.-'.'), C^., W.5.75, ^,Sj-()3. Poetry and Veriea (set "Quotations"): vtnuas to l)ido, 305. After Beer, 15. Apostrophe to the Wheel, 246. Birtliday Kantasie, A. 2,. lioating at Bermuda, 353-4. 1^7- liuU-Dosgerel, 409, 411-12, 420,425- Carmen liellicosum, 186. Carpe Diem, 472. Champion linll-Dog, 409, 4,,. Cui liono? 309. Drink Heartv. 63. East Knck, i3f>. (lather the Roses while ye May, 472. Creeling to my Co-pariners, xcvi. Ho:yo'5. 621 ; road law for, 5G4, 6S0, 684-5. ''•^^'^™'^;^ Lists of wlieelmen's, 675, 680, ■•-;--•, •-■;5, 091, i„^j_ Portraits, Th; exchanging cf, 180. Postage of C. T. C. GuzelU.bu; oi L. A H'. Bultttin, 619.20. PoTuMAC, Aloni; tub, 238-45, xii. Pkbface (5000 words) iii.-viii. Price inispiinted (";fi.5o" for " J2 "), 732 734, 799- Prince of Wales'., visit to the room where this book was wr t.j 1, 469-71. Vx\ti competition-,, Literary, artistic, 657-8. "Professional," as defined by L. A. W., 614,633; A. C. L , 632; C. W. A, 635;' N. C. U., 63S. (^>, "Amateurism.") " Promate r," A. C. U. definition of, 632 Proverbs : 604. 6S0, 702, 722, 727 ; (Utin) 62, 2S0, 444, 42.,, 459, 6S'j. Psentionyms, Request lor, 718. Public BiUldingg, Index to, Ixii. Publishers' reciprocation and cor..a!ons asked for, 718-9. Qunshiboo ludl (verses), 444. Quee.n«land: Cycling, 652. Subscribers, 793 Ouorum: L. .1. W., 622; A. C. II., 6j, ; C. T. €,,642: N. C. U., 647-8. Quotationa: Trench vi.. ,, 24, 7», 727. Oerman, 2,6. Greek, viii.. 457. 7,3. 7,4. Ilal,an.64o. Latin, iii.,62, .,0, 2,80,305, 3S6, 429. 437, 444, ^5,^ ^f^_ j^j_ ^^ Verses, vii., 34, 36, ,36, .S6-7, 2.6, 246, 26^,, 304, ^05, 309, 323, 35,-4, 367, ,,,, ^02, 406, 409,4.., 4,2, 420, 425,430, 444, 447,459, 465-6, 47^ S^S. 6'5, 701, 727-31. Eaces: Australia, 559.67; Kngland, 532-58 ; for .00 miles, 5,3; not known in bone- shaker days, 399; on the road, 127, 320-2 • participants' allu.sions to, 509, 5,6, 523, 529,' 537 : straightaway course.s in Canada and Shenandoah Valley, 297, 590. Racing, Government of in America, 622. 627-30. Australia, 652; Canada, 633-6' England, 629-30; France, 62S, 65,; Ger' many, 651; Ireland, 652; New Zealand, 652. Social insignificance of, v. Speed more desirable than social subtleties, 629, 630. Statistics, American books of,' 675,' 6"?o. 'I'rnde promotion of, v., 716. Railroads {see " Travshortation Tax " 591-600, X,; .ilso index, Ixi.) : Cycling on thetracksof,26, 73, ,2,, ,28, .83, 190, ,93, '94, 19;, 212, 237. Latest free list, xc Tasmania, 563, New Zealand, 570. Rain, Riding in the, 2^1. r-,.. Record-keeping, Blan'.: books for, 676, xcv. xxxii TEN THOUSAND Afff.ES OX A niCYCI.E. -:i :-9 '- Records of Contr'outori, 4-3-572 (indcxc*, xvi , xvii.lxxi); Suggeslions for prepar- ing. 7" 7 Ke!ttaurant5 in New York, 611. Rrvoliilioiis of 111, whi els, SMlistics of, 5^3. Rhode Island (mdex, 581) KiKhls and liabilities of vvherlinrn, I.cK'TI ti.-ali9cs on ..le (American), 5S4, 680 ; (Kn- Rlish), 684-5. Rinks for \elocipeHinf; in iR^, 103-4, 4oo-3- Rivers and Valleys, Index to, lix Road-books: "American liicycler," The, ihecailiest, 674. ittrksliire Comity, Ms, 700. Fioston, III. f)55, 677. (alifrirnia, ^125. Canada, 330, 636, 677. Cape Ann, f'S5. Connecticut, 5S2, 677. Co^»s ami conditions of making, 715. C. T. C, ''142, 687. Knsland,fiSi.2. Essex Connty, Ms , 112,655, 677. Ciloncester, Ms, ^155. In- diana, ^.25. KcntMcky, 5')o, C^-jH. Long Island, sSj, 625, f>55, 67S. Maryland. sSq Massachusetts, 581, ri25, 677-8. Michigan, 677. New Jersey, 177, 589. New YorK. Ixxxix., 5'(4, 625, 678(221). Ohio. 625, 677. Pennsylvania, 177,589. Springfield (map), 254. Vermont, 579. Western New York, 221, 6-/. Road-records, I.og-books for, 676-7. Sugges- tions for keeping, 717. Roads: Asia Minor, 481-2. Rermuda, 355-7. ('hina, 572. Kngland, _• ,1-58,681-2. France, 480,552,558. Germany, 480, 551-2. India. 571-2. Japan, 572. Persia, 4S1-2, 570. Danger-boards on bad hills in Kngland, 643-4. 64S, 651. Defense by me of Amer- can roads as suitable for touring, 11 ; of Canadian as superior to U. S., 297, 300, 330 (opposing testimony, 320, 324). Im- provement and maintenance of, as shown In "Agricultui^l Reports of Massachusetts," 680; " N. C. U." pamphlets, 647. Legal books as to wheelmen's rights on the, 584. 647, 680, 684. Sign-bo.-'.iu.-i less needed than road-books, 64) Superiority of asphalt, 584, 5f'S- "Rotation" in office. My prote • again',!, 6t7-i8. BnSlia: Book of tourinf from, 687. Czar's absolutirm, Allusions to the, 458, 721 T Stevens's proposed route through, 570 Subscriber, 792, 799. Sardine industn- in Maine, The, 270, 274. Scs!^!C GSscriDtions, .Altemnts at. f^. inx 734 22/, 268, l<,2, 19.,, 301-5, 357, 365, 380-2, 42'<-M Scotland and the Scotch : P.o^ks of roa.ls and tours, 6S4.6 C. T. C. Courcil, 645-6 H Callan's touring retxirt, 545. Journals, 695, xciv. Maps, 681-3. Knad-raccs to John ()'(;roat's, 553-7. Subscribers, 791 Separate roadway, Knglish i limates of mile- age on, 532-54 ; My own, 31. Servants as rulers of sonctv, 445-50, 458-9, 729- .Shoes, Mileage statistics of, 21, 719. Sidewalk riding. Rules abfiul, in New Haven, 395.402; in N. Y., 67; in I'rospect Paik, 92, 586-7. .Small llov's relation to lyc'ing, Tho, 13, 48. Snow and ice cycling, 246-54, 404, 475-6, 491-2. 507, 532, 527, 555, 559, 570. Social and Philosophical (index, Ixxxi ) " Society of Cyclists," Kvolution of the, from the Knglish '"T. V." 647. Solitude and ind:peiidence, as described and illustrated by P. {). Hamerton, 467-g. .'"ongs and music for cyclers, 655,679, 686,693 South, Political allrsions to the, 386, 724. South Australia ; Cydisf' Union, 652. Re- ports of touris.s, 560-r. Subscribers, 793 Southern type of county-towns, 303. Spain: A. M. Polton's story of cvrling ir. 549, 683. l^eloci/>edo published at Madrid. 700. Si'RiNr.FiEi.D, The P"n-vi \s of, ti5-ij>., ''i-. 251-3, 579-So : Hicvcle Club forms " \ C. U." to provide "amateurs" for its tournament, 63 1. P.irthplace of myself and my ancestors, 722. " Coventry ring " jour- nals of England profess to doubt fast rac- ing " time," 547. Maps and guides, 126-7, 254. Printing Company and its contract to manufacture this book, vii:., 706, 710-11. 799. Wheelmen 5 Gazette, 661-2, 706-7. " Wheelmen's Reference Dook," 675, 710. Squares and Parks, Index to. Ixi. "Star" bicycle excels in coasting, 270, 274. State.s, SiMMARV BV, 573-90, xviii. Index and abbreviation.4 of, Iviii. Representation of m League, 617, 618, 62S. Residences of subscribers to this book, classified geo- graphically by, xx., 765-.S9 (705). Statistics from the Veterans, 502-30, xvi. (See " Historical Statistics.") Steamships (see " Transportation Tax," Yi GENERAL LWDEX. xxxiii Stev-ii'i (T.) Tour rmmd the World : San Krancitco to Boston, 47-.Sc ; I.iver- P.KJI to Teheran, 480-3 ; I'erMa, Afghan- i'tan, India, China and Japan, 570-1, Mocking*, Mileage statistics of, ji, ,08. 73,,. >TKAI>.HTAWAV POH KoRTV Davs, J94-JO.;, (iii StraiKhtaway courses for long-distance rac- inj». Best American, jg;, jgo. Straightaway day's rides of 100 m. (Aireri- cii'). 113-14, III, uS, 138, 154.312,7.4, J">. 3'>-J, 37S, 4''o, 493, 49^, 515: (Ausira- l-isMn) 55,-67; (Kngli,h)5,4, 536, 547, 55,, 55; ;■ Siramhiaway rides of 3 and 4 days, Longest American, 498. StraiRhtaway stays in saddle, 53, ,21, tiR, I3'', 148, 183, 20J, 258, 3,3, 3,,, 3„' jgj,' 4)3, 49■^ 510, 5'4, 5'6. 5". 5^7, SJo, 534, SW. 5»o-i, 546, 559, 575 SIHSCRIBERS, T„K Thrbb THOUSAND, | 714-^4. xix. ; Allusions to, vi , vii.. 64, 35,, 472, 4''4, 55^*, 5<>9, 573, 701-20, 73 V,zv. graphical directory of, 765-94, (705;. Sup- plementary list of .atest 200, with " trade direclriry," 794-g " SwelK " not patrons of cycling, 695. Switzerland: Custom House .;.les, 599 Cycling Union, 650. C. T. C. D,v'ision, 637- Knglishmen's tour, 532, 542. Sub- scriber, 752. Tables of mileage, 509, 535, 540, 54, ,,_ 57!-4- Tasmania: Cyclists' Union. 652. Excur- sionists' r. r. guide, 563. Road-racing and touring, 563-4. Subscribers, 794. Taylor's (G. J.) patent crank lever, 520. riiames and its tributaries, The, 129, 681. rHoiisAND Islands to Natural Kkidge 333-52, xiii. Tires, Excellent service of, 37.38, 47, 52,, 538. lool carrying, 18, 22. Toronto, Impressions of, 318. Touring parties' reports, 183, 187, ,92, ,97, '98, 215, 216, 218, 244, 245, 257-79, 314-F5,' 320-5, 348, 377, 500, 501, 51S, 542, 560, 5S0. Touring Routes: Adirondacks, 211, 587. Australia, 564-6. Baltimore, 377,' 589. Berkshire Hills, The, 121, 142-3, 147.8, '93-4, 208, 581, 700. Boston to Ports- mouth, 101-2; to Providence, 107; to Sprmgfield, 103, no, ,,7, ,28. 18,. ,r,s Huaalo, 588. California, 475-6, 489-94. ( atskilh, ,B7.9, 4)«, <,,. Conn. Kivcr '■;•'", < 79-84. S7> :V KngUnd. j,,^,. 55J-8. Euro|,*, 4X0. 521, J45. „,.j, jjg Hudson River. 71-2. 75-82, i4(WJ, ,69-72, '''7-98. 5>o. 582-3, 586.7. Ireland, 546. Kenneb-c Valley, 573.4. Lake-shore, .70, 203-^ 301, 310. Lm, Island, 84, 86.,,, Mo-4 Louisville. 232-7. Mohawk Valley' ■97.199-202,208 Mt. Desert, 275-9 574' Newport, ,08. New York to Boston. 73 '03. ..0, ,,7, ,22, „8, ,3,-9, ,„, ,7^8, J4'>-54. 580-2; to Philadelphia. 82, 84. 15.S, ■^7, '72, 389-90, 5"gston, 2^5-8. 30:, 306, 3,8-25. Wash- ">«'on, 37^ Western New York (con- d--nsed from guide), 22,-3, S87. White ^I'"" . 575-7- Vosemite Valley, 49,-2 TourlatB : Books of reports by, 4,89, 549, 673, 683-7, 696. Clothes and equipments for, ,6-32. Duty of demanding that wheels be classed as baggage by all s. ,. agents 59'. Freedom of choice as ti scene of tour, where no extra-baggage ...x is levied, 592. Hotels, Special attentions and privi- le.ges needed at, 602-4, 6,4. Reports wanted from, 7,7. Toilet articles needed I7- Wishes disregarded by perfunctory ad- vocates of " League hotel policy." 60, Tours from '79 to '82, Outline of n.y personal, "-'2, 26-3j. Towns n.a,ed in this book. Alphabetical list of 3482, with 84.8 references, xxxv -Ivii Towns supplying 3200 subscribers ,0 this hook. Geographical list of 887, 76c.„, • index to, xx. / 3 vt . Tow-pa,l, touring, 9. ,,, ,73, ^^ ,g^ ,^ '92, .99-202, .o7-,8, 2,2, 23^42. 244 5, 304-5,' 340,342-3,378,384.479,488. '''!*S.°*!^°'°'^.- Alphabetical list of ,22 -•■ --.r:: :;: i;r.„»c u.ntes this t)ook mav be consulted, 7,6-7. Geographical Ikt of xaxiv TE^V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. n Mine, 798-<}. Significant omiuion* o'. the indifferent, ;>j4 Trad* In Cycles : AgentS guide tor the, 6;q, Mj. Hciiehi leceivcd (rnni clrculjlinn o( Wlu«lmaH, !>•,•), Indifference to my book, 71J. Statistics of 1S77; 656. Traininu, ItcMiks on, 674-5, 684-6. Tkanm'Oktation Tax, Tub, 501-600, x ; fee* on N Y. ferries ai'd lorse-cars, 86, 96; touring. 111. Latest r.r.'. on free list, xci. Slor.ige cliarge for wheels at Knglisli railway stations, 5.>S ; in N. Y., 8^). Trloyclas, Index to ni.ikes of, Ixxix. " rniycle I'liion" and "Tricycle Associa- tion," History of the defunct KiiRli-h, 647. Tricycllas: Books on, 684-7; Ladies' les- sons at Orange, 5S8. Long rides, 509. Mile.ige, 509, 511, 517, 5J1, 525-6, 5J0. Racing, 523. Tours in Austiali.i, 5'2-6; England, 534, 543, 554; France, 55S, 600; Italy, 509, 600, 6.S7. Triumpli, defined by " H. H." (verses), 304. Uniform, Two essentials of a cUib-, iq ; I'rice of C. W. A., 635 ; Profits of C. T. C , 541 ; Wanamaker's L. A. W., xt. Unions (Cy^iiig) in Europe and Australia, 651-2. Unitsd States, Abbreviations of the, with index of chief references, Iviii. Geo- graphical rjll of the, from Main- to Cali- fornia, with alphabetical list of residences of subscribers to this book, 734, 765-81). University Building, The, 42'>-72, "v.: Architecture described by several observers, 428-34 ,39. Business management, 457, 461. Collegians' conduct, 428, 459, 466. Danger of fire, 460. Defects as a lodging- house, 456. Eminent residents, 431, 434, 464-5, 4,"o. Historical statistics, 43-,-5, 437-8. Janitor, .138, 443, 450-80, 461-2. Lack of camaraderie, 462. Pictures, 430, 434. Prince of Wales's visit in i860, 469-72. Seclusion of tenants, 438-9, 454-6, 463-4- Servants, 456-8. Women residents and visitors, 441-1. Valleys and Bivers, Index to, Hx. Vandalism and va.iity in Mammoth Cave, 3?t Velocipeding in 1S69, 390-406. Velveteen, Excellences of, 19, 11. Vetkranh, SrATisiics from tub, 502-)n, xvi. Victoria: Cyclists' Union, 651. Journal*, ^S-^'i 5S^' K(^d races, 559-6]. Subscrib- ers, 55>(, 706, 793-4. Louring, 560-3, 56$. Virginia lindcx, 5^,0), University, 350, 435 Washington City Undcx, 5(^0, Ivi.). Washington Square (index, Ixi.) : a* it apiKared in iSj5, i860 and 1878,432-3 ; a« a camp in the desert, 455 ', as scene of elbow-breaking, 24; as the real center of tliL eWorld, 64-65; my proposed battle-field for \\\i be I, 16; its i'hiladelphiau name- sake, 494, 497. Waterfalls, Index to, Ixi. Weather, Pointers as to, 209, 221, 256, 297- 300; Summary of weather changes ir my 1400 m. ride, 297-300. White I-i.an.nei. and Nickel Platb, 16-22, ix. Wind as a fac'or in riding, 253, 263, 290, 207-9. 3'3. 326, 556, 57°- Winter Wheelini;, 246-54, 491, xii. Winth- ip (Maj. T.) as a typical hero of the civil war. Tribute to, 439. Women {.see special index, Ixxxlii.). Xenophon's fame as a standard, vlii. Y.'.cht Kullnda, In the (verses), 353-4, 367. Yachting In the Paleocrystic Sea (verses), 23. YachtinRs by wheelmen, 504, 532. Tale College : Advent of the bone-shaker in i86-5. AdelonjCrossine, •V -i- 'i'.s^S •Adrian. Mid,.. 785 Ad- runople, Tur., 4S.. Ag.wam, Ms,, ,„ ^^\ 14'., .79, .80-,, ,5,, 5S0. ARr,!, /«,/' 571. A.l^i Craig, <:l„'., _,„. Airolo, // ^;j. 'Akron, o,, 501, 595, 609, 784. Ak! rnn, P.r, ,87. Alabama. N, Y,, „, . a1. amoocl.y, N. J , ,63. 'AlbMiy, N, v' ,, '9,,W, 5. 75, 76, 85, .54. .S7. .90-,, ,97.8,' '"9, 2.., 37S, 47.. 479, 4S7-S, 50,, 507. 5.3, 5M-4, i/., 4. 597. 604, 655, 770. 'Albla, la 50., 7V 'Albion. 111,485. 'Albion. Ind" 7.S5. 'Albion. N. Y., „7, „,, ^88 ^i" bt.ry. A'. 5-. ,K, 564-5. Alconbury, Eng 540-I.5S3 Alden. NY, 208,2.5, „, Al' d.nv^Ie Pa„33,. Aldie, Va., 348, Alcxan. '1-r, NY,, ^;2. Alex.-'.ndria, Ky., 590 ^Al exandria. Va , 373, 376, 465 Alexandria Bay, .N. Y,, 333-4. Alfred, Ont., „8. Ali- ab.iri, /'^r,,s7,. .Allahab.id. /„rf , , Al legany. N. v , 223. Allegheny City. Pa 77S. Alk.nd.ile,N.J., ,69. Allenford, O;,/' 3.6. Aiientown.N.Y.,220. •Allentown.' P^ , 339, 3S7. 773. Alliance, O., 594 a!- ''"ton, 0,/,,3,6. Allow.iystown. N J 52, All!ton, Ms., 766. Almond. N Y '2,7 ^■^ 223. Alpine, N. J., 8.. 586. Al-en' bur?, w«rf., 48,. Altnamain, Eng , .-,(, AI.Oe„i„g,C.r.,48,. Alton. Ill, 50,, 594' AUonn..y.N.H.,577. Altoona. L, 47J Altoona, Pa., 496, 530, 609,77s. Alvarado. LaL, 493. Alvinston, o«/.,„j. Amenia. .. ;^'' '^'^7, .S8. Ameabury. Ms., .02, 766. -^mhen.t.Ms., .,3,„4. .2o,M2,.86, 5^3, 579, 766. Amherst, N. .?., 289, 790. Amity. Or., 788. Amityville(L I) N Y ■50-4. 534. Amosville, Pa.. 37,.' Am- 545' Aiiiaterdam. N. Y. ■97. .00, ,o«, 2,6. Ampthill. Enr., 5,, J«'-«r.M,,..2,2o8, ,23. 579. 766. .j;. Selica. N Y.. 2.7. Angola. N. Y.. 47, Angora. r.r., 48,-2, 79,. Ani.a Spring! I^y , 2,6. An>,a,,oli,, A'. X, 282, 2S4.5, 600 6," 7,^'^A^""'' ''"'• '"•■ ""• S- vUle.P.1.,34,. An.onla.0,.39,.40,,,,, '!?■ ^""''■""' ^''' . .15a, 334. Anti,o„i»h, ^■•i, J39, 79„. Antwerp, B,/., 5,2 ,., 599 Antwerp. N. y., 3,4. Analachin N. v., 2,,s Appleton City. Mo., 7s, •Appomattox, V.,., 346. Ararat, K;r/ 560! '. 5'.^. M. Arcidia, Mo.,528. Arcoli, N J . 165-6, .59. Ardmore, Pa., 3S9, 609, 77.S Arsyle.A-. .y, 29i. .A.gyle, N. y! "3' Arkona, Oh/.. 332. Arkport, N. Y 222 Arkwright, o«/ , 3,6. Arlington. Mi„n.; 7S7. Arlon. 5,/, 5,5. Armad.. Mid, . 735. Arnheim, ^,/.,5„. ,r,..„,.„,., ' ,„ Arran,C)„/.,,,5. Arthur "«/„ 3,6 ,^l' 0.'.3.2. •A.hevllle. N. c. 500. Ash! ford, ^«^., 7<^. Ashford, N. Y., 7, ,„ «„ A.hland. Ky., 590. 783. Ashla'nd,"M^ .... ^iJihland N.H.,577. •A.hland. O.; 784. Ashland, Pa., 77S. Ashland. Va 3^5.. Ashmore.Ill..489,786. AshUbul*; ■, ij, 28, 3,, 50, J05_ ^^g_ ^g Ashton, R. I., .0,. Asht n, Md., 373 37, 497- Ashton-under-Tyne i^'w^., 64c Ash' "•^l"'. N. H., 579. Ashville N 'y 5,7" A.sterabad, /?w.,57,. Astoria (L. J) N ;88 '''.if 'J; ■"• '"■ 5'*- 'Astoria, 'or.. 7S8. Atchison. Kan., 594. Athol. Ms 4S8 579. Athole, sc./., 556. Athens.' N. V 770 Atherton, o«/., 33,. Atkin- son. III., 479. .Atlanta. Ga., 352, 594. 597 Attica N^Y., 2.6. 222. .Aubur^r'JaY; 476. 'Aubum. Ind., 785. 'Auburn NY 201, 20S, 2.2, 770. A.ickl.ind, //. z 566' 56:, 568, 794. Augsburg, Ger., 48.. 'au- gusta, Ky., 590, 609, 783. 'Augusta, Me 573, 574, 597, 609, 765. Auma, C,r , c„' •Austin. Tex. ,s. A"-"— — - - Aurora, N. yv 2;, ''pz::ci>::: '^ xxxvi TE,V THOUSAND .TILES ON A BICYCLE. Ausab'.e Chasm, N. Y., 211. Auxy-V. Chateau, Fr , 55S. Avenal, Vict., 5 j. Avcndalc, I'kt., 565. Avon, Ct., 145. Avon, N. Y., 232. Avondale, N. J., ifj6, 167, 169, 533. Avondale, O., 784. Avon Springs, N. Y., 30, 213, 21*^. Ayer Junction, Ms., 13S. Aylmer, Ont., 315, 319, 327, 331 332,634. Ayr, 0«/., 317. Ayr, i'ro/., 6S6. Babylon (L. I.), N. V., 150, 152-4. Dad- deck, ^V. 6"., 2S9. Dadcn, Ont., 316-7. Bad I^nds, Wyo., 477. Bainbridge, N. Y., 493. '- ''vi., 571. Ilalcony Falls, Va., 347, ^5.- .idock, A"»^. , 540. Baldwin, 111., 52S. -. \v,\r\, N. Y., 1S6. Bale, Switz., 599. ) .,lara!, ''•,539,560-2,793. Ballardsville, Ky.,236. •Ballston, N.Y., 197,208. Bal- timore, Md., .J, 31, 233, 241-4, 349, 373, 37<>-7. 390. 427, 4S6-7, 497, 513, 523, 575, 5S3, 5S9, 502-4, 609, 627-3, 643, 652, 7S1. Bangor, .ffw^.,645. *Bangor, Me., 273-9, 3';:, 5'5, jJJ. 574, 592, ^f*', 7'J5- BarboursvUle, W. Va., 351. 'Bardstown, Ky., 2?g, 230,234, 237, 5=7,6091783. Bar Harbor, Me., 271, 278, 279, 515, 574. Barkhamsted, Ct., 144. Bar-le-Duc, Fr., 4S0. Barnebville, Pa., 245. Barnet, Fug., 539, 540, 541. Barr, Col., 501. Barre, Vt., 57S, 766. Barrie, Out., 316. Harrington, A''. i'.,2R3. Barryfield, 0«/.,325. Barrytown, N. Y., 510. Bartlett, N. H., 576-7. Bartleyvillo, N. J., 164. Barton, N. Y., 219. Bartow, N. Y., 31. Bartville, 111., 479, Basle, 5'm///'-., 532, 545, 552. Paiainitz, Slav., 481. *Batavia, N. Y., 208, 215, 217, 222, 4Sy, 501, 770. Batli, Eii£., 4, 532, 538, 544. 55'. 554. 567,645. 79°- "Bath, Mc., 577. B,ilh, N. H., 578. Bath, OhA, 325. Battle Creek, Mich., 785. Battle Mountain, Nev., 476. *Bay City, Mich., 785. Bay- field, O^/., 3f3, 314. 33=- Bayonne, N J., 158. Bay Ridge (L. T.),N.Y., 90, 5.33 Bay Shore(L. I.), N. Y., 152. Bay Side (L. I.), IV. Y, 150. Bealton, 0«^., 332. Beamsville, Ont., 315. Beard, Ky. , 236. Bear VVallow, Ky., 230. Beaver Falls, Pa., 514-5, 778. Beaufort, Vict , 560. Beaumont, Ont., 330. Beccles, Eng., 539. Becket, Ms., 121, i );. Bedford, E>ig.,^},2, 540, 541, 557,645. I'.td- ford. A'. .S"., 287, •Bedford, Pa., 496, 530, 609,778. Bedfordshire, /"w^, 532. Bedford .Springs, Pa., 244, 496. Beech Cliff, Pa., 778. Beeston, hng., 790. Beeston Castle, Eng., 536. Bei Bazaar, Tur., 482. *Bel Alo \IIA .... ,-, ..-. Pul., P,t-.r.bo T*,,- 4S1. BelcUertown, Ms , T13, 144, 57'). Del- fast, Ire., 499, 645. 'Belfast, Me., 574, 765. Belfast, N. Y., 217, 223. Uelfort, Fr., 590 Belgrade, Sen/., 481. Belgrave, Ont., 332. Belhaven, Ont., 316. Bellefontaine, Mo., 525. •Bellefontaine, O., "joi. Belleville, N.J. ,84, 166. Belleville, C>«/., 297, ",319, 320, 321, 322, 324, 325, 327. 33>, 63^, 789. Bellevue, O., 479. Bellows Falls, Vt., n, ■9, 31, 118, 119, 181, 183, 184, 578, 766. Bell- ort 1,1^. I.), N. Y., 150, 153. Bell's Corners, Ont., 327. BeUville, O., 7S4. Belmont, Cal., 493. Belmont, Me., 574. 'Belmont N.V.,223. Belmont, Pa., 339, 389. Belolt, \Vis.,7S7. Belone, Kan., 4S5. *Belvidere, 111., 786. Bemis Heights, N. Y., 186, 190. Benalla, Vict., 565. Benares, Ind., 572. Benk'iCman, Neb., 501. Bennettaville, Ind., 235. 'Bennington, Vt., 186, 191, 193, 594, b2j, ^(16. Beowawe, Nev., 477. Berea,0., 7S4. Beruen, Den., 599. Bergen, N. V., 215, 2:2. Bergen Point, N. J., 84,156, 158, 163,169,583. Bergerae, /"r.,553. •Berke- ley Springs, W. Va., 496. Berkliamsted, A'«^., 473, 4S0. Berkshire, Ms., 193. Berlin, Ct., 128, 136, 137, nS, 149, 191, 5S1. Berlin, Ger., 426, 552, 646, 651, 697, 792. Berlin, Ont., 316, 317. Bernardston, Ms., 31, 38, 119,182,576(723). Berne, ^w//^., 545. Bem- viJle, Ind., 4S5. *Ben7ville, Va., 244, 381, ^84,497,782. Beithier, C^;;/. , 330. Berwick, S., 285, 293. Berwick, Pa., 497, 778. Btrwyn, Pa., 389. Besangon, Fr., 545. Bethany, Ct., 582. Bethel, Me., 576-7. Bethel, Vt., 578. Bethlehem, N. II., 577. Bethlehem, Pa., 3S7, 389, 778. Bethune- ville, N. Y., 211. Beverly, Ms., 655,677, 766. Beverly, N J., 173, 522, 776 Bic, Que., 329, 330. Biddeford, Me., 575, 627. Biggleswade, Eng., 540-1, 557-8, 645. Billa- bong, .V. S. IV., 564-5. Billerica, Ms., 113. Bingham, Me., 573-4. "Binghamton, N. v., 21, 28, 31, 206, 218, 219, 302, 308, 337. 33^^. 340. 50'. ''27. 770. Birchton, Ont., 327. Bird-in-Hand, Pa., 378 Birdshaw, Pa., 484. Birjand, /Vr., 57r. •Birming- ham, Ala .783. Birmingham, Ct., 139, 140, 142, 769 Birmingham, Eng., 4S0, 532, 539, 546, 551, 6)2, 6 15, 6(6, 617,684, 638,695, 790. Bin, Ont., 31; Bishop's Gate, Ont., 332. Bishop Stortford, Eng, 541. Bitter Creek, Wyo., 477. Blackhealh, £■»,«•., 686. Black f^DEX OF PLACES. ;°l , "'=''''"^^»'^. Md., ,44. 376. Blair Aihole, i-a., 496. Elakelcy.'pa 34.. I3!a..dforci. Ms.. .... ,08. Blanshard' Ont.,ii2. Blaubeurcn, C-^., 48,. Blawen- '^"'^■. N- J , >72, 377. Bloomfleld. Kv -^37- Bloomfleld. N. J., 38, 56, ,5? ,5, .6., 776. Bloomingdaie, N. J. , ,70. .Bloom- mgton, HI., 50,, 5,g, 555^, 78^ Blossburg i'a., 77S. Blue Bonnets, Oni., 328. Ulue' C.i..yon. Cal., 476. Blue Lick Spring Kv 2«. Blue Stores, N. Y., ,93, ,96. Ely.he' ' -^. " . 565. Bowning, A^. s. IV ,66 no,.cl,ervilIe,^«,.,32S. Boulogne, /-..„,,; w •Bozeman, Mnn., 7S8. BracevUle I:' ' '^'' B^ddook. Pa., 4S5. Bradford ^■"f< 5'7. 545, 644.5, 790. Bradford Vt 578^ Brady Island, Neb., 478. Brampton,' ■ii 'm'^ ''^^"^hville, C, ,38. Branch. '"e. N. J.. ,64, 5,0. Brandon. V, , ,,. Worda.,3o,,32-3,,49,5..,769, Br';: iorovT''"'"''"'-"^''^^^- ^'»«'«- foro.Vt., „, 29, 31, 5,, ..9, ,82, ,9, 579 f«,, 766. 'Brazil, Ind. .86 n;„,V,"?; *'"■'). v., 578. Bremen, <7,..,si:-B;e;it; XXXV!i wood, Cal., 500. Breslau. O^.. 3,^ ^., Brewerton,N.Y.,335. Brewster. N Y ^g'' Bnc Church. Md.. 373. Brick ChurcbN J-,776- Bridestow, .£■»»• „f, n-j , to" (L. I.), N Y ,« rI fi^dgehamp- •;, i-«. »., 155. Bridge worlh A--. 536, 554. •Bridgeport ct J ^ ' Bridgeton, Me., 57' -'„ '« -j'' '°°' ''9- 9 ,< 1, J ' ''^''' '^"dgetown. A^ ^■, =84-5. Bndgewater, £„^,^ ,,(, '_• Bndgewater. Ms.. 767. B-^idp::': "t*' 67 682"' 7',^"^' ^^'°' "3, 547, 98,6:6.' 6 ,682. Bnghton. Ms., 29, 3.. .07, .^ ^..-,.,4. Br,gh,on,N.Y.,770. Brig^: -.w;B;i^^id:lis-29^1Sr: Bnstol,£,^.,536,5„ 5 7^- ^1 R I., ,07, .0,., ,42. 58.. Bristol Arms, Brock » F^^''^' ^- v., 2,7. 222.' JjrocKton, Ms.. ,06, ,09, ,,, ,,-= .^ Brocton.N.Y.,587. Br J'vilie ■J''32S- f„^ li-d'-adsville. P... 3,, BroLeJ: ^-r.,790. Bron,co. //., 552. Brookfleld Ms.. ,04. ,,4. Brook Haven (L I) N V ;«,'£,,'- •'k^JXjr: Ind '':°*"J^-='P'Va.. 348. Brownsboro Id 236. Brownsboro, Tex., 783. Brown.s.' vile. Md. , 245. Brownavilie, Pa. , 496, 609 778. Brucefield, 0„t., 3,3. Bru^h, C^' SO.. Brushv,l,e, N. v„ „,. „^,;^^^,^ ^y-, 228, 234. Bruiujv^ck, Me.. 765 Brunswck. C.., 687. Brussels, Bel., 64 . 65., 699. Bryn Kawr, Pa., 389^, ,,; Buangor, ;../., 560. Buckden, ^^ ^J). Buckhorn, O.t.. 33,, Buckingham, S„. 539- Buckland, Va.. 375. Bucksport Me ' ^78. 574. Bucksville. Pa , 497. .Bucyrtw,' O, 488, 7S4. Budapest, //«»^., 48, „, 792. Buelville, N. Y., 336. Buftalc'xv' =30. 'Buffalo, N.Y., 9, .2, 28. so. 52. .78.' '98,203.6. 208, 2,4.,7, 22..3,3.5, 3.7, 320, 321, 475, 479.S0, 487.8, 50,, 524, 573_ 53^. 8, 594, 609. 6,7, 620, 627, 77.. Buffalo Cap. Va., 486. Bull Rum, Va, 375. Bunder ^'UZ,Ifus.,s7i. Bungay, £-„^., 5,,,. Bunin- .r-..6, ►.<•/., 559, 5„3, Bunker Hill M^ 386. Bunker Hill, Va.. 348, 388. Bureau,' xxxviii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 111., 489. Burford, Old., 317. Burgoyne, 0«/., 315.16. Burke, N.Y., 771. •Burluig- ton, la., 485-6, 787. Burlington, N. J., 390, 522. •Burlington, Vt., 578, 594-5. 766- liurntislaiid, Scot., 536. Bury, Ettg., 790. Bury St. Edmunds, Eng., 645, 790- Bush- kill, Pa, 207, 299, 341, 497- Bushnell, Ill.,4S5-6. Butte, Mont., 7SS. Byron Center, N. Y., 215. Cabin John Bridge, D. C, 376. 497- <-"=- couna, Out., 329-3°- Cahir, / , 546- •Cairo, 111., 595. Calais, Fr.. 558, 599. •Calais, Me., 262-8, 573, 609, 765. C; Icutta, /«./., 571-2. Caldwell, N. J., 58, 161-2, 609,776. Caldwell, N. Y., 11, 29, 32. '5*6. 191-2, 211, 510, 771. Caledonia, N. Y., 208, 222. Caledonia, Ont., 332. Caledonia Springs, Ont., 327-8. CalistOga, Cal, 490. Callan, Ire., 792. Calumet, Mich., 785. Camac (L. I.), N. Y., 158. Cambridge, Eng., 533, 539. 54', 544, 557.646, 790. ♦Cam- bridge, Ms., 29, 51, loi, 103, 113, 402-3. 435. 485. 517. 627. 657, 767- Cambridge, N. Y., 193. Cambridge, O., 345 Cam- bridgeport, Ms., 516, 517, 767. "Camden, V J., 173, 218, 389-90, 521-2, 776. Camden, //. 5. W^., 565-6. Cameron, N. Y., 218. Camillus, N. Y., 208, 212. Campbellsburg, Ind., 236. Campbellton, 0«/., 329. Camp- belltown, N. S. H^., 565. Campbelltown, Tas., 564. Camperdown, K/r/., 559-60. Campobello, M 5., 270, 279. Campton Vil- lage, N. H., 577. Canaan Four Corners, N. Y., 148. Canaan, Ct., 700. Canaan, N. Y., 197. ♦Canandaigua, N. Y., 28, 30. 3». 33. S"'. 201-2, 20S, 212, 213, 297, 479, 488, 772. Canajoharie, N. Y., 200. Can- astota, N. Y., 208, 336. Candleman's Kerry, Va., 383, 497- Caneadea, N. Y., 214,217. Caniflteo, N. Y., 217, 218. Canmer, Ky., 230. Canterbury, N. Y., 510. Canterbury, £'»^ , 530, 6S7. Canton, C/i/., 572. Canton, Ct., 145. Canton, III, 7S6. •Canton, O., 501, 595. ' >9. 7S4 Canton, Ms., 27. Canton, Pa., 499. 778- t'ape Town, S. A/., 696. Capon Springs, W. Va., 495-7. Cap Rouge, Que., 330, Capua, //. , 552. Car.imut, Vict., 561. CarbOU, Wyo., 477. Carbondale, Pa.,340. Cardiff, fw^., 683, 790. Caribridge, Scot., 556. Carlin, Nev., 477. Carlisle, Eng., 545, 55 1, 642, 6S7. •Carlisle, Pa., 45, 303, 344, 485- ^'ar- low, Unt., 315. Caristadi, N. j., 03-4, 166-7,588. •Carmi, Il!.,786. Carpenter, Pa., 77S. Carnavoii, A'k^., 790. •Carson, Nev , 478. Carte-, Wyo., 4,7, 480. CanoUton, N. Y., 223. Casey, la., 478. Cashel, Ire., 546. Cassadaga, N. Y., 5S7, 772. Cass- burn Corners, Ont., 32S. Castlle, N. Y., 222. Castlemaine, Vict., 560-1. Castle- martyr, /r*., 546, 792. Castleton, N. ".' , 148, 190, 197. Castleton, Vt., 184. Cas- tres, Fr., 552. CastroviUe, Cal., 490. Calford Hill, Eng., 790. Caihcart, Ont., 317. •Catlettsburg, Ky , 486, 59°- Ca- tonsville, Md., 373 •Citskill, N. Y.. 187-S, 191, 198. Cattaraugus, N, Y., 223. Catte.-ick, Eng., 545. Cauheme, Roum., 481. Cave City, Ky., 31, 231-2, 234. 597. 609, 783. Cawnporc, Ind., 572. Caxton, Eng., c,^o-l. Cayuga, N.Y,, : J, 20S. Ca.'.6- novia, N. Y., 43, 219, 296, 298, 302, 33C, 609, 772. Cedar Grove, N. J , 166. Cedar Rapids, la., 594. Center Harbor, N. H., 576. Centerport (L. I.), N. Y., 151. Cen- tertown, Mo., 4S5. Centerville, Cal., 493. Centerville, Ct., 135, 138, 149. ^49. S*"- Centerville, 38-9. 250, 58", 609, 769. Chesh- ire, E»g^., 645-6. Cheshire, Ms., ,93. Chesterville, III., ,05. Chestnut Hill Reser- v)ir, Ms., 29, 114. Chester, £n^., jjg. Chester, Ms., .121, 194. Chester, N. ]., .73- Chester, .V. S., 2SS, 293. Chester,' N. y., 340, 3S7. Chester, Pa., 244, 372, 17;, 390, 77S- Chesterton, Ind., 479.' Lheticamp, A'. S.,2'ig. *Cheyeniie, Wyo.^ 475. 47S. 4S9, 609, 62S, 788. *Chicago, 111.,' '•2'. 30. 3', 33, 33, 50,61, 113,223,225,231,' !42, 245, 296, 310, 3'2, 314, 3'7, 320-1, 324, 4^J. 436, 474, 475, 478-80, 487.9, 499, 50., 5o5, 508, 5.7-19, 523.4, 5,9, 57^_ j35_ jg^ ^' S'A 616, 627, 643, 655, 672, 677, 679, 683 :>>. 7-2, 786. Chichester, E„jr,^ (^^ Chicopee. Ms., 3., 38, 1.8. .23-6, ,81, 580 7"7 Chicopee Falls, Ms., 124-5, 181 767' Chiltern, ZV.A, 565. Chinese Camp, 'cal 49.. Chittenango, N. Y.,336, 488. Chit-' tenden, Ky., 225. Christchurch, A'. ^., 5^7-9, 652, 696, 794. Christiania, JVor 700' Churchville, N. Y., 2,5. ChurchviUe! M'l; 373. Cicero, N. Y., 335. .Ciucin- liatl, O., 3.-3, ,,3, 223, „5^_ ^j^_ _^gg^ i^'. 594, S.J5. 597. 67S, 784. Cincinnatus, •^- ^-t 33'J-7. 772. Cinnaminson, N J 776. Cirencester, if^^., 790. Clacion, ^„»-'' .^59. Clandeboye, 0«/.,3,2-,3,332. CUp! "»'. ^T , 534. Claremont, N. H., 574 579 Clarence, £«^., 544. Clarence, 6>„/., j,,.^ Clarendon, OrJ., 3,3. Clarendon, K,c/ 559. *Clarion, Pa., 778. dark's Ferry' l'a>496 Clark's .Summit, Pa. .,4,. Clarks' v.ile, Md., 373, 376, 49, Clarksville, Mo 122. Ciashmore Inn, Scoi., 536, 555 t'lav erack, N. Y., ,97. Clay Center, Kan 485-6 *Clearfleld. Pa, 204, 530, 593. 60.' 778. Clear Spring, Md, 243. 344. Cle.^r- vMe, t^«/.,3,o.,2, 3,4. Clearville, Pa. 496 * lemensport, .V, S., 2S5. Clermont, N Y ' ■/.. *ClevelanrJ o., 3,5, 479, ^g^.^^ ^^' 5.M 52^ 59-v . ,4-5, 627, 643-5, 784. Cleve- '■">.r, 541, 647. Coldbrook, Ms., 579 Cold Spring, N. Y., .94, ,97, ^00. Cold Sprmg Harbor (L. I.), N. Y., 28, 5S4, 772 •Coldwater, Mich., 7S5. Colebrook,' Ct., "44, .46. Coleraine, Ms., 579. Colesville' Md., 376, 497. Colfax, Cil., 476. Colfax. In., 479- ColIec:c Hi;i, O., 7S4. Collinsby, Onf.,32S. Collingswood, 0«/., 3,6 Col- linsvUle. Ct., .45. •Colorado Springs. (.01., 733. Colosse, N. Y, 335. Columbia. Nf. J., .64. Columbia, Pa., 3.7, 37s, 386, 3SS-9, 4S6, 499, 609, 77S. •Columbia, S. C ' 782. •Columous, On., 782. *Columbu8,' Ind., 7S5. •Columbus, Miss., 783. Co- lumbus, N. Y., 5S7. 'Columbus, O.. 245, 487-8, 50., 595, 627, 784. Concoid, Ms.,' ■03, 112, 597, 767. *Concord, N. H., 576-7 766. Conewango, N.V,,223. Coney Island,' N. Y.. 27. Conneaut, o., 479. Con- nellsviUe, Pa., ,. Conrad's .Store, Va 348. Conroy, 0„, , 332. Conshohn-keni P^-,3S9. Constance, 5;w//z., 552. c stan- tinople, Tur., 474, 480-3, 552, 57,, 609, 792. Conway, Ms., 767, Conway, N. H., 5.5, 577- Conyngham, Pa., 498. Como, '/l.tfy', 468. Como, 0«A, 328. Cook's Bay, On/., 3.6. Coolaloo, r,c/., 560. Cookston, On/.', 3>6. CooksviIle,0«/.,3,3-,9. Cooma, Cal .' 492. •Cooperstown. N. Y., ,97, 2.5, 378 Cooperstown, Pa., 3S9. Copake Falls, N. v., .33. Copenhagen, Den., 599, 645. Cordelia, Cal., 491. Corinne. Utah, 477 ♦Corinth. Miss., 352. Cork, /re. , 546, 645 ♦Coming. N. Y., 30. 2,6-.9, 50,, 772. Cor- nish, N. H.. 577. Cornwall, Ct., ,43 Cornwall, N. Y., ,7,, .94, ,„, „3. Cornwall. On/-, 327. Cornwall, Vt., 579. Cornwall iir.dg-. Ct., 5,0. Comwall-on-Hudson. N. Y.. 609, 772. 'Corpus Chriati, Tex 783. Corry. Pa., 587, 609, 778, 'Cort^ land. N, v., 772. *Corydon. Ind.. 235 Cote .St. Antoine. (?«*.. 328. Cote St. Luke C«'.,328. Cnteaudu I,.ic, C>w., 575. Cot- '•iK<-, N. Y , 223. •Council Bluffs, !a.. 47^-*, 4S9. 595. Court Mouse Station (S. I.). N. Y.. .55. Courtland, On/., 332. Coven^ TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. try, £(»/•., 480, 53J, 546, 551, 554, 557, 654 6»3, 68«, 690, 6gj, (J94-6, 790. *COVini^Il, Ky.. 30, 225, 351, 590, 67?., 7S3. *Covii)g' too, Va., ^■ib. Cozaackle, N. Y., 190. ijoyott, Cal., 492. Craig's Ivleadows, Pa. 341. Cranberry, O., 488 '"rane's Flats Cal., 491. Cram' Village, N. Y., 479. < ' awford, Scot., ^^b, 576. Crawford House N. H., 576-7 Cresson Springs, I'a., 496. Crocker's, Cai., 491. Croton, N. Y., 194 Crotoii Falls, N. Y., iSiS, 772. Croydon Eng., 480, 533, 790 Cro«.n Point, N. V. 186. Cruni's Point, lud., 479. CuuJeback- vil'- , N.Y., 340, 587. Culberison, Neb., 501 OiUpepu', Va., 348, 350. •Cumberland, Md., 12, 29, 31, 238, 240-46, 782. Curwens- ville. Pa., 609, 778. •Dallas, Tex., 628. Dalton, Ms., 121, 193. Dalton, N. Y.. 222. Dalwhinnie, Scot., 556. Damascus, Md., 376. *Danbury, Ct., 769. Dr.nforih, t>«/., 316. Oansville, N. v., 33, 213-14, 218, 772. 'Danville, 111., 489. Danville, N. J., 164. Danville, Pa., 778. Darby, Pa., 372, 390. Darieii, Ct., 139, 248. Darkesville, W. Va., 244. I)ar- lington, Vict., 559. Darinian, Per., 571. Dauphin, Pa., 496. *Davenport, la., 478- 9,489. Daventry, Eng., 556. Davisville, Cal, 490-1. Dayton, Ky., 62S, 7S3. 'Day- ton, O., 501, 594-5, 7S4. Dayton, N. Y., 221, 223, 772. Dealton, Out., 310, 332. •Decatur, 111., 485-6. *Dedham, Ms., 29, 33, 102, 107, 112. Deerfield, Ms., 119, 182, 579, 767. Detr Park, Md., 486. Dectli, Nev., 480. *Defiance, ()., 609, 784. De Kalb, N. Y., :34. 'Delaware, C, 784. Delaware, Ont., 331, 332. Delaware Water Gap, Pa.,:8, 163-4, 172, 189, 207, 341, 378, 497. Delfihaven, Hoi., 553. Delhi, /«. Dubhn, Ire., 642, 645-6, 652, 654, 686, 695, 792. Dublin, Ont., 313. Dulaney, Kan., 788. Dulaney, Ky., 783. *Duluth, Minn., 787. Dumfries, Scot., 554-5, 645, 686. Duiia Pentele, Hun.. 481, Duiia Szekeso, Hun.,^'ii. Dunbar, ^.n/., 554. Dunchurch, ^"S-yiSl- Dundas, 0«A, 318. Dundee, iV/?/., 792. Duncan, Neb., 478. Duncannon, Pa., 4i;6. Dunedin, N. Z., 567, 652, 794. Dunelien, N. J., 172. Dungarvan, />■»., 546. DunkeUl, Ont., 315. Dunkirk, N. Y., 28, 31, 58, 223, 772. Dunstable, Eng., 541. Durham, Eng 545, 645 Durham, Ont., 316. Dusseldcrf, Ger., 54= Dutch Flat, Cal., ^ J. Eagle, Ont., 312. F.aling, Eng., 790. Earlbam, ?a., 479. E. Almond Centre, N.Y.,217. E. Attleboro, Ms., 107. E.Au- rora, N. v., 208, 222. E. Avon, N. Y., 213,2:6. E. Berlin, Ct , 769. E. Bethel, Vt., 578. E. Bloomfield, N. Y., 202,21a, 216, 21S. E.. tbourne, Eng., 532, 544, 790. E. Brinifield, Ms., 767. E. limokfield, Ms., no, 128. E. Brookfield, Vt., 578. E. Bridgewater, Ms., 376. E. Cambridge, Ms., 767. E. Canaan, Ct., 146. E. Chatham, N. Y., 148, 2o3. E. Fryeburg, Me., 577. E. Gainesville, N. Y., 222. E. Greenwich, N. "' , 1)3 •£. Greenwich, R. I., 512, 581, 769. Easthampton, Ms., :'8-2o. sSo, 767. E. Hartford, Ct., 123, 149, 582. V.. Haven, C"t., 149. E. Lee, Ms., 148, 208. E. Leon, N. Y., 223. E. Lo.igmeadow, Ms., 124-5, 254i S^io- E. Lor.; Branch, N. J., 776. E. Lyme, Ct., 131. E. Lynde, Pa., INDEX OF PLACES. xli tS;. E. Machias, Me., 27,. Eastman Springs, Ont., 327. E. New York (L. I.), 584. E. Northwood, N. !i., 577. E, Or-' «nge, N. J., 508, 588, 643, 776. 'Easton, Md., 593. •Easton, Pa., 173, 342, 378, 387, 497. 609, 778- EMtport, Me,, J57.8, 260, 265, 267-8, 274, 276, 279, 282-3, 573, 572. E. Portland, Or., 78S. E. Providence, K. 1., 107. E. Randolph, Vt., 578. E. Rochester, N. H., 525, 654-5, 670, 766, E. Saginaw, Mich., 785. E. Schodack, N. v., 20S. E. Springfield, Pa., 205. E. Stroud.sbiirg, Pa., 341. E. Tarrytown, \. V., 76. E. Wallingford, Vt., 579, K. Windsor Hill, Ct., ijj, 254, 76> Eastwood, Oni., 317- Eaton-Socon, Eng., 540-4,. Echo,' Ut.-.h, 477. Echuca, Vict., 560. Eckley, Col., 50,. Eddington, Vict., 566. Edeii Center, N. V., 223. Edgerton. O., 479. Edgewatcr, N. J., 81, 83. Elinburgh, Scot., 513-4, 544, 554-6, 599, 642, 645.7, 6S6, 792' Kdinburg, Va., 346, 388. Edward's Corner, N. v., 223. Edward's Ferry, Va., 497. Ed- wardvilb, Ind., 235. Edwardsville, Kan 485. •Effingham. 111., 488. Eggerstown,' 111., 488. Eketahiuia, N. Z., c68. Elaine Vict., 559. Elbeuf, Fr., 480' Elbridge,' N. V.,ro8, 212. Elgin. 111., 7S6. •Eliza- beth. N. J., .56, ,58, ,64, .67, ,72, „5, ,77, 5^3,627. 776- tlizabethixirt, N. J.,2j, 3, '56. 158, 583- •EUaabsthtown. Ky '237' EUzabethtown, N. V., 2,,. Eik Grove, Cal., 491. Klkhorn, Neb., 489. 'Elko' Nev., 477. 'Elkton, Md., 244, 372, 497.' •Ellicott City. Md.. 340, 373. 376-7, 497. b-llnigton, Eng., 540, Ellington. N. Y., 223, 772. Kllis, Ms., ,07. •Ellsworth,' Me., 278, 574. Ehnira, Cal., , 5, 49, •Elmira. N Y.. 2.6, 2.8, 50., ^4, 772. tliisford, N. Y., 75, 76. Elmwood, Ct., 136-7, 250- ELsinore, OHt.,i 16. Ely, Eng., 532,539- 'Elyria, 0.,479, 609, 784. Eke,' f/Vr., 522. Emmitsburg. Md., 3S5, 388. •Emporia, Kan., 660, 788. Enfield', Ct.. 253- Knfield, Eng., 790, Enfield. Ms.. 123^ ■25, 181. 5S0. Englewood. N. J., 30, 5, 80,, 84, ,66-S. Ennis, Ire., 646. s'nnis! kellen, 0«/., 3,5. Ephratah. Pa., 387. Ep. pnig. Eng., 539.40. Ernmosa, Ont 318 •Erie. Pa.^ ,2. 28. 3,, 50, 58. 85, 202. 204.6, 2", 3 1 1, 3>7, 487-8, 501, 594-5. Erin, Ont., 316. Erianger, Kv.. 225. Erreroum. T:!^ . 4S2. Esbjerg, Den., 550 Eski Baba, T14, ' [ 482. Essex Center, Ont., 3,0.1,. Eszek, I Slav., 48.. Eton, EHg., 533. •Kugone I City. Or.. 788. Evans Hills, N. Y 334 •Evatfton. Wyo. ,477. 'Evaasville. 'l „d ' 595. Everett. Pa., 244, 496. Ex.^er.^;,^' 533, 536, 554. 'Exeter, N. H.. 575, 766. Exeter, Ont., 3,3-5. 3,^, 33,. Eydkuhneu, ^^'".,687. Eye, ^•w^., 539. Fabyan House. N. H., .7^7. Fakenham, E»g, 537-3. 'Fairfax C. H., Va., 374, 376 •Fairfield, Cal., 49,. Fairfleld, Ct., .3S-9 148,248. Fairfield, Ky., 237. Fairfield. Me ' 765. Fairfield, N. J., 84, .6,. Fairfield, 0« ' 310,789. Fairfield, Pa., 385. Fairfield, Va ' 349, 495. Fair Haven. Ct.. .33. .38, .„. Fair Haven, Vt.. ,84. Fairmount, Ber 362 Fairmoimt, Ind., 236. Fairview, Md., 243. Fairview, N. J., 84. Fairyland, Ber., 36.. Falkirk, Scot., 404. FaU Brook, i a-, 594. Falhng Waters, W. Va., 344 348 Falls Church. Va., 374, 376. Falls City, la., 245. *Faribault. Minn., 787. Farm- ers' Crossing, Ky.. 485-0. FarmersviUe, Ms I 109. Farmingdale (L. I.), N. Y., 58, ,5.v3 larmmgton, Cal., 49,-2. Farmington, Ct., '37, MS, 149, 581- Farmington, N H 576-7. Farms Villar-, Ct., ,45. Farnbor-' ough Station. Eng, 646. Farrah, A/g 571. Farnngdon, £•„.£.., 532. Father Point' Q';''-, 329. Fayette, N. Y., 336. Favette- viUe, Pa., 495. Featherston, .V. Z., 568-0 Feeding Hills, Ms.. ,23, ,25-6, ,44. \,^. Fergns, Ont., 3,6. •Fernandina. Fla 597. 628, 783. Fern Creek, Ky., 236. Field- mg.A'. Z.,s68. r^U,Scot.,^ri^. Fillmore, N. \.,2,7. FinchviUe, Ky., 236. Finchley. ^^«^-., 53.-2. *Findl»y.O.,4S?,784. Fish- ers H,ll, Va., 345, „s. Fishersville. Ms 109. FishklU-on-Hudson, N Y .04 .' 258,582. Titchburg. Ms., ,.4, s'oo, s;;; 579, 594, 597, 767. Fitzwilliam. N H 766. Five Stakes. (9«^., 3.2. Flanders, Ct" 13.. Flanders. N. J., .64. Flatts, Ber' 359-6'. 365. •Flemington. N. J, 733' Hesherton. Ont., 3.6. Flint, Eng., 645." Flint. Mich., 5,5. Florence. .>., 429, 552. Florence, Ky., 225. Florence. Ms., ,.n 767. Florida, N. Y., 772. Florin, Pa.. 779. Floyd, N. v., 2,0. Flume, N. H., The, 6, 576. Flushing -.. I.), N. Y., ,2, 2,, 3,-2. Folkestone, Eng., 599. «Fonda, N. Y., xlii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. too, »o8, III. Fontenoy, Fr., 4S0. Foots- cray, Vict., S5J. Fordham, Ni V'., 7J, 772. Kordham Landing, N. Y., 583. Fordwich, Ont., 314. Forest Hill, Bug., 645. Forks of Kennebec, Me., 573-4. Forres, Scot., 645. Forrest, Ont., 332. Ft. Albert, Ber., iba. Ft-Bridger, Wyo, 477. 'Ft. Dodge, la., 595. Ft. Edward, N. Y., 29, 51, 5'<, 189,191-3. Ft Hamilton, N. Y., 90. Ft. Hunter, N. Y., 200. Ft. Jefferson, Mo., 4.^4. Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 628, 78S. Ft. Lee, N. J., 30, 32, 72, 81-5, 165, 5S3, 612. Ft. Loudon, I 485. Ft. Mill-r, N. Y., igo. Ft. Morgan, Col., 501. Ft. Ni- agara, N. Y., 222. Ft. Plain, N. Y., 200, 208, 48^ Ft. Porter, N. Y., 588. Ft. St. lleorge, licr., 358. Ft. St. George, N Y., 583. Ft. SchuyL-r, N. Y., 74, 246. I -id- ney Col., 475. Ft. Steele, VVyo., 47I *rt. Wayne, Iiid.,487, 595, 786. Ft. William, 0>U.,yio- Ft. Worth, Tex., 783. Foatoria, 0,784. Fowlerville, N. Y., 214. Fox- boro', Ms., 107. Frimingham, Ms., 29, 51, 113-14, 117,514,680, 767. I'rancesiown, N. H., 575. Franconia, N, H., 576-7. Frankford, Pa., 3SS-9. *Frankfort, Ky., 51, 225, 232-4. Frankfort, N. Y., 200. Frankfort, Ger., 552, 700. Franklin, N. J., 161-2,169. Franklin, N. Y.,49S. •Frank- lin, Tenn., 352. Franklin Fp.ll8, N. H., 577. Franklinville, N. Y., 20S. Frank- town, Ont. 327. *Frederick, Md., 29,31, 33i 238, 242-3, 349, ,37'S-- 487. Frctlericks- bur?, Ind., 235. Fredericksburg, \'n., 352. Fredericktown, Ky., 230. *Frederick- town, Mo., 787. Freeaom, N. H., 577. Fredonia, N. Y., 50, 205-6, 223, 587, 772. Frceport, Ont., 316. Freibonvg, Ger., 552. •Fremont, Neb., 478. *Fremont, O., 479. Fressingfield, ting., 559. Freutlenstadt, Ger., 481. Friendship, N. Y., 223, 772. Frizinghall, Eng., ryo. *Front Boyal, Va., 3i;i. Frostburg, Md., 243. Frye- burg, Mc., 576-7. Fulcla, Ger., 552. Fnl- lerton, Ont , 332. Fultonville, N. Y., 200. Funkstown, Md., J44. Ferrim.Tn, Per., 571. Gainesville, N. Y., 223. Gainesville, Va., 375. Galena, Ind., 235. Gait, Out., 317, 324. 491. •Galvestoii, Tex , 7S3. Oam- bier, O., 7S4. Gananoque, Ont., 317, 325-6, 333. Gang Mills, N. Y., 210. Gan prcs Pan, ./^z-., 792. Garden City (L. I.), N. Y., 152, 530. Gardiner, Me., 573. Gardner, Ms.. S79. 767. •Qamett, Kan., 788. Gar- rison's, N. Y., 29, 193, fx>9, 772. Garstane, Ens-, 556. Garwood, N. Y., 222. Gasport, N. Y. , 2.7 Gateshead-on-Tyiie, Eng., 790. Gaulcy's bridge, \V. Va., 351, 486. Gay- lord's ISridge, Ct., 5S2. Oeddes, N. Y., 201, 217 Geelong, ^7t^, 551-61, 563. Gel- vlngton, Ky,, 590. Oeneseo, Fl., 479, 489. •Geneseo, N. Y., 213. Geneva, N. Y., 20S, 213, 772. Geneva, O. , 4S,S. Geneva, Siuitz., 545. Genoa, 111,, 786. CJenoa, //., 552. Georgetown, P. ("., 12, 241-2, 374, 37''. 497. 7^2. 'Georgetown, Ky., 51, 226, 233-4. GeoigetOWn, N. V., 337. George- town, A'. S., 2'jo. Georgetown, C«/., 3 18-19 Gera, Ger., 551-2. Germai;town, Ky., 5i;o. Germantcwn, JV. S. IV., 565-6. German- town, N. Y., 197,498. Germanlown, Pa., 389, 779. Gerry, N. Y., 58-, 772. *Getty8burg, Pa., 242, 303, 347, 352, 3S5-6, 3SS, 486, 495, 499> 779. Glialikue, /1/g., 571. Ghent, N. v., 197. Gilroy, Cal., 490, 492-3. Gi- rard. Pa., 12, 205-6,479, 488, 779. Girtford, Eng., 5IO-I. Glasgow, Scot., 534, 545-6, 555. '"'45-7. (")$• 698, 792. Glassboro, N. J., 390, 522. Glenbrook, Cal., 490. Glendale, Ms., 148. Glenfield, P.i., 779. Glen House, N. H., 577. Glenrowan, Vict., 566. Glen'8 Falls, N. v., i"6, 189, 191-3, 609, 772. (;icn Station, N. H., 577. GL-nviile, Ct., 138. Glenwood, Md., 7S2. Glenwood, Pa., 341. Glniicester, £'«^.,536, 539. 554-7. ■^45- Gloucester, Ms., 505, 512, 609, 055, 674-5, 767. Gloucester, N. J., 390, 522. God- ericli, Ont., 204, 301, 313-5, 123-4, 33'. 789- •Goldendale, Wash., 7S8. G, Id-hill, Cal., 476. Gold Run, Cal., 476. Golspie, Scat., 556. Gor dons ville, Vn,, 348, 350-1. Gor- ham. Me 515. Gorham, N. H., 576-7. Goshen, Ct., 143. *Goshen, Ind., 236, 479. *Goshen, N. Y., 340, 5S7. Goshen, Va.,351, 486. Gotlingen, Ger., 522. Gonl- burn, JV. S. IV., 561, 564-6, 793. Gouver- neur, N. Y., 334. Govanstown, Md.. 377. Grafton, Ms., 103, 378. Grafton, Ont., 319. Granby,Ct., 145,581. 'Grand Island, Neb., 478, 489. Grand Metis, (^//c , 329 Grand Pr^, iV. S., 284, 2S6. 'Grand Forks, Dak., ""■o^, 788. 'Grand Rapids, Mich,, 505, 519, 5T5. 785. GranCjOr, Wyo., 477. Granite- ville (S. I.), N. v., 157. Grant, N. Y., 210, Grantham, Eng., 540-1, 553. Granville, Ms., 144, 146. Granville, //. S., 284-5. INDEX OF PLACES. xliii (;ravesend, Eng., 599. Gravcscnd (L. I.), N. Y.,^. Grav(;is, Mo., 525. •Grayson! Ky , 35'. 485- f"-iy's bumiiiit, Mo., 485-6 Great Harrington, Ms., ,4s, 700. Great lied, N. v., 2S, 3,, 207, 33S, 34,. Great lierkliamsled, Eug., 473, 480. Great Bethel Va., 439- a««»t Falis, N. H., 627, 766. (ireat Fails, Va., 24., 376- Greenbush, -V. Y., ;^(, 197. •Greencastle, Ind 4S5-6. Greencastle, Pa,, 46, 2./,, 303, 344, 4J5 Greene. N. v., 336, 498. •Green- field, Ms., .,, 27, 25 3,, 5,, ,,,_ ,gj.3_ ,^^_ 3/8, 500, 579, 767. Greeiilnnd, Pa., 244. ^.remcKk, Scot , 792. Qreenpoint (L. 1.), N'-V.,9.. Greenport (L. 1 ), n. Y., ,2,' 2.S, 32-3, 150-5. 'Green Elver, Wvo., '477' •Greenaburg, fnd , 7S6. *Green8burg, Ky., 229. *Green8buret, I'a., 529, 779. Creeii's Farms, Ct., 138. Green Tree', p'a.^ 3S9. Greenville, Ind, 235. Greenville, Me.,' 574- Greenville, Midi., 785. Greenville' N J., 776. GreenviUe, Pa, 34,. 779' •Greenville C. H., .S. C., 7S2. Greenville, Va., 349- Greenwich, Ct., ,38-9, 248, 58,-2 6og, 769. Greenwich, N. Y., 772. Green! wood, N. Y., 171. Grenoble, Fr., 698 (iretna Green, Scot., 553, 556.7. Grimsbv, 'W.,3.5. Grinnell, la., 475-9,787. Gris- wold, la., 478. Groton, Ct., ,53. Grotto, It-. 552- Grotzka, Serv., 48.. Grovcland,' ta!.,49i. Groveport, O., 785. Grovesend, Ont.,n,^. Groveton, Cal., ,92. Groveton, N'H.,576. Groveton, Va., 375. Guelph, i 3i5-7.3>9,33'- Guildhall Falls, N. H. O 577 Guilford. Ct., ,32. Guillimbury Ont..^ 3,6. Gulf Mills, Pa., 389. Gundagai, A, .S. /F., 565-6. Gunnersbury, Eng., 645 '^""ning, N. S. ir., 56,, 565.6. Gutten- l^^rg, N. ]., S,, S3, i63. (Juymard Springs, ^' V , 497. Guysboro, A^. ^._ 289. •Hackensack, N. J., 30, 84, ,65-6, ,68-9 776. Haokettstown, N. J., ,64, ,73, 776* I'addonfield, N. J., 390, 522, 776. Hadley Ms., 120. *Hagerstown, Md., 29, 238-9,' ^^=-5. 3'3, 344, 346, 34S, 350-1, 384, 387-8, 4-*f>7. 495, 609, 782. Hagersville, 0»t 332 Hulle, a-r., 522. Halleck, Nev.,477 Hal- ■fax.A^.i-., 282,286-9, 292.3, 355, 364-5, 592, '«>,-, 790. Haigler, Neb., 50,. 'Hailey, J., 609, 7S8. Hamburg, Ger., 55,. 599. Hamburg, Ind., 235. Hataburg, N. Y., '23- Hamburg, Ok/ ,■•,•■;. H.atrh«r=- P. ' U2. Hamden, Ct,, .34. Hamilton^lafr 3 55, 35S-9, 36i-2, 592, 609, 790. •Ham. ilton. O., SOI, 594-5, 785. Hamilton, Om/., 3'4-S. 3<7, 324, 331-2, 593, 634, 789. Ham- •lion, Kif/., 560-6. 563, 793. HamUton, Va., 244,497. ll.mmersmuh, Eng , ^ Hammondsviile, N. Y., 2.1. Hamn.onlon" N- J , 522. Hampton. N. H., ,02, 51, Hanip.on Court, E.,g., 4. 53,, 545, 548. Hancock, Md., 23,^40, ,42, J44.5, ^g^. Hancock, Vt., 57S. Hanover, Ct., ,34 Hanover, C*r., 522, 65.. Hanover, N H 766. Hanover, N. J., ,63-4. Hantsport,' A'.-S-.,2S5. Hin«ell,i-«^.,646. Hanley, ^"^••, 665. »■ ardington, N. J, 522. Har- densburg, Ind,, 235. Hardwick, Ms., 579. Harford, Md., 377. Harlem, N. Y., 30, 32-3, 55, 57, 249, 582, 612, 772, 774. Har! ^'gen. N. J., ,72. Harper.den, £„g., 553. Harper, Kan., 788. Harper's Ferry, W. Va., ::9, 3', 240-2,347.8, 350, 384, 496. »Har- riSburg, Pa., 244, 303, 343, 352, 496, 498, 779. Harrison. Me., 574. .Harrison- burg, Va., 34^8, 382, 38S, 497-9, 628, 782. •Harrodsburg. Ky., 5,, 226.7, 234, 236. Harrogate, Eng., 6j6, 642. Harrold, Eng 540. 'Hartford, Ct., ,,, ,2, 26-7, 28, 30-2,' 37, 39, 42-3. 46-7, 118, ,22-3, ,25, ,28, .33, 136-8, ,45, ,48-9, ,7,, ,79-8,, .83, .9,, 234, 249-5', 253, 372-3, 377-8,388, 40,, 50, ,5,0, 523, 524, 5S0-2, 593, 609, 615,625, 627-8, 632,655, 675,677,769- Harud, 4/^,57,. Harwich, ^"g--. 599- Hastings, Eng., 641, 682 •Hastings, Minn., 487. Hastings, N. Y., 335- Hastings, A'. Z., 56:,. Haslings-on! Hudsor, N. Y., 75, 77, sS6. Hatte Bay, C«'.,329- Hatfield, >?«,o-,, 540-,, 790. Hat- field, M.S., .,9, ,82-3. Hatton, Eng 5 •Havana, 111., 485-6. Havant, Eng 79^ Haverford College, Pa., 389, 779. Haver- hill, Ms., 523, 577, 767. Ha\re, Er , 599 Havre de Grace, Md., 244, 372, 377-^, 497' Hawkesbury, Oni., 327-8. Hawley, Pa., 340, 609, 779. Hawthorne, On/., 327. Haw-' trey, Ont.. 332. Hayden's, Ct., 3,, ,8,, 25. H Renville, Ms.. .,9, 767. Hazelton, Kan., 7S8. Hazleton, Pa., 498, 779 Healdsburg, Cal., 490. Hebron, A'. S., 2S3. Hebronville, Ms., 107. Hecla Pa.' 49S. Heidelberg, Ger., 522, 545,' 552.' •Helena, Mont., 788. Helensburgh, Eng 646. Hempstead (L. I,), N. Y., 138, 150-2.' .-54. ^Heuuerson, Ky., 590, 609, 783.' •Henderson, Minn., 7S7. Hendrysburg. xliv TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A T, I CYCLE. I O., 485. *Hennepln, 111., 4S9. Herat, ■^/e-< 4S1, 571. Hereford, Eng., 539. ■Herkimer, N.Y.,jo8. Kcrmouli, i?(»K/«., 481. Hertford, Eng., 540-1. Hcspeler, Out., 317. Hettingen, Bel., 545. Heuvel- ton, N. v., 334. Hicksville (L. 1.), N. Y., 51, 152-3. Highgate, Eng., 540. Highland Creek, Oni., 319. Ilishl.ind Mills, N.V., 171, (Kxj, 772. Highland Park, 111., 7S7. High- Kinds, N. v., 172, 198. High Top Gap, Va., 348. High Wycombe, Eng., 645, 790. Milliard, Wye, 477. Hillsboro, N. H., 575. Hillsbiirg, Ont., 316. Hillsdale, N. Y., 188. Hill's Valley, Cal., 490. Hind Head, Eng., 777. Hind'! Corners, Pa., 339. Hinghain, Ms., 112. Hinsdale, Ms., 121. Hinsdale, N. H., 579, Hinsdale, N. Y., 153-3. Hitcliin, Eng 540-1, 557-8. Hitchcockville, Ct., 144. Hobart, Tas., 560, 563-4, 652, 794. Hoboken, N. J., 32, 82-3, 85, 168, 172, 583, 776. Hodnet, Eng., 555. HofTnian's Ferry, N. Y., 32. Hoguestown, Pa., 343. Hohokvis, N. J., 169. Hokitika, N. Z., 569. Holland, N. Y., 222. Holland Patent, N. Y., 210, 213. Holland's Landing, Ont., 316. *Hollister, Cal., 492. HoUiston, Ms., 767. HoUowville, N. Y., 188. 'Holly Springs, Miss., 783. Holmesville, Ont., 313, Holmsdale, Scot., 556. Holycross, Ire., nil. Holyhead, £'«^.,6.'<6. Holyoke, M-.., 31, 58, 117-S, 120, 125-6, 135, 183, igl, 251, 524, 527, 609, 767. Homer, Mich., 323. Homestead, la., 479. Homestead, N. J., 83-4. Homestead, Pa., 779. 'Honesdale, Pa., 44, 302, 339-40, 50'- Hope, N. J., 164. Hopedale, Ms., 767. Hoptown, Cal., 490. Hoosick Corners, N. Y., 193, 510. Hoosick Falls, N. v., 193. HomellsvUle, N. Y., 30, 216-7, 222. Horseheads, N. Y., 216. Morton, N. S., 286. Housatonic, Ms., 148. •Howard, Kan., 788. Howard, Minn., 787. Huddersfield, Eng., 645. Hndson, Col , 501, *Hudson, N. Y., 29, 32, 51, 121, 190, IQ2, 195-8, 258, 4SS, 510, 609, 772. Hudson, Ont., 32?. Hiighsonville, N. Y., 194-5. Hulett's Landing, N. Y., 29, 32. Hull, Ont., 327. Hull, Eng., 545, 599. Humboldt, Nev., 476. Hummelstown, Pa., 343. Hunter, N. Y., 505. Hunter's Point (L. I.), N. Y., 28, 31-2, 5S, 9,, g,'>7, gg, ,5,, .53. Huntingdon, .£'«^., 5jg, 541. 'Hunt- ingdon, Pa., 244, 779, •Huntington, Ind., 786. Himtington, Ms., 121, 194. Hunt- ingtOn(L. I.), N. Y., 151. Hurunui, iV. if., S(>7-<). Hutonburg Corners, Ont., 327. Hyde Park, Ms., 767. Hyde Park, N. Y.,497- Ichtinian, Roum., 481. Idlewild, N. Y., 197. lUon, N. Y., 200, 20S. 'Independ- ence, .Mo., 4S5-6. 'Indiana, Pa., 610, 779, 'Indianapolis, In«/., 316. Inverness, Scot., 536, 554. Inwood, N. Y., 72. lona, Ont., 312. *l0Wa City, la., 479, 4S9. Iowa Falls, la, 6i8, 7S9. Ipswich, Eng., 532, 538-9, 59'• Kingston, '"'■. "4, ^37. 300, 3.7, 3.9-^6, 333, 52, '^.0.78,. Kn,gston,Pa.,22o. Kingston'!' ■-'«.. 560. Kn.gussie. ^../., 555.5, Kings- ill^, t;.,/., 30,, 3.0. Kintnersville, Pa 407 Km.o,ea«/.,332. Kio.o,/,.^., 79,. K^rt ^".^^«^332. Kittery,Me.,,o,.246,575 l-H, K.ang, Chi., 572. Knisht's Kerry, C^l 4.-3. Knotty Ash, Eng, 557. Knowlton, N.J, .64. •Kokomo, .nd.. 786. Kresge- ^J'- Pa., 34,. Kurracl-^e, /nj., 57, Kiitztown, Pa., 387. Kyamba, .V .i" /A' S^'S- Kyneton. A^/r/., 55,, 56,.3. l-aceyviUe, Pa., 2.9. I.achine, Qu.., 328 U Chute Mi„s, o«,. ,39. Lackaw^xen; ^'.. ..o. Lacona, N. v., 335. Laconla, ■^ H., 576-7. .La Crosse, Wis., 787 l.^faram, ^„,, 5,, ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^7J- 535, 7S6. 'Lagrange, h.d., 236. Lahore,' "■■•"'■ I--""'. Neb., 50,. 'Lake City '--7S8. 'Lake George, N.Y., 609, J: ' 'ke Pleasant, Ms., 378. Lakevilie^ Ct ■'.!, .47. L.ikeviile, N. V., ,93 L-^e' -"-I. N. Y., 223. Lan,be.h,C?«/33,5' ^amoille, I,,.. 479. Lamonte, Mo.'4' ' ' -caster. E.g., 554. Lancaster, Z, ^7). ^Lancaster, N. H., c,,., 6,6 ^^s Lancaster N v ,^<« L ^ ' '^ «i.er, IN. Y,, 20S, 2,5. •Lancaster, :;• '^*- ^-t^' 3'7, 323. 378, 38C. ,88.0. ■ -. ^v3->, 7/9. L.andisville, Pa., 389, 77,. xlv Und-sEnd^,^,.„,,53,_,3, 68s Lanesboro. M,., .2,. Une.ville, Ky 235. Langenweddmgen, ^«,,, eg,. ,^ ' si^h *' '"^''-s-- 505.595, 785. L^: "ingburg, N. Y., .9,. Laona, N. T 788. Larrabee'. Po„.,. V,., 5„. ^a .Sair^ r ■',."'• ^^to*. Pa., 6,0, 779 Laurel, Md., 377. La„„l Hill, P^ "?• Laumo,,^,^j^3 Launceston, r^^.'. .^i 563-4. Lausanne. .S-,„//^., 5,5, .Lawrence Kan.. 4 5. 738. •LawreL .e. Ms. ..2, 5,! 768. *LawTenceburg, ind., 236 i a* rencetown, A^. ^, 285. Lawrenceviile.' n" inul^'r' ^'"""""■'■"^■Md..376. Lead, cnham Eng, 539. .LeadvUle, Col., 643, 783. Leamn,gton. Ont.. 3,0. .Lebanon K-y - 2^, 234, 6.0, 783. Lebanon, N Y •97. •Lebanon. O.. 785. "Lebanon, Pa" 303,34,, 485,779. Lee, Ms., ,2,, ,46, .48,' ?l.h'''', L"ds,^„^.,636,645V79. Leesburg, Va., 497. Lees.own. Pa ' ' LeesSun,n,it, Mo., 486. Lee.e's Island ^t.>32. Leeuwarden,//^/.,553. Leghorn, f-: 7°°- Leh.ghton, Pa., 2,,. 3,,, ^.^ Leicester, ^„^. 53,, 53,, „3_,^^"—; •er, Ms.,,03, MO, ..4. Leipsic. Ger., .,. t' llTV"":'''- L-'-burg.Md, 35. Le Mans, Er., 6^. Lemay Kerry, I 11: • ''I Dempster, N. H., 575. Lenox, M».. .48, 700. Lenox. N. Y.. 208. Lenox Jurnace Ms.,.48. Leominster, Ms.. 579 Leon. N. Y.. 223. Leonardsv.lle, NY ! 772. LeKoy, N. Y.. 208, 22,, 479, 487.' 772. Lesniore, /r^ . 546. I.ethbridge, /.-,,/ 559. Level, Md., 373. Level, 0„ 78,' Lewes, Eng 539. .LewisbuTg W Va 35., 486. Lewl«ton,Me.,7r,5. Lewiston,' tn^'n,'' ''"=«''^'o"-^"^-325. 'LewU- town 111.. 4S5-6. •Lewistown. Pa.. 244 496. LewisviUe. fnd.. 48s. •Lexington.' *^y., 226, 233-4. 50.. 527, 783. Lexington. ^^. ^9. s'. .03, 3S6. 5.7, 768. .Lexing- "^°. va., 347, 3^g.5,, ^^j Leyton.stone ^»^..7o. Lima N.v, 208, 2,3. .Lima.' a. 48^, so.. Limekiln, Pa.. 389. i.i.n- erak /^^., 792. Lin^erick. Me., 577 Lime Bock. Ct., 769. Lincoln, f„^. 5;; ^^ , ,, ••'■■>'///■ Linlithgow, i-(-(,/ 645. 'Lmn, Mo., 485. Lisbon, N. H , xlvi TEN THOUSAND Mll.ES ON A BICYCLE. I 577. Llile, NY, 497-8. L' Islet, Qm., jj(j-3o. l.iMoweli, Ont., 314-5. 'Litch- field, Ct., 141-5, 148, jSi. Little, Ky., 23'). ' Little Boar's Head, N. II., 51a. Little KalK, N. J., 30, 84, 16s, 167, i6<). Little Falls, N. Y., 200, 202, joS, 4S8, 772. Little Metis, Qu*., 32'>-3o. Little Mount, Ky., 236. Little Neck (L. L), N. Y., 151-3, 155. •Little Rock, Ark , 7S, Littleton, N. H., 61, 570-7 "LitUe Valley, N Y., 223. Livcrimol, En^ , 99, 406. 473-4, 480-2, 527, 53J. 553. 55'>-7. ^7°. 5;=. 6j6, 642, 645-7,686, 791. Liverpool, ,V. S'., 288, Liverpool, AT.S. IV., 561, 5^5-6 Livingston, N. Y., 220. Llanchff, ^«^ , 55S. Llandyssiil, £»/■., 791. Lloyd's Neck (L. L), N. Y., 151. Lodge Pole, N»b , 47S. Lockerbie, Scat., 536. •Lock Haven, Pa., 779. Locklaiul, O., 7S5. 'Lockport, N. V, 216-7. 222, 325, 501, 772. *Logansport, Ind., 7S6. London, Eng., 63, 99, 129, 280, 292, 353, 365, 402-6, 426-S, 436, 444, 448, 464, 467, 470-1, 474-5. 4^^i, 5>7. 5^4. 5'4'>4i, 544. 547-8. 550-1, 553-8, 567, 59S-9, 602, 6n, 627, 636, 642-7, 654, 656-9, 662, 670, 6S1-91, 693, 695-6, 698-9, 791, 798. London, Ont., 204, 3". 3>4-5. 3'9. 3»'. 33'. 33J, 634-5. ''"St. 669, 789. Londsboro, Ont., 332. Long Island City, N.Y., 97, 09. Longmeadow, Ms., 123-4, 181,254,580. Longneuil, ^«*. , 328. Long- wood, (?«*., 331. Lookout, Wyo., 478. Lo- rain, O., 595. L' Original, Que., 328. Lor- raine, G*r., 480. 'Los Angeles, Cal., 7S9. Loughboro, Eng., 539. Louisburg, C. B., 289. *Loiasville, Ky., 31, 33, 51, 225, 131 7, 486, 501, 525-6, 530, 590, 595, 597, 628, 783. Loup, Fr., 545. Louvaiii, Fr., 699. Lovell, Me., 577. Lovelock's, Nev., 476,^80. •Lowell, Ms., 112, 378, 500,508, 5'7> 597. 6**^. 7*^"^. Lower Lachine, Que., 328. Lowestaft, Eng., 539. Lubec, Me., 264-70, 279, 516, 573, 610, 765. Lucan, Ont., 312,311. Lucindale, S. Am., 560. Luck- now, O'lt , 315, 332. Ludlow, Vt., 579. Lunenburg, A'. .?., 283. Lunenburg, Vt., 577. 'Luray, Va., 244, 34651, 3S1-2. Luth- field, JV. Z., 56S. Lutton, Eng., 537. Lyme, Ct., 131,792. Lynchburg, Va., 346. Lyt'd- hurst, N. J., i65. Lynn, Eng., 537-S, 557. Lynn, Ms., 101, 516, 573, 597, 631, 76S. Lynn, Ont., -^26. Lynns, /"r. ,6.78. Lyons, 111., 479. •Lyons, Kan., 628. *Lyon8, N. Y., 7;i. McCainsville, N. J., 163, 207. McCook, Mrb., 501. *McConnellsburg, Pa., 485. •Machlas, Mc, 270-4, 279, 575, 592. Ma- chias|OTrt, Me., 257, 173-4, 279. 573- Mcln- tyre's Corners, Ont., 332. McKinstryvillr, N. Y., 19S. McMinnville, Or., 78H. 'Ma- comb, III, 787. 'Macon, (la., 7S2. Mo- Veytown, P.i , 241. Madison, Ct., 132, 523. •Madison, Ind , 595, 7%. Madison, N. H., 577. Midison, V. J., 30, 16), 174, 777. Madison, N. Y, 772, Madison, O., 479. •.M.iilison, Va., 3)8. M.idrid, S^ , 700. Madrone, Cal., 490, 491 Magnolia, Ky, 230-1. Mihwah, N. J., 169. Maiden- head, Eng , 5^17, 792. Maidstone, Eng , 646. Mainz, Ger., 552. Maitland, //. S , 283. MaUland, Ont., 326. Maketoke, A'. Z., 5'.8. Maiden, Ms., 29, lo-. 768 .Maiden Bridge, N. Y., 20S. ^L^ln.esbury, Kii:/. , 560. .Malvern, .£'«^.,645. Malvern, Ont., 316. Malvern, Pa., 389. ^amaro- neck, N. Y., 247. Manassas Gap, Va.,348 Manchester, Eng., 46S, 535, 539, 550, 642, 645-7, 683, 688, 792. Manchester, Ms., 113 Manchester, Me., 627. Manchester, Mo., 322, 525, 52S. •Manchester, N. H., 500, 575-6, 766. Manhasset (L. I.), N. Y., 151. Manliattanville, N. Y., 32. Mannheim, (7?r.,552. Mannsvillo, Pa. , 335. .ianotick, Ont., 327. MansQeld. Ms , 107, 109, 76S. •Mansfield, C, 75^. Mansfield, Pa., 779. Mantes, /!"r , 480. Maplewood, N. H., 577. M- .lehead, Ms., 112, 7S1, 515, 768 Marcellus, N. Y., 208, 479. Marcy, N. Y., 210. Margate, Erig., 599. •Marietta, C, 595. Marietta, Pa., 244. Mariner's Harbor (S. I.), N. Y., 772. Marion, N. J. 82, 168, 582. Marion, Pa., 495. Markdale, 0«/. ,316. Markham, N. Y., 223. Mark- ham, Ont., 316. Market-Deeping, En^., 539, 5ti Marlboro, Ms., 514. Marlboro, N. Y. , 172. Marlboro, Vt., 579. Marlen- h'im, Ger., 481. Marlow, Qne., 574. Marlton, N. J., 390. Marmande, Fr., 552. Marseilles, Fr., 698. *Mar8hall, Mich., 4,785. •Marshall, Minn., 787. •Mar- si: lUtown, la., ,87. Marshfield, Ms., 113. Martinsburg, N. Y., 201. *Martin8burg, \V. Va., 242, 244, 300, 303, 344-5, 349, 3S8, 495-8, 590, 7?2. Martinsville, N. Y., 217. Maniirm, A^. 6-. W., 564-6. •Marypville, Kan., ^85. Marysville, Vict., 560. Mask- iiion^e, v/***.i S/i' iJiiooUiOil, O., 407, ^01, INDEX Or PLACES. his, ftJ7-8. 785- Masterton, A^. Z., 568-9. Matane, Qu* , jay. Matiin, Uuli, 477 Maliituck (I.. 1), NY., .50, ija, ,55. Jjat- toon, 111., 4S. *Mauch Cliunk, Pa., 210, »'«. 34a, Si". 77'i- Mi'vfkld, Cal.,'49,.' M.iyaice, <,Vr., 545. •MajnvUJo, Ky, 30, 31. 39, aji-s. 50'. 590- •MayvUle, N. v.," 206, 2j,, 4h'^, 5,^7. Maiiiian, /iui., 57,' •Meadville, I'.i , 779. Meafcrd, OhJ., ,.' Mechanlcsburgr, I'.'-. 77') Mechanic»villci Mil., 37^1. Mechanicavilio, N. Y ,,o, 19a- MechanlcBville, Pa, 34,. -.iedU, I'a., 3'X) M.f'ina, Kan. 485. Jtledlna,' N. Y., ai7, 2J2. •Medina. O., 501, 785' Medina, 0,u., Medford, Ms., 5,6, 7'.8. Meininseii, G,r., 55a. Melbourne,' 'W, 33,. Mdboiirne, K/ir/., 559^6, 570,' "51. f'St, 69s-f.. 706, 793. Melpetas, Cal., 4')o. Melton Mi.wbray, j5"»r^., 547. •Mem- phis, Ten,.., 628, 632, 65,, 670, 783. Mend- ''■"'T-. N. J., ,7,. MendoU, III., 479 Menekaunee, Wis., 737, Meningie, ,y ■^us., sOo. Menio Park, Cal.. 49a. Mentor, O., 735. •Mercer, Pa , 779. Merchant- vlie, N. J., 390. Meriden, Ct., u, 28, 3,, •°. "8, 133-5, I37-S. 149. igi, 250;, 377,' .10, 581, 610, 769. Meredith, K/ir/.. 559. Merion Square, Pa., 389. Merioneth, £»g^ 645. Merrick, Ms., 768. Merrick (L. I.)' -V. v., 152. Merrimac, Ms., 768. Merritt- v.lle, N. J., .7,. Merv, A-w., 570. Meshed, ^''r., 570.1. Meshoppen, Pa., 32, j,, Metcalfe, 0,t/., 327. Meteghan, A'. 5- , 283-4 Me.uchen, N. J., .67. 377. Met2, G'^- 587, 772- Middletown, O ' 78c' Middletown, Pa., 345, 35,, 495. Middle- town, R. I., ,08, 58.. MiddleviUe, N J .62. Midway, Va., 349, 495. Mifflin, Pa ' ^44, 49S. M.Ian, /A, 552, 792. Milford, t-t-. "o, ,34, ,38, ,40, ,42, 249. Milford, ^"gj 546. Milford, Ms., 768. Milford, N H., 579, 766. 'Milford, Pa., .64, ,qS »99. 587. 779. Millbank. Oh/., 325. Mill- brae, Cal, 492-3. MUlbridow M. ... Millbum, N. J., ,62, ,64, 172, ,75. Mlli- bmy Ms .09.7,8. Mil. City. Ncv.. 476. M.ll Creek, Pa., 389. MiUertbUTf Ky ^33. MUler'i Fain. M,.. 7^. Miller'^ -St.il.on, lnd.,479. MUleritoWn, Pa ,8, MUlertviUe. Pa.. 779. MUlerton N Y • W. M,ll Crove. N. Y. 2.7. M.Uhaven.' Ox/.iis. MlUtown, Me, 266. Mill Vil l.««e, AT. s , 293. MiUvllle. Ms .«. MillviUe, N. J..J90 ,,0 77/ mm' ^' ,, J-.JV". S20. 777. M:llwood, PJ, 49t. MUton, Ms ,9, ,02 .,, ^« M"-. N. il., 577. M L. n.'y' ,'!'■ Milton. Vt., 500. Milton /alls, N h' 577 Millon Lower falls. Ms.. 58, ,06, .09. .'mU- W-.Ukee, Wis., 2,9.437, 5".. 5.9, 524. 595 0A643,7«7 MineLaMotte.Mo 787 M.neoIa(L.l.), N. Y, .5,, ,53. .Minn., apolis. Minn.. 324, 5JO, 595, 6;.8, 787 Miran.arc. Ww/., 55,. MMM, S,,^ -aa MUhawaka. Ii.d., 479. Mitchell. Om/.] 204. 3I3, 3'4. 317. 3'4. 33». Mitta ong' AT. S. IV., 561. 564-6. Mittineag.ie. Ms '2o. ,22-3. •MobUe. Ala., 2. Molinel Jl'-. 479, 489, 787- Moncton. N. B., 598 MoninoLth. Eng 539. •Monmouth,' 111 787. 'Monmouth. Or.. 78 J. Mono Cen- ter, 0«/., 3,6. Mon-oe, N. J., .63. Mon- roeville, O., 488. Monson, Me., ,74 Mo,„ank (L. I.), N. Y.. .55. MontcllI^; N. J.. .60-2, ,67, : Monterey, Cal., 490, 492,494. Monterey. Ms.. 488. Monterey Pa.. 385. •Montgomery, Ala., 6.0, 627, 670, 707, 783. Montgome.ry, N Y ,oS Monticello, N. Y. 5.0. MTnticello",' ;f 35.. Montinagny. Que., 32S. Monlowese.' ; »• '*''■ 'Montpeiier. Vt.. 500, 578. Montpellier. /-.., 48., 699. Montreal. ^-. .85, .87, 293. 326-8. 330-,, 3,33, 500, •Montrose, t-a., 594. 779. Montville, Me 574. Monument, Col.. 47T Moolap, K,i-/ " 559- Moonambel, y^i., 566. Moorea-' town, N. J., .77.8, 3,0, 52,. 522. 777. Mooresvilk, Ind., 235. Moore.sville, Pa 343. Moose River Plantation, Me 574' Morecan.be, Eng., ,45. Morehous;ville,' N. Y.,„,. Moreioyn,Vt.,578. Morges. Wz., 545. Morpetl,, Oni., 3,0, 3.5. Moms,Ct., ,,2. Morrisaaia, N. Y., 96. •Morri8tOWn,N.J.,3o,84..63-4,,73, .Ts! 333, 5or, 610, 777. Mortlake, Eng 646 792. Mortlake, f'ir/..559^,. Moscow, la.! 479- "fu^cow, AIM., 79a. Moshclu, N Y 78. Mott Haven. N. Y.. ,3. Mountato xlviii rEi\- THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. ▼i«W, Cat, 4'S>- Mountain View, N J., ibj, 169-70. Mt. Carbon, I'a.. i\i. Ml Car- inel, Cl., ■J4-S> '49. 486. S^' *K'- CST- mal, III., 4K6, 787. Mt. Crawford, Va., 34^>. Mt. DcMrt, Me., 130, 274-7, >79i '^'t 5"-'3. 5'5. 573- Mt. Edoii, Cal., 495. Mt. Kden, Ky., ajft. Mt. Ephraim, N. J., jijo, pt. Mt. lorest, 0»/., jib. Mt. (JanibitT, Vict , 560. Mt. iierinoii, N. J., 164. Mt. Holly. N. J., 777 Mt. H(.i)e, N. J., 164. Ml. Hope, Ohi., 33J Mt. Jackson, V.i , .u<>. 348. 3S3-3- Mt Joy. I'.i., 4./J. Mt. Kitko, N. v., 76. 1S7. Mt. Morrli. -M. v., S.-l, 213. Mt. FICaMnt, fa., 339, 779. Mt. PuUakl, 111., 4S5. Mt. St. Viiitciu, N. Y., 78, to. Ml. Salcm, Ont., 331. Mt. Sidney, Va., 346, J5i-a, s'ib. Mt. Stewart, /'. E. A, J90-1. Mt. Uniacke, A'. J)"., 287. Mt. V«raon, N. v., 79, 38, 5S3, 772. Mt. Vernon, <>., 501, 785. Mt. Vemon, Ont., 317. Mt. Vernon, Va., 370. Mt. Wasliin^r- lon, Ky., 236 Much Weiilock, Eng., 792. MuUica Hill, N. J., 31)0. Muinford, N. V., 2.12. Mundarloo, A'. S. H'., 564. Munich, (rrr,, 48 1, 651, 697. Miircl.! on, I'iir/., 562. Murphy's Corner*, On/., 332. Murr.iv, N. v., -■•2. Mustapha I\.slia, Tur., 482. Myerst^jTO, Pa., 343, 610, 779. Nagasi»ki,ya/., 572. Nancy, Er., 139, 4S0, 545. Nanuet, N. v., 586. 'Napa, Cal. . 490. Napanec, Oni., 319-22, 324-5, 506. Nape**- Ville, III., 479- Napier, A^. .?., 568. Naples, /A, 551-2, 600. •Napoleon, O., 479. Nar- racoorte, K/i-/., 560. 'Nashua, N. H., 128, 137, 500, 507-8, 575, 627, 643, 766. •Nash- ville, Tenn , 231, 352. 500, 595, 597, 783. Nassau, N. V , 479. Natick, Ms., iit-12, 114, 208. Natural Bridge, Va., 348-51,52;, 610, 782. Naugatuck, Ct., 141, 582. i.a- \eiihy, E»f., ti^q. Navoo, 0«A, 332. Naza- reth, Pa., 779. Needham, Ms., 20, 33, 768. Neenah, Wis., 787. Negaunee, Mich., 785. Nenajjh, fre., 546. Nevis, N. V'., 196. 'New Albany, Ind., 235, 486, 595. New Albion, N. v.. 223. New Alm^den, Cal., 7S9. New- ark, Eng., 539-41. •Newark, N. J., 29-33, " '1 5S> 58> 82, 84, 121, 156, i59-6o, 162-4, . 6-70, t72, 174-5, 177, 207, 220, 317, 372, 387-ci, 501, 509-10, 583-4, 587-9, 6io, 632, 654, 669,711-12,777. 'Newark, O., 785. New Baden, 111.. 485. New Brighton (S. I.), N. Y., 32, 156. New Britain, Ct., 128, 134, 136-8. •8. New Philadelphia, Pa., 342. Nc* Plymouth. N. Z., 568-9. Newport, r)el., 3-2. 'Newport. Ky.. 590. 784. Newport. N. H., 500. Newport, Pa., 496. 'New- port, R. I., 12, 24. 28, 31-3,37, 108, ic' 516, 523, 526, 5H1, 615-6. 525, 800. Newport News, Va., 595. Newportville, Pa., 377. New Preston, Ct., 770. New Rochelle, N. Y., 91, 138. 247. 627, 772. Newry, Eng., 792. New .Sarum, Ont., 331. New Tacoma, Wash. 788. 'Newton, la., 479. Newton, Ms., 31, 1S5. 517, 530, 631, 768. 'Newton, N. J., 777. Newton Corners, N. Y., 211. Newton Lower Falls, Ms., iir, 114. New- tonville, Ms., 631. Newtonville, Ont., 319, 325. Newtown, ( I., i;i, 582. Newlcwn(I,. I.), N.Y., 58, 90. Newtown, Pa., 345. New Utrecht (\,. I.), N. Y., 90. Neusatz, Sen>., 4S1. 'New York Ci*y, N. Y., 2, n, 12, INDEX OF PLACES. xlix «4 5. 87-0». ^^-^, 99, loo, 105, lo.,, j,i-j, 1J'<, 'Jl, Ij8. iso-9, iW,, ,ftg, ,;,^ ,^^^ ,g^_ H;, iS>-;o, lyj, ,,;.8, 107,109, 134, IJS, 141, J4'>. »«>, I5J, 2%% »64, 175, 179, 18S, 1,6, JA 30s. JoS, ,11, 310, jij, ]j,, ,45, 35o_ 351-ft, 361-70, 37,, 374, J77.S, 38^_ jS8, 3 J,, JT) 4C.H, 407, Ml-i\ 4,S-54, 45.S-,, 464-6, V.J. 472, 474, 48,, 4S7, 4,4, 4,9.50,, 504, 5,0, 5.---. 5i|, 5''h7o, 5;J. 5S2-8, 59^-4. 5>7,6io-,,. '15-2". f.25-'*. f'43. ''SI-;, 659, (,6,, 667, 671, 'i;S, 6So. M;. 700, 70,, 70S, 71,-1, 718,7,0,' 711. 77-' 5, 7W New Yor"! M1U«, 'A V ' jift Ncjinifl/, //«„., s,. Niagara Faiu' .N V,v.,,i,i3, :,, 50, 51. 55, ..». 101.4.' 2.4.2.6,115,1-1,193,196,3,5.3,7.3,3.5^ 33., 333, 3SJ, 4.HH, 500-,, 5S2, 58^,, 593, 6,0, 775- Ni.iiilic. U., 130. Njceunvii, pj 377' N^l-, N. v., 113. NUes. O.. 594, 785: Ni-cli,^^rr', 48,-2. Nisli.ipoor. /V, 57, Nissouii. o»t., 332. Noank, Ct.. ' 7-0 NuMebboro, N. V, 2 ■ ,. •NoblesviUa, I.ul '-•^ 7%- N.Tfolk, Ct., 143-4, 700. Nor- folk, V.,., 352, 782. Nor.na.Kly, Xy , ,,6 Norm.,n's Cros,, Eng., 532, 539. 5,,. ,5, •Normtown, p.,.. 389, 77,. n. Adams, M V , ..;3-4, 500, ;i. ,. N. Adel.iidc, ^•. Aus , S'-o, 7'H. N. Amherst. Ms., ,20. Noril,! am, .inn, £»g., 5,9, „, 'Northampton Ms..3r, ..4, ..S-2.. ,27, .83, .91,314, 6.0,' 7M. N. Andovcr, Ms., 768. N. A.ison Me, 574. N. Becket, M.S., ,2,. N. Bend' N^b . 47S. N. lila.ulford, Ms., ,1,, 108. Northboro, Ms., 29, 5,, ,03, ,,,_ ,,3.^ '.7,5.4. Nnrthbridge. Ms.. ,09. N. Cf.m- bndge, .Ms., ,03. N. Canaan, Ct., .43 N Collins, N. Y., 223. N. Conway, N H 576-7. N. Creek, N. Y., 21.. N. D- -,icn' R. I.s'i'. N. East, Md., 7S2. N. East! C«/.,3.3. N. East. Pa., 50,10,-6,37, N E.iston, Ms., 58,. Ncrthfield, Ct.. ,41 Northfleld, M.., 5,7. Northfield, N J ' ■^'3. .75- Northfleld, Vt.. 578. N Fork' Ky..i33. N. Fork, Va., 3S1. n. Hadley.' M^. 579. N. Hatfield, Ms., 3,, ,,9, .g, N. Haven, Ct, .33.5. N. H ,osick, N. Y . ■93. N. Lisbon, N. M., 576. N. London, ^"^.534,543. N. Otselic, N. Y., 337. N. ietersburc, N. Y., ,93. N. Pitd.er, N. Y 337. N Platte, Neb., 478, 489. North- P<»t(L. L), N. Y., ,5,, ,sS. N.P.wnal, vt., .93. N. Plandolph, Vt,, 578. N. .. :,^"f:. '^^5-6. 792. N. T.,rner, M- , ::^ -■■. vaiic^o, Cui., 491, JNorthville, N- V. .55. 1,,. N. Waipole, Mr, ,07. N. W.il.lu.n, ^•«^., 6,6. N. Wcare N ' , 500. N. W,lbr..luni, Mr, ,10 ',,7 Norwalk, Ct.. ,3,. .4,. 1,8, 657. '•Nor- walk, u., 483, 7.S5. Norway, M.., 574. Norway, O^t, 3,9. •Norwich. Ct , 129.30 573.770. Norwich, .e„^, 5,8-9,6,83. Nor- wich, N. Y., ,5,, 336. Nornich, O.. ,4, Norwich, Oh/. 3,,. Norwood, Ms, ,07 376. Norwood, N. Y.. 775. Norval, Ont ,' 3''<-i9 Notre I),„nc du Porta- (;«r., 319. 30. Notl..>Kh..n,, £:„g, „,, j53_ ,,^^^ f.nkhab, /Vr., 5;,. Nimda, N. Y 2,4 ''^*;'', [^.^■3".3^.5.,75,So,„8,58^7; Oakfleld, N. Y , ,21. Oak Mall, Ky 133. Oakham, £•«,,.., J39. •Oakland, Cal.,' 475, ioo. 4,11.3, 78,. (,aklaiid, I„d., 485 •Oakland, Md.. if Oakland, N. J , 170 Oakv.U.., Ct., .. ),n,a,„, ^ ^ .^^^ Oberkirch, G^r., 40 Oberlin, ()., 501, 7.IJ. Ockh.i-,,, A'«^, 54,. Oconomowoc, Wis 50.. •Ogallala, Neb.. 47.'<, 4S9. 'Ogden! f t.ih, 475, 480, ,-■•» Ogdensburg, N. y 4S, lA 29S, 303, 3,7, 316, 3,3, j,,2, 5,^; Ohinemutu. A'. Z., 567. Ojata. Dak.. 7,88 Okehampton. £-,^., 536, 554. old Ham- burg. Ky.. 136. Oid Lyme. Ct.. ,3,. Old Orchard Heach, Mcv, 575. Olean, N. Y., 20S, 122-3, 775. OlmstedvUle, N. Y.,11,' •Omaha, Neb., 475. 47'', 4S0, 4S9, 628,' 783" Onehunga, .V. Z.. 56S. Oneida, N. Y., 18, 31,201-1, 2o3, 2,2, 220, 336, 479. Oo'ern-' gasse./J, '.,545. Ophir, Cal., 476. Oporto, I'ori-.i.. Opun.-ikc, A'. Z., 569. Oramel, >■• Y., 1,7. Oran, N. Y., 336. Orange, ^l''' ^'t ?'*^**' ^^^' "*' 579. 768. Orange, N. J., 27, 19, 30, 33, 5.-2, 81, ,6,-4. '74-5 207, 220, 509, 584, 588-9, 610, 67S, 71, 777- •Orange, Va, ,48. Orange Valley,' N. J.,777. Ora.igeville, 0«/., 3,6. O.an- more. /r,.. 545. Oregon. Pa.. 3S7. Orillia. 0»/., 316. Oriskany, N. Y., 20,, 2,0. 'Or- .ando, F/ar., 783. Orleans, />., 55S Oro- no, Me.,5,5. OrrviUe.O., 78.. Orwell,0«/ 33.. O'-wigsbur;, Pa.. 342. 498,779. Qshawa,' C''.,3>9. •Oshkoah, Wis., 787. 'Oska- loosa, la., 643, 737. Osprey. 0»/., 3,8 •Oss.pee, N. H., 575-7- Ostcnd. He/, 522 5S>, 59<; Oswego, in., 479, •Oswego' Kan., 78S. •Oswego. N. Y.. 1,9, 333, 77 ' Otego, N. Y., 775. Otis, M..',"^";; Otisville, N v.-o. •o*.t.-=^2 !.-._ -it Ottawa, Oh/., 3,1. 327-3,, 635, 789 •Otter^ 1 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Tille, Mo., 485-6. •Otttimw», la., 672, 787. Overbrook, Pa., 389-90 Ovid, Mich., 687, -85. •Owenaboro, Ky., 590, 784' OWo. >, Mich., 785. Oxford, Eng., 533. 539, 5U. 646. Oxford, Md., 4S6, 593, 782. Oxford, Pa., 386, 388. Oyster Bay (L. I.), N. Y., 151. •Paducah, Ky.. 590, 784- Pahiatau, A'. Z., 568. Paignton, Eng., 551, 792. Painted Post, N. Y., 218. Paisley, C»«/., 3>5- Pa- lenville, N. Y., 188, 498. Palermo, Me., 574. Faliaade, Nev., 477. Palmer, Ms., 110,117, 128, 181, 2o3, 479. 768. Palmyra, Ind., 235. Palmyra, Pa., 343- Palo Alto, Cal., 492. Panama. N. Y., 587- •Paoll, Ind., 235, 237. Faoli, Pa., 378, ;88-9. Par- adise, Pa., 495-7. Paradise, R. I., 108. Paradox, N. Y., ru. Paris, Fr.,i, 99. 280, 403, 4o5, 426, 448, 458-9, 480, 545. 55'. 558, 5S6, 611, 645, 651, 698-9, 792. •Paris, 111., 485-6. *PariB, Ky., 233-5. •Pari>: Me., 515,765. Paris, 0«/., 317, 315. 332- Park- ville (L. I.), N. Y., 775. Parrsboro'. .V. S., 289. Parsippany, N. J, 163. 207- PaSBaiC, N. J., 169, 777- ratchogue (L. I.), N. Y., «5o, I53-5- *Pater8on, N. J., 30, 33, 84, 164- 70, 216, 588-9, 777. Pau, Fr., 558, 651, 699. 792. Paulus Hook, N. J., 168. PaviUOP, N. Y., 222. Pawling, N. Y., 188. "aw- tacket, R. I., 106-9, 580-'. 628, 769. Pax- ton, Ms., 579. Peconic, N. Y., 775. Pe- cowsic, Ms., 580. Peekskill, N. Y., 194, 627, 775. Pekin, Chi., 570. Pekin, N. Y., 222. Pelham, N. Y., 247. Pelton's Cor- ners, Ont., 332. Pemberton, N. .' , 777 Penfield, Pa., 610, 779. Penacook, N. H., 577. Pennington, N. J., 173- Penrith, ^T. 53&- Penryn, £'«^., 646. Pensliurst, Vict., 563. Penzance, Eng., 554-5. 645- •Peoria, 111., 489, 501, 787. Pepperell, Ms., 128. P4re Marquette, Ont.. 595. Perry, Me., 261. Perry, N. Y., 222. Perrysburg, NY., 223. Perrysburg, 0,479. Perrys- ville. Pa,, 372-3, 377. Perryville, Kan., 485- 6. Perryville, Ky., 226-g. Perryville, N. Y., 188. Perth, Ont., 37'. Perth, Srot.. 53^, 555. Perth, Tiix, 563. Perth Amboy, N. J-. "55. 158,377, 777- Peru, Ms., 121. Pes- cara, //.,552. Pesth, //wn., 551. Petaluma, Cal., 490, 789. Peterboro, Eng., 538-9, 541, 557-8. Peterboro, Of/. , 593. Petersburg, N. Y.,193. Peiersburg,0«J'.,.<:7. •I'etersburg, Va., J51. rciersficiu, Eug., 544. i'clcri- thal, Gtr., 4S1. Peterwardein, Slav., 481. Pfalzburg, Ger. , 480. Fbiladolpbia, N. Y. , 334. *Philadelphla, Pa., 29-33, 158, 164, 168, 172-3, 175, 177-8. »20. 237, »4J, »44-5. 258, 303, 35'. 354, 372. 377-8, 38S-9, 406, 426, 434, 453-4. •i57. 4^5. 487. 494, 496-500, 504, 521-2, 526, 530, 574, 577-8. 581, 584-s, 589, 593-4, 596, 605, 610, 618-20, 624-8, 643, 652, 654-5, 660, 674, 677-9, 686, 779-80. Phil- ippopolis, Roum., 481. Philipsburg, Pa., 341. Phlllii)8btirg, N. J., 173- Phoenicia, N. Y.,49S. Pickering, emendri.r i-^rj,., 48,. Semon's Cap Va ' US. Senate, N. Y.. .08,2.2. Seneca Faiia,' •N. y., 20S, 2,2, 776. Seniien, Eng =;<:•: Serra Capriola. //., 552. Set. uket (I.' I ) ^./'J^u ■"^"^'"°^'<'^' ^''^- 645. *8ew- ard Nab., 485.6. Sewick dy Pa -so Seymour, Ct., ,40. Seym.a,, r,c,' L' Se...nne, /•>., 4S0. Shady Side, V J g,' »!. Shaftesbury, E^^, 536. Shak. rs Ct ' ^5t. Shak.rs, Ky., 226-7. Shakers, " v' ')7- ShakespePre, 0,U., 3,6-7. Sha„gl,a,' ''"•"'■ «'■•-•? t-ell^. ^«^., 536. Sharing: ';«'. 0'"-, soo. Sharon, Ct., .43, , ,! M>aro„, Ms., 27, .o5, .09. Sharon, N Y -5. Sharon, 0«/., 3.6. Sharon Springs,' ^ ^ ' "9;, 378. Sharcod, /Vr c,, Shirpaburg, Md.. 384. Sheakle^vUle' ia.,7So^ Shed's Corners, N.Y., 33; sheer' "ess-on-Sea, ^„^,, 645. Sheffield, £«^ 539,557,793. Sheffield, 111., 47^. .sheffieli; ■"s., 143-I, 147, 579, 700. Shefford, E„o- '" Shelbnn.e, .V. S., 288. Shelburne' 1^1' '/'. ^'''"'-'' ""• '^•' "^- *Shelby- ville, Ind., 7S6. *ShelbyvilIo. Kv 2,2 ^^i<'-7.537. Sheldon, III.. 78,, Shellsburg' ^^- 4Ss, 497-1 Shepherdstown, W Va "4,384,6.0,782. *Shepherd8ville,Kv 2,7' Nherbrooke. (7«.., 3,3. Sheridan, n' Y "'■ ^''"•'f^'-'./'-..57.. She„„an.Coi:: 477. Sherman, N.Y., 5 V. 776. Sherman Renter, N. v., 5S7. Shippensburg. Pa ,.4 Snoeinakersville, Pa ,■, ci 1 ■■-, i-a., 342. Shorehani, Vt 57). Short Hills, N r ,„ ,, «^eve, O., 785. Shrei;.,;: '^^ H^ S^.,6.3. Shrewsbury, Ms, „o, .f,"!' vo 5'-'- S'';^-""^'^'-.v, N. J., 778. .sitiney, ^eb , 47.S, 4S,. Sidney. A' .., 28,. .Sii nay. O., 50., 7S;. silver Creek, N y N V .22, S.lver .Sprin. Md.. 376. Sim- j,^)- Sunpach, w,„/., ,s.. Simpsonviiie •^v. 2,,,, ,6,485. Simsburv, Ct., ,23, ,2, M5 Sinclalrville, N. y 2^, ,,6 q- -J^c, N,_j.,s^.,fi,. SingSlnK, N. V ,a '• *^"^ ^"y. 'a-. 787. Sivas, 7-«r.,' liii Ac'es M""""'"'":;f ''^- 5^7. 79- Sixteen Acres, M... ,24. •Skowhegan, Me ,„ ^ 5'5. Sligo, Md., 34g „, „rM u"""' N V o , ""•' ^7 Sloatsburg, fieid k"\ ""'"-■"•^'"^■•"9. S,nith boo'v'v' S.nith's,iJ,...,^. s-nith- boroN. v.2.9. Smith's Creek, Cal 4cv> Smith's Falls ««/ , c , . ^'^^ rails, c«/., 327. Smith's Kerry Ms., 31, 118-20, ,26-7 ,2. c. c 7,' MiUs, N Y 22, V'-, "^' ^'""^» V;..8. Sm„hv,Ue,Ky.,2,,7. Smithville. £•• J. 67., 77S. Smithville, O 24? Stakes anks ..„.. ,,, ,„,.^,;,^ ■^.^;; • va-, 3«3- Snydersville, Pa ,,, <;„« /;w ..«. •o 1 ' ^4'- Sofia, .S:rst-^:'**S'3r;'--^---. , «r^., 35s, 361. Somerset, E„p- 645. 646. .Somerset. Pa , 4^. Somfr: vaie, M..., 70s. »Somerville, N j .64 ■72, 377, 6,0, 733, 7^g Somerville.' Va 334. Sorel,^,...3,8.,. Souiis, .V. ^', Ji' S. Abington Station, Ms., 5,2.3 ,58^' Amana,ia.,479. Southampton [l I ) n ^. >55- Southampton. 0»r, ,,r '»a f«nd, Ind., 479. S. Bethlehem Pa ,s„ Southboro- .Ms ,,. an' ' ' °- 768 a^fTK -■•'"* S- Boston, Ms., 70^. SouthbriuKe Ms iM c d j Tas c6, Q ,,*''•' 7'^^- S- liridsewater, •""•,5D3- S. Canaan Ct t.-. c i- Me .^ a <-L. '^'••'■»3- S.Canton, J;id,'^s..';9''r8T's'o'''^^-^-'- . ,119, .»2-3. S. Dover, N. Y., <;82 S. ^,?renu„,^ Ms , ,48, 700. Southfiel , n' ...7.SFramingham,M,,2.,.o3.'.... 768. S. Hadley, Ms . , ,„.,„ ^ „., ' Falls M^ , "9-0. .1. Hadley i-ils, Ms., ,20, .26, 5S0, 76S. Southlngton vVn:to,'';'°- '• •''•■"^^' ^'' ^^- «^il- v.n,ton ^„^.. 7,,. s. Lee, Ms., .48. s I^yme. Ct., .30. S. Meiiden, Ct., L s Mountain. Md., 349. S. New Market N "■• 575. 766. S. Norfolk, Ct ,./ a' Norwalk, Ct ,,s-o « A ^^' °' "•, ^i-, 138-9 s. Orange, N r ;w:H^L.i)^t'r''"^-^'^' S. Platte Neb., 478. Southport. Ct. g' ^9. S. Pownal, V,., „3, S. E^yaltJ^,' V. 578. S. .cituate, Ms., 768. Sonthsea. '^"S; 599. S. Vallejo, Cal., 4,, s Ver "-. Vt., .83, Southwell, En^., 5,, J' West Harbor. Me., 574. Soutli^ict M, "'. '-'3, .25, .44. .46, 579. s. Yarrn, Vict' S63, 704. Spanish Point, Ber., 358, ^fi," Sparkd,, N. Y.. So, 50^7, .gpar^l V^,^'; ■' ■' ^'■'-, 552- Spencer, M' ,0, '■°. "4, 768. Spencerport, N. y.,',,;.' Hf TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Sperryville, Va., 35?, 379- Spciia, It., 552. Spiegeltown, N.Y., 193. Spofford's Point, N. Y.,96. •Springfield, I'l, 486, 501,524,610, 787. Springfield, Irt., 546. *Sprillgfield, Ky., 229-30, 234. 'Springfield, Ms., 11-2, »6-33i 42. 46, 58, 61, 103-4, 109, 113-29. '38, 144-6, 149, 151, 171-2, 179-83. '9'. '93-4. 196, 208, 251-4, 259. 294-5. 32I-3. 333, 353.37'. 376-7, 388, 391, 400. 404. 47°. 488, 49'. 493. 500-1, 508, 510, 519, 523-5, 527, 547, 569, 579, 580-2, 593, 597, 603, 60s, 607, 610, 617, 619, 627-8, 631-3, 654, 660-6, 672, 675,677, 679, 703, 706, 709-10, 712, 722, 768. Spring- field, N. J., 164. 'Springfield, O., 245, 485, 488, 501,627, 785. Springfield, Out., 318. Springfield, Vt., 766. Springville, N. Y., 157. Suatsburg, N. Y., 196. Stafford, Eng., 539, 792. Stafford, N. Y., 222. Staf- fordville, Ont., 332. Stamboul, Tur., 4S2. Stamford, Eng., 539-4', 645- Stamford, Ct., 48, 138-9, 248-9, 582, 610, 770. Stan- ford River, Eng., 792. Stanhope, N. J., 51,163, 173, 207. Stannardsville, Va.,348. •Stant03, Ky., 590. Stapleton 'L. I.), N. Y., 156. Stark Water, N. H., 576. 'Staun- ton, Va., 46, 48, 242, 296, 300, 305, 317, 335, 345-5', 376, 382-3, 388, 495. 497, 5oo, 6'°. 782. Stawell, Vut., 561-2, 565-6, 696. Stayner, OHt.,i\b. Steelton, Pa., 244- Stemlers- ville, Pa., 341. ♦SteubenviUe, O., 485- Stevenage, Eng., 541. Stiermark, /l«i/., 552. Stillwater, N. Y., 186, 190, 192, 610, 776. Stockbridge, Ms., 148, 510,700. Stockholm, Swe., 700. Stockport, N. Y., 527-8, 776. •Stockton, Cal., 491-2. Stockton, Me., 574. Stone, Eng., 480. Stoneham, Ms., 769. Stoneham, Ont., 330. Stonehenge, Eng., 539. Stone House, Nev., 476. Ston- ington, Ct., 85, 593. Stony Ci:;ek, Ct., 132. Stony Kill, N. Y., 194. Stony Point, Ont., 332. Stouffville, Ont., 316. Stow, Ms., 579. Stowe, Vt., 579. Stoyestown, Pa., 485. Strafford, N. H., 577. Strasburg, Ger., 481, 545. 552, 697. Strasburg, Mo., 485. Strasburg, Va., 244, 345, 347-8, 35°-'. 610, 782. Stratford, Ct., 37, 13S, 142, 249. Stratford, £«;?., 645. Stratford, iV, Z., 569. Stratford, Ont., 315, 317. 324. 332. 635. Stralhallan, OiU., 317. Strathburn, Ont., 331. Strathroy, Ont., J19. 332- Streetsville, Ont., 318. Strenburg, /<»«<., 481 'Stroudsburg, Pa., 296, 299, 302, 341. Stuart, la., 478. Btuy vtiHiuii. jj Arniin gi r^;. v., i9=i '-^'^ Suckasunny, N. J., 164. Suez, Eg., 571. Suffem, N. Y., i6g, 171, 192, 198, 582, 587, 610, 776. Suffleld, Ct., 122-3, '25. '46, 77P' Suisun, Cal., 475, 491. Summerdale, N. Y., 587. Summerside, P. E. I., 290. Suoiinit, Cal., 476. Summit, N. J., 669, 778. Sum- mit, Pa., 245. Summit Hill, Pa., 323. Summit Point, W. Va., 7S2. Sunderland, Eng., 545, 645. Sunderland, Ms., 579. Surbiton, Eng., 551. Susquehanna, Pa., 2ig, 296, 338, 780. Sutton, Ont., 316. Swainsville, N. Y., 222. Swansea, Eng., 645-6. Swedesboro, N. J., 390. Swift Run Gap, Va., 348. "Sycamore, 111., 787- Sydenham, Eng., 405, 792. Sydney, N. S. IV., 561, 562, 564-6, 570, 652, 696, 793. Syosset(L. 1.), N. Y., 151,530. •Syracuse, N. Y., 12,30,32-3,44, 50-1, 2oi-.i,2o8, 212, 2:;, 298, 300, 305-6, 335-6, 343, 346, 479, 488, 577. 594. 776- Sieksard, Hun., 481. Tabbas, Per., 571. Tabreez, Per., 482. Ta-ho, Chi., 572. Tain, Scot., 645. Ta- kapo, N. Z., 568. Talbot, Ont., 332. Tal- bot, Vict., 560. Tamaqua, Pa., 299, 302, 342, 497-8. Tamworth, N. H., 576. Tan- nersville, N. Y., 188, 49S. Tappan, N. Y., 30, 80. Tara, Ont., 315. Tarawera, A^. Z., 567. Tarcutta, Vict., 561. Tariffville, Ct., 145. Tarrytown, N. Y., 27-32, 50-3, 75-80, 91, 98-9, 139, '7'. '87. "33-5. '98. 258, 275, 281, 343. 404. 582, 587. 6'o. 776. Tarsus, Per., 4H2. Tartar Bazardjik, Roum., 481. Tashkent, Rus., 570. Tatham. Ms., 252. Taunton, .Ew^., 554. 'Taunton, Ms, 12, 28, 31, 33, 106, 109, 511,769. Tavistock, 0«/., 315-7. Taylor, N. Y., 336. *Taylors- ville, Ky., 2^6-7. Taylorsville, Pa., 341. Taylorworth, Ont., 327. Tecoma, Nev., 477. Tecumseh, 0«/., 301, 311. Teheran, Per., 473-4, 4S0, 4S2-3, 570-1, 792. Telegraph, Mo., 525. Telford, Pa., 388-9. Temple- ton, Ms., 579, 769. Tempsford, Eng., 5(1 Tenafly, N. J., 80. Terang, I'ict., 559-6" • 563. Terrace, Utah, 477. 'Terre Haute, Ind., 486-7, 595, 786. TerryviUe, Ct., 142. Thamesford, Ont. 324, 332. Thamesville, Ont., 3J1-2. Thomaston, Ct., 142, 770. 'Thomasville, Ga., 782. Thompson, Pa.. 339. Thompsonville, Ct , 32-3, 122, 125. 181. Thorndale, Ont., 332. Thorndike, Ms., 104, 117, 181. Thornhill, Ont., 316 Thornton, N. H., 577. Thorold, Ont., 789. T';. -,--.-,-_ ,•?_- -■- Thrive P.iver?.. M-'.. f^DEX OF PLACES. »9, »o4, 117. Three Riven, ,n, 57. ioro„.o.O«/., 300.., 30s, 3,s-.o, 3.4-6,33.; «3- 530, 593. 59s, 633-5, 6.K,, 789. Torring: ton, Ct., .44. Tottenville (Si) n Y '55, .58. 377. *Towanda. Pa., ii, 30', 3," -9, 6.0, 78,. 'Towsoa, Md., 37 Tra cad.e, A'. S., .89. Tralee, /.; I, ' ^ Tremont, N Y „ c«, ^T. . ^'*- .M. .TrentoZ'N^J ^'^ Tr*""' "'' 6.0,778. Tren.;n,N Y^',;'t' 'V"' ,_„ ,, . ' '-.210,582. iren- •on,CW..3.9.32., 323. Trenton Falls, N x.; 'V^' 1'°: ^"' 334, 336. Trexlertown; ,''■' 3«7. Irmngle, N. Y., 498. Trieste ^•^^t., SS2. Trochsville, Pa ,4, ^ ' .T .r ' ^^"3°- Trouville, i^y .g^ S. 5i6, 790. Tubby Hook, N. Y.. 7., 80 '.l>.ngen, <^., 48, Tuckahoe. N.' Y. ^i An. ^789. Turners, N.Y., 587. Turner's Falls, Ms., .83. Tuscarora, N. Y 2./ 1 uscarora, Pa i.., •'-r...i. ' 7S, T r 'TuBkegee, Ala., 7^3- Turin, //., 427, ,„ ^no t j N V„587. T^xford "V ,40 T ■ Monntniu House, N H f" t p T"'" X, , , ^ ' ^"^ " > 577- Two Bridges. >J_J.,.69. Tyngsboro, Ms., 508. ' P, 4 '""'.Trfr.' ^'^' ^^^- Uhlersville, S. ;n,ba,la. /„^., ,,,. ^,„^„;^ ^^- .49. Und.,wood, C?.,..3,3. .^^i K I'p ^'"'°' "^^ ^- -8- Union f-,.e, Pa.. 49S. .tmiontown. Pa., 24c ' 4"^f..o, 78.. Unlonville, Ct „r vt P'?'- Hartlett, N H , ^ ,7 ^" '^ '^^ SfK). Upper Lachine, Que „« Iv tVpT Lis!p, N, Y. w'ppcr Muuiciair, j N- J... 67, 778. Upper Red Hook. N V ,?• ''"'^r!"'' ^"- -'^- Upto'n Ky- S/^imSrY ?2^?;- ,^'-r • tod^i-'Mtv^*' "• '°'' "^- ^'- Valatie, N. Y., .48. .„. Valley Creek Pa. 389. VaUey Station, Ky 2,/ vl^ ' Out jj<( V, L ^■' 37- Valois, y**, 3J8. Vanceboro, Me., 596 •V»n d^a. I"-. 595. Vandalia. O ,i, vT derbilt's Landing (S. I) N y' I Deusenville, Ms ,48 ' V » '"• ^'° N V ,J ,;' ■* ^*" Hornesville, 770, Ky. :.33. 236. Versailles, N. Y^,' N i 1' V "*■ ,"'■ "'• "' '-"»" Volusia, N. Y.. 587. ' ^*- •Wadena, Minn.. 788. Wadsworth ^- ^^ 568-9. Waikari, A', z., 568 Wai pawa,A^. ^.. 3^. Wakefield, Ms T" 575.75. Wakefield, N.H., 5-77-8 • Wat T.' W.I. '' ■ "'■ W^-'kerton, Onf., 3.5. Wallacetown, 0«/., 3,2, 3,,. y,^{ '-.^-^564. Wallingford,C., .„.' M9. 5^.. Wallingford, v,, ,,,; ^j; 7 «^, ' '"• W'"'""* Grove, N T ; 4. Walpole, Ms,, .07, . Walthai; Ms.. 29, 5,, .03. 579,769. ,hon, £„^ 590. Walton. Ky.. 225. Wanaque N j' .70. Wandsford. ^„^., „,. ^,„Zo^;, Common. ^„^., 79, wanganui. M ^., 568 57a Wangaretta, K^/., 564.5. Wan- ra^lB n'y ■ '""• '"'■ ^»PP^Ser'. ,.. ' "'*"5' -^76 Wardsvillc, Oni 33.. Ware, ^«^., 5,, Ware. Ms., 29 c," p„V,'°' "3-4. "7, .8., 579. warehow Point. Ct., 580, 582, 559. Warren. Ms. '04, 110, 114. ,,, ,s, *Tir .^_ _ warren. r;i., -.07:8: 323:xr;:;."^ Ivi TF/V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. renaburg. N. Y.,»ii. •Warpenton, Va., J50, 3:2. 374, 376, fiio, 7Si- Warrington, Eng-, 480, 556. Warrnambool, Vict., 55<>-6i, 563,794. •Warsaw, N.Y., 22a Warwick, Eng., 537. Warwi-k, Out., 112. •Watll- tngton, D. C, 22, 25, 28-9, 3'. 33. 37.5'. 5S, 116, 173, iijS, 241-2. 244, 258, 296, 323, 346-52. 370-4. 3A 377-8. 382, 384. 388. 464, 484,488,495.497. 409. 5<». 508, 5". 5>3-5. 523-4, 58S. 591, C"o. f'52, 658. ("7. 6'9. 627-8, 724. 733. 782- Washiiiglon. Ms.. 121, 193. Wasl.insto.), N. H,. 575. ■Washington, N. J., 610, 773. Washington, O., 245. Washington, Pa.. 245. 379. 49^. 78'. Washinaton Corners, Cal., 490. 493- Wash- ington Heights, lU., 388. Washington Heights, N. Y., 33. 583- Washington Hol- low, N. Y., 510. Waterbury, Ct.. «4o, 142, 582, 770. W'.terbury, Vt., 766. Water- ford, Ire., 546. Waterford, N. Y, 1902. Waterloo, N. J.. 163, .73- 'Waterloo, N. v.. 207-8, 212. Waterloo. Ont., 316. Wa- terloo, Pa., 379. Watersford, Ind., 237. Watcrtcwn. Ct.. 142. *Watertown, N. Y., »oi, 210, 594. 776- Watertown, 0,'t., 333, 336. \Vaterlnwn, Pa.,334. *WatertOWn, Wis., 787. VVatervilh, Ct.. 582- Water- ville, Kan., 485. Waterville, Me., 573-4, 610,766. Watford, Ont., 332. 'Watkins, N. Y.. 216. 49S, 776. Watsessing, N. J., 160. Watsonville, Cal.. 490, 492. Wa- ▼erly, N.Y., 30, 32. 50, 5«, »'8-9. Waverly, Pa., 341. " Wayb.ickvilIe,"6o7. Wayland, Ms.', 76* Wayland, N.Y., 216. Waymart, Pa., 340. Wayne, Me., 574- Wayne, N. J., ,65. Wayne, Pa., 30, 3''9. Waynesboro, Pa.. 3S5, 388, 610, 781. Waynesboro, Va., 350-1. •Waynesburg.P.T ,610,781. Weedon, Etg., 553, 557- Weedsport. N. Y., 776. Weehawken, N. J., 81, 85. Wens. N. H.. 576-7. Weissport, Pa.,34>.7Si. Welcome, Ont., 319. Wellesley, Ms., 29, 103,113. 7^. Wellingore. Eng., 539. Wellington, Eng., 536, 556. Wellington, .V. Z., 566, 5r>8-7o, 660, 794. Wellington, 5. Atis., 560-1. Wells, Nev., 477. "Wellsboro, Pa., 610, 781. Wellsburg, N. V., 21S. Wells River, Neb.. 489. Wells River, Vt., 576-8- Wellstown, N. Y.,2ii. Wellsville, N. Y., 217,223. . Welwyn, Eng , 541, 792. Wendover, Out., 328. Wenham, Ms., loi. Wcrcfordsbnrg, Pa., 496. Werribee, P'ict., 559. Wesley, N. Y.. 223. W. Ansonia, L,t., 770. vy. Avon, N. v., 213. W. Baden, Ind., 235. W. lietket, Ms., 121, 20S. W. Bethel, Vt., 578. W. Bloomfleld, N. Y., 20S. 212. West- bOPO, Ms., iso-i, 128,610, 769. W. Brat- tleboro, Vt., 182. W. Brinifield, Ms.. 26, 31. 110, 117, 128, 208. Westbrook, Ct., 132. W. Brookfield, Ms., 29, 104, 117. W. Ches- ter, N. Y., 99, 246. 'W. Chester, Pa., 244, 388-9, 781. W. Claremont, N. H., 576. W. Cornwall, Ct., 147- W. Cornwall. Vt., 57S. W. Coventr5', N. Y., 497-8. West- erly, R. I., 769. W. Farms, N. Y.. 95. Westfleld, Ms., 120-6, 144. M9, '92, 488, 527, 769. Westfleld, N. J., 172, 588, 778- Westfleld, N. Y., 50, 55. 58, 205-6, 222. 313, 488. W. Gardner, Ms., 500. W. Granby, Ct., MS- W. Hampton (L. 1.), N. Y., 154. W. Hartford, Ct., 137. W. HSr ven, Ct., 128. 134, ii8, 140. 149, 249- W. Henniker, N. H.. 50S. W. Livingston, N. J., 163. W. Long Branch, N. J., 778. w'. Milan. N. H., 576. •Westminster, Md., 377, 782. Westminster, Ms., 579. Westminster, Ont., 331. Westminster, Vt., 184. Westmoreland, N. Y., 776- W. Nas- sau, N. Y., 208. W. New Brighton (S. 1.), N. Y., 157,776. W. Newton, Ms., 113. W.Newton, Pa., 781. Weston, Ct., 139. Weston, Eng., 694. W. Orange, N. J., 610, 778. W. Ossipee, N. H., 576- W. Philar delphia. Pa., 7S1. W. Point, Oa., 594, 610, 7.S3. W. Point, Ind., 237- W. Point, N. Y., 194, 198. Westport, Ct., 138-9. 248-9- W.Randolph, Vt., 57S, 610, 627, 651,672, 766. W. Ro.\bury, Ms.,107. W.Rutland, Vt., 184. W. Saugerties. N. Y., 1S8. W. Springfield, Ms., 29, 30, 42, 5'. 58, "o, "7. 120, 122-3, 125-7. >79. '8', '83. >94. 252-3, 5S1, 769. W. Springfield, Pa., 205-6, 470 W. Stockbridge, Ms., 148, 208. W. .Suffield, Ct, 146. W. Sydney, .V. 5. ;j^., 793. W. Troy, N. v., 192. Westville, Ct., 140, 394, 582. Westville, N. S., 790. W. War- ren, Ms., no 114. W. Woodstock, N. Y., 336^7. ".". Worthington, Ms., 121. Wey- mouth, .Cng., 685, 689. Weymouth. Ms., 769. Wevmonth, N. S., 283-4, 79«- Whately, Ms., 119. Wheatlcy, Ont., 3-0. Wheaton, Md., 376- Wh^atville, N. Y , 222. •Wheeling, W. Va., 242-3, »5, 487-8, 501, 595, 610, 628, 782. Whippany, N. J.. 163-4. Whltbv, Ont., 3'9-20, 7''9. Whit- „ .^ ..... •nrhitfifisld. N. H , INDEX OF PLACES. 577. Whitehall. N.Y.. „.„,,„, .3,, .36, Z\' '\r " "°""' ^■'■' 39°. 'White Plains, N. v., 7,, 7,.6, ,33.,, , J White3towa.y y....,.„J.3:",-^jf^ ^u phur .Spnnss. N. Y., ,g,, ,,7. -^^hlte Sulphur Spring,, W.Va., 35,, 3S,. w,,,. WK,; ■•'" WhitinsviUe, Ms., 769 Whitney's Point, N. Y.. 33,. whi.'ey. - e, C... ,35. Whi.neyvillc, Me., .7,. 7SS. Wichita Falls, Tex., 7S3. Wick, ^^"'■y 53 ', 555. 556, 645. Wickliffe, Vict 03. W.cklovv, Ont., 32,. Wilbraham' Ms.,,. 4. •Wilkesbarre, Pa., 30, 33, .^o' 340-., 7S,. wiii.,,, N. Y.. 337. wi,,;; 90. Willianisburg.M..,., 5, ,„. Williams: ^rT^i.""- '■•""•'«■ Williamsford, ^^«A,3.6. Williams;. ort.Md... 9,5,, ,38 ' ^4.,.44, .,0,,.,, 4, 3,;, 3*9, 3»4,3SS, 495,497-8.' •Williamsport, Pa.,,s,. *Willianisto4i Ky, 3', 2.-5-6. Williamstown, Ms ,,/ ■^',579,6,0^700,76.,. Williamstown,' N J, 522. Williamstown, N. Y ,n, , Wiiiinmsiown Vt c^s wi". .,,' 325. W,|,,mansett, Ms., ,24-5. 5S0. .Wil- hmantic. Ct., „9, 770. Wiliow Grove p" 4'>7. Willow Island, Neb., 47S .Wil' mington Del. .44. 372. 377,383.390,497, 5 2, 5.^ 6.8 73.. ^Wilmington, N. c 7S2. Wilmington, V,., 57,. wiw, Ce,,: ler,C«A,3,7. Wilmot Corners N Y ...o VV.Isonv.lle, I„d., ,36. Wi;,on, C.'ns' I WMican.on, ^.,^., 53,. Wind.eKen, '^^V I \'^. *^if'=^««»'^'-' 'V-. 4H5. Winches^ ter, ^. n., 5^,, •Winchester, Va 47 Ivii ^44, 345-S, 350. 3S3, 494-9. 573, 7S2. Wind' ''^m, Ct., ,48. Windham, N Y ,8, W.ndsor, Ct., ,45, ,5,. Windsor, N S 259,286,289,293,6.0,7,0. Windsor n' \., 204^ Wind..or, 0„f., 29O, 3.0-., 3,4,' Look, ,''''••"'■ 5^^'-^ Windsor 1,0CJ£S, Ct., 12., ,,. ,,. ,v„ , '--, 1-3, i4j, jbo, 2;,, fjy i-«„ s^- winfu.id(L. I.), N. Y„;;.'';v °: am, 0«.., 33,. .Winnemucca, N'cv ^z' \V"m,pes, .)/.«.. 4S7. 635, 790. *Winona. Plete and rehable lis, of hotels i ,he U. .S and Cana^-.' I ' r'"'''^' ''■''■'''«-" ^ "-"- and also sutrirrier and winter rc..,rt, I. ;'"..:"''' ^':^' ^'"^ '""'"' '^^dir.g and otherwi,. ■^-..".orpass.n,the.o«.orcit...;;nt;e^^^3^i~r-- M;nn 4^^ 7S8. Winona. Wis.. 787 W,nsIow,./.5.,„.. Win,ted,C,.;./J •Winterset. la., 787. Winthrop Me ^«. '''^''^■•;^'-/''^- 538. 357. wi.ha:: aston'? ^^-^-"•'.^■■^..285. Woli: aston, ^«^.. 5^„. VVolverha.np.on, £„j. 530. 546, f,5. Womelsdorf, Pa ,f,' Woodbridge,Cal.,49.. Woodb, d..eC !^' Woodbridge,N.j.,,58.,66. .wo^i-^; J^. J., 390. 522. Woodbm-y (L I) N Y •5^.. Wood :ord,c9«/.. 3.6. 'Woodia'nd Cal" :woodstoc..^a^^;.:;;;,-3S-.;j- •Woodstock,Vt.,57,. Woodstown^N J 39=>. 52.-2,778. Woodsville, N H cU' Woodvill. .V. z., 5„, Woonsocket.'R I-. '09, 53.. Worcester, £„^ .,„ ', " ;Worceste.., Ms., ,2, 27'. ..^Z '3 •09-M..,7. .28^. 20S.2S8. 479,433,5.3.4 5^3.576. 579. 594.600,607,627, 680,769 Worthnicrton. Kv ,,r, \v .1 ■ '' .2. \Vr. ^ ,' ^ ^V»>-">'",?ton, Ms., .0 ■ w I' '- '°'- ^^>'^">hnm. M.,., P° ,86 vv'";^"-^-'"- W'iKhtSville, ^■-•.,336. Wyalnsn,. P.,., ,„. ^ "I .479. Wyoming. III., 7.7. vVyLing N.J...53, .62. VVyomins, Pa., 220, 78^ Wysocknig, Pa.,2.9. ' *Xenia, O., 50., 7S5 Vantic Ct., 530. 532. 770. Yaphank ^"iT-, 636. \armomh. Me , 660, 766 Yar mo"th, Ms., 592. Yarmouth, .v\y '282. ' '^^ =''- 519. 790. Yarmouth, Ont T V ^,^°"*^*^'"«. l^Ie.. 766, Yass,' ^V. S //.., 5,,.5. veovil, yr„^.. 536.645 \okoha,„a,y.A,572. Yonkers, N Y 26 39,53,S8,75-9,S.,95,93, ,00,, !;7, ,„;'„/ 376, 523, 533-4, 536, 6,0, 776. Yck!^' 533, 514,645-6,792. ♦York, Pa 24^ ,,," 336495,497,6.0,78.. York Mills'cw, 3 6' Vorkshne, N V ^,^ "I- 479. 'Youngs- town, 0,6.7,785. Vonngstown, Pa., ,S5 Zanesviue, 0,245, 785. Zar,b,od,i«/ Iviii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. THB UNITED STAnS. This alphabetical list of the States and Territories of the Union is given chiefly for the sake of showing their abbreviations. The geographical order in which the Slates are inserted in the " Directed of Wheelmen " (765-91) may Le found on p. 734, also on p. XX ; and, in the latter case, the number of towns and of subscribers representing each State in the " Directory " are likewise shown. On p. 617 may be seen the league representa- tion of each State, June i, '84; and on p. 618 the increase of the same, Jan. 1 and Sey-i. I, 'S6. P. 628 shows the League officers of State Divisions, Oct. 30, '86; and p. 631 shows the apportionment of States into " rac- ing districts of the A. C. U." Full indexes of the 13 States in which I have done the most touring (Me. to Va. and Ky.) are pointed out by the star (•) ; and the General Index may be consulted for additional references to many of the other States. Numerals higher than 764 refer to subscribers to this book : Ala., Alabama, 2, 352, 670, 783. Ariz., Arizona, 789. Ark., Arkansas, 352, 783. Cal., California, 2, 473-6, 489-94, 500, 519, 609, 661, 672, 789, 79. 599.637,650. 79,. Tasmaiua' 559. 563-4, 65,. 794. Turkey, 48,.,, 474 „, 7V. Vic.ori.,,55S^.,5,,^^_^^^.^ '^'Z,^ • 5' ^ 5JO, 533. 536, 539, 544. 546, 550, 790-.. HIVERS AND VALLBYS. Agawam, 122-1. I70 ici 4~.„ ' *■• J''/9, 25>. Ammonoosuc C76. 7-\.noor,57o. Andro.coggi,,, 5,3.,. ^rquc,. 4^So Avon, .89. I3ear, 477. lieaver, 5,5 H.^elow ..9. lilackberry, ,43. BiacUt, ne .<.;. Hlanche, 3,0 Ura„dywi„e, 37, v' H-.X, 74, 75. byram, 73. Cassadag;', "5,7 K.dge,,,5. Ch.copee, MO, .,7, „,. eole- brook, ,44. Conemaugh,496. CcLcIc, ".3^,6,,„7.,8,.45, ,,,, ,^8.3^_ ' .9S, 25, .4, 5„.g, Conmallis. 285. fow- P-sture 486^ Cro,on.76. Cumberland, 30. 347. Danube, 48,. Delaware, 28, 44 ,6,, ■7-3. .89, ,98. 207. 299. 30.. 34; 3..; 37^ 378. 390, 497. 5", 587. East (N. Y ) '>4. 86. 97.8, 5S3. Eden, 223. Elk. 479 KIkhar,.479. Elkhorn, 478. Farming.on, ■37, .44A 58.. Fen.on,29. French, ,20 •'^-HKes, 572. Ca.lneau, 327. Genesee, 30 ]['■''■ ^"'"='"- '73. Green, 230, 477' Hackensack. 82. .65^, .68^. ,89 H^;. '•■". ^5. 27, 64. 66. 68, 70, 72. 9.. 95-8 =47,58a-4. Harnd, 57.. Hills. 490 H, Is! Hop, .28. Housa.onic, .,2, .38, ,40,. 43!;' M7..88,700. Hudson. ,,,44, 5., 64;. 9,' 7. .4.-3. M6,,.8..5.. .6..-6, .79-98,.!o Humoold,, 476-7. Ill„,ois,489. Indun 3.7 Inn. 48.. Jackson, 486. James. 346-7. Jock 3^7. Jun,ata.496. Kanawha. 347. Kansas. 4^6. Kennebec, 353, 573.4. Kentucky, 227 Kowa,, 568-9. Lehigh. 299. Ligonie;, 485 rmle .23. Loire, 54.. Luray, 347. 35.. 38'' MnffaIloway,575. Mahoning, 342. Mamaro- -ck. 74. Mari.za. 48,-2. Maumee. 479 Meri.cne Bow. 478. Merrimac. .02, 500 "e.,s.3.9. Middle (Ct.). ,29, Middletown' 'M' '7 ^^r'^'^P'- ">«. 347-S, 473, 478-80, '/; '^^- ^''^^"""' t;;, 478-9, 486. 4% ^'"'"-1<. ,2, .3,32, 85, .97, .99, .02. Mo- n;'cacy,3^9. Morava, 48.. Mt. Hope, ,29 N-^PH,490^ Na,chaucr,,29. Nau^atuck, ,3,: ^J.'J^J. Nepperhan, 75-8,98. Ninntic. .,, ■'•'■ """■ ^'"°.39. 245, 485. 5.5, 590. lijc °7"""o:ee" '''"''"-' 347. 497. Orange. Z-S 7Z''" "'«''^'3-'"7. Ottawa -r58r"';a't:icT-37:"i:r---3: -wcatuck..2,.^P.aU:37;'^pZ;,;;r ,• ' '■""- "'S' '»8<'. 489, Pleasant ,,6 t'ompton, .65. Potomac, .7, 29, 5.. 55 '8 ^^5.30o.3o;.344,3,,,3^, '/^ 5^^^^^^^^ fc '^9- vjuninipiac. m.i Ha™, 17, ,,,8 -I, I, ' 34. Kamai)o, ■7., .98, 5S7 Rappahannock. 379. Ken h ' ^'"■"•.48,.s». R.deau,3,7. Kigaud 4.A i.aco, 576. .Sacondaga „, c, ::rzn:'^ ."^^'" ■''' ■^•' «t:: "ny.293. St.Cro,x.263. St. Lawrence. .87, 'A .04 2,0, 293. 30,-3, 3.6. 329. 330 33J' 500. Sahnas. 490. Salmon. ,45.';s .' s^^, ,' 237. San Benuo, 489. Santa Uara. 4go Saugatuck, .28, ,38. Sawmill, 75^ Schrl^ -. ^chuylki., 299. 389-90, 57rsea:. re : S;8?'4'i!;:o^''5"'-^'sr"°°'^°^'^^^'' .2>( S,r,l '^^ ^'''P'"8.M3. Still, 2 ^ S trasburg.347. Susquehanna, 2.8. 30,: 3. 308, 338, 343. 372-3. 3,8,38,, 386, 498, 589 Tarfjoux, 339. Thames. .29 .„ fi« Trough Creek. 244. Tr.'.ckee ' 4 ' Tut un,ne 49.. Virginia. 346, 382.' Wablh^ 4S6. Wa.para. 568.9. Walil.iU. ,98. WeUs 4S9, 576. White. 578. WiUimantic 2 ' W.noosk., 578. Wissahickon, 389. \^1 'n'"S,22o. Yosemite, 49,. ^ ^^ MOUNTAIN PEAKS. Ararat 482. Bald, 575. Bald Eagle, 496 Battle Nev.), 476. Kig Sewell, 486.' Black 9 ■ cZ% "'■ "^'"^ ^^"^' -'«• ^-X Con. r n "'-'• *''■ 5''- ^■=«°"i". 349 Cone, 485. Dogwood, 4S6. Elk, 478 Ever' green ,48. Gambier, 560. Green (Me ,' 27S. Hamilton (C'al ) son h.j u ,.. v^ai.;, 490. Hedgehocf^Ct ) .45. Holyoke (Ms.), .20, ,35. HortoIcN*: S.),286. Jefferson, 382. Jenny Jump, ,64 K'neo, 574. Kaa.erskill, ,98. Langton (Ber ), 359-62. Little North. 497 Li tie ^:\C M '^"^^^°^' - ^^'^^ I ; ".!?• "'-'' '^^- Nescopeck, 498 ;^-th (N. S.), 284.5. Orange. .58 '!: CM-er (Peaks 00. 347. P.catinn;',7o. 'p.Ts: p'iu'?!;. ^!y^°"'^- •*2. pma.ski. 485. "/ ■""' ^~5=. Kuimnenield, 219. San Juan, 494. St. Gothard, ,87. St. Helena r »/»-' Ix TEN THOUSAND Af/LES ON A BICYCLE. (Cal), 470. Sargent (Me. ),J78. Shciiandoab, 5SJ. Sclioolcy'ii, 173. Simplon, 1,17. Smiih, J49. Mi)riii King, 1'^/. biigarloaf, i»J. Tom (M».), iiS-jo, 127, i?j, J5>. 579 Vesuvii.v 55J. Waslinmtoii, aj;, 515. 5'}. 575-7i 670-1- Wilcox, 145. MOUNTAIN RANGES. Adiroml.ick, 185-7, j 10-11, 5S7. Alleghany, »43. '45, 347. 35°. ^'^' ^^^S-^". 49''. 5<». 5''^- ApcMiinie, 551. lialk.in, 4S1. lll.ick Ili.N, 47». liliic Creek, 477. lUue Rid-e, 23S, 2 (i, 346-S, 374, 379-'*'. 495-7. 500- t'atskill, 1S7-S, i()8, 116, 4'*S, 4i>7. Elbiii/, 571. Ki2, 552- Fruska;;!)!.!, 4S1. Grccii, 1S4, it>8, 574-8. Hanz, 114, 5=' Himalaya, 477' N'>rih (M. S.), 2.S4.5. l.aiircnli.ui, 317. l-iitlc SavaKi', 144- Massaniittcn, 34 ', 35"-'. 3S1-J. Mud Creek, 4S6. N(irlli(N. .),2.S4-5. Orange, 158, 174. IMot, 57'.. I'ronionlory, 477. I'yrcnocs, 5(0. Red l>omc, 477. Kucky, 455, 47'"*. 4^*' i5i"^rra Nev.ula, 243, 476, 41)2. Soulh IN. S.), 284. Ta^liconic, 147 Wn- chnng, 174. Walisalcii, 477- VVhitc, 61, 192, i-8, 076. HILLS. Albanian, 552. Alconbury, 540. Ahim Rock, 490. Anus's, 124. Armory, 117. ISarn- door, 145. liarrylield, 3.'5. Uatesfoid, 559. Bear Ridge, 139. Belmont, 3S9. l!eni;al, 572. 15eri;en,S2-4, 166, 16S, 58S. Hcrkshire, 12', i2(), 581, 5S4, 700. lilue, 109, 516, 577. Box, 51.;. " liruakncck " (N. v.), 71, 5S2. Cave, 23(>. Cliaplain, 22S. Cliestnut, 102, uifi, 111,114,128,523. Chicopee, 124. C'ohnnbi.i Heiglus, 88, 97. Corey, 525. Corydon, 235. Crescent, 124. Cumboiland, io> Drniil, 239. Eagle Rock, 175. East Rock, 135. Eds^water, 165-6. Kwingsville, 118, 126. Fisher's, 145-6, 498. Foundry, 142. Fox, 170. Gailows, Si. C.ates'.s, 118-9,1^3, 579. Oibbs, 361. Gl.icier, 491. Grimes's, 158. Hanipstcad, 403. Hanging, 250. Hoi-pen Ridge, 139. Hotham, 562. Indian Rock, 389. Knapton, 360. Laurel, 485. Marl- boro, 567. Mono, 316. Moore's, 327. Mull- ica, 390. Old Ford, 3S9. Orange, i6j. P.ili- sad-'s, 77, 79,81, 5S6-7. Panama Rocks (N. Y.), 5S7. Pine, 121. Pleasant, 226. Prns- ~cct,362. Ray's,485. Red, 237. Remataka, (68. Richmond, 316. Rideau, 327. River- dale, 78, So, 583. Rocky, 102. Round, 2S5, 496-7. Sainly, 58-9, 1S9, 1)2. Seebach, 317. SliinneciKk, 155. .Slirewsbuiy, 514. Sidling, 243. Snake, 169. Turkey, 123, 146. Wa»h- iuKton Heights, 64, 72, 75, 3S8, 583. West, 540. Windtor, 122. INLANDS. Antigua, 592. AM.Mitic, 355. Barbadoes, 592. ULTinuJa, 35;-7u, 5JU. Ulackwell's, 69, 70, 90, 469. Brady, 478. Campob-'Uo, 160, 265, 269. Cape Breton, 289, 29-5, 311, 366. t:apri, 552. Coney, 27, 47, 8;, 155, 523, 583-5. Dominica, 592. (;ie'i,9i. Grand, 47^, 489. (liand Manan, 36S-9. Hebrides, 467. Ire- land (Bcr.), 355, 3fiS. I.iaj;ue, 214. Long (N. v.), 12, 28, 29, 51, 5'<,63.,,SS, „esee, 2,4 ^'('■ Cniiidl.all, 577- (;reat Kails of Poto- ">■•«:. 3 7f', <97- il.iines, 216, Hemlock, 509 Horseshoe (Niagara), 202. Kaaterskill, a. 6. KezJi (.\Ie.), 577. Mon.morenci, 330 Moxey,574. Nevada, 4,.. Niagara. 28,202 ''4-.6, 293, 3S2, 488, 5S5. Paterson, ,67 P..ntook, 576. Portage, 2,4. Sciota, 34, Seneca, 208, 2,2. Tren.on, 2.0, 2.2, 334-6. Vernal, 49.. VVannon, jr^, 563. Wappin- ger 5,194.5. Yosemite, 4,,,. BAYS AND OTHER DIVIMONS OP WATER. Adriatic Sea, 552. Atlantic Ocean. 48. 64, 176, 405, 4''7. 473, 5 n- AI -xandria Bay ^o.,. liasn, of :.M„as, 2.S6-9. Bedford Basin,' 2«7-8. l!ic Bay, .,29. Bosporus, 48a. Bos- ton Harbor, ,,3, 282. Canso. Strait of, ^*). Caspian Sea, 57,. Chedabucto, 289 Chesapeake, 35^, 377- Cold Spring Harbor (-l.),.5o. Fresh Kills (S. I), .57. F„„,y, P- "*■ G.-orgian, 3, 5., 6, Gowanus, 83 '■^•issy. 35% 3&2, 365. Great South (L I )' ■55. Gulf Stream, 364-5. Hamilton Harbor,' 35S. Harnngton Sound, 359-60. Hell Gate 9°. 9S. Katskill (Lake George), ,86. Kill van Kull, 84, ,55. Long Island Sound, 6., ^-4. 74, 8s, 90, 96, ,28-9, .42, 249. Mahone, ^SS, 293, Mediterranean Sea. 593. Morris Cove, ,33. Mt. Hope, ,08. The Narrows, '4,15s. Newark, 84, ,55. 5S3. .^ .w York. W !n ''/,■ ^"""*«' Arm, 287. North West Ray (Lake George), ,86. Owen Sound. 21<;-l6. Pacific Or-T:^ .;2 .„ '•''eocrysttc Sea, 23. Passamaquoddy. 268. Ixi Pelham. 73, ,«, ,^^ PrOYJdence. ,08. Sa, Harbor (L. I,. 5, St. Lawrenc; Gulf. ,'2 Sanborn.on. 57;, St. Margaret'., 288. S, Inland .V,.„K|, ,55. Tappa,, Sea, 80. Tr,- cadie Harbor. 291. ■ARKS AND SQUARE.S. battery, N. Y., 9S-9, 433, 583. Bidwell. i"ffalo,2o3. lilueGras.,,Ky.,224. Boston Com,m,„, ,o5A Howiing Green, N. Y., 43, Bronx N, Y.. 95-^ Brooklyn ( Ity, ^ Ccmr.nl, N.Y.. 64-8. .. ..5. OS-o. 98, ^. .«7, .97-8. 376. 403. ,32. 45.. 453. 465 6»«. Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Boston, ,02 Hall. N. Y.. 86. ,00. Claremont, N Y 96. L<'Plcy.Sq.(calleu'- Trinity "),,),„„„; ?/■, "*• ^^°"">-^. N. Y., 96. Uruid Hill, Halt., 238. 78,. Last Rock, New Haven .35-6. Ldgewater, N. Y., 96. K. ' ^^,\ Pliila., 389, 679. Fleetwood, N v ,, Front Buf!alo,5S8. Gilmour'.,, 327. Ham^ den. Spnngf,eld, ,,7, 57,.,So. U,n^^,^ Sq •o', >o3. International, Niagara, ,99, 585' Jerome, N. Y., 7,-,, ,, ,,« ^g, , ■ , ' , _ ' > /' J> 75, '3'». 5^2. Luicoln, Buffalo. 203. Llewellyn, N. J ,60-, ,7, Manhattan Sq.. N. Y. 95. Mary's, N Y 96. Morningside, N. Y., 70, 9s. Mt. Morris,' •64. Pelham Bay, N. Y., 9-7o. Pacific, 475. P. D. & E. (Ill), 4S6. Penn- sylvania, 8j, 389, 5S8. Prince Kdward Is- land, 291-3. Richmond & Alleghany, 350. Union Pacific, 473. Valley Branch of H. & <>. , 350. Vermont Central, 184. Wabash, 486. West ^ >re, 83-4, i^8, $89- COLI.BGBS. Acadia, 285. Amherst, 113, 142. Bowdoin, 565. liutler Univ., 7S6. Cambridge Univ., 4^9, 434. 544, 544, 557- 79". " Chrysalis," 428-9. Columbia, (131), 216, 436-7. Cornell Univ., 772. Dartmouth, 50S, 766. Dickinson, 344, 512. Drew Theol. Sem., 344. Kton, 533. Georgetown, 233. (ilasgc v Univ., 545. Haileybury, 544. Harvard, 25, loi, 103, 113, 131, 256, 386, 397, 403, 434-5, 437, 494, 514,658,605, 767. Haverford, 25,389,503, 779. Iowa, 323, 669. Kentucky Wesleyan Univ., 233. Kenyon, 784. King's (Cam.), 429, 434. Kind's (N. S.), 2S6. Knox, 658. I^fayette, 173, 669. Lehigh Univ., 7So.^ Maine Agricultural, 257, 277. Middlebury, 196. New York, 436. New York Univ., 428-44, 454-72. Oxford Univ., 469, 471, 533 Pennsylvania Univ., 38S, 494. Princeton, 434. 777- Rutgers, 159. J^warthmore, 508. Toronto Univ., 318 Trinity (Cam.), 544. Trn't' 'Hartford), 136. Virginia Univ., 350, 47 Poin., 194. Williams, 185. Yale, I , 127, -3, 140, 256, 304, 800-405,414, 434-5. 43 447. 464-6 94. 657, 660, 711, 722-3, 72S, 732, 770. PUBLIC DUILDINGS. Agriailturni Hall, London, 547-8. Alex- andra Palace, ..ondon, 535, Alnwick Castle, 390, 4,o\. Alumni Hall, Yale, 398-g. Ar- mory, Springfield, 114, 124-5, 580. Arsenal, N. Y. '•5. Benedick, N. Y., 65, 440. Bicy- cle Club Houses : Baltimore, 5';o, 781 ; Bos- ton, 105-6, 767; Brooklyn, 97, 586; New York, 96, 586; Philadelphia, 589; St. Louis, ' 652 ; Washington, 500. Boston Cyclorama, | 385. Capitol, Albany, 192. Capitol, Wash- i ington, 371-2, 501. Centennial Building*, I'hila., 389. Cheshire Academy, Ct., 134, 250. "Chrysalis I ollegc," 428-9. Citadel, Halifax, 287, >'>2. City Halls : Boston, 105 ; ItriMiklyn, H8; B.iffalo, 52 ; New Haven, ijj ; New York, 48, 7S, 82, 85, 8.'' 99, 100, ^ft\ Philadelphia, 389; SpringficW, 117, 120, 124-5; Yonkers, 78. Cosmian Hall, Florence, Ms., 119. Court Houses: Boston, 105; Brooklyn, 90; New York, 48. Ciystal Pal- ace, l^ondon, 405. Custom Houses ; Boston, 105; New York, 369. Elm City Kink, 401. Equitable Building, N. Y., 91. Kaneuil Hall, Boston, 105. Cirace Church, N.Y ,66. Grand Central Depot N. Y., 99. (irey- stone, N. Y., 79-80. Insane Asylum, Balti- more, 377 Institute of Technology, Boston, 106, 582. Kentucky State House, 233. Lick (Jtjservatory, Cal., 490. Litchfield Mansion, N. Y., 5S5. Ludlow St. Jiil, N. Y., 8<>. Lyndehurst, N. Y., 79-80. Manor House, Yonkers, 78. Massachusetts State House, 104, 113, 116. Mechanics' Pavilion, Port- land, Or., 492. Memorial Hall, Dedham, Ms., T07. Metropolitan Methodist Church, Toronto, 318. Monastery, N 1., *e,ert of Despair, 57,. l,„ir. Hole" llermuda, jto. i,|u„,p j^ „ ^_ KoreM „f I,,an. 5^0, (., , Forks .if ,he K^mubcc, Me., 573.,. Kor.y Mile Hush, N Z., 5f>8. Forty Mile Desert of Nevada 476. Furca Pass, 53a. (;„a, Ame xa„' >""t, 4/7. Great Plain, of Utah, 475 Hanging Rocks of Ncw|x,rt. ,08. Hi/h MruJKe o„ the Harlem, 707.. 583. Holborn \'aS, 7SS. Lelilgli Univ , 7£o. Leroy,772. LtxinstoM, 783. Liveriiool Cycle linslers', 791. Lombard, 694. Lon- don, 5v?, 5tt, 5'''8, 7')i. LouiUm) Scotlisli, 553. Long Island, 97, s'*'''. 77'- Louibville, 527, 783. Lowell, 517, 7&8. ALicon,7S2. Madison Co., 7S7. Maiden, 768. Manchester, 500, 766. Manlialtan, 1S7. Mansfield, 779. Mar- blehead, 7f>8. Mannlon, 563, 794- Mary- land, 5, 652, 7S1, •A^assacliusolts, 105-6, 113, 25H, 271, 504, S08, 512, 5'7,^'79. 767. 774- Massdlon, ;S5. M.uicli Cluink, 779. Me- dina Co., 7S5. Melboiin-.e, 55S-9, 561-3, 706, 703. Mcrv.|-.lils, 7S3. Mercury, 772, 7?5, 7S7. Meridin, 128, 138, 769. Merriniac, 768. Metropolitan of Iowa, 7S7. Middlesex, 554, 5h7. Middlelo'\n, 769, 772. •Milford, 76S. Millbury, 768. MilNille, 777. Milwaukee, 519,767. Missouri, 787. Monmouth Co., 778. Moiitclair, 777. Montc^omcry, 7S3. Montreal, 330,504,790. •Montrose, 779. Morris, 776-7. Mountain, 779. Nacionel, 790. Nashua, 50S, 766. Nasl-.ville, 783. New f5r;tain, 770. Newburg, 772. New Haven, 660, 770. New Jersey, 777-S. New London Co., 770. New Orleans, 500, 7S3. 'New York, 24, g*"'. 5'54> 586-7, 772-3. Niagara Falls, 775. Nobles- viUe, 786. Nonantum, 768 Normamby, 793. Norristown, 779. Norti. Adelaide, 793. Noithanipton, 127. ?''''• North London, 534, 543,791. North Otap;o, 794. ! U.th Road, 557. Oakland, 492, 789. Old Domini"-!, 7S2. Oiean, 775. Oin.iln, 78S. Oran<;e, 509, 530, 725, 76S, 776-7. Ore.^on, 788. Osk.loosa, 7S7. Oswepo, 775. tittiwa, 3./, 330, 789. Ottunv.va, ^87. *Ovid, 6f-o, 7S5. Owl, ,29, 776. Oxford Univ., 568. Pahquioque, 769. Park City, 7S3. Passaic Co., 778. Paw- tucket, 769. Penn City, 500. •Pennsylva- nia, 589, 652, 7S0. Pr .ria, 783,787. Pequon- nock, 769. Perth Anihcv, 777. •Philadel- phia, 5S9, 652, ,-77. Pickwick, 567. Pilot, 793. Pine Tree, 765. Pioneer, 567, 569, 794. Port L'.sin, 315, 789. Portland, =59, 1/5,766. Portsmoulh, 785. Pottstown, 484, 78" Preston, 566. Princeton, 787. Prii.oe- ton Coll , 777. •Providence, 769 Ramllers. ing, 780. Rcdfern, 565. Rho""e, 557-8. Albu.., 645. Aldrich, ,3, Alex.inder, 33,. "Algernon." 64.. Albn' S;^- Allen, ,54, .86. 339, 34S. 554, 674, 688." All.n-, 627, 657. Aim, *b2i. "Am Ih. " 41'. Ames, ,24. Amherst, ,27, 18; nis (>.a Ammen, 352. "Ananias," ", ' Anderson (232). Ander.on, 537. Andr^. 76, 80, ,69. Andrew.,, 645. App, 500. Apple. ..-,700. Appleyard,4.5S4,5S7. Archt , b.>kl, 470. Anst.des. 7,8. Arming, 564 ' Am.,rong 466. Arnold. ,5, ,59. 30,, 728 Ar.y," 84,. A.sh, 564. /.shbv, 347, 3,8 Ash..ead. 646. "Asmodens." .4. ' Aikinsi ■•■.655,677. Atkinson. 64s, 653. Atwater, 6 - (.^0. 423, 722.3). Aube,458. Aurelius. 466. Au.stm,.628. Au,en,663. Au.y, 644 Averv, 674. Avers *i,'< „ i 675. '.6(70,). *■«-- 55.. 594. '627.8, .J'!'**^'?"'"'- '^^'^"-.'J- Bxdeker, ^93,6,0. Bagg, .83,20,, 209-.0, 6.0 (,3c., [r.;,f"".''^'°''^'- ^^^i'^y.-t03. Haird, 560, 668 (020). B.ker,.487. Baldwin, 38/ 57?, 5S2, 609, 65s (395). bale, 696. Ball' 55.. 1 allantyne, 635. Bancroft (2,, 405' . Bar, 609. "Bard." 50V Bardeen h'^y Bardwell,6,o. Barkman, .530, 584.; 5;. 625, 655, 677. Ba.ow, 564. "B;rnaU' Barnes, 323 600, 635, .668.9. Bamet, ": '''• ''"'■ B^^--"'. 609. Barrick, 376 ;-o% 553,689. Barthol, 55.-2. BaVtS i '. 6-:8. Barton, 20,, jio-i, n , 5' -•■"45 (369). Bashall,645. " Basil "'^' U:7-S). Basilnn- 700 B.^ T .^"^' •-,- »r ^^ B.ison,562. Lassett, --M29. 633,657(3... 673, BaL^.^:: --37.- Baw^;;;na.r «;::;;• ; Beck ' '''. ^'^'''•''^ «-''y. 627,^,575(633). Beddo.(232). Beeb... 609. Beecher,403. Beers. 99, ,c.. ,26. .77 Begg, 635. Bell. .529, 533. b,,,^^ "5. „t;?''T '^'="'■-'"'355. 483. 66.. 'Be': 499.m'';; '• "'="^°"'"o. Ben.lev. 499 (.3.). Benton, 5.0. Bernhara, .54 Berrnyer69,. Bettison. 530. " Bibl op " ^9. B,dwe„. ^, ,s,, _,^^_ ^^^ ^ ^P; ',4 5. Biederman, 66,. Bigelow. 523, .oc. Pnn. 482, 543 Bird, 2 Bi,.hop. 43, 550, -3-4, 652, 728. Blue.. 64, RI J' ^;, B;-Ha,^, ..ack,;am,S. bS .. Ble . ""'^''='^'' '^^- ^'^'^''U Rnt f'"^' «3- B'yh. 658. Bly,he,635 Bogardu,, 493. Bolton, 548, 683. Bon.n, . 69. Bones." ,3,. ,..,„e,l,628. Boot.v B -, r ™*' ''''■■ '^°»*°"h, 65s 554. Bous,e.,634. Bowen, 22,.2, 563. 5«-, I Brar r"'"^'*5*'- f^—n ,'584^' B aclcock, 243. Bradford (463, 607).' Cd: '^y. ^54, 579. Bradney, 645. Brady, ,7, foTTT '"'^'^^^•''•- Brewster 3 o*- 94.627,643,657. Br,dgman,.55.. Brierl 330, 63 ,.5, .669. Briggs, .,,, 5 Wham, „4. Bristed, .7.7. Br"o J„ roadbe,u,562 Brock. 3.S2. 545. Bro^.e.r. '77. Brooke, 609, 645. Brooks, 679 (4.2) B-mley, ,76. Brown, .4.. ,70. Z^^ 3S4. 47,, .537, 5, , „j_ 55,, 5oo. 627, 6S^ -wn."92,,^,5„,,^^^^,, Brownin,, 655. Bruce, 470, .628. Brunelleschi, 429 Bryan 700. Bryan,, ,„, ,,^, ^^ ^'^ 6 6 p'r' ' '''• '*'■ '^-hanan OTO. Bucking .am, sirr C,6,i R„jj . "R„ff,. 5'U-',i8r, ,9,, ,97) Bujk,64, Buff, 424. Bull, 22,. 222. "402," 5S bI"*''^^''^^^^"-'^). Bullin,r. L b:r;r:.^;:rr^'^.---^.-7). -Bur- n„..„„ ' •-/J,'//, "urchard (460) ^2 66 '";"'■ f- ^"^''^■'^7. Burn 645 ^5^. 665, 69,. Burnett. 645, Bur.,ham, jjf, Ixvi TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 675, 6<33- B"", 157. Burrill, 627. Rurs- toii, S5S-0, 5(>o. Burt, 632. Bury, 647, 6S7. Busby, 5>'<. Butcher, ii.(, 127, 135, 147.320. 322,374. 500. 50^-^. 5". 5'7. 5'9-»'. 524, 52*^. 52S-30 (7m)- Butlur, 2o8, 517. 554, 'J'-l- Buzi.inl, s'>o. "l!yng,"42S. liyron (>, 224)- Cable, 331. C,-.klcli.nigli, G45. Callaliaii, 4-^3. Call.iii, •545. Callander, 553. Ca'ver- Ity, 34, 466, 472. Calveii, 56... Cameron, iv. Campbell, 127, 330. 4»»- C:..npling, 537. Canary, 47, 133. f'93- CamUeman, 383. Can- fie!(l,2i5. Candy, "Gi 3. Cann,5(7. Caples, 492. Carl, 101. Carlcy, 610. Carman, 326. (.barney, S7). Carpenter, 643. Carroll, 63*. Carter, 14.,, 384, 560. Carver (25>), 274, 286). C-'rv, 542 681,731. Case, 73, 583,646. Cas- »ell,6S7. Castiglione, 2S0. Caiherwood, 657. " Cerberus," 458. Chadwick, 158. Cliamard, 62« Chambers, 652, 675. Champe, 169. Champl.ain, 185. ChancUer, 128, 370, 673 (25, 261). Cliase, 628, 658. Chapin (464). Chatfield (405). Chatham, 444. Chickering, 322. Child, 5-7. Ihilds, 3S9. Cbinn, 112, 655,677(258,281). Christ. .phrr, 646. Chubb, 315, Churili, 524(726). Churcliill,656, 663, 672, 678-9,(428.). Cist, 352. Clapp, 627, 727. Clare, 331. Clark, 132, 5S9, 6io, 627, 643 (475). Clarke, 244, S'"". 57°. 5^1, 628, 678-9 (168,727). Clay, 243. .142- Clegg, 689. Clem- ens (iv., 356, 640). " Clericus," 688. Cleve- land (547, 726). Close, 645. Cobb, 106, 109, 646. Cod. Cowper,4o') Cox, 320, 352,538, 5'«-i. (,"oy ((oo). Cia: . i 10, s/v, 580. Craigie, 645. Craigin, 488. Cramer, 501. Crane, 670. "Crapaiid," 141. "Cra- poo," 141. Crawford, 22S, 590. Crawshay, 645. Cripps, 675. Crist, 675. Crocker, 610. Croll,55.9. Crooke,553,557. "Crookshanks," 4S9. "Crorcroran," 422. Crosby, 609. Cross- man, 376. Cruger, 194. "Cruncher," 410. ' rusoe," V. "Cuff," 506. Cummings, 627. Ciinard, 592. Cunni.igham, 221, 503, 517, 523,651,656,666-7,712. Cupples, 112,113, 655. "Curl," 407-25. Currier, 112. Cur- tain, 491. Curtin,64S. Curtis, 519. Cutten, 56,. "Daggeronl," 429. 439- Daguerre, 43'- Dalton, •5o(, 655, 674, Dana, 403. Daniel, 553, 558. Daniels, 407. Dante, 429. Dar- nell, •244, 4, 589. Davies, 645. Davis, 127, 403, 563, 698. Day, 127, 281, •512, 557, 5S1, 658 (258, 272, 277)- L)ean, 325, 526, 602, 663-5(719). Dear (379). De Baroncelli, 645, 651, 688, •GrjS-g. " De Bogus," 429. 439 De Civry, 552-3, 697, 699. Decrow, 133. " D.>dlock," 466. De Forest (452, 724. 727) Defoe (v.). De Garmo, 400. De Uline, 700. De Ligne, 645. Delisle, 611. Delmonico, 611. " DeMolletts,"429, 439- Demosthenes, 457, 724- " Densdeth," 429. Derri^'gtnn, 646. De Senanconr, 468. Destree, 561. De Villers, 699. Dickens, 349,466, 728(354, 410, 724). Dickinson, 90, 344, 512. " Dido," 305. Diederich, 679. Dieskau, 185. Dignam,669. Dimock, 293 (274, 2S6). Dinsmore, 666 Diogenes, 14. Disraeli (724). Dixon, 493 Dodge, 6io, 657. Donly, 3,^". 59"<.*634. 655. 669,677. Doolittle,*3'9. '('34 Dorion, 33f> Dm r, 366-7. Doublelay, 352,385. Doughty, 154. Douglass, 33C1, 3.}0. Downey, 38.1, 610. Dowling, 'sii. Downs, 658. Draper, ,31, 470. Draucker, 609. Dray, 646, 651 " Dreeme," 429. 43'. 43S-4'- I^i^ew, 5"". 537, 512. DruUard, 573. Drummond, 6.(6 Drury, 68S. Drysdalc, 356. Dubois, 'biT. 697, 699. Ducker, •524, *5f>'. 58°. 615. ^'J'. 655, 661-2, 675, 693, 710. Duncan, 552, \<^. 687, 6<)7, "699. Dinin, 625, 627-8. Dunsford. 567. Durrant, 687. Duryea, 388. Dm- ckinck, 434. 439- Dw'Sh'. '27- Eager, 634. Eakin, 66g. Eakins, 330-!, 634. F.arly, 347- Kastman, 577- Ka-^^lon, 639. Eddy, 327. Ediin, 4- Edward, 2J! Edwards, 499. 5'>4, 6)5. 695, 696 (;.''•] Ef'ndi, 481. Egali, 481. Kgan, 667 (i?4) •377. 378. " Klias." 679. Elizabeth, 45' INDEX OF PERSONS. i:!mcr, 60,. E!we!l. 'sjo. 57,, 57,. .627 -5;. =''9. 353-4, 358, 362, 365, 368.70). Ely ■-?, 5Jf>, 643. «» (3ii^>). E.nerson, 72,, 73^ K.npson, 560. Ei.Rleheart, 553. English, 6,0, I't", f.75- Eiislow, 35,. Eniler,6io. Erics- s..:., 593- Eri.berg, jSg. Ernst, 697. Ers- kw,.-. f,S4. Etherington, 524, •546-8, 648, 6S5, '''<). O.J2-3. EuripiUos, 466. Evans, 211,' 3^o-'. 334, 37S, 609, 645, 669 (386). Evarts 7.M ((64). Everest, •6.,S. Everett (.79, ,89' >';U Kverts, 581. Ewell, 347. " *'a«^'" 534, 543, 55', (>M, 643,647. Fair, 5M. lanfu-lU (.OQ,,,4). Falconer, 555, 686. i ariH.iy, 403. Farnsworlh, 55,. Earrsj, Inrr.m, 6K5. Farrar. 575, 645. Farrell', 5^7' '•'■■ '■••"■""Ston, 5,7,645. Favre,698 Feldt' ma„n, 645. Fell, 553, 628. Fenoglio, 700 renwicl<,635. Ferguson, 62S. Ferris 470 KessL-mlen,3i,. Field, 80. Fields, .5 Fink ler 4S9, 492. Fish (276). Fisher, 345, 6^„ Ixvii Oroom, Ou.'ick, ^.^k,4,8. Fiske.»„3,,42..,,,, Eitton, 5% 5^.7. Klag!or,475. Flei,,6.2. .t-ieming, 245 500.^57. I'-letcher, 555, 556.7, 646. Florence' .144. Floyd (2,4). Folg. 370. Eontaine,' 2^4,523. Koote,55<,. Fo,ce,352. Former, 55V Foster, 93, 5,3, 635. 655, •6r,7, 674, W) I'oiilkes, 562. Foiirdriiiier, 663 •665 lowler (224). Fox, 686, 688-9, 693 ' (4,4)' ^>-klln,3,S6,702. Fraser,329,553 Frazer, 33'. 645. Freer, 20.. Fremont, 42,. Fri b»rs,529. Fuller, 574, 645 (4.0). Fumivall, 675 I'usscll, 685. Fyffe, 560. Gadd.645. Cade, 570. Gaines, c.r, 379 <'.'.n..,e(,64). (iambitz, 494. Gamble, 553 ^S< (Mmbrinus, 6.2. Garfield, 93 ,24' ;-nTd,.698. Garrett, 282,688. Garriso : 70?). Cates, .,S-9, .83, ,86, 579, 587. ;;•'»", 5'«-.. CJebert, 698. Geddes, 559-60. t-eesee, 28,. Genslinger, •670. George ^■7, 5^-., 5^.4. Getty, 6,0. Gibb, 645' "l>es,668. Gibbs,35,,3^7. (.-bbons. 69. ■'bson, 4S9, 493, 625. Gifford, 658. Gil! ''".,562(4.>5). Gill, ,27, 560, 6,83. Gilman, ^' '• 5"!, 507, 576, •627, 643, 663-4, 6dinger, 534. GoddaxI, 402-3' ".6SS. God.,,35. Goetze.2.. Golder," 5.. (.oldsm.th (iv.). Goodman, 326, 6,5 "33. 'S5, 675. Goodnow, .527. Goodwin,' 3"o, '535-7, 5„, 553.^_ ^^g ^.^^^^_^_ ^^^^ [3^. ....rman,244. Gormully, 6S3. Gornall, | Coyne, 562. Grace, 96. Gracey, 65S. Grant 4^-5, 724-5, 719, 732. Graves, ,,4, ,,,, ,24 530,627. Gray, 56,. Greatrix,325. Greeley,' 497, 727. Green, .38, 62,, 646. Greene, 327, 352- Greensides, 56,. Gregory, 348 564. Gr.ffin, 646, 683, 685, 689, 6.^. Griffith (3^4;. Griggs, 609. Grime., 581. 645- Grout, 545. Guerney, 553. *627, Gurney, 644. Guy, 552 "Hal." 6.8. Hale, 73,. Hal], „, ,3^ 5^(40.). ilallam. 55 ,.503-4. Halsa.l, 6 7' "amel, 330. Hamerton, 309, 446, 468.9, 73, 722). Hamlin (202, 727). Hamilton, 658 f'75,6S7. Hand, 340. llandford, 560. Han! ■o", 403. Hans,nan, 348-9. Harding, ,27 .87-3. " Hardrider," 506. Harn.an ,54' Harper .58,242,355.3^-., 402.4. 475.483. 700. HarnPston, 4.. Harns, ,64, 627-8, 643. 645 (v., 24, 111, 380). Harrison, 328 553. 5'i3, 663-4. Harrod,236. Harslon, 560' H^"^', 526, 589, 620. 645. 655, .660, 674, 673. Haslett, *628. Haskell (733). Hathawav, ^•23 (25,). Hawley, 65S. Hay, 645, 695. Hayes, 236, 322, 539. '540, 543. 53., •627 Haynes, 2,7, 546, 625. Hazleton, 559-60. ->eu...4. .2,, ,49,244.3.4,506,5"^, 5 .675 (.02, .79. 673). Hcald,,54. Heard. 645. 679. Heath, 503, 62S, 685, 656 Heck. -nu39). " Heep," 424-5. HelmerM Hcnmenway, .5,7. Hendee, 629, 675. 693 -3. 254). Hepinstall, 3.4. 3.9. Herbert 645. Hernu, 5,6, 555. Herrick, 472 (,95 295). Herring, 597, Hesketh,645. Hether! >"gton, 3,0. Heymer, 574. H.bbard, 598, 627.655 679. Hicks, 528.9. Higgins,336 239) H,g,35.,4S4,.485,493,552 5S9.i. 675- Hig.nbotham, 529. Hildebrand, 645 H.ll..,,, ,52,40,, 5«,, ft_,7. „i|,. • 643, 686-7. 6S^9o, 692-3, 694. Hills, 557' 639,645 Hi„chc.ifTe,.45. Hitchcock. 675 Hoad. 398,400-,. HoadIcy,4oo. Hodges, 664,674.704(67-8). Hodsi„s.r>g5. Hodc- ";an,562. Hoffman, 323. Hoffmaster, 2.f Hogg, 628. 645. 649, 695. Holcombe. 323.4 H. Horsman, ,00. Honghto',,, 386. 402' 504,65s. Housser.633 Hovey.2o,. How! •■"•". .27, 34''. 453, 5.2. 549. •550. 6^,6-7, 68,-. (1)3, 320,651). How,.M.67.:. H.-.-.i^^=!U -.-' 554 Gould, 79. Gowdy , 527- Gay, 688. 423. Howland, •6 56-7 (659)- Hov Hubbard, 482, 696. Hudson, ,85. Hn'gh. 404. sk: Ixviii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A DICYCLE. 553. 645- Hugo, 429. Hull, 5J9. Hume, 561,365. Humphrey, 35J. Hunt, 122 (304). Hunter, '•670, 675. Huntingcloii,677. Hunt- ington, 5S2, 635, 628. Huntley, 675. Hunts- man, 557. Hurd, 402. Hurlbert (431, 441, 463, 720-1). lUingWOrth, 645. Imboden, 347. Ingall, 5W. 'MS- Inwards, 68<;. lliffe, 548, 550, 64S, G84-87,f)8i>-i)2, 594. Irons, 646. Irving, 79. Irwm, 559, •()28. " Is.il)el," 115-6 (427-8;. Ives, 675. " Ixion," sivS, 673, 688. "Jack," 4'o-J5. Jackson, 347, 643. I Jacques, f)98. Jacquin, 611. Jacquot, 651, 699. Jaman,347. James, 432, 543. Jarrold, 683. Jarvis, •486. Jefferson, 339, 351, 435, Jeffery, 68j. Jeffries, 546. Jenkins, •187, •3»7. 330. 559. 567-8. •627. 635. •f'66-8, 677 (617,619,704-8). Johnson, 185,323,347,352, 40S, 4J7. 43^ 470. 50S. 5 '3. 588. 615. *('i8, 643. fM5. '^'77. f>7'). 7''5 (■'"). Johnston, 470, 634. " Jonathan," 402 Jones, 69, 283-4, 538. '539. 6^7. 645. ^4. 7'<) (368). Joshua, 733. Joslin, •197 (22, 107, 171). Joy, sfxj. Judd, 5S2, 685, •689, 692. " Juggernaut," 444. Jumcl, 72. " Jupiter," 688. iUUm, '34 Kaltell, 218. Keam, ■;^2. Kecfe, 561, 565. Keen, 547, 686. Keith- Kalconcr, 1,55. Kellogg, 493. Kelly, 690 (706). Keinble, 728. Kemmann, 697. Ken- dall, 112, 526, •627, 675, 686. Kendrick, 182. Kenworthy, 645. Kerr, 598. Kerrow, 553. Kershaw, 526. Kctcham,*ig7. Kider- len, 553. Kiilits, 349. Kinch, 588, 658. King, 1 13, ij6-7, 672, 61)8. Kirkpatrick, '627, 677. Kirkwood, 575. Khige, 675. Knapp, 675. Knight, 562, 645, 688. Knowlton, 336. Knox, •628,658. Knox- Holmes, 645. Koch, 554. Kohont, 553. Kolp, •340. Kostovitz, 481, 551. Kron, 23, 48, 6j, 279. 3J6, 367, 526,671,679,706, 720. Krug, 523. Kurti, M)S. Knsel, '524. Ladish, 671. I.afon, 156. Laing, 645. Laird, 62S. I.akin, 378, 508, 526-8. Lalle- ment, 139-42, 394. I.amb, 114, 434. Lam- son, 17, 22, 41, 45, 616, 714 (260-1, 269, 273). Landy, 675. Lane, 330 (399). Lang, 686, 722. Langdown, *if^. Langer, 697. Langley, '530, 635 (319). Lansdown, 327. Lansing, 656. Larette, 693. I.arkin, 177. Lathrop, 127. Lawford, 504. T,jwrence, 93,295. Lawlon,*627. Lazare,666. "Lean- der." 216. Lee. 55S, 679. Leeson. 645. Leete, 132. Lrfger, 699. Lennox, 554-5, 645, I 686. Leo(ji4). Leonard, fio^. Leslie, 323. Lester, 559. Letts, 681-2. Lewellyn, 559. Lewis, 7, '524, 62S, 631, 652, 696 (463). Lil'ibridge, 128, 578. Lincoln, 127, 422, 447, 465. 7J4-5. I-iiie, 554- Lippincott, 1, i68, 658, 702. Lister, 5to. Little, 47' 5i, 680. Livingston, 594, 627 (714). Llo,u, 151, 555. Locket, 645. l^gan, 609, 645. Long, 5?k-,. Longfellow, 430. Longman, 6S7. L»ng- strelli, 618, Loomis, 527. Lord, 237. Lord- ing, 561. Lossing, 700, Louis (24). Lover- iiR. 5^5. '>79. I-ow. 523, 54S, 659, 689, •690. Lowry, 5^.9. Luke, 645. Lyne, 566, 696. Lyon, 218. Lyons, 470. Macaulay, •527. McT.ride, 319, 634. McCall, 378. McCandlish, 548, 689, •690. McCann, 527. McCaw, 326. McClellan (422). McClintock, 680. McClure, 515, 656, 658 (702). McCook, 228. McCormack, 523. McCray, 655. McDonnell, 128, 138, 149, »37. ■ 1'^. 325. 3S8, 484. 508-13, 5'5-'7. 5'9-2o. 524, 527-30, 553, 569, 575, 714. McC.arrett, 114,631. "Mcllillicuddy," 433. MacGowan, '97. 579. Mclnturff (345, 3S3). McKee, 41. McKenzie, 660. Mackey, 100. Mc- Manus, 611. McMaster, 186. McMillan, 587. McNathan, 670. McNeil, 582. Mc- Nicoll, 598. MacOwen, 619, 674. Macown, 325. McRae, 652. Macredy, 640, 645, 652, 695. McTigue, 315. MacWilliam, 548, 680, 693. Maddox, 645. Mahan,35i. "Mahher," 422. "Major," 658. Manny, 666. Marche- gay, 698. "Margery," 506. Markham, 223, Marriott, 553-5, 557,646, 685. Marsden, 627 Marshal, 578. Marston, 659. Martin, 2S1, 564, 652. Marvin, *66o, 6;^. 687. Mason, 121, 323, 523, 559-60, 645, 681-2. Mathews (438,457-61). Matheys, 245. Matthews, 500, 587. Maveety, 323. Maxwell, 245, 500. May, 567. Maynard, 610. Mayor, 553. Mead, 164, •509. Meagher (422), Meeker, 493. Menzies, 686. Mercer, 553, 557, 686. Merrill, 198, 401, 476, ^492, 609. Mershon, 67S. Meyer, 547, 645. Meyers, 668, 6-vS. Midgely, iii, •513, 515 (258, 274, 276-7, 270) Miles, 672. Miller, 244, j6f, •627, 634, 643, 6;>;, 675, 679(338, 630). Milner, 542-3, fW- Mills, 492, 553, 555-8, 645, 686 (v., 338, 6jo), Mitchell, 645. Mobley, 242. Moigno, 6<)S. Monk, 645. Monod,40o-;? Mont' 'm, i?5 Moody, 560, 652. Moore, 172, 210, 3.7, 535, ^48. S54-5. 68?, 68q, •690, 691-3 (720). Moor- house, 557. Morar., 245. Morgan, 499, oio f^DEX OF PERSONS. MoncVe, 7„. Morley. 645. Morris, 645 'Sj. Mornson. ,„, S3£. 670, 693. Morse' 4 (■,434, 470- Mosby,347,37,. Moses, 733 \l'il,47o,s6.. Mountfort, S67. MucW,6i7 "«. Mudge, (.63.4. A/unger, 3:,,.,, 67c' .M>.nroe, ,,8, 6,5, 626, 627, 7.0 (24). Myers' iC;. 500, 'sryo, 62S, •678. Nftdal, 447-9 (444. 721). Nairn, ^40, 55, ' ^'., (.x-,.,;o, 6yj.3. "Nauticus," 684. Need' l>..m,5r,4, Neilson,67s. Nelson, 660 Neu li"tf->, 552- Neve, 686. Newcastle, 470 Ncwma,,, .86. Nicholson, .75. Nimmoi '."'. Nisbet.69S. Nix, 553. Nixon, 55.^ n"',','' " r-M '"• ^''"''' ^'^' ^'°- .N^tl.ur ^87. Nungesser, 83. Nunn,645 O'Brien. 39., 65S. " Ocopus," 690 CV ;l ". -QS Oliver. 6,7, 645. 66<.7. ()i,ap„d, ■'.';. .^""'"^''' 93, 95. 33S. O'Mara, 3.7 N-1. 3.7. Ord. 645. O'Keilly, 65. -,urke, .74. Orr, 635. Osborn, .,7 "-l-".e. 660 Osgood, ,5, ,„, 3,6, 3<:J 5,-5. 577- Otis, 674. Overman, 662-5 (^76 'V». "Owl," 667. Oxborrow,538 ,„' „ ' Padm^.5r..6. Page, 4,;.V4,'3'^'S; ;'>-V". l'ag,s, 6s., 6y8. Pag„i.,u<,, 699 ■'"""' 567-9. "r^keha,"566, 569. Pa^. -v.353,3S6. Palmer, .49. 589. 628, 687. .'"Kborn, 245. Pari.schke, 697. p,,k,678 "'>". «o5. 562, S69, 6.0. Parmely, 57, annenter, 488. Parry, 793. Par«,„s "' 5.6-7,6,6, .627. Patch,,67,2.5-,6. Pater- ^™, 532. 539.40, 542, 68.. Patt,son, 64c ."ion, 500, .670. Paul, ■'442,-588. Pay,,e JU, 68.-2. Peabody. 5.5. Peacock,'"' i'^'">,55!. Pearce,686. Peavey, 576 Peek ■- P-ce 627. PelIecontre,698. Pd.on,' 3!-. ~I1, 530, 6,6,627,655,687, Percy ;:;;. ^'-"-". ^.s, 573 (257. 277,279.' -.-,.00 ■.perker,",A56; Perki'^s, , ■ 645. lerreaux, 648. Peterkin, 645 '•-,..)o-,,672. Pe.tengill, 628, 799(375 :). e...e(26o,276). Pe.ter, 645. ^^p [ 5^-.63,,645,646, 656, 658, 683 (258 277) ''l"!p"l, 646, 650. Piatt „, p- '^^^' i>ick, 5:.. Picte'ri. ; ■ 39;":rr ;-M. Pickett. 386. -.mw;^,.^:;^' "^'■-.3.7. Pitman, 523 Pi..r444) PI ce - ;"ol,643. Pond. 346. Pope, 24, ,06 o- 77;r-^;^^-'''"'^^5'^^«.'68o. ' .^» 711-14. l^niiQyiij .0. Ii,,_i '■^5-^'' '79, .5. (.73).' 678. PosCXl' Ixix "Poliphar." 433. p„„ eii, 348, 645. Pratt, 106, I,, ,,Q ,^, ,, f'. 6.5, 625-7, 643, 656:,. 6;3r',^VS' "7.. 67s, 678, 688^, ,„3 ( ,; . '• ^. ;:-^e47o:525n7s.;T'pS:::.:::- i^u..646. P.„.„,,,,,^,,^^ .,^-59. Badcllffe.430. Raleigh. 57,. Ra],..628 K^IPI'. .54. Kand. 674. Ranken, 65 Kan„,e,698. Ray, 500. Read, ._,. 'Reed kdd'V- f'"''^^^'^- Regamey,lS: 472^ Rennert,6o9. Revell, 249, 542-3. Rev nods,527-8,.333,553-4.646.696"Rh < <'4. 35;. Kich, loi. A,, K.chard, 698. Richards, .678. ^Z^, J. 63, 22., 646, 658. 68s. Richelieu, 459 K.de,ng 242. Rideout, *,^,. Rij' \"- 57-. R,dley(3,o). Rie„y, 3,,. ^,^^^^; ^-goley, r.,8. Ritchie. .72, 507, s,.''!- K...enger, 697. Roach, 3.6. V'bbi, s'. 4 ' -^-.27^ H^kwe.,r;.9.T36.4.t- 678^. Roether,3,5. Rogers. 2,8, 474. 5 6 i, 632, .67.. Rollins 499. Ronai:.-\„; 56 Rood,,97. Roorbach,,64(,72). K.ose- Rosahnd." 439. Rose. 489. Rosenbi h 305. Ross, 579, .627. 635. Rothe, .5,, Kound.687. Rousset, .552-3. Rowe, 543" 620.675. Roy, 330. Roylance, 646. Rucker,' 6 6 r"'!' ''f- ''''^«'"' 598. Rumney 646. Rushworth, .545. K„,3,„ J- H-.^ .38 (58.). R.„er. 599. .;6"^Ryt Sage. St. Germain.,. 470. Salsbury, 544. -Sandham, 279, 348, 5.. -,2 (258, 274) ^Sargeant, .64. Saveall, 646. S..vi e 646 Jwten, 377. 378. Sawyer. 679. s;haap; 628. Scherer. 62S. .Schmied. 697. Schu -Cher, 592. Schwalbach, 586. Scott, 4 4 ^".527 (.398, 727). Scribner, 346, 35,' ' ■ 04.57.65565868, Scn,t,on.646.^k;u<;: Selah, ,54. Senseney. 677. Serrell. .77 Servce, 567. Servoss, ..2. Seward. 724 t^eymour, 332 Shafpr ,.,; 0,,.. ^ *' |07(4.9). Sharp, 529, 673. 69,. siavr:;;; .47. Sheam, 3.4. Sheffey, 484. Shelley, Ixx TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A DICYCIE. 454i 4'''8. Shtparil, 114, 517, 5SS (;oS). Shrppcc, f>4'i. SlKTbiirnc, 578. Slieriiiaii, 344, j;o, 48S (101, 2i>i>-io, 3J4). Shuiff, 500. iSliei riff, 6^0. SIikIiIs, •(>j3. bliiiniiiin, jOi. Shiploii, fi^1-4, fi(^>, fiS7, 6<;i. Sliults, 594, 617. Slirivpi, 5S7. Siild.ill, 71S. .Si;;liiiiil, 5'hi. Sliicimi, 503. Slopcr, 564. Siiiilli, 71, "i;J," 112, iiS, 126-7, 176, i8j-3, 223, y(>U, 4^2, 4')3, ^ly), 502, 5™), 513, 5^h), 57<». 5^'). "<'"7." d^'', ('55i <7'. ^9', "7''^" Siifll, 152. Snicker, 244, 3S?. Snow, h%-;. Socrates, 4M.. Soley, T,. Slarkey, s'm. Stead, fum, (.42, 64(). SlelTner, yto, Steiger, 100. Stei>lieii, 733. Stephenson, *^ii-). Stevens, i^'<, 15S, ao4, 3aj, •473-S4, 'ssi, 552, 55!<, 570-2, 5)0, 655, 657, 668, 675, 6)S. Stevenson, 5^10, yi*.. Stewart, 152, 244. Stiles, 403. "Stilllleet," 42S-9. Stillnian, 450. St2S, 632, '(370. Sutton, 554, (146. Swallow, 'ijS, Sweeney, 612. .Sweetser, 127, 203 (577). Swiss, 13S. Sylvester, 520. Synionils, 520. Sin'der, i. Tag^rt. 551. T.iintor, iqS. Tanner, 639. Tate. 5S3. Tatnm, 520. Taylor, 16S, 21)5, 344, '520, fxT.). Te;etmeicr, 531, 534, 5^2-3, 55S, 50') (v.). Teller, i.)6. " Telzab," 102, 171), 50(1, 5-5, 673. Tennyson, 673. Terrnnt, 4,547. Teriv. 626-7. Thatcher, 400. Thayer, 576,6-2 Theoilore, 61 1. Thomas, 244, 400, 546,6(fv Thompson. 202, 2<*, 216, 5?!. 561, 663. IMiomson, 646. riiorbnrn. , n). 1 home, 55g-6o. Th(.rnfelHl, 562, 565, 6)6. Tibbits (131V Tibbs, 330, 63). 646,66). Tichener, 21R. Ticknor, 10; Tift, 6oo. Tiklen, 7, (464). 'unins, 51. , 1 niker, OSo. 1 isilale, 615. "Titanambnngo," 535. Tims, 658. To- bi.is, f.^r,, "67,,." To.ld, 58.J, 646 (633). Tolstoi, 729. Tonkin, 562. Toiniel, 099. Toscani, 700. Tough, 652. Townscnd, 669. Tciwnson, 646. Tracy, 505. Trigwell, 540. 'I'rocdel, 6i/>. Trow. 100. " Tulkinghorn," 4(/.. 'I'upper, 728. Turner, 558. Turgciieff, 72S. Turrell, 646. Twain, iv., 356, 64a "Twidillc," t,n'>. Twiss, 138. Tyler, 128, '35. '?"<■ •149, 510, t,9\, •627. Uphatn, 112-13, s/J^. 655. Upstill, 562. Undorculiler, 3.S7. Underwood, 508. Ure, 646. Vail, 171. Vaiulerbill, 32, 156, 1S5. Van- derveer, . Van Loan, 1S7. Van Sicklen, 321, 511), •627, 675 (630). Varlct, 651. Var- ley. (.46. Varney (257, 274). Vaux, 95, 666. •Vclox," 688. Verhoeff, •235. Vermeule, 176. Victoria, 471. Viele, 94. Viltnrd, 651. "Viola," 439. Viollct,fxj8. "Virginia," 442. Virtue, 570. Vivian, 322. Vogel, 552. "Von Twiller," 433. Wade, 6 (6. Wagner, 80. Waite (464, 726). Wainwright, 625 (597). '.Vales, 93, 94, 469-70. W.dker, 112-11, 55), 562,646, 651, 679, 697. Wallace, 609. Waller, 4, 547 (130). Wallcy (372). Wallis, 646. Walmcsly, 55). Waltcr- inire, 492. Wapj u , 489. Warburton, 543. Ward, 65S f73c). Waring, 553. Warne, 6S5. Warner, 286,646, 683. Warren, 55S. Wash- ington, 25, 72, 74, 77, 127, 143, 163, 171, 186, ■97. 350. 367, 30>. 434, 702- W.assung, 643. Waterhouse, 557, 627. Waterman, 516, 559. Watson. 112, 154, 554. Way, 635. Way- n)oulh,646. Wayne, 3S0, f«o. "Wealthy," 506. Webb, 352, 55). Webber, 655, *674-5. Weber, 351-2, 629, 675. Webster, 320. Wedg- wo3-4, 676-7, 712. Westbrook, 634. Westcr- \elt. 114, 1S2-3, 321. Wetmorc(i75). Wh.ir- io« "543. Whatton, '544, 646. Whcatlev, 59). Wheeler, 650, 655, r.(.fi-7, 674. Whtler, 3,^5. Whipple, III, 1S2-3. Wbitall, 5:0. Whitcomb, 592. White, 201, 244, 526, 559, 598,674(238-9). Whiting, •138-9, 676. Wig- glesworth, 646. Wiicox, 666 (91, 702). Wi'd, 542. Wiikint.on. 677. 210, 62S. William, 7.'3 Williams, 9;., 185, 316, 510, 558, 577, *";Si, 652, 673, 6<)3 (10;, 25S, 272, 275-6, 452). W)II- lams'.i- ■.-, WillisoniOjS. Willoughby, 5;o, INDEX OF PERSONS. Ixxi "n Wilson, ,00, jSi, 5J5, 53^, 558^ f,^_ ^93 i^m) Winchell, 114. Wimliroj), 4J9, „, ^"•^♦'''"° Wistar,6^7(3„). Witty, 400.' Woo.l. ,5.S, ,72, ,75, ,77_ 3,^_ ^^^.j,^ ^3^^ •iSS.,,, 400, 4,,S, 56,, 584. 5,,,, 6,5^ »627, 675-7 -■It). Woo(lburn,658. Wofxlinan, 530. Wood- '■"'f''. 6.iS. Woodruff, 3,4. W,«ds, 646. VVocdsidc, 4.,<,, 675. Wo, 665, 674, 677. Xenophon viii. Yapplewell. 538. Yates, • ,,.20 (,86). \"P|., 6=S. "Vorick," 402. Vorkc, 68,. \ .n,,,;.:, ,05, 'j,;, .556, 57._ 646, 655, 679, 686. \c)ilil;;rii,iii (3S7). Zacharias. 712 (.70-,, ,74, ,92.3). z^h, ;-i /n.iincrnian, 638. Zmerlych, 551. Zu. '•'WIlZ, 55S. {'oNTKiDUTOR.s' Records. (.Mrs.)J. H.Allen^4. E. /sh,s64 1; Ayers, 'jiS. G. W. H.ikcr, •487, II l!..rkman, •530. E. G. Hanictt, 245 li-'»li"'. 55'-2. J. M. l!arl„„, 20. I'.iv.ctt, 'sj;. (., D. llaicl.elcUr, 575-6 ^ J. liates, 505-6. J. W. Iltll, •529. p. L IJ^rnhai.l, ,54 w. Jjinns, •543. R. q Hi.liop, 563. H. ni.ickwoil, t54. J L Uley, Vij- A. M. Holton, 549, 683 W Howies. •546. w. J. Bown,:,,,, 492. G L liridsman. 'sso. C. P. Bri:;l,ani. 377 G K llroadbent, 562. F. VV. Urock. 545 j' W M. Drown, •537. G. I,. liudds. 565 H '■'ll-i'>. *5(:; W. W. Canficld. 215 W ' "1"'^. •'-'•<, 138. J. K. and T. B. 0,n- *'iy. .■^53, 557- K. R. Cook. •493 J fop '""1. V4-5. K. H. Corson, 525, 57;. h I'. Courtney, 544. M. \V. Couser, •,97. \v' !■ Cr<,ssman, 376. R, C. Cox, 560-. J G "'lton,»5o4. W. W. Darnell, •244 Pc' l>'rrow, xcii. S. H. Day, *^m. J S 1>.M", 52''. P. K. Doolitile, •3,9. 15 \v Kousl.ty, ,54. J. n. Dowlinj;, '52,. S B l-nwncy, 3S9. f. E. Dndlard, 574. HE ''"cker, *524. A. Edwards, 565. F. A. El- ■''«', ♦377- H. Ellierin-ton, *546-S. \V '' •■■•^■•'"s. 378. r. K. F.ilconer, 555 w' l>rnn5ton,5,7. H. C. Kinkier, 4S9.92 (; u- T^'i^' '•^' "'■ *^'^- J- ••'''•""• s-^^-S- W 1. Flemnis, 245, 500. L. Fletcher, 554, B. A. H. A. L. W. V G 'l"ian. "so?- S. Colder, M Ooodnow, J27. ir. R. Goodwin, •335-7. 55 (. C. H. R, Gossett, 554. L. B. Graves, '■4. r. \. Hallaui, 563. H. B. Hurt. 526. A. aye,, .5,0-,. y, D. H.-lmer, 2,6. E. Z ''""'^""='>'' 'S'?. C. H. IIcpinstall.jM. y.K. Hicks, 52s. H. J. Hi«h, .4S5. 'c. ^4S6. F. Jenk.ns. •.87. F. M. .S. Jenkins, 327. 330. H. J. Jenkins. 568. H. J. Jones, 538-40. J. T. Joshn. .,97. e. D. Ker! ^haw.526 R.Ke,charr,,..97. A. J. Kolp. •340. I. J. Kusel. .524. W. H.Langdown 5 >9-70. C. Lanpley. .530. J. I,„„,„,, ' Wew.s.VM. C.H.Lyne, 565-0. 696. J D. Macaulay. .527. R. h. McBride. 3,9 <- P. MacGowan, ,97. T. R. Marriott^ 55t-5,557. E. Mason, •523. R. D. Mead 507. C. B. Mercer, 55,, 557. K. T. Merrill' 4';2. I. Mulpely, •5, 3., 5. A. K. Miller ^44^ G. P. Mills, ♦555.8. A. N.xon, 554-5' J^ F. Norris, 567. H. C. Ogden, .9S. A H. Padntan, 560-,. W. B. Page, .494.9, 573-8. R, VV. Parmenter, 488. G L Par' '"'-■'cy, 579. A. S. Parsons, *^,(, £ V" Poayey 576, J. a„d E. R. Pe„nell, '530 W. .. Perham, .5,5. R, j.. PLin;,,,, .^ „ C. t. Pratt. *5o3. H. R. Reynol.l., jr ' ^533-4 A. C. Rich, .93. E. and W. Rideom' 491. A. E. Roberts, 563. R. p h. Rob- erts, 54,. S.Roether,3.5. A. S. Roorbach ■&4. W. Rose, 489. T. Rothe, •5,5 p' Rousset, .552. J. F. Rn,R, 565. g! H.' Rushworth. '545. T. S. Rust, ,38. F Sals- b"fy. 544- E. E. Sawtell, •377 l W Seely, 34,8-g. M. T. .Shafer, 2,6 F W .Sherburne, .78. H. P. and G. H. I^hinimin; f '• \ '■^- ■^•^'P'«". 69,. T. B. Son,ers. 520. S. G. Speir, , c. .Spencer, 554 J. W. Stephenson, 'sig. G. T. .Stevens, 55 , T. Stevens, •473.84, 570-2. H. Sturn.eyi 54S-9. F. O. .Swallow, 128. F p Sv --d.s.5a9. J. E. R. T.igar,, 553. (/j, Taylor, '520. E. Tegetmeier, 53,-3 ^ ,. Thayer, 576. R. Thompson, 2.6. r' a' and T. H. Thompson, 56,. M. Thornfeld. 562, 5^,5-6, 696. C. E. Tichener, 21S N PT.vler, .28, ,38-9.',49..5,o. N. H. Van .Sicklen.5,9, J. M. Verhoeff, •235-7, J S Whattnn, •544. H. T \Vh.-„l„w •543 J K. Whuing, ,3,s. F. K. Van Mee.'beke,' xcv. H. & VV J. Williams. ,,6. H VV VViiiia 551- A. J. Wilson. • •5>>->2. W. W. Willi; 534 5^8. S- H. S. Wood, •333. Ixxii IlC.y THOUSAND MILES ON A B/CVCLE. C. C. Woolw'jitli, •14S. F. E. Yaiei, •;i9. A. Young, '525. 1. Zmertych, 551. Journalism of tub Wheel. The history of cycling journals and books may be found between p ^.53 and p. 700, and most of the following ri (ertnces arc within thoac limits,— full-faced type show :ig the more-important ones : Algemeine Siiort-ZiilunK((',er.), 697. Ama- • teur Athlete (N. Y.),«ltt.20, 667-8. Ameri- can Bicycling Journal, 26, 504, 534, 643, 6fi5-6, ^4> 687, 715. American Wheelman (St. Louis), 52S, 654, 671-2, 716, 7i>9. Archery & Tennis News, W13, 668. .'\rchery Kield (Bos- ton), 658-9, Wjj, 668-9. Athletic News(Eng.), 693. Athletic News & Cyclists' Journal (Eng.), 6S8. Athletic World (Eng.), 688. Australasian, 696. Australian Cycling News (Melbourne), 558, 562-5, 652, 654, 605-6, 706. Australian Cyclist (.Sydney), 564, 606. Australian Sports & Pastimes, 6<>6. Bicy- cle (Hamilton, Ont), 661. Bicycle (Mel- bourne), 695. Bicycle (.Montgomery, .■\la.), 060,670. Bicycle (N. Y), 660. Bicycle & Tricycle Gazette (Kng), 688. Bicycle Ga- zette (Eng.), 6S8. Bicycle Herald (.Spring- field, Ms.), ./2. Bicycle Journal (Eng.), 687-8. Bicycler's Record (I^awrence, Ms.), 660. Bicycle Rider's Magazine (Eng.), 688. Bicycle South (New Orleans), 654, 670,672. Bicycling News(K.ng.), 541-2, 544, 548-9, 557, 6S3, 687-8, 680-00, 693-5. Bicycling Times & Touring Gazette (Eng.), 547.8, 688, 692. Bicycling World (Boston), 23, 27-9, 74, 92, 101-2, 104-5, '°7. "•■ "4, "t. 128, 150, 152, 157, 161-2, 164, 171, 179, 181, 199,202, 214, 217, 2j8, 249, 251, 253, 2S1, 314, 322, 340, 4S7-9, 492-3. 5"o. 503-4. 506, 508-12, 514. 517-iS, 522, 525-6, 530, 553, 573, 575-6, 57,S, 591, 600, (>02-4, 615-18, 629, 643-4, 656-9, 662-6, 6«)-7, 669, 671-2, 673, 675, 677-80, 683-6, 684-5, 702. 704,798. California Athlete (San FrancisL , 661, 688. Canadian Wheelman (London, Ont.), 315. 319, 321, 326, 5^),), 635, 641, 654, 660, 660-70, 707. Cleveland Mercur> (O.), 660. Cycle (Milford. Ms), 660, 666, 678. Cycle (Boston), 664-S, 79S. Cycling (Cleve- land), 245, 526, 660. Cycling (Eng.), 6SS-g, 691. Cycling Budget (Eng), . Cycling Times (Eng.), 6S6, 689, 79S. Cyclist (Eng.), 534, 537. 540. 648.!>, 551-2, 554, 56S, 599, b^^. (Bel.) 700. Cyclist & Athlete (N. V.), 663, 666, 668-9. C. T. C. Gazette (Eng.), 599, 636-44, 651-2, 687-8, 691, 694-5, 798. Cyclos (Eng.), 688. Elizabeth Wheelmen (N. J,), 660. Field (Eng.), 531. Hamilton Bicycle (Ont.), 661. Hamilton Wheel Journal (O), 660. Illustrated Spirts (Eng.), 695. Ingle- side (San Francisco 6o<>, 661, 672. Irish Cycling & Athletic News (Dublin), 654, 695. Irish lyclist & Athlete (Dubhn), 640, 652, 654, 695. Ixion ^Eng.), 688. Journal de» Sports (Bel.), 700. Land & Water (Eng.), 642, 695. L. A. W. Bulletin (Phila.), 310-11, 323, 3.SS, 500, 572, 578, 583-90, 594, 614, 618, 620-21, 624-r,, 629-30, 633, 635, 654, 661, W.2, 665, 668, 674, 679, 707-8, 717, 720. Maandblad (Dutch), 700. Maine Wheel, 661. Mechanic (Smithville, N. J.), 522, 577, 671. Melbourne Bulletin (Vict.), 6<;6. Midland Athletic Star & Cycling News (Eng.), 688, 695, Mirror of ..merican Sports (Chicago), 672. Monthly Circular of C. T. C. (Eng.), 636, 691. N. C. U. Review (Eng.), 648, 660. New Haven Bicych Herald, 660. N. Z. Referee, (xfi. Olympia (Eng.) . Out- ing (Boston), 105, 108, 114, 121, 149, 198, 244, 279, 2S2, 320, 323, 330, 474-8, 481.4, 504, 506, 511, 512, 526, 534, 599, 600, 667-9, 674-5, 678. Outing (N. Y.), 571, 655, 669-60, 668. Pacific Wheelman (San Francisco), 672, 799. Pastime Gazette (Chicago), 672. Philadel- phia Cycling Record, 245, 4*'5. 522, 526, 6«0, 674. Radfahrer (Ger.), 552, 651, 686-7, 798. Recreation (Newark), 600, 654, 663,668-9. Referee (Eng.), . Revue V^Iocip^dique (Fr.), 698. Revista V 'locipedistica (It), 700. Revista degli Sports (: ), 700. Scottish Ath- letic Journal, 695. Scottish Umpire & Cy- cling Mercury (Glasgow), 695. Southern fy- I ler (Memphis, Tenn.), 654, 670, 672, 707. Spectator (St. Louis), 323,672. Sport (/r.), 695. Sport (It.), 700. Sport & Play (Eng.), 695. Sport du Midi, 699, Sporting & Theatrical Journal and Western Cycler (Chi- ciij;o),672. Sporting Life (Eng.), 693. Sport- ing Life (Phila ), 666, 672. Sporting Mirror (Eng.), 689. Sportsman (Pittsburg), 672. S;uirtsman(Eng.),686. Sport V^locip^dique (Fr), 651, 69S. Springfield Wheelmen's Ga- zette, 42, 64, 129, 255, 294, 323, 333, 353, 371, 391, 4S5. 487, 49', 493. so'', 5>9, 524, 5S8, 603, 605, 610, 660, 661-2, 668, 676, 693, 706-7. oiaiiirauioer.;, 700. Star Advocate (E. Koch- INDEX OF PERSONS. Ixxiii ister, N. H), 515, 57,, 654-5, 670-1, 707. StL-rl Wheel (Ger.), 700. Tidning for Idrott (>we.), 700. Tireur (Kr.), 699. Tricycling journal (Eiig.), 545. 600, 654, 685-6, 690-1. TiKyclist (Eng.), 543-4, 547, 555, 654, 686, (i!H>, 692. V^lo (Fr.;, 6j9. Veloce (Fr.), 699. Vcloce r.e)ge (Bel.), 69.;. VJloceinan (Fr.), (•«. Viiloce Sport (Fr.), 6>J9. V^loce Six)rt It Vdloceinaii Rt'uiiiis, xcii. Velociped (Ger ), 63 1, 6<>7. Vdlucipede (Grenoble, Kr.), 699. Vclocipide (Paris, Fr.), 6.>8. V^locipMe 11- lustr,< 'Fr), 6.^8. VelociixJdie Uelge (ISel), I'f). Velricii>^die Illustree (Fr.), 698. Ve- l..upcdist(.\. v.), 698. Vflocipcdist (Ger.), '•;,-. Velocipedsport (Ger.), 697, 699. Veloci- |>cdo (Sp.), 700. V^Io Pyr^neen (Fr.), 651, 'y.; Vermont liicycle (W. Randolph), 578,' 'M.OJi. Vite,sse(Fr.),699. Wayfarer (Kiig.), xni. Western 'Cyclist (Ovid, Mich.), 060, '"^,672. Wheel (N. Y.), 53, 74, 93, 96, .09, M4, 128, 138, .54, ,6., ,64, .87, 197,215,217, -H, 320, 326, 34,, 382, 487, 489, 492-3, 500, 502, 504, S'7, 523, 529, 568, 574-5, 5S3, 5S5-6, ;■< ^.A), 604-7, 019, 643, 660.7,669, 699, 704-s, 707, 70S, 712, 799. Wheeling (Eng.), 524,' SjH, 547-8, 553-5, 564, 572, 602, 628-9, 639-41, '47-5'. 662, 6S3-4, 686, 689-90, 693-5, 706, | T'l< 7'9, 798. Wheel Life (Eng), 000-92, (.94, 706. Wheelman (Boston), i, 24-5, 30, 3.1, 35-6, 42, 49, 62, 82, 106, 115, i3r,-4o, 155, ■ 5}. 2o8-<;, 224, 246, 25s, 258,268, 270,277! •.'7!»,296, 314, 348, 388, 390, 399, 495, 504, 5"'-7. 5>2-i5, S'7-iS, 522-3, 555, 621, 656-0, '".■, 672, 679, 695, 699, 702, 703, 720. Wheel- men's Gazette (Springfield), 558, 55,, 56,, 5'>". _579, 6>7->8, 619, 63,, 654, 662, 674' 70(1-7, 70S-10, 799. Wheelmen's Record (Indianapolis), xcii. Wheel World (Eng.), 3)o. 475, 548, 647, 657, 685, 688, 689-91, 692 i 6)4. 798. Vale Cyclist, 660. Editors, writers, artists, publishers and t-y inters 0/ the foregoing : American News Co., 660, 669. (',. Atkinson, 693. J, De' Aiieste, xcii. : W. Auten, 668. H. C. H.igot, 6j6. Baird & Co.,668. H. S. Bale^ 6/j. J. W. Barnes, 668-9. H. A. Barruwi '■^9. R. Basilone, 700. A. Bassett, 663-5,' 704, 708. L. J. Bates, 506, 657, 673. S.' Ij.ixtLT, 600, 657. N. M. Beckwith, 666-7. I- nenjamin, 661. Bicycling World Co., 664^ '"*5- C. A. Biederman, 661. P. Bi'^elow 657-9- B. B.>nami, 697. J. S. Brierley, 660.' ■•■ A. iJ.yan,, 007. L. H. Burn, 695. (Miss) M. H. CatherwoocI, 657. Central Press & i'ub. Co., 666. Chatto& Windus, B Clegg,689. W. F.CofIee,jr.,668. W.Cole' 650. E. R. Collins, 668.9. J. Copland, 696.' C. Cordmgley, 691. Cordingley & Sharp, 69,. E. H. Corson, 670-1. Cycling Pub. Co., 666-7. Cyclist Printing Co., 668. P. C & <;. S. Darrow, xcii. J. S. Dean, 663-4. E. I'e Ghne, 700. P. De ViJIiers, 699. J B Dignam, (^,. B. W. Dinsmore & Co , 666* C. R. Dodge, 657. H. B. Donly, 669. H E. Ducker, 66,-2. 706-7. H. O. Duncan, 699. C. Drury, 688. W. G. Eakins, 669 T A Edwards, 695-6. F. A. Egan, 667. A. Ely, jr., 660. H. Etherington, 689-90, 692-3' Evangelist Co., 672. W. K. Evans, 669. v" Fenogho,7oo. C. H. Fisher, 660. Flemine Brewster & Alley. 657. E. Forestier, 698* S. C. Foster, 667. C. W. Fourdrinier, 663 688. C. H. Genshnger, 670. A. Gibbons, 69, .V H. Giobes, 668. W. E. Gilman, 663-5' W. V. Gilman, 666. P. Gornall, 696 H If. Griffin, 689-90. L. Harrison, 663.4 C E. Hawley, 658. Hay, Nisbet & Co., 695' G L. Hdlier. 547-8. 689-90. 693-4. E. C. I Hodges & Co., 664. J. G. Hodgins, 695 J. R. Hogg, 628, 695. C. J. Howard, 666-7 W^B. Howland, 656-9. E. W. Hunter. 670. Ihffe & Son. 548, 689-,,. Hiffe & Stur- •"ey, 690. J. Inwards, 6S9. L. G. Jacques. 698. F. Jenkins, 666-7. 704-8. H. A. Judd 689, 692. H. A. King, 672. W. C. King' 698. K. Kron, 720. D. M. Kurtz. 668. L.' C. S. Ladish, 67,. C. Langer. 697. P B Lansing, 656. M. Lazare, 666. W H Lewis, 652. 696. E. A. Lloyd, 690. F p' Low. 54S. 689.90. 693. S. Low. Marston & Co., 659. W. McCandlish, 689-90. J p McClurc, 656-9. S. S. McClure, 656-9. JC McKenzie, 660. G. D. McNathan, 670 R J. Macredy, 652, 695. W. McWilliam, 548 689, 693. C. O. Manny, 666. W. C. Mar! vin, 660. C. L. Meyers, 668. S. Miles, 672 G. Moore, 692. T. Moore, 548, 689-90, 693. A. G. Morrison, 690, 693. F. X. Mudd 660 A. Mudge & Son, 663-4. C. W. x\airn, 689-90 w'm'!;,'''' ^'^"''"' ^^- ^- Oliver, 666.' \V^N.Ohver&Co.,666. Oliver & Jenkins. 666-7. M. M. Osborne, 660. Outing Co 659. H. Pagis, 698. F. Pagnioud, 699. A.' Pliilpot. 650. J. S. Phillipsr6'56!9'."' PkkeN Ixxiv TEiW THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. iiiS& Davis, (^'l. K. II. I'.ilk, f.fo. A. A. Pope, 65-;. I'ope Mfg. Co., '157-0. C. E. Pratt, 65(>-<), 6(.j-4, 667. 1'. P. i'rial, 666. C. W. Rei-d, 655, 65S. C. S. KceVLS, 660. K. M. RitlMigcr, 697. Roi;kw.:ll & Cliurcliill, 656. J. S. K..^cTs, f.;.. • • ■ !l,r,57, 664). E. J. Scliinii il,c.)/. t !'.. i»ai, r.,691. V. Silbcrcr, 6.^7 '. . :. . ( ,i. C. I'. Smith, xcii. J I. .11.. ,,(.71. II. n. .Smith Machincl'o., ,1. bpriiij/ficld Prim. Co. ,661- 2,675. W. J. Si.urrier, 638. T. Stevens, 655. W. r. Stone, 661. H. iiturmi'y,69o, 6<;j. L. Suberbie, (>./;. W. I,. Surprise, f.70. I P. Thayer, 672. W. H. Tlioriipson, 663. 11 S. Tibbs, 66<>. C Toscini, 700. Tomici , 1..)). C. H. 'rowiiseiul, 6(19. C. Trocdel & Co., 6.;6. T. H. S. W.ilkcr, 6,^7. \V. I). WVl- ford, 638, 6ji. F. W. Weston, r.53, ''5;, 663-4. A. I). Wheeler, 666-7. Whcelin.in Co., 656-8. Wheel Pub. Co., 666. J. Wil- cox, 6f>6. P.. Willi.ims, 6()3. A. J. Wl!s<, Alm.mach lllnstrjde la Veloci- p^die pour '84, 699. Amateur Ijicycle Re- pairing, 67S. American llicycler. The, 504, 672, 703. Annuairedela Velocipddie Pra- tique, 699. Aroimd the World on a I!icycle, 474, 655, 657, 698. Athletes, Training for Amateur, 684. Athletic (.'lub Directory for '82,688. Australian Cyclists' Annual, The, 6g6. Australian Tour on Cycles, An, 565, 696. Autograph liook. Palmer's, 6S7. liet- ting I Book, 678. Connecticut Ro.id-Book, 5S2, 677. Construction of Mod- ern Cycles, On the, 6.S3. Construction of the Tricycle, A Treatise on the Tluoretical and Practical, 683. C. T. C. Handbook and Guide for '86, 59S-9, 607, 687. ('. T. C. ". T-'wals-List for '85,687. C yelc Directory, The,(>87, I, ycledom I C^rZ/.i/'j Chiislnias issue of '.86), xciv. Cyclist and ir/uel H'cr/d An- nual, 692. Cyclists' Guide to Nottingham, 635. Cyclist's Guide to the Roads of the I.aki District and Isle of ALin, 687. Cy- clist's P.)cket-Book and Diary, 6S5. Cyclists, The Ri;.;hts and I.iabi'ities of, 684. Cyclists' Route Book, The, 6S4. Cyclist's Toniing and Road Guide, rhe,68(, 685. Cyclonia, A Journey throu,L;h {Cyt/ist's Christmas issue of '85), 534. '^'92- Cycles, 684. Dublin, A Racing Trip tn, xciv. Einerald Isle, Two Trips to the, xciv. England and Wales, A Bicycle Tour in, 673. Essai theoricpie et pratique sur le vi!hicule Bicycle, 6i)S. Essex Co., Ms., Wheelman's Handbook of, 112, 655, 677. Forty Poets on the Wheel, 505, 655, 674. France, Le Guide en, 699. Golden Rules of Training, The, 685. Great S , The (t>- c/ist^s Christmas issue of '85), 692. Guaid- ians. The, 688. Guide to Bicycling, The Complete, 684. Guide to Machines and Makers, xcv. Guide to North-West Kent, 686. Guide to Tricycling, Penny, 6S6. Hand- buch des Bicycle-Sjiort, 697. Health upon Wheels, 684. He would be a Bicyclist, 688. Holland, N. V. B. Ofificial Road-book of, 700. Holyhead to London on Tricycles, From, 686. How to ride a Cycle, 684. Hotel Charges Directory, 685. Hygiene du Veloci- pede, 698. Icycles {H'hrel Worlcfs Christ- mas issue of 'So), 692. In and Aroimd Cape Ann, 655, 674. Indispensable Bicyclist's Handbook, The, 6S5. Instructions to Wheel- men, 67S. ItAliani, Statuto della Societa Ciclisti, 700. Italy on a Tricycle, Through. 6S7. Ireland, Two Trips to, . Kentucky Rnad-Book, 590, 67S. Killarney, A Touring Trip to, . Lake District and the isie of INDEX OF PERSO.\S. Man, Ro.ir! Ciiide for the, 687. I..indS F.n.l to Jnlii, 0'c;ro..t'»on a l'ricycle,68s. Ung„e Ha.uibooks, •«, and 's^, 615, 677. Legal Aspcci, of Red Repair, 650. I.eltcrs of Ti,- lercsl 10 Wheeimei.,. 678. Library of Spoils (Cyclii.g), 6S5. Lrg Il,x.k, My Cycling, l,^i, I.o„i; Island Road-liook, 655. Liverpool t y- clisl^' I'ocket (mi.le ami Club Directory for •M5.6%. '•yral)icyc;ica,5„5,f,55,674. Ma,,, lie! du V,!locc,nai,. 6>8. ALu.uel du Yttloci- l>>de, 6.;S. Massacliiisetts State Division K<.ad Hook, 5S1, 677. Mecha„ical Ditium- ary, 6S.S. Micl,i-ai> Road-book, (,77. Mi,. sonri Handbook, 677. Moden, Iticydc, The, '.•<=; Modern Cycl-,, On ,l,e Construclio,,' »i,<<'^l. Moi-„ds, 6S7. My ( ydlng Log Hook, '.;o. Mv .Second Ten Tlio„sand, 2,,, 50,, 5')0, 7if' Nanticus in Scotland, 6^4. Naiiti- eus on his Hobby-Horse, xciv. Nervons- ness, How I Cured Myself of, 6X8. No„|ng. Iiam, Cyclists' Cnide to, f.85. official Hand- l.nok of the Clubs of K>sex, 6^7. Qcean t„ Ocean on a Ilicycle, Krom, xciv. Ohio Road- Hook, 677, 682. On Wheels, (,88. Our Ca,np (t>//j/V Ci,ri.stmas i.ssnc of '84), 692. Over- land to Sydney on Cycles, 565, 696. Over the I Handles, 673. Over the Pyrenees on a liicy- j i-lf, 54), 6S3. Paris, C.uide des Environs dc- '.gg. I'leasnres of Cycling, xciv. J'ocket iJi! rectory. The .Scottish A. C, 6S6. Pocket .Manual of the Hicycic, A, 6S7. Pocket Koad 'Juides, 550. Pope, liiogtaphy of A. A ^■So. Radfahrer's Jahrbnch, 697. Record liook for To«,ists, 676. Repair and Maintc- '■ance of Road<, 650. Repairin-,- of Hicycles by Amateurs, 678. Report of the " .So'ci,«te Pratique du VelocipMe " for '69, 69S. Rhine Handbook for Wheelmen along ij,,. C97' Rhymes of the Road and River, 655, 674 Rights and Liabilities of Cyclists, 684 Road nnd the Roadside, The, 6S0. Road Book of (. . T. C, , Proposed, 687. Road Guide to the Southern Counties ox Scotland, 686 Road Kepair, 696. Roads of Kngland (Carv's) 68, Roads of Kngland (Howard's), 5,0 68. 2' Ko.idsof Kngland (Paterson'sl, 5,2, 539.40' '•^t. Romances of the Whet;, 6S5, R„i i Vit.T,r,85. Route Hook, The Cvclist's r,s,' Kv-s.a, A Bicycle Ride from, 6S7 .Safe v UnycL-s, 684. Scotland, Cyclist'- I.inerarv "t, 550. Srnfl.Tnd. N.T!!t:.-.:5 :.. .-..•. c---. I..)8. Things a Cyclist Ou;.ht to Ki,o«, 550' Jour de Monde en V.73- Velocipede, The, 6,88. Veloci^ p. •, 688. Velocipcdia, 688. Velocipddie i rntique. La, 699, Velocipedisten-Jahrbuch for 84, 6,,7, Western Adventures of a liicy- cle Touri. 4S9, Western New York Road- Book, 22,. Westward, Ho! on a .Sociable 687. What and Why, 67S, Wheelman's Annual for '8, and '8., ,6,673,707. Wheel- man s Hand-book of Kssex Co,, 112,655 677 Wheelman's Log Hook for '81, 677.' Wheel man's Record Cook, 677. Wheelman's Ref- erence Hook, 6,5, 655, 675, 7.0. Wheelman's Vear Book, The, 686. Wheelman's Year Book, Diary and Alman.ick for '82, 6S7 Wheel Songs, 655, 674, Wheels and Whims f'55, 674. Uheel WorhCs Annuals, 692' Whirling Wheels, 673. Whizz. The rM Vv-or.d on Wheels, The, 6S0. Year's Sport The, 6S7. Ixxvi TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. A titkart, cam/nUrs, publUhtrt and prinitrt t/ Ik- fartgoiMg : V. Ailier, 698. A. L. At- kiiii, III, (>sSi '>;7' UalUiityiie I'reu, The, 6!)6. A. II. lUrkmaii.bss. C. D. lUlchelder, 676. K. lienastit, 09S. A. iterruyrr, b>^. C. H. Uinglum, 700. A. M. liultun, 549, 683. O.K. Itroolts, 679. J. S. Hr ''79- Clippies, Upham & Co., 655. J. (1. Dalton, 505, 655. A. De ISaroncelli, 688, 0^8-9. W. Diederich,679. H. I). Donly, 655, 6//. Ducker & (io83. Pype Manuf.icluring Co., 678. L. H. Porter, 530, 678. B. W. Potter, 680. Charles E. Pratt, 504, 672, 678, 688, 703 F. A. i'iatt,625, 678. "Rae Banks," 686. Rand, Avery & Co., 674. J. M. Rankine, 698. F. Regamey, 698. H. R. Reynolds, jr., 531. fx/'- Richard, 698. C. M. Rich- ards, 678. li. W. Richardson, 62,685. J
    - erts Bios., 687. Rockwell & Churchill, 656, 672, 679. Root & Tinker, 680. Will Rose, 489. H. T. Round, 6S7. J. P. Russell, 696. H. N. Sawyer, 679. C. Scribner's Sons, 655, 687. Seeley A: Co., 687. F,. M. Sen- seney, 677. J. C. Sharp, jr., 673. E. R. Shipton, 687. W. S. Y. Shuttleworth, 687. V. Silberer, 6. I-.berly, Equality, Fraternity, 733 I.on.lon Social Life, Impressions of, 448 Lutheran Year Book, 323. Maritime Prov- inces, The, 293. Mcthodi. Yearbook 324 Middle Slates, Guide to, ,93. Minute Phi- losopher, .08. Modern Gymnast, The 685 Moosehead Uke and N. Me. Wilderness^ 575- Mt. Desert on the Coast of Me j8i' Navy in the Civil War. The, 352. *New hngland. Guide to, 293. New York Dic- tionary of, 65, 8,, 87, 89, 96, ,00, ,55 New Vork, Hist, of the City of, 434. Note, of an Idle Excursion, 356. Open Letter to J (; Holland, An, 72S. Picturesque America, 3S2 4,14, 700. Picturesque B. & O , 245, 282' Religion, My, 729. Roughing It, iv. Sara- toga, Illust. Guide to, 186. Shenandoah Val- ley i" .864, 346, 352. Split Zephvr, 466 Spnnpfield, Handbook of, .,3, ,,6.' Stolen White Klephant, 356. Stories b- American Authors, 466. Tasmanian Excursionist's Guide c ,3. Their Wedding Journey, 2.5 42I Ihankless M;ise, The, 73,. Traveler' The, iv. U. S. Army Table of Distances' "o. Vicar of Wakefield, 205. Visits to Rei tnarkable Places, 404. Yale and the City of Elms,, 33. Yale, Four Years at, 405, 7.r, 722. Walking Guide to Mt. Washington Ran-^e ; Washington Square, 432. Western' Mass., Hist, of, 58,. White Mtn. Guides ^r,. 577 Winthrop, Life and Poems of Theo' dore, 439. NON-CVCLING Al/THORS. T.B. .Aldrich,43.. D. Ammen,352. Q. ArtinlH, .r ^_^,-. __o t^ «, _. Ixxvii H A. Beer,, 466, 70,. S. G. W. Benjamin 355. 4 3 W. H. Bishop, 43., 7>8. C-. a' Bristed, 727.8. L. P. Brockett, ,77. f. W »ryan,7oo. W. C. Bryant. „6, 700. „ B. Bunce, 700. H. C. Bunner, 727 r s talverley, ,4, A.Cary,73,. H. Child, 5,7 M.H. est 352. P. CUrke, 570. G. H ^'Tt ■'• ^' ^■°*". 3^4. W.Cowper, 406^ J. DC,,., 35,. W. Decrow, ,33. d ^efoe V. C. |.ickens,354.466,72,. J.,; K. Dorr, 366. A. Doubleday, 35, E \ nuyckinck, 434, 439. T. Dwight, ,27 S C Eastman. 577. r. w. Emerson. 7,, 7,, . H. Everts, jS,. C. A. J. Farrar, 575! m. F. Force, 352. B. Frankhn, 702. G,Klet,3,5 O. Goldsmith, iv, 205. U. S. Grant, 73. t. V. Greene, 352. M. Male, 73,. p. ,; Hamerton, 446, 468^,. J. f. Harris, v '4, 380. R. H.rrick, :72. J. G. Holla.ul' 5j., 72S. W. I). Hov/ells, 3,5, 4,8. W Howitt, 404. A. A. Humphreys, 352 H H. Jackson, 304. H. James, 432. S. John- son, 408, 427, 436, 755 p Kembit, 72X M' King, „3, ,26. M. J. Lamb, 434 a Lang, 722. H. W. Longfellow, 430 I! | Lossing, 700. J. F. McClure, 658 A i' Mahan, 352. C. B. Martin, .-8,. J a Moore,729. E. S. Nadal, 448. F. J. O'Brien' 39'. F. W. Palfrey, 352, ,86. J. G. Pangl bom 245. T. L. Peacock. 2,. T. Percv, 65, 8t, 87, 89, 96, 100, 155, ,98, 43,. w. H Pickering, 577. G. E. Pond. 346. B W Richardson, 685. J. C. Ropes, 352. E R Sill vi. J. R. Soley, 352. S. Stall. 32,. J. H. Stark, 366. J. F. Stephen. 733. T Stevens, 474. S. R. Stoddard, ,85-6. M F Sweetser 293, 577- L. Tolstoi. 729. I. Turgeneff, 728. M. Twain, iv,. 356, 640 C. D. Warner, 2S6-7. A. S. Webb, 35^ H Willoiighby, 570. T. Wi. .hrop, 428-9,43,, 438-^, 44'. J, D. Woodward. ,98. NON-CVCLING JOURNAUS. Advertiser. Boston, ,,3. Advertiser, Calais, Me., 263.4. Argus, Melbourne, 570. Army & Navy Journal, N. Y.. 346. Atlantic Monthly, Boston, 430. Australasian, N. Y,, 570. Bat, London, 650. Bulletin, Mell bourne, 55S. 652. Cape Ann Advertiser M!*, 674, Catskill Mtn. Breeze, N. Y., '98. Century Magazine, N. Y.. 4S3, 687.' Chronicle, Moorestown, N J, 17?. Chmr-.i! cle, San Francisco, 43,. Christian at Work, Ixxviii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. N. Y., 658. Church of Ireland T.-mperniice Visitor, i-jSO. Cli|>per, N. Y., 494, 6S0. Con- tinent, Phila. (viii.). Coinitry, London, 6S7. CoiiriL-r. liall.ir.1t, Vict , 5'.i.2 <"oiirier, IJuftalo, 14. Y., 5'!S. Courier, Rochester, 577. I>,-&cii|>;ive Aniericn, N. Y. , 177. Dis- patch, I'ittslmr;;, 323. Kveping News, Des- cret, 520. Kxaniiner, London, 551, 71 r. Kx- press, lli.ffalo, N. V., 5SS. Fran!; Leslie's Sunday M.ignzine, N. Y., 323. Free I'r-ss, Ah'r.U-en, Scot., 555. C.entlemen's Maga- line, London, 403. Glob:?, liuston, 61S. Ciood Words, London, 62, U%^. Harper's Magazine, N. Y., i5S,2(2. Harper's Weekly, N. Y., 310-1, 402-1,475,4^3. Hari>er's Young People, N. Y.,6.5. Herald, .Auckland, 567. Herald, lloston, 114. Herald, N. Y., 49), 5.S3, 657. .lerald, Rochester, 216. Herald & New-i, W. Randolph, Vt., 6-2. Jonrnal, London, Out, fi(j). Journal & Courier, New Haven, 3)S, 401. Knickerbocker .%r>-azuie, N. Y,, 216. Kno.x Student, C.alesbnri;, 65S. Lake George Ripple, N. Y., i;,S. Lippin- cott's Ma-azine, Phila 6S, 65?, 702. Manufacturer's Gazette, Boston, 525. Mes- senger, NLirbhliaad, Ms., 2S1. Massachu- setts ^LlJ,^^zine, lioslon, 6S0. Mrs. Grundy, N. Y. (vii.). Morning Call, San Krancisc >, 492. Nation, N. Y., 2S1, 354, 433, 437, 450, 570,614. News, Chelsea, 525. News, Ham- burg, Ger., 551. News & Chronicle, Stawell, Vict., s''/!, 696. Norfolk Reformer, c;,,,^.^^ Ont., 331, 634, 669. Northwest. rn Christian Advocate, Chicago, 499. Once a Month, Melbourne, 5^10. (\\x Young Folks, lioston, 43 >• I'e'tit Journal, Paris, 617. Pilot, lios- ton, 657. Post X: Trilnnip, Detroit, 505. Po^t-Dispalrh, St. Louis, 52S. Press, Phila- deljiliia, 454. Puck, N. Y., 15, l(^, 24C,, 409, 499, 669, 673. Record, Phila., 627. V 'for- nier, lie.miugton, Vt., 627. Republican, I-ansing, Mich., 505. Republican, Sprmg- ri-'ltl, Ms., 115, 527. Royal Gazette, Bermuda, 3''A Round Table, N. Y., 135. Saturdny I'ress, N. v., 15. Scienlitic Ar.ierican, N. Y., 403. Scribner's Monthly, N. Y., 431, 504, '.5S. Stamboul Jouninl, ConMnntinople, 4'^2. Statesman, Marshall, Mich.. 323. itu- dei.t, Amherst, Ms.. 114. Sun, N. Y, i;», 403. I'able Talk, Ottuinwa, la , 672. Tas- m;,nian News, 5^^.,. Telegram. N. Y., 2S0. Texas Siuings, 66S. Times, Ca'ais, Nte., it'5. T'mes, N. Y., ii., 336, 45,. Tirr.es, PhiLidelphia, 177. T;mes, Sydney, N. S. W.,69'i. Tit l-'its, London, xciv. Tooth- pick, Ashmor", III , 4S9. Transcript, Port- land, 257, 627. Tribune, Cambridge, 657. Trib ., Chicago, 323. Tribune, N. Y., t - 5)7. 724, 7-;- Union, Springfield, Ms., 5^0. UiiiversityQinrte. ;• N. Y.,4f>9. Van- ity Fair, N. Y., 444. Yale Courant, New Haven, 39S. Yale Literary M.igazine, New Haven, 399-402. World, N. Y., 584, 720-1, 723- Bicycles. American Club, 509. American Rudge, 50S. Arab Light Roadster, 535. Apollo Light Roadster, 321. Ariel, 504, 519, 541, 5(6-7. I)aylis.& Thomas, 34S. Bone-sh.ak- cs, 394, 400-.-. Britisli Cnallenge, 183, 50S, 520, 543, 5(5, 559, 56,, 56.;. Carver, 50^. Centaur, 523. Challenge, 330, 537, CluL, 505, 50S, 523, 5'S5, 569. Club .Safc'v, 566. Columbia, i,i,S, 1S9, 324, 4S7, 501, 505, 507, 511,52^,521,524, 525,565, 709, 712-3. Co- lumbia Lxpert, (7, 59, 149, 237, 24(. 3,^,^, 474, 484,402,503, 506, 50°, 510- fi, 5T3,5'7,5'9-20. 523-30, 575-''. 5: ^- Columbia Light Roadster, 527-9. " Columbia, Number 234," 35-48, S6. Columbia Special, 503, 507-8, 511, 520, 521. Columbia Standard, 48, 59, 1S3, 244, 37S, 474, 4^4. fSii-9. 494. 500, 503, 508, 511. 5<3. 5'?. 5"). 523. 52S-9, 376. Covensry, 330. Coventry Gentleman, 537. Coventry Ma- chinist Co., 663. Cunni.igham Co., 653, 656, 666-7, 679, 712. Desideratum, 537. I). K. H. F. Excelsior, 546, 569. D. E. H. F. Premier, 519, 559, 561, 5C,9. Duplex Excel- sior. 517 524, 546. Ecliiise, 5(1, 547. Ex- traordinary. 4S7, 505. Facile, :6i, 509, 536. 537. i.. % .= 53. 55(. o.t. Gentleman, 567. Gentleman s (nib, 569, Gentleman's Road- ster, 5(2. Go-.iiully S; Jeffery, 683, 79ft. Hartford, 401. H^.rvar.:. 138, iS.), 493, 502, 50S, 520. 52J. Hollow Spoke Roadster, 542. Howe, 552. Humbtr, ;, ;, 516, 517, e;24, 542. Ideal. 493. Interchangeable, 546. Invinci- '>'<", 5';. 551- Ivel Safely, 557-8. John Bull, C07. Kangaroo, 50S-9. Keen, 547. Lynn Express, 537. Matchles--., 508, 532. 563. Monod, 401. Newton Challenge, 508. Olio, 521, 529. Overman Wheel Co., 662. 663-5, 676. Paragon, 504, 517. Porfectio.i, 546. Pickering, 392, 400-5. Pony Star, 509. P"! Mfg. Co., 24-t, 36, 40, 42, 47-S. 86,94, '39, '89,485,501 2,511,523,526, 565,657.60. INDEX OF PERSGNH. 'xxix 6-4, 702-3, 711-13, 79.;. Premier, 327,519, 5^1. S5'J. 5'", SV President, 491. K. & ]>., 6s7. Ke-ent, 540. Rover Safety, 535, i;4i;.' Rival Mail, 50S, 527. Rucker, 509, 530, 53^-. W, .';43- Kiulge, ,2S, ,39, ,»,, jj,,' 5^)o, 50S-10, 6 ;>;, Riidge Light Roadster, 388, 5'iS. 5"3, 526, 56J, 567, 578, 67^. i.,„,gj .Safety, 527. Safe'.^ , 505. Safety (King), 672. St. NIcIh la?, 524. Sandringham, 538. Sans- parcil, 324, 50S.9, jio, 524-5, 5JO. Shadow, 5')S. Siii-er, 348, 527. Singer Challenge, 5!7 H, I!. Smith Machine Co., 671. SpL-cial Cliij, 50S. Stanley, 517. Stanley Head Ex- crlsior, 546. Star, 164, ,72, 257, 267, 26.,-7i, 274, 3=0, 50S, 520-1, 525, 530, 549, 57,, 577' Union, 508. Velocity, 50S. Victor, 487, 493, S"'^. S""'. 5>9, 5^4-5. 527, ('ify. Xtra, 348, 505.' Vale, 508, 509, 516, 519, 530. Tricycles. Reeston Humb.-r, 537-8, 5SS. Carver, 535. Centaur Tandem, 535. Challenge, 6S6. Cheylesmore Club, 5^,2, 565-0. Cheylesmoie .Sociable, 589. Club Racer, 535. Club So- ci.iblc, 5,5. Cohnnbia, 503, 508, 509, 5,,, 5:!^. Coventry Convertible, 517. Coventry f^'tary, 5,3, 686. Crsscent, 526. Cripper, 517, 526, 552, 554, Dearlove, 543. Diana, '.^6. Excelsior, 503, rf,,. Humber, 509, 530' 5!-";. 5t3, 54**, 551, 554-''>, 686. Humber Tan- '!'^».. 509. Imperial Club, 535, 554. i,,,-;,,. cible, 5.7. National, 5,,. Omnicvclc, 6S6 Premier, 524, 686. Quadrant, 535, 6S6. '^"'a'-y, 535. Royal Mail, 526, 554. R„\al Salvo, 503. Royal Salvo Sociable, 5', 7. Kucker, 686. Rucker T.uidem, 509. Rudge, 5.;6. Rudge Tandem, 525. Special Cha!- I'^'ige, 535. Tandem, 535. Traveller, 509, 326. Victor, 50S, 509, 526. AuTOBroCRAIMIIC AND Pni^SOVAL. Ancestry, 722-3. Appointments for «heel- m;,', 730. Authorship, iv., 405, 722-3. Aver- .'.ge man in physi, 727. Birthday Fan- tasie (verse), A, 23, lioat-race manager at Now London, 130. fione-shaker days, 39,- 4"'->. no-ik. History of this, 701-719. Busi- ness-man, in spite of myself, A, vii., 483 Centenarian kinsman, My, 723. Change of "Kol Kron" to "Karl," 720. Class poet a.ul historian, 392, 40,. Collector of post- a;^e-stamps, 722. "Coll. Chron." of World, 720. 723- Companionship the highest hap- piness, /67. Compensaiions of a quiet life, ^f'?, 7.V Conceit, 732. Co,tuuie for riding' 1O-22. D.-ath, 3.80, 733. D.viatioi. in career, caused by cycling, 406. Digging my way out to freedom, 725. Disclaimers : as to a ,bilion, 309. 732; athleticism, iv. ; b<5astfulness, v., 5S2 ; culL-ge honors and prizes, 722 ; competi- tion, v., 484, 7,1.3; egotism, v., vii.; envy, v.. 303, 471, 722, 730; fame, 309; hermit-life, 467; h-ro-worship, 464; literary skill, iv 7'^'; notoriety, vii., 28,, 729; ostentalioni 729, 732; partisanship, 726; praise, vi. ; van- 'ly, v.. 70., 716, 732. Di.slike for "literary men '^' ,-.nd " athletes," iv. ; for " medicine- men," 62. D,verth,e:nent as the permanent clement of life, 722. Karly days with " Curl," 407-2.=;, 47'- Kditor of college ma.gazin'o, 302-3, 399. Emersonian maxims, 7^3, 73^. Enemies, 731. European travel, 405-6. I'orty^ vi., 725, 732. Fri.Muls, 467, 725.7. (j2„; ealogy, A student of, 722. 'Jift-iaking, Ob- j-ciions to, 713-4. tJolden Fleas (verse). My ■search for the, 23, 406. Government by in- terference. My hatred of, 726. " Great ex- ,.ectations " as a bookseller, vii. Happiness, Ideal of future, 30,, 467. Health, 62, 204, 307. Hopefulness as a self-deception, 716' Hopes for the future. Three, viii. Humorous sense, 721-2,727. Illness, 62, 29,. L.lcbted- ness to family and friends, 727. Independ- ence protected by obscurity, 2S0. Ind'v- imker in college, 392-3, 401. Indi.:n as an ideal,^ 295, 466. Inliff.rence to " recogi.i- tion," 727. Impartialiry towards " ihe trad'e," 'li., 7'2-4. Lament for tie Legal-Tender decision, 464, League, nusiness-stake in the, 720. Left-hand penmanship acquired vi.^ 4S3. 710. Life as viewed in retrocp.-ct vi' Luerary and theatrical people, Indift .-renc- to, IV.. 7^8. Literary ideal, Simplicity of iv London life, 405-6, 427, 47^. Longevitv Chances of, 723, 732. .Lost inheritance, iSo' Marriage, 472, 723, 73,. Mochani.al aptitud" L.,ckof,36,7,3. Middle-age, 44, 29,. Mind and character, 732. Money-making capacity, VI., 392, 720, 725. Mount Tom, Affection fori 252 " My Second Ten Thousand," Pro- posals for. 211. 50., 57:, 590, 7 "--7. N.ir- row escapes, 45, 4,3, 733. Observation of prominent people, "out of harness," 727 Optimism, 73,. Overwork, Attempts to es- cape, 720, 725. Personal revelations a busi- Ixxx TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ness-nfcessity, vii. " Philately," A writer on, 722.J. Phj'siqiie, v., 59, 61, 63, 153, 394, 307. Political prejudices, 736. Portrait never "exchanged," 2S0. Preference for small tasks, 723. Pride, 73J. Procrastination pre- vents English tour, 406. Publisher, Pay as a, 715, 724. Relations with wheelmen, 729. Representative spokesman for the hobby, As a, vi. Respect for fellow-residents of the U. H., 462. Right-hand disabled by too much pen-work, vi., 4S3, 710. Rowing, fii. Rule of non-inenibership, 720. Running, 61. Sar- casms of destiny, 724-5. Self-reliance, 722. Slowness, iv., 731. Siiappcr-up of uncon- sidered trifles, Asa, v., 716. "Solidarity" with Stevens, 484. Solitude in the U. B., Experiences of, 463. Spectator ci' society, As a, 467, 722, 72S-9, 731. Sports of child- hood, with " Curl," 413-21. Statistical show- ing of my personal part in the book, xx. Steadfastness, 725, Subscriptioii-sniicilor as undergraduate, 392. Suspension from col- lege, 392, 404. Swimming, 61. "Thirtieth Street " reminiscences, 452. Tourinir, Equip- ment for, 1^1-22 ; I.cisine gained for, 720. Travels in Europe, 405-6. Two exjiloits I should have been proud of, 464. Two sol- diers whom I admired, 3S6, 439. Uiuler- graduAte reminiscences, 391-405, 4f/>. Van- ity disclaimed, 701, 716, 732. Verses voic- ing my philosophy, 15, 23, 34, 63. 304, 309, 7JS, 729, 730, 731, Soo. Visitors, Recep- tion of, 729. Volubility as a book-agent, 724. Walking, 61. Weahh, 15, 720, 731. Work- hours favorable for touring, 720. ll\>rl,i work as college chronicler, 7.>o-i. Vale, Rook about, 405, 711, 722. Vale graduate, Hiographv as a, 732. Vankee from Yankee- ville, .\ thoroughbred, ift, 722-3 Yale men •n New York, Directory of, 464. WlinFLIN'C. AlTlinidCRAPHV. Analysir. of 234 ride!^ 49-^3. Ankle sprained, 241. loathing, 61. Ped-bugs in Maryland, 231. Rernnida trip forces U. S. Covernment to class tourists' cycles as " personal effects, exempt from duty," 36S-70. Hone-shaker ex- periences in iS(K), 391-406, Roots immortal- ized. 279. Roston pilgrimage for purchase of " No. 234," 25. Clothes for riding, Cost of, 41. Club-swinging, 61, 395, 405. Coasting, ^t, q'). 233 Cold weather, 7(6-5(, 293, 3iS, 33^', 338, 344, ?,(^, 377- Objections to bags, 17; bells, iS, 22, 55; belts, iS, 22 ; crowds, 256, 272 ; large wheels, 59; medicine-men, 62; tobacco, 62, 63; whistles, 55. Pedestrian, Record as a, 61. Physique, Tests of, 54, 61, 153. Queerest ride of all, 3S0. Railroad mileage summary, .V. 33- Road-riding summaries, i879-'82, 2f'-3'. 40-5'- Race, My only, 362. Rairy rides, 228,262, 2S3, 298, 304.5, 3S0. Risks, 53. '53, 3^12, 380 Saddle-soreness, 307. Sea voyages, 282, 292, 3r8, 363. Size of wheel. Preference as to small, 59.^1. Snow-storms, 25'. 298. 34'- Statistics of mileage com- pared, 3", 296, 317, 3S4, 3S8. Sunstroke in- vited on Long Isl.ind, 54, 153. Thefts, 57. Thunder-stonn, Descent of the Blue Ridge in a, 380. Touring as related to working hours, 720: equipments for, 16-22, Tours outlined, Earliest, 11,26-31,42. Training, 62. Trium- phant finish of the thousand-mile trail, 30). Vow to refrain from riding, 388, 733, Water routes. Summary of mile.-ge on, 32. Wear and tear of machine, 37-41, Weariest day's tour in four years (Ky.), 230, Week's mile- age, I, ingest, 296, Weight and height, 59. World's record for straightaway touring, won by 1400 m. ride of 18S3, 300, 532, 549, 551. This Book of M,vr. 70,-733. Advenisements excluded, as a pledge of "/•"■'"'.-"'y. TM. 7... Anu,semen. and i,. ■;""'"" ':'• '--^y^l-s, n: Au,obiogrn„l,y '■t-'".h-l,nes, A,, vi. A.ao.ra,, , J ';""• ■''"""•■^' 3368 fly-leaves f„ the vi yZ A^./'^wj.-. cold s...,de.fo.. J ::,;/„;:; '»'(■ Hiioksel;iii5 a-'airisf ir-..I . > =• ••o'Miist Irade-precedem, .1. lio,to„s notions contrasted wi.h New ;"^S7oS. Hnll-<,,.,asa„„,spi™ion,7or 1. -n..ssl,as,3ofs„od-wi!l,vi.,vii.,7o, 7,, :;:'^-"^.;:"-'-^->dwi.nenciLi ;-.7o,-9. CoL.„a„snota,nac,ed, 708-; *.'"""'"■' '"'^y^'^^ Incid.ntal adv. of L , yvnpnnson of ,ny scheme ,o.S,eve„s-s'rou,„: '• -"i'":-'.r, 4S3. Con,pI|,„e„,„y copies fi>r siil),cnbiii!r editors 7,, {■ ■ .-, mors, 71,. Conception, v r'>3. Conteiits-ial)l> i» ,v f . < ■ r 1 , ,. ■ ' '"■'"'• Contract w ih >p..n,Md..,n.,„,Co.,707.7.o. Copartne S".pw..l,3*K,advanc..sul.scnbers, vii '! . •/"• ^"^'.r ?^ '•'^''-'^-k making in -■>/■'. 7.5. Crmcsms invited, 7,5 ,,„ ' ■■■-'■yo; literature, As a. vi.,,,j^'nl^ ;---.... Deliys and internip.iL.. -p^- K^m-sm a^ ^» business-necessitv, v VI. 70'- K'ectrotypiiio- r-, ,„ . ' w I.„.,i; I , ^'^' 5^' 7°7. 7'o, ix,- ;■ '■■'''"': ^"'^-- Attraction of, 70^,, -o, K-iMasm-n^ortalizedbythesu-iscriptlo' "-."., 709. i-^'-nate, of cost and chances -hKxx. "Iree advertisement "begrnd J ;--. 704; but cheerfully offered a.'aU *'""'"'' 7°^^; given by my book to "-y"-. 7.4; objections anaUd^.Srl ;••■■".. .om cen.sure, 7,9 ;s,,ee,^, at. /sL -^..-lva,ita,eof,.53. Geo.raphi:.,;;^ !; V subscribers, vii.. X,. Gift-taki,,., of ■" -".7.a-,4. Hotels and libraries: Sen. , .l,e book to, 7,4. Impartiali.y.bo,,,,' exc„„ouof advertisements, ;,. ,„,,." ->ce„f.al,P„,,esandpo.cr: : "'"'• ^'y.'<'-'of.asafi„Lcans,,/ ^f'^;;' 'P'""g causes, 675, 70,., ,' f ''-'-^Nwritte^d,^,;^,;^':;^"';^^'- '''-'•■^i">Plicl.vor,iv.,4 '''i °, 7'" rn. .■ -I' '■• 474- London cvc in" -.ron,i;";.,;'\^%^^\;^'->"f-- m\'..' ci, , " ' '^■♦' "99- Money. ™-'i=', Chance of, v ,, 70, „, ri„- ■ > /"■> 732- Opinions /-^'Z^/5-A- O/r PE/^SONS. Ixxxi nf subscribers wanted 7, . c P, pnMisliii. 7„ p'';.7.'^-S-.P3y wanted for 7^^.. !><.;: Mfl- Co. ,ff' 'r'"'"'°"'^' - . , . 7 1. . " '•'■' °^ support, 703. ^; - 3. Iredictions of failure, 704, 706 . sVad o^.^;',?"''^'■^'"'<='^^'''^5o'■i.; l•r^"ress of L^'' "■'- 7^9. Printiiu "'^■■"s of, 7,0. Proofreading, viii ,,„. I'lospectus (Dec , N,1 ,. ;;. Puffery as di.ii,,,ishedfLi^i KewSrs,'^^::^:: :r -ir'^r- ^cnption.list.Crowthof.xx 70° ,• « T- ,l,ous.andMi.esona Bicycle,^' 4,' tc size of, vii 76 ,; IT ^' ^''^"^''^^^ as ~ed .-;'X,-:--;s^^^ WwT- , ' ^'^'""a'eci number of, xx Mdes as a title, 704. " PlIILOtOrHtCAL AND SoCIAL. Affectations of societv Af.t n a ■ sympathy iucvchngM- f ••''^"°" and Tl,„ , -'^""K. '*, 729- Appear.- ices ,T'ecostof,7.g;deceitfiilnessof o.-keen '"S up of, in En-land ^.fi \^° ■ keep. 5n^, , o ^".-^I'lnci, 446. Aristocracy 3 >7. 448.9. Bachelors' chambers. 440 1' 4, - . Bashfulness a form of vam y.';° ' I^l'tlulnys, 50,. BoastfUness, 50, ji'' -nanism, 469, Bores, 5, 30. ij" °''^- •■^"re inspires curiosilv -,0 ri e-w.h,4.5; estimate^;,' ; "^ l^ij "^.^^ egotism Charming, 73. Class •en:,,:t^ ^••H'-g'.-. 39'. Clothes, ,6 ( oHe..;,,. ,- I'.v,., >J"egMle nuances Jioper mami,;mfnt of .,,, r- 1 , ' "f " -ciety people" 4/: ,''•, ^"'"'"^-^^ -"up. The cost of',.''' J;;- ^-""'a-on- law of ,„. ,"■ ^""'l"^"=a;,.,ns. The pThs ;••'''"■ ^^"^'-^« as autocrat of Pans, ;„e. 45s. Condescension in the cl 727. Conformity, The Yoke of, 4^3.,; '//, Ixxxii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 454. Contempt best shown by silence, 596. Courage, Suggestions about, 725. Custom as Juggern.uit, 44(. Danger as a fascination, 380. Death, 1 hi fear of, 4"^ ; I'le mystery of, 732-3. DLMiiocracy, An ideal, 396; social drift low,\rils, 448. I'.ccen.riclty, Pain in the con3ciousni.-s-iof, 443, 455. Eonomy of pay- ing a good price fur the best, 606. Egotism, v., 732. Elegancies of living not foi bidden by isolation, 45'S. Endowments for colleges, Influences alTecting, 435-7- Knglish house- hold comfort superior to American, 444-5, 449-50. Enlightened selfishness, 719. Ex- cliisiveness, 449. Fallacy of getting some- thing for nothing, 60 (. Fame, Eniplincss of, i5> 309. 430. 4'i5. 7i''-9. 733- Familiarity kills literary curiosity, 731. Family perma- nence not possible in America, 732. Fatigue of false pleasure, 309. Fighting for con- science' sake, 3S6 ; for peace, 4^)6. Freedom, The charm of, 255, 2S0, 4^)2, ii<^(>\ the costs of, 444, 46S ; the ideal home of, 428, 472. (jenealogy, Scientific lessons of, 723. Gen- erosity of wealthy Americans, 435. Genius, The secret of, 14. Gossip harmful by ex- cess, 280. Graduation-year, The memory of, 391. Gravity defined by Rochefoucauld, 727 Happiness in keeping boy-like, 14 : con- ditioned on health, 294 ; of congenial work, 468 i of mental freedom, 469 ; of wheeling in foreign lands, 309. Hermits, Apparent and real, 467-8. Hobby-rider as a bore. The, 5. Hoggishness, 10,615,621. Hospitality, Per- fect machinery for (in England), 442 ; diffi- culties of (in America'*, 449-50. Hotels, 442, 450, 601-6. Humor of disappointment. The, 256. Hypocrisy of " amateurism," 628, 630, 649. Imitation, The servility of, 446, 453, 468. Independence defined by Hamerton, 46S. Intellectual exhilaration in long-distance tour- ing, 301-3. Insularity of P.ritish business- men, 484. Janitors, A study of, 457-60. Lit- erary faculty a form of weakness, 728. Local limitations of "position," 448. Local pride as a spurto public spirit, 436. Love, 15, 136, 409-10,442-3,472. 73'- I-ying, 6, 20, 397, 733. Matrimonial ideals, 442. Memory, F'allibil- ity of, 391, 399. 4ot. Mental liberty, 454. 468-9, 472. " Money " a universal language, 284, 701. Motto for an honorable life, 680. Negroes' behavior at Bermuda, 364. Origin- ality, French hatred of, 46S. Ostentation, 467,469. Philistinism, 469, Pleasure of " I told you so," The, 276. Politics, A citizen'^ duty towards, 726 ; a less-dignified g.Tme than wheeling, 309; a topic for conversation, 450. Publicity, The curse of, 28 1 ; privacy made by, 429, 443. Puffery, The mistake of, 718. Respectability, English ideal of, 446 ; French ideal, 468. Repute and reality, 72S. Rich and poor, 630, 720, 729. Rivalries of men and women contrasted, 721 ; of Western cities, 436. Savage, Suggestions of the, 61, 62,255,309, 454-5,466-9, 731. Sectarian con- trol of colleges, 435. Self-absorption, An- tidotes for, 4f)6. Self-confidence, Rarity of, 448-9. Self-suppression in London and New York, 427, 447. Servitude to servants (in America), 449-50 ; (in England), 445-7. Silence the bitterest form of contempt, 596. Sincerity of "last words," 730; in soblude, 4679. Slaughter as the chief basis of renown, 465. Snobbery shown by " amateurism," 650. So- cial significance of various residence-quarters in N. Y., 65, 452. Society, as an ancient and interesting game, 72S-9. Solitude, Pleasures of, 7, 34, 255, 406, 432. 454-6, 467-9; solace for, 14 ; terror of to evil-doers, 441 ; test of char- acter, 462. Sophistry as a lawyer's main- stay, 724. Sport's highest fiiiction, 732. Superstitions, 409, 413, 430, 4A-. Sympathy in a coiTimon hobby, vi., 5. Theatrical life defined by Fanny Kemble, 728. Thieves' shrewdness, 441. Tonic quality in hard work, 309, 46S. Travel, Advantages of foreign, 2. 469 ; necessity of for Engii.^hmen, 447 ; relative isolation ' in. 454. Triumph, Def- inition of, 304. Undergraduates as demo- crats and aristocrats, ■x,r)<^. Vanity as a lit- erary inspiration, 701; in portraiture, 280: melancholy tokens of at Mammoth Cave, 3S1 ; density of in "social leaders," 455; solitude as a deliverance from, 46S ; shown by bashfulness, 502 ; twists ihe street numbers, 586. Veneration, 448. Verbosity of F'.varts defended, 724. Votes, The significance of, 726; the power of, for rebuking the preten- sions of the Great American Hog 615, '■: War and peace, 386, 439. Wealth, 15, 396, 41 \, 469. Whims, Distinction between positive and negative, 281. Wives and mistresses, 441-4. Woods, A home in the, as an escape from conformity, 444, 454-''\ ^'^l ^ Youth : its generous ' illusions " def' r 'n' by Renan, 472; its pricclcssness proM.Kmed by the hopeless lorging of TurgenefF, /28. /^•DEA- OF PEA^SOXS. iNcinnNTs AND Accidents. Ankle sprained on the tow- pall, ,r, ■"" "■"' '"'y a' I'or. Chester, 54 ' He' n.«l..ed i„ Virginia ,r,ucl. 3;,. ,.„,,„„ r..ffi..,„.n. at lantern-parade, 37,. c.nal '»"'-». 340. Clothes rent, 307. c„I- '-"-"*. 55, 7,33, 5=9. Crossing an engine- 'H.se,5.6. Descending the IJlue Kidge in a,hunder-s,or„,38e. I.og.'oi.e at Vonkers, ■>* lJc.« earned on .ncycle by Australian "-St 5.5. Elbow-breaking of .ny ear- '«. rule, ,,. 62, 307. Knglish„,en-s mis- ''-■P^ 53.MU. Kails and breakage of bicy- ^'•-■. 3 7MO 54, 306-7. Fleeing fr„„, ,he customs officers, 1:7? y,„,\ ^,.„ • ' J/S' ' ora crossing m ^ arn,er.sc.,rt,3,.S,3S3. Ford.ng the rivers '"New Zealand, 56^. Forgetful inn-keeper ''-,3.8. Hard h,ck at liagg-s Hotel, ,09' fK.adersoftheDown-K.^s,party,.Oo,.;?; "1 1. .Stevens, 47c ,-0 ,0 ,, ' 1/i, 4/3, 4»o. Morses, en- counters wth, 57, „6, 3.,, 3,5.,. ,„„„^, .mv™„,acculents, 507,5.., 53., 537, 545, ^17. 5^,. insolence of liotel-clerk rebuked ns Jumping on a nail, 306. I.an.ern' i;''f-'-^^-U.ted, 37.. Mules scared on "'^■l-ne;„v..j..-„h,9,.99,2o8. Mules scare — •■'^- -' & H path, ,,, 3,,. j,.,^, '"w-uapes. ,ror., a drunken man's whip ;; -^P-WleM, ,7 ;fr,^ runaway mules.; '""esdale, 45; from a recklessly-driven norse at Soniervil'e tij • fr„„, ^'vii.c, 733, trom strnstroke "" 'lie liottest day of eleven years " 5 .' ■5i. P.fertPg, 57. I'ocket-book lost and restored ,50. iVospect Park fatality, 5S6 ^..c,„g for the homeward steamer, 36,' Kattl.snake bite in .Nfebra^ka, 47S kL \ race nuerrnpted by frightened mare ^,, -'Stevens (T.) in Afghanistan, 57,; ail,' Kora 4S.; ,n a Persian snow-storm, 570 • mobbed Ml Chim r-,, t 1, ■ , „ ' "^- ^'■'"'S ^-''h spccta- "- "f .he Run Run battles, 375. Upset I'y bad boy of Port Chester, 54. ^ Wo.MI£,V. Acquaintances alluded to, .36 4,0 1? T' "'"' "5-^ 73r. Adulation of '^^ ^'er.cy, 7.7. Mrs. Allen's long tri- vclende 554. ■•Amaryllis," 443. Ameri. an soaal types, 449. Australian tricycle -■msts, 5... Mrs. President Bates, 05 M.ss Brock's sketch of Wever's cnv. J. Ury sisters, 73r. " Cecil Dreetne." .Vs-'; H. Chance to learn tricycling at Orange, Ixxxiii S'^'?- Characters in H r. 1 ,.,„,. "'in H. James's novel Cala,slhe,.60 C.izenes.ses of Machias. Casti.h""""^ ' "'^'' "''• ^'"""'"» "« ^asl,gl,„:„ s vanity, 280. Mrs J C k Iikin.''i'T"'"""'''^^'"^^7. Mi.ss L.ski, shook on" Tricyding for ladies," ^ ■••. ''f' A^-^'H'e residents, 453. <;; ,. graouaies in Kentucky, .3. Hatred of '^••^''"'l'er,72r. Hotel life, 450. H. H 's d-fi".;...n of triumph, 304. Inqulsitiveness KJmb "'•''^""""■''"^■^■''•^^^ Mrs.' «'^M. J. Lamb's "Hist, of N.Y Citv " 433. Mrs. F. T. McCray's cycling novel 55.^75. "M'd'lledesMollets." 4.9,43, Ma. ens of college days. .3.. 'Mlmmoih •-avt. Suggested troubles af, 3S2. Mat rors conversation. 450. M„. c. V. Mar ;;.^b.„.kofMt.Deser,.8.. Ma.^ll b^lofTrc'iir^'"- ''- wiv,.= w' ^ Mistresses ar.d «'vts, 44a-4. Mileage records, 528 530 Noiel'ofV'' f''*'"='P" go^-P.' .S..' Novel of tncycling, ..,, 5,5. Grange "anderers, C70 Mrs D n, ' ""■ '*»'^'- ' --nneirs tricvc! .ig tours, cjo fic- <,s, n> ,,. ' " , 530, "53. t.87. Qnttn Victoria 47, Mrs, Radcliffe's novels, 430. Rarii;' f ■aracter,' 4.6. Repmaches from on ■rath and sidewalk,,-,,,,. Rivalrv, 7,, K.^ali„d.' 43,, Miss R. L. smi;h's .:,." ~,"°'"'. '"- 675. Miss Sylve.ster l)!cvc!iennc ' c^r. "c ,>. Mich •• n . • ?■ ""■'* ■^'"«^'- "f i.vo '■ Q""'--«'°" f^'n the, 7,9. Tlmid- ty of. inhorse-driving, .0,3,3, Tricycle, s 5^M. rncycling for Lad.es," Miss Frs- k'ne's book on, 684 Tricvc'in. , \fro D ,.. Ticjcing tours, Mrs. Pennell's. 5,0 6cc ft8, c „■ . , , , ' '■* ' °S5> 6»7- Servant- E r. dread of the U.B., 43,, 440; modes ofnihngih.ir employers in England and America, 445, 449- " Skatorial queen,- 400. Universal rivals, 7.,. Velocipede racers m Pans, 403. " ViVa," 439 " Vir S'"'^- 442. Visitors ,0 the University havkValle:. ,3. " Wheels and Whims," 6,5, 675. Miss Winihrop's hook, 439 Wives of wheelmen, 505, 506, 508, 5,6 5 7 :;?''''' 5^^' 5M. 5.^. 530. 54S. 5.' inters quoted or alluded ,0, .8,, 304 ^'^-7' 382, 433. 530, 655, 675, 6S4, 687, .8 7*9, 73' " ' • ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. LEAc;un Politics. — Recent events require a correction of the complimentary opinions on pp. 6i8, 620-1. On Mar. 24, 'S7, the Prc-ideiit ot the L. A. W. rcinovtd from the office of Representative of the Penn. Division the man who had for two and a half years served with great apparent efficiency as Leayue Secrelary-Kdilor, " for nialftasance, upon the following grounds, nanuly: (1) In that, beinj; such Representative and also .Secrelary-i;ditorof said League, you wron;^fully converted and appropriated to your own u. - the funds of s.iid League, collected by you in your olTicial cajaciiy. (2) In that, being such Kepresentalivo, you iiisii;.;ated and are insti^atin.;, .iidiiig, .iiid abjttiiig the circulation of scandalous, libelous and false statements as to the coiuUict and motives of the L.VL'CU'.ive Committee of said League, and of its Poard of OfTicers at the recent meeting in January la'it. (j) In that, being such Representative and owing allegiance to said League, you conspired with a certain official thereof, namely, John A. Wi'lls, Chief Consul of Pennsylvania, to procure the cancellation of advi'rtising contracts for the BitiUtin, and the execution in the place thereof of contracts with laid Wells, iiidividnaily, for such advertising, thereby endeavoring to divert legitimate business from said />'«//(■//'« and to injure and if possible destroy its publication." The man last name'' was also removed by the Presi- dent, al the same time, " for malfeasance, upon the forovsing grounds, namely : (1) In that, being Chief Consul of Pennsvlvania, and Secretary /ro /«n/(;rf of said League, you received otfici.il papers and refused and neglected to deliver them to your successor as Secretary, but turneil them over to the committee of an adverse faction inimical to the Iilxecutive Committee and Hoard of Officers. * * * (4) In that, being such Chief Consul Snd owing alle- giance to said Le.igue, and being in duty bound to aid and .'•.^s .-.t it, you attached by legal proc- ess the entire baiiU account and the office efiects thereof at Phil.idelpliia, for an alleged claim for advertising connnissioiis, payment of which had not been refused, to an amount l.irgely in excess of said supposed claim, with the object of hindering, harassing, and annoying the Executive Committee and officers of said League, and by such unjuslifiablc duress of compelling payment of said alleged claim." The second and third charges against the C. C. were identical with the second and third against the cx-Socretary, whose note of Mar. -!'^, accepting the removal, said : " I have decided, much against my own personal interests, to droj> the controversy where it now is and to refrain from my further comments on tite charges thus far made against me ; though their truth I emphatically deny." All the foregoing appeared in the Bii/lttiii of Apr. 1 (p. 256); and its issue of .\pr. 15 (p. jqS) contained these final words from the ex-Secretary, dated April 9 : " I hereby resign my nvoml)ershi|i in the League of American Wheelmen." The full history of this d plor.ible case coven.'d six pages of fine type in the BullctiK rif Mar. II, 'S7, and was in form an " olficial statement by the Kxecutive Committee to the offi- cers and members of the League." Tor the clear and moderate language of the narrative, and the business-like way in which the letters of the ex-Secretary were marshaled in nnanswcr- ahle evid.'iice against himself, I suppose credit must be c.iven to the lecral member of ihe com- mittee, J. C. C.ulick. As early as the Pond irifeling of Feb. 22, 'Sft, the Secretary's mode of keeping accounts h.id been sharply criticised (/?«//«■;'/>;, pp. n2, 2iri-iS'i, and at the next or annual meeting. May 2?!. the Kxicnlive Committee were instructed to prepaie a report showing the exact financial condition of his office. The Secretary absented himself from that meeting, on the pl::a of illness caused by overwork, and was represented there by J. A Wells (" Sec-Ed. pro tem.,"'—:\ special partner in the firm of E. Stanley Hart & Co., printers of the Bulletin), who declared that two designated banks of Philadelphia then held League funds amounting to ^443''-23 (see verbatim report, Bulletin, June ii,'86, p. 536, ist col.). Though this partly allayed the sus]iirioiis .iroused by the Secretary's f.iilurc to send ihe Pivi^on treasurers thsir money, the Executive were nevertheless ordered to investigate him, as aforesaid ; and he there- ADDEXDA: LEAGUE POLITICS. Ixxxv I '■-". sccinp ,I,a, exposure wa, incvi.al.l. ■'" '-x,,„cabk. a„d i.K..cusahle 11 f .: "'"'' '" "'^ ^^"iJen, (June ,6 .s,, , W ; .u„l I a,„ left ^,„ , ^ '""'"f *62oo, whereof at lea.t «.,■,' ^' ^o-'f^^i-'g itit without a cent of niv o«., t, i ''•S'* ''elonKed to the I » -- .o col.ec, ,l,e uLTu I , ' '""""'^' "^-<-C"-io„ i„ behalf of a "':"'"""". being in 'l^l|.lM.M,s, a. su, ..!.' T ; ' * "^" ''•^'' '^"■' «i«"«l to it 'a ! r "'"""'l-^-'-ed body, ."-;>H;en,,,Lr;"r:l::--;:^•'■---a.e;rd^^^^^^^^ ;;:s:;;::r'';~^^ •-> (-"— wilt. ^:::i'r'i":""T''7' •"- -' - „:;:t' ,^: :;', ;;-- ;-■ ;:''::-:::-- £-■ r i": --—'^ 'r !eS*:2: f '• r— / «ci..able delay was shown by him in .1 '"■""''''-K VO" f^'^Mhe office " A Cretan shcld e„her tender his resignation 1,/' '•' ''■•" '"i"''''"""^ and ;V,t the V "u n 7 f ^^^■^■"'■"" -- A ' r;^ , r' ";::" '" ^^^'•^"' - ^'- ^^^ removed .1: ■''.U ells ,0 New V„,.uf,„,,„ i,,,^^^.^, 7:7^;'^ President .0 that efJect brot.sht hi,n a,d yff' re(l tlic lc^iKl>.llioll w.is " ciiisi'd by the acl.cptan(^ <>( .1 vi'iy ll->tl< lii'^ Imsliu h'* iilTi I," .iml wiiulil " t.iki- ftlccl on the ilcilimiof my huciinsoi . Jan. 17,"— wiiieli ilinil.ilinn li.ul iiol bcrn nulici'd l>y t)ie l'l0^llll'nl wii'ii liv sent tliu ti'li');rani On tlu' nific- aiilliiiiily iil litis trlc.'rani, llic Sccu'taiy piinlL-d a fcirnial IcIIlt, of same date, wiili till' I'lesiilrnl'.s si|;n.itiML- altailied In the fiillouiii^ phiase : " ll atfoids me plcilf^uie to appoint ti> till-. 11 .poiisilili' posilioii Mr John A. W lil-, C hicf C oiisid of the IVnnsylvania iJivi.sion, anil I t.iki' this oppoitiiiiity to ci>n);ialiil.Ue tlie I.ta(;iie on tile fait that a Kenlleman of Mr. Wells' Will known abilities has been induced to aeee,)t the position." (,/i'«/., Jan. 14, 'S7, p. 11). .\s the I'lesidnit never wiote these vnouIs, tiny were piesinn.ibly faliiiealed by ihe Secir- laiy, »ho piinled jnst below them, over his own si);natnie, a " fialeinal .iildress to .ill I.ra^iie nu'inb-'is,"eunl.iihiiin .uliiilion.il coinpliineiils for his ostensible siieeessor, thus : " I do not donbl that the wimIoiii of oni I'lesident's pioinpl < lioiee will meet with an emphalie indoiseinent by our lloaid. Ml. Wells' .uieiname of liu linsl .issnres tin 1. civile th.il a loiisei v.live and able .id iniiiisii.uioh w.'.I be llie ii'snit of snili 1 eliou, " .Annie el.iboi.ile laii'.sell .i.ldiess \\..s promised lor llu issin I I. in. n ; but as tlie 1 seem; .r I uniinil'ee in iii.i^;ed lo iei;.on i onliol of ilieii in op- eilv befoie ili.'ii, llu'v n.itin.illy " b.iued ibr nisei lion of f 111 llier seli-iaiid.iloi v etfionteiy and hvp.'i iiiu.il iiillielioii " ; and on Jin. i(.. wlien ilie I'residi'iit lold tlu .'see. bi must eiilier i-'si^;i .11 oi.ee 01 Ik- leinoved, he vesij;nei. uiie ii.lilii 11. illy, .ind .Mr We'ls w.is .ipponiled .See. /rottm. To e\|il.r.n ihe loinni.llee's Manner ol ie;.;.iiiiiii:; I'Uil ol in- J.m i;,'t is neeess.ii v lo j;o b.u ;, .1 1.11 I .uul s.i\ tl .11 ulu 11 b ■ Si iiei.iii '■- 1.' 11b ■.■-ion .f li •I'.ile.ilioi. ,hiI up. 11 llieni ;be iliffi- I 111 il.ilv ol ill -iin, liii^ .oin.' siiit.iMe p. isi 'i to jpi-oinl 01 eUet n his pniee. .11 siuli lime .'.s he slum .1 be c'lli 11 lid ol, ll- 'v i..ili.i.ii;\ uiiiird low.iuls ilie (. h.iiiiiaii ol llie K-iiiiii; I'.o.ir.'. ( >ii llie one li.iiul. ll ■ w.is .111 e'lliv 111.1 '.ulio li.id \oii llie ies| el .f l,r.ij;iie nieinbi is by ^he ^ll,^ullllol w.iiil \\.;\ ill w'lK !i ll,- li 111 . iii.'ued tluii iilious '■ .ini.ileiir iiile,' tli.i. evelo r.uinn in till-, iiumtiv must tie j,,'Veiiied .is .' 1-1,1: ii 1 ol oei.il 1 luiiielle and pecnni.iry s uidlnj; r..lhei ill in as .1 iiMilei ol sport .mil swituiess 1 -e \. o.io*. .md who b.id had .'. loni;er experience al the busi- ness ot eve'ili,; ioiiin.i'i^iii ihan .iir oiliei .\nu 1 iv.m yv i,.-^^: while, on the oilier hand, his IK w A 1 0111 w,-i ij\ , I be ( '1. .',-. i;.i\ 'lew loUeiis ol ,iii\ siieli iiii.ou i.il sii|mi.|i as ini:;'it ensnre its pi'iiii.iiu-iu pio-piiilv|p i'i';l Wlun. however. -,ui. r jjaiiiiiij; bis v -ii -em lo ab.mdoii this, in t.uoi ol ihe moi, ceil. 1111 iiKoine allaehiii;.; !o ilie posilion of ^^ eiet.i- y-l-lililor, — they bestirren theinseKe-. lo -.nine .iieli .1 iiiiriibi r of " |m -w voi^-s " as woiiUl place l.is eleclion bey -nd qnes- tioii, thev lonnd ihal the ..ciii.d .-secrei.u v li.i ' .i'ii-.ul\ | nl out a dra.n-iie' lor ilie c.ipture of enoii:;h " blank -.'Ioms " 10 eUci his own .uce.'ssor .ir.d " kee;- .he .'I'.'ioV.'/// al riniadelphia." .\ron- -d ihu- lo ihe d.ui;.;, 1 of seeiie; llieiir-elies ti i,.mpliaiuly detied by the defauller whom they had 11. -.lied so lenieiillv. iluv ni.iiie l!ie " coiiibii .liion ol M.i s.icbuseits. New York .uul Ohio," wli'.i.h el.'CUii ih.'ii ■.■.iii.'ul.ue ovei lii^, b\ .1 ni.ijo: ;\ ol _u in a lot.il vole of i.U'- 'Ihe b.illol was 111 , c.isi until 11 ;-. M. ot J.m. 1;. ihor.i;h the e-Mon I -ji.m at 11 .\. M . ~ in >s! i.t llie iiilermedi- .it.- lime bi-i.ii; spi-m in ,1, li.r.i;;..; ibe .s.-eiel.n \ 's ii;.;bt 10 collect blank prv>\ies lioin the unwary all! pill tlu in iiilo his In.-iuis' li.ii''> I'oi vrtin;. . 'here weie 15 such pioxies reiectcd by the r.,Mui . otiu-is 'i.caiise o.' noii u .iience ai. ! _• oilier^ because sent by telee,raph ; and tlioui;li ibe le,ali/ation of ili.---e I.) -■ Mid not li.i\ e e!iani;ed the nsiiU of the actual vote (S5 to 51). it 111 , lit have been cha:i-ied b\ ilu' wbo'e " 4.\" which the Secretary's sl.ileinent said were given to hull i..(. .)., M.'.i. s. 1 11) Ills f.illiiie to oiT -i •; of ihese -eenis lo inijily llial noi enoiij;li of his paiti^ar.s uiie |-re-eiit 10 u-~e iheiii ; / <■ . th.' .iisli Ibnti. .1 of ihe-c 10 in aiiditioii lo the allowable pio\i>s seeir . I. ■ liive ! loin;' t theni .I'l up ;o the le:jal limil of " three each." On the very nii;hl of his dele u, the " Sec. />r,> tcui " m.ide j>eremptory den..ir.d for *iocxi. on ,1 printing bill due his firm \wbicli h.ul not previously been named as urgent, bill which ihe coni- mit;ee .it once p.iid) : and on the following •norimig he and the ex-Sec. Iu:rvied home to Tliila . wiihout attending the adjourned session of the Hoard, caiiying wiOi them the official palmers ami documents whlcli were needed for the transaetit^i of its business. A nn.-iuinious vote was there- fore (-^is-s-.l that they "deserve the severe c-jnsuro ot this Hoard and of every member ami (rimd of ihc League, for betrayal of trusts rejvjsed in ihcni, for conduct prejudicial to tlu- ADDE,,DA: LEAGUE POLITICS. Ixxxvii I • ,isu •, .111.1 (o' mafcaMiice in office " ; and it was 1 i.,.r ,1 ..1 i . " "•' '"= '"J •■■" '" f..c. .1., U„. until M,,rc:."' ,r ' f' ^"'"^ ''^ malfeasance."- .'.. •«<., wlii.h c«i,fcss..l Ui. a.la,can„n. T|,,v |, .J "x ' , ' ^^"'"^^ ^"I'y of the letter of June n( tlK. cx.,S...:r..ary aKain.t ,hc p,.,p.,..,l to read it", at th"' fir ;"T"";"' "".'"""- ^^•^''-' '-"' "" tiK- llir.e report, of Vesey .- Wsey, account . .1 !^\ '^ ' "■■""'"' ^' '■''PI'''--'"'--"tJry v....,-h..,,,eda,,.a,in,,i,uiv:.,,f.,,,J; :^^;^' ,;"';;^'' -- -^^ •'-.. Tl,o fii.t da/' ..... ..ven to „.e pre-., was re.c.ded on tie :: d y t^;:"::;"'^?""' '"" "' ""^ "'^^''"^ '- .Vcr.tary-, defeated faction li.ul made clear ,1, . v,' " "' "'^' '^■'^^"' ^'""Jrawal of ti.e e.. -■...^,s. as the only sure method of jus.if .J 'I "'"^' ":'«^'-''"' "^ '"" -th, however Tl.e first impuls. and intention of th ' s • :h - "' '" ""= «"""' '"-I'-^'.il'. I..--, was to refuse recognition of „„. „,^ Secret rrv!''"' ""'"'■.f "° '° '^'""•'' ^"'""^ •■""• »>«- - ..■ liulMn at Philadelphia - u„„l an appeal o'dK.'";' "' ""T^' ''''^'^'^' -'^ - " k-p ;'.... Nothing so foolhardy wa. a.temp d ht l^' '°, '"^ .^"^^'^ «---J '"-ber' -1—1. -'I......1. .he actual follv of ,h " mas m V / r" " V"'=""°" "^'^ -- ^'-"y I-'. 'I'i- When the new Secretary arrived o f, , ''^ ' '"•"''^ ''"^'' ~ -e J. ;"':-. c.vUly .f no. graciously, and no speci,;, lb. cl '!', ' "",'"" '" """""■"" '' "^ '-«- l"s «ettm,, control of its lu.smess. yJlulunf, V'""" ^^■"' "'^''^" '" ""= way of I.- ..■■- as editor, hu, said .■ ■• „y .ecp,^ t T, I'"' "l ^^'"^'' ^^ ••"--'y i" 'ypc-, printed . ;^^.. charge of this wee.'s ,..sue ; •• s ^J^^^i'^TT' ^:""''"-- ^'^- J- A. Wells ha. •I.- "- .,..,„. „ ,ave a condensed accon!, o t^":, 1 "" ^^'^''^ ""= <"'-' "- -'■er . T""s -ead then, a.d dso primed the ex-Sccre. ov' ? ""•'"'"« ""^ "^ "'<= ^''.n.nit.ee -" ■'■ ■"-- of the election on the Hr:. d^ ^X;; j";^" J^ '"'^ - ^een ado.ed to -cxo,sor to read on tl... second day. The do^umen '■'■' '° '"^'^ "' '" '<-"^^<-- f- his ..- columns of nonpareil type, ,l,ou,„ somcMnr t" r" •'"^T""" ""' ^^'"'^''''^ "^ (''""'B e^.cnsive,y from i.s wel,..,hul.„ed f'cts ho :,:, e''^''^ ' "" ' ^"""'" '^^^ «'"" '° "-' Pl-uhn, about .he /i,M-n,. In the same i.s ( , ^ '"""'^:'^'"''. -'1 ..s shrew.l special- l^-etary. which. ,ho,i,h creditable to the ^2,- U^^I^'Tr' ^ ''""^" ^"""^' '^ '■'— '.■■ar.,-assumins that he wrote before d.scove . / ! "" ^'^ "^" '''^ '" '^ «""dne s of .-er t, ave been published by the „ew Secret r'y toZ^'^'' "' '": '^''^^ "^ "^- ''"^"'■ II^Mssued four more numbers at I'hila both-. , *'"'""'•'■' f"''/ aw.tre of that m.wonhiness ";,.i.e r,...., . SC1.00. st..-,he p,i; '' .■ ^ a" M::;tV '" ':■""• ^' -"^ ^•-■" '"«- "i'.Ked to make a qaick move to lioston . f^ ^ * ■^""' ^-^ >- "nklin st. ■' We were - ".^s before its date the ..n,::,'; j ";;:„: t,,"'^': ^ "'''■ ^'•'-- ^. " ^^^oZ >-" ". as expected. This is onlv one of n nv ,, „ ' """f-'"' "'''''''''''' "--y --"d -o. •'^ "r -f"-' '" f""'.-- a mail-list, the d d ?; u '" ^^''"'' ''^- ''^^ ^"'^i-'"' --"ch a....ch.nen, of all the League effects in Ph ' " J. 7;'''>' '">'-"' of P-Uin, bids, and the I'-.oxt of secnrin;. a claim for ..;;,, .,„e.ed to be Z ^"'"'"'" ""' '"^"'^^ ^"'='^- ■«> »" the - s. weeks late, , rather than h. e the ,; l' f -----.s on advertisements. Five M-.ntime, . ^^ar. 5, the day ^ , ".r-:'"' "'^ ^•^■^^^ compromised for $.00. — ed himselt as ■■ mana,ii„ editor oh ,„':'""" "^ ""''''''" ■»'l'--d, he an- -^-. "{ the Associati.m for ,1,: Adv nc m „ "' "'"'' '^'^ °- ''"^ '^•'>' P'>ila.), -.fficial '• A. W. Published every al.er^ : t'^'?' ^1 V'' '^' =""■ ''"• ^---- -'-H at the P. (,. ,„ ,a „,,, matter "'.t;", '^""- ''"' ''' ^■'•^■^""" ■•"- -" i'lnase was displace'« '-d --.n,U-editor, correspondent "or in^^o ,":"•; "7 '^ '"" ""■■ ■^""''"^^' -"'" - "•■— is connected with the fact tj ;„ ^s^m "'"^^- """^ ^'«""^""" "^ ">- p. 57 of the Same paper printed the letter from Vesey Ixxxviii TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. & Vetcy, accountants (quoted at the outset of this article), afBrtrii.^ that the cx-Sccrctary'» cun- fewioii of dcf.i!cation, wiiiicii June lO, was copied by thciii Jul) i.\ ami that their rcp'*/., leb. ii, p. ii8, mt col.) showed llie amount of il lo h>; #55jj./ j. Attached to the Liter was the follow in;; editorial note : " The above lb as I'.riat a sarpiiac to uj as it w. II bj to any of our readers. A.s the Executive Coiniiiutee had all this iiiforiiiation i.i tlieir possession at the l..eayue iJoard meeting at Uuffalo, last September, why in the name of all that is honest did they not depose him then and there, or at least place the facta in their |M>ssession befure the Ijoaid, instead of maUing a manifestly false report. If these men have deceived llie Hoard once, tiny will do bo a^.iin, and the only safe course the I.ea;;ue can pur iie is to elect an entirely new l-xecutive." Yet the first issue of this jciurnal, only fimr we' l;s before, had devoted all save 2 of i;s 21 columns to .ateinptiiig the defense of the ex-Secixtary, and iIil' discrAJiiiii^ of those who had lielpeil to depose him 1 lie himself tilled four cluiniis with an "affidavit" and three more with a "statement," whose conclnsion was editori.illy promised for the second number. Instead of tills, iiowever, he piiiited eleven columns (Mar. 19, pp 38-43), c.iUed a " reply to the false and libelous charges of the Ex- ecutive CoiiMiiittee's ' Statement ' in liutletin of Mar. 1 1." I he first eiylit columns of this were given to abusinj; the committee, — endeavoring to show, by an exposure of their private letters to him, that they were men of weak cliaract r, — while two columns were devoted to " an emphatic, bro, id denial " of his own seU-incriiniiiatory letter, un.icconiiianied by any reasonable evidence against Its authenticity. The same issue gave iH columns more to a stenogr.iphic "report of the mass meeting of the I'a. iJiv., I.. A. VV., at tlie rooms of the I'hila. li. C, leb. i, 'S7, to protest against the illegal and unwarranted acts of the lioard meeting of Jan. 17-iS," — the outcome of which was the publication of a verbatim report of the latter meeting (Bui., leb. 11, i3, pp. 112-22, M3-6), and of the Kx. Coin. Statement and Credent:. ils Coin. Report (Bui. Mar. 11, 25, pp. 201-7, 242). No logical reader of these documents can have any doubt as to the fairness and wisdom shown by the League's IJoard, on Jan. 17, in getting rid of the olticers who had betrayed it; and the ijingular fatuity with which a considerable number of full-grown, intelligent, well- meaning, honest and respectable I'liil idelphians " wrote themselves down " in their expressions at that "indignation meeting of Feb. 1" (as preserved in the cold type of its stenographic re- port), seems to me to rank as a psychological phenomenon. Their unaccountable simplicity in being beguiled, even a fortniglit after the official accountant's grim figures (" $5532.79 defalca- tion ") had become a matter of record, is only matched by the amazing cflrontery of the ex- Secretary, in forcing the League's officers to make a public scandal of his crime. There is some- thing bewildering and almost incredible in the choice he made, to defy them and attempt con- cealing the truth from their 10,000 Supporters, after putting his signature to a long confession which says: "At least Jtsixi of this missing SC200 was money belonging to the L. A. W." " One amount of J 1000 I have raised, but $4000 at least I must have at once or be forever dis- graced." " I cannot linger stand." " I must have release or give it up and die." Though the former practice of selling the League mailing-lists (at $2 to J5) was forbidden, by v< te of Ex. Com., some years ago, these lists have been used in sending out the Avierican Athicie, which thus boasts a "guaranteed circulation of over 10,000 copies per issue." Its nominal pi ice is 50 c. a year, 3 c. a copy; and its 5 numbers, to Apr. 30, show loS pp., whereof 40 pp. are advertisements. The object of its existence has not been very clear since the t'liul issue, when the task if defending the defaulting ex-Secretnry was thrown overboard as hopeless, and it will probably imt last much longer. The men who saved the League from the machina- tions of its editcir will perhaps read it while it lasts, for the sake of the spiteful slurs and iiriuen- does whith testify to the thoroughness of their work. The intellectual feebleness which inspires this malice is shown by the pretense tlu.t the Bulletin's transfer to I'oston " puts it under the thumb of the Pope Mfg. Co." ; and that the expressed intention of League members to promote to their presidency the man who as Vice-President helped the other two members of the Ex Com. to get rid of the defaulter, " means ni- vely that the Pope Mfg. Co. orders the place to be given to one of its stockliolders " The general carelessness and thoiightles.sness which charac- terize much of the editing and writing in the cycling ,'ref,s, have likewise been shown in inost of ADDir.VDA .. U^AGUE POLITICS. ,,„;, . u„c, bawe.,, l„o oiacul fact, ,„. of ..cariy enu 1 L '?."". "'''" '"""' " ^ """"^ 1 1, ll.. latest animal election of Llucf Consul, i . '^ '"' ''"*^''' '" 'i" «• V . , I.. 1'. Thayer, W. Randolph ; c, ,., L. A I^" ";:'.' "'"' "'"■"' "" ''"■ '''-« ■ '■-,.;, A. J«.u,,,.Scran.on; W. Va J W , 'm V f ' " •'• "'• "• ^ ""W. I'lainficld ; 1 A , M. II. H.«,,so„, New Orleans; tJ.. J C ':""'■''''; ''"■ "'^ ^' ^•■'"""' ^'-fo"' luvii.jtcm: In N ii v <• , , ^""'•' ->•*- <-0"'t)s, Nashville ; Kv V \\ <, -:^-. Mite,.,; N-.r.N.ciar.;o:;:r*T:-ii^,^'"V"""'"-" '^^-•j ^• - 4 M....S as f.llow. : N. J.. R. Po„„, ,,,, .„^. , j" "J^'^, ° ,^-- ' --' - held by new „,.n Wn.ht, Cluca.o; \V..s. (org. K-b. ,,. -,' J ^ ' .' -r, '"' ^"""" • ''■- ' ^ " c.li.h annual n,ec, of the League "-ap,;;in,.:d ^:rS^I ous'm "'"'''"' '''"""'"''" "* ""^ l''">|.l>!cl.l.nntcd in color, on tinted pan . with.,. •^'- '•""'^; "'^y '—'-■"' .•'-«...., 36 p . 1--1-Ky, and A. U. Irvin, of Kusl.viie, Ind tl;,!! '' ' \ ■ '"f"''^ "" ""•""•^-' •<> ">e '■-, '"— .od. UtlK,srap,ncportra i' J ri™ ;'''•"'" '''''^ '"•"■s Ke.oni, May .. and Apr. „ To tVl d 1 ""' "''* '''"^P''^""--^ ''V 'I'e ^rW- ;- offices nan.ed on p. 6.;, ap,>oin„nen,. h ve bCT T'?""' '' '"^■^'"- '^"'"^-"» "' !•""-> St. Cloud Uudding, \Vasl,n,^ton. D C L" a '"I ^ ^''"-'""•'-. N. L. Col- "-.6<.8 rourthav., lirooklyn, jg V, ,,,„ j,,7f„ fj^' ^5' «'^ /?^^>t«/../,r, A. B. Bark. New York Division " (.see pp. 5S,, 6.5) Vas pnbl hJd \r ' y, s" T" '' " '''■"'■"""'' °^ ">' c ...fully-compiled work of the sort thus far iLed 1 v ,1 , '' " " '"' '""^' ^'"'^"^^"'^ ^"''- <'...< ntnnber given ,0 table-of-con.ents and i?, 1 ' ' ' '"'"''''' '^-""Press, and twic. > Stanley Hart & Co., of PInla. ; . l. „'l;^' Tr" ,'"" '"°' ''^ -""P-eH. by - ■• l.a. flexible covers of dark green lea.h a, fc 'n h ' ,""= ' '^ ^* '"• ^ "'^'^''^ '* --len.s of the State receiving it free and ot'her n ' ^T''"'' ""'^ '^ '■'■•''■'^'■'-' -■"bers,- ■. valuable gift in prospect, the Sec.-Tr^ wa Ife f"" "' V' """ "°'"'" '''''' -■"' -ch ^ -..e of renewals,-„o4 ou, of .;;r-soTl t ^ .^ r""^'' -l."^- '' " ^'^ ""P-ceden.ed per- ■s .049, or within ,00 of its size at the close o' '86 " ' ;'7'"''.""'"''^- -■ P^"e„t men.bership '-t quarter-year, he names $,su as net assets i f.^'f 'f'''^ *3S9 for expenditures of the I-" i'- la.ter's preface expresses 1 Z l^a^^ ^''f ' , '"^'^^ ""= -^' «' ''""^ ^^ <" be >l..i. .<. 3000 before the year closes '^ ''' ""^ ""^^ '^ "^ ^^-^'''''S 'be member- -4ni:::St^:ll- ~ - -^,:^;^ement of .,. .vision ,s Shown .y the •" 1- " e..t„led to the same rights and sub ec. ^o "'"^ " "^ '^"y'^'" ^"'^ '"'^Vcles .irawn by horses,"-and forbidding locJw.stoT7"'""'"'" '" '""°"^ "^'"^' "'^'^^^' "'e Chief Consul, G. R. Bidwell bv,!,.!. - ^'"^ "'■•'■'' ^"^"'a'ed at the instance of •■'l-•o,.d-lawofcycling.^■s : il to 'i::r: T"'' '• ""■ ^°'-(«'>- sumn,aryof «'.••" it went at once to'a third rea ni A iprrc' "'''''' ''^^' "'" ""^"'""^ "^P-^. >"- '"k , - ■■ r..'^'- ^ > ■!/• ^::.-- .; ■^.■r H v] (^ /] /'^^ <:7^ -(5^ c/>^> IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I l^|2£ |25 1.25 14 IIIIII.6 Fhotograptiic Sciences Corporation 4 4^ €^ ^^ rv v \ \ ^ "- wuhont first getting rid of the amocrlt' who w " • ' ' '"^'^^'=""'^"-^' "^^ '-l-'essness of it abuses. These pieces atn^^.red in T f T '"?'"' ' ^''°'' '"'"= °"' "^ ""= P^^Petuation of of .heir author a a C T C se ' ', "" '^"''^ ''^'^'=" ' ^^^ ^^^ ^"""-'1 by an attempt led the " Sec VA " , "^''"''^'"^ "' Gaz.-t!e. The natural failure of this attempt naturallv .be .,b. i . Ilea whroTrk;; 'Vr''^'^' ""■''" '^^' "^ "^^ ••''= '-"^-^-V - --^^rtake fro,n Italv to the g7Ju\ r r ^f'' ''■^'P'"".' ^^"^'' J' ^-^-^^^' h,d chanced to send a letter a..d he closed by s^W i, " l, , h";"" ' """' '"" '"''''" ■""''"''" ^'""^ ^ad printed, interpolated the word .'nLT ' '"T"' ""' "•^"'^--ed stories." The "Sec-Ed.-; J 1' 's si. na ureTf, , "T""^" °^ '^'^"'^ VU,ss.,.,;y imply any corruption or unfair dealing in the case, but it expl.ons why the Cyclist, Bi. iVews, and other publications controlled by the flifles (or " Cov- entry ring ") studiously oujiport the C. T. C. Gazelle in the policy of " supp'ession, d^vi^ioii and silence." None of those prints has ever contained the facts i ere related, though tlie London I'imes deemed them important enough to include in its law-courts reports of Nov. 7\. together with the scorching reprim.i.id which .\Ir. Justice Wills administered to the " Sec.-Kd." (in refusing to tnle-'atf l.im longer as a pLiir.tiil in iiis court;, •' for having indulged in the lowest and vulgarest abuse of the worst form of journalism." IV'heeliiig of Nov. 24 and Dec. i also reproduced the remarks of the indignant judge ; and I myself have taken pains to proclaim them in this country (5«//c//«, Dec. 31, p. 635; iVh. G.iz, Feb., p. 17S, Apr.,p. iS; Bi. WorlJ, Mar. 25; Wheel, l\\i.x. 11, Apr. 8,2;; ranadian ly/uelimin, }>l.\y, p. jz,), in oraer to warn Americans against sending ovei any more subscriptions in supjiort of the concern, so long as ii continues in the control of a self-confessed forger. Faith in him, however, seems not yet to be lost by the Boston Englishman who gave the C. T. C. its first foothold in this country (p. 64,5 , for he has just "actively resumed the duties of its Chief Consulship in the U. S.," .-' ar- nouncing (Bi. IVorid, Apr. i, p. 3S6) that, as regards the likelihood of sending the forger ii.;.. retirement, he " does not believe that the decision of the club will be influenced in the slightest by the scurrilous attacks" made by Mr. Justice Wills, in metaphorically kicking him out il court, last November. H'/ueliiig's leading editorial of Jan. 26— while protesting against lii» policy that " everything undertaken by the club should be with the idea of making money out ni it," and demanding his " immediat' removal from the position of editor, in which he has proMtl a conspicuous failure," — likewiss said : "As secretary, he is emphatically the right man in the right |)lace, and it would be impossible to find a better one anywliere." Yet the writers of tli.ii paper are never tired of making sarcastic comments on his minor weaknesses and dishonesties,— such as his trying to palm off at a good stiff price the new badge, " pirated " from the patented emblem of the I-. A. W. (p. 6n), even though that body's Executive Committee were ordered, at the Hoard meeting of Jan. iS, '.S;, to protest against such discreditable appropriation of its property. The Gazelle of Apr,, '87, offers three columns of comment and testimcny to prov the " marvelous popularity " of this theft, which it calls an " invention," saying : " No der'oion of modern times has given half as much satisfaction as that of the liadge Committee." It savs, also, that the first plan of swinging this trumpery .gewgaw by a chain from a bar-'jrooch li.i.'i proved so unpopular that there has been substituted for it " a fastening of new des'gn," — wliitli novelty, /<7(?c//«^ declares, vas "stolen from Vangliton." The same paper of Mar. ifi, also prepared from the misleading jumble of official figures in that month's Gazelle, " a statement of C. T. C. finances for 'S6," — similar to its tables for 'f';. summariz-d on \■^.(^\^, — sh ving a profit of $5357011 the sales of uniforms for 1^34,515, and a loss of #^50(1 on " the mag.izinc in which its editor can vilify its enemies and amiable lunatics can write twaddle." The Gazelle cost $9ior for printing and $51156 for postage (or a total, «iili J 1000 assumed for clerical expenses, of #15,297) ; while its income from adv., " after deducting the Sec.-Kd. 's commission of $6''v," was J'i'og. Though adv. receipts were nearly $2000 greatir than ill 'S5, the net loss >v.is $1670 greater. The " total expenditures in the cause of cycling" were $7.70 for d.anger-bo.i ds (as compared to $55 in '85), agift of ^^125 to the I. C. A. road fuid. ^DU/TA-DA.- LOXDO.Y ASSURANCE. xciii .ml iU for Cotterell fund. " These afrn,.nt» ^,„ l . C. c,..„u. live, a.Kl, even witl/a ulpTofi ,,' h" ' "T " " '"'"« ""«"'• «»>• C. T. e...MulIy u„.scir..l,. and conferri„g benefitl upon i s IX s a„d . '"k '' '^ '""'"^'' '-C, M. . 33). An adv. ,n tl.c 7V««.. by .he' S ™\";"'^^' "'-'"-"bers.l.ke " (/^/^,., ■ f 1 M.I. " to incorporate the C. T. f without 'xCT'x ■ r ,\T ' ^'"^ ""'""8 "'« ^""d P ' ..), was .noted oy ,/ W.«, of Apr 3 L ^th: ren, Tl: ' '"•"^'" "' '"""" "■^^"-' n.H /.v. .V.;.s had mentioned U. Lu-^h ts t'.aToh ""'■'" ""= ^'«''''- ^>^'»' n..>^^- .'.- renins of opposition U-lr^'rlrtt: a" T" T"'-°7 '"" '"^■^ --' -m. week in commenting on the adv.. said .- " When S InUon . f *^ ^'""■^'^ °^ -.1. ,„. clnb-,, funds, he did so with impun.ty ; b ut "J Ik '"T ''"'"''""■ ^'^-"■"'^d -u ,v,cou!d no, have prosecuted hi.n. even if he c'uM ave ' ."^ '" "'^-""-'ed e...n,J,, the man -.imelf had been the eirhes o, 1, , " ^'"-^''-"i'd. Cttricusly I. -w . vo„ a man who.se repn.anon or Z s "'^"' "'' '"^"n»ra.ion.- Considering -.:l.;y trade-circular like !he ^li: ^^ k:'^ .:'"f ^"'""'^ ^"^'^'^'^ -"'''. - Publisher off C":.unns to tradesman for his own /ain ,T1 ,' '"'"^ ""*"""" °^ ''""'^y ^'='^"'2 out its ..f- ,„s pubic expulsion f,™:!^ r^^:^: :: ^i-;"" /- ^7*^ r'f"" "^ ^ '-''-• -^"••"^• :^.;,.. one of the sort of Kn.iishmJn ^Z :t:^;^r ,^^ ^ ;^e s^w.ess and apathy and W which Amerrcan wheelmen threw overboirH /A • '"^ ^- ; ■ *- ^'e eager mdignation with 'i.^.n.ced the L. A. W., seems aTl the mnr ." T'T^' "'''-''''■'" -''"-defalcation had .l.a. .he chief upl.older'of Z S;li:h Zc^rT i^ '"■ '"? "/ ""^ *=""'"''■ ^'" " ^ ^ ^-^ co.u.nns of argument to them in the BulUtln <.■ n "'■"'' "'''' ""-' ^-^^''-ance to address three "" .i.eir support '• because of i.s spirit of un:]^^:,":;^ Z" if'": ' ' V""' ""^ •^'""' '"'- r-l.in. the se-v,ces of the noble " Sec -VA " J T, / ' " " ^'"■"'"ate enougli to f.",..r. it may finally expand into a " gra-,d'c T 7 ' -^"T" ''""' ''"'"^^'' '" ""= --'^ " » d-vclopmen. of C. T. C." was form'" ed in^h^^^^^^^^ i.rst five pases of the April Gazette " WorL^nf ;, . T ■"■' "' '"'^ '^P'"'^ '^^ °" 'he a.' "> b. the custon, in cases of sud, gra^det; "' '" '"'' '" '"'"'" '" "^' " " Testimony to th<> lower " .iifo.-, i. .. --.sontoAmericInsnC^d^rH^^^ror'r'r^ "' ^"^"^-^ -"—'- ... co,n...nd among ,he former, with an ease ^l S Lms s ^^ ^^^^ ^'"^' ''^^^^ '° ^^^^ """-'^ a leuer ,o the C..//./ (F..,.. ,„, -g,, ,5,'^ S W , '"';'" '" "'' 'atter-was given in .^ on p. 5 .4,-saying : - The N C U aooear^' . T '""' ^^'"'^- ''^^ "^ ''* *hose biog. a..ns.opherandG. H. W. Courtney were chosen ore ' "^""f"'"'"'^'- " ^^*- ^^^ L- R '-cntive.atthe annual election of Feb T'lTlTT '"^^^ """-^''"^ -mber, on the -n.bers thereof stood as follows: M. D Ruck^r 1 P tV?''" """'= '^^ "^ -g"!ar J.. K O. Dray, 9,; G. H. Green. 9. ; A Prou, 80 r ' F t •?""'"• ^ ^ ^ L. Philpot, « J Harvey, 88; E. B. Turner 87. H F VV ! ^' ^ '"'"'f^- ^8 i - F. Thoma., 89; ^ i-™>-y-Simpson, ,.; T. H. AowL 6 : ^ r* 'r'" ^""°"' ^^ ' S. R Mason, 7!; -present the only men of the old board C^o w'ere're lected '. ^'" ' "''""" '"^^"''^ "''= ^''^ i lowest on the list gained places there only bv the , ' "" '' """""'^ "^ ■'•"•-•'"d the a..d Glasgov, because these were know: o^ ple r"' ""' "' '' '"°^^' ^"'" ''""^ ^--P"<" a'iual votes stood thus: F. P I ow x, • HP, ^ "'"P""*""' "f "amateurism," whose ^men dropped from the old board v.'as the '•' ^'vTTn ^l'' ^^ ^' ^"'''^' ''■ Among the •h« he ■■ had received votes enough fo renr u ^' ^^ ''••" "'"' '"^"^ P"'- "> aLrt Wnllyprnisedby.he-.Sec of N c u,',." " ^"'"■' "' '" ^'•''"d," and who was sre,ttly indebted in many ways," .hou.>h he himllf' ^'"'^''^''" '" "'""" '^e Union had been book for forgery on the memo;abIe Nov J 7;, "c" °V' "" '•^"^"' "'■-« ''™""'^t ^im to ons.-.me c.:..sor,W. McCandiish. of ff^A,r/L •■' , '■' ^^ '^"'^'^' °" "*■"'■"" °f ^'^ ^H.eUng, received a unanimous vote of confidence, amid ^^^^^^ -^^^^m^j^^ xciv TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. loud applause," and was re-elected with the other three officer' : Lord Bury, Pres. ; W. W. Tani.er, V. Pies., A. R. Shcppee, Treas. The latler's " financial scheme " was aui nted at a council-meeting of Apr. 21, with only 5 dis.senting votes from among the 70 dtlegatLS present while the proxy votes were also in its (avor, 51 to 15. The scheme orders the Kxccutive to in- corporate the follo'ving changes in their ru,es : " (1) That the subscription to the Union be at the rate of J1.25 [X-r anmim tor all members, the representation bcin- at the rate of one delegate for every 25 members, and each member shall be entitled to a copy of the A'. C. U. Revirw. (2) 'hat aflfiiiated clubs shall subscribe $3.62 per annum, and sha'.l be entitled to one delegate on the Council, provided there be more than 10 members, but in the event of in affiliated ciiili possessing more than 25 members, it shall have the option of appointing another dilegate ft.r every 25 members or portion thereof on payment nf an additional >2.62 for every 25 members or portion thereof. (3) That Local Centers shall retain #1.37 per #2.62 of thu subscription nf each affiliated club, and 37 c. of the subscription of each member, and that al! copies of the AV- vitTvor agenda be sent from the head office direct to members." The foregoing is intimately related to the fact that on Jan. i, '87, the Anfield B. C, if Liverpool (which feems to be the most active and important riding clib in Croat lirit in, judged by tlie records on road and path accredited to 'ts exceptionally large menibership\ addressed ici the N. (l. U. Council a manifesto demanding 5 reforms, wuh a bold threat of sccess]on and war in case of refusal. The document begins thus : " (1) We ask for the instant rescission of all sentences of suspension passed, not only upon riders wlio are suspected of ' makers' amateur- ism,' but also upon men who have been suspended for competing against t:ie said riders. Our view of the matter is, that neither the N. C. U., nor, indeed, any power upon earth, can prevent riders receiving (if they so desire) from manufacturers remuneration in some shape or form ft.r services rendered ; and it is evident that gieat injury wi 1 be done to the sport by barring fron. amateur competitions men who arc probably the very best and most straightforward riders in the kingdom, and who have been singled out as examples because their splendid pcrformancts have made them too conspicuous." The lesser demands are, in brief : " (2) Equal rigiits c.f the provinces with London, in the fixing ..nd management of championships. (3) Instant re- peal of the law fix'.'ig the maximum value of prizes al f;26. (4) The allowing of winners to se- lect their prizes. (5) Deletion of the rule which prevents professionals from acting as pace- makers for amateurs." In answer to this, the Sec. of N. C. U. issued a sophistical defense of "amateurism" (covering 5 columns of 'yiieeling, Jan. 26), insisting that the first demand " should be jnhesitatingly rejected, as its admission would render the Union a laughing-stock among amateurs" ; but he made no effort to controvert any of the 1 ;c in the Wheeling series (by J. R. Hogg, see p. 649) which so cleverly exposed why "amateurism" itself is such a laughing-stock among men-of-the-wo'-Id ; ana, "from start to finish he gave not ■. single hin;, suggestion, or admission, that his opponents could possibly be actuated by worthy motives." The angry Liverpool men, on the other hand, took no firm stand on logically unassailable -round; but proclaimed, rather, the good old hypocritical maxim that they "favored the law ut were agin' the enforcement of it." In other words, they prattled against the " injustice of suspending a rider on suspicion of having violated the rule of ' amateurism,' and forring him m actively prove his innocence," — though the only possible chance of giving effect to any such piece of social etiquette as " the amateur law " is by resort ;o just this reversal of ordinary lepal processes. A sufficient answer to all twaddle about "unfairness," "star chamber justice," lettres cie cachet and the like, is the fact that no one innocent of violating "amateurism " need have the least difficulty in proving his innocence. The real unfairness lies in the impossibility 01 applying the rule of "suspension on suspicion" with any uniformity, or of punishing any large number of "the iiuilty." Hence, as H''hee/i>iq- s.->ys, " t~ those behind the scenes, 'hr collection of suspended coats on the one side and honored sheep on the other is highly ami^*- ine, and we are only sorry that Mr. Todd and his col eagues have not a keener sense of t!.e ridiculous. If they had, they would probably soon add a sense of what was just. '' This lack rf a sense of humor was further shown at the meeting of Feb. 3, when Mr. T., having defeated bv a vote of 121 to 38 the Liverpool r-.en's attack on "amateurism," immediately put tnrnu;h xcv .1 tvvo-ihircis vo;; to rescind the decree of ih 1 b.rc .n.,,,r.y reduced .he allowable .naxin,,™ Z^^Z^T'' ^"''- ''' ^''''"^ '^'^ ^^ " ;.f .!.,., ecluc, on was VV. McCand.ish. of // W,„; Jho h " r' ^'^ '" *"■ ''^^ ^"'h- "■•ateur.-" assumed preference for " glorv-bvf'r T'"' '"'"""='""'"■*■"•■-"' the "■' con,peM„ -ili..insConnciI.o,.ite he.alatrV'T '° ^""* ••- '^"-'^'x •'- Obed.en, ,o .he .hrea. of .he Anf.ed „ L ,he LiJe ." ""'"''"^ "'"■= '■^'■'^''^'- "-;'-" v^d, Mar. , and .hi. ac. repres.n.ed Ihe wU d"? Tf ""'"'" °' ""= ^- ^- ^ " '-"Iccares .ha. if , he Council dares .o go o J ^ , '" '"""""'^ "-'-''" "■n«.wose.s of ch..„p.o„ships fou.h, oJu^lZtr^'"' '"''""'°"' "••'"•= ."-cea.,0 .0 exis.." iVse words L fro. i ^ ':" '-^'T'" "'^^' ' o.herwi... s,.r. -;'"'=. •- v,c.in„ s.ieced for i.n.no'la.ion u^ .h ' ,7" '^'" '^^ "° -- --pensions. -' " I clown from th.ir wh.eb and loo'; on at .hose who . ; , ""'"^"^ ama.eurism are .o :: -^ '" ^"■"'-■, ---- -'• i- much worse posi.il „ „ ;,:" : '""'' ''^ -^ »--"" a, .hem- L . races are all .o b. run at iiir.n.njrhan, ( \I,v '" , ' '"" '''"''''" "^^•'•" The N, C :";' ■■■• ' '■'r" -- '° "- owner of ,he As on'gro.md. .1,''.'' ?' ''"-'^- '^' '"^'"^ •>-> ^--ed - -rests of spor. appear thus .o have b.^n u.. r v ^ ''''""" "" "'^ ^'»'<- " The ;--S. and i. looks -.ry much as .ho 2 E eZve 7 T?"'' °' "" "'"^ ""<"' "^ --^ " ;.™>eIoyal,yof.he Dirmi„gh..n, Ucnl (i^r bvH "' '"■"• ''^"^"^^'^ "^^ ^ ''"'Ve .o C/.<.Y'"-««'ofMar. .; ; ,„ winch .he C J , ;{ M ' ""''"'"■•^' ^='^°' " So says , he "■ -^ ' -'. ^^ th. C. T. C. fnds its uniform d'Xn-nt; 't "''T'' "'"^ '• " ^''e f-t re- "-!- .1.0 present circumstances, must have fund rom1 H '"'T"'''^'''- - "-e Union, ■ -ertanuy." U, ,otaI income in 'S5 was,,; "^d ;""'"'"' '''^' ''""'"'"'= f""^^""- ci -ve of a ;oss of 5750 caused by running the d , """"" "'"'^'-■'' "''' ^y «845, ex- P '-^)- Of its income, ,.35 came from rL 1 mi^::^^•"7^''''»" '" " — "^- " "= --H fees, exclusive of the half which .he I.o^ai™ ^ 1""^''/;™' "'' ''"' '"' f™™ '-^'- "-■ treasurer's es.imate of .V .r. 30 was .In, wi.hTe ,"''"'"'= "^''' "^^ '-''• °" P-648. exceed .he '86 income by at least ^.jo, whi'e ''he 's, "'"'"""'^ '"^ ''^ -pe, ses m.st "1 i -stem) fall below that of 'S6 by ^o .0 ^i^ ' '""'"'' """''^ ^' "^ -■-« time ,mder the -. clubs,-a total doHcit of at least J '^Z" T""' "' 'u' '"'"''""" "' '"-^ '"'Por- ■■; " ^5 c. to ,,.35 wil, prove popular eLu^h^sve tie T ^'"^' °' '"""-"^ 'he L, M'er,ence only can decide. /^W.^/ ,1a " ofa rac ' "'--^'ened dissolution. •*'- f'"-" ^'->^h compe.itor (p. 649), m Li h 1 h „ ^ '■'^"'"' ''''"'""« '" ^"'ry f« o " was withdrawn without a vote buT . ,T ""^Ptance at the meeting of Feb , that wo., b. a cryin. disgrace .0 .he whed cr ^f if we l^ t;;''^^"'°" "■" ^-'^ ^- = and i. •", ^•^''"■- .^°)- "With all its faults it isnref.mn u ""'"' any governing body at ;■«' ".e 'at.e, 's recent appeal to th I 'f ; .^ '° '".^ ■"'°'-^'>'e au.ocracy of .hel. l" 'c ;-,. t"e Union, if ever its n,embersn ; g s fedu edl"""'''""'"" '""'"" » '^"'S" °f -aN - ■" several let-ers, urging th.- formation of sen.rn T "' T'" '""^ ' ^•^'-- ->■ - i'l-r : The N. C. U. is only national on n^nT •°""'' ^'"''""' "'^ following words tl'e Southern Knglish counties It "o T? '"^' '" '"'^•-''■'^y. '^ "nmed ,0 London and .^-"...- The new managers pro'^';'::::f,^f.;" '' --'-''- ^^ ^-so loctir. "™ "..."formerly ,0 matters outsiue of racin" th ' ''T'' ""^ ""' "■''^ "^^ -"-'- -V ■ If cyc'ists are still required ,0 carrv ,ght/ H ' p "''"'•'' "'^''"^'^^ '""' "^y-'aws .hey -k to secure that the protection .hey are bound' * r""" "'"' '' "PPortunity arise," ^y .... u,ac,ment requiring other vehi le c ^^ ; r,,"'"^--^ ^•■•^" ^^ -'ended .0 .hemselve. l!noKS.-My 474th page, written in Dec '8- ,;,.. -. - -..pie reprnu of the Ou^,„^ series by T .St'evens wo M "" '^'" ^''"''''" '° T^l-eran,' --tmg specnens of cycii.g 'i.erature eve.'Tfhl 7. "• ■ " """'' ^'==''^="^'= "^^ "'«" any P^ced enlargement of i. in.o .Around i^e W^rld I'S:". '^ ^'"'^ ''^"'' "--' ">e ex^ Bicycle. As a matter of fact, the first xcvi 77i.V TIIOUCAXD MILES 0\ A BICYCLE. volume of ihe latter i» to lie putilished tliis May by the Scrihnorn, of N. V _ having the former phrase as an .ilieriiaiive title upon each l<-fl-hanii nagi'. The paRf-s an. about 5 by 8 in. in size, and there are 5(7 "f ihem, exclusive of the ii\tri>ductory ones containing a dctlication to Col. A. A. Pope, a short pref.ic- by Col. T. W. Hi^ginson, and lists of the no illusfVations and of the 21 ci-apter-litles, which are identical with tho.'Se employed in Outing. The frontispiece is a col- ored liihograph uf the aiiihor, " as li-! ap[>eared when riding round the world," but it is lor much idealized to be recognizable as a ivirtrait, though I believe a fairly-good one, from a photo- graph, appears upon a later page. Except for a few revisions and corrections, the text has net been cliarr.;ed from the form first given in magazine. The type is large and cli-.ir, carrying 475 words to ihi- page (40 lines of about 12 words), so that the tit-il does not . .cecd 230,000,— al'ow- ing 30,000 for space taken by pictures and blanks. There are no indexes. The price is #4, and an autogra])hed copy will be inailed by the author himself, on receipt of that sum at Ouling office, 140 Nassau St., N. Y. His personal profit on each volume thus sold will be four times as great as on a copy sold by bis publishers through the bnokstor -s ; and '.h js: ordinr.ry tr. c- ,-op. s will not have the .-.utograph. The isl ed in N. Y. will bs 2000, and a similar Issue will probably be mad-- simultaneously in London, by S. I ow, Marston & Co., from plates which were shipped to them by the Scribners, Apr. 30. Knglishmen m.iv send orders for autographed copies, through H. Sturmey, of Coventnr, or directly to the author, for i6s 6d. On the last line of my own story of his woiulerful tour (pp. 473-84, 570-2), I was able to announc his safe arrival at the starting point, San Francisco, Jan. 7. The cycling clubs kept him there for a wet., to en- joy elaborately-planned ceremonies of w.'lcome;and he was lionizid with great heartiness at several other points, until at last he reached N. V., Feb. 13, wlere the 'Ji'izers E. C. had arranged a banquet in his honor, which was held Feb. 23, while the Mass B. C. entertained him similarly at lioston, leb. 25. He then accepted an engagement to edit tbe cvcling depart- ment of Outing-, and to continue therein the series of monthly articles, coi.i,j!eiiug his adventurer, in Asia, which series will ultimately bi; republished in a second large vo'ume. His first .utempt at a book ms., "Across Ame.ica " (see p. 474, where my remark about his " .school days ending at 18 " ought to read " 14 "), is not to be printed, though extracts may be occasion:.!!;- used, as in the series of four pieces for Har/>er''s i'oung PeopU. By invitation of local wheelmen, he has delivered lectures at Scranton, Apr. 12 ; Brooklyn, i6th ; Washington, 20th ; Aubui n, 22d ; Cleveland, May 4; Hartford, 6th ; and the success of these has been sufficient to lead to a regu- lar engagement as a lecturer during the aiuumn and winter 01 '878, under the manag ment of Major Pond, to whom should be r.ddressed all communications on the subject, at tht Everett House, Union Square, N. Y. As I declared when Stevens reached Teheran that his adventure seemed to me " the most remarkable and interesting exploit ever accomplished by a bicycle or ever likely to be accom- plished " (p. 4S3\ and predicted that his report of it would prove '' more interestii-.g to the gen- eral reader than any cycling book in existence" (p ""igs), I atn glad now to make room for these two extracts from the E iglish press, which his publishers use in heralding the actual book : " Mr. Thomas Steven i need have little doubt that the most splendid piece of personal adventure of this century will be placed to his credit. Vambiry making the great pilgrimage as a dirvish, Burnaby riding to Khiva, O'Donovan penetrating to Merv — to mention only the first that come to mind, will alw.iys rank high in the annals of daring : but for the originality of its idea, the physical endurance and pluck necessary for its execution, the dangers involved in it, and its own inherent inter; ., this bicycle trip rqjind the world will pretty certainly remain unequaled in our time " (Pall Mall C.izette). " The mere moral courage demanded of the man who essays an expedition into regions where such an outlandish carriage has never before been seen is suffi- ciently notable to entitle Mr. Stevens to the credit which he .vill no doubt obtain for his plucky exploit. No man who honors courage, pluck endurance — no man who is capable of understand- ing those qualities — wi'l feel anything but admiration for l-.im. To circle the earth on a wheel is in itself a novelty, and as a m:!thod of seeing around one it is also a great deal more effective than any other method " {London Siandtrcf). I think it worth while, also, to add, as illustra- tive of the cheap sneers thrown out by the English cycling papers, even at the very tin-.e when the ADDENDA: BOOKS. xcvii " " - "« -'■'1 "- world.- The .,„.„,„ f„,,e riho,,', M "T '""?!; '''*"• "'' '- *« the m.H.h, l„r l.nv.Mg '• i,,^,, ,,j ;„ „,_. .j" „ "'" *'^- J"*"" ^'"^ censured. ,l,e „„, ' "«"^'^" A,re,a.i,.,..,:;: :-.^:7,;:7;--'i-'i--.rid.,„.,h/Aj<^ ''': ^ '-■'"■:' '■'"-'-' '" a sy.d.c..,. of New Y o L ," ^ , " """■• '^^ ^''''- ''"'- «"d "■ • I—I .>f ec.or, of the Ou.i,', 3 Co. : T I, - ^ , '" T^ ' "'-' '°'"*'"S- *'- '"- --.vcl... r. ,,MHio,. ,0 .his o*c.. suff, ,,;;:. it In " "" """ '■" '^""^«'' '^'•" ^'''- "■= --•• Wi.h every indicuion .hat c^cl n! ^ Ic l"'"'' "^''V-^ ■"•'""'-"»», or .r'ade ■ ' '■- nwn acconn, .ill ,i., dose of '8, and wl^nt 1 """' ^'■' '^9-';., then a grocer -'• • -ws,.p..r nan,ed,-havin, st rve.lt as r^e r";'"'"?^" ^■-' ''"-• '^> '" 'heX "'""'<•' ^t and Nov. ,o„, of „oo m ,h o "h wi, ■ V/'T"''' ^"^P'' •°- "f ^So n,. through R ;;:- - ^ ;-". Apr. .0, and eni:^;^^;,::^ xi'r ' ^°: -^ '■■ -^ ^^^^- ^-^ ^^ •- -^f r. and .. s. travcl,-,he ,n,al outlay for thT.n, '^ '"' "^ "'"=""- •■""' "^arly ,000 m " "; ^ -'-^ -"V -i. with lea.her s .at cVrned a k' '"'"'^ '''"' ""' *^«°- "<= "-^ a U^" F", whose fnll record was ;hus increased t'"^ "T "" ''"'"''''^"' ^"^ -d. a 46 in £ d he had only 3 falls which forced hin, ,0 drop ,,' n,. V '"'""' """"'^ '" ""'e delay "" '""^"'. day's ride was 76 ,n., best stretch o rid '.'"'" ' ""^ ""^^' "''" "" hun ta "f ,!.»,. p. E. v.,„ M.t".L ft 1 , T"; """"""""rf b. ,b, p™. ,',:";'''>■ '"'" xcviii TJ:.V n/()LS.l\D MILES O.V .1 niCVCI.E. iiifii rcpurl to me as mil (i( urdur Ji tli.il iiuiiit. 1 lie Hi li'orLl ii( ' )li. :i (|>. yjj) priiilci! i " c'l.iiiii " fiuin liini, a^ li.tviiig liiliicu ii i iii in ij li. at < )ak'.aiiil, C il., Scjii. i'', aiiii .i^ani ii^wt in li li. on !-if{t. n; aiw' li.s cliaraiicr is fiiithur blinwii by iliu fai.t llial, .ifu-r willing the i\. peeled puff lit liis 5 J ill. K.xpcrl as " llic- bt;-.!," lie solil p'lffs , previous to June 2, when he began at Itosii n a liomcward tour of aLout 950 in. in i-jdays. The dist.iiice is " estimated," [..cause l:;s new Kutclier cyclometer stopped working on the lifili day from the start. He 1,11 k train, Providei.ic to Hartford, 68 m., Cleveland to I't. Wayne, 45 m., and boat from Krie to Cleveland; ai;ij he !.M)K his leisure all the resL of the way while wheeling. " .As for loneliness," he said, " th.; contact with ever-varying classes ami conditions of peo[)le, and ever-changing landscapes, made it impossible ; but I, for one, wiil run the risk of being lonesome rather than being bored." The high-water mark of Knglsh acliievement in the shape of wheeling literature seems i.j have been readied, at the close of M..rcli, by the issue of the volume called " Cycling " (,l"ii- deii : Longmans, (Jrccn Ei Co., 10 s. 6d.), in the series known as lladmiiiton Library of .Spdiis and Pastimes ; .see p. 687. It is imported at Boston by Little, Brown ^t Co., at i^.j.so in cl.iih or #5 in half morocco, and their adv. says : "472 pp., illust. by ly full-page plates and fxj wnoil- cuts," though the text is elsewhere named as covering 442 pp., and the " phenomenally cum. plete and cojiious index" 17 pp. in double-column. The 14 chapter-titles are as follows : liiti... ductory (by Lord Bury, very generally praised) ; historical; riding; racing; to.iring ; traininj;: dress; clubs; tricycling for I.ldies ; racing paths; N. C. U. , C. T. C. ; construction; the press and literature. 'I'he last-named is the shortest and the one preceding it the longest, " covering 125 [ip., from which even veterans who h.ive watched the progress of wheels frc m the bone-shaker stage may deiive some ii.fonnation. Lhe whole volume is quite unprecedented, and forms the most elaborate and complete exposition of the sport yet issued " (Cyc. Jour., Apr. i). " It will be intercstii.g reading to the practical cyclist ; and the man who is going to cycle will find every item of information necessary at hand " (/•/. Xiivs, Apr. 2). " The |ince is higher than the general run of cycling publications, but, as the book is got up in the best style of binding, it is quite worth the money and will take its iilace on any drawing-room table. It ii a complete compendium upon everything connected with cycling " (Cyclist, Apr. 13). " It i> the most complete and interesting book of the kind we have ever read, and supplies a re.nular mine of information, and as a book of reference is invaluable " [Irish Cyclisl iSr" A Ihlete, Apr. ijl " The book is the best that has yet been issued, and is honestly worth the 10 s. U d. char;;ed for it " (,\Vlueling, <\pr. 20). '■ It is essei.tiali.; English, and is meant to be Only the sligln- e.st reference is iiade to cyc'ing outside the British Isles, and even in the ' historical' ch.iiiter America is almost entirely ignored. Yet no wheelman can afford to be without ' Cycling ' on his book-shtlf, for this work is by far the besf ever printed " (Bi. World, May 13). The I'ict- ures supplied by J. Pennell meet '.vith the approval of aU the critics, while those fathered by Lord Bury are as unanimously condemned. The Cycling Journal says the latter's " descriplion .if the mode of government ol the C. T. C. is intensely amusing, {nn being poked at the .iiito- cratic secretary in a good humored way, that can scarcely arouse the wrath of that official li;iii- self " ;— whence it would appear that the Viscount takes a more jocose view of literary fori;ery than did Mr. Justice Wills. M^.st of the hard work in compiling the volume is to be accrcuiicJ to G. Lacy Hillier, ed. of Bi. Ne^vs and of me cycling dept. of Land &> Water, who requests that newspaper notices of it be mailed to him at 24 Beckenham Road, Pengc, London, S. E. " Wanderings : on Wheel and on Foot through Europe," by Hugh Cal'an (London : .s. Low, Marston & Co.; about 250 pp. ; illust.; 50 c), will probably appear early in June. Hs biog. is given on p. 545, and he first gained notoriety in the cycling world by winning the Jsw prize ofiered by Tit Bits, a London penny-paper, for the best story of adventures on the wliee! —printed Dec. 4, '86. As reproduced at Boston, in the CycWs final issue, Jan. 21, it covered ADDEA-DA : BOOKS. fl<' mnr? than two p.iRM. a siVil -fill ".irrnt.vr of A M Holion •ir ipucc wa iin|)i,lis who comptitcH ' rv •.t.iiidard " by which ? 'Iffeiid (!'■ 5»9), "be.ievcd to l,c thi " given by iyh„l!„g^ Dec. ^nA a compa such 1" "I olii; of h i"K his pri«-pirre from the ch 'fi'">n of the two things are jii\llil of a|)j«?ar'. that in ',S5 he d " printed in the Fi,ld(i)^i. ,6 rhcre, Ijesides "'ve his jji„. ,|,,,|| I I l''ll of my '86 ride f-oni \ Vom on llriii,li roads, H 'I'Ke iiooi •»3. 3"; N alkid.-d to the i i>n) Anisterdarn I'liuea-ul Hc'Riimi, when [ ,| P the Rhine lo ( ""hurg to the .fgf 1' letter lo me of on the Contine; "»'. ij); and it Apr ■f'leva and back to A •in sea and Alhi io, '8 "'. and in '«6 ' First 7. «avs : Hook is descript !'t to blend my own ad lept in the fields and w<,rkod ive, anecilotal, hi-iti ' the life of ih ventures with Ih. "■ical, eiliii„l,,i,ic.,] "I*erp; third, of my 'S ">y passage as a sailor, aft second, of my 'S5 tram til !. rwood's, because it is the li,.| e various people met on tl 'Pirit of the places, and not a bare p in er money narrative, bm I'Khtest. It d 1"^ W'lV. As to o^ to enter with a li "meters, I last an lunian in- ar used Vl' -. "v • ^-.'-e:;.,:::-; k:!:-^:; .: is^ -- -"^" •■ -^-^ r^n. to t.. Kn.er,M -^ ..nc...ntionaUnd ,uite fre^ro^iJS':::; :,:'-V^^ 'rrir^:r-:T:---:;.^;.o.:;.ct:'a:jA^ ^'-P'-'"" are as follows: Wh ' ^ "T'^'.^V""^ '""' ^^ P"'>li^^ " .■vi-.ences of Safety bicycan, ; .he n,il S^ Z^^^ ' "';: --V of cycles and cyc.in, , ^ """- ■ "'"'^^"- "f '^>-l'"S ; a charnn-,,,, Tanc em s , , 'r '""" ' "'''"'^ '^ ' '>-'in.e ; cyde' ''■■-' ^<-<= P .34.) I.ate in '86. the Iliff:?, i' "T^ T ' """■'' "' ^>'^''"S- C^' author's I"'"'-^. '*<'« to ,88,," bv R V f,l„ ■•^bnd,,;ments of Patents Re! „i, .. , v '-..""-.eyannouLi^^j;,,: a::e :rjT- ""' ''^^^' ^^^'v ^::;:; "^ ' l^"^; wl.n the newac. went into effect at I T ' """"'« ""•■ P^X^nts of the ve ', r^' "'"^' *'^^ ""^ advance subscription 'jc/k' '^^P" '"■-<■-) -Pl'-red in Feb ." ' ".'f ■^'"°""' °f »»ch material ever of{^Tl'\ '" '' T' ''"'^■''" ""= "— elaborate '"• -""^^ mho,,raphed cartoons by O M,,, , "'"'"• ^"^ " ""'■"- 'M P,-., ,, hyl ^: — 1 '>e cheapness is of course exphi,, d 'tTl,' 7' °"'-^"^ '^'''■-' >'-"- in ,ilt a„d '""""-- eustoma.v with such prim. r. T calendars themselves. The " f, „ ^^7'-' ---ics, of the sort wh.'^^ed.rJ^ ''.''■' r"' """' "' "^ -"-'der s ,iJ: „' -" - rncin, records ; officers, date -.' i 1"!^ " '" T: ''''''" ""' "''-^ " -^'' V m u '?. : -■ ;5;:.nhe men best known'in Z^J:^'^;^^^^^^^ -^ "brief biographies Im 're ( I'P . nicl. 36 adv. pp.), „,hich s,.Il= f ■^''-"edy and printed by A. .t F C-iIdll n . r f,r til . ;/•/ »• "nicn sells for sixnenro Ti,„ . .'•'*■ f^-- ^ainll, Dub in ^o'Oct.3o,and,l,atpaperof Xov..,named ■,'^'iX^-' ^i C J'/S^V .UOIf^iANl) MILES 0.\ A lilCYLLE. llie (iillowins ..-. suppli'-tl (cir ii c. by it'e Covpniry M.icliiiiisl*' ("n , 15 llulbom Viar oi wIulIi, all<:r luviii^ bi-c-ii aillitlcd «uli llie liui j'.c lor 1/ years, .iiid tryinji a\ »ort% ui ninedicn, w.is cmid U) 'iicyLliiig." A iiij|> III " iliL' Kiiiiiiry w>^»l 111 l,i)iiilijii " (M.i>i(jM \ I'.iyuc, 41 vomIiiII; <•■> t ) wan rci oni- mciiilcd liy CyJitt ol Die n, .i» .1 new iiiin.-, " sliowmt; loaiU, louip^iiis, pjiivs, wc>iitl->, cum- iiioii>, .11. il niU, *t well j» llw iliJlam-es jiid IkIkIm-, .ibove llic sea level.'' 011 .1 scale ul \ in. lu 1 III. llssite i»4j by JJ ill., loldiu; 111 a (.lot . cite ^4 by 4i ill." 'I'lic popularity ol «i. K. Yoiiiig'i " l.iveri'ool C ycli.sl»' lluide " (lee p|>. 5j'i, O-to) ii teslitied 10 by llij (att that the sixlli edition, iiir '8;, in tlirealcned uiili a iival, wlreli liii ioniier printers announce !.i pirp.:r.ition. with aliiioMidenl'i.ilinaleiial l//'A»v//«v, M.iy 4;. " llaiidliook on rraininj; for Atlilelic Kxeiiiscn," by W. v.. iM' djii iK. SMJe, liiip.ii.il Are.i.lf, I.uil>;,ile Hill ; j; c ), was miiilly pr.iiMd in hi. Xnvs of J.' 1. j.>; and ".■VlliKie'.'. (.uulc " (I'aslimi Piib. Co., jS l'atcrno«ter kow; J5 c), ed. by N. L. Jackson aad I'.. II. (iomlbo d, w.im e.illed " exlienuly valuable " in H luelitig ol May 4. 'I'liu Kiconil lio'ik " cnii .i. t a fa I table of a, I Ilniisli amateur rLCoids," and its tli.iptur oa " eyciin;' " ^lpy Ij. 1,. III,!. -i) is more complete lliai lli ■ (oinier book's. A series of pictured repoits of " Cyc in;.; Raiiibl ■» ia tlie lloine Counties," by II. S. W'alkiiis, was begun in tlic lliust. S/'orti>,g iV Dr.im.itu Xt^iUs ol Apr. jo, ,• id will duubtle.ss be re|irndiiceil 'ii l.i: ik foim Tlie /.'/. .Veivs ol Apr. 30 pr.ii-.ed l\\: luallypriiit -il and l-MlliTboiind club-book of tlif Nmili Warw.ck'-liire II C, — willi its tli.iptrrs on rye inj;. ti uiiii:;, KuveriiniiMit and other geiHi-il ni. li- tems, —as supeiiur to iiio^t ol the London attempts at club lititaUire ; and it ackiiow eil^ed, wiili- out appioval, the recipt of a silly soii^j, " Ni ill; ll.iby but ill.- liicycli-," pub. by ij. Hend says : " Am excjllent waltz, ' the Knij;hls ol ilio Wheel,' has just be.n composed by I", (."ancl M.ivy, who 1 ro|M)ses to embody the baii:.;es of jo clubs aiound the litinc on the outside cover, t hilis desiriiiR to be coiiimeiiiorated tlieieon should .ipply for pai ticiil.iis >•> the publishers, jy Southainploii st., Strand." The cd. of Cyi!,sl, referiiiig in Dec. to my quoleii " review " (p. 6S4), say< that " Mis.s Krskine's book on ' I'licycliiiK ' has gone ihrounh J eds." ; also that II. T. Kouiul's VSj hook, iiot'-d on p dS;, " was tlij most complete and per- fect annual ever issued, — but his not b.'.-ii perpetuated, b-canse too bi^ and expensive tor llie price" ; also that the 6lh ed. of his own " liulispeiisabie " (which I name on p. 6S5 as appearing " late in 'S()") " is in press, but want of lime even now, Dec. 29, prevents 'ts comi>lelioii. I'lie '.Si ed.. which bioui;ht the total ssue up to 16,000, has lou); been <; it of print." The same "retired naval man" who wrote the Ixiok of Scottish lours, named on p. OSt, published ,in earlier one c.illed " Nauiicus on his llobliy-IIorse," whereof no d.tails are known to me. A writer in Hi. Xnvs of J.in. 1% says that iIk- earliest book on cycling was pub. at London in i>()!i Dy A. flavis, entiiLd thus : " Tli ■ V^-locipjde and Mow to \]f:'. It " (see pp 402, 688). In Dec , '.S(i. there was issued by W. tinilbert, at Rydi-, Isle of VV'ii;ht, price iS c, a list of the year's cyi 'iiis; championships in nil Kinopoan cnuntries, compiled by J. A. Randolph, C. T. C consul at lilient. The C'liv'.i/ calls the tables " most complete." In addition to the 5 b'ai.k-loi;s previously issued in the U. S. (see pp. 677-8), " the Wheel- men's Record llook, tile only perfect one of its kind ever published " (100 pp.; pocket .iiul pencil; leather cover; 70 c.), by Riclnvine P.ros., IMiila, is adv. by the ^/«*r;t- subscriptions to his paper at 50 c. eai.li. " C"yclers' Tables of Shell V .ads near Norfolk, Va." (.:o pp., 2} by 4 in., 10 c), ii an amaliur txxiklet, issued in l-i b. by V. 1*. Kllis. An adv. in U'tWel Xiws ol Apr. r ur^ed all cyclers to at once forward their names, am! name and size of wheel used, to liox 59;, Weslfield, .Ms . for giatuitoiis insertion in the " Wheelmen's Directory, " to be issued by " the U. S. VVlieil- men's Pub. Co." I foiiul, by personal inquiry in May, that the " Co." consisted of I). I.. Beldin, a printer, and H. A. Lakin (p. 5^7) ; but the only answer given to my request for .size, price and publication-liine of the book was this : " It will come out a good dca sooner tli.m your own." S. C Urig-sX Co., of Chica~o, .-.dv. in Outing, of Sept., 'S6, "The Woilil ii;i Wheels and other Sketches" (>i), by 11. K. Taylor, a well-known journalist of that city, wl.e has died since then ; but this had even less reference to cycling than the wsrk of same lumc -m^si ADDIiA'DA , noOA'S. ni-.ciibccl on p. 6So -li»ln™ .:™ t - M K.cl,.n.i, lu. POM, .H„. ^ ^ ' ^ '" ^ «'::■; "> "'" ^ ''"l".-. c^cle ,..,,.^ :,:"!i'^" "^ ^^ ••-^"' K.-:^ -->'^.::n. '.. ::r :;r; '"- ^r "• •■-^"^'^ ;•'•'"• '"'" »•"-'• "..> K<^..c.al M.l„,.c, wc-r I '"'"""'•""' '"•".".■•'.•"'C,.- of .he N.;v. ..^ •• Ko..,U ..,.., .M...,- by ,.w ^ Cj^ V Ivt:"'"^"7' ''^ •' -- '■• ^"'^Z- o ■ '■ ko..,!,, Mr.,,, J4 i..,ve.nn.t, " U o ^'* ''^"'^ » -^^-.c". Lo„d.,„, •(,, ,,„, •;, , n Y I' \.... Nu„r..„.l .^ CV... •;',); " 1 H, '' 'V >"''",','-- ''^". Maj- (Je... U. .S. An v- :' • ^T'"" •""' •^'••"".^"•'..c-- ol koal " Z \. . ^; "■;''"'"'" ('-"'"" -".d N. v.. A.n.ncu. .oc.Cy of C.v.l -...inee.,,,,- Vol. ' 111 .'m':,/.,';;;."'' "- *^- ^"' " ■'— c.,o.., „i JmiKNAiisM — The f, '-■ .»." .. ^;.:r:;::r:;£' "■■ -r ■'-<^'"« ..^" III tliiU, lu'. II " •<..d P"l.:i,liers, and ,,lac„ of T ilgC, Willi dal(! of now published ; ' .11.' — lh_- f, N "rmer's price b.-ioj;^, a,u| t i«iie -111,, ^^,ee^| •'.•it iHiiiiber of caci lie lali '.-•s aie niaiked ' w.' M-*. If/i^,/, llllILT <^' * 50 C , Ulll.!!,so|h,. ii naiiiet •iiul the nioiiiii- i'.'l J S. I) '"•■•1.1 . I> W. Pub. rwisc shown ; iV,.^./,„ ••I .-t. •-■.■';.;:;n.e.^Oe,,s,i,,e...M;.;,....;V^^^^^^^^ ^1 I ■ -■-■••• r., J UO. (_()., I.,, IK .v.l.ii.i; Humeri (;ei,s|i„i;er. ,.6 Cravi.TM ^f ,» > •"-■. o4;m. h ■^5 ^. .f. Corson. Ka. Koch.-s.er, N H / V ,? ";'"'''' ^^ •^>- W,A.,.,,, ,.,. ,J/^ I' ' I'.v-, West Raiido.'ph, Vt J^l ; v , '■"'"^' ^'"' '''">"''. "'• (-^ c). Apr 86 • L - ^ .;. K.....ci.o. cai. W.. /^:2:^^t;:: -,; ^-^ •- ^ -:-'-" ".o,^, • r.-,"; \Vli clCo. 51 liarclav.l N V 7/ ''^^^'■'*> '" ('5' \ .Sci.t., V,; 1, \ Kin- ■ k- ;"■'""- •^.-''■■-»-. O. C. Oregon C.in^; Z'. ' t' M 1 ' ^■■'""""' "' •^'- ^^ '-d "^ N" p.... .s attached ,0 the last-, amed 2 LJ ' '''"""' "'■ '•''"' ^'■. ^^-la.d, •Mi-'; but. as it IS •• entered aMhepo'tieT^"^^ T '" "'""""" '"'"^ — 'b- wil "^' -'■"-'• i' >...s « pp.. of stand rd Vi e -il , . Z'"'''^^, "'r'^' •" ^-'" ■"'"■^-- -e. ,0 ;— <'"-e"•' -' P>-Perl.y ni,-! -■^-eof .he 7 which have sprun, lip Jm ,,e , r" ' '"'^'•^"■'"-"^.-"— M pro,„i.s- Pr...l.... office on the .th of Jai", it be'an "ro i, ' .li ""'''■T""'-'' "'' ^""- " '•°'" ■" ^ i"b- '--!-•• Such is the statement of i,,s ..',,' ^^ "'^'.^""^ '" -■• -ay tha. astonished it, "ffic.fio,., he original cramped c,nar.ers a, T V M "k' ' T "T"""'"^ remova. ,0 a new --.ess of It. growth. A week later, it advened S^i^ ^^'"^ -^ " '""''' '' " ^ preparat.on a special number for the Cll TEN THOUSAAj) MILES ON A BICYCLE. League meet at St. Louis, givir.g in arivancc a burlesque accoui.t of that gathering, as a sort of sruvenir" 06 pp. of illustrated text, in ornate lithograpned cover); and promised for May 12 a full page lithographic portrait of T. J. Kirkpatrirk, the probable next president of League. A similar lithograph of T. Stevens appeared Apr. 7, "portraits of 9 Indiana wheelmen," Apr. II, and " cartoons " Mar. 17, and earlier. Besides these special features, wood-cuts have been interspersed in the text from th^first number ; and the heading itself is of a humorous sort, repre senting riders of various styles of wheels carrying placards on which are seven.lly inscribed the six letters which speil the title " Record." The artistic features of the y " -ife by P. C. Dar- row, who enlivened with similar pictures the report of his long 'S6 tour (in IVh. Gaz. ; see p. xcviii.); and I wish here lo praise thit same report as one of the very few sketches known to me for really reproducing in print the humorous experiences of the road, without any strained and tiresome attempts at wit or smartness. His brother, Ci. S. Darrow, is the chief working editor, while C. F. Smith attends to the advei.jing. The page is of standard size and enclosed in a cover whose color varies from week to week. The Record firmly upholds the League ; and, in addition to representing the same in its own State, has arranged with the officers of the Illinois Division that subscriptions from members thereof shall be accepted at the reduced rate of 75 c. in consideration of the officers' supplying their earliest official news tn the Record. ( I'hnse offi- cers, on Nov. 2-, arranged to use as "their organ " th'2 Sunday issue o.' a Chicago daily, the Inter Ocean, in return for its devoting 1 regular column to cycling affairs ; and the Sporting 5" I /leatrical Journal then dropped from its heading the " and IVestern Cycler" which it had as- sumed when appointed to the organship, July 3, '86; see p. 672). The Record Mmi to be light and amusing, and it at least reaches near enough to that ideal to possess a character and flavor of its own. It shows more care than any other cycling print yet produced west of the Alleghanies. The l^'heel .Ve7vs is " devoted'expressly to touring," its ed. being the League Tourmaster, and the size of its 8 pp. is 9 by 6 in. The Pointer and Division are State organs of the League, as shown by their titles. The /'-( i/ic lyiicehnan is of same size as Neivs,—\\\e. issue of Tues- day, May 3, being the first one that came to me in that shape, and with new editors' names and doubled price. After a half-ynr as an 8 p. monthly, it changed to a 4 P- weekly, and thus ap- peared with an ornamental heading, from Mar. 5 till April 9 or later. During all this time, its price was 50 c, its publication offi, e 1029 Market St., and its " edito'-s and proprietors," T. L. HiU, D. W. uonelly, F. R. Cook and S. F. Booth, jr It is the " official organ of Cal. Div. of League " — the higleside, named on p. 661, having died. The Bi. Herald is an adv. organ of the King Wheel Co., of N. Y. (incorp. Nov. 24, '86), and its ed. is Rev. H. A. King, of S' igfield, Ms.,pres. of the company and inventor of the King safety bicycle. Its circulation is b.i l d upon the mailing-list of a local revivalist and temperance paper r;.'led the ^j/,tK^c/«/, which had a post-office registry for second-class rates, and most of its matter is designed f jr Evangelist read- ers. I: does not appear to exchange regularly with the cycling editors, ana I have received no copy sive the first (Sept.) ; but I have heard of 2 or 3 later ones, and the current adv. of the K. W. Co. still says that it will be sent for 15 c. a yearbythe sec.-treas., P J. King, 51 Barclay St., N. Y. Prosperity seems to have betn won by the American H'htclman (whose " pub. c..." i' said to consist of I.. C. S. Ltdish, J. S. Ro-ers, L. (iordon and E. L. Stettinins), for its May issue contains 18 pp. of adv. and 12 of text,— well-printed in the reformed style mentioned on p. 672, —though the rumor there given of its absorption of the Bi. South was not correct. I think that paper is still i^sued, but no specimen' have readied me since Aug., and I name its editor on authority of a note in Bulletin of Sept. 3, cor-ecling thus my statement of p. 670, that S. M. Palton was to tie its ed. I gladly correct also my assumption of p. 671, that the Smith Mach Co. gave more support than all other patrons to the Star Advocate,— \\\ft neat little monthly which fir..s so well its chosen function of vigoro\i';ly proclaiming " the Star,"— for its editor de- clares that only until recently, when the Smilhville people purchased a paid idv. at regular ratc^. has he received any help at all from that quarter. The 7th issue of the Vermont Bicycle, ii; Oct., '86, change..y, which I mentioned on p. ^ as lo';:."; t ^ -aTJV ''^ '°7" '°"'^''=-«''-" "^«- H,. by a neater one of styl. similar to the earLst W n, '"P".^'''"« '^e head of Aug. 7, ' "-- blunder by inserting in the l.ad, '' F u Sh sTs ?• TT ^'^'^ --^''. " -akj ■-■ p. 662), whtle the first issue of Am Bi /! u ' ' """ ''"' ^""'^ «»« Nov. ,5 ',„ «;..;edisclai,nn,g the lineal successorS-fas-^Zu:'"" '>°'^-*''' '' ''- ^- '^- bought' ^f .1"^ 5. /*-.'. •' archery " „ff,hoot. whi h iTav '■ T'. "' " ^"^ "■ '")• The last gas.' ^';^^ was given whe.. that luckless our ie ' rt' •^^^^"^'^:='' "^-^ ^— '- (PP. 6:^^ »l.ere >t was born, as An.aUur AtkleU, Apr 4 V '"^'1^''^)^'^ ' '" t'>e office of ,he If J ^'. Its owners, the " Cyclist Pub Co " soid ih "'"" "'''""'^ ^'"^'^ "f Nov .e' ■■;:-..". Pub, Co."(.„ent,oned inco':e;., ^n p ^j;rha^.- ,?' '^''^ '-^-wners; the' ;:"'f' .7^''^^" reorganised (J. W. P.arnes pres ' ]IT^ ""'"' '" l^'^' -^earance ",, l!«l-',^l. "*. •' had been named durin. 'he S we'l "" ""= ""'^^ '^ "^ ^'-dard $ rate' :'- Am. News Co. On May 6, he ch idl offi?? '/" ^""""' "^ -"<= '-"bl wTh '-7' -'.e printing from .. Vesey st. .TnT^uZTrr/r'' T' '"' " ^^'"'^ "^ '^ - •'»P o.ved ,n '83-4 Pagination was resumed after ^ ' "^ " f>ankfort st„ who were ;r' '"^ ^^ ;-- ^^^ 'hen to May .3 Z '^s ^ °"r'- T' ^ " n^ '"' ^"^ '^^'^-' «- Mav 4, under N. L. Collame,,o: Washington ed of U-A / v ^^P-'--t - was begun . -yment o brevier type allows its editorl p'roCa ^ a ' Ih'T '^ "" "" """'' ^^^''-"' -- '1 e age of 8 months (Dec. 3 ; see p. 665) the CyTjl ^e largest of the weeklies." At Pn.R -he puice from|..5o to „ c. ; 'and w n ti^ n':.!: '"'■"'=^"' ^'S" "^ ^-'-ss by drot •cu.se of ed, 's promotion to management of 5^ / " "' ".7"""' "= " «--« '° --.," ■e,, I swallowing ^A. J..„ „£ Springfield As fo ,h' .'""■^' "' ™'" ""'• ''■^' «— ^ o ."e ^r W, Mar. 4, said " the »W 4. , , f ^ ^ 'J ""^^ l-P*-, a Washington cor. of - wnters." would appear there within 6 week, but ^M "■"",""' ' '^'"'^ "' ''''""''^"^ -^ers .hongh enough capital has been subscribed .0 'nnh'' c' "'""^'' ' P^P-'ement. ''-."f Apr., say.abi journal is about to br si r d b !h y""" '"'" ^^ '^-"'- ..no-her reporter {fi«/., Dec. ,7, p ,go) said hrhT ^ " '"^"^ °^ Oakland, Cal ■ and Kansas City. Mo., would soon havH^'e ,'SJ"we k, """' '"^ ••'""^°"'y ''" ^e ieving that The most notable addition to the Br tt fo f ' ' T'""" '^ "• ^'- ■^'"-t" n>a..,ne issued by the welUknown'^l^r ^ :";^; jj- -^.'-he «^-^-'-, a quarterly nf .l.e eduonal committee of '• the Society of Cv li s " tS 'tl^' "' ''""^''■■'•^' '" '^'^half N.wuh these avowed objects : ■' The develop en n ■"'" "''""'''' '" "^"^ ^^'v '^art of ~ of studies in literature, :ence and ar "' T L/ ?"'""^' """" '"' "''PP"""-- '" the pro- l^-.ern.ng council of ., (i,,,,,,, , ^ ^|,^^^ ' ' ^""te from an official leaflet, which names a '-- '^ W, Richardson ; treas , M F db ' ' 1"'""'^ '" "''""'"" '" "-- 3 officers ;;-U. the society-s rooms,, bonduLtw'Se^; ,,"'""■ ^'"^ '^«" ^-^ 1^- " •" Ma.v. wh.m '■ new inventions are exhibited T ""''■' "'"'""K^ •■'^^ "^^'d, from Oct --". •' Admission to the society s by r e fCrth '""". "' '"'""' '" ^^'^"•^'■^ ^^^ - d ^ ^ r;" "; -";.a, fee of ,,., enti.les^ach'meX' ?:,:r;t;"'-'^'': " '-'"' '" ^^ «-^ :,;; ' "'^"'^ •^''"^"••"S visitors to the meeting, mav lei .d ,'■ ""^ ""■'' '" ""'^''d"-' - -' «'cre,ary. Corresponding members pav n entr ct f "" ;i:"'""""' '" ""'' '"'^-'>" "^ to "' v can take no par, in the election of me ml r, t T xf'"'' '"' "" ''"""■^' <'"e^. and -re than three consecutive terms: ..nd ..:;;!.?."' "!!'"" . ^o officer can hold his nlace J --^....^ during their year snail not be eHgible^for ::::;;Z ir^ ^^r'^ 1 1 e 7^' -""', ""■' ""^ 'apse ot a year.'' «f' CIV TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. " The cnuncil shall meet as often aa business shall require ; and any 3 of the 37 councilors shall be a quorum." Women are eligible .0 nii:ml>i:r&lii|> ; and the expulMun o[ a member requires a two-thiiiU vole, after its n.'connniiidation by the council. The evoKilioii of ihc society from the " i'ricyclc Union " lias beL-n detailed by me on p 64; ; and an account <>l us " first annual con- gress," wliich is there allnilod to, covers much of the I'-'ayfiirers first issue (Oct., pp. 118), while its second (Jan., pp. 86) conl.iins U|>waids of a dozen papers read at the various monthly mecliitgs, on such subjects as "Tricycles for the I'olice," " Norway as a Field for Cyclists," " the ts.iex Route lo Kent," and " Driiidical Remains Abury." The latter is by the "secretary of the editorial coniniiitee," J. li. Marsh, the same "elderly qiiiditiinc" whcse " vapor iiRS " proved so distasteful to ilie " .Sec.-Ki'. of (,'. T. C." as lo lead him to forge the sij^nalure of J. I'cnnell, in onler to etf.'clively denounce them (sec p. xci.). J. 1'. himself is one oi the society's council, and will doi'ljtless be glad to ccomineiid the names of American ac- quainiaices who may wish lo become corresponding ineiiibers. Inferior typography and paper characterize the Cyi:liHg Budget ("a domestic and cycling journal, fur news topics and leisure hours; editors, Ixion and I'halia ; manager. Win. Holton "), which has liL-en issued every Wednesday since Dec. 1 (, '36, at 170 .Strand. The latter half of its 16 pp. (11 liy i)i in.) is given In " reprint matter " of the sort which American country papers us :• for padding, .iiid the greater part of this seems to have originated in America, — Uurdelle, I ill Nye and other f.imiliar names being ipioted in the only two specimens I have seen. Mar. 2 .aid 9. The adv.'s are all restricted to the 01 aiig. -colored cover. Whetting of Mar. 2 was " re- quested to state that T. C. Heath (editor) and H. H. tJriffin are no longer connected with the Cycling Hiii/get." Mr. f>. was meiitiomd on Nov. 10 as having ceased tn sujiply the "club chronicle " for 5/. A',:(ij, and having torininated all connection with the lliffes (see p. 6()oV White letlcr" .m n black background cl.nacterize the heading of the Cycling H'orl.l, "an illust weekly iiewspaix'r for wheelmen, edited by J. H. Akerman," and pub. on Weiliiesdays at is'' Kleet St., beginning Mar. >." The ed, w.is formerly connected with the Cycling; yV/;/M (which H. A. 11. irrow, wrongly named on p. 6~<9 as "proprietor," has also left), and he says "the writers who have joined in the venture have already made their names in connection with ilie journalism of the sport," — but he does not announce them. The only "illustration" 1 liiid in the first issue is a cut of a tricycle. The ailv.'s cover the outside 4 of the 16 pp., of standard size, and ihe price is a penny, as in case of all the London weeklies. The choice of World fur a title w.is made possible by the discontinuance, in Dec, of the Iliffeti' Wheel H'or/d (s^e pp. 654, (i.^o), in favor of " Oiympi.x " (price le c ), which ihey began, in Jan., " to rominand the broader I'leld of all outdoor sports," after the f.ishion of Outing; though they still adv. it ,is " the cyclist's monthly inag.izine," and the wheeiing conlribulors continue lo predominate. H. A. Jud. " edited bv H. .A. Judd'" have I'lgured at top of outside page. The pink cover r.nd "land- scape heading " 01 the C. f. C. G.izette have been repl.iced in the current volume by a blue cover and a neater design, giving prominence to the new badge " pirated " from the L. A. W After an inspection of advance pages of my "literature" chapter, the ed. of (>iV«< sent me the following corrections (Dec. 29, 'Sol ; " The old Bicycle Jourmil (vi. 6S0I il'd not »f)pe,u until '77> 't year later than />/. ,Vrti»j, for it sprung from the annual, instead of giving rise lo it Wheel I.Je (p. (i<)o) was a failure, because its editors did not secure the pu'^lic taste. The In. cy I -"'. on ;hc contrary, alwnv-^ p.iid its way. The ^im.ilgamation has proved a big success, — \\v: Bi. Nt'iVs now cii dilating within 2000 cojiies of the Cycli:.'. and increasing weekly. Its carionn- knocked the Wheeling ' art supplemcnis ' (n f>o3) into ridicule. Your quoted par. from B. .V inlroduclion fp. 694) was really written by W. McC. and not by G. L. H, as implied. Ymir ADDENDA : JOURNALISM. cv ii is American, is also wror- TH- • i -eral o .he patented par.s ar. descr.bed i„ .y Z^^^lt \ '^T"' '^ "" ^^" "'»' .1- firs. E„Ji,l. jo.,„ali.t ,o take any „o.. of A,n a.w \ '^ "''° """"^ "•>' ^ -" As every loyal lv,,!i.hman wi.lJs .his yea" rrn'T "'"r^"-" ..n.dcn ,o subscnbe for a •>bilee'l. e-b aU d ' ' n^ .h":"''^' "•"" '"^ """""- »' '"= .«.-/. As .he boa .„d house cos. I5000 a, .he boa '°'""' '"^ '° "''='y "' ''-«= l-"" se,-,«s lll.ely .0 be incomplete ; bu. ,he su.r^:, " ' 'r. T '"" ^'''°- "'^ ""'•^"'^'^ "'^"'-,al ■•'■i'-'s enersv. Si„,ilafly, ,he B, W 1 Ma' Tea';;?: " 7^' "^■"'"'^' ^''"-'"S ^^ "- f- a L-sIess sailor. J. McI.Uosh, «ho haddrven a", 1 '"^ '"'*' ""^"^-''^ ^"■'""^'-""■"^» ■lavs and was able .0 announce ,;, colic d o A " . T, " ""r"'" '" ^°'"'°'> '" - ..'iHa.ingi.scircu,a.io.. for 53 we\ks. sholi l ^^w.h ^Tf " ''"'^ ^ ^'^" •'' "^"^ '" ...lis "a larger proportionate progress for ,l,e ,2! T ,^^° ^°5° "°'""' *'"'="' i' .. i-Ser acual circul.ion than that of an I- e " xce ri; r rT w"" ''''"' ''""'"^■- -"^ ."OS., our issue will e-.ceed .0,000." As between he • '^''"'- ^' '^'-'""'^ "■^'' *"'■'" 3 l.ress the opinion, after a 4 months' per sai of bot t laT a""' "' '"'"' '"" "=""''■ ' "" -•■ t<>e,n n. .he ^. AT., despite i,s hostile .0, .lead's kL c'TT "" ''"' '""-'-"teres. .nen.,oneaA. C. Harn.sworth, as its ac.na Inatg e itor"; .H^';-. ''^^- ^"^^■""-' "^'"^ ".'.ne ,s no. printed in the paper. A recen. ,0 T" I ?■ ^' '-"''^'^'^ '^«"' "'«"::'' ''i^- -port of A. J. Wilson of .L Vr/.W^ Jxonor, " ' "':""' "" ■'' ^'^""' '" P'"^'-'' "'e " falsehood " raised by .he C^.A. w e; "he ^ '''"•'"'■■" '^^ •- ''"'" "^ "-harge o :..ive„i ing .he presence of CelSnor 1^ ,i " " C'""::' '" """■ ^'' ^ ^-''«"'- "^ i- - realuy failed .0 appear .here), .ha. it porsetd le.t "IfT: • '' "' ,"?'''■ "~'-'. *".o -Pply .hose " amateurs " a. a stipulated ra^ 1 clt'^, "'^'"'' ''"''' "^""'"^""^ - 'iH.se letters for some well-known Englishman's insn.r, '^h'^l!'="ged the club .0 produce '" ''J-;^;' -••" 'he resul. stated. AH . eT. er eye ^ n. "'' ^"' "'"'^^°^^' -•^■"■■'«'' l..M,ned .he honesty of the Springfield K C -but th" r ^7 """""^ '"' ''^'''' '"""^ -"'• " ".6), ,t was forced i, maV. a hal. hg apo o^v'for ' r f " ^"^ ''"'"'' ""'''' "" -'^'-- '3 (P- ^;i-e!yre,ract.he false charge. As'^gYd "he : !:"'"« '^ """' ^'a'e news " ; bu. it did 1, "a. .hey were quick ,0 see .he'force of "y'^^ ..tZ 7 ""' '^""'- '""' ' ""^^ — "« :.■ wuh me for indexing, rather than .loT^l:^^:" 'i' '"' •-"' ''"' "■^'^ P»'«- "" .'": ^."'^ "^dn-marks. The Cyc. Jour, and /X <^ i^^^ "" ''''"''"■ "' ""^ 1"'"- "..e.hgently selfish " rule towards me, whid, mL'eLt Z , '" ''^^ •^'^"'"'-■'^ "'^ -">« a ..p.at,heou,se.of my round-the-wor-d enterpW^T T / , '" ^''"^ ^'"■^*'' -'""^"h ,c ;-f ".a. shrewdness is the publxa.ion hv the .-7^2;^^ cT, T' "' ^^"^^^ ^''P^---'" ;■'. ."anaser of the sportsman's Exhibition." ~^llT\ " T""" "' "' ^"'--S- '^T was repr.n.ed in m.eclh.g .f May 4 The , "^'"'"^^ by biographical sketch, which lat- 'n correction of n.y Aug.'ilst of Ja iers p 't^ I ^' ^'^ """"'• '' ""''''' '^''^^ ^^rl .^^.anoffshpof,he/....^,../_,::,^7,,,,^^^'^3) -n J^ L. Dunbar as ed. and prop. '< J. .^recredy became ed. of /r. Cyc/ist &- 4tl,T Is "'" " '^ '^'^'Ih.^; writer for i. :■"<< ". Mar. he bought it, in compa.fy ITx^^X: f m' ^^^7 " "'^^ ^"■^"-'^ ^ '^ "^X' ^ -^.4.M.dlleAbbeyst. Its latest pa.e M v is , ' , 75" '"■ P"« - ^ c.. and office a"ce ,s prosperous. Under its title is a iL of ' "1 '^ ''''^•" -^"-^ ''' "-'^'al ^Ppenr- -San," beginning with the I. C A (w e 'o >. " """ ''"'"' "^ ^"•^•' " - "- " fficnl A-.cia.ion. Special •■ dub organ, "^,:^^o; ' ■' T^' """ '"''""- ^"^ "- '-h R •;--.? -hh praise the C.„..„; ^ , J J pil 7 '" ^"«'-<''-"- O-./..' of Apr. 6 m^n- v."; while 'r/../«^acknowledged ;;.r ::f;'T'^V:r'''^"''^*"^'^'" " ^■^"- ==5. V'.l. '•; '■""■'^''^ »• ^"' ^'- Calvert, edito '' s "If r.^'"' '" ■''■•"' ■"'-">'v J"-nal of ;-7"--^ was leading , Hfe of its ow 'and p faTti:! ^T ') '''■ '" '''' ''^"' -'-■ C..-, '''"Ar,, ,n whose h, n^ it .,„.„ ,...1. _" P?"'.'.P' "'° <^^'' "f "s ab^orrtio,, bv Ih. .9.... .1 ■-"-3 new series,-,he current issue of which^Aor Ti 'i. T'' " "'"'"^^ '" ""^ ''•^"= "^ "«= ' ^P'- '*• " ^°- M.. Vol. VI." Thepublica. ^«^iw4'''m?^ en TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. '•X X: ticin office is at 25 Jamaica St., Glasgow. Quiz, a comic paper of that city, has just introduced a cycling column. Smttturn Athletics, a monthly of cycling, was begun last Nov., at Lewisham. ^n amalgamation, in Oct., of two 01 the French journals described on p. 699, — the first a weekly dating from Mar. 5, '85, ano the second a semi-monthly dating from Jan., '85, — has re- sulted in the Viloce-Sport et le Viloceman Rhmis, weekly, of Bordeaux, owned and edited by Jean de I'Arieste, founder of the former. The first number of a nev. papci at I', was mentioned as inferior to this old one, by the Fr. cor. of vyh. Gaz. Ic; Nov., but he did not tell its name. In Dec, M. de i'Arieste made a vigorous protest against allowing the title " official organ of the Union Velocip^dique ' to be conferred upon its hated rival, the Revue dii Sport Velocipedique (Kouen : 84 Vicompt^ st.) whose " spirited pictures " were praised by Cyclist, Apr. 27, and whose " Almauach Illustr^ de la V^locipedie, iSS, " (15 c.), was thus noticed by same paper, Dec. 22 : " It is better tiian the three earlier eds. , and consists almost entirely of short talcs, interspersed with jokelets called ' coups depiidales.' The best of its pictures are reproductions of the Stevens series in Outing." The long name of the Rouen paper suggests that the two described on p 698 have been combined ; but I 'm not sure of the fact. As for the Maandblad, which began in Apr., '84, as " official organ of the Dutch Cyclers' Union " (p. 700), its issue of Apr. i, '87, is called the Kampioen, by Wheeling, as if tht old title had long been disused. The true German name of what is called the Steel Wheel on p. 700, is the 6VrjA/r-(joraine and Baden (Strasburg : F. Breunfleck & C. Wester ; see); " Wegweiser fUr Radfahrer," along the P^ine (M.-Gl.idbach : O. Weber, 13 Wilhelm st. ; 75 c). At the close of '85, the largest year's mileage recorded in America was J. D. ^L^^anlay's (Louisville ; 6573 m. ; see p. 527), who rode every day of that year ; while the largest mileage in the world was F,. Tcgetmeier's (London ; 10,053 m. in 230'days of 'S3 ; see pp. 531,558). Hence, when the Star Advocate of Mar., '87, pri.itcd ,i l.tter from A. B. Norton (b. Apr. 2, '66), manager of tiie telephone office at Westfield, Ms., describing how that— betv.ecn Mar. 5 and Dec 30, '86— io,7o6J m. had been recorded bv his Lakin cyclom., attached to a 48 in. 1. r. Star, the case seemed to me worth investigating. In a talk with him, at the opening of May, I convinced myself that his cyclom. had really registered the said mileage, and that he believed in its accuracy, as proved bv occasional comparison with known distances. Unfortunately, at he kent no sort of log, except a mere mem. of ;he date when each 1000 m. ended, his figure^ cannot be accepted as authentic by those who distrust that special make of cyclom., or who re- ADDEXDA: MILEAGE OF ^m c\ii 8, and n ^ '"°"''"'^ ""= S"P"iori,y „f .,;, •; -H banU Cer. who rode 5L m.'L'a',; o di y^t^^ l':^^' ^^''^'-^ •^et.r'ihan .'h^; ! ■ Lousands of mdes were finished a. the following dtlhe^ni H ' ^"^ '^^^^ '"= -""-e ys. thonghno riding was done on some of fh'n/s^Tt '""''' "^'^^^^S '-■'^P-^ May ag ; ^th, «, June 20 ; jth, a,, July ,, . 6,,, ' ' ' "' ^'^'^ '* ' ^d, 2,, May 5 ; ,/ ,, -V he d.d no riding, on accoun. of break ima'c.e and "n ^^°' '"^^ ""■ ^^"^ -"" '- 300 or ,00 m under cover. His best s.raigh.aw ^ ^^ . was f " "'"• '''" '"^ ''''' P^^-^s ■" ' "• '° '"'"• (beating record by 1 h.), a,!d his Ion' 7. ""°'''' '° ■'^>'""«fi'=>'• ,-•7), who m.->de the preposterous " claim " of ,7408 m i^ T'' "•''"^^ «' '"■ Victor (p :; '"r'[ ''■.—'• -en giving the dates wheV ^llll";;': °"' °!"'-^« ^ ""'^'^ "^ evidence .he face of h.s cyclom. carefully hidden,-but MrN ma ,,;"',' *"*= '^"'^•'^''- "^ kept ■i (evenn,g) and ,9, and the " record " for the e c J. '" ' ' '*° '""^^'"Ss of it, Oct C- have advertised this wretched fraud as a e , , "' Tf ''' '"• ^•-■' "'e Overman Wheel Westfield school boy of same age. named ym'^JnaJ!"' '^^ T'''"''"^ ' ^''^ --'- 0" a 4. m. American Ideal, was rewarded by th Gc!,; j.y ^ Tfi ' " '^'"""'^ " '"-^ - ' As I .ave reproved the Pofe Mfg. Co. for giving cZtnancff"'' ' "'" '^ "'^ '' '"' '^■■ Mooom.n,,4mos.'^p.s,6),sohereIprotestaJin wTT ''" ""^"ified " estimate of as he psbringal, honest cyclometers and re odke,i™r" °""'™^ ''■"""« ^'^'^ -'■"' 'WO ch.ldren are utterly farccal ; but the Overman ?''''"'"' '^^" " ''"''"^ " "< "^^se H.y authentic '86 record of S0S7 m. by I^B rkmrnT;^ ' T" I'^! '^^'^'^'^'^ "^^ undo.:: ->eda! for he rode all but the first 433 m. on a V cTor Sec ' "^ "^ *"" ""= "^^^'V" «■ record of 745. m., Mar. .7 ,0 Dec. .6, '86 by W W Sh ,k ""^ " '" "^'^' """^^ "'e " Star " ..^hulatedeach day'smiL-age in ,^,. Ga.Sor L sltlV, '"'^ "' '''^' "' ^'^-V- «'- c se. I also regretfully omit an account o one of Ih. '^■'' ""^ ^""'"'S details of either " .he NewOrleans B. C.-A. M. Hi I b sTp, -.T" "°'f ^ '°"" "^ 'S^' 'al^en bv a .Wo ^h.lH (b. May ,3. 63-,. and H. W. Fairfax (b.^Aug' ,f '4')'"?:",'^ ^^--^ -• ' C. M. Pa .! -ached Boston 30 days later, after having ridd"n their be , ' ' ""• "" °" ^^'^ ^5 -'d .a-n ,„ ,„,ns for .37 n,. (See Mr. H.'s four articl s n S" n" "' "'""^' ^'^ "• '^"'^ 1 he followmg table is from a little namnhle, i ' ^"- "^ '^ ^°^- '<)■) -i. 'o accompany his - perfection cycCe^^V- ^ l';, ,.;", „^', ">• "; S- Livin,.ton,Vf Cincln- ances may readily be measured by bearing these figure in ';'";" ""= '"''''''■ S''- '^ - - "-H.ortant. It may be well to remem'ber .haflm i 4: vtjs a rr"""^ '"^ '"^''•- *^ -^'"^°^' ^"d i "1. ]s 587 yards. Diameter "f Wheel, Inches. 46 4S 50 I 54 56 I 60 I Revolutions of Wheel ■ to the Mile. [<» Rev. Vards, '44-5136 'SO- 7963 '57 oS 163.3632 169.6464 '75-9296 182.2128 188.4960 _Dt,STANCE Made tn ^^Re£3^ "'.o.^o^R^ - *'■'"• ' ^"d-- Mile... Vards 1320 MAY FOURTH, 1887. After four years of prelude and gettino-ready, Karl Kron thus lo HIS Three Thousand Co-partners giveth greeting: I like the Preface, as you are aware It serves the purpose of the overture, Which settles down the audience to the glare Of foot-lights, and the altered temperature ; And, while they wait to see the curtain rise, They think but little of the music's swell ; So that the play give naught to criticise. They clap their hands and teil us " All is well." Again, the Preface gives a man a chance To show his readers what he's going to do; To so point out his failings in advance That they may be forgiven on review; To get his pen used to the ways of verse; To get his rhyming-lexicon before him spread To nerve himself, for better or for worse ; And then, at last, to boldly go ahead. My time has come ! My overture 's played out. Already do I hear the tintinnabulating bell. The rising curtain and expectant shout The nearness of my fate at length foretell. So, Good-bye, Preface, Indexes, and all 1 Farewell, Old Sub.-List, with your frowns ar.a smiles! Here now 's the pinch I Hear now my clarion-call: " Cornel thirty thousand purchasers for ' X. M. MiLES ' I " TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I. ON THE WHEEL.» ^■^^^'^'^^l^^^^^^^ 7t'" ^^'''°"' ^ ^-»'*- But. expect to derive that pleasu/ewholi; rZt " T" '^ ^'°°'' '^'^ -- he cannot count on gaining any from 4Z " '^ ^^""'" "°""^ ''™-- fello^v-man is. i„ fact, much ."nc Z toT "'T ""''^ ^'' ^^"^^-'nan. His whenever he ceases to view h m ti h f\' °' '"^' ^^^''^^ -yf- Picturesque or attractive attached ZL T '"'^'«'^'^""' ^or nothing along his chosen ppth. and even the v '''""' P--. Howtrrrelltn^^^^^^ -e country on top of a altered. The Frenchmen of o,d to who ^"T'-"--* -e absolutely "e 't for rendering possible tht modern ^"h '' "^"^'^'^ ^^^ "'"-ate exclaim, •'^^,^,,,„,,,^^^^^';^°dern mechamcal marvel, might well ;;n^s him spinning swift^^ a7d Sselefsn t" f ^"^^-^ -'^ecl, which amp ,s transformed into a personal !/ '" ""'^ ^**'^' ^^'^ whilom e becomes at once a notable' atu'Tn t^'Tr^'' -d attractiveness. Tom Lli6{tu-nt/l . %r . ■"-"•uer, ,88j, pp ,^^,^~ ' -■" ^' "-S- W- 576-587. Reprinted in r*, l^i^e/ma>,. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. able. He is the center of universal curiosity and comment His presence illustrates ^ fresh triumph of mind over matter. P 11 creatures who ever walked have wished that they might fly; and here is a flesh-and blood man who can really hitch wings to his feel. That is the one touch of nature which makes th= whole crowd kin. The deprecatory remarks often addressed to that large body of Ameri- cans who make the tour of Europe without any preliminary travels of import- ance through their own country may seem rather plausible at first blush, but whoever looks below the surface of things will quickly discover the injustice of such reproaches. The tourist who goes abroad gets a great deal more for his money than he could possibly get l»y traveling an equal distance at home. This magnificent country contains without doubt many notable natural objects which are well worthy of the inspection of its natives as well as of foreigners ; and the foreigner has as an additional motive for traveling here the outward life of the people, which he can compare instructively with the similar manifestations made in the mass by the life of other nations. But the cities of the United States, however widely separated geographically, are all practically alike, and so are the towns and the villages, and so are the out- ward characteristics of their inhabitant!. The " local color " which senti- mental writers are so prone to attribute to the people and institutions of particular sections of our vast domain does not possess the vividness which would make it really distinctive. New Orleans, which is the most un- American of our cities, does not impress me as essentially unlike New York, and the most radical difference between Boston and San Francisco is a differ- ence of longitude only. To speed along the frozen lake-side at Chicago behind the jingling sleigh-bells of a bustling business-man's " fast trotters," and three days later to lazily pluck the yellow fruit from an overladen orange- tree in a sleepy garden of Mobile, is merely to indulge in an impressive change of physical surroundings : it is not to learn an instructive lesson of life, such as is gained by going from St. Petersburg to Rome, from London to Paris. The distinctive characteristics of the various European nationalities are sufficiently obtrusive to arrest the attention of the most heedless observer, while the local peculiarities of people residing in widely-separated sections of this country are for the most part too faint and subtile for off-hand detection. In other words, all Americans are so much alike in the ^ -in essentials of character that the minor respects in which certain divisions of them differ seem hardly important enough to be worth paying much attention to. The process of jostling about among people who were bom under different skies, and brought up to accept a philosophy of life greatly at variance with our own, educates us in tolerance and increases our broadness of view; but a man may travel here from Maine to Mexico without of necessity receiving a single shock to his preconcei ed ideals of correct conduct, or seeing anything to remind him that there are other people who do not accept his inherited rules j»f^^-,^^i^^^'' ^^M t : - '%'-^' OAT THE WHEEL. of rghtj.v,ng„b.ing unquestionably "the best" TK • . u- Lni.ed State, „e a remarkably reticent race . I'.M '"''**''^»"t» of these own ousmess.and extremely slow aCtreveT^^''"' '° '"'"^'"^ '»>»- stranger until they discover what his bul;!,""!.'''*'' '"^ "^°"«'''» to a may pass and repass among them tin I"!. r' ^l The ordinary traveler <-ng their reserve than a summ« shower nf' *"''°"' ""^ •"-* P»"etra- Vet they are talkative enough" fnce th'^^^" *'" '"^^ P'*""**' of a duck. conhdence gained by the introdu ioT^f omer'?^:^ ^'^^"'^ -^ ^^'^- ."on ground for interesting conversadon s k^ '"'•"'' ''"Pr^"" » com- em.„ent degree is the modefn bic^le "he d^ m'" *^'^"' '" ^ -P-^-^'y ago. who persistently pointed his^p ow tloufh t ' '"'" °' '°"' «"'""" had the unique satisfaction of discove^inf °hf . ! f ^ ^"^^^'^ *»ves. ■t has been reserved for the philosonhV k- * , '"^"^*" *^°"''""t ; but guides his wheel through peaceful and „ ' °' '"^*-^' *''° »»«^dily rarede^htofdiscoverlng^heavt^ rrrrc^cir^'^'^^ indulge in the' Undemonstrative as that cit' • *^*" citizen. the spectacle presented by a smZhlv .?^' " ^ J°*'^^ ^^e ordinary stranger cockles of his heart, and likewTsT ' 'J f ^J ^^^-'-^ -mehow warms the h.s good win by "passing the time o' Z" „ onT " "' ""^"^ """"^"^^ mamtammg his customary unsociable silence ! T °' "°''^'^' '"^'^^ of dnvmg a horse that readily keeos him ,^ ' ."'^' "°' ""^^q^'ntly. when "tended, though perforce ra'therfC^ntn^^^^^ 'V" ^^'"P*'^ ^"'o an the bicycler dismounts, however thaf Th.H ""^"^^*'on. It is not until him on "easy speaking acquainufce" w.th^''" *° "'''^'^ "^^ *''«' has put ^;'lv apparent. Whettrldt^^:r ^o ntlTo'lr'^'^^^'''^ ^^^^^^^ of an interested conclave, all inten,eV«"7'toir';; '""'"" '''' «"'" and inspect at close quarters the newLeled m.I '''°"' ^^ •novenients t-e rather shy of directly asking quesronwj^hr^b "' '" '' ''^ '^"'^ fnen by such a distinguished trfvLr. WhTle eLT'. ''''"'''' '^ ™P"- or adjusting his wheel, he is cheerf.Ilv. ^^""^ '" ^•P'"g or oiling ^■■'-t -e on the part :;;tb;Slr;T^i?or^'^ various eading supgestions and specuia^on fr^ '°"°''^^ ""l '''' °^"'"g of th«y design him to overhear and reolv to and kT °"? '° '''' °"'^^' '^'^h of a civil explanation on his part th. ' , v. '*' ""'^^ '^'^ ^"couragement off and the "conversation b'ec me /erri^^^^^^^^^ ^^ «-^ ■"achine is the universal wish • yet the ou.T. ■ ''^ '^^ P"'^*^ of the a preface of decorous apolog; Z ^^^TT'^ "' °'*'" '^^'^P"' ^'^"^--^ around the bush is to profess havinri^" K "? '°'"'"°" ^^^ °' '^<^ati"g owner only is competent to set'IeLd .f \ K °" '"^^ ^"''J^' -»»ich thf 'ell^ "We know it's none oftu'buleTh r"'" ''"''^ ^""^"^ ^° '^"ble you. colonel, but-" « I hone v„ ' '" u-~" " '""^ '^°"'' "''^ 'o b"t-" Such are the common introdur^ "^ ""' i-pertinent. sir. 'his, that, or the other poiT '"''°^"^"°"^ *° -"equests for informatio^ on It may seem tn tK. , a.-- "'~ •■■''-^^=■^""5 - '^ - "'an must at last grow inexpres- m^m^m^n-^-: 4 77iA' THOUSAND MILES ON A BlCVLl.i:. Hibly tired of replying over and over again to the self-same inquiries pri>- pounded by different sets of people. I should hf. afraid to guess the number of hundred times I have " answered the anxious " by saying that the price of bicycles varies from seventy-five to one hundred and :ievv:nty-fivc dollars or more, according to the size, make, and finish; that the tire is of rubber, and that the "cut" in the same is not the result of an accident, but simply the point of junction wliere the two ends are cemented together; that the spokes are steel wires plated with nickel and not with silver, which tarnishes more readily; that the cyclometer revolves with the axle and registers the distance, the big pointer moving along one notch on the hundred-mile dial every time the little pointer moves entirely around the mile-dial ; that 1 ride a smaller wheel than most men having my length of leg, and that long-legged riders can propel a very much larger one; that the saddle-bag is filled with oil-cans, wrenches, and rags rather than with cigars and whiskey-tlasks ; that the instru menl "keeps its balance" without conscious effort of the person who is astride it, and can be readily mastered by any one ; that the act of learning it is merely a mental process, like the act of learning to swim,—" whenever a man thinks he can do it, he can do it,"— a.nd that the time requisite for getting the mind up to the point of conviction may vary from a few minutes to several weeks, according to the natural apt-'ude and persistency of the in- dividual concerned; that, in respe.t to the English record of "best times," Waller has ridden fourteen hundred and four miles in six successive days of eighteen hours each (mcluding two hundred and twenty miles without a dis- mount), Terront, thrcf hundred and forty miles in twenty-four hours, Apple yard, one hundred miles on the road from Ha'.h to London in seven hours nineteen minutes (including seventy miles, ,\ithout stop, in four hours fift) minutes), Cortis, twenty miles in an hour, and Edlin, a single mile in .two minutes forty-six and one-half seconds; that forty thousand bicycles are owned in London and its environs, and three times that number elsewhere in England, of which some twenty-two hundred were massed together in simultaneous motion at tiie last annual parade at Hampton Court; that upwards of five th..usand are certainly known to be owned in the United States, while the true «iumber is presump.bly nearer ten thousand, judgini; from the fact that more than eight hundred were present at the Boston parade! . that I myself, while touring through the country, cover a daily distance of from twenty-five to fifty miles, according to the state of the roads, the winds, the weather, and my own free fancy, though I once rode seventy-five miles in a day without special e'"ort ; that the legs do not become stiff and weary, as in walking, because they do not have to lift the weight of the body ; that the saddle is not too small for comfort ; that the wire spokes are not too small for safety ; that the rear wheel is not too small for swiftnes.* that the bell and lantern employed by seme riders seem to me n-;edless IThe reader must remember that these words were written in September, 1881, since whicb time there have teen sjreat changes in nearly all the records. ON THE HJIKIIL. ' M, umlirances ; that I can ride uivhill when .h„ nuul are the chief obstacle, to p o« ^7 h, I d? /; 'T' ' ''*' "^"'^ '"'^ Afany hundreds of .in,es Zs.^^^Cll^uT .' " '" ''""'• .- all the foregoing s.atement.s and nn.lcabe „!'"•. ""' ''' '''*"«" -Hi n.any thousands of times nu.re I I ' "^ """"" ^h"»ctcr. ^..I,«htenment of fresh relays of "l.hltc'T '" "^'"""' "^•='" ^'^ "^<-' wl...m I hope in future years^o n e Hn ?Lr ^^""w-citizens HcinK are at fault when they assume thh "on" Tal"""' ""'^ """• grow wearisome from mere repetition On thi » . """'' necessarily hohl.y is. like white-winged h„ ^a s. 'T "^■' '''" ^*=''«*" '" ''"-•« hu,nan breast. As lonTal / naT; T "^'' ''^""^-s eternal in the p^.-in« a bicycle, s:^ rrur;;::^: :^ siJ7r-' ^" ..ne of the dearest delights o a h^ 7bv riT "' ■^"""•'' " "'^'^^'^ '^-'' -^ ..est a disposition to view his hob v/i 1 "'"' "''^ ^"''P''^ -»'« >"-"- :n>,.ortance. with somehLg of h Un""',"' ' "' '"^ *^'^««"^'^ ''' -'=^'-e -t out a hobby before Vs friend f *^" "/'"""• '' " "''^ Permissible to having the hobby, is rend red n pible'o I -vner from the mere fact of .iK.rexpressionsof interest n, "els .. '^''^™'"'"« '^'^ ?«'"» -' which ..o.« -m the same and ^^^::^::^:-:::::tr7 ''''''"- discourses concerning hi h bb^ :""' T '''''^'' °^"'^"« ^'^^ -" -»- for. as they are not under the sliehtest """'"' ^"'""^^ '^^ ^^-"g"^ l>in. or to encourage hi n in alkin^ conventional obligation to listen to those directions must be in the hthet^H ^'"""^ '^ "^^^ '"^'y "^'il'i' "' "'■'blished at the outset one of the Z" f """" """^"^ '^"« '« ^-y •io" that shall be mutua y e'er a n n.r! " T"''^ '''^ ^ ^^^^ — -- 't must by no means bLftedh "u'° ^"''"P^^^- his wheel as a convenient dev c fori '"'' ''' '"""■^'' ^'^^ P""*^ -n.ind is man. co..-.fines the l^l^Lr ^rf ,f " ''*^ "°''"^ ""^^ "*' """-'f this single cast wherein ^^1!,. fellow-mortals to conversa- eM'crt to ah interested nrer^ 17 '^T r .'^ t^'^. "'" °' ^P"'^'"^ ^ - ■•"'-^•uction. an exchange If :dentl, 'f :'^"''^'^>-'^""« - °^ten a mere separates men of different pursues '' ^ ^' '"■°'' ^''^ '^''^^'" ^^^ich 'ience whercfrom follow "ore ext s'ive talk?"' '"'"'^ '"'^'"^^'^^ ''^ ^^'fi' is hard t„ imagine a man so .Vn^ ! °" ^ ^'■"^' ^^"^'^ «f topics. It ■"-csting, if once he can be^d:"o::,:"i;''^^r"'' "^ ""p'^ - "- - ^^ ■he bicych because of its nK^rtt power I" " ^'^"'^"^' "^'^ ^ ^lory in characteristics of many pcculr peo'? uT"' '" '^' ^"''^^'^'^ '' ^-i'" reveal to the casual IZ '^ ' ' ''' ^^ey could never t^e te.npted to The instructie o "dXt::^:;nr' °' ''" ^"^"^^^- ^"^--- which f.-.L-..i,.J:_ .. .'' ^"^ enhvenmg mterchances of sPnHn,»„. "■ ^ ^"' '"""^ !^ar.i.,.„„s .nd cty lager-beer saloons may'aUo TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. be freely overheard by the touring bicycler, absorlKd as he seems to be in the cleaning and polishing of his machine. Without this his presence would be looked upon with vague suspicion i)d hostility, and, unless he should " set up the drinks " several times and thus " make himself one of the boys,' a lull would soon fall on the gathering, and an uneasy sensation ot being watched by the coldlyod to which he had presumably been arcus- t^Vtr*. lut a mar. \jV\. a bicycle is assumed by ever^'bod; to be testing his speed, to be spending his entire physical energy on the problem of covering the greatest possible number of miles in a given time. He is also assumed to keep up this character continuously, at least to the extent of having no other regular occupation or pursuit. No one for a moment thinks of him as an ordinary work a-day member of society, w' o, when his brief outing is ended, resumes the common garb of civilization and bears a hand again in V- !.%■ av r/ZE WHEEL. the common battle for bread and butter. The bar-room gentry, a. aireadr remarked accept huT. a. "a sport." and yield to him a, hi! rightfu dTtJl deference they would humbly extend to a prize-fighter, or coMar-an^i blw wrestler, or d.st.ngu.shed gambler, or successful hor.e- ockey. or the ^n^T ■ ra:ing7ni;r"=s\?'"^Tr'- ™' '''"'^' '•-"»>» ^idcr ™:ri' rac ng on a bet. :s also widely prevalent ontsidc the bar-rooms Second only to u m populanty is the notion that he is an agent for tTe sale of the machme, or at least that the manufacturers thereof pay him a"l U^ 'r wLechng h.mself through the country a. an advertisement for them even ^ ,c;:i:ra:rcrutrof '"r^' ""''"'• '''-- -^^-^^ ^^^^^^ uicycier as a creature of mfinite leisure, a favored child of fortune who h« -rosely turned his back on "society," in wear.ne.. of the convention^ pleasures to which it restricts the possessor of wealth- .nH ""':'"''°"*^ recklessly thrown himself upon th/wheel as a Ztlsr^rL^L T getting rid of his superfluous time and mon.. ^ ^"'"^ ^°' the cheapest. heLthTe a d l^ w^: l::^!'"' °^ '''" *-"- ^' '» the country and its peoole h^ T k J'^^"^^ '°^ «=«='ng something of u-ior moti.es be^orrm^^reT^srhUVe^:^ wheelman coming in at night reek nrjith n ^ ^^^'^ V^»»" P-'^-nted by a discolored by dust. Joes seem Itrifl! P"«P"-*''°n. ^s tattered garment, had a pleasant and Tjy 2^ot i an^ if^rdeT' ^^ '"^ '''"' ''^' '^'^ '^^ wielding his fan on the veranda i,' T u '^■'^"n'stances. a cynic. Lewis, that "life woJid be a ver; l^^ """' °^ "'^ ^- ^---» ments," I certainly shall n^ J ''"f""^''^ ''^'"K ^^"= it not for its amuse- probaWe.fur S^ore tL It'"'". '•' " '" ""' '"'"'«--• ^^ --» undertaken " mery fL fl • V^ J '' ^° ''^'^ ^^^^"^ ^^ ^-y^^'-tour being were seen P-icStfn t thirus^^T rrThTit:^^^^ T^ ter of Prefere'nce^hen ::; ritrnt^^^T^^^^^ 1 T^'' ^^ ^ ^^ is the ^ast straw which fixes his beliefl. ^^ "' '^ '^" ^"'^Sed sport be " behind " bicycling " Adm.Sl '?!"^^'"^ ''" ^'=^''^'^^ ^P°« '"'"* and exhUaration^of th^e pas^.^S rnZS/:,!!:^ ..^.^°- f^^ - . ■!■•- W.11: uc louiiii 111 8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. taking long tours through the country a// alone t" Such is the "clincher ' into which his scepticism is ultimately condensed. My customary replv tc it is in this oracular form : " The pleasure of ' riding alone ' depends very much on whether or not a man takes good company with him." It is often funnv to watch the facial expression of the people to whom tiiis explanation is offered. Some smile dubiously, some are pcrple.xcd, some think the speaker is "a little off"; even the bar-keeper has been observed to relax his heavv brows, as if trying to grapple with a thought. Some of the things already said by me concerning the prevalent ignorance and scepticism and misapprehension about the bicycle may perhaps have seemed rather improbable to the reader, because inconsistent with the knowl- edge of the subject presumably diffused in all directions by the eight or ten thousand machines now in use and by the ab'indant advertisements and news- paper articles concerning them. I therefore hasten to say that on every exten- sive ride I not only meet with many people who have never seen a bicycle, but I also meet with not a few who have never even heard of the existence of such an instrument. Observing me rolling the thing along on foot, they often ask if I am " measuring the roads for a map " ; and when I assert in reply that the wheel is designed to be ridden upon, they no more believe that 1 am speaking seriously than they would if I declared it to be a balloon with which one might fly through the clouds. The words and looks with which such simple folk manifest their astonishment when the miraculous mount is made into the incredible saddle, and the impossible vehicle is driven swiftly along before their very eyes, cannot be reproduced by any ingenuity of the pen. Neither can I hope, in repeating the remark of an honest old coun- tryman whose carriage I passed, after giving the customary warning of " Please mind your horse, sir," to convey any adequate idea of the overwhelm- ing surprise indicated by the tones of his voice. His words (let dashes indi- cate his pauses for astoni.shment in uttering them) were these : " What — in— the — devil — do — you — call — that ?" Comparable to this was the sp.'ech of a drowsy lock-tender on the Erie Canal, who became conscious of mv presence (/nly at the instant of my dismountinc; clo.se in front of him: "I'll swear, stranger, " said he, after recovering somewhat from the first shock of oewil- derment, " if you didn't half make me frightened ! What with your white breeches, — and white shirt,— and white necktie, — and white hat,— and white face, — I almost thought the devil himself had jum;ied down on me!" This was said with entire good nature, without a suspicion that any part of it coiikl be construed as offensive or uncomplimentary. It seemed to the " canaller," in fact, quite an achievement in the "ay of facetiousnes"; for, as 1 steppcti inside the lock-house to get a drink of ice-water, I heard him repeat it to the men who had gathered around ; and when I came out to UKjunt, he .addressed every word of it to me again, while he affably grinned good-hv. Along the Erie Canal, I may remind the reacicr, the normal "local color" of the human countenance is assumed to be lobstcr-red. Tlu hiirninc snnsh>"»» ir>:>v ho ^* ?^^;v:v -■.■v> ^r**- ^^': ' -B ^H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B> accredited with this result in the case of f h ^ 'averages dispensed at the lock-ho^. es , o T,T " '^' '"•'''^' ''"' "- fiery n. the case of the men. Even that mti ' ' T '""''''''"'^ '" ^^ with il ^;" V- or " ro..t beer," which ^eTLiirk';; '"7" " " '^""'"' ^^^P- ■I'te the children of the fleet, is IxTa ' ' "" ''""' ""'^ '^ ^'^^0'"'"'> of the canal. ' S'^"" ^ P^'PP<^'-y addition by the bar-keepers Of the numerous novel exDerienrf* r u :"«' miles of tow-path touring, eij^^^^r"' '" ''^ ^°"^^^ ^' ^ •>- ■ts suggestion of a tragic termination hadTa,' ""' ""■^'"«' '^^""^ "' .cams from the rear without a susp do o t J 1 c TT^' '" '"^'-"""'"'^ -.' ^ that I met face to face sudd nly whirl dat'u' ^' '"' '"^ ^^''- "'' 'invcr wuh the tug-rope, sent him rolling over a "d ' "^'' /"^^P'"^ "P ^^eir wc-ls and bran.;>les of a thirty-foot embankment ir' 7" '"''^^S'^ ^'- '"quire ,f he was hurt or if he needed nvhTK ! "'''^ '° '^^ '"=i» to word. The force of life-long con" ''t[ the'' ""' '""^"^^ "^ »"' ^ ^"-ce for ail the evils in the' wo iZ :,^' ,' ' " T''''' ""'^' "'" "^P°-"^'<^ anysuchslighttumble. Getting hshaTe^ '""'--<^o"ld "otbe upset bv l"-"« up the bank, he utterly igLea'w'^r '^^'''"' '""^°'-^'- Inu poured forth a torrent 'of' hl"^""?'"-^,^ ^'^""^^'-" ^"^ the case. the capacious ears of his team sinTl ^'^^T"?'^ complicated cursing into -'^■^ -d quarters. The cn'i, ^ "h" ' '''^'"""« '""^''^ -"" '--d "f 'I'e maaer. Recognizing i,'! he ^^ """^ ^ '^^^ '">-'--' view "ehavior, she leveled agains't me ti eT"f' ' ""^^ ""' ^^^' '-'-' -'- hcrent indignation and abuse The nli. V 7 *^""^''' somewhat inco- - im,,risonment merelyfor havin.a ' h 1 h""''' ""'' ^ ^^"^ ''^^"^'^ 'o fine '-" 'he warning sign-boards of the In' "r u ^''^'^'^^ ' '""^^ -'^" know -d; .hat if the m.Ses had s 1 ^^ ^ ^"'' '^'"^ ' ''''' ^^- '^-"-1 to ""•" or plunging down the '-ank I shluldT"".'".'"''^ ''' ^"'"P'"^ '"'^ the -1 'hat, in general, only the e.vtreme a" u " ^ !? ^'^ ^'^ ''"^'^ ^'^--^^ -u-d her to graciously refrain from snr „ " > " '""" °' '^^^ '""^P-''-.- ja.l forthwith. Thereafter, on the tow . ;'•'?' '"^ "'"'"^'"^ "'^ °^ ^" 'ace of all approaching mules. thoughT e ^,i;'"?'^"-^ '"^'"-"'-' '" 'he ^""^e on, cap'n ! Don't stop fo th ' f ''" Persuasively shouted. •'-'>■ ^vith me. I'l, nsk 'em fn T u ""'"'' '^"'"^' 'Thev can't ,a-t """"'ents of the people o„ the boats 2 :" ''""'^"•" '^'^^' ^^■^-'^-^ -"I ^-">- --^Pectful, and rareb- mj". J^ ^"""^' ^'"•^>-^ good-natured, gen- "-ular and to exhibit the smartness of thr"'"^' '"'" '''''" ''•^■^''S""' 'o be ;■ ^Vhcrcdyecumfrum. judge > " "nd • "::;'"''"• ^'" ^""" ^ -'"'he'" o'' ''•--^'^''^ inquiries, wLc^.Sch"lt-K^^^T:' "'^°^-" ™ »'- "^''- 1 here call to mind the auain't T ^ • " ^'"^''^'" " '^^'isfactorilv set- j' ''"; ^vho was inspiredi,^^^"; : ::::;^^:" ;;: ^ ''''r "" '^"'"-- - ^'- he shouted, '■ rs.,v. general, I wi h I h 'l ^7 '"'''°'' ^"^^^ "^-^If vvi^eu "" .-nts; I'd make y..u a pr ,'";:";/ ^^'" '^•■'^' old-fashioned, cop- '•iiitiDn li»>xs tVip riilr- fiir T remember stooninp on one occasion ON THE WHEEL. for a raw-boned and decreoit " dIuit •• m »k- »«.i t voiced woman, who exclaimed eLdt'edlv s th. T T "^'"'" *"'* '^""- quest. "Will you please give me the inside track for a lme„t " T'^ my surprise, therefore, when one of the women who had hT f ^'^'"" taking glances backwarH t« «,»,. women, who had been for some time the n^dL of tLtthwaroX^^^^ •t'^"""'' ^°"^'""'=^ ''--'> - - of bemg forced to dilounranl tTen rll 1^^ " I^ " ^^' ^"" °" *'^ ^^'"^ the law is, m.terr.-" Ve,^ndeet::X?" d I TeTwT t'hTa T^d" must a wavs have th^ • on .his side .he A.,an.i?' Wh , , '"" '" ^""^ ■■o=-i-nciv, and rich hnfti ;« u: a. ■ . . " "■ v -'• "maClivc y, nch both m h.stonc associations and in objects of «.contem. la TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. h. poraneous human interest." A fortnight given to this tour would cost a man but forty dollars, and he might reduc the cost to thirty if he cared to econo- mize. From Niagara I have ridden to Buffalo, Erie, and Ashtabula,— one hun- dred and fifty-six miles,— in three successive days, over the excellent " ridge- road," which generally keeps in sight of the lake. I recommend, however, that the tourist who tries this track should start at Girard, in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, and ride eastward to Niagara, whence, I am '-^Id, a good road runs to Rochester and Syracuse, — at which lat*:er poinr wn knowledge of the Erie tow-path ends. I found it impossible to dc .^ i. 'id riding on that path, for 1 was three days in covering one hundred and ten miles; but it may be inferred from some of my previous remarks that the chance there afforded for holding sweet comn.union with the "canallers" was a thing which had not a little attractive force, and I will also a-d that the scenery of the lower Mohawk Valley from Schenectady to Utica makes the route a i)leasant one to explore. On the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which extends along the border of Maryland for one hundred and eighty-four milts, from Cumberland to Georgetown, I found the scenery of the upper 1 "the more attractive, while the riding was much smoother than below. From New York to Boston the best road lies along the towns of the sea-shore as far as New Haven, v hence it goes inland through Hartford, Springfield, and Worcester. Beyond Boston the tour may be continued up the coast as far as the river which separates Maine from New ilampshire at Portsmouth, say sixty-five miles. The return trip from Boston may be made through Taunton or Providence to Newport, where a transfer must be effected to Greenport, on the eastern extremity of Long Island. The road usually taken from that point to New York City measures just about a hundred miles, and the trip to Portsmouth and back as thus outlined implies rather more than five times tliat distance to be gone over upon the wheel. The journey can be pleasantly accomplished in three v/eeks, though a tourist who has leisure to inspect the various wonders on the way may well devote four to it. Some of the smoothest sectio.is cf the whole track are on the south shore of Long Island ; and it may be worth recording that last year, on the first Wednesday of September, between six in the morning and seven at night, I rode through the Island, from Sayville to Flushing, a distance of more than fifty miles though the mercury stood for much of the time at ioo° in the shade, .'nd most of my riding was dene in the fierce glare of the sun. Inasmuch as that day all along the Atlantic slope was by ofiicial observation .not only "the hottest on record for the season of 1881," but also " the hottest on record for the past seven years," 1 think that my ride, attended as it was by no exces- sive discomfort and followed by no evil effects, speaks well for the physical healthfulness of bicycling. When ^ ' 'vheelins compels the tourist to resort to the railroad train, he ON THE WHEEL. ' , gage-car, after placating the lordly commander thereof either with civil exnla- n U.ons or w.th a quarter-dollar in current coin ; but it is great.v to be desi^ d that the transportation companies should issue definite and in elligently-con sKlcred regulations concerning this peculiar class of "baggage." Nd her does he tounst often have much trouble in "finding his wa!" f,om one point to another of his chose., route, for the "best roads "-which aTe tie ones selected for touring-are usually the old-established thoroughfares whose Identity is apt to be well preserved at the forks a»d crosses and in ^zTtr'rz^'T^'^ ^°-- -^^^'" ^^^' before m::;:;,:'; . ; . " ^^'"" '"^ '° P'""^ °""'^ movements m a given day as to be sure of having a hotel within reach about noon and about nightfaU bu h decision as to where one's baggage shall be sent two orthree'days h. d we^ slVut aTlTh ,^"\^TP'^'^ ^^-S^ °f ^'-^"'S in addition to'what'h nou'h for the *^^^\"'^r T '^^ ^°-^°«^»^'y -"y. and this does well enough for the first night, but by the second or at latest the third night it becomes very desirable for him to reach his "base of supplies." To dete mine m advance the proper point to establish this at, when planning a lur on an unknown road, where the rate of progress is uncertain is one of the most puzzling problems for the tourist. The food and lodging, which one gets at the country hotels are usually ndurable, and are supplied to the bicycler when he is l7ast ir. a mood to be xa ting in his demands. He furthermore has the assurance of being invited o sleep ,n the bost room" that the house contains, and of being « ed off rom the top shelf" of its pantry. He has numberles; chances r'obserting n i: itinT-^rr"^' ''T °' "^'""'"" '=°^'^^^''" "'able-manned." and waiting The universal negro waiter, as is well known, likes to dis- pense his dishes and arrange the table-ware with a grand flourish and clatt r nd uproar ; but ,t struck me as funny that the women waiters who take cit ^ o the wayfarer at most of the hotels in the Mohawk Valley should agree in cherishing as ./..> ideal of extreme "style" in table-serv'icc the knack o" fl'iirfli? "'"r"- 'V' "'"" ""' ^^^^^^' ^^'^^- - '^^ bill-of-fare, as t tac in Ob " " :r T'- "^^""^ °' '""^'^ ^'^'^ ^-^ ^'^-^ 'he light- them. Hav^ng ,n a single breath snapped out. Roastbeefroastturl eyboiled nuttonan, friedham," her interest in the case practically ceases Jid he thenceforth goes about her business ...th the pJoud c.n.iou::::; 'd done , and done net o.ly in a complete but in an impressive and stvlish man no, creditable to the reputation of the house. Incidentally she may occa- .onally condescend to bring out some of the dishes that hie been ordered m response to her polysyllabic cry. ordered Bov InT' "^v ^" 7 '".""P' '" '^''^'^"^" ""' ^'^^"^^ 'h^ '■^'ations of the Small Toy to bicycling, for those are of so important and interesting a characte ;.;a. nothing less than a separate essay could oretend tn Hn .K„^ :,..Z! -nc, i^owever, I hear a philistine say sneering! v of the s^orr'that kls" a «4 TEN THOUSAND MILES CN A BICYCLE. W^: 'r II "boyish pastime " for grown men to engage in, I feel like saying to him that if he would substitute " boy-like " for the other adjective he might speak more truly, and might thereby give the highest praise that can be given to bicycling. Certainly may it be said that no genuine, healthily-organized boy is now drawing the breath of life who can look upon the glittering spokes of a bicycle without an ardent longing to have them whirling merrily under his toes; and certainly do I believe that no giown man who takes delight in swiftly clea/ing the air on the back of the silent steed of steel can fail to carry with him some of the noble freshness and bloom ot boyhood, — " the golden, the happy, the unforgotten I " It was Coleridge, if I remember rightly, who insisted that the simple secret of genius is the art of car'ying into mature years the free heart and fiery enthusiasm of early youth, — the art of keeping boy-like to the last. Such, at all events, seems to me to be the secret of happiness, and sach is the theory on which I base the assumption that the votaries of a pastime pre-eminently " boy-like " are, as a class, a pre-eminently happv set of individuals. Presumptively a good bicycler is always and every^yhere " a good fellow." Genuine wheelmen grow readily acquainted -"ith one another, off-hand and "boy-fashion," because the ele- ment of heartiness and sincerity in the sport creates the same feeling of fra- ternity and kinship which exists between boys up to the period when estrange- ment is caused by the advent of worldly wisdom. The quick formation of bicycle clubs wherever groups of wheelmen are found to exist is often mentioned as a proof of the sociability of the sport ; and the ready 'opportunities thus afforded for making pleasant acquaintance with men in all sections of the country are also incladed among its advan- tages. All these things I have refrained from enlarging upon, both bec^use others have better said what could be said and because they are almost self- evident,—" they go without saying." I have preferred »athcr to praise the bicycle in its character as a solace for the solitary ; as a companion for those whom the voice of nature or of fnte has commanded to hold themselves apart from the hurly-burly ; as a device for enabling the philosophic observer to be among people without being of them, to examine at first hand all phases of life and society without revealing the mystery of his own personality. The bicycler is a sort of benevclent Asmodeus. In him is realized the myth con- cerning the traveler with th seven-league boots and the invisible cloak. He can swiftly betake himself to remote regions, can see and hear all things while his own presence is undisclosed. Were old Diogenes searching for the honest man to^lay, he would surely tour on a bicycle; though perhaps the object of his search, being presumably a bicycler also, would prove a faster rider. II. AFTER BEER.» [Inspired by fifteen years' contemplation of "Beer " as orenar^H T™ .u late George Arnold for 7.. ^«, ^^-^ W^^ /'.^"'f ruIuItT. .^^^^^^^ Oh I finer far Than fame c( riches are The caracolings of this airy carl Why Should I Weep, vail or sigh? What if age has dimmed my ev-? What if I'm truly said Noi to be worth a red? Stuff I I've enough : My steed of steel— My wheel I Genteel, On my wheel I sit. The vulgar mob may flit Below; They go Unheeded by; And, as they fly, I, Mounted high, Sit, Turning with toe or heel My wl)^el I Go, whining youth, Forsooih I Travel by rail ; Fish, or shoot quail ; Weave melancnoly rhymes On the old tii es Whose sports to memory now appeal; But leave lo me my wheel. Wealth melts like snow; Love leads to woe ; So, If I tread my troubles down, Without a frown, In speeding on from town to town. Then do I wear the crown, With wheel or whoa I '^"""/'•^f. Augusc I., .880, p. 404. Tl.e original. "Beer," may be found on d »o of George Arnold', Poems » (Boston : Fields, Osgood & Co.. .8;.). ^' " ^ V Jji TII. WHITE FLANNPX AND NICKKL PLATK.' TilosK five words would form my answer to anyone who might repeat to me the question which ao ingenuous youth recently addressed to an editor: " Will you tell me briefly whit is the best costume to adopt for tour- ing on a bicycle?" I smiled a si.-.ile wheal read the enquiry, because of its amusing assumption that, in a maiter so notoriously dependent upon individual taste, any single conceivable costume is demonstrably " the best." Nevertheless, if anyone cares to call upon me as an oracle, I trust I shall always be found ready to respond with a properly oracular utterance. I at least know by ex])erience what Is • the best " for myself, and that is about as much as anyoi^e can fairly pretend to know when he grapples with the tre- mendous subject of "clothes." At least half of the four thousand miles regisLored by my cyclometer presumably represents tours and excursions ; and the object of my present writing is not to give advice to any other tourist, actual or prospective, but rather to explain why I individ-ially, when on a tour, find the superlative degree of comfort assured me by the presence of white flannel and nitkel plate. If any buyer of this book shall feel impelled td follow my example, well and good; I will not attempt to collect any royalty from him for the privilege. But if anyone shall venture to misrepresent me as ask- ing others to follow my example, he will do so at his peril. Should such a person ever venture into the wildwoods of Washington Square, he must ex- pect me to collar him and to insist on forthwith fighting for the beer. The advantage of wearing a white riding-shirt, like the advantage of wei. ing a white dress-shirt when not riding, rather than a colored one, is largely a moral advantage : for, as the white fabric shows the dirt sooner than any other, its wearer is forced to keep himself clean. Tne owner of a so-called " patent never-get-dirty " shirt, of grey or brown, may sweat through an entire season without once consulting the laundry, but the putron of white flannel must make frequent visits there if he wishes to retain the right to his name. By making the shirt reversible, it is possible to put to use both sides of the collar, and that is the part which becomes soonest soiled; but the whole gar- ment will have to go to the wash-tub at the end of five or six days, and oftener at the end of two or three. As each washing cauoes a shrinkage, it is well to begin with a very loose collar. When this grows too small, it can be cut down to the second button. Finally the collar can be cut off entirely and the iFrom " Whirling Wheels : the Wheelm.in's Annual for i8J<2," pp. 111-119 (Salem, Mass. : J. P. Burbank. 1S82. i2mo. dd. un-urir.^ ■ti.ooi. ^'^fTE FLAA-JVEL AAD NICKEL PLATE. garment used as an undershirt \s for • u '^ In- the time their waistband gets shr It? ", ! ''""'' J^nee-breeches. l-reeche. themselves become ^o. out'nd m" r '^'"''"'"^' '-'»'■ ''-' the polishing of the nickel plate ^ ""'^■'>- ^^' '"^" '"'« rags for iirceches, shirt, undershirt, drawers socks an.. K • worn by the rider, can be tied up ti2 iV ^Ih "' '" ''''^"'"" '"^ '^^'^ -'■^h.too.h^br,.h. .,.,,,, ,,, anf /si" rnd"ar'';7' ^°'"'^' ''-■ V re ued his coat. Stout cords have seemed 't "^ '^'' '" '"'" "" leathe straps i„ securing this .o. to I e hatue ."' """^ ^-'-factory than one ..houlder when coasting was to be iSr'^^Str '" .^''"^'"« '' °-^ sag down too far on the brake, while by carll n ''' "'^"^^ '-'' '»>«= ^o" kept veil on top of the lnndle:bar, tho i^h /e ,' "' '^ '"^^ ''""^' ' ^^" '^ cas.ona::y to check the sagging. ;^' e "t 111 "^" ^""' '° ^^ ''«htened oc- i-a-son patent " l-ycle'^.^a^vlVt^ ' f : I r'^nf 7^^^^"'^"*'' '^''^ -'^^ ; -■ late., tour. The wires of this contrivan e arV «-"«factory trial on '- put in the pocket or slung over "^e sCouM '° T'" ''''' '' "'^ ^^^^'ly attached, whenever one desire's to ha e hL h d,! r''/'^^ ^"" '" ^^ich it il at "oon to sit at a hotel table, one's coat mavf ■"i ''"■ ^" ''i^'^ounting turb.ng the inner roll. I do ot nsist th r7h ' ""'' '''""'"^'^ "''^'^-' '•- flannel, since it is not to be worn T he btv t r''-''^^' '^ "^^-^ °^ -^ite - the better. A linen duster and a flann^' I ."' "". ''^^^'^^ ^^ shorter it H. turn served me well. When the dav / "'''^^ ^'^'>'^"' ''"'"g have ^'PP'yvaseline to any bruised or rs^o;: a " '"'^'' ' ^^''-" ^ ^P-^^ ^ath and arrange to have the damp rloXs I h T""" "'^' ''°''^" throughou cluHng the night for use in the'nel:t\^t^ ""''"« '" P-perly dried ;;^^a; L:::i^rx: ::n'r;x:::^-r2 -.-'^- -- - - -e ble to arrange any meeting of this sort wh ^'' ' " '' °^^^" impractica- I'ath, and in my last tourf whi h w^'; ' J °"^ ^^"^ -' - an unexplored -as five n.ghts as well as five da v^aw v f ^ ^ "' "''^"^ '^' Potomac. I ^-«i..o special it.convenience,h;;eTe?/h?\"''"^ "' '^"PP^-- ^^ f one before described, with the addh on of a t '"^ T' "^^ ^''^ -"-Pie I have never experimented with'- M J j- -' ?u /"'' ^ '^'''''^ ""^ershirt. to encumber the backbone or handle-ba; or ,xL of ^'1 "''''"' '"^S"^^ '"tend to. There seems no sense in h.n.r ^^ '''<'-^^'^' ^"d I never oi a bag (letting alone its ug app 1^"?^ °"' ^^•^"^ -'"^ '^^ -igh over it) when the coat or shtt\vE " S3 1 o' '''''''''''^^^^ °^ ^'-bfng ;.n answer all the purposes of a ba^ ThT^ ■ " ^' " °^ '^' ^W^ fined absolutely to the articles whkh I have n m'^'Tr °' '"""'"^ " ^ -"' ned more compactly and comfortably L a roIlTh ' " t" "^^^ ""^^>- ^^ "- '--nng are innumerable, and nothing ess th 'v ' ''^- '^'^^ '"-^-'« ^^ P ace to place, can keep the bicyclr'supp id !>;'"' ""' '^ ^^P^^^ ^-n^ 'hem^ A good wheelman, like 'a good so d' I ^"^PP^^-'^^ble amount of "larchmg order, carrvin. ; .^. ! '°''^'.^'' ''^°"'d be proud to ^n in i;„k. 2 - -= - • "=F-^. rorr. ti.e things that he really needs."^nd i8 TEX THOUSAND AflLES O A blCYCLE. I carrying .lothing else. On my first tour, I packed my traps in a bag "vhich was shaped like an old-fashioned cartridge-boy. which opened by lifting a flap at the side, and which had straps at the ends for slinging over one's shoulder. The trouble is tl.at a strap or string of thi? sort, though not unjjleasant for a few hours' ride, finally chafes and tires one's shoulders if carried all day long. The bag or bundle also gives an uncomfortable heat to one's back, especially in summer time. I should presume this latter objection, in a lesser degree, might hold ;;ood against .Mr. Wright's " take-me-too" device, which consists of a waist-belt to which a roll may be strapped on behind without sagging. Thoi'gh I have not tried it, I have no doubt this is a good thing for a short ride ; but for an extended tour the handle-bar seems to me the best place on wh'ch to strap one's luggage. I have never had a lantern, and ;•. ai;pears to me a needless encum- brance fcr the tourist. The " handy Knglish tool-bag " I consider a great im- provement upon the ordinary " pocket-book" style of sad'le bag, being noise- less and more secure against intrusion — though I have had an oil-can and a wrench stolen from it at different times, by fhe loungers of certain kger- Lcer saloons where I left my wheel over night. India-rubber drinking cu])s ar"^ perhaps worth carrying, though, after losing three from my pockets, I have lately dispensed with them. India-rubber pocket pouches or -curses, »o prevent the wetting of paper money and the rusting of k'.-ys and kniv. I have also lound serviceable. A straw hat for summer, and a flat velveteen hat for early spring and late autumn, are my preferences in respect to head-covering. Here, too, I may add as a special summer recommendation for a white riding costume, its non-attract've quality as oncerns the rays of the sun. I c?nnot too highly praise the comfort and • Dnvenience ensured by wearin;^ "ball- catcher's -'loves " which protect the wlm and leave the fingers entirely free. The back of the hand is also uncovered, the glove being kept in pla' e by a button behind the wrist. The cost varies from seventy-five cents to twice that amount, according to the quality of the buckskin. Perhaps it is the result of my country " bringing up " that I always wear boots rather than shoes for out-door walking. Anyhow, being accustomed to boots alone, it seemed to me the proper thing to continue wearing them when I first got astride a bicycle; and my touring experiences have only confirmed my partiality for that sort of leg-covering. In one of my earliest rides a dog took my left calf between his jaws, and had it not been cased in leather he would have taken a pa. t of it away with him. He didn't hurt me much in fact, but he cured me of all inclination to e.xpose my extremities in the regu- lation stockings and low shoes, which most bicyclers affect. T should sup- pose that the dust and sand and mud would work their way disagreeably into such shoes on long tours where much walking had to be done, and that the freezing cold air would wor'- its way disagreeably through such stockings on wintry days. But never mind ; boots also have their disadvantages. On a hot day the legs of a bicycler's boots are apt to get so damp from perspiration, !hat. if he takes them off, he can't null »h "^ <'^i;;'- Hence, it i. a rather hTa ^u "ZrlVjt ""'' '''^>' "^^ ''«" ma.te- how tempting a lake or river may f^l, he T !? ''''' =* ^"'■'"' "« .he end ot h.s day's riding. The lower but* .n of heT ,'' ""''' '*= «'-'^'' '" aslit m the top of the boot readily kee.sT f ? '''''^'''"^ ""'^''^""Rh fron. entering. Top-l,oot. that rea;:h to Th J" '''"" ^'"^ Prevents all dust -."^enough to preven, a..y saggiT^t The tki"" M "" "^ "^"^ "^ '-'»'" -■>ter riding. A velveteen jacket ad '^^h"^^^' [ ''''' '"""'' "g^eeable for •'Ne rig for short rides in the cold : ea, . t ?, r^^'r ' "'"^'"" •-• -i^- cx.sts only for purposes of display it seems t u ""'^"^"^ ''^ "^ "^'"g ^^hich color, should .. n^ade of ;el vet/ en . n ^ T 1 'k^ ^"''^'' ^'^'^ '-- '^« tenal. sh...ld be white. Any club hTh '^^c^^^ches. whatever the mv "--ases by jus. so much Z „c ' ^^^^'^'-^'Vth- of these two poil Were I a clul.man I should fore a ; Z:^"'' T " ^ ^'^'^ «-nc, pirade. c.s of crmison velveteen, or else I shou d k 7h "" '° '"'" °"^ '" J^'^'^- Velveteen is really the cheaDesth. ^'"."^""'' ^^^O- one I to employ for such a 'purpose rd'r';;: T. '"' '^T """''"= "^ ^^''^■•- o .t (say hfteen to twenty dollars) is not s > - '°u °^ ' '■''''"«-^°''>^ >"-de o any other good cloth ; though th lattL iU ""'k L" "'"^^ "^ -'^ "-''«-■ -h.le fhe former will last for a lif.^;^ / '"' ^^°^^ "^'^^^^by in a season or two ■xakcs it seem unsuitable for ordinarv m.^ r'' ^' '' "' ^°^'^^'^^ i"^ showiness --• Italian pea-nut venders being the :„ 7''";''" ^'r'""^'""'^' S^'"'"--^ "■car it;, and hence, like other rare and ^ ^ 7 u ''" °^ '""" ^'h" habituallv I'^l-.der as being extrem h c^ ly T '::,T::' ^""^^' '' ''"P--« 'he averag "f velveteen in a club parade w seerlre" "'"• ^ '°"" g>°-y Jackets '- made of commoner cloth; j s aT hr daV7°T"' :'''" '^'''' ^^^^ — ni^keled bicycles will challenge' ic" „."'"? ''^'^''^"^^-^ --P'etely "h.rringof those which are ".s common Zk '^''""^^'"" ^« the glitterless 'he shiny coats and the shiny wheehb" u e te"' " ""^^' "■'"^''^•" "^'^ '" the popular conception of su "h th nT ^ '"■' «" distinctly contrasted ' i-agination, and hence help to giedi.„^^^^^^^^^^ *" '""^ J^P"'- procession of men "in sill ln\rJT2^^ T^^^^ ^^ '«"« ."■•ficant a spectacle "to be ^e .'d" '-"^ eTe T': 1 ^'""'" ''^ '"'' ^'^ ""pressed bv the notion that it r. ' "ayfarmg man mn^ . be As regards the solitan id ^ e sTeeTTH-"","'" ' ^°"'' ^"'' "— nt '•■^:c the whiteness of his flann'el shirt and. ''! P'."^'' ^ '^^-^ '" cold weather, lesson " to everyone whom he me 7or H f '" ""' "^' ^'^"•^" "°''i-t ;-''led into the mud. nor ro led ihe d f ^'"'^'""^^ ''^^^ 1^^ has not been 't shows, therefore, that the b icvc s a s f e "I "" "' ""' ^"^^^ ^"^ -■•■ The advantage which nickel plate Vves • " "^' ^ •:'^^" ^"^• "' ^vearing a white shirt chieflv -, m 'i , ^^ '^' ^'^^ '^^ advantage "'•ff-ent sense. It is a ou 'r L hi "?^'' ''^"'^^ '" '^ —hat •-"'le presence in his pocke s of mone '''^'T'''''''' '"^ ^'"^"^'" "^ ^^e prob- -liftp.; , , l^"CKets ot money enough to n.iv fr.r .n u „. 20 TEX THi SA.VD MILES ON A BICYCLE. % the fact that the bedraggled and mud-bespattered man who ,)uslie' it alons; is not '. casual tramp, but a f>ersun ot substance whe politic to treat with civility and deference. Kven the lordly comm.i'ide'-of the baggage- car loses something of his surliness when confronted by so s|]lendid an object, and is less inclined to resent its presence in the realm of trunks as an intru- sion. A machine with rusty wires anil painied backbone, though it may be an excellent roadster and may represent a hundred lobars or more of hard cash, doesn't impress itself on. the uninitiated as anyth.ng better than "an old five-dollar plug, which any ijeggar might own "; but no n.,e can fail to compre- hend that a "wheel of silver" a ust have "money behind it," and to govern himself accordingly. Even tho most reckless baggagc-- .l>e -cond pair in „yle and price, andXt^ad , earJ f 1 1 K "' *"' """^ ''»-'-' *'■" i -k n-.y la,, nde .n .hem. Lcemher J'. IT '' Pel "" "" "' '"^'^ ""''"'"- -'- .1"' eight moruf-,' mileage, as reprev:ntin.r thf, ' ^t T '"'"'■ *''""''' ''^ ''"1"^"=^ ''<>"> w.lkinK.sh..,; for.asareinlto ™ ccltrd\ " '/'f *'^- ' «- -V ■-^'»''"•'' "^"eap. machi.,e.,e.ed .-Laps double that of the three Cumbi a - hr«k 'r" "^ ' ''" "^'^ ■"•"^■"^'' »' ^ P™^" .he case. My . ;,,W objection ( p )' .- 'the du"; 'T'"7 'T' ""''""'= "'""""''" "' -;y di,n«reeably into such shoes, on long our, where m h II'" t'l """' """''' ^"^'' "'- all too sadly justified by ex,>erience • a.fd .n^n , J *= ''"' '" ^' '^""'•" ''^^ l-^^" '..ue . longed for the pfese, ce of "; ^^^^Z^T' ""'!''' '"" ''"'"' ^"^ "' "-""«■ "- .;f dus, and sand and mud and'.,;:' C IVl.;^''" th';'. ^h' 7'""'"" '" ^^"-^""'"^ »"rk ,ts way disagreeably .(hrouKh such stocklL, '"""« '"''' ^'^ *""'-." has proved io be quite '^-s, are quit- efficacious L' ens ing w ;^ b:.' '.^7?'^ "^"^'""- """^■'' '" ^-^ ^'^-" A pair of black cashmere stc^kin^f wh -h ,T" """ '"'"''''" "' ^""- -Reeling. .-.V holes in ,he heels; and I then ^um ll , , i" *'' "■"'"'' '"' "^"'^ ^'^"^'^ "^howinK ^""7'. of .He "Goe..-. manulature'^th :" r,' :,;'•' "^ T^ '^^-^^ — "- .-^•■wassaidtobe-.hebestGermanknittingyarn "a'cr 'hT'r^ '"'^^'^ ■"^- be.nstock whe^ " led at the shop, .hcUerer^n Tro ^'. 7^ ^'" ''''""' '^'^''^^^^ very eyes. They cost ; ;o and I .LT~A 7 u ^ ^'-' ""'"""K '"'''^'•ine before my from t etroi. but the h.-l,;::' thr^ L • " I' 'he outset of my long straightaway tour N»n,., or just the same as that of he l,s ^'" " '"'■"■''^''"' "'"^" ""^ ^^cord was ■he .wo pairs combined served m'.7;r::7,''=''\ ^''-^ -''- ^-i-.'S a.u. patchings •■ ' Y-^- " stockings, whose legs showed ;^I";-," \ ,'1 ^r ""^ ' '"" '"' ''"'' "' ""= ■ne f,.ranother , ,000m., at least. The latest .0 " ' ) "''?'""' '"''•■'"'""^ "'ey will serve women stockings ($,.,, ), having black legs and .' '.e f 'if T'f ^'-'^V'''.^-' ■" » 'hird pair of .0 prevent the wearer's feet from being di^olored In th '"'":}'''"' '^'-'^'^ '"-'"S - S-xJ ""e '" hold thei. colors, no matter what 'heTePers •"'. " "" -"'''"«' """'" "^ "'-^^e ...K-e forced .0 buy ( 40c. ), as a m.kLhift f h 7 ' ' """^ ' ''"'" °' "^'^'' °"" -'•Ich I was - -" as n.y feet' The fclac k o kin': whS'Tb'""? '' ^^ =* ""^ '"' "" "'>■ ''"-- gave command that no booted rider s ^Hd he ^'' j."'""^-^''" '" ''^^ (*3.75), when the League .o-Kl condition after considerab e usag ol ^ Ic" "" "'^"''' ''' ^''"«"' '"" ^'^>- ^v me^in --iage on a tour, as a part of one's eve^ "• ^'^'^ "«'""«— "-mends them or --'■other garments of the d^vC r^ng are b ^"'7*^; '" '/ ^■"^" "'''''^ "'^ -^""'^^ ■^'-''-«* 1-avy woolen stockings wiirhold them i„ n '""k "' '""'• '"'"""^'^ "^^ '^'-'-'V "^ '■"', as they are apt to slip, or nrove oTh rwt ^ ""'' '"■"^" '""" «•-■' '" ■"' ^ ---"y- ' ''-•^' f-'-'d it convenient o suspend acTne T '"'"? T'^" ^''""^^ ^^'^-''^ '« "- leg. band of the breeches at the .seam opposite Lhip^"" ' ""'"'^ '""""■ "^^■" "" "^^ '""" "^ '- ' -.5":r^ "d:srs i^irmf;::^ r.r'"T7- ^' ■• f-^- ^^ •- -«. -Hich '" ail sons of weatherduringmy Wd "f,: ir'^^^^'^^'f-^-r '-''^^ '' '^■-' -"-d well -lien, garment for use on the deck d" rir !L e '"' .' "' ' ' '"'' " •'' " '^'■°-'' - «- Su.tia and R.r„„j ,.__.• _1 ^ '^^ ^^^ voya^^s that were connec.rr) wot. .... xt_.., ^•™- i- S.een cornuroy breeches, bought a. Boston in"ji,nrof 2a TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. •8i, lasted nw to the end of my long ride of '83, iIiuukIi more than once torn tn shreds in the progress of it ; and I stiil retain them as a most interesting curiosity of tailor's patchwork — hoth professional and amatevi I had some thoughts, indeed, of proclaiming them by public advertisement as a memorial prize, to be awarded the club most largely represented on the sub- scription-list of this book, and to be kept on permanent exhibition as a trophy in its chief assem- bly-room. Mv earlier custom,, of carrying a pair of long trousers, of thin material, in the roll on my handle-bar, was ad red to by me very generally until the close of 1883 ; but during the sea- son since then I have commonly substituted for them a pair of green velveteen riding breeches (#8,50), which pack quite as closely and prove quite as satisfactory for evening wear. During that season also I usually dispensed entirely wi'h the tool-bag, preferring to carry wrench and oil- can in pocket, or else in luggage-roll. For some years my custom has been to inclose the latter in a piece of india-rubber cloth, two feet square ; and this cover is also available as a protection to the carpet of one's bed-room, =n case of taking a sponge-bath, at th-j end of the day's ride. An india-rubber drinking-tube— costing half-a-cent an inch, and carried more easily than a cup— I have found to be a convenient device for use at brooks and springs ; though the over-cautious may prefer to pay half-a-dollar fcr " Corson's tourist's delight," which has a filter attached to the tube. Needles and thread have more than once repaid the slight trouble required for storage in my pocket book ; and I intend on my next tour to carry a little lump of upholsterer's " curled hair," which is said to make, when combined with soap, an excellent brush for scouring the grease and grime from one's hands. The recommended superiority of a sponge to a handker- chief, for wiping the perspiration from one's face on a hot day, has not seemed justified v my ex- perience, however. The ease with which the rim of a nickeled wheel may be polished . y simply holding a rag against it while riding, would appear too self-evident to be worth mentioning,— were it not that " a 10,000-mile man " assured me that it appealed to him as a new and happy ider., when he saw me resorting to it, in Washington, last May. Another well-known fact, that white flannel shrinks more rapidly than colored, may periiaps be useful information to some. The sight of m " M. I, P, bag," or any other such clumsy contrivance, on a tourist's bicy- cle, always con.jys to my mind the idea that the owner is a novice at the business ; but I am bound to admit that some men of wide experience on the road do retain an apparent fondness for these same bags. I supi'se it must be because they lack " the sense of order and proportion," which is the natural gift of men who can put a roll or bundle of miscellaneous articles together with compactness and symmetry. The non-possessor of this orderly instinct perhaps does necl a bag, into which he can shovel his equipments at hap-hazard; but it certainly seems to me a terrible infliction to have one's machine thus handicipped with an ungiinly excrescence which takes up about as much room when empty as when full. Far better th.tn this— for th se whose love of coasting causes them to insist upon having an unencumbered handle-bar- semis " the Z. & S. carrier" ($2), an attachment for the backbone, alongside of which it can be folded com- pactly, when its arms are not needed for clutching a coat or bundle. As for the Wright " take- nie-too " belt, the persistent praises which were given to it in my hearing by an old army m.m 'whose cycling experiences on the road bad been extensive, and whose judgment was still further recommended to me by his hearty approval of the I.amson carrier, to which he thought the belt a satisfactory supplementV finally overcame my prejudices, and I bought a belt, with the idea of using it as a cont-c.irrier on my 1,400-niile tour, A preliminary trial of five miles, however, w.is enough to confirm my worst fe'ars, as to the back-heating possibilities, and all-around discomfort, belonging to anv roll or bundle attached to the base of one's spinal column, I hate a belt on general principles, and I've never made a second experiment with this most ingeniously villain- ous specimen. No one can now object to having me speak my mind squarely against it, for " the trade " long since discontinued its sale. I believe, indeed, that the veritable belt which I bought was the last one of the kind ever manufactured, h is, without doubt, on the testimony of several unimpeachable witnesses, a most excellent device— for those who happen to fancy it. If such a one, h.iply. shall read my words, let him know that I will gladly sell the belt at a great reduction on its original est, I paid a ooilar for it, but the first man who remits t,) me gq one- cent stamps shall receive the hated specimen, by earliest return mail, postage picpa.d. IV. A BIRTHDAY FANTASIE.* Ahc.vmkst.-" Three wise men of Gotham went to sea or> their wheels ; and if those whee's cru.sc on h . stanch yacht. The Bull Dorg," m search of the Golden Fleas, amid the glittering wastesof. ePaleocrysfc Sea. meets wuh the goblin trio aforesaid, a. the exact geogS point revealed to him m . vision by the n;;utical symbols, " G B V ^ c fi •' Th, ( \ ^ '^ ^^ versation then takes p.ace: O. B. V. 4. 5. 6. The following con- Cyc/ers three ! What men be ye ? Gotham's brave club-mdn we be. Whither on your wheels so free ? To rake the moon out of the sea. Our wheels go trim. The moon doth shine. 'Tis but a wheel. It shall be thine. The moon's a wheel which shall be mine ! Who art thou, so hard adrift.? /am he they call A'ol A'ron. On this moon we will thee lift. A^o ! I may not mount thereon. Wherefore so .? 'T is Jmr's decree : '' On a wheel plough not the sea ! With a wheel vex not the sea ! " £'en ashore / could not ride. For the moon's a sixty-inch. Fifty inches I may stride, Butfrofn .^ixty, sure, I flinch. Fudge t Get on ! 'T will play no tricks I ^o ! I drive a forty-six, — / was born in '46. Strange at sea to meet such /•, ds ! Haw with -Mater can they cope ? 'Tis magician floats the wheels,— The Infallible, the Pope ! Your wheels go trim. The moon doth shine. jVo7l- let " The Bull Dorg" cleave the brine. Just go your 7oay, and Pll go mine. Washington Square, Dec. 24, i8«o. ., .J. " ft ^...cii, uy moinas i.ove I'eacock. Written by request for the special midwinter number of The Bicycling lV^l.i, J.„u>ary ,4, .88,, p. ,53. FOUR SEASONS ON A FORTY-SIX.^ Six thousand miles would n;ake, if extended in a straight line, quite a re- spectable section of the earth's circumference ; and the career of the bicycle which I have driven that distance during the past thiee years and a half has perhaps been cjuite respectable "nough to deserve a formal description. The begmning of this career was made on tl e Kelgian block pavement, at the north- east corner of Washington Square, at about ten minutes past three o'clock in the afterno.n of Thursday, May 2C, 1879. It was a surprisingly short beginning on z^x thousand miles, however, for the wheel came to a standstill as soon as I had got into the saddle ; and, in my ignorance of the " standstill feat," and of the proper way of using my own feet for a ciuick dismount, I forthwith reached out for the nearest paving-stone with my left elbow, and secured a dislocation of the bones thereof. While waiting to have them pulled together again by a surgeon, whose office fortunately happened to be adjacent, I in- sisted, between my groans, that d elegram should be at once sent to the Pope Manufacturing Company, inciuiring if a nickel-plated cyclometer could be sea- sonably prepared for me, so that my second ride might be more accurately measured. This remark, coming subsequently to the ears of the Captain of the New York I5icycle Club, seemed to him so creditable that he vowed the anniversary of it should be duly celebrate^' by a general parade of American bicyclers. Hence the memorable mustering of the clans at Newport, on the 29th of May, 18S0, and the formation of the League of American Wheclm.-n, with officers to summon a similar gathering on each return of that day. I am driven to make public this fragment of anci-nt hi-tory — not to say secret and unsuspected history — by the remark of a writer in the November IV/u-clmaii, who, while giving due credit for my manifestations of interest in, and friendliness towards, the League, speaks deprecatingly of my failure to become a member thereof. He will now realize that T could not with pro- priety act othc\ =se. My position is much like that of the King of France who said. Petal c ,sf moi. In a certain sense " tbr League is myself " ; and the mere fact that I elbowed it ii existence lead^ me to insist, like Uncle Remus, that " I's bleezd to have elbow-room " outside it. I am such a very modest man, furthermore, that the pomp and pageantry of three annual meets seem already to have commemorated with sutflcient iinprpssiveness the date of so slight a display of fortitude. Hence my jirinted argument of last winter in favor of making the date of the meet a changeable one, o that it might be iFrom The Wheelman, February, 1S83, pp. 368-375. FOUR SEASONS O.V A FORTY-SIX. adapted to the climate of the 'onlitv ^h^ meet, in case the citv of Washin . \ ^ ^^^"^^ annual X....,h„„Ma,„a,ssc„<, ,,eL,,,,r;:,rr„fT:*l';;:i''»' .f-^- I am not unaware that a few envious and lirrlu „,• ^ , acceptance to the theory that the P.." dent of' h K '~^^«°- ^^-^ gi-n vi^cd the League, in orJer to honor a^ t L / HI:'; '^r''^^^'^ ''- 20th Of May, 1877, made the "test case " at he o r ^^^'' '^^°' °" '^' ^;ccc. the Secretary of the Treasur/:. di:^ ^^^^^^ l/:::^;^'^^ bicyclers. It is nJre y 0. : e C^ti : M^*^^" "^ •' '^^"'°" °^ ^" ^^^ hub •' feels for " the nLronolis '• ""''"''°" "^ ^"^^ P^">- J'^^lousy whi.h " the ^■.'c".se of Vale, Jnrir effon r;::u ,"rr r tt "---^^ - ^^^ c<..^ ..ch .e inS&:;r - -- rr ;::s=s^^r r ^.i.a I, explains his nefarious attempt to pervert the facts ,f hi.. \, ? >!.iv than the 2nth ^^av for th^ . i , , ^^ ' "^ *°'"^ o'l^er insist that whatever de^l'e o e eb t " °"'"^. °' ''^ "^"^ ^- ^^"^ ^ --^^ the historv of Ame :c n il c ;, ' "'' '"''"^ '° '"^^ P'"^^^''^"'^^ ''^f^' in b'oston Custom House b. £ e T "1 '° ' '' '' '^^^' ^""^'"'"g - ^^e ^torni mc in cood steirl , • ,7 ^' "'^'' ^"''^""en for a decade, '-me vcr cfrii , '"'"'""' "^ ^'^<^ new-fashioned wheel was ^ained ".artX d^ o';""'' T '""^'^ ■-^'■-' ^ ^'^'^ ^-^e compet;nt t ;--euce whe^the Z:^^ '^^r^^^ ^-:^:^ - r-- - ''nx- Its nrriva!. \fv .-.r.-u, ju-^ •. : '-•■c'-nenea into two months be iar \i i)i; -■ sent to meet me on the smooth pave- .i^:....j:ii.-L.. .i..aaa 'cnt at Harlem IJridrre w ■, ■ • '""^^ ""^ °" ^"^^ ^'^""^h pave- arlem Bridge, was mailea just too late to prevent its shipment from 36 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. il.irtford to the stony region of Washington Square. The saddle, moreover, for convenience in paciving, had been screwed ap close to the head, so that, even if my first ride had been attempted on a smooth road, I should inevitably have tumbled, and kept tumbling till I " tumbled to " the idea that the saddle must be set further back. Si.\ weeks from the day of my sudden demonstration that "the successor of the bone-shaker " might become a bone-breaker, I trundled it out for a sec- ond trial, and practiced step-riding for an hour or so on the concrete walks of the Square. A week later, on my third trial, I ventured to slide into the sad- die again, but its advanced position and my own impaired confidence com- bined to make my visits there very short ones. The next day, however, I got the seat properly adjusted, and, after a few helps at mounting and dis- mounting, found I could once more trust myself to "go it alone," on a smooth wooden floor. My first road-ride was taken the following evening, Tuesday, July 11, on the Boulevard, where, in the course of two hours, I made six mounts, and covered four miles of space, with only one slight fall. The exer- cise v.'as terribly tiresome and surprisingly sweaty while it lasted, but no weariness or stiffness resulted as a sequel to it. Before the next month closcc. I had taken eleven other rides and accomplished 125 miles, thereby exploring pretty thoroughly the roads of the New York region, of which I sent a minute description to the Aincriam Bkycliit;^ Journal for October. My longest day's record was twenty-one miles, made on August 5, when I went to Yonkers, where an importunate reporter tried to discover my name for publi- cation in the local paper, and where an equally uncivil dog tried to thrust his teeth through the leather of my boot-leg. The thermometer stood well up among the nineties, that day, and the hot weather which prevailed during all my rides of that month perhaps explained why I never once sij-JUed any wheelna,!. I suppose there were then about a dozen of them in New York. Mv log of distances, traversed up to this time, had been laboriously com- piled by using the county atlas, inasmuch as my agonizing appeal to the Popes for a cyclometer that should be nickel-plated, had been quite in vain. On the first day of September, however, when I began to do some riding in Massachusetts, 1 reconciled my conscience to the belief that one of their ordinary cyclometers, even without any nickel-plating to ensure its accuracy, was better than nothing, and so I attached to my axle the little round brass box which has registered the miles for me ever since. My first "over-night excursion" began September 9, when I started from Springfield with the idea of propelling myself to Boston, 100 miles, and there, perhaps, taking part in "A Wheel Around the Hub," for which an invitation had reached me, thongii the exact time of starting had been left undecided. Adopting the nvistaki ji theory of a railroad m.in, that the highway supplied softer and more ditiicait riding than the space between the tracks, I clung to the latter all day, and only accomplished 22 miles, ending at West Brimfield, where the rain put an enuic slop to Illy vci) siuu \> ■res:- FOUR SEASOA-S ON A FORTY-SIX. w:.h them at the start, bu^y resumi,r" ":'"". ''"^ '^ '^'^ '"be wHh them at the start, bui. by re Zi'^, '" V r"''- 'u"' '""^ '^'^ '"be tl.c.n-po.sibly at Readvill . ,robaTft C „ ' """'' ''^" ^^'^^^''-^ and thus particpr^-^d in the la ger parfof the ' " "''""'^ ^' S'^-— ^--^ '^at I failed to do ^i.;::;:^a;w r:?!!;...!:^"-^^^ «-% -.retted that I failed to do this, e"!, J .!""''': ^ ^'— ^is grea'tly U orcester I went astray over bad I^^hi y^al 'L 0^'""' ^ '^■^^■- '^^-^ covering 24 miles, a third of which J walked Th '^ "'"' ^°"'" '" Soutii Fram.ngham to Boston, over the wellL-n ?"', ''''''' ^ ''"'^^ ''" ^'■""' al>.n.t there n. the early evening, i. g o ;o7Tr:^^^ ^'"^ ^'^^''"^ nutnerous dusty bicyclers who seemed tl 1 J ^ ^'l"^''"' ^ "'^^^^^^'i doubt not, were some of ,he men wW '%'7^"^'-'' ^-"^. and who, I "Wheel Around the Hub "I eld he""' ?^'' '° '"'' ''^" '" ^'^^ chance I had ever had of seeilg^^bic'lirr"! V'/h'" "" '^^ '^^^^ Saturday to exploring the enchantiZ ^' / ''^-'^o'^d a good part of '-in back to Springfield, V' I a "c" fl f""""' ^' '''' "''>'• ^"^ ^^^" '-J^ later the same distance northward to Gree.Ve d rt ^ 'l'"'^ ^'^ '^^^^ day's rides of the year; and the longes tr de o„ ' "^^^^ ^^"'^/'^^ '-° 'ongest miles, beginning at New Haven -,n,^ V successive days was 62 -lesfrom Harlem BH Jge T^ifw J ^t^ f if ^ ^'^^'^ ^^-^ -S^^t and a fortnight later I divo'ed anTff . '"'^ "^'^ °^ November, to Tarrytown and back,-!; miles ITo . T ' '°""°°" '° "^^ «-^ ^^P "range and back meas^reC L lost tf tl ^"'' °^^-''- ^"-tion to .he road, which I had first explo d in X f k 'f ' °^ "^^ •"'''^'"g ^^''^^ °" •0 Brooklyn and Prospect Park an Vn, f t ""^' ' "'"'^ ^^^"^^ --'« -> the i6th of Decemb wh n r tf - ' , " ™^ ^^''^^""g °^ '^e vear, ^rv entire riding fos;^::^/:^^ '"°"'^^ ^^'^"'^- ' .6} miles for each one of the T^v Ih T ' ""« '''" '''^'^"e^ "^ ^^out -■>.t which I amounted to 460 miles leavin. onlvU?'^ ," ''''-"""• "ly "new " riding the vear-s record. Reports 'descn-.T 'T^^'^''^' '""^ ^^P^''^-- ^^ -\pril 3,,,. 163; April ,. n i-S- Vf ^'"-'"^"'. \V., Aug. 7, \i. 331.] This was also my first experience of that sort of night-riding; and I may as well say here that I have never made use of a lantern. ^)n the first day of sum- mer, I rode from Taunton to Boston, 40 miles, as one of a party ot si,\ return- ing from the meet at Newport ; a week later, from Hartford to Springfield, 35 miles ; and two days afterwards, from Hartford to Meridcn, 30 miles. [/'. /F., Nov. 19, p. 27.] Between the 9th and 13th of July I rode 131 miles on Long Island, between Greenport and Hunter's I'oint, and on the 3d of August tried another route there of 25 miles, from Cold Sjjring Harbor to Astoria. [/A /r., Nov. 26, p. 37.] My third round trip to Ta.rytown, 43 miles, was taken August 17. After this, between the 6th and 24th of September, came the longest tour of my four seasons' record, for it amounted to 495 miles, and included sections of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohit., and Canada. [/>". \V., 1S81, May 27, p. 27 ; June 3, p. 44 ; June 10, p. 56; June 17, p. 64.] As my riding was confined to fifteen days, the average for each was t^i miles, the shortest record Ijeing that of my incursion into Canada, September 15, in the region of Niagara Falls. Before this I had spent four days along the Erie Canal, mostly on the tow-path, between Schenectady and Oneida, 1 10 miles, and ridden for two days, 32 miles, in the region of Canandaigua, wher I was visiting a friend. From Niagara I rode -j^^ miles to a farmer's house 16 miles beyond Buffalo ; thence 73 miles to Erie; thence 45 miles to Ashta- bula, making in all 156 miles, v hich distance still remains my best record lor three successive days. The swiftest and pleasantest ride of the tour was had in returning on the same track from PIrie to Dunkirk, 47 miles, in seven and a half hours, including two hours out of the saddle. The ne.xt afternoon and evening five hours were spent in getting over the 17 miles between Bingham- ton and Great IJend. Then came a continuous ride of three days, from Port Jervis to the Delaware Water Gap and across the Jersey hills homeward to Washington Square, tl.: distance being 125 miles, of which the last clay claimed 53. My estimate of new track traversed in iSSo is 700 miles, and of old track traversed in a new direction 100 miles, leaving 674 to represent the repetitions of the year. February and July were the only two months of 1881 that claimed none of the 67 days in which I wheeled 1,956 miles,— an average of 29!^,— though January saw me mounted only once, when I indulged in the novelty of push- ing myself a half-dozen miles over the beaten snow, among the sleigh-riders of the ]{oulevara. My next ride, and the shortest of the year, was on the ist of March, a mile and a half, from the railroad station to my friend's house in Washington. Four days afterwards, in the same city, I took my longest ride of the year, 66^ miles, in spite of having broken off one of my handles the day before, and thereby ruined all chance of "beating my best record " (73 miles), and perhaps even making 100 miles. On the 22d of April I explored Statcn i=:u::u lu :::c lailiii ;.;: jj niiics, ana luOu uciii 1/ miles further, throuLih ^OC/T, SEASOXS OA' A FORTV-SJX. Hi/ahethtown and Newark, to Orange f/y /r \x ^^ .s..u,clay of May, I began a week's ^.Jl^^"" '°: '■ '^"^ ^n the last .hr.rgh Maiden and 8., em to Rowley and rP~^'""^ ^''' ^^^'^^ '^"«'«" N..vy Vard and hack, 46 miles; and fe'xt da ^^ ' ""^T"^*^ '^ '^^ littery Salun, a similar distance. Monday ^ tnetV l "'"' ^^ ^°^'^-outh tl '1- '--.^"C. and a tr,p to Brighton Ld Ch nu Hir"' """^' ^^^^^^ °f cxcurs.on to the lilue iJell Tavern in Milton "o„' "T '"'^"'- '^"^^^^v. an 1'^^lha.n, Xeedham, and Chestnut Hi,, . ;„Les I'V \"'""^'^>-' ^ '^'P ^- ot ten hours from the Hotel Vendome ll... u ^''"'"'^'^^y. a leisurely ride <-, NValtham. Welle.ley, and I- a t ngh ^ ^'V .r^' ^"^""^""«^' ^^^ g- a nnd pash of fourteen hours, throu,"h m^t and """k" '''' ""^^^ ^^''^''V. -Kl at my back, to Worcester, We^t^r" kfie ' vtrTK^ ''"^'^"'"^ -«' orchard Spnngheld, and West Sprin.field ^ V ' ^ '^''^^ ^^'^ers, Indian KSS.l The following Tuesday I wen "ft h '^ "'"'■'^- f^' ^^' ^ug. .6, p. ; -I-'ated the tr.p on the ..d'of lugu ^ ,„ L""- '° '""'^'^°^°' ^-f mile . /. //.. Oct. 7, p. ..,^, .^.,,. „ "fbut cont"""7 ' '°" *° ^^"^^ ^-rge ihcnce next day I rode to Bellow/^ Fa L".";"' °V" '"""-^■' ^^^^ '-'-. J9 .- es. The third day, after .0 mi o 1:7 7''"' *° '^''^'■'^'^^■^ "' S brought me to Huletfs Landin. on I °L f' ""^ ''"'"« ^'"^"6 the ;^clcs sathng throt.gh the lake, I circled LmLn"^'' '''' '""^''^ ^^3' ^^^ , back, and from Caldwell to Fort F v H - r" ' '° Ticonderoga and --■;! homeward through Albany to S ho jlck " n",' ''^ '^^^^ "^^ ' -»" ended luy trip by making an earlv mornl nth T!"' '"^ °" "^^ ^'^'h day there embarking on steamer for" New o'rk "a .T' '" "^^-". -d kgan a four days' ride on Long IslaTd from pf T '"'"■' ""^^'^^'-^^ 4, I '40 miles, of which 31 and 4, were ' n , ""« '° '^'"P^^"'^ and back 5-^ on my return, f/.^ .^ '88^ ^u r;!:) 7 T^ ''''' ^^^ '^ ^"^ egun on the .6th of Septemb r, when circled t ^ '"''' ''>"' "'^^ -- Po"ghkeepsie,. then to Rhinebeck and bacr^S m ,"' S T™^ °^ '-nson's, 35 nn'les; then home to the city a^ [V' ''°''" '^' ''''' '« from Tarrytown. on this latter d.l T 7 ' ^^ ""'"'• ^^^ '^^^^n trip t^ip thither on tL r; o? ^ay tr , ''"'^"'^ ''^ '°""^^*^^ -"'h my up ^-P--e, and then waffor ed ^ he ra"in t'^ t'r""" ' ^°'^'^ '^^'" ^° ^'-g " --loingany riding there O the 7 h „f o V^'^^"^"^^' ^«^- ^'h- P-kat Philadelphia, and .5 miles the n xtf u"'' '^ '""^^ ■'" '^^ Then, on the 22d. I began a sk daVs' to " T'"°°" '" '^' P^'^ ^' «^Itimore. ■'"- -,P. 403; July I p 4?.] rn k r: f ^^.^°^«-- " I^' ^^. '3^3, ;3. 5'. The first day's r!de'tiTrt:ye;ertk to H ''' ^'" ^ ^-^' ^^' ^°- he. ond there is Williamsport, where I strucL h \ ^^S^'^'o^vn. Six miles '"'i Ohio Canal, and rode up t 48 „ "'k 5' """'^ °^ ^'^ Chesapeake -"ght me to the end of the tow path t rT "'^'^''"- "^^^ ^'"^'' ''-y ^ack to Harper's Ferns and fo^there 1^"" 7 k"'' "'^"^^ ^ ^^^ ^-- °^her end at Washington. On the .hof v " /'' '""-P^^*^ ^°-" *° 'ts to Tarrytown. 4- r...-.^- - - ^ ^^'^ °^ November I made mv c.-^u ...-_ t • , "•"^' Oil tiic ;jlSt of De-^mhpr fk^ u ' , *^ ^e mber, the shortest day of the 30 Tf-X THOUSAND MILKS D.V .1 niCVCI.E -ear 1 to„k inv hist ride and one ..f my longest ones, 6oi miles. My .•stim.ite of new track traversed in t88i is 750 'nil^'S and of old track traveled in ,, new direction, 210 miles, leavinr^ about i, 00 miles to represent the repetitions Mv riding of 188:;, as comprised between April 19 and November 20, amoun'ted to i,827i miles, or an average of rather m ,re than 33^ miles for each of 56 riding davs. I celebrated Mav Day by a ride of 45 '""'es, fr.^m Orange to M-irristown and l)ack, and three days later accomplished 41 miles including a ri< e from Orange to Little Falls, Pompton, and Paterson, which I afterwards ext Muled to Hackensack, Ridgefield, a.ul Fort 1 ee. On the after- noon of the 10th I made the Tarryto-.vi. trip again, 42 miles ; and on the fore- noon of the 26th rode up there, crossed the river to Nyack, and came down the west side of the river, through Tappan and Englewood to Jersey City, 51 miles. During the last three days of the month, I rode 75 miles in the streets and parks of Chicago ; and on the first morning of summer began a' Covington a tour of 340 miles among the hills of Kenturky, finishing at M: ysville on the 9th. The miles recorded on the successive days were as follows: 39. 61, 33- 43- V o 52, 42, 39,-the blank record signifying the day devoted to visiting the Manimoth Cave. The January Wludman contained a detailed report ot my autumn tour of 400 miles, beginning at Utica on the 20th of September, and extending through Trenton Falls, Syracuse, Canandaigua, Avon Springs, Portage," the C.cncsee Vallev, Hornellsville, and Corning, to Waverly (330 miles), and then Towanda, Pittson, Wilkesbarre, and Newark, where the end was made October 12. In the interval of a quarter-year and more, which elapsed between these two tours, the^e were only three days when I mounted my wheel : I rode from Hartford to Cheshire, 28 miles, July 18, and next day rode 25 more, in the region of New Haven and l?ranford; an.' n the icth of September I rode 28 miles on Staten Island. On the 27th ui Octo- ber I made a round trip of 31 miles, from Philadelphia to a point beyond Wivne. Mv next trial of a "new road" was made November 13, when I went from Newark along Springfield avenue to Short Hills, Madison, and Morristown and back, 44 miles. My final tour of the year began November 21, when I rode from Harlem Hridge' to Bridgeport, 55^ miles. The next forenoon I rode to New Haven, 19 miles. The third dav I proceeded through Cheshire to Hartford, 43 m-'cs: and the fourth, I finished at West Springfield, 31 miles. At 6 o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, November 29, exactly three and a half years from the dav when I hrst mounted mv wheel, I was warned that a new snow-storm had just begui,, and that if . intended to work off the last 23 miles needed to com- plctc the record of 6,000, I had bes: make a prompt beginning. I finished my task in Springfield, at half-past ten o'clock, and then sought breakfast with an appetite well-sharpened by a four hours' struggle through the blind- ing snow. The aii was cold enough to freeze my moustache into a solid lump, and iieucc gdvc UK ji'iwVv' nO ._ i.vr.cc il; j;:-" •-:---:::; ;:—•.•■ FOUR SEASOXS OX A FORrV-SIX. 3, the tight clutch kept hy me on the handles, my wheel, though it had two or three dangerous slips, never fell. My new track, in i8«2, was 8.^0 miles long, and my old track, ridden in a .u w direction, was 180 miles, leaving 828 miles of repetitions. Combining wth these the similar estimates already given for the three i)revious seasons the following result appears: (Jf the 6,000 miles through which 1 have pushed my 46-inch Columbia bicycle, " No. 234," 2,600 miles were on roads th.it my wheel had never before traversed, and 620 miles were on roads that It had never before traversed in the same direction. In other words I have h.ul ;„220 miles of practically "new" riding, as against 2,780 miles on paths previously gone over. I believe t. ,re are quite a number of Americans who h, ve wheeled themselves 6,000 miles or more (though I have yet to be told of one ..ho ha.« done that distanc e on a single machine) ; but to the best of my knowledge I am the only man who has practiced bicycling on 2,600 distinct miks of American roads. The period described has comprised 1,280 days aiul, as I have mounted the wheel on 22S of these, my " average ride " has i)c.n a trifle less than 26} miles. The average has constantly increased h.nvever, as is shown by comparing the figures of che four seasons in succes- >io:K i6|, .6J, 29,1, ^^\. The "days" and "miles" mav be grouped to- ucher as follows: ,879, 47 and 742; .880. 58 and i,474i; 1S81, 67 and 1,^56; 18S2, 56 and 1,827 J. I have driven my wheel in the fifteen following States: Maine New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut, Xew York New Jersey Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky.' Oh o. and ll.nois ; and I have accompanied it on railroad trains in all but the nr.t-.umed .State, and also in Delaware and Indiana. The miles we have traveled together by trains are indicated by the numerals in the following chrono ogical list of our trips : West lirimfield to Worcester, 3 Newtoto orctntieldto Holvoke, 28 ; Bartow to HTrior., c \' r^ I, ■ ■ ' ' "' »"»'iow to iiariem, 6; Newnort to Taiinf<->n -»■ nd back 7, Springfield to Hartford, 26; Meriden to New Haven 18 ■ River- caa .0 V aphank, 15; Oneida to Canandaigua, too; Canandaigua Ni^g W i^ : 'In^V^'^",: '""'■^' '° ^^^^^^^rn.0., 245; Great ^l lU psie i;. ,."' Ir "" '^'^'^•^■"«*"" '-" ''-k. 456; Tarrvtown to K wi V tT "' t^ oughkeepsie to New York, 73; Fall River to Boston, 49; fied r/. r^H ; ' 't" '° ''°^^°"' '^= ""^'^'^'^ ^"- ^« North Hatfield u, Rernardston to Hartford, 67; Havden's to Springfield 17- snmhs Ferry to North Hatfield, ix ; Bellows Falls to Rutland's.^ F 1 ing Hunters Point. 7; New York to Baltimore. 1S6; Baltimore to FredeHek «i; Cumberland to Harper's Ferry, 97; Washington to New York 4 ' Newark to New York. 7 ; ..ew York to Washington and Ch cago i ;:, •' ■cago to Cincinnati. 310 ; Wil.iams^own to Sadifville. 19 .-Upton to Se "'■'-'■^3^ --ncnir^ tu Acw Haven, 15; Albany 3a TKX THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. W to Utica, 95 ; Oneida to Syracuse, 21; ; Waverly to Towanda, iS ; McshopiKii to I'ittston, 3S ; \Vilkc->>ljarre to Newark, 172; Newark to I'hiladeljjhia ami back, 162. In addition to the above indicated 4,414 miles by rail, I have accompanied rr.y wheel 1,044 mdes on steamboats, as follows: New \'ork to I'leasaiit Vallev, 6; New York to New Iltven, 75; Harlem to Kulton ferry (twicti, 15; New York to Newport, iC>o, New York to New London, 120; New Lon- don to Greenport, 15; iJatterj to Yanderbilt's Landing, 10; New ^■ork tu Fall River, 175; Hulett's Landing to Baldwin's and thence to CaKlwell (Lakt. (ieorge), 40; Hudson to New York, 115; New York to Flushing, 15; New York to I'oughkeepsie, 75; Fulton ferry to Harlem, 8; Maysville • Cincin- nati, 60; New Haven to New York, 75; Battery »o Tompkinsvill'", 10; New Brighton to Battery, 10; Harlem to Astoria and back, 6; iloDoken to Brook- lyn, 3; Tatrytown to Nyack, 3; Fort Lee to Ma; tanviUe (thiec times), 5; Hunter's i'oint to Seventh street (twice), 5; Hoboken ferry, six times; Wee- hawken ferry, ••ix times ; IVvonia ferry, twice ; Communi|)aw ferry, twice ; Jersey City ferry, twice ; Wall street ferry, eighteen times; Fulton ferry, once; Grand street ferry, once. These thirty-eight ferry passages probably amounted to as many miles altogether. Canal-boat ri">' wheel's c- record to have travele ^Xmi.es aL T t^'" '^ '''''''' '^ ''' P^^" "'- it has .. seen a good deal tore o AmTrl 'til": '"\^' ?• "^^"'"^^ ^'"-ng. My manuscript log, concerning Ytst , , 7 ^^'" ''''>''^'" =^- '5-^ -;vith an av'erage^ont::::':? .^ t^^I elV^t^n^^' ^^^'"^'^^ pare ., ^refrom, for the March ItV,-./.. ' ' ' '^"''^ 'o pre- the cost of rep iring t . m I mat'a "'•:°"^''^"°""' "^^ ''^ "-^^aps. ani of ;.. .0 show t^t ."/ste::astl;:s.:t:^'^;^r;:;;:;--'^-^''-^ -"^■ f-- ""-• to propel one which is half a foot hig e K ot iV ^ ' 't '"'''''' --nnental consideration that " I was bornin '46 '' ' " '*" '"^ ''^ ^'.ai. te:;:^ ita:^:h:^i:n^:^^ ''-'''-" -^ ^-^^^ p--- ^rtide 4 at lioston. r, ,t CUcar . T '"" '"■""' P'"^" •• '^ at Xowport, - ^Vashingtor. hre' ru'n.V I '.rp'''';f ''''•^' '' ""'''' '" '^'"" "'"- - 'ira.tiebcro; 80 miles with wo ^""Shkeepste, i. at Brooklyn, and 6 at .6 from Bo ton. T rom Irhke """ T """'^'"^ -^ ^° ^^^ ''-'"^0,,. '"' '""3" "■' """* """* "'" "«" "-""I "y any „,i,c;';c„,„pa,;;» 34 ti:n THOUSAM) Mll.E.^ o\ A IUCVlLE. th.n th.it of myself. All the rest of my 6.000 miles a vheel-back l.as btxn traveled alone ! 'I'lie suri.rising part ol this last-named circumstance, to me. 1- that people should l)c so generally surprised at it. Men cannot, in the nature of things, readily adapt their business a.fairs in such way as to ntake their holidays and vacations coincide with those of other n»en ; and a peculiar charm of the bic\ rle is its capacity for economizing ever;' shred and atom of a man's leisurc.- for increasing his independence in res),ect to relaxation. ( )nly in excei)tioi,ai case, can extensive touring be successfully indulged in otherwise than as a solitary -musement. What reasonrd)le ch.mce is there that, in a ride of say 400 miles, t.vo men can get along comfortably together, unless they are very intimate friends and of very' cquil wheeling capacitie; .' For :.iy own part, I have thus far failed to induce a single one of m> old-time comrades to take kindly to the wheel; an "» - .e...»l n„„e„,„„ ,,\„. „.J,^, "J '^ „„',;--"- » """""S ^l> Krcat a sum of money as $2u Half of fh,f '''•'"^ '"'' "» i'self, and the other half vent o he ""' """""' "^'^ P^i'> f- 'he machine -•"y newspaper writing-can ev'VT" '""" "''' ""^^ '^'^ i'cr minute for hi.s fun, or that rate ner roTf I '"'""''' *" '''''>' '^^'-^^ '^'^ »" '• ''n-ng down the average " "V " inT ." '■■\^''^^-^""S- "-'ce, in ord.r -■- less absurdly clisproit,rtionrte to l"in"' ''''r"'' "^ ^'^'-^ -^ht '" 'I'ive " Number 2,4 " -,nd no ! .k "'' ^ ^'^'^^ ^'^'^ '" ^'"^v bou.ul ^^••-". I find that thl • o Sn ervc::;,""", T' " ''^ '^"^' "^ "^ ^"-^ "^ ^fay, ,879. has been expand ell'- 7 "', '--P-^ation on the ^oth '^f "- average cost per ro d h. b InT J'- l''°°° ""^^ "' ''''''^^' ^h-- -^1-e this average shall os Jne .„ '^ ^ - '" "'" ^"' '•"''^" '" '-'^' two seasons more o unt ' h! " k" "' '"•'■"« '-^ "^^^' ^^^^-l ^^ at -.- mi;es. Perhaps ^thaimeTsh^T 7'^^' °* ">• '^'^ "^ "^ '" ■■^--e that notLg but i- ";:::;:: -^ -';;--- -v. ■/>«• TEX THOUSAXD MILKS ON A BICYCLE. -m^ the blandishments of " the newer and better " will have no other effect than to make me cry out defiantly, in ihe words of Puck's professional poet, — " Nay 1 I'll cling to thee, old bicycle, Till thy round red rubber tires Pound to rags, and till to toothpicks Split thy tremulous steel wires 1 " The chief object ot the present article, however, is to describe the manner in which the tirc^, spokes, and other coniiionent jnirtsof " Number 234," have, stood the pountling I have subjected them to in driving it 6,175 miles, during the four seasons past. My tours, as outlined in last month's U'/ur/maH, have extended Milo fifteen States and embraced 2,600 distinct miles of American roads ; and I assume that no other bicycle than mine has yet made anything like as extensive a trial of them ; but I ma\ as well confess at the outset that, though I am as regards ancestry a thoroughbred Yankee from Vankeevillc, I iiave somehow failed tn inherit the aptitude and ingenuity jjopularly ac- credited to the race in respect to things mechanical. To me such things are an abiding and ojipressive mystery; to me the comparisons of "points," aad tne discussions abovt minute details of manu- facture are apt to be wearisome, if not incomprehensible; to me a bicycle is a bicvcle, and I am so much pleased at contemplating the superiority of this sort of vehicle over other vehicles, that I have no disposition to examine into the possible superiority of one variety of it over another variety. Hence, in sjiitc of my great experience as a road-rider, my opinion as to the inechanica' merits of " Number 234 " cannot properly be considered that of an expert; cannot property be accepted as decisive, or even weighty. I certainly think that my wheel is a very good one, and I certainly think that the story I have to tell about the way it has stood the strain put uixm it is a story whic h ought to convince the most sceptical that "the bicycle is not an expensive and easilv-spoiled toy, but ra:hcr a cheap and durable carriage for general usage on the read." At the .same time, if I had chanced to i>urchase some other maive than a Coluiabi.a, I presume that I should have stuck to it just as persistentlv, and given it just as thor.nigh a trial ; and, for aught 1 know or sus- pect, the result might have been just as satisfactory, or even more 'satisfac- tory. In other words, mv facts are presented for what they are worth, m showing how the bicvcle in general rc-ists hard usage. They are not pre- sented to show that one particu'.ar make is better than all others, or that ,iiy own individu.al "Number 234" is the best of pil. I had ridden 234 miles, on twenty different days, during which my m.v chine had had a good manv tumbles, before I asked any one to adjust its bearings, or otherwise repair it. Happening, then, to be at the Popes' office, in Hoston, I indulged in 75 cents' worth of improvements, which included r'r.-'.ir'hte'vint^ the cranks, and cenienti'ifT the loosened end of the splice of the small tire. As spectators always kindly drew my attention to this "cut." hv COLUMBIA, NO. 234. n.c any real trouble. Thirty-three more ride" and 6,' ' " T'' "''"'''' brought me to the meet .t Newport w th nedl, " „. P '""'"" '""'^'^ °' "'^'"«' -a.tling as to excite the surprise and it ot t, .j' '""'"^" ^" ^" '""- -'^^ into conversation with. They <,uicklv ' ti^h, T *'" ""'"^ '''^''' ^ S^» 1-v .o adjust the various cone ad am 'tr. n.u''"'"'' ""'•"'^'^'" '"^ ...ver meddled with a single nut 0;^^ i^:^ ^ ':,::L;;;r^- ' ''' "loving back the saddle. At .Stratford nn ,h ' ' *"' ''''*''=1'' '" I H^iped a blacksmith pull inrLi; ^Te ^l^^rbe^nV T^^^' '""''"'''^ -. as I suspect, pulling the a.x.e I trifle It :' ' L ) 1 ^'^ "" •^'^'"^' 'n.n. the Newport „.,:ct, my handle-bar got a sever -.w ' 1°" '''""""^ -ns were able promptly to rectify Perhan^ ^^^^^^ '^v >,'. wh.ch my compan- ^-■^t that, on the occasion of the ext e ere 1 11 t" Wa' I "" ' "^■""'' "^ '^'^ '--. vvi.h ,,350 more miles on my record th 'id thanrfV "°""'-^ and a new bar had to be secured The n.'rl f ^ ' ^'"^^ '^'"^^<-^ "^ff- --ver. was the spring, ."l^h " cr^J^ ::^:::^e'";;:;ft ''-' '"'''' (uhen my record of miles was i .So inrl n,., 1 -■ "^ August, 1S80 t-Uhough the fracture d^l;. '/oMo e ^^d^l '''"'"'^-" I'on.eward in safetv. In fact thouLrhT """ '"■"''"' '">' ^^''^'^^""g .■^-r than "sua^ I proSirZuld'lrh::^!:;^^^^^"^? "'^^ ^I'n.ig at all had I not uncovered it ,n nr-n '^'^^"'^^ ^^'^ '-''ack m the ••-siKnsion saddle." I had bou h tW r,""' '° '"'''"'' '''' '''''^' ' -- >-WIewasabad fit. or in a.n "^v .m f ';^;--^"-^^ '">' «'J block-mounted "Hll>eard - much Jbout th J ,: ^ If.^ :' ^^ ^— ^ -i read ;-ng on the eve of departure on a : "^^^^'X ^'/l''^' ' "^-S"^ I'c.t," As the breaking of the .nrin , , ' ' ^ '"""' ^ave the "-V saddle, I tried it, oVthe t ime 'r'^n' '''' '"^""'"^^>- '"'^' "^ ^"e ''^•'-e riding ten miles that Tt w" f' ^'"" '"-' '°"^' ^"'' 'I'-^covercd Xevcuheles^I had to!- i:t 1"::,^', :ir^^'^';'^ ^'- "- o-^ one. '''''-'-S which I immediately ordered it :; a:"/:: ' '" '"^~' ''' attcnpts at change. As that original sad He n ^ '"'''' "" "'''^^ "-■ edges, however. I propose to be^i m^ fi , ^ "" '°'"';'"'^'>--^^"'-" -^ ^'^ •• long-distance " variety. ' "'''" '""'' '' "^'w- one of the .'4::;^a:::.:::;:rt;:;:,:ir;rrr '- "^^^^-'^ '° '-- ^^- '-^^n "-'l^ them for the fir t 000 me M "' "'"'"'>' ""^"' '^^""-^e of mv -1"--' % new one aT. 7 n;: r /"^''""^^ "'>'''''^"^''-"^' ' had then •^'-■'vs .stuck ti.ht to he ms ; H "''' "^'■^' ''^""^'^' "'-«!' thev had '-' - eived a deep i t ^^ '.n'"' i'rT';'""' '''"''' ''^^ ^-"' «- ■^ '""« journev, to take the cha^le o ' ''"' '"' "'^'^' =^^ ^'^^ -'-'' «f --vals, and a general tight J 'Vr"'"^^ """"l^'^'^- •^>-^^- ^or these ■ -'"le place, three n, u.l: \"'' ^^ '^'' ''^--'^S r paid $,,; .„, 1 ..t th„ " '"^''' ^'-"^ *'-«° for other s'mall repairs'! I may as well line place, three m,>„fU axle. 38 TE?7 THOC/^'AND MILES OxV A B /CYCLE. say here that I have driven my second set of tires 4,700 mile-, and that I think at least another 1,000 miles will be reciuired to really " pound them to rags." The splice in the big tire worked loose in this second set, just as the splice in the little one worked loose in the first, though not until I had driven it some 2,500 miles, or more than ten times as far as in the first case. After two or three unsatisfactory experiments with cement, I had the loose end of the splice sewed down w ith fine wire ; and this improvement lasted for 500 miles, or until the tip ot the splice broke off. Then, at Chicago, I had a part of the tire turned, so as to bring the good part of the splice outside. Three days later, with another 100 miles on my recoril, a wheelman in Kentucky drew at- tention to the looseness of another section of my tire, and kindly cemented it on for me. At the end of my Kentucky trip, when I had run 3,400 miles on this set of tires, I had them taken off and turned, so that my last 1,300 miles on them have been run with the original lim-sides outward. In saving this, I assume that when the tires were taken off, in Janu;'ry, 1881 (after 7S0 miles' service), in order to allow the rims to be nickeled, they were replaced as thev stood originally. It appears from this statement, which is an exhaustive one, down to the very smallest facts of the case, that in all my thousands of miles of touring I have never had any serious trouble with my tires. They have never dropped off, or even worked loose to such a degree as to interfere at all with my riding, and I have never, personally, doctored them with a bit of cement. The first serious break in my machine occurred on the 20th of January, 1881, when I was making my first trial of it in the snow, among the sleigh- riders on Sixth Avenue, above Centr il Park, — the record then being 2,221 miles. The air was not particularly cold or frosty, the riding was reasonably smooth, and I had not been subjected to any serious jolts; but somehow, as I was jogging along a perfectly level stretch of the roadway, at a tolerably brisk pace, the front wheel gave a sudden lurch forward, and I found myself stand- ing upright and still holding upright the front half of the machine, while the backbone and rear wheel lay prostrate in the snow. The upright part, which I think is called the neck, had l)roken off in the thread of the screw, just below the lock-nut. I paid a New York agency $5 to have it welded together again, and $20 more to have the whole machine newly nickeled in every part. Deep grief had oppressed nie from the very outset of its career, because, though the contract said " full nickeled," the rims were painted. Hence, when I next met my rej^lated " Number 234," and saw how bravely it glis- tened along the rims, my joy was great. But di-gust f|uicKly followed when I observed that, in the process of jiolishing the same, the spokes, at the points of juncture, had been cut nearly half through. My fear that after this weakening thev would snap at the first severe strain has not been justified I'V actual trial, for only two of them have ever broken. One spoke in the rear wheel broke at the time of a severe fall. May i, 18S2, at Hloomfield, when the ra.^.^rA .■♦.-..-.^I -, f 4 -»^ H .,,11.^..^ . .-..-..^ ..T-,^1.^ ic fV,o fv^^ttf ,,.l-,4^i.l KvA^l^^i 4^.1 '» . rv^/,ntVl ' ~'- * " " i ' ' ' J ~ * ;•• •- • " path, at Chicopec, Dec. 30, 1882, when the record had reached 6,140 miles. CpLUMBIA, NO. 234. i:..th these wires snapped at the points where thev had been cut in polishinR 1 may add here, that none of my spokes have ever got loose enough to rattle and that [ have never had any of them tightened except when visiting a ma- chine-shop for more important repairs. On a very few occasions I have screwed up some loosened lock-nuts, without affecting the spokes or nipples and once, when a nipple broke off without loosening the wire, I pegged it in I.lace to prevent rattling. The little bar, or rivet, which attaches the joint of the sprmg to the cylindrical plate sliding along the backbone, rattled out once in September, 18S0, when I was touring in Western >Jew York; but a postal card sent to the manufactory caused a n. .. rivet to reach me within three days am! a nail served as a satisfactory substitute during that interval. " -Vumber 234 " was disabled for the second time on the 8th of June 1881 when 2,993 miles had been traversed. As I dismounted for dinner It the' hotel in IJernardston, after riding twenty miles, whereof the last three or four had been made without stop, a lounger drew my ..ttention to an appearance uf'somethmg wrong" under the saddle; and I then discovered that the un- der side of the shell of the backbone had cracked open, at a distance of about SIX inches from the head, th,.ugh the solid metal beneath prevented a com- plete break. I did not venture another mount, however, but trundled the cripple to the adjoining railroad station, and, ne.xt day, to the manufactory in Hartford. Anew backbone was now put in, of somewhat different shape f.y.n the original, and the step was attached to it by two short screws, instead ... by the old de^•ice of a bolt and nut. The change did not commend itself .0 '">• approval however, for in touring along the tow-path of the Chesapeake and Oino Canal, four months later, the screws, after about 900 miles' se vice persisted in working loose, until I lost one of them. Then I carefully bound cloth around the step to prevent the other one from rattling out. H u it d d rop o,.t, and I felt desperate, for I could not mount agah, without cr v ) fasten he step on with, and I was "forty miles from any town." As J new the loss had happened within a quarter of a mile, however, I .cou ed c tow-path for that distance, until, at last, I was rewarded by th; glisten o 1 tr tiro 1 '"-^'^ sand,-though its recovery wo-L seem hard^v more bkely, on general principles, than that of the traditional needle in ^he ay-mow. My second set of step-screws have not yet shown any sgns o ■o-seness in traveling some 2,200 miles. The screw i the top of my ha, .lle- . broke off however, last Xovember, and I think th.t both it and the screw :;,:ch ::' °1^: ^^-^^^ ^^^ -^ ^-^ - - ^"^-*-- ^- ^^^ ongina. ones, conci one, and was ,n character a repetition of the first. On the 9th of June, . S-, as I was just about finishing a ride of 340 miles among the hills of Ken- cky,-being some two miles from Maysville, on the Ohio river, where I "itended to cross into the .State of that name, and io„rn.„ .u.J...u uV. -Hiier week, or until I reached Lake Erie,-I noticed Z unacc^un^ble ■4 40 TEN THOUSAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. stiffening of the mechanism, which " .."fused to obey the helm." Careful ex- amination finally showed me that the neck had been cracked throu-h just below the lock-nut, though the adjustment was so tight that the parts did not fall away from each other, as in the similar break of January 20, iSSi It will be remembered that the neck then had a record of 2,222 mile's; and l)c- tween that break and this second one the record was 2,650 miles. I am told that the manufacturers, being convinced that this screw-threading on the neck IS necessardy a source of weakness, long ago abandoned the production of necks of that pattern ; but, as they attempted the introduction of no new device m welding " 234's " together again, 1 suppose that, at some point between the 2,000th and 3,000th mile after this second mending, I mav rea- sonably expect that the neck will break a third time. I can only hope in such case, that my own neck may not get broken too ! At the same time with this second mending of the neck, new bearings were attached t- the fork, and It, together with the backbone, was newly nickeled. The lov . bearings of the front wheel were also renewed ; a new axle, new hubs, and new cranks were added thereto, and a new axle and new cones to the rear wheel ; a fillinR was mgeniously inserted to reduc. the size Z the socket in which the pivot of the neck had been playing for 4,872 miles ; and a special side-spring was attached to hold up the brake, as a substitute for the unsatisfactory rubber- bands previously employed. I may here add that considerable annoyance had been given me, at one time or another, by the jarring out of the brake-screws, and on the occasion of a certain tumble the loosened brake itself got knocked out ; but for the last 1,300 miles the brake-screws have kei)t perfectly tight I think that the first time one of my cranks worked loose was on the 5th of August, 1881 (record, 3,00c miles), as a result of letting the machine fall heavily, and then letting myself fall heavily upon it. A few blows of the hammer put the crank right again, and the trouble has never been renewed. That same date was, I believe, the last of three or four occasions on which I h*i-e caused the two wheels to "interfere"; and my remedy in such cases has l)cen to pull the backbone away from the fork by main strength, which strength some friendly spectator has helped me to apply. Less than 900 miles of riding >ufficed to wear loose the second set of bearings on my front wheel, and I learned, at the manufactory, that the "shoulders" of the concave cones' needed to be filed down in order to have them "take hold" again, in obedi- ence to the tightening of the cams. I know, too, from mv experience with the first set of bearings, that after there has l)een much filing, the cams them- selves will fai: to " take hold " unless little liraces of iron are inserted be- tween them and the cones. I paid a Yon':ers blacksmith half a dollar for a h;'lf-hour's work in making me a rude pair of such braces, in August, 1880, when my record was 1,450 miles. I believe my record was 5,580 miles before I broke my first cam-bolt, by screwing it up too tightly, though I twisted off the head of a second one within less than 400 miles afterwards. Thus the l)nir of extra bolts I had carried so long were utilized at last. .y COLUMBIA, \0. 234. ■■-^^^rt^^.:2Z^^-^^^^ ^^e fo.,oi„g History!! hul-S axles and cones of boththe ; ^™ ^^^''bone step, pedals, cranks, ^'i "cck-pivot, oil-cups. spring-bo t'ro; ^T. "' '"'' ""'^ "^^ ^'^'^^^ -P and brake, one long Ipoke a n'd TnTs Xt'^T^rt';?"^' ^^'^^^^^ "^ apa.rs was $43.65, to which should be added isTf ^, '' '°'' °^ '^"^ Kcc & Harrington suspension addL 'Ik °' "'"^^ "^''^ ''" ''oi-Tclon.eter,57; "^-dy I.:ngH:ht;,: a V' T^l^n^^'P ^°^^ ^^"^^ = >'-50; 01], 51.25; padlock and chain uairnf i ;""""""" ^"gg^ge-carriers, t|>- d.-ink,ng.cups, rubber n^o:';:;; X: r btr c^ h'^Vr"'^^-^'^"^'^' ^^heet and chamois skins, cost alto«ethe?s; 'c i '"'^ ^'"'^'' '^'='"^"'. of 521.50. ""Sethef $5.25, making a total for "extras " As regards the great subject of " clothes " th. U- , adn.irable instrument forgetting the itl\ '^'^>-^J^ seems tome a most 1'a.scd their first youth, and which e ^T'" °"' °' ^"""^'^ ^'^'^h have ;.aHci.ntlymothiten;:u„:^ :^;:rSL^;'--'^ '' ''^' -^'^ "-^> It IS a sort of wheel which trHnrl ■ T ^ "^ ^"^^^ *° ^^e poor." trousers of the winter barroom and he'l^r^' "''^' ^'^ '^'^'^ ^'-k- ria..a,-conceaHng with equareha Uv he" h" "'"'^ °' ''^ ^^'"'"^ ^"'^^ tl-' ice-cream smears of the other I fit "-^'"^P^Sn^ stains of the one and munerous suits of "old clothes "which h T' '^''' ^" •''^'''''°" '° the I l>-e expended for distinc h-el^ ^ 1, V." '' '° "«^ '" ^'^^ ^^'^'"^. -llows: riding costume (gree \e "et;" '^'""^"^^ '''' -- ^^ ^66, . ''-eches and silk stockings .%;,03e.r 'h" ^^' '"' "^'' ^'^^'"^<^^- Firsof white flannel knelb cell's "rj:"^". '":'"' ^■'-^■^. ^^--5o ; two , The cost of transporting the maCme' >"" °' "^'"gg'--es, ^5.50. !>alf-dozen different occasion's, has bee'l Ts %?'! '''' ''^ -''-— ^ mc-n, wuh whom I and my wheel have ridd n , - J •, "' '''''' ^° '^^gg^g- '";!: '-^"'^ """°'- taxes, have amounted to lo f' ' '°^''^'^ ^^''^^ ^ ^^^v ;;;";■ ^°"'"S ^ave reached a .i.nilar s I'^'and 7^ '^'"f" °" ^^^^^S^ had machmes, and as much more for .ntra'nce ll . ^''"' ^^ '°^ ^'^"^ "^ 1 he sum total of all these figures is «i8, c K u '° ''''' ^"^ the like. of ".V four seasons- sport, in'addit ion to the ^^^ 77"'"^ '^^ '^'^^^^ -- .^;""'^^'- :34." I explained in the previous c'han" ^ ''''' """""^ "'^ "'"' '^y ^vheel -4 n,i,e3 on land r o^x'n '^'"' ^"'^ ^ ^^'^ '^^^^ carried ;-- I have . .,ed on account t\vt:?: ""T'' ^"'^ ^"^^^ ^'^ ^'-- ""les mostly on land. If three cents i T ""''^ '' =''""""t to 2,000 Pnce paid per mile for the tran pen ion T''"^ ■'" ^^^ P^'^'-^hle aver.^ '--' of 7,535 miles, the sum ofTet oL T"' ^'"°"«^ ^'^'^ ^"tire dfs- '-•^"ging in 6,175 miles of bicvcltg T '"" "/'" ''''''''' ^^P^-^ "^ ";■.- advance of the true one, l^S' as h "7'/' "'""-g-^ " "-v be n ,it- "'''le traveling must needs have been son ." "' "'' ''''"''' subsistence -■'^' have been had I staved .? !1!™ ^"'^^ '" '^^vance of what its cost . . '""" '■ si'iveu at home, th^ o..„. _ ... """■ "" cos •"iuirect expenses " certainlv cuinof "li. ''''^''""^ '*^ ^ probable esti ' '"""' ''" g'-^'-'ter than the true one 42 TEN THOUSAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. A combination of all these figures shows $641 expended during four years in traveling 13,710 miles. Of this exhibit I will simply say that I only wish I could always be sure of getting as much fun for my money ; for no economist, in counting up the cost of his pleasuring, was ever better satisfied with the result than I am ncnv,— unlesa, perhaps, I except the A.kansaw Traveler. i\Vhen I began my fifth season of wheeling, on the 17th of April, 1883, by starting on a three days' tour from Hartford to New York, I little anticipated that the old wheel, whose history during 6,000 miles of touring had been d<- tailcd by me in the March iVheebiuui, was destined to travel almost 4,000 miles within a twelvemonth. I had no possible idea that before the year was out I should drive it along more than 1,000 miles of "American" road- way protected by the IJritish flag (in Canada, New Krunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Cape ISreton and Bermuda); should push it across the borders of a dozen States of the Union (Maine, ^ assachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary- land, \Yest Virginia and Virginia); and should force its ragged tires to mark a continuous straightaway trail on the surface of the earth for 1,400 miles. Having done all these things, however, it seems proper that I should tell the story of how the venerable mechanism stood the strain thus put upon it and of what its condition was on the very last day of its life as an active roadster. That day was the 14th of April, 1884 ; for when I then, at half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, dismounted at the doorway of the establish- ment where " Number 234 " first came into being, I was given the assurance that mortal man should never mount it more, but that, on the other hand, it should itself be allowed to mount a pedestal, and repose there forever as a relic-the object of homage and reverence from all good wheelmen who may be privileged to gaze upon its historic outlines. Its total record of m.les when I unscrewed from its axle the Pope cyclometer wh.ch had counted most of them for me, was .0,082 ; but the peculiarity of the record consists not so much in the fact that the distance considerably exceeds that recorded bv anv other wheel in .America, as in the fact that the riding extended along S,'ooo separate miles of roadwav, situated in twenty-three different States and Provinces. Other Americans who have ridden .0,000 miles (and one who has ridden .5,000) have ep.ch made use of three or four different bicycles, and have failed to traverse as much as 500 separate miles of road. The round trip of 60 miles which I made on the i6th of Augu.t, gon,, from West Springfield to Hartford on the west side of the river and returnmg on the east side, was chieflv for the sake of having the cones of front a.xle filed and refitted, after .,.32 miles of usage since April, and a new brake lTherem.->inder of this chapter was printed \^^ Tlu Springfield iVHuunen. Gazetu, Ap..„ .S84, pp. 2, 3, 4, with the title ; " The Last Days of ' No. 234'-" COLUMBIA, \0. 234. 43 added, as the original spoon was pret'y well worn out. O.i the return trip, 111 the dusk of evening, the spreadin- roots of a tree on a certain sidewalk produced a severe fall, which caused the wheels to cverlap one another, until imll, J apart by main strength. As a sequel to this pulling process 'there appeared next day a very slight crack on the upper side of the backbone, six or seven inches from the head. A ride of five miles on a smooth road' did n. t perceptibly increase the crack, however, and I began to hope that no serious break was betokened, until my f.rst sudden stoppage in a sand-rut proveil the hope to be a vain one. After that, the crack broadened and the nrriapping increased at every dismount, until at last the rear wheel entirely iL used to trail behind its leader. Nothing was left for me, therefore, but to -,,.d the machine back to Hartford for a new backbone; and I improved the ucea.-ion to order a new steering-head with it, for the old head (of a pattern no longer used) had been jarred very nearly to the breaking point— j"flging liy the number of miles that had been recjuired to c .use fracture on the'two previous occasions. The first break in the backbone itself hajjpened on the under side thereof, two years before, when I had ridden 2,993 miles ; and, after its repair, I rode 4,392 miles before the appearance of this second breakj on the upper side. The record of the new backbone, when I took my final ride with it, was 2,697 miles. As the insertion of the new head required the !ork to be heated, a new coat of nickel was then applied to the same. The new head also requiretl that the spring, whose end was attached to a clij), sliding on the backbone, should be replaced by one of modern design. A village blacksmith in Canada supplied my next demand for repairs, on •he 15th of October, by welding together the handle-bar, which snapped off -.piare at the right side of the fork, as a result of my letting the wheel plunge down a grassy slope and strike the handle upon a stone. Four days later, another blacksmith fitted some iron plates or washers behind the bearing'- boxL>, for the shoulders of these had been filed down so far, to offset the wear of the upper bearings, that the cams would no longer hold. Further fiiini^s, in the course of the next week's journey, almost obliterated the " coned " character of the boxes and reduced them nearly to the condition of Hat |)ieces of metal ; so that at Cazenovia, 1,488 miles from the time of the repairs at Hartford, I was forced to make my first experiment with rawhide as a material for bearings. This substance becomes pliable after several hours' soaking in water, and strips of it can then be fitted between the upper side of the axle and the ends of the fork, to compensate for the wear of the coned surfaces. When dry, the rawhide is about as durable and unyielding as steel; liiit, as I took a ride of eight miles within a few hours after api)lying it to the .i\ie, and continued my journey early the next morning, the strips gradually worked out of their places and protruded from the sides, where they attracted enough moisture, in an all-day's ride through the rain, to still further impair th A f * strip -"■--'■■-' -'3 i!::iCo UoUgc, incrciorc, I rcpiaccci Ihcin wiiii new and, though I waited only twelve hours for these to harden, they kept f 44 7'AV/ THOL'SAM) .'fJLKS (hV A BICYCLE. ' \ ■:■ ■ in position and rendered gooi service without further attention for the re maining 994 miles of my record. I doubt if 1 should have been able to finish this without new cones on the C.)rk, unless, I had resorted to the rawhide. Such resort, however, I do not venture to recommend except for hearings which are very badly worn ; and I should say that at least twenty-four hours ought to be allowed for hardening, after the damp strips have been applied to the a.\le. I may add that rawhide is an article not readily procurable, for I learned that in the whole of Syracuse, which is a city of 60,000 people, there was only one place (a trunk maker's) where it could be obtained. The tow-path of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, a few miles from Ilonesdale, was the scene of the worst mishap that ever befell "Number 234," and its escape from complete destruction then .»ill always seem to me like a miracle. A pair of mules, standing on the outer side of the path, appeared to have their attention so entirely absorbed by the feed-basket> wherein their noses were plunged, that I presumed they would not notice mv approach from behind, and I accordingly ventured to ride across the tug-rope connecting them with the boat. Xo sooner had I done this than some evil impulse led the brutes to pause in their repast and take a contemplative gaze at the surrounding scenery. I dismounted at the moment when I saw them turn their heads ; but, in the self-same instant of time, they gave a tremen- dous jump forvvartl ; the rope parted under the sutlden strain, the flying end thereof, glancing from my back, whipped itself into a knot around the right handle of my bicycle, and, quicker than I could say "Jack Robinson," the beloved form of "Number 2^4" was receding into the distance, as fast as \ pair of runaway mules could bang it along the stones of the tow-path. They were excited enough to have willingly helped it " beat the record " by dragging it " without stop for a hundred miles," or until they reached the Hudson River; but a lock-house chanced to intervene at the distance of an eighth of a mile, and the keeper thereof rushed out and brought their mad race to an end. Just about as he seized hold of them, the front wheel came against the planking of a bridge with a tiemendous thump; but I was so far in the rear that I could not see whether this helped to cause the stoppage; and I was so excited and distressed, when I rushed up to view the mangled remains of the wreck, that I cannot remember whether the jar of the collision sufficed to release the knotted rope from the handle. I only recall that the machine was lying quietly there on the l)ridge, and that the lock-tender, a few- rods beyond, was driving away the morning mist by the warmth of his curs- ings at the mules. " I am older than some sorrows,"— for no traveler on Life's highway ever gets past its half-way stone, which marks the beginning of the down-grade leading towards the place called Seventy, without having experiences that cause him to grieve ;— but T cannot recollect another moment of my existence when I felt so thoroughly, inte.isely, desperately "sick," as that moment on the tow-path, out m tlie wilds 01 Pennsylvania, Nuiiii^ei 234 COLUSfBlA, NO. 234. 45 whl.ked out of my hands, like an object in the "transformation scene" of a P.uu.,m.me W.th >ts destruction, which seemed inevitable, many of my chcr.shed hopes and plans would fall i„ a common ruin. should never a,un he hkely to have a continuous trail extending for 900 miles be ^^0 uul. suuultaneous y. a fa.rly good road of 500 miles stretching straighta^: l..orcn>c. I could never again reasonably expect to " b, .t the record'^of o;n.d-bearmg machmes. or to win the right of putting together a book called en Thousand M.lcs on a Bicycle"! The thought of mv own reck oily, m bnng.ng about the disaster, filled my soul with bitterness . hurned dolefully along after the runawavs. Other greater ifflicfo, s r h cuiured cheerfully as inexoral -. decrees of Fate, forll^h I^ r^e ,, ,- -.:blc ; but here was a calamity which I had definitely and deservedly brTht upon myself. So absorbing w-as „,y exasperation' on this score th The ought of rny own personal peril in the case did not occur to me till la er n -he d..y. The dnver of the boat appreciated it, however, and -is pi a sire 1 ^ccmg me escape w.th my life was great enough ,0 prevent his ge ti rawv w.th me for the trouble which mv n.ishap caused him. Had not hisTow h e l).cn an old and weak one. which gave way at the first jerk, I myself shoull -xssanly have been pitched into the canal, and if L bicvcle had ," „ thn.wn ,n on top of me. or if I had come into contact with the boa wl , e ndcr water. I should probably have been killed. On the other hand if h ^nng end of the severed rope had chanced to bind mv lit L^ :^ t J::l:lS.ts-^;r^:;^I ------- 7-^^^ A"ci now I come to the .iracle^;; tl: caS. fit i::;^ r:f the machme was rea ly broken! Though bent and cracked and scr trie ad I-adly demorabzed m its several parts, my beloved bicycle had su v , cucal test.-had maintained its integrity as a wh„!e,-and was still ' I ' The handle-bar was doubK d back. and. when T bent it into its place ' it -kcd where the spbce had recently been made, and soon broke off n tirel I there ore steered with a wagon-spoke for the next ei^ht mile ^ i V reached a blacksmith shop where I could get the bar rewe dec! The nk ■K pcdal-pm on the right side were considerably bent, and the axle vas I flcLted from a true line, while the rim was bent and crirk.rl T.l a , loosened anc made useless. One of thc.n broke off a few days later n.l gave .t for a keepsake to a rider in Carlisle. The iron plate ote lons-distance saddle-with which T began the season r ' 's! I I the saddle ;"~,'"«^'^f-^^'-'-'^'>-^vas also twisted off. but the carrier like ThV '' "'^^'^^ '^^'^^■'^ '<^P' '■" service until the very last day of the record " "'"""^■"J'l- "icmcnt of the runaway. <6 TEN TUOUSAXD MILKS OX A DICVCI.E. \t I'nrt Jervis nn the d.iv f-.llovvint;. I met the new handle-bar. which I ordered at the time of the first breakage ii. Canada, and it stood by mc t.. ilu- end without further accident. The old bar I gave to a local wheelman «l,n befriended me, and who said he would religiously preserve it as a relic .,f "the first American tour of a t>>ousand miles straiyhtaway,"-for I comi-kud that distance at four o'clock in the aftcrno... of the day when the nld l.,r (whose entire record was 0,79^ milos) served for the last time as my tiller. The town of Staunton, in Virginia, where my monumental rule was cuni- nlctcd on the 2jd of November, marks the end of the macadamized roadwav whiih'stretches through the Shenandoah Valley, and is continuously ridable from (irccncastle, the border town of Pennsylvania, a distance of 150 miles. As a muddv clav of indescribable tcnaciiy was i^rohibitory of progress be , .id Staunton, I ab.n.loiu-d all idea ..f pushing .n to the Natural I'.ndgc, and de- cided to wheel back down the valley, and so home to New \ ork. But the bulge in the rim, resulting from the accident with the mules, was sufficicntlv pronounced to give me a definite jolt at each revolution of the wheel durn,, the 4G5 miles subsecpicntlv traversed in reaching the goal ; and I thought that, before beginning the return journey, I might perhaps remedy the inatter .. little by " lightening up the spokes." It was my first experience of the sort and it proved .piite cffectual,-though not in the manner intended. When had completed the tightening process, I found the rim was so badly twisted thrt it would not revolve in the fork at all; and my later efforts to -un- buckle " it were quite in vain, though I snapped another spoke in mak.rg "Number .^34 " was thus at last entirely disablcd,-h.avmg survived the a- tack of the mules onlv to fall a victim to my own mechanical awkwardness. \ man fr.im a carriage shop, who was recommended to me as the most skilful mechanic in town, said he would not even undertake the task of straighten ng the wheel for less than fivt dollars, and that he would not agree to finish the task for any possible sum. I knew indeed that no one outside of Hartford would have the patience to really put it to rights again, and I am told that the expert machinist who there did in fact take it in charge had a sad and solemn time in bringing it once more into riduble shape. I drove it from Hartford to New Vork in the early part of December, and, at the close of the month, rode a hundred miles, on the snow and ice, in the region around .Springfield, without having a fall. I expected then to do no more touring with it, but to rur off the few remaining miles needed for a " record" in short spins of ai, hour or two at a time; yet when next I set eyes on the wheel, on the C.h of March, it was in the hold of a steamer starting on a 70omile voyage tor Bermuda. Before I had been there twenty-four hours, the sudden turnin.i; ■ i a team in front of me forced me to make a quick liackward dismount ami then fall forward with mv full weight on the fallen machine. The result ot this was such a severe bend or crack in the right end of the .1 le that a com- npp.o.ti,,- bend had to be made in the crank before the wheel would revolve. COLUMIUA, \o. .7, 47 . 'n ,he following, lay the little tire wu.kc.l loose, for the hrst tine in its his- ....V and. for the first t.me in ,nv experience. I made use of cement in e-s - '? ,H "" K ;'r'' "' '"^' '"' ""•-■^ ''^■^"^^' ^'-■-'-« 'he cedent, h oweve nul as he fre had l,een l.tcraily w..n, to shreds, and as n,v suppl of s.r nJ u.. rather l.nme.l. the tafered india-rubber would occasion. ivLuLeH n.nn the rnn far enough to strike the fork, and thus call „,y at.entir 't . ^...1 c.nd,t,on. T,. „,, „,^,, ,i^^, ^,^„^ .^,^ indentation, at the'point where t . .vo ends had be .-n worn away, caused a definite jar at each r volution o •vh el .lur.nfi .ts last r«o miles. The tires were both applied in August Uso and made a tota record of 8.r«o n.iles. The splice in' the little one nc^^; U.nc any s.gns of com.ng apart; whereas the ends of the bi, tire had to be n,.,vt,mcs ,ewed together and glued down, until ,ni.e a dc , inc:;!., io "a. mad ( ement was applied on several occasions when general re, airs -re n, pr, g.ess; but. with the one exception noted, neither of the tires eve g.ue me any trouble by working loose on the road, or forced n.e to person dh apply he cen,ent. The little one was finally worn down nearlv to the rim ' ..e coned pedals which I pushed for the first .,480 n.iles. in .S^o-So were b,ongh, nno service again for my straightaway tour of ,.4. n,ile; and c s, .sc-cjuent r.de f.,m Hartford to New Vork ; after whih I prel^nt them to Mr. ( anar> .e professional trick-rider, as a " long-dis,-' ce " me mcnto he exactly snnilar pedals which I used on " the la." dav." and ^^ e.t attached to the machine, therefore have a record of 7.06. mi ave been told by an authority on such .natters that one of the most notabl th.ngs ,n the h,storv of " .Vumber 334" is the fact that such great distance we,e traversed wthout any breakage of pedal-pins; and. considering 1^ r ma kablc. O.d age d,d not seem to impair the accuracy of mv Pope cvclom- c tcr. for. .n r,dmg to Coney Island, on the .4th of March, when I c ossed Z l.r..o.lvn HrKlge fo.- the first time. I tested it at each of the ten half-mile stones on ,he Houlevard. and founcle of the earlier pattern., will at al' events aualifv n,-^ t.--. -.-::.= ...-: .... .u. 4S TEX THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. " improvcmci " that have come into vogue during rfoent years, and to In. tclligcntly coini)arc the new with the old, — in regard to durability as will as in regard to personal comfort. I trust, too, that the new Forty-Six may have the power of the old one for inspiring my friend, the Small Hoy. to enliven its pathway with outbursts of wit and humor. Mad I elected to ride a 5::-inchcr, I never more '•ouid hope to hear myself designated as " the big •■ ii on the lit- tle bicycle." vJn the morning of my very last day 'vith " Number 2; ' — when I heard tnc children cry : "Oh, see the li'tlc bicycle! It's a new one ! All silver!" — I felt amply repaid for my years of industrious jiolisliing on the nickel plate. iJut the most amusing comment was reservcil for the afternoon. Within a half-mile of the place where I made my final dism. unt, the ha])|iv captor of " the first snake of spring" ceased for an instant to null the lokI which was dragging the wriggling reptile along the walk ; and then he shoutetl after me : " There goes a greenhorn !" And that was the very last w. .ra. Addendi'm, April 14, 18S5. — Pilgrims to the metropolis, who may crave the privileRe of humbly laying their wreaths of laurel and holm-oak upon the venerateH ^ ad of the subject of this chapter, will find " Number ij4 " st.uiding in stale, in the show-window of the I'ope M.mufacturing Company's city office and salesroom, at No. 12 Warren st. This is a few rmls west of Broadway, opixisite the little park which c mtains the City Hall ai.i the Court House; and the central position of the park may be still further impressed ujion the stranger's mind by the fact that the state'y Post Office Rui'ding forms its souti.ern boundary-, while the entrance ,0 the great Brooklyn Bridge is upon its eastern side. At the doorway of the salesroom, surmount- ing a heap of inunortelles (to which are attached the visiting-cards of America's greatest warriors, statesmen and p.<,-ts), the explorer vill observe a i)lacard, braring the following legend : " ' CoLU'.MBiA, No. 234.' This machine, which was mounted for the first time ty K.irl Kron, on the 29th of May, 1879, has been drivt-u by him a distance of io,oS2 miles, as measur. d by Pope cyclometer, his final ride hiving been taken on the 14th of .April, 1884. In makini; this record, upwards oi' 5,000 distir.ct miles of American roadway have been traversed, iucludiiin 1,100 miles i.i the British Possessions. Kxact descriptions of the"; roads will be published in ' Ten Thjusand Miles on a Bicycle.' The record of miles for each of the five years was as fol- lows • 1879, first year, 742 miles; 1880, second year, 1,474 miles: 1S81, third , 1,956 miles; i»82, fourth voir, 2,002 miles; 1S83, fifth year, 3,534 miles. Dunne the fiu.d twel'.e months ending with the 14th of .■April, 18S4, the record was 3,840 miles. On the nth of October, iS' 3, when the machine had a total record of 8,228 miles, it made a day's record of 100 miles strai.;ht.'i- w.TV through Canada, and on the day after its 10,000 miles' record w.-'s completed, it was ric'dcn from Stamford to Cheshire, Conn. (55 miles of hilly and sandy roads), within a period of twelve hours. The present tires were applied to the rims in August, 1S80, and have traversed 8,6oS miles in 23 different .States and Provinces, without once coming loose while on the road. Between the 8th of October and the 22d of November, 18.83 (embracing 36 days of actual ridin-, during the first 14 i which 635 miles were traversed in Canada, ending at Ogdensburg), this bicycle was driven from Detroit, Mich, to Staunton, Va., making a continuous straightaway trail of 1,400 m'.les, equivalent to one-eighteenth of the entire circumference of the globe. This IS by far the longest continuous trail yet reported of a bicycle in any part of the world, and the tires which made it had traversed 6,600 mi'es before beginning the journey." At the very time when the above statement was put in t>'pe, however, the tires of r.notlicr Columbia bicycle were tracing upon the surface of this continent another straightaway trail, nearly three tines a? long, connecting the Pacific ocean with the Atlantic. Between April 22 and August 4, 1884. Thomas Stevens pushed his wheel every rod of the way from San Frarcisco ♦„ Pof.ton. eh.imatin^' the leneth of his route (for he carried no cyclometer) as 3,700 miles. VII. MY 234 RIDE3 ON "NO. 234. "I This magazine for February containerl -i ^h.^ 1 • . ■ravels durin, ■• Four Seasons onVFo^st ^^, Z M ."'"^' °' '">' nnnute description of th manner in wh ch ,'hi! n .' ' "^V""' ^"^' ' ^tood the strai,, thus put u„on it i, . ^^^'"'"l^'a No. 234" had H^^ ...«h fifteen different ' .Le t J ai :s'7 '"^ "' "''^"^'^ '' ''"^ ^ .he story, by nuking exhibition of ,ay v io /ri es 'anTT' '""'^" ''^ '"'^'^ classed together according to character a 7,^ ""''/"''"« ^''I'-'nences. so ivc. and also by offering 'uch c alL '!"'"' 7?""' -" "— " "f life as n.ay be deem. 1 he! ^I . ' ^ ""^' ^'^^'''i''' ^"'' habits i'v way of ntr'oductty^et S^^^ J "^"''" understanding of the record. ■"tic .riolet. sn.uched fro n u,d' , "k"'"" '" '"'"' '"" "^'^ "-''«' -■.>^-g of its componeTt pal"- ^""^'^ "'"^' " '^^'' "^'--"y -'^"^^ * Though my rides on " Two-Thirty- Four - .Are by no mean, monumental, Please again hear „,me more Ofmyrides. jiutt .-thirty-four- Please don', say, ■• What a bore : We care not a continental I r your rides on ' Two-Thirty-Four '- IlKy'ro by no means monumental :'- When 1 finished my who^lin.r f ,, ,ov, , ce,nl,cr 30,-with a record of ,r.„. ' f^^ "fVeV """"'"« "^ •'^"'"'•d^y- ^'^^ 6.'75 ■>.., for the four yerrs.-I f ''''' ,''°°' "'• ^"' "''^ vcar, and '"""^ited the wheel was "tw< tr.c- number ot days on which [ had noticed th. cc.ncidence until ' J , thirty-four," though I never On 40 of these days I rode betwoe:' o "'1 ' '"' '^^ ^'''"' ^-'c »"'i 50 m., on 14 r rode between <;o Jd rJ^' '° ""i" ■'" '^ ' '""^^ ''^'^-^■■' 40 latter .listance. - ..y longest day's ride t'"" '"' ''' '""" ' ^^^d-' 'he '-' '^f .ny fir>. season (74. m dltrtte^'"' '' "' '^ ' ""^'"''^ 'he rec which did n.y ridin, amount to'ls , h """"^ ^^ '''-^"' "'^ '^'"^ ^""^ ^^ -' ^-ing the thr;e ye^: S^r^w/^^!': ^^'" '^ ^^ ^^^ ^ - age nde of j„st 29 m. On q^ of h.Tl ^'^^^ ' °" '^^ days, or an a . n*ien 30 m. or more, as aboye'sp c "l ''' °^^'""^ '^^'^ ^^ ^". ^ ^o . ^-" '-ween 30 and Jom.; o, ^sTh 'y ' Hdl '^K "" "™""""" ' "^^ -' '^^ --ing ., days my rec^rJ h^^^^lT^irtSr^ '^"^'^ ^-' °" IK r..m 7V «---fer,/«^,,. ApriK .gs,. .,.,, ^f, including seyen TEN THOUSAXD MILES OX A BICYCLE. days oi which it w.s less than live miles ,— the shortest record of all being a mile and a quarter Mv first definite attempt a' a long ride was made on the 4th of May, i8bo hen w town in si X hours,— ending a to Tarry- half-hour after mid-day,— and 21 m. back agai the weather chanced to be extremely hot. 1 wheelc \\\ four hours and a half, ending at 7.3- to o c clock ; after which I tried the Boule- vard until 9, in order to bring my day's record up to 50! m. I did not better this until the 17th of September following, on the morning of which day, at 7 o'clock 1 mounted at a farm-house, lO m. west of Buffalo, and rode two hours and a quarter (15 m.), to Silver Creek, where I .topped an hoiir for breakfast- then 12 m. more (two hours) to Kredonia, where I st.^pped two hours for' dinner; at Westfield, 1 ^ m. further, 1 halted half an ho.ir, till 5 j'ciock • then rode another 15 m. in anothei two hours, to North hast., making from the start a trifie more than 57 m. in a tritle more than twelve hours, whereof four hours had beeu given to rests. As my baggage was at the Reed House, in Erie, about 16 m. further on, and as the road was said to -ntinue smooth and level, and the moon promised occasio lally to shine, Ae le conditions. 1 could ride 100 m. straightaway by davlight on that track, ,t 1 really e.xerted myself to do so. Though I had but four hours' sleep that „iRht, I felt sufficiently fresh next day to ride 45 '". further to Asntabula, be- ; ve T o ^,0 A. M. and 8 r. M , making 118 m. within 37 hours; and only once si .ce then have I made a better record for two days, and that only a mile better. On the previous day I had ridcen from Niagara (3S m.), so th.t .n three days I made a straight push of k6 m. through the territory of three different States. . , r »v, „i. The nearest approach since made to t.iis was my ride of 154 m. through Massachusetts, on the first three days of June, 1S81 after having ricklen 133m. on the last four days of May, and penetrated the borders o. Nov Hampshire and Maine. TMs was the first case of my .nount.ng the wheel tor seven successive davs, and the record of 287 m. (whereof .19 m. belonged to the final 37 hours) still remains my best for that period. My next continuous week ot dding was just a vear later, and amounted to 25. m whereof 75 "' wereranoff inChicr.go. o, ... ast three davs of May. and the remannng •,77 m. in a straight push among the hills of Kentucky, on the first four da), o. rune. Mv third ride of a week, as described in the January issue ot thi, ma.razine, -v^s made continuously on the soil of New York, from Syracuse to Wrverly,bcgi.aning September 28, and covering 2S0 m. though, as it begun andendeaat noon, there were parts of eight calendar days devoted to t, Next to these records must oe ranKeu my si\ ua>; ilLlS- Vl AfV 234 /?/D£S O.V ".Va 234." '•:>necticut valley, acres, to Luke George, and down the Hudson valley to udson,-Au,ust .3-37, .«8.; and my si. days' ride of .03 n,. " alon^tl e I ut.^.ac, October..-.;. ,88, There were no essentia! ^.petitions m de jne.therot tlie last-named tours; but the railroad had to ', resorte ■ to in l.>.h cases, so that the tracks were neither of them absolutelv con, .uou ..ncs. Indeed, the longest uninterrupted path I have traversed over was that connecting Syracuse with Waverly, for my wheel rolled over every foot of the .l.starce, and a 1 the repetuions indulged in could not have much exceeded a u -.nm.les Here, too, I maybe allcwed the parenthetical ren.ark that I s ould be glad to see the long-distance ch.b-riding of 1863 assume the phase ot ..va ry m respect to length of straightaway tracks covered, or at least m rcs.v.c to length of roun labout tracks, which admit of no second usa^e Let •'-• -nbmous b ng.distance club-n.eu cease their vain repetitions o^^r' shor crcuus and well-known stretches, and herceforth strive rather to show how .reat a s.retch of actu:U country they can push themselves across, in a sn.gle (icn:me direction, within the limits of a single calendar dav • I >.' third and last time in ,880, wh.n I rode as much as 50 m. in a dav w- on the .4th of Se.-mber, wher. I finished my tour of 495 m. bv wheeS ;^cross the hiUs of New Jersey, from Stanhope to Washington Squar t f 1 here were • en other days in that year on which I rode upwards of 40 m -1 nineteen days m kSS: whereof the same can be said. The ten of 1 1" e uh.h had a record of 50 m. or mere were as follows: March c on tl! asphalt of Washington, with the ri.;nt end of the handle-bar broken off 7 7 M. t,Mo P. M., 66i m. ; April 30, Orange. Newark, .uul New York, 9 A. (t to ^•^ Ware, and West Springtiebl, 535 v m \ '; / ^ m )"•''''''' '''"'''''■ West Springfield Oreen^^d, .rl^Lr: a^^^'^Jt;.^;^!:;- " -^T^ 7 4 m ; August .6, Fort Edward, Albany, and S^hodac 5.35 v. M t" ,- !' .S7i.n.; September 7, SayviUe. Hicksvillc, Flushing, and Xw'vori" ,:\n.; October .3, Frederick, Williamsport, and I ock Vo o on A i'eakeand Ohio Canal, 4. . ^ to . ^ ,. m . , ^^ ^''' ^^" x::tk:::d^;v^:^^^^^^ :;::.::-:t;:;h-^:S - .own NyacrK:;:,r d!'!: i:::erc^eii ::i ? .r :r : ;..;e . a .e.ne Ce.,etow .e.ng.n," and Harrodsb^ ^Kv.^;! 'I::; K ^ ., 6 im. ; June 7, LouisvHle and Frankfort, ro.30 a. m. to 9 p m .-."..November 4. Orange, Newark, and New York, 9 v. M. to 7 p " ^n.; November 7. New York to Tarrytown and back, 5 ; m. • No'emb r r' New ^ ork and Bridgeport, 7.40 a. m. to 7..0 p. m., 55: 'J ' •^'"^'""- "'' ridcM:;^!;:':!!:!"^^^ '"^^^'^°"'' !--"• ^^'-^ -vfortyninth days . . . ...^ ..-I , , J ..... tiial i urst ventured to try any coasting, 52 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. with my legs on the handle-bar, and I kept them outi.\L- my hands on such occasions for more than three months afterwards, or until August 9, f8So, when I first acquired the knack of properly placing them on the inside sec tion of the bar. Just four months from the day last named I thought I accomplished cjuite a feat in wheeling without stop from Washington Square to 96th St., through Fifth Avenue, the first three miles of which are paved with Belgian blocks. I have never since " rattled over the stones " for any- thing like as great a distance as that continuously, though I once went from the Square, down Broadway to Fulton Ferry, making, perhaps, a dozen dis- mounts in the two miles. I can thus claim the credit of pedaling through the whole length of .Maniiattan Island in the roadway. My first " long stay " in the saddle was at Orange, on May Day, 1880, when, except for one moment- ary and needless dismount for an imaginary obstacle, I kept agoing just an hour, and accomplished eight miles. On the 9th of August following I dit really notable "stay" in the saddle, however, was made a month later, Sep- tember 16, when, "mounting at the canal bridge in the o ..skirls of the village of Niagara, I went southward without stop for i6|m. in two hours and a half, having the wind against i.ie all the way, and being slightly sprinkled with rain during the third half-hour. Most of the road is of very hard clav, which was rather rough ; and, beyond Tonawanda, where the bridge almost caused a dismount, there is a long, but not very steep, hill, which is the only grade of imjjortance between Niagara and Buffalo. I met at Black Rock with rather rough stone pavements, turned an angle to the right and then to the left, crossed the canal bridge with difficulty, and w.'s then tempted to try the side- walk, wh'jse curb soon caused a disn ount. Had I stuck to the road for a few rods after crossing the bridge, and then turned .'lown the first s'.reet to the left, which led to the Lincoln Parkway, I might have kept on without stop for three and a half miles further, to the Buffalo City Hall, tv/enty miles from Niagara." My next "long stay" was made two months later, November 22, while trying the excellent roads in the region of Orange and Newark. The average temperature of that day was \c)°, which proved most favorable to riding; for when I made my first dismf^"--.t, to keeji an appointment for lunch with a friend, I found I was not at all tired, though I had been in the saddle two hours and twenty minutes, and covered just 20 m. I rode 25 m. more the same afternoon. I did not better this 20 m. record, or even approach it, for nearlv two years. Then, on the 2d of November, 1S.S2, over the same superb track. ^y 234 y?/£>£S OA- " A^O. 234. My first ride, without dismount, fro-n New York- t,. v . , -ulc May ,0, ,883, i„ an hour and forty mhtelvivs '"h'" ""^ "•' "^^ In the steep pitch of a few rod. at the foot o he iill whi hT " T """' (Jetty IIou,e and ascends for more than a mlL ^^^""' ''^'>'°"'' "^'^ and those few rods have lon^ ZZ l,T 1 " '''' ''""''""" °^' Tarrv.own, -de of northward-i,ou:c;^:de;r ;:':::;: r 'oZ "^ •■ ""'^''-^^ ^^^ l-r following, however. I managed for the f. ^' ^'"^ "^ ''^°^'^'"- n .blc band who can boast of hav ,t o e In thi", ■";^^' "-"'' "'"^ ^'^^ Tarrvtown track, and then I crawled mlhe 1" ? °^''''^'' °" ''^'^ '^^''y tho...h I was tremendously i !" ^T tulftl '^ ''-^'T' "''"" ^ '^^"^' down the other side. I had riddl , ^ u ''°'"' ^^''' ^ ^""''' ^'^ast s'o;.i>cdfor dinner at the hote it T 7" ""', '"""' '""""^■'"=^' -'-" I -.-ti,er than I ever k w ^to ,y.7^''^"V '^"'' - '^e track had proved -..in. rider. I .ecKiej;!:.!; ;tl- ^ -,^^- -^^ -o.d a '•..in-drops were drizzling down th ourthr^I l "'' •'^'^'=°'^P'-'>ed, and the ^-> >;-t stick to the saddle a wl^^ ntV : ur:/;.:;:^^ '« r ''''' ' "vc dtys b.fore, as already described It w r . ""' '''""'''''" '"'''^^ hnally dismounted at iccth st where 1 h./\ ,''' "' ^^''"'^'''^< when I cvclometer said that this ^. longest rail r, 7 r' '''' " ''■' ^'^ '^e "K>ugh I had kept the saddle iS • 'f '"^' ^'^' " '"'^''^^"'•"' ^9i m.. ■'■"-^clay, when'it gave ^if / f r^^""": ^T '''", "'^ ''^ "^^^■^°- >1';> "Tarrytown triumph." which I primed in 7^)7717" "^'^""' °' o.fcrcd some reasons for believimr th.f hi , '^ ^'>vember ,5. I -r V or r. m. Fifty.nin:h::jh': ? :: :^'r:;kr m^ "'^-^^^^ ^'^^ " .n.Ls trom where I finished, and my " straight" av"trak fr.mr""' "" "^ therefore 25 or 26 m lonrr r h/ i i u • ' '"^"^ '™'" Tarrytown was -■" who hive gone a Zila ^^I'^l^l^r^h;" T^ '' ^''^ -^-■ • ng their saddles. '^ ' ''''""'"'' "^^ country without •"V dualled report in ?>; 4 /a V ^'/^ ""'''' ' ""^ ''" ^^'"'""^"'^ "" it i^- of all my' bicycling c.p e c hT", 7.->-"''-Shtenment. I^ut as character of an exploit tlate7eSni,;r"",;^ '" •^"•'--'-'g the f^'lt enough pride in my success ^ t„ " " '"7" '° ^^'-'^"^P^-^'^ ^ have cia-lv as I hue no intauion f ' "'^''" " ^"" '•"^'ipt-n of it, e.pe- f'""^ 'he test, for I got tLX'LT '"' """'"-'"'^^ i-convcnience -- dav. and on L d' .id Tu.f^^^^^ ^-"^""^ "^ -"tine literary work --'ng. . ntean. simpl^ that r ^ ^.^^^I^ t.r^ t^^,,-- y^^^ .^ 54 Ti:\ TfforsA.yp miles ox a iucycle. the fun of it," rather than for the sake of "seeing what I can um," and that one acliievenient of this sort is (juite enou^!, for my ambition. There is so much more comfort in frequent dismounts, if for no other reason than to gratify thirst, that I lack all djsire for further "triumphs "of such nature that the pursuit of them brinj;, mto jjainful prominence before the mind the justice of the cele'^- ted remark of the (.Jovernor of Xorth Carolina to the (lovernor of South ^arolina. The severest test ever j;iven my physitjuc by 'DicyclinR, however, was not by that four hours' steady push, on tnc yt' of last November, but rather by an all-dav jaunt on the 7th of Sei)tcmbcr. iSSt,— a date memorable in atmospheric annals as "the hottest on record for seven years," all along the Atlantic slope. " In many jilaces the thermometer marked 100° in the shade lor several hours, and, as I rode in the sun, I n.ust have been exposed to a heat of no'-' to 125^' from 9 \. m. to 3 or 4 I >i. lietween 6.07 A. M., when I mounted at Sayvillc, and 7.05 w m., when I plunged my burning head into the public fountain at Flushing, the cyclometer recorded 50I ni., and two more miles were added between the ferry and Washington Sepiare. The ride was the only one of my experience in whi-h the motion through the atmos- phere hatl no cooling effect The air itself, as it struck against one's cheeks, seemed bla/.ing hot, as if literallv it had come from a furnace. I should be afraid to estimate the amount of water and other liquids which I absorbed that day. I drank at every possible drinking-place, and I dashed cold water on my tiery face as often as the chance was offered r,v.\ At Flushing, while waiting for the homeward train, I refreshed mvself with ice-cream, sod.i- water, melons, i)eachcs, and other such things, which the average idiot, who disbelieves in the wisdom of obeying Nature's demands, declares to be deadiv intlulgences for a man who is uncndurably hot." FV-rhaps I mv-elf seem a rather worse idiot than the average for venturing to get mv anati^my into such a heated condition; but it endured the test without anv excessive dis- comfort, and without any subsequent ill effects. I shouldn't deliberatelv have chosen so hot \ day for a spin through Long Island; but, as I was headed for home. I wanted to "get there," and, though the heat seemed extraordinarv, I didn't reali,^e until I read the next day's papers that it was "the greatest heat on record in seven vcars," and that T had, therefore, accompli-hed a somewhat dangerous and foolhardy feat in pu>hing 50 m. through the hottot of it. I have IV >t had many serious tumbles since the great original elbow- breaking act of Thurs. KHis of the approaching wheel, which the rest of the crowd were watchin" he >uddeniy jumped in front of it, with the result indicated. He assured me' !ho,..;h. as soon as he brushed away the tears of surprise with his du.tj sleeve, that he "wasn't at all hurt": and, as I could say the same for myself I jn.-ed on. I think this was the only time when my wheel ever came in collision with any living creature; though once, .it Newark, some wretched brutes persuaded a boy who was really an imbecile to stand in mv path in op!, r to bj knocked down. Hoys not bereft of their wits, of course, 01 ten do so -i.Mul, and then jump aside at the la.t practicable moment ; but in the case nicationecl I tortunately noticed tiie vacant look in the child's face and so turned out for him. On the sid-walk at Niagara, one evening, a quick dis- mount alone saved my touching a little girl, who suddenly sprang out of a i(lewalks thronued with pedestrians, without ever once coming to grief' 1 never yet used beil or whistle; as the human voice seems to me to be a a more effective, as well as a more civil, instrument for giving warning. On May Day. iS8o, a bad tumble and bent crank suitably rewarded mv v.un attempts to raise my hat gracefully to a noble brakeman, who shouted at .nc from a passing railroad train; nnd within an hour afterwards, when I e- cved to cross a few inches of water which seemed to have a hard bed beneath ,t, n>y wheel .erformed the great stand-still act, and rested firmlv ui-n us head, lea> me resting firmly upon my feet. A similarlv curious np-h.ll in the dark, and encountered a loose lump of the newlv-laid macadam : n.v machine keeled over and stood cp.ietly on its head, leaving me uprigl mv feet m iront. That. I believe, was the orlv snill T I. , i • Z t,,nr,,f ..^ ... 1 • - I'" ^ "'>" I" my entire "u. of ,40 n • and ,n mv ,00 m. 1 ide of iSSo I was thrown but once This .U'Pcne, at Westtield, when, in attempting to make too short a turn from he aid roadway mto the softer sidewalk, and not giving allowance for the swi ^ .u>. Mtl which the wind was blowing me along, I was oblige' "^-'^^^ ^-« ^^^ Potomac i had ' '■" * -o,— uue ingoing up hill, the other ill S6 /•/:X 77/Ors.LVD MILES 0\ A BICYCLE. going down,— aiul early on the final clay I sprained my ankle by stepping sud- denly down on a loose stone. That accident came nearer disabling me than any other I have had ; but, after a few hours of increasing pain, the soreness at last wore off. On the second day, too, by the loosening o^ its step, my bicycle came nearer being disabled than at any other time ; for it must be re- membcret! that,si)ite of all the wearing out of its parts, or the accidents which have happened to them at various times, old " Number 234" has never onte betrayed me by breaking down in regions remote from possible repairs, cr becoming unridable at such seasons as would render its disablement a serious interference with my plans. On the same unlucky day last mentioned, how- ever, 1 let it dro]) into the water, while trying to convey it and myself along the slippery log which si)anned the "waste-way" of the canal, therebv thoroughly soaking the roll of clothing attached to the handle-bar. On May Day, i8Sj, while co.i.ting down the hill at Hloomfiehl, in the early twilight, at a si)eed of si.x ur seven miles an hour, a stone the size of a brick caused the front wheel to stop and the rear wheel to describe a circuit in the air, while 1 myself gave a great jump ahead and landed on mv feet, without even a tendency to fall forwards. Mv theoretical belief, that' a man who is forced off the saddle involuntarily is likely to suffer the least detriment if he has his legs thrown over the handles, was thus happily confirmed. Once since then I have been thrown to the ground while co.asiing, as a result of carelessness, in allowing my boot to catch in the spokes. I'lie only involun- tary dismounts for which the machine itse f has been to blame have been caused by the sudden stoppage of the rear \/heel, for lack of sutficient oil n\\ the CO., OS The cones of my right pedal stuck once, in June, 1S80, when my record was 950 m. ; but I was not thrown off, and the accident has not been repeated. I never yet caused a stoppage, or even an approach to one, bv too sharp an application of the brake to the front whci I ; and I cannot understand why a reasonably careful rider should ever come to grief in that way. I have sometimes been run away with in descending steep hills, and have felt that my rear wheel was in the air, and have feared that my involun- tary experience as a "unicycler" was about to come to a disastrous, if not fatal, termin.-ition ; but as a matter of fact I have never been thrown m any such critical times, and almost all my tumbles have happened when I have been moving rather slowlvover sections of road whose difiiculties and dangers were quite apparent to me. I have never had a fall in the night-time, though I should sav, at a guess, that I may have ridden from 300 to 400 m. in the dark- ness, and without a lantern. .Another guess which I venture to offer with more confidence is, that though during my first 1,000 m. I may have had as manv as 20 or 25 tails, I have not by anv means approached that number in the 5.000 m. since traversed. The fact is, I can't afford to take the chances of further tumbling; so, in cases of doubt. I almost alwavs stop. As regards other perils of the road, I may say that before I had covered tsom.. and before my cyclometer had been three davs on its a.xle. I was ^/y 234 AVDAS OA- " A'a 234." 57 ;!!!ackcd, while bending over to read it l,v thr^« 1 . .^« I.V n,e ,„ a ca„i4 .„., ,„/: ':i '^J n^™:"" r" f'T whi;., which my straw hat chanreH .^ v„ 1 .r . ''"' ''"'' ^^x^ ■■» eyef .. ...r, ^H.:^. :,",:, ;::r";,:f* ?"" '■"- (Irunivcn drivers have attemntcd m mn . "^"''="^'"- ^^"^«^ or twice, too, ..->■ ,».....«„ „„, .,„:',::: : :- 1 ,r', :r:r''o:r,*' ■'"- si.ms, also, drivers have wintnnlv V 1 > sutcc:,s. On a few occa- i-i> of ,he track I. Z^^^^^l^^t '"""'"' '^ ^^^"^'"^ '" ^^"^ -^ ^^ .11 hein. that of thJ^Lan 1. . ' c ^^ n^^r f "' T'"^^ ""'^'^ ' :::';:t:totr::rsi::;irr'''r^--^ ..-v,a,ul „.yn,ost serious troubles with horses we^ n U^ ^ ! ?'"" -l;.-' oId.'p,u,s," one in Con..ec,icnt and one in VV Jt^ n C t T «lmh were driven by women, who persisted in-hiuIinrM ' ' .1.^ ;orn,er case, a wheel was cramped off.'^nd' i. l^ ^ X l^'^ ::^:^;:::: zz:::. zri '--'7' -'-'-' ^^^^^^ ."t:;etnc^:^-:;r • ; ^o^- tr "■; - '-"- -^ '- ^- - .Irivcs. bein, posse^d w I, l^ ^ ""T- '"\ .'^"-""'^^'-g^.— hose onie,v.lmct; 'come o '',';•' '" " """'-' ''^ ^■^"^''"' "^^"'- <-ijiiic on, vvitnont d smonntmiT irnrl r ,i^„„ ., surciv ha.e been twp wrecked "trottin. .1 - '" ^''^'''^ ^^•0"'<1 i/cd horse-jockeys " nd «u " on .^ "" ' ""' '"'" ^''^^"' "^ '''^'^°^=i'- -- -^ indla-mbber tnbin,. '-f'lHnkingfromth w ^ilZ , S'l^T' I"^"'^^^^ ^" ^^^ -"- i"'l'ed,is to supply the , sua -..t' / ''' l^*^'^^ '^^'^''^"^'-'.^'^ i" "rrvin, a cup, ^ -V hotels, s^iito r' ^ : To:; ^^'Vi '" ^'^^ ""'-^"^"^^ -^ «;- --"in., of, is the smashinl e g :: t^r he"' T'"''"? ""' ■^I'Pi'ing of a wrench from thn K. i . , ''^ cyclometer bv the -l-can stolen from a rool IvH ' l""'^'' ''••'»^'^-^-^"'- ^ have had an l-cnce of nn. w eel m 7^''"'"' ^^ ' '°"""' ^"^^ "^ ^^^^ -^^ the "■•^ "'- the point of sell.W V u I '^e'-^-^eller of Brooklyn said he " ""' ^""'^ '"' "" ^"^^"'^^ "■> 'he first offer that had been'made him S8 /•/■:. y T/forsAXD mii.es ox a nrcyci.i:. of 550. Xohly cmtra^tcd witli this seems the conduct of the honest hoy wh<' sold soda-water at Fanninjjdale, on Long Island, and who, when I inadvert ently lett on liis counter a purse containing Si 5, harnessed his horse to pur- sue nic and restore the property. My response to the stereot\|)ed cpiestion of the average spectator, " How fast can you go on that tiling? " lias always been : " I don't know, heiause I never tried." 'I'he only tinie uluMi I was on a regularly measured course was ."-^epiendier 14, iSSo, when I had a friend hold a watch for me wliile I went iwice, without stop, around the half-mile irotting-traek at C'anandaigu.i, making the tirsi half in Jm. JOs., and the second half in 2m. 15s. I'Voin this I infer that, on a good track, I might, by exerting myself, make a mile inside of tour minu'.es ; hut I hardly suppose tl; it 1 ever shall in fact make anv >uch exertion, or insure any such hrilliant "record." Six days after the date last named, I rode trom l*,rie to |)inikirk, 47 m., under very favorable condi- tions of wind and weather, in seven hours and a lialf, including rests of twn hours. I was stopped hv the hill at Westtield, at 2.30 I'. M., that day, after tiding exactly an hour, at the midillL of which I had made a minute's stop on account of a horse. Tiie record of that hour was eleven miles and an eiuhth, of .vhich six miles lielongeil to tin- l.ist li.df. I think I had no swifter day on mv record utitil I>ecetidnr 21, iSMi, when I rode just 50m. in the sev(.i\ hours ending at 5 f. M., and when I estimated inv actual riding time as hardlv more than live hours. That track, however, was in the region of ( )range, am! included manv repetitions, instead of extending "straiglit through tlie coun- try." [ adiletl ten miles to it before stoi>])ing for the night, and the year. I ])elie\e that the swiftest short spin of my experience, however, was that recorded on tlie last day of m\ Kentucky tour, seven miles in twenty-six min- utes, ending with a famous coast of a mile down an open winding road. Altnost all of r.'V 340 m. within the limits of that State were either nn an u]vgrade or a down-grade; and I did some hill-climbing that really siir- priscil me. though none that T think cpiite as creditable as my November cx- ]iloit at Vonkers. The big hill at Milton Lower Kails, which lioston rid(.r> kno>- -.o well, has been ridden uji by me lioth ways. On the 2Sth of October last I rode without stop from the cross-roads beyond Caldwell to the end of the smooth pavement of I'.loomfield avenue, in Newark, nine miles and a half, in just an hour, — that beitig the (irst occasion on which I had succeeded in conquering the big hill at Caldwell, though I had more than once ridden all the grades ler.ding to Caldwell. — and I look on that as one of my most credit- able mounts. I recall three other occasions ( 1 which my prowess as a " hillian " greatly surjirised me : (Mice, in iSSo, in surviving a steep, roughly niacadami.'ed slope l>etween Newtown and Hunter's Point; once, in iSSi. when I pushed u]i the sm- at a,no ,.aK ..n ". and I p.s,„ne that .L ex er;::^^ '' : ^ ..V ,1.. sa.nc „f the other httle knolls 1 have allude.l to. , will not ventT ..M..n.rad,ct the,n^ ,1 , say is. that when I fo„n,l n.yself on the sun.ms" ;i'->;'-. w.th ..Nu,nl.er .34" st.ll respon.Hn, s.eacl.ly to n.v tread. d I"Huu to complacently stroke Us h.ad and remark. " liullv for y'o,,. ol< bo " Mv we.Kht has recently kept pretty constantiv in the ne-.^hborhori of .40 ponnds. wh,ch. I thmk. is hve pounds n.ore than I ever attam d t^:!:^ .-.m,ng a l.,cycler.-the greatest variations in n>v weight, as observed bv n dunn, the prev-ous decade, bcn.g from ,30 to .35 p.nnds. I am I V^ Z. .".hes n, he,ght.and the ,n.,ide length of n, v leg ., ,hirtv-th. ee inches Vhi e ^..,,ng a nnk at Wash.ngton, in March, ,SS,. , f.nnd'no ditficultv in drivi g ^ .V- inch Spec.a o „„,„., whose pedals lud b .., shonened up towar.l 2 ..xK though [ fet i- d,s ances say a s.xteenth of a n.ile. but nn lirs- road ride on anv t e nKunnehan" Number .3," was on the afterno,... of April ,0. tSS^whe, I -verc. 3. m „, the region aroun.l Spr.ngneld and llolvoke. on a new 4V.,ch Standard Columbia, which had not prcvion^lv been ridden Ls m^h ^ '- nulcs. P,ve months later. Septen.ber S. in the same region. I ag ! td 31 1 ni. between 9 a. m. and (i. 50 v. m. (takin- a rest of ,L I cn.lv ,.„„„l „„ ,„„„ .,i,B„,„, ,^„„ „,„„ ,„ „i„„„ ';,^f '"',^;; ' »]'l'"- ilic jS-mch „|, ,l,c south -.npe „f ,l„. cl„„cl, l,ii, ;,.,,"„ f' ' ''■■"" ■ l...;c never ,„o„ .„„e .n'ove,c.,,„e X'V^^^ ; J !! i'";".*''. "-'.IcJ, imtely convinced that the efforf „f .1 • , ~~''^' ^''^ ""' ^'^f" .™.cror .c,...,a„,he':;;;tr., :r,:r:r' tt r ''■"", |"illcil off ,„)■ lioots 01, the cvc„i„« of Th, -""""'••'•■■ " <":"■ ho-vcixr, I il.n".sl. the calve, of ,«• c. , f I f„, „d th" J'*' »""= """"I"- "" ilunng the last hours of riding the cramn liU-. , • " ' ' ''■" ^-^afterwards, occasional ti.^rZ;;;'^: ZZ^Z ZT'' '-' '" ' _ J f^^ln^retty well convinced bv this experience of 30 m, ti;at a daVs ..,. " ' '"^^ "' '' ^""^'' '""''"' '"' ^i^' '" i"riict upon me serious suffering; -r-r.^--- -Tl W ' . ( •>■■ - I ^' -'; ,.*. " mmimm ^m n 60 TAX THOL/SAXD MILES OX A li I CYCLE it not temporary disablement, and that a weekV tour of say 280 m. would Iv either iinpo.s>il)le of accomplish- ,,t,or el.-,f prove a painful and difficult task, instead of an exhilarating pi .... I am aw.ire that the mere strain of puH ing oft one's boots by iiressure again.^^t the heels may sometimes slightly cramp the calves, even when the legs have been in no way strained or tired liy previous exertion ; and these same twinges ot cramp have also come to ii,e on certain rare occasions when pushing my 4(>inch wneel towards the sum. mils of long and wearisome hills, liut. at the close of niv longest and must ditficult rides on '-Number 234," I ne\er yet had any feeling of cramp or muscular stitfncs.s, .save of the slightest and most transitorv description; and hence the fact that both f my two short and ea.sy rides on larger wheel> brought contrary results cannot be accti)ted by -ne as devoid of signirtcance,- even when I remember that on each occasion I chanced to be "out of i)r'nc- tice " as a rider, 'i'he general inference which I drew from the experience was this: that whatever may be said for large wheels in racing or in riding short distances on smooth roads, a wheel small enough to prevent the coriU and muscles of the legs from ever being stretched to their full tension is the one best adapted for ordinal y roujh-riding and long-distance touring. Aside from this direct tendency tm.ards jiiiysical discomfort and injury, which I think attaches to prolonged use of a wheel so high that its rider \> forced habitually to "point his toes downward," instead of keei)ing the en tire sole of his foot Aat on a i)lane |)arallel to the surface of the ground, then are indirect dangers which thrciten the tourist who has only a slight grip on the pedal. One of these is the danger of falls caused by the feet slipping from the pedals,— especially in wet weather, and while climbing hills. Many a time when the soles of my boots have been smeared with greasy mud on slippery days, I have worked my way up-hill with the pedals of my si.x-inch cranks resting on my insteps; and, in general, whenever my toe loses hold of a pedal, my heel is almost certain to regain the hold. I have ridden manv miles under conditions which made the pedals so slippery that I doubt if anv rider who depended upon a " toe-grip " could have kept alongside without a tremendous expenditure of energy, and without undergoing continuous tum- bles. Then, again, on an all-day ride of 40 or 50 m., through a rough coun- try, where frequent dismounts are necessary, it seems to me that the aggre- gate increase of effort required in continually climbing into a high saddle rather than a low one would be enough to make all the difference between relaxation and weariness, — between happiness and misery. Still further, the ease of mounting which a low ste)) insures is an element of safety in thi- way : it disposes a rider, in cases of doubt about his ability to overcome an obstacle, to dismount before it, rather than to plough recklessly ahead and take his chances of a tumble. A small machine has the incid. tal advantage )f weighing less, and taking up less room, and I have a theorv that it is apt to be stronger and less liable to injury than a larger one. Mine, certainiv, has stood the severest strains on its rims without "bnrL-Hnfr " or Knin-;,,^ ->t .Ify 234 AVDES OA' •' AV. 234. 61 .11 o„t of ,he tn.e. Finally, a small ....chine seems unusual and distinctive. tor. out of he hundre.ls which took part in the parade at Chicago. '. Numb r' :U was the only one that did not exceed forty-six inches i., hetht! r assume myself to l.e simply •. an average man " as regards phy >icn. - I ave ..ever made any pretense at being an athletc.-nu.ch less have I e.e .h.m.ht of entering any kind of athletic competition. The only tests of . n.iurance con,u.cted with my acade.nv lifc,-,86..-5._which I now recall a having warmed my pride, were these: I once shouMered a regulation army inu.k.ton a march of mx miles with the "home guard"; I once skated I .In.,:, miles straightaway on the stiow-crust; I once walked 25 in. inadav and I <..Ke spl.t a cord of walnut wood and lugged it in mv arn.s up four flights of -.-. During the four following years of my college career I took 'wo or thice .0 m. walks, swam half a mile on two or t. ree occasions, and became Z nu.st persistent patron of the bone-shaker in my class during the three months' , revalence o the velocipedic furor. In October, ,8:4. wiU, the assistan of .classmate, I rowed a lap-s.reak boat from Springfield down the ( 'onnectic K.ver and around the Sound to New Haven, in th.cc davs,-the distaiK-e be .« estimated at from ,.5 to .4om..-and the exertion cos; me nolh m^ -han a temporary soreness and stiffness, though my companion suffered ser,- ..j cinmen . On the .3^ of June. t8;5, as the final act of a tour among Uh te Mountains, I went on foot from the Flume to Littleton, a distance of i . r . nj., w ereof I ran the last five or six under a blazing sm. " in orde .uc the t ree-o-clock train," whose approaching whistle'inspi ed me to n a remendousspurton the last half-mile. That was mv f.rst and only 'Mon stance race against a locomotive engine; but I won. Though bor. and >r.H,gh up on a farm, where horses were always within my reach I neve ■earned ,0 ride horseback, and never cared particularlv about driving I used to consider myself a tolerably expert "dodger" in the game of i--ner-s base, which had great vogue at the academy ; and I believe I have 1I3 . I was a regular patron of the gymnasium, both at the aca lemv and aolege and during the fourteen years since then, mv usual morni"- ," . , except on days when more extensive exercise was impending has be n ; he a ter practice has been persisted in by me for some eighteen years as mv ■nevitable first act after getting out of bed ; and not even the morn ng o mv o..r voyages across the stormy ocean were allowed to be except" Tto t^ of bi ; , ?'T "' '■"''" '" ^'^° '^y ^''' ^^--' «^' he end of a rt m t h ■ r " """^" "^'^ ^ ''''^'''''y consideration, then, with ; : hou^' h':H "> '""""" '"'^^"' ' ^^'^ ^^^-^^-^ ^-^ ^-^^ ^^ • r u th?. ? ^ "" '"^'^"^ '■" ''"^''"S 'h^ -heel or driving the e u thout sufTermg any special inconvenience ; and a rule which obH.ci « e It"' "" "' "'"'" '""^^■' ^^""^' ^■^'^^■--'^ - to the las "egree. l-or many years my simnle tv! ■^-.—..-r^ .... . „ •.. -o- "^'-'•■'-'ttt ua.'j been to "eat 6a /^/■:^^ n/ors.iMj miles ox a lucvci.i:. \%hcii I was huiiKi\," ui wlitii t'nod w is ( Diivcniciitly aiccssiMc, whether (iilc, twice, thrice, or lour times a day, wht'ilur at davhrcik m ii midnight. T!ijt this (.Diirsc should l)e pursued without prfjiiditc to health is, jjcrhaps, chic tn my |>rofuiiiid laith in the first Latin maxim ever given nie to construe: /iiniis iOiuiinuiitiim ist optimum. " \ g(ji/d a|>|)etite " has, indved, al\vav> been with me, and I have never doubted that it was "the best s. > " I have never spoiled it by malcing trial o» toiiaeco oi tire-wattr, , spicicj dishes. I iiave not even tasted tea or (.oitee since I ■ , ' ,) ,f fifteen. Otherwise 1 am on liv )rous, and take witli a relish, and v UU .iu f digestion all sorts of eatables, —llesh, lish, fowl, vegetable, or fr . - n i* h are ever anywhere otfertti for human consumption, provided, of , ( ursi. t tl.ev have Hot been d octoretl w itii ])epper or other fiery sauces. I'erhaps tl.e foregoing e.\i)l;uns why F never feel the • 'going into training " tor a 'nm-. I am always " in training." I am alwavs in condition to enjoy a ilay's ride of forty miles on a bicycle, even though I .nav not l,nc moualed it for months. I sometimes have occasicjn to laugh un being told ., F. R. '.," in hi:, "rules for health in tri- cycling," as reprinted from 6^, >, ' IfW./s in T/u- Jf7uWmit/i tor January. My practice is in flat opposition to the sc.emn warnings of all the other eminent medicine-men, from .V to Z, whose [jrolonged contemplation of the needs of the human body in its phases of disease has robbed them of the vision which enables the unsophistie ed >avagc clearly see its needs in a state of health. My practice is to drink freely, frequently, unstintedlv ! How else can a man, who sweats as copiously as I do, preserve his comfort, or rightlv regulate his temperature .' Fire-water always excepted, I eagerly imbibe • I/r 234 RIDES ox "XO. 234." 63 .'.nost every c.nccival.lc beverage th:„ . ,.„,e. „i,hi„ road,. Water ice .....r soda-water mineral-water, len.onacic, n.ilk. chocolate, sar.saparilia n,... ;;;::; "'1;^;.^ •-■''";, ''^ '"'""• '^•"^--"'•"•- ->-. -hi liKht' wi„es-an I , [ ''' r' '" *^"-''' 'l"^"'"i^-. «h«--" heated l,v riding ; and I ..No del.g t .n chopped tee. water-ices, icc-crean.. n.elons. lemons, oan^es -i'l-. and a 1 sorts of ju.cy fruits. Solid food is of small co„se.,uencc to mc on a hot days rule, but drink I must have and plentv of ic. "nnnk n ht.le as possd.le".> Well, I sl,ouU snulc I Rather do 1 drn.k as nu.ch a. poss.ble and thank ^.fother Nature betin.es for the keen physical deli,ht im i.hcd n, he p,^sess,o , ot so intense a healthy thirst simultanecuslv whh the -ans of grat.fymg it healthily - Vour little riding-rules may do well en-u-h .or babes and suckhngs of the tricycle. Dr. Richardson; but don't vou pre- .Mime .0 ,h,u..t then, upon a sLx-thousan-.l-mile bicvcler like mc '. How I wi.h thatyou or >on,e other absten.ious Fellow (of the Royal Societv, ..ondon,. had ued o tr.nd e a tr.cycle behind me for fiftv miles through the bla.in' -a.uU of Long Island on that historic "hottest dav of seven v.-ars " ' Per'' lui,> then you wotdd have adopted n.y theory that thir.t. under' such circum- ,anccs, .soneof Nature's warning signals which it were d.u,gorous to d,s regard I erhaps. aga.n, you would have preferred ,,ertinaciouslv to die for .vour theory, even at the risk of iKMng buried with Truth at the botton, of one 01 the mnnerous wells which I that dav drank drv! I'n. sorrv to appear unc.vd but my rage at your repressive rules must be given 'Jnt, and o I iinally break out into rhyme in this v>ay:— JiiM hear the roar, " Two-TMity-Kour, ' Of all th*se learned buffers, Who say they think 't is wrong to drink When raging thirst one suffers \ I'.ut you and I know that's a lie, And so 1 shout out gladly : — " Dnnk all you can, my thirsty man, Nor choke ir saddle sadly : Don't ever fear good lagcr-beer, When there 's no water liar-.dy ; Drink pints of ale, milk by the pail, But never rum nor brandy \ • Drink half-and-half, or shandygaff, Or lemonade, or cider ; l--ink till your thirst is past its worst, Then mount, a freshened rider ! Keep fairly cool (that is the rule) , Curse not, nor fume, nor worry : (My ' fume ' joke means tobacco smoke) ; Nor take risks in a hurry ; Nor tear your shirt while on a spurt ; Nor clothes while in a snarl don ; Just make no fuss • i-st be like us— ' Two-Thirty-r^ and Karl Krcn." VIII. AROUND NEW- YORK. 1 Washington Squark, which is the real center of the world, as the three thousand subscribers to this book are well aware, stands at the head of Fifth Avenue, which is the wealthiest and most famous street in America, as intelligent people in general are well aware. The Avenue stretches north- ward from ihe Square, in a perfectly straight line, for six-and-a-half miles, or until terminated by Hanem River, unless it be considered as ending where a break is made in it by Mount Morris Square, at 120th st., about a mile below the river terminus, and about a half-mile above Central Park, whose eastern wall fronts upon the Avenue for two-and-a-half m.iles. Double that distance intervenes between the southern wall cf the Pa-k and the southern terminus of Manhattan Island, which is a little park called the Battery ; and Washing- ton Square lies just about midway between them. "Of the 26,500 acres com- prising the are,, of the city, 14,000 acres compose Manhattan Island, which is thirteen-and-a-half miles long, and increases in breadth from a few hundred vards at the IJattery to two-and-a-quarter miles at 14th st. Its breadth is but little less than this for the ne.xt five miles, or to 114th st. ; while for the last four miles, or from 144^1 st. (just below the region of Washington Heights) to Kingsbridge, the island averages less than a nxile in width. It was orig inaily very rough, a rocky ridge running from the south point northward and branching into several spurs which united after four or five miles, culminating in Washington Heights, 23S feet above tide-water, and in a bold promontory of 130 feet at the extreme northern point. The East River, which is simply the outlet of Long Island Sound, separates it from Long Island, on tlic east; a narrow arm of the Sound (called Harlem River and Sj>uyten Duyvil Creek, tho'igh forming a mere tidal channel of connection with the Hudson) sepa- rates it from the mainland of the State, on the north; while the great Hudson itself foften called the .\orth River) separates it from the dilate of New Jerscv, ou the west. On the south lies the b.iy, beyond which, distant half-a- dozen miles from the Hatterv, is Staten Island, whose casternniost point ap- proaches within about a mile of the westernmost jjoint of Long Island to form the .Varrows, — the passagewav between New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. The settlement of the island was begun at the Battery (by the Dutch in r6.'.5), and extended northward very gradua'H', so that, at the opening of the present century, when the poi)ulation numbered 60,000, there were few 1 From The Sfrrin^Mii IV heetntfn' x Gazette, April, 1SX5, pp. 4R0UyD NEIV-YORK. ^5 residents as far mi tc fk„ • , long before ,830, however' when i w: c an« o W "h"'^ "^^^'^ '" "^^ -^^^'^ Tne houses now surrounc!ing it are numbered ^ ^"^'°" ''"""^^ ^^«""d. north-east corner westward soutrnvlrde!. ''T'T''' ^' ''^ 79), from the a recently-built apart,>:ent-house '7'' '^' '"'^ """^ward. No. 79 is i- 1^'oad front ot red bricrcombines ;,^;:r::i f"^' ""'" ^^^^^^ = -d old church adjoining, and the white . l^-'own-and-blue stone of the Bunding, ;.st beyon!;, to ^ J^^T^:'- ''''''' '^^^^^'^ University most attractively secluded Squari '•' ^ ^^ '"''"■" '""""'^"y f"-" this 'l'-ect,on. In this old j,art of the itv 1 7^ ., '" ''"S"^' ''^'^^'''^ and acccci,and its "tenement kl!^: ^^2ll!:Xu \::' '^ '"^'"^^^ '^ ^-- containing more than .90,000 of cLe to H '^^^'--«"^" - the wards of pecuniary weakness and of so ia , "^"''' """" '^ ''^ ^ -nfession - ^'''^- '-'-V Washington S,urrc7. hi "■•"?" '°^ '^ -^''-'" ^'--^^ '« -^- -...ni^ed dividing Hne Ue \ ^ t^ V^'^ ""^ ^^^^'^^ ^^ --"" "ncfon and obscurity. It is a stockT ''"'''-■' '"■'^= ^"^^ vice ciis- "f South Fifth Avenue (th^ ^ S " r;;;':f ^fl -^'>-^ge, to speak "^ -erv way enual to //..Avenue but ;, "J '^'^^^ ^ -k) -if t were -streets is of the superlative soA t U «-'^' reparation .f the •I'e.n is represented bv the width of tloV ^ geographical barrier between v.-d also is Thompson Street distn^'t'T"'.." '"^ ^^'^"^'"« -"^h- other f,.-e,gn "groups." .vhich give the dtv so ^7 ''"'"'"■'" "'^^' ^'^^ >- -ught in the clensely.popu,.aL regio L ro^T.^o '" ' "''' "'"^^ ^" he said of .3d, pd rt , -'1 Vl';; T'" ''^"•■""Shfare, and the same m.v ^^''''^S9thand\^;h^,^';,;;;^ ;^ f '\'06^^ u6th, .3th and ., ;; •''''- '--Klaries of Central "r;vurr'''^r?' '""''"^ '''' '----'^' ''—OSS the island, east and e;t fr •"' "'^'"^'^ '" '"^ ^^-^'ht hif^hcr nu„.bcrs are xactlv nUd T T" 'u "'"' ^"^^ ^" ^'^ ^'^^^-^ "'-' is broken by ^he Cen r , P I ' ' '"'^"^h the continuity of mauv of -^"^ "^- t'- island .;, S ' ;: ' "r" ■^■^■^■^'^^ ^^--- ^he longitudinal - --nues, being para I, " p ^ ^l' '" u-T '''""''' '^"^ '^'^^ ^'-'>-"' -"-. .nay be considered tlLnckZr' T'^'' ^'"'^' "°^ ^•^^^^''>- ^ '^^^ 'f- '-gin chere. and run ea t an wesTV I V'"'' " ^'^^ '°"^^-""- 'h^' other numbered avenues wh h r he ''''\'''"1''' ''^^'--R at each of ' ^''^'' '^' '"■'"'■ '^""^Ired has been filled out or Appletn„s' Dictionary of Xew York " n ,r iw vork, P- 160, soTiewhat altered. 66 not. TKN THO(JSA\D MILES O.V A BirVCLK. Thus, IOC Kast 50th St. is the tirst c :l()or cast of 4th av. ; JOI Kast 50th St. is the first e.T av. : 201 West 50th st. i.- number, the further the a of \i\ av. ; loi West 50th st. is the first door west of 0th • 'so on. 'I'he higher the r the approach the first west of 7th av., and Ustance from hifth .\venue, the iie.ne to the watersi do, and, usually, the poore r the character of the house Kast of First .\ venue m av he found Aven ue .\ ; ul, in the lower part of the system, also .\ven ues H, C and 1); while Eleventh .\venue is the e.xtrcme west ;ide. To accredit a man th residence upon any of these is to announce him as far removei thi: 1 from the world of society am 1 fashion. Uroadway, the ,f the isl.iiul, e.\tends in a s ,trai«ht line from thj llattcry lon-est thoroui^htare ot tne isi.uui, <-.x^^..-- ■■• " - a- lo Grace C'hurCh (.oth st.), iu a direction nearly parallel to that of the ave- nues • hut it then takes a diagonal course to the westward, crossmg 51^ av, at .5d St., 6.h v.. at 34th st., 7tfi av. at 44th St., 8th av. at 59th st. (the south- west corn.r of Central I'ark), 9th av. at 64th st., lOth av. at 70th st. ; and ..t ,06 '1 st it enters nth av., whose identity there becomes merged m ,t. Hroidwav above 59th st. is known as the Boulevard, and is hud out with two wide road-beds, separated by small parks of grass and tree, in the center, as far as i \=;th st. It continues of extraordinary width for two mdes above dnt,orunti:it joins the King.bridge road at 170th st., and trees are re^u- larlv ranged along each of its sides. .\l)Ove Kingsbridge, it is again ]5roadwav. Helow Central Park (59th st.', the island is so comi)letely covered with buildings that such of its original ineciualit,.., of surface as have not been graded' out of existence are practically hidden or forgotten. .\ resident habitually thinks of the citv as flat, though considerable hills and roughfarc his stops Cara orders given hi.n to keep h wa k " '" "^ ""'" '— ..uier tt ^l--ls upon crcunvsta- „/ pe son 't. "■ "' '" ""'-^-ctions." -cc,nan exercises this right of p^^^^^' r'^^''^'' -^X individua '- """^' - unless the number of peon ' ^^ .."' " '"'^'"'^'''■'>- ''^ ^'«-- '-'•'-^ 1-son would wish to ride a bic cle . "'' " ^^ S^^' ^'-^ < :rf '"^ '« '"-"' on the crowded ^S^urTV'r ^°''"-' '-- ''^•'^■'" "'" to'l'smountonupper Fifth wf^"'' '^"-eet. and have or- ^■-•-t. The sameorticerw , ,n. ^ n h"" "" "" ^^''^"^'^ -- al. . " Y' ^- the sake of seein, '' h .v t th^' '"'"" '" '■'^'^' '' P'^^-^^^'v^ -1^ on meeting an.anah-e:dvu,e; J : " rT"'" "">• ^^^'^ ^^ - r''^ '^^--'"g "lunv the thin, is sto, ped • 1','" " '"" '" ''-^''^ >t. ^or the ^^ ^^''""v lus feeh-ng of auth;ritv I u',,,, • i""' "^^' '''''''• ^akes him -j-- -hon. he in.agines to U>1 d nv ^i i ^ T '"''^ "' "^^ -"--- --C upper heights of the wheel tZ ';^''^'"';" -'■ "I'on himself fro n the ;''-;cle than the patrohnen, how er ^^s' k"^. ^'"''"" ^^ ^' '"-'' grea e '- •!- appearance of a bic.cle n mo^t 1 ^""/"'""^ '" ">^ ."ctropoli" -i ^-erallv draw out so tunu.I.u , " J ;'?^'^'>-'-P"'a.ed qu rt ^ -'!-■; "^ clisn.ount. i„ order to h.n "Vf .''^'" ^^ ^° ^'-^'^ the Jove '■'^■^-;-'^' "-■'» togivehin,a pled. "7 , '" — t,-even if he ca ^'-'^' -t n.nning noiMlv alon^ sid;^ h' J f " ' ''^' '^^"^'"^ '° '^'^ -"dwa ' ^S- ": .^is at the outset, a^ ^.' :;:^f ^ ^^f^' T^'- children will u uan^ 7"-^"' '-.'-■ '-"-vili o>nt;:-.;™ ';--'- -ling, butthene ■ '"";"'"« "'thsunicien. dgor to drive ^ ^ '"'" •'"^™''^' ^»^I the task ;--;'>-l. and of sinn,ltane a .cycle might be dri.-en for .1.0^^ '' ^''-^"^"' ''^'-^^ «^"'' on f'"";""bc.r of dismounts be.n. rf^ '^'V'"'''' "'''^°"t ^"ore than twic ^;-' "t ,he same persons .r '^ cl " T^'" ' '" ^'^ -"^ '^^ u,^ '^"•^' -d thev prohibit wi- an. , on ''-,-, ''" "'"^"^-^ ■"-"<-' the park ^7--. for the roadwavof ,;, t" "" '^ / '^ '^ "o great depriva i'„ "^"f'len, River: while a whee'- ] "'^'^^'-^^'nu^cl from the ,>ark.entra„ce !-' ,"^^ '-Han b.cks :?^;, a:; r^eitrv' i' ^^"' "^'^'^^ ^"':: watch is-k:ri :i:'^! '^^Sstones. would ' M . ■ r rwelv U: 1 V er\ few toot-pas.sengers .:^ 4 68 ri:x niors.uxD milks av ./ bicycle. , - lu .... t wlo liir-vrler furthermore, would iisiKill' -::;,;., . .„.„...., ;----, ■':;:r;:;::'::.:^-:;: it • fi>r tills ^ macadamized as tar a^ 155111 si., auu i ' . , ; e , with the Kiugsbridgc road at -zoth st. When I first began nu- / S^, its surface was in rather better condit.ou than now; an.l K. o;'st action of a double-bne of street-car tracks, within the last few months ^ impair the facilitv formerly enjoyed by the bicycler f.,r changing r,nn ; IL of the Houlcvard to the other, though each side of .t w ..U a 01 him ample space to ride upon. Four transverse ^ J - -.^^^^'^^'^ pass under Central Park from ea.t to west, leaving 5 h -- ^S^^J- '^h St S.th St. and .,:th St., and entering Sth av. at (-,6th st., S.st st. S6th st., an ;^;h "^ respect;;elv. The sidewalks of all the four are smo.,th, a. are :U , , ?^ roas he d ,n : J li^l L,U Houlevar.l ; atul, indeed, the whole region west of ( e.ura. p'k d^tinld soon to be covered with fine houses, though the shant.e. . h s 'ua ers have n<,t vet completely disappeared from the rocks. hev ,..■ ^m e 1. also, in the corresponding unsettled region east of the pa.: ^ u, h he avenues and streets nearest to it wid finally be Idled ...: e uvt .nansious. a majority of the habitations on the lower groumi near ,!. ^ ;;^ will be of a humbler sort than a majority of those west of the p.. \- rth of this is a region not vet built upo.i. where market-gardens an.' ho. ^ U vJr unbroke,: acres of ground which the c,t>- map -prcsents^s cu bv the east-and-west numerical streets. When these are really but U. t-i m he nJ^ no. lai ' ^-wn. it is likely that many of them mav l,e macadun,.. .s 6 h U5th. tS-'. --1 ^5^th sts. alreadv are. -V level, macadanua ;;t f biut uvo miles long, straight from Central Park to Tl^lem .... s supplied bv both 6th av. atid 7th av.. but the latter has a goou deal o oVitVsurucc, and is much fre.p.ented bv the drivers <,f fast horse. . h thefot.n r is to be recommended to the bicvcler, who should turn we. 4,th st' and thence vide a half-mile northward to the end oi 7th av., ,n as AROU. VD A-Iiir- \ 'OR A'. 69 lie wishes to cross at Central I'.nVlirf. ic 1 ;-...■ ...ay .um i,„„ S, Ni.h„,a, avo„„. (maca;. 1 'w, :,,":' ""'^f ' -". ■"Hi luiiow It northward until ( u loist ^f v.l, . ''^'^ ^^^> "P f'e nna. .. na.„e changed to Kingsbr.^ :^ tl^^T^ :::r ;;!' ''' '' : . !-■ -nay follow the avenue in a s' u.h-ea terly iiH r ^ '*-''' ^Tk '''' ;tl> -- obliquely, anti reaching its end at the junct ^ih^r:;^ V"' 1-he rider who enters Manhattan Island .t II r 1 L 1 ,' ''• i',oih St.) mavgo throu.'h i ^-th st ... , / 7 '^' '^'' '''^'- ^" !'ut r have found its frozen .-.r^h t,. i roadway i, inipaved, 'iua .eigia.^..e.. T^ii^ tt : .irtr.::: 7' "r'f""^"^^ ■>.T.rs the best riding surface in that par^ ^ uj i v f:;: '' ^\n'" ''' ada.nized from 86th M to c-th .i \ . - ' -'"""thiy mac- .. , his al,„,,„ „„„i„„, „( 5„h ,, i, j,„, „„„, * -'>ni of much „, this region is occupied by monster be r-.tr, ns an , lH.!^iiepar. i^^I^o included between Ave,:!;: n:;dle^ter- ' '''''' '"'^ wide ::'" ^ o!:"' ''r"'V"" '""" '""«• '^ ->'^- ^'^-" ^ -t" of a mile «Kk , and the .ooo people who are confined to its area of , ^o -xcres J.U ".ulcr the care of the Commissioners of Public Charitie a'iul C nh<,se .ittice is It \\ -xv -,,, ...fU ^ i, , '-"antics and Correction, lice 1., at ,il av. an nth st. By obtaining a pass there and f ,l;, krrv-boat at -Gth st or c-.,i =t ,i ■ i ■ , I'lcrc, and taking a --.v.,a.,.n..™:::?^i:';:-tn::-:rj;^;r;.;i™-;r,-r jion t.) visit It w th T ]ii<-i-oi„ Ar ■ - fe'-'-'-"'g permis- witn a bicycle. My own written request to that effect wK;-i an i t i '",^" ^""f ":^'«' '^>' -nvict labor, from stone quarried on the i,land h ugh the chanty hospital, blind asylum, lunatic asvlum. convalc'; Pta almshouse, workhouse and other institutions are situ ted thcea "e ... the great ,,enitent,ary, which usuallv contains about i ^oo inmate 1 ;^ the latter which gives its distinctive character to the rhce 11°° h n , -agination. Allusions to --the Island." according to 'the c:rent si:;: :? J- f 70 TEA' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the citv. aUvavs refer to Blackwell's I^lu.ul ; and any mention of a person who has "gone on" or "got off" the sam-.,— who has been "sent up to" or has "come down from" the same,— implies that he is an imprisoned or a re- leased criminal. The uppermost half-mile of Avenue A (known locally as " Pleasant Ave- nue "), from its river terminus at 124th st. to where the water again interrupts it near 113th St., offers a smooth surface for wheeling; and 5th av., almost a mile to the westward, may be reached on the macadam at 124th, ii6th, iioth and 7^1 sts. There is a stretch of rough macadam ark. This is a narrower and hiUier path th n ct t.^ -.b^^.nn,ch prettier and smoother one. for it is lar.elv overhu.^^ .t r e an t macadamized in ,884. The tourist who wishes to avoid - c. central L, y.., an. ne m.iv then ride continuouslv on macadam and r ; rr-T "^^'- /-'^^'^-^--'■•. though thea;cent :^^, -a,o, , too, the >vh..,e track n.ay b, traversed without a ston. • The distance from the gate of Jerome Park totiieheadof Broadwav i, t,u,. Kin -1 , ' ^'■'■^"^•■-""^•- '^"'1 *^ro-es the creek a.ain at the 72 /AA' nioLSAiyn miles oa' a bicycle. beinR newly maca.l.imi/.cd, is preferable to the causeway, even thoup,. U.e re- tarn journey to the citv is to he immediately begun, along the mam .oa-.l from Kimi's BridRe. The macadamized surface of this fav.rite thoroughfare has var.cd greatlv in quality during the half-d...en years that I have been ac Cuaintcd witl> it; but, when in average condition, it may be rulden >n euher direction without dismount. A short hill just beyond the Inwood school- house is steep enough to stop many northward riders, however; and the ascent of Washington Heights, in the other direction, has been long enough to stop many others, though its descent has afforded excellent coas^tmg for nculv a mile. I use the past tense, because, at the present writing, the rocks which forn. the basis of the road are being blasted away, and .ts ultimate Kra.le will be essentially lower than befove. I have never vsUed what the maps designate as the "Public Drive," or " Houlevard." e.xtendmg from In- .vood Station (Tubby H -ok), along the bluffs of the riverside, to ..th av. at ,-6th -t three milei below; but its names seem to imply a smooth surface, _^at lei'^ prospectively. It passes the point, about a mile directly west of tbe tower at High Ikidi;.. .vhere stood Fort Washington, an extensive earth- .vork which the Hritish capa.red in November, .77^'. thereby causing the evacration, four days latci. of its companion stronghold. Fort I-ce on the New ferscy side of the Hudson. The mansion of Madame Jumel, which served as Washington's headqu.irters during that historic autumn, still stands on the heig.us overlooking the Harlem, just cast of 10... av. and a short dis- tanc. be.ow the water-tower. According to the city map, the swampy low- lands of this region, which extend from the river's edge to the foot of the heig.its are ultimately to have a Houlevard. beginning at 150th st., and reach- i-. around the Fort' Cieorge bluff to make a junction with the kingsbrid^e road at a point opposite Tubby Hook, a distance of three nules I he halt mile or more of -oad northward from the ho<,k. to the end of the bluff which terminates the island at Spuyten Duyvil Creek, is prob.bly ridable ; but tuere is no way of crossing the creek, except on the uncovered ties of the railroad bridge. ... Mv description of the chief cycling routes on Manhattan Island being thus completed, I return to the foot of Jerome Park where the K.ngsbridge road crosses Central av., and say tliat the road continues a somewhat wind- ing southeasterly course fur a half-mile, until it crosses the railroad tracks ai Fordham, after' a sharp descent. Just before beginning this descent, :t makes a juncti.^n with another smoothly macadamized road, leading south- westerly to its terminus, a mile distant, at Fordham Landing (or Reman Landing), a little railroad station on the Harlem. This cross-road is inter sected at its middle point by Ridge av.. before described; and I recommend it as the best route from Fordham to that avenue, while I at the same time offer warning against it, as having no outlet at the riverside. " Pelham an Y;A'A'. 73 .uctch of half-a-mile or more upon its southern sidewalk (great good luckmav al.,w th..s to be done without discount), the tourist reaches'theSuh'n iioulevard, op whose macadam he may then spin along for a half-do.:en mi e" «.tl,..ut d.s.nount, to us terminus at Harlem Mridge (3d av. at , ,id st ) The upper term.nus of this Boulevard is Central av. at Jerome Park about a mile a,Kl-a-hal d.stant from Pelham av. ; but I found that upper section too sandv .., b .ychng when first tr.ed it, in '79. and I suppose it is so still, though maculam wdl doubtless be applied to it at last. The surface of this Southern boulevard has var.ed greatly during the years that I have been familiar .' h ■t ; bu ,t has no d.^cult grades, and, at its worst. ,, is alwavs ridable vi a us bcs . u supplK-s some of the smoothest and swiftest stretches fo riding at can be found ,n the whole metropolitan district. If one turns west at .h. nrst macadanuzed street above Boston av. (whose crossing of the Boule- vanl ,s cbstM,gu>s ed by horse-car tracks), he „ ay ride sn.oothlv for abuu . nnu CO 1 remont (whence I have wheeled along the railway li'ne a n.ile o more northward to For.lham). and I presume there m:n- be at least one fairlv r' lalJe road anu.ng the three or four which lead from Tremont to Central ... .\nother pleasant easterly route fron, this last-named thoroughfare may e f.,u„d by cross.ng the bridge above (iabe Case's hotel, which is about a h.nl-ot-a-u.le above Central liridge, and walking up a short hill (,65th st.) to ^he entrance of Heetwood Park at Walton av. This has a macadami ed sur ace upon whose gentle downward slope the rider may go without stop to .,.th .t., where he will cross the railroad track at Mott Haven station and soon reach 3d av., a quarter-of-a-mile above Harlem Bridge Walton av may also be reached by taking the first easterly road above Central Jiridge' From the rocky h.ll-tops along this route, some fine views mav be had ' T wenty-tour miles ^ ■ the distance from Harlem Bridge tothe bridge over the lutle Byram River, by which the tourist crosses fri Port Chisfer Ih easternn>ost town on the shore of New York, into the State of Connecticut ^uch IS the distance, I mean, in case he takes the route described in mv chan" t;.on Wmter Wheeling"; and the average excellence of its sur ace Jhown by the fact that, on the .6th of April, ,884, I traversed it all durin. four hours of the forenoon, spite of considerable ram. On that month also° .nacadam^ was applied to the "bad three miles'' above the drawbridge ai 1 1 am Lay, ransformmg the same into one of the smoothest and pleasantest Pel am \°vel ' TT "''" • ^ ^"•■^^''^■-»"^' l^'"- '^is bridge, Fordham and Pe ham Avenue before mentioned, branches off from the Eastern Boulevard and e.xtends „, almost a .straight line westward, for four miles, until it crosses he Southern Boulevard where the latter's macadam ends. If macadam ever vil ''' '\rr"' "''' '"■■''" °' ''''"' "^'^^■- '"■-^' '■-^•-•^vs. the bicvcler Ml be enabled to make a continuous circuit of more than a dozen miles upon .en. without a dismount. Just about at the middle point of the si.x mac adamized miles of Southern Boulevard, the Westchester turnpike, which is also „t hard surface, branches off northeastward; and when the tourist has I f ^!l m 74 j/:.\ /■//(){ '.s. I. v/> .I///.A.V u.\ .} /i/cw /./■:. traveled .ilciiiK it for ihno miles, .md tros^cd tin trick uf the s.ime n.imc, h( m,iv tiiin left iiitii A Mill ri).id. whose several lir.iiiclies all lead into the l-iaM ein i'.uiilevaid. in the iliieclioii of relhaiii l;rid^;e. I reeoiniiieiies lire llonlevard at the handet of S. huylerville, from which point he can follow its side-paths to the l«i iilKe. Hett.rc doinn this, he may make a plea^am Neck, is most of it fairly ridable, if imt also macadami/cd At all t\ents, the region is an attractive one for the citv cvcler to e\ploic. '(Ml the li^th of April, iSSj, the centennial anniversary of the day wlu: Washington iiroilainud to his army ai Newhnrgh that the long tighi wis ended, 1 made a pilgiimage to the histoiii h.ittlelielil of White I'l.iii: , situated midway between the waters of the Somid aiul the Hudson. A inili. below the bridge bv which 1 entered Port Chester, and near the foot of ii> main street (o]>i>osite a little ji.irU, tonl.iinim', a nuisic stand), there braiiclu^ westward a broail avenue which is called " Purchase" for the first mile, .iiul afterwards "Westchester." I'p this I started, at a (piarter-past nine, am! rode most ol the gr.ules. on the siilew.ilk llagstones, to the top of the hijii hill. Maculam, not vet trodden smooth, covered the downward slope, aiu! 1 walked up the latter half of the ascent which followed. Heyond a big witer- ing-trough of stone, the roail makes a turn to the left; aiul.it th.it point i clinibeil up on a loftv rock in the neigjiboring orchard, and watched the waters of the Sound for h.ilf an hoir, since th.it was to be my last i hance \>". the dai-. Thence I wheeled, by an average good road, winding among tlic hills, but prettv level, near the M.imaroneck river, to the soltlier's statue, in White riain.s, opposite which a turn must be made to the left, to reach tin center of the town. I, however. i>ioceeded up the wide thoroughfare ca'.ii'l Hroaiiwav to the old cannon, which m.irks where the Amirican line w.i- drawn up to receive the Pritish. in the battle of i;;!'). I'.evoml this is still aimtlier inomiireiU, in the form of ,ui ancient mortar, which m.irks a secmui histcric point in that dav's strife. I used the west siilewalk in ascending tiu hill, but returned in the roadway, and when I entered the street opi)osite tlu br.nue soldier (Railroad av.K I met with a most excellent stretch of ni:H- adam, along which 1 coasted down into the village, lievond here, alter crossing the Pron.v rivei, I found good riding, on a somewhat winding track, composed of light loam, which would probably be loose anil dusty in ilrv weather; and I did no walking till I reached the hill after crossing the track^ IThis paragr.iph is from Tlu- Bicyc'ing !IW:,/, M.iy iS, 1SS3, p. 18. The rem.iiiider if the article is fiuin T/u- ll'luc:. Marcli (13, ;-) ar.d M-VV, 'S^S- rU.de d.tant, and I ,h,nl. that a pa, t of the fack' ( Wash ™ • !-.nhers between Hastings and ^•onke>■s continne .astwa d U, iZ .. .^. nhose course is ,ene,allv within :„d, a nnle of the west l^. Z I'l'M'x nver, all the way fro.n Jen.nK- Park to White Plains 1- N n,cc.,t IFouH, in Tarrytown, is perhaps the tnost notable objective- "■■- -l:un..ed turnpd.c. overlooking the IhuNon River, and identct ->• 01 us hnes w,th the old post road to Albanv.- Not nanv 1 i i -nace arc absolutelv level : and. ot its nun>en,n/hills, some arc t "t^ .^ - .ons (I except the highest hill at Dobbs Ferrv. where a choice oi^J^ ... 1 ^ possible); ^ and. on the 7th of Xoven.ber, tSS., between 3.45 a,K .>.M[, ode without d,sn,o„nt from the Vincent House to 50th st and tii^" back to Washington Height- ti--th ^n r. 5Jtn -y- ana ■ ,i,,n„.f,,. ,,n , , , "t-i^nt. (i^jth St.), a distance wh ch mv -— tc. called .,. miles, though it is usually considered to be somewhat ^■f^t IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-5) ^< .// .';^'.^--v;? 76 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. greater. I am told that this 25-m. route has been traversed in each direc- tion without dismount by several other riders, though the exact statistics of their journeys are not knjwn to me ; and nothing more need be said to desig- nate this as the longest and finest straightaway course leading out of the city. When I first tried it, on the afternoon of November 24, 1879, I found a good riding surface as izs as the pond about a mile northwest of the Vincent House ; and then, aiter walking up the hill past Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, I trudged through the sand for nearly two miles, or to a point very near the great arch of the aqueduct. Here I was assured that the road continued just as soft all the way to Sing Sing, say four miles beyond; and so I returned to the hotel for the night. The fact that there is no other good public house nearer than Yonkers, a dozen miles below, coupled with the fact that it stands so near the end of the smooth roadway, and is just about a cu'v.fortable halt-day's journey above sgth st., explains its exceptional im- portance as a cycling landmark. The casual wheelman will always be sure of finding an excellent dinner awaiting him there, at one o'clock in the after- noon, at a cost of seventy-five cents; and ample facilities exist for supplying special accommodations to larger parties who may arrange for the same in advance. Several respectable restaurants and oyster saloons may also be found in the village, chiefly along Main st., which makes a right-angle from Broadway, where one descends it not far above the Vincent House, and which then slopes sharply to the railway station and steamboat dock, on the river level, about a half-mile from the hotel. At a similar distance above the latter, on the west side of Broadway, stands the monument to n»ark the spot where the British spy. Major Andre, was captured in 17S0; and at the cross- roads, a little beyond here, by taking the left, through Beekman av. and Cortlandt St., another smooth descent may be made to the railway station. By turning to the right at the cross-roads just named, and soon again to the right at the next crossing, one may enter the County House road, which climbs over the ridge to East Tarrytown, a mile distant, on the Sawmill river- road. This is more than two miles above Elmsford, where I crossed that road on my ride from White Plains; and the map shows that it follows the stream up to its source at Pleasantville, five miles further I hope to explore it some day, and perhaps push on through Chappaqua and Mount Kisco to the Croton river, — the road along which, for the last five or six miles, before it reaches the Hudson, above Sing Sing, ought to prove fairly level and ridable. A third route northward from Tarrytown to Sing Sing is offered by the Sleepy Hollow road, which is about mid\^»y between the sandy Albany turn- pike and the Sawmill valley; but of its character I have as yet no knowledge. The southward route from the Vincent House along Broadway, to the King's Bridge (14^ m.), is probably as pleasant a one for the wheelman as any similar short stretch in America ; and, though he may comfortably cover it without leaving the saddle h'; will be disposed, on his first visit, at least, to stop many times, for the better viewing of its numerous points of scenic or AROUND NEW-YORK. 77 historic interest. Four miles from th* ct,,- u t -. .eep hi,,, surmounted by f 0,170; t%tou;d1rr;\"r:r '^^ T he may ooast through the main street of ti.e Tu IL for ha f f k I''" ascending the gent.e grade which wi„ bring h m aga'n into ZT f " (Ml a northward tuur this ro^nrl;,lv^nf ^, Broadway. Even hil, may be ridden uptt^dte^lfT" -f '"i"'''^' ^'^"^^ ^''^ '"^^^^^ to its summit, by a^.ron r-rtrmSrHr^^^^ residence of ex-Judge Beach is notable as being the setf sLe h "^l ! Washington signed the treaty of peace with i:^: itZl^T :iT'l journey, this descent towards the river is Int to hi n ^ 'k°" ' ""'^'"''''^ sharply does it curve backward fromZ mr road^ T^aV^i^ri'"';.^ pent, another fork offers a choice of routes for ha f-a mit -Th ,e^t h! the steepest grade, and the right usually the softest surface Thi ! through the woods affords severa, Je views of thf!' "^'^'-'-oad of .he same day when I overed he wh»llr"~" ^'^. "" "" '"= '""~" and, .h„a,h .He'sha^p ,^;^"t^l rettilr^^L'rL:" diLt^ to conquer on the entire course Th^ rJ^^r u difficult one » .he .dd,e ,„ an„.her:t „7:;:^=::r:"r;:::'i;trrrL' thoroughly tired as I did, when he gets to the ton F - • ] 1 «eep Slope he should ,,e„ise conslHlet/e'L h ™« ^ HdraW low the Getty House. T myself generally prefer the Broadway route, whether '^:0\ 78 T£A- THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. \S^ going northward or southward, though the distance is a trifle longer, and a hiil is to be climbed which the Main st. route avoids. About a mile below the junction of the two routes, Valentine's Lane branches westward through the trees, to make connection with Riverdale av., a quarter-mile distant ; and the unpaved grades of this cross-road used nearly always to force a dismount, in the days when Riverdale av. supplied the only practicable path between Yonkers and the King's Bridge. When I had managed to worry through this iane, on the occasion of my straightaway ride from Tarrjtown, in 1882, I felt confident that, barring accidents, I should succeed in reaching sgth st. without stop. Hut the lane need no longer be resorted to, for the macad; . of Broad- way now stretches unbrokenlyto Spuvten DuyvU "reek,— the last unpaved section having been covered with it in 1SS4,— and affords a charming ride of more than two miles through a well-wooded valley, where the houses are not numerous enough to be obtrusive, and where there is only one ascent long enough to be tiresome. A ve;y long and tiresome ascent, however, does confiont the rider who starts northward from the cre-k by the old route, which was the only practi- cable one until the recent macadamization of Broadway at Mosholu. Turn- ing sharply to the left when he leaves the King's Bridge, he will cross the railway tracks after about forty rods of rough macadam, and then turn to the right, up the long hill of Riverdale av., whose top is a mile and a half from the bridge. If he can keep his saddle for the first thirty rods of the climb, he heed noFstop short of the summit (for the upper grades are gen- tler), and he may thence continue without dismount for two miles, to Mt. St. Vincent.— though some of the intermediate slopes are steep enough to make the novice groan. On the descending grade of this hill he should turn to the right, into Valentine's Lane, before described, if he wishes to reach the macadam of Bioadway; and he may recognize the lane as forming the north- ern boundary of the grounds that slope downward Irom a large public-build- ing of red brick, upon the crest of the hill. Here the northward tourist sees the Hudson for the first time after leaving 155th st., and he also gets his first view of Yonkers. Instead of turning into the lane, he may keep straight on for a mile and a half, to the center of the city, though the soft spots in the road will probably cause more than one dismount. The ancient Manor House, which serves as the City Hall and which is one of the very few his- toric structures of America having a record of more than two centuries, stands here at the corner of Dock st., fronting on Warburton av., though this is simply a prolongation, for a mile, in a perfectly straight line, of the less- straight Riverdale av., which crosses the outlet of the Sawmill river just before reaching Dock st. From the end of the ridable sidewalk of Warbur- ton av., which terminates abruptly in the nortaern outskirts of the town, one must walk up-hill for a half-mile through the wo*ds to reach Broadway,— passing a spring of good drinking-water a few rods from this. I have never descended this hill to Warburton av., though I think it would have to be AROUND NEW-YORK. 79 walked ; but th. views which may be had of the Hudson and the Palisades when ndmg along the avenue, repay an occasional choice of th.s lower rou e The route from the center of Yonkers, through Nepperhan av. northeast- waro.,s a smoothly-macadamized one as far as the first road which crosses .beyond the aqueduc^ arch. The tourist should follow this road down to rhe r,ght, for one block, to the cemetery, where l.e will turn left up the Saw- nnl r,ver.road. On the ,7th of December. 1884. my first dismount on my f "^'?f/h.s route was caused by a hill which is three miles .nd a half rom the Getty House ; but I did much walking on the three miles between n KK '". "^^"'^ ^""^''^ ^ ''''''^ '^' '"^"^^"^ J^^^ding back to Broadwlv at Dobbs Ferry), though, at a more favorable season. I presume the who e crcu.t m,ght be covered, in eitner direction, without a stop. The tou l>etween these pa: -.llel and heavily-wooded ranges of hills mus' surely be a ver,- pleasant one to take in spring or early summer ; and the Tuckahoe rold e3d.ng eastward across Cent.ul av. to the village of that name, and Vonkcrt' av 'eadmg sm.u.r.y to Mt. Vernon, both seemed smooth en;ugh to t n p me to explore them, on the day I have mentioned, in spite of the warnZ Tuckaloe and Nxt. Vernon, wth the east-side thoroughfare along the Sound wh.ch I have already described; and I have no doubt that there are many other routes well worth exploring in this terminal triangle of WestchTster Coun y, whose base-line I have drawn at the road connecting Por Ch w,th r ,ytow„. Nevertheless, ^he famous macadamized tufhpike parallelto the shore of the river which forms the west side of this triangrwill alw Js make the strongest appeal to the bicycler at the outset of his touHng 1 1 metropohtan district. Alongside it stand the country castles of o'u r mer chant pr„,ces, the rural palaces of our railroad barons, and the more moTest mansions of other wealthy people who are wise enough to understand hat no residence m America, or to prevent unsentimental heirs from knocking it mvn w,th an auctioneer's hammer as soon as the opulent originator has b^en afe y stowed away under the sod. The first notable roadside Lideice which b:r;f ir hT'/""! ^r^^'^r^' "^^ p^^^"'"^'^ *«^-^ some curtu tTrn" /w u '"'^^^''^o^e ^he place where the cross-road from the H T"'"'°" '" j""^ ^'°^^"=*y' -^ ^' — into fulHi w il atd'eTte'rs ';h '? ^' V' " '""^ ''''' '^'^'^ ^^^^ '^^ --' ^f a sho n .1 and enters the straight, sloping stretch which it faces upon. Its name Orcystone.' describes the material of this long-fronted. angu'ar "bache or^' hal belonging to Samuel J. Tilden. ex-Governor of the State Half a m.le above the churches in Irvington. at the first cross-r. If one turns wards the nver for a similar distance, h^ may reach " S^nnyside " he are;;;;;tT- °' "^"'r^- ^^^^-^^ ^-^ -ryndehurst,- Jartu d. astellated mansion, of white limestone, is next but one to the north of Su„nys.de." About half-way between Irvington and Dobbs Fer';. or so. e' It 80 TE^' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. % i:^->_.'.- what nearer the latter, on the eastern slope, stands the house of (Jyrus W. Field, who is popularly ranked with the owners of " Lyndehurst " and " Grey- stone " ::s having amassed .millions by " developing " the elevated railways of the city ; but who deserves a higher rank than they in the world of wheeling, by reason of his having caused th.it mile of smooth macadamized roadway to be built from Ashford station to the Hudson. Instead of ascending the Riverdale hill to the right, after crossing the railroad tracks west of Kingsbridge, I once explored the region to the left (Dec. 18, 1883), when a thin film of frozen snow covered the road, which might prove fairly good in summer. It winds along close to the • railway, crossing it twice by bridges (near the point of the Wagner train accident, 'vhose horrors were then fresh in public memory), and ends in a little less than a mile, at Spuyten Duyvil station. From here, a venturesome tourist might possibly scramble across the ties of the railroad bridge and up the heights to che road which leads to Tubby Hook ; but I preferred to turn about and ascend a long hill, by a winding ror.d through the woo'ls, mostly ridable, in spite of the snow, until I entered Riverdale av. at a little less than a mile above the railroad crossing. The distance from the station to the point of entering the avenue was a mile and a half; and the entire circuit thus amounted to about three miles and a quarter. A barn-like structure, de- voted ID the sale of " wood and coal, hay and oats," stands at the point on the avenue wnere the road for Spuyten Duyvil b'-anches off through the woods. Between this point and Mt. St. Vincent there are two smooth roads which branch westward to the river and connect with each other at the sta- tion and settlement called Riverdnle ; and a detour may well be made through them, for the sake of the view. The map shows a road extending from this station, for about three-quarters of a mile, parallel to Riverdale av. until it joins the same at Mt. St. Vincent; and ii probably offers good riding, though I have never chanced to make exploration there. Tarrytown lies on a certain famous twelve-mile stretch of the Hudson which is called the Tappan Ssa, because it hr.s a breadth of more than two miles for nearly all that distance. The voyage by ferry to Nyack, which lies directly opposite, on the west shore, is, therefore, a not insignificant one ; a id the smooth road '- ithward alongside that shore to Piermont offers as pleas- ant a three-mile spin as wheelman's heart can wish for. Thence he must turn inland to Sparkill (i^ m.), Tappan (i^ m.), Closter (4m.), Tenafly (4 m.| and Englewood {2\ m.), and be content to do most of his riding — and a good deal of walking— on the side-paths of rather sandy and hilly roads. It took me four hours to cover the thirteen miles, on the 26th of May, 1882, when the track was probably in average condition ; though the bright spring weather made even slow progress a pleasure (if, indeed, it did not invite me to be slow), and I stopped a good while to stare at the sunken-roofed stone house near the hotel in Tappan, where the luckless Major Andre was jailed, a century ago, before being executed, on the adjacent eminence, which has F-tnar—— • AROUND NEW- YORK. oi .vith Fort Lee (S n..,. wle^TL^; :ornt^^e^rnr "" '"^'^*°°^ just a short distance from the Houlevard I hav tned ThT '\'^''''' opposite direction only. Walk ,g up-hill for a ha , """"^ '" '^' (though most or all of this mi^ht b. Ti i \ j "'"'' ^'°"' ^^'^ ^O'^k road, and went witho t sto^t two m1le"s'to™"" •'' I' ^'^ '^^"^ '"^ '»>* I'alisades Hotel, since burned^whe^^crl 'broad ''"h' '''°"' ^'^ «^^^' straight line to Englewood (4 m? The last ha^f 17^^ ''"i''" '" ' but ^^i-u.d think the ascent c^ouljharc^ ieL dJ:. ^ ,7,,^ ^-'^^• plied to a long. Perpendicula^fX/.^ o^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^P" unbroken line thither from Fort Lee (-^n.. "'""!"*' *^" '*>« extenaa m an edge. This wall is nearly u^^orm n alti ud'eT^fn "'"' '^°'" '''' ^''"'^ tance, though it va-ies from .^o to^^ f ""de for the greater part of the dis- ;" some pi^es not .n:^2n::e^i^ ^ ^it;: :;i:' ;r::r ^^'- opposite low verdan^hlr tlT 'h' ''' '^"^"^^^^ ^^^ superb.-the charming picture - From ;he > T\ ,"''"'' '" '^' "°^^''' ^^^^ding a northwafd through the Zods o lis ^r' '*''''' ' ''" ^"^'^ "'^"'J* P0.te Vonkers. thilLlt ltd ^X^^'l Jt ^ 'f ^ \"'' ^^ prolonged even to Piermont; but I presume that 11?..'""^ "'^^^ "'^ P^'h would do more walking than dding "he descent t^ForrTK ",'r ''''' '' be coasted in summer time, on account of the crowds JhTc,;' 't"" '°' there. Southward ^rom Fnrf r .. . tne crowds whica frequent the hotel c.».™e aic„g i, lo, a„o,l.., m«, T Shady Sdewhefrh'''; ' " " ""' to 4^d St and Fort t. "P''"'"' 59th St., though the ferry boat runs Wness ,he nea "f " •,;'^'' " ' ' ™"«- "n rsey City, a well-known landmark, stands at the entrance o Jersey C,ty Ferry! whick is the terminus of the Pennsylvania railway and us boats !a.. both ;t Cortlandt St.. immediately opposite (four blocks below Barclay st . and at Desbrosses st.. which is three-quarters of a m.le above, and a half-n-.le below Christopher s^ Communipaw Ferry, the term'nus of the Jer.ey Central railway, is three-quarters of a mile below Taylor's Hotel, and land. all its passengers at Liberty st.. the next below Cordandt st. Three-quarters o a mile abL Taylor's Hotel, and a half-mile below Hohoken Ferr^ . Pavonia Ferry, the terminus of the Erie railway, whose boats land both at Chambers st. (four blocks above Barclay st.) and at 2^1 St., two m.les above. The distances mentioned as separating the femes on the Jersey side are n.uch shorter than those the traveler would in fact be forced to traverse, m Toingfrom one to the other, for there is no street wh-h chrect y com.ect fhem anywhere near the water-front. In getting from Hoboken to Ta>k. Ho'l for example (May 36. '8.). I wheeled more than two - es,-m^^^^^^^^^^^^ on the sidewalks (for flagstone walks are abundant enough m all these .qualid suburb ). though I found one main road fairly ridable. I once tned a western oute from the hotel (Nov. 16. '80). by turning into Grand St., and then, at a poin i m. from the ferry, taking the plank road for 3 m^ alongside he can^ and across the marshes between the Hackensack and P--- "-■ ; ^'^ brought me to a disagreeable suburb of Newark which I believe is called M lland I then wheeled on the sidewalks. 01 fe went afoot o ad 3 m.. until I reached the smooth pavement at the head of Central av. M usual route to that point from the New York femes, however, seem far "ef erable to the one just given, and I thus described i^ in TIu Wk.lman ?Tune 18^3 p. 219) : " The road leading up Bergen hill, near the tunnels, my be r L hed by wh eling on the stone sidewalks,-the distance being a m.le frU Hobokin Ferry.Ld somewhat greater from t^e;— ferries. Fro. the top of the hill to the bridge over the Hackensack (li m.) there s sde walk riding, mostly on a down grade, requiring only a few ^-mounts; n Then the wtelman may go without stop across the marshes (3^ m , on „,acadamized roadway, though this is sometimes made rather d fficult b Id and ruts. Another mile or so of sidewalk riding, in a perfectly str ht Une. leads to the bridge over the Passaic, which, for the -^^^ of conven e.« n description. I have previously assumed as 'the apex of /he eight^mje Newark-and-Orange triangle," or as ihe imaginary point c? junction of the chirftenuts Slonging to' that 'triangle.- I might better have placed my '^^^^^m': AROUND NEIV-YORK. o imaginary point an eighth of a mile wesf of fk- ,\ u ilK-m, contains Oraton Hall the"/ * ^"h ", * ""'^^'^^-^^ ai^gle between wheelmen, and a. the touJl'ttav ttfe nd t^ KT °' ''^ ""'^ ^"'^^ routes, he would do well to reckon J2 I *' " '° '°^^« and Returning from Tha 1 bv t T '"" '•' "" ^ ^'^'^^ "'^^"^'^ P-"t. h.i: (6 ,n,. he'tnay there ": no/t ^I d"" .^ j tv'tr"':' '\ "'^ °^ ""«^" -aight line (passing the res.rvoi 0^"" T t 7m fr" r"'' '""■ "' "^ '" '^ roul in the course of another mil. ' "^ht, i m. from the start); but the -MonasLerv forms the eastern *r^„f / *u . "-" '=> just behind the At the north e ^ of P. s 3es a It' ''^r^r''' '""^ '""^ ''*^'-- h. r..aches the south end o Bui 's Hea ,T ^'^°""! ^"•"^ "«' ^- i -.. until br,ck water-tower hefo"e dL!ribed Tf 'k"' ''"' ^ '" ''^°" ''^'^ ^'« either descend noahw;;' T: e'hor ^1^':':^' '^^^ T"'"'^"' ''^ ""^-^ descent so.th.ard by t.e rou.^^' ^g^^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^^ --'"-. h'« n!or.g eastward and southward by the old I la kens! k n ke a' "^ 't' wish to continue northward however hi.f^r.TT ^l Assummg his .he We,, Shore railway, who,, boa,, go .o 4 W ', J'" '' •^' """■"" c»e»ber,,a„..zT:"i :re'; rhat^„ij::,^;x^^^ over) ,0 .u™„e„ward J „., and „„r,hwa,d | m!^ he S K "I" ''° he r,.,„. where -he ,„ay dencend .ou.hward I Shldv Side I ^ ' " "rrtnr^prerd'Ttirr "-- " ■^'' '•■' -^^ -«^ p™-..,- be c„veredr^hra';id'rit:';thr,e::ir;,hr,=: ''°"' """■ .he »u.,.. Head Perry a.., ,„d1 ^w^'o 'i,"' 'biT',':?^ ^f ^d N '"■ u, a.iu iney stand on a line drawn due west from ^,e^h ef tu • j- "- f™„ .he ravine-bridge on .he hiil behindth^ |il' L'j J.T'Jit H TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. -^^^m. and, though the route has two or three turnings, it is not likely to be mistaken. The inacadani terminates where the I5oulevard crosses the West Shore tunnel ; and though the tourist may continue straight along, on the sidewalks, t.) the 'nacke.)sack turnpike (i m.). and thence to Palisades av. (J m.), I rec- ommend him to turn otf at Fulton st., \ m. from the tunnel, and ride across to the water towe', \ m. Rumors have reached me of a plan to prolong the macadam of the I$oulevard to Hergen Point, a dozen miles below the tunnel; but I do not expect that so magnitice-it a scheme will lie realized in my life- time. The map shows a series of paiallel streets extending all the way from the Point (which is separated from Port Richmond, on Stattn Island, by only \ m., of ihe Kill van KuU's waters) to the cross-roads on Bergen hill, 7 in. above, where my own e.xi)lorations have ended. Much of this neck of land between Newark bay and New York bay is lesa than a mile wide, and all of it seems to be hilly, and to exhibit a rather poor class of houses. Wheeling there would presumably not bo pleasant, but I mean to attempt it, some time, in connection with another visit to Staten island. From Ulacque's Hotel, at the head of the Boulevard, one may go northwest- ward, over a course which is often too rough to be ridable, to Fairview ( 1 ^ m.), a gentle grade towards the end turning off sharply into a steep descent. .\t the foot of this, he may turn northwestward again, by Hackensack pike, for the Club House at Ridgefield (i m.), whence two northwest roads (rather sandy, the one nearer the railway being preferable) lead to Englewood (5 m.). From there he may return to Fort Ue, along the macadamized route already described (p. 81). Southward from F'airview to the toll-gate at Machpelah Cemetery (2 m.), I have found (May 7, '83) the Hackensack road to supply pleasant wheeling, with one easy hill ; but as appearance-s below were less favorable, I turned about, for i m., and then ascended by a macadamized cross-road to the Boulevard, \ m. to the east,— passing another parallel road, midway between the two. The distance from the cemetei y, by the Hacken- sack pike, to the head of Palisades av., is about 2 m., and two roads branch off from it to Homestead, whence the thoroughfare distinguished by telegraph poles stretches across the marshes to the hills at Carlstadt (sm.), as before described. Other routes connecting Newark with New York (at 130th st. ferry : by w.ay of Belleville, Carlstadt and Ridgefield ; by way of Little Falls, Paterson, Hackensack and Ridgefield ; and by way of Paterson and Engle- wood,) are described i.i my thirteenth chapter, " Coasting on the Jersey Hills" ; and the latter might perhaps be recommended as supplying the best connection with Boonton, or even Morristown, — leaving Newark entirely aside, in favor of Singac, Fairfield and Pine Brook. My descriptions have doubtless made this fact plain : that the proper entrance to Manhattan Island for every touring wheelman from the south or west, who wishes to ride there, or to prolong his journey to the north or east, is at 130th st (ferry from Fort Lee), instead of at the down-town fe ries con- nected with the termini of the five great railway lines. My recommendation \m r-^tx AROl/Nr i\'EW-yORK. to a cycler who may be broutrht hv t ai.. , Wcekawken. i. to pu,i westwarfwi.h'h U leC ToY? "' :''L '""' '"'"* eUc, as a second cho:ce. to try one of Th. ^ "^ ^'«'" ^*"' "^ nobo.e„.a„d thenceface'northrrd to For l' '^Thf ^' ""^^"!' ^^°- n.av readily utilize the ferries to shorten the orthward wheT^' '"*""' .n.l at the same time give himself a chance to wa chTk "^ ''"'"""' if he leaves the Jersey Central tr^in i *" "''" *"*c- Thus, rood's boat back to Taylor's Hotel and its n,h , Pennsylvania Desbrosses st. Four blocks abov this and I 7 ,'"'' '"'''' =>«*'" ^° •he starting point of a line of steamboat's fo, ^^t A? '■'';"'^''l:" ''■' ''' n.ake a landing near the foot of .3d st the tr.v . J '"'^ *' '*'"'^ ='"'° .rain may sail all the way to nothst and . t, "'^'^ ''""''' '" ^'^ ^"' changes of boats. Those'who d^mbark fromTh , ''"" '''" ^^'^ '^° other three railways at Libertv Jr . ^ " ''''«'"-''^'*" boats of the than half a mile t/:; h"^ h F^riebort t'c^ \^' '''''''' ''' ""' -^"^ '- hack across the Hver to the oth r E^lat :r'": II: ':^'^^^^ the I), I,. & w boat ii,-, tr. »T-.i 1, T ^ ' ^"^' '" ''*'<= manner, ..-.from -he o,tr:,wrwrp^r:r',"r''''- ''"»'""• oon. Stoningto., Providence and Fall'River at the east all ti w.H i""' of Desbrosses st. ; and thf three last n;,m.H i t u "'''" * ""• oa^sen^er traffi-^ Jr ri\ '^''-"^'"«d Imes, wh.ch conduct an immense Th ' \ ■■''^°"' '^^'■' '^''^'" '^^^ 'ban i m. of the Citv H-11 The onnecfon between all these docks and piers and ferry-houses s We,; :;;.:•. S"t:sS;;^"r' '- ^--h -'- '^^^^ ^ ,! >.i u u ' performs a similar service for the two miles of k,: R r't "'""'^ '^^"^ ^"^^ «^"ery along the east sidl, the grea F ho the"'! T'- ""'''"'^' ^'^^^ ^'^-^ '' ^'^-^ '»^<= half-;av p'oTnt tak-. thefr ' , u ' "'' ^'^ °^''" ^"'^y^^ by "blocking." The lines n to i4fh sf fK u * ^""^^' ^*'^'*- The east-side Belt runs through Av. th V i e'B :!' : .° ^'t^''^"' ^'^^^"^'^ -tav. to 59th st! while above t th st believl r' , "•' "'"' " ' prolongation of West st. chartcre '; transoo t b ' "" T ''' "">' °"^^ ^" ^'^^ ^'^ ^bich are transport baggage as well as passengers ; and the bicycler may 86 TEN THOL/SAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. always be sure that, for a fee o.' 5 or 10 cents, he can get his wheel earned, on the front platform of a Helt car, to the point on SQth at. where he may .t once touch the macadamized road-s to the northward, either at 8th av., at Sih av., or at Av. A. On the other lines, I presume that a quarter-dollar, or per haps a smaller perquisite, would quiet any scruples which the commander .,1 the car might hr.ve about admitting a bicycle to the platform, when no passen gers were crowding it. I recollect that no objection was made when I brought my machine d..wn from ii6th st. to 59th st., on an 8th av. car; though I was then able to pack it in sm .ller compass than usif.il. oa account of having broken it in two. On general principles. I should caution a stranger against hiring a city e.xpressman to transport his wheel, unless he is content to sec it put up at sheriff's sale, to pay for " charges." Perhaps even then he wouUl have to go to Ludlow Street Jail, until his friends at home could raise the cash balance still due to the honest carrier. The keepers of the railway baggage-rooms in the ferry-houses will give an official receipt (brass cueck) for a bicycle left in their charge, but "their charge" will be a quarter-dollar, when it is redeemet' Such storage-places, in addition to their safety, and their convenience to a man who wishes to go about the city a little before taking his wheel up to 130th %t. by the river ferries, or to 59th st. by Belt car, have the special merit of being accessible at all hours of the ni^ht as well as of the \\. A tourist entering the city dur- ing business hours (8 A. M. to 6 p. M.), at any of the designated ferries between Liberty st. and Chambers St., will always be welcomed to temporary sfjrage for his wheel at the office of the Pope Manufacturing Co., 12 Warren st., which is next south of Chambers st., and which extends from the river to the City Hall Park at Broadway, \ m. At the entrance of its salesroom may be seen the old original " Columbia No. 234 " (as explained on p. 48), maki.ig a mute appeal for " 1,000 more supporters " for this present true history of its strange life and adventures. Second only in importance to my remarkable bicycle, there stands hard by another unique object, which has helped it to give celebrity to the city: I mean the great structure spanning the East River,— "th largest bridge in the world,"— whose terminus is just across the park. The length of ihe bridge considerably exceeds a mile (5,989 ft.), and its breadth (85 ft.) allows a central promenade (13 ft.) for foot passengers. two railroad tracks on which run passenger-cars propelled by a stationary engine at the Brooklyn end, and two broad roadways for vehicles, on the cuter sides. The central span across the water, hung from towers whose tops (measuring 120 ft. by 40 ft.) are 278 ft. above its surface, is 1,595 feet long; the span on each side, from the tower to the anchorage, is 930 feet long ; the approach from the terminus to the anchorage is 1,562^ ft. long on the city side and 971 ft. on the Brooklyn side ; the height of the floor, at the towers, above high-water mark, is 119^ ft. and it increases thence to the center where it is 135 ft. above. The Brooklyn terminus is 68 ft. above high tide. The grade of the roadway is 2,\ ^^- in 100 ft.; and its material is stone blocks along AROUND NEW- YORK. 87 the approaches, and transverse pl;»nk« in the r-n.^r n . cerded 115,000,000.' j "» v.u»i nas ex- The only time that I cvr. honored thi. celebr.tcc structure by drivin. No .J4 across „. was on March 25. ,884. when I felt constrained to do something extraordinary by way of celebrating mv wheel', hLnJ r i-ath the heavy hand of th^ United Stat^ioTe^Ltr ^^^^^ cnmpcnsatmg u for the ignominy of a week's enforcc.l association w'h the un. erhngs of the custom-house. As all eastward-bound vef^c le "rosT n the ..„th roadway of the bridge, and all westward-bound ones in the north rod w..y. .here .s no chance for collision, and the path i. wide eno.,h .0 Illow .. .cycler to r.de past a team which may be moving too slowly. He him e" w:ll robably prefer to move rather s-owly. however, both in order thThe .n,.v better enjoy the v.ev,. and because the surface is not favorable to L^ n.l.n - -to say nothmg of the upward h.lf of the grade. Perhaps the r.ou he n o way afxords the nder a finer outlo-K. though the views on both side h hrul.e are wonderfully attractive, and no visitor to the city should n^ss he cnj,.vn.ent of them. The pedestrians' promenade ,n ti.^ center ha" n. .„ .nobstructed outlook in both directi^ s,. may be recommended as the prLT- ab e p...ce for the s.ght-seer ; and caution may be offered against the grJting, .n the stone-paved approaches of the bridge, a., 'iable to entrap the tifes 7a .cvc e. The boats of Fulton Ferry start just below the bridge-tower A .fe I^rooklyn s.de,-though they are i m. below the tower on the New Yo k St. c.-a„d m each c.ty they start from the terminus of a thoroughfare caUed Fu ton St. The other terminus of this, in New York, at West 'st.. s ^^t „ t«o blocks of the femes at Cortlandt st. and Barc^^y st. (} m )• but a Tu' who enters the island at either of those points n.d 'wishes To Uk^;;*;: I 00k yn. is recommended to trundle his wheel down Broadway to TrTni^ t :;: F T k'^""'.' ^'^ '^"^""^ " ^"•^-"'- " -^-'^ '^ face ^to W U Street ferry, whose boat will land him at the foot of Montague st Walking 1^. u.e top of the hill. 30 or 40 rods, he may wheel thence S^tho ut d^m unt' Object that all New "^ orkers have m view, whenever they go to Brooklyn The d.stmgu.shmg section of this route is supplied by Schermerhon. st ar. asphalt stretch of | m.. included between Flatbush av.. from whkh it arts d.agonady, and Clinton ,st., which terminates it at right angles; and this erm.nus ,s tne pomt towards which wheelmen's routes converge from all the ower ferries of Brooklyn. Thus, from the Wall Street Fe^. t^e ide reach the po.nt m question. From South Ferry, he should go ^ m. on he ie Sciin ofsr Tt^-' ''^" ^"" '''' '"^^ "^"^y «^- ^^^ - P-'' -eUoClmton St., and, like it. stretches straight southward from Fulton st. to '"Appktons' Dirt-onary of New York," p, 79. .r^A^, --, t^rw:- ' K If fl 88 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Gowanus Bay, i^ m.), then right, into Joralemon St., then right, into Clinton St. From Hamilton Ferry (which is considerably further south, though its New York landing is at the Battery, close to South Ferry), he should go through Hamilton av. to Union st. and then to Henry st., where his route will be the same as before given, — the whole distance being asphalt except a few rods of slone at the ferry. From Fulton Ferry he should walk up the hill, one block to the right, to Columbia Heights, upon whose broad western sid walk he may wheel \ m. without dismount, to Montague st. This same route should also be taken by passengers from Catharine Street Ferry, and it may be taken by passenger who comes over the Bridge, — though in each case there will be need of a preliminary \ m. of .'dewalk business. A more direct route from the Bridge terminus is to follow the sidewalk of Fulton st. for J m., until Clinton st. is met, branching off diagonally to the right; or else to reach Henry st. by going a few rods along any one of the side streets which branch off to the we.st from Fulion st. It will appear from che foregoing that a tourist who lands in New York at any of the ferries on West St., and who prefers (instead of visiting Wall St., as suggested) to follow that same street down to the Battery (either on foot, or in a Belt car), may there begin a long or short sail across to landings in Brooklyn, which are almost directly connected with the asphalt pave- ments, that reach without break to Schermerhorn st. The Battery is also the starting point of the ferry bo.its for Staten Island. Brook- lyn, however, by means of the so-called anne.x boats, which start from Ful- ton Ferry, has direct water communication with all the .railway termini on the Jersey side of the Hudson; and the traveler from the south or west is thus enabled to reach L^.ig Island without setting foot in the city at all. Assuming him now to be at the head of Schermerhorn st., whatever route may have brought him there, I remark that its asphalt usually has holes enough to demand careful riding, and that the act of getting over the horse-car tracks, at several of the cross streets, is sometimes rather troublesome. Belgian blocks, of easily ridable surface, will be found on Flatbush av., where one leaves Schermerhorn st., and also between 7th av. and the Park terminus ; but most of its south-side pavement is asphalt, as far as 7th av.,, down which (or down 6th av.) one may continue on asphalt to Lincoln pi., or to Berke ley pi., and then ride up the hill, still on asphalt, by either cf those parallel streets, to the stone-paved circle, known as the Plaza, which forms t!ic entrance co Prospect Park, — i m. from the end of Schermerhorn st. The most direct route from Fulton Ferry to that point is through Fulton st. and Flatbush av. {\\ m.): and a stranger who may have any curiosity to see the City Hall, or the shop? of the chief business thoroughfare, can trundle bis wheel in that direction and occasionally improve a chance for riding it on the sidewalk flags or the Belgian blocks of the roadway. The United States Navy Yard may be entered at the City Park, which is less thjn 1 m. from the City Hall, and which may be reached more directly by going through Sand- ■i?.. ''y-'i-^y^'"^'-' «-nta»' *- ,' ■ -. • *■■ ■-- A ROUND NEW-YORK. 89 St., at the tcrm.nus of the Bridge. The Naval Hospital is near the other ex- T ' f « ;. ^7""'"'="^ g'-"""'!^. ' •-• east of the City Park, and wi!h m mo Bedford av which is an important thoroughfare (mosti; of asphl t >ur far..), beg.nnmg at Division av. (^ m. from the ferries leading to Grand s an,l Rooseveu s^ ,n New York), and stretching thence southward. \ m, to the Pastern Boulevard, at a point | m. west of the end of its macadam.'and in. ea.t of ,ts begmn.ng. at the stone-paved Plaza before Prospect Park nncle b Fun? ,tJ7"V"'"'"'' " *''^ '^ 55° acres, and purchase was , V , ' • ^"^ *5.ooo.oco. The lake covers 6, acres, and is over- looked by the "carr,age concourse " (186 feet above the ocean-level but eas.ly accessible by bicycle), whence a fine view may be had. The "drives " for carriages extend over a distance of 8 m.. there are 3i m. of bridle-road and M m. of pedestrian pathways and rambles, lined wiJh fine old trees and ..mply suppbed with drinking fountains, arbors and rustic seats.^ Nearly a,I he wak3 afford a good wheeling surface of concrete or else hardened grave • and the bicycler may well disport himself upon them for two or three hour ' m a leisurely exploration of all their various turns and windings; for To restriction has ever been put upon such use of the walks, since the ear ies' recorded days of Brooklyn bicycling in '79. But, if he Wishes to tre he r -1 rJ .. T '^"' " ' thoroughfare for reaching the lower ent ance will find the distance thither to be . m., divided about midway by "the' gaulens where he will have to dismount and take his wheel down he : :in; 7T ' '^^'J "^' '^ -^ ^^^'^^^ ^° ^"--"^ -■- -^ ^he net anarch, and a turn up-hill to the right will take one to the "concourse" before named while a turn to the left will lead across the road without tL necessity, of Cmb.ng down any steps. Still a fourth route may be tak n a e gardens by going down the steps towards the lake, and following the t which skirts It: finally crossing the "west drive" and taking a'path down to the park entrance, just opposite the end of the more direct path lev.r ri nT'''''!; "T"^' "'■ ""' °' '""^ park, there stretches theBou- .rec Iv down to the ocean beach of Coney Island. After a short westward Z r. A TT""' '' ''''"^' ^"' '°'''^ ''^""Sh there is one broad angle ntar the end which causes a variation f om a nerfectlv straight line. The broad central roadway of the Boulevard is separated from the narrower road- ways on each side, by sidewalks shaded with double rows of trees, and it can b.niden in either direction without dismount, at almost anv time between M ch and December, though the condition of its surface greatly varies n hern T'm "' . " °'''" ''''^"^^"'- "'''' ^'^^^"^^ -•'■•^'^ (-P^ciaHy its "orthern half), and it witnesses a great deal of fast driving and racing - ^^n^s^^king im., being prominently placed along its west side, for the '••Appletons' Dictionary of New York," p. 46, somewhat altered. g?« :r :1V. ^';^ fff'^^f k* 90 r^iV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. benefit of those who wish to time themselves. The grades are unimportant, though they sometimes call a halt when the surface is muddy, or when the road-master's roller has been too long absent. At the ocean side, one may comfortably wheel, on concrete or plank walks, to Vanderveer's Hotel, on the west (open all the year round), or to the more fashionable Brighton and Manhattan hotels on the east, which are open only from June to October. During that interval, the return may be made to New York or Br oklyn by various lines of steamboats, and railway cars ; but the man who wheels back must simply retrace his outward course, — though the map shows a highway stretching through Gravesend, Nev/ Utrecht, Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge to the west side of Greenwood Cemetery, whose eastern border is quite near the southern entrance to Prospect Park. Two miles east of its northern entrance, where the macadam of the Bou- levard ends, the tourist may turn to the left, and then proceed northeastward, by rather rough road to East New York (i m.), where he will strike what is called the Jamaica plank road (though its surface is mostly rough and rutty macadam, rather than planks) ; whose first toll-gate is met in about i m., and the second one in \ m. This is just 3 m. from the end of the Boulevard (as measured by me July 30, '80, and April 7, '84), and on the latter date I had an excellent spin for about i\ .n., or until I passed under the railway. Ja- maica is about 2 m. beyond this ; but I only proceeded half that distance before turning off into the Hoffman Boulevard, a sandy and hilly thorough- fare, much of it unridable, which extends northward to Newtown, i,\ m. Macadam stretches thence westward through Winfield, and up a steep hill which I was barely able to ride (July 13, 1880), for almost 2m.; followed by i^ m. of poor sidewalks, to Queens County Court House, and then i m. of smooth flagstones, to Hunter',-, Point Ferry. This route from Newtown may be varied by turning northward from the macadam, \ m. after crossmg the railroad at Winfield, and going i m. more by a somewhat winding course to " Dickinson's " a well-known cross-roads tavern, and thence 2\ m. to Astoria Ferry, which is the northernmost connection between Long Island and New York. Its opposite landing is at 92d St., just above Blackwell's Island, but its boat3 also make a half-dozen passages daily down to Beekman St., adjoin ing Fulton Ferry, 6m. below. IVty earliest printed road-repcrt describes a ride from Astoria Ferry (Aug. 29, '79), " northward, along the flags of the sidewalk, for about \ m., till the macadam is reached at the top of a hill by a church,— on Trafford St., I think. Thence a down-grade leads to the shore road, which is excellent for more than a mile, though a short, rough hill re- quires a single dismount. The view of the Sound just above Hell Gate is before the rider all the while, and is a very pretty one. Afterwards, at the street whose terminus is just south of the ferry, beside the bridge over Suns- wick Creek, and whose name I think is Broadway- I rode due east on the dirt and flag sidewalks for i m. or more. By turning left, I might then have rt ached the direct road ior Fiuslung, which I tiled oil a return journey sotr.; I AROUND NEW-YORK. .:me later , but I should recommend the tourist thither to go to the end of the ^hore road, before described, and there turn inland to meet "he^ushinVroaH .u a pomt a m. from the ferry. His own route to that point .11 hs be 4 m na though I am unacquainted with the latter half of it, I am sure it cannot be more disagreeable than the 2 m. of direct road Th/ Z '*/^""''* from the bridge at the ferry, which I eroded' on foot, llT'^Z'::^ ag.sto.:es x m. without dismount, ^o the post office at Rave" swood and then , m. more without dismount to the ferry at Hunter's PoinT" ' -his ferr>' lands nearly opposite, at 34th st., also at 7th st f.i m H. . east from Washington Square), and at James Sli 3. Thich the third' n a ove the tower of the big bridge. Next below JamerS is Roosev e Ist 'Z whose ferry a return may be made up the river to the Broadway Fe'rrv .rook^^n wh.ch ,s within ^ m. of the asphalt of Bedford av as befo7e' escribed ; or the Brooklyn side may be reached near the Bridg^ t takL ferry at foot of Catherine st., which is second above James st.' The Broad' ;.vay Perry connects Broadway. Brooklyn, with Grand st., N. V.. which L an nnportant horough are stretching westward across the -land to D bross's .-.H wLh the to^^^i^a^i^ndii^- bi^^e t-n:^^:^^;;::; as.milar distance to West st., J m. below Hoboken Ferry. At the eas end of Grand st and very near the east end of Houston st., one may take a green " car which runs to the Weehawken Ferrv, at 42d st., crossinf ;th av. at Broadway and 23d st. From the foot of 23d st 4 m ea« of th if |ng. another ferry may betaken to Greenpoint ^ B o^kly: whi h 3 T •!., ; c ^'■"""P°"" f^^'-O- ^l-^o sends boats to loth st., ij m. east of U^h-ngton .Square. The boats between Astoria and Beekman sT make a ng Ro.lyn, Glen Island and other places on the .Sound, rarely land on the z To:::::^'z\T' ?'°" '^"^•' ''^^-^^ '''^- '^^^ ^^-^--^ -- - -er> at or near orand st., loth St., 23d st. and 34th st. At Glen Island thVro ..re extensive sidewalks of concrete; and the tourist mav thence v . >" the macadamized roadway of the mainland, at New Rochelle and ei her ' • Poh t .■: 7;' ^^«'^^" -PP- 73-76. Newtown Creek is just below Hun- Point and the mterval between there and the asphalt of Bedford av. r uLl" r "" 'V P"""^"' ''''' ^^'^''^"' ^^'h''^ sidewalk-riding Te avairbTr f. """"' '' """^ curb.-though two lines of horse a.> aie ava l.ble for th. journey. What were formerly the villages of Green P->nt and Williamsburg are now ro, ^in.H .. f u.:.,., ... . If' °*^'!^"- '"Of (abbreviated to E. D., for , .sta," purpo^ej;:::;^ ;; ;^"bundi;; iBfl 92 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. v. 1^ r' :.,j prominent enough to serve as a landmark is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, whose dome can be seen from quite a distance. It may serve to pilot the wheelman to the head of Bedford av., \ m. south and west. A fountain marks the head of the avenue, whence one may go on the Belgian pavement of 4tli St four blocks to Broadway, and thence four blocks to the ferry. Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, seems always to have been managed by me« of intelligence, whose governing motive has been to make it as pleasant a resort is possible for all classes of citizens ; instead of a red-tape labyrinth for the exhibition of "rules," or a piece of political plunder whose "jiatronage" might help their own personal aggrandizement. Hence, though it is some- what illogical in the managers to welcome cyclers to the walks (where wheels do not properly belong) and to exclude them from the macadamized roadways (where they by right ought to be, with the other pleasure carriages), their mistake is one of judgment, and it causes little practical inconvenience. They were quick, at the very outset, to recognize bicycling as an attractive and gentlemanly pastime, well-worthy of their approval and encouragement ; and their rules concerning it, however unwise they may be in fact, or unjust in theory — were based upon that friendly belief, and not upon stupidity, nor perversity nor narrow-minded ill-will. The Park Commissioners of New York, on the other hand, seem to be a rather ignorant and dull-witted set of people, whose quarrels and " dead-locks " over the great question, " How to make 'a fair divvy ' of the patronage ? " have been for years one of the minor scandals of metropolitan government. The average intellectual caliber of men who let a magnificent popular pleasure-ground fall into decay while they, its appointed conservators, devote most of their official lives to wrangling over the engage- ment of John Sn.ith as gate-tender or the d'smissal of John Brown as cart- driv ?.r, is evidently not large enough for the easy reception of new ideas. F:;nce comes about the absurdly amusing anachronism that the managers of the most famous public park of the most enterprising and nove'.ty-\selconiing nation on the face of the globe have decided to "wiite themselves down" in history at the very last end in the list of obstructionists, who will have finally been forced to submit to the inevitable and grant wheelmen the simple justice of "equal park-privileges " with other citizens. The rulers of Central Park may putter and palaver with the plain commands of Fate for a while longer, but the ultimate execution of those commands is just as inexorable as if thev were addressed to people endowed with a better capacity for recognizing manifest destiny. Nearly six years ago, I printed a half-column letter in one of the city dailies,^ =aying- "The announcement that the Park Commissioners, at their Yesterday's session, decided 'unanimously' against the admission of bicycles to Central Park, though it may seem to the uninitiated like a final settlement of the question, in reality only serves to open it. There are at present prob- Un I'he li'orid, October 27, 1879, rifth page, fourth coiumn. ■l:^i^i^Z. AROUND NEW-YORK. 93 ..bly no more than a dozen or fifteen bicycle riders in the city, and as thev are unorganized and unacquainted .vith each other, it is plain that the ' unanimous negative o the Commissioners was called forth by the petition of only a very few individuals. When the number of metropolitan bicyclers increases .0 .00. as It surely will within twelve months, or to 500, as it probably will wuh.n two years, their right to share the benefit of the public parks can ardiy be disputed by any one. When, then, the bicycle ride.s shaH outnum- ber the horseback nders, though they may not demand the 'equal justice ' of av,ng a like number of roads built for M«> exclusive use. they will surety hue influence enough to gain for their wheels the full freedom of rolling a o„g the existing roads. « • » After all. however, it may happen thai he metropolitan b.cyclers of the future will not ride in Central Park The creadlul possibility that I refer to is .hr.t the Park of the future may not be a nt place for a gentleman to ride in. Certainly, if its paths and other belong! M.gs are allowed to go towards destruction as rapidly in the immediate future as they have gone during the brief period since Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted was so politely thrown overboard by the revolution of a machine which's not a bicycle (I mean the machine called ' city politics '), no bicvcler wi have any inducement to visit it, except it be the mournfully sentimental one of gnz-.ng upon a magnificent ruin.' Surreptitious spins on the park paths and roads were occasionallv md.lged in during ,87c>'8o, mostly " 'neath the light of the midnight moo '" by youngish nders who cared less for their own personal dignity than for the adventurous " lun " of slipping noiselessly past the drowsy'guardia" of t ! forbidden domain ; but. in the spring of .88,. the clubs of the cit niTed ^ .normal petition that their just right to enjoy its privileges be r^coglel A tavorable report was made, on the xst of June. Ly thai one of the Xk onuinssioners to whom the matter was referred, as a special committee (S II. Wales, resigned April 4, ,885), but the majority "objected" and so r u «pon the wheelmen the necessity of making a teitJse. A^rdlngi; It^Vo 9 AM. of Saturday, July 2.-a forenoon made memoi able by the assassin- ho hred at President Garfield, three of their representative's entered he ak at 6th av. and noth st.: H. H. Walker, of the Manhattan (aged 33) 1 ng a bicycle, and .S. C. Foster and W. M. Wright, of the Mer ufy (ag d -S and 36 respectively), riding a tricycle. Their arrest quickly followed as V arrangement with the captain cf police, and, after the Jew hours' deTentio, neede for the formalities of refusing to pay a %, fine and of securh^a ' Ta rlZde • ^'^ ^^S'^f ^^-^ -'^ ^g-n^t the Park Commissioners C ur Ch ? "!f- -fT u'^'" ' ^'" '""'"'^ ^'^^' Lawrence, in Supreme JU( fement of the Commissioners, though he made no pretense of defending that . gjnent ; and in March, Z883. the Supreme Cour' i„ f.„ bench stained •h.. techmcal decision, " not to grant the petition for a writ of AasJ ......,". ■Anabstracof .his was given in TA. IV^U, July .9, .38., p. ,7., an abstract of the 1 I' i^ 94 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Public opinion, as represented by the press, arrayed itself with constantlv increasing emphasis on the side of the cyclers, during these two years of " lawing," however ; and "politics " had meanwhile substituted one or two men of modern ideas for the " objectors " of the old-red-sandstone period, in the composition of the Board; so that, when the League voted to have its fourth annual parade in New York, permission was graciously granted the paraders to wheel through the park. The appearance of 700 of them there (May 28, 1883) served still further to fix popular approval, and Commis- sioner Viele, in responding to a toast at the evening's banquet " said that it was the first day in many months in which there had been no accidents in the park from runaway horses, and showed by the whole tenor of his speech that he Wc-s in favor of allowing wheelmen all the privileges accorded to horse- men." The following week, June 8, the Park Commissioners voted the use of the 'west drive " of the park (sgth st. at 8th av. to iioth st. at 7th av.), between midnight and 9 a. m., to such members of the League as the Pres- iden'; thereof might recommend them to issue passes to, — he consenting to be held responsible for the conduct of these favored ones while in the park. The privilege was soon extended so as to include the Riverside Drive " except between 3 and 7 p. M."; and the exception, so far as I am aware, was never enforced. In fact, after the first few weeks of the experiment, no proper-ap- pearing bicycler was ever asked to show his " certificate." at any hour, on the Riverside Drive, — and very rarely was he asked for it when entering the park itself before 9 a. m. Last autumn, however, the anger of the authorities was aroused somewhat by the sight of numerous "beginners," ununiformed and unskilful, wobbling and tumbling about the lower part of the Drive ; and, as a remedy, the orders now in force were issued, December 4, 1884. These rules ignore the League in favor of the clubs, ?nd substitute for the written permit (which the gate-keepers were too lazy to demand a si:;ht of) a metal badge ("to be inscribed with the owner's name and worn upon the left breast '") of such monster size is to challenge general notice. To wearers of these badges, the Riverside Drive and the west drive of the park trom 59th St. to 72d st., are open at all hours ; and the west drive from 7:d St. to iioth St. is also open from midnight until 9 \. M.; except that tricvcles are not admitted to the park at all. " Lighted lamps must be carried at night;" and this is also one of the rules of Prospect Park. The rule th^'. " badgf will be issued only to competent riders, members of regularly organ- ized a i unifornied clubs, whose captains will be held responsible for the conduct of their members," was modified in January so as to include those of the unattached who are willing to prove their competency by a display ti lawyers' speeches; April 12, 1SS2, p. 117; the report of Commissioner Wales, with suggested rules for bicycling in the park, Feb. i, :SS2, p. 76 ; Comments of " J. W." upon these rulesnmi upon a volume containing 940 pp, of "testimonyin the case," Feb. 15, 18S2, p. 84. The expenses of litigation were borne by the Pope Mfg. Co., of Boston, and amounted to nearly $8,000, as i^ „.i !„._: ails of 1 r-~5H6 AROUXD NEW-YORK. 95 wheelmanship satisfactory to a representative of the c:ommissioners, « who w,ll conduct an examination of candidates, in front of the Arsenal, every Iriday morning." ■' In process of time, of course, all this tiresome official tomfoolery will be thrown overboard m New York, just as all similarly silly devices (for inter armg with the nght of cyclers) have already been thrown overboard by every other av.hzed c.ty in the world. No vehicle invented by man ever stood in so httle need o regulation " (to prevent interference with the rights and pleasures of otners) as does the modern bicycle or tricycle; and the oniy rule about u that needs enforcing in a public park is the same rule thl' must be enforced there concerning every other pleasure-carriagc : namely its expulsion from the roads whenever the incompetence or recklessne-^s of' it nver renders ,t a public nuisance. The incompetence or recklessness of ou ark Commissioners has insured to New York the bad eminence of stan .« last on the list of cities whose road-rulers have shown the mental and moral strength requisite for grasping this simple truth. The length of the interval bv which he meti opohs of America is destined to lag behind the other great cap.tals of the world, m re:pect to doing justice ^o cyclers, may be shortened ■n three ways : (i) by mcreasing the pressure of public opinion upon the exist ing Commissioners ; (2) by trying ^o insure the accession of men of modem Kleas to vacancies in the Board ; (3) by carrying the test-case to the Court of Appeals in order that final judgment may there be pronounced on its merits a.,d on the uuimate authority of the Commissioners, after a presentation of arguments by the ablest of lawyers. 1 " Number 791," on the east side of Fifth Avenue, just opposite the soth st^^ntrance to Central Park, was the wheelmen's headquarters in the earlj ICentral Park has an area of 840 acres (exclusive of the .5 acres of Manhattan Square and the 32 acres of Morningside Park, which are separated from it bv 8th av \ TnH ,1, T ; creating it out of a waste of rock and swamp was begun in .85 -Ihe credit 'forlh 7 es,gnofitbeingdueto Fredenck Law Olmsted an'd CX^'V^'^f^^^^'^^^^Z 's -the ::« 1 ""'' "r '" ^"'^^ ^'''''- ^^^ •^^ --'^-^'^ - sepa'atin; t nt^ tJ" .s, he part lymg aoove the northern line of the reservoir comprising about } the area of Z and h^eLTar 'T' "" 't -' ^ ^ 59th. ^.d, 79th. Ssfh, ^th.Lth Tdr. place of 8 th and H .T T' T '''/"' "' '' "^^ ''""' ^'^^^'^' ««P' '>^" 9oth takes the . e hk , o ,'he n T " °' '°°"'- '^•'^ "^^^"'" ''^•^^ - »^^^ -' "43 acres, and he lakes of the park cover 43 acres additional. A description has already been g ve„ o the r transverse roads (p. 68) which allcw the east-and-west traffic to go on beneath he level of the mZi:::'^^::'^:^:::!':^^''^^^^^'' ■- -'^."- ^^^ --xed district, noAh of the Harlem River : (i) Van CcrtlanHt Park ius* k-,, .nileot the Hudson River, ,06, acres; (.) B;o„x P^ri^rbetweir^t ^^"a^j Wili;:;.: 'k^^m.- 96 7£\V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. BS. -,-*•■• ■'%;■■■; i; , r »; a'. f kit . ■ years of metropolitan cycling. A shabby wooden structure there supplied shelter for the clubs, whose resi>ective "rooms" were inclose connection wit'i the office, salesroom and repair-shop of a bicycle agency, — afterwards removed to 59th st. The establishment of G. R. I'jidwell & Co , on 60th st (No. 4), now offers to cyclers in that part of the city all needed facilities for repairs or storage. Bicycles and tricycles may there be hired (at 50c. or 75c. for an hour— $2 or $3 for a day of twelve hours) for use upon the road : and learners may secure the aid of " a competent instructor of six years' exptri ence," in the spacious riding-school on the second floor, which extends across the front of Nos. 2 and 4. Below it (No. 2) are the rooms of the Ixion Bicy- cle Club, for two years occupied by the Citizens Bicycle Club, whose perma nent home is on sSth st. (No. 313, north side, a few doors \^est of 8th av.) The Wheel oi April iS, 1SS4, presented a picture and full description of " this first house ever built to be specially and entirely devoted to the use of a hicv cle club," and praised the success of the architect, a club-member, who de- signed it. The corner-stone was laid December 27, 1883, and the dedicatory reception was given December 3, 1884. The material of the house is brick and terra-cotta, and it covers a lot measuring 100 by 20^ ft. In order to have legal possession of this important piece of property, the club was incor- porated under the laws of the State, August 30, 1883 (though its organization dates from June i, 1SS2) ; and its printed list of active members in August, 1S84, exhibited 76 names. The rooms of the New York Bicycle Club (organ- ized December iS, 1S79, and having 41 active members and 7 honorary ones, in February, 1S85), arc in the building at the corner of 57th st. and Broadway They have served satisfactorily as headquarters for the past two years ; and as the club-janitor is housed in the top story, entrance can be had at any hour. The members of this oldest city club are banded together, as a matter of business convenience, for riding and touring purposes, — distinctively if not exclusively, — and, while not lacking in esprit for the organization as such, they do not depend at all for their other social pleasures upon meecings at the club-house. A similar characterization may be applied to the Brooklyn Bridge, divided by the river, 653 acres ; (3) Crotona Park, below N. 3d and Boston avs., 135 acres; (4) Mary's Park, in Mnrrisania, about 25 acres; (5) Claremont Park, about J m. east of High Bridge, 38 acres ; (6) Pelham Bay Park, on Long IslanJ Sound, about 1,700 acres. With coastal indentations and open water-front, this park will have a shore line of rine miles ; and it is to be connected with Bronx Park and Van Cortlandt Park by a macadamized boule- vard.—" Appletons' Dictionary of New York," pj . 50, 24S, somewhat altered. At the present writing (April 14, 1S85) the New Parks Bill, proposed by Mayor Grace, as a substitute for the act of 1884, whose provisions are presented above, is pending before the New York Legislature. This bill reduces the iotal area of the six parks from 3,945 acres to 1,400 acres, — cutting off Pelham Bay Park entirely; and substituting for it Edgewater Park (33 acres), now known as Spofford's Point and bounded by Edgewater road, Hunter's Point road, Farragul St. and thf shore of the Sound. The bill reduces Van Cortlandt Park to about 750 acres, Bronx Park to about 300 acres, and Crotona Park to 90 acres ; and it limits to $1,000,000 the amo.-nt ta be raised by tax at the outset, wherea-. the act of 1884 requires the issue of $3,000,000 in bonli, A ROUND NE W- YORK. i:icycle Club (organized June 2,. ,879). whose rooms are at ^(^ I ivingston St.. corner of latbush av.. one block north of the asphalt of ScLrn er "f. sT I he new headquarters of the Long Island Wheelmen (50 me„.bers) are m Cc^r; ' r°^"^^ °^ VTt- '- ^-^ ''' -^^ ^"-^^ - ^^^ ^-- -; I rospect Park. The rooms of the Heights Wheelmen (at 159 Montague st nort sKie. about half-way between Henry and Clinton st S^m Z ,be f-ry , are very generally frequented by the members, as ^ sort . To dal Ksortn, much the same way that the I.xion rooms are used, in New v" k and he Hrooklyn Heights Wcyclers, a boys' clul, store their wheeb,e\bv' at .8 Co lumb.a He.ghts. In the Eastern District, the rooms of t e , ,'d .";'Ldfo; "'""'"h','"'^'"''"^' "'^•■^"^' l-ving about .5 memb r^ r' a. ,.5 Bed ore av.; whde at ,59 Clymer st.. just off from the asphalt .,f p'i' f Td av. stands the club-house of the Kings County Wheel,, en wl" I-. ch ,7, .88r. and -cgally n,corporated M..y 7, ,884. this club has ahvavs Kcn a very act.ve one in regard to the .nan.agement .: racine a ,d da events '; and. ,n respect to the number and enterprising gc:od.ell n ' 1 o us mentbers, .t ra,,ks as a sort of east-side counterpart of th' Citiz , -"J 1.. ., of New ^ ork. Its house is -.vithin J m. of the ferry, and is'qui ea the .Dums long occupied by the c'ub at 13S Division av At each and all of these club-qu.rters. the visitin-^ wheelman is likclv to and, on .Saturday afternoons and .Sunday mornings, he will be likely to fi fj aach the c uWooms dur.ng business hours, when no members are in at end ance, e wll usually find a janitor in charge, to whose keeping l7ma7 fdJ entrust h,s wheel. A stor.nge room for bicvcles m.ny als. be oumli , tl e asement of "the magnificent temple of the New York Ath etic C lib " o„ tli^ sake of calling the stranger's attention to the existence of this " LIZ athlcfc club-house in the w.rld,- which cost $300,000, ancl was ak „ not I -n of by ,ts meml^rs in February. .885. As ^egardJ the ra ^i ■ , ^ ^ tnbed (pp. 8s, 88 9.) as a means of getting around the citv, and as regards e cxpens,veness of the process, I m.ay say that the ferries' ear tie f ,:. 2 -'and make very frequent passages, and charge a toll of on or th.ec cents; wh.ch is increased to ten cents in the cpse of the P. er. J of th ?%^"^'se, and the E..st River boats connecting the Vew York luM^lJi!''";!"^'' .f "■!''■' '"■' "■=-«" Ca„a) „. and Fori I.e. ■ "'■' ■-""'i=i"r«.oir.au.„.c,if my owr. experience represents their HI TEi\ THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. rule. Tlie^e up-town ferries, and also the ones running from Astoria, maki- fewer trips thpn those in the down-town region, and they stop business for the night at an earlier hour. Five cents is the uniform fare on all the horso car lines of the city, on the I5roadway stages, and on the elevated railw.jys during six hours of each d.iy (5.30 to S.30 A. M., and 4.30 to 7.30 v. M.), and during the whole of Sunday. During the other eighteen hours of the other six days of the week, the fare is ten cents, on all the elevated roads ; and I rcc. mmcnd the visitor to ride the full length of all of them, as the cheaper,t way of exhibiting to himself the magnitude and massiveness of the metropolis. V,\- -t.irting at the Hatterv in a train of the so-called 6th av. line (which enters .h.it avenue 2 m. above, by the street just below Washington .Square, anil whicli leaves it at 53d st., continuing thence through 9th and Sth avs. to the Harlem River at iS5th st ), the tourist may be carried 10 m. in a comfoit.U)le and elegnnt car, whose windows will show him a swiftly chang- ing succession of strange and interesting scenes. So novel and expeditious a mode of siijht-sceing, at such insignilicant a cost as half-a-cent a mile, is no- where else offered in the world. From the elevated terminus, the journey may be continued by a connecting train across the Harlem to High ISridge, Kingsbridge, Vonkers and Tarrytown, through the Nepperhan valley, already described (pp. 75,79), and a belated bicycler, who may choose t leave his wheel in that region for the night, can therefore get back to the city with but slight cost or delay. I advise the exi)lorer on the return trip to change cars at 59th St. (which is the station nearest the clubs' headquarters and the south- west corner entrance of Central Park), a'ld go thence by the 9th av. line, along the west edge of the city, to the terminus at the ILittery. Hj will do well, also, to "stop over " for a train or two at ii6th st., the loftiest station in the citv, for the sake of a more leisurely view of the wide stretch of coun try there spread out before him. The concourse of pleasure vehicles which mav be overlooked here in the afternooh, and the long rows of street lamps in the evening, make this st.ition a particularly notable one. It differs from most in being placed i.iside the tracks, instead of outside them, — thus en- abling a transfer to be made between the trains going in opposite directions, without the necessity of an intermediate descent to the street. Such change implies the payment of a new fare, howe\er, whereas no extra charge is made the traveler for any number of changes between trains going in the same di rection. The 3d av. line leads from the Battery to Chatham Square, thence through the ISowery to Sth st. and thence through 3d av. to the terminus at 129th St., just below Harlem 'Jridge. This is nearly a mile tait of the nearest station on Sth av., and, though a horse-car line makes close connec- tion, the explorer is advised to walk eastward along 127th st. to the terminus of the 2d av. line, and ride back in one of its cars to Chatham Square. This route turns away from rd av. at 23d st. (after allowing its passengers to look down ui)on the tops of four-story houses, and to have extensive views of P^^'it River in tho ret^ion of Hell fiateL and it connects at the Chathani AROUND NEW- YORK. 99 c- , c. ■ ■^'^ '•'• ^^^ station of the United Statp« Ar,^.. S.gnal Serv.ce m the tower of the Equitable Building at .o Broadw- tlie third outlook which I alwavs recommer 1 tn th. u ""^o^dway, ,s \cw Vork Tifv t-i . recommer J to the man who wishes to " see " h/hM r ■ ; t-levato.s g,ve free access to the roof; and the views to L Dool. nor any other one of the wor kl', . . * ""^ ^'''''' "°^ ^''^'■ thing^ ail comparable i;' it '"'' '"^'^ °^ "^^P''^'^' ^^ ^'^^ -X' me,.d i,s study ,o those who wish 7o mike e'x enTv , "'"*"' "P""' '"'^ ' — ' -ib..i, „s ,arge,. map (abo. ,8 ZTi.:^z:::S7T:\ r'^; ■: '''^ '^^°" '^^- crclcs centering in the New York City Ha^) takeHn t^ . , TJ ' ""''' '^^''^'^'^ ^^ "^'" »■, N. Y.. Tremon. N. J several town, o P , "^ ^"^^ "»^="- Ct- Poughkeop- Cher pages .easnr'e .. by'r^WhL L le'r lo InhlnT' ""'^ "^ °^ ^""^ ^^'^"'- ^'^^ winch show the entire surface from the Battery to Ta,Tnol?f,r" %"''"'" '° ""'P^' '""'' °^ >" -he a>ch. The same publishers issue atlas»T of .^T "^" '"'' '^y°"'l' °" "^ »"'« of "o rods counties of the State, and for more thir <^ ctm "ir^hT sTa "'"i n^ '"°" '"*" ^° °'''" n-n, .0 ; Massachusetts. ,o ; Connecticut, 6 ; New JeTse v flp " "* "^ ''"°^' ^ ' ^"^^ ^; Ohio,,; Kentucky,;; Michigan, „; Mi^ouri ,/ K P'^""!^'^"'^. =" : Maryland, m.ii)s at the following prices • New V„rl, r;, j ' '^*"«^. 7- They also publish pocket- County (which includes Brooklyn), 50c I^ J Island """'7:' ^n '' ^'°°''^' "'^- '' '^'"SS LW Counties, joc. ; Rockland an^' QrTn^e ct,„1' "" '-"^^ George. I...5 ; Sullivan and ^^■.n«.U,. totheinch a.dthesi.eo1ttX.?C^VbT. :^^^^^^ '""^ -'>' ^^^ =::^n;-t;ts:^;--^^c.itr7:-^^ d-.=r,be several of its pocketfmaps in he fo^^nlVlft^^^^ "^'^ "^' ' ^"^ ' ^l^^" -ha, each map, unless otherwise specified tprinted tcol TT' '' " '° ''^ ""'''-'"-' '" ^ ^'"■'^-''-"^ cover. I heani,y^ecol nTt t ; eiw^^^^^^^ T^' '''"' '"'''' present chap-er, Colton's " Westchester Countv 'W ,7c "'^'°" ''^»^"'b<^d in the '0 the inch; sheet, .9 by x8 in price l^? k ^' '^ """• ''^'"^ '^^*' ''=-^<^' ' 3-4 m -.es l,ing in tha; colty. andT he"r ads in 1"^?;"'' ^" ''''''' ^'"""^-' ""' "^ -V aa;.rab,e^hart for bicyclers, on acc::^:;;? ^e' s^ r^r!^--"^: ^"-"^ ^'^"' '^ '' ^' '"■' '"'' *"'^ ■•'^°"« '^-'^-"^ - - ■- i"ch.is aiL^^^;,;:„; ^;;;^ ■>!-,^ » ill I •' lOO TEX THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. revi«y M ii... Ji.5"). 5ii""g»' "tf"-' unwieWy '"' r^l"^ ""* '* »'"'*'"' '''" '"*'' aloMK the «l,..le u.a>t of Li.i.iRclicm, tor $ m. inUiid, and il«ic..mam» a »ix<.i.il map ..( Uruuk- lyn and the l..«or 5 m. of Now V..tk; «> llut, nionnu-d, (or the w.ill U*5>, 't «""l'l be an ...l.h- tiontoanym.lioiK.li'^"'-'"^'-^"'""- ^"'•'"" "'-'''^ "* '•"•■ '•>'""' •"■■^' "l'''^'"-'' •" #■ Vlj-'l'v 17 in.) and 50c. (15 I'V u in.). •»"'! ■"•■paratc maps of Brooklyn (57 hy ,<> "' and 3a by 24 m I .it .imilar prices. '• New York (.iiy " (7^ t'V I' "' ). *''"' '""•^'» •>'"' l'"''^'*^ buildni^s shown, tosis »i.5o (mounted, *;); or the lower half of the »am. tl9 by Ji "i-l, ihe region below ./uh .1 . can be had alone for »i.5o; but a better city m.ip for hangnig in a club-r(H.m is that ^hi.h Jiow, .ill the country wilhin 1 5 m. of the City H.>ll. on a scale of i-a m. to the inch (^4 by '.4 i" . mount.d, $>.<). A p.K.k.t.inap 01. a sni.iller sc.ilc (J.< by J6 in.), showing all the country wuliin jj ni. (.('the City I l.iH, and having lom circles reckoned from there, may b ■ bouvht (or Ji; iml another one of the uty a..d suburbs (a6 by v, in), sode 1-2 m, to the inch, (or 5.x;. <)( N\w York St.ite, there are (our maps ( iH by 14 i". Ji by 2< I'l >, co .mih respectively, 50c., Ji, #1.50 and *io,— the latter beiiij; French's topoKraphical map, mounted. New Jcr»;.y has lhr.e (.< by 14 i"-, i'' by f.) in. and 26 by 35 in.), p. ices 50c., 75c. and *i 25,- the latter bein;;":. a scale o( 5 m. to the inch, and havin: its railroad distances shown by siuec- marks si.;ni(yinK miles. A new m'pof the northern hall of New Jersey is promised for 1SH6; with ihelidjoining southen. counties o( New York, and a k'xhI part of Westchoster county on the ea.st (75c. or >i 1. and its scale o( 3 m. to the inch will doubtless make it acceptable. Other map-pub'.ishers are G. H. Adams & Son, y, fieekman St., and !■:. SteiRC,, 25 I ark pi., and the offices of all (our are quite near the City Hall Park. I'acing this, is the newly-opeiud sporting-gixKls emiH.rinm o( A. C. Spalding & tiros., 24. tiroadway ; while the similar . xlrnsiie establishment of Peck S: Snyder, at the old-time quarters, 126-130 Nassau St., is only a few'iei« away K. I. Ii..rsman's store, 8..-S2 William St., is about 1-4 m. beyond; and the nmtr thither le,ids past f. Peri;.!o-s, H7 Nassau St., and R Simpson's, 9S Fulton st. Wilson's " Husi- ness Directory " pr. .ents classitied lists of all the trades and professions. Trow's " City Direc- tory," giving the names, occupations and addresses of the entire f^xed population n( New Vnrk, is l^ept open (or the use o( the wayfarer at every drug-store ; .ind, by application at the office "f any hotel, he m.iv freely consult Mack-y's " A. B. C. Cuide," or Bullinger's " Countmc H-us. Monitor," published weekly and containing the time-tables of ine railway .tnd steambo.-.t lines with (ares, distances, and other useful information. There is one book, however, which the explorer of the metropolis should inevitably buy, .wd carrv in Ir.s pocket (or constant re(erence. I mean "Appletons' Dictionary of New York," cum- piled bv Townsend Percv, in .H7,), and having new editions in e.tch year since then, " revised l» the date of i^sue." It contains 24S pages, compactly printed in double columns o( brevier, measures 6} bv 4J inchts, is ha!(-an-inch thick, weighs seven ounces, and is mpMed, postpaui,on receint of joc! bv th^publishers, D. Anpleton ' Co., of Bond st. One of its maps, on a scale of ..^'inches to the mile, shows all the ro.ids of tne city to the Y.mkers boundary (.ncludum those of Central ParkV with the routes of the horse-cars, the elevated railways and the femes ; aimthcr map gives .he lower 2 m. of the inland and a part of Brooklyn, on a larger scale : and a third map exhibits a section of the region round about, on a scale of 4 m- to the inch. I ime-t.ible. and f.-ifs of all the ferries, locations of the piers, starting-t^oints of all the steamboat and stean". .hip lines, routes of the horse-cars, rates of cabs and hacks, stations o( lii- elevated roads. director%- of street > ' •■ ' ' telegraph-offices, police-stations, theaters, li.nels, rest.u.rant.«, churches, clubs, sr-r". tks. h»^ lis, and oth .• i.-titut^ i.s, may be mention,-,! ,,mong the num- berless carcfiillv ' '" ■:- ( statistics, compactly presented, which tender this little ^"<' . Wf rthy o( its big name. It is a genuine pocket-companion, which no visitor can afford tn be without and which will save (rom three to t.-n times its cost during every day of his sojn ■„. For the convenience of wheelmen who m.ay desire to have this present ch,^pter as a pockel- companion also, I intend to republish it as a separate pan.phlet (to be supplie.l by mail in return for twenty-live on^-c.-ntct.,mps>, and I shall prepare for it a special index, givn,g references not only to every town and village but also to every street, road, fen^-, club-h-u hotel and land- mark of any sort wliOoe name ;.". — .cn;:i;:.=u ::: :■■•: •■'=•■• IX. OUT FROM I'OSTON.i Whkv I nni.l,al mv soom. autumn tour, on the l.r.t Friday evening of I ^ September by c.rcl.ng round the f. „tain in W.^hiuKton S<,uare t.^c n.mM> ca led .n Mortal eye saw u not again until tl.c early dawn r' the a>t Saturday .n Maj. when the d.zen hicvdcrs who rode u, the iKwLe^a la.ul . ar liy that sign also was n.y identity revealed to th. youth who had consented to take a two.lays' ..de with ,ne. ac.ording to my pr >pos.^ in t .e /... UWAf and who. after a ,an.. spin fron. the suburbs, w's .waiting my arrival m front of the Hotel Hrunswick. vvajimg my Mounting there at 8.30. we took . 5-m. path to Ha, ,! s.n.are stop- ,.n,, a half-hour for breakfast at Carl's, and proceeded V. . !:Z:^ Maiden and Lynn, to Salem, where we tarriea from ..45 to ,r Ma the' I's^^.ch, 6 m , h. ; and Re ,ey railroad stat.on, 5 m.. J h. There we took '-ra.n to IW.outh. X. H. ; and atter indulging U,\ n.. mo of v :el .Mg. .n order to v.s.t the Kittery Navy Yard, in the State of Mainr d i mounted for the mght at the Roekingham House, at 8.15. The we h;r o" IK. day had been favorable; f ,r though the clouds threatened in the morning no .,„g o.vever. were not only threatening, but they fulfilled their >l.rcat. Wc.eft 1 ortsmouth at 5 o'clock, and reached the Merrimac Hotel ' c ^vt;;-r;t " '"■' '' '■'': ': ^ '"""^^'^^ '^^■"'^'^^-'^ -"^''-". f- th Is Th ^ ' ''"; "' "" ^"= ^^^'^"''^'-^ ^"'■-'^ '■"»« rain during the >t hour. The base 5 or 6 m. comprised the poorest roads c.ountered on our. and durn.g the last . m. the n.ud became cjuite troublesome Ha" '2 l-cakfasted and cleaned our wheels, we had a fire made for the drying of I r .arm.nts. and betook ourselves to reading, as a pleasant way of rsfin, - uneuntd the 5 o'clock tr.ain should start for Lton. EvL when we ent down to d.nner at 1.30. we had no hope of avoiding this ing orious end our e..curs,o„, though the rain ceased to fall so'on after'noon The n .;""':'■' """ ''^"'^^"^ ^" examination of the roads, and the ex amn a„on tempted us to risk the mud and start along at 2.4: th^ raM" "'l!^" ^l^^t',''"""'^ '' '""^ ^'^^"' -^ f-"d no trouble, for •^sod_and sunsh.ne bad absorbed the moisture of the morning, and the 1 1- .»,._... • •••^ri -• - ^.v>.,<„^ fr^ta, August 26, iSSi.pp. 183-.89. ^::^'> I02 TE.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. track, freed from the dust of the previous day, was at its very best. The rain had freshened all the foliage ind given life to the atmosphere ; the fruit trees were in full bloom, and in many cases so overhung the road as to fill ihe air with fragrance ; in short, it would be hard to imagine i)leasanter conditions for riding. The pumjj on Rowley Green, 6 m., was reached in an hour after starting, during which hour about a mile of perfect shell road was whizzed across, and the second hour showed a record of 8 m. more. The third hour, GJ ni., brought us to Salem, in ample season for the train. When I dis- mounted in front of the Hotel Vendome, Boston, at 8.20 o'clock, the cyclom- eter indicated 93 m. for the two days. My companion proceeded a little further, and as he rode somewhat before joining me, his record for the two days was a dozen miles greater. Considering that he was a boy (jf eighteen, who had never before been on a tour or ridden more than 20 m. in a day, I thought his ability to do 105 m. without inconvenience or subsequent ill- effects was a pretty good proof of the healthfulness of bicycling. He was a leader on the road more of the time than a follower, and he often bobbcl along serenely, through sand and ruts, when I myself, out of prudent regard for my more venerable bones, preferred to make frequent dismounts. Save for the si.x hours' delay, we should have covered the whole distance from Portsmouth to Boston on that memorable 29th of May ; and I am sure he will always be as glad as I am to recommend the track in question to all wheelmen who have not as yet had the pleasure of its acquaintar.cc. * My record for Monda\, the 30th, was 19^ m., which included 4 m. in the tail of the great parade, and an afternoon spin to Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The n";xt day I did a similar distance, as one of a party of eighteen, who lunched at the Blue Bell Tavern in Milton, by invitation of the Boston men. Wednesday afternoon (I didn't get started till afternoon, because I didn't "go home till morning," from the orgies at St. Botolph's) I went to Dedhani, and rode some 35 m. over the admirable roads of that region, including an- other visit to the reservoir, and a coast down the hill there, when my wheel lln wheeling towards Portsmouth, the Seabrook sands can In- avoided by following iht horse-car tracks from Newburypcrt, by the Chain Bridge, to Amesbiiry, instead of crossing liie Merrimac River on the old travel bndgo, near tlie railroad bridge at Newburyport. After cross- ing the Chain Bridge, wheelmen should take the second right turn at the guide-board marked " 18 m. to Portsmouth," which road leads to the large Rocky Hill meeting-house, where a guide-board is n-.arked " Hampton, 9 m," which ro.id ends at Meth;' ^"""^ ""o^d repairs in reach the rai road station thprp nm • 1 u l- ■ snjjpery. l did - ..i.no. th,ci. enough to cut. and the shivering Speni^rians.dldTc;:::! IC4 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. •» '': >;■; coats, evidently felt murderous towards me for my apparent ability to keep warm without a coat of any sort. Brookfield, 8J m., was reached at 11.35, and West Brookfield, 3 m., \ h. later. When I started on a£,..in at 2 o'clock, the mist had lifted, but the east wmd was still threatening me, and at umes in the afternoon there wei-e occasional brief sprinklings of rain. At the hill by the lake side, about a mile b?yond the hotel wnere I should have taken the left-hand road to Warren, I took the right-hand one ; and, when I discovered my mistake, I determined, rather than retrace 3 m. of poor road, to push on to Ware instead, and complete my tour to Springfield by that longer (anH probably rougher) route. F"ive miles '^. ore brought me to- Ware, at 3.30 P. M and Thorndike, 8 m. on, was reached an hour later. A mile of good side walk riding led to Three Rivers. Jenksville, i\ m. on, was reached in \\ h., spite of several hills, and another mile of good sidewalk then led to Indian Orchard, at which place I should piobably have arrived two hours earlier had I taken the Warren route. Dusk had now settled down, and darkness soon followed, with occasional rain-drops ; but the east wind still helped me, and I rode nearly all the way across the plain, either in the rut or on the ad- joining edge of hard gravel to the horse railroad terminus in East State St., Springfield, 5 m, at 8.15. Then followed 3 m. of slow wheeling over the dimly-lighted macadam of the city streets and the planks of the North bridge, whence I walked 2 m. homeward without trying a single mount. My day's journey of 64J m. was completed at 9.45 P. M. ; and by 10 o'clock the rain, which had been threatening me every hour since daybreak, was pouring down in right good earnest. The cyclometer showed 286^ m. for the seven successive days, an average of 41 m. ; and this was the first occasion of my mounting a wheel each and every day of a given week. (Later report, p. 112.) iPemberton Square, in Boston, may properly be taken as the terminus of the smooth roadway of the State of Massachusetts, and I recommend it as the objective point to be kept in mind by any one who plans to begin or finish a bicycle tour at ihe capital rHy of that ancient and honorable common- wealth. It is an eminently respectable little enclosure (perhaps 25 or 30 rods long and about as wide as Broadway), with a macadaii roadway surrounding the central strip of grass a. id trees, which are protected by an iron fence. Red brick houses, mostly devoted to lawyers' offices, shut it in quite solidly; and as the outlet of its southern end (westward, into Somerset St., and so, by a turn of a few rolls to the left, to the head of Beacon St., just east ot the State Hiay n, looj, ^^. u^v4. ,-- -A_ .- -'t ... ■ -i-V OUT FROM BOSTON. 105 characterize the adjacent plaza called Scollay Square. That s^one-paved oiKnmg IS the terminus of Tremont St., a ma' - artery of the city, stretching westward for 3 m. or more (and, practically, also of Washington St., which runs nearly parallel to it) ; and, as the tremendous horse-car traffic through those and other thoroughfares converges and concentrates about this point S'.oliay Square is a place where the car-drivers and teamsters ceaselessly rage at o.,e another.-roaring out their robust curses and merry jests from morning unt.l midnight,-and where the car-conductors continually do cry. In strange contrast to all this rush and tumult, is the profound repose of the decorous lit- tic I'cmberton Square, which I have before described as situated but a few rods away, and which I have thought worth describing to wheelmen because Its name has long been familiar to them in connection with the Bi IVorld whose office has been in one of the upper-floors of Xc. 8, at the north end of the square, since October 28, 18S1. On descending thence to Scollay Square, the tourist is immedin^Hv c on- fronted by the Crawford Mouse (where I have secured a very decent night's iodgnig for a dollar, on two or three occasions), and if he wishes to patronize a more pretentious or expensive hostelry, he may find the Revere the Trem ont. Parker's and Young's all within 40 or 50 rods to the left or ri-rht The Uty Hall and the Court House are close to the two last-named ; while Fan-^uil Hall, the Post Office and the Custom House, as well as many of the theaters museums and other places of in -rest, may be ^und within i -n of the square; and nearly all the steamboat-docks, ferries and railway stations are w.thin i m. of it. The great brick building which serves as a terminus for the ra,l-.^y from Providence (the Albany terminus is \ m. east, and both lines lead to New York), and which stands a few rods from the south side of the Pub- lic Garden, maybe reached by riding westward from Pemberton Square alonir icu-on St., as far as it forms the northern border of the Common and the I iil.lic (,arJen, and then along Arlington and Bovlston sts. (respectively the western and southern borders of the garden), a distance of about i m with- out dismount. The massive clock-tower of this building, whose dials are . uminated b> i.ght, is not.able as a landmark th.it may pilot the tourist to the house of the Boston IJicycle Club, hard by {>io. 87 Boylston St.), or to the snll more elegant mansion (No. 152 Newbury st.), built by and for the Massa- chusetts Bicycle Club, and said to be the most substantial structure of its .ort ... the world It was dedicated March 25. 1885, and an illustrated descrimion of It occnpied a half-dozen pages of Outin,^ fr,r that month. « This ma"irn--fi- cent temple of the wheel has three stories and a basement, with a frontage of -M t. and a depth of 90 ft., and it stands 22 ft. back from the sidewalk. whXce a wheelman may ride directly into the arched doorway, upon an incline o< con- crete, which takes the place of steps. Red brick, terra-cotta and light shades ot .Nova Scotia stone, combine with the broad bay-window and oriel of the second story, and the inscribed scroll-slal. in the'gablP nl.^v. .k» .1.;.^ ._ ■orm qi„te a handsome front. The land is owned in fee simple, t'.ough'the ^ :i io6 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. vote to 'form a corporation for the purpose of purchasing land and buildiiiK a club-house' was taken as late as March 4, iJfS4; and the beautiful structure owes Its existence 10 the agency of one man— Colonel Albert A. Pope." An illustrated history of the Boston Bicycle Club, the oldest in America (by Charles E. Pratt, for four years its president, in the XVheelman, March, 1883 pp. 401-412), gives a picture of its former house on the corner of Union Park and Trcmont st., which was taken possession of Decemljer 5, 1881 ; and also of Cobb's Tavern, in Sharon, a favorite objective point for cub runs. The finest boulevard in the city is Commonwealth av., stretching in a straight line from Arlington st. (the western border of the Public Garden) to the street called West Chester Park (i m.), and at right angles to each of them It is the second street south of Beacon st. (the north windows of whose north- side houses overlook the Charles River) ; and just below ^he avenue is New- bury St. and then Boylston St.— these five thoroughfares being parallel to and equidistant from each other, for the specified mile. This is listinctively the fashionable " Back Bay district " of Boston, reclaimed in recent years from the marshes which used to be .Ooode J by the river tides, and it is now pretty solidly covered over with the most ornate and expensively-built houses in the city. Dartmouth st., which is the third western parallel of Arlington st' (border of iablic Garden), forms the eastern dde of the great Hotel Ven- dome, which fronts northward on Commonwealth av., and it also forms the eastern side of the New Old South Church, which fronts southward on Boyls- ton St. The rear of this church is close upon the rear of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club house, which fronts northward upcn Newbury st. ; and one block eastward from the church is Trinity Church, fronting on Trinitv Square (a favorite rendezvous and starting-point for club runs), adjacent to which are the Hotel Brunswick, the Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Natural History Museum. All these buildings are within \ m. of the clock-tower, before recommended as a useful lan.'mark for the visitor's guid- ance, and this may also serve to show him where Columbus av. branches off southwestward from Boylston st. ; for that avenue, after about \ m. of Belgian blocks, offers nearly i m. of asphalt surface, to West Chester Park, up which he may turn, right, to Commonwealth av. Dartmouth st. also affords a smooth connection between this and Columbus av., near the end of whose asphalt a turn may be made, left, through East Chester Park, and then by way of All..iny, Swett, Boston, Columbia, and Washington sts., out of the citv to Milton Lower Mills, and ^o to Quincy, Brockton and Taunton, or to Paw- tucket and Providence. Chestnut Hill Reservoir, however, is the best ob- jective point for the stranger to steer for when he first wheels out from Bos- ton ; and the best route thither, from the end of Commonwealth av., is t^ e direct one which is supplied by Beacon st., leading over the so-called Mill- dam. Brighton St., which is crossed at right angles just before e.itering the reservoir (whose roads allow a circuit of 2\ m. of ideally smooth macadam) is almost exactly 5 m. fro iberton Snuare, .^ OUT FROM BOSTON. lo- My only visit to the editorial rooms before noted as overlooking this sq.Kire was on the afternoon of the day of ,ny landing in Boston, Sept. lo '81 on the return from a tour in Nova Scotia. I then gave careful s.udy to the various su!)urban wheeling routes which had been marked uoon the -ar^e map hanging from the wall, and I procured a copy of the Bi. World oi August xi containing H. W. W.'s brief report of the roa.ls leading to Providence and W arren, R. I. {63 m.). Two other tourists were mv companions, next mornirg as tar as the reservoir,-o,..- route being the indirect one through Brighton - and before they took leave of me, at the • -i,u where the road dividing the two ponds ot the reservoir has its outlet on iieacon St., their united praises of a certain hateful " take-me-too belt " were beginning to have the deplorable effect of unsettling my just prejudice against it. At 10 o'clock I started on taking the first turn to the left (Hammond st.) on the brow of the hid which I ascended westward from the reservoir road, and going bv this street and then La Grange st. to the store in West Ro.xburv at 10.40 (5 m.). There I turned to the right, and, in a few rods, took the left fork in the road (Center St.) to Memorial Hall, in Dedham, at u (2i m.) ; passing under the railway last above the station called Ellis (^i m.), and stopping for dinner at x\or- W00.I [\\m.); whence I rode to the post-oftice in Waloole (4^ m.) in 44 min which was just double the time taken by Ji. W. W., who, however, reported the surface in superb condition. In ordinary weather this track (about 16 m ) between the reservoir and Walpole could be ridden in either direction with- out dismount ; and, on the present occasion, in spite of the deep dust caused by SIX weeks' drought, I did hardly any walking. The direct road for Provi- dence from Walpole leads through Wrentham, but I, in obedience to the guide before quoted, took the road for Foxboro', and then, i m. out, where I uuyht to have turned to the right, down the turnpike, I mistakenly kept straight on for i m. Turning here, I walked 2 m. along a Lad road which would never be ridable in any weather, and finally reached the turnpike again, in North Walpole, whence I rode 4 m. to x-'oxboro', and, with some de- tours, to the central park in Mansfield, 3} m., finishing there at 6 o'clock a day's record of 35 m. In lack of any regular hotel, I spent the night at an odd sort A public boarding-house, whence I started at S a. m. of Wednesday, in a threatening mist, which soon became a light rain, and reached Fist'Attleboro' (8^ m., though W.'s record says 9J m.) in i| h. ; thence through the manufacturing villages of Dodgeville and Hebronviile to Pawtucket (8^ m.), in ij h. Here I halted an hour for dinner, in the midst of a heavy shower, which had not ceased when I, being already pretty thoroughly soaked, resumed my journt,. An hour later (3 m.) I took brief shelter at a church shed in East Providence, and soon afterwards got off :.om the proper trad- and tramped through the woods, on one cf the cross-roads, for 4 m. or so, without getting a single chance to ride, i- bllowing this came 6 m. of riding, the latter part of it on a ^.Moum sneii surface, to Warren, at 4 o'clock; and then 4 m. -f sidewalk ) «i"i icS TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BIC /CLE. wheeling, with only occasional dismounts, to Bristol, making 34I m. for the day. There was no rain during the final hour; but it fell pretty steadily dur- ing the night, and at times in the following forenoon. The sun shone out at I o'clock, and the rest of the day was bright and hot, in spite of two or three short showers. Between 3 and 6.30 v. M. I traversed 19 m., ending at the Hotel Dorrance, in Providence. The sidewalks of Bristol I explored for 3 m. before beginning the return journey, and the best part of this was the 8 m. of shell road between the Barrington bridge beyond Warren, and a certain point opposite Providence, where I turned to the left for the hotel, which I reached (3 m.) after much trundling on the sidewalks. Though tlie rains had made the roads hcvy, they were all ridable, and I was only i J h. in doing the 8 m. The scenery of this route overlooking Providence bay and river is attractive; and, if I had kept straight northward, instead of crossing it to reach the city, I presume I might have had these water-views all the way to Pawtuckct, about 5 m. above. Bristol is a sleepily respectable old town, near the end of the peninsula betwee--. Providence Bay a;ul Mount Hope Bay, and is distant 5 m. from the very lively manufacturing town of Fall River, which lies upon the eastern shor-^ of the latter. A ferry used to connect Bristol with the northern end of Rhode island island, upon whose southern extremity, about 10 m. below, stands the city of Newport; and the present keeper of the light- house, at the old ferry landing, about 2 m. from the center of Bristol, occa- sionally plies his row-boat for the accommodation of a casual traveler who wishes to visit the 'sland.* My own wheel entered N^-wport by boat and left it by train, on the occa- sion of its single visit there in 1880: but the train-journey, which wa, on the 1" H. P.," in Outing, August, 1S84, pp. 350-354, describing a Septembcriide from Provi- dent to Newport, says : " We enjoyed the prospect spread before us as we let our ii^ichines run along the down-grade from Bristol. The road continually becomes Eteeper, with here and there a patch of sand, until it terminates on the beach near the light-house. The kee])er was twenty minutes in rowing us across. Mounting then nea- the Bristol Ferry House, a commo- dious sum.ner hotel, we toiled up a steep hill, abounding in sand, ruts and stones, and, nt the top o' it, instead of continuing strain -.t south, we took a cross-road to the right, and, after follnw- ing it for .ibout a mile, again turned south into the ' West ' road. Immediately on turning into the cross-road, the wheeling became better, and the rr-d is ridable from here into Newport, with t'le exception of two hills, 5 and 6 m. distant from N. The lasc 5 m. were traveled quickly, und..'r the rising moon, and we ended our un, from Middletown into Newport, on a perfectly i.,acad.amized road. PrcvlousK, however, we had rolled our wheels over the f.iir island in every direction : Now along Bellevue av., bordered on either side, for 2 m., with tine residences; now into the country, ever var\-ing in aspect, where the ancient windmills and old farm-houses contrast strangely with the modern pinnacled and gilded cottages ; now to Paradise, and to the Hanging Rocks, under the sh.adow of which Bishop Berkeley was wont to sit while he was writing the ' Minute PhiIo.sopher ' ; now around the Ocean Drive, which stretches for 7 m. along the rocky shores of the Atlantic ocean. • • • Instead of going to Bristol, as we did, the wheelman may, at Warren, bear to the east, .and go through Fall River. Crossing Mt. Hope Bay, on the Slade's Ferrybridge, he may ride south tlirough Fall River and Tiverton, crossing the .Seaconnet river over the ' Stone ' bridge, to Rhode I.sland. But this route is at least e m. farther, with the last 2 m. at ' Ferrv Nerk * -".r. Rh.".?^." '=l:;r..-t tKr.-.;;,~K -..-.--,; A^^.\ --.-...1 " CUT FROM BOSTON. 109 first day of summer, ended qui xly at Ta.inton, and I thence wheeled to Bos- ton (40 m, 9.30 A. M. to 8 p. M.), with four companions, who were the h,st ones I ever toured with, though I that day completed my i,cx)oth m. Thnnmh •• the swamp," 6 m. from the start, we did much walking or slow riding for 1 m and then, at the hotel in Brockton, 5 m. beyond, we rested ij h. for dinner At the Robertson House, in Quincy ( 13 m.), we also halted \ h. for cooling bever- a.^cs, and quickly agam at the Blue Bell Tavern, about half wa- to Milton Lower I- alls (4 m.) ; whence our course led through Roxbury '3 m ) to the hotel m Brighton (5 m.), where I spent the night. Cobb's Tavern, in Sharon just beyond South Canton (a favorite objective point of the Boston Bicvcle' Club), is 6J m.from Milton Lower Mills, and M;, ,sfield is about the same distance beyond Cobb's. "These roads as far as Mansfield are excellent much better than our country pikes." is the report of a Pawtucket man (Tl!e U.uv!, Peb. 6, -85), who took that route homeward from Boston; "and from I!luc 11.11 to Cobb's they are like billiard-tables, giving us the pleasantest part of the ru.i. My route to Pawtucket, from the Hotel Dorrance, in Providence, on the mornmg of September 14, was 5 m. long, and lay through Westminster st. to \. Mam St., whose car tracks I followed to Olney st. and then up-hill to the macadam of the Swan Point road (ijm.), the sidewalks being generally ridable without need of dismounting at the curbs. After going up-hill to the left through the center of Pawtucket, I turned tn the right at the top of it, and pro- ceeded along the sidewalks to Valley Falls Bridge (ij m). The sign "S m. to Woonsocket " was i Jm. beyond here, and I followed the sidewalk to Ashton, and then the road, a gradual ascent of i m. or more, to the church on top of Cumberland hill (51 m.),— having been 3 h. in doing the I3im. The descent was sandy, and most of the next 3 m. had to be walked, to the region of the bridge, followed by i m. of riding tea central point in Woonsocket. After this came i m. of rather poor road or sidewalk, of bl ' k sand or loam, to Black- stone, on a little st earn of thai name, whose dark and dirty waters have an outlet at Providence ; and I was tola that the river-road running alongside It all the way to that city was continuously sandy. The ortlv header of my four days' tour was had here, while trying to ride along a nairow ledge 'oetween a deep rut and the bushes, just before reaching Blackstone. About 2 m. beyond is Millville, where I bought a ticket for the train which I was told would, save me from 6 m. of sand; but, on learning that a quarter-dollar would be exacted for carrying my bicycle that distance, I refused to submit to the extortion and so plodded on. After i or 2 m., the road graduallv improved, and I reached Uxbridge (26^ m. from the start) at 2 o'clock.and halted brieflv for hinch. The railroad station in Worcester (iSJ m.) was reached at 5.20 P. m., and no walking was required on the way,— the final third of it. Irom Millbury in, supplying the smoothest stretch of the tour,— Northbridge, Farmersville, Fisherville and SaiindersviHe havinr' been nrpvir-.jvilv ^.~.^=:^a «',... u Taking train to Springfield at 6, 1 roae thence 4 m. into the country ; total, 49 m." no TEX JHOUSANn AflLES ON A niCi'CLE. \VH , Ill- I \ ^^ m U! . . Two months before (June 16-17, '^i)> • whe' led from West Springfield to Pemberton Square, in Boston (103 m.), — my first day's ride (5 a. m. to 6 r. m.) ending at Spencer, 44 m. from the start. The first dismount was caused on the sand plain, 7 m. after starting, and 2\ m. before I reached Indian Orchard, where 1 stopped for breakfast at 6.jo. At Jcnksville, i m. beyond (whe-e I recommc.id tourists to cross the bridge, 1., and take the route for Ware, in spite of what my report of 1881 says against it, on p. 104), I turned to r., and, after crossing the railway, kept alongside it through the sand ; following which was I m. of clay or loam, continuously ridable ; so that I reached North Wilbraham, 3J m.from the bridge, in just i h. White sand, al;ernating with short ridable stretches of loam, was the rule as far as Talmer (5J m.) and West lirimfield (5} m.), though I managed to get over each section in about \\\\. The hilliest and sandiest track of all was in approaching the last-named station; and beyond it I encountered "road repairs" for ij m. Progress then became pleasr.nter along the shaded banks of the Chicopee River, whose waters plashed merrily over the st .les ; and the ridable stretches were more frequent to West Warren (j m.), whence I rode all the way to the hotel in Warren (2^ m.), and --ested there 3 h. for dinner. Resuming the wheel at 3.30 o'clock, I found decent roads to the fork (2J m., near the hill and pond) where I, two yeari before, unwittingly ♦urned towards Ware. I now ecommend that route as rather less objectionable than the one just descrioed. The distance between this pond and the bridge at Jenk^ville is 23 m. by either road, and each one of them contains more miles of unridable surface than any similar stretch of the entire route from New York to Boston. Ne.xt in number may be ranked the bad n.iles which the tourist on this track must conquer between Milford and Meriden, in Connecticut. The smoothest spin of the afternoon ended at t'le pond ir East Brook- fiekl (7 m. from the last-n^nicd pond), following which came a big hill and several smaller ones, ending at the Massasoit IIoi.se in Spencer (3^- m.) ; and when I started thence, at 5.30 o'clock, next morning, I was forced to do con- siderable walking, here and there, by sand, or loam in the f^rm of deep white dust, or gravel which had been carted on by the road repairers. 1 surprised myseli by riding to the top of the big hill in Leicester where the churches are ^first on the east sidewalk, then on the concrete of the west one and finally in the roadway), and also to the top of the following hill, where stands the brick church,— for a short shower had by this time made the surface heaw. Just as I stopped for bre:ikfast at a restaurant, a little beyond the public square ii Worcester (ii^m. and 2\ h. from the start), the rain began again in good earnest, and it was still drizzling when I resumed my ride at 9.20. Turning northward at the railroad station, I soon climbed up the big hill on which stands the State Hospital, descended thence across the causeway of Lake Quinsigamond, climbed another hill and so reached the fork (3} m where one sign points to "Shrewsbury ij m." and the other says " Westboro mI rM_ The rorrp^r rovt"?* !q "r^frrsHI" fV-. . '-.:-.-? V "- =!.~.-.^-. ,-.',,,'.',„., ,,,,.'^... ...........1 ■lit ..ir K \\ OUT FROM BOSTOJV. I II for about I m. from this point, and it is the route by which T. Midglev once ro e straightaway to Hoston without dismount ; but. as I had tried it vv "en .Hl.ng '"the other direction, two years before ,p. .03). I thought I wou d explore the Uestboro- route, and so I plodded straight ahead, up on! tr -Hlous h.l and many smaller ones, sandy and difficult at best and some of .hem too stony even for ridin, dc..., _.,„til, at .,.40. where 1 crossroads s.,n sa,d NorthUro 3 m. to the 1.." I turned off to the r.. and found gld nd.ng to the ra.lrro: station in Westboro' (:c .„. and .J h. from the es v.rant n. Worcester). Thence I wheeled continuously.-not stopping e en or the road repairs on the down-grades.-by a wir.ding and hilly road.'to o^'l m Ashland. 9 m. in ij h. Resting there a similar time for dinner I rode . .south P ram.ngham (3 m. in i h.) and thence without stop (3* m. in ^c ^in Uo ,.4> when I met .me wheelmen at f.he water trough of Chestnut Hill Res- ervoir dim., and. after speeding once around it with them. I took a detour o.tt rough Brighton, and finally readied Pemberton Squa e nd the C " ord House, at 7 4S o'clock, with a day's record of 5 Jn. I sailed the fol- lowing morning for Portland.-there to join th. party whose week's Idven. urcs 'in the Down East fogs " may be found detailed in Chapter XX -and J remember that several of my short day's journeys " iu the procession." ol cU of equally good aver..ge surface, tired me far more than this olit " day punt, which was more than doable the length of the longest of them 1 he air was clear and bracing, with bright sunshine, after the fore noon s ram ; and the afternoon's roads were rather improved W h I think 'hat from , shland (33 m.). and perhaps even from We'stboro' (p m j" l\^ l' have. ndde. to Pemberton Square without a stop. After getting Tear thT top ofuie hillat Xewton Lower Falls, instead of turning f . to ob v he s gn Boston 10 m..' I kept on, r.. to the summit. " Boston 9 m."; followed the tefe J .h poles until I reached the sign "Beacon st." in the wo^ds. a^d then on tnuied^ng it. up some steep but smooth hills to the reservoir "The Cyclist's Road Book ot Boston and Vicinitv "hv A T a.u- t Boston, was published by him April ., .SScanH , , A, w' ' ^'^' '^°"'"' ^°^ Park, or from the office of t^ 5/^1-1 'iJ'' T ^'"'" ''" '■"'^^"«' '7 ^est Walnut by an adjecve describing the surface, or else a numeral designatmg the a" stance 'htr of iHse pages (6 by 4 in,), and a similar number given .0 advertisemen s tu^the ,1, I* M9; and in the second edition thereof (.880 i^rir^ fJ^r ^ ,aa;- . ' "^ ^P' '^'♦^ pp. ^..-..6, ard raise the total of " rout '^.'o sT ,h^ h T T^l '" '"''"'^'^ ^°™' '°^'' b--long outside of M.assachuse«s " Tr f' /a ^' f^'° "'°'" '''"" ''*'* °^ "^"« new statistics L,A. W. ..mpiJ^^^Sd J^'Sitf S^t;-^;^:!:!'^^'^ — -". ^-, ...4, by J. P. BurbanK, Boston), contains .. •■ routes! "c;ndensed:wuhli:;;nSt^e- 112 TEX THOL'SAND Af/LKS OX A BIC SLE. ■■wm'in. ncnptinnn, into 4 pp. of fine type ; lists of towns" with the qualities of the riding ineach,"aiT.ii,-.;iH alphabrtiially by iDunlics (4 pp ); general and sectional descriptions 1 ' the State (5 |)p ), li tti list(6pp.l, ly:ague infcirin.ition, with names of consuls and other officers (11 pp.), advertisenv 1 1» (O pp.), and a doien blank pages f 'r memoranda. Its siie is jj by ')} in. ; weight, ijoj. ; price, 15 c ; and every wheelman who designs to take a tour in the State should buy a copy of ihe Division officers (M. L). Ourricr, at I-awrence, or F. P. Kendall, at Worcester). 1 lie bgraphical State Atlas (official, 1871, scale 2J m. to i in.) offers eith county separately for 50 c. (cloth back, 75 c), folded in cover for pocket use ; and hot!, these iiid the Boston n.aps ,iiay be purchased of Cupplcs, Upliam & Co., 283 Washington St. " lii'k- shire," a good map for pocket use, is mailc d free to every one se 'dii:^ -t request to llij lierk-^liire Life Insurance Co., of Pittsfield, whose advertisement has a place, of course, in one corner iif the sheei. The siie of this is 32 by 24 in., though the map covers only about ^ of it; and, a^ the county reaches entirely across the w. end of Mass., the roads of Conn., s. ; N. Y., w., and \t , n., are shown for about 3 m. from the Ujrder. The scale is about 2I m. to i in., but all thi/ roads are clearly shown, as well as the hills, mountains, streams and lake-, ; while a special sur- charge uf red i' given to the main roads, and special symbols of that tint (star, cross, circle a:id square) show the place of each school-house, cemetery, church and railroad station. .As ili- loads from WiUiumstown (n. w. cor. of co.) to Pitlsfield are fairly ridable, and thence down the Housatonic valley to Conn, ase very fine, I ex|K'Ct that the Lerks. Life Ins. Co. will be qiiii.k'y forced to print a new edition of their excellent map, to meet ihe demands which wheelmen wiil make for it,asares'Jt of this present announcement. The copyright(i.><'<3) is held bj itsdesi-mr, Walter Watson, C. E., anu the engraving and printing are by Strmlicrs, Servoss S Co., N Y. G. H. Walker & Co., lithographers, i6j Trcmont St., P>oston, publish the following cmmty maps: Essex, 1884,32 by 24 in., li m. to i in., which covers all the coast-line of the Siaic from the suburbs of Boston to the border of New H?i jshire ; Worcester, 18S4, 25 byji in., 2 m. to I in. ; Franklin, 18S5, 2S by iS in., li m. to 1 in. ; Hampshire and Hampden, l^■^^, 2S by 22 in., ijm. to i in. ; P-istol, iSSo, 28 by 18., 2 m. to i in., "prepared expressly for this alias"; Plymouth, iSSo, 30 by 20 in., 2 m. to 1 in. ; and Barnstable, 1S80, 22 by 20 in., 3 m. to i in., " prepared expressly for this atlas " The Cai^e Cod extremity of the State is included in t.ie jatter county ; Plymoi-'h takes in the rest of the coast as far as Hingham, and Hristol cover the region between Plymouth and Rhode Island. Just north of these two counties is Norfolk (whnse map is now in preparation) stretching from Woicester County to the coast ; while between the two latter and Essex, lies Middlesex, whose map (30 by 25 in., i\ m. to i in.) is to be issued May 15, 1SS5. The three parallel counties of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden nuke a square section of the State, with the western end of each bounded by Berkshire and the eas;cr:i end of each by Worcester, which also covers a square section nearly as large as the three com- bined. The publishers mail these maps at the uniform price of 25 c. (or 50c., if coloredi; and any desired rnad-n-ute in Massachusetts may thus be traced out in advance, by every tourist who supplies himself with one or another of the e cheap county charts. "The Wheelman's Hand-Book of Essex County " (compiled and published in .April, iS^i, by George Chinn. of Marblehead, and Fred E. Smith, of Ipswich, and mailed by them on rLCc'il o{2oc.)is described upon its title page as " contaiirng brief sketches of the various cities and towns of the county, with a lis* of their objects of interest ; a directory of hotels, clubs, census and executives ; road-routes, etc. ; also the history of the League of Essex County Wheelmen.'' It comprises 48 pp. (si by 8 in.) of wnich 12 pp are given to advertisements, and weighs i\ 01. The towns are arranged alphabetically, and no attempt is made to connect them by " routes, ' or to tabii'ate or index the information in the pamphlet ; but every tourist from Bostu.i to Pon?- H^,...*U »...^1,f hai-awVioUcc tr\ Afsii;^ K;rTic^1f with it 3c w^ll ac with W:l1kpr Sj C!o'sniaDoi ^m Ksiex. OUT FROM BOSTOJV. - .lu. c„y H„ '■ Harvar. J^l £ZulZlX7T' ""'^ l" "' '""«'" "^ "'^ -"'- .uid. .o Ca.n.ndKc. The remainder .7 he ,rL i . Id bv .h'' ""vT'' '^"""'' "> '' ^ '"'^•' 'J..50), and •• P.K^ket-book of Cincinnati " („ c ) ; W * r « "'"•'^'' °' ^P""ffiM" s. . N. Y.. pubi:.h maps of ■■ „,.„„„ ,nd ad a .-n L^' u. h T.* '''' ' "' '^"""" <.^..uin..,oc.,,«,.,ehconuin,ap,anolu Bo:i .ot^'^'^'^ '33 by 31 m., |,), and the- " New England State, " (., U -. ' '""' *-""" >.-" .-...f M-. on large scaie.^upan:: M I '/J: L '/• '° h'^Tu '^^' ''''''"« ".^..a .0 them ai. a m;;^^ ^.J^"^ - ^^ tS t :'.":^ tich\r '^ -- :=r ;=;:^ .:;r H:rLrt;rrh ^ -*-' ■ - *- ---"-«-: ^. an.. H m, w. of the central point, which is practically PemLZwrr'TH " " "^ ? "■ mponant streets are civen as u,^Il ,. .1, 7 ■. / "^ "'""«""" Square. The names of the a'^.. ..ccompany their colored cJunt mi;^^ S;pt "ull , '"^ ^'^"'^-^ -ve. Covers ih.ir State Atlas of V, i, nearlv out nf ,U "^P'"' ^P''^™ ^ '-°- have mst informed me that Mass., R. [. and part of Conn.- (,i by 2, in 2I m , ^'^'°7;^f.'**a, 75 c.) each. Their we.Kh,n. . o.) sells for •, o. ,3 if Lu. ted. Th ir m '; onhe n ' '" ''"' T" ' '' ' '"' '" ) is issued in two ,i,e,, with three stvl« ,\T f " '""'"" ("«'« ""■ '<" -de •') is 44 by 4, in., weighT o. on pa chm nt'-" J"' ■'^'" '^^ '''^"' <" -™- .u,cl folded to 5 by ,1 in,, it weighs ;ioz and cos.:*' '^' "h T'^ '"°^ '"'^'"='' *'"' ^■"'■' .l.e same ; folded in cloth-slip and c e , 50 "^ '■ .^m c"f ^^"^'^'''.' "" ^°""^' " ^"-^'^ 75c. (.J o..U..75(3i oz.)or«..35 (40 ) These.re th T . " '' ^^ ^' '"' =""^ "=-'' -he previous p .agraph as recomm nded ly th .reri offiirT. r'"^' '' "' '^^'""'"« ''^ publishers (who " also keep in stock -. fulU if T ^'"' ^-m. circle " of the s,.me a dav „r two before my own w.stwarT Id (;: j; )\;rt' " '■'° ' -T. """'^ ^^'^ ""'^ t«..n Wellesley and Ware. A few divs 1.!. ' r ' ' '^.^ "'"""'"'' *'"^ '^''"^ ^e _^- , and riding a 48 in. Columbia, started from the co lege-Jd I; .1 m h ''7 "° Belchertown, ,0 m.. at sunrise, , h ; -he s-cond .„ m , w „ "* ' """"^ -' ' ''=>'°"d r-1., half of *hich had to b • walk d " reouireH h ' . ' ""'^ ^''^^'- ^'""^ ^^ ^ '-"'>y fM. Reaching Worcester at" To 1' Ta d h^ •' ' ^' ^ °' ' '^ "^^ '"^'^^ '^ ''-^k" -"^H s,,.., , -or.hboro.;^r:;:;hr ^2e;. wiSiif-- " ■'^v""" "1- Milidam to Cambridgeport at c ^c p w , , ixewton, F ,^on, and across lucainly mou,,., for the harde^i " m'o th.:' dav' "e " ' T"""" ' ^ ^''^"' ' - ^-'W that this is one of the longest ^oad rid^-s in .h"^ """"' ^'^ ^'^ vigorously, but I ™^c!es for the honor of the club which is II" '''^ ^-'H^- -^ I rejoice .0 sacrifice my nding. I dismounted but once dti:g he ^ ^ and r "h H K t" "'"=«" '" >-g..istance 'Cluck. This was th.. (,...., JlJl !' '"•' '?".'' ''^''^''^ '^' hotel in Framingham at 8.,. ■ "'cluck. This was Ih,. fastest f.r-.-.r. "iiinddeii '"« liie iast 10 m. it seemed as if I had .- «,.«,. „, „.„,„ .. ,„-:;z2z z:z rr. :,;'„,„„ J II 114 TEX THOUSAND .\flLES OX A ItlLVCTE. mechanical. I stayed in bed only (mm 11 till 3 30 n'clcick, and at 4 A M. reiumed the rii!,- homeward My muscles were, if possible, stiffcr and lamer than ihe n\y A b^'ore, but be^an to limlier up a little at Northboro', where I br-ak fasted. Worcester wa.* reache-'. at . jd Ware at 1 v. M ; the only header of ihe two days rewarded some recklev% dowii-hill ridmu Ti.-.ir Bclchertown ; thet.ce a driving rain aicominmcd me to Amliersl at 6 i'. .M,, >4<> m. The mxi day I experienced no ill effects, and was in bfier trmi (or further riUinjj than when I Mar.ed ihouKh I had covered 205 m. within 3.S h " This in condensed from a three-column report m Bi. If'or/J ol April lA, 'ii, p. ji^S ; and briefer accounts appeared in Amher StuiUnt ad Boston HerdU, sest previou.s day's road recoril 111 (lermany was .(he city hall, Springfield, to the U. S Hotel, Boston, in 14] h. (riding time, 13} h,\ taking breakfast at Warren, din' - at Worcester .-.nrl supper at ii.>s- ton. Four days afterward.s, L. B. (Iraves rode fri.'in Northampton to Boston, over a course prev- ou.sly measured as 104 m. by Butcher cyclometer, but which was increased i (ji. by a mistaken detour at the end. From his report in II^Aee/, Nov. 2!!, 'S4, f extract the following : " Stan, 4 A. M.; Amherst, 7 m., 1} li.; Hjlchertowii, loj m., 2 h , and stop i h. for breakfast; Ware, m m.,2h. Roads from N. to A., first half fair, second half poor and sandy ; A. to B., not liid. though the grade is steadily iipw.ird ; B. to W. , the worst stretch of the day, including plenty of long hills, so rough aiul sandy, as hardly to allow riding on down grades. I left W. at 11 o'clock, in comp:>'iy with S. W. Coe ; rest ' ' Vmner at the Massac it House, S;jencer, i to : p. M.; reached Worceste. al 4, and waited there .ill 6, for repairs to steering-head of machine (Yale 54 in.); thence to Bnghton at ni ght, with one lamp to give light for both of us. Fortu- nately the roads were in very good shai>e, and the only fall of the entire trip was a header taken by my .om|)aiiion, when he struck a high curostone in the dark. Towards the end, wi- went astray from the proper track, to koxbury station, and ti.ence we jounced along the cobble st th.an 21 h. after the start at N., and my riding time was just 16 h. Neither of us had ridden much d- -ing the precedi.ig days, and we both felt in good condition the day following." ■ The same ■ a^^cr v f Oct. 17, 'S4, gave a brief report of a Sunday ride from Orange to Boston, Oct. ;, mm. nrf'.'jen 5.30 .A. M. and 10.30 P. M., taken by C. H. Shcpard and W. R. Winchei' of the hi.-i-named town. Their riding time was 14 h., and iheir good condition at the finisli w:i^ shown by the fact that they next dav wheeled 55 m. The road from Orange to Fitchburn wa> far from good, and they were 6 h. in ' walking " the 32 m. They found fine wheeling betwec- *ka-.> t^A KT»-*UU... J ....»„* .U., -;: tr. ]',.~.--,r.: i-r tfeo '•.■::-. '..^^ X. THK ENVIRONS OF SPRrNGFlELD.* o. civilization in the locality po Lcssil the- "^^ r' "" "' ' '^'«^' '''-'«^*^^ .;.e...>re^ in the fact that tL^:;;:^!:f::;.. ':;:::j:.;t;;r":^T'^- A.Mcr.ca .s now flourishing in the little inland city of Snrin.ll , [ '" -.vs of Han.pclen County had not been greatly irnorovf' 1 ' '^^ '"«*'• '" "'irty years ago. it i. hardly probablfthat aTt K "'" ""■" ^^"^'^'°" -.ncssed the phenomenon of an increas7i , th ' ^^ ^r' "'^"''' ^^^^ '-- three to three hundred. Th. reZ " ourn"" .^ "' "^^^' '"^">'^"''^- -.de to teach various interesting ' lesson J a r."h '"^^ "'V'""'' '^^ energy and shrewdlyplanned business combn.at L in t '""' °' '""'"^' 'o pass; but its most .--npressive and la.f n . '^^'"K'ng great things -" 'i-fact that an exceUon^l y g Id'; f JjlTca^^ ^><^_':onn.a., - basis upon which the tournamlu itsel rea 1 re s:d W '^ '■\''^" ""• '" 'lie region as poor now as mi i8co Zr J,,T Were the roads '.u.ch of a power to coni.re .1 1J°\ '''P^ngfield b.cycling would not be ■n. such a show as tl. u w- ch I 1 " , '^^-'^P'^ '^e machinery for creat- ine late Samuel iTowl v, ,e ero f 7^""' "''^'""^"^ '"^'^^^ his varied efforts to persuade'th tiz ns ■'^'"'"^''' '^'-^"^"'"'^ '" vantages, and to impLe upon he tool fr '"'""' "" ' '""''^ '°"' ^'^- noticc to the attractiveness of ?hl ''"'"' °" '^''^'^ ^° '''^ect their and to the compar J LVp, 's "7"°^ "^'^ '" ''^ "^^''^^ '--' ^'-"^ -ncs of .. par Jdrive-wavs't "led f "'^"'"'"^ '"'^^ ""^ ^ — ^^'^ ti^n rather than for heavy business trlffi ''^'•'T °^ '''''"'''' ^"^' ^^'^^^^- ■ng so,ne excellent " breathin.-pUces " f' T "" ^"^ ''"'^ '-"■''•^''>- ^"^"^- Park could only be met bv an^enlt ' '"^ '"'-'' ''"'^"'^ ^""^^ "^ a central - -■ enunentl', prac cabl a JeT" "?'"'?"" °^ •"°"^>-' ^'--- --^d •'--rseofafelvearsl: :: :^J'^^^^^^^ -" ' ^^i" ^ope that. i„ ;--haIl have become regu Ur id ^ of thT h'Vr' ""^^'^^^'^^ -'i- '- --'li-cl. The men who drive horses Iv no^^r ' "' ^'"^ ^'^"^ ""^^ »"" drive wheels (though, of the numb, ir ^k "" ^"■""">' '""^ '^^^ '"^'^ ;'. -;"cl be hard to n.L' on: ^h^^ ^ ^s fr'iX T\ " '"'''''' '--" '"cycle), but they alwavs do have a TrT.fuJ-^\ frequently th.,n the ought clearly to see not only thal^ooST i "^/T ^"°' '"''^^^ ' ^"^ '^ey -en .ocalit, but that the LiSsf :^,:;:^: Jl^^-.^^^-^ !" ^^ i uliHfflff m « 1 ■ 1 f ■ -^ ;li m»^ ii6 TA^A' /'HO OS. LVD MILES ON A BICYCLE. good roads better md more numerous. In like manner, this present minutt- report of my personal observations on he roads of Hampden County which are most practicable for bicycling, though designed chiefly as a guide for the benefit of visiting wheelmen, will serve also to assure other strangers that the environs of Springfield may be readily explored by any sort of pleasure- carriage. Old residents, too, m.i , perhaps, be interested in "-eading of well- known paths as related to the new mode of locomotion, and the description m • possibly even recall to their mmds some agreeable combinations of routes for their own afternoon drives. In pushing my bicycle a distance of 8,000 m., I have made trial of about 4,000 distinct miles of roadway, situated in fifteen separate States of the Union, and in Canada, New r)runswick. Nova Scotia, and the islands beyond ; but in this somewhat extended experience I have never found another town of which it can be said, as of Springfield, that a bicycler, starting at its central square or city hall, can ride without dismount for eight or ten miles towards all four jwints of the compass, — north, south, east, and west. The streets of the nation'-, capital city arc incomparably the cleanest and best paved ones to be any\/here found upon the North American continent ; but when a Wash- ington wheelman gets beyond the limits of the municipal asphalt, his choice of routes for a comfortable afternoon's ride becomes extremely limited. The New Yorker has, within easy reach, — north, south, east, and west of his beloved Manhattan Island, — finer and more extensive macadamized roadway? than any which Western Massachusetts can boast of; but the four series of roads are disconnected by water from each other, as well as from the island, though many miles of good riding ni y be had on the northern part of the isi. 1 itself. The State House at lioston stands on a hill beside the sea, but though the man who mounts its glistening dome beholds much water, he also overlooks a territory possessed of a larger " mileage " of smooth, hard road- way than exists elsewhere in any such small area of the New World. The entire suburban region, within a radius of 15 m. or so, is cut up by a network of roads which are almost all excellently macadamized, so that a bicycler may ride long distances without the necessity of dismounting or of frequently re- peating his course. The rolling countrv around Boston does, indeed, justify the lauda:ions of its friends who extol it as " the paradise of American wheel- men." We have nothing elsewhere to equal it, or to be easily comparable to it. The region tli.it ranks next to it in attractiveness must be "next by a very long interval " ; but, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that rank may fairlv be assigned to the region arotmd Springfield. Outside the Postoii suburbs, I think there is no other |)lace but this vhere the bicycle may be driven so far in so many directions without stop, and where such extensive and pleasant routes, which involve no repetitions, mav be so easily laid out. " I'urgatorv," rather than " Paradise," however, would be a visiting bi- cycler's designation of that section of the city's chief thoroughfare on which he first tries his wheel when he emerges from the eastern portal of the rail- ENVIRONS OF SPRINGFIELD , . 117 road station, for this is just about at the middle of that busiest mile of Main St.. where the macadam has been worn into ruts, and holes, and ridges- where .. IS kept almost continuously muddy by regular watering-carts or' casual s ovvers and where every one of the cross-walks causes a tremendous jolt lus m,Ie section of roadway, which stands in such crying need of a new top- clrc..s,ng of powdered ston.. extends from Memorial Church, on the north (Where the cycler turns to the left in seeking the northern entrance to the camp on Hampden Park, or the West Springfield route to Holyoke) to State ^t., on the south, which thoroughfare leads eastward up the Armory Hill' and -> .he old post road to Boston. The horse-car tracks run along it ^or a -n.ie and a half, and, though the first half of this distance is up-grade ,t is macadamized smoothly enough to be ridable for a bicvcle. At the' fork «:>ere the horse-car tracks end, the left road should be taken, and a-^ain the' C. into the woods, at the next fork,* 4 m. beyond. Thence the courle ex te.uls 4 m. in a pretty direct northeasterly line across the plain, after which a cho.ce o several streets is offered in descending to the hotel in the manufact u..ng village of ndian Orchard. The h.ll to the eastward may be ea.Iy mlcen up, and the nder soon crosses the Chicopee river, at the Tenksvilll !-ndge,be3ond which he can proceed on the sidewalks for i m. or more o wards Three Rivers before being forced to halt. This point, where he stops .s upwards of 9 m. from the City Hali in Springfield, and marks the eastern most hmit of good riding. The whole distance may be done without dis- mounting, though at many seasons of the year an average rider would be un- -ke V to get across the sand plain without once or twice leaving the saddle On the las Thursday of last December, when the sand was weU packe to ,e.ner vv^ h frost ai d ice, I myself rode without stop from the west .nd of ■ hT ; f ' "^' '"'^ "■ ^''°* '^^ '-■"'■"^^ °^ ^I-" -nd State sts to the hotel in Indian Orchard. The time was an hour and a quarter and the cydonieter recorded the distance as exactly 8 m. Its record between en ks V le and West Brookfield is .4 m., by either one of two routes both of V nch are very poor, and necessitate much walking through the sa^d The route which I recommend as preferable leads through Three Rivers Thorn n'; ^f '"pV ^•^'l: '""^ °"^ --"^^ ^^X- ^y tourlts lead through NoTh N.lh.aham, Palmer. West Brimfield. and Warren. The point of sel^.tl .s at the JenksviUe bridge, where the man bound fcr Palmer turn to he n^.nstead of crossing the nver; and the two routes come to eh /gl the pond, which hes a mile to the west of the hotel in West Brookfield n.n. that point to Worcester and Boston the roads a're almost contilu fv Klable. and they generally supply very good riding. The best route from T ';h "T 'h ":""^' ^^^^^^^ Northboro , and Fra: n^ham The nor hward nde from Springfield is the smoothest and prettiest Tnc -ever, and usually ends at the Holyoke House, 9 m. from the C y Ha" ' Ihe up-grades are few. and easilv rwi.i„., :„ „:.u.: ,• . ^"^ "^"- liij m Iki' M y ■ u^^mm I: :l ''* :'. 'M'M^' iiS TEA' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. dismount, except occasional repairs to the road-bed. This consists for the most part of reddish gravel, containing clay enough to pack it firmly together ; and, though liable to be badly affected by the spring frosts or by long-con- tinued rains, it undoubtedly forms the best single stretch of country road in Western Massachusetts. The road-races of the bicycle club are run upon it. and its avcage smoothness is show., by the record of time made therein,— -8 min. The tourist from Springfield should tun> left from Main st. at the gray stone church, where the double-track of the hor-e-railroad terminates, and he- may there advantageously take the concrete sidewu'k for 30 rods or so to the railroad bridge. Descending past the entrance to the park, he turns left to the iron bridge across the Connecticut, and tiience goes northward along the river road to Ilolyoke. He should not turn towards the river, however, at the two places in the road where signs .point eastward to Chicopee. From the Holyoke House I have ridden westward over the canal bridges and rail- road trpck, and, on the conc.ete sidewilks, to the crest of the hill, on which stands the city hall, a massive structuie of granite. Thence through the park, and by streets leading northward and westward, one may reach the old turnpike in Ireland Parish, at a point just above Craft's tavern, distant about 2 m. from the Holyoke House. There are excellent views along this course, and I think th u an expert fidermight cover it all without a dismount, though I myself have never been able to conquer the long, winding Ewingsville hill, which forms a part of it, and which needs to be descended with considerable care. On reaching the turnpike I have ridden northward without stop for some 2 m., or to a point beyond the brook at the foot of the long descent. Two miles above here is the station at Smith'.s Ferry, and 2 m. further is the station miscalled Mount Tom, though that loffy peak stands far away to the west. The roadway of these 4 m. is the -vorst stretch whicn the bicycler will encounter on the west side of the river in touring from Hartford to Bellows Falls, being so soft and sandy as generally to forbid progress except on foot. From the Mount Tom station I have found fairly good riding to Easthanip- ton, 2 m., and an excellent road thence backward for a similar distance to a certain point on the ascent of the real Mount Tom. The last mile of the as- cent, ending at the half-way house, I accomplished on foot, but T think the descent towards Easthampton might be safely made on th*^ wheel, and no stop be required before completing the 3 m. The 2 m. of roadway leading downward from the half-way ho. ; to Craft's is softer than the other slope, and requires consideraJ)le walking; though t'^.- turnpike southward from Craft's continues good foi about 2 m. to G.. -'s hill. The rider who c:in descend this safely, and ascend the shorter slope which succeeds it, will have no trouble in reaching the main river-road again, at the watering-trough be- low Ingleside, 6 m. from tne Springfield bridge. The mile between tl.e trough and Gates's is rather difficult for one going northward, and, though ' have ridden it all to the final hill, I h.ave never tried that hill, and do not be- lieve It can be mounted. The view from this upp^r road is even finer than ENVIRONS OF SPRINGFIELD. , ,^ that from the smoother road below, and a northv/ari descent info the latter nK,y be made by the tourist who does not care to turn under e railway track towards Gates's. i^uway My recollection as a pedestrian of twenty years ago is that the n.ain road trom Easthampton to Northampton, 5 m., would be practicable for a bicycle • and other wheelmen have told me that the meadow road, from Mount Tom st.non to Northampton, is for the most part ridable, and that they had little - -dy and stony, the rider w. aal he village of Florence, about .Jm.. where he should turn to the left of Cosmian Hail :: : : "^ tz "f ■ '° "^ "'""■ ""■" ^ '"•=- ^"-^ '- ^-^^ "^'^ -^^ "— ^ => "'■•. «"- ndg , turn ,0 the nght agam and follow wh.-.t is called the old river road directly to I eeds Um.) crossing the nver on the way. Haydenville (J m.), is reached by crossing the ra.iroad r k, .urnmg up-h,)! to left, and again turning left i m. beyond. Thus far the side-paths gen- ally supply he best ruhng, but from here to Williamsburg,. m„ the main road .s g x^ e..ngh,o be often traversed by moonlight. Good coasting is offered between Florence and wl c^uf"; " ; "T"- "" "^>'d--"e. the tourist may take the Horse Mountain road «1. ch ,s fairly good, w.th some steep hills that must be ridden carefullv) to Whately, 4 m , and unce a rather tnfenor cross-road, through woods and swamps, to South Deerfield, 2 m , where ii^ w,l. n - t the regular valley turnpike leading from Northampton to Greenfield. This round- • rlh?r'' ri'V'^r, '"" '""■"' ^^''^ '^ ^^"* *" '^ P'-^--^^""^^ "-an the direc. route ■ ro Kh.hesands of Hatfield. Turning to the right, near the Brigg House in Haydenville . tnunst shoud turn left at the fork, and keep on near a brookfn a valley ; then tur^leh at next cross-roads, and after passing through Whately, take the right at the fork The Hock- anmn road s. e trom Northampton, about a m.. .0 the hamlet of that name jus. after crossing llii- Connecticut nver ferrv. is iiBijall" s2"d..- u... .», „ ..__ * ..r. beuer, though somewhat hilly towards ■the';;»i''T^:.;:^3;;;;ot^di;::;;^^^^^^^ 'If! I20 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ^■4 *! t I The westward route from Springfield is the shortest, and in some respects the most difficult, for there are several hills to be climbed, whereof the first is extremely tiresome, and there is said t" be no good riding whatever beyond the vestern end of Franklin St., in VVestfield, which is the extreme [joint to which a rider may go in that direction without dismount. The distance from Springfield city hall is lo m., and a combination of careful rid- ing and good luck seems to me necessavy to enable a wheelman to get over it all without a stop. From the end of the iron bridge over the Connecticut the tourist continues westwaid along the north side of the Common, in West Springtield, and then northward a few rods to the post-office, where he turns westward again and soon reaches the big hill, which is rather difficult to climb, thou^i. its surface is smooth and hard. A quarterm'le beyond, where the left-hand road leads downward to the Mittincague railroad station, he must turn up-hill to the right, and a mile later he will descend to lilock brook, and climb a much longer hill. In the course of the next mile he will en- counter the steepest descent of the route, and will cross the bridge over the railway ; crossing under it again, a little ways on, at the so-called deep-cut, and still again a half-mile westward. The road follows the tracks for a mile and a half, and then divides at Mill brook, the right-hand branch going une'er the tracks, and thence in a curve of 2 m. to the railway station in Westfield. The left-hand road, which is much the better one, crosses the brook and then the river, and in another mile crosses the river again and brings the tourist to the thickly-settled part of the town, though the central park is nearly a mile beyond; and the Pine Hill cemetery, which is the end of the smooth riding, is nearly a mile beyond the park. There are several miles of concrete river for about 2 n., then turn to r. at cross-roads and go direct to South Hadley, which is the seat of tl ' well-known Mt. H yoke Female Seminar)'. There he may either turn w. , and cross the river at Smith's Ferry, or follow the direct road down to South Hadley Falls and cross by free bridge to Holyoke, say 5 or 6 m. From the ferry at Hockanum, the tourist turns eastward if he wishes tc visit Mt. Holyoke, where a fine view may be had. The mountain road is unsafe for bicycling, however, and the last few hundred feet of the ascent must be made by railway car or stair-climbing. In going s. w. from Northampton to Easthamptcn, 4 or 5 m., the tourist should cross bridge at the foot rf South st. hill, then xikt sidewalk up-hill to end of walk, and turi 3* cross-roads ; keep on past the ice houc:;s at R&ckv-Hill pond ; cross the brook and then the ranroad, beyond which is a quarter-mile of deep sand ; keep straight ihead -t the school hou.se, descend a hill and cross a covered bridge just before entering Easthampton, whose concrete sidewalks supply good riding. The road thither is rather hilly and sandy and is at its best soon after a summer shower. The road s. from Northampton through the meadows to the Ox Bow (Mt. 'I im station) is also apt to be soft, so that, in the early spring and Lite autumn, the railroad track, to which it is parallel, is often chosen as affording better riding. Entrance m.iv be had to this meadow road by turning left, through Maple st, after crossing the bnriK'" at the toot of South st. hill. The road from Northampton to Amherst, n. e., 7 m , has been ridden in 40 min., but usually requires twice that amount of time. The character ■1 the soil is s.iiidy, with some stretches of clay, and the side paths and walks supply most of tlie good riding. Hadley is the intcmediate village, situated about 3 m. from the Mansion House, .ind the Connecticut river bridi^e is about half-way between. A long hill must be climbed iust ENVIRONS OF SPRINGFIELD. ,2, ,ulewalks in Westfield, along which the bicycler may glide without need of d»mounts. and the road leading to Southwick is said to be a fairly good one At the close of December, ,88., I wheeled from Westfield ^o Springfield with onlv one dismount, and that ha-^neneu on the long upward climb after cross- ing the radroad bridge, though I understand that this hill has often been con- ,,,ered by other wheelmen^ The road branching northward from the brow o. th^hdl_west of Block brook leads to the mountain picnic ground, called II m.-^If rode up it, Sep. ,6, ,884, as tl.e final act in a tiresome dav's journey of 40 m across he h.lls from Lee, endmg thus a five days' ;our from Newark, by way of Newburand Pn,„hkeeps,e, about .00 m. I was forced to walk more on this last day than duringll the pr.v,„us our ; and the longest stretch of hopeless-y deep sand was that whkh ended at fhe head 01 \ r.mklm St., ,n Westfield. From the Morgan House in Lee I had ,4 m Tf !1! T ? ,. . I>ii? hill of >ianrl • .1 „, V, J i. u . ^' '" ^^*' ' "^^ ^t "i- oi good wheelmg, h ^T ' "^ ^'°"'* '"'""''' =" "'^ °''' '^^^™ ^'•-'"d (West Becket), I turned (1 "'h H ^ "m ' "^ ""• ^''"'^'°'^' '"^'^="' °f ""P-S '^-^ '"-" -ad (r.) to . .is and a !' ' 7^*^^" the M ,„„ House in Blandford, where a fine view may be had. Though th gr.,.,. .s downward for the 8 m. thence to the end of Franklin St., I was "j h. in reaching tha r.j:.u ; and do not beheve the journey from Westfield towards Lee would be any easier An ....iKr tounst who pushed h,s b.cycle over the Berkshire hills a dav or two earlier than mysdf 7 " tZl - ^'"r ^'°-" - Lanesboro, .6 m. of rather soft road, requiring a whole : -I'" Pi.°Sr wh° H '' ^'^'"^ '^'" '"■' "^ " ^•^°^'=" °- -""= '° Springfield 6 m b Tit' , ""' °"'' ""• "''''^"^^ ""'"'>• ""= '""'ed t° the left, at the first cro«^ n,u. beyond the hotel and after two hours of alternate walking and rough ridmg, reached d" A few mtles farther on, the road beco-nes even worse, soon turn^g into a mere n„-,.n,a,n path, hardly accessible to a man on fo.. ; and so we ventured upon the ra way an" ...c found capual wheehng. Proceeding cautiously (on account of th. projecting ties and e narrowness of the path) but at a fair rate of speed, we passed through Hinsd le nd N\ ..lungton and reached L.cket about dusk, .3 m. from Dai.on. On the morning of Sept "5 »c. a,a,n took .0 the track, but the many cuts and culverts, together with the sharp lookout w^ W , r ^"'. 'T"' "'"' """"« ^"^''^'"^ ''"' P'^^^'-"' --^ -e -- g>a^ to arrive a ^^ .. ..Id (,4 m, wnh our bones still in their proper places." An earlier explorer (M. D. B ,n an/hnrnT '' ? ^T """'"■ "''™""' '■ " ''"'""'^ ^'"■^'^^'^- * ^"'table via ^ala begins. and 1 rdly ceases or the 40 m. thence .0 Westfield. To the summit of the mountain in North -ecket (,5 m.) but httle of the sandy road can be ridden, and the 9 m. thence to Chester over no her mountain, must be traveled on foot. I rode from there to Westfield between ,he rail- ...d tracks,-a dangerous and desperate measure.-but the gently descending grade, and the ^u. scene,y, were compensations for two or three heavy falls and the haunting presence of pe.l. As a cunous offset to this. I may add the information given me by a credible witness, onanH H"''rf K™'' '''" ' ^'"'' ''"'" ^pri'^^M .0 Pen, (.. m. from Pittsfield.- ton and Hmsdale be.ng m.ermed.a.e towns), a distance of 45 m., in 6J h.. and has made the urn dnvc m 5J h. -passmg through Russell, Hunt.ngton and West Worthington. The same N ; h :Z W-n ° T"^r:° '•'^ --^ I-"t by a longer and hillier route, through No. .Hampton, W.lhamsburg. Worth.ngton Comers and Worthington Center. Still another R nTand7™""™'"f ?''?^''' '""'^ '' '°"'''"^'' '"' ^- ^' "^'^'"''^ ^•""'"='^. "Notable S: ":' "^l™? 'r ' - ^'''"•■■''^' ''"'''• •''"' "■ '^'^^ '^'- = " On Sept. Z William V. 1 tav nf r" "'! "'"«;/='^"'' '^"^y^'^ ^''"b. -"ade a run of .00 m.. fr m Springfield to Hudson. " «av of Russell ; and he returned. Oct. x., from Hudson to Springfield, by way of Chester ed nnr'""^" '"^; '", ^^" '°"''"'°"' ^"^ '^' ^^^"^" °" '^"th runs all that could b^ the finish oJh' ""' T ,T- '"^ "° ^'"°=" '™"'"^ '''''■ "«^ "^^ i" fi"- --I..ingfie!d man has really wheeled to S ' I''\\^"^'-^ " ^"-"ored that a .^1^- of the river. ,.. I ..^ hardly crediftrtlr;^^^^^^^ "°P' .^-" '^^ east Klc of the river. ... 1 1, h r J Jdiuhe st'' "'l'"" ^'°P' ''^^^ '^^ -«» e- to me more remarkable th^nTny^i Tn ^r h^"^' V'^' ^•""''' d on a bicycle. The roads thro-.h^pl .° .'°.^'y.^ been r.ccom- .n^hcd on a bicycle. The roll Z^h'^t p^L 7T '^^" ^"°'"- .nndd,and Longmeadow, are for the most part soft .h' ^'^ ''^'■"'^°^' ■cycling tourist is cheered by manv "nl ' 1°' ^'"^ '*^"^-^' ^-' '^ough tlv .icycling tounstis cheLr d y m y m" esT." d '",' ""'-^' ^"^' ''^""^'^ "■' ."cans continuous. I drove my whL? f s.dewalks, these are by -..y, over the frozen snow T, d Ih stror" ' k^ ""''^' '" ^'^ ^th of Jan' ;::: c -:^:ii^--^^^ - -— - - i.:: cir ij- - - :- Jr;r :^:;t^^^^ i- - Xt ^^^^ 'bout a mile from the bridge, where "ur roa^ ""' ''" "^^•-'"^^" ' ^^-". -vav from the telegraph pol 7nd the J ""T.^ ' '"•"" ^^°"'^ ''*= '^ken ^hould ,e foliowed stL-ghta ;ossthenl""" ^^ '^^^'"^ ^-^ Mittineague :.v. Hills, and | m. beyond t when a turn s"h '\ T; '° ''' ^°"" '^^■' '" ^ '-•" after . „. more of level ridi ' anothe " '^'"^ ^" ^^^ ^""*h, and, --S a stop. About sm beyond afe ""'?''' '° ^ '''''' ""''' -^ich ----Is between the pon's are'pas'sed Th"" ' °''" ^""^' '''' ^'''^'''■ ^re.hodist church, a mile westward a^d 11 """u '"'^ '^ ^^^'^^^^ ^' 'he continues smooth for . m. to Vehs- t'avern M "''""' '"'"^ ^^°'" '^^^^ ^^■;-^^' t^ve roads come togethl:"^ Jt '. sTle^d::' t 0^''''' '-' iiKl pnson on Turkey hill, in Simshnrv . . • "^ ^''PP^'" """« -ue thence to the river oad i''s.ffi"?; " '"■""'""'''>' ^'^^^''^ = ^'^ the ^ha. the northward course fro^^tfMetH'TT Y ' u'''^"'* ^' ^ ^^ '^'^ ^^•-«eld, was generally sZo and hT ^ ^ cTI' 'T \^ '^""^^''^^ - iron, Feeding Kills to Westfield is al n = w k "back-street" route f>'"" the poL about 3 m so wef of Fee 1 ':,';r^^'-'"^ ^^ 'he wheel. nder is first forced to ston >,. "^ "'"'' '^^''^ 'he -Sprmgfield ^■■'1, coast clow, the 10 g h'in to th'e"'":"^'""^' ^^ntine.,,., Cimb'its steep "-■ ^'-.rch hid Co m without dsm'f'V: ''^"' 'P^''-^'^^'^' -^ -ceni ;-• ■'- its norlhern si:^:! ^^ endl uir^ ^^°"^ ^^^ ''' '^ ^ «- loore grp 1. The westward rn.H% u '"■^' °" ^'^^otint of the -» ". -chi,„ Mir:;r. ravZ ;: htr' 'r'", '"•° '°"'^-"' ■»>Bllv requiring dismounts '"'■ '"'' " »" '"'"'le, .hough v-^^ ^..s ...ogc n^eds ™„„ a,«„,i„„ ,h»„ .hn.^r.he'.wriron ■b;°,;::':, I^^MI 124 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Springfield or the out- al Ilolyokc, but is much better than that of the uiu bridge at Springfield, whose cracks threaten disaster to the tires of a carelos rider. The village streets of Chicopee and f'hicopee '"alls are not particu larly bad, but their numerous concrete sidewalks supply much pleasaiiier riding, and the curbings are not usually abrupt. The town hall in Ch'copet stands \ m from the bridge, and the approach thereto, along the leu hand sidewalk of Exchange St., is uninterrupted. There is no need of a stop in crossing the road in front of it to the concrete walk leading up-hill to the bridge at Chicopee Kails, abcut 1 m. I my.self, on the 25th of August, con- tinued across this bridge, and limbed the steep hill lieyond it, but was forced to dismount at the end of the sidewalk soon after beginning the descent. This was at a point nearly 3 m. from the town hall, and the road keeps de- scending for 2 m. further, until it reaches the railroad crossing a few ro.ls l)e- low the Willimansett station. The whole descent may be easily made with- out dismount, though hardly any riding would be possible on the upwa-d slope. The main road leading back to the town hall, distant 4 m., is called Chicopee Street, and is entirely level, but is believed to be too soft for hi- cycling. In the other direction, for 2 m. along the riverside north of Willi- mansett, I found this road to be ritlable, except a few short pitches, though none of it supplied good riding, and the whole would probably be impassable in bad weather. A mile of smooth riding on the sidewalks and bridge extends this route to the llolyoke House, whence a return may be made to Spring- field over the well-known course. From the town hall in Chicopee to the Memorial Church, 3^ m., one may easily go without dismount (the road beMig really an extension of Main St., and macadamized ao far as the city limits), and, of course, the return from Holyoke to the city hall mav be made by this route also without dismount. The northward ride would be less agreeable, on account of the need of climbing the Chicopee bill, — from which, hv the by, a fine view of the valley farming-lands may be had. The route connect- ing Chicopee Falls with Indian Orchard is about 5 m. long, and nearly a quarter of it usually has to be traveled on foot. The extension of State st., beyond the terminus of the hoise-car tracks, supplies good riding for 2 m. or so in the direction of Sixteen Acres; and Walnut St., which branches south- ward from State at the corner of the Armory grounds, may likewise be easily followed for i^ m., to the water-shops, and twice that distance beyond into the region of East Longmeadow, whence it is likely enough that a practicable route mignt be found leading through Longmeadow proper, and so hack to Springfield. The return from the watc'-shops may also be made by follow ing the horse-car tracks through Central, Maple, and State sts. back to Main, mostly on a down grade ; or, if the cemetery be visited. Pine st. mav be traversed thence to Crescent Hill, where a fine view may be enjoyed, and a winding descent be made thence to the region of South Main st. The steep slope of Ames's Hill, leading into Niaple St., should be descended with can- i K_ i._1._ u;ii „i:.„u. ENy/ROXS OF SPRIAGFIELD. a. they approach the summit, or they will be unlikely to rearh fh. V,siti„g bicycle, should remember that the mo. cl.na 1 g I IC'Tie whole ^pnngfield region may be had from the tower of the Un ted sL e A„cna.. and. also that the smooth roads and walks within rh. .n„nuLs are guarded by government muskets J!^ ::::t;:^^ZZ An inspection of the roads as outlined on the conn v '^'cvcles. less suggest the exploration of other attra^te b ye ; J '""'^- 1.. ,he ones described in this present report are Lta^rnUero' ^ Z^h' - justain n,y o,,enmg assertion that the region is exceptionally we 1 adapec lor b.cycling. Without going .outside these roads and witho, ,1 T ! u .mrse upon them, a rider who starts at the c ' ' h" mav ' T'' ^" rou,ui-trip routes of any desired lemrth Th! f ' '^ °"' '''"'^"^ .h.,..gh Chicopee Falls aTvtl^t^^^^^^^^ °^ ^^---' >Hl.. through the old bridge and Water "t to J ' !■ "' '""" '''' ^''' 30 ,n by taking one of the westward and southward rentes hrocll.a .r,n.gh Carew. Chestnut, and Dwight sts., offers a circdt of abourm «.t hardly more than a mile of repetition; and a yery skilful ride mil' !•" ricHe: L^h?"'^ ^'-"-.without a stop. The Simpler Chtop^ t^! rulden in the same direction, may l,e easily done without dismount ^^ J.er restricted to torn, or increased tot.; or it may be increas d to "7 V t e addition of Chicopee Falls and Indian Orchard on the east A west r-rU ; ^-^ ^--.'--'-g - repetitions-and, in the cat o a vol ndcr no dismounts in either direction-may be made from the old brulge to Agawam I,ridge, to Mittineague bridge, to the West Snri tfiHH pos.-o«^cc, to the cnur.a on the hill, ancUhence -for hward or eastward down the riyer-road 'eading back to the North bridge and the city hH If his oute be continued northward from the church to Chicopee, a man maj keep s sad e for i , or ,6 m. before reaching the starting-poii t ; and the leng h f . e Holyoke and Indian Orchard circuits can, of course, Le increased by on .nation with this route. Assuming the ridable char^dr ^ he roa i^^e l,„g „,lls. a Springfield cycler has (^hoice of a 3. m. or a --m circuit in I"l f ,r ""'^^- ^^"'^•">- '""S -"thweirn circits^nTay be ma r,ea :t ;: '°:;'"'^' r'^- ''■^^^^'■^>-' -^"^ ^"ffield.-the shTte aero s EnLld hr ,"' VT' ""' °' ''" '''''' "^^ '°"g- °- -^^ending cross Lnfield bridge and thence through East Lont^meadnw .. ,k. .....„, -'■■"'i'^ ana liie city haii. " "'' ' 1 n m 126 r/i\V THOUSAXD .\ni.KS ON A BICYCLE. The hv which route ny wnicn a rider may, without dismoi church hill in West Springfield, from a point 10 m. to the southwest, has al ready been described; but there will then be no obstacle to his easy progress to the Holyoke House, 7 m. further, and for another mile to the south end 01 the concrete sidewalk in South Hadley Kails, making 18 m. straightaw.iv without stop. Or, if he were strong enough \^ climb westward from x\v Holyoke House and surmount the Ewingsville hill, he migh; even cover .'i direct miles of roadway before the sands below Smith's Ferry forced a halt. From the church hill in West SprinKiield northeastward to the town hall in Chicopee, and thence southward to the bridge below Springfield, a distaiiu- of 10 m., no obstacle exists to cause a ''ismount ; and as it is sometimes possible to continue thence 3 m. to Porter's distiller, and 7 m. to the ccvrco bridge, a lucky rider might chance to do the 30 m! without sto- hough la- would finish at a point hardly a dozen miles distant from the point of start- ing. Still a third variation of this route, fo^ a long stay in the s.^ddle, would lead through Feeding Hills, West Springfield, Chicopee, Si)ringfield, and Indian Orchard, to Jenksville. The distance is 27 m., and the chance ofcii,- pleting it without stop is beuer than in the case of the 30-m. and 21-m. routes, I should be glad to see the competitions of the local chib take the form of road races, wherein the victory should be given not to the fastest rider but to the one who covered the most miles of roadway without leaving hi^ saddle or repeating his course. The effect of such :ontests would be to fix public attention upon the fact that the region ha.s such an unusually large proportion of good roads p- to make it an attractive jilace for bicycler; to visit and explore individually, and an appropriate place for the race-course and camp-ground, /liich may be annually made the scene of their largest col- lective gatherings and exhibitions. Yet, the proportion of good roads ought to be s' larger, and the -uality of the best of them ought to be still better. Let us hope that the ultimate influence of the " tcurnament " will be i.i the line of helping bring to pass both of these desirable things. "The Atlas of Hampden County" (N. V. .- J, B. Beers & Co., 36 Vesey St., ,874 pp -,o price #,0) h.is proved of service in the preparatio,> of this chapter. Wall maps of Spnngfidd and Westtield {U each) are also is.sued by the same publishers. G. H, Walker & Co -fc Tremont st,, Boston, publish pocket maps of " Hampshire and Hampden " (.X84, 28 bv -' in i and '■ Franklin County " (,885, 28 by ,8 in.), whose scale, rj m. to , inch, and price, 25 c ,..,-^ht to attract the patronage of bicyclers. These, and the excellent map of "the Berk- hire Hills " wh.ch ,- distributed gratis by the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, of Pittsfield are de- . nbed moie fully on p. , ,2, A small map of the city may be found in the Springfield Directory which can be consulted at any drug-store ; and the same map is appended to King's " Hand- book of Springfield," an authority for those who wish to go into the details of local historv and institutions. The Springfield City Library, in a handsome building on State St., contains 50,000 volumes, which may be freely consulted : and there also, in a finely furnished reading room, the visitor may without charge examine all thenewsjiapers and periodicals of the day " Handbook " is a rather deceptive title for the volurie just alluded to, w)-ich is an octavo of '94 pp., 8i by 6 in. in size, containing more than .50 views and portraits, with indexes of 2,700 references. Its sub-title. " a series of moiiograDhs. historic;'.! ntiH rt.-s.-ri-t-:-. .^ -V.-.-a u.. ?,?.'.„. hNriRONS OF SrKIXGFIfLD. >27 k'l;," xives a better idea !•{ Its imnortanc* fnr ii i. ,. .u / ■ ....... .,, ,. ; bu, a •■ clcann, out sale - ,„ May. .J,, ca..,H t Hue .:;. w^ r"^:: r..n.u ably cheap for ,uch a large .,n,l cx,«=ns.vely.made bvof ,he first^namH v er ,h t . ' '"""''''"" "' ^""""^ "'*"'■«" '^e ce.... spr,n«neid .iZiiaL ";t:L:*z,r ' s trr""''' ""r ""• ■ > '" Westen. Massachusetts. A, the east end of t's c T'^"'" ""^ '"''''"« •Han,,.h,re' nd ,L sc^ltr'. > ;, *;"'"'" "" ^'""P^ ' W"' Spri.,g,ield > aSd H^^^ for two days and two n„h.. on his n.-rchr^,,::!:;;. 7, .^^^ .^^J^^^t' Lay drilled his insurgents in • Shays'. Kebe).^ '•• vTZ V 71 . T' ""' ^'"'•- ^"•'^ cnnpany .h,s chapter, and the " Dir-Cory " ,nap of it in „S,S4 („ bv t^ln , n,' t' . ' 1' '" (... I»v. a, .«,in,„ bee,, in,l„eed ,o ,„.k. .hi. ..lie, ,he «™ „, h.^r t, . i °' ,""'"■ t., ,l.e ,»d.,..e of ,h. N„„h,™p,o. Bic.cl. Cl,,b ,( ™,^t .J. ?"' '""'"■■' Tin r-' ';^rTrT"i '.^ "■■/■" -^■'•'■•'' '■■' - a ,^. 3 n. .^i mm,, L. H. Howard, secon J. bv 2j min • W I I ,rl,;„ .i,- j 1 swift race, considering the character of th, .„.i, a t / ""^ ^ remarkably ■-■required .ocover^;::X:t::ft-rw;e:L':r^^^^^^^^ ."c .ourse or the longest straightaway day's ride yet taken in America (Jui^S.'.s';) led 1 I 128 /AW THJUS^ND MILES OX A BICVCl.l:. through " Springfield and il* env.riuiH '' ; and a rep.Tl of it may, iherif.ire, l)e appropriately ap- pended to the present chapter. I'le rider was a member of the Meriden Wheel Club, Willum (.'ollinH (b. August 17, 1S51) whov: record for the y-ar was 3,700 m. on a 53-in. Expert, " tht actual running expense* of which for 2,500 m. were less than >i, oil included." He ben.in riding in the iprin;', of '81, but kept no record for first two seasons. Leaving Meriden at ninl- night, carrying Excelsior cyclometer but no lantern, though the moon was obscuicd by cluuds, he went through Ucrlin Center and New Britain to (iarlford, at 1.45, where he crossed the river and took theeasi side route to Springfield (4.S m ;, at b.15 A. M. " At no level place on thiscour^^i- did s.-,nd cause a dismount, except once on a side path, under the pine trees; " and, on oilier ocra^'ons, he has " ridden up all the hills." After a halt of ] h. fjr breakfast, he proceeded i,> Palmer at 9.40; was accompanied thence to West linmticld by Mr. Chandler; reached \..\fx Brookfield at ij.3o(»5m.j; stcpi>ed 1 li. for dinner; Worceste.- at 3.30 (105 m.); Ayer J mc- tion at »; Pepperell at 10. Thi.-: is only 10 m. from Nashua, but he ad(l-;d 2 or 3 i<-. i,y wandering from the pro|)er track on the way thither, so that the end was not reached ;here until I J. 25 A. M. The record was then 155 in., whereof less than 5 ni. belonged to Jul^ 9. " During; this last stage of the journey a heavy mist or light rain prevailed, and three he.-.ders were taken in the sand. The only other header wa> liy daylight, before reaching Springfie.d. Weather wa< cool and cloudy, with wind rather against me, but not strong enough to have an ill effect. Tlii: roads between Palmer and Worcester are, .xs you say, the iKMjrest stretch between New York and Nashua ; but, as I expected to find then- worse, the fact that they were only poor en. courage'.^' -'' '^^ af.erw,;,ds give piac t^ id kl'" "^T' ''^ "^' '°^^"' ^^'^'^'^ "^^ and all three of these fee r take -""^'^r'' '"'' '^"-'"K '-ook ; M.'^-^.rau, Lake. j^rL; ' ■ teboU" h ' "'^^''' ^^--^husetts. -ver, wh.ch forms another terminusTf the X.V. "I "'T '"'""^ '''«^'°^^- - t-i^ are caUed Mt. Hope n ve^^::^ '^^^ Zf l^t^" H^ '""^'" wes-ern parallel of the Willimantic branch of thr4tch , ' '• ^'^ "'''' ' '>»vn; andfro.m there northward to M. .V "^^ '^^S' J"'"^ "' near that mantic river is closelv adioir , *° ,^^";;"'^^^"^^«^ (about 25 m.) the Willi- alongside the we: ta'k of ^ outlVtte t7''"" T'T'' '''''' ^''^^ -- Norwich. The eastern border If It I '"' ^°' '^' ''"^"" "^'^^'^ below ''awcatuck ,ver s es as a I ''^,''^'V' "'^''^^ ^° "^ '°"S. and the little '■-"'^•1 .0 th-sst em and ;VuTa d"' •/'' ' "• ■"^"■^' ^'^ ■'^--•• -n>; noble Sheet T'^r ww t:::;:;;^^ Mi,'^ t^'^ '''-' ' ma,n,nce„t aggregate of all the lesser attractions which m. I ""''""' "'' ' English Thames as somethi, , ;erv deVr to me ' '""" °' *'^ i'^ .-pXr^LrroTdTcl '^"^ '"'T' ^^'^^""^ ■■" ^^^^'^^ ^--«-t ; but 'og^cd'as co^-et; Toth'^rdVo^l^^ T^' "'^^^ ' ^- cata- ^:::^ simp^ £„... . - -L'- ::;:::^:;r-s - ::;;; s 'Fron, 7-4- 5>/«^,/^ ^W«.«'. Gauar. June. ,88,. 13© TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. N^l- if-' !l| ¥^ vance in a fairly direct line towards the coast. As all English roads lead to London, so all these river-roads lead to New London,— a little old-fashioned city (pop. 12,000), sleeping serenely on the west bank of the Thames, and rarely disturbed by anything more serious than regretful dreams of the brave old days when fleets ■ f adventurous whale-ships made its name well-known in the world of trade. " I found very fair wheeling there in July," says a report which I printed in 1880; " *he favorite route leading from the city hall and post-office, easterly through State st. and southerly through Bank St., for nearly \ m. ; then east and south along the shore-road to the Pequot House, nearly 2 m., and to the light-house, \ m. beyond. The whole distance may be traversed in either direction without dismount ; and the two miles or so of shore-road, being composed of powdered oyster-shells, is as pleasant a place for a short spin as one need wish for." Local riders assured me, three years later, that they had occasionally gone northward along the river as far as Norwich without any serious trouble, but had never extensively explored the shore of the Sound, either to the east or to the west, — because of a general impression that the roads were sandy and unridable. I was told, too, that certain parts of the road leading through Niantic and South Lyme, were occa- sionally flooded at high-tide ; and I was rerommended to take the hillier, inland road, as suppying the preferable westward course — at least to the Connecticut river. It was on the morning of the last day of June, 1883, — four days after the completion of my touring experiences with the Down East Party, at Mount Desert (Chapter XX.), — that I faced westward from New London on my wheel ; and, as I silently turned my back upon the quiet old town, within whose limits and in whose behalf I had silently " struggled for the unattain- able " during the final .veek of six successive Junes, I felt both the regret which always oppresses a man when conviction comes that his ideal u un- attainable, and the relief which always accompanies the consciousness that a long struggle is ended. My struggle had beer to provide an ideal manage- ment for the annual race between the representative crews of New England's two oldest colleges, and to separate from it all subsidiary rowing contests, be- cause of their tendency to complicate the problem of providing a clear course upon a navigable scream. In lack of legal authority for controlling the river's surface, "moral suasion " must be depended upon for the enforcement of the needed regulations; and this ceases to be a power to conjure with, just as soon as the rowing of small races in safety has deadened people's sensibilities to the truth that the most elaborate safeguards should be taken to avert dis- aster in the rowing of larger onos. In 1878, when " the mayor and leading citizens " invited me up to New London (to secretly serve as dcus ex maihim in helping them demonstrate the possibility of successfully managing, under extraordinarily difficult conditions, an event which had always been mis- managed elsewhere, on courses much more easily controlled), I found ever}-. one ready to 2c;ept without question the minutest details of the precautions SHORE AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT, 13 1 tf ^^ '" '^Vl""' °^ '^' '""' committee, promulgated for the government of the r,ver. The unanimous chorus in praise of New London managerent wh.ch the newspapers chanted after the event, was the more significanTbe-' cause of Us contrast to their denunciaticns of previous misman.gemen on otner courses m former years; but thcugh it was repeated in the season foT ow.ng, and agam, and again, or until the exceptionally perfect government of he Thames course came to be taken for granted, as a universally recogni Ld act wh,ch needed no comn.ent,-my eyes were never thereby blLed ^o he dangers and d.fficult.es which beset the n,anagement. The distance of its II vance ahead of all previous efforts, as judged by outside critics, repres nted .actual defects and poss.bilities, this great advance seemed less importan than the distance by wh>ch the management still fell short of my ideal stnd arc! The final abandonment of this ideal as unattainable was forced upon .e by the stuptd persistence of one of the competing colleges in bringing ubsKhary con ests to the river, and thereby impairing the popular beliefin t e necess.ty of any ng:d rules like "No unofficial boats to be in motion I he t„ne of the race." The extent to which these wretched little side- how en ra hzed pubhc opm.on was made plain by the fact that the Collector o e Port who. ,n '78. vigorously proclaimed for me, through the columns o . newspaper, the necessity of obeying the rule just quoted, openly vZt ^d .tm 8., by runmng a private steam-tug in the wake of the race, rii a« was a dtsheartentng token that my ideal of good-management was never Ik ly tobe reahzed; and when, a year later. I learned that the sagaciourrai hvav superintendent who from the outset, had put at my command^he men mlte- :; eTa^r r: f -^^ ^'^" ^ ^^^^^^^^^'^ "^"'^- -■'- ^-^-^ - -i t foesaS I abanr T' T' "'^ ""' " ^'-Sg'-e for the unattainable,' as aforesaid I abandoned my dream of creating "an ideal environment " for t T/Tath "' '° ^''^ '""'• '"' ^''^'^'^''^^ '^ ^-- harder, and the sL' Uie u,e' Amn"? ^^^k' '""'-^° ^'^' "^''"^^ "^'^^ than w Ik^ ancicrs (La.t Ljme), and at the school house in the fork of the roads "i m I turned to the right, passed Rogers pond. 3 m.; reached the ml ..d^J ' "■""' "' '^'"^ «""" "'^'"S "» the w. sidewalk as far as the sto'rVand i.... :is:i..^.ia: 132 » TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ■ Jill church, I m.; and got to Clark's hotel, at the ferry on the Connecticut river I m., at I o'clock. I had been 5 h. in doing the 17 m., and, as I indulged mno very long stops, a poor average of roadway is indicated. The clusters of laurel blooming luxuria.itly in the woods, ^nd from high rocks overhanging the road, gave that forenoon's route a rather pleasant place in my memory, how- ever. A row-boat summoned by a horn from the other shore, took me across the river, after dinner ; and the necessity of climbing several cherry trees and of halting for a shower at Saybrook Junction (2 m.) resulted in my leaving that station as late as 4 o'clock. The next hour brought me to the church and post-office "i Westbrook (5 m.) : and a similar time and distance took me past the Morgan School in Clinton (with its monument to mark it as a rest- ing place of Yale College in 1705), to the corner or street crossing, where I left the main road, and wheeled down to the shore (i m.), in order to spend the night at the Bacon House. The houses and sidewalks or paths were pretty nearly continuous during this afternoon's route, instead of exceptional, as during the forenoon's ; and I found one specially good stretch of 3 m., after leaving Sp.ybruok Junction. It was here that I completed my 7,000th m. ; a..d my record for June {20 riding days, in N. Y., Mass., Me. and Conn.), was just 400 m., whereof the rcpetiiions amounted to not more than 5oin. My afternoon's progress would have been faster except for the mud which was caused by the shower ; and the entire track from Saybrook to New Havii may be- called continuously ridable. I had an extremely pleasant ride to New Haven, the following forenoon (27 m. in 5 h.), through the clear, bracing air and bright sunshine, on roads quite free from dust and mud. From the cornei in Clinton to the flagpole in Madison (4 m.), I kept mostly on the sidewalks, and I was i h. in wheeling thence to the green in G-'ilford (5 m.), where I decided to leave the turnpike in favor of the shore road, and so followed the telegraph line out from the s. w. corner 01 the green and turned 1. with the poles at the first fork. The road across the marshes supplied goodish riding, though it is overflowed when the tides are very high. On a hill on Leete's Island (3 m.), I stopped before a little gravestone at the left of the road to copy the inscription : " Simeon Leete, shot here by the Enemy, 18 June, 1781, as. 29," and then I hastened on to the station at Stony Creek (2 m.), whence to the green in Branford (4 ni.), I found the riding almost continuously good, in spite of the hills. From there I went without stop to the summit of the big hid (2 in.), and again without stop to the watering trough near Tomlinson's bridge (3^ m.), by which I entered New Haven. ^ The dock of the New York steamboats is just beside 1 1 believe this is the only one of the old cicies in Amenca, whose street-system was definitely p! inned and fixed at the very beginning. The well-to-do and eminently-respectable Uind oi emigrants who founded New Haven, two and a half centuries ago, laid out the place in the form of a half-mile square, bounded by State and York sts. , running nearly n. and s., and Grove and George sts., running nearly e. and w. Tliis tract was divided into nine squaies of equal size, by Church and College sts., parallel to the first pair, and Chapel and Elm sts., parallel to the secori *r--v«5^' SHO^E AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. t^i^:::^! t^rit-r:^ ''- -'^ ^- - -^-' through that., ,.. a;d it's prrnXf ''!:'' '" '"^"^^ ^° ^-^'- «t.. ™ls >.. to the head of Crown sfwhicr!' """'-^' '"'«^' ^"^^ ^ ^^^^ angles. All three of these streets Lnd u ''^'''^ "^'^"^^^ st. at right -1; and, as a very large nrbe; o hTNew^H? ^" '■': ^'^^ ^^ -"'^-- abrupt curbs at the crossings, lon;r Hdes m. K , '"^'^^''^^ ^'^ ^^"hout bricks or flagstones. Ovster-shells sm'uIvT 'k '^<^"''""°"^Iy on their suburban roads,-.. . the onl to iM « V "''' '"'■^"" ^°^ ^^^^ral of the .ioned as a pre'tty st^ of ; e^^ ^.^ '°""^''-r'' ' should have met h.Il west of Branford, whose road are o red Tat T " .'"""''"« ''^^ ^'g pleasant detour along another shell rn. . f r J" , '"'S''^ ^^^^ have made a abo.t , m. before reLhinr^o^ ^ o7s 'b'r l,'^' T'' ' '' ''^ — g- .he ridge overlooking the h'arbor. to Mo ris CoT; i^t T" ^^r'""'' ^'°"^ at the same crossing, I should have hJl ? '^ ^^ ' °'' '^ ^ "^'^ ^"^"^'J r. (-^ ."•). where the Lr ma be Jessed anT .' '"°°'' '''''' '° ^^'^ "-- other shell roads. ' ^^' ^"^ ""'''^"'^^ ^^e made to the city by .Apn/;;^s;r:^b::iJ:rfia:2a::r^" t^^^ p-io.s,y,onthe day Hartford, 42 m. ; and the stretch of she roa , f' ' T'' '^ "'^'"^ '^°-" '^^-^ supplied the op.v decent riding I ha^d^nt:^^ ^^'^ "--" The trick-rider. D. J Canarv L ^ ^ ^^ '^'' "^^''o" of the journev - ^3 m.) 'he 6 m. below Wallingford rd r J, / T """'' ' ""■ '" g^"'"S =^'^os ""-^"'hs later (Dec. r2) I used .n . I T' ^^'^"'"'"^"d the route Eight 'r '^ ^^^i^^eport (; 1'. i^f.^T ,1 I'? ^ ''^^'' ■'" ^""^ ^-^ Men" f ded a new element of danger 'to the f ' '' '""" °^ ^'■'^'^ ^"'^^^ had Ho..^the end of the sidewS o Coo ^"(/r^ ^^T ^^^ ^^'^^^^P P-; and .he four s.re , , ^^' ^"'' """"" '° ^'^^ ^^''l" -M^e.,r '•-:::-:- -^^. .e ..., ,... , ., ,„^_^,^^ ■h^-Hstem of symmetrical rectangles has L, K ^"M.v.dedm,o four smaller squares • but "_-vh,ch have made New „a/en ra„ . ttl^rn'":' '" ^"'"iin^ -he numerous l.di- ■f -Many of ,he moden, streets take an nM J " ^'"""^ '^^ '='<^'^' "f >^ew Ene- ;a '-mile square," so that it now ^pe , "on e'm T ''""' '"^ ""^^^^ "^ "^"^ -K al "Se area of territory which hafbep^.^T^drh ;""'"' "'' ">-' -'^"'^ ^elre :"^'.''e v,s„nr is " Yale and the n,. „; ^."JTr '"'"^'y """" "P«"- An excellent han^.K..., ^^ •> - I^ecrow. a .aduate of the co.e.: •„ ^^l ^ il^r ^'J-^; S;::;:'?---'^^ HI: vi 5' .»ia»-aiM»« i:..' 'I 134 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. way culvert (2J m.), I made fair progress. At the fork, 2\ m. o,,, where I turned 1. towards Wallingford in April, I went up-hill to the r., and rejoined the main road again in i ni., near the stone marked " X. m. to N. H." I took the ]. at the fork where the r. leads to Hamden, and I turned squarely to the 1. about 3 m. below the stone. Much walking was required during the 3 h. which I gave to the 9^ m. ending at this point; but the next 2 m. were mostly ridable and brought me near the railway station at North Haven, where, with- out crossing the tracks, I turned r. and proceeded along the side paths to New Haven (7J m.) at noon. At the fork, where the sidewalks of the main street in West Haven terminate, and where, in previous trips, I had turned 1. for the shore road, I tried the experiment of turning r., over the railway. An experience of i^ h. on rough and hilly roads (there had been no snowfall in this region, but the sun had sufficed to make considerable mud) carr' '' me 5 m. to a junction with the turnpike at the brook 2 m. from Milford, ■ ,ere a sign says "7 m. to N. H." The first 5 m. of this is noted in my chapter on " Winter Wheeling," as "a straight stretch through a sandy, deserted and altogether uninteresting countiy.—perh.ins the meanest section of the entire tour,— and I was i h. in getting over it." The turns and windings of the route just described, however, are so numerous, and there are so many forks, that a tourist who tried it in approaching New Haven would be apt to go astray. I recommend, therefore, that, in leaving Milford for the city, the shore road be taken,— by turning r. from the n. end of the gr^en. When I started out through the snow-covered streets of Meriden, that morning, my plan was to follow the advice of some New Haven riders, who told me of a good road leading through the hills to Mt. Carmel, from a cer- tain point in the turnpike near Wallingford ; but I managed to miss it, and so kept straight down the Quinnipiac, as before reported. A Meriden tourist also writes : " I recommend any one coming here from New Haven to tab tne first road to the r., n. of Mt. Carmel, as the route through Cheshire is more indirect and sandy." That route, with all its faults, however, I have found prefe.able to either of the two other paths that I traversed in 'S3 be- tween Wallingford and New Haven. The chapter on "Winter Wheelinj,'" describes the road to Cheshire, and thence directly to New Britain ; but in .-^pril, '84, I rode from New Haven to Meriden, and back again, bv the Cheshire route, and I tried it a third time (Dec. 5, '84) as a part of a day's tour from Meriden to Bridgeport, 40 m. From the Cheshire Academy the tourist should go eastward ij m., northward along a smooth ridge | m., follow telegraph poles around a curve to 1. and then r., o; a down grade, to bridge, i^ fn. ; turn there to r., and at sawmill turn 1. and follow !)leasantly shaded road along a brook to pond (i m.), where he should nof cross bridge at 1., but keep right on for i m. to South Meriden (Hanover), though, on the outsivirls of this, he will turn 1. at the road which comes diiectly over the hill from the sawmill. Thence to Meriden is 2 m., ridable without dismount. I was 2 h. ir. getting from Cheshire to Meriden, on the first occasion ^.vhirh v/n?. p.iv last SHORE AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. ,35 day on "No. 234"). and Pope cyclometer called the u.stance 8 m. ; but re- urn.ng along the same route ten days later (my first ride on " No ^^ Tr ") I co^xred u m i h. ^o min.. and Butch.r cyclometer gave the distance"^; 9 m-' wh.ch It mcreased to gj m., on my third trial in December. On each of ^hL' journeys toward Cheshire I had to walk for nearly : m. on the sa " grade lead.ng southward from the bridge. I wheeled from Cheshire through Uhuneyvlle to New Haven (14! m.) in . h.. though the surface had grown nn.ely scfter dunng the ten days since I had tried it in the other directio^ (- 1.. ); but m December I rode from Cheshire through Mt. Carmel to Center v.l c w.thout stop (8 m in i h.). and then made the mistake of turning r in mucr to enter the c.ty through Dixwell av.. which is usually recommended b^ New Haven cyclers, as being i m. shorter than the Whitney av. route I say "mistake." because I found that the dirt cidewalks. which 'supply smooth connection between Centerville and Dixwell av. in milder weather had become mudJy by the action of the sun.upon the frost; while the road-' way Useu was so sandy as to be barely ridable. It would have been better or rne .f I had kept straight ahead by the road which passes Lake Whit, - for I might have traversed it without dismount; and I advise all stran. ' wceang between New Haven and Meriden, to take that route, whatevefbe the weather. No such stranger shouldfail to make the ascent of East Rock w .ch is now the distinguishing feature of a magnificent public park, supplied w. h .nacadamized roads, whose grades were determined by careful surve s and engineering. Orange st. stretches in a perfectly straight line from Crown ^.., .a New Haven, to the bridge at the base of the Rock, where the ascend- ..i,road begins; but, from the parallel thoroughfare, Whitney av.. a cross- j.ree may be taken, just s. of Whitneyville, to a little swing-ferry. v hich wi 1 a„ the tourist very near the same point. My only ascent of th s new pi k u,te gentle, there was a rather sharp .ne near the summit which I thought however easily it m.ght be surmounted separately) would be likely to stop fhe verage r.der who reached it in the weary condition caused by a mi'e of con tin 3US climbing. I am told, however, that the entire ascent has been seve al mes made Without stop, by Dr. Tyler and other New Haven riders. From north Side of the eminence, a descent may be made to the road for No th v7' f^" '"t "' ' '°' °^ '' ' ^'"^ '' =^"y ^''""^'' i" ^vheeling between Me.u on and New Haven, insists upon tryiiig that road (in spite of mv asser" t>on that the route through Centerville and Mt. Carmel is far preferable) let me remind h.m that a passage through this beautiful park is in the direct line 01 li.s course. Let me remind every sentimental tourist, indeed, that East Roc ,s i,ot on y one of the highest, but perhaps also the most distinguished of th eonnecticut hill-tops. I am not aware, at least, that any o^her .mountain ,n the State has figured so many times in song and storv; though mii^t hegpardon of the poet whose lines I now c,uote» for applying them to a '•• Holyoke Valley," in TAe Round Tabic, July 2, .864, p. 35. 136 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. different scene fro.Ti the one which he wished them to celebrate,— for the verses force themselves upon my memory whenever, in these later days, I gaze at shore and hill-top from the outlook of East Rock : On restless wings the years have fled, New Haven, over thee and me, Since last my wandering pathway led 'ipon these heights that guard thy lea. 1 see the hazy waters meet the sky, and count each shining spire. From those which sparkle at my feet to dist;.nt steeples tipt with fire. For still thy beauties are the same. The robins sing their choral tune, Within thy mantling elms aflame, as in that other, dearer June, When here my footsteps entered first, and summer perfect beauty wore, And all thy charms upon me burst, while all the wide world lay before. No less each fragrant walk remains, where happy maidens come and go. And students saunter in thy lanes, and sing the songs I used to know. Thus much 't is given me to find, but, while the natural eye beholds. Sad Memory, to the picture blind, her fairer inward scene unfolds. I gaze, and feol myself alone, and walk with solitary feet ; How strange these wonted ways have grown I Where are the friends I ust 1 to meet ? In yonder shaded Academe the rippling meters flow to-day, Uut other boys at sunset dream of love, and laurels far away. And, ah ! from many a trellised home, less sweet the faces are that peer Than those of old, and voices come less musically to my ear. It pains me that yon river can still pour its full unchanging stream, And we more transitory than the mountain's clod, the water's gleam. Sigh not, ye mountain pines, nor give the whispers which I yearn to hear- Soft tones, wlrose memories shall live forever in my straining ear ; But smile, to gladden fresher hearts, henceforth : for they shall yet be led. Revisiting these ancient parts, like me to mourn their glory fled. Chapter XIX. describes my " winter wheeling " northward, to Hartford and beyond ; and, in my Springfield chapter (p. 122), I have reported the route which I traversed between those two cities, Dec. 4, 1884. On the afternoon of that day, when I reached the crest of the hill s. of Trinity College, where New Britain av. is to be descended s. w. by those who seek the town of that name (and it is an objective point on all the best wheeling routes that connect Hartford with New Haven), I turned squarely to the s., and rode i m. along the macadamized ridge, having fine views of the country on both sides of it. At the end I followed the telegraph poles along the old turnpike in a straight line to the hotel at Berlin (9 m. in 2 h.), where the red clay road from New Britain , >ms, it ; and my report reads : " hills and ridges in succession, muddy and sandv bv turns, no attractive views, few houses ; the sandy spots, made ridable by the frost, would probably be too soft in the summer, and the muddy- places would probably be rida'-le then." If I had taken the usual and prefer- able route, s. w. from the college hill, I should have had a choice of courses, after crossing under the railway at Elmwood (about 3 m.), for there 'he 1 , ■»- • ..*-.. 1... I »_tT — -:.^u*- »»^T.«.-^.-^ i-/-^\A fUof \,'w ,icav.iu ,v I yJtK^Jk v\^ ^ « SHORE AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. 137 li Britain riders prefer it, except at the knuddy season. I myself have had better luck, however, by keeping due west, up a long hiil fridable but tiresome), sur- iiu'imted by a school-house, ar.d to Corbin's corner, about i m. beyond, where a turn is made " , followed by nearly 2 m. of poor riding ; then a short ascent after crossing a brook. (I have conquered this but once in a half dozen trials), another turn s., and 2 m. of smooth roadway to New Britain. About \ m. after taking this last turn, a junction is made with the other road that >tictches e. tc Newington and Elmwood (4 m., which I have found more tire- sjine, on account of mud and ruts, than the sJ m. just described). Another ridable route to the last named place, from Hartford, leads through Asylum st. (uhich crosse? the tracks at right angles in front of the railway station, and whose stone ".dewalk is ridable up-hill to the w.), and then Farmington av., i:i the same westward direction to Quaker lane, which is the second or third cross-street beyond the terminus of the horse railroad, and which leads south- ward in a pretty direct line to the main street in Elmwood, about opposite tiie meadow road for Newington. The church-spire of West Hartford is hardly i m. away, when the turn is made into Quaker lane, and a parallel road extends from that church to the school-house on the hill beyond Elmwood. Farmington is 5 m. to the n. of Plainville, and the same distance s. w.of West Il.irtford; and local wheelmen have told me that the roads connecting them are fairly ridable. I lately learned, also, from a resident of Berlin, that the direct road between there and Hartford, which I have described as difficult ia December, has been traversed by him, both n. and s., without dismount. At the fork, 2 m. e. of New Britain, where the touris* sees the church- spire, beside the hotel at Berlin, \\ m. ahead, he should aim for it, by taking the 1. road, for in that way he may go to Meriden without stop (6 m. s. from the hotel, though the hill just before reaching the hotel is rather hard climb- ing). If he turns r. at the before-named fork, and then crosses the railway, he may ultimately reach the same road, after considerable rough traveling. I once found there (Dec. 11, 'S3) so much of the latter, that, in despair of reaching the former, I turned westward, over a railway bridge, and tried again the southward course, which I had happened to hit upon in iuy earliest ex- ploration of the region (June 10, 'So), and of which I then printed the follow- ing report : " Below Berlin the road runs along the west side of the railway for some distance, and, within 4 m., it leads over several long hills, which have to be ascended on foot, if not also deocended in the same manner. Mounting at last, near the top of one of these, the rider may go without stop to the hotel in Meriden (jj m.), though he will have to climb a tolerable hill ? in after the start, and also a short, steep one about i m. from the finish, between these points, the road has a continuous downward slope, varying pleasantly in degrees of steepness, and for more than a mile it runs through a magnificent, shaded glen or gorge,— worthy of a nobler name than ' Cat Hole Pass,— the very perfection of wheeling." At the fork, 4 m. n. of Meriden, on the other ro.ld. pifhpr hranr^Vi tmir 1io fil-oo (,^r fl,„ *...„ , •.. ■\\ i I W&B\ ^«ii t ' m 1 Hi to Kl . 1- 138 TEAT THOUSAND Af/LES ON A BICYCLE. 8. of Berlin ; but whoever turns 1. at the fork, as I prefer to do, should turn r. at the next chance which offers.* 1 Alxmt the middle of September, 1883, roadf. and weather being favorable Dr T S Rust Captani of the Meriden Wheel Club, drove a 56 in. wheel by thi, route to New liriiain and Hartford (about aj m.) without leaving the saddle. On Deceml*ri, '83, William Collin, of the same club (whose day's ride of 155 m. from this town to N.ishua, \ H has been re' corded on p. .28), starting at 5 A. m., reached Springfield in about 6 h., and arrived home at 8 P. M., with a record of ,00 m. shown by the 50 in. cyclometer which was attached to bis cj in wheel. A more remarkable day's run by the same rider (May 3,, '84, 4,30 a. m to 8 20 p m ) extended from the Grand Union Hotel, 42 st. and 4th av., N. Y., to Meriden.-his route b, ini; through 5th av, Central a/., past Jerome P.irlc and Woodlawn Cemetery (near which he made a detour of i m. in losing his course) to Mt. Vem.m and New Rochelle.-which point he miRht much more readily have reached by the shore road (p. 73). He took the direct pik. Irom Milford to New Haven ; and the Dixwell av. route thence to Centerville and Cheshire. He had lunch at Jerome Park, breakf.xst at Ml. Vernon (\ h.), dinner at Southport (. to 1.30 p. m.), reached PndKeiv.rt at 2,30, and New Haven at 5.30 o'clock. His longest stay in the saddle' was be tween there and Cheshire, and his longeu stretch without rest was between Southport and New Haven. "The weather w.-is cool and pleasant," he writes, "and the idea of attempting the trip first occurred to me when I reached the hotel, the previous evening, after a ride to Hemp- stead, I,. I., and back. I make it a point, on such hmg trips, to dismount at all hills, i.i order to save myself .'or the finish; but I think, if two days were given to the journey, the whole distance from New York to Meriden could be traversed, without a single forced dismount " A ride of June 23, '83, from Fair Haven to Ridgefield, which adjoins the most northeast- erly town of Westchester county, N.Y., was thus reported to me by John H. Whiting(b Nov 24 1849; grad. Yale Uiw School, 1876) : " Started at 3.15 a. m., to avoid heat, and p.i.ssed Saviii Rock, Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Southport, Green's Farms, and Saugatuck to Westport (35 m.), at 9 a. m. My first S m., to Tyler's Point, were without dismount ; the 6 m thence to M.lford required \ m. of walking; the ji m. to Housatonic river at Stratford required perhaps 3 m. on foot ; the 10 or 11 m. thence to Southport forced only one dismount ; and the last 7 m. tc Westport made me leave the saddle thrice. Resting there i h. for lunch, I proceeded to Wilton, 6 m. ; lost my w.iy there and went nearly to Redding; thence by newly-made, rou(:h country road to Branchville. 3 m. ; and to Ridgefield (4 m., mostly up-hill), at ..30 p M the whole distance being nearly 60 m., though the length of other routes to New Haven is from 45 m. to 50 m. I ro v;'""" ^'"^"'^ •• ''''^^^« irance. and whom the close of h^sM^i^P'.h ' ""!-^-'^«"-°n> "ear Nancy. ;i..w„.s of fortune. employe/Ll '^nie^rhirb^r Vt^M ^"^. "^^ ^'^ ,,e.. from .nsLa to NeJ^JUl^l ^:7^- ^^^ t^-^^ «hat ,s termed Hog-pen Ridge. 3 m., and very fine riding to the Port fh u " s .l,en ra,n,ng torrents and the n,ud was inches deen . P"« <-hester boul, -ard. It l'l..i"s n. 5.30 o'clock, 6, m. At 8 4, I swld on ''^'^"' '^" ^^ P'-^h'^d "". reaching White ■■ M.. with the rain sti,. falling. i:l2T^C ^Z , T'"^' "^^'^'"^^' "^-"^ '^' '° Chester, and then push w. to White plll^^.s aT.h: tr" a'nV n '^°^^'-^-^ '» J'"« however, decidedly hilly. I rode a .6J lb. R^dge nc -r aid , ,n ^^ ™^- Greenwich is. r-narkable in reference to the .ji m without d^n'n, '' '"'"'=• '^'^^^ "'^'^ ^'^^ nukes you well aware. My firstl.op was caus Hv 'V "T "T.,''"'-'^^^^ of the road Haven ; bu, I have since ridden around it bja" ther road .H "" '"' "* "^ ""' '^°"-' ^'"v .hat a sk,lful rider might have the good luck .0 "from " "I! " T" " '''"'' '™- '^i, (-y 50 to 55 m.) without leaving the saddle -"houlhT "■' 'I •^°""' ''"""^"' ='"'' bev^nd -1. as - staying " power appea'rs to me v ; extrao alT;" Tha" ""'■ Y"'' ^"^ '-" " equally long upon a course which I know to be o , fffl" u * ^"^ "' ^'' ^'"^ °f "° " ^'^v " Sou.hin.ton .0 South Norwalk, I myseVhave eJ fu"" "' ""'■ '^' '^"" P»« "f ' it. numberIessdismounts,anddidmuchrk ,g h rough hfsa h" T ^''"- '' '«'^>' ^"^ ' ""^^ and I therefore recommend through touri s ,0 s.icW .K ' '""'•^^^"^ de,ou„(9m. in3 h.); entirely, as I have always dono on other Jcc^ilf %2' '^IT '"' '^''^ "^°^^ '^ '-- way bey^.nd Fairfield, and includes a longX WestLrt r'T ^t .' ""'' '^"'^ "^^"^^ "^^ -"- "">«, ihough it makes me groan) and ano h T ^ •"*' ' '"^^^ "''^ea up. „vo or three branches of. .0 the r. fromrt!:'s. tadTg :T.uth""rM^ ""'' ''' '^^ "" ^''^^ -r,e at Darien (, m.); and the traveler com n' thenr. f . m™'"'' ^""^ '*" ™"'^^ """ .hr.,ugh South Norwalk. should bear to the r after 'Tu "'""' "''° "'""" '" S" hiil lea'--■" '-". he should turn r. and then 1 in o derL ^ \ ^"^'^^^ '^''^" ^e reaches that «reet ; and, in case of riding tow L'drSouthlrt T/sH m7' '"'. ^'^'^ ^' ^"^"' "' "' --" of .his ma,n sidewalk, to folL it round To^erlLf d T'L"' ""'" '*= "^'^'^'^^ ">^ ->d ." front of him. When he leaves Stamford he .-^'enc .^f '"^ '"' ''^'"''y ^-^ directly - Whose summit he may see the church s;sT(" el' ' ^''^'J^ ''''"'"'' '" ^'-^■ before reaching them, he will pass up a roueh^H /? uTf ' ^ "'' '^''°"'' = ^"^' shortly cnttin.in the rock that ts famous in traditln as theTne'i k u'" "''" "'^'^^"^ "'-"'^'' » General Putnan,, dear to the hearts oft,Z s.uS nt of "" :'"': ''^''^' "'^ ''^^°''= '^— an. unharmed from ,h. f„.;uj, _x .u. ^ . .^^^ ^.'"^ents of our Revolutionary historv ond <.. J pursuit of so desperate a rider."" "*"*'*''"' '^"^'^"'"°' *^° ''^^d "^ spur their steeds in furthe^ Mimitii 140 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the public green and on the streets." Considering that I was then a resident of the city, in my early bloom as a brown-coated Freshman of Old Vale it gr.eves .ne to record my personal absence from the green and streets, duri'n. those historic hours. The exhibition could hardly have excited much general attention, however, for it was not discussed at all among tb^ undergraXates- and .f any allusion to it was printed in the city papers. I failed to read the same It may have happened during the three weeks' April vacation- but at a 1 events, nearly three years more slid by before my young blood was first i:r.d by the magic name " veloss." in the opening days of ,869. A pilgrimage along that primal path where the pioneer tourist, Pierre Lallement, had hopefully pushed the prototype of all existing bicycles seven teen years oetore, was a thing which appealed to my historic sentiment, as the correct caper to indulge myself in. Accordingly, I did indulge in the pilgrim- age, some months before I saw the suggestion in the Wheelman, or learned there that the 52,000 for which Lallement finally managed to sell his patent on "the crank idea." ' -rmed the richest reward that he ever reaped for his ingenuity m setting the world on wheels." Twenty-six davs had my bicycle rested in- g onously m a stable, when I dragged it out (July 27, '83) to face the fierce glare that beats upon a New Haven sidewalk in midsummer, and drove it along the same, through West Chapel St., past the new Yale Athletic Grounds to the cross-road connecting West Haven with Westville. The latter part of thi.s distance (2 m ), after leaving the sidewalk, was most of it too sandy for riding ; and I hal'.ed just beyond here to listen to a lau-hing negro's storv of a dog that barked at me from a distance and then hurriedly disappeared "I saw dat ar dog run into by a bicycle on Whalley av., a few days ago " said the ma 1. " He frew de feller off, and den he lipt hom'erds two mile widout stoppin ,— worse dan dem greyhounds useter. down to New Orleans " Sand continue, for another \ m. to the toll-ga^e (2 o'clock), where stone on 1. says " 3 ni. to \. H." Thence the track is generally ridable to the cross-roads (Sf m. in I h.), near which is an advertising plank, "8 m. to N. H "—the de- scending road here, 1., leading to Milf„rd, on the shore. The bridge over the Naugatuck river, just above where it flows int.. the Housatonic, at Derby is ij m. beyond, and by it I cross into Birmingham, and wheel to the crest' of the hill on concrete sidewalk on 1. ; crossing the street there and ascending another slope to r., on r. walk, past the soldiers' monument, and so to the s br:dge at Ansonia, 2 m. This is the course where Pierre Lallement "took the first regular header from the first crank bicycle known to our history" (pictured in the mee/man, p. 10) ; and the distance between the two bridges may easily be done in either direction without a dismount. The more direct road, which joins them on the e. side of the river, is also said to be ridable My atternoon's record, with detours at each end of the route, wa.= 15 m I tarried a day in Ansonia, with a lawyer who was my academy classmate twenty years before, and whose character as a wneelman I now first discovered. Stress of weather, however, prevented our making any trial together, except SHORK AXD HILL-TOP LV CONXECTICUT. ,4, on foot, of the various steep sidewalks of smooth concrete, where the local rulers delight to test their prowess as hill-chmhers. I had a chat with a man who worked m the same machine-shop with I.allemem. during nearly all the pen,.d of h,s stay here in .865-66. He recalled him as a pleasant vounR fel- low, whose good-nature made him popular among the other workmen and who.se inability to use En-lish. except in fragments which he had " broken " 111 a very 1 renchy manner, led them very generally to call him by the nick- n.une " C • apoo." This variation of " Johnny Crapaud " was doubtless easier t.) utter than " I.allement " ; but the fact of its being in vogue serves in its w.iy to confirm the testimony of my informant that the utterers all looker' upon "Crapoo" with a sor< of good-natured contempt, as a man of no partin.lar account. He did ,t impress them at all as a possible inventor, even pro- spectively; and as .or his twowheeled hobby-horse, by whose contortions upon the street, when working hours were over, he caused them to laugh thoy never suspected that // contained any idea worth patenting, or that he hnnself thought h^ had discovered anything important when he put it to- gether. The Ansonian tradition of Lallement, if his fellow-workman gave it to me truly, is that of a light-henrted and intellectuallv light-weighted youne mechanic, whose animal spiri .und casual vent in rigging up an amusin. ov. to play with upon the streets; and whose relative helplessness (resulting from Ignorance of the language and customs of America) caused the others to" treat h,m with a certain kind indulgence, as if he were a sort of sprightly grown-up child, who " was n't to blame for being a foreigner." ^ry next day's ride of 40 m. led up the vallev of the Xaugatuck to Watcrbury, 17 m., and thence northwestward up the hills to Litchfield Crossing the n. bridge of Ansonia at 10 o'clock, I went up-hill to th- water- ing trough, where I turned r. and proceeded 3 m. to the fork, making one dL.mount about midway, whe.e I first reached the river level. The 1 road at the trough supplies a ridable surface back to Birmingham. At the fork I took the r.. though the 1. would probably have done as >vell, for the two converge >n \ m.. at the pond by the church in Seymour, where I designed to cross the river; but as the bridge there, by the Wilbur H-use, was in process of re- pair, I mounted again and went along the west side of the pond, then over the north bridge and railroad, without stop to the hill. I found a little sand at the foot of the descent before I reached the first of the small bridges be- side the pond (i m.); and I then rode i m. without stop, up a long sandy grade and down ,t to the water-trough. Descending another stony hill \ stayed in the saddle for near 3 m., or almost to the top of a big hill, opposite p.cmc grove on the river below.-passing meanwhile the "Beacon Falls Hotel and the neater looking " High Rock House bv E. Brown," with a Sh '?K i""'^ ^''T" "'''"• ""^ '''^•"S ^°^ ^"''^ ^ ^'^'^"" ^^ ^ cinder path. The descent of the hill was followed by a continuous though gentle scent until I reached the Naugatuck Hotel (3 m.). at 13.40 P. M.,-no pre- liminarv stnn KturJnrr V.ao» r». 1 ... ' *^ . .._j ^ 1 i-.-i-.tu uj/v:: ;:iv, spiic nd to this point a man might, by good luck, wheel without stop from tnc pond, 9 m. below. He might also continue from this point -vithout stop to the green in VVaterbury, then w. across the bridge and n. to the fork e m I reached that fork in i h. after leaving the hotel,-having made manv ttop.' in changing from one s-dewalk to the other, on account of the mud' in tht street. Taking the I., I ,,a.ssed the Oakville post-ofJice and s.orc (if m ) and reached the hill in Watcrtown where the churches -f nd (2\ m.) at -x 70 o'clock. Here I turned off from the direct turnpike for Litchfield, and went up a hill to I., surmounted by a big summer hotel, around which I turner^ to the r., and again at the fork took the r., past the fair grounds, to the post saying " i\ m. to Morris; jj m. to Watertown." Just i m. beyonu this post, I turned to r. and climbed nearly to the crest o^ the hill at the cross-roads in Morris, 3 m. The spires of Litchfield soon came into view and It was not until I had walked up the last slopes of a long hill and reached the level of the village street, that I enquired the route to Hn'ntam Lake, and discovered that I should have turned 1. i m. below. However being on the summit, I thought I might as well "see Litchfield"; and so I sped along the w. sidewalk i m. to the Mansion House (theopDosite hotel is the " United States"; while the "Lake View," a larger and more fashionable establishment, is } m. to the west), and J m. beyond, to the end of the \orth street; then back by the e. sidewalk to the starting-point. I rode down the long hill, and made the turn 1. i m. beyond; whence rj m. of riding and walking brought me to the iJantam Lake House at 7.30 o'clock.^ 1 The sun shot.e bright, that day, l.ut the air was very cool, and a strong breeze from the south was generally a help to mc. Th. scenery .long the entire route was varied and attractive Must of the roads which I traversed w.re probably at their best, because of the ,,revi,.u, day's showers. The first part of them, m,l, .,1, would hardly have been ridable excet^t for this ; and when I walked down the Litchfield hill, two days later, the sand seemed so deep that I shoulo not have attemnt.a to ride doun, had my wheel been with me. From Waterbury the track throusli the Naugatuck valley was said to continue gtKxl as far n. a.s Winsted,-say 25 or 30 m Though I kept on the e. bank from Seymour to Waterbury, a road reaches from that city down the west side of the valley to Birmingham, and thence to Stratford ; but the final section of It is reported sandy and unridable,-the road ihrough Derby and Milford supplying a preferable route to the Sound. In Ansonia, as I should have remarked before, the favorite stretch of concrete, for the up-grade trials of wheeling, is the sidewalk of Foundry Hill, beginning at the self-same foundry where Pierre Lallement was employed, twenty -ars ago. There is said to be good nding from Waterbury to Bt.stol f ,0 or .2 m.), thence to the adjoining town of I'l.im- ville, and so to New Britain. Westward from Bristol, the direct road for Litchfield (say ,5 m. or more) leads through Terrysville, Thomaston and Northfield ; and it is said to be ridable In the summer of '79. Dr. G. F. Fiske. who was then an undergraduate at Amherst, toured from New Haven to Poughkeepsie, by way of Birmingham, Oxford, Roxbury and Now Milfurd. W e had lots of walking to this point," he writes; " but we thence rode straight across, over Plymouth mountain, to the Hud.son, and had wheeling most of the way." Litchfield quite won my he.rt as a type of the quiet, old-fashioned and eminentlv-rcspecta- ble New England to«-n at its ,^st estate. It is well worth visiting, if only for the sake of Conv.nc.ng one s self that such placid villages really do exist, undisturbed by the ntsh and roar ., I;*- SHORE AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. ,43 Resuming my tour .if 5 30 o'clock on the morning of August i, I went to the L.tchhcl.l po,,.office (i\ m. in } h.) I.y the w. road, directly from IJr.ntam I-akc to the Shepai.g terminus,-the half-milt hill from there to the 1 ost-otfice m,,nrmg consuierablc walking. At the end of the p.r'ewalk of the North SI., I took the 1. ro.td for (Joshc, and made my first dismount in 3 m at the e.ul of a long hill; then walked up and rode down a succession of sift and s Muly rulges tor \ n, ; then sped along the smooth clay surface for z\ m to the nigpole in front of the Goshen Housr, where I halted at 7.30 for an hour's rest •^";f;^^;akf.rst. The latter half of this final spin was undulating, hut the first half afforded i m. of perfectly level riding, along the hill-top, with beau- tiful views on cither hancl.^ From the hotel I faced eastward for .1 m to the crest of the next parallel ridge, along which I roc' thward. Just a few rods above the point of turning, a white marble slab says to the tourist ■ 'Here stm,d the Libertv Pole in 17/6." Along th. h.rd loam surface of this h.stortc hdl-to;,, whose grade slopes gradually upv. . .ith one or two quite difficult I Itches. I sped along without stop to the cross-roads (z\ m.) having .superb mountain-vi, .vs bounding the horizon en both sides of me for the entire distance. No stop was needed at the cross-roads, where the decline .c^'.in. nor indeed until I reached the ne.xt uivgrade. i m. beyond. / this I had I m. of up-and-down, through the woods, where much walki,.^ was nccdc . and then i m. of riding, in the open, and so down a diffi-^ult slope to a hrook-.side school house at South Norfolk. Fhe next mile was mostly afoot .uuiui>hdl to the cross-roads sign " Goshen 9 .i., Norfolk 1 m., Winsted 8 m." of the railways, and unruffled by .he fret and bustle of " fashionable suramer-re.ort people" A.l .he residences seem to shelter well ,^„ owners, and almost none of .he re.dencT, s e m ons.ruc.ed for .he purpose of proclaiming the owner's weal.h. Many of .he h-Ies exh bU hove the central doorway a da.e .ha. indica.es a c.n.uryor more of history; and it ^othe .he nerve, of the sentimental tourist to find such kii.ired spivus who are aWe thu ZiZ '^^ziT^rr^'^'^^'^ ''^' ^-'^''^ -'"'"-"'' -'^ dignified :hio .le W(ir.liiiLS of Washmgton s .imj. The Shepaug river, a branch of .he Houso.or ,se a. Bantam Lake ; and it gives us n me to a ii .le branch-railway, which creeps a . fro™ .he main line, and, onfe n st.^.™ '- behinf ,r h-,r r^'u " '" ''"'•^"^ '"' "'■'•" "^ P^-^"S- =" '•'^ ii"le terminal pn, d a. all by .his low y reminder of .he s.ruggling ou.side world. The locomo.ive, of ,he i 'fTh ,"' ^"!'"'y •^'""'^'^ -'I ou.-of-commission, perfec.ly nnders.and .he pro- prciics „, the place, and ev. , m their most rampant and hilarious moods, " ro,v you as gentiv as sucking doves." They are proud, too, of Bantam Lake, as the largest ^ond in Connec.'cu ' db,/. ^\ """"/t °^ ^''"°" ■' """' " '"^ "^"^ ""' °f Goshen (Cornwall being the interme- w d h!: ',:! ''"'T ":r°" t ^'^ ''"^"" "^"""^ "- ^''^"' ••^-s'' ^ --'- -i k« on ,h H Z°"""^\^'"^ ^'■°" '''"°" " ^""^ '°'^ «'-'^» - "rough Amenia to Pough- a Im h r- "• "• '"r" ''■°" °'^^'^" ^'''^ '"^^ '^'-^"y <° Sou.h Canaan (,o m.^ a ;, . T ' "/o"; Tr '"■"' \°' '^"' ' "• ~="^ '"'^'"' Lakeville (5 m.), whence to Sharon So thcl" *" , M 't"^"'' ^" ''''• ^ ^°'' "'"-^^ "'^°"8'> "''^ mountain.passes e from and he B ITr " ^ °"- ' '"■^' "" ■■" "' "• '"^"^ f™-" '»"=- =«-'i' ^'4 '^e railway ' ent^^^SheffiT'V; "'^ T''"" "'" ''^ «°^""^'«=' '" ^°"^ Canaan, the border-.o J aojacent .0 Sheffield, in Massachusetts. 144 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. |l * N After crossing the railroad 'iridge, I rode up a long, sandy grade, with fine views most of the way (2 m.), and then p issed through the little park in Norfolk to the "store" (i m.), at ir.30, -.here I rested an hour and munched a lunch, as a hotel dinner could not be obtained until i o'clock. I had now traveled 2ii m. from the lake; and when I dismounted at the Carter House in New Hartford, ?t 6.30 P. M., my day's record was f> m., but the afternoon's route is not worthy of much praise. Between New Haven and Norfolk my cyclometer registered 77 m., and I can recommend the track to any tourist who likes to trail his wheel among the hill-tops; but, from Norwalk, he ought to proceed n. w. to Sheffield (say 12 or 15 m.), where he will r.ieet'the -excellent .oad leading northward through the Housatonic valley to Pittsfiekl (say 30 or 35 m.). My own course from Norfolk was eastward, however, and I devoted i h. to traversing the 4 m. which brought me to the cross-roads post saying " i m. to Colebrook." A half-mile beyond this a heavy shower drove me to take refuge in a farmer's ched ; and the track was very muddy when I started on, i h. later, and plodded across hill after hill to a fork, whose 1. branch, marked " Hitchcockville," would have taken me to New Hartford by way of Riverton and Barkha.nsted, whereas the r. branch did tuke me there more directly, by way of Winsted. It should be understood that, at this fork, I definitely turned backward from my objective point (Springfield), in the hope of finding better roads which would render a roundabout route thither pracfically shorter than the direct one. Otherwise I should have turned n. at the previous cross-r-nds (which was only 5 m. from Massachusetts), and gone through the villages of Colebrook and ':olebrook River to Tolla-.d ; thence e. through the sands of Granville to South^irick and Feeding Hi: is, or else n. e. from Granville to Westfield. F. -1 there to Springfield (9 or 10 m, see p. 120), or from Feeding Hills to Springfield (7 or S m., see p. 1.-.3), o.e may ride without dis- mount. I probably should have had fewer miles of walking or of poor ridi.ig on that unexplored route than on the much longer one which I did in fact ^-averse. The distance backward from the fork to Winsted was 4 m., along a winding, sandy, southward descent, with an occasional short up-grade. The air was sultry and sticky, afte. the shower in contrast to its l-,ra°cing quality m the forenoon ; and I walked as much as I rode. From a laurel arci,, which some firemen were erecting on the outi)kirts of the town, I went i m. on side- walks to the post-office; whence the highway follows the general line of the railroad along the Farmington ri-er. It would probablv all have been ridable except for the rain, and I did in fact rid- >- ^ of it, though : Msed i\ h. in covering the last 6^ m., ending at Ntw Hartford, "'he Carter House, there. 13 a new and clean one, in pleasant contrast .0 th. other establishment ; and Its owner said that the direct s. w, road through Torrington to Litchfield (sav 15m.) supplies very good wheeling. The Farmington river (-vhose feeders reach over the line into Massa- chusetts) after taking a s. e. court, for about 13 m. from New Hartford, SHORE A ND-H ILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. 14. suddenly turns back to the „. for a similar distance, running along the w base of a mountain range to Tariffville. whence a s. e. course carries it to hcs on the outside (s.) of ,ts remarkable bend, and is connected by good roads w.th Jart ford (about 9 m. n. e.. see p. 137), as well as with Plainvillf and New Britain I thmk. too. that the river-road is good all the way from New Har^ ordto Farmmgton (Collinsville and Unionville being the intermediate v - lages). and v.at 'he mountain scenery of that westerly branch of the V-shaped Farmmgton valley mu.st be quite attractive. The h.avy morning mists hid the hill-tops from me, however, when I started from the hotel at 6 o'clock .nd sp.d along the side-valks ij m. to th. bridge. Crossing this, I rode on p-bs I m. and then walked f m. through deep sand to the second bridge and cross-roads where sign to the r. says " ij m. to CoHinsville; 15 m. to Hart- ord. I kept straight on, however, up and down a succession of short, sandy h.lls and then along a level stretch to Hawks's t ,vern in Canton, where I stopped I h for breakfast. The distance was 2 m., but the 3 m. route by way of ^ollinsville could have been ridden more quickly. Indeed, if I had kept nght down the nyer to Farmington, and crossed theace to Hartford, I should ivT. . o". xT-^f "' . '""■= "'' '^'^ ' ^"^"'^ "• ^' F-"'i"gt"''. followed the nv^r ap to Taritfville. and crossed e.from there to Windsor Locks, my course must have proved faster than the direct one actually chosen; and I might ave reached this rive:-road at Avon by going 3 m. directly e. from Canton. Instead of this, however, I turned n. as soon as I crossed the railway, after r?^ the tavern at 8.15, and took the 1. at the first fofk. Getting around the base of the spur called Wilcox n.ountain (the southernmost of the chain vviiich embraces Hedgehog mountain md Barndoor hills to the n.), I reached the I arms Village post-otfice. 4 m , in i h., and again made the mistake of continuing norfchvard, instead of striking eastward for Simsbury and Tariff. ,1 V, 'V . "I ' ^•' ""' '"'""^ ''''"" ^°"^"' ^i '"• °". ^vhere the r. led to I.e hamlet of ..almon River, I kept the 1., and quickly got into a hihy region V n. .Soon after passing betwee he Barndoor hills, which mark the end t the H.rnungton valley. I took a ' uler, on . sandy descent, but suffered no unage My only other spill in ,.akin, this trail from New London to Springfield (along the coast to New llavcn, and thence among the hill-tops . northwestern Connecticut, .85 m.) was a .eedless side-faH, ju.t be or c.,ch.ng Luchl eld ; though I let my wheel d.on once, in a sand rut, the da" r ef there. A heavv black ca .1 :.a 1 beea following me for some hours! • ta T t 7""' V"" '"^"' '^ '*" = ^"■*' "'°" =^^^- 'l^-t, 18 m. from ^S:^^^:-jfT^' ' "-'^'"^^ ^ '^^•^' ^=^Se,to a cross-roads • un h.. for i „. ; tnen s. ana e. alonn. the plain till an increase of the storm jp ■ " .."-.-, «w w.^ juii..tioii 01 nve roads, which was \A iW m 'U tr. 146 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. once well-known as Viets's tavern,— situated just about \ m. inside the north- ern border of the State of Connecticut. The road due w. from here leads over the mountains to Colebrook, about 15 m., though I had traversed -iiZ m. since leaving that point, the previous afternoon. The s. e. road from Viets's leads to the old copper-mine on Turkey hill {3 m.), which was once a State's prison, and whose ruins are worth visiting. Ridable roads of red clay lead from there e. to Suffield and n. to West Suffield ; and the e. road from Viets's also leads through both those villages, and to the Connecticut river at Enfield bridge or at Thompsonville ferry. My own course continued n., however, nearly 2 m. without stop, spite of the drizzling rain, to the cross-roads just below the Methodist church in Southwick; and the next 2 m. leading through the center of the village were said to be equally ridable. The inscription on the guide-board was " 4 m. w. to Granville; 9 m. e. to Suffield," and I rode e. for i m. to the picnic grounds between the ponds, and halted there at 2 o'clock, to get dinner in one of the booths where other bedraggled pleasure-seekers were taking shelter from the storm. Beyond here, at the first fork, i J m., I turned 1. ; 1. also at cross-roads, i\ m. later ; r. at the triangle, \\ m., on crest of hill, and 1. at base of it. where sign says " 9 m. to Springfield." This is the point to which a rider f roia that city may come without dismount, as mentioned on p. 123. I went straight n. to the second cross-roads, 2\ m. ; then up hill, e., to the park in Feedin HHis, \ m. (stopping betimes to strap to my handle-bar an umbrella which had dropped from some, passing wagon) : then without dismount across the plain, spite of some up-grades and soft stretches, to the telegraph poles, 2| m., where' the sticky clay soon brought my wheel to a standstill, when I turn r. to follow them. I cross the covered bridge over the Agawam, \ m. ; pass the West Spn..gfie'd post-office, \\ m. ; scale the church hill, and speed northward in the sunshine to the finish at 6 o'clock,— with a record of 39 m. for the 12 h., and of 2 m. for the final \ h., the only smooth spin of the entire day. I can- not say that I recall the day with special pleasure, or that I think the fore- noon's roads will ever swarm with bicyclers; bu^ as the scene for a quiet October ramble of a nature-loving tourist a worse choice might easily be made than these hill-tops along the Farmington valley. A route of 70 m., from Poughkeepsie to Lee (which I explored in making the five days' tour whose final da} — Lee to Springfield— is described on p. 121), may appropriately be mentioned here, as it included 15 m. of good wheeling across the n. w. corner of Connecticut. The distance from the Hudson river eastward to the border town, Amenia, is about 25 m., through a rolling country, most of whose hills ^1^ nciable— the longest of them being a short distance w. of the village just named. Deep dust, the result of a jiro- tracted drough:, covered the surface of most of the roadway when I wheeled from Poughkeepsie to the hotel in Pleasant Va^'^y (7 m. in \\ h.), at 3.30 o'clock, that Sunday afternoon. An hour later, at Washington Hollow (5 ni.), having delayed somewhat to converse wjtli a local rider who arcnrr-.nnnii'H m?. SHORE AND HILL-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. '^^Tl::^\^^,t:t;:^:^^^^^^ -C -„.,,,; and at the Z Sharon pike. Pratt's hotel ZkIT k ''^ '""^ "'«" "'^'^'^ P^'"'-^ to the from this point; and thet ' .^raTlht::: .IT' '^' ""''''' '' '° ^ " ^ chilliness which had been increasing all the if '""^' '"^ ^"^^'""S '"^^ the air seemed almost frostr Thf contra.f T'"' ""'"' "°"' =^' ' '''^•-•'' term."so prolonged a. d in InsewhirhTr "" *^" ^"^ *"^ "Seated tour, two days before was ^o"' Ixtraordina"' "^^7"'^' "'^^'^ ' ^^«- -^ jacket before going i^ to sZer n [^' ' ""^^ «''^ '° ^■*'^"'^'" «">• Butcher cyc,om'eter'(whLhhTdrgisfera.rt'he','°"^' ''' '''''' ^' ^ and Whose accuracy I had not pr!::::X ^^^^Z::^ T.^^^' ^'■" m.-pomt, and then jumped backwards a little n u\ '^^ ''°°°'^ from Newburg to Poughkeepsie. it had ^ e 1^ ,7x61 ""°^"' "''^• ■9 m. shown by the "Ritchie " of J. ^1 , J^ ^ ""■' ^' ^«^'"^' ^he road made him confident of tne distance "o/' T " f^"''"'^ "'"^ ^'^^ as 44 m.. tnough the record gavebu 38 " On thtror •■"- I""' ^'^^ ''' sands " dial of my cyclometer ,«mnin.T; followmg day, the "thou- revolved four tim'esf and th nTbel' ""' " ''' " '"'''^-P-"^- " had pointer. .-,00." « .'oo.." ^7 lo on.'^ ..r"",!^^ -i"'ar.y with that what short of the tr^Th^oweveT. T„d th t '''' ''^ "^'^'^^ ^^" — ment by a newer one. ' ^' '"^'^"''^ ^°°" -"^P'^^^d the instru- The weather of that next day (Sent I c 'S<^«„c f -j . ing. and I covered about 46 m (oTl t rl , u'" '^"^^ '°" ^"'^ ''^- registered some 7 m. less.' iVl the ,' at L V' ' ^"l^"^' "^^ ^>'^'°'"^^- and. after crossing a brook li m h. , t u ''' '^ '"• ^- °^ ^^^^ ^otel ; n>onument. inscribed "V yJ Tnd r'' ' °'"^?' "" '^^ '• ^ --» --ble •he States ; and on the 1 a red brtl- U ' T'u '"^ '^' ''^""^^^y ^^^ween line." About ,J m. e is he vilte orsh ' "'"V''"'^'^-^ " ^^-<^« O" the ;i.-d along a succession of hiHs T Halt ^e trirkeVneT/m",' T'^ ^°"- at t...5. and a halt ff ^i h di ."r a: T'T"'"' "otel. in Salisbury. leads through the mountains to Twriakef. . ', ^"'' ^''^'""^ "^^^^^ ^^^ ^■ - Sha,on I n,ight also h e al 'a.tilt "^ ^^'' ^--"-6 m.; and road anu railway along the Housal>!-V .K^ hily course to reach the river- Cornwall Bridge (s e ) aboutS " T ' I' '' ^"°'"^'" ^"- ^•>' °^ ^^ ^vith peaks 2.000 and^ 600 ft h;l^T ^^ghcon.c range of mountains, (5 m.) I entered Massrct^set's it' T^ ''""'>' "'"" ""^ ''^ ^^^ '" J h M- f5.__ 148 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. J:^l^ South Egremont at 3 v. M.,8 m. after entering the State. A smooth ride of \ h. (4 m.).took me thence to the Berkshire House, in (rreat Barrington, where a big boy on a bicycle told me to turn up-hill, 1., at the fork, instead of taking the bridge at the r. and wheeling through the flat directly to Evergreen mountain, where he said I should have to walk before descending to Stockbridge. He had gi ne there without stof ' .■ the other route, he said, — the chief obstacle being the hill at the start. Having managed to crawl up this, I continued without stop along the height overlooking the river to Van Deusenville (say 2 m.), where I turned r., and then, after crossing the lailway, mistakenly kept straight on for i m., till I met the direct road from Great Barrington, near the foot of the ascent by Evergreen mountain. My cyclometer ceased to register during the J or ^ m. that I walked up this ; and I then had smooth riding to Stockbridge, say 2 \\\. Thence beside the river through ?^ , ath Lee and to East Lee (5 m.) there was no need of a stop ; but, at the latter point, I turned backwards, to the r., and sped along the concrete sidewalk \ m. to the Morgan House in Lee, where I spent the night. The recommended route which I failed to follow, after crossing the track at Van Deusenville, turns 1. there and keeps close along the river and the railway, through Housatonic and Glen- dale, to Stockbridge, perhaps 4 m. I was told that the road up the river from Lee to Lenox Furnace, New Lenox and I'ittsfield continued good; and the direct route connecting the latter town with Stockbridge (10 or 12 m., with the village of Lenox half-way between,) was called excellent. I believe that a ridable road extends to the mountain at West Stockbridge ; but be.-ond there a bicycler would doubtless be forceu to do much walking among the hills, before reaching Canaan Four Corners, about 8 m. n. w. The road from there to the Hudson river (25 m. or more) has been wheeled without a stop.' 1 By a Brooklyn schoolboy, C. C. Woolworth, jr., July 27, 'S3, at which time he was only 16 years old. " .Starting at 6 in the morning from Canaan Four Corners, where I spent nost of the summer, I reached my father's paper-mi!l, beyond the village of Castleton, in just about 4 h. Roads fine ; weather cool, and air free from moisture. I coasted down from the Hubbard House, conquered the next hi" fur the first time, and turned 1. along the level to E. Chatham. The country between there and Chatham is rolling, with one big hill ; roads thence to Valencia and Kinderhook are mostly smooth and level. From K. I rode n. to Castleton along the ridge (} of this is good and J is rutty), and in descending to the river road I took a header, ly let- ting my 50-in. Columbia strike some loose stones. I alsi stopped near C. to reset tire if rear wheel. These halts were made within less than 3 m. of my journey's end, and I'm sure I'd previously ridden at least 25 m. without dismount, though I had no cyclometer. When I tin- ished, at the mill, I felt a trifle weak in the legs, but was all right again in J h. or so." I have been greatly helped in preparing this chapter by Beers's new map of Connecticut, (published 1SS4, revised 1885, scale 2jm. to i in., price $6), which ought to be hung on the wall of every bicyclers' club-room m the .State. It me.isures 4 by 3 ft., but the dissected edition for carriage use; is folded into a cloth case, i ft. square, and consists of a dozen sections of th.at size, all Connected by a muslin backing. The townships are separately tinted, the county lines are shown in red, an index of goo references makes each locality accessible, and the population of each town in 1S70-80, arranged by se orial districts, is printed upon the margin. The wholi' of Westchester county is included, and the n. shore of Long Island. Connecticut has ei;ht cuuiilicB, iidii ul iliciii aiuii^ like ahuic, diiu iiic I liici iiaii aJuii^ iiic iine ol ivIasaaciiuscLls, duu SNORE A.VD HIL^-TOP IN CONNECTICUT. ,45 cl.ester,-an excellent man for New YorkersV k7 , "^ ^*'"' '^^ =«*'''«"' ^est- M,dd.esex.on.heshore.a'dHa2rda£ ;J^^^^^^^^ T ^- «-„ and ■nclude^ew London. Tolland and WindhL. Euto^t les J f h '""^"' ""'°" ^■'" two last named have been issued by the same Dublish,^ T u ! *^ "'"'""'" "^"P' "'^ is prohibitory to bicyclers, unless in he caronfr mL^ ^H^ "" 'i ^ ' '" '''" ""« of .he market ; and . catalogue them becaus .having ^1 ^ Wished b K """^^'' "^ ""' nuy presumably be consulted in many of the lo;aI bbLt „d te , rHTr"'"';^" 5. P.e.kman st., N. Y., issue a map of Conn. (,874, .6 by .8 in 6 m . 1 ' ^ ^"^' which includes a good part of R. I., N V e of the H„H T''^ ""' * °'' 5° ^ >• only a few of ,h= main roads are show^, " A mn 't ' ?f '^^ ^''"'^ "^ ^^^ '-.-'hough (revised .884, .S by „ in cm .0 7^ ,, ct """ "^efully-prepared map of the State ...c n-ads, is issuedVthe Coh; , 8 W -.m T^^X '"' "'Tf"^ ^'"^ ^'^"-■"^ °^ >" Connecticut's most persistent' road-rid^Ts p.ba ,y Dr N Tt^ Z' k' '' " '"" ^° ^■ graduate of Yale in '76. and League consul at New Haven umilh '^. f "' "^'^' =* City, in July, ,885, with a four years' record of I. n^ *«= ^■^'""-'^d thence ,0 Jersey presented in a later chapter. His first lonerun ^ "r°r' "''"^"^ " nummary will be reP^iHons. recorded Liefly in £i;.°:il":-;;/rt4'V'^ Bicycle Club at .0.30 r. m. Tl:terrs7e ^de^de?: llrpr^ "^^ "'^ '"^"^^"^'^ .00-m.run; and, having finished supper, we started at . ''^'^'""Pf"'""''- '" attempting a n^oonlight. very little wind, and therm'ome er show ng ^ V:;^, f^- .7, 83), with bright 9jn,., and there struck s. e. for the turnpike to H nf \,' T "''"'■"S to Westfield, scrambledupafifty-footembankm^to ft Val"; t: •::' '^" '"'I !" ^ '^^^ °^ -^ ; a cross-roads, w" re I dropped wheel anH hrll ^ ^ . ' '"*"' "" '"'^''^ ' "'■ ^ >"• to the city ; so we reached ouTformertrat ' 6 m^O ^nTs:!!? fi If'' '"'-''' ' ^'^ ^ I turned of? .J m. more (26}) before g- a new 1 n K •^P""f '^''* ^'f^^'" '" « ■"■ (m). where alone, down ,he e. side of he rive „st a s.r • f' ' '''" "' **-^°' ' ^'^''^d - and at East Hartford I had to re Z' „.;: u^s alt',: T" ' ^''^'' '"^'^ ""^-^^^ '''«-" ^ (55\ where I dined. Proceeding then .L . ^ n '"i- before crossing into the city, .8J m. in order to go to Farming 00 ,n8V andTf '^ ^T '" ' T "' "^ ^""^ '° "^^'^-^ ^^S). partly very poor ; but thLce to New 1.^1, Am 'r *^' .^r "''" "'^ P^""'"^ ^^"^ «- -'' and WalHngford. CJm. (,,,,, the roads wraltro^t^a^Ll'"- ^^''' ''^''^"' ^'"^ '«^>' there and the axle works in Centerville and H.rL ^nd sand were encountered between was good thence to Vl...nl ^t^^^^^^ ^"' '''^ <-k finish at New Haven, ^^im. Uo,)T,JovZt ''f '"^ "''-''"='" -"o escorted me in to the .IvHigh I, hink this resulted from thext a e.e^^^^^^^^^^^ ^""^ ""^ ''"^^ -•-'^. was almost a gale. During the next da^^^ ^ e TX'in'mak ' ''^ l"^'' "'''''' ^' ''"'^^ and ihcn, at ,. p. m., accepted an invitation ,0, \ ' , '"^'''"S "^y "sual professional calls ; expected companion Ln . LTZoZT.^:^, a moonhght nde with W. C. Palmer, v hos^ P'od roads ,0 favor us, we went' Ibou, f m 1 . n l"" '" ^"" '"'"• ^'"^ ^ f"" -"O" and the .ight-house ; up a ong t slorT- throurK „ ""■' '' '"' '" ^^'^^ "''^•^" ' '^^^ ^y Haven, .cim. Halting fh ,0 ndl'e ^n ' " .'"" '° ^^°"'°-"e and back to New Wes, Haven; then back o th» .! The:4ir7"T w^'lf •''^' ''' ^'"''''' '^'^- ^^^-d -abnut thecity; then .0 WhineV L eld baT a^l^,'^^^^^^ '^^ ^^^'" = '^'^" ^^ whole ride It was now i„- r . 7 ' °^ ^^ ""' ™^'^'"? '^^m- f"r the ■ ■ . ...»». 01. I'm; hiai day. ' I XII. Ill 4l. i 4f &ih!4l~ " mha-w LONG ISLAND AND STATEN ISLAND.' As fate compelled me to be in New Lculon, on the 7th of July, 1880, I thought I might as well take my wheel along with me on the boat, cross with it to Greenport by next morning's steamei, and thence drive home again through Long Island, over the roads which a resident wheelman whom I met at the Newport convention had assured mc were good ones. From Green- port one may ride s. and w.to the hotel in Mattituck, 12m., without dismount, though a stop is apt to be caused by the sand of a short hill, about 2 m. before reaching there. At a little ways below the hotel in Southold, 5^ m. from Greenport, the road divides, but the two branches soon join again, and the r. one should be taken rather than the road going straight up the hill. In front of the hotel at Mattituck a turn is made to the 1., and sandy stretches of road are soon met with. The hotel in Riverhead is 9J m. further on, and it took me nearly 2 h. to get there, though not much walking was required. On the following morning I went by train to Yaphank, perhaps ism. beyond, for I was told that deep sand prevailed for ibout that distance. Mounting there at •, o'clock, I rode across the plain in a southerly direction for rather more than 2 m., then turned to the right just beyond a hotel, and went through Brookhaven to Bellport (4 m.), Patchogue (3 m.), and SayviUc (4i m.), where an hour's stop was made for dinner. P^or the next 9 m., ending at the bridge in Islip, the sidewalk was generally adhered to ; also for another mile, ending at Bayside post-office. The hotel in Babylon, the largest town met with on that day, is 4J m. beyond. Amityville, the next place, is about 5 m. away, though I rode more than 6 m. to reach it, by reason of a detour along a meadow road to the water side, in order to take a swim. Distance from Yaphank by the cyclometer, 34J m. Had I designed to go directly to New York, I should probablv have started for .South Oyster Bay and Hempstead on the morning of the loth, after myall-night's struggle with the flies and mosquitoes of the hotel in Amityville. Instead of this, I turned northward and rede to Farmingdale, 5 m. ; Pine Grove ilotel, 2^ m. ; Woodbury station, 5^ m. ; and Cold Spring Harbor, 3 m. I really traveled nearly 20 m. that hot Saturday morning, however, for I was obliged to return to Farmingdale from a point about 2 m. beyond, in pur- .lit of my pocket-book, which I had c.irelessly laid down on the counter of a youthful " dealer in fruit and root beer." I found that he had closed his shop and h arnessed up a horse wherewith to pursue me and restore the prop- *i i'm /Vif -iityciing n'orid, Nov. 2b, i»ao, p. 37. LONG ISLAND AND STATEN ISLAND. ,5, «lk .p-hin ..early ,.,a Ab„„,*;!'Z'"' "■"'"■•»"<"'■" ■•« "."« St be lake, 10 the r Lm^ v! I ■'"■"''"' ""•'>Pil«--. and Ihis ... .Ke =i ,„. ending l,„e.„T,:!?.'T*,"'""'" °' ">»" "« '" "« fo™d cyclometer made the whole distance r - n, fl- It f '-^'tention. My »..c .rack, „„ ,be Us. .ay or":" :j:b il r fil ^o. y^r'Tr ^o" r s.c„n,l occas.on I dismounted only o„ce-at the sol L , , T' ' """ 1 1 • icvci, Dut 1 uanted somethinir to dn'nb \ a .,i \ rua. becms at the Faaf t,„ ; tt , ° urmK.; a plank ;;.. ...rou.b .be viila^eant:^ Jld:™ r'^-Sk^T:" , "ir "ri rrd^d^'trititt- t-^b? '• -^ -r " "-■-"• ^" -.■ .as 3; ™,a.,d for tbe Xle drstic^b^ J^eV'^^^^^^^^^^ ■■:= .3. .n ,„cl„di„g „ „. i„ ,h, „,i.hb„rh„„d of Cold SpriL " ' ""• ..... ".L^t" b^:::?e„'tt v'orrvef,?"' T-'\ -"'-'^y .0... Tl.evvors. imoedimeo, J,w 7 . "' ^'"'"H'^"''. and Bos- »a,„l near Wo^dbZ ,.aTi " F , T™''' '"" * ■""■"■''= """l. -< - a, .n„b as r:. •,:::: i.,',b:r ,:.■ :;i:;:::,',t::„ g'"' ' ^"^-^ .'::.tec.ii";::::-ir.ttr7"=r°"'"f"^^^^ ... H..n.in..o:;rti;::t':a':: '^■z:z^:tz : i°°t "'T'- »*-::^;t"- br;r"T -»^">-'-- ■ we^io^s-tet"; variety's sake to exnlorP th. .J -^^ , ' ^"'^ ^' ^ determined, for "^■•titwoulcUotle ound e "T , ^-d- though knowing perfectly well led through ottr Ba^^ T^ I ^T"'° '""'^''" ^^^ P^**^ ^^osen •fell 'j)sier mv,4m.; Norwich. 2i m • R«=i„« ^t _ , ._. - >K^nhassett, 3 m. = macadam at Little Neck. .J m/l ;;;;; WrVe:;;;;g M i it " '•( 152 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. this point, including stops of 2 h. ; for a good deal of walking had to be done up-hill and through sand, even before a heavy rain drenched me through and put the roads at their worst. For 6 m., however, through Flushing and to Harry Hill's hotel, about i m. beyond the bridge, the macadam was almost perfect and was little injured by the storm, save where the sand had washed over it. I made the dist.mce without dismount, and was favored with a con- tinuous shower bah all the while, } h. From Harry Hill's to Astoria ferry- a distance of 3 ni., which I increased by an unlucky detour to 4— I stolidlv shoved my " bath tub " through the deep mud, and made no attempt to ride until the flagged sidewalks were reached. I should judge that the road-bed even when dry would be barely ridable, though it might be reached bv a cross-cut from the excellent track which skirts the shore for i m. or so above Ajtoria. Length of day's journey, 28 m. The tour of Long Island I think can be safely recommended as a pleas- ant one for the wheelman, though he had best ride in the cars between \ew York and Jamaica, as well as between Vaphank and Riverhead. If he does this he may easily get over the remaining 90 m. in two days ; and of course an expert may .eadily do it in one. Probably the best single stretches on the island are those from Jamaica to Jeri-ho, 15 m.; from Mattituck to Green- port, 12m.; and from Flushing to Little Neck, 6 m. The latter case of un- usually smooth macadam seems to be the only exception to the rule that the north-side roads are more hilly, sandy, and unattractive than those of the center and south side. »A year later (Sept. 4, ?x), I took steamer for Flushing, and, mounting there at noon, was just i h. L. getting to Snell's hotel at Little Neck, about si m. This stretch of macadam, which is 6 m. long, and which in 1880 I found in perfect condition, was in poor order in many places on account of ruts and sand. After dinner I went across country by a somewhat winding but for the most part ridable, clay road, till I struck the Jericho turnpike near the Hinsdale station, 3I m., in a little less than i h. Up the turnpike I went at speed for perhr ,.. 2 m. or more to the cross roads beyond the asylum where I turned towards Garden City, reaching Stewart's Cathedral at 3.50 P. M. Forty minutes later I was 3 m. further, at Greenfield Cemetery, bevond Hempstead. Another similar period of time and space brought me to tiie flag-pole in Merrick. At 5.30 p. m, while still in the same town, I reached the south-shore road, and an hour later South Oyster Bay, 5 m. Then a half- hour's sidewalk business in the dust, 3 m., to the Douglass Hotel in Amity- ville, at 7 p. M., making 29 m. for the afternoon. This route between the Jericho turnpike and the hotel had not been tried by me before, and I do not recommend it, for I think it inferior to the Hicksville-Farmingdale route. Starting next morning at 6.15, I rode to Babylon (5^ m., 50 min.), and stopped an hour for breakfast. Then through Bay Shore, Islip, Sayville. ^From Th.f Bkvclimr M'srld. I;:!-.- ■;?. -.9&-. LONG ISLAND AND STATEN ISLAND. I'atcho^ue, and Heliport to Brookhaven at i ^ c p m , r ant riding. Thence away frotn thl rhoreVoVaS t T "' ''''"■ made several detours, ending at the railroad station at '"^ PMwier'"'/^ •' rec, ,rd of 4^ m. Starting from the same station a. f our o clock ;f the n'' ing afternoon.-the afternoon of '• the yellow d^v " T ^ . . °"°'*" .0 Sayville. finishing there in the moon^t a T^o'p ^ ^'r'^^^'l''^ "•• had gone by train to Greenport, with the idea of t her. i l ''" *'^"" ^ would take me across the Sound to see t e Ce„t nlfr ,'1' ^'"'' "'''^'^ London and Groton. Disappointed in thi^ I sat on the h"^'"^^''"" ^' ^'^ noon, peering into the queer yellow mir^hi.h K '^"'' '^"""^ '^^ ^''^^- li-ning to the cannon shots w ch r" led a "^^^^^^^^^^^ ' f'^' ""' ^"^ celebration. Then I took train back to Yaphank and T *^' ''"°^ for a three hours' ride in the blazing hot air ' "°""''^ ^' "'°'-^^^'^ An.tyvillejust..m.^!:e:'turnroffrth': 'ClZj^tt^: '''' '° made another turn 1. for Tohn \oonV • Vh ^armmgdale, 4im.; there the plain to Hicksvil.e. 5! m at r o ,' m" St ° ^k' " ^''^ ^ "^^ — the Grand Central Hotel . ndenf , ' ■ T""^ '''''" ^ ''• ^""^ ^'""^^ =>» -i .n. The turnpL hete t^ JallL'rab^":' "^ ''', -'^ '"'^' '" J"'^^°' hardly requiring'a dismount bu^rr hi occli'^ "-ally excellent, absence of rain, the first Dart of if oc<:as.on, by reason of the long not until 4..0 that I r ached the briTh'""' T'' '"' ^'''''- """ '' -- in.not far from Mi^lt If ^ ^^^'^.^ Tn^lTk ^^^^^^^^^ stop to Hinsdale, exactly 4 m., in exactly Ah ^h K , """^^ ''"^''"* and hottest spin of the entire day Then T ^ J ? ""^ '""^'''' ^^'f^^^^' Littic .Veck,and made mrfiit^toptVh It "nV'' "°" ^°^' '°"^'^^ learned that no trains were runn nTi .^ ?• ""'" ^''°"' " ""• °"' ^^ere I account of financial troublThTm"^^^^^^^^^^^ ""T ^"' ''"^'''"^-" place was blasted and I wa, nn. if "^ ^""^ "" ^' '^^ f«™er Flushing later han ^ oCk So'f' ^'^"1''"'" "^"^ '" '° '''^ ^"^ ^-- along to catch that train rUU " "'' """'^ ^ ^^^^^^^^ desperately gathLng twilight L r " ■' °T '"'^ """^ ^'"^"S ''^^ -t^ in the was favored wt th \^hi .1 ^'Ih^de ^^^ ^'^ ^^'^"'"^ =^"' ^"""^"^' -^ twcntv reds of the statio, H ^''.'"^ """^ ^'^'" ^ g°' ^"hin ^oo^^eandmyrr^i.^^:::-:-:-^/^^^ ^^ ^^^^' "•^'-^• '%^™;51et:i^S;>^^!^:::;;t'^'"-^^^^ chafers (p, ..3.63,asp.oba. heat a, prevailed .hen had no' been known n I I 7 "^ -P^-nces. because such intense and nothing equal to it can be found in the atlosnh "'" 'T '" ' '""'^ "' ^^^ y--' -'ce elapsed. The fact that TJiToiT T "^ '^' ^°"' ^-^"^ ^'^'^f' have harmed from a so-m run benea.hr. k ^"^' ''''^'"""= '"'^ "y^" <=°"'d e^-Pe un- -ms worth insLing ^J^^t atoLf o"! r'.rf '"' 1 " '''^ ''°""' ''^>- "" ^'-e" >--"• '"-. In,heeigh.h^h^p:e^.Zl?M!,!:\^'':f'^';^"-^°^ ''^"^ "-^- -der proper'condi- -'»connect.ngJa«ai«with.Hat;ityb;tHe;e;;;sar^SH:2^;^Z^ '•i; i Mli f 5 »S4 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. and Rrnoklyn ; and I havp aliio made mention of several maps nf I.ung; Island (p. 99). Still another one, " just completed after two years' labor," •- wertised as "the moat elaborate map of the island ever made. ' It is published by Gaylord \ .son, 278 Pearl st.,N.Y.(5i by a7in.,tj), and would doubtless prove useful on the wall of any local club-room. A clearly engraved little map (31 by 7 in., 6 m. to i in.), which may be easily tucked into the smallest pocket-book, acconv paniei the pamphlet, " Long Island of To-day," which was copyrighted in 1884 by Cha.les M Heald, general traffic manager of the Long Island Railroad, with the idea of increasing the traffic of that road by an alluring presentation of the island's attractions. The book is an octavo of 100 pp., exclusive of 30 pp. of advertisements, and contains nearly 50 wood-cuts, supplied by the American Bank Note Company, who are also to be credited with its handsome typography. " The literary work was entrusted to Julian E. Ralph, of the New York Sun," who seems lu have done it as well as could have been expected of a compiler whose contract forbids him to he critical ; though he draws the long-bow rather needU .,ly in calling the little 20-m. stretch be- tween Riverhead and Greenport " the most remarkable country road in A..ierica — the longest utr.-t in the United States except Broadway, which traces a parallel to the Hudson all the way to Albany." Apparently he never heard of " Talbot Street," extending through Canada for more than 500 m., nor of that other street which really is the longest as well as the most remark- able one in the United States : I mean the macadamized roadway which stretches straight through the Shenandoah Valley, — every rod of it ridable by bicycle for 150 m. My book, in fact, desfibes a great number of other country roads which are longer and more remarkable than this particular piece of Long Island, so oddly chosen for ealogy. More interesting than this change misuse of the superlative, about a subject of which he was ignorant, is the compiler's statement of the railway mileage of the island, which amounts to 354 m.; for, on the authority of a newspaper paragraph, the managers have lately decided that a passenger's bicycle shall be carried free, as personal baggage, provided he himself puts it 011 and takes it off the car. " Long Island of To-day " is enclosed in an illuminated paper cover of tasteful design (with vignettes showing the characteristic pastimes of the place, one of which is '' bicycling "), and no tourist thither should begrudge the 25 c. requisite for the purchase of this valuable guide-book. The earliest recorded day's ride of 100 m. through Long Island was described in the H'lutl of Sept. 21, '83, by " Selah," who says it was accomplished about the middle of the previous summer by an acquaintance who objected to the publication of his name as savoring of boastful- ness. This was James Allen, a resident of Hempstead who has a law-office in New York, and who, I hope, will pardon me for publicly accrediting him with the ride. I consider it a very re- markable one, and I regret that he neglected my request for personal statistics, to be added to the facts which I now reproduce from the IVheel : " Starting from Hempstead at 4.35 a. m., the route led through South Oyster Bay, Amityville and Babylon to Islip, 27 m., in 2} h ; thence, after a stop of 35 min., to Patchogue, where a halt was made for breakfast from 9.20 to 10 30 There began the worst 38 m. of the tour, of which iS m. were a desert of sand. In crosy'ii:; from Quogue, on the s. shore of the island, to Riverhead, it was almost impossible to keep in the saddle ; and the heat also grew troublesome in the passage through this desert of scrub oak and p'ne. After resting i h. at the Griffin House in Riverhead, a start was made at 5.15 on the last 22 m. of the course, which was finished at Greenport at 7.05 p. M., 14J h. after leaving Hempstead, — the Mattituck Hotel having been passed 1 h. before." The only other similar tour which I have yet heard of was taken June 28, '84, by two unattached members of the Lengue, B. W. Doughty and P. J. Bernhard, who reside in Jamaica and attend to their daily business in New York, and who have supplied me with the following report : " Leaving Jamaica at 3.35 A. M., we were 15 h. 10 min. in covering the 102 m., ending at the Wyandank House, in Green- port, at 6.45 p. M. The weather was cool, but the n. e. wind was against us all the way. Our longest stay in the saddle was from the start to Babylon (27 m.), a little more than 3 h.; and t! roads continued in very fair condition for 23 m. further, to Patchogue. From there to We^t- hampton they were very sandy, and thence to Riverhead (7J m.) the sand is ankle-deep and en- forces walking for at least 2-3 the way. The road from Riverhead to Greenport is fair for the Cj'-i f, ,-- o — . u,.^ f_^p ^Uj. ]:i^t T ' .".r ;^. 7T; it i" :'r.'.:^*.i::!lv 6r.r * in f::rt f.or :i dirt mad. i.'P.e of LONG /SLAND AND STA TEN ISLAND. »SS ;h very best wc have ever naJei. over. We had been riding lor about three yearn, but had m ver ' trained ' a minute for anything, ax we go to the city for bu»inc« every day ; and our tte^h condition at the finish was simply a surprise to us. There was no blister or mark on our bcKlies tc remind us of the ride ; and we are positive that, if daylight and good roads had con- M.H.ed, w.! couUlhave wheeled at least 50 m. further. Our longest rests were } h. at Patchogue jnd i h. at Riverhead, though we made many short stops for lemonade or soda, without keep- inB any record of them. The slight stiffness which we felt, next mornioE, passed of! after a f, w minutes in the saddle." I may add that a Flushing corresp.)ndLnt assures me (May u, '85) that ihciiiRh the macadam between that place and I iltle Neck has not been repaired since my trial of 11 ill 'Si, " on the hottest day in eleven years." it continues fairly ridable during the spring and early summer ; and that local riders do not then have much difficulty in getting over it without diMiumm. " Southampton and Bridgehampton have ao m. of handsome pike." said a resident <,f .Nurthville {ll-Ju-elman, Dec, 'Sa.'p. ai;), who*started thither by riding from his home to .Mattituck, 5 m., without stop, and taking steamer at Oeenport for i h.' ride to Sag Harbor. " From there to Bridgehampton, 3 of the 4 m. are ridable ; the next 6 m, to Southampton are first-class ; also 2 m. to the ocean, e. of Silver Lake, and the return on the w. side of the same. li.twuen the village and Shinnecock hills, a m., we had a fine side»valk run." Quogue is only S or 9 m. w. of these hills ; and the environs of .Southampton supply much excellent riding. Long Island is described in " Appletons' Dictionary of New York " as a narrow, fish-shaped .trip, separated from the mainland of Connecticut by the Sound on the n., and washed by the ocean on the s. Its greatest length from w. to e. is 115 m., and its average breadth, n. to s., 12 m. " The h;ad of the fish " forms the eastern shore of New York harbor ; the back extcrds opposite the mainland ; the tail, broken into several flanges by bays and inlets, is the eastern ex- tremity ; while the belly, protected from the fury of the waves by the Great South Beach, .tretche, in an almost symmetrical line from Coney Island to Montauk Point. Along the n. shore there is a narrow ridge of hills called the backbone, but the remainder of the island slopes grad- ually to the ocean. The s. shore is one immense sand-bank, separated from the island proper for nearly its entire length by inlets from the ocean, the largest of which is the Great South Bay, which extends for 100 m. without a break behind the beach of the same name, which is at no point more than 5 m. wide. Rockaway and Coney Island beaches, whose nearness to the city has rendered them famous as summer resorts, are only western extensions of the Great South Beach. The island's area is 1,682 sq. m., and its population about 750,000. of which J are wthin the city limits of Brooklyn. Its soil is fertile except near the sandy s. shore ; and its re- semblance in shape to a salmon is specially marked in the bird's-eye view which forms a frontis- piece to the book, " Long Island of To-day." Its w. end approaches within i m. of the east- ernmost lint of Staten Island, and the two thus form " the Narrows," through which ;n- trance de to New York harbor. Staten Island has the shape of an irregular triangle, whose base, „., . separated from New Jersey by the Kill van Kull and Newark bay ; its shortest side, w., IS still nearer New Jersey, the separation caused by Staten Island Sound being rarely more than i m.; while itslongest side, e. anrl s., is bounded by New York harbor and the lower bay. Its greatest lengt i. ,3 m., greatest hxvMth, 8 m.; area, 60 sq. m., and population, 40,000. It IS very hilly, and its outer shores are almost everywhere dotted with the villas o' business and professional men, who go to New York daily for their work. The hospital-ship of the quaran- tine station is anchored off he s. shore of the island ; the forts and batteries of the e. shore command the approaches to the city; and the Sailors' Snug Harbor, facing the n. shore, is an asylum for aged and infirm seamen, whose extensive buildings challenge the attention of the pass,T-by. They have ample accommodations for 1,000 inmates, the grounds attached amount to .0 , acres, and the annual revenue for the maintenance ..f the establishment is about $250,000. The only railway of the island follows its longest side, about i m. inland, from Tompkinsville 'M its r e. corner, which is nearest to New York, 6 m.) to Tottenville, at its s. w. comer, whence a ferry boat crosses hourly to Perth Amboy, N. J. The island forms Richmond County, and the county town of that^name is about midway between the terminal towns of the railroad, "■■■; : ::;. u:c:an: ;7C~. it at ^V/uil iiou^c oiaiioii. ill 'S6 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. I began my whrel exploration* for i88t by embarking from the Battery at 9 o'clock of April 22, on a fcrry-boa\ whose voyage ended a little less than I h. later, at V'anderbilt's Landing, Staten Island. Thince I rode southward without stop, to the end of the macadam at Fort Wadsworth, i^ m., of whith j or J was very good riding, while the rest varied from tolerable to poi Taking the sidewalk to the w., I was beguiled by a sign pointing " f; • i boulevard,"' into descending to sandy road along the s. shore ; but f.» • rr- fro.i. the fort I gave up hope cf finding a comfortable southwest pa.- around the island, and so returneu to the starting po.nt. Continuinj :iori ward from V'anderbilt's, through Sta])leton, I rode up a long hill, and then down it towards the w., and around it towards the e., on the shore roa(;, t"; nearly reached the church on the same hill again. I think this was :„ l. are nne and refreshing enough to amply repay the trouMe tf ast„diS^^ .0 tlie right, as before descril.^d. in or r t retch'u r""' '^ Tl ^"^" field av. In other words -i n^r^nn • / atsessing and Bloom- ^in^piv . fonow^:^^::^;^™ c:x:;;;:::?r"^-:'^ '^^"^^ ^^^^ '^- forms the northern border of Lleweli Pari "n o H T 'T' "'^■''" ^"^ question. "Ixion" prints intcres „; ^ e. i^ " 7,;"/ ',^ T""'^ '" Ap.il -^7.i883),de.scribinghisreccntascen o F 1 Rock "^'^ '''"'''' and his coast down therefrom upon the amebefsthan'lh ""'"•''''"'■'' '' agree with him in the expressed hH.Vf .k , '^^ minutes. \ l^pelledtothatsummi' T. hath , " ''''^'"^"^-^ previously been ■^'^ie powers of the Fa: 'eaTah ,„';': ^t ^ '""' ?" °^ ^'^^ ^^"-^- «as n.acie on the i =th of ]a«t V ''" ""^''"^ '■'"■' ^° ^^e rock .trades in the saddle w ha ewTT ^ '?^.' '"'"^^' ' '"■'^^' "P ^^'^ '--r ^ Hie su,nn. was 'tiJ^^'^^^rd^r ^^ ^^^- ; •;:::;;;^;;:: '^ ^^ P'^h '-— f- fror,i:r "" '^^ '"" ^^^^'^ "^"^^' '- --^ - ^-es: I'he macadamized extension di }{ln„ .iield av i. nnt ■ * . f! .: MwairJ i68 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Franklin on my map o£ less than a twelfth part of the State), about s m. A clay road, which is, at many seasons of the year, nearly as smooth as mac- adam, extends westward for 3 m., whereof the first two are as straight as the crow flies, to Pine Brook post-office, which is the terminus of an omnibus line from Newark, and also the terminus of the good roadway. Here, then, is an excellent track, 13 m. long, which may be ridden in either direction without a dismount, and nearly every rod of which may be coasted in the course of a round trip. An average rider in doing the 26 m. could easily ride a dozen with his feet off the pedals ; though, perhaps, he would be obliged to walk up the big hill west-- ward at Montclair, and the big hill eastward at Caldwell. I myself have never conquered the latter but once, and the former I have oftener walked up than ridden. From its top one may coast continuously for 2 m. and more down to Eloomfield, except that the pedals may have to be worked for a few rods in the case of two or three short ascents which the momentum may not bo quite sufficient to master. The Bi. World of June 17, 1881, contained a brief report of mine under the same title that is employed for the present chapter; and, though I have had experience of many new hills in the two years' interval, my final words in that report can be reprinted with truth to- day : " Beyond Montclair there are facilities for up-hill racing such as I have never seen other roads afford. Several bicyclers could there compete abreast, if need be, on perfectly equal terms. On this westward rente, also, there is one particularly smooth stretch, where a rider may coast lot a mile down a grade so gentle that the return trip is hardly thought of as an asce>.t !f the excite- ment of a lightning-like flight through the air is desired, however, there are plenty of steep hills where it can be had, and without danger of any oustacle's sudden appearance at a crossroad. On these little Jersey 'mountains,' coast- ing congenial to all tastes is attainable. The perils of the pastime are reduced to the minimum ; the pleasures thereof are increased to the maximum." Springfield av., the s. w. border of the triangle, whose very name ought to have had power to attract me to it at the outset, was not, in fact, discov- ered by me until after I had had three years' acquaintance with all the other imjjortant thoroughfares in the Newark and Orange region. Its macadam begins at the corner of Morris av. ; and, mounting there on the 5th of November last, at 10.50 A. M., I passed Irvington at 11.05, Middleville at 11.15, Mi'burn at 11.30, turned to the right mto the cinder pr^.th at 11.33, ^"d made mv first dismount at the railroad station in Short Hills at 11.37. The cyclometer •called the distance 7^ m. ; but the return tiip, which was also made without dismount, in 44 min., ir calltd onh ; m. The roughest pavement was that between Newark and Irvington, while the cinder path, from the Short Hills station to the main road, supplied, perhaps, the smoothest one of the many good places for coasting. Two days before, when I first discovered this ave- nue near W'oming.—havinj: come down to that point on an exploring tour from the Valley road at -oath Orange,— I did not have the luck to turn off to- wards Short Hills, but kept straight on for \ m. past the reservoir, and then, at Kvi** COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS. ,6- the first cross-road turned to the right and walked i* m. along a sandy up- ward slope to a b.idge on its summit, spanning a dry ravine. Mountingthere I rode along a fa.rly good track through Chatham to the hotel in Madison \ m, ,n 35 min.; thence without stop to the public square in Morristown, nearly 5 m. m 40 mu. The return trip to Ma^lison I also made without stop, in z nun. less, and, after reachmg the dry bridge beyond Chatham, I improved upon my former route by taking the first road to the 1., for this, spite of its unattractive appearance, allowed me to ride most of the way to Short Hills My first v.s.t to Morristown. however, was made on May Day of 1882, and by a d-fferont route. Startmg from the hotel in Orange at 8.15 a. m., I ^ent westwaru along Mam st. to its nominal end at the Valley road,-for beyond .h,.s the street .s called the Mountain road.-and up the same I toiled, much 0. the way on foot unt.l I reached St. Cloud at the top, . m. from th; start. 1 hen, after ij m. of good track, mostly coasted, I began the ascent on foot of the second mountain, and was forty minutes on the way to the flag-pole in North- field, 2| m. Thence to West Livingston and Hanover there tas much walk- ing and rough riding ; but beyond this latter point I had a long stay in the sa die, and I stopped at the tavern pump in Whippany at 11 o'clock, with n, m. on my day s record. I was an hour riding from there to the Mansion House m Mornstown, not quite 5 m., over an excellent track, which might be made without dismount, and which I did so make in returning, when the wind fa- vored me. In leaving Wh.ppany for Mornstown one must turn 1. at the mill- pond and journey towards ,he south. Monroe is the name of an intermediate V. lage. If It can be called one ; and near this is the long hill which I failed to r.de uo. By this route '< Washington's Headquarters " is reached before one TT: K '^' ""!"•■ ""^ '^^ '°^"; ^"d "o patriotic wheelman should fail to halt at that historic mansion The lofty hill beyond the court-house and res- ervoir ,n .Mornstown is well worth walking up, for the sake of the extensive view herefrom; and I found good wheeling for , m. to westward, as well as ,n the prmc.pa streets of the town. At Hanover post-office, on my home- ward journey, I bade adieu to my forenoon's route, and rode thence north- ward, without stop, to the Swinefield iron bridge, 2^ m. in 17 min. This was n,v most creditable mount of the day, for I climbed two rather soft hills Id overcame other obstacles, which would have caused a halt, had not the ^ind iped me. From the bridge, by a road winding to the r., and mostly un Klable, w-ent 2 m. to Pine Brook ; and thence, over the smooth track before -nbe . to my starting-point in Orange, at 7.45 P- M.. with 45 m. to my h el fr ""1 'n? "'■ ''" '''^' "^^"' '" September, .S80. I pushed my whtel from the Delaware Water Gap to Pine Brook (5, m.), by way of Blairstown. Johnsonburg, Alamoochy. Waterloo. Stanhope^ Drakesville, Mc Cain V le Dover, Rockaway. Denville. and Persippany. I found most of the d. about as rough and hard to get over as are the names just quoted. I n retore give warning against that route, for I think I should have fared rather better if I had aimed for Morri. town. The best course between Nev. % 1 64 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ark and that city is by way of Springfield av. ; but the one by way of Bloom- field av., Pine Brook, Hanover, and Whippany, is alirj to be recommendt^d as part of a round tripi. I never descended the stretch of i \ ni. from St. Cloud to Orange, but 1 know it must be fine for coasting. (See p. 175.) Two additional paths, connecting the Newark and Orange system of roadways with the Hudson river, have been explored by me as follows: On the 4th of May, 18S2, under the inspiration of one of " Ixion's " reports, 1 made a tour to Pompton and Paterson, turning off from the macadam' of Bloomfield av. (just above the post-otfice) in Verona, and riding due lu with It a stop for more than 2 m., or until I began the descent of the hill bt-^ yond thejavine at Cedar Grove. After that the road grew rougher and IThe Elizabeth Wheelmen (organized June 7, 1883, and quartered at 116 Broad st.) reported 20,000 m. as the aggregate mileage of the 50 members' road-records during 1884, though more than half the men had never mounted a bicycle before July. The highest record (about 3 000 m.) was made 0,1 a Star machine by the club-bugler, A. S, RtKjrbach, an artist, who frequently chooses rough and out-of-the-way routes, for the sake of securing sketches, and whose most notable excursion of the year (as reported in the IVheel, Oct. 3, '84) contains the following facts " The trip to the Delaware Water Gap was taken with comparative ease, Danville (4; m.) be- mg reached in iz\ h. .Starting on again at 7. 15 the next morning, I reached the Gap at 2 p. m (18 m.), and after spending a day and a half there, started for Elizabeth un Monday, Aug. t.S, at 6.52 A. M., with the intention of reaching home, if possible, that day. My total time for the 67I m. from the Gap to Elizabeth, -vas .5 h. 33 min., of which 2 h. 5 min. was taken for rests, leavmg 13 h, 28 min. actual running time, giving an actual rate while in motion, of 5 m. an hour' Beyond Morristown, the outward route led through Walnut Grove, 5 J m., of short bits of ndmg and «'alking; Suckasunny, 7 m., of which only the first two and the last were ridable- Flanders 4 m., of fairly level roads or side-paths with some sandy spots (beautiful scenerv)'; Bartleyville, . m. of good, level road ; Drakestown, 4 m., half of it throu-^h a highly-picturesque wmding gorge, on a., up-grade, fairly ridable ; Hackettstow,, , m. of d.nvn-grade, too steep for sure ndn.g; Vienna, 5 m., first half of it up-and-down, too steep for wheeling, then a final mil- of coasting; Danville, i m. of ridable surface, fairly level ; Hope, 5 m., with 2J m. of wnlkins over the rough ore-roads of Jenny Jump mountain; through Mt. Hermon, Centerville and Knowlton to Columbia, 7 m. of rough and hilly road, with some good stretches ; thence to the hnish at the Water Gap ferry, 6 m. of deep sand, not allowing i m. of wheeling. On th- rctun. journey, I took the w. side of the river to Portland, 6 m., hillv, sandv and stony aliening about § <,f wheeling; thence to Mt. Hermon, 5 ,n. in ^\ h. , and thence homeward bv the outward route, to Mornstown at 6.30 P. m., 43^ m. from the G.ap. From Milburn I took the longer route through Irvmgton, as it was then too dark to try the side-paths of the Morris turnpike directlv to Elizabeth through Springfield. Between Morristown and the Gap there were very few mil.s which did not require some hard pedestrianism ; but, on the whole, I was amply rewarded fn.u, an artist s pnnit of view for my straightaway cut across the mountains." With this may be com- pared a notable six days' run of 345 m., ending S.-.turday, Oct. 25, '84, and reported in the Bi H or/dot Oct. 3, : " R D. Mead, Capt.ain of the Essex Bicycle Club, rode on ^rondav week from Newark to Milford, 70 m., through Dover, Branchville and Dingman's Ferrv •. on Tuesday through Delaware Water Gap, to Mt. Hope, 47 m. ; on Wednesday, through Hackettsro..vn and Morristown to Newark, 56 m. ; on Thursday, through Plainfiekl. Somerville and Trent m to Bristol, 75 m ; on Friday, thro.i-h Philadelphia and towards Lancaster, 6, m.; and, on Saturd.ay, a part of the way to Newark. 36 m. This extraordinary riding, crossing New Jersev on three courses, was accomplished with the roads in a terribly rough condition, and deep with the dust from the Iong i h dunng which the powder.nills ne. u ^ '"- ^'^'^'^ ^ ^"-"ed n>tcad of keei,i„g to the direct rofd ' ,hl"'T ?" '"^^^^ «" '^e left. Norton's Hotel, I now crossed the br^dg " '7 p'' ^''^'^ -"'^ have led to westward to Pequannock, turnin-r there sh, "'''°" '■'^''^'■' •''"'' '"O^Ie i m '. i-^ii.>e through the village of Cn "o ATi^''^ ^ ^- '^"' ^"'"S ^- "• ^ -Hi -Norton's Hotel. The distance f o n the hrt, '"' '° " ^S^'-^' ^° ^°-Pton .0 m,„. ,„ doing it. Smooth and level '. 't^''''' J"«^ S m., and I was -Hl^' 'his the swiftest and pleasant tpin^f^fr '°^ ^'"°^^ ^'^^ -'- wav 4 45 o'clock, I proceeded to work mTl '''■ "^"^"'S ^^e hotel at -.^■on of sandy and stony hills. "ithL'lr"", ^ '''"°" ""'"''^^^'ted -->ge me. until I reached the iHagl " Ha ed" " ^ ^""'' °' "'" ^° -' ''IS I began a sharp descent into Paferson an 1 " ' '".'' ''°"' ' "'■ ^^^""^ l^ndge nearest the line of the Frie P.T " "'"''"^ '''" Passaic (by the ■on>,Hon was nearly 9 m., and had 'S ll f •'^ '''^^ ^'^'-^ ^-- h^l'. of u, I do not spec.allv c .mend , he r! I ' '^''■^' "^ P^^^aps a ;n the forenoon, before branchin 1 .ut mT' ' "'''" ' '^^ °^ -«- ■ng a final njile on the Paterson -^acadan.'va?:;::" "' '''' ^"°^'' '-'"^- ^--l-e. The only hamlet on th wav is Ar"?""''! '^^' ' -■ ^-'"6 - a -osscd, soon after turning the angle fTom ;^"°''!;, ^^^^ Saddle river is 'ads up and down a succession of parallel ri, ^ f' ''"'^ ^^"^ d^«<^"bed ';^ -' -adwav is sandy, I found tE ^' °^ '^"'f/ -^- ^^ough much >'-'ches; and I was r h. 40 min. in do n. h' VT"'"^ "^^"^'^ ^^ ^^ort "'^tenal of the finnl .;,,„„ „. ..„ '"""3 ^^^ distano-. Red clay was the :;tr:r::^= -""-:-" :;::^ ■'•- th. view of the river and vallevof h „. "" '"^° "^ckensack. -y the descent, was a rather preUy on P "'"' "^^ "^"'^'-^ ^-^o- -1 macadami^ed turnpike for 2IT1 Z' Tu' "''''"^ '^^"^ here by a ^nd.e. just beyond which run two prrailH , ''' ' ""'' '^^ ^'^^ Freiburg ;"^-''ed the longer toll-bridge sparnin7o /"'" '""^^^ ' '"• ^° the e. f ;-.;/he Club House in Rid^efi ,d ' Tu :T" ""T' '"'' ''''''' '" ^^^^^-r .-11 4^ i66 Tf:N THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. above I or, instead of descending to the river, he may turn s., in order to reach the boulevards leading towards Bergen Hill, as described on p. 83. Such tourist will please observe, therefore, that, if he wishes to -ca-h " the tr.anglc " by the Paterson route, which I have described without speriallv recommending, ho should make the w. descent into Ridgefield, instead of turnmg s. at the Edgewuter hill. A third path from Ridgefield to "the triangle," as explored by me on the 20th of December. 1881, I mention in order to give warning against, though perhaps it might not be so bad at another time of year. From the Freiburg bridge I rode w. for i m., instead of going n. by the Ilackensack turnpike; then, by a rather winding road through a swampy, wooded country, I went s. about 2 m. and w. the same distance, walking pretty continuously through the mud until at Woodbridce I climbed a hill 200 ft. high. From here I rode by short stretches on the plank and din siJcwa]!:s, through Carlstadt, Rutherford, and Lyndhurst to the bridge across the I'assaic at Avondale. but was i h. in doing the distance whicn IS less than 4 m. Having followed the fairly good sidewalks of the' river-road for 2 n.. dowa to Iklleville, I there discovered that an ideally smof t.h macadunued avenue ran par.-Uel for the whole distance on the rrest of the hill. } m. to the w., and gave o.xa llent chances fc coasting So I rode back to the head of it at Avondaie. and found it extended thence nearly 3 m. toward i\cwark. When the macadam ended. I followed the sidewilks of the same av.mue x\ m. further s.. and there came to its point of junction with Bloomfield av. (For report of this route reversed, see p. 16&.) 'In describing the roads around Npw York (Chapter VIII.), I have de- voted no less tha., a half-uo/xn pages (8.^5) to those upon the Jersey shore' and the routes from the 130th st. ferry to Englewcod may be found on pp. 8..' 84. On the 7th of May. 18X3, I mounted there at 3 v. m. (having previously ridden ^5 m.). and after following the main street w. for perhaps \ m. beyond the r. r. cr- ,smg. I turned s. and then w., and in \ h. was stopped by the up- grade of retl clay leading to School-house No. 9. Thence I went s. about i m. to the len-ick road, and along it w. over a succession of hills, one of which I descended 4 m. in i h.) just before crossing the bridge into Hackensack. A wide stretch of the country thus traversed belongs to William Walter I'helps o-ie of the largest land-owners in New Jersey ; and the only really good riding 1 found was on some of the macadamized roads connected wit'i his private re.s- dencc. From a store in the center of Hackensack (i m.) I went i m. straight n. w. to the 7-m. plank ; and thence in i h. to the hotel at Areola, 2J m. .\ httle beyc .d here [ made a sharp turn 1., to cross the bridge over Saddle river, ancl then, j m. further, instead of continuing n., I turned s. w.. and \vent m a b .-line to the I'.roadway bridge leading into Paterson, walking up two hills on the way. Forty minutes later, after passing the 3-m. plank, I reached ^'^^ '^Q''"^'" °^ l^roadway and West st., in Paterson, 14 m. and 3 h. from the 'The remainder ,,f this chapter is now for the first time published. tr^m COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS. lif 167' Mart at Rnglewood. Crossing the West st. bridge. I turned 1. up the hill, lussed the soldiers' monument which overlooks Uroadwny, and then descended I. to the falls. These present a spectacle well-worth visiting on its own ac- count, and they also have a certain historic interest attaching to them as the scc-nc of Sam Patch's demonstration that "some things can be done as well as others." Trundling my wheel across the little foot-bridge, just below the one off which he used to jump into the yawning depths beneath. I kept along thf s. bank of the stream, mostly on sidewalks and paths, to Lincoln bridge ; thence in roadway to bridge under r. r. ; thence a little bevond the 4-m. plank to tlie canil bridge in Little Falls. Crossing this, I turned 1. to the second bridge, whic'i I did not cross, but followed the course of the brook. Dark- ness had now settled down, and I soon made a needless d^'tour, after passing under a ston.- culvert, by v/alking up-hill to a r. r. station which proved to be the tcminus of the road. I walked, in fact, nearly all of the way, through Cedar (Jrove, until at last I reached the well-known macadam at Verona i)o,t()ffice, whence I wheeled about 10 m. without stop, to the end of Central .v.. in Newark, at 10 o'clock, with a day's record of 57 m., which included j4 n,. of roads never previously visited, and 10 m. never before traversed in the same direction. The parallel road on the n. side (jf the river, from Pater- son to Little Falls, was said to be ridable ; and my earlier ride thence to I'oni])ton has been described on ]>. 165. Four days afterwards (May 11), I rode from Elizabeth to Rahway, the distance from the head of Frelinghuysen av., in the former town, to the 'Far- mers' and Mechanics' Hotel, on the outskirts of the latter, being a trifle more than 6 m. My course led down Broad st. to the court-house and Sheridan Hotel (I m.), where I turned r., and soon reached St. George's av., leading s. to the first-named hotel. It continues straight on from there to Metuchen and New Brunswick, whence the tow-path is said to supply (on Sundays, when there is no traffic) excellent riding to Bound Brook,— the distance betweeii each of the four towns being about 6 m. At the hotel I turned 1., to reach the center of the town, and I completed a circuit of 3 m. before arriving at the same point again. From there I returned n. for ij m. without stop, to a certam point where I took the plank walk. My downward ride was mostly done on this walk, with frequent stops on account of missing planks. Red dav and sand made this course a rather difficult one, and its character was said to be about the same all the way to New Brunswick, I tried it under rather favorable conditions; but in very wet or very dry leather I presume It would be unridable. A fortnight later, in attempting 'to find a new route home to the city, I turned n. at the post " 8 m. to Paterson," near the Mansion House m Montclair, and proceeded 2 m. along a hard, graveled road to a pomt past the r. r. station in Upper Montclair. where I was told that sand and rough clay were all that could be hoped for beyond. So I made my second .start at the junction of Bloomfield av. with Belleville av. in Newark, and proceeded n. along the sidewalk of the latter (whose flagstones are con- 1:'; it. m ->l atfe. i---^- 168 r /A-.V niOUSANl) .Xfll.HS ON A filCVCLK. tinuous on the c. shIo) for .J n... t.. a point beyond th nil of the roadway, which is roii^h for \ I'ok the niacad tiai k ^ leave it, .iiul turn r. down the hill to th e cemetery, where \ m., until the h lorse ;i J-ni. Hpin Anw^ the ideal nia( adam of th iver. At Avondale, .ft after tin g<)in« under the r. r. Lrid^e. wheeled ah.nR th e ridf!;e, F crossed th cr '^ river, and uously to Rutherford, jj m. 'I'l >ng the w. sidewalks pretty (lenie to Carlstadt, beyond which I con- '•"■II. »!.■. „,i„l,i „,c t„ ;, , . ,. ,cati„„ i„ J „, . ,1, . 1 , and with. . ,n, reached Kr.l.nr^ -.r..: ^e^J:.;.;^-;,::-; ;-:;;,• descr>l,ed on p ,(.. I have since been f ,d that the route straight ac t m rshes fron, C arlstadt, popularly known as the .'atcrson plant roa< ^ iKive expressc. an .K-u-rance of on p. S,,, is fa,rly ruiaMe, and I „,id,t iKuo saved the hdls hy ,oinK that way. I delaved so lon^ in akin,, s," «. h a fr.end at Kid,,e.ield. that, when I rcuhed the ferry at Weeh w ' c as, boat had K.ne.-and , was obliged to dra^ n.v w^.rv bon ^ he.ght aKan,, ami Ret slou transit to Hobokcn bv horse-car.- It w.s o' .-.M., therefore when I linally trundled n.y wheel into Washin^-ton Sn„m with a record o, 45J n,. for the ,. h. The boats connecting wi'h the i' ,' ra.ns .. the new West Shore railwav now ,ive later accL to New 7^ -M St.) than those of the old ferrv. jus, above ; and a new road, paved w„h -iK.an blocks, has been K-acled upwar.ls fron. the railw.u- tern inus ., , brewery .at Fulton .st.. which is described on p. S, as connecting the »; c boulevarle in descending to the station along ,hc Mdewaik. even (hough he be accom[)anied by a bicycle.' u.h ./"*'■"''"' ''',"'\'"'^''' "'•■ "^'">--' I'clcl i" Rov„lu,i,na>y times by ,ha, part of Jersey t„v Maru,„ ,he „rs, ,s,a„„„ (3 „,)„, ,h,, „,„,, ;, best reached bv RoinK along the i e'w 1 gs of A „n,„„.ery av , parallel .„ i, ; .,.e,. .urninR 1. one bl..k and r. three blocks ^ ^::^^-Tl^^' ■'""'^'7 ""' '""""-^ '■ ^""" "f- "--« "- ^- r. -cks wher K , ' : H,I! beK,nsonthew.; and Philadelphia riders recommend this route as , he " s "e irr V rr ; Ti '\r- "' '■'''^'""•"'' "■'^■'^'"'' J"'--- ■«'^-) ''--p.ne of new and rere n f, ",' '■' .'''''■•"■'■'''^■" '■"'« ^"- ''i"^ - a type of what is brand ll"L extrTc ■ "■ T "'"■'"".^: ^^■"~-^'-" "f ■>-■ -^'ic,ue. I make room for ,he t S^ l^P- Hcrgen H.ll, wnhin cannon-sho, of Wall St.. there is more to recall ' ad ; r ; ";"'•'"' "■■■" ""• *"= '"""'' "^" "^"^ '^'-^^ ''-'f- Although. looU. V^Z^: r^t] .1- prosj^c, is very mnch the same that was presented ,0 the pr mu.ve Dntchmen who first chmbed here. The .narshes, .„iil bare, are sw.athed of an April afternoon. ,n swnnm.ng and luminous r.ist. which reduces Newark ,0 a vague unc:!,.":.;.' all COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS. 169 A northward route from Avondalc, mentioned in the preceding para- i.ipli, was thus described In a tourist of Sept. 3, ',S4 : "At the end of the 'MM ulam. turninK I., r. and r, we soon passed the depot and struck the main r.Kl aKuin, which Imju^ht us int. I'assaic, jj m., where we took the river .. .ul and found k'>'>'1 side-path ric partly through ignorance, and partly for variety's sake. Having triversed the well-known macadam to its end (10 m. from the " Z. & S." starting-point) at the corner in Franklin, where the 1. road leads due w. to I'iiu- lirook, I turned r. m.l proceeded along a rough surface to a hill (j m.), wlii.h caused a few ro f.w „ chimmys, and through «hich the masses of the Orange hills loom faintly bh.e. III. s.ope of Snake Hill, nearest us, is still unplanted and unbuilt. This sh ning ribb<,n almost uiuler us ,s the Hackensack, and that narrower and further gleam the Passaic. All these were here when the Dutchmen came, and it all looks very much as it mu.st have looked then The strcm o IJergen. .00, though more or less modified, retain the primitive arrangement of a pali- saded village ; and ..ere and there along them are architectural reli:s of the Dutch dynasty The n..-t remarkable and interesting of these is the .Sip house, which has an interest unique L, this CHHUry, to the bcs- of my knowledge and belief, in being now the residence of the descendants .11 the seventh generation of its builders, by wh.,s, family it has been continuouslv occupied A ^ery credible family tradition asserts th.at Lord Coniwallis once k-dged and slept' here, when he was ,n command of East Jersey. It was down what is now Bergen av. that Sergeant-Major John u..im,H^ galloped, pursued by his own comrades as a deserter, to escape to the British lines om kul„ap Arnold, m order to deliver the traitor up to Washington, and to justify the American commander m liberating Andr6. Champe's esca,>e was narrowly successful ; but he found it Harder to 1' ..ve his new friends than his old, and had to go soldiering about in Virginia under "-omwallis be.o/fc he had an opportunity to make a real desertion." ^, v^ ^^^^. ^^ \^ ^ M IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^ /> :/L 1.0 1.25 i2.8 ■ 30 US 1^ 22 1.1 I'^l 2.0 U 11.6 /A m '//. # Uy^^ FhotDgraphic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 A^ ,v ■'S' < 6^ ^^ "^k % 170 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. two bndgca ; and I think such turning may be safely recommended to ;,ny who choose to go from Pine Brook to Paterson by this rout=. From the bridge at Mountain View I went without stop \\ m., to place where sign on r. says "3^ m. to Pompton "; and there I crossed canal bridge to 1., and then bore around to r., riding i.. through the village of Pompton Plains to place (3 m.) where road forks r. to steel-works and Norton's Hotel (p. 165). I kept straight on to the 1., however, and then, about \ m. above (where I should have turned r.), turned 1. and rode i m. to Bloomingdale, where I found my mistake and rode back again. » One mile bevond this, I turned r. at a tavern, having previously turned i. after crossing a bridge ; and I turned 1. in 2 m. at a church, and then rode at speed for i m. to the tavern at Oakland station. This looked so unattractive that, though darkness was settling on, I thought t would try to reach a better one; but I soon went astray, by turning up-hill at the first r. road, and then faihng to take the next r. road for Crystal Lake. So I came back to the tavern at Oakland, after a useless tramp of i^ m., at 7 o'clock, with a record of 26^ m. The fact that m^ cyclo.-neter registered only 17 m. daring the t; h. of the afternoon, when I was in almost continuous motion, shows that it fell short of the truth ; and I presume the lesser distances recorded may not be quite accurate. Pompton pond, which I passed just before nightfall, is a pretty sheet of water, along- side which I noticed the tents of some campers-out. The mountain ranges seem to converge as one rides up to Pompton from the s. ; so that they are there distinctly present to one's notice instead of being remote points on the horizon, as at the start. Next morning, therefore, I found that I was riding along the pleasantly shaded western slope of the eastern range, while the western range was far off to the r. ; and the surface seemed to gradually in- lEcho Lake, at Newfoundland, is only about 6 m. n. w. from Bloomingdale; but, as a halting-place for the night on a two days' circuit of 85 m. between Newark and Greenwood Lake it is just 49 m. from the headquarters of " Z. & S.," who send me the following directions for route : " From Pompton, go to Wanaque and Boardville, turning !. at foot of hill within 200 yards of school-house, and proceeding thence in almost a direct line to the lake. The hotel here, known as Brown's or Cooper'.s, gives a good dinnerfor soc, and the run from Oraton Hall (39 m.) can be made easily in 7 h. After amusing yourself for a few hours on the lake and around it, take a lo-m. run down to Newfoundland, over excellent slate roads, and stop for the night at J. P. Brown's well-kept hotel, which is usually crowded during the summer. If >ou leave at 8 in the morning, you will reach Rockaway (30 m.) at noon, easy riding, and can get a good 50 c. dinner at the hotcldirectly to the r. after crossing the canal. There is considerable sand between there and Denville, but the side-paths are fair ; and, by taking the grass at side of road between Denville and Fox Hill, a rate of 6 m. an hour can be kept up, spite of sand and stones. Thence there are excellent roads for a part of the way to Pine Brook ; and ilie rest is the well-known track. The round trip of 85 m. has frequently been made in a day. 1 he side-paths along the banks of the several lakes and pond."! are superb. While at Newfoundland, you should spend an hour or two in visiting Clifton Falls ; and, while you are at the Government powder v.orks, near Middle Forge, run i m. 1. and climb Picatinny jjeak, the view from whose top is a rand one. \i you leave whtel at the roadside for i h., the ascent and descent will occupy about half the interval, and give you the other half in which to enjoy the view." COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS iy, crease in smoothness all the way to the lerscv Hni- wh.VK t 8 0..0C. (having done the 8^ .^n r, h.^ thi: Ito ^ ^ W ." Suffern for breaWast at the Eureka House. In spite of r^ two detou s (4 m.) and much longer general route, the cyclometer record to thi,t.i" was not quite 35 m. as against the 34* m. of the party mentioned on pT^ who con .nued straight on to Lake George, and went thence to PittsfilS' -spnngfield. New Haven. Tarrytown and New York, a circuit of Lm .n ,^V"*''''''"^ '■'^°''' 1 '*'"' '°"'' ^^^ P""^^d •" ^'- ^'^/i (Ma^ch ir '8«5. pp. 332-334. 347). from which I have already quoted, on p. iTand from which I shall present other extr.icts in my next chanter Th.i ?u ward route from Suffen, to Newburg (excl/sive of a f- de u^^ reckoned) was identical with my own. and measured 33 m whik mv cyclometer recorded less than 29 m.; so that my record oners'; dSance^ must b. taken with somo allowance. I reached Newburg at "^ooSocr havmg stopped from x to .p. m. for an excellent dinner a' Hig'hLd MHls' Hotel The other party had turned aside at this point and climbed up he nountam .^ m. (r.dmg part of the way), in order to spend .he night a^ he u .% They there found very fine views of the lake and vlllev as Hi hlL'd^M r ^"V""''"^' '^"^ ^'^^ ^°^^'^^ '"^^ -»^°'<= distance bck to H.ghland M.lls on the morning following. "The road from he^e to New^ burg the,r report truly says, "leads through scenery that will delighf he ye at every turn ; and too much can hardly be said in praise of it for no dismount need be made except at one or two bad hills near the nd." M^ own record for the afternoon is that I turned r. at the red mills cm frnZ t e hotel; r. at the railroad, . m ; 1. towards CornJ U ^^s' 'and a" -Newburg ij m Of the forenoon's ride, through the valley aJong the Ramlpo r: m t sltr ''''' ^'"' "''^" * '• ^^^^^ '^"'^•^■^^ ^'">'^- ^'-3 the4m. toSloatsburg, ona course whose surface suggested the rid^e rn,H :a"'dffi '1 T ' "'r'^' ^" ''' ''"^' *"^'"^'"« ---oh ofe'wh h was d,fficuit because of length, and several short ones which were difficult because o roughness. Between Southfield (7 m.) and the iron wo ks a Greenwood (3 m.) and beyond. I found occasional stretches of sand but the .ed ca , which forms the surface in the region of Highla;d M 11 bethV TT'''" road-building. The direct route thfther appe 1th 7" K "^ 'u =" *^' «-hool-house which is met soon after the mooth surface begms; but the proper path winds along to the 1., and offers a iotr:f '■ ^,^^^-«*-'« Headquarters should be visited b; ever^ patno ,c p,lgr>m who journeys through Newburg; and the local wheelman who escorted me thence to Pcughkeepsie, next morning, was an old so^e^ o^^the evil war, who had also served efficiently, the'previous OctoSr „ managmg the citizens' centennial celebration of that memorable day wh ^ Washington proclaimed at Newburg the formal recognition of our nLronal ■'■•r'i 172 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCI^. 'r^^m ■£■?■ .ftM""--J independence. It was in eminent accordance with the fitness of things, therei'ore, that our course should lead " through Liberty st. to the great balm tree " (2 ni.), where we turned up-hill to the r., and made a 1. turn 2 m. on; passing then through Marlboro (4 m.), Milton (4 m.) and reaching the river- side ferry below Highlands (5 m ), opposite Poughkeepsie, a'. 10.20 a. m., just 4 h. after starting. The final i\ m. can he continuously coasted, on a steady down-grade, and the whole road is of average excellena , with some specially fine stretches, and some specially attractive vineyards alongside them. As fhe road on the e. side r< the river is also good, and rather more direct, a pleasant circuit of 35 to 40 m. may be made between Newburg and \ igh- keepsie, without repetitions. My comrade had several times measured it with Ritchie cyclometer, and was therefore confident that the distance we traversed together was 19 m., though my own record for the 4 h. was 2\ m. less. The rest of this tour from Poughkeepsie on the Hudson to Springfield on the Connecticut (about 130 m.), may be found reported on pp. 146-14^, 121. My only wheeling in New /ersey, s. of Rahway, was on May 17, "84, when I went from Hoboken to Somerville (39^ m., 930 a. m. to; p. m.), and May 18, when I went thence to Philadelphia (61 m., 5.40 a. M. to 6.40 p. m). A Star rider of Elizabeth, whose day's journeys between there and the Water Gap are re- ported elsewhere in this chapter (p. 164), accompanied me thence to Westfield (si m.) and Plainfield (4^ m.), though we were 2\ h. on the way. A better route from Newark is said to be by the macadam to Milburn, 5J m. (p. 174), sidewalk thence i m. to Springfield, poor and sandy roads thence 6J m. to Scotch Plains, and 2\ m. of level sidewalks straight to Plainfield. I was | h. in riding thence to Dunellen, 3 m., and ij h. more in reaching Moore's County Hotel in Somerville, where I stopped for the night. About half-way between these two places I passed through Bound Brook (whence to New Brunswick, 6 m., the tow-path supplies good riding,— p. 167), and I thence went due w. to the end. When I started next morning, I turned 1. at the hotel, and rode i\ m. in i\ h., for my first dismount. The road had been a winding one, and its signs had mostly pointed to " Wood's Tavern," though I am not aware that I ever reached any such point. When I mounted again, I turned 1., and fol- lowed the telegraph poles i m. to " the brick house,"— the only one in that region,— and there turned 1. down the street which it faces, to the white church and cross-roads at Harlingen, 4 m. I might have turned here to r., but I did turn to 1., and rode up a big hill beyond. After crossing the r. r. at a creamery station called Venaken {\\ m.), whose name seemed unfamiliar to the people whom I questioned, I ought to have twisted around to the r., but I kept straight along to the first road turning squarely to the r., and on this I was forced to do my first walking of the day,— about \ m. of sandy up- grade. Then I turned 1. on the main road, down which I should have come if I had turned r. at either Harlingen or Venaken; conquered the cemetery hill at Blawenburg, which was a difficult one, and turned r. for the Stoutsburg Hotel, where I halted i^ h. for breakfast. For some miles below here, the COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS. '1\ road is betwen parallel ranges of mountains, though not very near them. Pennington, 23 J m. from the ctart, was reached at 11, and the bridge over the Delaware at Trenton (9 m.), 2 h. later. Then followed 9 m. of very pleasant riding, much of it on sidewalks and along the l iver, to Bristol, where I took ferry across to New Jersey again. Beyond Beverly (4 m.), I turned 1., passed the cemetery on 1., and, after same walking through the sand, reached the Camden turnpike, which extends ir, a bee-line towards Philadelphia, over a succession of low hills. I walked up many of these, owing to the softness of the surface, though the down-grades were mostly ridable, and reached the terry at 6.20 r. M., a little less than 60 m. from the start. I was delayed here a long time m crossing and getting supper (for I had had no food sii ce finishing breakfast at 9), and then wheeled or walked in t.ie gaslight along Market st., which had a new stone pavement like that of Broadway, to the Bingham House, where the cyclometer showed the mileage of my new wheel, measuring the distance from Hartford, m be just " 234." When next I entered New Jersey, by crossing the river from Easton to t'hillipsburg, at 5 A. M. of June 5, the cyclometer registered 8?8 m., representing ,1 continuous circuit, which had extended as far s. as the Luray Cave, in Vir- t;inia. Two members of the Lafayette College Bicycle Club met me at the United States Hotel, that morning, and piloted me to the proper point for tak- ing the tow-path, about i m. from the bridge. After 7 m. of rather rough riding on this, I had a "■ , by letting my wheel get into a hole in the grassy edge of the path, — my only previous fall with " No. 234, Jr.," having hap- pened 510 m. previously, on the 21st of May. My companion also took a plunge down the bank, by reason of the sudden snapping of his left handle- bar; but he then rode without a dismount for z\ m., or until we left the tow- path, though the surface of this was so rough that I thought it barely ridable, even with both handles in proper condition. After halting i h. 20 min. for breakfast at the St. Cloud Hotel in Washington (16 m. from Easton), I started on alone, at 9.10, and took the tow-path again by turning 1. just before reach- ing the r. r. bridge. I rode as fast as I could, with few dismounts, to the store opposite Hackettstown (to m. in \\ h.), for the surface was fairly good, — much smoother than the --.ection nearer Easton, — and I was assured by the canal men that it cont'iiued equally ridable as far as Dover. My previous trial of a few miles vf this, between Waterloo and Stanhope (Sept. 24, '80) had not been a happy one, however, and so I exchanged the path for the high- way through Hackettstown to the top of Schooley's Mountain (6 m.), where I stood on the stroke of noon, at the entrance to the grounds of a summer hotel called Belmont Hall, after having done about i in. of walking, on the up- grades, which were generally shaded. The descent of z\ m. to German Valley was a rough one, which required \ h. ; and the 5 m. thence to Chester led along hilly roads which had been recently " worked." After halting | h. for dinner, I proceeded onward to Mendham (5^ m. in i h.) and, 5 m. beyond there, reached the limit of my previous rides w. from Mor istown. Here began the good rid- 't fflff! s. 174 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ingof the day and I sped along to Madison without a stop; thence more «IowIy through Chatham and Short Hills to the well-known macadam of Spnngfield av.. 62 m. .nd I4 h. from the start. At Irvington. 5 m., I turned . down Clmton av.. and found good macadam nearly all :he way to its end (2 m.). a I.ttle ways frim S<. Stephens church, in Newark, and quite near the (ire-engme house, at the head of Frelinghuysen av. Two blocks beyond the ^nd of Clmton av. I turned 1. into High st., and rode along it in the dark to Central av. whence I walked to the comer of Broad and Bridge sts.. and left my wheel there at Oraton Hall (Z. & S.). at 8 o'clock.-the day's lecord the cyclometer bemg almosr 72 m. j lu ui I thus finished a 20 days' circuit of 765 m., which had extended through a half-dozen States; and this final pull, across the hills and sands of New Jersey, was the longest and most difficult day's journey of all T completed then a twelve months' record of 4.337 m., and I do not sup- pose It will ever agam be my good fortune to enjoy so vast and varied an amount of wheeling within so brief a period. More than fourteen weeks elapsed before I next mounted a bicycle, and took the five days' September tour described on pp. 165^.72. ,4^,48. 121 ; and my only -ater experience on the Jersey hills was near the close of the following month (Oct. 19, '84) when I accepted a friend's invitation to accompany him on a visit to the "basaltic columns,^'-though. as I was forced to ride one of his soin. machines. I did not venture to follow his example when he coasted down therefrom, for n-arly ^ *"•' ^'°"g M*- Pleasant av.i This extends w. from the Valley road, at a .,W 'i^8~^P'^»»"T«'f;f:f~''™n» (Julius Bien's lithographic reproduction of nhotogntph, Uken by H. J. Brady, of Orange) is given for the frontispiece of the " Report for" ^^,C. i^ans at Orange and across the mountain and valley beyond, is f uii of interesting material • and he v.e. from he top of the mounUin is one of the finest on the continent." ^I quote the fol owmg from h.s Report pp. „. ,3 = "The remarkably fine exposure of columnar tCock, .^.TdL f- ir ° ''°'"'';' °" *'' -"»»>'— "■"P* of On.nge Mountain, ha'^'c .good deal of pubhc attention during the last few months. The rork is the sime with "hat wh.ch fonns the crest of each of the three ranges of the Watchung mountain. ^! Tne e^^ b.t.on whach .s made at th.s place is due to the worl: . Mr. O'Rourke in first clearing a" J^ ^l^iZ '^.'^T '?. ^:\ ■" S'V-e °"» »>» road-making material, until he has exposed a ver t.cal face of the rock, wh.ch ., 700 ft. long, and .00 ft. high in the middle, and 30 ft. Wh a, one end. and about ,0 ft. at the other. The whole of this rook surface which is in sight is made up of pnsn.at.c columns as regular in their for™ as if they had been dressed out by a stonT'u te, and packed together so closely that there are no vacant spaces or opening, between them The columns .enenUly are parallel toeach other, and those at the two ends of the quarry . renearW perpendicular, but the large and high mass fn the middle is made „o of pns,^s w^ich a " n dmed at vanous angles, generally in a oirection towards a central line, ^e v^rl 1 h h been done m quarrymg h,re has exposed the structure of this mountain rock, so that it is in ad- m.rablecond.t,on or study, better. proUoIy. than it can be found anywhere else in !h" Su'e and ,t >s more easily accevible than any other in our country, so that it h« already been seen by thousand, of v»,to>,. The view in the frontispiece is taken when looking towards tsTn w and « near enough to the top of the mountain .0 show its crest lin., with the colu^s "^^"1 COASTING ON THE JERSEY HILLS. ' 175 point a little below Llewellyn Par'c and a little above the terminus of Main St., in Orange, and most of the ascer.t is ridable. Beyond the quarry where the columns are, it bisects Prospec*. av., a 2-m. stretch of macadam, on the crest of the mountain, connecting the Eagle Rock road on the n. (p. 161) with the Northfield road on the s. (p. 163) ; and about i m. further, it reaches the dirt or gravel road, extending through the lowlands from the macadam of V'erona (n.) to that of Milburn (s.), a distance of about 10 m. I take these facts from Wood's road-book, w'.iose excellent "map of the Orange riding dis- trict " (scale 3 m. to I in.) gives a clear idea of routes in the entire " triangle " described by me on p. 160. V see by this, also, that a smooth connection (macadam and side-paths) be'.ween S. Orange av. and Springfield av. is sup- plied by Valley st., which is parallel, on the e. of the railway, to the rather rough prolongation Ci the Valley road, described on p. 160. The map fails, however, to exhibit Clintoii av., which is the best connection between Irving- tor, and Newark, because the stones of the city-end of Springfield av. may 1^ thereby avoided. It is specially to be recommended to riders from Elizabeth who may wish to go to 7*Iilburn or Morristown, because it ends quite near the head of Frelinghuysen av. ; and this " now affords in unbroken stretch of level macadam, 3I m. long." These are the words of an Elizabeth writer who published his rejoicings (May, '85) over the recent removal of the last of the Nicholson pavement, and at the same time announced the intention of the local bicycle club to lay wooden gutter-bridges at the crossings of the city's main thoroughfares, so that its sidewalks may be followed continuously, with- out the need of dismounting at the curbs. the way up. At the bottom the columns appear to run down to the level surfao; which is kept for the convenient working of the quarry. !n reality they do extend down 6 or 8 ft. below the level of the working ground, and stand upon the red sandstone rock which everywhere under- lies this trap. The perpendicular columns at the left hand or ». w. end of the quarry are 30 ft or more in height, and are 5 or 6 sided, some of tht sides being as much as 2} ft. in width. Those at the right hand or .1. e. end of the quarry are shorter, 15 to 20 ft. in height, and i little inclined. They are larger, however, than the others, some of them having sides 4 ft. wide. These very large columns are some of them bent near the top, turning off towards the left, and presenting the appearance of having been crooked after they were formed, and while still soft and flexible. The surface of most 01 the large columns are marked as if they were regularly laid up in courses like bricks in a building. These courses are about as thick as common bricks, and have about the same inequality or unevenness of surface that buildings cf brick have." New Jersey has the honor of being the best-mapped State in the Union; and, as the first words of this chapter, written two yer.rs ago, gave praise to the first fruits of the State Geological .Survey, so now at the end, I gladly givt place to extracts from its latest official Report, showing the more recent progress of an enterprise in which every intelligent Jerseyman ought to feel a personal pride. Within three years from now, the prospective tourist will be enabled to study the entire surface of the State by charts of the same scale and character as the one described on p. 159, but of the more convenient size of 24 by 34 in. Julius Bien & Co., of this city, are to be accredited with the cireful and attractive lithography of the map, which, " as far as done, meets with the hearty approval of all who have seen it " ; and the power cf a good example is notably shown in the fact (which is specially significant and encouraging for wheelmen) that, " since the map was begun, a number of other Sutes have orgaiiiied surveys for simUar maps of their ter- 176 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. '?^ ntory. Th.s official " Atla. oi New Jer«y " (on a ^le of , m. to ■ in., with contour line, •howing every ri« „f ,o ft. elevation in the h-lly parts of the State, and every ri»c of ,o ft eleva- tion in the mor- level parts) is to consist of .7 sheets, 17 by 37 in., intended to fold once across making the leaves of the atlas ig^ by 27 in. The location and number of each sheet is shown by a reference map (20 m. to i in.) printed on the paper cover of the atlas ; and another map of the entire State (5 m. to . m.) is to be added, on a sheet 27 by 37 in. The apparent overlapping of the adjacent recungles of the atlas does not imply an increase of engraving, as the priming ,, not done directly from the engraved stones, but from transfers, which can be joined together in nny way that may be required. In like manner, any two adjoining sheets can be cut and fitted accurately to each other to form a single map. Nos. ., 2. 3 and 4 cover all the Archaan and Paleozoic rocks ; 2, 3 and 4 cover all the Archxan and all the iron ore district ; 5, 6, 7 and 8 cover the red sandstone formation ; 8 and 9, with 10, ii and 12 cover the clay and marl districts • 9, 13. <6 and 17 cover the entire Atlantic shore. No.s. 3, 4 and 7 were issued in March ,^84 ' a, 16, and 17 m March, 1885 ; 1, 9, ,3 and 17 will be rendy by the end of '85 ; and 8 1. „ 5' 10, .4 and .5 will follow, probably, during '86, '87 and '88. The Survey's annual reiwrt 'for 'si was accompanied by a geological map of New Jersey ((, m. to i in.), revised up to that date and Its latest corrections were named as " additional railroads, minor improvements in geological colonng, new places on the sea-shore and the life-saving stations." The State Topogranlier C. Clarkson Vermeuie, reports that the season's work of '84 included the survey of 1,582 sq m ' making the whole area surveyed 4,438 sq. m., and as the whole State is estimated to contain 7.576 sq. m., it may be said that the work is now completed over g of its area,— by far the rough es. and most difficult part of the State to survey. " The expen-es are kept strictly within the annual appropriation of |8,ooo. The results of the Survey are intended for the benefit of the citi- lens of the State ; and application for its publications may be made to any member of the board of managers." A final extract will serve to show the progress and prospects of road-recnrd^ng on a broader field : " The United States Geological Survey, Major J. W. Powell, director is engaged in preparing a topographical and geological map of the United States. Work is being done for this purpose, by it, in Va., N. C, Ky. and Tenn., and to some extent in several of th- other States. In Mass. the legislature has joined with the U. S. Survey in making a detailed topographical survey and map of that State on about the same scale as ours in N J., each of the part-.es paying one-half of the expense. In our State, where the survey had at that iime already extended over about half its area, the U. S. Survey proposed to pay the further expenses for completing the field work and mapping of the remainder of the State ; they being allowed to take copies of the maps which were already completed, and we being allowed to make copies of the remainder of the maps, which are to be prepared at their expense. They proposed also to take into their employment the same persons who had been up to that time engaged in our survey They only asked that we allow them the use of our instruments for carrying on the work. This arrangement, being plainly advantageous to both parties, was entered upon on July .5 18S4 and IS working satisfactorily. It relieves the funds of the State Geological Survey from the burden of exoense involved in carrying on the topographical survey, and will enable it to follow up in detail '.he work for which the topographical maps furnish the necessary basis." Even without its admirable official atlas, which would alone entitle it to , re-eminenr. I suppose New Jersey could still be called our " best mapped State " ; for I know of no other th'at has been so often selected for treatment by the makers of private maps. A Philadelphia firm, E. W. Smith & Co., 20 S. 6th st. (formeriy Smith & Stroup, 52 N. 6th st.) issr.e the largest one I have seen (1884, 6 by 4 ft., 2J . ■. to i in., townships in different tints, and county lines in redi with the title " a topographical map of New Jersey, from actual surveys and official records bv G. W. Bromley & Co. , civil engineers. " Statistics of the census, 1870-80, occupy an upper cor- ner which IS practically i blank quarter-section of the map, and the other three-quarters (32 by --o in. each), distinguished as the northern, middle and southern sections, have been printed on parch- ment paper, and folded in pocket-..overs, by special contract with the New Jersey Division of the League. The v hole map, cloth backed, is supplied by the publishers for *io, either mounted on roUeis for the wall, or dissected and folded in a case for carriage use ; but any one of the three COASTING ON THE JERSE Y HILLS. , ^ - , cti.-n, may be ha,1 by maU for 5, c. from either ,.f the«, officer, „f ,he Lea«.e. P r n K ,«bc.h ,.6 Br,«d M. ; H. Serrel.. P„i„fie,d; W. J. MornsTn. We^'- "?. ,^ .^^J «i.l.es to have . certain mute or route, marked out for him it will be A.21TL ^ T^ "'" f'T'n' ''^- ^''^^•^ """""' **" «^ '° -^^'^ .».o t'ri:; ^f tr^^i^^ '"-S;r crs of th.. D,v«,on ur^e whee.men in genen.1 to .uppot their en-mriJ-T k ^' *.5Mhe three .ection. that practically cover the entire^h Jt f ^TT '^ '^"'*""'"8 '"' *.o. The sa.e firm issue'a new ^oJ^^X^TlTZZ'^V^l: ^''''''r '^''^'' ... by ..in.. . m. to , in., cloth backed, n^unted fo .L Tailor d^^ d LTh "'" *V5o) ; a,., "a historical and biogr,ph.cal atl^i of the New Jersey coa^^^ Z m ""Tl"' s,a.. .„ .8., and .8«4, .-p, of the be«=he.. plan, of the cities' ZlJ^^i 'iZ rl n.^:r. Vi^rir -Ifr^ - - -^--^-n.o„. Hudson. have been published by Beer, & Co., 36 Vesey St N V LnH Tf "" "'^ ''■ "'^• Now J... .y maps caulo^ed b, the CoLs I WilHam S. New" yU"". d aT'^''; l^'T n part of the State, with New York City a^d WestchesTe ',' m -^ ; lu ^"^ ^"^ "" St , NY.. M • ,ltr^•',ls of a month or two(soc .1 number It/TrfLT f ' " ^^«'""^" This mapazir. ha, j. pp. („ by ,3 i.Tnan^s 1- n • V ' »5 for twelve numberr). J , . '^ '• "an'is^^'ne! ' printed on heavy nat>er and it. m,r> ;. ;_ pressed on a sheet of b«nk-not. paper, the size 0: two pages. On thTb^ck of heT alphabetical hst of all it, towns and villages, e.ch name bein^accot^palld by", '„!'," " meral referring to.he marginal index w.;.h point, out ^,s po'sirion. ThU ''nL Je^ ! " i' ""' scale of 6 m. to th, inch and «hrw. all ihe loads ; while the map, of the -i, nT ^- , the series (Colorado, Dakota. Micmg.,n, Wiscor in i.-).ricL 3 p ■ ^T"""' '""" °* .;.ch) show only the railway. All thesJ ...1 f M / T "^^^ ^^^ '° ">• «" "« i.ar ones (not iLexed) :^o^ s:::::z:Ci::rj::?z;si^ r "'-■ ina (23 by ,5 m., 6 r.. to the inch, ,^73.7^), which are better ,uited for bicycler, AH,m.', vania and New fersev with th» «.~,,+.j j / r . , . ^' '^^ " • '*°=^ Book of Pennsyl- through ro„tes of rCconn M^T rLd " Md /v ^"'T !"-''- -«^"'<= P-cipal r-nev Orin,,. D-j' • . o • ' • ^^- ^"^ ^*' '"cl"ding road maps of New '.Jbv,Hn 1 / i u ,' u'' ™" ^""""8 "°"»^-" ™s contain, ,60 pp 'size J by 3i in., boun^ inflexible leather, with pocket and extra blank, but no advertiits" .78 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ill \ in. thick, weighs 6 ox., and tells for %i. Orders by mail should be addressed to Mr. Aaron, Uux 916, Fhilidc'phi' I ■■xl *" aaica °f the book will accrue to the benefit u( tUe Division, as the \ij\ of a. mpilaiion was assumed purely as a labor o' love. The routes are aUl tabulated in uni- form style, and numbered ■ to •(>, with variations A, U, C, 1 A, 2 i), a.>d the like, so that the list of them covers 4 pp., aud the aiituuut uf roadway reported upuD (exclusive of duplkaiiuD») ex- ceeds K,ooo m. The reading m?tter is in fine type, distributed as follows : Preface, i p. ; Penn- sylvania topography, 2 pp. ; Philadelphia riding district, 2 pp. ; general review, 1 ^ ; railroad transportation, with alphabetical list of toe " free " roads, e. of liuflalo, 1 p. : consuls, huteN and repair shops in Penn. and N. j., 3 pp.; executive officers of the two Divisions, with abstractii of their rules, 2 pp. ; objecu and niethcxis of the L. A. W., 2 pp.; odds and ends, I p. ; N. J. index (references for 250 towns), 3 pp. ; Penn. index (references for 52j towns), 5 pp. ; N. V. ind^x (references to 225 towns), 2 pp. Massachusetts index (61 references) and miscellaneous index (81 references) 1 p. This makes a total of nearly 1,150 towns, whose situations on the no "route;:" (each averaging 100 m. long) can be at once referred to, and it is the best piece of indexing yet given to the subject oi Ameri- can roads. I have already commended the maps of the " Orange riding district " (p. 175; and " Staten Island " (p. 158), which are on the same leaf (6^ by 3^ in ) ; and I should presume that the " map of the Philadelphia riding district," covering a whole leaf of that size, and havinj; 2 scale of 3 m. to I in. would be equally valuable to every wheelman residing in or visiting that city. " Long Island," on a scale of 10 m. to 1 in., shows clearly the general relations of the roads there which I have described on pp. 150-155. The more elaborate State maps (N. J., 10 m. to 1 in. and Penn., 35 m. to i in.) attempt to give nothing bit the roads described in the " routes," and therefore show at a glance those parts of the country which have been most thor- oughly exp'ored by wheelmen. Each may therefore be 'egarded as a very valuable index to the study of larger maps of the same State, and each," having been photographically reduced from large and accurate tracings " (made by the compiler, whose profession is that of civil engineer), can be depended upon, " even in scalf measurements within the possibilities of reading." Except for eyes possessed of perfect vision, these " possibiliiies " are somewhat limited, owing to the mi- croscopic lettering necessarily used in bringing the maps within the size of the page; but, as a vast majority of wheelmen are young and clear-sighted, this will not be a practical obstacle to the usefulness of the charts. They are really marvels of intelligent condensation, and they in- stantly give to a long-distance tourist incomparably more knowledge of roads " to the square inch of printed surface " than anything else in America upon which he can set his eyes. The com- piler of this book has performed a great service for the cause of wheeling, both in the immedi- ate value of his work as a holp to touricts ; in its incidental effect of convincing the ignorant, the indifferent and the dissatisfied that the League is a definite power for good ; and in us ultimate influence upon the future compilers of the books of other Divisions. A high example of excel- lence has now been set; by which later works will be relentlessly compared and judged. It is to be hoped that other consuls of the League may improve upon the pattern of this one ; but to him will remain the credit of having established a respectable pattern whose existence mu?t prove a check to the production of slip-shod and careless compilations as representative books of the League. The suggestion that all of these should adopt the same size of page, in order that electrotypes may be exchanged for use in the publications of the various Divisions, ought cer- tainly to be obeyed. 3y way of encouraging another " good example," of quite a difleren* sort, I r/ill add to my list of Jersey maps a little one (24 m. to i in.) that covers a circular tract of 12 m. di- ameter, on the Delaware river, and that is freely distributed on a fly-leaf as an advertisement of the Aloorestenvn Chronirlt, " the only newspaper published within the radius of 6 m. from Mooresto-vn," which village serves, of course, as the center of the chart. The map is divided into m. -circles, and gives a' plain showing of all the roads ; and I recommend other local news- papers to issue similar ones, as an inexpensive scheme for keeping their names near to the heart of the bicycler— as near, at least, as the breast-pocket of his riding-jacket ! XIV. LAKE GEORGE AND THE HUDSON.* This title is designed to cover the repo.t of my entire August touring of 425 m., distributed through eighteen different days and four different States; for though it began and ended in regions far removed from Uke George, the lalce was my chief objective poir.t, and the title will help fix the attention of those who weie interested in " W. H. E.'s" account of a July pilgrimage thither, as presented in the Bi. IVorld of August 5. On the second day of the month I took my machine out of the manufactory in Hartford, where it had had an eight weeks' rest to recovr from the vio- lent surgical operation implied in receiving a new backbone, and started to drive it up the valley, spite of the liquefying stickiness of the weather. Be- fore reaching Springfield, however, in whose neighborhood I intended to take a three-weeks' outing, a sand-gully in the sidewalk caused a sudden stop, -.vhen, rather than save my wheel by taking the risks of a header, I thought to save my bacon by resorting to what Telzah calls "a backer"; in other words, instead of pitching ahead and letting the machine fall on top of me, I jumped back and then tumbled violently forward on top of it. As a result the driver was sprung sidewise about an inch out of the true, and the little wheel was made to interfere with it by about that interval, while the right crank was loosened on the axle, the latter mishap being one that never befell ire before. With the aid of a convenient boy. I pulled the concern into rid- able shape again and meandered on. The yawning rents in my breeches were concealed by the friendly approach of dusk, and by the fact that they bore no hue to contrast them with the drawers beneath. Another argument for always touring in white 1 On the i8th of August, I rode b?ck to Hartford, starting at 5 in the morning, with a threatening n. e. wind behind me. At the end of i m I had of course to walk up the church hill in West Springfield, but from there rode wuhout dismount to the bridge over Agawam river. 2 m., turning w. at the common and then s. at the first 1. road, perhaps \ m. on, over the railway track and by a curving course along the river to the bridge. Crossing this, the I. road is followed e.. and scon leads into the main street of Agawam, which runs due s. until, at Porter's distillery, it makes junction with the river road leading from Springfield. This road should be taken by tourists to the n if th^y wish to visit that city, though the most direct and easiest road up the v alley is t he one down which I came. The distillery was 6^ m. from the 1 trom Tlu Bicycling M^orld, Oct. 7, Nov. ii, ,881, pp. 159-260, s-«. m \?^/ :j^: ii. i8o r/-:X THOUSAXD MILES OX A niCYCLE. ' C ■■' 1? '■ " ['■''•■■•i/'i'l-, 11 start ; time, i^ h.' On top of a hill, 4 m. or more beyond, is a whi.e school- house, wnerc one turns into a lane leading e. and down to the river hank at the head'of the cin.il. This was exactly 1 1 tn.from the start, and was reached at 7 o'clock. With the wind helping irj, I rode along the embankment with- out atop to the bridye, 2\ m., and then i m. more to the end at Windsor I >k.V*. where I stopped \ h. for breakfast. Al 8.jo 1 reached the r. r. crossing, ami knowing the next 2 m. of highw.iy to be jjoor, I was tem|)Ud to try the hard gru^el between the tracks. Riding aloiijj it for J m , f was forced to walk the r^-Mu. lining \\ in. to Ilayden's station, at which poin' the hii;hway, or the side, walk thereof, becomes good again. .Soon after this, the heavy ndst of early morning grew into unmistakable rain, and the red clay roads of that region, by no means bad in dry weather, grew unridablc. So I kept the sidewalks prettycontinuously during the ijh. spci.t between Ilayden's and the Weed .Sewing .Machine C'cnipany's works in Il.'.rtford, 10 tn., — ending my journey at 10.45 o'clock, 28 m. from the start. The wor o.;rt of it all was the final 'I have made a similar remark on p. 121, as to the need of taking the river road, between the distillery and the South bridge, in Cuse the city is to be c-ntcrtd or left i:i thit way ; but w): i« Springfield riders have lately told me that the beat way to get between those points without d.i- mount is to go directly w. frona the bridge by a smooth road of red cl.iy to il>e main street in Agiiwam. In riding along this to the n., the oroper point to turn e. for the bridge, is about } m. above the brick building on r. which sei-ves as a town hall and school house. The road tur::j squarely to the r. between two houses, and is not specially prominent, though the presence if large trees outside the fence may help to fix the pl.ice of it. Upon the same p. lia is described my latest ride to Hartford, showing that I mij^ht better have kept the hishwav instead of resort- ing to the canal path, and that " the bad miles below the r. r. crossing " have been so improved within recent years that they may now be easily covered without dinngfield.m tak.ng a roundabout co.rse through W:.re and Thomd ik" o •^nKsv. le, mstead of the direct one through Warren and Paln.er to the same I-nt ; for though I had several hills to walk. I encountered no long stretchel <'i sand. At Ind.an Orchard, which is a mile w. of Jenksville. a touHs o the w .v o Hartford might, instead of taking the uninteresting hough perfectly Klable path across the plains to Springfield (7 m. to the corner o'f Sta e and f am sts.). go through Chicopee Falls. Chicopee. and West Springfield Tne .st.ance to the church hill in the latter place is a little more than 9- and t- last 5 m of .t. from Chicopee Falls, n.ay be made without a dismoum in uhcr Crect.on. I^etween the -rchard and the Falls are several stretches of ^and wh.ch must be walked through, but most of .he road is r'daWe and V Iwnd a !^'"T'';;^^^ miles without stop on the concrete side- alks, and a good walk of dirt or concrete extends continuo.,sly on the w Te'tan Jhe t TVT 'f >" ^'^'-P-" -^ere one first tikes to the b Ige ol to West S ;f T *'''-°' " '"g-"«down towards the thi route from TH- 'n"f . '" recommending to the through traveler route from Ind.an Orchard to Agawam. as preferable to the usual one i82 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ^^^&.. 1-i-l ■) : which includes the city of Springfield, I need only add, as a final attraction, that he will thus have the felicity of passing in front of the house where 1 was born, "so many years ago." The place is rendered otherwise remarkable by the presence of "the largest and handsomest maple tree in the State of Mas sachusetts." No extra charge for sitting in its shade. Photographs at ail the book-stores. Beware of thf dog. At seven o'clock on Monday morning, August 22, having despatched my valise to the For* William Henry Hotel, on Lake George, I started due n. from this big tree, and ma^ie just 7 m. in i h., with only two dismounts. A hill between the two that caused these stops, was ridden up by me for .he first time. Reaching the station at Smith's Ferry, 2 m. on, five minu.'s in advance of the train, at 8.30, I disembarked therefrom at 9.10, and wheeled e. for \ h. to the river road at Hatfield Corners, \\ m. ; then n. 2 m. in the same length of time, to the sand rut under the maple trees. The third stop was caused by a hill ^t the foot of Mount Sugarloaf, ij m. A mile beyond I made my fourth stop, at the store in South Deerfield, to Cdi.ipare distance and time with record of June 7, when I came from Hatfield by the more direct and more sandy road. I found the distance on the present occa- sion t J m. more, and the time 5 min. more. Nevertheless I urge all riders to try the river route, on which only one dismount is needed in the 5 m. between the station at North Hatfield and the hill at Sugarloaf. From this hill one may easily ride without dismount, mostly on sidewalks, for 8 m., through S. nth Deer- field and Deerfield, to the water-Dough on the hillside; and if a rod or t.voof troublesome sand can here be got through, the ride may be continued another \ m. to the Cheapside bridge, whose planks none but a reckless person would venture to trust his tires to. Just \ m. beyond th'. is the railroad station in Greenfield. The steep slope after crossing the track may be ridden up by taking the sidewalk on the left, and the route due n. continues good to the cross roads, 2\ m. For a similar distance the roads are sandy and generally unridable till a HtHe cemetery on a little hill is reached. Thence one may go with.. lit stop, ov,>r a hard track of constantly increasing smoothness, for ano'lici i m., to the New England Hotel, in Bernardston. Reaching there at I p. M., I started on at 2.30, and arrived at Br^^ttleboro at 5.10. A wheel- man there told me that hardly any riding had been indulged in locallv since the little run that was taken to West Brattleboro, in my honor, a' dozen weeks before. Kendrick's Hotel, in Tutney, about 10 m. beyond, and 52} m. from the start, was reached at 7.12 p. m. Bright sunshine and a I racinsr breeze from the n. w. prevailed throughout the day, and none of the cond?- tions of pleasant riding were absent. 1 • Two of the most remarkable cases reported to me of long staying in the saddle, on a difficult straightaway course, are to be accredited to the Springfield Bicvcle Club's pair of veteran road-riders, F. W. Westervelt (b. Jan. .5, t^s,,) and C. E. Whipple (b. Ang. 22, 186,). whose day's run to Boston is recorded on p. 114. On the second or third Sunday in Nfay, 1SS4, they wheeled up the valley without dismount to the hotel in Greenfield. 38 m. by ExcelsioVcyciometer. LAKE GEORGE AND THE HUDSON. 1S3 They told mc at Putney that the roads to the n.were unfit for the bicycle- but, as no tram left in that direction until 11 a. m.. I thought I would at all events push on as far as Bellows Falls, 14 m., before resorting to the cars Of three possible routes, the "river road " was said to be sandy and the "hill r oPd " roug h ; so I was recommends 1 to take the "middle load," and I found They d; „ -by chance, the usual way" and not by premeditation, or for the ^ke of recording a. expl,„t. Greenfield was the objective point for their mowing's run, and they happened .0 have no occasion for stopp.ng until they got there : that was all. If the idea had then occurred to.h.m, iheir remarkable straightaway record might easily hav. been increased, for a fairly „„oo.h and level course stretched ahead of them for several miles, at the time of their dismount Lrnssmgthe North bndge mto West Springtteld, they tun,ed up-hill to the 1. at the wa-ering tnn>gh where the r. road contmues alongside the river to Holyoke ; rode up Oates's hill on the grassy edges of the sandy roadway (this is the hill of which I have srid-last line of p „8-" I a,, not beheve u can be mounted " ; but I now learn that it has been conquered several timesby .huse two nders, as well as by other members of their club); ploughed through .he sand althe pl.ce ne^ bmuh s Ferry where an apple-orchard designates the limits of a via maU ,n a double sense; turned r. betwec-n th. iron rails a, the crossing above Mt. Tom station, and roae through the r. r. br.dge on a double plank (as the entrance to the meadow-road happened .hen to be m poor condu.on); turned 1. at the point above here where the dike rises to the level ,.f the r r. embankment and where plank-guards rendef possible a side exit from between the rails; followed meadow road to Northampton; turned thereat first!, road after descending through the man> street and crossing the r. r. tracks; then, after passmg the park and going ab<.ut 3 m. beyond, turned 1. over the r. r. by bridge, and- rode past the Hatfield camp-meeting gvounds ; perhaps 2 m. beyond here, turned r. and went directly to South Deerfield « hence to .he Mansion House in Greenfield, the route was the familiar one described by me on pp ,8. . .q The time of staying in the saddle was 4i h., showing an average progress of about 8 m per h' As the same nders have covered the same 38 m. on two other occasions, with onlv the single dismount required by the " apple orchard " sands near Smith's Ferry, and as other mem bers of the club have also gone as far as Hatfield, without stopping at any other place than that .he " advice " given by me on p. , 19 seems to need modification. These Springfield wheelmen say that, instead of t.i -_ train or resorting »o the roundabout course described on p , .9 a va m.ionof the stiaighta«.iy route just given may be followed to advantage, by turning r nt .he last-named r. r. bridge, and thus reaching the sidewalks of Patfield within i m Between the teimnnis of these sidewalks, beyond Bagg's Hotel, a. the opposite end cf the village and a pom. of junc.ion with what I have called (pp. ,,9, ,82) the e. route connecting North Ha.field and South Deerfield, is a stretch of 1 m. or so of meadow road which is at most seasons fairly ridable Mr. Whipple says that the road from Greenfield to Turner's Falls, 4 m. e., is a pretty one. with a hill that allows some fine coasting, though the same grade may be readily'ridden up ■ and .hat he has successfully explored another route from Greenfield, as far as South Vernon say .5 m. He bought a 50-in. Standard Columbia, Sept. 8, '79, but rode ver little during that year and .he next. A round trip to Hartford was his only long ride in 'iz, and a leisurely four days jmiriiey from New York to Springfield the only one in '<«3 except .he ,00-m. run to Boston He registered, that year, nearly 4,000 m.. and he has not kept a record for any other season • but as the amount of his riding increased in '84, his total mileage must considerably exceed 10.000 m. He rode a 52-in. British Challenge from .he spring of '83 to the spring of '84 ; since then has used the 5o-.n. Rudge, on which his r, n.arkable straightaway ride was taken. He is a watclimakei and ieweler by nc'u'-o.tion ar,! ' ' ! weighs 148 lbs, This is about the weight also of his c..mp,^,on Mr. Wes.ervelt.wh.,|sadie-ai.ter, and whose mileage probably exceeds ,0,000, tlioiigh he has k.'pt no record of it except .hiring the bnef period of ten weeks ending with the .00-m. ride to Boston, when it amounted .0 ,..00 m. He rode a 52-in British Challenge on that II iO t^lCCIi :ia. i84 TEN THOUSAND Af/LES ON A BICYCLE. it by no means a bad one. It afforded many beautiful . iews and much good ndmg. There would have been more of this except for the " r. d repairs » Leaving the hotel at 8 o'clock, I went uj^hill for i m., walking most oi the way, though the road was ridable in the other direction; and I reached West mmster,8i m., in z h. Thence to Bellows Falls th« road was sandier and less ndable, and I was i\ h. in getting over it, though I hurried as I drew near the end. Had the train been on dme I should have just managed to catch It, but Its lateness allowed me i h. in which to procure dinner. .Starting at noon, I had a twcvhours' ride "over the mountains" to Rutland, passing through a thunder shower on the way. There I was told that a smouth and level road led to Whitehall, 25 m., and I lost Kttle time in rolling up my coat for the start. A wheelman was reported to me to have just reached town f.om St. Johnsbury, "over the mountain," but I did not stop to scrape ac quamtance. Once clear of the town, I rode through West Rutland and made my first dismount at 3.15 p. m., at a short hill, having done 6} m. in somin I rested here for i)erhaps \ h., and made m> second dismount at 4 o'clock ^\xr. in front of a soda-water fountain in Castleton. Here a local rider joined me and encouraged me to roll up a big hill in his company. My third dismount w is made at a sandy hill near Fairhaver., nearly 15 m. from Rutland, at 4.45 p. m a,id this was the first place on the road where a stop w::^ really necessary. Thus far the material of the roadbed seemed to be a sort of slaty ^ avel or fine sand that packed closely together; but beyond Fairhaven the material began to be a. peculiarly hard, black, flint-like day. In places recently repaired, the indentations made by wheels or hoofs would glisten in the sun, as if they h-d been freshly chipped from solid stone. Just after a rain this material would be unndable to the bicycle, but after a long spell of dry weather, \, is said to be worn to perfect smoothness. I took it at a time about midway betwec. these extremes, and I found it all smooth enough to be ridable, but not much of 1 to admit of fast ndmg, because .here had been rain within a few weeks. I wheeled up and down several considerable hills on this rather rou^h clav however, and reached the Opera House Hotel, in Whitehall, at 7 ^Vlock' hav-ing made a day's run of 39 m. This ride from Rutland I cannot too h.ghly praise It leads through a charming country, giving glorious views of the Green Mountains, close at hand and far away, and is in all respects ad- miral, e. I was quite delighted at my good luck in discovering so pleasant a path for I did not venture to anticipate it the day before, when I l>ade.adieu to the big maple tree, and faced rather dubiously towards Lake GeorL^e Wnit-hall lies within a few miles of the lake, but is separated from it bv a mountain range. Rather than climb this, my plan was to take train to I . (as every one m that region calls the historic fort and village), and em- bark near there on the steamer that would take me down the lake The train did not go till „ o'clock, however; and as the weather was inviting, I started off at 8 with the idea of meeting it at Chubb's Ferry, or one of the stations beyond there. . was warned that the hard clav of ;h. nrHin,.,, i,::i LAKE GEORGE AND THE HUDSON. i8s roads d.d not get a chance tc be worn down by much traffic, as did the main ruad eadmg to Rutland. Still. I thought there .as no doubt of my reacZg Chubb.-, m 3 h., even .£ I had to walk every step of the 7 m. So I loaf4 aanlessly about Pmong the hills, enjoying the scenery and fresh air. and not unmrndful of the apples, blackberries, w:id cherries and other f;uit. unt finally I was awakened to the maddening truth that train-time had a mos amved wule I myself had made no perceptible approximat.on towards hubbs Perry. Best.rr.ng my boots briskly then, I lost mv way sev.ra unes m i h., and ultimately abandoned all notion of catching the train I t.e ,dea of catchmg a hotel next possessed me. and this proved equally visio" a,y; bu at last an honest farmer took me in. and having satisfied Ly hun- ger, chatted wuh me pleasantly about the topography of the country.' The rc.u t was that I decided to climb directly over the mountain to Huletfs .andmg on Lake George. Leaving him at 2. I was . h. in making the 3 m Huc^l's Oft' '^^ T'""^^'^ ' '"•"P^"'' '^-^ ^^ mountain" Hulctt s. Of he 20 m. marked that day by my cyclometer, I suppose f o- { were accomplished on foot.* 1 1 =<= J o •" No public way of equal length on this continent," says Stoddard's " Illustrated Guide " r,va s m h.stonc, romantic or practical interest the . , , m. of road connecting liTw York S'tv wuh 1 ake George, wh.ch lies at the s. w. margin of the great Adirondack wilde^es! .84 i r,„n M.,ntreal. Its ,eng.h, n. and s., is a little more than 33 m., and its greate t b^a" h 1 tUe .^.ha.Mm Su,.ounded by high mountains, it is fed by brooks from their sLesan^b spnngs from the b "torn, and drams very little territory. It is 247 ft. above Lake Champlain ..uo «h>ch ,t empties, and 346 ft. above tide-water; and was shown by the survey of .sL to contain 220 .slands.-instead of the 365 previously accredited to it by Iraditio -. As earlv « .^, the French explorer, Champlain, sailed as far s. as Ticonderoga, down the lake wnich now bears h,s name; wh.le the Dutch explorer, Hendrick Hudson, at the same time sailed up the r-ver which bears A« name, as far n. as the point where the Mohawk branches from it Thus 1. was that this peacetul lake-lying between these terminal claimants, and called by the Indians thega.e of the country '-became the "dark and bloody ground.'across which France and England battled for the mastery of the continent which England finally won. The first reminder of that , f U-^ , f ' '^ "'"" •^'"^-^"'l-^hite marble shaft, erected in ,85^ by graduates of Williams College, m memory of their founder : 'Colon.1 Epkrain. IV.V,^^', alaZl) ^""''"""y^^'---,->koafur gallantly ^/e-4inglH./r^^^^ Z7cJZT rrf '" ^^"^* "'^ "^"'"' ""^ '"''' ^'"' -^ '^" ^A". in t>- bloody .TlmJtTt:''^'' '" '^^^''^''"'e/A""^..' The road winds through this ravine called Bloody Run, which leads to the historic Bloody Pond, 2 m. s. of the lak:, and a IhUe «^o the railway. Close beside the great hotel ,0 which it gives a name, and covered wih D ' '•""' "I T ^"'"■\°f/*' ^"'-'" "-H', built by Johnson, after his victorv ov r Dieskau ,n ,755 had stemmeu the fd. .f French invasion, and vainly attacked by Vaudreuil in .57^ Hidden m ,>.e, in. groves that line the shore * m. ,0 the e. are the grass-grown ruins of •he T' r ""VV"'''"'" perpetuated by the hotel adjacent ; while, on the hill , m .0 s., the ou^lines of the Ft. Gage earthworks may still be traced through the trees Ft !l T ;?■ T.-""'"'^"'''' ''"^- '°' '"^' '° '^^ ^'"^ f"-"^'' besiegers under Montcalm .1 o al owed his Indian allies to butcher more than .,cx» of the prisoners, and then withdr w t; he lake, leaving the fort a smouldering ruin. But again from i, ..built battlements tie .wept northward, the following summer (July 5, ,,58), the fam. flotilla of Iberc;;!,: - ■; ■„ ^ -ru.L-., cqa-tp^u «i...y oi .5,000 men, to their vam attack upon the French at '1; i86 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ■^^i Ticonderoga, whence the evening of the 9th saw their inglorious return. The final act was in 1 75, when Aml.erst repeatcu the expedition, captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and forced France to let go of the lakes forever." The little guide-book to which I accredit thes:: statistics, though I present many ot them in language of my own, devotes 142 pp. to Lake George a:id 60 pp. to Saratoga Springs. It con- tains a map of the latter place (6 by 4 in., i^ m. to i in.), and also one of the region between its lake and Lake George (6 m. to i in.) with circles described at i-m. inter/als from Saratoga as a center; besides a map of the lake (2 m. to i in.) in three sections of a page each, and numer- ous other plans and views of it. The book was compiled in 1873, by S. R. Stoddard, of Glens Falls, N. Y , who has published -evised editions of it, down to 1884, at 25 c. in paper covers and 50 c. in cloth. A similar price is charged for his " Adirondacks Illustrated " (the '84 edition of which is a well-printed 12 mo cf 234 pp., with 17 maps and 55 other illustrations); and pre- sumably also for his " Ticonderoga." The latter book supplies for the Lake George Guide " a plan of the ruins ot the fortress in 1873," with descriptive letter-prest ; and a similar plan Is ap. pended to thv.- "pocket map of Lake George from the survey of 1880" (of which the same pub- Usher issued a revised edition in '83), whtrefrom it appears that " Ticonderoga wa< begun !.y the French in 1755 ; captured from them by Amherst, July 26, 1759; from the British by Ethan Allen, May 10, 1775, and from the Americans bv Burgoyne, July 5, 1777." This pocket map (12 by 38 in., r m. to i in., 50c.) is an excellent one, colored by townships, with m. circles drawn from Ft. William Her.ry, Black Mountain, and Baldwin as centers, and having its margins well filled by la.ger-scale chai ls of 8 of the principal localities on the lake. The " important " rnads are distinguished from t'.ie "ordinary"; and the entire w. side of the lake exhibits one of the former, except for the 7 m. between North West Bay and Sabbath Day Point, whose connection is only " ordinary." in the text, the compiler speaks of the lower section of this as " a gucd country road, affording a pleasant lo-m. drive between Caldwell and Bolton ": and he says, of a hotel on the e. shore called Horicon Pavilion, that " an excellent road has been built from this point 2 m. to the top of Black Mountain (alt. 2,661 ft), lor whose use *i toll is charged those who do not hire a saddle horse for $3." Presumably this slope would not be " excellent " enous;h for 'licycling, however, in eitner direction. I recommend the same publisher's " map of the Aau.jndack Wilderness, engraved by L. E. Newman & Co., of N. Y." (fifth edition, revised 1884, 32 by 25 in., 4 m. to i in., colored by counties, $1), whose eastern border extends from Glens Falls to Plattshurg and includes Lake George and most of Charaplain. " Distances from Mt. Marcy are shown by lo-m. circles ; important roads, ordinary roads, trails and carries are separately marked, and dis' ices on them are given in figures; movements of stages are shown by arrows, and stage-fares are given on various routes." As the road connecting Glens Falls with the hotel at Katskill Bay (12 m.) on the e. shore of Lake George, is marked " imporunt,"' it would probably be ridable ; but the connection between Whitehall and Glens Falls (say 24 m.) is aes-igrited as only "ordinary." The battlefield of Saratoga is about 15 m. s. e. of that village, at Bemis Heights, on the Hudson, just w. of the main road between Stillwater and Schuylerville, and about 3 m. n. of the former villatre ; and the sentimental tourist should halt here to rest his eyes upon the field which witnessed a decisive struggle that changed th. .vhole current of mixlem history. It was Gates's capture of Bur^oyne's proud host in October, 1777, which made possible the French alliance that resulted in Washington's capture of Comwallis m October. 17S1 ; nor si'ould the tourist forget that the field of Bennington lies not many nii'e? away, where Stark's brilliant .stroke set the key-note for Gates's greater victory of Saratoija. Reclining here " on this green bank, by this soft stream,"— the self-same spot whe'-» eyes to the front aU. anU wlU. K,m« hon^ntal, .tooU our girec ; A„. Ihr l«Ita whtatled Q^ly, ana In -treain-s fliiahing redly blaze., the lire,- Now lik. smiths at their forges worke"« .-» flerco, ,lis.on.-.nt metre roun.l'thelr eai^- , h "hiT t? ""h"-.""' "'" "^'■^■""•^ '"'«"• -'■- »»• '-"-.-guar. • , ta^gor on our flanl., 11K„ higher, higher, higher. bume<. the oUI-fashlone.! Are through the n.nk«! rnl".!i'!'',lt('^'"°".*^ '■'"""'■' ^""P^'' ""■""«" »><^ *'""' '"fernal pow.ler-Iou.l ; Til. 1 the olue bullete fiew, au.l the trooper-Jackets red.len at the touch of the lea.len rifle-breath An,l rounder, rounder, roun.ler. roared the l.x,n six-pounder. hurUng death! "^'^breath, In aduition to the Stoddard publications, there is a less^laborate map of the - New York W.lcl.rness and the Adirondacks, by W. W. Ely. M. D.' (revised .885, 3. by 28 in , 4 m to . ■n., .,) with a p an, on a sP-.aller .cale, embracing adjoining parts of Ne. England, C nada and h. Middle States, published by the Cohons, ,8z William street, N. Y.; and a map of Lake (.eor,e ,*,..5) by Beers & Co., 36 Vesey st. Another standard worit which deserves h a.tem.on of the tourist along the Hudson is the " Ca.skill Mountain Guide," which i! n„ukd lor 40 c. by .he compiler and publisher, Walton Van Loan, of Catskill. N Y Issued hr.. „. ,H;6, as an 8 v„ of 58 pp.. its size has increased with each annual revised edition since th.n, „d a. ooocop.es had been sold at the close of '84. The book of that year contains ..8 pp., of which orUy 36 are given to reading matter and .0 to full-page views of the mountains,- the remainder being occupied with the pictured advertisements of the nimmcr hotels and boa d- in, houses of the whole Catskii, region. " Bird's-eye views " form the distinguishing character- istic of the guide, however,-the largest one ("Catskills and Adirondacks," ,2 by .5 in ,0 m to , ni., engraved by American Bank Note Co., N. Y.), giving a good ide. of the topography of .1.0 country from New \ ork Ci, to Montreal. Each mountain peak has its nazne and height printed upon it, and the livers and lakes ar, ,hown in white relief against a brown tint Some- what similar, but on a scale large enough to exhibit the actual contour of -he region with roads and villages, is the " bird's-eye view of the Catskills, drawn from nature by Walton Van Loan and cvering an area of 1,200 sq. m., looking northerly " (,9 by ,2 in.), and the " view of all points of interest within 4 m. of the chief hotels " (.6 by 9 ,n.). on the much larger scale of i m to 1 m.; while a sheet 9 by 6 in. presents the chief features of the country from Ne^ York to the St. Lawrence, conden.sed from the largest " view." There is a " r-.ap of Greene county, with parts of Lister and Delaware counties " (,5 by .3 in., 3 m. to , in., engraved by Beers), giving the main roads, and also " a panoramic view of Windham," exhibiting a wide stretch of country that ought to contain good wheeling. The letter-press of the guide describes an attractive " ,4. m. drive around the Clove," and many lesser ones, but without giving a dear idea as to whether the roads are practicable for the bicycle,-the only quotable allusion being this remark, attributed to tho li.shop of Albany : " Mr. H.arding's achievement of a road from his new Hotel Kaater^Hll down the mountains reminds one of the Alpine roads ever the St. Gothard or the Simplon which need.-d imperial power and national resources to accomplish them." "Ten Days in the Catskills" is the title of an interesting report supplied to the lyheel (Julv 20, 8,, pp. ,73, ,74) by its editor, F. Jenkins (b. Jan. 20, .Sv)). concerning atom of 2f,8 m taken bv him in company with a fellow-member of the long-sinceKlefunct Manhattan Bicvcle tlab, H. H. Walker, who was then 33 years old, and who has since cea.sed to be a rider His age was officially recorded thus on the day when this tour began (July 2, '8,), because he then njurcd as one of the tno whose defiant entrance into Central Park caused the arrest which be- came the basis of the long-drawn-out law-suit against the P„ik Commissioners, as detailed on pp. 9^-O.S. Starting at ..30 P. m., the two tourists reached Yonkers, ,5 m., at about 3, and larrvtown, .. m., at 4.15 : thence branching off from the river to Pleasantville, 7 m at 5 30- «hc.,re to Mount Kisco, 8 m., the road continued good , and. in the gathering twilight, they . ._ - .., ^ ^. .. .. ^,;.^-^-^ :::;;iunt, 45 «»». ii, O3 ii. '\Zs\y language on p. t\\ i88 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 76, concerning the last jo m. of this route, would have been leu cautious, if, at the time of writ. i'.ig, I had been familiar with the report now quoted from.) " The next day was very wanii and wc took things easy, riding early in the morning and late in the afternoon. The roads were rather sandy and hilly, and led through Crolon Falls, 8 m.; Hrewsters, 6 m.; Patterson 9 m., to Pauling, 5 m., where we spent the night. The roads ^ave average riding from Pauling to Dover Plains, 15 m.; improved > thence to Amenia, 8 m. ; and the final 9 m. ending at iMillertm at 3 o'clock were covered in a little over an hour." (My own report of smooth connection between the Hudson, at Poughkeepsir, and Amenia, and good route thence to the Housatonic valley and through it to Pitt-,field— pp. 14^148— shows that a N.w Yorker who wishes to wheel to any of those places may wisely follow the trail of these Catskill tourists, as far as Amenia.) " After a day and a half at M., we started at 9.30 on the 6th, and made our first pause at • Boston Corners, ^\ m. The road, winding through a fertile valley, and quite hilly, was hard enough to give good wheeli.ig ; and in fact, we found all the road.s of Dutchess county faraUive average. We got a good dinner at Copake Falls, 4 m., and f.,;.,iul gocxl roads, though lii,|y ones, to Hillsdale, 6i m. Perryville, 3 m. on, was the scene of our first h.-aders ; at the Huff, man Lake House, 3} m., we halteu again for ' scenery and drinks'; at Hollowville, after 3J ni more of excellent roads, we joyfully shouted ' Hollo !' as the blue CatskilUcame into view. The next II m. supplied somewhat inferior wheeling, but, after walking 4 or 5 long hills, we found a good road, which, winding through the gaps and valleys, finally brou-ht us to C.it^kill stati,m i„ season for the 6 o'clock boat, after an interesting ride of 40 m., in about 6 h. of actual motion. Catsk'I! its-1' is a pleasant village, about \ m. from the w. bai.k of the Hudson, and the Pros- pect Park Hotel, where we spent the night, is the best in the neighboihood and overlooks the water. It offers a fine view also of the mountains, and on a clear night the lights of the Mount- ain House, 14 m. off, r.e ptainly visible. The road to the mountains is rough and hilly, and it was very dusty also, at 3.30 p. M. of July 7, when we started along it ; so that v.e were well pow- dered, on reaching Palenville, 10 m., where a shower forced us to halt for the night, at the Win- delsca Cottage. The continuance of rain during the following day, caused us to stay sheltered here until the 9th, when we mounted at 8.30 a. m., and wheeled along 'he pike to the new Hard- ing road at the base 01 the mountain. Here began the actual work of the tour ; and, as we pui our shouldei to the wheel, and pushed it up the steep incline, we began to sigh for level roads. Our botjs grew heavier at every step, and we were forced to make frequent stops. Kven when we reached a grade rising only one foot in seven, the surface mud rendered it unridable for us. After sampling the mountain-side springs, we reached Hotel Kaaterskill at 11 o'clock, 3 m. in 2i h. An hour or so later, we rode thence to the Laurel House for .'inner; and, in the after- noon, over quite a level stretch, to the Catskill Mountain House, where we spent the night. Mr. Beach, the proprietor, who has lived there 20 years, assured us that ours were the first bi- cycles that had ever been pushed to the summit. We felt amply repaid for our climb, however, when we saw the country spread out before us like a map, for miles and miles, as far as the eye could reach. Farms at the base of the mountain seemed to have the regularity of a chess-board ; the Hudson, winding below us, was dotted with sail, and its distant boats resembled to'. vachls. It was with regret that we turned our backs on this glorious scene, when, at 8.30 on Sunday morning we tunied our wheels in th .lirection of Tannersville, 3 J n.., and thence journeyed to West Saugerties, 12 m., at i o'cloc' An hour eariior, after several ' sermons in stones,' we had reached the Platterkill Clove, and oegan the regular descent 01 the mountain. ',Ve did this dn foot, of curse, and found difficulty even in holding back our wheels. Having disposed of a good meal at the only tavern in W. S., we were obliged to make many dismounts, on wretcl. :i roads, while the thermometer registered 97= ; but within 3 m. of Saugerties the surface improved, and withm i} m. it became finely macadamized, s,- that we entered the town in very fair form. Beyond it, after coasting a beautifully smooth hill, we crr.ssed a bridge and found a fine, shady side-path for about 4 m.; followed by 4 m. of sandy road, having a hard edge of 3 to 6 inches in width, which was ridable only with caution ; but at last we struck another level foot-path, and rolled up to the Eagle Hotel in Kingston, iij m. from Saugerties, at about 8 o'clock. This ended the tour, for the nonrinir rain ..v..u,.i,K, siiuuiQ try to recall this to mind when next thev are tempted to make a display of ignorance by indulging in any cheap talk about «' monopoly.' i i\ 190 TE^V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. zero, I reached the hotel in Schuylerville. 13J m., in 2 h., and stopped i h. for breakfast. I perhaps might have lessened the time by doing the last 4 m. on the tow-path, for beyond Fort Miller there were stretches of sand that forced walking, or very slpw riding. About i h. after leaving the hotel, 3 m. on, the tow-path tempts me to leave the rather hilly highway, and I ride itrontinu- ally, but not very comfortably, for 3 m. and more, or until a chance comes for returning again without dismount to the harder highway. Then follow 14 ni. of the smoot!iest reads, prettiest scenery, and most enjoyable riding of the day, past i^emis Heights, Stillwater, and Mechanicsville to Waterford, at whose hotel, 34^ m. from the start, I stopped i^ h. for dinner. Resuming the saddle at 2.15 p. m., I crossed the bridge and bore to r. and then to 1., till I reached Vane av., down which I went without turn, much of the time on the sidewalks, until I reached the Belgian pavements of Troy, nearlv 4 m. Poor sidewalk business for i m. and more brought me to the bridge, from the v/. end of which a 6-m. path over dusty and rutty macadam and mean sidewalks led to the bridge at Albany. Recrossing again here, I made a mount at Greenbush at 5 o'clock, 1 1 m. from Waterford, and went along the river road to Castleton, 9 m., in ij h. The next hour, mostly on foot, was spent in reaching my journey's end at Schodack, though the cyclometer called the distance less than 3 m.,and gave 57 J m. as the reading for the day. Spite of the continued dry weather, which made the sandier road from Lake George to Albany poorer than usual, the hard clay of this region below Albany had not been worn smooth, and I was told that it never became so. Some soft stretches of sand w -e also met with. Indeed, I found the sand pretty con- tinuous on Saturday morning, when, at a little before 6, I started of through the heavy fog from the forlorn little tavern in Schodack ; for I was almost \ h. in getting to the brickyard, f m., where, in desperation, I accepted the chance of risking my life on the railroad. My first mount lasted 12 min., and covered more than \\ m.,— incomparably the longest and swiftest spin I ever had between the tiacks of a railway. Indeed, I almost began to cherish the wild hope of riding the rails all the way down to New York, instead of taking steamer at Hudson as planned. But the second culvert caused a stop in Jm., the third in \ m., and the trains began to be uncomforlaoly frequent. How ever, in the course of 40 min. I had ridden the whole distance to Stuyvesant Landing, 5J m., while the hilly highway would presumably have taken me twice as long. Probably, however, I should have done well to resume it at this point, or else at Coxsackie, 2jm. on, "vhich I reached \ h. later; for most of the 7 m. thence to Hudson had to be done on foot. I left the track there at 9- 1 S. 3i h. from Schodack, 1 5 m. The sun was just then dissipating the fog, which had formed a mercifully cool introduction to what proved a scorch- ingly hot day. The weather of the whole five preceding days had been ex- cellent for touring, though the week that preceded and the week hat followed were both very hot. I soon discovered " the place of the bath," and was so long enjoying ii that when I saiiied forth m a dry suit of clothes and freshly • - Jii -■-Ml LAKE GEORGE AND THE HUDSOX. l.I.cked boots. I had only time to pa.take cf a melon and .sandwich for break- up, .eiorethe arr.val of the boat. However. I was in all the better condi- t,on to do just.ce to the dinner which was soon spread before me there ani .. enjoy my sa.l down the river. Upwards of ..500 passengers were Iboa'^ and such a wlderness of trunks as awaited attention on the dock at Catskin' I never before set eyes on. The brave baggage-smashers, who fina Iv got' .hc.,e .h.ngson the boat, must have wished that all tourists were accompanfed only by b.cycles ; at least none of them ventured to "strike" me for mine Land.ng at .4th street at 6 o'clock. I wheeled homeward along the side- walks (though the troops of shouting urchins made progress rather slow and angerous) ; but when 5th av. was reached I tried its Ilelgian blocks for the nal haf-m.le. I he contrast presented thereto by the asphalt at the end cn.l- ed me. as usual, to mdulge in a parting spin arounJ the fountain in U ash.ngton Square. I h>s. be U understood, is in the center of the roadway formed by the two streets which make a junction at the head of the av and en. the square ,n twain. What was my surprise, therefore, at having a park i)nhccman order me off from this public thoroughfare I Of course. I wheeled oil at once, and m the solitude of my own apartments mused with contempt- uous p,ty on this latest straw, indicative of the petty spite cherished by our I ark Commissioners against bicyclers. Eighteen miles were recorded on that ast day, and about 204 m. on the six successive days of the trip, though I had some other indications than the one detailed that my cyclometer some- what underrated the real distance traveled. " M. D. B.'s " storv also confirms my previously-formed belief that I made a mistake in taking the " river road " below Albany. I ought rather to have gone e. from Greenbush until I struck the old post road leading s. Probably, indeed, it would have been better for .Tie If I had gone from Waterford to Cohoes. and skipped Troy and Albany ertircly ; for none of the riding below Waterford was very enjoyable. I nless " W. B. E. " had a special desire to visit Bennington, I think my story w,!l convmce him that he made a mistake in going through the Hoosac Tunnel instead of sticking to his original plan of touring further up the Con- necticut \ alley ; and I hope others may be persuaded to improve the autumn 'veather by trying the track I have thus laboriously described. The tour for j. ^ew Yor':er, who can be absent from business only four days may be out- lined in tL • wise : Take 4 p. m. boat to Hartford, and ride next day to Hol- yoke (or the night maybe passed in Springfield or Northampton, if preferred)- on second day ride to Putney, and there at 6 P. M., take the train to Rutland;' ac'^oltrwi^^'n'-'"'" ""'^ '''/"^'" "' Br.ttleboro) ; on third day ride across to Whitehall m season to take 11 a. m. train for "Ti," connecting with steamboat through the lake, and then ride from Caldwell to Glens Falls or 1-ort Edward ; on fourth day ride to Albany and take the night boat home. u a .^cv \ o'ker starts on this route by train, instead of boat, he hrd better Degin wheeling at Meriden or Berlin, for the road th?nr^ t~- H--rff.-.v.^ :. ^.. cellent. The Bostonian who doesn't care tc go up the Connec"*icut Valley l<)2 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. may take train directly to Rutland, 3r peihaps he may find it practical>lf t) wheel himself thither by way of Portsmouth, the White Mountains, or .m, Johnsbury. I believe the I^ke George steamer stops running at the close oj September, however. In that caae the train may be readily taken Iroin Whitehall to Glens Falls or Fort Edward. Indeed, a man at the latter piai e told me that the tow-path from Whitehall was ridable all the way down. A, to the "floor-like hardness" of canal emb.-nkments, however, I prefer other testimony than that of a bar-room lounger.' » Soon after this piece was print -d, "other testimony " of a trustworthy sort appeared in the P IV. , from the pen of a For. Edw.ird cycler, declaring that the tow-path was entirely too soft [„ be ridable, and that the hill which seemed to me the steepcrt one I h.idevcr then conquered, wh habitually ridden up and coasted down by local ridern, every day, without so much as taking bn-nh or winking. From the same paper of March ij, i«35, I extract the foll-.wmg report of route, frnni Hudson to Lake George and thence back to Williamstown, taken by the party whose course from SufTern to Hudson coincided with mine (see pp. 169, 171); and I have given another extract (p. ,3,) descriptive of their route from Williamstown to Wcstlield, which was partly parallel to mine : " uf two possible roads leading from the Blue Store to Hudson, we scf .1 to have chosen the won, and after several hours' alternate riding a..J walking over its ruts and ridges of rough clay, w^ stopped at that city for the night. An early start was made the following morning" and Stuy- vesant Landing (14 m.) was reached at 8 o'clock, over roatis the less said of which the better Alter stopping 1 h. for breakfast, we took the path between the tracks of New York Central aui Hudson River Railroad, and the riding proved so good that a steany pace of 9 m. an h. wi, easily :ept up into Albany (13 m.). A fine view can be had of the Capitol bu-lding for several m. before coming to the city, as the railroad runs in a ' bee-line,' which apparently ends in the Capitol grounds. Leaving A. at 3 P. M., we found poor riding to West Trov, 4 m., where the broad, smooth tow-path of the canal looked so tempting that we followed it' to the hill above Cohoes, although a shorter route lies nearer the river. Through Cohoes and Waterford to .Me- chanicsville, 7 m. , the road is only fair, but probably half the distance can be wheeled on the side- paths, which are of slate and so smooth that not the least jar is felt while riding them. The 3 m. from Mechanicsvill- to Stillwater probably form the best strip of road in this section of New York State, as we proved by wheehng it inside of 12 min. The Ensign House at Stillwater is to be recommended ; and better headquarters could hardly be found from which to inspect the numerous points of interest in the vicinity. As few wheelmen would care to visit this part of the State without gciug to Saratoga, we give several routes from which to choose • (.) from Me- chanicsville along the r. r. line ; and this first is probably the best road ; (2) from Stillwater, past the Center House to White Sulphur Springs, then along the e. shore of Saratoga Lr.ke and over the boulevard to Saratoga ; (3) a shortenir.g of the second, by turning r,, . or 2 m. before rpachirg White Sulphur, then to the I. at the tennination of this road, which h.-in-s one out near the center of the lake, thereby avoiding several m. of sand. While at Saratog'a, wheelmen should not fail to visit >rount McGregor by train, and, if possible, take dinner at the Hotel Balmo-.l whose cashier is hi nself a cycler. After several days with friends at Stillwat.-r, we started n' again at 10 a. m. of .Sept. 11, and found the road was in such fine condition that Schuvlerville '114 n..) was reached in i J h. A thunder shower that had been bre.ving all the morning overtook us here, and caused a delay of several h.: but at 3 o'clock the sun was again shining brightly, and we started on, with the detennination to ' reach Lake George anyhow.' Thanks to the fine roads and the splendid condition we were in, we succeeded in finishing the 30 m. just at ni^ht. fall. Shortly after leaving Schuylerville the road turns to the r., and crosses the Hudson 7.1. lowing its e. bank the greater part of the way to Fort Edward, 14 m., which we reached in'i h. S5 min. Good side-paths extend from here through Sandy Hill to Glen^i Falls (5I m.), and for r.=.ir;y : —.. :ur:::=r, := :,-.: pc:r.: «r.crc iHc ' Cojuuroy ' begins. This is the old Stage rodd to Cild- Z^A-A- GEORGE AND THE HUDSON. ,93 hrs. < ... o.' ,hi, peculiar r,«ul i. s.raighu*^:!^! bu ThJ ^ ' *=""""""•» J°"- Th" i"K ..f Sept. ,j dawned clear and cool, a delightful contra,. ,o,K ' ."'" ' *•• T^"= •""">■ be..n literally ' scorcher,. ' An early ,,art was mlr , I "'». P'«"d"'8 'en days, which h,' triod .heir paces with us. only to be left f!r in Z '"'*-;"""'"'«'=' P>«'"K »• inR the nver a. Hoosick Falls and following c, o^J^ i" w binl K '''''' "" °"" "°^ b. said, however, in favor of the e roaHhat he ' ,' ' "' "^ ''* *>'""'" " «» ... ..bracing as it Hoes a considrr^ l^:!:*: rfiZslZl :':;?:" ^r " ^ scenery is beautilul. and-in le ^ c^f .';:"„ ^Atter't' T'" ^"-1: ''''""' '''' ">^ from one of the many springs that lined the r^I^.H '^ "' "''"'= ""^ dismounted to drink A par of this course was mcluded in a three days' tour (Sent i. -„ „. soled myself, after supper, by \ m. or so of exercise on the hotel pia.'za.s. raising my total to 26 ni. Starting at 6.20 next morning, I rode s. and then 1. up-hill to a small bridge, i m., whence I walked \ ni. to the top (though the descent would all be ridable), and then, rode down 2 J m. to a stony hill, whence I walked most of the way to the creek near the iron works, z\ m., and rode to the Lagle Hotel, in Pcckskill, t m. Resuming the journey at 9, after an hour's halt for breakfast, I turned 1. through Washington st., but went \ m. beyond the place for turning r. into the turnpike, ana was driven back to it by meeting a surface too stony for riding. My cyclometer was just at zero when I got to the turnpike, 2 m. after leaving the hotel, and after i m. of wheeling, I plodded through sand for \\ m. to the old m.-stone, "44 \-, N. Y." Soon after this I reached the r. r., and, as people told me that the higl vay continued jus* as soft all the way to Sing Sing and Tarrytown, I mounted betv/een the tracks and rode \ m. to Cruger's, and i m. beyond it. Then I walked i m. ; then rode and walked, about halt-and-half, 4 m. in i h., to Sing Sing,— keeping just ahead of a slowly-moving freight train for the last in. There are two short tuuLiels near Cruger's; many culverN at Croton (I've heard of a pleasant carriage-drive taken from here along tue river of the same name to Croton Lake, and thence s. to Tarrytown), and two arched tnnnels below Sing Sing. Another h. between the tracks, mostly in the saddle, brought me to Tarrytown at 2 o'clock, though I probably ought to have taken the highway at the sto.ie arch, perhaps | m. above. I went from the Vincent House to 155th st., iSJ m - , . resting \ h. at Yonkers and making three other ..tcps, thougr. Valenti-n was the m'ypla^j where ing we tried the hishway .i!;.-iin .is f.ir as Chester (11 m.), but found it so desperately sandy and hilly, that we took the tracks to Huntington, and again from Russell to Weit Spiingfield, whence we reached the city by main road at 6 p. m., having a day's record of only j8} m. to represent loj h. on the road. This two days' lesson taught us 'hat the best route (or a wheelman »ho wishes to re.ich Springfield from North Adams is to take train there through the Hoosac tunnel, and then wheel down the Connecticut '.alley from Greenfield." 'The remainder of this chapter is now for the first time published. LAA'J- GEOKG/-, AXD THE HUDSON. .g,. ::::::::;r:;::.,:t:t :.;r"" -^ - - - ^^^ -^- -^ -^ -. r<. .r..N ^!«h ;: :::;;;:;;;:::• "z^-^ • r"'^'"^' '"^ '-^ "-^ - - kcc|.Mc ,si m.. an a device f..r shaking off '„LiL ' 17^ ?.'""«''■ poor conduion. physically, for several wc' 7'''".»' -/"«■ « »'ad been ■:, -.;.>s .he excursion upon n.y nnnd.f Thou h'^";^ '"r^"""^ '"^••"^■"' •iM-thtr m my checkered career c-,rri,.,l ,. l ' ''' ""* '""«= "^ ukin,s. I never before hap" "\ ,3^ "r""«\^ ^•'''*' ^^-'X °f ""der- -ues as to be taken for ^ L ^ ^"t',:; T ['T'"'' °^ ^-— l^m (34 .n.) was a long one and whin ir ,, , " '^ '"""^ ""'' "^ '•''^h- it along .he pla.form to the Zl of, he I ""^" ' "" ^^""' ^'^ ^"^ "^ ...u,i,.K a man's body had j u t be " h'„ -K«aKe.. ,u. from which -he box con- - -here waiting Lr th b gt^ " ^T^ ""' "'" '"""' '" ^ '^^■='^^- ^^ ^ '" .1- loca, committee ctSols 1 '"''' ;"!' "^ "'^^^'' ^'^*= ^'-i™- t this costume th ^ etme? l^o/ifar:", "^ '" ''^°'^"'>' P'-'^d). 'liacing ana furnishing. The fun^a " o " ' '''°^'''' '"^ *'^^' ^°« «^ 'i-- upon me as I toile., u^Z^:'^^r :T '^"^ ''":' ^"^ '' ^'^-- 'hough I think I should have ridden it aV. if thr"u T' "' ''' '"^'^"«' -n .he afternoon. I waited by the roads de to tt'" th"' ' '"'" ^'^^^^ ^^'- out of the way For the fJt '^'^■"r '^' ^''^ returning carriages get "in-, the loL a?d turf h bee .Tc" V^ ^"^f ^' ^'"'^ ' ^^'^^ ' "• ^r 'h"e gr,„„Hi to a f ne powder w"i t^ "l "'" """^ "' '""^ ^^^ -^^ •1-rcin- rendered too steep fo; H in' V 'T. " ""'"'' ^•^°"^'^' ^^"^ "'-'^ were of a less dreadful l^' ' ^"' ^""^ ' ■"• '^' '"'P^ove- ^;a-av.andIthenroc;^"r.r-— t?^3l-t::fr' h"" ''' "• ^Va,,p,nger•3 Falls and Poughkeensie tL f Hughsonville -Te than half of it was about fs go^ ' as n c 31 l"^ T ^•^""T^-^"'^ -^v bcng between well-kept stone walls shaded b^f" '^''"'°''*' '° ^''^ ^■sted at a friend's house over S„n7 7 ^ '°''' ""^ '"^P'es. I ^-' .ave excuse fo. further delay nd Z 'T ''^'^ ''""'^>'' ^^^ ^''^ „,>.,! . . "^"^ °^'*y' 3"a even when I mnnntPri ,► „ -,_, . . ^ ^^^"""'' ' '"' ^° "^^'^ -'^ ^" 'hat r feared I'mightnor b;:;:i: ';^ i ■^ r. 196 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. stay in the saddle. Once mounted, my vigor returned somewhat, and Uiouirh the heat proved to be intense, I succeeded in grinding off 23 m., ending at the hotel in Red Hook, at a little before 7 o'clock. My route was through Harri- son and Mansion sts. to Washington St., which I suppose is the prolongation of the New York Broadway, for I followed it n. up the river. Teller's hill the second ascent, is a short, sharp slope, followed by a long and easv one and the good riding then continued to Hyde Park, 7 m., except for bits of newly-laid gravel. I rested 2 h. at the hotel in Staatsburg (4 m.) and 2 h. at Rhine!)eck (6 m.), — drinking freely of miik, which formed my only food that day, — and I i)robably rested at the roadside at least once every mile, to get the cooling effect of the breeze which was at my back. Loam seemed to be the basis of the roadway, and there vas hardly a mile of it on which sand had not been recently hauled, by way of "mending "; which sand was said to ])ack down tightly by the aid of rain, but never; thus unassisted, in drv weather. I mention these details to suggest the warning tli.it a tour along this section of the Hudson had better be taken a little before the farmers finish i)lanting their crops, or else a month after their struggles with the roads have abated. 1-eaving Red Hook at 6 on the morning of the 6th, i spent \ h. in covering the 3 m. to the hotel in Upper Red Hook, where I breakfasted in the bar-room on five glasses of milk ; though I supplemented this repast i h. latei at the store in Nevis (Cleremont), 3 m., by a few raw eggs. Starting on at 8.15, I rode to the Blue Store, 4 m., in ^ h. (dismounting once, near the end, on account of a horse), — and this was my longest, swiftest and smoothest spin of the day. Instead c*^ taking the direct road, 1., for Hudson, I went to Johnstown, 3 m., and rested for \ h., and took a similar lest beyond the stone mill, 2\ m. T.hence to pond, then 1. turn along main road, quickly followed by r. turn with telegraph poles ; bringing me thus to toll-gate about i m. from the finish. I rode through town by a somewhat roundabout course to reach the Worth House, at i o'clock, 21^ m. from the start. The weather of the lat- ter lialf of the journey was so intensely hot, that I decided to postpone further riding until next morning; but a heavy shower in the afternoon served to in troduce a heavier rain-storm which r.aged during the night, and, as I conid not afford to delay a day or two for allowing the mud to dry up, I reluctantly took train for Springfield, on the 7th, whence I continued my tour eastward on the iCth, as reported on p. no. The 44 m. from I'oughkeepsie to Hudson woulil have su])plied an easy day's ride for me, li.-.d T been in average condi- tion, and the two days' ride was defi.nitelv beneficial in starting me towards the vesiuration of health and strength. The smoothest and prettiest stretch of the course ended at Hyde Park; the second-b?st section at Rhinehcck, which may properly be taken as the terminal jjoint of a tour from the mouth of the Hudson. Beyond liere, to the northward, the roads and the scenery definitely grow poorer together; the vegetation in the fields is less luxuriant and attractive ; the irees arv. more scattered and stunted. The contrast reminded me somewhat of that which impresses the traveler when he emerges LAKE GEORGE AND THE HUDSON. 197. from the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky into the less-favored country ad- jactnt. On that last day, I found a good many big round stones in the road, both loose and fixed; and sonic stretches where loose, *lat stones had 1 cen thrown in by the " menders," as a variation to their throwing in of sand and sods. While I loitered on the public green in front of the county court- house in Hudson, that afternoon, still another survival of barbarism affronted mc in the fact th^t prisoners were allowed to stand there, plainly revealed be- hind the full-length gratings of the jail which forms a part of the building, and to chat with the casual passer-by. This was the first exhibition of the sort that I had ever happened to see ; and, as a token of the standard of political wisdom ruling in that locality, it impressed me about as unfavorably as had the previous and more common exhibitions given by gangs of farmers, engaged in wreaking destruction upon the roads, under pretense of " working out their taxes." A two-column sketch of a two days" ride 'down the Hudson," from Albany to Pough- ketpsif, was printed in the IV/ieel {Oct. lo, '84), by G. P. MacGowan, a student of Middlebur,. Cnilege, who (on Aug. 5, 2 to H h. m.) " rode with a companion from Greenbush down to Hud"- son, between the r. r. tracks, 30 m., at a gait of 10 m. an hour, ea.sy,"-a preliminary spin of 12 m. havmg been made in the forenoon. The tracks were followed, the second day, until they became unridable, at Germantown ; " from which place the smoothness of the highway and the (leiights of the scenery increased as we proceeded toward Poughkeepsie, finishing there (45 m.) early in the afternoon." Proceeding by boat to Cornwall, f<.r a few days' stay at the hotel, the writer found pleasant wheeling excursions thence to "Idlcwild" and Newburg, and climbed on foot to the summit of Storm King, "on which mountain Washington caused one of the largest illu- minations ever known, as a sign of the peace." On Nov. 8, '84, " three residents of Newburg wheeled homeward along Broadway, from the s. w. comer of Central Park, to the ferry landing .it Kishkill, 62i m., between 6 a. m. and 4.20 p. m., taking breakfast at Yonkers and dinner at Feekskill, and climbing thence over liie mountain to Garrisons and Cold opring. Allowing ij h. for the two stops, their average speed was 7 m. per h. The weather having been very favorable, the roads were good for the entire distance '■ The names and birthdays of the three are : J. T.' Jo>iin, July 28, 1838; M \V Couser, June 13, 1853; R. Ketcham, Nov. 8, 1863; though the first mentioned took the trip .ilone, on the 9th, between the designated hinirs. He is my .iiithority also for recording that the best route n. from Hudson le. ds (through the toll-gate which I name on p. 196) to Claverack and Ghent, say 14 m,, and thence to Valatia, about 8 m., ov, r an excellent gravel track ; followed by fairly ridable roads to Greenbush. I believe this route is also reconnneiided by " M. U. 15. "; and I presume it is the one which w.as used by Iholate R Osborn, of Pougi.keepsie, in his da.s ride to that city from Albany, 72 m. The rym. route, by which a connection h.is been made without di.smoimt between Canaan, on the border of Connecticut, and Castteton on the Hudson (p. 148), passes through Valatia. From Chatham, too, on that sam,! route, I am told that a good gravel road reaches through Lebanon lo Sluk. r Village, whence 2 m. ascen» of Pittsfield m'.>i,ntam must be walked ; after which the <'h ni to Pittsfield may be wheeled without stop. The road from Saratoga through Ballston 1" Amsterdam (on the Mohawk river and Erie canal) is reported by .Mr. Joslin as hilly and soniewliat sandy; but he traversed it, between 4 a m and 8 P. M., with only a little walking, and he recollects the distance as about 31 m. He likewise tells of hilly but ridable roads front iliere to Sharon Springs and the head of Otsego I^ke, whence a ple.isant excursion may be made by steamer to Cooperstown at the other end. The quickest ride which I have seen recorded Iwtween New York and Yonkers was that of R G RchxI, in the plection-dav road rzcf. c-A tlie Ixion Hicycle Chib (Nov. 6, '83), f.,r the club championship and a $50 gold medal. The 198 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 4 mill. The road was heavy, from a mon ti^ii .% route appear; to have been from .he s. w. comer of Central Park through the Boulevard, iszd St., lothav., Kingsbridge road, Riverdale hill, Valentine's lane, to the Peabody House. ' I he distance was called just 15m., and the time was i h. ing's rain, and a strong head-wind prevailed. " The roads from Rhinebcck to Poughkeepsie were the best met with on the tour," says one of the historians of the " liiy Four " (C. S. H.), whose first two days, beginning fuly 6, '85, covered tiie route from Buffalo to Rochester, described on p. -15 ; and whose last three days led down the Hudson, ending al New York, July 17,— the intermediate wheeling having been in Canada, between Cobourg and Kingston, Juiy 9-10. " The course from Alfiany led over the old post-road, up and down innumerable hills, to Kinderhook, where dinner v/as served ; and tlieri through the Hudson valley, with fewer hills, to Hi-dson (reached just before dark), where steamer v.as taken for Catskill. Next morning the boat carried the party ar ,ss to McKinstry- ville, where wheels were mounted for Poughkeepsie, 35 m. distant (dinner at Rhinebeck), and a steamer t.V. 1 there after supper which brought us to West Point at 1.30 A. m. As the final dav proved a veiy h,.t one, we sailed to Irvington, instead of di.sembarking at Tarrytown as oris- inally planned ; and we finished at 59th .St., —tired, dusty and thirsty, but nevertheless happy,— at a little before 7 v. M. At every town between Albany and Hudson, the inhabitants turned out in Sunday attire, and lustily cheered the wheelmen as they passed. Flag's were hoisted on all the village common.;, and if any man in town had a cannon he brought it out and blazed awav." " I had a fine trip last week to Lake M.ilic.iik, -oing from here by way of Montgomery, Walden, .St. Andrews, New Hurley and New Paltz. The road up the valley of the Wallkill from Walden to New Paltz is hard and very level. Two stretches of 4 or 5 i .. each, having a hard dlate surface, are almost on a dead level, and afford an even finer ride than that along the Delaware, from Port Jervis to Milford. The 37 m. from here to New Paltz could bemade with. out dismount." .Such is the report sent to me from Middletown, Aug. 20, '84, by H. C. Ogden ; and I supplement it by remarking that a road extends directly from New Paltz t Highlands' about 8 m., on the Hudson, opposite Poughkeepsie (see p. 172), and anothe. continues n. up the Wallkill, and Rondout creek which it runs into, to Kingston, about 15 m. (see p. 18S). The county map also shows direct connection between Nyack (p. 8o\. on the Hudson opposite Tarrytown, and .Suffern (p. 171), in the Ramapo valley, about 14 m., with a half-dozen inierme- diate villages. Kirk Munroe's illustrated article, " A Canoe Camp 'mid Hudson Highlands" (C«//n^, Dec, '84, pp. 163-173), gives some interesting facts about the wild, west-shore region below West Point, where, " back in the hills, the dwellers are a rude a.id savage race, whose knowledge of the world is often limited by the mountains that bound their own horizon. So easy of access is this remarkable and little-known section, that the exo'orer may run out fiom New York on an early morning train to any of the stations in the Ra-apo valley, tramp 15 or 20 m. through the wilderness to the Hudson, and take train back to ,ne city in time for a late dinner." I , however, saw no one verv rude or savage when I tramped across here, Sept. 19, '81;, "The Hudson River by Pen and Pencil," with f.o engravings cm wood from drawings bj J. D. Woodward (N. Y. : Appletons, 1875, PP- 52. price 50c.), is a well printed ociavn, which is worth recommending to those who want a picture-book of this region. A simi- lar rem.ark m.ay be made of the same publishers' "New York City Illustrated" (1883, pp 144), which sells for 75c. The Cntski// !\[om:t,iin Breez,- and the Lake George Ripfle. weekly journals of the Summer Resort Publication vo. (85 John St., N. Y.), are supposed t,. contain the latest news needful for the tourist. Foi the sake of completeness, I catalogue the series of cheaply-executed r.iilioad and steamboat guides issued by Taintor Brothers, Merrill i. Co., N. Y. (" illustrated with maps and woodcuts, and mailed for 25 c. each "), which have been in the market f.)r ,a long term of years, but which I do not specially reconnnond to wheelmen "City of New York." " Hudson River Ro.ite," " Saratog,-,," "New Yv.rk to Saratoga ..nd Thousand Islands," " Connecticut River Route." " Krie Railway Route." " Fall River ,iii "":-?r7Ti/^*r."'' -.,."?■ XV. THE ERIE CANAL AND LAKE ERIE.^ On t' - ternoon of Monday, September 6, 1880, I took my wheel out of its crate, freight-house in Schenectady,— whither it had been sent from the manu. ly, after having been improved by new tires, pedals, spring.and minor repairs, — and mounted it on the Erie tow-path at half past 4 o'clock. The fact that a good share of the transient population of the city crowded upon the bridges to stare at me when I descended the steps from the street, or the fact that all the boats seemed to be moving eastward, may have been the cause of my bewilderment ; but at all events I rode i m. in the direction named before it occurred to me that I was going away from rather than towards Niagara, as I intended. Turning about, therefore, I soon, for the first time, came in front of a pair of mules, and though no notice .had been taken of me when passing them from the rear, they resented this affront by whirling around and sending their driver rolling down the bank. No harm wa. done, and the man, from force of habit, bestowed h's curses on the mules r.ither than on me; but the incident taught me the need of caution : for as all vehicles are by law excluded from the tow-path, a bicycler riding there is di- rectly responsible for all damages his presence may cause. Thenceforth, therefore, I always dismounted whenever I met the animals that were drag- King the canal boats, even though the driver thereof sometimes shouted : "Come on ! They won't be scared ! I'll take the risk ! " Oftentimes the boats were very close together, and though the ones westward bound caused me no trouble, I don't believe that in three days I rode as much as i m. on the tow- path without being forced to dismount by approaching boats. The path itself has a stone foundation, and the soil un top is generally ground up into a fine dust by the hoofs cf the animals; whereas, heavy wheel traffic might pack it down hard and smooth. Slow and careful riding was usually necessary, to avoid the occasional large stones concealed by the dust, and though I found few stretches absolutely unridable, I found many over which it was easier to walk than to ride. Fast wheeling seemed quite out of the question. The best that can be said of the path is that it is level, and that the lower Mohawk Vail: y, through which it winds, is picturesque. "In the sweet by and by," when the canal shall have been abandoned as a transportation route, and the i'rojccted International Park at Niagara shall hive been established in all its ,ilory, I hope the League of American Wheelmen may be rich enough to fit up the entire Erie tow-path as a pleasure drive connecting with that park. A 'From Tht Bkj/ding IVorld, May 27, June 3, lo, 17, 1881 ; pp. 27, 44,56,64. i) 200 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I th,ncoat.ng of the powdered rock so readily nocurable alongside the rana! could be spread upon the excellent existing b ^is of the path at comparative slight expense, and would transform it into the finest racing track on 'he hab .table glol. Knviable indeed will be the bicycler of tha't happy day as h^ goes proudly spinning "down the ringing grooves of time." On that hot Monday evening in September, I left the canal at Hoffman'. Ferry and went to Patterson's hotel for the night, arriving at half pTst- o clock -,3j m.,n 3 h.,-thc last \ h. having been spent in walking i m inth dark I was told that the highway from Schenectady would have been found smoother than the tow-path; and so. next morning, instead of resuming path, 1 had a ferryman row me across the Mohawk, and I rode due w for , Tf mLn, "'"■ "'i'" '"' '"'' ^"" '^"'^ ^"' ^^°"^ ^"^ '''•">'' -d after' ij n.. of miscellaneous locomotion. I recrossed the river in the skiff of an honest farmer, who refused to accept any pay for his services, and again took to the path. At to o'clock. I h. later. I reached Port Hunter. 5 m. on. connected by a bridge with Amsterdam, the first large town w. of Sche;ectad I mT .r.?;'"' '''" ' '-^^ ^"'■^ """^^^'3 -beyond, where, at th Mohawk Hotel. I got an atrociously bad dinner. Judging from the shal and unketnpt appearat.ce of my table npanions, the ordinary price for their meals could not possibly^have been more than a quarter-dollar; but the genial landlord chargeo me 40 c, in order to encourage bicycling. After 2 or, m more of tow-path. I took the " heel-path," which is the local name facetiously" applied to the :ughway adjoining the canal on the 1., and kept it (except for c m. ending at Spraker's) till I reached the Nellis House in Canajoharie, at 8 o clock 30 m. from the start at Hoffman's. For i m. or so through Fulton- ville which IS opposite Fonda, and for 2 m. beyond Spraker's. I went at a good pace. Darkness then forced me to walk for the last ,J m.. though I think the road continued smooth. The hotel accommodations were satisfactory, and starting at 8 o'cIock Wednesaay morning, I spun along smoothly for more than 4 m., to a point beyond Fort Plain. Then followed i^ h. in which I did considerable walking up and down hill, and accomplished 4* m. Resuming the tow-path at 10 o'clock at the bridge opposite St. Johnsville, I rode .long it for exactly 10 m., ending at Little Falls at 12.20 p. m. This section of the path averaged the best of any in my experience, and the last ^ m. or so really admitted of rapid ridinR There are several good hotels here, up on the hill. The one I happened to enter was the Givan House, where the dinner was satisfactory. After a ^ h stop I took the path for 3J m. (J h.), and then went in swimming for i h., or until the lock-keeper (who lent me a towel and refuses to take any pay there- or) came down to the bushes to see if I hadn't been drowned. An hour later, • m. on, x took the turnpike, and went through Ilion and Frankfort. 2\ m. in 17 mm. Then the road grew gradually poorer, until at 6 o'clock I was tempted to try the tow-path again, along whi. ' lowly ground my way for 2\ m., until darkness stopped me about 7. T,. . lordly and glittering front seemed so to intensify my own dirty a:id be- draggled appearance that I hesitated about entering, and so allowed a porter uf " the Americ - " to scoop me in. Let no other bicycling tourist, stranuca ill Utica,be si. ; beguiled, however : for, as respects hotels at least, there can be no po; .. . .ubt that " Bagg's is the best." I afterwards learned that a telegram was waiting me there, from a college classmate, saying that he would meet me the next noon at Oneida, and accompany me thence on his wheel to his home in Syracuse. My day's rii.:2 to Utica was 37J m., and my ride thence to Oneida, ending about half past 5 o'clock the next afternoon, was 30 m., the cyclometer regis- tering iioi m. from the start at Schenectady, three evenings before. For 2 ni. from the hotel in Utica I rode on the stone and wooden sidewalks. At Wliitesboro. perhaps i m. beyond, I turned 1. by mistake instead of crossing the bridge on my r., and so, at the end of \ m. spin, was obliged to repeat my course. Excellent sidewalk riding wa.= indulged in during the ne;.t 20 min [z\ m.), followed by 2 m. of bad road, e.iding i h. later at Oriskany. Beyond here (ij m.), having ridden up two rough hills, i engaged in i h.'s chat with some men who persuaded me that the tow-path was worth trying. I therefore plodded aiong it for exactly 2 m. without getting a single chance to ride, on account of the deep sand. Mounting again on the highway at 11.45, 1 found occasional good stretches, and reached the Stanwix Hotel, in Rome 5 m or at I o'clock.' Starting thence in a little less than 2 h., I rode or walked pretty contmuously till 5.30 p. m., when I reached the railroad station in Oneida 13I m. For I m. or so out of Rome the .iding was good on road or sidewalk. Then the track grew stony and hilly and only occasionally ridable, till P«-rr Verona; but for the 5 m. ending at Oneida it was nearly all good, and some of ,t was very good. I should have kept on wheeling till'dark, i h. or so later had not the rain begiMi gently falling at 5 o'clock. By the time I got aboard the tram the storm grew quite violent ; and as it seemed likely to extend into the next day, or at least leave the roads in bad condition then! I decided not to try any riding from Syracuse, as originally planned for Friday, and there- L^i directly through by train to Canandaigua, the ob; ct'ive point to ■In June, ,883, S. A. Freer, Captain nf the Rome B. C, with two members, E. P Hovev and W. I. Baxter, wheeled from that place to Auburn, between 6 a. m. and 7 30 p. m. -takine breakfast at 0-^e.da, .3 n, . and dinner at Syracuse, .5 m. beyond. Another member of the club nil d r?HH'' T" Vt'"- ^'""^ T ""■ '" '* ^- ^^"^- "• '84).-oint from Rome to a place a.LJ Geddcs beyond Syracuse, and retuminp; immediately by the same road, which is a vcrv r n "w . Z "Tu "'V"J "'"'" '"'"■ '^'"" •" "'^ ^^-"^ ""'""'• »"-' =— d '"e distance Irn,,, Watertown (through Martmsburg and Boon„ile) to Rome in 9 h. of actual ridine " In racing, he holds th. Championship of Oneida and Madison counties, though he is scarcelv ,« "^.t -0; a^c, ar.a r.ai ...,ci i.au any regular training whatever."— (J. M. Barton, March 2, '85.) i t .■» > jagci'^.-fc -M „,. with sca.cely any walking. Most of 1 e course was along the n. shore of Lake Erie; and, on the first day of my tour (Oct 3 '8, rode ncar.y 73 m. or almost exactly th. distance ridden on this first day of mine along ,'he of the lake, -though I took no other such long d,y's ride during the three intermediate years Three days later I rode from London n. e. ,0 Goderich on Lake Huron, and then s. e. to Mitch' ell, ,00 mm .0 h. The third Canadian stretch of ,«, m. of smoah roadway is between Co- burg and kmgston, along the shore of Lake ()nt.ario and the .St, Lawrence river. The \.L., and best macad.,nnzed roadway in the United, .Slates, I found in Virginia, stretching through the Shenandoah Valley ,n a n and s, line for ,50 m. (ts hills are all ridable by the b.cycle, bu, h number of them and the difficult grades of some, render the course inferio^ to the Ridge ro.,d abng Lake Er,e as the scene of a ,00-m. race. Thomas Stevens told me that this was by far tlu- n,oothest stretch wh.ch he n,et w„h in trailing across the continent from .San Francisco to lios. ton (,,.700 mO, and th.re can be no doubt that it is the best e, and w, road in the Union. No one nas answered my challenge of four year ago, by trying to " print a description of a better c, -^e for long-distance racing ; and I am sure that no such course evistc wi.J^:- •>- .—:— . -.- - if* ERIE CANAL AND LAKE ERIE. 205 silver Creek at 10.15 *• "., I arrived at the hotel in Fredonia ?. h. later, and rented there for a somewhat longer period. The distance was 12 m. over an ( \rellent track, though 1 made several dismounts for the sake of visiting .i|ip]e orchards, cider mills, and the like. Westfield, not quite 15 m. on, was reached at 4.30 p. M., in a little less than 2 h., and here I '-^-jfed \ h. on the preen, amid a congenial rabble of sma.l 1 oys. Not long afterwards I crossed into the State of Tennsyivania, and at 7.10 >-ached the Haynes Hotel i . North Kast, 15 m. on and 57^ m. from the start —12 h. before. This was 7 m. more than my previous "best day's record," and T should not have attempted to better it, now that darkness had rushed 01., were it not that the vision of the dry clothes awaiting me in Erie, some 15 m. beyond, irresistibly beckoned me thither where I could wash and be cleaned. The adverse wind of the ''ly h.ad meanwhile died out ; the road .^as reported to me to be smooth and level, and the moon gave promise of lighting the wrxy. Startmg at 8.15, riding •slowly, when the moon favored, and walking when the clouds obscured its face, I reached the brick sidewalks of Erie, just 14 m., in exactly 3 h. Rathe- more than ij m. beyond was the hotel, inside of which I found my valise, in- line of which valise I found my night-shirt, inside of which night-shirt sleep soon found me, enjoying the repose I had fairly earned, I did not enjoy it more than 4 h., however, for the rattling of breakfast dishes aroused me early, and at 9.30 I mounted my wheel again for an excur- sion to Ashtabula. At 10 o'clock, when the cyclometer registered the com- pletion of the i,oooth m. of my riding of 1880, I made my second mount and wont 6 m., or until a horse perruaded me to stop. The green in Girard, 161 in. from Erie, was reached at 12.30 P. M. Beyond here, 5 m., 40 min. of riding time, i found the hotel m East Springfield, where, for its dear name's sake, I stopped i\ h. for 'inner. The best thing I could do to "celebrate" West Springfield, which is: . m. further on, and which occupies the extreme n. w. corner of Pennsylvania, was to take a drink at the public pump in front of the po.st-office. I entered Ohio at 4.40 p. M. in front of the State Line House, ■o called because standing in two States,— the distance being .-8 m. from' Krie; thence to the hotel in Ashtabula, which I reached at 8.10 p. m. (16 m.), 'he roads %vere generally sandy, and in many cases quite unridable, and about nil the good wheeling I found was on the sidewalks. Darkness forced me to walk for nearly all of the last 7 m., though the moonlight would once in a while be bright enough to encourage a mount. A midnight ride to the r. r. station brought up my day's record to 45 m., and so made the length of mv three days' tour 156 m. Sunday I observed properly as a day of rest, though it .vas 3 x. m. when 1 ,qot tn bed .->.gain at the Reed House, in Erie. On this second occasion, I secured a better room, where the rattle of the breakfast dishes troubled me not. The weather, in contrast to that of the previous days, was oppressively ,sultrv, so that the readins: of the Vir.ir of Wakefield's tr.^vp!■'. wn'-. ^% vlrr.-.r.-.-.s athletic exercise as I cared to take; but Monday's air was cr .r,°and I f^ - , 2o6 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A B/CViLE. started off from the r. r. station soon after lo oVlock, in the face of a threat ened "equinoctial storn." A few slight sprinkles of rain, during the second hour formca the s.-lc fulfillment of this threat, and the afternoon was cica ind bright, as wa., also the rest of the week. From Kric to Kred„ni, „,v course retraced that of Fridav, hut the wind v as a. my Lack instead of in „, face, and thi. third day's ride along the lake su,,plied the swiftest and pleasantcst days wheeling that I have ever aiu where enjoyed. In -> h 7 mm from the start. I reached the Ilaynes Hotel, in North Fast, ni'm '_ the last J m. having been made at a very rapid pace. I stopped only h lor dinner, ana soon afterwards, at ...5 ... „.. n,ounted at the top of the hill L yor.J the cr.ck. stopping exactly . h. late, near the top of the hill In- th^ (.r«n at Westfield. ..J m. This was by far ,he fastest hour's ricle 'e t made and I covered 6 m. in the last J h,. for I made one brief stop to avo . the chance of frightening a lady's horse. My intention had been to go from Westfield to \favvillc. and there take a C hautauqua Lake .steamer to Jamestown, going thence by train to SalamancI o meet the baggage I had despatched thither. liut I was told that the TZ to Mayville was "all up-hill." and that I should be too late to catch the af c noon .stean>er. So. after .0 min. .stop. I continued on the old road, and soon got tne first and only tumble of my soo-m. vacation tour. The cause of Thi was that in turning from the roadw..y to the sidewalk, I neglected to allow for the velocity with which the wind was helpin, me along. At 4 o'do k" stopped ,0 mm. .. inspect a steam apple-drying establishment at Portland and m the ne.xt 40 min. rode si m. to the hotel at Fredonia. Turning there from my Friday's route. I reached the r. r. station in Dunkirk at c - , P^M., Having made nearly 47 m. in 6 h. actual riding time, though I was abo;. ijh. longer on the road. I took train for Salamanca at 6 The ride alleged to have been made in July last, on a S4-inch wheel, by H. h. Thompson, of hrie, from that city to Haffalo, in 8 h. (a distance of 00 m. by my cyclo^et..}. was the inspiring cause of my own ride on the san^ rack ; and I hope this present detai-ed report of my experiences there will tempt many other rulers to make trial of it. By starting at Giiard, the • find good roads for ,00 m. straightaway, before reaching the sand lough on te outskirts of Buffalo. If a longer ride is desired, the start may be ma , at West Springfield, but I cannot recommend anyone to go beyond tht point. On genera principles, indeed. West Springfield is m' JIZ.Z apt o be favorable in nding towards Buffalo than in riding from it on the road I have described. If a better coarse for long-.!' .he Hudson from N'ew York to Albanv Thr . / * "*"'"" •ho M.n shone bri„iant,y. so that the hia^Jas ex enT, ^ rtl''^^ t^' ""S > e bo .. A. Albany was approached, about nigh f ll 'del obs^ 'd'th ^kv. and there arose a tremendous whirlwind of 'dust. ccZanierbva fe of ram. Five hours later I started for Utica nn "^^ "'P*"'^" ^y ^ ^e* ll had long b^„ my ^,„|,il:„„ ,„ e,„„|| ,„y,d( amo,.g u,c jue,,. S !. ' .«k „r hard „„,!< a,.d ,i,„e .|„p. Bu. , o ' Thi, dr, ', n' """ "'"7' .i;.,«N.d. a„d ,„y ,a„,ny p.id. sl„d a .re„,„d '1,; w ^Te ^S .ne cot, Dut both had to be paid for at a good, stiff pries ;^ 'eported that the severe storm ot the previous day and nicht had h,di, -*"^:.r,:;t:e'XT,t;:v'r'd7jr^^^^^^^^^ ■» «.ar^o., „„der the pi.otage o, a io^aTltrn "a ! ^ irbHc "' li ^ 'Fr„m Tie iVkeelnian, January, .sg,. np. 14 - "-r nur.uicti Miics*"), 2IO TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 4 and wooden sidewalks, to the era of the dirt-walk in VVhitestown, — 5^ m. in \ h. (Our pilot was one of the pair who recently rode then wheels from Utica to Detroit. If I rightly understood him, their cyclometer^ registered the distance at 600 m., and they covered it in eleven days, on one of which they dill no riding. This average of 60 m. a day seemed o me a remarkable exploit, and I'm sorry a minute report of the tour has noi yet been prepared for publication.) The track thus far was identical with that traveled by mc in 18S0, on the way west rd to Oriskany and Rome; but soon after our guide left us, at the end of ihe path in Whitestown, we turned to the r., and went by a somewhat winding road, through Marcy, to the hotel in Holland Patent, 9 m. in 3 h. After halting i h. for lunch, we jogged on 6^ m. further to Moore's Hotel, at Trenton Falls, and there, at 5.30 o'clock, halted for the night; whole distance, 21 m. The mud did not give the expected trouble, and no more rain fell ; but the track was generally damp enough to be rather heavy, especially on the up grades, of which there were a good many, and the sand and stones were more abundant than comfort demanded. Still, at its best, the road would not be called .1 bad one. We planned to start at 6 the following morning, for a long ride to Water- town; but the rain was falling heavily at that hour, and so we abandoned all further hope of touring together. My companion took train at noon for his home in the town just named, and I spent the day in exploring the falls and enjoying their surpassing beauties. I never, anywhrre, chanced upon a more pleasantly solitary spot, and I hope I maybe permitted to revisit it many times hereafter. The hotel — which was a good one, as may be judged by its charge of $3.50 a day — was just upon the jioint of closii.^ its "season"; and I believe its annual o\> ling time is about the first of June. Near its gates, however, was a less pretentious but neat-looking establishment, which I think receives visitors all the year round. On Friday, the 22d, I mounted at 6.10 A. M., and in lA h. had retraced my course of two days before to the hotel in Holland Patent, riding almost all the way, though I had walked a good deal on the previous occasion. My cyclometer fell short |- m. from its previous record of the same distance. After stopping i h. for breakfast, I journeyed towards Rome, 7 m. without a dismount, the time being 55 min.' Mn A talk (Feb. 25, '85) with a rider of this tnwn, J. M. Barton, a road of 47 m. extending from Komo to the Adirondack region, was described so attractively tli.it I shall improve thi' first chance which comes to me for making trial of it. The approximate distances, as he recalled them A'ere these : Flovfl, 7i m. ; Holland Patent, 3J m. ; Trenton Village, i\ m. ; Prospect, about J m. (Bagg's Hotel recommended), whence a good plank road leads to Gang Mills, 2 m , •where passage is made across V.'est Canad.i creek, which sep.irates the counties of Oneida and Herkimer. This is the same stream whose waters make the adorable Trenton Falls ; and the gorge at Prospect (19 m. from Utici) is said to be finer than anything at Trenton. Between Cianj Mills and (".rant (j m.), the road is rather rough at first and then sandy ; and the next 11 m. ending at Wiimot Corners, are about the p(X)rest of all. The Wilmnt House here, ' it by a well-known guide, is commonly called from him " Ed Wilkinson's," .iiul is a sort of land- mark ana rendezvous, .vbout i ni. before reaching it, the traveler mubi climb a steep and iont; NIAGARA AND SOME LESSER WATERFALLS. 211 This is equivalent to high praise of the track, for I rarely ride faster than 6 111 an hour on a good road, and 5 m. an hour on an average one. Two and a half miles more, mostly of sidewalk riding, brought me to the canal bridge at Rome, where I spent ^ h. in conversation with the local wheelmen, who urged me to stay over for the afternoon and participate in the parade which thty had agreed to make in connection with the r nty fair. Resisting their blandishments, I jogged on, at a slower pace than before,— though the road was almost continuously ridable, which was not the case wh.-n I first tried it, two years earlier,— until, in two h., I had covered 8^ m. Trten the rain over' tuck me again, almost in the identical spot where it overtook me in 1880. hill (planked), though his labors will be rewarded by the beauti« which the deep gorge and ihe rushing waters here present to him. A tine road then stretches for 4 m. to the hotel and sum- mer resort kept by Oriff Evans at Noblesboro, where the creek must be crossed and a steep X'M'aV hill ascended -massing " Bethuneville," the relics of an attempted village, and finding thetl 4 in of good roads to Morehouseville. Hoffmaster's " Hunter's Home " is 3 m. beyond, at the end of the valley and surrounded by mountains, and the approach to it it ridable except the final hills. It is the last >lace where food and lodKiiig may be obtained before entering " the woods" ; and Piseco Lake, a resort for fishing parties, is only 7 m. beyond. Mr. Barton assured me that the lover of nature will find this section of the wilderness worthier cf its name than the more frequented parts which are entered from Lake (Jeorge and Lake Champlain ; and he also referred to " The Adirondack .Surveys," by Verplank Colvin, as an authority for the topc-graphy of the region. .Stoddard's map of the Adirondacks (see description, p. ,86) shows that the lake just named is connected with Lake Pleasant by a road about .0 m. long, and that "important mads" extend from it (at the post-offices of hoxh Sageville and Newton Comers) 28 i m to .\onhville, the terminus of a branch railway of 26 m. to Fonda on the main line The roads fro,,, the two ends of Lake Pleasant make a junction at Wellstown (6 m.), and follow the Sacon- daga river s. from that point to Northville ; but another " important road " stretches n e 'rom Wellstown, along the east branch of that river, 25 m. to North Creek, which is the terminus of the branch railway from Saratoga, 57 m. The " impor..,nt road " continues on to Olmstead- ville p. o., 5 m. ; Pottersville p. o., 7 m. ; thence along the lake to Schroon Lake p o 8 m • thence along the river r„ Schroon River p. o., ., m. ; continuing n. e. to Elizabethtown, 20 m.i ..."1 il.-nce to Keesv.Iie. Ausable Chasm and Port Kent (25-30 m.), on Lake Champlain about .5 ni. s. .,f 1 latrsburg. J rom Westport, on that lake, an 8 m. " important road " to Elizabeth- town., shown, and from Port Henry there are two suca roads, each about .7 m. long which meet the before described Elizabeth.own-S.hroon Lake road at points called Deadwater and North Hudson, about 5 m. apart. From Ticonderoga, on Lake George, there Is an " im- portant ro.ad of ,3 m. to Paradox p. o.. whence one branch of it runs s. w. for 5 m. alorg the lake of that name to Schroon Lake, and the other goes n. w, a similar distance through Hamond- ville tr Schroon River p. o. From Sabbath Day Point p. o, on Lake George, an " important 1 ;.u extends n. .5 m. to Ticonderoga, and one extends s. along the lake a similar distance to ealdwell ; whence another " important road " of 27 m. extend^ ,,. w. to North Creek (through \V..rrei,sb..n:. the Glen and Riverside). The map-maker's use of the adjective " important " .imply si.nihes that the roads are traversed by regular li.es of stages or passenger wagon. ■, but 1 think ,t ikely that many of them are fairly practicable for bicycling. At all events, if I ever have the luck ,0 reach the edge of the wildness at ^forehousevi!le, by the route given in the firs lines of this paragraph. I shall be pretty certain ,0 push on as far as Schroon Lake, and I ■sha 1 hope ,0 traverse the whole ,30 m. .0 Ausable Chasm. " Throuf^h the Adirondacks" might make a taking ,„le for a rhapter in " My Second Ten Thousand." Meanwhile, \ shall be zlad to receive exact details of tlie desiirnarpd ro:>ds *''" ••■>-—' . - -u • „ • tareful notice of them. " " " '" ••••-=-■::=.-= -.v.-.cay r.avc tikcu li ' tj f • tl 212 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. On that occasion I wisely rushed on, over a smooth road, to the r. r. station in Oneida; but now I took shelter on a pia^:a, and waited more than i h. " foi the shower to pass by." But it did not pass by worth a cent, but rather changed into a hopelessly steady rain ; and so, when the clay of the street had got good and slippery, I mounted again and rode 3 m. through rain anil the mud and the puddles, until, at 2.40 p. M., I reached tht Kagje Hotel in that city, 31 J m. from Trenton Falls. The rain continued all the afternoon and for a good share of the night, so that, on > ..turday morning, I f<;ared the highway to -Syracuse would be hopelessly n.udc'v, and hence took the tiain thither at 9, after circling a little over the wooden sidewalks of Oneida. The path between the double tracics of the railroad was quite free from mud, however, and looked so smooth and hard that I think 1 might easily have driven my wheel along it the whole 25 m. in the course of the forenoon. In Syracuse I called on a college chss- mate, to express my regret that the rain of 1880 had upset our plan of riding in from Oneida together, and he proposed, as a compensation, that I join in with his present scheme, of devoting three days of the following week to a loo-m. circuit of the region around Syracuse, in company with two other wheelmen. Leavirg my machine in his care, therefore, I went by train to Canandaigua to pass the three in' /ening days with a friend. At the last moment, however, I was obliged to telegraph my inability to participate in the loo-m. run, — which I understand proved a most pleasant one to tht trio who did participate, — and it was not until 1.15 i'. M., of Thursday, September 28, that I really mour.ted my wheel at the canal bridge in Syracuse, and rode along the n. sidewalk of Genesee St., i^ m., to the suburb calleci Geddes. Ca- millus was, perhaps, 6 or 7 m. beyond, and the descent into it was co steep that I preferred to walk much of it, and the ascent beyond vva> so steep and stony and sandy that I was obliged to walk all of it. With this exception, I think the road was ridable all the afternoon, though it led through a rolling country, and was never level for more than a short distance. Elbridge, 15 m. from the start, was reached at 4.20; Senate, 5 m., at 5.25; and Auburn, 5J m., at 6.25. The clerk of the Osborn House, which is the only good hotel in town, has my llianks for supplying me with a comfortable room, though the place was so overcrowded, by reason of a fireman's parade, that when I extracted my bicycle from the public reading-room, at 6 o'clock the next morn- ing, I found a dozen men snoring there on cots. I kept the sidewalk for 2 in., and then rode 7 m. more to the hotf ' beside Cayuga lake, where I stopped \\ h. for breakfast. Mauating agaii x 9,1 was accompanied 2 m. up the tow-path by a local ritler. There, at the bridge, I turned off on the branch canal, and reached Seneca Falls, 4 m. on, at 10. Beyond this point the path gradually grew rougher, so that I left it ni about 2 m., and tried 2 m. of rather rough and rutty highway riding, which brought me past the village of Watenoo at 10.50. It was just noon when I reached the i)ridge spanning the outlet of Seneca lake, 34 m. on, and came in sigtii of NIAGARA AND SOME LESSER WATERFALLS. 213 Oeneva, 2\ m. beyond. The road for most of that distance lay close beside tiie beautifully blue waters of the lake, and a J m. of deep sand supplied the only really unridable section encountered during the entire day. Leaving (kneva at 2.30 P. M., after a rest of 2 h., I made my first halt on a hill-top at :; o'clock, about 4 m. out. Two miles beyond this, at 3.40, I encountered the >i^'n " 10 m. to Canandaigua," and at 5.20 I reached the r. r. station in that town, just 10 m. by the cyclometer. I wheeled around on the sidewalks for about I m. more before going to my friend's house for the night, making mv entire record for the day 41^ m. The next forenoon, which was the final one in .September, I rode from Canandaigua to East Bloomfield in i Jh., the dis- t,ince being 9 m. by actual survey, though my cyclometer called it i J m. less. Resuming my ride it 3.40, I reached West Bloomfield, 6 m., at 4.30; Lima, 2^ m., at 5.10; West Avon, sJ m., at 6.05; and Avon Springs, i m., through the deep dust and in the gathering dusk, at 6.18. The cyclometer called the dis- tance from East Bloomfitkl 16 m.; but the general opinion seemed to certify it at 18. Tncluding some preliminary sidewalk business in Canandaigua, the cyclometer's total record for that day was 24I m. The road seemeu generally to increase in goodness as I advanced westward, the best of the riding being beyond Lima; and there were some wonderfully smooth stretches between East and West Avon. Congress Hull, the more fashionable of the hotels at the Springs, had already closed for the season; but the Knickerbocker, which keeps open all the year round, supplied itirely satisfactory accommodations, even allowing me a room upon the ground floor,where I conld have the compan- ionship of my wheel during the night. Red clay is the prevailing material of the 150 m. of road thus described as traversed by me between Utica and Avon Springs, and I do not suppose that the stretch of 25 m. which I took by rail forms any exception to it. Long-continued rain would make most of the road unfit for bicycr.ns;, because the clay is verv sticky when wet. and very rough when dry, until a good deal of wagon traffic has hammered it into smoothness. When thus made smooth, it is apt to be a little dusty; hence the day or two following a gentle rain of 5 or 6 h., which has washed away the dust, is, doubtless, the period when this road is at its best. Nearly all of it is up or down grade, but not many of the grades are too steep for riding. The stones are never absent, but there are not many places where they are very troublesome, and there are not many stretches of sand The stoniest and sandiest section of all is that between Whitestown and Holland Patent. The first day of October supplied ideal conditions for bicycling, and I was encouraged thereby to turn my 46 -n. wheel until the cvclometer regis- tered upwards of 46 m. Starting from Avon Springs at 6.30,' I reached Gen- esee, 8 in, at 8; and as breakfast was not ready at the hotels there, I kept on for another h., 5 m., to the Scoville House, in Mount Morris. To reach this towi. jne crosses to the w. side of the valley, at a point 4 m. below Gen- ■ ""- '"■ ---i^-s -""-=&"- wu-.vn tnc c.siue on Ihc direct road to 'Jans- ville. When I emerged from the hotel, at 10.30, I observed a bicycler coming * 1 iii «l 214 ^^^"^ THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. % I in my direction, and so persuaded him to accompany me to Portage, instead of turnng about and attending church, \ h. later, as he had piously planned to do. The road down the w. side '{ the valley was excellent; but the vari- ous people vhom we accosted had various conflicting opinions as to its being the proper road to Portage; and, at 12.30, having ridden 8 m., and turned on ir traces several times, we decided to seek Portage no longer, Lut to strike for Dansville. We reached the Hyland House there, nearly 8 m. further, in ijh.; and while I tarried a similar period to indulge in an elaborate dinner, my companion (A. H. F.), without stopping for any food at all, speeded away on his reiurn trip, saying that he must needs ride 35 m. more to reach his home in Fowlerville. I hope he g.^' there duly; but I myself put in only i6 m. additional that afternoon, ending at 6.30 o'clock at Brushville. This is the popular title of the hamlet which is called '1 uscarora on the maps, and I made quite a sensation among the loungers in front of the " Tuscarora House," when my ghostly garments suddenly emerged from the twilight into their line of vision. From Da.isville I rode up the e. side of the valley, nearly 8^ m. in i^ h. ; then came across the meadow bottom, 3 m., over a black-clay road so rough as to be just barely ridable; then up the main road of the forenoon, \ m., to the ravine where the old canal path branches off ; and thence, by a rather sandy and hilly road of 4 m., to Brushville. Between Mount Morris and Dansville a bicycler may make a circuit of about 30 m., up one side the valley and down the other, over roads of almost continual smoothness and with very few difScult grades, — his eyes all the while sweeping over a wide stretch of attractive and varying scenery. The Gene.see river is represented in the region just named only by one of its branches ; and the longer Genesee valley, throuc^h which that river runs, I entered first at Portage, about i.^^ m. from Brushville, at 11 o'clock the fol- lowing forenoon. I started at half-past 6 and stopped i h. in Nunda, for breakfast, which cost me 50 c., though it was certainly no better than my supper of the night before, whose cost combined with that of my " best parlor bed-room " was only 60 c. A vote of " no license " in Nunda had resulted in shutting; up the two chief hotels, and the proprietor of this wretched little " Eagle " tavern was, perhaps, encou. ;ged thereby to charge double rates, in compensation for his temperance principles. At the Garrison House, in Caneadea, where I spent the next night, I was also given the best bed-room, and the charge for supper and lodging combmed was only half a dollar. I remained at Portage about 3 h., admiring its wonderful waterfalls and gorges and being duly impressed by the high r. r. bridge. 1 The descent from the sta- 'Portage was the last of the " lesser waterfalls " visited by me on this tour and the greater one called Niagara was not visited at all. Yet I have not taken its noble name in vain, as a title to the present ch.ipter, for it serves well to fix in the reader's m.nd the general locality to which most of the reported roads belong, and it is the natural objectVe point towards which the tourist turns from either of the lesser waterfa!!?.. Mv :;v.t". riHr* •Jv:t^'.r•.;:^ .-4:=rr..-:-.n; { >j;...,-._^ i.. :;..? falo (Sept. 16, '80) has been described on p. .102 ; «nd its recent republication in Bi. tVorid caused NIAGARA AND SOME LESSER WATERFALLS. 215 u.rrespondents of that paper (May 15, 29, ,885, pp. 3.,, 82) to publish other rides on the same course, thus : " A more unridable, humpy, lumpy, stony, measly road than the one to the Falls f,..m Buffalo, ' along the banks of the bea-tiful Niagara,' via Tonawanda, was never seen even n the troubled nightmare of the wheelman whose last header was, till made visible to all by .treaks of court plaster. Don't you ever try that road with a bicycle. A run to Aurora and a visit to the great stock-farms would be far preferable, for the road is magnificent, and the .ccneiy along the Cazenovia is very charming, " Such is testimony of VV. W. Canfield, Captain uf the Randolph B, C, who was one of eight members th-reof that " took a trip of 350 m throush Western New York in the summer of '84 " ; and hisstory was cont'irmed by " Bi. Son," ,1 Buffalo nder, thus : " The road was so rough, on my June trials of it, in '83 and '84, that at ihe end of each of them I could have endorsedwhat Mr. Canfield says; but in Sept., '84, 1 found li extremely and most surprisingly good. Indeed, the distance from Niagara to Tonawanda was made without dismount, and the rest of it also without a forced stop. For 16 m. from Buffalo the ^iirf.ice is clay, and it requires a long dry spell to p-oduce smooth wheeling." Another writer of ihe same city adds : " Left Buffalo a few days since, at 5. ,5 a. m., passed Tonawanda at 6. 15, i.a .-lalle at 7, and reached Niagara Falls at 7.35, having done the whole 21 m. without dismount, and at the rate of 9 m. an hour. " Portase is about 53 m. from Buffalo and 35 m. from Batavia, and the road connecting the iw.i latter phces is described as follows in the pro.spectus of the " Big YomxIovt" (IVheel, April 3, '85) : "To Lancaster is 10 m. of as good bicycling as one could wish ; and the next 10 m., to the quiet little village of Alden, will be igood breather for the afternoon's run of 20 m., to Batavia. Buffalo wheelmen consider si h. of ndiiig, for the whole 40 m., a fair and easy pace.'* The route thence to Rochester is given by the prospectus, on the authority of an old tourist, thus : " From Batavia to Byron Center is 10 m. of splendid road, which can b.- made in 1 h.' with ease. The countr>' is undulating, with level stretches. To Bergen, 6 n. .urther, the road cuntinues uniformly good. For a short distance out of Bergen, say for 3 m., th. road is sandy, l)ut with a side-path to the I. of the carriage road which is superb for wheeling. Beyond ihis' IHiiiu through Churchville, on to within 5 m, of Roch .ter, it gets haid and smoot! . A 2 m ititenn. of sand then ov curs, with side-path, and then a perfect road leads int.. Rochestei. I have made the -^U m. from I atavia to Rochester many times in 4 h. of actual riding. The total dis- tance from Buffalo to Rochester has been ridden in 8 h. From Powers's Hotel we shall go wheeling down past Genesee Falls and along the Genesee river bank to Lake Ontario. This is Rochester's great boulevard and driveway, and is 8 m. of down-hill perfection." Concerning this last mentioned waterfall I cannot do better than to quote from Howells's ••Their Wedding Journey " (pp. .06-,. 2): "The only definite association with Rochester in the mind of Basil was the tragically romantic thought that here Sam Patch met his fate So he answered : ' Isabe:. your ignorance of all that an American woman should be proud of distresses me. Have you really, then, never heard of the man who invented the saying, " Some thingscan be done as well as others," and proved it by jumping over Niagara Falls twice ? Spurred on by this belief, he attempted the leap of the Genesee rails. The leap was easv enough, but the coming up again was another matter. He failed in that. It was the one thing tnat could not be dune as well as others. We are within ten minutes' walk of these falls, just now.' 'Then let's go to them at oncel' cried Isabel. Beyond a broad planking above the river, on the other side of the railway station, they found, by dint of much asking, a street winding up the hill-side to the left, and leading to the German bierhaus that gives access to the best view of the ca.aract. 1 he Americans have characteristically bordered the river with manufactories, making every drop work Its passage to the brink ; while the Germans have as characteristically made use of the beauty !eft over, and built a bierhaus where they may regale both soul and sense in the presence of the cata- ract. Through garden-ground the tourists were led by their guide to a small pavilion that stood on the edge of the precipitous shore, and commanded - perfect view of the falls. Something of deft- niteness was to be desired in the spectacle, Lut there was ample compensation in the mvstery with •v.-Mcr, ii.c uiuaueiiuigene; and the dense, unluminous shadows of the moonshine invested it. The i'gh. touched all the tops of the rapids, that seemed to writhe away from the brink of the cataract. ii PI 1:, LSii. 216 TEP\^ THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. and then desperately breaking and perishing to fall, the white disembodied ghost, of rapids down to the bottom of the vast and deep ravine through which the river rushed away. Now the wi,..r seemed to mass themselve. . hundred feet high on a wall of snowy compactness, now ,^ d.s |«rse into the>r multitudinous particles and hang like some vaporous cloud from the cliff Everv moment revea,ed tie vision in some rare and fantastic shape ; and its loveliness isolated I, ,n spite of the great town on tht other ^hore. the station with its bridge and its trains. ,h» m'ill" ha supplied their feeble Htle needs from the cataract's strength. A, last Basil pointed ou, , table-rock in the middle of the fall from which Sam Patch had mad. his fatal leap - I In- care for him :• she said fiercely : 'Patch! what a name to be linked in our thoughts with ,h, superb cataract.- 'Well, Isabel, I think you are ver>. unjust. ,.-. as good a name as llander to my thinking, and >t was immortalized in support of a great idea.-.he feasibility of all thin.s' -oet of the Germans made a ballad about him which used to go the rounds of their new, papers, and I translated it a long v.hile ago. I had to yield to our American taste, however" and make a weak l,ne at the end of the first stanza. Where the German bravely said • Sprin,, der Sam Fatsch !.u.hH und/rei, I used " a figure " thus ; " In the Bierhausgarten I linger, by the Falls of the Genesee; Fro,,, the Table Rock, in the middle, leaps a figure bold and free :" ' " I alluded to the flights of the fearless Patch in describing my visit to the picturesque fall., „ Paterson (p^ ,67); and I happened, while seeking ,0 verify another reference in this chapte c2Zl " m', "?^ 'T"^ f^r '^''"•^"' '" "'' "'^--y- by -' undergraduate of Columbia' t?ro, h .h r ; .,M ^'"-''^rf.ocker Magazine (April, ..43, pp. 308-3.0). The ro,„e fT' H i' Catsk.lls, presented on p. .88. leads past a pair of noble cascades, Haines Falls and the Kaaterskill, whose fame is not connected with that of the immortal jumper but rather with that of the poet Bryant, who wrote : J i . ' •Midst greens and shades the Kaaterskill leapg, From cliffs wIumv ilie wood flower ♦ i !:tt!." Hrf-.r- -. i?,:j • _;^ _ -. -. of an, 55 m., ending at Niagara at 730 p. m., 4 h. afier leaving Buffalo, where a halt of 2 h. w.is NIAGARA AND SOME LESSER WATERFALLS. 2x7 tion to the village was down a winding hill i m. long, and ir; some parts very Meep, but I managed to ride it without a stop. Kilimore, io m., was reached m 2 h., and CJaneadea, 7 m. more, in i h. 20 min., emiing at 6 o'clock. This made ;,i m.for the day. Next morning the start vas made at 6.40, and Belfast, 4 m., was reached in just i h., Oramel being the name of an intermeeiate village. At S.20 I turned aside from the river, instead of following it up to Wellsville, the end of the valley, as originrUy planned, and began climbing the hills east- ward towards the county seat, .Angelica, 6 m. Reaching this at 9.10, I tarried :i h. for breakfast ; and, after a mile of detours on the sidewalks, proceeded to tlatt Almond Centre, which is the first village, 7 m. Another 7 m. brought me to Almond, at the foot of a long hill, at 4 o'clock. Here I first met the Krie Railway, and the road continued very nearly alongside it, and generally kvel, to HorncUsville, 5 m., which I reached in i h. Another h. carried me another 5 m. to Canisteo, at 6 o'clock, and I stopped for the night at the Canis.oo House. From the Genesee river to Almond the road was mostly of hard, yellow clay, with very little dust on top, and was nearly all ridable, though continuously hilly. On one hill there was deep sand for about i m., though it was possible to ride through some of it on the down grade. The viiws were extensive am the coloring of the autumn foliage very brilliant. The material of the road which follows up the Genesee river from Portage Ij Wellsville, and which has no difficult grades, is a sort of soft brown clay or loam, which is ground up into a fine powder by continuous dry weather, though the rain is said to pack it down closely and make good riding. The stones concealed under the dust made the road a very slow one in my own made. Saturday, they wheeled to Lockport and thence took train for home. Their cyclometer record of 282 m. represented 41 h. of actual riding time. They found good roads for nearly the entire distance. Not a serious fall was recorded, and the only accident was the breaking of a pedal-pin." A Buffalo correspondent of the Bi. fVorUQ^M. 9, '85, p. 155), gives this account of the last day's road run taken by f jur members of the local club to Rochester, Nov. 16 : " Weather fine and roads in excellent shape. Start made at 6.30 by Messrs. George and Ehrlich, by direct road through Bowmansville to Mil! Grove, where they were joinc" by Messrs. Haynes aiui Adams, who came through without dismount. After a long rest for breakfast, the four proceeded to their dinner at Batavia, 40 m. The 34 m. thence to Rochester was very good, — except one sandy stretch of about 10 m.,— and was finished at 6 v. m. by the last named pair. whose actual riding time (6 h. 20 min. for the 74 m.) has never been h.-aten to our knowledge Messrs. George and Ehrlich finished a little later. " Of the other connection between the two cities, a correspond..nt of the H^/uel{Feb. 13, '85) thus speaks : " No doubt the wheeling, on the average, is better by way of Batavia : but by wav of Lockport there are some patches of ro.idiiii; hard to beat. The best ,ute is to Tonawanda, thence to Martinsville, thence along :i. bank of Krie canal until road is struck leading to Bear Ridge. Surface is of clay and very good during favorable weather. Bear Ridge ro.ad is part clay and part gravel, usually good. The State or Canal road will be' reached at While Sulphur Springs, 2J m. from Lockport. The road is stony and will necessitate frequent dismounts. Lockport roads are fair to middling. To • lasport the roads are good, and the same is true of the road leading to Middleport, which is of clay and gravel, hard packed. From Middleport to Medina the roads are only fair, and they are nothing ertm nnti! Brockoort is reached, whenre hv v.'r^v .".f .*^r.rnr.'*m.-.rt tH^-..- -i- .—..,. c^^ Near Albion, 10 m. from Medina, there is a tough hill to climb and a difficult stone road.'" Ill ^l! !! ;1 ?i8 TEN THOUSAND M/LES ON A BICYCLE. case ; and the conditions attaching to the lo m. between Almond and Canisteo were not dissimilar. In that division of the valley included between / von Springs and Uansville, the material of the roads was generally a sort of fine gravel, which packed together tightly and made less dust, though even the>e roads would be at their best after a short rain, and they would ge' dry enough to be ridable very quickly afier a long one. I reached the Dickinson House, in Corning, at 5.40 i>. m., on the f.)ll„>s- mg day, October 4, just 11 h. after starting from Canisteo, the distance bcin« a trifle less than 37 m. My only two stops were at Canv ron, I2i m. from the .start, for breakfa.st, from 10 till 11, and at Addison, 16 m. further, for dinner, from 2 till 3. The longest and best mount of the entire day was supplied by 2 m. of good gravel road-bed some time after leaving Addison. Wooden side- walks were met with before reaching Painted Post, and were stuck to by m. pretty steadily until I reached Corning, though I dismounted frequently, com- manded by broken boards. The road, as a whole, was the poorest encountered on any day of my tour, and I suppose I walked i or J of the distance trav- ersed. Even after a ram had packed down the dust, which so greatly troubled me. the road would be a poor one, for it was stony and hilly. In general, it kept quite near the Erie Railway, and as this was continuously down grade 1 was tempted occasionally to make trial of it. Once I rode between the tracks for nearly i m. without stop, and indulged in a race with a hand-car ; but. for the most part, the path was barely ridable, so that I was usually ready to change to the highway at the first opportunity ; and then, after another sad experience with the dust of the highway, change back to the track again when the next chance offered. A man at Cameron harnessed up a frisky colt in order that I might help "break " him into toleration of the bicycle; and he asserted that the beast had been scared, some weeks before, bv another rider who propelled his wheel from there to Elmira, 40 m., between 4 and 8 p. m! Why is it, I wonder, that the wheelmen whom I hear of as ^he heroes of such remarkable exploits always refrain so modestly from making public the details of their extraordinary riding.' I breakfasted at Elmira at 9.30 the next morning, after a ride of exactly 3 h. from Corning, 18 m. away. Under favorable conditions the distance could probably be made without a dismount, as the road is, for the most part, level, and the few hills which it crosses are neither steep nor high. To Wellsburg,' also, the track continues about equally good, for I covered the 6 m. in an hour ;' but the next 6 m. to Chemung, required a few minutes mo.e than that. Here a tavern-keeper astonished me by designating five cents as an appropriate price for two big goblets of milk. During the next 3^ m., ending at Waverly,» the 'The captain of the Bingliamton Bicycle Club, C. E. Tichener (58 in.), «-ith three of hi. men - E. E. Kattell (60 in.), Fred Lyon (54 in.) and C. H. Rogers (52 in.)- took a son,, run to Waverly, May ,8, '83, of which he sends the following report : -Starting w. on the n. side of the Susquehanna river at 8 A. m., we went without dismount to Union, 9 m. in 45 m. Crus.-- '"" ' "^■■■••-"=-~- -='-""b :::-c;ugr. tr.c -.iliagcs oi Vcaidi ajiii Appaiachin to the iJig Island NIAGARA AND SOME L^SSSER IVATER FALLS. .lust was in places almost " hub deep." ard I occupied nearly an hour in plough- ing my way through it. As it was nearly 2 o'clock when 1 reached the town I feared that more deep dust m.j,ht prevent my pushing the wheel 20 m. further to r- vvanda. before night; and. as I had promised a friend to join him there then, I went down by train. I was exactly a week on the way from Syracuse tc. Waverly. and the cyclometer's record was 280 m. This daily average of 40 m. ought, perhaps, to be reduced a little, however, out of regard to the fact that as the week began and ended in the afternoon, it really included .-. part of eight calendar days. The ride from Coming to Waverly may be recom- mended as a fine one to engage in a day or two after a rain has beaten down the powdered clay. There are no .severe grades to contend against, and the views of mountain and river arc in many places very fine. Towanda, the seat of Bradford county in Pennsylvania, lies on a hillside overlooking a b.anch of the river .Susquehanna, along which runs the Lehigh Vail,;y R lilroad. Bidding adieu to my friend at half-past 6 on Monday, Octo- ''er 9. J jigged across the bridge and out to the Ifotel at Wvsocking, 1 little less than 3 m., in \ h. Beyond this is a big hii:, or "mountain," many of whose grades may be ridden up. and from the top of which a pleasing i)ros- pect may be had. Further on, perhaps 6 or 8 m., comes Rummerfield mount- ain, whose grades must be walked up for i m. or more, after which there is a down-grade riding, amid beautiful scenery, for 3 or 4 m. to Wyalusing, at whose hotel I stopped soon after noon, about 17 m. from the start. Before I.aceyville was reached. 6i m.. a third mountain had to be walked up by short and steep grades, and ridden dov/n by long and easy ones. The view from the summit of this wa^ perhaps, the finest oi the day, and the pleasure of rid- ing along the ridge, ^^ . the valley and river far below, and manv mountain- tops outlmed against the distant horizon, was very great. The hotel in Meshoppen, about 33 m. from the start, was reached at' 6.30 p. m., the last i or 1 m. having been walked in the dark, though the surface seemed smooth. A ride of nea-ly 2 h. on the train, next morning, brought me to Pittston >oon after 8 o'clock, and there I circiea . .a. and more on the sidewalks while searching for a good place to trke breakfast, and waiting for the same to he prepared. A newspaper reporter here beset me for an account of my- self, and assured me, after I had supplied him with the desired "facts " that he wouldjxpand and improve upon them, by the exercise of his vivid imagina- '7.:.tZ "' "T!."""" '"°" '' '''' P""^ ferry-woman, and where one of our strongest nder. took eave of the excurs.on, because of cramps in the knees. Stopping at Owe.o alx,ut J h we followed the bad advice of a local rider and kept ,0 then, of 'he river though we To'l < r vf 'V-''' ''"' "'' ""'"'' ' ''"" ^""^^^ ''y '^''*"« 'l^^ - -d- '-Ve no, only to Wwll" ''J.^: ^'"^^ ^rl"' ^"' '^"^ -- - -- =-"" of ,hem. all the „. Trom Owego '^^" n ' tI *' "". ' "' ' "• "■ ^'^'" P'"'"^ ^^^°" '^^ Smithboro), a tired and hun- .p' party. The poor condition of the roads, towards the finish, - sandy and stony by turns, t!°"'rjllT!l!!"'".rr^l'°"'^" "'*'•'' Th-^hows that my trail might well have con! c^,"" ■••s----"r, rr.:err iiirrc -.z a goou iioiiiiwaru connection through Cazenovia to Syracuse, and a southward one to Susquehanna and Port Jervis, as will appear in later chapter. 2 20 TE^' THOUSAND MILES 0\ A BICYCLE. tion, in a way whuh would make the readers of his sheet believe that I was a veritable phenomenon of a bicycler. The ride of about 9 m. down the Wyoming Valley to Wilkesbarre may be pleasantly made on cither side of the river. The direct road on the e. side passes close by numerous coal- breakers, and in much of it a real "cinder path," with gentle up and H,„.., grades, which I wa.s told were all easily ridable. I preferred, however, to cross the river and go down on the w. side, which is almost entirely flat. It is a very pretty country to ride through, and I kept on the sidewalk all the way to Kingston, i m. from Wilkesbarre, stopping, of course, to inspect the monument commemorative of the massacre of 1778. Much of that last m had to be done afoot, on account of the deep dust, though ])robably it and all the rest of the w.-side road would afford good wheeling in an ordinary season. As I emerged from the covered bridge into Wilkesbarre, a local rider came out and greeted me off-hand as the probable "old original " patron of "white- flannel and nickel-plate," and supplied some acceptable, information concern- ing the roads. I'rofiting by this, I took a turn of 3 m. back towards I'ittston. passing among the coal-breakers, and getting a dista it view of the w. side of the valley down which I had been riding. The Wyoming Valley Hotel sup- plied an excellent dinner for #1, and it was notable as the only public repast of my entire tour which was served in a really creditable manner. Having finished it, I took train over the mountains to Allentown, and wheeled i ni. to the Allen House, making my day's record 18J m. The distant view of Wilkesbarre, from the car windows, when the locomotive at last completed its zig-zag route to the summit, was a fine one; and ..le tow-path of the canal at Mauch Chunk and points below seemed ' ./smooth and attractive as almost to allure me into trying its surface. It was well I resisted the temptation, however, for nightfall was near r hand, and the rain fell steadily during all the next day. I devoted the time then to writing this present report and to hoping, from hour to hour, that there might be a change in the weather which would enable me to wheel to Philadelphia on the 12th, for I was assured that the pike leading thither was fairly ridable. But the continuance of the storm through the night banished my last hope, so that, in the mists of the morning, I took train disconsolately for Newark ; and then, on the somewhat heavy macadam of " the Orange riding district," with occasional dashes of rain to encourage me, I ground off the final iS m. needed to give niv Pope cyclometer a record of 400 m. from the time when I put it on the axle at Kagg's Hotel, in Utica (superseding thus a Livingston cyclometer which had for a few weeks dispLaced it). This total shows an average of 28J m. for each of the 14 riding days of the tour, but I am confident that a correct registry would ha\e raised the average ride to 30 m. The sun shone brilliantly every day between .September 22, when the rain stopped me at Oneida, and October 11, when it again stopped me at Allentown; and on none of the intermediate nights was the dust ever 'Ji^:iilj'^ii\.\x *-:ur. ;: l?\ a ^ciuic bliUIVCr, pcrsiSicntiy ^» i piavcu iui liiai uicsa- \:AGARA and SO.VfE LESSEK waterfalls. 2Zi ing. This seems to indicate that the fortnight immediately following the (.(uinoctial storm is a period when the touring bicycler may reasonably hope U,r fair weather. The wind aimost invariably favored nic when any breeze l)lcw at all. The rates at all the hotels which I encountered (and I always those the"l)est" or highest-priced) were invariably $2 a day, or 50 c. for l.ulging or for any meal,— except in the five cases which I have specially in- dicated. Those unvarying rates represented very varying accommodations. however, and co..nrmed me anew in the elief I have more than once publicly urged, th u the aim of consuls in secur ig League hotels should not be " a reduction of rates," but rather " an increase of comforts." The Osborn. Kni'-ke...ocker, Hyland, Canisteo, and Dickinson, were the best of the $2 •^otels mentioned in this present report. As .egards the exaction of a trans- IK)rtation tax, the baggage-master of the steamboat for Albany der.inded a h.ilf-dollar, though no demand was made when I went up on the same boat the previous year. On appealing to the captain, I was courteously assured that this was not a private "strike," but represented the definite orders from the office, which he had no option except *o enforce. It. starting for Utica (100 m.), I gave the luggage man a quarter-dollar in advance, though he r.ither grumblingly asserted that I ought to double that sum. Of the ♦ive g.illant commanders of baggage-cars whom I came in contac; with on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the first took ten cents, instead of the offered quarter- dollar, for a 20-m. ride; the second asked for a "tax," and was quite satisfied with a quarter-dollar; the next two both good-naturedly refused my offer to " pay something for their trouble," sayi " this sort of baggage gave them less trouble than a heavy trunk"; and the last man I exchanged no words with whatever. Since then, the rule of " free transportation for passengers' bicycles" has been formally adopted by this line. " Hull £ Bowen's Road Book of Westt.-n New York and Hand Book of Cycling Accesso- ries " c.-.mpi!ed by A. C. Richardson and issued .,. June, 1885, exhibits 41 tabulated " routes " which embmce more than ,,200 m. of road. A quarter of the routes begin at Buffalo, and most of the others at Leroy, Dayton or Jamestown. " The first column in each table enumerates the m.!« from the starting-po' it ; the second gives names of towns; the third shows the material of r...id surface, by the initials a. for asphalt, c. for clay, d. for dirt or loam, gr. for gravel mc for .n.icacLim, s. for sand, st. for stony (or stone-blocks in citv; ; the fourth shows the condition of the surface at its b^st, by the letters, e. for excellent, g. for good, f. for fair, p. for poor, b. for •i.ul; *h,le ,r. the fifth column h. signifies hilly and I. level ; an ' in the notes t. r. means ' lum nght t. 1 ' fm left •; r. {., 'right fork' and 1. .. ' left fork.' " The weight from BuffaloV There go ,|,r„Lh vjllago and up h,l . and . r. .0 Ca.^ade House. Straight road be.ween Hun.', and ! Z The r. r. ,., crossed .wee be.ween .Swainsville and (larw.xxl. Witlun . m. of Arkpor. . i .H cro.s ,he valley. When : n. .„. of Arkpor.. .. ...and af.er J m. t. r. Af.er ™\' m.o<,yds.t.r_; thenjm.o Hornellsville (30 m. from Port.n.e)." My own longer rou.e I rTn tr. Tw"'^^''*^"" '""'" '"■'"• -"'—:-- with my rtpor-rfrde from nuff..Io .0 Kne (,. w.;, on pp. .03..05, I give thi, ex.rac. from .he gu.de : " From .he c. rerof M. n s,. follow Seneca st. and plank road ,0 old covered bridge over Buffalo ere Mtercross,„. ,h.s t. r. .harply and steer for the iron bndge. Keep same road t7fi . 1 Cr'ek H 1! t""8- V:Z7 "'\' '■ '"'^'^' •• '• ""• •"""* •^'e.raph poles .! .silv . f W fl V T "^ ^""^ ^ "•'"'^''' ^"'^ =''^" •^'" =" «"-" t:reek. T. r. 3 m e of Wes.field. No other vanat.ons from s.raight road for .he whole di.stance to Kne S8J m - F rom Batavia .0 Leroy, ,c m. e. , with StafTord half-way be.ween the level s.-f ,ce of e, SulTt."" '' "''"" T:'' '"'"^ "' ^" ^"- -"-->-- ... A similar rrdt: Batav.a .0 A.„ca, ., m. s. (.)- ough Alexander), requires only one or two dismounts FrI d..e 5. .0 Shelby ; t. 1. and then t. r. at village ; s.raight s. from Shelby ; ,, 1. e from Alabim^ Brockp ,rt ,6 m. n. (Bergen half-way), >s hUly, gravel surface, fair riding. From Lerov toU,. State f.shery at Mumford, ;J m., a limestone road offers a very ,: .asant run .hroug wocKls ; the d.rect.„n be.ng n. for 6 m. to Caledonia, where ,. 1. From I.eroy .„ Avon" m ^ .s a good and leve, .hough stony road.-Caledonia being half-way. From Leroy to P rrr.o m. s. the surface,sa g.„Kl clay level for 7 m. .0 Pavilion, where 1. f. s. .hould be taken tTe're ma.nder be.ng grave and fair nding though hilly. Perry Center is ; m. e. of Warsaw a I . From Warsaw to Leroy (ao m., clay, with a little san« and gravel) is said to L th- best un in .h,s secon. At Sal.ville cross R. & p. „,ck : a. Pearl Creek cros., bridge , at R. .'io^ s,"a?i t r f . ■■■ ■ ' "' ^''' Gainesville cross Krie track, then .. 1 then . r st.a., I .u.o Casnle^ Thence n. .straight for 5 n, , ,. ,. ,0 Silver I.ke, o t. ,- ,„ p. .^ " m " Olean. on the edge of Pennsylvania, is ;6J n,. s, of Buffalo, and ,he la.st ..m are said to or pint surfL '■ ThL a, r 7 ""' ^T' 1' "*= ^='"^'' ^^^^"^"' "^""^h '^'y- -«'' ^ '- plank surface. Ihe at E. Aurora... 1 . and af.e, , m. t. r. ; * m. ou, of Holland t. r., and then t. 1. all the way to Sardinia. Fr.-i From Oiean to Hornells- ^^fAG.4A^A AND SOME LESSEH IVATEREALLS. ,,3 .■!> nykc', creek. After V...:.„.,re Ceme"";; , T '.'" '"" "" " '""""'"■ '> "' -• '• ' -a,«,..,,.„..oA„eKany,t ^. ^^ ^ .. Ju.^^J^^'; rt •'T "" ' '"-«-« .. r,m.,dalx.ut road ,.( ,s m. throuRh the A]le».:.nv f , V' * """ '''•>•■ "Uhip to Olean NUo, where .. I. d.rect do-n the va,,ey o p '. .""rr. "" T' 11' "" "" ""^ ^* -• '" ..> f..r .o K.XK1." ,Knend,h.p „ ,, ^ /^ Z".'' T ' "/ '''^ *"'' ""'l " ''''cnbed K*ndolph, which is on the Krie r r aboi.t ,„ m » .- , .. r„„.e of 5, ...de^cHbed th.,. . -. Reader, ;i:,;' ^tr,^""' "" "^ "• "' «'.«a,o hv V. -yand Kden Valley take r. f. On leavnA^en r ,"""^^h, .o m. Helween Water .":. Ver«,lle, ,, I. where road runs into that 1,^ are Z' ""'' """ ''"'"^'^ ^ "" ""v. w..iW . .n ..p steep h.„ and ride J .. down he",! ^^ her;',""' T7\ " ^' ''"^"X^^-*^ ""; "?'"■; ^ * -• '-- r^ayton t. r. ; then J n^ . 7 ' Tak" 1 ' ^ Mt"^* "'■ "'""' ^ ' "«""' nun and t. 1. a. next corner. Keep «une roi to L „„ I'';' ''""''-"''' T ^ « "w- .."d next t. r. and follow s.me road ,., Rando'. '• P "• ^ ^""^^''''K" ("' R""eV) t. r. ton 4 n.. beyond The whole route i, calle i ". ,^"^f "''K '» '^ >". from JiuflFalo, an.! Day. .- half is hilly. Hilly also is the ,ood .rave'i road leX!"'" *f '""" ""'^"' """^ ">' '«■ ■; ".. ; ",. 1. . m from star, ; also ,» m from F I '^ m '' ""^ ""y*™ '" kittle Valley yond New Albion." Cattaraugus. 5* m oT We ier ' t ' '"'°"' ^""^ -'' ^'- ^e "unkTk (see p. .0.,) may be reached by ,0 , w f r. m'n ' ""*"' '^ ' '="^ «"-' -". ...ul i m. beyotui :. 1. At Markham'sLke r f for'im T T' """ ^ "' ^' * ■"• ""'. «• '• ^ .hen t. r. on outskirts of village. On reaching Edward,', wl' ' f ''^''" ' ■"• """ '" '■ "> '«».. .. r and keep straight ro.l till level near .Sheridan .Lched" 'l""' ^'-^^-^ «• '• ^or i m.. then -n,ers,- and after J m. ,. ,. on main road. A ,e Vro,, ' ! , ^ '" '^ ' '' ""'' ' '°"' - "..nk.rk. Hy keepmg same mad straight from Sher^^ ^^"-ad take ..Wt. r.. and follow ; ". No village a. Edward's Corner, it go,": from n \ ? " "•"''*'' =" ^ '''»'-" of f-t. Wor.,t grade i.s U-tween Edward's CornrLdTm ,hrM I," ^"''"''' '"" «" ''-- '.^°° - may go ,0 „.. to N. Collins thus : " T r a ,d k.en m T '"'"" '''^'''''^ ^"^er. ; a guule-board. T 1. at Perrysbur- and keep on fralht . J" '""^ '"'""''' ^''^'^ "><- U,ere cross bridge and .. I. ; keep s.r ht on mj'l ", "^ ""'• "^^ ' '" ^^^-i"-. N Collins. This i. a roundabcL wa/ . "et^sbr ^ " T'''^'' "" '"''^ «"' '• - t" -ad which is 4 m. in length and h.li; b'v .Xeif i! '"' . '""" '''"^ "^" "-^ ^^--t r..n, N. Collins by a:, easier route, though ■ortr'hnh"""' k' T"' ""'' «° '" ^'^X'"" 'i.rec, road are a ollows : J m. out of Dayton tr i m h""" '^'""- ^'""'''"' ^- "- >"" Lave a steep coast, requiring a stronrbrake ,! P K '^ "■•' ""■'" """' * •"• "P •>'" and and should be taken if the tourist is in rhurrv"' "^ "'''■ '^'^ '" ' ^'^ «-vel road. ^ rnm Davton to Jamestown -,. ^ .u ' ■ -. i^ nearly s. until the N 7. 'p.^o 171: r^aTj' T'' ^""' "' """^- ' " '"^ «^-c. ■" J " ^•-om J. to Rand, Mh, ,7 m e '< keen h d' \ ^ ' "" ^""""""^ °" --" -ad '-;•• r." From J. to Sincliirvil^; 5' m ■ at Dex t"^ /? *^-"edy. and . m. beyond A. Oerry t. 1 and keep straight on. Road ^ery "lea t",' re " T \ TT'' "'*=" «■ ^• •eave by n. road, t. 1. at Randell Bridee Crr.. , '"^''^ ^- f™"" Kandolph ; - -d; t. 1. at school ho.^; an^keepX J^' Thr^ '^ '"' ^ '"^^ ""''"'^-^ ^^ longer but more level, from Ellington to Sincl L^l, V' ^ '"°"-^'' «°^ ''""^- ^ '""= -d hard road in dry weather." Dunkirk .b T "k"* """"" ' ^^-^^ =« -ry firrr. ;,'"e t I., then t r. up a hill, .hen in'm 't ■; f '^ iT^" 'r^r'/' '"" ^ " ^' ■^"-'-- f nun Jame,s,own to Mas^-ille 2, m therli ■ 1 ^^^ '' ^•'"^*" '• '• "'"'ght on " .■a^e; go«l dirt surface for L76^: "l aew^'tdT' r'""« "'%^- ^"''^'^ °' Cha'u.a. '■"-ly ndable stonv nvid for .h. ,^ „ ;...„_: .:^' '"'^ ^°'' '=-^' ^ ">• f^om Chautauqua : a - -ellent road near the n. side of th^ UkeHh^ugh SL'^n^'cSi';::^:: ^^'^ ^ (1 m XVII. KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CAVE.' The Blue-Grass region of Kentucky, so celebrated for its beauty, never had a better reason for feeling proud of its good-looks than on the opening week of summer in 1882, when I for the first time cast my eyes upon the same. May had been almost continuously damp and rainy until its very close, so that every sort of vegetation seemed as fresh and luxuriant us possible! The foliage of the trees— which do not often form thickly-interlacing "woods," but stand out alone in their individual majesty, as if some magnificent land- scape-gardener had designedly stationed them there to form the symmetrical landmarks and ornaments of an immense park — was brilliantly verdant; and the tall grass, which gives its peculiar name to that section of the .State, shone, if I may say so, wiih the bluest green imaginable. Great fields of grain, also,' waved beneath the breeze, in graceful emerald undulations, up and down the soft slopes of the hills ; and whitewashed fences " far along them shone " in the summer sunlight. Outside the towns and villages the houses were numerous enough to kjep the tourist assured that he was traveling in a settled country; but they were so neat and trim, and withal so scattered, n.s readily to har- monize with the fan -y that their inhabitants must be salaried " keepers of the BIuCiGrass Park," instead of ordinary farmers, who tilled the soil simply for the sake of securing such profit as they could wrest from its reluctant grasp. The time for sowing had gone by, ^nd the time for reaping had not come. There was no bustle or activity in the fields,— not " a shadow of man's ravage " anywhere. Nature was doing all the work; and a bles.scd atmosphere of peace, prosperity, and contentment seemed to pervade the landscape, for purpo.ses of spectacular display the 151ue-Grass Region w.is at its best; and not again in a do/en years would a bicycler who sought to explore it in sum- mer-time be lil-.ely to be favored with as cool and comfortable temperature as generally tavored me during the eight days while I pushed my wheel 340 m. among the Kentucky hills. .\ dutiful desire to " helji represent the East " in the third annual parade of the League had caused me to sojourn in Chicago for the last three day-, of spring, duiing which I u ade trial of its streets and park-roads to the extent of 75 m-; and then I took train for Cincinnati, in company with the club-men of that city returning from the parade, in *vhich their new uniforms of green vel- veteen had played so picturesque a part. None of the numerous bicyclers from various localities whom I talked with in Chicago had planned to prolong ^Froni T/u* IVh^fltMntt^ October. iSSi. nn. 3r> :t -'Th." u:ii.- „r tr . KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CA VE. 225 their vacations so as to include a little touring after the meet ^as over- but the rep, esentafves of Cincinnati and Louisville a.l agreed in assuring me 'that ,. I were .nd.v.dually ben. on taking a tour, I should act wisely in'choo tl' Kouucky for the scene of it. Some letters which a Frankt ,rt rider h.H cently contributed to one of the cycling weeklies, in prai of t^ oads oHh:; State, had Hrst awakened my interest .herein; and on finding these pi se justihed by the verbal reports of several others, whose explofation, fhT k -nd,v,d.ally short, covered in the aggregate a ,cod rnany mte ^7 ol ' t ennmed to make the Mammoth Cave the objective point of my spring tour I he alternatue plan which I had in mind when I went to Chicago w^ th"; of r,d.ng from Detro.t to Niagara along the Canadian sid. of Lake EnV and Um expcctmg to try the track during the approachirg October r8,Vn It was 9 o'clock of a Thursday forenoon, the first forenoon of June when I first go astr,de my b cycle, at the head of the so-called Lexington tur'npike .n the outskirts of Covmgton. about 3 m. from tne r. r. station! CincTn^t ' whence I had trundled .t along the sidewalks and over the big bridge, a'^ nchng I m. I stopped midway on a long hill, which would have been ridab e to the sumnm except for the recent rain, and took a look backward at 1 smoKy cuy below me. Erlanger. a railroad station 6 m. on. waa reached a n clock; and ,t ,s enshrined in my memory as the spot where rGerman serv..„t.g,„, observing me oiling the wheel, came out to inqui if I "ou M gnnd a pa.r of scssors for her mistress. For 3 m. beyond 'this point, or o he village of Florence, the mud continued to give occasional tfoub le but 1 yness .encef orth prevailed, and the road averaged better as to both sm;oth no. and hardness, so that in the next rj h. I covered the 9 m.. endinga a wretched httle mn .t Walton, where I stopped for lunch. Beyo;d Ts VV ,1 .mstown. .he county-seat. rS m.. and there I rested for the nigh't. at trd" bell House, whose accommodations, tliough very inferior, were said to btlw no means as bad as those offered by its rival, the Shermal I a^^^ed J ^ o clock, having been .\ h. in doing the last 13 m. from Chittenden and^e Si;t'™?.t t 'T 'T'' '''- ''' '■ '■ ^-'- ^^^^ T ^ ^;. , '^'^ *'"'>■ "'^'"'^ "^"1 •» Kentucky tc designate a mar ada.ued h.ghw^- or turnpike; and the Lexington pikc^'on wh h I bega mv sec ions of , b .n spoiled by the railroad men. These people agreed that .ch part, of the pike as were needed for their new line should be replaced b> a para lei roadway, just a. solidly and smoothly paved as the origina but y failed to keep their agreement, and the parts of the pike that'had \.Z de by hem supplied the poorest riding of the day. During the whole o I probably found not a single m. of continuously level surface ; but none o the grades were too steep for ridine when „.ii .a.»H -rv?! . •" ^.«n of a chan^d civilization, which chal'enged my ;t;enHonL ;:;;;; 7l2 ''I ft si ^ . .a 226 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. tered the State, was the number of people on horseback, going about their usual busines:, with bundles, bags, baskets, and farming implements, hitched to their saddles. They seemed to outnumber the people who drove in wagons or carriages ; whereas, in the East, a horseback-rider who is not simply a pleasure-seeker is a rare bird indeed. I found that these Kentucky steeds l)eing only half broken, were more inclined to take fright than any others known to my experience. So, having inadvertently caused one of them to hack against a fence and break his harness, a few hours after I began my tour, I generally made a practice of dismounting as they approached me. A bic)clcr who happened to be stayh.g at the hotel in WiUiamstown assured me that, ;is the next 25 m. of pike southward would be found very rough and hilly, I had I)est go by rail to Sadieville, and resume my tour at that point. On Friday forenoon, therefore, after riding i^ m. about the streets, for the entertainment of an admiring populace, I took train for the station named, and, mounting there zX ri o'clock, went up and then down a long hill, 2 m.i mostly afoot, unti' I reached a toll-gate, where I made a turn to the 1. and l. From h-re to the next toll-gate, 6^ m. beyond, I rode nearly all the way and made very few stops. I was now tairly in the Blue-Grass Region ; the' pike became exceedingly smooth, and in a little less than i h. I rolled over another section of it as long a» that last-named, and found myself at the court-house in Georgetown. The postmaster, tbo local editor, and " other prominent citi- zens" paid their respect- .0 m,e as ( partook of a lunch, and wished me good luck when I mountcti, at a quarter of 3 o'clock, for a ride to the court-house in Lexington, which I reached in i h. 40 min. This stretch was the best I -had yet encountered,-all of it being smooth and ridable, though continuously hilly,— and I made no stops, except for the sake of horses. At the end of every m. were guide-posts, showing the distances to both Georgetown and Lexuigton. The similitude of all this fine rolling country ta a vast park whereof I made mention at the outset, was perhaps nowhere more impressive' than m this particular section of it. I delayed a while in Lexington, to re- fresh myself with ices and fruit, and to talk with the president of the local bicycle club ; so that the clock indicated a quarter past 5 whci I resumed my saddle, with the intention of seeking a bed at the Shaker Settlement on rieasant Hill, 25 m. l^^yond. Thus far, since leaving Cincinnati, I had been traveling almost du • s.. but for the next 44 m., ending at rerrvville, my course lav in a s. v/. direction. All the mile-posts on this pike were neatly lettered tablets of iron, surmounted by the national eagle. The distances to Lexington, Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg, and I'erryville, were indicated on each post, if I rightly remember; and I could thus estimate the rapidity of my progress without stopping t.j consult the cyclometer. My watch showed me that lo min. was the average time spent between mile-posts. After procrress- ing for a while at this rate, I turned 1. at a fork in the roads, some little dis- tance beyond a toll-gate, in order to reach the !>ridge over the Kentucky river (tlie r -hanrl road "'f^"''' li-i"-* 1««--1 »--. ~ .-_:_.. ...i- . "* **'* **"' " i-*-""'t- V. .;crc j;ao->a^i^ na 5 to iiij luauu l)V KENTUCKY AND ITS AfAMMOTH CA VE. 227 ferry-boa^> ; but, before I reached it, the approach of darkness caused me to str.p nding. The road would be r>. pretty one by daylight, with overhanging rocks on one side and the river on the other; and there was an abundance of little springs and rivulets of clear water where the traveler might quench his thirst. Finally, after I had plodded along on foot for several miles, the moon came out and I resumed my riding. It was a quarter past 9 when I halted in front of the big white houses of the Shaker Settlement, whose long rows of windows glistened grimly in the moonlight. Not one of them was illumined from within, however, and not - somid mdicative of life could anywhere be heard. I had been told that a cer- t.ini one of the houses was accustomed to entertain strangers; but all the houses looked al-ke ; and the gloomy problem of deciding where best to make a beginnmg of the attempt to arouse some of these people from their beds, or their graves, proved too much for my courage. I turned my face away from the ghostly glare of the windows, and glanced up at the Man in the Moon, who kindly tipped a wink at me, as if to say, " I'll light the ro.-xd for you to Ilarrodsburg, which is only about 7 m. fm ther." So on I went, riding slowly, for the sake of safety, but riding all the way. One halt, I made, however, and devoted i h. to a vain search for the cap of my oil-can, which I carelessly dropped while lubricating the bearings. I laugh even now when I recall the solitariness of the incident. It seems funny to think of myself out there amid the Kentucky woods, persistently groping .-ibout in the limestone dust of the turnpike for a bit of brass which the rays of the midnight moon refused to reveal to me. The rattle of a carriage ap- proaching from the rear, for i or 2 m., as I jogged along towards Harrods- l)urg, supplied the first interruption to several hours of profound stillness. Allowing the vehicle to pass me, I entered the town in its wake, and was civilly directed by the driver to Curry's National Hotel, where, bv persistent ringings of the bell, I roused up the proprietor and effected an entrance. The clock indicated a quarter past 11, and my wheeling record for the day was a quarter more than 61 m. The spacious bed-room into which I was shown had n ) outer window, but I was too tired to dispute the landlord's assertion that " plenty of air came in from the hall-way, through the transom " ; or to ex- press any opinion of his inability to provide even so much as a glass of milk for my refreshment. Any sort of a resting-place seemed attractive ; so I took a big drink of water, and sank to sleep at once. T:ie next day I traveled hardly more than h.df as far, but had a much more wearisome time of it, on account of bad weather and inferior roads. The l;iuc-Grass Region was now all behind me. and as I left Ilarrodsburg, at a (piartcr before 10 o'clock, the appearance of the country was less attractive than on the day before, irrespective of the gloom produced by the threatening clouds, which soon brought a gentle shower of rain, wherefrom I took shelter in a roadside shed. A little later, I was overtaken bv .n still heavier shrs-fr. and could find no better protection than a big tree. The r, n did not Ir.st iM 228 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. lonp enough to greatly injure the limestone pike, however, and in 2 h. I had covered the 12 m. which brought me to the end of it at the little tavern in Perryville, in whose wooden walls are still embedded some of the cannon-shot fired in the !,a!tle of that name. This was fought on the 8th of October, 1862, between the armies of I5uell and Hragg, numbering perhaps 60,000 men alto- gether; and in no other conflict of the civil war was the proportion of killed and wounded greater than this. The official report of Major-General McCook, the commander of the First Corps of Buell's army, called it "the bloodiest battle of modern times for the number of troops engaged on our side " ; while General Bragg reported to the Richmond authorities, with equal literary awkwardness, " For the time engaged it was the severest and most desper- ately contested engagement within my knowledge." I took dinner at the little tavern, and was told there that I had already crossed over Crawford's Cave, from which issues a stream of very clear water, that has never been known to fail, even in the extremest seasons, when all the other springs have dried ly,. According to local tradition, it was the de- sire to control this particular spring which caused the two armies to tr\- con- clusions with one another here, though most of the fighting was done on Chaplin Hills, i m. or more away. None of the official reports in the "Re- bellion Record" give definite confirmation of this; but all agree that both armies were suffering from a scarcity of water, and that " the holding of cer- tain springs near Perryville " was considered by each an object of great strategic importance. I therefore wheeled backward on my course, in order to visit the cave and take a drink of these historic waters. I might have done this more conveniently in the forenoon, soon after passing the toll-gate and the post which said " 2 m. to Perryville," if only I had been advised to turn down the path to the r., just beyond the red brick house. Leaving the tavern again at 2 o'clock, I jogged along for i h. over a good gravel pike to the r. r. station at Brumfield. 4 m. ; and then another \ h over a rougher road, i\ m., to the toll-gate, where a heavv shower compelled a definite halt. There was a slight drizzle of r^in when I mounted again a^ 4.30 and rode with great difficulty, over a muddy and stonv track, for about 1 m. Then followed a similar distance of alternate walking and riding, during which several showers rained down upon me, without causing me "to halt- and then, i h. from the start, I reached a hill where I definitelv abandoned all pretense of attempting any further progress in the saddle. For the next 7 or 8 m. I continuously dragged my machine through deep mud or clambered with It over rough rocks, — stopping once in a while to dig the clav out from the forks, when it clogged them sufficiently to prevent the revolution of the wheels, — and on two occasions I was forced to wade through wide brooks. With the bicycle lifted high above my head. Even the brake-strap of mv I.am- son luggage-carrier was cut in two by the action of the grit and mud on the tire, and thenceforth my bundle bobbed up and down in a most exasperating J *" ■"■''* j'-"!-- r;:;aiiy, nowcvcr, inv Suiiuws bewail lo uc KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CA VE. ^i^ lightened a little by encountering some goodish bits of road ; and, spite of the darkness, I did considerable riding during the last 4 or 5 m., ending at Leba- non, which I knew to be my only attainable refuge for the night, when once 1 had turned my back on Perryville. It was while riding slowly up-hill in-the Jark, over some rough macadam, that a loose stone stopped my wheel and p.tchcd me over the handle-bar. I alighted squarely on my feet, however and my bicycle stood up squarely on its head, uninjured ; and this was the only tall that either of us had during that fortnight wherein we traveled 41c ni. together. The clock struck 9 when I entered the Norris House, in Leba- nu,>, and though this was a newer and larger and better-equipped establish- .ncnt than any of the other hotels as yet encountered by me in Kentucky I na, told that the time was too late for the su,,plying of anything whatever to cat. A . t-hour later, therefore, having made sure of the refreshment sup- pl.ed by u bath and a dry suit of clothes, I sallied out on the street in pursuit ut eatables. The most nourishing substances I could secure were crackers and cookies and ginger-snaps, which I found at the chief "grocery and drv- ;.;oods store " in the place, and which I managed to wash down by deep pota- t.ons of soda-water. Supplementing this luxurious repast by a dessert of con- tertionery, I felt sufficiently invigorated to clean off from my wheel all traces us 21 m.s' hard traveling from Perryville; though I cannot pretend that uheelmen in general would accept as a satisfactory sequel to so hard a jaunt as that, so slim a supper as that, even though it was the very best which money could buy in " the court-house town of Marion county " at 9 o'clock of a Saturday night in June. The pike came to its end at Greensburg, another county town, 25 m.s. w • and from that point the tourist must resort to a "dirt road," leading in a sim- ilar direction for a similar distance, in order to reach the Mammoth Cave Tutting together the rather meager testimony and decidedly contradictory be- liefs of various people of the hotel concerning this route, I decided that th» hrst half would supply quite as toilsome wheeling as the 20 m. just gonecver^ and that the last half wouk be quite imi)assable except on foot. I, there- tore, turned my course directly ;uvay from the Cave, and rode northward 9 m. to Springfield, thence northwestward 19 m. to Bardstown (both of these being county seats), thence southward i 5 m. to New I -mi, where I arrived just before 8 o'clock, having been a little less than 11 . . on the road. I was now about 15 m. w. of Lebanon, whence I started in the morning, and was no nearer the Cave than then ; for my day's course of 43 m. may be roughly de- scribed as bounding three sides uf a square. For the first h. out of Lebanon my riding was continuous, over a good gravel pike, somewhat hillv and wiwd- ini-; and then, at the end of the 5* m., a tew rods of loose stone 'had to be walked over. Another h. brought me to the court-house in Springfield, about 4 m.; whence I rode up a very long hill, and at the top of it had a verv long ■■' •• — ■:••:: :;-,:-c;jaLik, rciumiiig liuiu ciiurch. By this tm.e the heaviness produced by yesterday's rain had quite disappeared, and ^^m. 2J0 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the gravel track grew smoother as I advanced. I stopped i h. for dinner at the httle hamlet of Fredericktown. qJ m. from Springfield, and about the sanie distance from Hardstown, which I reached at 5 o'clock, after a ride of 2\ h. Dur.ng the first third of this time I rode without dismount, and cov cred 4 J m., mclud.ng ij m. of continuous up-hill work. The delay of 1 h caused by the sudden coming of a sharp shower at Bardstown, was improved ir tightening my steering-head; and then followed the best and prettiest ridinJ of the day. 15 m. of smooth gravel pike, much of it shaded and all of it on an up-grade or down-grade. From a bridge, near some kerosene barrels and machinery, where I stopped to drink, just before 7 o'clock. I rode without dis mount for i h.. 7 m.. to the New Haven House. Coasting might have hc^n indulged ,n here continuously, for at least i m.. though the occasional water- courses would have required care. The hotel presented a sadly curious co„. trast to Its better-known namesake in Connecticut; for its chambers were un carpeted, and its general aspect was extremely dirty ; but. as I finally man- aged to secure a washbowl and a pitcher of .vater and some towels, and as my bed proved to be free from the expected bugs. I was not disposed to re- Pine. So cool was the weather that during the forenoon of this day. as well as during the whole of the previous one. I kept my jacket on ; though that addition to my white-flannel riding-shirt was discarded for the rest of the tour The fifth day of this was the worst one yet known to mv four years' ex- perience as an explorer on the wheel. I awoke that Monday morning with such a disagreeable reminder of the fried ham which had formed so chief 1 part in my last night's supper that I dared not further outrage my stomach bv attempting a breakfast composed of the same inevitable dish. Starting off at a quarter of 6. therefore, with only a glass of milk to sustain me. I rode Si m. along a smooth pike of gravel (the first level one thus far encountered) through a manufacturing village, and to a bridge at the foot of a long ascent Here. I h. from the start, ended my good riding for the day; though short mounts were possible for the next 9 m., which I covered in about 3 h. Buffalo was the name of the village where I then took an hour's rest, and sought fur- ther nutriment as a substitute for breakfast. Crackers and cheese, washed down by- a mixture of four raw eggs, beaten up with sugar and water, repre- sented the utmost capacity of the village store as a restaurant, and the hos- pitable proprietor thereof refused to accept any money for the entertainment. But. at the store in Magnolia. 5 m. on, where noon found me, nothing what- ever of an eatable nature was to b. Procured. I was 2 h. on the wav, and Nvalked nearly all of it, beneath a L .zing sun. The region was rather barren and uninteresting, and two or three small brooks had to be forded. Soft stretches of sand alternated with rough sections of limestone, originally laid as a foundation for the long-aban .s made up"; and I was assured by everv on l" would not regret an inspection of it^- mysteries and marvels. This p ', true enough, of course ; but the most agreeable sight of all was that presen d bj the green trees, and blue sky. and bright sunshine, when I escap^f 1 the gloomy wonders of the Cave into the oj en light of day me tT t'"^ ''n'" " 5 °'"'"'' ""^ ^^ednesday morning, a ride of 3 h. brought me to Lx,u,sv. le; and. as I sat on the outside platform for the entire 85'. rather than subject myselt to the stifling air within, my white riding costume' which had been wa.shed during my day's visit to the Cave, grew somewhat gruny agam. Two of the Louisville riders accosted me on my wav up-town and. having directed me to a restaurant where breakfast could be secured' agreed to meet me there at .0 o'clock, and see me safely started on my east! ward course towards Frankfort. We really mounted about 10.30. and made our first stop for lemonade, at a wayside inn, 6 m. out, at a quarter past u At a similar distance beyond, w. refreshed ourselves at a brook, at the foot' ot a hill, and lay there under the trees for a farewell talk together. My com panions then turned homeward; and having watched them until they disap- peared on the crest of a distant hill, I cleaned and oiled my whed, strapped my jacket on the handle-bar (as the sun now shone forth warmly) and at a cuarter pa.st i o'clock started on for Simpsonville. u m. away. The villa.e hotel was not a large one, but I secured some bread and milk while I halted there, Irom 3.30 to 3.45 o'clock, and then rolled on, ^\ m. further, to Shelby- ^ 1 le, at 5. This is a county town of considerable local celebrity for its young ladies seniinaries; and the groups of school giris sauntering about the streets m their newly-made graduation gowns gave the place quite a gay and jaun.y appearance. Perhaps the unwonted spectacle unner^•ed me or made me careless, for I had a narrow escape from adding to their merriment by taking a plunge into the mud, as I toiled up a hill which a watering-cart had freely sprinkled; b-t the little wheel graciously dropped back to its proper place, and I made no dismount until the sign of "ice-cream and fruit" tempted me to J h. halt. The road, which had been gradually increasing in goodness the further I advanced from Louisville, was now very fine, and during the next 2 h. I had my swiftest spin of the day. .-ind rnver./i ,i,..c. , . "•• Alter a brief stop for water and oil, I rode in the gathering dusk till 8 KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CA VE. 233 o'clock, and then walked for i h. pretty continuously, including a 2 m. descent into Frankfort, until I reached my journey's end at liuhr's Hotel, 52^ m. from the start. The whole distance is composed of long up-grades or down-grades, Imt almost all of them are ridable, and there are few steep pitches. Some of the Ixjuisville men rocTe to Frankfort and back on a single day of the previ. ous winter, though they finished in a snow-storm, quite late in the evening. Leaving the capital city of Kentucky at 8.30 on Thursday morning, I reached Georgetown, 17 m., just at noon, and tarried for ij h. at the same restaurant which I had patronized the previous Friday. I was now again in the Hlue-Grass k>^gion, an-' -ny first 2 m. from the State House had led up- hill to a fork in th > pike, ;re the r.-hand road would have led me to Ver- sailles and Lexington, and so to Paris,— a somewhat less direct route to that l>lace, of perhaps 37 m. The distance from Georgetown to Paris is 16 m., and I reached there at a quarter before 5, having made one short stop at Centerville, 7 m. back. My route from Louisville to Paris had been almost due c. ; but I now turned to the n. e., and kept in that direction to the end at Va>sville. The I'urnell House, in Millersburg, where I stopped for the night (which, spite of its age, was the most comfortable country inn I found in the State), was reached at 6.20 o'clock, and was %\ m. from my stopping- place ni Paris. I was i h. 10 min. in doing the distance, which comprised the only level stretches I found in Kentucky. Otherwise the roads of the day were continuously hilly, but generally smooth; and the entire distance re- corded was 41^ m. The commencement exercises of Georgetown Colle-re seemed to have attracted thereto all the inhabitants of the region -oundabout, giving the place an unwonted bustle and activity; but I was told that the "graduating class " consisted of only two. Millcrsburg also boasts of an in- stitution of similar importance,— the Kentucky Wesleyan University,— but I neither saw nor heard anything of its graduation exercises. On the last day of iny tour I made the earliest start of the entire year, getting into the saddle at 5.10, and riding rapidly till 7, when I reached the Larue House, at Blue Lick Spring, 13 m., and stopped ijh. for breakfast. Then I rode up-grade pretty continuously for \ h., 3^ m., and rested at a toll- gate to quench my thirst and transfer my baggage from the handle-bar to my back. This change was needed to allow my coasting down-hill for the fol- lowing mile; and I had also indulged in considerable coasting before break- fast, and during that interval had emerged once more from the well-defined limits of the Blue-Grass Region. Being very hot when I reached the Oak Hall store, 9^ m. from Blue Lick, I bathed my face and drank profusely be- fore mounting again at 10.20 o'clock. T reached the water-trough and toll- gate at North F^ork, a distance of 7 m. by the cyclometer, 26 min. later, and this was by far the fastest spin of the day, or of any day yet known to my ex- ' pcrience. I was going down grade much of the time, and I ended by coasting at speed for more th.in i m= alone an onen windincr r.--.qf! -.1^!-..-.== .J.-... —. >. j curves could be seen for a long distance ahead. The grade was generally .!.,»-, 234 TE,Y THOUSAND Af/i^ES ON A BICYCLE. upward for the next h., during which I accomplished about 5 m. ; and then, on the stroke of noon, my wheel suddenly stitfened up and refused to obey the orders of the handle-bar. A careful oiling of all the parts proved no cure for the trouble, and after riding a few short stretches without regaining the ability to steer, I discovered that there was a crack in the steering-head, and that the severed pa: ts were kept in jilace only by pressure. I therefore trudged along carefully to Maysville, a distance of 2 m., and had the good fortune to reach the river there j-st in season to catch the i o'clock steam- boat for Cincinnati, about 60 m. below, where I disembarked some 7 h. later. My forenoon's record was 38 m. ; and, except for the accident, which upset my plan of crossing the Ohio river ind touring through the State of that name, I might perhaps have ridden an equal distance in the afternoon. The heat increased as the day advanced, Imwcver, and was very great for a few days following ; so perhaps I was lucky in being forced to end my tour when I reached the edge of Kentucky. I traversed 340 m. within its limits, or an average of i,2\ i for each of the eight days that I rode; and my total record then lacked only 100 of reaching 5,000 m. The next day, having packed off my bicycle in a freight car for the manafactory at Hartford, I took train homeward for New York. The possible pleasures of " bicycling in the ISlue Grass," and conquering the hills of northern Kentucky a-wheelback, I cannot too highly commend; but, to those riders whom this report may incline to follow in my trail, I vould offer a few words of caution. Bicyclers who seek the Mammoth Cave should not attempt to push their wheels any nearer to it than Louisville. The pike southward frc-i there to Bardstown, about 35 or 40 m., is said to supply good wheeling; and theiice eastward to Springfield, 19 m., I have described it as good. Between that point and Harrodsburg, 25 m.,'l know nothing of its character; but, if it chances to be passable, there will oe no break in the good riding to Lexington, 33 m., and Paris, 15 m., whence the return may be made directly w., through Georgetown, Frankfort, and Shelby- ville, to Louisville, 86 m.,— making a round trip of about 220 m. without repetition. If the road between Springfield and Harrodsburg is not good, the tourist making the round trip may cross from Lebanon to Brumfield, with the chance of finding the poorer half of those 16 m. more tolerable in dry weather and daylight than I found them in the night-time after a shower. Branch railroads co.inect both Bardstown and New Haven, which is 15 m. s., with the main line, whereby one may ride back to Louisville, or proceed onward to Cave City. The beautiful n. and s. pike of 11 m., connecting Lexington and Georgetown, may be considered as the base of two triangles,— the apex of the eastern one being at Paris, 15 or 16 m. away, and that of the western one being at Frankfort, 17 or 20 m. In other words, from either one of those four points a bicycler may make a trip of about 65 m. aroi nd the "double triangle," or a trip of 42 or 48 m. around one of the single triangles, iwif l^rtiif j-gT-jpif »j-\rr K =ui,uu*iic*i;i^ any ^uor pieces yi road, KENTUCKY AND ITS MAMMOTH CAVE. 235 or going outside the Hlue Grass Region. If a ride from Paris to Maysville and back (yo in.) be added tu the "round trip from Louisville," as already (kscribed, the whole tour will amount to a little more than 300 m. ; but I am -jre that any good rider could easily accomplish it within a week, and still hive several hours left in which to prolong it across the river into Indiana, whose roads, from New Albany, a -e smooth for quite a numlxir of miles. Definite confirmation of my final ren.ark is afforded in the following valuable report, pre- pircd for me by John M. Verhotff (b. Feb. 18, 1866), a student in the Louisville fligh School : • Indiana, rather than Kentucky, was the scene of my longest slraishtaway ride without dis- mount, and Oct. II, '8 was the date of it. Starting at the top of the hill in New Albany, at y.iS A. M., I made my first stop at the 31st m.-pos", • i. .3 p. m., a distance of 33 m. This was on tlie old road leading n. w. to Vincennes, 104 m. 1 m the ferry at New Albany, and only half the distance can be described by me. Stones have be .n put on only as far as Paoli, 42 m. from the ferry. From the center of Louisville, one should ride either through High av Hank st or I'crtKind av. about 4^ m. to the ferry at Portland, and then, after leaving the boat, climb the hill, ride one square 1., and follow State st. straight into the P.ioli pike. The mile-posts are w.HKlen, like those on the railroads, and the first of tnem (which will be met in 10 or .1 min by tlie first toll-gate) says ' 4. m. to Paoli,' I think this is a mistake, for all the other posts are numbered from New Albany, and the last one before entering Pad- is the ^gth. The ferry is I m. from the first post and toll-gate, so that the whole distance f. he river is 41 m Gr-en- Mile hill is met about 3 m. along the pike, and is the longest one on it, being a steady rise for ■ i m., with Mix^resville at the summit. Then follow Galena, at the 7th m.-post, Greenville at the loth. Palmyra, at the .7th, Fredericksburg between the J3d and 14th (I think), and Hardinv burg between the 27th and 28th. At the 3 ist is a stony hill, not easy to climb. It was this that forced my dismount on the long ride. The school house of Paoli is at the 39th, and the court h,.use \ m. beyond. The dirt road continues ridable so far as 1 have any knowledge of it, which IS to Prospect (10 m,), and there are good bridges over the creeks. West Baden and French I-.ck springs he about 2 m. from Prospect, on a road to the left. This pike is one of the smoothest leading out of L., and the 6 m. between Palmyra and F. is the smoothest section of it. " lo reach what is called the Corydon pike, leading s. w. from New Albany, you should fol- low .Main St., the second one from the river, to which it is parauel ; and you will soon come in sight of a large hill,-one of the Knobs. About 4 m below is Corydon hill, which is considered the hardest climbing in this region, for, though not steep, it has a steady rise for nearly tw- m ending at Edwardville, which is just over the tunnel and is the highest spot for miles around! Lmiesville is 6 m. on, and the pike ends at Corydon, i, m. from the start. The dirt road to U yandot Cave, 9 m. beyond, is said to be good, but I never tried it. A sulphur well m:.^ be seen, on the 1., ' where the palings are,' about i m. before reaching Corydon. The e and n mute from New Albany is through Spring st. to the Charlestown pike. After 7 m ride you will strike the pike leading from JefiFersonville to C, at a point 5^ m. from J, About ij m. before this, you wil! cross the pike leading from J. to Hamburg, 8 m. All these are rather rough. A dirt road continues on from Hamburg to Salem, said to be about 35 m. ; and a road from New Albany joins this at Hennettville (r. r.), where a sign says .0 m. to New Albany and . 1 m. to Jeffersonv.lle. I have found this road fairly good as far as Providence, or rather to a pmnt 20 m. from JefEersonville and within i m. of P. I turned back because, after crossing a creek two or three times (there are no bridges), I came to a ford too wide for easv passage. About J m. from J., on the way to Hamburg, a pike branches off r. to Cliariestown, '14 m but It IS very rouRih in places. Another road, called the Utica pike, runs along the river 7 m to Ltica, ana ;. ikes the aforesaid Chariestown pike about 2 m. from C. The dirt roads bevond T.. T..^rl'....°' the several caves near C, Barnett's is said to make the most attractive show- ••■i ■■• -.T!.-.ei:-.~. j: ::; : .... -.v., ana tr.c roaii uuiiici is liie bottom of a creek sometimes dry ' The n. e. pike out of Louisville, commonly called the river road, runs to the 15 m.-stone iftti ill ' .36 TEX THOl/SAXD MILES CN A BICYCLE. I at <;o.hen (18 m. from any home). OM .laniburij isi m. beymiu, uii a dirt r... ., and it alx. Ijr, i m. from Hall'i Landintj, on the river, lliu pike ii g kxI and sniootli as far ai HarriKl'a C.cek, at 7 m. -stone ; and beci: lie:, even smiKiiher, after cros-sing the r r. iheie. The hill, are steej) Init all ridable, and I like this sectmn the Ust because of its sm.H.thness. Near the <> m • stone, a k<1 pikc branches off to ilrownRljoru, (, or 7 m. ; and this route is preferable to the direct piKC which runs from Louisville (end of ^tory av.j to llrownslxiro (r. r ), ji m. At Worth- instoii, II m. from the start, after koo<1 riding up aiui Jown »ho hills, you see a toll.>..ate in the nii.Ulle, where the road forks. The 1. leadsto Urowtivboro, over smoother surface th.ui the first lliouKh there is a very lonK hill, J m. before reaching that village. A gixnl dirt road kad.s thence om. to Aiiita Springs, which is \ m. fn.m Ugrangc. The r. fork at Worllui.mun leads to Heard station on r. r. H m., and thence the pike continues g; it continued to Lawrenceburg (whence the m.ip sliows that n-.aiii roiids, probably pikes, extend n. to Frankfort, s. to HarriKl.sburg and e. to \\r- sailles). A dirt road goes from Mt. Eden to Little, 8^ m. (the tir:,i i„. or two so revered wiih stoULSns to be unridable), and will probably be some day competed as a pike to Normandy. " Louisville latUcs often drive out to the old reservoir, 5 m. n. e. ; and Reservoir av., the smooth pike leading thither, i- a contiiuuttion of South -.ll st. Tlie s. e. pike to liardstowi'i (40 m.), however, ranks next in wh-elnien's favor to the e. or Shell.-, ville pike ; and frequent -Icb runs are liad to the half-way point, M;. ■^Va.^iiington, 20 m., where dinner may be got at a h,,tel. An .xscent of i m. must be made to reach this, and the following m. is down grade. This liards- town pike begnL-i at the head of liaxter av,, and some of the first post offices along ii are Doup's Point, 4J m. ; Fern Creek, 7 m. beyond, and Fairmount, n\ m. from the strn. At the 17 m,- stone, is Hayes .Spring, whose 'vater is always cool enough to 'jo ref resiling, though ice may he procurer' f wished for, at the adjoining public house. At Doup's Point, the Taylorsville pike branch if 1. (n. e.), and is good straight along for 30 m. to its terminus at the little vill.i^'e called Little Mount, which is 6 m. beyond the court-house town that r ves the pike its name. I consider the best stretch on this pike the 7 m. from Jeflersontown (.ilso called lirunersliAvi.) to Fisherville, entrance into which is by a long de.scent. This is 15 m. from Taylorsville; and at the first toll-g;,te just beyond the creek another good pike branches 1, to Finchville, about 9 m. Doth roads at the fork, which is reached in about 5 m., lead to F., but the 1. road is i n shorter, as the r. road strikes the Sheibyville and Taylorsville pike, about i m. from F., and you must ride n. on this to where the other cue strikes. The fact that I once went to F. and pan of the way back without dismount, mostly at a lo-m. pace, shows the goodness of the road. Fnnn Little >rouiit a pike runs w. through Normandy (r. r.), striking tl e Taylorsville piiie somewhere near Wils(mville, about Sj m. It seemed rough on the dark n- ;ht wl en I tramped it with my 1.. u..* X. piKe are 2 m. 01 grfiti KENTUCKY AND ITS AfAAf.XrOTH CAIE. 237 ruhng, A wcnnrt l.ranch 1. fn.m the Ilardstown pike i. the Witerf„rd, 8 m long and all ridable l.ut liJvinK I.M. many rouRh places 1.. be called exceHent. It bcKiiw at the f.n.t ,.f Mt. WashinE. Ion hill, aUnit iS m. fr..m home. In the only trip I ever t.K.k fr,.m Wat-rf, l.l.rectly to Taylors villi-, (, m, I found muddy roa.U an.l two or three creeks to be croswd. Indeed, the road itwlf in I'liim .reek, »..me of the w.,y j and I went over the meadow, ; my final m to T. The third •iiid last >rai,ch I. from th. l!.ir<;*lown pike ix the one to HliK)mfield (r. r.), , , m It turtis ofT e ,.' Steve I, •, house (which i, ,1, m. bcs„nd the village of Smithville and .5 m. from Hardv low,,- and It h.« a k.kkI surface, with few hills.-the village of Knirf.cid being about half-way A lil.H.nheld bicycler told me he wheeled thence to I^.uisviUe (jS n.) in j h., beatinK the train whose schedule time for the 57 m., with Mops at every station, is also 3 h. I was told, fw, thai a s) '.nilKl pike extended from II. to C'haj>lin. ' The direct p,ke to Newberg, 8 m. s e. from Louisvill,., starting from Barrett av is hilly ana usu.lly rough. A belter route to th, ,ame place is the Poplar Level p,ke, which starts x I .inipbell St. The pike to Shepherdsville (r. r). jo m., runs ,. from Shelby st. (Preston st ioins 'I, . at the first t..i. ^ate). anedded in its surface, hut I ! id no trouble in steering between them. A ma.i there said that the distance from the river to 1 liiabethtown was 24 m.. and other people agreed with him ; but I only went about half-w.iy. for the snow be- .spn (ailing at Red Hill (35 m. from home), and so I pushed alon? a dirt road on the r to the station i\ m. and took the train lack. The last of the Louisville pikes is the Cane Run ro.id starting near Eighteenth St., in the s. w. part of the city, and extending to the river, at the 7 m. -stone, where a ferry makes connection with Bridgeport, Indiana. " Th' roads which I have thus described for you are in 5 counties of Ind. and 9 of Ky , but I have never ridden a bicycle to a point more than 50 or 60 m. from h-mt. .\ ' -4o not -et out of school until 1.30 P. v., it is only on Saturdays that I car. take all-day i 50 ;o 80 m., and explore new roads beyond the familiar 20-m. radius to which a .ng is re- stricted. I have now (Nov. 12, '84) covered about 36.) m. of pike ,-nd fron ^ m. of dirt road. Since Sept. 2, '83, my 48-in. Expert has carried me about 3,300 m. I have a McDonnell cyclometer and Duryea saddle, but carry no bsll. In measuring short distance*, or to ,oi, ^ve the lonesomenes.s of night riding, I count the revolutions of the wheel, 420 to the m. I rarely dis- mount (or a skittish horse, even in regions where bicyrles are seldom seen ; for, by riding slowly and talking to the owner, I help accuston-, 'is animal to the machine. My height is 5 ft 4 in ' in my shoes, and I could easily ride a so-in. ■. heel, if I wished. Aside from mv straightaway of 31 m. on the Paoli pike, I may mention that I once rode from home to the 17 m.-stone on the Shelby^nlle pike and back again. 43 m., without dismount. Hy far the longest s'ay I ever made ni the saddle, however, was the .2 h. ending at 7.36 a. m. on Aug. 8, •34, during which my cyclometer recorded , ,4* m. The scene of this was Third St., which had recently been paved with Tnn,d.ad asphalt, for a distance of 2 m. , lacking an eighth. The early part .,f the night was cloudy, but the moon shone afterwards. M< anting at 7.31 P. M. of Aug. 7. I took a header about 20 mm. later, when I assume I had rid.-'en about 3* m., judging from the relation of the place where I fell to .ny starting-point. I jumped on quickly again, without looking at the cv- , , " " """'. ■■-.■ -^ - r: j;::::-.-.;::-. .jr r.:up ur.:;; 7.30 A. m. iiencc, i don't know the exact distance of this longest ' stay ' of mine, but it certainly exceeded no m." I b*! '"■M \m XVIII. ALONG THE POTOMAC* It was on the morning of October 23, iSSr, that I reached the famous river at Wilhamsport, though I :00k train fiom Ne.v York just a week before that, and stopped in Philadelphia for an afternoon's indulgence in an explora tion (23 m.) of the roads of Fairmount Park. The next forenoon (Oct. 17) I m de the acquaintance of Druid Hill Pa, k, Bsltimore, to the extent of 1 5 m. and then embarked on steamer for a patriotic pilgrimage to Yorktown, and three days' attendance there upon the centennial ceremonies in celebration of Co^n walhs's surrender. Forewarned of the deep sands characteristic of that re gion, I left my wheel behind, and on the 2.st took it by train to Frederick whence on the 22d I rode to Hagerstown, over the route described by" C W '' m B,. IVorlJ of July 29. The distance registered was 26^ m., and before starting I rode 6 m. in the environs of Frederick, in company with the editor of one of the local journals; his hated rival, who edits the opposition jour- nal being also a wheelman. I will not try to improve upon the " Notes from the Blue Ridge," supplied by "C. W." aforesaid, as satisfactorilv telling what I myself learned by that pleasant day's jaunt along the Old Xationa' P^kc across two mountain ranges, where the battle of South Mountain was fought (Sept. 14, 1862), of which some resident e\ j-witnesses gave me inierestinR descriptions. " C. W.'s " record of distances, being made from memory, did not coincide entirely with that of my cyclometer ; but the " notes," as a whole are an entirely proper guide for the tourist. He said, " I recommend the Bakuvin House as the best hotel in Maryland at which I have stopped"; and I most heartih support the recommendation, though " Bucephale " (ir de- scribiP- a trip down the Shenandoah Vallev, B. W., Nov. 25, 'Si) has s',oken superlatively fot a rival establishment there. New, clean, rnd good hotels in the Sou^h are so extremely scarce that I think it only fair to make a special point in favor of this one, wh! \ is unequivocally " the best," not only in Hagerstown, but in all that region. I found it incomparablv more clean and comfortable than two at least of the high-priced hotels in Baltimore - hereof I have knowledge; and its charge of $1 for supper and lodging was certain,/ as low as I ever expect to finn in the " lowest " hotel that I may be forced to take shelter in. The City Hotel, in Frederick, in every way inferior, charged $2 for supper, lodging, a.id breakfast, which was an advance on the price re- corded by "C. W." a few months before. Two headers, taker in quick succession, made memorable my lide to = FrG:r. :,vw l„^yUing iy.^id, June 23, July ,4, ,882, pp. 403-404, 441-442. ALONG THE POTOMAC. 239 Ffagerstown, — one caused by a stone on a down-grade, and the other by slipping the pedal while pushing up-hill, — for those were the only falls in my entire tour of 240 m. The next morning I reached the Taylor House in Williams- port a. 7.30, after a ride of } m., demanding only one dismount on account of road repairs. My register of the distance was sj m., though " C. W." calls it 7, which perhaps was nearer the truth. Delaying 1 h. for breakfast, I mounted upon the tow-path of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and proceeded westward, reaching Hancock, the first town, 25 m. on, soon after noon. He e i entered the Light House, as being the least squalid looking of several shabby lit'io taverns, and really dined quite sumptuousb- there; although I presume thai on any of^e-- day than Sunday I should not have fared as well, either in respect to food or clean table service or neatly dressed tablc-com- p.mions. Seven miles from Williamsport was the " slackwater " of more tluin \ m., where the tow-path was so rocky as even to make walking r; ther ditScult ; a. - r.i. beyond some more walking had to be resorted to, on ac- count of a >ck " of :anal boats. The rarity of moving boats, however, wr.s of coui.,e a great advantage; and with the two exceptions named, I .cde straight along to Hanco. - this be^ng my f .. really satisfactory experience of tow-patT w Heeling any V, here. " C. W.'s " knowledge of the path ended at Ha,-cock, but he expressed a belief that it would continue equally good to the end at Cumberland, some Co m. beyond. He cautioned me, however, about the difficulty of getting any thing to eat, as the whole region is v ery thinly in/iabited, with no public house of any sort between the two points named. I reiwembered his caution when I started on at 2 p. M.,but T did n't realize the force of it ; for I was fortified In- a good :!inne.,andbyu»e information that at a poir.t about half-way to Cumberland there was a privately owned "brick house " (tnost of the habi- tatirn.; of that region are log-and-mud cabins), where I couUl count on" getting handsomely taken care of for the night." The path, for the most part, con- tinued smooth and hard, and at 5.30 p. m., when dusk wa .osing in, I reached the designated point, 54 m. from Hagerstown. The r y hindrance of the afternoon was a long procession of boats that had b-cn " blocked " by the low water. The " brick house " of my hopes was a forlorn litMe abode ter- nble to look upon ; but " there I was," in the gathcrinrr gloom of He desert I had no option but to seek shelter or the night ; and this, after some demur, was granted me. 1 slept soundly the sleep of the ju.., .-.ft r assuming, by way of night-dress, my extra drawers, as well as shirt. This was a lu'-ky pre- caution, for it kept the bed-bugs from feeding upon me mu:h above mv ankles and elbows. Consequently, in t' a morning, I counted only one hundred and twenty-five bites upon my arms and feet. If the iuterestin,' ,„sects had had a fair show that night at mv entire anatomy, they would have doubtless made so picturesque a tresco of it as to cause "Captain Costentenus, the tattooed Greek," to turn pale with ep/y. The tow-path was unridable that morning because of a hard rain during II 1 - \ J40 /"/•;. \' TlfOUSAND ^f/L/CS O.V A lUCVCLE. ¥ the night. ;in.l ihc drops were dri/zlin- down dir'.mally as 1 inuiuhcd my iiuir scrd)al)lc " hrcakf.Lst " (the counterpart of my unspeakable "supper "of ih,. niKht litfoti). and fared for the nearest lock-house, thankful thai 1 had cs cajK-d with my life, but doubting; whether J ha.l i,est retrace my course or con- tinue towards CumlKrland. At i i.jo a. m. a canal boat b(jund in that direc- Hon f;ave me a chance to decide by juinpin.t; upon its deck. I staycvl thea- i 1... during; which there was a rogress .,f ;i m. ; the last m. bein^; through •, tunnel, which is impassable except on a boat, or just in the rear of the te u.i that draws a boat. Then .it 2,-y^ v. M..as the jiath seemed toler.ably dry. I junni>ed ashore and made my first motnit of the day, — knowing that darkness would stop my riding in less fh.-n 3 1... ami that I could find no rest until I reached Cumberland, jo m. away. The track was generally somewhat heavy on account of the rain, but there were some good stretches, and I coveted 9 111. in less than 1} h. At 6.15 i>. m. the darkness decided me to risk my neck no further, and I jumped d.nvn at the post labeled "C. \2\ m.." with 16 m.to Ihj- credit. An hour later, I stopped a few minutes at the "nine-mile lock" for a supper of crackers and milk, my " dinner" having consisted of a ipiart of canned poaches, which was the r)nly eatable thing I could buy at the lock- house just betnie enterin- the tunnel. .Son.c Hinty .apples and mildewed "candy" formed the rest of my tliet for that dreary d.ay. Practically, I h.ul c..;en nolhm- substantial since noon of the i)revious (Kiy at Hancock, and the v.ist and inexiiii-uishablc itching of the bed-bug bites added to my serenity, as at half-just 7 o'clock I plunged into the pitchy darkness which shut me off from Cumberland. Tb.e " nine-mile level " ending there formed the longest 9 m. known to my somewhat extended experience. S.avc for a lone canal-boat that I iKissed about the middle of the tramp, I saw not a thing and I heard not a thing suggestive of human life. The silence was as profound as the darknes.s. Not a r.oise, not a light, for the whole 9 m. Through the fog I could trace the course of the path for only a few rods ahead of me, and it really sceme.; as if no end would ever come to i^ Tracking matches, I could not even console myself liy examining watch and cyclometer. At times I had to toil Laboriously through the mud. At one place I had to guide my wheel over the narrow plank of a " w.-.ste-weir " which I could hardly see. But the general monotony of my progress was most oppressive. I lost all definite con- sciousness of time and space. The end came at last, however, when I trundled my wheel into the Queen City Hotel, at 10.30 i'. M.,and plunged into one of its bath-tubs. Too weary, after my long fast, to care for any food, I sent mv wet and spattered garments to the drying room, and betook myself to »v;d. thankful -hat the comforts of civilization were once more within my grasp. The hotel sterns to be the ;.ewest and best in town, and it is conducted by the Baltimore and (>hio Railroad Company, of whose station it forms a [xirt. Taking train at 10 the next forrnoon, I rode down to Harper's Ferry, with an idea of staying there all night, and on the following day pushing my wheel down the lower 60 m of the canal to Wafihirsctrin. whifh?.- I Ka.-i .-42^=7-.= f.-K.-^.n ALONG THE POTOAfAC. 241 mv bapRapc from Daltimore. n„t the room in ,», u- . ,. U..S served n.e was so intoleral.ly , l tl feared t.f' "'"'' ''""" -l.:.d as (he one a. the " I,rick house" ofi. '^"'-^""•^-^ might be '-. that " hotels " of some sort ex Med " '"""'"-• '"'^^"'"«' »^-- ;; ...i- further do... a..d H^Hh:;:;: ^^ i;: ^j. ::';;i^ '<"-^." ;-s. and rec,.irin. fre.nen?;;:;:: ^ I ^ ^J^LT^ 1"" ^^"''^ ">' Irss vile than the one I fled from an,l f J '^'=^^•"•^"1 by findmg a hotel ■-'v.wohonrs-stayatHar,iti:;;: ,:L;1';:;;;^'^^^^ ''-^^ •' i>'M;;ni.iccnt view of the Shenando- h ','''"'*- '""• wl'^-'ncc one may enjov .c.lur at that point. ''' '^''^"^"^'"''*^ '"'■"' ''""""ac valleys, which come to- 1-i.ll- of mud. .nnneroi^" '::;'::;;; ^'^^7-;. ndges of hard clay. 'I--Kh on account of the entirralle" "7^"^ ^'^"-"'^ h-' 'o be waded '-"> o-c of which r let vV s "i", 'T ' "' '"'" ''^ '"-^"^ "f ^ 'l<'-l.sonthehan.llcdKu)- Mthei. •'^ /'^^ water, soaking my roll of "■>— . Never du g Z ^T '^t'"^'' ^'''^ * Soon after the sta ll ■ "■"'" ' "'• '''''^""' -"^'^P. ^nd rarelv ^-^> -nc of m n u ne^l le i::" T,''"'"^ "" ^ ^•""'^' '-'-' ^- 4 or / ' I'- Toward the ch:;!^ tf^z h;"; e^r "" ""vr"'' ''■'"' '^''-'^^ -■^^'"--easc to the point of li 'blinl mc 1 "■'' " I '' ""'" ' '^•^-' '■-' "f '<-ks in the iusk of d r Tk at 6 r T'"!? "'.'"'^- ^^^^^''"S -"-P'- later, at lock 37. At , m f / ^'"'f'''''^ «" "^^ead and -^ '"■ f'-n the start, to lu.Lh on il^ a,:; i^ 2'^^ ' V ' ^'' ^^"^' ^^^^ -^'.'-.rthe(;reat I^alls, the time b .i„g . oil J^^^ •^'•' '"• °""''' '"'-k ""■ <-<>'"l-'Hlcling over the Te t o m to r ' ' "■'"""T- ' "'''^ ""^^'"''•^ "•■"'was smoothly macadamized 7 ?,'"•/'' /."-'"'■R'^"'wn bridge, though the '- n"in«. This^nT Zrtr ot'':/ -'''r:'' ^— PP'^ed'exce.. "i«l'ts hofore, which ended Tc T ■""^'' '^°'^^^^''' ''^^ 'hat of two "■■'">■ v.-^ii>.e;a„d ;i ::' i^au::': t;::, t "'^"r "^■^'^^^ -^°^' '-- ^- -""as [struck the gas-lighted aloTah , '"^ "" '^' "'''^- ^« ^V.nndcv's Iforel, where fra her s-m id T^ ""' '""'^ '" "'"'^""^ --^'^'^'^ ^« ••'^';'v - pay for Lny ac:c:::^^ ^^^^;^ ^^ ' -'t' " """"' "'>• •'^•iKounerof the baggage which had 1.. '^"^^i "'ade myself known '■"' "K- --«°-ted by a bail, by certain banks ot MaryLd TS 1" r hT'i ' "''' "^ ^ '^'^^ part of it. vL should con,pl..te the work. Solr ftm bein/a Lde'r^ '" ""' ™ ^''"''"■■°" "^^« '^-'^ pr<,peny for many years, yielding as much" ^.o p"r cent T' " "T'' '" *" '^ '"°^' '"-«'« yield.d no more than . or 3 per cent. T e "an b . y ^e^Fedl;:;^ ^ °' '"" ^^^ "^^' " "=» to .\taryland some time ago, and the tolls beLL , ? government was transferred has been acquired by .he'coun.ts of AtS^ranYS^t'^^^^f.^^ '" "''""" "^= "^^^ ^"' '' Cumberland, the road partly follows the rtute of Gener^ d" T\ \' ^'^ " '""'■ ^"' "' old mile-stone at Frostbur^ The old iron !; ,\^ ■'^'^°''^' "'^o has left an interesting houses, the splendid bridg^, and th iron H-^f '''"' despoiled, but the uniform toll The coaches ceased runnfng in 1 Ihl '' T"'°"' ''°" '°" ^"^'^ "^ '^'^-P'"-' -as. before that, a .oca. paper 'ha a ': ^ he passl rtr r'^'T " '"'^^""^- ^"^ ^^- was immense, and the agents' reports ..ow tTaTf o': hT: tTtVe Llh'oT M '"1 1'"' "'' of persons carried was 2,586.' There were some.lm . , '^'^'■'''' "'^ ""'"'«••'■ day.-belonging to the iva. lines 7une Drrrf" 'r'^' ''""'"' "^^'''^^ "^^ canvas-covered wagons drawn by s U o! tje.v trsjwitht" Tu '.^^''^'-'^V.-there were .he cattle and sheep were never out of sigh VV^r^'^m le ofTh , t °^" ''"^ ^°"^'^' =""^ ness but on the highway the traffic was as den^ anH "■" '^' '"""'^^ ^ ^ ""'^«^- large town. Some of the passed were as Z continuous as in the main street of a mountains were as wild. ^^.2iCuZZZZZ7 ""' T'J" ''' ''^™ ^^^^'^^^ -'^ ^^^ ot pines, the branches of which were so int"™ "'^.^l^'l '^''"'^ ^''" extraordinary growth ^^omi. prevaning darkness the ^^ rXdl" 4resTl>tr ^^^^ "" ^^"«^'' ^ u. <- BwSd^rs;^z^::r:rh,^::n;^- ^^^ ,. r -Jt ^^^" °' borders with ,ulip-pop,ars and the blossoming bcussv^wrfil T,." """' '"' "''^''^^ "" Roman highway buried under the farm >ands!fZ and could M '" ^"' '"'^^"^" ^ ac.vi.y of Its past than this. The winding. l.hZf ,T """■' '" '°""^'" ^'"^ 'he ere. of the hil. we saw the Midd.etol va ,ey be,:: ^I '^^sla "" '""'^"- ^"^'"'"^ •''^■ beautiful a reach of country as the world mn J n ^^ "^ P'°'P"' ^"'^ *^ f^""^ and uninteresting, save for the canaciL7 1 "' , '""^ Hagerstown the road is .eve. and time h,. lef.';tanding. On oT e Li f^r: ""^'l' '" ''^"^^' "'^ ^'^^'^ -'^ -"^-ies which t'.^- af .noon we reached C ear Spnng a„'oTd"f "h 7m,"" "°'-^"*' "'^'"^'='^-- ^ate in mountains. Between that poTrtLVaLlk tt'" d '^ ",!'^ •'°" °^ another range of pass, s of the Sierras. At the beginning ofT ./ aPP-aches m beauty the grandest sugar maples. As the grade increa " ,he nine "J ? " °^^^--'^'=d -''h oaks, chestnuts and Rreens are a.most a.one Th v ew e 'ands ndTh ' 'k \"' "'" "^ ""'"" ""= ''"'^^ -"" between which the read is lllZ ' , "^^ ""= '^"^''^'^ ^''^"''s and loftier foliage singularly even a ong thei cret Tt th^ ""1 ".Ir"" ^"^" ^^"^^' =""'' --"'-" waH .' ri-'' -■■6'" 01 iiusis iS6m.; and it hasnrnvp,) n«. ,f,ii t' " - '"•»-paiii. iheexact 4:' :' * m 244 TEX THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. broke ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, amid imposins ceremonials, on the Fourth of July, 182S ; but it is said never to have had even an approximately prosperous year (unless, pir- haps, 1S75, when A. P. (lorman was its president), and its fortunes have now reached a very low- ebb. Represe.itin;^ an expenditure of #17,000,000, It could not be sold for a tenth part oi i:< cost. Only about 300 boats now operate upon it, and though repairs will probably be kept up sulBclently to allow such w.iter-traffic for some years to come, the ultimate sale of the path, to fo'm the ro:id-bsd of a railway, seems to offer the only chancj by which its owners may get back any share of their money. A few individual cit'uens of Cumberland and other American towns hold stock in it, but the chief parties-in-interest are the State cf Maryl.-iiid, and the unlucky Il.-itish bondholders, in whose behalf Daniel H. Stewart, of England, now has a snit pendin}^ ((une 15, 'S5) in the United States Circtit Court, at Baltimore, praying for the appointment o( a receiver. The present president of the company is Col. L. V. Baughman ; and among thj othjr well-known men who have oficiaily served it in past years are ex-Gov. P. F. Thoma.^, Judge J. H. Gordon, and Gen. J. C. Clarke, now at the head of the Illinois Central R k. These facts were supplied to me by a wheelman of Cumberland, who took a 1000 m. tour, in the summer of '83, beginning and ending on the path of this canal. I r..et him on the same path, May 30, '84, and suggested the preparation of a record of his journey (printed in the Wheel, Aug. i). My informant, W. W. Daniell (b. March 16, 1854), rode a 50-in. Kxpert, .ind was accompanied, except on the final day, by A. E. Miller, of Shepherdstown, riding a4S-in. Standard Columbia. I am not aware that any other American bicyclers have yet pu.shed thc:r wheels as far as this, in one another's company. " Fine weather and smooth tow-path favored our first day's ride of 61 m. to Hancock, July 12. A week later, we proceeded down the path to Williamsport, and then went to Hagerstown, an afternoon ride of 32 m. (93). On 20th, through Funkstown, and Martiubburg to Uarksville, by good pike, 32 ni. (125); on 21st, to a country house in Clarke county, 46 m. (171), good n'.ke all the way ; on 23d, through Winchester and Strasburg iO Woodstock, 46 m. (217) ; on 24th, through New Market to Luray, 34 m. (25P, finishing just in time to escape a severe storm ; on _ th, retraced our course to Woodstock, 34 m. (285) ; on 27th, through Winchester and Berryvil.o to Hamilton, 60 m. (345), crossing tlie mountains by Snicker's gap, where sand and loo,sc sli:nes made the course very rough, thoiiLli good dirt road was found for final 10 m. ; on 28th, continued along a fair dirt road to White's ferry on the Po.omac, where we took the tow-path, and found tolerable riding to Washington, 46 m., whose asphalt we tried for 13 m. more (404). On August i, which was the warmest d.iy of all, we rode 36 m. to Baltimore, by the old post road through Bladensbnrg, which offered a terrible depth of sand ; and we added only 5 m. to our record (445) during our four days' stay in the city. On the 6th through Bel Air and Ha\Te de Grace to Elkton, 54 m. (499), finding the worst roads, with much sand, near the finish; on 7th through Wilmington and Chester, 10 Philadelphia, 57 m. (556),— crossing the ship canal to League Lslind, 4 m. beyond Chester, and having a splendid road thence to the finish. After our five days' visit in Philadelphia, tl:e record was as follows : 13th, by Lancaster pike to Greenland, 68 m. (624), all but the first if) 1:1, being very rough,— the dirt road by way of West Chester would have been better ; 14th, through Lancaster and Marietta to Steelton, 35 m. (659), fair dirt roads ; 15th, through Harrisburg ami Clarke's Ferry to Mexico, 50 m. (709), by poor and hilly roads, with a delay of several hours for rain; i6th, through MifHinand Lewistonto McVeightown, 27 m. (736), in spite of deepmud,and 12 ni. of the roughest road I ever cr, vied over with a bicycle (tow-path through the ' Lewiston narrows ') ; 17th, to Coflee Run, 40 m. (776), by stony and sandy road to Huntington, and thence by tow-path, which was better ; i8th, to Trough Creek Valley, 6 m., and 19th across some stony mountains, 9 m. beyond (791) ; 20th, through Everett to Bedford Springs, 28 m. (S19), rough and sandy except for the last 8 m. : 2:d, to Somerset, in the Alleghanies, 40 m. (S59), a rough climb, much sand, with . ->me good bits of riding ; 23d, after a hard forenoon's rain, went to Meyers- dale, 19 m. (S78) by sandy and muddy roads: 24th, across Little Savage mountain, by rough roads, badly washed by the rain, to Cumbet and, my starting point, 28 m. (906). The fine wr- [her of tlie acta, tempted me to wheel down the tow-path to Dam No. 6., and back, 102 m., ai-i .V report of the ride appeared in H» ' .. '4 ' Summary ' {Outing, Feb., 1884, p. 372)." ALONG THE POTOMAC. 245 ;;;;:n.T tr .^;r^: - -:-^ * ^- -^ -« ^^ ...e";:^^.^;; :• cr -. half, v'e^ ..„o.h ol . 't p 'wl, '.I'crT T^' °! ' "^ ^^ '^^ ''^-'-^ '' ...r days' rain. I„deed . sli-ht ra „ L7 ^.onsiderable mud, on account of ,I,ree or N.. ca,. .He ..h. we i:! ■H'';.:xt:ira:d t:::^dt ri '^^ '^°"" y '■" - °"^"'"- •Lnncr having been taken at Brownsville 2i m IZl ^ ' " '^ "' ^'* Concord,- iron, ,1... finish. We halted A 1, ^, yZ ,, "'/"'"Vhe start, and supper at Norwich. 3 m. --si,, up and down hill umi^we w r ti^^^^ '"^""^^ '- "'■-« -s co.uin- -..^^^,and,af.ersupperatSt.Clai7sv:lto^ :^ :,^^^^^^^^^^ - .". in , h. of ridin,, since the start at 6. o a. m T i last 1. h V "■•~'T'"' """"' -a .he whole road of ,he dav was verv koLi excen. ah T ' P""^""^' '"^•'' and Washington, O Havin. thus done L IT ""^ '"'""' ^''^''" ^-'"'^"^Re Wheeling, a,^o,;Mond,rlo3rh Si:.":. Wa ! ^^'^ <>ays. we rested over Sunday at ....on,-the roads hein, v^ .ood i-^^e of^ :::.i: ;;;r^r:h^:3:;.\:S!;;''^ ''- wtcwk dinner at Uarnesville -; m • na^.^,1 ,l„ u i- • ^" ">^ '3">, starting at 7 a. .v., h-ader, that thoiid' ab to r de' ,' V ''"'' >I„ ^^-.„A„ -I , _i _ ~ ther, was reached in just 4 h. from the start at Harlem Bridge, 23 m. away. 248 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ■■^P- [^* After a brief halt for lunch at a restaurant, I mounted almost stroke of noon, and rode i m. in lo min., lo the bridge spanning the little stream separating New York from Connecticut. I walked up the long M\d crooked hill, down which my wheel ran away with me three vcus bef jrr, ' • t the top I encountered the first snow and ice of the journ'-v Ti.i- ,•■ ,o. V .e much trouble, however, ncr did ether little patches of the V ^ eie met with at points further on; and though the frosty air of t! e early morning had now moderated enough to cause considerable surface mud, which spattered my jacket, the track did not grow slippery nor heavy and the relaxation of the frost hardly went beyond the point of smcihinJ off the sharp edges of the ruts and ridges. From the ui)per slope of the hiil s. of Greenwich << ti,c !-,>vc; slope of the hill s. of Mianus (at i o'clock <; m. from I'ort Chester), I lode without a dismount. Stamford, 3 m. on, was reached in } h.; and the bridge over the brook beyond Darien, 5 m., in another h. Here followed the sandiest places of the day, including several stretches which the frost had not stiffened sufficiently to be ridable, and it was 3.30 o'clock when I reached the bridge at Norwalk,— a little less than 4 m. Soon after crossing this I take the wrong road, to the 1., and go more than 2 m. before discovering my mistake, when, instead of retracing my track, I resort to cross-roads, and so reach Westport, with a record of 5 m. from Xorwalk, though the distance by the direct road is only 3 m. Dusk was settling down as I finished a good long drink at the town- pump, at about 445 o'clock, and I had no later chance to look at the cyclom- eter until 7.10, when I reached the Sterling House, in Bridgejjort, 11 m. on I rode nearly all this distance, spite of the darkness, making many dis- mounts, but having no falls. At Fairfield, however, where I should" have stopjjed for the night if I had seen any hotel, I managed to go astray, and so added a dCtour of i m. or more 10 my record before I got back on to the main track again. The 4 m. between this village and Bridgeport I remem- bered as being smooth and level on the occasion of my previous tour; and I should not otherwise have persisted in that final piece of night-riding.' My ride did not stop at the first hotel, however, for, as I found it too crowded to supply me with a suitable room, I proceeded J m. further on, to the Atlantic House, near the r. r. station, and was there satisfactorily taken care of for the night. It was then 7.30 o'clock, when I reached the finish,— a little less than 12 h. from the time of starting, and the distance covered was SSh m. (My McDonnell cyclometer, whose " shortage " I had found on pre- vious rides to vary from ^^ to ^ the true distance, fairly outdid itself on this occasion by registering only 30 m. !) On only half-a-dozen occasions have I ridden further in a single day, and I don't know that I ever rode further in 12 h. Considering the rough and hilly character of much of the road, I look upon this day's ride as one of the most creditable I ever accomjilished. There was a good breeze at my back during the day and "a ring round the mooii ai n;ght, though ihc iiglii oi iijac orb was not brilliant. In ii>70 1 WINTER WHEELING. 249 was engaged from 2 to 6 p. m., of November 10, and from 8 a. M. to 5 p. m., of the nth, in covering the 43 m. from Bridgeport to the r. r. station, near Pelham bridge. The Bi. World, a April 17, 1880, printed my -cport of this trip • aiui the same journal, of Nov. ij, 1880, gave an account of James Kevell's ride, from New Vork to Boston, showing that "on November 3d he rode from 5';th St. to Westport, 51^ m., over very sandy ro.ids, starting at 7 a. m " and i.rol)ably finishing about nightfall. He reported reaching .Stamford at 2 o'clock, which was the time I passed through there; and though he started :jii. earlier than I did, his starting-p,.int was 4 m. below the Harlem boule- vard, where I started. On the following forenoon I rode from Bridgeport to New Haven, 19 m being still favored with a slight breeze at my i,ack, as well as with' bright sunshine and crisp, cold air. Leaving the Atlantic House at 7.38 a. m., a ride of \ h. brought me to the flagpole in Stratford, 4.^ m., but it was almost t h. Liter when I reached the green in Milford, only i\ m. beyond, though I think 1 did but little walking. Near Stratford bridge, however, where the high tide had flooded the road, I was forced to walk two or three rods, in five or six inches of water, carrying my wheel high above my nead. For 2 m. beyond Milford, or to the little brook, where stands the plank saying "7 m.' to .New Haven," the riding continued fairly good. Then followed a straight >tretch of 5 m., through a sandy, deserted, and altogether uninteresting country,— perhaps the meanest section of the entire tour. I was i h. in getting over it; and I presume that in the summer-time nearly the whole distance would have to be done on foot. Summit av., on the hill which over- looks New Haven from the s., was reached in 3 h. from the start, the distance being i5i m. There I tarried long, admiring the dear, delightful scenes of the gl.id days gone by, and, at last, crossed the Congress av. bridge and speeded straight down the macadam to Church st., and so on to the green a:Kl city hall. Soon after this, having finished the 19th m., I stabled my steed at the house of tf lend with whom, by previous appointment. I spent the afternoon and ni„ .. I may sav here that the " siiorc road" from \Ve,t Haven to Milford, which I made trial of in 1879, was so sandy and hilly for 5 m. as to be no more ri lable than the dirot -oad. but was superior to the latter m that it allowed lue traveler to view, pretty continuously, the waters of the Sound. (See pp. 134, 13S, for later reports from these roads ) I he ne.xt day, November 23, I rode x^\ m. to Hartford, between 8.35 A. M. and 5.^5 V. M. My course was along Congress av.. Church st., and the sidewalk of W hitney av. to the hill at Lake Whitney, 3 m. in 24 min. ; thence without stop for almost 4 m., to the (>m. plank bevond Centerv He at 035 c-^clock. ^ n ideally smooth track of red clay extended thence on a level to the S-m. pi.ink, followed by 40 rods or so of black sidewalk to the foot of Mount Carmel, and then another stretch of clay, along which I rode untd I passed the lo-m. plank, and reached the top of the hill, where a sandy rut c?.uheu i!:-.- i;.;rd disa.ou.u 01 liic day at 10.20. Uurmg twenty minutes' halt --i\:A * ' ' ] i, 1 »So TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICVCLE. at this point I strapped my jacket on to the handle-bar. and did not a.su-«. ..aRam untd I finished the ride, after dark, though riders in oC.er sort, o vehicles acted as .f they were c-,ld. in spite of their heavy overcoats and la,. rob.s; and the snow was in sight all day long. I did not dismount a.ain or 3 m.. or until I had ascended the long hill and reached the store Cheshire Academy, at . , ,o o'clock. This was .4^ m. from the start, and hink that, by good luck. I might have made it all witho t a st.,p H J been going m the opposite tVection it would have been easi.. still t,', ,!„ this for I think none of the inclines toward the s. were nearly as difficult as .hose' which I managed to surmount. Notlnng but praise can be given to this val- cyroad between New Haven and Cl.cshi.e.-with .n attL.ive mouna r dge at a respectable distance on ei.hc side of it.-and a ride along it n the leafy month of June must be very dunning. (See later reports, p ,, ', Ju.st beyond the Academy I turned l..-instead of taking the dircc r.-l , n 1 oad. along winch I had the mi.sfor.une f, travel the previous Julv- thcn. i m. beyond, turned r. and rode due n. for about . m.. during .hid, passed the junction of the road where I mistakenly turned off in the suimncr I c.ond here I toiled along a straight, sundv ro.ul for nearly ^ in., much of it afoot, till I reached the ,8-m. plank, and factory beyond it. Mountin' then. I rode r-tty continuously for i h .ugh Plantsville to .Soutlnn-to; where at , o clock. I stoppe-iiii track " between the Kittery Navy- \ ;ud, in Maine, and the Brooklyn Navy-Vard, in New York," than he could do in an equal number of hours at a time of year when the ground was not fro/cn. The sun shone every day, and the air was clear and cold, but with a varying degree of intensity. On most of the days there was warmth enough to cause two or three hours of thawing, so that I usually encountered stretches of surface-mud, slush, and water in mv afternoon rides while in the early forenoon, until traffic had worn off the rough edges of the mud, slush, and water, which had been frozen during the night, the wheeling was dryer, but more diflicult. If the temperature of those twelve davs had uni- t irmly remained just low enough to prevent thawing, the roads of the whole Si.te of Massachusetts would have been in almost ideal trim for the touring bicycler. Of course, a dozen pleasant days in succession are less likely to be found in the winter than in the spring or autumn, and they are very unlikely ti) favor a region which is at the same time both frost-bound and free from a great depth of snow. Sfill, touring at any possible season is Jiable to be stopped by bad weather. We must all take our chances when we plan an-, sport for out-of-doors. And the peculiar delights which attach to spinning .-ilently across wide sweeps of territory, when Mother Earth is arrayed in her robes of white, are assuredly great enough to make t'-'e chances of a winter bicycle tour well worth the taking. A heavy snow-storm raged for 12 h., or more, on the 5th of January ; but on the 9th I again mounted " Number 234," and pushed through from West Springfield to Hartford in 5^ h., — the distance being 32 m., more than half of wnich belonged to a truck never previously explored by me. Leaving my beloved wheel at the manufactory, for its winter overhauling, I ran to the r. r. station just in time to jump on the express-train for New York ; and I felt properly proud of my suc:est in making st?ch a "close connection." A bit- ter blast blew sharply against my back on that final day of my winter wheeling, and the snow was deeper than that which 1 had encountered on previous days. Had I been proceeding northward in the teeth of such a wind I should have required nearer 10 h. than 5 h. for coverin, the same distance. The exercise kept me comfortably warm, spite of the frozen-up appearance pre- sented by other travelers ; and the rubber-overshoes, which enveloped my boots, served the additional purpose of tightening my grip on the pedals. As another great snow-storm raged on the following day, I had the satisfac- tion of knowing that I bad inade the best possible choice of time for taking the trip. I came all the way down on the e. side of the river, starting at 8.40 A. M., and dcing the first 10 m. to Enfield in 2 J h. Below here I had always . 254 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. before taken the tow-path, on the w. side. and. usually indeed, have kept ,o the w. s.de for the whole journey. The next 9 n,.. ending at East W 1 H,ll post-office. co,npr.sed the poorest riding of all. and required the di n > mg of one long h.ll and the ploughing through of much deep snow Thc.r" the ndmg was almost continuous, and was increasingly good until Hartford was reached; and I presume the track might prove a ndable one ev summer (I have smce found it so. and have learned of its being travel w.thout dismount by a very skilful rider,-a rumor of whose exploit w.s a luded to by me on p. 123.) ^'" Such was my first experience of winter wheeling ; and the record shows chat, jn the sixteen cays described, I covered nearly 400 m. of frozen ground including 225 m. of separate roadway, without mishap. The case is „e ' haps unusual enough to deserve thus detailing minutely, and the mi u^e • details that 1 have given must certainlv satisfy the most sceptical that the man on the bicycle resembles Death on the pale horse in at least this respect he has all seasons for his own. ' "Bradley's Driving and Wheeling Chart of Springfield ar-i Vicinity " (.0 by rS in , ,n ,„ • m., Aug. 'S5, mailed for 25 c. by the Milton Bradley Co ) exhibits ill \Cr 7 radius of Court Square, classified by lines of three thickn s'e '' Th he , "' r '" ' "° '"■ roads which connect points of importance and are s^i.S foTanv k^H '"""V" u""^ ' "=' l.nes. roads which are rather rough or hilly, though reg 1 1 T pt „ J b"7 ' '"'""" authority; the finest lines, wood roads or tracks which are n,.;,, T V7" '" '"""'' able for single carriages, though liable at ti.ntL be cLT i It::!!: '^Rt? ^"IT'" the b.cycle are indicated by lines of dashes, parallel to ,he reguKar road-Hnes and^- e^ ' lent roads, winch will oblige wheelmen ,0 take frequent walks bv ines o dV . '''V""""'- first nine letters of the alphabet are used to show ,h. of hashes and dots. The points where they leave th^ more a::^::^:. I ;:i^^Tc'i:"' w^l^^e n '"T7' ^' "•^■ 5S are used to show the most important junctions'of road th oughout he c„u Z^T^'" " '" .7-J.' Th'Lntio:T;p;rcf.imat,raTe'^:f'''e::^^^^ ■« - ^'^^-^^-v. spending wuh the time at comma n "h nd ated tnl r ] "7 '." "^ "'^"^ ^"""• pleasure by the use of cross-roads " The MVn t '"P« may be combmed or shortened at middle, allows the map to be opened like ,h 1 7 u '''' '" "^"'^"""S- '■•'""? >he the central fold, you havl a raXs of av , m i < ^ ' '"' ""'"'^"' *'"^ ""' ""'"'■ '" on the side fold In a .rirn or s whJn "u "". k"" '"T' "'" " '""^ "■ P-'""S^-- XX. IN THE DOWN-EAST F0»^^.^ " To curve on the outer edge " is said to be usually among the first of the noble ambitions which fire the soul of the tyro at the wheel. I cannot re- member that my own spirit was ever thrilled by any such vain longing, and I certainly have no desire in these later days to undertake any difficult or showy feats while in the saddle; but when the challenge came to me, that I attempt the outer curve on the very easternmost edge of these United States, — that i try driving my bicycle along the brink of the historic " jumping-off place of our national domain, without letting the same topple over into the dread- ful depths beyond, — my pride was so strongly appealed to that I felt power- less to say. No. I had previously pushed the wheel, in solitary st e, over about 3,000 m. of American roadway, and had ridden twice that distance alto- gether. On a few rare occasions, other riders had been with me for brief periods ; but I had become entirely convinced that bicycle touring was, for a man of my quiet tastes, pleasantest and most practicable when practiced alone. The distinctive charm of the thing is its freedom,— the chance it gives a man, who has " hitched the wings to his feet," to do exactly as he pleases ; to fly swiftly or to fly slowly, to cover many miles continuously or to make manv stops by the waysi.le, just as his own untrammeled fancy may dictate, — and this freedom is of course impaired by the presence of even a single com- panion, since his whims and freaks and desires cannot be presume to be identical with one's own for as much as the space of a day. I do not pretend to deny tl at, if one of my intimate friends were proved by long experience to be possessed of about the same riding capacity as myself— to enjoy wheeling the same number of miles a day which I do, and at about the san.^ average rate of speed— I might have more pleasure in making a week's tour with .lim than I could have in making it alone. The gain of his ,„npanionship migh more than offset the !oss of individual freedom; but -t best there wou. ! be some such loss, and, however agreeable th.- - ■•• .night be as a jal experience, it would necessarily fall short of t'-- ;iest ideal of bi- cycling. To ride faster than your wont, in o. 'er to keep up with .he oth-r man; to ride slower than you wish, in order that ht may keep op with you ; to .sturt and to stop, to ea': and to sleen, at the tim-s a.. ' ,ylaces which suit his impulse or convenience rather thai. _>our own --tht,c are the things which spoil the supreme sense of liberty such as-jffu.ses tije soul of the" solitary 'The last part of this is from Tht Sprinsfitld Whetlmtn'.'. C.^-xttte, July, 1885. ( H 256 TEA- THOUSAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. wheelman when he cuts loose from care and conventional obligations and glKles joyously away towards Iresh fields and pastures new In consenting, therefore, to be one of a large party that was organi.i,,. f r a week s exploration of the roads of " Way Down East." I entertained,"; lus.ons as to the prospect ahead of me. I anticipated that the ridin -."Id be slower and more tiresome and less interesting than if engage, a one. liut the novelty of taking a tour with so many other men waf a , winch seemed suHiaentlv pleasant to be worth making some sacrifice for the chance of reaiumgn, practice my theoretical conviction that the be t lii c^xhng must be nululged in solitarily, n>ade an irresi,tible appeal t n ' Thus. I went .nto the enterprise with much the same spirit as tLt whi h S^i" n " "f "rf ■ .'^"'""'^ "' "'-^' -^"-'^-- whin he went in •Sen.o Class of Harvard, and studied a year for its degree, "just to see fo hnn.sel what the blamed thing amounted to, anyhow." He expected al va to dKshke Harvard. w,th the enthusiasm proper to a loyal son of Yale, but wanted to have ,t ,n his power to intelligently defv all Harvard men uho m.ght venture to say that his prejudice was an ignorant one ! I, too, in si,„i- lar ash.on was glad to do some touring with a crowd, in order that no one m>ghtany longer be able to pretend that my preference for solitarv touring resulted from lack of personal experience; but I think I enjoved the excur s.on qu.te as well as anv of my fellow-tourists, and a good deal better thu, some o them. My extensive acquaintance with the general perils and n,'].- haps which overhang e^ery prolonged scheme of out-door nlcasuring and nv firm convct.on of the special discomforts which must result from attachin.^' \ crowd to anv such scheme, caused me to discount at the start all possible roubles. I was well prepared from the very outset to take a philosophic and humorous v.ew of the case, whatever might befall. The delavs and disnn- l-omtments and mischances which embittered and exasperated the others' i, much, apparently, as if the fogs and rains and blistering sunshine were abso- utely novel reaks of nature, unaccountably devised for their especial punish- ment) an old campaigner " like myself could afford to accept with a snnlin^ ace and an equal mind. I feel sorrv for the man who has no capacitv fo^ bemg amused at contemplating the supremely effective wav in which a given b, of bad weather has suppressed his own most elaborate and cherished schemes for out-door amu.scment ! That alternative chance for enjovmen* i. by me always held in reserve, as an essential part of the game ! Thr-.e was somethmg very ludicrous, therefore, about the doleful face, -f my tellow- suffcrers, as they peered into mine through the fog, day aft.r da^, and petu- lantly wondered if there would ever be an end to it." And, w-hen the end of It came there was something still more ludicrous about the dismal vigor w,th which they mopped the sweat from their brows, a H cried aloud for the return of the fog, that it might mercifully ward off th. bbzing rays of the sun ! At the last, however, "all ended happily- and I thini. that all, or nearlv all, the tourists returned to their homes in the happy belief that they had "had a IN THE DOWN-EAST FOGS. 257 ;ooJ lime anyhow," spite of the fogs and spite of their failure to indulge in iiKiiiy miles of bicycling. The tour was planned and carried through by one of the younger proprietors '.f the Porthind Transcript, whose patriotic desire to remove the prevalent im- pression that "there are no good roads in Maine" led iiim to pr, pare an article for the IV/uvlman (February, 1883), "sketching a route in the extreme eastern part of the Pine Tree State, embracing excellent roads, grand scL-nery, good hotels, and a climate that, during the summer months,' cannot 1.C surpassed for its delightful coolness. What more can be desired'" a.ked he. " Will not tho : wheelmen who would like to organize a summer party to open up th,s region, as yet unexplored by bicycles, correspond with n.c and agree upon a date and other details .' Come East ! good friends ; come i:ast ! " The responses to this appeal were soon numerous enou-h to' show tl.at a party could be formed; and a six days' route was therefore planned ... It, begmnmg at Eastport on Tuesday morning, June 19, and ending at Machiasport on Sunday evening. Between those objective points and I'ort- land the party were to be carried by steamer, so that the entire excursion was to occupy exactly a week, beginning and ending on a Monday evenin- A lonnal circular was issued on the 20th of April, announcing these "facts U-vmg full details of each dav's riding, and n.uning Sco and 325 as the possi-' hie limits of expense; and, at the conclusion of negotiations with the steam- ship agents and local hotel-keepers, a second circular definitely informed each participant that he would be expected, on startin,- from Portland to pay >22 to the treasurer of the expedition, which sum would cover all expenses until the return to that city, a week later. A final assessment of ^, each however, had to be made to satisfy the extra costs of the rains and fogs for these compelled the whole party to be draggca a dozen miles by horse-power on the hrst day, to i ide twice that distance in a steam-tug on the second dav and again on the third, and to solace themselves by music and dancing during the intermediate night. There were thirty-six men in the cavalcade which astonished the natives '>t Kastport, that cloudy Tuesday morning, and silently sped along the main street and up the hill and so out into the country, bevond tlie gaze of the acimirmg multitude which had crowded the sidewalks and filled the windows i.ul doorways. Three only were from Portland : the organizer and com- mander of the expedition, the treasurer, and the inventor of many ingenious devices dear to bicyclers-who now appeared in the role of an amateur pho- tosrapner. Maine, however, had one other representative, in the person of a student from the State Agricultural College, the son of an ex-Covernor, and >.ic youngest member of the party, yet at the same time one of the tallest and •■no of our most persistent and reckless riders. New Hampshire sent a pair "t • American Star " men who drove their peculiar machines (the " Star •' has Its httle wheel in front) into Portland, a distance of 45 m. from home, over a rather inferior roadway, in less than 7 h. of the forenoor. of the start I: I: ;|,.. 258 TEjV thousand .\fILES ON A BICYCLE. Nova Scotia also had two representatives, who joined the party at Eastport • while Wisconsin, Connecticut, New Vorii and Pennsylvania each had one — the latter being a Philadelphia lawyer and the heaviest rider of all. I myself was the only New Yorker. The remaining twenty-four were Massachusetts men, residing within a radius of 40 m. fr-jm Boston, and a half-dozen of them residing in that city. Among these men from the Hub was the literary editor of the Whcelm.in, a graduate the previous summer from an Illinois college, whose report in that magazine (Jan. and Feb., 1884, pp. 243-254, 338-347) may be considered the " official history " of the expedition ; and also the special artist— an Englishman of twice his age— whose spirited sketches help enliven the aforesaid history. The artist rode in a carriage, which he usua'lv kept in the wake of the rear-guard; for, though a good comrade when the pro- cession was not in motion, he was not a bicycler except in sympathv. The character of representative Bostonian, however, should probably be attributed to the President of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, a middle-aged lawyer, who took to the wi-eel quite disconsolately in 18S0, as a rather doubtful pro- tector against slowly-declining health, "when ])hysicians were in vain"; and who distinguished himself on the 28th of September, 1882, by riding iiS m., between 4.52 A. M. and 10.30 p. m.,— a period whereof 12 h. 41 min. were spent in the saddle and the other 5 h. in resting, — the final 20 m. being ridden in ihe dark and 10 of them in a rain-storm. The " champion " roadster of our party, however, was a sturdily-built Worcester man, only a little past his majoritv, who in November, iSS_-, took a ride of 179 m., beginning and cndin;' at Stnith Framingham at 5 P. M. ; and who also took another ride straight across the country from Worcester to Boston without leaving his saddle, though the distance considr 1 ably exceeded 40 m., and the first half of the course was by no means a level or smooth one. (See p. in.) In October. 1SS3, a road-race of 100 m., in the region around Boston, was won by him in 9j h. ; and a track-race of 100 m., in a park at Washington, in less than 7^ h. We also boasted of a Methodist clergyman who had recently ridden 50 ni. in 5} h., in making a round trip between his home and Boston, and who on a previous occasion had done So m. in a day. Our party, furthermore, com- prised two or three editors or newspaper-men, a physician, a mechanic.il engineer, a manufacturing jeweler, a hotel-keeper, a shoemaker, a travelin-; agent for gravestones, a bank-teller, a private secretary, a book-keei)er and tradesmen, .salesmen and clerks of various sorts. As regards age, all save three had passed their majoritv, and those were in their twentieth vear ; fifteen had entered their third decade, a, id the average of the entire party exceeded 29 years. Our oldest member, who was in his 42d year, was also our lightest one, weighing but 1 15 lbs., while our heaviest man tipped the scales at 182 lbs. A dozen of the party were married, and there were eight who used eye-glp.sses, though only half that number wore their specta- cles continuously while riding. The "average diameter" of the wheels was 53 in.,— the largest actual diameter being 58 and the smallest being 46. IN THE D01V\~EAST FOGS. 259 JiHt half the party rode si^es between 50 and 52 ; there was only a single 48, and only a pair of sS's. The " big Injuns " who drove the latter respectively represented Milwaukee. Wis., and Windsor, N. S. My own venerable bicy- cle was the littlest of all ; but I must be allowed here to boast in its behalf that it had seen far more service than any of the awe-inspiring giants which towered magnificent inches above it, and had probably traversed more distinct miles of American roadway than could be described by combining the road- records of the whole thirty-four of them ! The matter of introductions and acquaintance-making was facilitated by distributing a printed list of the names and residences of the " participan'ts,'" who were otherwise described as the " Portland Bicycle Club and Invited Guests "; and the same card also contained an outline-map of the section of country to be traversed and a brief description of each day's route. Most of tlie "guests" had gone to Portland by train or boat, in advance of June 18, in accordance with the wish of the local riders, who devoted that day to showing them th» honors of their city. I have already said that the two New Hampshire men rode thither on their wheels; and several of those from Massachusetts also engaged in some touring on the way, though they finished by train, as the roads for 50 or 60 m. southwestwardly from Portland arc too soft and rough for pleasant riding. I myself, in leaving New York, wheeled up the e. bank of the river as far as Hudson (taking train over the bad intermediate stretch from Tarrytown to Fishkill ; see p. 105), .and, sev- eral days later, on the i6th and 17th, from Spil' 1 to Hoston'(see p.'iio). I rode upwards of 58 m. on the latter day, anu ,,Mugh he first-half of the course was rather difficult, I felt in excellent trim ne.xt n.ornirg when I em- lurked at 8 o'clock on the International Line steamer, wher, I found five other of the " invited guests " ready to sail with me for Portland. We reached there at 4 w M., and as the boat was to make a two hours' delay, some of us strolled ashore, to inspect the city a little and introduce ourselves to the main body ot the excursionists. These straggled down to the dock as 6 o'clock ap- proached, with bags and baggage dangling from their hands or handle-b.ars, and duly bestowed their wheels and persons in the appointed places about the boat. No vain attempt was m.ade to impress the 'longshoremen and whaif-hands with the splendor of the occasion, bv " riding down to the steamer in a body "; but the Portland Bicycle Club kept up their escort duties till the last, finishing with many cheers .and congratulatory outcri. s as the boat finally moved off, with three of their number and thirty of their "united guests" responding gayly from the upper deck. The gayety was Tiot very long continued, however, for at the conclusion of a veiv lively sup- per, some of the bold bicyclers began to grow seasick ; and those who con- greg.ited on the upper deck, to smoke and chat, could not help having their spirits somewhat dampened by the overcast skv. which plainly threatened bad weather for the morrow. Then, too, the captain appeared, with solemn face, to warn us that we had Death for a fellow-passenger,— a lady who em- 26o TEX THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. l)arked at I'ortland in ajjparcnt health and vigor having suddenly expired when .she reached her state-rooin. \Vc were ([uite (|uiet alter that, and so(iii took to our beds. Kastport, the extreme eastern port of the United States, stnnds on an island perhaps 5111. long, connected by a short bridge with the mainland ot Maine, and lying opposite the much larger island of Campobello, whicli belongs to New Brunswick. When we disembarked there, at a little after S o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, June 19, there was no need that our pair of rival buglers should announce the fact by "calling the as.sembly " in clarion blasts. The fact of the tour had been announced and reiterated for several weeks preceding by all the local papers of that part of the State, and the inhabitants of the whole region round about had at that eariv hour fiixked into the town to d,i us reverence. They were very gooc'-natnred and deferential and anxious tojilease this mir.iculously-mounted body of invader^, at the same time that they gra'ilieil iln-ir curiosity cimccrning them; an,l the-r only repret seemed to attach to the necessarily transitory nature of the e.xhijitinn. which, as one of th( m said, " was ten times more fim than anv circ IS that nvei came to Kastport. ' \ot a few prolonged their enjovment of »he novel spectacle bv following the procession in carriages for rpaite a dis- tance out of the village. Three and a half miles out at ic o'clock, \ h. from the stait, tie firs; halt was sounded, en a hi.l-top, and the photographer tcok l)is " l-st shot" at the intelligent visages of his fellow-cyclers. Hi. seemingly u.idue haste, in thus beginning lield-practice with the amateur camera, proved in f.act to be a consummate di.splay of foresight,— a wise dU- counting of the probable pitfalls ahead, -tor this was really the latest po.ssible period ot the tour at \.hicii the entire party could offer for photographic per- petuation a set of faces which \v."-e unscarred. The ascent to the hill had been gradual, but the descent was more abrupt (so steep it seemed to me. indeed, in riding down, that whc.., tv^o days later, on the return trip, I round [ had ridden to the top of it, I almost doubted its identity), and at uie foo. of the hill was a little ''corduroy bridge," or water- course rudely made of logs, the si.les of which were not well banked with earth. I remember that I sat well back and took a tremendous jolt as i bounded acio it ; so 1 was mt surprised to soon hear the whistle again call a halt and th word pass alou- to the front: "Man r)ff ; ba to cake the first fligl t over the iiandlc bar and plunge his h.^ 1 a.;ainst the " s.^riic -nd unyielding soil of .Maine." His nose -howeu *he .vorst effe s of the siioc' . for v ' led profusely and was l>retty thoroughly "skinned"- ,,ut, as no bones were broken, he decided n.>'. to abando.i the to.i% ti^ ough for the rest of thf. forenoon he was obliged t^i ride v.ith ; haiidkeirhief about his face :.« a inu.dage; and I believe he did rot shed th,- la-,- scra-s of ..ourtpla ^t,. r .ii.tH the very morning, eight dav.s later, when he wheehd loiiieward to the b.som of his family. This inifal /A' THE DOIVA'-EAST FOGS. 261 n. cdent caused a half-hour's delay ; and. at a hill-top about 4 m. further on -..n, erpass.HKthc v.llage of I'crry, there was another long stopple i„' ;.nler that the s.raggln.g rear-guard might have a chance to " catch up " I ere was a short slope on this hill, which no one w.s quite able to conque'r -ut I beheve there was no other grade of the whole forenoon's ride whi h «as not mounted by one or another of our .nore expert hill-climberV n' -oner had the rear-guard reached the sun.mit just nlmed. than the hot! r:.lwK.r made s.gns of again attempting to acco-nplish his purpose 1 t.h'- ■ ruw. cr,ed hm. to shauK-. They saul that the signs of coming rain m d a ■noa. /orc,b,e appeal to th.„. It was now ahnost .linner-timet and th J h,d .on,ucred hardly „u.,e t .a half the road leading to the dinner table. 1^ I already y.e.ded to hunger; the „.en slid in.o their saddles; and the |h,uce of the.r presence giving pi otographic immortality to that ,artia la -l.cape, d.sappeared forever. Ffere. too. was abandoned all pre.e s o le tnck of our most advanced and enterprising metropolitan journalises - who can, having conceived a theory of a current event or fact (for example a a man who propels a bicycle in a rainstorm over a dozen miles of uddy roae young men of the city, whi> shared the expense, the evening was enlivened hvan entcrta^nment, whereof the Calais Tlm^s remarked: "The wheelmen gave a ball, Wednesday night, in St. Croix Hall, which wai largely attended Hi 266 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. by the leaders of society in Calais, St. Stephen and Milltown. Excellent music was provided, and the affair was brilliant and successful— the floor being ciowded with dancers until 2.30 a. m. Previous to the dancing, a fine exhibition of bicycling was given by saveral of the wheelmen, some of whose fancy ^eais were marvelous and received great apolause." Those ot the party who attended, either as participants or as spectators, gave unanimous tes- timony that the girls were pretty and well-dressed and that the fun was the finest possible ; and they unanimously reprobate ' the churlishness of the few who preferred to "stay in out of ♦he wet " and iiscuss bicvcling experiences around the hotel stove. This wretched minorit) in turn ultimately exchanged a few mild grumbles with one another because he treasurer of the expedition assessed them a dollar apiece for the sport which they had had no share in; and ii is, indeed, not quite easy to see on wh.it pretext the venerrhle rule, " Those who dance must pay the piper," was upset. Perhaps it was the fog : The fog and miats were as dense as ever on Thursday morning; and the postponed overland tour to Lubec, by way of Dennysville, was now abandoned altogether, in favor of the plan of reaching the first-named port by steam-tug, starting at 10.30. The interval was improved by most of the men in paying a pilgrin^age to St. Stephen, and many of them thus enjoyed the sensation of being for the first time beyond the limits of their native land, — veritable tourists in a foreign dominion. I, too, yielded to the tempta- tion to slide across the bridge again and assure myself that the " Larrigan Manufactory " was still standing. Then for a while I tried the sidewalks of Calais, — whose shaded main street would have allowed us to enter the town in fine style on Tuesday afternoon, had the weather been pleasant, — and at last boarded the tug, with a morning's record of 5 m. Two lumber-schooners had to be towed to the breakwater before our tug settled down to the sole bushiess of carrying ns to Robbinston (for it had been arranged that we should stop there at i o'clock, in order to test another good dinner at the Brewer House), and while the towing was ir progress the more agile and ad- venturous of oiir ball-room cavaliers climbed high up on the schooners' masts and waved their final adieux to some of their last night's charmers, whose responsive handkerchiefs could be seen faintly fluttering through the for, and who made a pantomime of flinging themselves from the dock in desp »ir- ing pursuit of us, when, "with the full strength of the company," we cha.ued the farewell chorus : " Good bye, ladies ! Good bye, ladies ! Good bye, ladies ! We 're going to leave you now ! " Indistinct glimpses of attractive scenery were to be had in the rare and brief intervals when there was a partial lifting of the fog; but this seemed in general to grow denser as we advanced, and by the time the dock at Robbins- ' ton was reached, it had assumed the character of a heavy mist or thin rain. The hotel was known to be exactly i m. away, and ihe road thither a good one ; but the crowd all scrambled ashore and started off on foot, as if thev IN THE DOWN-EAST FOGS. 267 unanimously assumed ihe existence of mud prohibitory for bicycling. I, how- ever, saw fit to disembark my wheel, and had the satisfaction of finding that th- track was q.iite dry enough for riding. So I soon soed past the straggling fiiotmen and reached the hotel from the 3. at a quarter past i o'clock. Ex- actly ten minutes afterwards there arrived another wheelman from the north- ward, — the first of the three bold spirits who, just before the tug cast off, at a quarter of 1 1 o'clock, suddenly decided that they would push their wheels from Calais to Robbmston, at whatever cost. They found, of course, that the roads were in much worse condition, after a rain of two days than I had found them ifter a rain of 3 or 4 h.; and during the first half of the journey their progress was slow and difficuU. As the hotel was approached the riding beuaine fairly good ; and I have just reported finding it so for i m. beyond the hotel. Tiiese facts were considered at the council of war which was held alter dianer to act upon the lugubrious report of the captain of the tug, which was to the effect that the wind and fog and rough water might perhaps pre- \ent his reaching Lubec till late at night; and that, as a majority of the thirty-six passengers would be forced to stay on the deck, both they and their wheels would probably get a thorough drenching. Our knowledge of the road to Eastport, which we had traversed two days before, led many of us to l)elieve that not much of it would be found too muddy for riding, provided the mist did not change again into rain; and the crisis was theref. -e met by a de- cision that those who pleased should wheel themselves to Eastport, where tliey could rejoin their companions Oi. the tug and ride across the bay to Lubec ; or, in case the tug should be delayed or wrecked, could proceed thither by tlie regular ferry-boat. Those who made the choice of a land trip were re- quested to at once leave the dining-room and disembark their wiieels ; and when they had set forth on that errand, the number of " tug-boat tourists " who lagged ingloriously behind was just sixteen, before the crisis had been discussed at all, however, the two " Star men " had individually decided not to indulge in any further "marine bicycling," and had quietly taken their wheels from the boat and started for Eastport. I suspected that they might be the pair of ghostly shapes which I saw vanishing into the fog of a hill-top, when I emerged from the ho.el enclosure, at 2.30 p. m., and I started in pur- suit. A man whom I soon met assured me in apparent good-faith that the two unknown pioneers rode machines exactly like my own,— machines which (lid not " have the little wheel in front,"— but when I overhauled them, about 2 ...t of regular order, with intervals of comparative clearness between Ihem .s.x ot the Massachusetts men here declared that they had had quite enough of u. and that, smce all the bicycling of the tour must be done on shipboard and all the scenery be viewed through fogs, they themselves would take the noon boat homeward for Portland. This disconsolate intention spurred on the photographer to " take " the party again, in a serried mass about the hotel door; and then there was an open-air debate as to whether the day's excur- sion should be to the adjacent island of Campobello, or to the more distant and distinguished Grand Manan. An attempted reconsideration of the vote fa. 01. ng the latter, led to its reassert.on by a more pronounced majority; n o clock was named as the hour of startir.s; and orders were given for a ,nnch to be earned on board the steam-tug and eaten during the voyage I he commander of the tour, who, during all this interval, in temporary abdication of the duties of that position, had been engaged elsewhere .Mipenntending necessary repairs for his machine,-now took counsel with the cuU,ous minority wl.o favored Campobello, and then quietlv gave orders to .seinbark there. This change met the warm approval of the captain of th. l.oat who had opposed the plan oi visiting the more distant island by every less conclusive argument than violating his agreement to take us thither; and who protessed that his narrow escape from running us aground on ^he way the nearer island was due to a variation in his compass caused by the in- riue.ce of our bicyclic steel upon the magnetic needle. If this were reallv t.ue. It would of course have been foolhardy in him to have attempted stee;- ...g us through the fog to Grand Manan ; and, though the sun probably shone here for an hour jjr two that day. it certainly shone for quite as long an in- terval on Campobello, where our riding proved so pleasant as to ba usn all chance of any one s cherishing resentment against our commander for wisely danmg hall immediately after landing, and were told that the ferry-boat -u d stop for us on her return trip at 6 o'clock. An excellent chance was therefore given the excursionists to breakup into little groups and try the V.U.OUS roads according to their individual pleasure, without the irksomeness ot a formally organized march; but when the question was put to vote a mlLtTr''' ^^^'7^*h:.P'^" -' sticking together; and most of ihe inority then seemed to feel m some sense b md to abandon their own ex- .ed preferences. So one of the '< Star n . " and myself formed the only !i ""^^I'T:"^ "P^-l^ P"^'^'« tour and talk, apart from the main proces- sion, r had here my first fair chance for closely observing and freely rijs. M ^'h"^ - r.v "^ ^nsei . -1.- ■ /^— -, _:!^2> i^_^ V_i;^_ - S70 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. cussing the numerous special advantages of this " American " machine; and I was convinced, by the surprising feats of the rider in descending steep and stony slopes, that for ease in coasting, as well as for safety on t'own- grades in genera', the " Star" is far preferable to any crank-driven bicvclc. The 8 m. of island roadway which I traversed (in both directions) can all be recommended as pleasant, and most of it as smooth. The r.-hand road from the dock begins by ascending a hill, and ends on the s.. re level, opposite Lubcc. It is the best one on the island, being 3 m. long, and affording an excellent coasting-place on the return-trip, when one reaches the woods a'ier passing the big summer hotels. This coasting will bring the ridT bac: almost to the fork in the road, about \ m. from tne dock; but instead of re- turning further, he may contmue onward \ m. to the next fork, on the brow of a hill, and then go down the r.-hand road till it ends, in just i m., on the >ti\V\ and desolate ocean beach. Retracing his course to the fork, he may go onward to the 1. through the woods for \ m. till he reaches the \v. 'ering- trough (excellently pictured on p. 338 of Wheelman), where the cavalcade of June 22 derided to turn about. I myself, however, went \\ ir. beyonj here before making the turn, and was even tiien by no means at the end of th'; road, — though I cannot deny that its stony slopes made rather dangerous traveling for me, if not for my co.iirade on the " Star"; and the mosquitoes. were persistently bloodthirsty. The 1. road from tiie dock, leading past another noted summer hotel called the "Owen," we trave.sed for only i^ m., as progress became too rough for comfort soon after passing the chu'il. Campobello offered for our inspection several barn-like structures where countless numbers of herring were being smoked; and at Lubec, durl.ig the forenoon or previous evening, most of the party had visited the establishment where countless other herring, of smaller size, were being scraped and salted and " flaked " and cooked and oiled and packed in little tin boxes whose labels were designed to advertise the contents as " genuine French sardines." The proprietor, or his chief representative, was very cordial in his attentions and quite ready to present eac!i visitor with a sample box of bis product. Ills little herrings were by no means ill-tasting, but no one at all acquainted with the flavor of true sardines would accept that of their Maine counterfeits as identical. Much of thi. work in the shop is done by young girls, who are as- signed to the different parts of it in regular succession, and are '' paid by the piece." The hot:, man assured us that the annual sales exceeded $So.ooo. Saturday, the la3t regular riding-day of the tour, was the first day whose events happened according to the appointment of the programme, and the onlv day when the whole party engaged in a ride of any considerable length. Starting from Lubec at 7 o'clock, the end was reached at Machias, 7 h. later,— the distance being announced in advance a« 28 m., which was exactly the record of my own cyclometer. The invitation of February had said that the road was " so hard and smooth as easily to be covered in less than 4 h."; and I believe that three of our strongest riders, who took an early start and made IN THE DOIVX-EAST FOGS. 771 no delays did do it in about that time, finishing at half,,a,t 9 o'clock I n,v scl had agreed to start early with "the Star man," in order to take b eT fist with some friends of his at Whinnc i- m «,.» k . u chance, he roused me from bed at o ' Lk in'tL Ln ' ' *""!;' ""'"^'^ failed to get to Sleep til, nearly r^^^::^::::^:^ l^^ av.ng finished a preliminary lunch by lamplight, we mounted o.rTaddTe,:; 4:0 A. M. I he chilliness of the fog induced us to Cf;i""'"K ''* ''^■''•■'•-''>''' ^"wevcr; and soon there was a trenun (lou-> diiwnpoiir, which Listed alxnit 1 h., Ani\ left the air very hot and suit!-,. The men wi-re g'ad enough to keep (piict lUiring the rest of the afternoon, hm just before itightfall they most of tliL-ni yieliled to the captain's wishes .uhI paraiied through the tiwn to the tr()ttiiigi)ark and there engaged in .1 few sii 1 pit evolutions for the benefit of the assembled multitude. .\t the sui)|)tr which followed, we were honored by the jircsence of several of the " promi nent citi/cns," with their ciii^encsses, and an " adilress of welcome," endini; up with an apt quotation from the okl "treadmill" poem, wiiich was vliv well rcceiveii. Our clerical member made an appropriate response; and then there was " a reception " in the parlors, and "music by the band" outside, where the flaring kerosene torches and the red-coated musicians and tin crowds of spectators in the background made quite a brave display. .\lt.> gether, it was " a great day" for the i|uiet old town of Machi.'s, M.iine. If. had been a tiresome day for me personally, however, and thoup:h I made out to keci) my cye,= open during the iirogre.ss of the speech-making, I was fast asleep in bed licfore the brass-band had succeeded in struggling; through theii" overture. There was, nevertheless, a sort of painful i)leasurc in thus paying with my person the expected penalty of " touring with a crowd." My theory was entirely justified. I am sure I should not have I)eon half so weary if I had gone over the same road alone, that day, ii' the same number of hours, riding and resting exactly when and where I pleascil. .Six days before, after traversing a similar distance, on even worse roads, in the forenoon, I was in good condition for enjoying .m afternoon's ride of jo m. more, and I finished the day's trip in excellent sjjirits. IJut "thirty milts more," on tlie afternoon of reaching Machias, wou!c". certainly have finished lilt-, no matter how smooth the track. The next forenoon found me cjuitc refreshed, however, and so, towards the close of it (while the majority of the party were dutifully attending church-service "in a body," ana our clerical member was, by s[)ecial invitation of the occupant, airing his knee-breeches in the sacred heights of the pulpit), I wheeled out over the hills and through the low pine woods to Whitneyville, 4 pi., and to a certain point, 2 m. beyond, where a gully caused my first dismount, and suggested the pro|)rietv of a return to dinner. I was 40 min. on the way back, — being stopped only once by a short, rough hill at Whitneyville bridge. The sun shone hotly, but a refreshing breeze somewhat tempered its rays. A small deer ran across the road, a few rods ahead of me, in the woods beyond the village just-named (though that sort of animal is no longer common in the region, and I think none of my fellow-tourists sighted a specimen) ; and at another point of the ride a family of black people amused mt by their crazy cries of amazement and delight at witnessing my success in riding up and down a hill. I.,atcr in the day I was also amazed by my success in climbing up the steepest /A THE DOWN-EAST FOGS. •^3 .. .he approachc. to .he ho.el. which I do not think would have been poBsi- l.i .d I not ju,t emerged from the river, well refreshed by the .w.„: 2ci .. lulMozen o u. enjoyed there, behind the log«.„K d...n. 'a. the Portia" . M..ch.a.po.t at 4 oclock on Monday morning, we noL only .Icpt on Wd but .o,.k«urIa,t unued supper thcrc.-wheeling down for that purpose, on a, x.c kn road of 4 n... .,ctween 5 and 6 P. m. Here the photogrVph^r who lu,l du..fu ly attended church in .he morning, could not reLt th'e cm .UUo„ of wckedly workmg h., camera a. our expense, since i. wa. po.i.ivclv hi" 1.... chance ; and .0 he refused .0 let us have any supper until wVhad ridden m.,vn.mu^sma crcle in fron. of .he s.eamer and been "instantaneous .ak n. So pleasant and .nv.gora.ing was .he evening air tha. .he whole party enjoyed .0 .he utmost this fin. "necessary" ride of Surdav. which f..nnaily ended the tour, and were put in good-humor for taking a philosophic a ly contemplative view of i. as being, o. .he whole and i'„ retros Kct a «.cat success. Several even made another visit to Machias. after supper enjoy the road again and .es. i.s capaci.y for speed ; and I myself wheeTed half-way back .here m order to secure the studs which had Jen torn f Im my ln,cn sh.r.-fron. by a severe .umble of .he af.ernoon Th.s wa. a proper penalty for wearing such a garment in place of the c.>M.nary flannel one; and the fall itself was caused by the incau ious exchange of my customary riding boots for a pair of loose house shoeT wmch .mpa.red my grip on the pedals. I though. I might use such shoes safely o. so short and smoo.h a ride.and that, as this was our final "dressTande i' ■t was perhaps incumbent upon me to r.rray my legs accor.linc7„!t. , .i .n fashion ; but in .he effor. of making a IJ. ;ufh:;Th '^ ^^ »..I...ed off the r.gh.-hand pedal and carried me ins.an.ly with it to th^ «ro,.nd The palms of both hands I^ore quite evenly the orcc of he fl, ^ Te?. elXT %'''r ^"'"^'^'"'^^^ -ape ^a little sklLmo: m) left eyebrow.-makmg thus the first outward and visible scar I ever n^cewed from such a mishap. The bicycle keeled over on top of me and response to he warning shout of .he man jus. behind, and I was a^ain m....n ed and m mo.ion before any one else had observed he disLrer tZ lus.rates the periodicity of accidents that the only other fall experienced -ne .„ the course of 400 m. traversed durmg the m'onth. in four'd fferen. atemn.;Tt ""^^^ °"|.y '^ ^^^^ '-'«- by a sand-rut which I heecUe sly upon my hands, and caused my face to touch the dust without solidly striking ve^ hVvrhaT""' the case consists in this: that in all my e^rt t f ever have had any perfectly square "headers" except these two which .ame «o near^ together.. My " involuntary dismounts " have r^^elybeln ,0 11 i I 274 ti:n thousand miles o\ a bicycle. •uHden a^ to forbid my scrambling off backwards or sid-iwise, ei'en tnouph I immediately afterwards lost my equilibrium; and, when .xctn^.lly riung for- ward over the handle-bar, I have never landed squarely on both hands, save in the two instances named. Tlic brulvcii »hirt-stucen well groimd up by a wagon-tire ; and thin, having returned to Machiasport, I proceeded a couple of miles sowthwarfl, over .1 l)eautiful road whose hilis offered fine chances for coasting, tmtil the gathering ' arkiicss caused a return to the s'eainer, at half-past 8, with a cvclumcter record of 24 m. for the day. The " Star man " who accompanied me on this evening spin barely escai>ed illustrating the possibility (whith the peculiarity of the mechanism renders very remote) of " taking a header," even on that "safety bicycle "; for an unobserved gully in the down-grade, which he was coasting at tremendous speed, caused it to " ride on ihe front wheel op'v " for several feet, without quite toppling over. Another niish.i]) of the afternoon was that of the man who attempted to make no di.-.mount at the place where, for a few rods, an xtrcmely narrow and difficult path I'd between a slough of mud and a miry ditch ; and who, when he did dismount, was obliged to let his bicycle take a plunge into the latter. The two Nova Scotiaiis of our party, who joined us at Kastport, wheeled back to kobliins- tci that Sunday morning, crossed there to St. Andrews, N. H., and on Tues- day noon reached St. John, 115 m. distant, and took the homeward steamer. The fogs of Monday morning were dissipated before our steamer reached Jonesport, about 8 or 9 o'clock, and halted there for i h., to take on many wooden boxes which were packed full of little tin boxes containing " genuine French sardines." The gangway was of so steep an incline that considerable skill had to he shown by the deck hands in .sliding their trucks down it with- out disaster; and the spectators amused themselves by speculations as to «?hether a given man would get a given load of boxes safely through, or would have a collision that would disrupt some of them and send a shower of sar- dine tins flying about the deck. Short pedestrian tours from the dock showed that the roads were good, and some of the party talked of trying them by wheel during the steamer's delay ; but none really did so. Another impro- vised project was that of wheeling along shore down to Milbridge, where the steamer next stopped, for we were told that the track of 12 m. leading tiiithcr was smooth and hard ; pr.d several would undoubtedly have attempted this, myself included, had not the forbidding fact been announced to us that the steamer did not touch at the dock, but only took on passengers from small boats, some distance from shore. Ten wheelmen, however, had decided to prolong their vacation sufficiently for the exploration of Mount Desert, and the special artist also went ashore with them there at i o'clock. '^)inner on the boat was finished with some abruptness at Bar JIarbor, and hasty leave- takings were offered the seventeen remaining tourists who continued onwards towards Portland, as originally appointed. The representative of one of the monster "summer-resort" hotela of Bar Harbor had met us at Machias and IN THE DOH'X-EAsr FOGS. 275 offered the inducement of half rates, if we wouUl stop over for a d..y or two .1.1(1 liclp "open the season " ot liis as yet unpeopled establishment ; and it may l)e added th.it several of the lesser hotels i,reviously paironized had im- mortalized our visit by opening new registry books, emblazoned as to the title page with " Tour -if the Portland Bicycle Club." beneath which legend wc placed our prct ious signatures. I had h.-rdly l)elieved that the fascination of " riding in a regular bcnly together" would retain its hold on the tourists in such a place .i:* Mount Desert, where the plan of jogging about in twos or threes or solitarily, accord- ing to in.lividual whim, seemed so much more in keeping with the character and spirit of the place ; but the captain was inexorably l)ent on taking a rcgu- i.ir ride; and not a man could I find to join me in rcl)cllion against him. His, decision was, after a brief inspection of the map, that we must attempt what is known as " th ,> 12m. drive "; and though it n.igi.t perhaps lie fairly assumed, on general prin. M-ies, that the roads of an island distinctively 1. ..ous for its rocks and crags could not be safely accepted as favoraUe for bicycling, ex- cept on better evidence than the heliefs and guesses of a lounger in a " sum- mer-resort hr ■,••— the rest of the party ;.cquiesced in the decision as un- questioningly as if it had related to an afternoon's spin along a familiarly. known macadamized tra k, like the one oveilooking the Hudson from New York to Tarrytown. So, at a quarter bcfor-- 2 /clock, the devoted ten wheeled out from the seclusion of the Grand Central Hotel, id started south- ward, with gay and hopeful hearts,— th- ca.riage of the artist bringing up the rear. Six hours and ten minutes later, the specified circuit of 22 m. was com- pleted. The appointed task of getting the bicycles around the drive " had been accomplished; not one of the pleasurers had shiiked a single rod of it ; and though most of them were badly bruised, all were at least sufficiently alive to be conscious of unbroken bones. Yet these men were the flite of the thirty five, so far as touring was concerned, for a similar numbe.- of equally good riders could not have been selected from the remaining twenty-five, nor a simdar number of better riders from among ten times as many uverage bi- cyclers. Not one of them was weak or inexperienced or ill-mounted on the wheel ; and not one of them failed to get tremendously tired before half the distance was gone over. It was by all odds the most memorable trii, of the entire tour. Its hardships and exasperations made it in many respects unique for probaHy no similar set of tourists ever suffered so much in so short a time, as a suitable reward for their foolishness. A graphic picture of the character of the roads, and of the afternoon's sport, may be vividly presented to the minds of all bicyclers by the simjle record: " Six bent handle-bars out of a possible ten I " ' The road, though rough and hilly, was fairly ridable at the start, for when a stop was made for water, at the end of i h., 4 m. had been covered' and one intermediate rest had 'oeen indulged in. The pace seemt to mj much too fast for comfort, however, and I gradually dropped to the rear,-- rH .1 I ■ if } ■%■■' if I 11 276 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. not even pretending to keep in sight of the artist's carriage, which I soon allowed to pass me. I overtook the party only when the halts were made, and, on the second occasion, I advised the captain not to await my approach when I should again fall behind, because of the probability of my soon turn- ing about, or trying some shorter roacl than '* the drive." I explained that the shock of the previous day's tumble had affected me more seriously than I at first realized,— for my hands were sore and my arms were stiff, and I felt generally listless and indisposed to the making of any very active or pro- longed exertion,— but, even had I been in good condition, I should hardly have been inclined to accept th,s scheme of trooping through the woods without stop, for the sake of " covering as many miles as possible in the afternoon," as exactly the ideal arrangement for "enjoying the scenery of Mount Desert." However, as the road grew more difficult, after the 5th m. had been entered upon, and as the pace grew slower because the party were more frequently pedestrians, my own spirits began to rise, and I decided I would, at whatever sacrifice, -tick to them till the bitter end. I now clearly foresaw that the end would probably be very bitter indeed, but I wanted to have the happiness of sharing in its bitterness and of thus winning the ri^ht of a personal witness to testify against such foolhardy pleasuring. What though my own weariness equaled or exceeded that of every one else .> I .should have the solace, which all the rest would lack, of seeing my theory about ihe discomforts of " touring in a crowd" abundantly justified I The more ac sweated and suffered, the better I should be pleased I The deeper our groans and regrets and 'amentations, the louder and more triumphant could be my ciy of " I told you so "1 The store at Seal Harbor, 8 m. from the start, was the scene of our fourth halt and our longest one ; and, though the numerous hills for the 4 m. leading thither were so steep that t'.iey had to be walked down as well as walked up, the distance was covered in 1 h. Meanwhile, on a certain rocky and sandy descent, a trio of riders had been flung over their handle-bars in rapid succession, and I, being just behind, only escaped a similar fate by a quick dismount. One of these unfortunates was the victim of the introducto; v accident at Eastport, — from the effects of which the final signs were just about vanishing from his nose,— and another was a townsman of his, who had never before "taken a header" in three seasons of riding. Our captain, furthermore, had already been b, ought to a rer'.izing sense of his depravity in choosing so rough a route, by being forced to a slight side-fall (though he was one of the n-ost careful of riders, as shown by his remarkable record of 6,000 m.- r.Kich of it on the macadami.?ed roads around Boston — without any falling whatever) ; and he had far harder luck, on a rough descent to m. be- yond, for his handle-bar then got a worse bending than happened to any other during the tour. The mishap was soon righted, however, by the skilfully ap- plied strength of our "champion long-distance man"— who had by this time become so expert at the business as to make us gratefully give him the addi- ^^ IN THE DOIVN-EAST FOGS. ; 277 'ir"lL?'/ °' "champion handle-bar straightener." Before this, the editor of the VVhedman had had his bar pulled into shape, when he took the first of h.s two or three tumbles; and I improved that occasion to let "the champion" also exercise h.s muscle on mine, which hpd exhibited a teL-tale curve since the fall of the previous afternoon. His last work was done in the dusk at a r'n H .'.' ""'11'°'" '^^ '"^ °^ °"^ "'^^^ f°^ '^^'^ the sixth man tumbled and the sixth bar was bent. That final fall of the trip so changed the complexion of the party that the "bent-handle men," who began in a minority of three and then rose to the dignity of "a tie," now clearly com- manded a working majority of all," and might easily bring their combined .1 -luck to bear for the upsetting of the happier minority, consisting of the clergyman, the Agricultural College student, the hanlle-lMr straightener and myself. I suggested, therefore, to them that the only su.. way of protecting ourselves against this uncanny influence, and preserving our proud pre- eminence over the six, was to allow them to ride the remaining mile to the hotel, wh.le we ourselves trudged thither on fooi ! But the road now proved too smooth for the indulgence in any such mock superstitions, and we all wheeled along together at a good smart pace. Thus, the last mile as well as the first one of what might be called "a pedestrian tour with bicycles around the 22-m. drive of Mount Desert" was really accomplished a-wheelbark; though I am very sure that few or none of the men kept ir their saddles fo more than half of the intermediate distance. The only place on the route where any sort of refreshments could be purchased was the store at Seal Harbor; and there we feasteakc, and our chances for viewing these were, a one time or another, extrem ly good. The trouble was hat we were forced to restrict ourselves so much i.i the enjoyment of these chances • we were in too great a hurry. The "22-m. drive " is certainly not to be recommended as an ideal path for bicycling; but I am sure that I could find considerable enjoyment in going over it alone, if I devoted a whole day to the excursion, and loitered or kept in motion exactly when I pleased ; and I should surely take that excursion if I had several days of leisure to spend on the island. At the supper table, that evening, where "good digestion waited on appetite " far more pronouncedly than the young women nominally employed for that purpose, the crowd was a tolerably happy if not an uj)- roariously merry one ; for the pleasing sense of difficulties conquered and perils past was a sort of solace for blistered feet and aching bones. My own physical pangs had tiie additional solace of anticipations realized. The trip had proved difficult and wearisome beyond my fondest hope ! My theory was fully justified ! The peculiarly healthfal nature of bicycling, even when practiced under the worst conditions and far beyond the pleasure-yielding point, was shown by the fact that, on the following morning, every man of the party was ready and an-xiousfor "more." Some of us even indulged in an ante-breakfast spin of 2 or 3 m., to explore the smoothly-pa\ed streets of the village, shrouded as yet in the heavy morning mists. Most of the party left the hotel about half-past 9, for a northward ride of 6 m., alone; the shore to " thj Ovens,"— as the great holes in the sea-side cliffs are not inappropriately called. I joined the party at the time of their taking a rest, two-thirds of the way out, where some road-repairing gave e.xcuse for a halt. With this exception, the track was continuously good, and some stretches were excellent, though walking was needed on a few steep or stony pitches of the up-grades. A continuation of this road leads across a bridge to the main land, and so on to Ellsworth. Bucksport and Bangor, which latter city, 45 m. away, is the nearest point of approach by rail. The proprietors of the stage coaches which regularly run between Bar-IIarbor and the places named, are said to keep the ei.tire line in proper condition ; and our youngest member, the college stadent, intended to make trial of it in proceeding homeward. An eastward branch from this main route leads to " the Ovens," and a wide and beautiful water-view may be had while descending thither. We stayed on that remarkable spot for abmit \ h., and wished we might remain a week, but the claims of "dinner in time for the i o'clock boat," necessit^ucd an early return ; and for once at least, on this final spin of the trip, every man "went as he pleased." The fogs of the early morning had nov. all vanished ; views of varying beauty met the eye at every turn, and the sensaJou of spinning along the sea-wall, IN THE DOWN-EAST FOGS. i79 hi.;h above the water which stretched many miles away in the svinlight, wai very fine and exhilarating. Here at last was some bicycling really worthy of the name ; but It was, alas, the last ! At least, it was the last of the tour for tlie half-dozen of us who took the i o'clock hc^at for Rockland, and enjoyed together, in the isolation of the upper-dock, a five hours' sail sufficiently delightful to more than atone for all our sufferings on the trip. Supper was taken on shore by all save myself, who trusted not to the hotel-man's siren song that there was "plenty of time," and who thereby escaped a run through the dusty streets to catch " the Bangor boat for Boston," where we all disembarked at 7 o'clock the next morning, and went our separate ways. The three Worcest.*r men were obliged to stay another day at Bar Har- bor, in order -.o use their original excursion-tickets on the direct boat to Portland ; and we cjuite wished we could shaie in that obli-.ition, as we lOok leave of them, and of the lofty child of Maine, who was about to begin a solitary ride on the stage road to Rangor. All in all, the stoi>over at Mount Desert proved a most satisfactory prolongation of the tour, to which the last happy day together formed a most brilliant finale. My cyclometer's record for the eight days between Eastport and Bar Harbor was 171 m.,— a distance more than double that of the route which was " ofiiciaily " wheeled by the procession, and which ended at Machiasport on Sunday evening. The oiiicial route amounted indeed to only 80 m., even including the return-trip fr(jm Kobbinston to Eastport, when fifteen bicycles were carried by the steam-tug. Its Lngtb if thus baldly presented as the full record of a week's wheeling, would seem quite trivial and insignificant; but readers of this sketch do not peed to be assured that mere " mileage " forms one of the least important factors of a week's successful pleasuring when taken by three dozen men on bicycles " amid the Down East fogs." Of the pictures which were d-awn by H. Sandham (to accompany J. S. Phi'lips's story, "A-wliecliiig in NoramDcga," in the Jan. and Feb. issues of the Wheelman, 18S4) the most grapliic and repres-ntalive ones were the two largest, each of which covered a page, and served as a frontispiece to its own half of tlie story. " In the Fog " (Jan.) gives a gof the article which it illustrates. Another notable picture is a collection of the " heads " of the party, framed by the front wheel of a bicycle, which ^t.•n<^s four inches high on the printed page. Some of these are recognizable likenesses, and I t"uld identify ail of them while the memory of my companions' features ..as fresh. The heads i:umlKr only however, the absent ones being those of tl,e artist and myself. He was good ennugh, nevci less, to make rtwm in the sketch for a pair of Ixmts, whose soles are inscribed JNAKi. ■■ and '-' Kkun " ; and I presume his inspiration in thus giving ti.em immortality was due to the fact that, when " the photographer ' took ' the party again, in a serried mass about the hotel sma 28o TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A Bit yCLE. m door at Lubec" (se» p. 269). I insiste(" on keeping my head o»it of range, on the plea that it wat " lew worthy of notice than the only properly shod pair of feet in the party,"— which same booted extremities I thrust prominently into the foreground. If my face was photographed at all on that tour, it must have been done while the party were in motion ; for I always turned the back of my head to the camera whenever I had any volition in the matter of defending my- self from its deadly aim. This recollection suggests that I may as well improve the present opportunity for putting on record my personal philosophy in regard to the " portrait business,"— for when a wheelman in some remote part of the world supplements a friendly correspondence by an offer to " ex. change photographs," it seems ungracious in me to refu^, and it is certainly impos.sible for me to supply him with a complete written explanation ..f the reasons which support my invariable rule of refusal. I %.'ns recently amused by a story (in iVnv York Telegram, July 18, '85, appar- ently copied from some foreign journal), concerning a certain Countess de Casti'glione, lo* living in Paris at the age of about ;o, who is mj vain of her own alleged beauty that she keeps the grand saloon of her mansion " atiomed with photographs of herself in a hundred different posts and costumes " ; and who at the same time is " such a monoma'niac on the subject of in- visibility " that she forces i lost of her distinguished visitors to content them-eJves by staring at these pictures as a substitute for her own pepional presence. One of her axioms, however "To see me against my will is to rob me," rather appeals to my .sympathy, because it contains the idea on which is based my iwn objections to letting strangers have my likeness. The spread- ing abroad of a knowledge of one's features tends— even more directly than the attaching of notoriety to one's family name— to the restriction of his personal freedom. Why should I " give my looks away " to an unknown number of people, and thereby put it in their power to "get the drop on me," on some occasion when I wish to enjoy the indeper.dence atuching to obscu- rity ? Why should I set my likeness up as a target for the remarks of the thoughtless and light- minded who know me not ? When I reveal my identity by a personal interview, I can judge somewhat of the impression which my presence makes upon the party-of-the-second-part,— and I can have as much of a hold upon him as he upon me, in case we ever afterwards chance to be thrown within sighting distance of each other ; but when a stranger gets hold of my identity through a picture, he gives no return at all for the power thereby acquired over me,— and I pre- fer that no unknown person should have such power. Of course, a friendly correspondent who has sent me his picture cannot be classed as " unknow-. " (1 prize such portraits highly, and shall be grateful for every addition which may be made to my collection of them); but I cannot send mine in return without putting it wi.hin the possible gaze of those who are unknown, and without running even some remote risk of that supremely dreaded curse : exposure in a newspaper. The difference between showing one's living face, and giving away a fixed copy of it, is similar to the difference between speaking words, which vanish into thin air, and writing words, which may be kept and twisted into " evidence,"-like the terrible " chops and tomato sauce " of pom Mr. Pickwick. Litera scripta marui This vital <':lstinction is well illustrated in the following commen's concerning a certain London ' society journalist " whom Lord Coleridge sentenced to jail, last year : " Gos.sip, like scores of other human amusements, becomes harmful by excess ; and the objection to newspaper gossip is that it is nearly always excessive. Every man kno«s that his personal peculiarities, his looks, his character, his ability, his fortune, his tastes and surroundings are a frequent topic of chit-chat amont- liis friends and acquaintances— that is, among the people whose houses he frequents, or who Irequent his, or whom he meets at the houses of others of the same circle. Tlie.se, however, do not number probably, ir. the case of the most sociable, or popular, or best-known m;n, over 500 all told; and what they say about him he hardly ever hears. Most of what is said it would probably pain him to hear, either as being wounding to his self-love, or as indicating that more was known of his private affairs than he would like to have known. When this tittle-tattle finds its way into prim, however, it undergoes a very serious change. From being the gossip of a few score, it becomes the gossip ••! •.•.•.r.::-j •.::•_•^:^J:::■.- ;;: :::::::c:u;. ;: Gcprivc5 tnc vicii.n.u all iciugc. u makes not only his wite and children but the servants in his own house participants in the joke or story against him, and IN THE DOWN-EASr FOGS. %Z\ fullows him with ridicule or discredit to all the hotels, watering places and steamboats in the civilized world. Ptrson;J gossip has undoubtedly been from th^ earliest ages the chief amuse- nienr of mankind, and will probably continue to be so as long as humanity is iha chief interest of human b<.ings. It was comparatively harmless, as long as it had to be spread by word of mouth ; but ' society newspapers ' l.ave undertaken to erect factories in which gossip is prepared for the market and spread by steam machinery,— and any of it that is harmful is terribly harmful. 1 he editorial oversights and mistakes, even if few in numb^-r, deal deadly wounds. To many peo- ple, too, even what an editor thinks a kindly ' notice,' with which any man or woman ought to be pleased, is undiluted pain ; for there are some, even yet, to whom publicity of any kind is a simple calamity. They „re probably becoming scarcer as the years go by, but they still linger among us in considerable numbers. ' Society editors ' find it hard <.o understand them, or to sympathize with them, but they are none the less God's creatures and entiUed to humane con- sideration."—/"/!* Nation, April 24, 1884, p. 355. These words o,.ght to make clear the reason of my preference that the notoriety which is a necessary business condition of my forcing a sale of 10,000 copies of this book, all over the world, should be " confined strictly to business,"— should attach simply to my name and address as a publisher,- without conferring a hateful and needless publicity on my family name and on th- entirely private life which it represents and protects. Could I have foreseen that I was destined to embark upon a scheme whose succes implied such world-wide notoriety for the personal irade-mark representing it, I would never even have allowed my face to be •' taken " in the League groups, amid a multitude of others ; and I hope no one will be so lacking in " humane consider- ation " for m> vishes in this respect as ever to drag it out from that friendly obscurity. When personal preferences are of a purely negative sort, they ought to be deferred to, no matter how whimsical they may seem to a person not in sympathy with them. It is not to be expected that a man will take artive measures to gratity the whims of another ; but when it is possible to gratify them by mere inactivity, by doing nothing, by " minding his own business," it seems to me that he ought not to take active measures to give oflense. There is one picture of myself, however, which, though I have not yet seen it, I should be entirely willing to see reproduced in the illustrated papers. Indeed, I gave permission iv. he edii r of the Bi. H'-orld to publish it, some years ago, when he asked me to stand as one of a " series " then appearing in that paper. His request chanced to reach me just as I returned from a ride to Tarrjtown, where the clerk of the Vincent House had laughingly assured me that a " rear elevation " of my figure formed a ve-;, funny backj;iound to a photograph of a party of 'coaching-club people^," which a local pho'ographer had taken, in front of the hotel, on the occasion of my last previous visit. In my characteristic attitude of " polishinp up the nickel-plate," I had turned my back upon the "coachers " ; and the fact of my entire unconsciousness of being pictured with them doubt- less added to the natural and life-like quality of the "half-moon " view of my white flannel breeches which the cam.;ra perpetuated. The Bi. World, oddly enough, never published this " speaking likeness," nor even printed my letter which graciously consented that the same might 1« used as one of its " series." I presume that copies may even now be procured at the photog- rapher's shop in Tarrytown ; and, if ever I wheel up there again, I mean to take a look at that picture, myself ! " Mount Desert, on the Coast of Maine," by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin (Portland : Loring, Short & Harmon, 6th ed., 1SS5, pp. 115, price 75 c.), "was written in Oct. 1866, ano first privately printed in the following May." In addition to excellent photogiaphsof Spouting horn, Eagle lake, Cathedral rock, Otter cliffs and Somes sound, it is accompanied by a U. S. Coast Survey map (1875, ,S by 14 in., i m. to J in.), which gives a complete showing of the roads and the topography in detail. An inscription on iti edge says, " No. 103 (2), price 20 cents" ; but I infer that direct application must be made to the Government if any one wishes to secure the map independently of the book. Rev. S. H . Day supplied a sketch of our bicycling experiences on Mt. Desert to the Bi. iror/J {Nov. 23, '83, p. 28I, supplementing thus the report of the ""■■-^ ■" ""'" '^''■■-'= "■-:■- i""P"r r.zc ,^..nrca vAug. 31, ocpi. / .imi 21, Gel. 5 and 20), by " Gccsee," who also prepared a briefer one for his own paper, the MarbUluad Messtnger. XXI. ^I'i NOVA SCOTIA AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND.' I BELIEVE that the voyager who steams out of Boston Harbor In search of a foreign port can leach Yarmouth (6,200 inhabitants), the most south- westerly one of Nova Scotia, rooner than any other. At all events, the sail is only 240 m. lung, and can be finished in an hour or two less than a fuM calendar day. It was the steamer " New Brunswick " which carried nic thither most pleasantly, amid the bright sunshine of the last Tuesday of August, 1S83 ; but it was a bleak wind and a cloudy sky which greeted my arrival on the morning that followed. In my hurry to be off, I entirely forgot the existence of the collector of customs, and so trundled my bicycle and baggage quickly away from the dock, without question from any one ; though I afterwards learned that the usual practice was to exact a bond, or deposit of money, as security that the tourist would not leave his bicycle permanently in the province with the duty unpaid. Whether the inspector failed to observe me, or whether the sight of my white ridin^'-costume convinced him that I must be certain soon to return whence I came, I did not stop to inquire. I only waited long enough to put my valise, duly labeled for Hali- fax, into the baggage-car of the train which was appointed to reach that city that evening, and then put myself into the saddle for a five days' tour thither. Mention may be allowed here, however, as an interesting example of the mysteries of Canadian express management, that, though the man in charge of the car assured me that the valise should go " straight through," it w-.s seized upon by the agent of some rival express at Digby or Annapolis, shipped thence by slow steamer to .St. John, and finally reached Halifax, and was delivered at the designated hotel there, some 16 h. after my own arrival ! Instead of a direct ride of 210 m. on the train by which I started it, it had been given a sea-voyage, had tr.->veled double the necessary distance, and had been six days on the .vay. When I mounted, at the post-office, in Yarmouth, at 8 o'clock on that Wednesday .norning, the weother was just about as dismal and threatening as on the memorable morning in June, when the " Down East party" disem- barked at Eastport and took their first united plunge into the mists of Maine. The character of the road and the scenery also suggested the environs of •From OiUing, April, 1S84, pp. ji-18. This was accompanied by a full-page picture of a bi- cycler (presumably myself) reclir.ing in the sh.ide of a Nova Scotia "forest, primeval,— the wh^pering piiv: and the hemlocks"; and it gives a fairly good idea of the same. It was drawn by Edmund H. (j.nr, tt ; and copies of it, on heavy paper, suitable for framing, are supplied for io c. cicn uy trit jjubiiaiicia oi iiie iiiajjaziiie, 175 Tremont St., Boston. .T«st;w JVOFA SCOT/A AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND. 283 K..stport. for my course led through a rolling country, usually in sight of the se., and an attractive and ever-varying combination of mountain-and-water vcws accompan.ed me for the greater part of the day.-and. indeed, for the .w„ accessible to h>m. There is a pretty view of the bridges when the n, or emerges from the woods into sight of the village, and there is a long h> wh.ch r rode upw.th difficulty and then rode down with caution, as ^ en ered the bndge. Just beyond this bridge, at Wevmouth. is a steep rou^h h,ll, w.ch I do not believe any bicycle could climb; but i is the firs real obstacle t a. would compel a dismount, in the case A a goo rid r who started at \ armouth. It would be quite a creditable feat, to be sure for a man to cover the entire 47 n,. without stop; for the track is continuously h,lly and some of the g.ades are long, and some are steep, and some a e rou.h and stony ; but good luck in choos-Ing the path at certain difficult p,a w uid make .t an ent.rely practicable feat. There was not a rod of the vay wh,ch I myself could not ride, and there was not a single one of my enfor ed >monnts wh.ch m.ght not have been avoided by a little better judgment On the other hand, m a repetition of the ride. I might verv likely be Heed stop by obstacles which, in the present case. I had the 'luck focoquer 1 longest stay m the saddle began at Meteghan at .,0 p. m.. and lasted 1. .0 m,n.. durtng which I accomplished 14^ m.. including s veral h il s xcept for a mistake, which stopped me on a level stretchfl should have kept m motion another h.. or until I reached the bridge in Weymouth Tm on; for I was wet and had no desire to dismount or rest til I g" to " |ourney-s end. The hotel of Forbes Jones was at the bridge, but tha o Tis 7oTV "!,S^^°'!'''°" ^ ^■■S'^^v ^*'>-^°P.^nd thither I p^o'ceeded ar L„g me r;i' , !;"" '''' "'" ''"'"S '""^^ ^'Sorously than at any previous .me of the day. and. as no other hotel could be reached before nightfall I ceded to stop My first halt of the forenoon nad been made at flebL m., when the first rain-drops began to patter down, and I put my coa n "e' enuha-rubberroll on the handle-bar. At a threshing-mill, 3 "uX'' a- ro.d turned off to the r.. and led for the first time into the woods, p! .. !ite of all their brave adornment with ever green boughs and artificial flowers. The sight of all this provincial plcasur ing was as novel and amusing to me as the sight of a dripping bicycle touiist was to them, and we therefore stared at each other with mutual interest and satisfaction. Most of the people of this region are descendants of the old Acadian French, who returned here after their banishment from (Jrand I'ri'. and they retain much of the primitive simplicity in tneir customs and costumes. The uniformity with which all the women and little girls keep their faces bandaged up, in a sort of nun-like head-gear, at once attracts notice. Few understand the Knglish language ; but, as " money " is the language of church picnics everywhere, my wants were quickly supplied. Bright sunshine prevailed on Thursday morning, but, as the rain had con- tinued to fall heavily during a good part of the night, and as nobody in Nova Scotia ever thinks of taking breakfast before 8 o'clock, I was in no special hurry about getting started from Weymouth ; and it was a quarter past lo when I said good-bye to the representatives of the Jones family, who had en- tertained me in such hospitable and friendly fashion as to make me feci i.:ite at home. A mistaken detour along the shore-road, which proved rather rough, resulted in bringing me back to the main road at a point 3 m. from the start, though I had covered double that distance, in i J h. Ten m. beyond, at 3.15 p. M., I stopped for lunch wl.en confronted by the sign 1 " L. Fontaine. Entertainment. Meals at all hours." The road at this point was excellent^ and almost continu(;usly overlooked St. Mary's Bay, affording varied views of its waters and of the lofty -idges of Digby Neck beyond ; but there now fol- lowed I ni. of riding through the fore.-t, and I then turned off to the 1. and passed under the railway, instead oi keeping straight on towards Annanolis. Two m. beyond I reached the road which I intended to take for that city, but, before taking it, I made a detour down to Digby (1.800 inhabitants),' and when I c.inie back to the fork again, \\ h. later, the cyclometer recorded 4 m. From Digby I might have gone backward along the w. side of St. Mary's Bay, first on Digby Neck and then on Long Island, and thence have crossed by ferry to Meteghan (which would have made a pleasant round trip from Yarmouth of about isom., with less than 30 m. cf repetition), or I might have been ferried across the channel to the Granville side, and h= c proceeded along the base of North mountain to the village of that name, which is cpi)()>ite Annapolis, ai'id to Bridgetown, about 16 m. beyond. The channel in question allows ships f'om the Bay of Fundy to approach Digby and the Annapolis Basin, a long, land-locked bay on which the village of that name is situated. North mountain is the name of the rit^ge, 600 to 700 ft. high, which forms the coast-line of the Bay of Fundy for 8 v.\. or more to the n. e. of Dighv, until it terminates in the head'and called Blomidon and Cap,- Split. South mount- ain is the corresponding ridge. 300 to 500 ft. high, on the other side of the •-•stjiii aiivi •ss.i.i\.-j ui .-iiiiiapuiii. i ae iwo ran^^cs are aijuul a haii-iiozcn 111. ^*^-^^ NOVA SCOT/A AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND. 2*5 aj-ut at Digby, an<' converge somewhat as they approach Annapolis; but they afterwards diverge rapidly, so that, to the eastward of Uwrencetown, a flat pliin, 15 or 20 m. wide, is included between them. It was 7.30 p. M. when I reac.ied the Dominion Hotel, ooposite the rail- rnail station in Annapolis {1.200 inhabitants), and I had been 3J h. in doing the 20 m. which began at the fork in the road outside of Digby. That town WIS still in plain sight when I crossed Victoria bridge, 7 m. on; and even 3 m. liter I had a view of it from a hill-top. Two m. beyond this I descended a long hill into Clemcnsport, and rode up a still longer one ; soon after which, m tiiL- water level, I met with a few rods of deej) sand, the fust obstacle ot that sort which I encountered on my tour. My record Tor that second dav, whi. li a.mprised several excellent stretches of roadway, and offered surpris- indy few reminders of the last night's heavy storm, was 44^ m. It led me through a pleasant and prosperous region, abounding in gardens and orchards ; and even the long lines of the fishing pounds and the acres of black mud in the ti.i.-w.iys were rather agreeable to look upon by reason of their novelty. The ready accessibility of these great beds of black gravci, which are left uncov- ered by the receding tides in the rivers and basins, doubtless accounts iu large degree for the average excellence of the roads in that part of Nova Scotia. Rain again fell during the night, and a heavy mist threatened me with more when I mounted at 9 on the following morning, and took a turn through the deserted fortress, as a preliminary to the resumption of my jour- ney. A fine view was had there, and also from the summit of Round hill 7 m. on, rnd the latter included Annapolis, which refused to be banished from sight almost as persistently as Digby had refused on the previous afternoon. lirKlgetown, 9 m. beyond Round hill, contains a Grand Central Hotel which charged me half a dollar for a very poor dinner. I was told there also that, by takmg the ferry across from Annapolis to Granville, I might have had an equally smooth road, and avoided much hill-climbing. The track thence grew somewhat poorer and softer as I advanced to the village of Para- dise, s m., ai:d Lawrencetown, 3 m.; and at the latter point I took train for 25 m. through a flat, barren, and uninteresting countrv, whose roads were too sandy for riding, though the " back road," along the base of North mountain. was said to be harder. The 2 h. ending at 6.30 o'clock sufficed for my prog- ress from Berwick to Kentville (3,000 inhabitants), about a dozer, m.; though mnch walkmg would have been necessary except for the recent rain, and I might, perhaps, wisely have kept to the train for the entire distance The Corn .v.all,s valley begins at Berwick, however, and the sun was once mor- shm.ng brightly as I turned 1. from the railwav station towards that villare though I might also have gone to the r., along the post-road, instead of enter- mg It at a point 5 m. further on. My day's record was 34 m. Clear, bracing air and -k cloudless sky supplied ideal atmospheric con- anions for riding on Saturday mornins. as I sneH jrav]- ale--- - ^•-- — cei;?nt course from KenrvUlt, through the academic Vwi of Woi*fvnTe '(^ Hi 286 TEX THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. inhabitants), and the village of Horton.to the railroad station, on the historic site of Grand J'rt. Here I turned about, for the sake of climbing a hill o- er lool^ing the place (though I might more readily have reached this summit at the outset by continuing straight up a broad, disused road, instead of swin - ing off to the right on the smooth track leading to Morton), and I devoted w ho-.r to the enjoyment of the prospect and of my guide-book's prescntafi,,,, „f the rhapsodies which it had inspired in former tourists. Then I jogged (l,.u„ to the railroad-crossing again, and so through the "great meadow." which the early Acadians reclaimed from the tides by dikes, until I reached the ever- green-shaded elevation called I^ng Island, and the shore of the famous lia^i,, of Mmas. The -lay wagon-paths across the meadows were all ridable. th( uth too rough for swift or pleasant riding, and I returned by a new route and ma:lc many detours in getting past Horton to the foot of the long incline called Horton Mountain, from the summit of which another fine view was en- joyed. The ascending path was quite smooth, and I rode the whole of it dismounting once for a team, but the downward slope of 2 or 3 m. was softer and rougher, so that I shou'd have walked most of it had I been touring in thp other direction. I tarried a while for lunch at Hantsport, and devoted the 2 h. ending at 6 p. m. to wheeling thence to Windsor (3,000 inhabitants), 8 m., over an uninteresting and difl^cult, though continuously ridable, roacl! which led, for the most part, through the woods, and which would have been hammered into smoother condition by the usual wagon traffic had not this been for some months diverted into another route because of a broken bridge. King's College— the oldest one now existing in the whole Dominion of Canada, having been founded in 1788— stands on one of the hills of Windsor; and the town itself, occupying a promontory at the intersection of two rivers,' impressed me as the prettiest and most attractive one that I saw it. Nova Scotia. Most of its streets and outlying roads are smoothly macadamized, and 1 made trial of them to the e.vtent of nearly 8 m., in companv with a couple of local wheelmen,— fellow-tourists of mine in the Down-East partv of June,— who met me by appoititment when I reached the Victoria Hotel, and who agreed to escort me at least a part of the way to Halifi^x on the follow- ing morning. My cyclometer recorded 47 m. on that fourth day of the tour, and lacked but rl m. of reaching the same distance on the fifth. The character of that fifth day's riding, which completed the run of 218 m. from Yarmouth, and which was mostly done in the fog and rain, may be inferred from the description of the region gi en in " Baddeck," by Charles Dudley Warner: " Indeed, if a man can live on rocks, like a goat, he mav settle anywhere between Windsor and Halifax. With the exception of a wild pond or two, we saw nothing but rocks and stunted firs for 45 m.,— a monotony unrelieved by one picturesque feature." An hour's swift spin of 8 m., ending at 8 o'clock in the morning, brought us to the end of the level stretch of roadway leading from Windsor; and there, in the mist, which had t^^-t •-•Jiiziaiiiij \^i\s\'iiiv^ ut:;5cr, un;ii ic vvas iiow «tiiuu&t like rain, my escort { A'OFA SCOT/ A AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND. 287 hailc mc farewell and whirled their wheels homeward towards the town of Mvtii churches. I then surprised myself by going without stop for t\ m. in i h. TO niin., thoujjh the ascent was almost continuous for the first 2 or 3 m., and iiiiK li (if the remaining distance was rough and slippery on account of tho rain. riicnce I rode by shv)rt stretches to the railroad station called Mount Uniacke, (■i m.. where I made a brief pause for a glass of milk, and then started forth in a shower, which gave me a thorough wetting. It was exactly no-n when I stnivicd for another drink of milk at a point 4 m. beyond this; and I esti- ni.itci! that the forenoon's journey of 24 m. had not required more than \ m.- (4 'A liking, spite of the many dismounts demanded by the slippery and diffi- (iilt tr .1 k. I walked much, however, for the first 4 m. of the afternoon, until 1 st.iuka stretch of black gravel, before reaching the place with the sign " 1 6- Mile House"; but then was al)lc to ride without stop for more than i^ m. lullmving this came 4 m. of toiling through the mud. mostly on foot, until I readied the level of a running stream or river. A mile beyond this I came to tlie rifle range, and then, after a similar interval, to the Hotel Bellevue, opposite the r. r. station at Bedford, where I stopped \ h., in tho midst of a heavy drizzle, to partake of a lunch, which supi)lied the first food more sub- stantial than milk thr.t I had during the journey. In dry weather, the road from this point along the shores of the h.dford ISas.n to the Four-Mile House, and thtice in to the city, is a good one ; and in spite of the mud and stones, which caused frequent stops I rode nearly all of it. There was verv little rain falling during this final pull, but a dense fog enshrouded the town when I finished my ride at the door of the Halifax Hotel, just after 6 oMnck. My course through the forest had not led past very many houses, nor been enlivened by very many extended outlooks, but, on a pleasant day] it could hardly be considered so desperately monotonous as the correspond- ing railway ride described in " Baddeck." Mist and showers prevailed by turns during all the next day, but I managed in spite of them to ride 20 m. in the city streets before embarking on the steamer " \Vor^.3tcr," which sailed at 6 o'clock, just as the setting sun began to shine. My longest spin was to Point Pleasant, a park of ever- green trees which lies between the ha-bor and the river-like inlet called the Northwest Arm, stretching therefrom for 4 m., to within 2 m. of the r.edford Basin. The shore road leading to this park, and the many inter- secting roads within it, are macadamized to such an ideal degree of smooth- ness that even a very hard rain will not make them perceptibly sticky ; but in this paradise I took the first tumble of the entire tour, while carelessly swinging my legs over the handle-bar on a down-grade. "^ 7 o'clock of Saturday morning, five days later, when the " Worcester," after a voyage of 630 m., was once more lashed to the dock in Halifa.x, several of the local wheelmen dragged me from my state-room to breakfast with them ashore, the city is justly proud. Afterwards I went alone along the street which f<3 ! i88 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. followed tl.e «l.orc of tnc Hediord m».„. to the little post-office, whose si«n read "3-Mile House." where I crossed the road by which I entered tlu- ,v on Sunday, and proceeded 2 m. to the Seaside House, on the c v.,, „itv ..i " the arm." Mounting there I rode uj. a steep and difficult hill, and continue | without stop along the Chester road, si ni., to (;overnor'» I^ke. The rel. ri, to "the arm" was also made without dismount, and more eusily n J h ami thence up the long hill to the Citadel, and so to the Halifax Hotel '- ,„ in sea-son for dinner. Si.xty cents was the price charged for thi, exc'cllent repast, and. though the rate per day is only $2. there is no other hotel in all Nova Scotia whose terms are so expensive. In other words, the hotel, of the province are very cheap and very poor, when judged by the New Vork standard. The village of Chester is 45 m. from Halifax by the shore road and the bca-itiful St. Margaret's Hay. at about the middle point, is the only intermediate place of any conse(iuencc. According to the guide-book the stage road "runs alonf, its shore southwesterly for 11 m., sometimes aloiiK- side of beaches of dazzling white sand, then by shingly and stony stra.ids on which the embayed surf breaks lightly, and then by the huts A fishermen s hamlets, with their boats, nets, and kettles by the roadside." I was told that the entire road to Chester was fairly practicable for bicycling, and that Halifax wheelmen have several times traversed the first half of it as far as St. Margaret's liay. The quarter of that first half, whirh I myself traversed without dismount, as before described, led through a " dreary and thinly settled region." covered by the stunted second-growths of forests which had once been cut off ; and the occupant of the sole house at Governor's Lake, which is one of a seiies of connected ponds that form the water-supply of Halifax, assured me that the character of the roadway and scenery remained unchanged for the next 15 m., ending at the bay. From Chester, along Ma- hone Bay, to Lunenburg, is 24 m,, and the steamer of the Yarmouth line for Boston may be taken at the latter point, or at Liverpool, about 30 m. beyoiui, though the stage road ( .nnecting the two ports is described as " traversing a dreary and dismal inland region, inhabited by Germans whose chief indus- tiy is lumbering." From Liverpool to Yarmouth, 104 m., '^ the road runs along the heads of the bays and across the intervening strips of land "; and I was told by te • str-5, who professed to have been ever it, that, though very hi!lv, it is amo^.h aj. hard. Shelburne, Port Latour. and Harrington are intermediate '.orf .f-.j vhich acecos maybe had to Halifax by weekly steamer. Had time allowed I should have tried wheeling from the last named city, by the route just indicated, oack to the port where I first landed, and thus have completed a round trip of abo-t 450 m. The route actually traversed by me, from Yarmouth to Halifax, when laid down on the map, appears to form very nearly the arc of a circle, and the proposec return route may be said, in a rough way, to form the chord of the same. The intermediate region *i,_-_ i:_. :s -«.'>;::i^:i;o liiuny iaKC3 uuu tiVciaj bui 13 so thiniy • ^i:i^M*f'^^^j*i^!?^**ateip^-:Z^j^^ ATOr^ SCOTIA AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND. 389 IKoplcd that it may be generally des'gnated as a wilderness, and the few , r .»s-roads which intersect it arc none .1 them good enough for the bicvcle As to the other half of the Nova Scotia peninsula, I am incliT,ed to iWieve th..t Its coast line, to the n. c. from Halifax, might be pleasantly explored on the wheel, by the road which crosses the bay, and inlets at a distance from ifu- ocean of from 2 to 10 m, until it turns inland to Guysboro', at the head nf ( hcdabucto Hay. Thence the road to the Strait of Canso. and along it .l.r-'UKh Port Mulg-ve to Tracad.c and Antigonish, is presumably good • and the presence of 40 or 50 bicyclers in the latter town is a voucher for the Krneral excellence of its local ro.i.jwavs, and perhaps also for the particular one which reaches along the north c ist arou.ul to Pictou. This is the place where 'Se steamer sails for ports in Prince F dward Island. 20 n.. to the n and It ;. the terminus of the railroad frcn Halifax, along whose general line runs a highway, by which the tourist couM doubtles, wheel b^ck to that city and thus complete a round trip of perha-s 250 m. ; or he might go directly across from Pictou to Truro, 40 m., ., ul ,rom there follow the shores of the Has.n of Minas ..d the river Ave to Windsor; or he might follow the Rcneral Ime of the n. coast, at som , .,ce inland, to Amherst, about 100 m ; thence go southwa.-" to Parrsl.o^o', 30 m., and from there follow the n shore of the Hasin of Minas back to Truro. Some difficult places wouK loubtless be found on these suggested routes; but I have sufkcient fmh m their general excellence to be willing to try them if I had the chance As the steaniship line to which the "Worcester" belongs i.-. organized under he laws of the United States, the ship is not allowed to carry on any traffic .etween one Canadian port and another, but only between a Canadian and a United States port. The agent, however, though forbidden by aw of he Dominion from selling me a passage from Halifax to Charlottetown on Irince Edward Is and. kindly consenvH in .-ir iionciown, on iralifaxtoBoston."toletmego board thVhin 1 'r' ' ''T^'^ "'"" thit ,o,nH M mc go .Doard the ship on her outward voyage to that 1 land. My voyage began, as already described. ,n the light of a hriiliant ..nset which marked the close of a two Hays' period of rain a'nd fog ; ar^d th c ntinuance of perfect weather on Tuesday m,de the passage through he Strait of Canso a pleasure long to be remembered. An hour's halt for he discharge of freight at Port Hawkesbury. about midday, allowed mo': ,• wicnLa?lt'an«"'o'' Tk'"' " ''' "^"" ^°>-'^^' ^^^ ^^ ^ ^''-" to ao twice that distance. On this second occasion I ventured to eo ud the oast as far as the bridge at Port Hastings; and I was assured hat'the sar^ n^ooth road of powdered rock ran along the coast, in sight of th water "o ..7} 1 ' .' ' "'"'" '"P- '° ^'■"^^ ^'•°'" ^^^^on River to Baddeck a try the roads along the Bras d'Or Lakes. I think it would be prac fcab e' with occasional resort to the steamers f« „.k-„i c t,-o. . . i^,.''."'*^^'"^. Louisburg. and then back by .t. Peter^ ai^ •l.rM:^;;:;^ thT^iiJ^ {^1 290 TEISr THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. point at Port Hawkesbury. All the testimony I could find agreed as to the hardness of the roads and the absence of sand ; but it is to be feared that in some places there has been insutficient wheel traffic to grind down the in- equalities of the rocky surface. The ob*iining of suitable food in so thinly populated a region might also be a matter of some little difficulty ; but, on the wliole, I recommend Cape Breton as an attractive field for the ad- venturous tourist. His wheel will be sure to be everywhere greeted as a wonderl in doing this, and I was also dampened somewhatt^ later showers of ram; but the close of the afterno... was pleasant Ind\he wmd, though less vigorous than at the opening of the dav vJ^A . T last. At dusk, having been another 4i h. o'n the'road. I h J;ctt1ish^^^^^^ .7 m more and reached the little fishing hamlet of S. Pete" The fr mennoned m the gui.e-book was not to be found here, butf e "mal nVvl^ appI.cat.on at a number of the other cottages. I was finally receTved at th^ boardmg-house connected with the store n^nr th. , . J ,^^ " ^''^ taken care of for the night. The'ire^Tt V^t T:^:tZ idT:,' character, except in the respect that the same bree.e blew stiffly in he am d.recfon, mstead of turning about, as I had hoped; and as the' WotesteT" was appomted to start on her return vovace at c p « t a- a . "^°'''"'" re,™. .,»„,.. „„„, „„ „, wse:rb^,iv;";L,o"'Ber''':s:: P ace, whose desolate appearance suggested Forlorn as a more graphif mle was one of th. places visited by me early in the day; and t^eb sf r^l f al was supphed bythe Maltby road, on which I wheeled my last ^m I^c Id l^o H :r"" '' '^'"^'°"- ^''°'' ^°'"^ - b«-^ ^^^ boa[. howele" creed around the c.ty streets to the extent of . m. or more. Th; roldlo; 1 tt:tt:^h'ld\rfl^:dV^''^^^: perfectly straight lines fo7 mini them- thoulh r A so-^ewhat to the monotony of touring over xcnded7ews 'rd H ' ''""'" "' ''^^ country, which affords'wide- •1 K .K • "''"" occasional hill-climbing necessary, supplies in ■ n by these v.ews. a measure of relief for this monotony. Tam su^ L t P^rt of IheiirH by me were fair samples of the ridfng afford dn' for bicvclt I Th ' m"' '''""' ' '^""''^ "P^^'^^y — -"d it as a field there ' tkVv , "T"^'' recommend any wheelman who proposes to myself ' ' h I ""' ''"' ''"'^ "P'^^ " ^"^ =»" ''^ - ^^L" Were parts of .. Nova Scotia and the islan^beyond "Iff^ JiSr^iJ^; i:^ rm Hi 292 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A Bit t'CLE. seen in the United Htatcs to seem "provincial " and "foreign"; but Halifax is the only place where their foreign quality a .ames a di«!tinctively " English " tone. The city suggests a small edition of London, and it is well worth visit- ing as a curiosity by those to whom the real London is ir.ut^;c^sible. The British flag flyirg above the Citadel; the red-coated soldiers stepping jauntily about the streets ; the yellow brick and light stone fronts of the buildings, be- grimed with the smoke of soft coal; the clumsiness of the carts; the heavi- ness of the horses; the gardens secludea behind hedges and br- - vails; the mists and fogs which I encountered (though I believe these jt so fre- quent as to be characteristic) ; the general air of solidity, ai. ' pose, aiid "slowness"; all these things combine to recall "life in London " to one who has lived there, and to create a feeling of strangeness and remoteness from home in the mind of the casual visitor from any city in the United States. In some way it seemed larger to me than most other cities accredited with a similar population of 36,000, — perhaps because all the other places in Nova Scotia are so small,— and the impression left upon my mind was a pleasant one. I should be glad to make another and a longer visit there ; and I know of no place so readily accessible from Yankeeland, where the inhabitants thereof cr.n get so genuine a taste of " a foreign atmosphere," oi- so good a view of the contrasts which English life and habits present to their own. The "Worcester" finally took r^e away from Halifax at 4 c clock of a Saturday afternoon, after I had ini'.ulged in a parting visit to the park, in company with some of the local wheelmen, and I disembarked at Boston about two days later, after an absence wMch lacked only a few hours of completing a fortnight. During this interval my cyclometer recorded 349 m. of wheeling, and I traveled 1,270 m. by boat and 50 m. by railroad. The entire expense of the tour was somewhat less than $50, and, as I am a good enough sailor to have no fear of sea-sickness, and was favored with pleasant weather while afloat. I en- joyed it thoroughly from first to last. Though my voyage of 1,030 m. on the " Worcester " kepv me afloat on some hours of eight successive days, it also gave me some hours ashore on seven o' those days, and allowed an indul- gence in more 'han 100 m. of bicycling. As my state-room was upon the upper deck, and I was allowed to keep my wheel therein, the act of going ashore at the several stopping-places could be done without delay. The agei.t of the line, en my first brief application, notified me that a charge of eight cents per cubic foot of space occupied would be levied for trans- portation of bicycle from Boston to Halifa: : hut upon my informing him that the Yarmouth line, by which I proposed to make my outv.ard voyage, exacted no sucu tax, and my presenting in full the argument for classifying a tourist's bicycle as personal baggage, he admitted the justice of the claim and issued orders that bicy.les should thenceforth be taken free, .'it owner's risk, on both the lines of the company, to Savannah as well as to Nova Scotia. Further- more, no charge for the wheel was made on either of the railroads which I patronized. An excellent table was spread in the cabin of the " Worcester," i "-"Vi- ■w "' ^m j^-.c*" NOVA SCOTIA AND THE ISLANDS BEYOND ,93 alv Ufa tTf-" T'^''' "'" ^"^''''^''"^ •'y -^ -''- ' -»-ned from a day and a half s subsistence on the extremely simple fare obtainable in Z .ntcr,or of Pr.nce Edward Island. The officers'of tie ship at Tere a lid almost invariab/y civil anTaLiru^to^ rasl"Tv;:„::::Tdl^'°^: T^^ quiet the fears of nervous horses the owners thereof ^f ^''"""""^^'^ ^o the trouble they had caused me, and be: ted theirb astlS: ^t:Tl '" of taking offense at the appearance of so fine and beauti::! : veLlr"^'""'^ f.wlowing ror,ort : " Except for the L re J , ^ ■•' *•""" ' ^^""^ '^"'^'^^ 'he from Varn,outh is almost uHUaWer/ir'r"; .'''^'""'^^^ ^ «° Halifax, that direct road a.Kl very hlily and runs .h^^ Jl^'h t alw ^ ['^ " "" '" "'^'"'" " " '^ '^"^ people all along the shore we're r-^hoStable and'thr """^:r"'-''™''^" °' "''"=■■ ■^'"^ but one or two exceptions. We we7e Z uh I'v f". ""= ,^^':7-'^"°- were fairly good, with t .1 1 i"- "'-'*"« particularly favored with fine weathpr n., .k. c. of the ,st, we went from Yarmouth to Argyle ,8 m • .d to fT^ ^ afternoon Kiver, 24 m. ; 4th. to Mill Village .. m ^'^ ' "* ""■ ' ="'' '° ^'y^e, 30 m. ; 3d, to Jordan o:h, to Halifax! 45 m. 1 ui^.; Z' :rTj::zzt:: '"■ ""- r"'^^'^^- ^^-^ Hads,artedji,st.fortni,„it before, ^^iur ride ihi: fitty ri^Li;: J'"'^^' ""^"'^ - while I found quue a number o statements which had not hi "" " T "'"' ' '""'' ' ""'^ (KS75). .hough really rendered obsolerby "ogress of tim^T """'.""" ""= '^"' '=''"'°" firs, edition would to^ay be worth double irroT ' "^ '""■' "''' '"'" =■ ^"P^ °^ '^at .o„e,ed ar.r those idJally exLtenrEt;^? LL'orS^er^:: an?"- ^''^,'^°°^ '' p..c,ness and portability. It contains plans of L cities 0^8, lohHir ' A""''''' "•"■ Mo,.tr..l,andfivemaps,-thelan:estf,^hv.ftin u "^ ' "^'"f^". Q»ebec and cut from the iar-est man conMln^H .11 x, o Lawrence. A section 6 in. sq. oramas. Copyri ■lued 1S76 .Ss.. rr,h .a -^^"""ecticut valley. Six maps and six pan- series which I h,,ve not vet procu'red is^ A .nid? { 1 e "''• '''^- "" ^""'"' "' "" Her from Nin...,a to Mon, ea " S 1 ' / , *" "= M,,dle States with the northern bor- .Hese guides t;ok the nl: o hi S .h^er OsgS'.he "'' ''"T' '' ''■ ' '^^•-'-'' 'he firm of TicUnnr & P. „„.. Zl ' "'^""^' "'=.'-«^"' "-ansfer of whose business ,0 each is ,..30, the amou;;;of i;fo™a;^: ^^^^^Xd'^Zi:^^ ^^ it I^l^Z^^ ■U.i •! r.y.1 I> j It XXII. II STRAIGHTAWAY FOR FORTY DAYf Physically, a man is apt to be at his best during the ten years which bring him to middle-age at thirty-five. Of his possible seven decades, that is distinctively the one during which, under normal conditions, his average health and vigor will mo6t nearly approach the ideal standard. Health may not always ensure happiness, but it is certainly a chief condition thereof ; and whoever puts it in peril by continuous overwork during those " ten healthiest years," with the idea < f thus winning leisure in which to enjoy himself later, .■icems to me to act foolishly. " As we journey through life, let us live by the way," is a maxim that has ever been to me a sufficient excuse for "going slow " and making the most of the pleasures of the passing hour. These theories I have oftpr. advanced against Philistine acquaintances, whose all- absorbing efforts to "get on" forced an indefinite postponement of all thoughts of pleasuring, and I have warned them that the bodily machine tends to run less and less smoothly when once it reaches the down-grade, beginning at the half-way point on its ajipointed course. It was somewhat exasperating, nevertheless, to have the truth of this physical law so promptly demonstrated upon my own person ; but my thirty-sixth year was not allowed to end with- out bringing to me an attack of illness,— for the first time since childhood. I have mentioned, on p. 62 that, witirn three weeks after this brief prostration by malarial fever, I started to wheel the 400 m. described in Chapter XVI., and that no reminder of the fever kept me company during that pleasant autumn journey; but reminders of it did come to me several times during the following winter and spring, and gave a grim plausibility to the theory which an acquaintance kindly propounded for my encouragement. " That sort of fever," he said, "never really leaves a .nan whom it has once got hold of; and though it may apparently be banished by quinine, and may be kept cut of sight for a long time, by leading an easy life with an abundance of out-dooi exercise, it still lurks in the system and is likely to show itself again, under stress of any unusual exposure or overv/ork." This cheering generalization from an individual experience was denied by a medicine-m .n whom I con- sulted (at about the middle of May, when I was so thoroughly " run down " as to despair of improvement from any further persistence in my let-alone policy), for ne insisted that such disease might be eradicated as completely as any oth proper treatment were submitted to. In deferenr"; to my ex- pressed b'- ;-'UCism as to the no^.P.ibiHfv nf r.^ir.f-^rr^n.-r -:--- T-.^rrv-.- ..^i.: .-..-?-..--.-. 'The first part of this is from Tit Springfitld IVhtelmtn's Gatettt, November, 1885. ^maaHM^i w STRAIGHTA WA Y FOR FORTY DA YS. 295 tage on the human body by the swallowing of "medicine," his advice was that I refrain during the summer from any great exertion or activity, either |)hysical or mental, and " exchange the city fo. some quiet country place, free from any suspicion of mal::ria." I assured him in reply that the only locality of that description which I believed to exist in America was the saddle of a bicycle whose tires were in thj act of marking a straightaway trail. Hence, it was " by a physician's advice," though not by his consent or approval, that I indulged in wheeling "straightaway for forty days." My journey of 72 m. across the hills of New Jersey on the 5th of May, 1884 (see pp. 173, 174), completed a year's record of 4,337 m., which I wheeled with the definite purpose of regaining and preserving health and strength enough for the production of this book. The condition I was in at the be- ginning of that twelve months' mileage maybe shown by quoting what I've said on p. 195 concerning my ride of May 5, 18S3 : " Even after two days' rest at my friend' house, I felt so weak and ill when I started, at 9 o'clock in the morning, that I feared I might not be able to stay in the saddle. Once mounted, my vigor returned somewhat, and though the heat proved to be in- tense, I succeeded in grinding oft 23 m., ending at 7 p. m." Between then and the 22d of September, when I shipped my bicycle from Springfield to Detroit, I mounted on 49 days on;: of the possible 109, and rode 1,415 m., in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick, Connecticut, Nova Scotia and Rhode Island, as detailed in succession on pp. iio-iii, 255-281, 130-146, 282-29J, 107-109. By this time I had sweat enough while on the wheel to effect a cure of the malarial s7/eats which had occasionally afflicted me at night ; and I had regained my weight, and felt about in my normal condition. It appeared to me best, however, to clinch matters, and lessen the chances of any relapse, by staying a while longer in the only American locality known to be " free from malaria,"— naTiely, the Perch of Pigskin. While the preserva- tion of health was thus the main excuse for my determination, several other motives combined to support it. In the first place, as I had decided to pre- [lare a road-book for America, it seemed desirable that I should make a really notab'e exploration of its roads,— should be able to demonstr.ite mj oft-ex- pressed belief in their being continuously ridable for three or four times as far as the longest unbroken trail ' '80 m., see p. 219) that my bicycle had ever previously mark- ' upon them. So, too, I was curious to discover whe:,her I oukl "ever get enough rf " touring,— whether I should feel, at the end cr 1,000 m., the same eager desire for " more " which I h-"l felt at the end of my longest previous tour, measuring only half that distance. Still further, I was inspired somewhat by the longing which oppressed the Indian chi'.' whom Father Taylor tells about as visiting the .stately Boston mansion of Ahl)ot Lawrence : " Looking around the splendid parlor, the chief said, ' It is very good,— it is beautiful ; but I,— I walk large. I go through the woods — 11,. 1 . . _ . •■•■•" '-""'tinggrounas one cay, aiui i iise up ui the morning and go through them igai'.i the next day. I walk large.'" Ill 1 1 i I -m^ ill ^^f£^A J i 296 7-EjV thousand miles on a bicycle. In coming to this decision that 1 would make an attempt to gratify mv love of out-door adventure by trying to " walk large " with the wheel, I had carefully counted the chances of .oads and weather, and had made diligent study of all existing material for the selection of a route that gave promise of the largest proportion of smooth roadway. The tirst annual tour through Canada of the Chicago I]. C., the previous July, had shown me that I could be sure of fmding 300 m. of such roadway between Detroit and Niagara; and an illustrated report of some Washington men's ride to the Natural r.ridge ( The Whedman, Aug., 18S3, pp. y.^^ ^31) had made me eager to trv that longest and best macadamized track in the Union, which stretches trom the edge of Pennsylvania for 150 ni. s., through the .Shenandoah Valley, to .Staun- ton, in Virginia. My own experience had shown that a fairly ridable route might be laid s. c. .roni Niagara to the n. border of rennsylvania, and I pos- sessed a printed sketch of a New Yorker's tour in that State, from Port Jervis through Stroudsburg and Pottsville to Reading. Thus, in thinking over the wheeling allurements of these separate localities, the notion gradu- ally took . ape in my mind that it might be pleasant to combine the enjoy- ment of them all in a single, monumental tour, "from Michigan to Virginia." I did not feel constrained to j roclaim this in the newspapers, however, nor yet to hire a brass-band and escort, as a means for securing an a])propriate send-off. Indeed, 1 began ihc ride in the dead silence of the darkness which precedes daybreak (though on no other occasion have I ever mounted at so uncomfortable an hour) ; and the most that I confessetl about my plans to any one, in advance, was a gcneial intention of wheeling homeward towards >:ew York, " as far .w ihe roads and the weather might encourage me." I would not hamper myself by even so slight a constraint as a priv Uelv-expressed deter- mination to "go tluough." I telt entirely free to abandon the journey af the e.\act joint where its progress might cease to give me pleasure. How- ever short my performance mig it prove to be, no one would lijve power to ridicule it for '.illing short of my promise, because I promised nothing. The next chapter may be consulted for details of my "fortnight's ride in Ontario," which began at the Crawford House, in Windsor, opposite Detroit, Monday, October S, 1SS3, at 4 A. M.,and ended at the Kevere House, in Pres' cott, opposite Ogdensbu-g, ounday, October 21, at u 30 r. m. The cyclometer registered a fraction less than 635 m. during that interval (the re])etitions ot roadway amounting to only 12 m.), or an average of 45J m. for each day. The second week's mileage, however, was 326 (av. 46^ m.), as against the first week's 309; and this was r-i(;h the swiftest section of the tour, wl.ose final fortnight, ending Thursday, November 22, covered only 49 :;::v:: ;i:^ ;vcu;:;c: «o .>pcejuiiv rjaci, for no one ought to complain of an "average" which allows a certain amount i 398 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. of riding every day; but, if I could be assured of having continuously pleas- ant weather, and the wind always at my back, I wou'd engage to cover those same 635 m. in ten days. A fast rider, under tliose conditions, could cer- tainly make the journey in a week; and I think that such a one, even under the actual conditions experienced by me, might have ridden 365 m. further in the same fortnight. I mean by this that, if he had left Windsor when I did, on the 8th of October, and followed my route, he might have measured his i,ocx)th m., at some point beyond (Quebec, at the identical hour when I reached Prescott, on the 21st. The bitter cold of the frosty morning following moderated rapidly after I crossed the river to Ogdensburg, and the next four days were mild and pleasant, though a slight rain fell on the second night. During these four I rode 138 m., ending at Syracuse soon after noon of the 25th; and my wheel rested there nine days before I resumed the journey. As I had ridden 31 i r.i., in the region of Detroit, on the 6th and 7th, I could now for the first time claim acquaintance with the saddle for twenty consecutive days, and mv whole record was 804 m. Dividing this by 19 (since my first day's ride began and my twentieth day's ended at 2 i'. M.), shows an average daily mileage of 42J. Having planned to niaki a visit of five or six days with a friend at Canandaigua, I had despatched my baggage to bis house when I took train from New York ; and, as bad weather caused my stay with him to be pro- longed to nine days, it seems likely that my journey would have been interrupted at about this point, in any case. There was a rain storm on the night of the 26th, and the remaining days of the month were nearly all damp and cloudy, with occasional rain, which changed to snow on the evening ut November i. This first white coat of the season mostiy disappeared in slush, th'' iic.\t day, — though traces of it lingered longer on the hill-t -^s, — and I resumed my ride from Syracuse on the sunshiny afternoon of the ^i. I proceeded as far as Cazenovia, 21 m., and occupied 3} h. in tramping the last third of that distance through deep irua and darkness. Rain fell again during the night ; and of the •]\m.. which I traverseu the following afternoon, starting at 4 o'clock, I walked the final half in the dark. Mud, resulting from the snow and rain, forced me to walk about 20 rr.. of the 27 traversed on the sth; and a heavy rain on the evening of the 6th made the next forenoon's ride a slow and muddy one. The air was damp and warm, but a n. wind favored me and gave promise of fair weather. This lasted only two davs, however, for my journey of the Sth encountered dense mist and occasional rain drops during its final hour, ending at 10.30 »-. M. ; and the similar con- dition of drizzle which prevailed when I ::tarted on again, the next forenoon, soon gave place to a two hours' steady down-pour. On the follcwing day I traverted 40 m. ending at Port Jervis, though the rain was f.illing on me dur- ing at least half of the 11 h. spent upon the road. The baggage which I had despatched from Canandaij^ua, and a month's mail-matter from New York, met me there at the Delaware House; and I halted a day to enjoy itmtM iachine shop on Mon- day morning. Otherwise, I might have progressed a few miles through the mud, on that damp and drizzly Sunday, whose midnight brought a sudden change to wintry weather. Six inches of snow adorned the car-tops of the trnins "hie!! came linuu^h from the west at day-break; and when I started , own the Delaware at 10 o'clock, I faced a bitter-cold gale of wind and ".ev- .ral brief snow squalls. (Severe cold, indeed, prevailed for a week, but no i.nore rains troubled me until eleven days later, just at rry journey's end, 4C;i.i. from Port Jervis.) The sun shone it noon, when I passed through Milford, but I quickly encountered another tempest of snow ; and the third big sq-all of the day whitened me about two hours latf .. Odd and interesting scenic effects were several times produced by these alternations of sunshine, clouds and snow, along the v.'.lley,— drifting off against the horizon like showers in summer! .My ride of 28^ n- ended just after 4 o'clock at the Maple Grove Hotel, below Hushkill. Some patches of mud haii been encountered on this usually per- fect track; and the mud nnj water froze to my wheel. Roughly frczen mud covered most of my roadway of the following forenoon, and my unprotected Hnger-cnds grew almost numb with cold. At Stroudsburg I bought a cheap pair of thin woolen gloves, and found that my "ball-catcher's mitts" could 1.C put on over these with perfect comfort. A biting blast confronted me at the start, next morning, and then there came a few rain drops which quickly changed into a brief gale of snow ; while, at my midday passage of the bridge over the Lehigh, at Lehightcn, where the sun was shining, a much more ex- tensive snow-squall, which swept through the defile of the mountains on my right, towardt> Mauch Chunk, presented a charmingly wintry picture. The moon came up brightly at 5.30, that afternoon, but my 'course soon afterwards wound among gaps in the mountains, and its rays were shut off from mt, though they lighted up the rugged cliffs on the further side of the Little Schuylkill, which was at my 1. Monster icicles glistened from the great rocks, which towered above me on the r. ; and the roadway, which had thawed a little at noon and then frozen solid, was too rough for safe riding even it it had been out of the shadow. The chilliness of the gale which swept through that gap seemed phenomenal in its intensity; and when I reached the United States Hotel, in Tamaqua, at 7 o'clock, I found that only a twelfth part ^f my 36 m. record had been made in tne last i^ h. Not a bit of thawing was possible the next day, November 15, though brilliant sun- shine cheered my 33 m. progress, and the wind helped the latter half of it more than it hindered the first half. Such a tremendous blast was also at mv back When I left Port Clinton, on the i6th. with a light layer of snow again whitening the ground, that I could not possibly have wheeled in the opposite direction ; and even when it struck me sidewise, later in the day, after leaving "~ ^' '-""- """i-"'^"- mc w^ma was siigiitiy adverse, aiso, during the 17th and i8th,- .nd on this latter day the intense cold definitely 13' "A ill t I 300 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. moderated, and the hazy sunshine gave token of that "Indian summer" which was "crtaiuly .„ct the next forenoon when I crossed the Potomac and wheeled to .V.rt.n.sburg (.y „,.,. So m.ld was the air for the three final da^, of my tour (u8 m ) that I jogged through the Shenandoah Valley in mv sh. , sleeves, and I sweat profusely, even then. A warm, damp breeze w Jin 1 face on the la.t day of all; and I had hardly more than housed myself in Z Virgm.a .lotel. at Staunton, when the rain thus betokened began to dri.zl. down,.'s ,f to n.akc a dismal boast of its power to prohibit any i,,cndcd progress across t!«c 50 m. of red clay which separa-ed the end of t>,e nikc from the Natural llridgc. ' My tour ended at 5.15 v. m. „f -.•"n.r.day. November iz ; and the re.i.trv of the cyclometer, from Syracuse, ,9 days before, was 6.8 m.. or - dailv average of y.\. Thus, on each side of that n.ne d. vs" halrin.^^ place there was a record of exactly 20 days with the wheel, and 19 davs of" actual wheel ing; but the first half of this historic "forty days" showed a mileage of S04 (av. 42j). and the daily average for the entire journey (,,4., m , divided by iS) was thu. brought up to 37J m. iieducting the several nules of repetitions a, Detroit, 1 oronto, and Kingston, and the shorter duplications o" -ours- that happened elsewhere, I call my genuine " straighta« ay " trail i 4 m 'tIi'i d.:,tance, if measured straight along the earth's cir:umference, would covcl a full^ighteenth thereof; and it was by far the Ion, est which had then been made by the tire of a bicycle continuously upon American soil. I had an agreeable consciousness of this -nnh at the time of the perfon.^ance • but I was greatly surprisec, whcnc.^pe,: need English observers afterwards assured me of their belief that so long a straightaway trail had not yet been made hv any L. opcan bicycler. Much longer rides have since been tak , in both hemispheres, and several of them (like II. R. Goodwin's wonderful circu t ot 2,051 m during the first tq d.tys of June. 1885) have been incoinpat.^blv swifter than mine; but the simple fact of precedence in time seems likclv to ensure my own monumental exploration a uni.,ue place in cycling history.' It makes ine laugh to thi:ik that so slo-v and unambitious a wheelman as invselt should have held for a while <'the world's record" in respect to continuous trails, merely because I happened to be the earliest of mv class to push a bi- cycle straightaway for forty days." Among sympathetic cyclers of the future wlio may e::amnic w'th curiosity their then long list of Ion- rides, 1 trust the memory of this one will be" loved all the better because it was the first^^ I have shown that its atmospheric hindrances were numerous, but I do not believe that the "weather probabilities "of so extended an outing could be bettered by changing the season of it. I think I chose as good a time of year as possible ior the exploration of that particular r,4oo tn.. of territory. I should account a man very lucky who could go over it without experiencing an aggregate of discomforts at least as great as my own. The intensely cold air, which characterized my week's passage across Pennsylvania, sup- plied an aumirabie exhilaration which could not have been had in summer; I^I' Ki i^:t STRAIGH TAV. A Y FOR FORTY DA YS. \\v\ if the rains '-hich preceded made mud, they also laid the dust and stiff- ei ed LP the sand ruts, — those two banes of touring in very dry weather. I ho rain storms indeed never once pro- od prohibitory to daily progress, and the happening of four of them within eight days did not prevent my fortnight ill Ontario from being luch the fastest one in my entire wheeling experience. I m.iy as well confe s here that one reason for such swiftness was a lack of te;nptations for tarrying. It was by no means an unplc.isant country to ride through, — it was far less monotonous and uninteresting than a traveler by train would imagine,— but all I wanted to see of it could generally be seen well (-nough without leaving the saddle. There were few salient points or noble outlooks where I longed to linger. There was small sense of loss or rigret in continually moving on. From Tccumseh on Lake .St. Clair to Kitigsvillc on Lake Ontario; along the shore of this for loom, till in the re- gion of St. Thomas, where a turn was made cross country for 50 m. to I^ake liuron and its shore skirted for a do::en miles to (loderich ; then another in- land stretch of 190 m. to Toron"), and a shore road along Lake ( ntario and the .St. Lawrence for 230 m. to I'rescott : such is the outline of a course that supplied me a pleasing variety of scenery, but " without prejudice " to a rapid pascage through it. If the waters of the lake, in sunshine or in moonlight, made a pretty section of my horizon, I was not forced to halt in order to en- joy the spectacle. Its attractiveness was increased, rather, by the constant change implied in rapid motion. No hills worth mentioning were met for the first 100 m. ; and the roadway, without being absolutely straight, was a very direct one, having few abrupt turns or angles. Cleared and cultivated lands extended back from it on each side, for ^ m. or J m., with ■\ fringe of woods behind them, against the horizon. In the hillier, rougher and less fertile re- gions which I traversed later, I found similar conditions generally prevailing, in a somewhat modified form : that is, there was u.sually a stretch of open country n^ar the road, with a wooded background. It seems to me that very little of my riding was "in the woods," and almost none of it in heavily-tim- l)ered forests. I think, too, -hat hardly any shade-trees had been planted along the wayside. Beneath the blazing sun of midsummer, therefore, a " tenderfoot " tourist through Ontario might perhaps consi>'er its roads a trifle too much III fresco; but, on thi. whole, as I have said, to i cycler who wants the pecul- iar pleasure of pushing himself at a swift pace a ross a wide stretch of coun- try, " Talbot Street " offers far greater attractio i than any 500-m. thorough- fare in the United States. There is, let me here insist, a peculi pleasure in thus swiftly " walking large " with the wheel ; and a part of ._. pleasure, to the philosophic mind. consists in certain distinctive intellectual advantages thus gained, which could not be gained by slowly wheeling over the same roads in separate, short journeys. For example, the fundamental fact that all material prosperity is l).ised upon successful agriculture, was exhibited to me with the imnrpssive ness which attaches only to an " object lesson." The " garden region m^i^jiif »=5 Y ' t^^?^ . '•VBfi^-.. P 302 r^'A' THOUSAND MILES OX A HjCy-LE. of f)ntario."which I cntcrea at the ou.scr. ovu' ntly supplied comfortable \:rJ:V ?^'' i..,.,b.tants.,hou«h it hanlly^cJ, to .c wo t y ' he adjcct.vc. .p.c.ure»Muc and lovely" that another touring cycler 1.1 l>e,t«wcd upon .t ; but. the further I p^..ceedeci. the poorer grewThe ,0 J "^ .imdarly the apr arance of the people and their' habitafion,. The loT hkew.se deter-orated an.l became rougher an stonier as the count y't more b'cak and barrr... Ks rocky and .terile narure impressed m^ n, . .he final dav when the hou.es were fewer in number anTmirntr'^^T: .i^ than ever bc.ore.-some A them being nothin, else than rudely: u3 W cabins 1 h,s natural contrast, between the richr ess of the I'rovince n r mv pomt. -entrance and poverty near my poin.-of-departure. wa, in.e^" ed b the a, .„g of loaves dur.ng my fortnight's eastward and northward ^ove ment of 6ao m.,-for the luxuriant autumn foliage at the begmning chan«Z bare trunks and l-ranchcs at the end. An improvement in surrour^iingsTa V ork S ate. 30 m. s.. was through a rough and rock-- region, but the greene^ grass at the edges of the rocks and forests gave token of a rich . soil and miU cl.mate. I he Otse-ic valley, on my route from Cazenovia to Hinghamton 1 / w.se suggested fertility, spite of the snow upon its hilltops. From iJi.Xm, n went up the bank, of the .Susc,uehan„a to the town of thaT m Tn' c hmbed over the mountains, through al.r.cst 40 m. of rugged and sZelv t led country to meet the Delaware at Ilonesdale. and follow it fo r'tw Vha^^ distance. Hetween Stroudsburg and Tamaqua. I passed through a fine frm .ng d.str.ct. whose German-lik- name, showed the ownership of the"'Penn sylvanu Dutch." There were extended views of smoothiycultivated e ds tte bac? "T f ''"'^■' "''' "''"^ ■'^••^ ^'y^^'l -'^ '^'g^* n^ountalns • he ba kground ; there were whitewashed stone-walls and houses plastered o he outMde. whose p.azzas and fences were a.so whitewashed »here were lit- Choppecl-cabbage and smearkase inside; there were well-lettered guide-po3t at the forks and c -. ,gs; there were udy little girls, who said "good .no .ng s,r.- w.th -^reat respect, and there was. withal, a woman who gravely asked what n., name might be. as a preliminary to answering my enquir about the best way of reaching the iUage hotel. ^ " am-s.les. adorned wuh the reddish leaves of scrul>oaks interspersed with the br,ght green of the pme. made quite a brilliant compensation for the un- gh ly heaps of coal-dust. A few hours later, my environment was again stnctly agncultural, for I was gazed at by a gang of not less than twenty men who were simultaneously pulling turnips in a half-acre lot. The next day Reading was reached, and the region of the Cumberland valley, where there were broad stretches of country enlivened by green wheat-fields, and mountain ndges oommg up on the distant hor.zon. Red barns and whitewashed fences aaaea to the treneral an"'^'^'"— "* ~-.-* J .1 •'■_•_ •' ■■■■.^.-.■.■.■zzs -;:u i;:n:i auU piOspcnty. The ^^^KKSSi^^:^3!^t\Wi' STRA/GHTAIVAV FOR FORTY DAYS. J03 niilc-posta along the pike were inscribed with the distances not only to Philadel- phii and llarrisburg, its terminal towns, but also with those to Reading and Lebanon, intermediate. The villages were all made of red-brick houses, hav- ing solid wooden shutters painted white, and these shutters were inrariably kept closed, so as to reiig.ously exclude the healthful light of the sun andpro- (luce a deadly autumn chill inside. Heyond Harrisburg, where I walked about a mile along the double-bridge which spans the .Susquehanna, the coun- try seemed somewhat less thickly-settled and productive. The mountain ridges on my I. made a level line againsi the horizon, while those on my r. were broken into peaks and spurs. Then came Carlisle, the first county- town of the strictly Southern type, whose C( tral feature is a sort of magni- tiod cross-roads, or open square, from which Siart four - mules whisked n. , hic^c e awav t^' ' ' V '^^^.'^''^'^'"Sly. as the runawav r K,^ u I , - ^ seemnig destruction, at the -erv time wh. stood at 'Us-O." This was m f,o„t of a „, .-Uelcware House- an", e , Had w LdtHe"- ■'''' Var'Ttoke' T"' ■?"■"■■""• ":"'">-»S ...e ■' tile t'e. h eT":: "^ Vale, m token of ,ny ttmmph, I guzjled several bottles of his i,i,,h 1 ^i;f^^;^:^:;^:::n:^^z;.i„-r,Er^^^ Buarded the r. side of the „ath i,L the Hv. Z^.^Z ,' oTeV:""^" ™i] which^..:L?''^:^;::,,,'•rtlT„;;:.i^:; r «:nr"™" bicycle trail of "a thousand miles straitrhtawiv •■ TK u 7 American tired and bed, ..g«,ed. , was hap,, SsMnlphan't'th !lirst„2 '"',' n,.es-tho,e s.o^ I^^f^or. e"l- ^^rrardltdtr foi^J'' t tti=:,'r-:f'::e7:s::;ir;t,\"r'"""-^^^^^^^ Globe's circumference I h h7 / '^^'' ^»» ^^ ^ 'wenty-fifth part of the these verses of " If jr >• <-^ i ». ■ . l><-ci, voicea tor me )\- .he ow r of he -r iew e Tlole "", T'^ '"'" ''^'"'= '^ = ^"^' ^'^"^ l5 •**""=: and I.fttjd tt, the nation's thrnne • And corufu.-red, tiltnily. ' Ah I that soul knows in whal white heal ih^ Kln^i „f ..:. u .. . • 'it! ::--.Ti: I* STRAIGHTA WA Y FOR FORTY DA YS. The white flannel of my riding-shirt, which the rain had been moistenin- or hours wa. not to be dried even by the white heat of this thoTsa d " > r,u,nph; but the glow of this was certainly great enough to make the " hour s r.d.n8 very viv.d :n my memory. I wheeled through no less than Tm of mud m that mterval, though the rawhide bearings on the axle had now grown so soft as to make it revolve with great difficulty; and then I tramped through the darkness (7 m. in 2 h.) to the end at Port Jervis.-encountrrinu at first cont.nuo,.- shallow puddles upon a smooth surface which would havt ecn ndable by dayl.ght. and afterwards stretcher of soft and sticky mud Ihe p.cture presented at the closing in of night.-just before I dismounted' and reso ved that would take no more risks in reaching my base-of-supplie ' however fresome foot-progress thither might prove.-impressed itself more last.ngly upon my mmd than any other of the many curious and att a'tiv scenes encountered on the forty days' journey. It was at a canal-lock in a sharp bend of the mountains, where a water-fall rushed and gurgled and a br.dge afforded a m.mic stage upon which the snail-p.ned mules seemed to e posmg themselves ia a sort of ghostly fashion as their g eatThap bo ned up w.th vague outlines against a background of n, ,t. "xhe yellow i.ghts of he lower boats glimmered fitfully down the canal, and the red and green lanterns of .he Erie cars and switches flashed a fierce res onse from t e opposue shore, as the trains thundered around the bend. Th gatfienne goom and darkness seemed almost palpably to increase with eve^ Z f he wheel, as .t sl.pped silently along through the mud, carrying me near toth.s strange scene, and the shadowy summits guarding the rfvTrl de" e u d be .magmed as coming nearer together, as if bent on the grim jot o clo n,g the gap agan^st me. Somehow, the situation suggested treVn gilian lines with wh ch the shiDwreckpd /??„».„ u, "Sb-'»tcu me vn- •« .he ■=„aer-h=ar„d Dido S„meht» tt^ " ■ ' T'""* '" "'"''"* " /H/r,/a dum Jtuvii currtnt, dum montibus umhr^ Lustraiuni convexa, polus dum siJ^ra parcel Semper h^os, ,u>me,u}:^ „.,„„. UuOesgue m^nebunt, Qutt me cumqiie vacant itrrce. " Only one fall was experienced by me in the entire 6i8 m. between Svr. -e and Staunton and that happened just before noon of the final dl" when I was w.thm less than 30 n,. of the finish. In .rindin. ZC^\ '?/ ^\lTr ^T" "T ^°"''="°* P"»«d out from under me towardsYhe V while r sat down heavily towards the 1.. exactly a, in a case of .y.,^.tol'[^^l 3o6 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. s i On 5 of those 19 days I traveled a certain amount of time (J h. to 5 h., or I4h. in all) after dark; and I rode somewhat on each occasion, thojgh walking largely predominated. M/ morning start" were all made between 8 and 9 o'clock. On 10 of the 20 days in the first half of my tour, my night riding made the co->==Jerable aggregate of 117 m., including 28 m.in the tiark while completing lOom., and 36 m. in th- moonlight while completing 80 m., — the two longest day's runs e.'er made by me, each of them lasting till after 2 A. M. My tumbles in those 20 days and nights were also much more numerous than in the later and rougher half of the tour. Indeed, the very first thing that happened to me after mounting my wheel at the door of the Michigan Exchange Hotel, at Detroit, in the presence of certain qclers who wished good luck for my Canadian journey, was a violent header at a hole in the wooden pavement, a few rod • distant. Though I had steered clear of this same hole when I came in, an hour before, I forgot about it in the glare of the gas light; but I rode to the ferry without further accident, and I mounted before daybreak, next morning, without any fear that the mishap would prove an omen. On the second day, 102 m. from the start, I took a bad header, without apparent reason, while slowly descending a rough clay hill. Two days and 100 m. later I had a side-fall at a mud rut. This was in the after- noon of my loo-m. run ; and in the darkness of the evening, 35 m. beyond, a stone stopped my wheel on a duwn-grade and gave me a slow and harmless header over the r. handle. Then, after 18 m. more of slow progress in the dark, I had a backward fall when my wheel plunged into a mudhole. This was the most painful one of any in my experience, and as it happened after I had ridden about 99 r.i., I thought it wise to do my looth m. on foot. On the sixth day, 20 m beyond, I had a side-fall to 1., in grinding against a grassy slope on the edge of a muddy .oad ; and on the eighth day, 75 in. be- yond, I was forced to take a backward jump, and let my wheel run dow.i a bank, — snapping off the right handle by contact with a rock. A few hours later, just as I started on my moonlight ride of 36 m. to Toronto, I took a header to r., from striking a stone ; and just after midnight, 25 m. beyond, I had a heavy side-fall in a rut. In the moonlight of the next eveninu', while slowly descending a hill, I took another header, — my last one in Canada,— 412 m. from the start. At the ss7th m. l dropped my wheel in a mud rut; at the 663 m., I flew over the handles, on account of a stone on an uj> grade ; and at the 754th m. ^ took a side-fab on a sandy ledge. On the forenoon of the same day (tli seventeenth) vvhen this happened, I ran a rusty nail through the sole of my shoe and deep into my foot, by jumping down upon the board which it projected from. This pained me somewhat until I got to Syracuse, but was cured before I resumed the tour. ^ 'Physicians having several times queshooed me as to my possibly noticing any patholog- ical symptoms developed by bicycling, a. . as to my opinion wliethpr long ioiir« on th? whrel would be likely to help or injure people of inferior physique, it seems proper to print my general answer right here, as a note to this report of my longest personal experience a wheelback. As STRAIGHTA ]VA Y FOR FORTY DA YS. ' 307 My wheel had thirteen falls in the firsi 804111., as thus shown, though I escaped a share in two of them; and, in the final 618 m, it fell once in ad- dition to the single fall which I had with it when only 28 m. from the finish The header which happened at the 412th m. caused the wheels to interfere- but I pulled the fork back into position again, with the help of some men who were playing football in the moonlight, and I suffered no further trouble from this fall or from any other. Pages 43-46 may be ,.nsulted for my report of how the mechanism stooa the wear and strain during the long journey and of the accident which finally disabled it and forced me to take train back to New York, instead of wheeling thither. In mentioning the clothes which I wore (pp. 21-22), I have said that a velveteen jacket of '79 and corduroy breeches of '81 served me well in all weathers. I might have included in the remark my flat velveteen hat of '8a In the midnight fall which I suffered on the fourth day's ride, the breeches caught on the spring-clasp of the back- bone and were very badly rent. A tailor patched them up for me successfully m the course of the next forenoon ; but when I again tore them into strips by a similar "catch," while making a sudden dismount in a snow squall be- low Port Jervis (Nov. 12, about 1,025 m. from the start), I was forced to do the patching myself. Thes- breeches are still " rid-ble," and as they offer an excellent example of the needlework and embroidery practiced by a man in the woods, I may even yet decide to put them up as a derorative-art prize for the club *hich does the most to increase the - 'e o*^ this book 1 most of my tours are begun after an abstinence of weeks or montl from the saddle, the ridinc of ttie first few days (35 or 40 m. eacf,) always liardens up the fices, so that the act of expul- sion IS usually rather painf-d. The difficulty generally wears off at the end of a week's riding ■ theacfon for the rest of the tour is normal and easy; and no relapse or evil-result happens when a quieter, indoor life is resumed again. As regards this only unpleasant tendency known to my own experience of wheeling, my off-hand inference was that people afflicted with costive- ness pile- and other prevalent rectal and anal troubles (from which I have always been free) might perhaps suffer an increase of the same, if they exposed their bodies to the vibration im- plied m alWay nd.ng on a bicycle. But the va)uelessness of any such generalization from a sin- gle individual report is shown by the fact that a case of chronic costiveness, so aggravated as to seem almost necessarily fatal, was cured (or essentially mitiga'ed) by a resort to bicycling, after all the remedies of the medicine-men had been tried in vain. This was the experience of a law- y-rof my own age. who began wheeling when I did, and who has ridden more thousands of mi.es than I have and whose longest day's rides have exceeded my longest. Since the time *hen he explamed to me his singular restoration to health. I have been unwilling to admit thai St ffnl whirr ' ■ ' "" °' ''"^ '"^"'" ^' ^"^"''^ ^ '"S"' saddle-soreness or lavs fit 5" -T'^'k """' ""^ '"' '^"'"'^ a 30 or 40 m. ride after Ion, inactivity, I have always found it dimmish on the ^-cond day , : a tour, and disappear on the ihird. Slight super- fical sores or pimply skin-blisters, near where the body's weight rests upon the saddle, ..reTpt 1 Tl/, Z' '"^ '/°"'' "'°"«'' *'"'°"' *"-" ^-=" "' "^'''"'?- A^ I have mentioned on firsnimA , T "". "' '" ""' '''' '""'■' ^"«'' ^^ '"^''^='""K " '" "79, was for the nrst lime tiintpH tn m^ in t^Mr..* •» — •*. r. ... . 3::cr ,.,, ,-,;;acK oi Icvei in '02. 1 am giad to aH,i .1.-. r _ J f " ■• ' "*"■■ '"' •'"••'-*' "' 'c'ei in 02. 1 am glari to , K,L ""^ '' ^^ '"^ •""" '° ''*^' ™'«^ " °' »" ««"'J"«-■>.. O speed to Clandeboyc, through Birr and L.can, where a long hill was climbed -not d.smoum,ng at all during the .4 m.. except two or three times £or skit-' nsh horses, w.thm 2 m. of the bridge. Mounting at C, on the stroke of ,0. I never left the saddle until „.io, when I stopped 20 min. a^ the hotel in hxeter to imbibe two lemonades. The cyclometer showed 10, m as the dis- tance; and on only one previous occasion had I ever gone over such a stretch so rapidly (Sept. 20, 'So; North East to Westfield. N. Y. ; see p -06) The dnver of a buggy, who tried for several m. to run away from me. served very effectively as a pace-make At Exeter I began the swiftest of all my lone straightaway stays in the saodle.-dismounting at the hotel in Bayfield at i i P. M. with a record of 22 m. for the 2 h. 22 min. The last 8 m. were run'h less tuan 35 mm. (if I read the cyclometer right when I made a brief halt at i.iS,as a precaution against frightening a pretty woman's horse). On this most exhilarating spin, the wind helped me greatly as far as Brucefield (where I turned 1. up a long slope and then crossed a bridge and a big hill beyond) and I met no other such ideally sn.ooth and level stretch in the whole .400 m of my journey. Having ..ow covered 53 m. in 8 h. (three straight pulls of 6 h ,0 mm. in the saddle), I halted 40 min. and absorbed about a uuart of milk before entering upon the second and roughest stage of the ride whose 47 m. required almost 12 h. more (including 2 J h. of rests). The n m" ending at Goderich at 4.30 P. M. were done in 2 h., though the level roadway much of It in sight of Lake Huron) was nearly all muddy and difficult Having added i m. and i h. in G., while securing another quart of milk I changed my cours. from n. e. to s. e. ; and when dusk settled down, at clc I had covered 72 m.,-the longest distance ever do:.e by me in 12 h There were many hills in this region, and I gave 50 min. to the next 4 m., ending at the hotel in Holmesville, where I rested 2 h., for a bath, a change of clothes ami a supper (which was of the same character as my breakfast-no solid food having been partaken of during the 10 h. intervening). I was told that the town of Mitchell. 24 m. distant, had a good hotel called the Hicks House. nd t.iat the road thither was smooth, without many hills. The moon prom- ised to light my way, and, as I was by no means weary, the conditions tempted me to undeitake the completion of 100 m. Before I reached Clinton, at o i c (4 m. in :f h.) the moon had ceased to shine, and the wind came up against me. Cheered there by a bottle of ginger aie, I fared to Seaforth, 9 m in the next 2 h., and there indulged in two bottles,-my last refreshment of 'the journey. After midnight, when my cyclometer stood at 91 m., the wind blew against me with increasing force, the mist thickened, and the darkness deep- ened, so that the track grew much more obscure. I could barely distinguish .t for a rod or so al. --' of me as a lightish line in the general blackness, but the big stones, whose whiteness had given warning to me earlier in the night were now hidden from view, and I did much walking for fear of them. At i' clock, a clump of houses on a cross-roads assured me fh^f T u.^ , u^j tne hamlet of Dublin, and was within less Mian 6 m. of the finish. My'fce^ 314 TEN TIIOl/SAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. were at once conscious of a greatly increased smoothness in the roadway and so I ventured again into the saddle, and kept it for almost exactly 4 m (I counted the revolutions, 436 per m., to learn my rate of progress), cr until my wheel plunged into a mud-hole, and I suffered a violent fall backward After this I rode only a few rods, for the surface evidently grew rougher and more treacherous; and I was too nervous from the pain and shock of the fall to attempt any further risks. So I walked the last one of my 100 m.. com- pletnig that record at 2 a. m. when I crossed the little bridge t Mitd- i. I wanaered \ m. more in the next \ h, before I discovered the hotel; and I har' to kick and hammer for a long while before I could arouse the n oprietor' Meanwhile the rain began to fall. » . i- ■ • I Mn. a short note about this ride to the Bi. World (O- -6, 'gj, p. 330). and a report of ..also appeared .n Hazletfs " Summary of Notable Run, " l . .. «.-wL" Keb., 'sV p 3 ") wlw < r!^ th. expenence, .., Canada of the forty (-.icago touri.sU. whose route fron. planned .0 nde dunng the next two days to Mitchell and Brantford, but were forced by head of Lake Ontario he say, : "All the tourists walked at leas, half and most of them walked wo thnds. I. was .he 'hardest' road we had ye. encountered. Planks (mostly unridab e m vanoussagesof brokenness. filled in with unfathomable mud) formed the firsf,™ of t- ^d then followed a wretched 'stone road,' full of loose bowlders and ruts unrelieved by siuc^ paths We wen, up a succession of hills tc \ncaster, and there, 7 m. from H., began 'goine down the mountam » In regard to the fin . difficult section of the tour, he ^ys' <■ sZ after leavng ,h,s h>ll, ,us, beyond ,he hotel a, Clearville, ,he road grew rapidly bad, un,il ia few m „ beca. . positively the worst road any of the party had ever seen. Within a distance of .6 m. were .8 tremendous hills, made by deep valleys carved in the grea. clay bluffs by rapid i;mns"of h'^H Vr" l'' "^^' °"'"^ '° "'^ '""^ "=' "-°"' «- » conglomeraL of lumps of dry hard clay, with stones, ni.s, and occasional stretches of deep sand The people along ,5 m. of 1. left no imprint of any foot-travel. Even where hamlets were found of frl .5 to 30 houses, there were no side-paths from '.ouse to house ; .0 turf, no relief of any kind. The road generally was not even walkable; it had no flat surface big enough ,0 plant one's foot on. Certainly it was the worst dry road I ever saw. After about .3 m. of ,hls sort of .hinT .he whole party were at Wr enabled to mount and ride in,o WaIlace,own for supper, with a day s record of 40 m." He says that the whole party were only .gmin. in wheeling tke 6.m. stretch ( as smooth as an asphalt pavement ") ending at Bayfield The only s,raigh,aw.y ride, of ,00 m. in a day, which had been taken in Canada previous ,0 my own, was that of C. H. Hepinstall, Captain of ,he S,. Thomas B. C. and a jeweler by I oXT'/ >° rr" '"■■ '": *'" "'"'" '■ " ■'""'"■'^ =•' *°' *• "• °f Sept. 30, '8., I reached London (,Sm.)at 6..0, and waited till 7..0 for repairs; stopped at St. John (6 m.) Jh. for breakfast and at Lucan (9 m.) i h. for a rider who wished to go a few m. win. me. Reaching Exeter(48m. from the star,) at 11.05, I started on at ...45; r..-,ched Mitchell (.5 m.) at ..,5 rested .h. for dmner and then went on to Listowel (.4 m.) at 6.05. Leaving here, after sup- per, at 8^,0 I finished at Fordwich (,5 m.) a, 9.47. making ,oa m. in .7 h. 4a min.. or a little over , . h. of actual nding. My object was not ,0 do ,he dis,ance in ,be least possible time, but rather to wheel to Fordwich in a day, and see all my friends that I could in the towns along the road. I earned a heavy m. i. p. bag, full as I could stuff it, and another quite as large. As Saturday ,s the time when country people come to marl^et. I was continually meeting teams which would not face the wheel. Considerable rain fell in the forenoon, but the aftemLn was pleasant. From Exeter to Mitchell the road was somewhat sandy and stony ; ar.d frorr. ,h.-r.» A FORTNIGHT /A' ONTARIO. 10 l-i-towel quite unHdable, being covered with deep parallel niU. aa no repain have been n,adc (or year.. I had to pick my w.y along the aide. ; and I may «y the «me of my ronl. f,oro L. to K, »h,ch led through iwamp. with corduroy crossins, and many stone* -makin. .ughl-nd.ns very awkward. The .urface from London to Exeter was, a. uaual. '.imply mar nifice.it ft will be ob.ervcd that hi. route coincided with mine for the.e 30 m which he ...v.rcd between 7 20 and ...05 (jj h.. with .top, of | h), a. compared to my 5.45,0 .', ,o(,lh with slop, of ijh.); showing that even my riding time wa. i h. .lower than hU At the do«: of the .u nmcr of '85. four member, of the Star W. C of Cleveland (Henry E Cnubb, John J. McTiguo. Walter Collm., and Joseph We.tx). engaged in a ,ucce„ful fort' niKh. .our, comprising a large .ec.ion of the track explored b> me, a. .hi, mileage .ummar/ r; '^"«'»''*';^'='7''°'«-»>«''>,77; .5.h..o.St.Thoma,. ,;; ,6,h, to Ldon. .8 ; .7th, to ^odench, 66; ,8.h, to Wood..«:k. 69; .9th, to Guelph. 48; aMh, to Toronto 60 ' ,.,., spent -n roronto; a.d, to Hamilton, 40; ,3d. ,0 Nia„.a, 50; ,4th, ,5th and rt.h. i,! Niasara and Buffalo; ,7th, ,0 Erie, 98; aSth. .pen, in J.rie ; agth, ,0 Cleveland 8a Thi, nuUs 655 m. for the .. r.d.ng days, and the total of the tour wa. 67; m." With ll.i, may be compared the fortnight's circuit ta.on a year earlier by Samuel Roether, «;cretary of the Port Klgin B. C. a. reported in Canadian Wkeelma, .March, '85, p. 67): "Starting from my home on Lake Huron at 7 am. of Aug. ,4, I passed through Underwoo.* d Tiverton over first-lass gravel road, and reached Kincardine, 24 m., in 3 h., spite of the wind and rain About .. m. beyond, the wi .;l increased to almost a hurricane, but I wheeled for 6 m. behind a buerv which broke the fo.c. of it, and having lit my lamp at a comer-s.ore, 8 m. from Goderich I nuiiaged ,0 reach there in .J h, 60 m. from home. The wind wa. with me on the asth and I reached London in 8 h. of riding time. The next afternoon I rode to St. Thoma. in a h and on the forenoon of the fourth day to Aylmer. Getting out of my course, beyond here and be- ing caught by a shower, I took train ,0 Simcoe, and again to Hamilton (for the road, were imrassable on the zSth because of rain), and steamer thence to Toronto and Niagara Startmr ...mcwaid from the.e on September 3, at 9 o'clock, I reached St. Catharine'., for dinner but failed to find good road. unti. near Beamsville, from which place to Hamilton they are 'first- «. There .s considerable .ide-path riding near Grimsby, and I wa. repaid for the rough •ad. by magnificent scenery. Taking train to Woodstock, I wheeled thence on the afternoon the 4th through Tavistock to Stratford ; and on the 5,h to Goderich, 4a m. The first 34 » "f this could easily be done without dismount, as there are but few -l until Seaforth is reached' .1 fact the region of Clinton is where most of the hill, on this re • m to have been placed i bu still the roads are fine, and, in spite of heat and dust, I made u .2 m. to G«lerich in • i h. The next forenoon I went .:. through Carlow to Lucknow, along a road which can't be beat, as I covered 6 m. of it in aj min. In the afternoon I went 26 m., through Riversdale and tnmski len, on the Durham gravel road, to Walkert.,n. with a st.ong sun and hot wind on my back al the way. The heat continued to intenw that I took Irai.. home to Port Elpin 30 m A good road was said to connect Lucknow with the lake shore at Kincardine, .8 m Through' out the .rip, I wore a ten^ent straw hat, in which I placed a fresh cabbage-leaf several times a day; and I did not meet with a single accident. I'm only sorry that my outing wa. not two mouths inste?-! of two weeks." The same rider thus descries the final section of route which he took by train (" C W A (.uide," p. 42) : " Port Elgir to Walkerton, 32 m., may easily be ridden in 4 h. Roads o'l rst half, ,0 Paisley, very gooi and not much affected by rain ; spite of «,me ugly hills to be talked up and down, stretching through ,Jm., the .6m. require less than 2 h. Last halt (t».^oush Dunkeld, i, m., and Johnston's Comers, 2J m.) is too .of, after a rain, and too dusty .n dry^veather In .tarting f«,m P. E. to Paisley, you go aj m. s. e. on Goderich road to Half- way House then ji m. s. to Burgoyne. T" „. road from Port Elgin t^ Southampton U 7 m of perfectly level gravel, which the rain impr. s, and may be ridden in J h. I rom Owen Sound (on Georgian Bay, a branch of Lake Huron) to Port Elgin. 28 m.,the route leads through Tara .2 m., of which the first 7 are rorkv and rnno-K n,. fk. fi~i-^.u j . -u . _ ' "I'e, then i^m. w. on loth concession Airan, good gravel; then lim. s. to Tara; .Jm. w. ^.^ '.'„- ^-?>i;: &^|i^ H:-^.^ t.e--'' P 316 /-AA- THOUSAND MILES OX A R I CYCLE. .0 l..,enn.y h^rtlxravcl; ,.«n jf m. w. .0 ArkwnKh,. fine : then 5 „, w .0 B.r-rv„* h . ana good. I he .6 ,„. from T .„ V. t „ ,he be., I.. ,h.. rcK.on. The Allen o,d,^dl^ ..u.e rro. Owen SounU .0 K K.. .hou.h .hor.cr .h,„ .he^r. J.^\!^^^'Z\'^ .^'Z^' Jxxind was al*, the objective ix,.nt 1.1 a v^m. tour uken bv W I u/ , '" w.,u^., b.the.,. o, the woHi..., u, Tanu 0:,^;;^:. r c. w' a'":!::: ""rt" On Auk. .3. r.Kle 500,. .0 Waterloo, through T.vutock. Shakespeare, Baden and Be 1 whence .0 W. wa. very h.lly. Next day. through ftne «:enery to l^c.lau and .he„ b 'T and h..ly road, .0 Guelph. .5 n,. Th.rd ride. 60 .... to Durham, th . gh Kergtode 1 ""h .3 m. .„ 50 m,„.) Arthur (stop for d...„er,, .. m., and Mt. Forest, .on. .-.he a/.e".^' r hT ' ■ ng bad 3nd much cut up. Fourth r.de, 4c .n .0 W.xKor.l. thr.ugl, W,l! „.' ^71: ^" and Owen Sound ; the v m. between the two latter ,.k,„g only 50 n^i„ t e res' o .'he r 7 rough and rocky. K.f.h ride, to Moaford (rough but down h.'l • "h'' 1 al r ""' C^»^ingwo ge. around a bjoken bridge "oefore taking our dinner at Shakespeare ',!.:: d-^^'sn-rr,; « One ph we whee le,. 4.. m and it was the best a. well a, the cheapest trip te ever had • H.llsbu ,, na.„ed ,n the above re^x-rt, is 4 m. n. w. of Krin village, which ies on the Era mosa road about the same distance n. of the Bristol Hotel ruins, where my own rout turn^" e.. as shown on p. 3.8. Of :he direct road thence to Owen Sound, no report is give for"^ ..m between Oran.ev.lle and Shelburne; but for the „i m. thence „. w. to F^h r to t I^ngley. of Toronto, supplies the following : .' Fair gravel, with sandy stretches for 5 n ,'h„i fair'buuT' ,",""""!:''"'' ""'■ '"' ''^^ ""'' ""« ^^-^slig'htlyrolling; V: .ok" Ind 11'' ' "• "'"' ' ''""""°" "' ' =^"=P' ' "r"'* " -• -«-'!' 8'- ous coaling and grandly p,c.ur ue v.ews, . ,a can be done in about 3 h. Markdale is 8 m. n. w ^Z ^lliam "n :r- .T"' ''• " ^'"-'"'f-^- whence my route coincides with that or^ r ;. „, , "^'"'' ""' ■■""'" '" ^^^ ^''"""^^ f^"-" Toronto (■• C. W. A Guide ' w;fk n ,'"";;T'^--' ^^ Vongest. .m, n. ; 6 m. loose macadam ,0 York Mills, but side- walks nearly a 1 the way. and two steep but ridable h.Ils; then 4 m. to Thornh: . .m fa .0 .long the 6 m. tc Aurora; thence 4 m. good rolling macadam to Newmarket. The town lies . m. e. of ma.n road. a„H i, „ffers two good routes .0 Lake .-imcoe. That tluough Holland'. Landmg av.d (,u.ll.mbury to Cook's Bay is a good one ; but the route to Roach's Pon„ ,, „, ■s even better ; for. though apparently hilly, almost all the hills are surmountable, and there are beir. at'llT v""^ '""/"•■"■ '"''= ^ "■ ^"" '""^ '^^^^^'' '" R°->''^ P-"' - *=-„-s after I met him. and the ap- pended editonal said : " Without ever having seen a real bicycle, but only engravings thereof he designed a woocen machine, and on ore occasion rode it from Aylmer to Strathroy. 50 m.. in a day. Afterwards, he covered the same 50 m. in 6 h.. on an iron bicycle of his own making' in which the bent barrel of an eld gun served for a backbone." As a reward of two years' 'pa- sistent coaxing, he has at last prepared for me the following biography : " Perry e! Doolittle (b. March 22, 186.), M. D., surgton of Toronto B. C.. residence : 237 Front st. E. I now ride a 54-inch Invincible, but began on a home-made 48 in., May 20, 1878. My mileage to date (Oct 6, -85) IS ..,750. divided by years as follows: '78, .,300; '79,^.250; '80, 2,000 ; '8.. ,,650; '82, t,5oo; 83, 1,100; '84, 1,200; '8s, 750. I made one run of 25 m. without dismount (Aug 10 •79; Strathroy to London), in 3 h. 5 min., and another Ouly 28, '83 ; Kingston to Napanee). in 2 h 40 mm. My first race was at St. Thomas. May 24, 'S. ; and before I retired from the path, in the autumn of '84, I took part in 53 contests, and won 38 first, 9 second and ' third prizes I held the Canadian 5 m. championship in '8. -'82 and the Toronto B. C. championship in '83-'84. All my riding has been done in the Province of Ontario." The President of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, R. H. McBride, who was also Captain of the Toronto B. C, rode around the city with me, that day ; and, some three weeks later, in company with Harry Ryrie, a lieutenant in the club, he made a day's run of 1,7 m to Belleville, over the same route which I had spent three days in covering. I believe that Mr Hepinstall and myself were the only two men who had previously wheeled across as much as 100 m. of Canadian soil in a day ; and that this third ride of tnat length was the very first one of the sort taken anywhere in America by a pair of wheelmen. From the report which was writ- ten at my request, I condense the following : " Started at 5. lo a. m. (Nov. 8, '83) ; finished at midnight. Riding time, 15* h. ; average speed, ^\ m. per h. ; wind was light through the day and air was cool enough to make us keep our jackets on. All the roads leading from Toronto are poor, and our route was one of the worst, being mostly unridable for 4 m.. on account of stones and ruts. We kept the sidewalk for 3 m., and then walked and rode by turns in the darkness until after passing Norway. Good wheeling then began, and we reached Halfway House, 8 m., at 6.06; Highland Creek, .4 m., at 6.53; Whitby, 30 m., at 8.38 ; Oshawa 34 m at 9. 10. The latter stretch was poor and very hilly. Halting 20 min. for lunch, we went 9 m in li h. to nowmansville, 43 m., at 10.45,-the first 2 m. and last 3 m. being good, and the rest being rather sandy, though ridable at the edges. Thence on good gravel to Newcastle, 48 m at 11.22 (fine coast down the hill on entering the town), and Newtonville, 53 m. Beyond herti 2 m., 15 a good hill for coasting, but the opposite grade must be walked up; then, after 7 m' more of smooth surface, a sharp turn «. is made at Welcome, and the road is stony and rutty for 3 m. to Port Hope, 65 m, We reached here at 2.05, after \ h. stop for dinner at a farm- house, and we spent another J h. looking for luggage at the railwav station. Level and good road to Cobourg, 72 m. at 3.20; and to a point 5 m. beyond where we halted \ h. for tea Orafton, 8om., was left behind at 447, and Colbome, 88 m., was reached at 6.05-darkness having set in when we were about midway between those two places, or at a point to which we hIu. "' "'''''" '^"'°"' dismount from Port Hope. After 20 min. rest ,,t C, we went on to '"" ' 'J ■"• "■• "a^. =""' na;;ca 40 x,i. ioi a ^ood wash and hearty supper. Reaching Tren- ton, ,05 m., at 10, we were met by tome Belleville bicyclers, and resumed the journey under their escort, 20 min. later,-fini.hing at BelleTille, 117 m., just on the stroke of midnight." W' lift -^aT^ J5- J* ::t*»^7;b r-h.i- N -<^ 320 tejv thousand miles on a bicycle. The principal whaling in the second annual tour under the auspices of the Chicago B C w, long th. «.n,e road. July .6-.,, •«, ; and fron, President Bates's'rcpor. thereof S^ Ma/ 85. Pr .9S-J.0.). I extract the following : •' Our route lay along the n. shore of L^n^ for .4. m through a beautiful and thickly^ttled country, wi.n numerous pretty vtW^^! of the blue and saxWotted waters of the lalce lent a charm to the landscape. First da^orrt^T' Whuby, 28 m., 9,0 to a ; thence at 430 to Newcastle, .7 m.,-.,r 45 m in cj h of ridL7 t^ ond day. .0 Bngh.on. 43 m.. ,.35 x. m. to ,40 P. m. ; riLg'ti.e,'' h -th tngest Z bet. at Cobourg, from .,.30 .0 4. Third day, ,0 Napance, 46 m„ 9.^5 A. m to 6 ,!T T^^ o.ne. 4 h. .5 min.,-the final ,4 m. from Belleville being cove^db iust a h. of mm ' " ing. Thus far the roads had been generally good, with sor^dm ^^str^therr:" were ,0 nde over the best road of the whole trip, f .cm Napanee .0 King t^„ at" Th.^rh"na" n>w .t .s as smooth and fine as the most noted road nea, Boston. We left N at o ,0,. : at K. at „.ao,-riding time, a h. .0 min." There is an ev,dent com^^ilr '^1^^ caused by a prmter's blunder in changing the t,me of arrival from " t^o ") and i^o^h previous days' records, it may be presumed that they represent the pace olthe sS 7 . which, considering thaTthe pa 'j'LrreT^ a mt: tdLle ^ZZIZ' T" I '' short run, from Napanee to Kingston, aa m., w'as made in a,^ '3" ^e 3he'; '".h ^ oppo,.,. d,,„,„. KtaB«„„ ,„ N.p..„, »i,h„„ ji.„„„„, xi„ ,i„, "°,, I, ,71;, K^ as w II appear from the followmg excerpts : " There is nothing in Canada or :,7]..,.f .h- .• :rh:^';oa7";' '"^ "r? ^^^"^ ^ ""°'^-«'^'^ -Lr^'^ti:: "iru i ' r r; watched roads and worse hotels. We had more enjoyment from one day's touring in New VoHc' heaL 1 fh Tf7 f 7 "' "''"""' """P"' ^'^^ '''"<= '° ^ --=' -"• on every s^e We le we col h" ". ?: ^'"" "' ^"""''=' ''"^ ''^'"S left behind, iu favor oTa count^wh lea Astgart ^aZ'Thrr'r ^•"'^ ^'' '"= ""'" '" ""'"^ ^^' ^'^^P -"" ^ - '"^ vear WhT-h, '^' ""'" '■°''''' '^""^ =* ^reat disappointment over tho^ of last aTuranrt:t'::f:eTmT;r.:;h^^r^ ■: ^-^ «- •--" - n^rt;irnn„rt;--"^«^'-^7*^'-^^^ as^rted size, Td l: a T, TT " ""'!.' "' '"" ''='"'• '""''*"' ^^ » ">»' "' '-" «""- of assorted sizes, and then a stretch of ruts, and so on throughout most of the dav's ride Th, rli^ T:T^iz;:7:;Xr'' "t:-^- ^-^ "'°"'^'" andioudjitt^"^^.^^: WHO went over this route last year said that the roads wen. tt,.„ o.,.~» j have siwiled Ihrm T%,, », u . l • . *" 8°°°' ""*' "^"nt ram must wa.\eTs:^'^a::-.h::;:,a: e^t: rv'i-d in ; s '°-^z ^' r - t '° '^"•-^•^ min. of arf,„I riding a f -. _■_...„ ' """■ ^' ''^J' ' '■"='°^«> "^ 43* m. in 4 h. 35 reached without inddent." w"hile'uiiS" "^S" space for the racers toTurn anS th v IT a V '^"'^ ?^"" °' ''^ ^""'^ " '"^■■' ^"--^ =""P^ ...^urse ..m, own;;ot::i;:L:^s;z-:-r-- ;:^^^^ ni, of It. most y up-hill was in v,.rv l,,^ „i , •, , '" '"-t"'*"^ "'^ nign.vay, tlie first 25 ».ether, in this ord'er : Stol, Wc^, W ste ;:i 'vi: SicUe • rM"'^" '"^ "^^"■^"- "^"^"^ n.. unpleasant l^:^' £Z, riii: tTb;Taf^yr t.rnr^W ^ "^"^7''°"' '" ^ ditch on the 1. of the team and clambered up be-ond VVes trvelt Tl *T '^°*" '"'° ^ ».de of the road on the gra.s for a hundred yard; b trel ou7d ' r'T f " ,"" ''""^ ''^ SirUen attempted to pass on the ed-^e of the ro.d b ,t 7 I ^ °" '" '""'^ "«"'"■ ^^"^ » -k, ,ho b„„„„d fori,, .„,k „,i.(,,.,„,i, ' ji^lj C , 'l ' „ h '• , " " '""""'"' I !».•■ n..n. .(,„ ,o„ J„a,i „„ „„,k M "2, ,,-° ;■;:'■ ;' '■'* """"«■ «t^;=r;rrL;rs:k::;rs:r:':::;^"„?:7~ n*^r.r;;:*::irktt"rsi:™ at ,a ,T Tt . c ■ "^ ""''^ '' " '^' ""<^ ^^'-■'^'^^' ''■^^■i"S '"••"1'-' hi^ wheel ridable ■">2.35- At Trenton, Stone was tod that Weber WIS i^.^l,,^; J 1,- j,- "->=' "aaoie, *r ".:£; ?" ir '"■ —»- *- --" . ':: s: ';r.r,r ,,^.. . . /^'" ' ^- '"^ '^"^ 50 m. m 3 h. 4. mm. He was .0 exhausted ,h.. h„ h,^ .„ ,,. \'\ , t 322 TEJV rHOUSAN''i MILES ON A BICYCLK. r pearance that bystanders offered odds of 2 to i that he would be unable to finish. Mungcr reached the hotel 21 min. after Stone ; ate a hearty meal of steak and potatoes, well garnished with liquids ; was rubbed down ; came out ; kicked off a man's hat, and vaulting lightly into the saddle, started out at a good pace, having delayed just 17 min. Meantime Westervelt had arrived at 2.22 (50 m. •'! 4 h. 14 min.), stopped ■ min. to drink a bottle of ginger ale, ar«l started off 4 min. in advance of Munger. He kept second place until iS m. beyond Belleville, when he played out entirely and gave up the contest. Wo!>er reached B. at 2.33, exchanged his damaged wheel for a new one that was waiting for him, and left at 2.35. At Napanee, where he was about I h. behind Mun^cr, he mounted his racing wheel, waiting for him in charge of C. H. (Jliicker- ing, who served as a pace-maker for 10 m. , while Weber, keeping on, arrived at Kingston ai 7.i4i P. M., making; the 25I m. in i h 45 min., a total of g h. 14^ min. Stone reached Napanet at 4.0S (20 min. ahead of Munger), and was coached thence to Kiii;.;ston by Lindell Gordon, in about 2 h., fini.ihin;; at 6.36, is the winner of the race, in exactly 3 h. 2.% min. This is only 22 min. more than the best record for a 100 m. road race. The prize is a circular gold medal valued at %(ya. Munij^cr was coached from Belleville to Napanee by J. W. Viv 1, and thence to Kings- ton by Gideon Haynes, jr. , who once brought him within 6 min. of Sti ;. He finished at 7.08J, 6 min. ahead of Weber, with a record of 9 h. 8J min. During the race Stone ate nothing ex- cept raw eggs, while all the rest drank sherry and egg, ginger ale, milk and cold tea in greai quantities, Wob -r excelling in that respect. The 'incidents' besides those already mentioned were a header taken over a cow by Stone, and a fearful shake-up for Munger, who ran into a horse, or rather the horse backed into him. Forced thus to make a back dismount, and landinc astride the backbone of his wheel, he was ' knocked out ' for the space of ten minutes. A« for Westervelt, considering that this was his first long race, he made a wonderful showing and surprised everybody. Had he been an experienced man, and known just how to take care of himself, there is little loubt but he would have shown up at the finish nearer the front." Some previous notable rides of his have been described by me on pp. 114, 182. The second man in the race (who is cajjtain of the Detroit B. C, aged 23 and weighing 160 lbs ), distin- guished himself, three weeks later, by driving the same bicycle 211J m. in 24 h., beginning at 4 P. M. of July 31. The roads around Boston supplied the course, Butcher cyclometer kept the record, and pace-makers were present for the entire distance. The Ri. JVorh.i (An?. 7, p. 329) recorded the exploit as beyond dispute. As the tragic death of Cola E. Stone (b Feb. 27, '63 ; d. Sept. 26, '85) will serve to permanently connect his name with the rcmarkablf 100 m. race which he won, I present here the brief wheeling biography which he wrote at mv request, July 29 : " It was sometime in Juno of 'Si that I made my fir.st wild and nnsatisfactor>- attempt to ride. I got the knack in about J h., by propping the wheel up with a fence-rail, climbing on and then throwing the rail away. The date of my first mount is identical with that of my first road-ride. It was n't a very long ride, — only about 3 m. on the rond, — but I think t' . trail would have measured 17. My longest straightaway day's ride, except in the recent race. was from St. Louis to Clarksville, about 80 m., on the r. r. track, through the counties of St Louis, St. Charles, Lincoln and Pike. It was a poor r. r. track, too ; and the only cow we saw- all day was lying peacefully in the middle of it (though there were about 137 cattle-gu.irds tn the mile), so that we had to kick her to make her get up. My longest tours ha>e been nnlv Saturday-io-Monday runs. We frequently go to Manchester, 20 m., without dismounting; and I don't remember ever staying in the .saddle longer than that, except in a 25 m. race. I 've nevir kept any regular account of mileage, except i easionallv for a month or two at a time. Judging from that, I think f averaged from 6,000 to 7,000 m. a y ir, through '82, 'S3 and '84. I 've done a great deal of riding, I know, because I wear out, on an average, two back tires and one from tire a year, and I al.rays have to get a new set of beariuTs, every 8 or 9 months; but T haven't the slightest idea what my total mileage amounts to. My weight, when stripped for racing, is 165 lbs. ; and my occupation, as shown by the letter-head, is that of a dealer in bicycles." .At the last spring meeting of the St. Louis Ramblers, he rode the fastest mile ever made on a dirt or cinder track west of the Hudson, defe.itine: Weber, in 2. .16?. Wh!l;» r.^rin^ nt S-.nrin'-f^'^ld. Senterr?- ber 8, his hand was broken by a collision and fall, in the last half of the loth m. ; but this mis- A FORTNIGHT IN ONTARIO. 323 hap was in no way the cause of his sudden death. Resolutions of r«rr^. f^ ,..• j Pas^d bv .he cyc.n. Cubs of the city and pHnted i:. IT. 2 oVi'T n^t i WeTnl^ able evdenceo the.r wnters' sincerity.. This maybe shown by a brief extracV omTe t' ..uled memonal and eulogy given in a St. Louis journal (7-/1, sLctator Oct ^\ TT w,th his ponrait, which also appeared in the L.A.^V BuluniS^Tl^^' )^ '°""'""'" n.-lJ iyk,,l»un^s Gazette. Th» euloeist savs • <• aT, h , , ' "^^ ^ ^ ^'"^ ■^^""^ .r. Ill- eulogist says . As a wheelman, I am sat sfied that 1-p l,,^ no ,vM,g equal. He was good for long distances and short distances; he wallatl r l road, and smooth ro..ds lie could cl.mb any hill that a horse could limbradTeoudnd ha: is-off where good riders were fain to dismount. He was the fnrp,^„ , u . pr,,n,ey, made 50 m. On the same dnv (Aug ,n) eony „,„er tncyder ,n the party, the Rev C. E. Fessenden, of Sumnn, Hill. Pa . accom Pl-l>cd 70 m., as did also Professor C. P. Hoffman, of Borden.own, N, J.. i„ company with the ^ommander the two bicycles being ridden without dismount for the la t .3 n, end ng V I rJliot Mason, nf Mfw Vnrlr n^^^r*^ y^u „fur--i-:„_. ., . . - V I "^ f.he ..t,orb.n, the only clergyman of the trio); and the still longer nin of ,c. m. b; three Mtchigan ministers : B. J. Holcombe, of De-roit, J. P. Mavee.y, of Homer, and E. P. Johnson' ■1 .1 -M \ ^} 324 TE.V THOUSAND MILES ON A lUCVCLE. i>f Marshall. The last-named sent four letters descriptive of the tour to the Chicago Tribune (reprinted in Marshall Statesman), and I reproduce what he says about this first 100 m. straisht- away ride engaged in by any American representatives of the cloih : " Starting from Port Hope soon after 5 a. m., wc found the first 40 m. so discouragingly poor that some of us gave up the idea of a ' century run,' and lazily wasted almost 3 h, along th. road, resting at farm-houses or under the trees. Courage and ambition were both mightily revived by the fine surface en- countered at Trenton, and we joyfully wheeled the 13 m. to Belleville in i h., reached Nap.inee before 6 o'clock, and ftn.illy Kingston. H.'s riding time was loj h., and the others rfxlc 2 h l^.nger. Kar from being ' completely used up next day,' we only felt a little lazy and a trifle stiff in the knees, but were ready to walk or wheel around the city streets as we chose " fh same writer properly denounces the delay and trouble which the Canadian customs people caused at the outset of the tour by their cast-iron enforcement of Middle Ages " regulations, for the repression of internatio.ial touring " ; and he praises without stint the universal hospitality s.iown by the C:anadian people not of the customs, who arranged formal receptions and banquets (in the churches and town-halls) at Gait, Woodstock, Goderich, Seaforih, Mitchell, Stratford and elsewhere. R.iiny weather combined with the customs interference to force the tcjrists (rather than disappoint the citizens of Gait, who had prepared to welcome them August 6) to ride by train from Hamilton, the first day's ride being from Niagara to St. Catharine's; but the Re;-. Mr. I'ope kept up the reputation of his family by dring the whole 62 m. on his wheel, though he found the road from H. to G. "conspicuously wretched." From there ■' next morning, s. and e. to Paris, then 12 m. due w. to Princeton, and 12 m. to Woodstock (a total of 45 m., on account of a mistaken detour), we found poor re .ids. From W. to Ingersoll an the forenoon of the ijth, the surface was so much better that a few covered the 10 m. m 55 n.in., and most of tne others within i\ h. Hilly, rough, stony and sandy, by turns, were the next 6 m. to Thamesford ; and the following 10 m. to Dreanoy's Corners, though generally level were neariy as vile ; but the final stretch thence to London (9 m.) was much better." Rain fell during the Sunday while the party halted there; so the start on the Goderich road was not mad- until 2 P. M., and Monday night was spent at Exeter. The remainder of the route coi-.cided wuh my own- -the second Sunday being spent in Toronto, and the go-as-vou-please rule being adopted from there to Kmgston, in order that those who wished to attempt 100 m m a day might do so without appearing to be " racing against the partv." Five letters about the tour were written for the Pittsburg Despatch by the Rev. J. F. Cowan, 01 that city, editor of the " Methodist Protestant Year Hook," who said (Stratford, Aug. ,4 ); " So far there is but one opinion as to Canadian roads. They have been greatly overrated. One could hardly find .4^ m. of as bad continuous riding on any main highway in N. Y., N. J. or Pa. The 50 m from Gait to -.Voodstock is simply execrable for a wheel; while from there to London the road though having a hard bottom and little sand, has a very rough and stonv top " The ma-^azine article, before alluded to, reflects pleasantly the general spirit of the tour, while avoidiiv^ d- tails, and is accompanied by a pair of pictures reproduced from Mr. Holcombe's photogr.inh, and another pair of ancient cuts from Outing ; but its main purpose is the argumentative^on'- of converting the souls of unbelievers, that they may pin their faith to the bicycle I ike a true preacher, he uses the tour as a text for demonstrating that there is nothing undignified or un- clerical or unmanly about a sort of pleasuring which gives the weary worker new strength and vigor for fighting the battles of the Church ; and his sermon is good enough to take rank as . definite addition to the literature of the wheel. Manufacturers might do well to mail a copy .4 It (as a tract productive of " business ") to every clergyman in America. " There are now ab-ni 250 or 300 of these who use the wheel," writes .Mr. Stall to me (Oct. 23, '85) " and I am surf that next summer's clerical tour will be as successful as the first one and much lar-r M. weight, which you a c for, is ,45 ibs., and height is 5 ft. .0 in. 1 ride a 56 in. Expen on the road, and a tricycle for pastoral work. I gained 14 lbs. while on the tour." A five days' ride (Kingston to Toronto, July 20-24, %) was thus re, ,ted to me by L. B Graves, of Minneapolis : " I rode a S2 in. Sanspareil, and was accomnanied V. C P.hr.-:rr. ,-f Northampton, Ms., on a 50 in. Columbia, though he 'ook the train at' Port h -pe, on account I I ■V' A FORTNIGHT IN ONTARIO, rough ana s.eep h.lls. T„. .oacis were in good co'nd.Z. a d 2 •; L3;S T T .mds were westerly. McDonnell cyclometer failed about half inll r ! . P^^va.l.ng .xnded on local information for dista.Ls. K to Napanee .cm 7^"^' '"'' ^ "*= ''''■ forenoon to Uell.-ville 2? m Tl.irH A t "^P^nee, 25 m., 3.45 to 7.45 p. „. ; and next 3" m., a. ..5 r. m.. u.;:4 havil L'en t l :t p rh.r ^ t""':'';' ^"' ^^^'^'■^'' ^"""--- ncr at Port Hofx., 1 started on alone a p, LT V I L '^"'- '^'" ' ^^ ^'°P '°' '^'"■ ^fore lear^.ing'^that . 'd n.i.ld he r d^ i, :t:: t:, ,tv"f' T'" °' T' ""' "'"^ ^^^^^ of .ele.rnpH poles. Reaching the Mi,U.nk 'oTd r m ' o. ^SlT I : t::'::"^ TT' alon. the next 3 m. .0 Newcastle in /h. Kifth a:d 2 d";," ' -V'^rrp T'^' '"' '''' ... loronto, 4S m. ; roads showing fine scenery, but steadiW un^^ade H ' f' "' towards the end, so that 1, 00k side-path whore7er nractic We '.^:^"''"-\ """^ ."creastngly poor a. . P. M. of 26th I took steamer across th^ n\ f '?'"''.'^''- ' '^^ ^'--'■'ther was very warm, and 7n,. ,n .ih. Starting back 7 30T T/ i"';:::;;?; ^ V^'"'*^' ''^ '^■■^^-• 3 n,. from N., on the Lew.s.on rcL, I tuZ r '.d t e td r.;.^':,'' '" t"' '^'-"• P-...V a,rect. It leads through a flat and unintcr sting country of a snn , ' "' ' '"""^ '' ra;hcr uncomfortable riding.-.hough I presume the 1, 71 ' '''^""'=^' ^"^ offers .ou„t.'. Three young nfembers S tirB:": ^^ Tc ST i^^f W "r ^' "'"°"' "'^ -Macown) rode from there ,0 Kingston in 6 h. ending at 4 p m ' ^ih ^ I '"^ ""'^ ^• i Aug. 3, 'S3) ; and, at about the same time Mr IVn f ^ x, ' "' ^"''"'^'= '°^ ^'""" .0 K. and back. .00 m , in .; h, ".IgT; ^m ' " "^ ''°"'^"' ^^"''' ^'"'^ ^^^ «• The previous chapter (pp. 39509S, 30,, 306) may be consulted for inci- dents of tny own four days' trial of this much-described route --o,^ Tor ? to Ktngston .65 m. I registered „s n.. in my three dCt S^; wnreTn" 3 m. from Cobourg to K.ngston.-being in each case . m.' less than ac edited to the single day's r.des between those points (pp. 310, 3,1) An idea rnr,. a wavs-smooth road, may be had from Kingsto.l. r^'. l w' to P r s^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Z:: g the pen,tent,a,v and asylum; and another macadamized track e to,;! w g the lake shore to Bath, .1 m., passing VVilliamsville, Collinsby and M.llhaven; but mv own route led e., thr.^: ,h Ontario st., pa t the barr.C s acres the Cataraqui bridge, and r m. of mac. to top of Barrvfield hill TwaJ o,n .40 to 7 P. M. ,n going thence by direct road to the Int'ernatio al Z] t <,ananoque, ,7 m.. walking the last m. on a very smooth surface and the m, receding on a rough and muddy one, which even in good we\ h r '. d V gh would be difficult to ride. The 3 m. previous I manag!, to cover ou Tn 7T '""' °^ '■°"^^'^'""''' "I'-S^^^- -'1 -i"^- Tl-e first 4 r out of Harryfield were also ridable, ti.ough difficult St-irtinL^ nevt T .^>e l.ting,y^sty air. for an all day'^ fight against r':^ 1 ZZ:^ ^ d I .alked every step for r m.. until this road rejoined the mab 1 ne a 'in' My longest stay in the saddle was 2 m., endin- a ,14c .nd b .u^ :;:Lii-i^-- -f^ ^''- ^in^ge ha:i,^ i:;^^;lf-- ,"'1:5 ,„,i- " ""'."' ■~'''''"S"''^'^ -v-^auiage i-actory '= adjacent to a post-office After -k,ng a detour 1. to a r. r. station, in vain search for a taver'n, I found a tittle \*m 326 /-A-.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. house with a sign "Grocery "on the main road, 20 m. from the start- and there I was served with a dinner which, being my first repast of the' day tasted extremely good. A frost-bitten apple and little piece of chocolate had been my sole sustenance during 5 h. on the road. I crossed a r. r. 2 m from the grocery, and rested again after another 4 m. Then 1 rode almost contii, uously till I reached I.ynn (the first sizable village yet encountered) and the church on the top of the hill beyond it, at 3.50; and I next read my cydom- eter at the post-office in IJrockville, 6m. in i] h. A peculiarly brilliant clav of reddish purple color, supplied some goodish riding in thisr-.non; and' at the fork, beyond Lynn, I turned r., and was told I did wisely, the u-'h thJ "mine road" on the 1. would also have brought me to Urockviile. Its "Revere House," opposite the post-office, was an attractive-looking hostelry but, as I wished to improve the departing daylight, I turned my longing eyes' away from it, and wheeled down the St. Lawrence (first on wooden walks and then op good macadam, in gentle undulations), 5 m., to a wretched little wayside tavern at Maitland, where I stopped i h. for supper. Mounting in the dark at 7.25, I rode and walked by turns, over a track of ideal smoothness to a toll-gate (3 m. in \ h.) ; and thence ventured on a rather larger propor- tion of riding for the 4 m. ending at 9.30 at the ferry in Prcscott. I was too late to catch a boat across to Ogdensburg, and win the hoped-for boon of resting my weary bones in a comfortable bed at the Seymour House, where the United States flag was waving its defense over iny awaiting mail-matter; and so I turned back from the ferry to the little " Revere Hou.se " (which se'emed all the dingier by suggesting the memory of its stone-fronted namesake at Hrockville), and reconciled myself to the acceptance of a couch of straw in a stuffy, kerosene-lit bed-room, by remembering that this fifteenth night in " cheap Canadian lodgings " was, at all events, my last. These final 47 m., completing the fortnight's 635, tired me more than anv previous day of the tour, because of the average roughness of surface and the fierce gale of wind ; but I should say that the last 12 m. of all must supply, by daylight, about as pretty a stretch of wheeling as can be found in Canada. For a good share of this distance. the road is within a few rods of the river's surface, and a clear view is to be' had across it to the New York shore. Even through the dusk, which was set- tling about me as I wheeled from Brockville, the outlook seemed a fine one. According to the " C. W. A. Guide " (p. 59), " H. C. Goodman and S. Carman, Capt. and l.ieut. of St. Catherine's H. C, wheeled from that place to Prescott in 1882, but were there forced by wet weather to abandon the plan of reaching Montreal. Despite strenuous endeavors, we have been unable to find any one who has ridden from P. to St. Anne's, 70 m., which is the end of our reported route from Montreal, 24 m. In fact, the only report we have been able to get e. of Gananoque is the general one in the sketch prepared for us by Karl Kron (pp. 81-S4) concerning his fortnight in Ontario. Few Canadian wheelmen seem lo ride further e. than Kingston." A lounger in the reeking bar-room of the tavern at Prescott assured me, as a faci within his own knowledge, that th • next 40 m. down the river from P. to Cornwall were as smooth as the 12 m. I had just traversed; and that he believed the macadam continued through to Montreal. ApproxiiTiatc truthfulness on the ri.irf r.f mv sr.fnT-msr.t =^.=r.-.= ::V.,.vi-.. !,.. :!.:.- :;„... in the Canadian Wketlman (Oct., '84), " Sandy McCaw wheeled from Toronto to'cornwall, A FORTNIGHT IN ONTARIO. 327 ,t«>ut 175 m-. i" four days, last month, doing upwards of 80 m. on (wo of the days; and he •ould have kept on to Montreal but for rain." M. is about 65 m. beyond C, and 20 m beyond M. Anne s, wh.ch u the point-of-beginninR of the river-routc for Quebec presented in the next paragraph. This I conden^ from the excellent repo-t prepared (or me by f. M S Jenkins Uptam of the Ottawa ti. C. t*FW printed it in full, Dec. ... .,. '84). and. as an introduction m h,5 story. I remark that S. T. Greene, of Belleville, rode from I're^ott t„ (ntawa 54 m ,July 7. 'HS, 4 A. M. to 3 P. M.), in about 8 h.. though the return ride could be done i.i 6 h • .,nd 1 offer a route from lirockville to Ottawa (" C. W. A. (Juide." p. 6.) : " Between Brockville ,.,ul .-smith's I'alls, JO m., is a mac. road, out of repair in Sept., '83, and unsalisfaciory for wheel- .:,;;, but It has IK. bad lulls. I"ad3 through many villages with fair hotels, and tan be covered in h Butler's Hotel, at S. K.. is a good one. and the route from Ottawa tliiiher may be thus «h.,wn: Wellington St., . m. w. ; across r. r. to Hutonburg Corners, . m. ; good mac to ll.rcnton, .^ m. ; to blacksmith's shop, i) m. (detour r. to batlwiig beach on lake shore) ; to Am- ;.nor road, , m. ; toll-gate, 2} m. ; t. s. at Bell's Corners and follow mac. road 5', m. to O'Mara's Untcl, easy down-grade; toll-gate, jj m.. with Jock river on 1.; Kichmond, 2J m.. where stands kicMy's Hotel, a big stone building which offers excellent fare. Ihe scenery to this point is 1 fincst.-makmg a pleasant trip of j\ h. on light up-grades, and the return requires .J h less 1 1,. labor of covern.g the next 29 m. to Smith's Kails is hardly repaid unless the tourist ha, ample nn... Very slow wheeling maybe had on .a of the 16 m. leading to Kraiiktown, and nearly ,m. of sand must be walked. The f.nal stretch to S. F. is not dissimilar. tlu,i,.^h, at a point , m. beyond K., a detour may be made to Perth, 8 m., along a clay road which is good in dry -.nlher. Hick's Hotel recommended." Shorter routes from Ottawa f quote from the same i ahority : " Wellington st. w, and Bridge st. n. J m. along car tracks to Suspension bridge (fine w of Chnudiere Kails) ; s. and w. i ni. to Hull ; t. 1. at first cor. after crossing bridge ; next L r. . .1 keep n, w. . m. mac. to toll-gate ; n. 5 m. to Ironsides, where is an iron mine. Beyond, i m., - ,1 \ m. hiil wh.ch can be wheeled up, and gives magnificent coast on return. Chelsea is 2 m' i;..ni the summit, and the road from O. to C. can be ridden in all weathers, -often in i h. Scener, .. very beautiful, with Ottawa end Gatineau rivers to n. e. and Laurenlian mts. n. and n. w Gil- innur's Park is worth visiting at C. and the mills at the foot of the cliff, mar which a pood swim iniy be had. The same may be said of Tucaches Lake, 5 m. from Chelsea, along a road of -r-nd sce.iery." The favorite run of the O. B. C. is to Aylmer. " a summer resort on w. -hore of Lake Dascli. ne, about 8 m. of mac. which can always be relied on for . h. outward :: P (up-grade) and 40 min. homeward. Turn s. w. at Hull ; pass Eddy's factory ; J m. beyond .>'.k out for r. r. crossing; right up a hill beyond toll-gate; Moore's hill is safe to coast; P !-■< n hotel about J m. from toll-gale and take r. side ; then 6 m. s. w. to Pitcher". Hotel in A " Ir.m. O. to Metcalfe is "all mac. except the last li m., which is clay, good when dry. Hank St. s. to toll-gate, J m. ; Patterson's 'Jreek bridge, J m. ; driving park and loll-gate, } m.j canal swing bridge, \ m. ; Lan.sdown park and slight ascent, followed by fine J m. coast to liiliings bridge, which crosses Indian river. The road up w. bank to Manolick, ij m., to toll- ^.ite and } m. to Bridge, is a long ascent which can be wheeled, and coasted on return. O'Neil's H ,tel is S m. s., and Metcalfe 9 m. beyond. A pice of 7 m. per h. ran easily be kept." Ot- tawa to Eastman Springs: " Nicholas st. s., good mac. \ m. to canal deep-cut ; then e. J m. to th.. Rideau river at Hurdman's bridge, whose ends are bid ; s. ■-. J m. to r. r. crossing ; s. e. ,J m. 10 toll-gate at Hawthorne ; and the mac. ends at church and cemetery i J m. p. Tayloiworth is 7 m. from church, and Eastman Springs 3 m. beyond. Sand must be walkc-d for i m. from church ; rest of road is clay, good in dry weather, unridable when wet." In leaving Ottawa for Monl treal, the best route leads through " Rideau st. e. J m. tn Rideau hill, and a bad bridge at bottom over Rideau river ; and the road leading up this connects with Eastman Springs and Nfetcalfe roads. From bridge, go s. e to toll-gate and c. to r. r. crossing, i m. ; then 10 .n. e. to M. Josephs (2 m. up-grade before reaching Queen's Creek)." This was the route taken by Mr. k'nkins(b. Jidy 6, 1S50: weight, iac lbs. ■ Premier ti in.V v.h.nr,? r:-r-_-.r! T -..-.-.v r.r.!-.ar-..-! > " I left Ottawa with a tricycling compa.. on Ihe afternoon of Aug. 9, '84, and we rode to t :ircnce, 25 m., that evening ; next to Caledonia Springs, 25 m.; tnird forenoon to Hawkesbury, ?! .528 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A JJ/CyCLE. .5 n, «lu.,,cc 1 procccdol alo<,„ ,0 K.gaud, .9 m. l.cavmR at ,0 A. m of Tu.- day. I a.n.„.o Montreal ,0 n , .he c,x,l of the ..vcn.nK, ,aki„« u-, en rouU at Kaclnne. My cx,K.„cncc- was a very plJa^ant o', ' and I can rcconnncnd the- „.u.. ,„ ..:! who arc content wuh 50 n,. a day. Kor record breav' cr, „ would 1,0 a nusiako. The «re.a drawback i, that the road bottom i. blue clay, ai.d a In ran, re,uL.,s,t unrulahN-a 1 clay. At Ihnrvo. on the opposite side of the river, from Clarence, a better hot. I n .'y |„ found^ ( ,0 Uen.Iover. ^ n, clay. The Ottawa nver is in view all .he wayfn.n, •> t„ » and the m. nerv ,s very beautifnl. At W. ,he roa.l bends inland, and afu r , n.. ,l„ •>• ui„n rlv ', .s s,R „..c A, flan.a. ..et, , m.. the ro.,d cro.ssc.- and leaves .h,s river, and for 5 n,.' ,0 A r V Uwo hotels ,s ,,«. sandy for wheeling. The road chan.es to .lay a.ain, J n,. bc'.ond A K.VCS a perfectly lev.l, stra.^ht stretch for ,0 m. A, .Mfred C orners, 5 m., the Orand ,.,.;; , a edon,a SpnnRS can be .seen. . m. off on r. ,. ; hu, I kept .stra„ht on, nnder ,he si^n „f | Ottawa Hotel. ,0 Cassburn Corners. n,. clay and . n,. sandy loan,, all ridabl,-. of\ roads hence the direct one ,0 Hawkesbury (which is a pretty village, worth an honr's loiter the m.lls and deer-parks) ,s very sandy, while, by turning to the 1. a, -he Con.ers. ,1„. wlwelm n wll enjoy . „,. ,ood mac. to f/Ori.inal, whence. ,0 llawkesbnry, the ride is a charnn,,^' , over Kooay be had at the Clarendon a le summer hotel on the water's cd.-e at St At,,,,.'. Ti, .u •" "<• i-'-ircncion. a iar.-e a.,d after 7 m , ,„ .h n , ( , , ^^-^""^ "' ^ ^^''<'^ "^e ro.id rtms along the river bank. Montreal, f he outward route from M. is Sherbrooke .st w ,t m • Cote S, \n,.;, Kool coast ng ,0 l„ue lionnets, i m, ; Reilly's Crossing, i m. ; Lower Machine ,m • Cppt Uchn,e ,.i nt. ; nver bank ,„ f^orval, .J m. ; Va-ois, .J m. ; Point Claire, .J m.' ' " •.Ion. th'e n shM '" ^ , "T ""' •'" '^"" '"" ""' "^•='^'- ^^ 1 had heard that th. r. .,d .. to l,ouchcruIle, 5 m., the road ,s a tough mac, which it is a relief to exchat.ge for the verv .rea ' t^^, TT .'T '' ^ '•''""'■°°"' ^"'^ "" '"^^'^^' ^'--" ™"'""^' ^-'v to M,„. Morel, 25 m. further, a partv nf sup.'evor?; *.".!.H r^.~ ;V.-t sv. ,j :.- . ■ . .' m.,-as far as they had been,-so sandy, indeed, as to" be diffic^t with ho^Hnd camagr'o'i A FORTNIGHT IN ONTARIO. 329 curse, there are «lway» fo<,t-path anU ({raw chancer, and a wheelman, «ith plenty o( time 1.1 his hands, mighl do the trip very well ; but, as 1 was inipaticnily lat has the rarity <,( angels' visits in this French-lana.iian region .Salt i.nrk abounds, and lish can be pr<<:ured : but this diet won't give a wheelman wings. Ii is not a record-breaking diet. I have, however, discovered possibilities of beefsteak in the following vil. ln;es, which the tourist will de, .he scx.uc a..rac,.on. wh.ch I 've only h,„,ed a., i, ha, a ..eculur .. :,al iutcr.,.. i„ .ha. .. .mroducc, .he wheeln.an ,0 a re«,..n wher- ,he old Feudal .Sy..e.n s.ill .x ,u. Ihou.h nuKl. fied ,„,o V, semblance of co„M,.ency w„l. n. kIch, .de.> . of equuy. .he chan; .. a r.^cn. o,.c .r.d haweally b.en effected on paper only, :he origi„al cuMom, s.ill oL...n,n.g .0 a d.Krce .hai g.vc, a d.MuK, charac.er .0 ,hcse people. D,.,a„ce, are recko.,...d by L-aKUcs. half K .iuc, a^.d acres ; ,upcr»,u.on, of a pas. age are cherished ; and quai,,, lu.lc cus.o,,,. of • the long-l. "r pnse u, a. every .urn. In shor., .he .r.p offer, a refrc.h.ng d,ve tn.o ts, cen.ury ; .',d I •,„ already arran«,ng .„ rcpcvu i, ,.ex. year, when I hope ai.u ,0 pencratc n.u. New IJru,, ,wk1 " As for .h,s >(5 trip, i, extended only front Uuebec .0 Little Met.s, and was taUen hv three n.e.nbers of th.Ot.awa H. C. : Jenkin.. Koy. and Harrison. Th. beach r'.Ll "vin been n„.,red by .he spring noods. w.re no. a, good as .n '84. A .ep.en.Lr par ^ . p^^^ A pho,„e Ha,nel and Colin I.e.hering.on. amateur oarsmen, rode fro,,, Quebec .o\ vl* e hi from QueK.c ,0 Mon.morenc. KalN. ;J m.. and Chateau Richer. HJ nv. finding spienu.d nu ,nd mag,,,f,ce„, coast.ng. The next 6 m.. ,0 St. .Vnne. was so poo, „,at he c;osLd "o .he ' hore and con nnucd on .0 Cacouna, fi„d,ng everything delightful, 'except .he ham and ee« ree ..rnes a day ' The rou.e from Q. .0 C. ,s .hus g.vcn by W. N Campbell ."s.S ... Quebec)^ "Cross nver .0 Point Levi; then a .„ m. mac. .0 fieaumo ,. ; 9 ,n sand 'nd loam .0 S.. VaI.er (good hotel): jj m, loam to lierthier; 7 m gravel to S, Tlom .^1 r. exc,,. first m.) ; .. m. ,oa^ and grave, .„ L'.slet (fair hot'e.) ; \ TIo S. e , Z 1 "^"gt^ vol loam and grave, ; fa,r then for , m. to .S,. Roch. an_. vv. A. Ouidf also issued a'lo c. ni.ip of (Ontario in '^ hirh " r„„. .. ^ ...h. .embers of^ ,He Assoc..i„n •• amon^ who. .he':...;-edr w^d'^i :::;:r^: V" vuKcr, Clare & Cable, of T,.ron.o(3. by „!,... .o.n. ,o , in.), .1,0 n ap gives .1^ ' ' Id^ r,;nu,.wick, with i^'....ick a.,c p As f , T ""Z T"' ■ f '1- "■'■'^'^■•"' '^- ^^■'■" ""'- M.n, f , J\ '• y ■'''^° '^^"^ J'^'-Ph Couchette's map of the n m:„u.n (mounted, g.-o), ..„co includes New England, New York and ■ pans of U S w.d, separate ..ans of environs of Montreal, Niagara and i..l. Superior, ai, . ,' Z"! N / I ossessio.s. A railroad map of Ontario and New York (.S; ■ ,, bv .6 in « m o i. .s published by G. H. Adams & Son, 5, Heekman st , N Y ' ' "■ '° ""- ""^ I :. routes of th3 giude, as already noted, are given in a general w. to e. orde ■ similar to »uh page-references to the connect ng points on mv route Port <;,.,„1 • . • ' '^''' scenery, on Lake Erie (Eraser House. LZ.r resorrL T blu^ is::' 'or:.'!' ^^T^ V :."' ': ^^"'^t '^ \" !;i''^ ^""'^ ^^^•^' ™-^''- ^"^^"y --^v. passing t. , :,g? 1^1 n ^; 1 ;bo, . ., e. .. m. from St. T. to Aylmer (through Yarmouth Center. New San. , and Orwem !h. lake .shoe at Port nurwell. .7 m., through Mt. Salem and Grovesend. (Route from A 4.. 3.^) o Chatham leads through Richmond and Locke sts. to Westminster, 4 m • I ambe.h ^ ::: ''^l'"^:?; ' .'"-.l'*" "^^-^ •^■"«) = ^ongwooa road .0 Melbourne, o m. (biThili;". .Sh! ,. I. ■./.-■ ' •^;:; "-;""- = "'• ' ^'""nesvi.ie, .6 m. (sandy and almost unridable). where take w «-"-of nver; Chatham, „ m. (day, good in drywea.her; u..ndah' fterarain). Thefimr6 ..:^,:.'=..>:cv^. 33* TEN THOUSANO MILES ON A BICYCLE. !.i m. from L. is goor. Huron' Mici.) i a Ja, i ; gravel road of S n.., v.,^ evel, except a few h.ls near VVarwiclc. wh.ch i.s 4 n>. n. w of ^ ford, w h,ch .s 36 n,. w. of L. A fair but rather hilly route extends from W. i m e and then " »' m. s along the Navoo road to Alvinston, whence a ndable road extend, to Tha-nesville 7, J o., the Chatham .»a.e. Lrom Watford ,0 Korrest. ■■ take ,Sth side road n, .0 „, . fa,r « av : then w. on Oil, concession ; then 5 side lines (c;ay and .ravel, ,->od only .hen dry) ; then n . „,' U. V and sp!ond,d wheehng beyond U .0 Stony Point and Kettle Point on Lake Huron." 'yZ /I '' A.lsa Lra,s (wh.ch .s 5 m. s. w. .f Clandeboye, p. 3,,), " ta! e the .S.h side road w and H " r "'"'"'"'V^^t'' ?■ -5 .'■"• '« "'^ '""-S-^'^ ' '"- "■ '3 "'• to A. C. Nearly all gravel and hne wheehng on wh.ch .he ran. has little or no bad effect. The ro.ad f ro n L. to S.rafh , v .6 m. wh.ch has been done without dismount (p. 3.9). leads over Dlackfriars l.ridge ,0 Poph H. , .8 ,n., and at .S^.s about 3i m. s. of the VVat^ord ro,.d. C;„od gravel extends from S „ De aw.are. .. m. ; and n. w. front .S. to Forrest, .3 m., through Ryckman's Corners, Adelaide and Arkona; but ran, s,>on spo.ls this n. w. route. From I. n. e. through Thorndale .0 S, Mary s, .4 m the sur.ace .s n.ostly gravel, of varying goodness ; t!,ence n. ,S m, to Miiehell i,, 3.4) .... good gravel, pass.ng through Mclnryre's Corners, , m., and Fuller.. .,. b -vor 1 Prom .Mcln.yre s ,0 Exeter (p. 3,3) .3 m.,good gravel prev.ls, except 2 m., an. are'a L h.gh h„ s w. of k.rkton, 8 m.. the next village being Winchelsea, i m. St. M .., . e . m , Straiford rp. 3,7, „ a h.rd gravel road, hilly and rou.h for th. i",. t 3 m., the rest genily .^L and very good.-Conroy p. „, b.ing half way. St. Mary's s,34 .n.to I„c;ersoll {„. 3^^ : ' ^1 hard gravel roa.l, h.Ily and poor, . ,n. c. to M.-dina, where t. s. to Nissouri gr vel ro.ad or '■o.i' co,,cess,on, to kuUo.e, ,0 ,n., .no.ler.n.ely good ; then Thamesford, 6 ,n., medium , then In'...', solh, 6 m., ro.gh gravel, mos.lya..wn hll,." From CUn.onCp. 3,,,) ,0 Payfield, 9 n,. s. w ■• rt„. for zj m. ; senes of h.lls f.r . m, ; splendid 1 n-.l stretch for . m. ; remainder b,-o'-en, '. nd v, crooked .hat way mu.st be .oquircd. (iood riding at IJayf.eld on lake shore, and thence a roa.l due e. to beatorth, .7m., wl.ich can be .idden without dismount." The n. road of .0 ,n fro,., ..hnto., .s through Londsboro, i „,., hard gravel : BIy,l,e, 5 m. ; Bel;,^ave, 4 .n. ; to Windham 5 m. A .un, ,0 1. aro.nd a l.,:,_ :,ut ridable hill ,. m.tde . m. n. of L., and then a slight t r ■' il. must also be clnnbed at Bly: :,e and lieigrave. and the reads thee arc not -ry c^ooj I'uck ..ow (p. 3.5) is ■. .n. w. of W., on cou,-,y side -,e road, part sand, p..rt gr.avel, a^nd v;v hilly" _ Smtcoc, the honi: of the ch.ef compiler .f ,-.e guide, is just half-way alo.,g the 84 m', ro,. . .rom Aylmer (p. 33.) .0 Ham.l.on (p. 334), and o m. from Lake Eri. nt Port Dover. I, h.sa good hote , the Ba.tersby, and the ride .0 the lake may be easily taken i.. , h., along a pleasan, road wh.ch the ra.n i.nproves. The route to Ayln.er is alo.,g the Talbot road w la the ^ r cross.ng, a level run of . m. on hard gravel; then fair side-pa.hs to A^herton, 7 m.,' and Delhi 4 .n., except th.it the Us, . m., end„g with a i.ill, is mostiv unridable. Beyond D. the road is' magn.hc-.n. : 8 .n^.n (:our.l..,.d, tne,, a 7 .n. level ,0 Doyle's Hot-, then 3i m. clay to Stafford- v.ile, 3 m. clay ,0 R.cl,mo:ul, 7 ,n good gravel ,0 Aylmo, The e. trip of 4. m. fro.n S. to 1 fam, - ton ,s, on .,e who^e, a good oue, ptssing thro.,gh grand scenery, especially near H. ; a.,d K .nav be do.,e .„ 5 h. Take 'lalbot st. e. ,0 m. to Murphy's Corners, clav and sa..d . , m. .. t„ urn' hard clay; i ,n. e. to . Fa-vis ; then f.rst cl.ss run on old stige ro.ad n. e. to H.tgersv.ile, 6 m ■ fa,r c.ay to Caledon.a, 9 m. ; lo.n nd "My, very stony, roling, ,0 Mt. Hope, 7 m. ; fair clay Ic Kyckman s (,orners, 3 .■„. ■ ,hen 4 m. o.. gently roiling clav io.,m to Mountain View Hotel, over- look.ng Ham.lto ,,-~io which descend throngn John St. The road from Delhi th.-ough Hawtrev to Wnrw.ch, ,2 m., .s called hilly, sandy anl mostly unridable. (>,od side-path riding may be had tio.n S.mcoe to Vittoria, 8 m., a summer resort 3 m. from Lake Erie, and to Po-t Uyerse Ihe .,. .ind e road of 8 m. from S. to Wa.erford m.ay be done in 40 min. ; and the Cocks'.ut, gravel road the.ic. n. e ,hro..gh Bosto.t and Bealton to Brantford. .7 m, (p. 3,4! i c.:'.-d very fair. The n. route of 28 m. from .S. to Paris (p. 3,7) offers fine gravel or else ridable si.i -p.itl.s thus: •■ Rou.,d Plains, 7 m. ; Scotland, 7 m.; Pishop's Gate, , m. ; Pelton's Comers, 4 m DV going w. one concossion at Scotland hiJU n^ ";US.-.~/w ;■!..; ■ U vv/iU'.U. f XXIV. THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NATURAL 13RIDGK.' i:iNf;sTON,atthefootof Lake Ontario, is distant inahcc line only 175111. trom Hamilton, af the head of it; and "the Lake of the Thousand Islands," which begins there, forms in fact the uppermost section of the River St. I,aw- leiice, and nay be considered as terminating at ISrockville, 50 m. n. e. of K. riiis picturesque and romantic arcliipelago comprises more than i,.Soo islands iiul islets, of which the largest by far is Wolf Island (15 m. Ion;;), directly opposite Kingston. On the New V jrk shore, i m. s. e. of the island, is Tape Vincent, the terminus of a r. r. from Watertown, 20 m. s. e.; and the wheel- ing between liiose places is said 'o be good. Alexandria Bay, a famous sum- mer ort, is 25 m. n. c. of Cape Vincent, on the same shore; and I believe the snore route thither has been found fairly ridable by the bicycle, as well as the direct road of 30 m. from Watertown. I presume, in fact, that little troiMjJe would be had in pushing along the New York shore for another 20 m., to Morristown, whence a steam ferry-boat crosses the river eve-v i h. to Mrockvi'le. G.-manoque is about 15 m. w. of Alexandria Hay; an'd,"during the summer season, the numerous steamers which ply among the islands give ready connection jetween all the ports 1 have named. They may be reached also by the throu[,h boatj from Montreal and Quebec, on the n. e., and Os- wego, Rochester (Charlotte), Niagara and Toronto on the > w. Thi previous chapter has made plain why Kingston is the natural termi- iKil-point in the wheeling of any tourist who starts from Western Ontario to visit tiieThousn- : Islands; and it has also recorded the fact (; p. ^25-326) that I myself no jnly did rot slop there but co.itinued down the river "for a pon.t pre ented h,s pdotmg me thence through W. to AL.-xandria Bav; and as he had also been n., companion between Boston and Portsmouth in '8. p. 01), he felt under bonds to see me safely started out of town. We left the hotel at 7 A. m., and pot to the end of the good riding, 4 m., in .c m",, tIkTs ', TT ''^^''""^^ ■' ^^•' ^'^""' ' -•• "P -^ '-S grade L::: 6 m to Ad"" r ^ ''T' '^^""' '''^- '^^ ''''' ' ''• '" ^^'^g '^e next 6m.^to^Adams Center; but i h. represented a halt for bathing mv foo,, where I ran a nail into it h rroia uii appie fee upon a hoard THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NA TURAL BRIDGE. 335 which siipi)orted the unlucky nail in sticking stiffly upward (p. 306). We Rave only \ h. to the 4 m. from A-Jams Center to Adams, and continued at speed along .1 smooth stretch beyond it. From Fierrepont Manor, 5 m. from A., we went without stop 4 m. in i h., through Mannsville, to a water-trough at a fork, where we turned r. (the I. route, thrcugh Laconia, was said to be !e«s sandy}, and were \ h. in getting over the 2 m. to the Sandy Creek Hotel, where we stop;)ed i h. for dinner. Ridable stretches of chv, broken by sandi took U3 to Pulaski, 5J m. in 1 h.; and at the foot o*^ a long grade, 3 m. be- yond, my companion said good bye and turned hjmeward,— the time being 4 o'clock. Colosse, of curious name, 7 m., was reached 2 h. later, after consid- erable walking in the dark, and I perforce sought shelter for the night in its terribly squalid little tavern. Shouts and shrieks of mirth from its bar-room, soon after I went up stairs, showed that (for the first night of my tour) I had forgotten .^ lock together the wheels of the bicycle ; and an awful hush fell upon the assembly when I returned for that purpose, and displaced a small boy who had kindly consented to entertain them by a few experiments in the saddle. The weather of the day had been ideally pleasant, with favorable wind, and the 42 m. covered represented but 8^ h. of actual motion. The next day was also mild and balmy, barring the first 2 m. after daybreak, when a keen frost filled the air. For t,\ m., to Hastings, the road was difficult, and then followed 6 m. of sandy stretches, mostly unridable, to the hotel in Cen- tral Square, -.vhere I halted i h. for breakfast, ending at 1040. It was while plodding hungrily along one of the most hopeless, not to say utterly irre- claimable, of these sandy levels, that I was confronted by a 'woman who came out from a little farm house in the woods to enquire of me where she could purchase a tricycle I I gave her a manufacturer's address from whirh she m>ght procure a price catalogue; and I gave her this answer when questioned as to the probaole time required for learning to drive a tricycle, with speed and comfort, over country roads of that sort : " Not less than 100 years ! " The road grew better, however, from Central Square to TJrewerton perhaps 5 1.!., where I crossed the Oneida river, near the lake (20 m. long) of same name for which jt is the outlet. The board "12 m. to Syracuse " was reached at 11. 45, and the next one in 20 min. Goodish riding soon brought metoC,cero,with its unclassical cheese-factorv, and its plank road, along which I joggeu without stop, through Centerville, till I reached the water- trough a little beyond the board " 3 m. to S.," at 1.30. It was \ h. later when I stabled my steed in Olmstcad's harness store, 3J m. on, with a record of 27 ni. for the half-day, and 804 m. for 19 successive days. Chapter XXII. can be consulted (pp. 298-300, 302-303) for a general statement ot the geographic and atmospheric conditions which characterized my 19 days' ride fiom Syracuse to Staunton, 618 m. I bc^an it November 3. at 2 p. M. (after halting at the house of a friend nine days, during which there was much bad weather endina in a snow str^rm •.vhi.-h !=ft >!-.= ... ..1., .:_ plorably muddy), by taking the 1. sidewalk of Genesee st. at the park and rf-'v-' y -^.T-rf ±Ji 336 TEN THOUSAND M/LES ON A BICYCLE. traversing the flagstones for i m tn thr r the hill and beyond till it ended A ,J iVtnT"^' "^ ''' "'^""^ ^^^"^ "I> n.. of n.uddy hL to Orville tav'ern which st^H T "' ' '^ ^"^ ^^^^P ' gates zi .n. apart, but I c..^^ ;t:t ,;:;:"' '"''T '"'^■^^" '"" sidewalk then f- r % m. to Favette whe'e t " ^"'r' ""' '"""^' ^ «»-' M-. 3 m., in , iLre. at fo^k „' tl IHl I a ga :t?: T '' ""' "^■^"^" 3 m.. in 35 n.i„. Dusk had now settled dl.'wn (5 "^ \ mT, 7"^ '° '"'^"' agani. though the macadam extended ,, lutle unher to t'h 1 ' T""'"' "''' It was now pitch dark, and the roadway a mere sWh T'"' "' "''" • m. of this, a wayfarer told me to " 1. 1 t tTe nj' f t ,"^ . ''''"" ^'^«"' but I failed to see it. and so stru^..l.r . ^°'''' ''>' ^ ^''"^ '^""se " ; ".e to t. 1. up a long and rou^ S to " ' """"='^' "'^"^ -"^ ^'^'-^ -"" found this at last. T^ear a r r cro si, ! Tm "' "/^ "'""' ' '^'' ■"'■--^- ' ■iding would be possible . dr ;::;;;' ,'17 V'°"^'^ ^''^^ ^^'^^^^^^'^ the valley on r. At last I crossed th" ' V ' ' ' '"" '''''' '''"'' along the lake.-flounderin. thrT.h . -n ^"';'. "''' ' ''^''■""' '-^"^l '■ '• trees, and so reached the he ter of ,. T ' T/'' ■^'"'^' '''''''^^'^ ^^'^ o'clock, just as the rain drop ;V o paUe" Iw r'^;:^ '''''''''""' " "^° damp but not rainv inrl J,) , ^""^ "'^■^'f morning was coeA,,„ „ „::'■;;::";:,";": wr^Xcr-fr-TS' ; '"'"'-' •" '"■■ inc at 6 -o , Vlorl- T) • , ooastock. ^J m. I did so in 2i h., end- and waC, the lasl :^m"'t T H^'r ^'°"'^" '^"^'^ ^°"^"^>- °^ -' '" • tempted me to l^Hnl.:; ^ i .\ota;d:-r:,:^' /Th^^^" ^°^"'''^'^^ part of the day in the experimen X? !, had spent theearlv axle; and as th^se had no: b rg^^^'um^^ ^° ^ ^^ ^ The rawhide washeHnserted in sLring rea^.u^kirw: ^ed lo^ ^ r, threw^away, two days later, as an impracticable device.' ' ' Tlie President of tl,.. Cazcnovia K C, Severe Dorion, a dru-^gist invited m. tn h' « a proper plac. for pu.tin, .y bicvc!. i,, order, and assured me fh t', " wTatier h '^^ had also made the r„n from West Wo.d.tock to C, with the help of th- wind n 3 h Ih t he grades r.re easier in the other direction, as f took .hem,-the 'w. ron„ ' 'b i^ "^ f;it nch case to the route which is a little mor. direct. He .ave me the folio.,,,, ou;;;' o a dav' breakfast rAX '' •"•,^' took a 6 m. circuit in Cnzenovia, and then rode ,a m for Thencr^:t;r^Lri;::^^,t::i--^r?;^;^--^ variation in m- own route between the Tho ,s'nd T J' \ J'"^ "'l'' '^V-pests a des.raWe Kins, of Cincinnatus, told .,e he rode thence thrlrh T L" '" '"" "''■" " ^^ "'^• South Otselic and back T,t , ^' '^ "''"'■• "" '^'^ ""^"^ '""'^-^ "f "i<^ "'•''■ '^ river and canal, through Oreene. ,o^l^.!lr^Z^ ' '"""" '' ^ =•'""« "^* ""' "^ "'^ THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NATURAL BRIDGE. 337 West Woodstock was still in sight, next morning, after I had got to the to, of a long h.ll 3 m. beyond it; and Shed's Corners. , m. on. was reached n, ■ h from the start For 6 m. further, the road continued to wind among smooth and stenle h.lls to Georgetown, a sizable village at the end of the Otsehc Valley. The stretch of loam below G. was Lid to be "sa d! Papered m summer ; but the snow storm of four days before (whereof white patches st,ll lingered on the hi.l-tops) had turned it into a slough o Ual mud through wh.ch I toiled for about . m.. without a bit of riding, to a cross roads school house where 1. or r. may be taken to North OtscHc. Taking c r I reached the p. o. of that name (.3 m. and 4i h. from the start) at :-'.p, a,. 1 mimched some apples for \ h.. in lack of anything better ^vithout . -ossmg t.e br,dge to the village on 1. At the next fori I w'nt u^hiH to .l.en t 1. under br.dge of abandoned r. r., r| m. An equal distance bevond s' ^.tork by a grave-yard, whe.. either road may be taken, but I chose the because leveier and had bits of riding for 3 m. to South Otselic. where stands . s,.a le new hotel. North Pitcher. 3 m., was reached in t 'h. and So , h t her 4 m also m . h., about half the latter stret.h being ridable. I prol ably walked 20 m. of the .7 which I traversed that day (9^ Ik), though al would be r.dable .n summer, except a few of the h.lls. My next d v's rfde o ^^ m. seemed wonderfullv swift in contrast, for though I gave 8 h to it my numerous rests amounted to ne.rly 3 h. ; and the surface kept improving al advanced. Mountn,g at S.30, I t. 1. J m. out, and then t. r. down he va!lev- Unannatus , m., where I am told ^hat the leveier road on r. bank of .avoid , "' "I \ '" "''^'"- '"^ ^'^^ ^ '^^'^ b"' -"'-- on the d h .TT'- '^' '"f' "' " '""S '^'"' 3 ni. below (nearly all ridden) had a beautiful v.ew of the sunlit valley ; anat day, through mist and rain and mud, would offer pieasant wh ,i 1 ■n pleasant weather; and I believe the tow-path would be practicable to its te^i ul on W Hudson nver at Rondout (see p. .88). Another good route to the Hudson was thu "iven m .y a local nder who had wheeled from Port Jervis to Newburg : " Cuddeback -il le o m n .s reached by the excellent Huguenot road, and Otisville is from 4 .0 6 m bevld !_hal ,L' .stance -qu-rmg to be walked, on account of a steep hill. Other such hills give .'roub e for- reachmg the Hudson, but there is no sand to renderthe levels unridable. The town pl«d r- r. ,2 m. to Newburg." A nde from .Scranton to Honesdale, 30 m was takrn ^J .. . .. 5 P. M.. by V. C. Hand(who reported it in Bi. ir^f^O^T'Jl IT'h h"' NV..ke.barte riders ; and the party next day proceeded to Port JerCis o m ,' f A M o '^ ' hnd,ng the usually easy tow-path rather heavy and dusty from recem'repai'r a^d wa t of ra^,' Ihebestndmgwas wthmafewinchesof the edge, where the tug-ropes had made th ! .ace smoo h ; and, n, spue of close watching of our wh. .Is, three of us, at one tim or „ other, took 'coolers' ,n the canal. These interesting i,u,.ents happened betw e Hawl ' wuchwereached ,ih.from.he start, and Lackawaxen, which we 'reached at on" 5; monotony of hem that wdd region has so few interruptions that the memory of " the bicvc m.n who tumbled mto the canal, two years ago," was still fresh among the people whom L ne sudden ttghten.ng up of a tu.-rope, which he had ridden across as incautiously as I myself' Details have been sent to me as follows, by A. J. Kolp (b. ,849), ex^ -- --.h and dangerous (better take car: gravity r. r., 1 . to W.l; next lo m fair tr, h^A .,. u j-i- .r., ' ■ -;:-.:r. i::-c n. -route, iioiu '6. lu Biiig- i THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NATURAL BRIDGE. 34, ■7 »'^\^''m°"^„^ '^' '"""^ '''"'"' °^ November ,2, down the Dcla- wa,e to Bushk.ll. 28 m., has been described on p. 299. I spent . h., next mornmg. upon the first 4i m.. which brought me to Jim Price's house, where I had t. 1 ,n ,880. at the s.gn "8 m. to Del. Water Gap" (p. 207)- and . h. upon the next 3i m. to the cross-roads tavern at Craig's Meadows. Roughly frozen mud formed the roadway for all this distance; and my best ride of the forenoon was x\ m. on the sidewalk from the r. r. crossing above East Mroudsburg to the hurnett House in S. (.j m. from the start), where I se- cured a notably good dinner. I t. r. at fork . m. (rom hotel, and used side- paths for I m. to the sign '• 5 m. to Snydersville," though I found it in 4 m on a stretch of black gravel, after considerable experier.ce with sandy, stonj and iMl y roads. I ought to have t. 1. at S., and avoided hills; bui I kept ..long the d.rect road 2 m. and 1. 1. at the falls of Sciota (where also I mi.ht l.:we taken r.), and then I t. r. at the hotel and tannery. J m. on. and walked up long h.lls to the tavern at Mechanicsviile. 2\ m. liy this time, it was dark ,m the forlorn little mining village of Tuscarora. 4 ni. ; thence to the bridge lead ing 1. to Middlcport,4jm ; New I'liiladelphia, 2 m.; then without stop for 4\ m. to hill beyond I'ort Carbon ; and so to the jmst office in I'ottsville If m., at noon. .Starting ij h. later, I followed the main street, passnw the' Henry Clay statue on hill top to r., to .Mt. Carbon station, below which I crossed bridge and t. r. down th- river until a hill forced a halt. In.stcad oi going then through .Schuylkill Ilavcn, on an excellent road of rotten rock which avoids the hilis of Orwigsburg, I k-ft S. 11. on mv r., and climbed a Ion- rough hill, and thqn, in 3 m., was forced to dismount bv the hill at O (which' boasts a new and good-looking hotel called the Arcadian). Just i m bcvomi here, I reached the top of the second long lill of red clay which had to be walked ; and, at the foot of the next hill, } m. further, I reached the place where I should have come out if I had taken the proper road throu-^h .S II bome 2 m. beyond here is a fork, where I should have t. 1. with the tele-'r .ph poles across a covered bridge, but so smooth was this stretch of road (made of rotten rock or black gravel, ground to whiteness bv the traffic) that I kept on to the r. without noticing it. Returning J m. to the bridge, when I discovered my mistake, I walked up a long grade to a pine-covcrcd hill-top where stood a stone 23 m. to Reading " ; and then rode i m. down a hill of brilliantly red clay. Beyond here was a waterfall, from which I walked ,\ m. to the tenter Ho el m Port Clinton, at 6,-though I should have ridden except for the darkness. This road winds among the mountains, with river on 1., ♦hrou'^h a wild and rugged region, and would offer very pleasant wheeling bv davli-^ht My .nfternoon ride had been along the edge of a valley, with a rolling surf^ace spread far out to the n. and e. An up-grade road, along a shelf .,f the mountain-side, overlooking the nver and canal on r., was ridden by me. on the morning of the i6th. in spite of frozen ruts and a film of snow. A bitter gale of wind blew me alon,. and combined with brilliant sunshine in a cloudless skv to m '.e mv pro-^reis ■deally exhilarating. I took the tow-path at 9 o'clock. 2i m. and'i .. ^fter leaving I ort Clinton, and kept it through Hambur^^ to Shoemaker'sville 4! ni., at 10.20, though I ought to have followed it to the other side of S The road was said to be rough from H. to S., and the tow-path was also roughened '^ »«« J«;.l„_f___- '•--. a-uggcotiiig the idea that it woui. .e too soft for ridin;- THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NATURAL BRIDGi:. 343 in summer. I met few boats, and I walked i m. where the wind was at my side. Had I beon facing it, I could not have ridden at all on such a surface. At Mooresville, 2jm., I took the tow-path again for 2\ m. to the first bridge at Lcestown (lying off to the r.), where I whizzed down a smooth slope for i m. A well-known tavern called Solomon's Temple stands 2 m. from this point, and I reached it at noon, by leaving the turnpike at the covered bridge and following the telegraph poles along the Temple road, whose hilly and roughly frozen surface of yellow clay was made ridable by the tremendous wind. Thence I went without stop down a dangerous clay hill and through streets of very rough macadam to a pc^nt in Reading within \ in. of the Key- .■,toiie Hotel, wiicre I rested I h. for dinner; and this 4i m. in .10 min. was perhaps tiie longest stay I had made in the saddle since leaving Syracuse. J5S m. behind. The fortnight thus terminating included the slowest and most difficult riding of my entire tour ; and I remember Reading pleasantly as the place where I got fail ly " out of the woods " and struck the turnpike wiiich allowed swift progress nearly all the way to the finish, six days later, yo m. s. w. From the hotel, I followed Penn st., the chief business avenue' of the city, to the bridge, beyond which I t. r. and rode to the top of the liill, where I halted for the sake of the backward view. Then I went with- out dismount 12 m. in 2 h., climbing one quite difficult hill, and .several lesser ones, and ]-assing a number of villages, of which Robesonia was the one nearest where I halted. My course being w. or n. w., the n. wind which had iielpcd nic in the forenoon now hindered mc somewhat, until it went down with the sun. I was ij h. in doing the next 6 m., ending at the 15aney House in Mycrstown at 5.30,— the last 5 m. having been done without stop, in spite of several hills, the most difficult of which was the one beyond Womclsdorf, having a church and grave-yard on its summit. Except for a slightly adverse wind, the next day supplied ideal weather for riding (bright sunshine and bitter-cold air), and I improved it by covering 51 m. (S.30 A. M. to 7.45 p. M.), or a greater distance than was accredited to any of my forty days, except three of those in Canada. My first mount was terminateJ inexactly 3h. (19J m.) by a stony hill beyond the village of Palmy- ra ; and ranks next in length to my straightaway stay from Tarrvtown to P'iftv- iiinth street (p. 53). The grade of the hill would not have prohibited riding, •t thc.'iiirface had been smooth; and my second stop was at Hummelstown p. o., 3^ m. Poorish sections of road were encountered along here ; but from a point between the 7th and the 6th m. stones, I went without stop to the r. r. station in Ilarrisburg, at 2 o'clock (32^^ m. from the start), b'irelv escaping a tumble on the dangerous hill that leads down to the r. r. crossing. I passed ihrough Lebanon, the county seat, in i^ h. after leaving Myerstown : and I lonqucred a series of three hills beyond Annville, which might be called diffi- cult, more difficult, and most difficult. Having walked the long bridge over the *^!l=.r!!!.''hTr-r • -;f*."r i K t^^^ (.-.-.- A'.-.-.- , T i J it. _ - : ; * "" '' -'--'-' 4 •■■ IC3L I--/: *.:::;;;;;r, 1 I. r. wtiG tHCn \,Ui'Vcu to i., uiuiei the tracks, and so reached Hoguestown, gj m., in 2 h. I rode 2 m. more in >.«' ; lilt tlay, fi, ■'. past Dick- •vhcrc I t. I. ; 344 TEA TiiOl'SAXU .I///.A;a ox A IHLVL/Jl. the gathering dusk, a ,d the., waiked 7 m.. along a ridable surface to ,lu Horemx- House ... Carlisle, except a short spin in the gas-l,gh,cd stre Near the hn.s ,. ,e, „,y wheel tun.ble in a rut. and theriv - .do I;, he spokes which the n.ules had i.ju.ed. a week before. . , ^ ll to a local cycler as a kce,.sake. by virtuo of Us bein. ih ..r.t J.r- n .„' ^ ' wheel whose rec rd was ,...0 n.. Starting at .. th^ ne J „' ZZ:^. «or dn.ner 4 h. later at the Shern.an House in Sh.p,: -.u, , ^' _ '^ " } or 4 .n. being done without stop and furn.ing my be r „,., ' ''^' spue of the h.lls. At the start. I followed the teleg, .ph • ".son College ..nd the r. r. freight house, for . n,. ,0 ,' , ,v„cre 1 t 1 am I covere.1 the next 6 n. in . h. Kesunung the sadd,. at .. I re!^..^, J National Hotel in ChambersbiirK, 10 ni at 4 -the lis. , m 1 ;eMhan..0..preceding. ^^^^.. .^ ,^.Z::::^Z ^Zl^:! Z s opped .,d,ngat 5,35. ^ ".on. and tran.ped n. t h. ., „.e Nationa ot'e ty ^aul t, m Ihis stretch was a badly-kept pike, .nuch poocr than win. I had previous y .raversed.-.specially the '-rst 5 n,. out from C," d J ue unndable when wet. (iood weather and ,ood scenery accon., a Ic blac „: ti:";' ""';■" ^"' ^'•'^'^•'^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^-'^ ^nU wheeled in .1" h to his home this forenoon • lu J , " "^'^"'"'^•''""^'' '"<= '^'^^^ the nex " , io t , u' fernoon ; proceeding thence ,5 m. further, in the next i, 1., to Taylor s Hotel m Winchester, where I spent the ni^ht ihe ^•Jm. from the pyfr>m->^ tr. v\,' iji _ ... J'^"'- "^ 'c ni.,n[. 1 nt "■" ■"■"'■'"" """ '-"■""-i'Cu- wiiiiout leaving the saddle. JHOU.SAM) /SLA ADS TO NATURAL BRIDGE. 345 H a r.dcr had nerve enough ,0 wheel through the ford, mstead of crawling .uross on the s.de-piank as I did; and I do not recollect any grade or othef .iMadc wh.ch would force a dis-nount before reaching Htaunton^^ ^ ....her, .£ the surface were in normal condition and the wind favorabl^ Tt .M..ol>abc however, that fresh .nctai will always be found atone point o -other of th.s ..5 n.. macadamized roadway, for the tollcon.pany ow i" uconsu teconon.y by repairing different sections at different season, ad .vavoKi.ngar,; expense for a road-roller, which would immediately Lnd t). bus of hmestone m.o ridable shape. Ordinary traffic, rather is Icp nded upon to do .h,s duty, an., , bel.eve about three Inths of it a; u a, ' ' qu r d to gr.nu the new surface into smoothness. Under this syste.n.' the outer edges become earhest ridable, and a bicvcler may ofte . pick waycomfortab y along them, while yet ,he center of the roadway .s a rid e o loose metal, and tricycling would be quite impractic.ule. In spite of hcse probable obstacles resulting from its primitive managen,ent, this long- r.t and best n.acadam.zed road m the Union is. in my belief, the most prorr- .M,,;, course n> the Union for a b.cycler who is ambitious to make a longer Mra.ghtaway stay m the saddle than any yet recorded here. Wooden m?Ie- !".sts, ongmally painted white and marked in black, are .set diagonally to tlicroadway, so as readily to show the mileage numerals to " W " and '• S " n; on the.r opposite sides; but some of the markings have been obliterated I', (he weather, and some by deliberate malice or idiocy. After vainly waiting 24 h- in Martinsburg, for a money-orcler. which arnvcd next day. I telegraphed that money be sent to me at .Staunton, and I wheeled up to the telegraph-office at Winchester. 22 m. below, just as the rq.ly came in that it had been so sent. Oddly enough, my comrade of ihepre- vmus forenoon had taken the same journey, only . h. in advance of me • and I therctore explored the environs of W. in his company, and afterwcrds'rodc .1 li. tie with a New Yorker who was a student there in the Shenandoah Acad- cnv. He sa,d that the pike w. to Romney, 40 m., was reported hard and smooth, thoujih It leads through a thinly settled country, and he hims.-K I,,d "-' I'ccn inclined to explore it beyond the point where he once suffered an a.saul. r^.m highwaymen, while returning toward W. after dark When 1 ieft ihc hotel, 1. -xt morning at 7.30, I failed to t. r. at the first fork, and so. a kittle later, I t. r. at a dirt-road, which brought mc across to the first toll-gate ■^ ridc of 3 h., through the little villages of Kernstown, Newtown . , 1 Middle- f'-n, brought me to Strasburg, iS m.. at whose Chalybeate Jprings Hotel I got ■''..nch and a letter, as well as much interesting information about the roads ^nd battle-fields adjacent. I had planned to spend the previous night there 'or the house had been recommended to me as both new and neat ; whereas t chest fnendof the best h- 1 in Winchester cannot deny that it is both ud and musty. Resuming ... saddle at 12.15. I wheeled 2\ m. to the top of the long incline of Fisher's Hill, and then pulled out mv mr.ns of th. K,m;„ -ug,u tnere (Sept. 22 and Oct. 19. 1864) and studied the details of them Iff 5*a r lit MM 'i « 346 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Woodstock, 9 m. on, is a county town, whose chief hotel is the Strickler, and I passed it at 2 o'clock. There was a long incline beyond here, and also at Edinburg, (i\ m., ^hich I reached in \\ h. The next h. took me to Mt. Jack- son, 5 m., and the next to Newmarket, 7 m., where I stopped at the Central Hotel at 5.40. This last section seemed almost continuously up-grade, and the nvijght deepened rapidly to dusk and darkness as I went over it ; but it offered smoother stret.hes than I had previously met, and my speed was there- fore good. Six months later, when I tried it by daylight, s. to n. (without stop, 6.25 to 7.10 p. M.), 1 thought it a wonderfully line course ; and there is no other section in the whole famous Valley of Virginia whose scenery can be ca'.lcd more beautiful. A damp breeze from the s. blew gently in my face during the final day (November 22) as well as the one preceding; and at ti.4S o'clock, just 3 h. (14 m.) after leaving Newmarket, a rut somehow caught hold of my front wheel and pulled it out from under me, as if it were slipping on ice. Thus, 590 m. from Syracuse, after much rough and clanger ous riding, carelessness on a smooth roadway caused my first fall. \ear a bridge, 2 m. beyond here, where I rode up a steep hill, I remember a specially fine view. Then came Harrisonburg (i^ m. on, where I halted \ h. for din- ner), wh:.h is the freshest looking town in the valley, thanks to the cruel fate which destroyed nearly all its houses in war time, and so gave modern archi- tecture a chance to control the rebuilding. I reached Mt. Crawford, 7^ r... in I h , and walked the last section of a long hill with a toll-gate near its top, 4i m. on, meanwhile riding up several ditficult hills, with a horseman along- side me. The toll-gate hill would be ridable, however, with a favoring wind and smoother surface. I halted 3 m. beyond, after passing Mt. Sydney, and, after another 5 m., reached the post near the r. r. track which says "4'm. to S." Mounting there at 4.30, I reached the Virginia Hotel in Staunton, 4 m , at 5.15, pfter riding up in succession three rather difficult hills. No sunshine brightened this day's ride of 42 m., though the air was very warm, and the white clouds floating along the summits of the IJluc Ridge made quite a jirclty picture. "Tli->.^!ijna.ulna!. V.illcy in i '.4,-' lyC.eo. K. Pond, .issociate editor of tli'? /I rmr««„, .V'rjz/v Jmrm/(^. Y. : Scrlbncrs, iSS.,, pp. jS6, ?,), is a book wliich should be read by every intclli- i;ent tourist vl,o proposes to visit this inost attr.nctive locality; and I recommend that he follow my example by carrying in his pocket its maps and pages uliich describe the b.Utle-fields,-or e se, as ihj volume is not a 1 avy one, let liim strap ii bodily to his bicycle. " The Valley cf Virginia " i^ mini:tely desc.ibed in its opening chapter, from which I quote below ; and at the hradof this is an excellent map (s^byj^ in., 20 m. to i in.), showing the ro.ids, mountnlns and streams for the entire region between H.igerstown and Cumberland, on the n.,,ibovethe Potomac, and I.ynchbnrj nnd Appomattox uo m. K'ow Staunton), on the s., below the James Donblc.pa.se maps of the battle-fields at Winchester (1 m. to 1 in.) and Fisher's Hill (\ m. to I in.) will well ropny careful study while " on the spot " ; and the lesser charts make a useful showing of the roads, like those from Newmarket to Luray, p. 18, and Washington to Ha.ccrs- town, 1-.. 52. I quo.e from pp. 1-8, condensing somewhat the phraseology; " Virginia'^ parallel rivers, flowing to the Atlantic, were water-bai.-iers ..gainst attacks from ihe n., wiiile up- reared to shield its w. front were the rampant ridges of its highland domain. The valleys he- THOUSAND ISLANDS TO NATURAL BRIDGE. 347 tween these ridges fumished well-sheltered avenues for invadinR Northern territory: and the most commanding o.ie of all was the valley of theShenandoah, named from the chief river that drams U Its e. waJ is the lof.y Blue Ridge ; i.s w., the North mts.. a pa.t o! the main chain nf the Alleghanies. Smce its -course is s. v. ., a Confederate army moving n. through It would at the same t.m draw nearer Washington, whereas a Union advance s. would diverge from the straight course to Richmond. The Potomac running at right angles to the line of the Ridge a lurce crossing this border stream at Williamsport would already be 60 m n or in the rear of Washington ; while one day's march n. through the CumbeTland Valley, which is simply a cm- utiuation of the Shenandoah, would carry a body of Confederate horsemen among the peaceful farm lands of Pennsylvania. Thus, from the first, the Slienand.xth was a temptfng field for the str.it -gists of both armies. The war's initial campaign turned on the use made of it by the threes which General J. E. Johnston posted at its outle., and it was the scene of constant Con- federate manceuvrinc;, whelhc )n a large scale, und-;: Jackson, Ewell and Eariy. or on a smaller one, under Ashby, M.-.by, In.ooden and Gilmor. Lee found there a line of communications lor h,s Maryland campaign, r.nd -aplured at Harper's Ferry ,0,000 men and 73 ^uns. There too he sought rest and ref-eshment in retreating from the Antietam ; and Uiilher again (having made it the route of hv. secor: 1 invasion after defeating Hooker at Clianccllorsville) he fell back .ifter G^tlysburg, pitching his camps along the Dpequon. Thus, though sub.>rdinate to the ,n,i>n scene of operations e. of the Blue Ridge, the valley h.d always pla- ed an important part in ihe drama of the war. It had yielded sc many captures of Union garrisons, and so many rf.sasters m the field, as to be calk-d the Valley of Humiliation ; and not until ,t was wreMed from Confederate control in '64, as set forth in this volume, did the probUm of the Richmond cainpaign find a successful solution. • • • !„ the mountainous count y s. of the S valley proper, the rivers run to all points of the compass. The Roanoke and t!.e New diverge from ..pposite slopes of the same rang.- ; the Ka.,awha and the James, from neighboring headwaters take their several ways, after many turnings, the one to the Mississippi and the other to the Atlantic. A little s. of where the James rushes through the Blue Ridgc at Balcony Falls the range also breaks apart at the Peaks of Otter. On a branch of the James, ca'Ied North river, is Lexin^-on, a county seat; and this brings us fairiy into the valley itself, for below L the S. takes its rise in a multitude of streams that combine in three, called North, Middle and .>outh, these uniting in turn lower down, near Port Republic. At Staunton. 35 m. below L we strike upon the valley pike, a fine, macadamized road, well worn by Northern and Souhern troops and tfains. W. of the pike is the ' back -road,' with a ' middle road ^ in some places between the two. Near Harrisonburg, 25 m. n. of Staunton, an Uolated chain called Massa- nutltr, rising abruptly to a height equal to that of the Blue Ridge, divides the valley for more than 40 m., v.va\ at Strasburg this beautiful range suddenly falls again into the plains. It was crossed by a goor- road connecting Newmarket with Luray. The South Fork, or larger branch if the .cc as a pockf.c companion. The accompanying pictures of that great freak of nature, drawn bv H Sandhain. are as satisfactory as could be hoped for in a case whose magnitude is beyond ti.e power of artistic rep.-oduction ; but the sketch of the Natural Bridge Hotel (though apparui t'v copied from a photograph) gives no adequate notion uf that extensive caravansary The fact 1 Its greatness deserves insisting upon, because it is one of the three hotels in Virginia wh.re tla- managers ide.., of comfort is likely to seem satisfactory and " modern," according to the N,u Yorker's standard. "The Luray Inn" is another, newer and more elegant; and the tlnni (which I am t<.ld IS equally fine, and under the management of th_ .same Philadelphians who I, ,ve made a reputation at Luray) is " the Roanoke," at Salem, less than 50 m. s. w from Nu ural Bridge. The tour in question .- is taken by three members of the Capital B C • and the reporter of it. before mentioned (b. iJec. .0, ..,^; began riding Feb., iSSo), ^ode'a ,6 „. Singer weighing 58 lbs., including .. lbs. of baggage. His companions wore Ma. Hansman' 48 in. X,ra(59 lbs. mcl. .0 lb. baggage), and C. V,. Allen, 5. in. Bayliss i- Thoma,s(5, lb.., incl 8i lbs. baggage). Ihey left Harper's Ferry Au,^ .H, ,S8., at ,..,0 p. m.. and reached Washin,- ton Sept ,7, late m the af.. moon, with a record ot 449".., exclusive of .30 m. 'oy train. The ex- penses of the 2. days' trip averaged less than $3 a day for each man, and (as on 5 days practically no wheeling was done) the average day's record may be called iS m. 1 hey met my own rou,: at Winchester, and after halting there 3 days for a broken backbone, rodo to Strasbur-^ iS ,„ ' 4 10 6.30 P M. Next day they went to Newmarket, " riding up all the hills," and thui' :.• n.'d e along the Luray road to the Valley View Springs Hotel, 2 m. (the last i m. bein^ up the Massanutten mountain), which i. probably a pleasanter stopping place than the Centr;i Hotel m Newmarket, tor it "gave a panoramic view of the valley, which is here 25 m. wide, and our w. horuon was nearly ,00 m. away." On the return from Luray. they rode from N. .0 Harr- sonburg, ,8 m.. 1,1 2 h. iS min., doing the first 10 m. without dismount in , h " The .0 m thence to Staunton, though not as good as some parts of the :;ike. is all ridable, and «e co'^erej It, next day, n, about 3} h. Five days later. Sept. .,, in the face of a driving rain, and a .sl.an, n. e. gale, which at times absolutely brought us to a standstill, we rode back from S to H in 5 h Ihe recuperative iwers'of the valley pike were well shown on the ,.th, for then'we made our longest nm of the tour, an even 50 m., ending nt the Chalvbc, te House in S.rasbure at 6.25 P. M. the last 25 m., from Mt. Jackson, having been bec.n'at , o'clock. We reached here a. . o c ock. having done the 7 ,n. from Newmarket in . I • p^ves how little eiTect two days of heavy ran, had had upon the pike, which dries as qinc. , as concrete, and is at various pomts a perfect road, without dust or mud and with n'^ver .. rut. We ran to Wmchester 18 n., next morning, and on the following forenoon to Martinsburg, 22\ m , in 2 h 17 nun ' with 20 mm. stop at Btmker Hill. The ,0 m. thence to ^ ' .ere run in 50 mi„. The pike fron,' W^ to M. was a revelation to us, stretching through a fer .„d beautiful country, almost level and provided with plainly-marked m -posts, which had a most encouraging way of comin.^ pas, 'T.^* «"m ''T'"^ ^- '* ■'• "' '"^' '° "=-''^"^'"*". -9m.. and were favorably impressed with the I?aldwin House, where we spent the night. We had kept the pike all the way. thougn told that the C. & O. tow-path also supplied good riding for the j m. from Falling Waters t. thouc;axd islands ro natural bridge. 349 ascent of 2 m. might be ndden thou<.hvt,ll,i„ • f V, ^ *'"'^(s«e p. 238 . This on .he descent .n.o the ^^^f^CT^r^;:^^. 'T^'"^'""^ *" "-^-^■ Citocin mts., up which we walked r^JlrZ'^ K f '^ "" ** *"■ "^ ""= ^ase of .he ...res of ^rede^L in the e Ther on the '.Lr'"" ""'.T '^'''*"'' ^"'^ ^^ ^'■«'" "' '»>« hrulg. bui!t in .- and we found o^h.r .' *' """"'^ ""^ ^'""'^='^>- ^y ' ^'''d «one HiHy but ndab. p.e w;icrto:rit Po^rc^r ^^ ^^ -'' ^°^:i"- '•■^^^- '"« n,.nce the road was poorer and ston.er .0 Ellicou Ci! ' ' m" Ir't ' K"°d d.nner was had. '..ore. At the start from E. C after a comfon, . v. V" '««"'»"" 9 m. of Haiti- aw.,y into the woods, and forded te VZllT^^ "'t " ''' "°"^^'' """^^' ^^ ^'^y^ .... and reached a house died I Li M '" '"^ '''"''= ''"' ^« ''^"^ ="' off ' .-... tl-ce.oWashinr.J."^^^ "" -'• The ..c-ed, for the f^rst .ime o\ .L ZlytfThe 1 "' ■'''^' '""^'' "' " "'' =" ~'^'« n.ua ; but while 1 only accompli dim ,£1^"' ' "'"' ""'" ^' '■ '^'"'"' "'^ ^^ c^ to i.- i,. despair, the/mana^^i't ':* ^ fr:.\ ro::::::,,:';:^;"^ s '■; ^■"' '^^" '--'^'^ s.x„,s .0 me quite rapid for a surface which is at nil rvl u u •' , ■ "'^ °^ P'°8Tess .. it were so desperately slow ,s Tni, If , I ' •""' ""^ •'"""'■^" ^P""*^ °f « a, • r.reat quagmires andUdoesabcnLiireT'^H ', r"^"'' '''''""^ °^ '"' -'^ ^ .....a s.ase-ride, requiring us to ift tl e itt K I'f """'^'^ '" ^''^'"="^'' =^~""' "^ =■, Vir- ...ore solid surface Fro^C wll J tt'r '"^"' ^"'^ "-^ "-"' 'hrough the mud to a way. om., it became com^a^'ti: 1 dr, nd "^l-' ''7 T" """^"^'^'^ ^"--hat. and .. Mid- hills were steep, but wc w^re re-M f 1 '' "' *''''^ niakinge m. per h. The -nery which gr'ee'^d fZ e ch ummit Vv";"""" '' T T^""^""' ^^^^ ^^ — '" >- a. 6.2,, just 4 h, from C. , .avi ^To e .^e 1':" ^',1 ""."'r^' "°"' '" ^"■"«- l-nnsid-.-ring the hard hill-pulli„„ and rLTr, u "" ' P'''' ^""^ Fairfield in 2 h. cvcling Anlnias who reach: ^na b Se a tf/thlf ''t' h"^ ,'7^ ^ ""'"^ = "^°"^'' » ..^ n,. from S. .n 3 h. I We reached thllihar' .'tT.'.egl 'ou T" t '' '"'"' "' at the Natural Bridge. The road of ,= n, ,w,l ! ' *"""« "'^ '^'■'' '''•^V':'" scribable; for. ^. rain had fall ' d . n ,h .' T ' ""'' '' "'^ ''"'^^'' ^'--' -"^e- Clogging in th; roar forks, and eat br'ak andl ' ''^/^"^"^"'"^ ^^' ^'^^ ^as at i,s worst. ™ling was impossible and walking an ffo«' ^s t™d'dT ^"" "' "'"'^ = ^" "'- region touched by the shower uJro.dbeclL ^ ^ ' "'^"' *"^ S°' ''«=y°"<^ '^e of wood in a wild and deso at'e n n rv tI 27^' '^' "" "" ''""^'' '°"« '•-'^»'- from the Briuge, down a roaJ « se T' I ' ' *' '°"™'^'^ '° •*>' '■ '■ «'="i°". 3 >" Hescribed, and iot r ; heLe ,0 slnTon' ,^'^'^-P""-"'! '— '^^P-ity can hardl be Three year= afterwards, on of 1 tri^ M H ' " ' "\"' ""'^' '" ^ "°"""S rain." '1 .^ time on a sociable ric;cre wuh a Mr K^rTv '"-"k"'';'.^' '° ''""^' ^"^«'- S-"*^ 'Sn.t. 6, ,8S5), through S.a., o^^ I exing^ l.l i^^'H "'""'"/''T "'^ ^^"^ ^"^- ridden from I.. ,0 the Hndge m VsrS o T ''^L'"^ ""'' °"= ^'^"''^^" ^'^'l S.aun,on, and wheMec. ,0 Man'ln t ■' ' " ' R«"™ing, they took train ,0 'em.p,ions caused . .-..Iv- preS one"'' Th' " ' '" '' '' " "'"' '" 'P'"= "' "^-^ - ...andM. ^'asreac-,.,,; The ,1 1 JJ' T" "" "'"' =" '•"5 -■ "' "^ ^ept. .d::na:-fvr^~^ '-red n,e MthV vroa;Thtcrrr "'^'t^K^ T ""= '""'^ "'^•^' °^ November^ '-- i^ in fact so bad as ,ti Tob^^^tlkabTe" r' "1"'^ " '^•"'^ " '^'^ P'"''" ' .^. ab.v. my head, I d^ ai^n." '1' t'/r..'^^"' "^' ^'^^^^ ^' ^ '-^=d bicycle 'ifted !i r . ... , ""* •"= ""^'gnt 01 a loaded b cycle ;- only aUer..;,;to u.n.:^d^: -t^ rS;::;h at^V" T 'T^' " iff " E-.iJJS iiiil m 350 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. a post 2 m. from the hotel, and i m. beyond my last attempt to try the saddle, I gave up hop? and floundered back again through the mist and dnzile to my starting point. Decidmg then u. wheel homewards to New York, without even visiting the Bridge, I was again balked, by mv mechanical clumsineas in " tightening up " the bicycle to such a degree that its wheels refused to revolve at all (see p. 46X So, at 5 o'clock I started with it by train for Lexington, on the newly-opened Valley Branch of the B. & O. r. r., whose terminal station was yet unbuilt, and whose passengers were at 8 o'clock plumiied down in the mud and rain and pitchy darkness, at a desolate point i m. from town. A hackman kindly offered to carry niy bicycle thither for «i and assured me that no shelter could be found for it otherwise ; but I discovered a little slianu used by the telegraphers, and persuaded them to receive " No. 234," though they warned mc that it would probably be stolen before the next night. Considering that three spokes werr knocked out and the rim so cracked and bulged as not to turn at all, I gladly accepted ihc chance of robbery, and then I tramped through the mist and mud for the National Hotel, when- a most wretched supper formed a fitting finale to the pleasures of the day. As this hotel is not only " the best one in town," but also " the i.lde^*," it is no more than fair that I should record my surprise and delight on being shown to a bedroom whose furniture and fittinss were new and neat— instead of being (as 1 shudderingly exiiectcd) the ancient and fish-like leiics of " befo' .me dt>wn the same road in a carriage, the next noon, in the midst of a rain storm which had raged with varying intensity for hours, and took train for 20 m. to Riverside, whence I tramped back to my hotel at Lexington, 7 m. in 2 h., in season for supper, and then at i, with my bicycle safely stored in the baggage\ M ,552 7-i^A' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ..eara of U was completed, oddly enough, on .he' verTLyaf L 'iZ"^, ^^ ' "^ ^' -' .aymg that ,„y own .50m. Canadan run, of exactly two ye" s eaXr ^''^''f ^" P- 3.;. longest; and.as a furthur coincidence i- b^^n at M^ 7, ' ^'^""^ '° ^ '^'-^ .O..H «n,3hof . ^,... .o..wh;.ofr ;;v:i\r;::^r-,rh:'sr"' --'^ '-■■• ...apsof the War l^epannfenl" on a's:;>:'of 3 : 7 .n'^rcr;n7h'''' '": '"^ '""^^'^^ .he w. tnargn, a strip of cou.ury 30 .. wide is show:, st^c n^ h ^e^.o N "^'If ^' Chesapeake Bay. and all the roads, streams, .wamps and i ill, and !hl " t' ^. ^ '"'' armies, are plainly marked. The "Virginia" L T' '"'''" °^ "'^ ^"i"" shows the more .mponan. roads „d a kmarH''^ h"": '"" ^'^ "• '° ' '" > ^'* in the book,-thc combined map of Mai Conn anTn .''' h t T'' '" "' °"'" •^'-- -^ale. 3 m. to . m. Street p,aL of the cittsTf New'v rk JT^ t t'^ W 1 "^ "'^'^ m. .0 .i ,n.; are likewise given. Ail the roads between W and Ri hin. 7^^'\""^"- ' • |l.e..apu. ..• .. in.. .3 m, to . in.) which accompanies Tevtiramna' ° l'-'^ "" •^,," by .Andrew .4. Humphreys. lirig.-On. and Chief of E gin ' U s T''"^" ^ '" "" ners. ,8S3.^0; and the book itself may b. recommended as ^Irn.yg.-;,-, f,,,' \ 7''- tourist in this region of battlc-tieids It Is th^ fin,l ,„ • • . ^ "^ studi,,,,, ^ ' '^'"^i". anc/Vrice, called - vt C 1; ^iXu wi: '":' i:,''"^^" ^"'""'" °' ""- was the Shenandoah book from wlucli I have liberal! v quo e^ Thrf r " """'""" c-r,, Virginia are : (1 11.) ■■ fhc Peninsuh '' ! 1 1 T c ,.!^ "'''" °"" ^'^'"^ ^""■ . •. ,., . , , ■^ 1 -11. f tnmsula, by Alexander S. Webb, Bvt Mai Cn j- i; a Assistant Chief „f Artillery, Army of the Potomac, .86.-'6. ; (I V ) " The Armv ". P .: .5 m. ,0 . in. ., and the four battle-fields named in the titles, , m to , n Ko ' ,h . ' ' Pleteness, I append the titles of the other volumes of the s r eT'a d ' „ of ,h "V """" (en 11. S. Vols. ; (VII.) .' The Army of the Cumberland, "bvt^:.? ■.;:,:;' i"' '^' " pp., by F. \. Greene, Lieut, of Engineers. U. S. Armv ; ,IX ) "Atla,,-. " bv . h " ox^^ ex-Governorof Oh.,; late Secretary of the Interior of the uLted ; ; SJ^^ y Jaclb n rx'^Th? m ^"T • f K '■ '''' ''"'' '" ''^ Sea-Franklin and n's ,• le ' I .s^^Tr^ind^^j^^rci:: n£;^^TiJz' ?r^r^^^."c^, ^7^ "■'" "in.- .S by .. in., .0 c, ; L '"c^'^ Wail!^,^^:'^': ^'^ f ' I^ S?! 1 ^"T- m.,,» issued by G. H, Adams & Son, 5. Beekman st, N Y (^oo each o m •'" Va. and W, Va,." " Md. and Del.," ■• Ky, and Tenn.," " N C and "c -' " Ga a.'^A "•' A!v .-.nd Miss.," '. Florid..," " Texas," - Ark. and Indian Ter " n XXV. THE CORAL REEFS OF BERMUDA.^ " Thtre are islands in the ocean Where the wild and restless motion Of the heart that beats and surges with its passion and its pain. May be stilled to quiet dreaniinj; Till all pain is but a seeniiii<' Of a world long left behind us that we i.e'cr shall see a.ain." -Thk I5ermuclas " had been present to my mind for more than a dozer years, as a spot of the earth's surface whi.h I definitely desired to v"sit whe"" the e came to n.e, at the opening of the year ,884, a leiter which I mle," qu c competent to answer by an emphatic No, without even troub nTm -It to brea'- the seal of it. I recognized the superscription as that of The" genial en hus.ast who had persuaded me to be one of the three dozen "par cpants ,n a week's wheeling "amid the down east fogs," of the previous rune; an^' felt assured that he was now trying to per uade me o nT t.c:pate., t similar excursion " along the Ken7ebe\" ihi^h I L"w that'he c ed vi h"^^ ^ ^"'":: '° *'' ^^"""^ discomforts necessarily z:::^::l:::z ":: m:T ;Vnt7r7r '^^r '"^ -- -^^ His temerity tn thus attempting to c:::e;omr:roH!^m;^; ^^^^^^^ up my pen to give written expression of this feeling, it occ, rred to mVfK ! c.v.t>^demanded my first taking a glance at his lett rrihe Topened when ./,'""'"' "' '"^ ^'^'"-"°' ^ -"-'• «f «"--er saunterers a-.heelback amtd the wo,.„ of Maine, but his own solitary sCf on a v^wl vovage to the Bermudas - Somehow, it had been his luck to itr ke The one t e time nor the money for any such mid-winter outing. But Ls tempta ermudas, - n behalf of the very scenes which I for a decade had been vague^arnmg to set my eyes upon.-in' behalf of the very ^Jace to which TVon, -n. SM«£A-^U lVHeel...n's Ga^tU, January, ,885. pp. ,3^.43. Hi . ; ft? J [I j: T?rl Mm 354 7£,V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I had insensibly attached the quoted bit of newspaper verse as a true de- scription ; a place where " There are little shady harbors, There are cckjI and quiet arU>rs, 'Ncatli the trees upon the islands that are brightly resting there." In the face of this extreme temptation, presented so unexpectedly, and in such glowing colors, I hesitated— and was lost. Duty and prudence ceased to have compelling power. To me, as to the mariner in the old storv, Ber- muda had suddenly become a veritable Loadstone Rock. " It was drawing me to itself, and I must go." At first, of course, I quieted my con.'^cienLc with a few weak struggles against the inevitable ; but after the man of Maine hod made plausible answers to the various practical difficulties which I urged against accepting his proposal, I, "saying I would ne'er consent, consented." Then, having named the day, I hurled at him still another stanza from the song already quoted. " Yes !" I cried, " Yes, away we'll go a-boating, •And to other ishiiuls iloating. Other skies and other idliiig seelcini^, with our careless song ; Now in bright I.igoons bo sailing Where our heavy keel goes trailing, From beyond the reef of coral, all its listless wake along," The steamship " f )iinoco " took us away from New York on a Thursday afternoon, the 6th of March, just as the sunshine had begun to dispel the wintry gloom in which a raging snow-storm had for twenty-four hours en- shrouded th- great city; and daybreak of Sunday disclosed to us the longed- for outlines cf the blessed islands, whose verdure was suggestive of perpetual summer, though there were spots of limestone glistening through the green, as a sort of reminder of the snow which we had so recently fled from. The literature of the locality had been well-studied during the voyage; and I may properly quote from it, at this point, enough preliminary facts to render intelligible the record of my own personal explorations. A Philadelphia lawyer shall be my first authority! :— These islands, now converted into one by perm.ment and solid causeways, constitute the summit of a great submarine mountain, somewhat higher than Mont Blanc, and some 600 mile^ distant from any other land. The land area is about nineteen and one-fourth square miles, or about 12,378 acres, of which 2,300 acres are under tillage. The construction of its rocks, ar.d the derivation of its vegetation, birds, and insects, af?ord some interesting and suggestive illustrations of modern views on those entertaining subjects. Its settlement vras nearly coin- cident with that of Virginia, although its population of 761 per square mile far exceeds that of Virginia, or of any other rural part of the adjacent continent. The aggregate population (exclusive of sailors and soldiers) is 14,650, of which 60 percent, is colored, but, owing to i .^60 freehold qualification, the whole number of legal voters is 854. Hence the representative body, ar well as all administrative functions, is in the hands of the most respected, t-ix-piyiiic; J. W., in Tlif .Vatiot, March 27, 1884, p. 275. THE CORAL REEFS OF BERMUDA. 355 c.iuenv I he general revenue is about XJjo.ooo, derived entirely from a specific duty on n>iriu and tobacco, and a trifling ad-voiorem duty of 5 i,er cent, on all other importations. From ,i,„ revenue » maintained the entire legislative and ju.licial, and a fair proportion of the ex- ecutive machmery, excellent municipal conveniences in tlie two towns of Hamilton and St Cieorge's, a general island police, and the efficient maintenance of over ninety-five miles of " ro.i« .wo ,sla.,d, . chs ancc o Iwen.y-hvc m.le,. I, is worthy of remark that the Hern.aaas are in ,h. h,Khc« |'„ Uude >u wh.ch coral ,nv=ct.s bui-d in the form of rocks. In heavy wea.h.r th... i.nn.eul Ur, , ., crnelly temble, beaten by an unb„.k-n „u« of ra^.-g brca^..,. A, .here „ but one .J' I by which .. can be entered, it serve* as an .mpenctrable c/,*zW-^-./r„, agauut all s'ln^ ^ the enemy The island... .n a direct hne. are but fdteen m.ies .n 4th. a'.d .lei „ ." mdos broad, and genera.ly very nu.ch narrower, and excessively cnt up wah creek, and \Z and yet they K.ve M^ nnpress.on of a n.uch larger area- to such a degree as almost to r w.th.n the dcru.u,on of an illusion. The surface, nowhere over .50 L h.^h . al wa ! u T' Utng; and thus one w.ll often .n,d hin.self in a little sylvan hollow surrounded "by hUlssls' et as tog.ve.he .mpressmno. .ons.derable elevation; , hey are clothed with cedar erov^ the mtcrveutng ,r,eadow.|a,uU lies, perchance, a little pool .surrounded by auractive Ln.-hou and gardens, and a church-sp.re. One could eaMly imaKin.- hnnself in some New Kngl..„d vac hundreds of nnlcs from the sea when a turn in the road reveal, the ocean only a few score yards away; and the .llus.on ,s he„h,ened by the numerous adn.irable roads rtmning i„ e"! d,rect.on. A penal settlement existed uu.a recently in Uermuda. and the convicts werej^f ployed ,0 hew out of .he rocks ... n.ilcs of camage-roads. The ..uest.on is. "If thesj „ " had no .smned, would. hese roads have been constructed? and what would these ,sla, d without these roads.' " is].o.us ut What the isla.ul.s are wUh them wa.s pleasantly told in a .series of letters to the New York Tunes, during the first two months of 1S83, W VV Drvs dale, whose most precious bit of testimony for wheelmen was as fJllows- "It would be hard to equal the IJermuda roads, and utterly impo.ssible to excel them. They are sntuoth, hard, and clean. When there are hills, they are not steep hills. When it is dry, there is no dust. When it is rainy, there is no mud. 1 hesc roads run all over the island in every direction. The road-bed IS solid rock, planed down as smooth as a floor." Such ideal conditions for wheeling are due to the singular fact which gives distinctiveness to so many other conditions of existence in Ikrmuda that the coral or limestone can be ci-t and worked almost as easily as if it were cheese. " The limestone quarries, whence are taken the great blocks of which all the buildings in Bermuda are composed, may be seen every- where ; but the chisel and hand-saw take the place of blast and drill." Mark Twain's " Notes of an Idle E.xcursion,"i present theca.se quite clearly, thus :- Bermuda is a coral island, with a six inch crust of soil on top of it, and every man has a qitarry on h,s own premises. Kverywhere you go you see sq..are recesses cut out of the hill- sides. With perpendicular walls, unmarred by crack or crevice ; and perhaps you imagine that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mould If you do you err ; but the material for a house has been quarried there. They cut right down through the coral, to any depth which is convenient.- ten to twenty feet,- and t.ike it out m great square blocks. This cutting is done with a chisel, which has a handle twelve or fiftee,. feet long, and ,s used as one uses a crowb.-,r when he is drilling a hole, or a dasher when he IS churning. Ihus soft ,s this stone. Tlyn. with a co.nmon hand-saw, they saw the great blocks into h..ndsome, h..,e bricks, that are two feet long, a foot wide, and about six inches thick. The se stand loosely piled during a month to harden ; then the work of building begins. "Reprinted as the .semnd chapter (pp. 36 to .03) of "The Stolen White Elephant " (Bos- ton : Osgood & Co., 1SS3). ^ THE CORAL KEICFS OF JiEAW/UDA. 35; 1!. hou^isbuil.nf.hes, blocU, i, i, ,«,fed w„h broad corn) ,Ubs an inch thick. ,ho« ...1,« lap upon each other. ^ that the r.,,.f looks hke a ,ucces,.o„ of shallow step, or terraces ■ , . .h.mney, are ..:!t of ,h= coral bUk,. a„.i sawed into graceful and picturesque patterns' ,h. ground floor veranda., paved w.th coral blocks; also the walk to the Rate; the fence U („nl. of coral block,,- built in massive panels, with broad capstones and heavy Rate-pos,,, and ,lu. whole tnmmcd into e.asy Ime, and comely shape with the saw. Then ,hcy pm a hard out of whitewash, a, thuk as your thumb-nail, on the fence and all over the house roof .h.nneys and al Cas.d thus in i„ hard scale of whitew,.sh. not a crack, or Mgn of a' scam' „r ,,.,,„ns of the block,, .s detectable, from base-s., „e to chimney-.op; the buildiMR looks a. ii ,. h.,,1 been carved from a smglebU^I of stone, and the doors and windows sawed out after- wAr.l,. A Bermuda house does not look like marble ; it is a nmeh intenser .-Lite than hat It „ .xacly the whue of the icing of a cake, and has the .ame unc,„pi,as,zed and scarcely ..e^ep- ,.b e pol.sh. There ts «,meth:ng exhilara.„>g. even hilarious, about its vivid whiteness when ... sun p ay, upon ,t. I know of no other country that has chimney. - too pure and white for ■ us world-worthy ,o be gazed at and gloated over. Wherever vou go, in the town or along llucoun.ry roads, among l.t.Ie po.a.o-farms and patches, or extensive country-seats these st.i,„les, wlu.e dwellings, gleaming out from flowers and f.liage, m-e, you at every tnrn The leas, httle bit of a cot t, age is as white and blemishlcss as the stat. 'iest mansion. Nowhere i, ,Kre dirt or stench, puddle or hog-wallow, neglect, disorder or l..ck of trimness and neatness h. roads, the streets, the dwellings, the people, the clothes.-their neatness extends to every! d.n, that fall, under the eye. It is the tidiest country in the world. And very much the IklluSt, too. iiermud.-. roads are made by cutting down a few inches into the solid white coral-or a rood m,,„v f.e. where a hill intrude, itself-and smoothing ofl the surface of the road-bed It is a s,m,,l .ndeasy process. The grain of the coral is coar.se and porous; the road-bed has the '," h • riTtr" '"""' *"" ''"«"■• '""'"^ "'""'^y roads curve and wind hither and . uherinthedehghtfulest way. unfolding pretty siirprises at every turn: pillowy masses of oIe.,nder that seem ,o float out from behind distant projections like the pink cloud-banks of sun- set : sudden plunge, among cottages and gardens, life and activity, followed by as sudden plunges m,o the somber twilight and stillness of the wood, ; Hitt.' , visions of white fortresses and beacon towers, pictured against the sky on remote hill-to, glimpses of shining green sea ca;„h, for a moment through oper head.;..nds. then lost ag^.n ; more woods and solitude ; anj by and by another turn lays bare, without warning, the full sweep of the inland ocean, en- nched with Its bars of soft color, and graced with its wandering sails. Take any road you please ynu may depend upon .t, yor. will not stay in it half a mile. Your road is everythin/that a road ought to be : .t ., bordered with trees, and w-th strange plants and flowers ; it is shady and pleasant or sunny and .still pleasant; it carrl. , you by the prettiest and peacefulest and most homel.ke of homes, and through stretches of forest that lie in a deep hush sometimes and sometimes are alive with the music of birds ; it curves always, which is a continual promise' whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest. Your road is all this' an^ yet you will not stay in it half a mile for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also, and hide what IS beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen road and explore hem. \ ou are usually paid for your trouble ; consequently, your walk i.nland always turns out to be one of the most crooked, involved, purposeless, and interesting experiences a body can .magine. There is enough of variety. Sometimes you are in the level open, with marshes th.ck.grovvn with flag-lances that are ten feet high on the one hand, and potato and onion or- chards on the other ; next, you are on a hill-top. with the ocean and the island, spread around you; presently the road winds through a deep cut. shut in by perpendicular walls, thirty or fo-ly eet high ; and by and by your way is along the sea-edge, and you may look down a fathom or two through the transparent waters and watch the diamond-like flash and play of the light upon .he rocks and sands on the bottom until you are tired of it,- if you are so constituted as ,o^ abie to get tired of it. " uc r i; .1 IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) w- {./ 4 . 4k^ u. 1.0 I.I UUU L25 III 1.4 1.6 i^^^/ ^m Va % syy> Photugrapriic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. USSO (716; S72-4J03 A^ ^^ r>t\^ \ \ 6^ '^ .:v^^ V' .^^^ ^'fl?=^l :««yG6g^' m' 11 3S8 TEJ\/ THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE, The general character of the place having been impressed upon the readers mmd by th.s graphic and appreciative description, he will be .„ab ed o grasp w.th mtelhgence. and I hope with sympathetic interest, the' sta L t.cal details of my ow. matter-of-fact report concerning the de.r. delightful" paths of th.s "ocean paradise for wheelmen." Fort St George overl u ^ the town of that name, which was formerly the capital of the pr;vince stand! the letter J which slopes thence m a southwesterly direction for a dozen nules. and then curves to the west and north for six miles, ending at Son,- -set. Thepomtof the « fish-hook" e.xtcnds two miles northeasterly fro here, and consists of Ireland Island (reached by a horse-ferry), on which i situated the Royal dock-yard. Less than a mife and a half a'c'oss the w , ^Tk .f ;'. ^'"!f ''""'• " '^'"'^'""'^ P^^J^^^'"^ ^^""^ ""^"^ 'he curve begins ? T J J,. two miles behind this headland stands "Hamiltcn. on her clustered hill-s:des and summits, the whitest mass of terraced architecture which exists in the world." The relative situation of things may perhap. be suggested more dearly by cou.idering Spanish Point as the end of the left thumb, Ireland Pomt as the end of the fo-efinger. which is crooked towards It, and Hamilton Harbor as lying at the junction of the thumb and fineer In entering this harbor, « we steamed between two island points, whose rocky jaws allowed only just enough room for the vessel's body,"-and it is only or a few hours of each day, when the tide is high, that they allow even this Hence, though we were in sight of land at daybreak on Sunday, and though we soon came up within hailing distance of Fort St. George, and then steamed vlrS^h^«^■' »",?''"' '° '^^ ""'•^""^^ "^ ^^^^^y ^^y- ^^ ^^e dock. jard, the Orinoco " did not reach the dock in Hamilton until late in the afternoon. Most of her passengers went ashore six hours earlier, however re^,fr Tk 7^? "'"' ''°"^'''^' ^°'" ''''' P"^P°^^ : ^"'' -« the customs' regulations forbade the taking of anything with them except hand-baggage I preferred to stu:k by the ship, and devote the time to getting my bi'ycle in trim for immediate service, after I had superintended the hoisting of it from the hold, and had convinced the custom-house officer that h. might properlv grant me the privilege of riding it directly away from the dock, instead of de- laying It there until Monday morning, for tedious ofl^cial formalities. Early m the day, my companion became so exhilarated at the sight of the cedar-covered shores (the smoothness of whose roads seemed to his mind's eye doubly attractive, in contrast to the roughness of the sea, which had gwen h.m two days of wretchedness), that he was almost ready to iay violent tw ""VT^ the under-officers of the ship for declaring, peremptorilv, that, as the disembarkation of the bicycles on Sunday was quite out of the question, a 1 thoughts of indulgence in wheeling must be postponed until the moi ow. Ills mdignant sorrow over this prospective calamity was assuaged !!ho'r f .K^ 7 T'T'''"""" that I would guarantee the prompt putting ashore of the wheels, all under-officcrs to the contrary notwithstanding; and. THE CORAL REEFS OF BERMUDA. 359 as the hours wore on, the increasing warmth of the atmosphere soothed his excitement into sleepiness and languor, so that, when the time for disembark- ing really came, he decided that it was the part of prudence to devote a solid night's rest to overcoming the effects of sea-sickness, before venturing to entrust his weary frame to the saddle at all. Alone, therefore, at a qUarter- l)ast five o'clock, I pushed my wheel down the gangway and through the ad- miring throng of two hundred well-dressed Bermudians, white and black, and foithwith started off for a ride of a dozen miles to St. George's, in front of whose hotel I dismounted at half-past seven o'clock. No inns or public houses are to be found between these two main towns, though there are several little post-office groceries where the traveler may refresh himself with fruits, confectionery, crackers and cheese, and bottled sarsaparilla. I believe, however, that a regular " American hotel " is soon to be erected at the Flatts, which is the first objective point on the route, being a little collection of houses at the little bridge (four miles from Hamilton) that crosses the inlet into Harrington Sound. This is described as " a charm- ing inland sea, bordered by high cliffs, alternated by smooth beaches and tables of coral rock," and its dimensions may be generally indicated as those of an irregular oval, fully a mile broad and nearly two miles long. The second objective point is the Causeway, which is a mile long, — or, rather, nearly two miles long, if it be considered as extending to the Causeway Cot- tage, beyond the iron swing-bridge, which is six miles from the Flatts, and a mile-and-a half from St. George's. Three main roads from Hamilton — called the North, the Middle, and the South^onve.ge at the Flatts ; and two of them continue thence on opposite sides of the Sound and meet at the Causeway, whence a single road runs to St. George's. The North road, which a local guide caiij " the most airy and easy of the three," was the one which I first made triil of, when I wheeled away from the ship, that Sunday afternoon. Facing the west, I turned up hill to the right, and again to the right, passing on my left the terraces in front of the Hamilton Hotel ; then turning l?ft and climbing Mount Langton through a deep cut, whence I descended through an avenue of cedars to the north shore, one mile from the dock. Thence, for three miles to the Flatts, I gayly glided along the shore, looking out all the while over the intensely blue ocean, which shone with unwonted brilliancy beneath the rays of the setting sun. The North road, which turns to the left across the bridge at the Flatts, continues to overlook the ocean, for two miles farther ; but I preferred to keep directly on by what from that point is called the South road, which skirts Harrington Souiid for a similar distance, and then, making two successive turns to the right, extends to the Causeway. The left-hand road at both of these" turns leads over to the north shore, but the second is much the better one to travel. There is also a more direct road, of rougher surface, leading from the Sound to the Causeway. The ride across this — with green waters upon one side, and blue waters upon the other, and the hues of both varying in intensity according to the tides and the posi- "t- -,^ :-^-^ f?- jS^ '■Sft'/lyK^, >,-Ci,J;t> m.-it 360 7-AW THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. !lTh°^h '^n '°'f '"'^T'' "^"^' ^ ^*=^ P'^^'*"' ""'^ ' '^"^ -^y fi"t "de there, m the bnlLantly moonht solitude cf my first night ashore, seeined particuJa.Iv strange and exh.laratin,. The twelve-mile course, which I traversed t first n>ght n.ay be wheeled without dismount, in both directions. T think the same may be said of the north route around the Sound; but. though I rode over ,t ,n 00th directions. I cannot remember whether I conquered .11 the hills or not. ^ '"^ ,n I^^fT^ ''°^'^u' '■?''^''' ^' ^ ""■'" ^'■°'" '^'^ 'J^'^'* i" Hamilton, bv goine southeaster y to tne head of the harb , and then curving south. Meanfh e h celebra ed row of e cabbage-palm trees, whose stately trunks look 1 ch,seled columns of stone, have been passed on the right. Along the so h hore. though not m s.ght of the water, one goes in an easterly direction hrough a marshy and wooded country, for nearly two mLes. and then turns' h,ll. and then makmg a sharp descent ro the Fl.tts; or he may keep straight on at the fork and turn off for the Flatts at St. Mark's church; or he may contmue past tne church up Knapton Hill, and descend to the ma n road at a pomt near the Devil's Hole, at the southeast corner of Harrington Sound - the d.stance to here from the fork being two miles, much of which is sandy and unr.dable. Just fceyond here a road branches off to the right directly fo Tuckertown; but I, in seeking that place, kept to the main ro.d for a m,le-and-a-quarter beyond the Devil's Hole (this is a walled enclos- e on the r^ht. guarded by broken bottles, where a shilling fee is extracted from each ent depths of the ho e) ; and then, at the top of an incline. I turned to the ngh. and went a half-m,le to mee. the direct road before mentioned, on which I then wheeled a mile, o, till I reached its terminus, at the wharf in Tucker- town. As there was nothing to the town except this little wooden wharf I soon turned about, and walked up to the signal station, whence some intereL- ing views were to be had. Rejoining my wheel at the foot of this hill I drove ,t westward for a mile over a neglected military road, which would ha've brought me mto the South Toad again, near St. Mark's church, if I had been will.ng to plod about two miles farther, over its rough stones, t preferred scXd'L H-f '"''/° '?• '''°^^^'^' '"^ "^^ '^'"""' ^y "^^ -"» • -''"cly de: scnled a d.stance of e.ght miles. The process of exploring Fort Albert, in the last-named town, the public garden (where flourishes a date-palm 130 years old), and " the point," required me to test two miles more of excellent roadway; but when I turned up hill to the right, just before reaching the Cau eway Cottage, and explored a half-mile of rough, sandy, and hilly road, eadmg towards the north shore. I felt satisfied that a return to Hamilton by hat 'outewoud hardly be worth while, even if the old ferry were in opera- tion, of which I did not feel confident. eithe?nf ^h'^'^'h'''"'^ ^""^ """'■"°" *° '•^^ *"^"^ '^ =* '^^lf-'"i'^ shorter than either of the other two; and, though more hilly than either, it is attractive THE CORAL REEFS OF BE :Ml/DA. 361 because of th*; smoothness of its surface, while th overhanging cedars give it a specially secluded character, and supply a gr.eful shade from the glare of the sun. Near the east end of Hamilton hp . bor, just before reaching the line of five, tall palm-trees, the wheelman t .ust turn left and ride up a half- mile hill, from whose summit there is a des ent of three-quarters of a mile to Christ church, whence he must go up hir again, to th.- northeastward, for a mile-and-a-quarter, to the little tiiangle vhere a junc'Jon is made with the road leading from the south shore down to the Flatts. Christ church is con- nected to the north shore by a direci road a mile long ; and from the top of the hill that overlooks the five palm-trees there is a rather sandy cross-road, three-quarters of a mile long, which passes through the military barracks at Prospect, and descends to the north shore at a point a half-mile east of whsre the road from Mount Langton reaches the shore. From this latter junction, J.e shore road may be ridden westward for two miles to its terminus at Span- ish Point, whence a return course of about that distance may be laid out, without much repetition of roadway, to the dock at Hamilton. When about iialf-way between the point and the dock, a detour, which requires about a mile of wheeling, may be made to the place called Fairyland. The first mile of the route to Somerset is identical with that gone over in reaching the South road, but a backward (westerly) course is then taken along the south side of the harbor, so that the Seconal mile ends about oppo- site the starting point. At the crest of a hill, a little beyond here, the be-st route makes an angle to the left, and in a few rods brings the tourist to the main road, by which he can go towards Somerset (right), or turn back towards Hamilton (left). A narrower, rougher, and hillier road, two miles long, whose additional picturesqueness partly atones for its difficulties, descends from the crest of hill just mentioned, and follows the shore until it f.;.ally turns off and joins the main road,— its appearance at the point of junction being that of a private lane. A mile beyond here is Gibbs's Hill, 24S ^eet in height, from the top of whose light-house (362 feet above high water), a wonderfully attractive panoramic view may be had of the entire region. The bicycler, instead of .-attempting to traverse the road leading up the hfill itself, should leave his wheel on the main road, at the point where the telegraph wires cross it, _nd climb thence by a foov-path directly to the summit. Four miles beyond this is Scaur Hill, surmounted by a private boarding-house, where we secured a good dinner, as a result of a friendly warning that better fare was obtainable there than at the hotel in Somerset. From Scaur Hill, which I m.Taged to ride up, in both directions, though the effort made me groan, I had a fine spin northward to the public wharf and thence along tht shore, past the Sc--rset House and police station to the horse-ferry, a distance of two-and-ahalf miles. There is a road extending along the outside shore of the island, for about ten miles, from Somerset Bridge to a point opposite Hamilton, and it is very nearly parallel, at a dis- tance of a quarter or a third of a mile, to the highway which we traversed ; \u h'l 36a TEA- THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. but it was said to be generally sandy and impracticable for a bicycle, and so we made no attempt to e::plcre it. In the wooded heights of Fairmoun, opposue Ham>lton.i. quit,: a network of ridable roads, of whose intrracTc; I wdl say nothmg more th= n that the bicycler may find much pleasure in di" portmg himself at hap.haz;,rd among them. My cyclometer registered .42 miles in Bermuda, distributed as follows • Sunday.!.; Monday. 33; Tuesday, 36; Weunesday. 38; Thursday. .31 covered 56 m.les of roa.lway which was new to me. and 34 milel of'th same m an opposite or ne-v direction, leaving a remainder of 5. miles to re^.! resent the absolute repetidons. On the forenoon of the second day, whi'e I rode down to Hamilton, to seek my companion, he rode up to St. George's by another route, m sear.h of me; and, as we each of us reversed th operation m the afternoor. we slept In separate towns on ihe second night ^ well as the first. On the third night. I rejoined him a: his hotel.-fhe day having been spent bj us in separately exploring opposite ends of the comn ""' T^'^ 'T"" ^' "" ^'"^ •'"'y °"^ *'^^" - 'I'd any wheeling i company. Early m the morning of the fifth and find day, he saw his bicycle wlLT ""^^'r^t'" '•"' "^""^^ °^ '^^ "Orinoco." on which he em- ?ha. t \-Tl 1' "'''''' ' '°"''""''^ '"^ "*^^^' '''' f«- h°"" l-'er than that or till the verf moment when the steam-launch started off with the mails to meet the ship a. her anchorage beyond the reef in Grassy Bay In appreh-nsion of possible accident during those final hours. I warned my com- pamon that, m case I should fail to catch the mail-boat. it would be his dutv to send back my baggage, and as much cash as he could spare, in order to keep me comfortable during the fortnight which would elapse before the sailing of the next homeward steamer. The naiTowness with which I escaped such accident formed the most exciting incident of my entire visit ; for, by son miscalculation of distances I found myself on the North shore road, at the foot of Prospect Hill, within' less than a quarter-hour of tne time announced for the steamer's departure. The route which I took from there to the dock was measured by my cyclom- T r! '"^^r^"'-^ ^"' I '^"^ '^•^"fi'l^"' it was longer, for I went around bv the Admiral s corner, whereas the direct route across the hill calkd Mount a-half. Whatever the actual distance might prove to be when calmly meas- ured ma less desperate crisis, that final spin of mine, "along the coral reefs of Bermuda." seemed the longest two miles of the entire 10,000 over which my " No. 234 " had carried me. For the first time in my experience, I rode as fast as I could." I devoted my entire force and energy to the one endeavor of speedily "getting there." My mind dwelt angrily upon the various troubles and perplexities which would result from suddenly "getting left for a fortnight upon an island having no connection with the worid that I belonged to, until it really seemed that I was "riding for my life " In the midst of this exciting caase, before I had turned away from the shore, THE CORAL REEFS OF BERMUDA. 363 or got within a mile of the dock, a sand-rut gave m- a violent header, — the first and last fall which I had during the visit. I picked up my vcner- ;iHle wheel with profound trepidation, for, if the accident had disabled it at ail, my last hope of sailing for New York, that day, would have disappeared. Fortune favors the foolish, sometinu-s, however, as well as the brave ; and my own folly, in taking so needless a risk, was not fated to be properly pun- ished. " No. 234 " came up smiling from the sand ; and I without stopping to brush the white coral dust from my white flannel iding costume, was soon pushing its pedals harder than ever, in my despairing drive for the dock. 1 suppose that all touring wheelmen have occasionally, like myself, been oppressed with remorseful exasperation over their own mistaken choices among possib!e alternatives while on the road ; but I don't think I ever had a more contemptuous opinion of my own discretion and sagacity as a traveler than during those last bitter moments of that " bad quarter-hour " when the tattered tires of my bicycle were pounding along, with every atom of speed which I could impart to them, through the glistening streets of " the whitest city m the world." All's well that ends w^U, however; and though I reached the dock two minutes before the appointed time, the mail-boat didn't really push off till twenty minutes afterwards.. Life in T srmuda is a matter of such infinite leisure that even the post-office people seem to resent the tyranny of clocks and schedules 1 Even the " Mo-on-dy-ne " likes to lag, though her name means " messenger." I was escorted on that final spin by a young man from Massachusetts, a fellow-voyager on the outward passage, who intended to remain upon the island for several weeks. I presume that he would have proved a much faster rider than myself on any ordinary occasion, and perhaps he did not now exert himself to keep up with me. At all events, he was con- siderably in the rear as we approached the dock, and, whether he thought my pace a swift one or not, I can assure him that he is the only cycler who ever competed with my swiftest pace, or ever saw me doing my very best to fly over the ground. Ideally pleasant weather favored my five days on the i.slands; for a sudden shower of a few hours' duration, which worke'' -"o injury to the roads, could hardly be called an exception to it. The mildness of the air tempted me to sleep on deck in the moonlight, during the first night of the re- turn voyage, — though my slumber was not profound after a rat had once interrupted it by running across my face. A bench in the smoking-room sup- plied my couch on the second night, which was a stormy one ; while the bitter cold of the third night drove me to my own proper state-room, and made its air endurable m spite of the " inside " position. This room was an excep- tionally large cne, but, for a man who values " outer ventilation " as much as I do, it was the very " last ch' 'ce " in the ship. My misfortune in getting assigned to it resulted from this ihat when I boug'.it a roumi-trip ticket, two months in advance, and selected a most comfortabH upper-deck room, I as- sumed that the same was assured to me for the return voyage also. A 'i .5 364 T-AW T//0[/S-,1A^D MIU-S ON A B/CVCLE. knowlcclRc of my mistake m,y give friendly warning .0 other tourist, that cy .,.M,Id wr.te to the Hermuda agents of th. line, to'ecure choice 0^0^ just as early as the exact date of the return voyage i, decided uoor TK stcamsHip company's service .s fortnightly (week^n ^^^^^ J^ and .ts charge for round-trip tickets is fifty dollars. Such tickets are not 1 ■ted as to time; hut. if the traveler returns by the same boat wh take im out. he need spend no more than ten dollars u on the island .nd can th- rest.,ct to sixty dollars the cost of his ten days' absence from Ne. York know of no other way in which the expenditure of so little tineTnd .^ can ..give to the inhabitants of that city so genuine r us r:-"."',:::;: atmosphere.' or so good a view of the contrasts which Engl.sh colonVa ,1 and hab.ts present to their own." I adapt thus a previo.s'remark of mi as to th= advantages which a Hostonian may gain bv a visit to H,Wf, Nova Scotia, which is more readilv accessible "' '" The relative inaccessibility of Bermuda -the penalty vhich most good Americans must pay to Neptune, when the steamer plunge, .h rough e se, ■ckenmg surges of the Gulf Stream, on the .ay chit heri-is the one c c n " natural barrier agamst the excursionist and the pleasur.-secker is an^^erlV, ■ng one. and though Its power to .'keep out he crowd ''wiZk the knowledge of Her.uuda's special att;actions s rd^. .0^ ge t :t:; lar. b H""f\ '°"" "'" "''" ""^""y ^•■■^^"P-- ''here A a way be" a ge body of American travelers whom no possible picture of the beauties o th.s ocean paradi.se will ever tempt into exposing their stomachs to the wrenching commonly produced by the cross-currenfs and chT^py seas of tS Oul Stream. Nevertheless, the man who wishes to enjoy tl e nristTne s 1 Pl.city of the Someis Islands, should visit them right speed y aid take no tnist .„ he theory that the discomforts of sea-sickness li , ong p event t de of American travel from rolling in with sufficient volume to obH r Ya k e".' at'-fo "" "'"' ' ^""'' ' ^"' '""^'^ '^ ^ P^^'^ility th o s^ui , r°H ^!''' •'"P^^^^'"^"^" '-^y have pnt an end to that delightfullv stupid and admirably exasperating old custom of -*«//^«^ a gangway ou to tnZT'' ""' T '' ""^"' ^"' °^ ^^•'-S it to pfecef every'time departs (ensunng a long delay, on each occasion), instead of keeTinrthc same in condition for immediate use. seeping the theirThr!'"''' ^"°^^' ^'""'"" ' ^"'^ "^ commendation for the contrast which their thnf.y appearance and self-respecting politeness presents to the looks and manner of their race upon the main-land. I am afraid they rega d wit d^dain these ess fortunate ones, because of their slow improvement under at^s ne^elT "r ''f "''' '"" ^'"^^^ °^ ^'^^^y' conditions which altnost necessarily render them cringing and servile when poor, and insolent the other hand, were the first ones I ever saw who seemed sincerely to hold themselves "just as good as white folks," without making any fuss about i. ^^^ THE CORAL REEFS GE BERMUDA. 36s ft was a thing simply taken tor ^ranted ; an cnt re matter of course. I recall IS a pleasantly novel civility, their salutation of "good night I " (just as we say "good mornincl") when I sped past them, in the dusk or the moon- l.jSht, on that first Sunday evening ashore. I recall, too, the picturesque ap- I.tarance of a group of colored school-children, ranged along the glistening road m the order of their size, who gazed with admiring silence upon the white-clad white man from America, silently sliding past them on his silver wheel. I remember, too, the impression of age and solidity and perfection and permanence given to my mind by the deep-cut , -,uls through the rocks. It seemed as if the work had beeti done centuries ago, for no scars of it re- mained, and the weather-darkened surfaces of these soft coral cliffs, overhung with cedars and vines and oleanders, suggested a flint-like hardness of structure which idealized the road-builders into very heroes of perseverance. liut most of all I remember the loquot I He it known, then, that the loquot is a pear-shaped fruit, growing in yellow clusters, which make the tree extremely attractive to the eye, and that Its delicacy of structure is such that it begins to decay within less than a dozen hours from the time of plucking. Hence, though the best of all the other mnumerable fruits and vegetables which Bermuda produces are mar- keted m New York, and should be sought there rather than on the islands the loquot cannot be exported! No Yankee can hope to delight his palate with Us matchless flavor unless he first crosses the Gulf Stream I Perhaps it is because of my own superiority to sea-sickness that I extol the loquot as supplying in itself full compensation for a three days' voyage Hut certainly I liked the loquot. IhadKo like it. There is a sort of sub- tle toothsomeness, or fineness of flavor, about the fruit, which is inde- scribably delicious. " They're good, the loqnots are," as my companion said, with a tone of heartfelt emphasis, not indicated by the simple words, when he sadly threw into Grassy Bay the pits of the last handful which I had brought out to him in the mail-boat; "there's no sort of doubt about the loquots!" There may well be a doubt, however, as to the accuracy of my careless suggestion about their growth being confined to Bermuda; for th/t was intended to signify nothing more than my own ignorance of their ex- istence elsewhere. Very likely they may dourish in other islands farthe, ^outh ; like Jamaica, whither Bermudians have a chance to go, once a month. by Cunard steamer, which also, in the other direction, gives them a monthly n-ail to Hal-iax. That city, which I !,.ve elsewhere characterized, as seeming to me like a sort of little London,- as the most English-like place on t<»e North American continent,-is just about as near, in sailing distance. as IS the city of New York; while, as regards customs and tastes and sym- pathies, it is much nearer to them. In Bermuda, as in Nova Scotia, "take the left" is the rule of the road. There is nothing really extraordinary, therefore, m the seemingly odd fact that the bishop of Newfoundland should embrace lermuda in his diocese, making biennial visitations to the ■si;.- fill \ if J m M Iff 1^5 366 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. milder island. So, too, it would be quite in keeping with the geography of the case to recommend that a September wheeling tourist through New- foundland, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia, should thence prolong his travels by taking steamer direct for the coral reefs of Bermuda. Which- ever route the traveler may choose, let me advise him to equip himself not only with an abundance of clothing suitable for sui.amcr and winter, b.n also with all the attainable literature relating to the scene ol his visit The old-time guide is the " Bermuda Pocket Almanac • (issued annually fron, the office of the Royal Gazette, and costing half a dollar), which contains tables of roads and distances, amid numerous other statistics, and which renders them all intelligible by exhibiting on its cover a map of the islands drawn upon a scale of three miles to the inch. A much larger and more' clearly drawn map, printed in colors, is appended to Mrs. Dorr's recently issued volume,' which every visitor to the islands should have in his pocket; though the littler map of the "Almanac" gives to the wheelman a completer showing of the roads. A new guide-book,^ in the field which this ancient annual has hitherto monopolized, presets still 1 third map,- larger than either of the others ind in many respect^ more useful to the explorer,— though it fails to show the road leading to the Flatts from the Wesleyan chapel on the south shore, and also the road directly connecting Christ church with the north shore. A "process" reproduction of the rude old maps and pictures which were pre- pared, centuries ago, by order of the immortal Captain John Smith,-who was the earliest guide-book-maker for this microscopic speck of the western world,— is another praiseworthy feature in the work of his latest imitator. Its distinctive value, however, consists in the series of sixteen "photo- prints," which have power to give to the mind of a stranger a far better idea of the peculiar beauties of Bermuda, thr.n volumes of descriptive writing could afford, and which recall those beauties, with a pleasing degree of vivid- ness, to the mind of the home-returned visitor. The scenes which I myself saw are here preserved exactly as I saw them,— the author's visit having pre- ceded my own by only a few weeks,— for he says : " The photographs were iaken by me, on gelatine dry plates, during the months of January and February, 1884, and the prints were made from these negatives by the Photo- Electrotype Company," of which he happens to be the president. The letter- press contains about all the customary, cut-and-dried information which a casual tourist is supposed to need; and, if such tourist be a bicycler, his desire for lightness and port-.bility will doubtless impel him to offer the criticism that "it contains too much information,"— that if the historical '"Bermuda, an Idyl of the Summer Islands," by Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, wmo, pp. 150, pnce *i.2s (New York : Scribner's Sons, 1884). •"Illustrated Bermuda Guide." by James H. Stark. ,2mo. pp 157 (and advertisiDg pp. 35), pnce Jj.oo (Boston : Photo-Electrotype Co., 1884). If ^ THE CORAL REEFS OF BERMUDA. 367 third of it had been omitted, and if the weight of the renoainder had been still f.irther reduced by the use of thinner paper, the book would have a beiter chance of finally supplanting in his affections that very manageaMt* old blue- covered stand-by, the rightly-named " bermuda I'ocket Alrnaiiac." Such criticism would seem to me sound enough, but the best practical icmedy in the case is for the bicycler to buy both books, even though he cycles with only one of them. I myself certainly hate to see a modern guide-book padded out by the plunder which a drag-net may be made to yield from the stores of ancient history, and yet, as I am a loyal son of Massachusetts, I feel bound to forgive the sinner in the present case, because, being a Hostonian, he humanly yielded to the temptation of telling people the story of how little Bermuda helped the great George Washington to "drive the British out of Boston." K was by means of a ship-'oa-J of gunpowder, of which the besiegers stood in the direst need, and which the Bermudians stole for them from a government storehouse. So remote in those days was the island from having its present character of a fortified stronghold, and so poorly guarded was the governntent powder-magazine, that the responsibility of the theft was never fixed upon anyone, though there was naturally an out- burst of wrath in "official circles" when their sleepy limits were finally pene- trated by "news from Boston," disclosing the ultimate use to which the mysteriously missing gunpowder had been put. " We have not been quite everywhere, yet. Bat one thing we are all agreed upon: nowhere have we found within the compass of nineteen square miles so much that was novel, beautiful, and interesting, with such air and such sunshine, and such peace, as we have found just here." Such was the testimony of some widely-traveled acquaintances which Mrs. Dorr presents as best reflecting the personal impressions which she has endeavored to em- body in her " book of Bermudian days " ; and such shall be my testimony, also, as I recommend her pleasantly-wrritten little volume to those who seek the islands. I mildly suggest to them, however, that the dreamy poetry of the place may have led the lady to idealize beyond the recognizable point some of the prosaic discomforts of existence there ; just as it led certain ma-eculine witnesses, whom I have quoted, to report that all the roads are perfectly hard and smooth of surface, and perfectly gentle as regards their slopes. There are fleas in Bermuda, let me sadly say, and they bite as remorselessly as if dwelling in less poetic climes. I do not like the fleas ; but theloquots I do like. And it is as the Land of the Incomparable Loquot that I shall always cherish the Bermudas in my dreams ! " So, in this wintry weather, Were we rich, we'd go together, Sailing £ar o'er distant oceans, and among the dreamy isles ; But those queer, outlandish places Will find, this year, no traces Of the while-ciad cycler, Karl Kron, where he wheeled those happy miles," I'm (KM 1 II rfl fQg rii-rti h ihtii r 368 /£'A' THOUSAJWD MILES ON A BICYCLE. I did not enclose my bicycle in a crate for the homeward voyage b ,t merely bandaged its forks and backbone with cloth before lowering it 'into the hold; and »o it was easily put in order for 1 HJ-g, when hauled on deck again, as the " Orinoco " steamed up the harbor of New York, in the fore noon of Sunday, March iCx In the innocince of my heart I supoosed that "the bicycle being entitled to free entry because of American manufacture " I should be allowed lo mount it at the dock and ride right up home to Washington Squar=. Hut the " deputy surveyor "—as the lordly creature was c .led who happened to be in command of this particular gang of custom- house mercenaries— asserted his authority to the contrary; and, though know- ing perfectly well that the machine luas American, and that I had embarked with it from the same dock only ten days before, he ordered it to be "sent to the Public Stores for appraisement." The same order was issued concerning the crated machine of my companion, accompanied by the assurance that as this was of English make, a duty of 35 per cent, would certainly be levied upon It, in spite of that duty having once been regularly paid when the bicycle was first imported into Ar 3rica. We sought out the Pi-blic stores next T?,'"^:^'"'' '-^"''^^^ ourselves singularly fortunate in meeting there with an affable official gentleman. w!.o sympathized with our troubles, becauc his own son had been touring by wheel in Europe, and who endorsed our "papers " with the request that the "deputy appraiser," to whose official keeping the bicycles had been consigned, would "make the appraisal informal," and so let us take them away without additional bother. When we finally reached the presence of that functionary, however, after various delays for the wind- ing of red tape at the desks of several of his underlings, he gruffly said that he should exercise no discretion in the matter, bur should formally enter both machines for the custom-house, and that the one of English make would have to pay duty. The reason why he. like the "deputy surveyor" on the dock refused to pass my own bicycle, which he knew was "entitled to free entry " was presumably his desire to force me to employ a "custom-house broker" to attend to the intricate and exasperating formalities exacted by custom- house regulations, even in a case of "free entry." The usually accepted theory of the matter is, that these private brokers pay to the government officers a certain percentage of the fees derived from each traveler whom the officers deliver into their hands; and that, unless he directly bribes the latter to take a lenient vjew of the law, they will use the authority which a harsh n- terpretation of it -ives them to revenge themselves by "sending his case through the custom-house." If the traveler wishes to leave the citv on the day of landing, such act of the officer on the dock simply forces the'employ- ment of a broker, because "the papers in the case" cannot reach the custom- house for one or two days afterwardri. Having wasted a good share of one forenoon in lollowing my « papers " through the hands of a half-dozen official persons, in as many different .corns of the Public Stores, only to gain from the last one the surly assurance that If JUL LORAL KLLFS OF iiERMUP.l. 369 (ir.Mcad of atoning to the best of hi^ al.ilitv f.,r the in.,. Iv inflicted u,.on n.c l,y ,hc unju.st d ill . At T """''""*" "'" •..cwo.dd send „,e th....«„ .,. '^'^^Zi^rii::::^^':^ •>>r"ugh .„ person, instead of allowing n.vself to I rt.;,,d t^^ I T wouki have l,ccn more loui. al ot curs.. ,',. . "^ " -^«-" "> a Uoker. it .h.ch the United States l:^::!:::^^:^^^ '" '"""^^ '""^ ^^'-'^^ H.c. upon me for the ,.,gh cri.e and s ^a^ l^Z^T^^'l '" '" HrrnuKla for a ten .lays' outinc- Lut I ..r.f < ^ ■"-■ **^"' '" V. rat,.er than a.,.^ the '"^^p';; Z:^:' ZlZ ''' 'T' ^'' '"^ .0 Kuin their expected " divvy " of the hml ^ "*'''"''' '•'l'"'"^' " -r. from me. ()„ Thursd .v tl^erlf 7 ^^' ^''"''' "^^^ ''-'«"^-d to ex- ^.-....■house.en«aJ:^:;:^;: ^';- ,:'::;e':;,::r' .t^ '-^'^^ ''- •■■rce entry ". had completely covered my bicvd T ' T ''""'" "' .. clo.en distinct operation^ before l::e:'d£ent' ^Z'^:;:: l^^ -parato apartments, on .liffcrent floors of the building. ^ d t" ,a „'„ toJ MX y-fo,,, cents t„ the United States of America for the cnfor- d u " 1 -''.c Stores. An .der on the keeper of the same was m 'iv en to " ^.n h,s w en f presented it there, went through .he han-ls o tw 1 e 1 ■ I I .pie hefo.-e the last of them trundled n.y " No 2u" o„t LZ l..l.t of dav. and accorded n.e full authority to ride off with it '' '""^ -n of the United State, (..verrlment. and thu:'L cX ^ t/Z h" ■e n.cs.,mab,e blessing of a "free e„t,y.'- „.d the cntryTe " bj ut "tv.the process would have been no longer or more compi cated and i'-e taken pa.ns thus to exhibit in detail the atrocities of the r Sons the -M.„, ,n order that wheelmen .,av approximately realise ow'g t : bot -as conferred upon every traveler, native or foreign, who enter a tlnr states oort with his wheel, as an ultimate result of my .isi, "o , r ^.da T e """Panion who persuaded me into this visit early abandoned tl^r 7" f -i only resumec. his original intention, at the ^^ ^:::^^r:^Ci - .0 "go anyhow." Knowing that hi. machine had pa d duty on Ifs on-.i ".'I m,,,„rtafon from Kngland he "kicked " airainst the i,I..7f T • ^ ;,-ond tax of the sort when we returned f^t/t ^^t^i:^:;: l^t!: nghsh prov.nce, lying there in the ocean, only ;oo m. from New Yo k The -on. .ouse people assured us that all previous "kickers" ag L ^h ci r ■ ""Z"' 7 1 "" ''"^^"^>- r^^P-'--t had finally 'sw owe Sec.tarv of the Treasury to o^^^ "l 2::;\Z;::j:^i:^'^-:: ages are not personal nor household effects, and can only be Emitted "o e e.,t.y when used by an immigrant in the act of immig^a' n : ' h J "^ n„e wh.ch the customs men proudly pointed to as giting an irre/.cab^^ ^p^a^j*^^,,^ ±^.-^. !i« 373 TEA THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. negative to all our hopes of justice, — the decision of Secretary Sherman (June 28, 1878, on the appeal of A. D. Chandler, of Boston, against paying, on an imported bicycle, the 45 per cent, duty exacted against " machinery ") having settled the fact that, for customs purposes, the bicycle must be classified as , "carriage." My companion, nevertheless, put m his appeal to the authorities at Washington; and with a celerity which w.,> really wonderful, in view of the usual slowness of official routine, secured their decision, of April 9, that " bicycles, accompanying a passenger, may be regarded as personal effects, not merchandise, within the language of the full list, and therefore exempt from duty." Thus not only was a remedy given for the intolerable injustice specially complained of by my companion (of taxing a returning American a second time on a wheel which had previously paid its proper duty), but the whole antiquated scheme of restrictions, which were practically prohibitory to international touring on the wheel, v;as done uway with. Any traveler can now bring his bicyi le freely into the United States, without regard to the fact of its American or foreign origin, and without the expensive delays insepara- ble from entry at the custom-house, even when the entry is " free." The ofiii- cer at the dock may require the passenger to declare that his bicycle has been "in actual use," and that he does not import it with the intention of imme- diately selling it ; but they no longer have the power to prevent his mounting the machine at the dock and riding away to his proper business. Bribes and brokerage are no longer necessary. Except for my determination to include a chapter of Bcrmiidian experiences in " Trn Thou- sand Miles on a Bicycle," this triumph of justice and civilization might have been postponed for several years longer ; and I should therefore think the chapter incomplete if it did not contain a full account of this triumph, and did not urge every American wheelman who reads it to cher- ish a grateful recollection of the honest judge, so recently dead, who br^ ht this triumph about The late Secretary of the Treasury, Charles J. Folger, may well be remembered by others on account of the squareness of his character as manifested in decisions of greater popular im- portance ; but I want wheelmen specially to remember him 01 that same quality as manifested in his righteous decision of " the Bermuda bicycle case." I want them to remember him as a man whose strong sense of justice gave him the vision to see through all the sophistries of ' ' prece- dent " and get a firm grip on the ultimate truth (incomp.ehensible though it be to the underlings of the custom-house) that, " in this democratic government of ours, nothing is ever really settled which is not settled r/^f A/." The names of Benjamin Harris Brewster, Attorney-General; of Charles R. Skinner, Congrcsman from New York, and of T. B. Reed, Congressman from Maine, also deserve all the honor which this chapter of mine can ensure to them in the hearts .if cyclers for their effective services in -etting an old wrong righted. I do not like the political party which these gentlemen belong to ; but f am glad to bear testimony to their manliness in recognizing the truth that the removal of injustice from any dass of citizens (no matter how few, or young, or humble, or uninlluential, they are presumed to be) ought never to be considered too trivia! or undignified an act for even the highest officer of the government to take interest in. So. I say igain, "let lasting honor be attached to the names of the four men who so prumpliy brought about the great reform ; who persuaded the United States to cease playini; the part of a cut-throat and bully towards those of iier citizens who might return from wheeling tours in fonign lands ; who deprived the ' deputy surveyor ' and the ' deputy appraiser ' of all further power to K^^,^^^^ ^»^ torment me like a criminal, in case it is ever?.23ln niyh*ppylot to sail into port, aiier .-.nother visit to ' the blessed isles of Bermuua.' " kp->. XXVI. * BULL RUN, LURAY CAVERN AND GETTYSBURG. > Washington having been chosen as the place for the fifth annual meet of the League, I accepted the fact as an excuse for wheeling thither to be a spectator of the parade. From the personal part which I had taken in its four previous ones, as rearmost rider in the -agtag-and-bobtail division known as "the unattached," I felt entirely qualified t. .ppreciate the beauties of a spectacle that "the new rule" (which I myself had urged the adoption of though rumous to my last hope of individual glory) declared should not be (hsfigured by the presence of any such variegated rabble of guys ^d gro- tesques as I had been wont to risk my life among at the earlier meets. As a matter of fact, a sudden softening of the spine, on the part of those in authority, allowed this rule to be "suspended"; and the customary "mob on wheels" therefore sauntered along in Indian file through the broad roadways of the Capital. Hence, I was rather glad that I reached it too late to look upon such a sorry sight, for it might have exasperated me to the pitch of desperation. Here, in the single " show city " which America can boast of, on magnificent avenues of asphalt, where 24 wheelmen could ride abreast, and V aerc the smallest " company fronts " allowable for parade should be files of 16 or 12 or 8, a long-drawn-out column of ill-arranged and parti-colored paraders straggled through the streets, by twos and fours (May 20. 1884) under pretense of proclaiming " the dignity and power of the League." Such was the sad truth that I gathered from beneath the florid rhetoric and lavish audation with which the historians of the day sought to conceal the League's failure to improve this first great opportunity ever offered in America for I really impressive and inspiring display of spectacular wheelmanship It was, ,n fact, just about as bad a show as that which had been given thi-ee vears earlier, in the badly-policed lanes of the Httle New England PIU. Boston I remember my rage, on that occasion, at the utter lack of any efficient police protection for the wheelmen's procession, against the dis- astrous intrusion of an entirely orderly and good-natured cro^d of lookers-on ; nd ,t ,s a matter of recent history that when 400 local cyclers endeavored to hyen an autumn evening in that solemn city, by a "lantern parade" (Oct -. 85), a rufiianly and ill-natured crowd an.used themselves by hurlinr missiles at the lanterns and upsetting the riders, until at last the police an reared on the scene and summarily dragged off to the station-house a quiet citizen who had courageously defended the luckless vfh.ee] rr-.f-r-. a--.ir-=^ ■-■■■- ■-' 'The first part of this is from TAr Sprin^fUld IV^m^nU Gazette, January. 1886. 372 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the most obnoxious of their rascally rssailants. Hut however small might be my reasonable expectation, as a Massachusetts man, of seeing either safety or splendor characterize a street show in an Irish sea-coast settlement like Bos- ton, I certainly did cherish great hopes, as an American, that our reallv magnificent National Capital might in pire the League to make there one thoroughly creditable public display of tself. Fortune, therefore, was kind m so delaying my advance, as to hide the sad reality from my actual vision Embittered as I then was by a four months' steady struggle with the prelimi- nary subscription-lis^ of this book, my shattered nerves might have given way to the strain of disappointment in seeing the noble streets of Washing ton belittled by this pitiful parade of the customary, Indian-file, no-two-coats- ahke "mob on wheels." The market rate of dynamite being "only 6- cents a pound," 1 might have decided (in a fit of emotional insanitv, when thus un- nerved) to blot out the whole wretched business,— or at least the "staff officers," who seemed chiefly responsible for it, as the ostensible ring-leaders of the mob. So, it was a blessing to all concerned that my bicycle didn't bear me into sighting distance of the big white dome, until long after the League's " fifth annual mob " had been dispersed. My two days' ride ^rom Xew York to Philadelphia, loo m., which raised the mileage of "ly new machine (straightaway from Hartford) to just " 234," has been already reported on p. 172. Next morning. May 19, 1 -ode from the Bingham House along the brick-shaped stone blocks of Market st., \\ m. w.. to the bridge. An eighth of a m. beyond that, just opposite the r.'r. station, Woodward av. branches off to the 1., and I tried its sidewalk flags i ni. and then t. 1. at the cemetery corner. After about i m. of off-and-on, I struck a yellow clay road and went without stop, jpite of hills, to the Buttonwood House at Darby, 3 m. A planked horse-car track extends to this point and would probably l)e ridable in all weathers. A hilly pike whose mac. is worn into ruts stretches thence to Chester, 6 m., and the Pennsylvania Military Academy surmounts a hill on the r., as one enters the town. My ro-.le, which a local wheelman recommended, led up Seventh st. i m., then 1. through Curling on Belgian blocks to Second, then up this fo;- i m. or more, then t. r. back to the pike, near a mill at Fourth. Less than 3 m. beyond here, at 1.30 1'. M., I for the first time wheeled into the little State of Delaware,— "the line " being marked by a cedar stump on the r. Following this were a series of hills, tiresome wheeling, whether up or down, and one of them i m. long, —relieved by fine views of the Delaware river and ship- sailing undt. (uli canvas. I crossed the Brandywine into Wilmington, just 7 m. after entering the State, and halted \ h. at a restaurant on its n.ain street, \ m. beyond. Newport, 3i m., was reached at 5.10, and the Deer Park Hotel ir Newark. 9'ii., at 7.20,— making my da- 's record 38I m. The hotel pcoole .said that the road to Elkton and Perryville (Havre de Grace) was level but very sandv, and advised me to try the hillier route, and cross the Susquehanna bv ferrv at J on Deposit, 5 or 6 m. above the r. r. bridge connecting Havre de Grace 1^ £'^i^fi@i- w^smj'. BULL RUN, LURA Y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 373 with Perryville. As a result of a heavy night's rain, I found, as soon as I got l)eyond the town limits,— perhaps i m. from the hotel,— that the clay roads had changed to mud, which was not ridable and was hardly walkable, on ac- c.,unt of the clogging in the forks. Half-way up a big hill, a little more than li m. after starting, I crossed into Maryland,— ending thus a Delaware trail of \\ m.,— and I reached the top of another long hill at 8 o'clock, 3 m. and t J h. from the start. A store and one or two other houses stood here, and I imbibed a quart of milk, in lack of any other attainable breakfast. Three h later, I had p.ogressed only 7 m. more, and I lay on my back on a bridge^ thoroughly tired from the long dragging of my wheel through the clay. Brick Church, \\ m., was reached at noon, and i h. spent there for dinner at its poor little tavern. My walking amounted to about 7 m. to this point, but beyond it the roads were dryer and more dowr-grade.-so that I walked less and reached Port Deposit, 8i m., in 3 h., entering it by a long and verv steep descent. Disembarking from the ferry boat, on s. side of the Susquehanna, at 4.35, followed a winding .uurse up the ravine to ]., and then, after passing a bruige about i m. out, t. r. The road gradu.Jy improved as I drew near a coss-roads called Level. 5 m. from the river, at 6 o'clock, where I t. 1 with the telegraph poles, and enjoyed, on a level of i m. or so, my first good riding of the day. At Churchville, 3^ m., I stopped for an orange, and found my watch had stopped also. The time was about 7 ; and I then went without halt along a good dirt road for 5J m. to Bel Air. at 7.45- There I t. r., and reached the hotel, after riding a few rods o., r. sidewalk; but, if I had t 1 I should have even more quickly reached the head of the pike leading to Ral'ti- .nore. Down this winding way of fairly good mac. I sped at 7 o'clock, next morning, and climbed some rather stiff hills before resting \ h., at a point .^ in. out, to oil and polish my wheel. I didn't leave the saddle again for I \ h., when I was flung out of it, 13 m. beyond, by carelesslv riding among some trcsh lumps of stone on the edge of the road. (" Number 234, Jr " thus s-jf- icr.u lis first fall, 324 m. from the start at Hartford, and the r. handle-bar was so badly bent that my leg grazed against it at every revolution of the wheel I or the next 50 m. to Washington. I did not have a second fall until a fort- night later, on the last day of my tour, 51 1 m. beyond ; sec ]x 173.) My third stop was made in 5J m., when I reached the cobble stones in the outskirts of Balti- H'ore.at 10.45; and the 22 m. to this point mi^ht have been done without < ismount. Turning r. along Boundary av. to Fillmore st., 1 went 1. on its liag-stone sidewalks to the junction of Baltimore and Frederick sts., 4 m and thence followed alongside the horse-car track to Catonsvillc, 4 m. At Ellicott ' 'tv, 4i m. on (see p. 349). I halted \ h. for lunch, and then, between 2 20 and -MO, wheeled up a hill ijm. long, except its steepest pitch of two rods at .'I'out the middle point. The course beyond proved continuously hilly; and r at a cross-roads on a hill-top, and at 4.35 reached a cross-roads store L' -d Clarksville, nm, from P.. V. Tf..° ;>.r-v* rirv. -^.-!^.j .-.! -. i.: : house in the hamlet of Ashton, where a previous tourist had told meit^'would r : i if Hi 374 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ' BICYCLE. be possi!)Ic to procure supper; and though I covered this di^.ance in i h and probably rode j of it, because of downgrade!,, it was the poorest stretch of the day, and its abundant sand would have forced me to walk nearly all of it had I been faced in the other direction. Starting from A. at 6 30 I rode' without stop till 7.55, nearly 10 m. ; and then, in the thickening darkness walked most of the 2 m. to Sligo, at 8.35. My Maryland trail of 95 m. ended \ m. beyond here when I crossed into the District of Columbia; and, as the road grew very smooth, I ventured again into the saddle and rode almost continuously for 3 m. to che Boundr.^ av. of Washington, at 9.45. Thence aiong the gas lighted asphalt of Ninth and 11 sts. to Twentieth ilm where I found n>y clean clothes awaiting me at 10.15. My day's record was 6s| m., as compared to 35 m. of the previous day ; and my 5 days' ride from N. Y. (Hoboken Feny) to W. measured just 240 m. The bright sunshine and hot air of that final day were tempered some- what by agenth breeze, which was generally in my face; but the weather of the next 3 days, while I tarried in Washington, was extremely hot and stickv with heavy evening showers which gave no life to the atmosphere. The 4^' m. which I registered during that visit probably represented ism. of njxv road, 15m. of new-direction riding, and 13 m. of repetitions; and I was sur- prised on the evening of the first day, when I took my first look at Butcher cyclometer, whose action had hitherto given me no reason for distrust, to find only 7im. recorded, tliough I vaguely believed that I had been jogging ab. u the asphalt for 2 or 3 h. altogether. For the next 600 m., however, it seemea to run accurately, until it stuck at the 1,000 m. point, as described on p. 14- At 4.30 A. M. of May 25, just before daybreak, and after less than 6 h. of sleep I left the St. Marc Hotel, which had given me pleasant shelter for 3 days and nights, and began a tiresome journey of 48 m., which ended about 9 p. m. at the Warren Green Hotel in Warrenton. My real start was made at 5.15 at the house of the President of the Washington Cycle Club, i^ m. from 'the hotel, where, after rousing him from slumber, I had a chance to munch some crackers and cheese, moistened with oranges, before my escort gave the word to mount. We crossed Georgetown Bridge, into Virginia, 2\ m, at 5.40, and at once t. r. and climbed hills pretty steadily, on winding and difucult but usually ridable roads, till we reached the brick house in Falls Church, 6J m., at 6.55, and halted ^ h. for some milk. Fairfax Court House, SJ m., was reached in 2 h.; and, while my comrade arranged to get some breakfast there before starting backward for Alexandria, I pushed on alone at 10.10, and reached Centerville, 7 m., in 2 h. Thi> was approached by a rough hill, \ m. long, from whose top (along which stretched a line of the earthworks, thrown up in war time) I got my first <>:ght of the Blue Ridge. On the descent, I twisted to the r., and then soon again to the 1., whence the old pike goes in a bee line to Warrenton. Rotten red-sandstone, of which an excellent road might easily be made, is abundant, all along here; and I found it ridable r\ liivli i TcuCnCu ai I. 30, — iiaving made a III ^^ - • ■'if; W^ BULL RUN, LURA Y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 375 long halt on the way to chat with a talkative native. He had heard the can- nonade in the opening Sunday battle of the civil war, 23 years before, while liously turning a grindstone to sharpen a big bowie knife for a trooper, who then galloped rway with it in the direction of the noise; and he had seen a good deal of the second Bull Run battle, from the safe lookout of a lofty tree; and he described to me various military evolutions which he had wit- nessed upon this same broad sweep of rolling grass-land that we were now lazily looking at in the summer sunshine. Stone parapets surmounting a double-culvert characterize the bridge over the historic Bull Run, which is 2\ m. beyond Cub Run. I had spent \ h. in doing 'he distance, and as I haltea here a while, to eat a few apples for lunch, I called clearly to mind another pleasant Sunday afternoon of my boyhood July 21, 1861 — when I "wondered if the expected battle had begun," and when in reality men were fighting and falling around this self-same brook and liridge. An h. later, at a clump of houses called Groveton, I was shown the marks made by musketry i.' the walls; and I also noticed that the flower-bed Ixjrders were formed from fragments of shell from the adjoining battle-field of '(--•. A negro, who saw part of this fight, described to me the appearance of things after it was over; and he also gave me a rifle bullet which he had plowed up, the previous Friday, " along wid a couple of carcasses " (soldiers' skeletoi.s) which he "frew inter de fence.'' At 5 o'clock, I had got 6J m. beyond Bull Run to Gainesville, which has a r. r. station and a "store," whose proprietor talked \n\h. me about his war experiences, for \ h., while I drank some milk, and offered to give e a b d for the night. I preferred to push on, however, and by 7 o'clock, just before darkness closed in, had ad- vanced 5 m., to a certain hill-top, where I secured another drink of milk, my last -lourishment on the journey. This hill was just beyond Buckland, where a ford, three rods wide, forced me to go up stream about ten times that dis- tance and there drag my birycle across, on slijipery rocks and logs, with a torrent rushing below. From this point to Warrenton, 8 m., the hills suc- ceeded each other closely, and water ran across the road in each depression between them. The last three streams, which I crossed in pitchy darkness, were bordered with a rod or two of deep, red clay mud, owing to a heavy shower which h?d raged in that region, the previous night. I sank nearly half way to my knees in this terrible stuff, and got my wheel completely smeared and clogged with it, though my white breeches escaped serious dis- tigurement. Somehow, I managed to i.iamber across these sloughs, on the fences, without really dropping into the water ; and from the last and worst of them, where my cyclometer presumably stuck, I tramped wearily in for i m. to the hutel. It was about 10 o'clock when I finished supper, which was the first food of any account that I had that day ; and I then worked till midnight getting my bicycle into approximately decent condition. Considering the notable ones; and the incident of floundering through the mud, in the pitchy it \ '«::'•'' Hi n I 376 TEAT THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. once .M ..„ „... ,K„. „,.i,„„ „, w jr^L o^Lr,:!'.:"; ":;'; My companion thus reports his return • " I fonnH , „ ™. . , about 8 m., and stopped there from ,..,ot";. 30 xi/rlrT'!"'" ^"■'■^" '" V--- magnificent road.-called the Leesburg pike .think -bu the \ t' '''°"' ' "^ ' *- ^ n.t one they had ever seen roll along l , m ad tl r- £ o^ fc to G "" ""^ ''• *^^ '"^ ending at 5 r. M., and my day's record was ,6} t, I 1 ^; ' . ^'=°'«'^'°*'' '" J"« . h., Alexandria, about « m.. . goL, and that U.e' rid thnTefo:!'': U. T""" '^'"" ^ '" Washington, is decently good in certai,. weathers Th , '' ^""""' "-^^ """b "' to Fairfax Court House,' . m. n. ; and the di ct tour T' T' '^ "" "' ""^ '"^^ ^^^ ■' bicycle, though I never learned thL details 7" Ano.he; w"h" ,'""•"" ''^^ '^'^•^" "'^''^- "^^^ Uossman, of the Cap.tal B. C, adds .he following Sard, ^^"''0 ""r".'"''' ^ ' not quite as limited as the remarks in vour Snrin fi a u ^' *^' "^ suburban riding is for there are at least three pikes .ead /rifrS'^Vw^r ''■ "'' """"■ ^''^ '° -''>■ ' away for a dozen ra. without a dismo-ni and 1 , VI ^^'"S*^ "''" "" g° ^'"isht- or .0 m.,-assumin, dry wea.h "of court Th? U '•'"".' "'" ""'' ""' ^'"P^- '« "> become so poor as to remind on. o what yTsav of ■ eT H '^ ^^'^ '''""' ^° ■"■ °^ -> "- and hence do not tempt one into touring unhe Y the tct'" ' f •'""'"'' ^^^"^ '■'■ ^^ '^■ these 20 m., our three best turnpikes arf mostlv n, f " '"""' '""'""« "P"" '^at, for ber, and often ridable during tl^: I her Z ?: JZ '"^^ ^^ '""" '''''' '^ ^•-- Bridge,isofharclcIay,which when pocked mLTa fine, . '• ""'' ''™'"' ""^ '^'^^'^ ^'-'i Park to Yonkers. The second-besl Wds to Grea- Fa Is Tn th" pT ''°'"""' '™'" '^--■' the first 9 r.,. to Cabin John Bridge is very smooth , J ^ , '"' =' '"--'^^ *^''^l' rather steep hills. The third outle't, nl^ed the Wmh st Tk ^ 7 ';'""''' '"""^ '"^ '- wood, 4 m. ; Silver Spring, 3 m. ; and Broo ",,e, J^' ^her the ff ^ ^ ;'""^"' '^"■«•"■ 6 m., and the r. ,0 Ellicott Citv. The regular B^liTmor! '" '"'^* '° ^'^''^"'^' Bladensburg. The Alexandria 'pike i! ridS e .0 17 ^i^,'^: IZt ""'^^^ '^^ ^ - "■ mounts. Besides these, there are numerous cross roads IZ'otr^^ u'TT' """"' '''" short runs during eieht months of the veir In fw '"f"*"' ""'''"y "^ -^'^y- which admit of pleasant they are all mor:smooth and ;l\'r„m „a 1 / Th :i:::S^^^ ^"'^ ^7 """' '-"-""' Boston), where I visited last summer P, rl u . Bndgewater (only 24 m. from H.^e contain many m. J^mdl^lT :;^ ^^^^^ ^t^:! "'V^T^' cvclers on entering the gates is in grateful contrast ,0 the rudeness onThownh T, ",' hogs upon the road." Of the same writer's report of ride to b1i Ire fWil ^^ A. .M. to 6., 5 P. M. : 50 m,\ in commnv with C \1 u ■ , '" "'^""""'^^ ("^P"' -', '8-t ; 9 45 found two smal! streams to ford anr =. f„ ^ii I u "''^'"' ™^ "^^ Preference, and surface. There is n" ote, A bu^me. '. ,!:!, " """ '"^ ■■'■''"" "P' "" ^^ ' "^ »-'' we took dinner there Lotl^gtl 6 m "'! 'f "^'^ ^' ^'^^ ^^'■^'^'"'^ ^^^ O ; a„d i-ormed the worst part of ^''Z t:^ 1^^uu:::t^'r;T"'TT "f ^^"'' ^"^^" hilly and poorer riding, we halted :i h =-..J at vvc were the lirst bicyclers in itiat BULL HC/A', LURA V CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 377 -. more than , or 5 are unridaC-.hHo'^est "dT'' '^^ °"'' *"' °^ "'^ "'""'^°- »""» ..> Which poin. .he surface is ^^^n.J' ^!2::l:7Z^Z^Z:t:'y'T ^"^' " "" - a .e.y poor sandy pi; e with occasional red clav are a n. Z rT ^^^hmgton, which - W. A Kood pike leads from B. .0 Wes.minste'r ,6 rn TK «''.'','"• *" "^"''^ ""'« *' -• ..es through afla. country and is always IcepHn ^ Bev H^ '. ''" °' "' '" ««='«'—". for ridin,. and the surface is poorer. Of h twl rT ds from H , « /T "" ""'"' ''"'^ "" «"P -d ■ the Hel Air,- the latter is so difficult, .oth iHurface and i, h t'V' "' ' ''^ "^'''"'^ " ...«n it. while the former oflers one of or besM n, " .^ h ^"t"' "'" ^"^''" "" ^'^'^ ^'" Spnngneld men. named b.Iow, " the IM Air " a adviseJ W 1' ' ""'"''" P' ^^^ = ""^ '^e ■rom Bait, to Vor. „a. a ,rea.' deal of traffic' ^^^^ ^CTJIT' ' h ^ °"^ '"' ." d offers excellent wheeling. The runs ,0 Govans, wn * m an T '"' ''""'"• popular, and are „„t interrupted by long or steep hill I n 7. , T^' ' "' ' "" ' "= ""^^ -.s road for .5 or .0 m. ot,t of B For a sho t ' ,'; h ' "' "°"*= """'^ "^'"'"^ "" -udeof oyster.shel,s«roundtoid..smoothn s ).T:ie leaT^^^^^^^^ ' '!!' '-^■' -'' ' ^-.arsu urban hotel on the Patapsco. near its entrance .^'t Che^Ta e'^Bl:""""'^"'' " ^ ""-^ ■LrouRh New Britain and Meriden to New Haven 7^ n, f'rlm s .^ ''^Vi"'^" l^'octed^ ...e 6th, we wheeled across Staten Island from Clif ', , , ' f "'"'' ^''*' '" ^ ^^ O" -nd then by fine roads ,0 .Somervi 1 . 38 m aT . J- ', i" ^ " *""" ""^^ '^"^ -->- fron. Perth Amboy had led through M^.^L^en nd V Jtrnt^hrrr' "^^ .'''" '""'' on the n.side of the river .0 Bouna Brook.-takin. a '^™"" '^J' ^''."^ *= '""'^d ^'"d went we were carried some little distance in a farm wag. 'to . tlo„ h T '"sh ' Tl ""l "^ ''' came up to the hubs ; and then we wheel.-H fhr . n, V «^shout where the water dinner at Nassau Ho'tel). Laten: v^le tentorCrtl", n'^'"''""^ ^^"'^"°" ^''""^ .He evening, 68 m,. of which the last 6 m. we^h ;dfy S ' xhJ^'T."' '" ^"''^'^^'P''-- ^ I'- a little, and then to Chester .8 m On ,L T f \ "' "^^^ *^ "''^^'"'^ a''""' -n, .. m. (dinner,, whenc. th y grew con^tamlv n V" ,"1 'I'*' ^"^ ^"^''^ '° ^■^"'"-«- las, 7 m., ending a North Fas' HmT "^ ? "''" ^'""^ "^ '" "^"^ '"°^' "^ "^e .0 Perryville, crlsed by tr!' ? ,'0 H^vre I 0^^^" I ^ T kl "^"'^^ ' '"• '' ^^"'^ ^^^ ''"'^ 4. m„ which we reached at ni^ht Z I '" "''P"" ™"'^ ^'"- Baltimore, road. Early on thrf.h. 4 3 17™ ;he cT' T Tl "''' " "^ °" "''^ '^"""^^ ^"^ ''■•" opposite the rnsane Asyi... f_ ^H^r;;;: 2-;:^ ^ ^ ir.u^'u"''^' T "i^5^:d::r t::t:;ri^- -;-pa. wheeimg .^:^\:::z'^^ between fair and poor, s f^.r ^ Ce ^^hT '"' ^'•^^"-■', ^'~- " -i«ht be ca-Ied and sandy that it couK rarely b r dd" 1 -t ' i'""^*',""'"' ' '"" '-V'-d that it grew so hilly a. considerable ri,k. Washington t si tedTtZ'rd Z\ ^""'' T ''' "''^ ^^"'^' ;^Hed a day's record of „ m.. making .5/m. for Ih d'a Vo Jn ^7" (S:,""^";, ^^ 't my own 5 days' route nf 240 m on on ,7, „, Th» , •"; ' (^omp.ire this with >«h at 7 A. M. of the .eth. and Prn«.. ..! kL A?.tT''.'^.^''.°".^- .'^'^ ^'^^-^^ ^"' 'he tow- ^n overflow wl.re a rod of water had^o-be^w^ded;' Mol^f ^;;::;:;h Z^^^^^Z Zt^ h... mw 37S TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. J i s ■ ' i i lliii 1> -ju«e of rfcrnt rainf, anrt it wa« ft r. m. when we left it and crossed the long bridge to Columbia, 43 m., whence we went, after lupper, to Lancaster, 11 m. Wood's road-book says ' the tow-path is good almost the entire distance to H. de G. and wide enough for two carriages abreast'; but there are in factonly a very few places where teams can pass each other m safety, and 'ven a wheelman generally has to dismount to let an ordinary team go by. In some places the path is on the brink of t precipice, where the cycler rides within 18 in. of the edge, so that a falsr move would send him shooting into space. The novelty of this danger, and the fine scenery, msde the experience a pleasant ane, though the thermometer stood at 1040, when we rested 1 h. for din- ner at McCall's Kerry House, 20 m. from the start. The must refreshmg ride of our tour was the last 20 m. of our last day, Paoli to Phila., when our total was 6oi m. A sprained wrist, when 5 m. from I.., caused us to take train at Bird-in-Hand, but we alighted again, two stations be- yond, .->nd thence took a hot pace to Paoli, at i o'clock. We both rode 54 in. Standard Colum- bias(53 lbs.), and are satisfied that the registry of Lakin cyclometer (514^ ni. for the 14 days) was perfectly accurate. Our repetitions of roadway were mostly confined to the 146 m. regis- tered while at Washington. S.% for previous record, I have not krpt a cyclometer from ilie first, but think I may have done about 3,000 m. each season since I bet;, 111, in '83. My longest ride then was to Hartford and back; but in '84 I rode to New Haven with my brother (two months after his learning), and to Phila. and back to N. Y,, whence I proceeded alone to Troy, 160 m. in 3 days, in spite of poor roads; and kept on through Grafton, over the mountain, to Greenfield, whence I pushed home to S. in 43 h. I al.so wheeled from S. to Lake Pleasant (beyond G.) and back in one day, finding fair roads except for the 7 m. nearest the lake. My 100 m. run to Boston that same autumn has already been mentioned (p. 114). I jrce wheeled ig m. in 80 min. on the road without dismount, though I never yet tried to see how long a stay I could make in the saddle." To these statistics from Mr. Eldred, Mr. Sawtell adds the follow- ing : " I bought my first wheel in the spring of '84, having perhaps ridden 100 m. previously. My only long tiip besides the recent one was 300 m., through Worcester, Lowell, Boston and Providence. As I have ridden steadily for two seasons, to and from my work in a furnishing store, I think it would be safe to set my mileage at 3,000." The pastor of the First English Lutheran Church at Columbia, Pa., W. P. Evans, writes : " The best run hereabouts is down the tide-water tcw-path, through some very beautiful scenery along the Susquehanna, to the river's mouth, 48 m. The 25 m. of this which I have ridden is certainly worthy of a description in your book. My total mileage is nearly 3,000, and represents touring, daily exercising, and somewhat of pastoral work. My longest single tour was from Cooperstown to Albany and Rhinebeck and return." The date of these words was Jan. 30, '84; but in August following the writer accompanied his friend. Rev. S. Stall, for the greater part of a tour of 590 m., extending through Phila., N. V., Albany, Round Lake, Saratoga, Sharon Springs, Cooperstown, Port Jervis, and Del. Waler (iap to Easton : and in August. '85, he took part in the " clerical wheelmen's tour," devised by Mr. S., and described on p. 323 The'e was no sunshine, next day, but the atmosphere was hot and sticky, with occasional light, drizzly showers. Finishing breakfast at 9, I devoted 2 h. to polishing up my wheel, and getting the cycloi, ter into working order. I turned the hands along i m., to represent the prooable distance traversed after the mud clogged it. Starting at 2 v. M., in the midst of an admiring crowd, who had come to attend the opening day of court, I found, in the course of a few m., several Jiills which had to be walked, and little water- courses, edged with mud, which gave considerable trouble. Then I sat down beside a broad expanse of reddish water, which reached nearly to the bellies of the hoises that were ridden through it ; ana T smiled sadly when the riders assured me that ;wo other equally bad "fords" v.ere to be found within \xx\., on account of the twisting of the same creek across iiie road, r^inallv, a M BULL RUN, LURA Y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 370 farM.er-s car., laden with sacks of meal and .lour, came along; and I clam- bered on top of the same. and. after i m. of the most tiresome folting con d - able disembarked on the further side of the third ford. I ought to hlc .uc to the cart for a fe. rods further, because I was forced alm'ost ile- cl>a.e y to drag the b.cycle through three desperate mud holes. Crossi-.g he .ron bndge over the Rappahannock, at a store and p. o. called Waterloo 6i m 'T;, Tr"' tTt ''' ^"^' ^° i-proved as to be almost contin ousTy rulable. and I reached the foot of the hill where stands the store of AmosvillJ 51 m. at S.30 l-he prospects of finding a lodging-place further on beinJ very dub.ous. I accepted the proprietor's invitation, and rode back to lit .use, half-way up the hill, for the night. The bearings of my right n... hav.ng been jarred full of flour by i .„. of jolting on the sacks. I improved th oa..s,on to clean ,t, and did so successfully ; though I was frightened at first when the 2. steel balls rattled out on the floor, for I had supposed they w /e' conhned ma collar, .nd I doubted my ability to replace thl propedy V notable feature on th.s afternoon's road were the clun.sy. canvas-topped wa- ons drawn by 4. 6 or 8 horses or mules, with oig bells jangling above thel; nccLs. ana red tassels attached for style. Their negri dHvers, as ^ell . her s ray speamens o humanity who were met, always uttered loud shr eks uf laughter, whenever they saw me mount the bicycle My next day's ride of 34J m. led over the Blue Ridge, and ended at 6 ,0 .■ M. at the famous Luray Inn. The rain storm which had raged durin' the .Mght made the roads heavy when I started at 7 . = • but all illTff T . f Hhed before I reached Gaines's cross-roads. C^ml.^and^^ 1 a ^ VVallnT t'", the c. h. town ne.xt on the road (5^ m. in lih.) is ailed "I tH.'? a.U„suish it from the Capital ; and before getting to U 7 wa orced to a WKle stream on a iog-and-plank bridge, whose ends ^ee rat ed^ffiuirS cces. A snmlar experience was had when entering Sper^yl 11 6 m (^ 35-'), though that br dge was shorter- nnri ;„ „ . , ' """y-^"'^' "">• ■31 "mm : winding around lowards the summit of the gap (3J m. in i^ h.), where this bolitary hurscman was awaiting inc. This highest jjlace in the road is opposite a peak called Mary's rock, from which a wonderfully wide view is said to be attainable; and a picnic |)arty had just come down from the enjoyment of it as I passed along. Fine views had tempted mc to stop at various points on my upward road, which was smooth enough to make easy riding on the descent. My own actual de- scent on the w. was continuously ridable for 4J m., though I gave i h. to it and made two brief halts on the way. I stopped first i m. from the summit, in rounding a sharp curve, where I was a little afraid my brake would not hold, and where I also wished to enjoy the view. IIil next dismount was made 2\ m. below, ;o avoid frightening a wood-team. Aj to this, I have a mirthful recollection of the alacrity with which a brave passenger leaped frcin the w.igon and scrambled up the bank into the woods, — " So as to be ready to catch the horses," he explained to me, apologetically, as I walked past those not very rampant animals, whose driver kept them well in hand. My third dismount, at the foot of the mountain, i m. below, wai also because of a team. This down-hill ride of 4J m. was perhaps the strangest and most ticklish one in my experience. Though I made it very slowly and carefully, I h.id an abiding consciousness that "every minute wasgwine ter be de nex'," as Uncle Remus says; and, as the cold chills crept along my spine, whenever the rear wheel lifted in air, I rather wondered at my temerity in sticking to the sad- dle longer. Even to the least adventurous of mortals, however, such liiliiig, " on de brink ob ruin," has a grim fascination all its own; and it forced ine to persist in the freak of tempting fickle Fortune to the uttermost, so long as I did n't really fall. I 'm too cautious a man ever to seek out such a grade, for the sake of taking a risky ride down it; but when I fouiidlt, asasectionof my appointed path, I felt in duty bound to make a trial of my abilities as a " hillian," even though my hair stiffened to spikiness, as one stcej) pitch after another was revealed to my anxious gaze. There were some rough places, and some patches of red clay which a rain would soon render unridabie; but most of the ;oad was fairly smoctth, and led through deep woods, with only a few ouilooks into the valley. At sotne of these places, I could see the den.=,o ram-sheets of separate showers, sweeping along the tops of adjacent mountain.^ ; and, though I wp.s lightly sprinkled upon without being wetted, the rattling claps oi tiiunder and sharp flashes of lightning added to the weirdness of my environment. 'he spectacular effect of this battle of the elements was certainly grand, and I recall it with ^'."asure ; though, as I low- ered myself slowly downward, aching, as to my arms, from the strain of a l^rolongcd clutch upon the handle-bar, and expecting momentarily to be drenched by a sudden sweep towards me of the shower, I did not then regard my lot as a superlatively happy one. I was comforted, however, by the thought that if my final " transformation scene " were really destined to be IJ., .!>.. V :>\^ 0«^1JI«I OUlltlllitO yjL LllC UlUC IVi "i;<-i> F3. i T="*jf.''gr<'' ^6^ZZ: ^<:/.V, A6^^^f K C.^ FA- .4A'Z? GETTYSBURG. 381 *..iild indescrSable impressiveness ; whereas. In the Mammoth Cave ,, I A "PP"'"°^if'='=''"g '>=f' "P°n -"y ""ind was one of profound gloon. over its mysterious- w irr" '■• '""' "'°""' "^°" "«•"'' ^°"* °' °"'='^ P^-P" '"'^ i'» 'J"!-'' chasms, d would .Uumine as most remarkable domes and chambers by burning red and blue chemicals : »ut the darkness seemed all the deeper after these brief breaks in it. and the prison-like feelin-^ Pr^uced ,y , , ,,, ^,^,^ . ^^.^^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^,^^_ ^^ ^^.^ ^^^^^ be'possible untn h: . gu.de came along the route (a period of a few minutes or of severa. hours), was not a happv ...e^ Mammoth Cave, furthermore, has been vulgarized .n some ph^^s by piles of stones rudely Pon the cetlmgs, and by the pits and implements used in the n.aking of saltpetre, and bv a rr.h 1, r," '".I"''''"' T ^^^^^'^ """'""« "^'^" ''W«=hhave been swept down Unch r h K' • '" ""'"7 "'°" "^'' "' P'""''* '•'"^- "^he house which make, this cilnnw,,;^ *• i" '. ' " '"" --^™'*== cui;; carij, in ihc century to shelter a ^ "ony of consumpttves, who vainly hoped that the unvarying temperature of the cavern would ^^i'm^^m 1 F'^*' 1 ! t i ! i f ! I 382 TAA' THOUSAXD MILES 0\ A lilCVCLE. rr.,ore ,hci, d.^a«a lung. .„ h.aUh. They might more pic*u„.:y l,.,ve died a. ,he om.c, „ ^em..o n... than ,hu. d.nmally .,..ve buncd .hcm«.v« from .h,_- davli^h. ; for .hou^l. •„,;. m.le. may thrrc 1« walked, mud. „( ,ho walking lead, through dcp a,.M I ,..m. o( „ Z r.,ck, which arc,l.„p..ry w„h wa..r „r o,h.rwi« diffic.,1,. Whc, „ „! ,,,rain,an a„kl. in sue, a place. ,he task of h.KK,ng her „u,. 5 or 6 m . by ,l,e flickenoK li«h, ,.f lan.er,.,, i. ,„, „„ ," for romance o, ,„«,ry. . name .he« defect, and d.^omfort, of ,he cavern not to d;.co„ra«e an heahhy and v.^orou. pery,n from going there (for MamMo.h Lave „ a real wonder of ,h. word wh.ch every American ou^ht ,0 vi..,, in ,pi.e of ,he , ,n. of bad road which separate, i. fro.n ,1,; ra.lway,. bu, ,0 emphasize ,hc contrast wh.ch the even, of I.uray offer, in ^e,pec. ,0 a.tra , ve n.^ and ..ccev..b .,y. By virtue of ... recent di.overy. it has ..en kept unnLrred. Tn I made >. ; and all .„ spectacular ma.^n.ficence m,.y be viewed in a comfortable and leilurdy Zl ner A.,ngle inspection of tl.e Mamm,„li ( ..vo sufficed ,0 gratify my curiosity; bu, I .", would like to l,K,k at often, ius, a.s I like to l.K.k often at Niagara ^ I .nay say the same of tliu- N.uur.il llridge. and the mountain, overhanging it ; and I have explained on p. .s- ■ ow conveniently a tri,, thiiher may Ik: combine,! with one to f^uray A Z ru,... road, which crosses the liri,l,oa f -wrodss. of the h,.tel and no, much above its level .,nds by easy grades to the top o. Mt. J..ff.rs.m, a smooth and open summit crowned by an obse;., ^ which offer, -in inspiring view of grand moun.a^.-ran -es in nearly every direc.ion.-the extreme peaks on the l.oruon being nearly .,.. m. apart, i though, myself very fortunate in having Z whole of a sun.l;.ny afternoon to loiter u,«,n tha, glorious hill-top (in a balmy temn- .ture of ,0^ ,ho,igh It was the last Saturday of autumn), for a two days' fo^ lifted jus, before my arrival and a two days ram began soon after nightfall. " I'louresque B. and O." (see p. .45) makes ody a casual allusion .0 Nat^ral Bridge, though it gives a third o," its space (pp. 68-m,) !o " the V ife of Virginia, an Ulustra.e, the same with 3. pictures, including a fairly good view of Lura Cave, and of the VVh.te Sulphur Springs Hotel. The same authority says tha, a good hotel mav be found at Weyer s Cave, which .s reached by a stagecoach ride of .4 m.. beginning a, a noim about ha.f-way between Staunton and Harrisonburg. This cav. is described with enthusiasm in Picturesque America" (\. ,,2), by Sallie A. Brock ; and there are also caves near Newmarket whose attractions are locally proclaimed as " superior in some respects to Luray " f)t the journey to I., which some Washington wheelmen made, from the Valley View Springs Hotel overlooking Newmarket, I quote the following report from the irjk,,'/maH article us.d on p' 348; and It may be instructively compared with my own experiences on the same road, as given on p. 381: "On Sept. 4, we climbed laboriously on foot (40 mm.) to the top o, the mourn- am.-the surface being hnrd and smooth , but unridable for any distance on account of the racie - and. after seeing that the brakes were in order, began the descent. That was a memorable piece of h.ll-nd.ng ! A recent shower had made the road-bed wet ; stones of all sizes lay around pro- miscuously; sharp turns occurred at short intervals; but over all was the grade— at least i in 8 all the way down. Every foot t-. the bottom was ridden without dismount by tv.o of us, and the cyclometer showed the distance from the summit was just 2^ m. Of tho 7 m. thence to the I.ur.ty Inn, which was reached at ij.30, the first 3 m., to the North Fork, is excellent ; the rest has many hills and steer ones, and the loose .tones treacherously imbedded in the soil demand great care m riding. We rode down the almost perpendicular hill into Luray, and one of the ,-arty aftenvards rode up it. Next morning, we retraced our course, walking to the summit of Massanutt r , .d rid.ng down the opposite s,de to Valley View House for dinner. Thence al 3 we proceeded across to Newmarket and struck the Valley pike again." I ha', planned to go again to Staunton, but, being two days behind mv schedule, I decided that I mu.^t deny myself that pleasure, and so faced for the n., along one of the very prettiest sections of the entire valley. 1 have alluded in Chapter XXIV. (p. 346) t this 7 m. spin without stop, 6.25 to y.ro P. M.. as a specially exhilarating one . and it sharpened my appetite for sup- per at Wilson's Hotel, in Mt. Jackson, where I was quite taker, aback hv the •rt ^m '■3mM^ HULL AV/.V, /. I 'A'.i y CA I'K A\D GJ-J/Ti'SniZ/fG. ,« ; unexpected luxury ..f hroilcd frogVIegv Through all this favored region, the noble lull! fro^ vaunts himsci in much grandeur and greet.ness, and furnishes K-reat sport to the small boy, after school hours arc over. I saw several such :ntently cuKaKcd in "fr(4'King." at previous points on the road, but neve.- sus- pected that I was to enjoy the rcsulfs of similar labors; and I presume that .uiy e|)i..ireon the wheel, who may plan to pass a night in Mt. Jackson, can ilways make sure of a frog supper, during the season, by sending a day's notice of his desire to (lie owner of the comfortable hotel there situated. When I started aw.iy from it, at 6 A. m. of May 29, a very cold wind was Mowin;; ; and the air ( >ntiiuicil of >uch phenomenal chilliness during the day tliat I actually kci)t on w tiannel j.icki t without discmifort. The night which tollowcil was s,, bitter as to set .ill the natives to hivering. I afterwards Karned, to niy sorn.w, that (his ext. aordinary cold wave had Ijeen very widely diffused,— pi, ),luciMg, in Ma.s uhusetts, a frost of unheard-of severity which destroyed all the crops. Hut was an ideal day for wheeling, and I reached ihe Chalybeate Springs If t. I in Strasburg, 25 m., in just 3 h., covering thus .1 longer distance than evci before in that interval. My first stop was for the -ake of a horse ; my secon-I wis forced by a long hill of rough mac. which i .oukln't quite surmount [-.h. same hill was the only one not conquered by 11. •S. Wood, the prcviou? week, in riding the whole 125 m. from Staunton to the I'Qtom-c), .-xndat Woodstock I halted to get a drink from a railk-wagon 1 lus -vas at tlie middle-point of the spin, I2i m. and li h. from the start, and I think I kept the saddle then to S. The hotel in W. was labeled " Shenan- doah," and looked not unattractive. I delayed ij h. for breakf.ast and for renewing my acquaintance of the previous November with the owner of the hotel (p. 345), whom I qrickly beguiled into subscribing for the book • and I made several long stops on the road, to enjoy the scenery, or the talk of peo- ;ue who recalled the stirring events of war times. Hence, it was nearly -'When I halted for lunch at a restaurant opposite the post-office in Vinchester, lyim., and it was 3 when I eally resumed my journey on the l.erryv.lle pike, after an intermediate progress of i m., in examining the monuments of the Confederals cemetery. The 50 m. between Newmarket and this point had been wheeled by me in the opposite direction (Nov. 21, '83 V30 A M. to 5.40 p. M., see p. 345), but the rest of my route was new. Good wheeling prevailed for 4} m., much of it down a defile which allowed no view to a place where I crossed a stream, a rod wide, on stones and a log Ope' quon creek, with a ford 3 or 4 rods wide, was ^ m. beyond, and a passing farm- w.-.gon ferried me across. The driver said there was a line of stepping stones a httle ways below, but I saw nothing of fher.i. Berryville, 6 m., was reached ■" I h., and r ought there to have takeu a sharp 1. 1. for the Charlestown pike, Dut I unwittingly kept straight on for 5 m. tii! brought to a halt by the river ^t Candleman's Ferry, (This was formerly called Snicker's, and leads to Snicker's Gap, the unattractive route through which to the Potomac is given on p. 244.) lurninf, about, I made one or two detours on cross roads towards m t ating the graves in the adjacent National Cemetery, where sleep the 2,000 Union soldiers who fell in thegreat battle of the Antietam (Sept. 17, 1S62), that raged from dayl)reak till sundown, along the hills and thiough the ravines among which winds the deeply-flowing creek whose name was thus made historic. I believe I crossed it twice by bridges, one on each side of .S., and that 2 or 3 in, of my riding was along a path where the bloody waves of battle had surged b;-rk and forth upon that dreadful day. [ reached tlic Baldwin House in Hag;.-rstown (p. 23S), at 7.10 p. M., with a day's record of .\%\ m., and at once possessed myself of the liaggage which I had sent thither from Washington, and which I next day despatched to New Vovk. I rode 2;/) m. in the 6 days be- tween \V. and H., and 246 m. in the 6 days between H. and N. Y. ; and I think each experience represents about as long a time or distance as I like to push a bicycle without having access to a larger supply of personal comforts than I care to carry on it. My ride from Sharpsburg to H., 13 m. in \\ h,. w IS diung an undulating toii-pike of mac, often bordered with locust-tree* in ^^' i , ■ ; r r.', i : ^^'^ C »' '^ ^rZ^ J^CrjV, LURA y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 385 U.11 bloom, with ridable hills and many pleasing views of a fertile and pros- pcrous country. Startmg n. from the central square of H. at „ a m ofth. i.st. I t. r. at the first toll^ate. r J m.. and after'passing the gate at Lett l-R. 51 m at „.so^ t. 1. for Waynesboro. 5 m.. which I just inside the "t o Pennsylvania. Thence I jogged on. at r.30. after a dinner at the Nationa! Hotel (whose owner said he was glad to subscribe for a wheeler's gul eve tl-ough forced to fight the printers for not spelling his own name " VVhe ler " c,.rr;mg a paper bag full of strawberries at the 1. end of my handle b J' K-Uherthan drop these, on the occasion of a sudden dismount, i , eJe wheel .tself drop, for the first time in its history (record, 667 m.) -and did no. drop .t again until 738 m. later. The toll-gate on the nLnUin summi 5 -n. rom W., was reached in 3 h.. and at the brick summer-hote. of Monte rev. im beyond I , ,, ,„j .^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ,^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ f Monte- warned tha the hrst sign "1. to Gettysburg " would lead me into . rough and my road, I kept on till within a few rods of the toll-gate of the E«s ..rg ,.ke. and there t. 1. across a covered bridge. At 5 o'clock, when T m ;;" ;' r"^"^ ' "'^^ "^i"- *° ^-^field." and r was Imost ih Z «etnng to the Mans.on House in K. 3J m.. which is also called M llerl own I finished at the Kagh MotH in Gettysburg, 8^ m.. at 7.30 o^ lock I l.e la t s or 6 m. of road, bemg made of powdered red sandstone „asfa1rlv goo ; but from the bridge to F. the surface was mostly unridable hoTeh level. I was assured, by the owner of the Fade that fh^ r!/ t mountains, which I had been warned against, wo d have '„ f T I better than the one actually traversed I naid!n .1 • "^ """"^ w..ichwasperfectly Clear aid pleasat.-t::;tNa::o?alTm:tr^^^^ -vera! crcu.ts of its ideally smooth roads, so that , m werelddeA register when I returned to the hotel for breakfast. " '"'' (Jcneral Doubleday's book on "r,ettvsI.iir^'Wc™K havealludodtoonp 35. is an admirl ,l" V .(S^'-'bners. |,), whose map, of , he region I ';e..eve a cheaper, oca, guide is pr^a e aV ^7 T^^.T 'r^ ' .1.0 great circular building of the Boston Cvclornl f ^ '" ^ ''<^°'"'"'="'lecl to where, according to the advertisen^en ■ vou s.r . '""' ^'' '" "" ■^"'"°"' ''' «-'""• Place and .a, expect to see ^ .JZT^ 7':^:£' Zl^ "^^ "^^ ^ '"^ pendednolessthan«ioooooinni.rf^^„„„.i- , ' '"^ ^^e . tor the managers have ex- b-l. which r..,ed alonTtrs s^" ' d 2 "r ."' "''^"'^"'^■'-" "^ Oe'ty^burg." The ^l.ly rank in his'.ory a, clef amo L dt i^e": Tof' hV" 'T "^ '^^ °' ^"'^' '^^^' *"' '^^ -.de her supreme effort .0 play the part of In n'der and ^"'- ' '' '""' ""= '""' -> .he field so mighty and hopeful ThosI NoJ re ^U ' n r^'^r "'' '"' ^'"^ '" '""'^ "•on, from so many States stru^el^ ,0 Inn„ T T ' ^ '" '"■■'">' "-epresentative ."ese endless row, 'of sold LrgSelne, ^".hirvir'r? '"^ '''= '"^^'^^- '-''-«- equally numerous Confederate dead -.Sc unmarlcd ^^TI ""7' T^* """"'"« "' ''" wl.0 is possessed hy any other sentiment than one of nrof ' '^ " '" '"' '^' ' "''^ "''= '"='" many of America's best and bravest wer fated LoTk """" ""' ^"""'"-'" '"«« •» ■f nowhere else, the survivors or ,uc«L, of tiat^^r ' " ""^ *"°"^"- At t^ettysburg, Rone from th. ,t.., <:,. ,«_^ .. " ^".°' I*'** ^"'"B K^neratmn, which ha, now mostiv cl-uy for all." A, I stood there i;;side";h7^Z'ol "Z m"" T''"" '°^'"'' """'-**"^ 25 ^ *• °* "''' Massachusetts men. on that bright ftiii 386 TEN IHOL'SAND MILES L V A BICYCLE. Sunday morning, the first day of summer, twenty-one years after the combat, I thought of the wise words spoken at the age of 34 by the ' ailant soldier whom I like to remember as the best single contribution which that native Sta' , of mine mnrle to the civil war: William Francis Bartlett i,b. June 6, 1840, d. Dec 17, 1876), the youngcsi man who catii? out of that war as a M?ior General, commanding a division iu the largest army of t^'y'-tj times. And these «re the words, whoie statesm^tnlike -rapp u.il greatness nude them seem to me more trulv monumental than any of the inscriptions which I read on the monument-; at Gettysburg, that Sunday morn- ing, — words which I hope will be remembered, as the characteristic and representative utterance of a typical and thoroughbred Yankee, long after the pitiful maunderings of the decrepit political pigmies, who now pretend .0 speak for New England ^. '1 have been buried, with themselves, in charitable oblivion: " It was to make this a - reunited country, where every man sho..id be in reality free and equal before the law, . . ir comrides fought, our brothers fell. They died not that New England might prosper, v,, >iiat the West might thrive. They died not to defend the Northern Capitol, or preserve those marble halls where the pol- ished statesmen cf the period conc'uct their dignified debates! They died for their country— for the South fu> Uss than for the North. And the Southern youth, in the days to come, will see this, and, as he stands in these hallowed halls and reads those names, realiting the grandeur and power of a country which, thanks to them, is still his, will exclaim: 'These men fought for my salvation as well as for their ow.i. They died to preserve not merely the unity of a nation, but the destinies of a continent.' • • • As an American, I am as proud of the men who charged so bravely with Pickett's Division on our lines at Gettysburg, as I am of the men who so bravely met and repulsed them there. Men cannot always choose the right cause ; but when, having chosen that which conscience dictates, they are rea.'.y to die for it, if they justify not their cans'?, they at least ennoble themselves. And the men who, for conscience' sake, fought against their government at Gettysburg, ought easily to be forgiven by the sons of men who, for conscience' sake, lo .ght against their government at Lexington and Bunker Hill. As Massa- chusetts was first m war, so let her be first in peace, and she shall ever be first in the heans of her countrymen. And let us here resolve that, true to her ancient motto, while in wr.r ' Ense fetii yutcidam,^ in peace she demands, not only for herself, but for every inch of this grear country, ' Tub liiertaie quietem.^ " — From his speeches at Cambridge, June 24, 1874, and Lex- ington, April 19, 1875, as given on pp. 251, 257 of "Memoir of General Bartlett," by Francis Winthrop Palfrey (Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1878). Resuming the journey from G. at 11. 10, I stopped for dinner at Oxford, 10 m., f-om 1.20 to 2, and reached Abbottown, 4 m., at 2.55. The pike to this point ( nd for 6 m. further, where the smooth riding of the day began) may be described as a cobble-stone macad'.m, with the top-dressing washed away, having side-bracks of red sandstone or red and yellow clay; fairly level and most of it ridable, but none of it excellent. The city of York hove in sight 4 or 5 m. before I reached it. Descending into it at last by a gentle grade to the 'iver, I crossed this and went past the National Hotel to the central square and market place, at 5.25, when the cyclometer registered 9 m. from the point of striking the smooth r tad. At 6.20 I had ridden 5J m. more ; and I reached the Susquehanna, 2 m. beyond this, — making a sharp descent through Wrigbtsville to the bridge. My cyclometer called this dark and dismal structure just i m long; and \m. beyond its end at Columbia, I ended my day's journey of 44j^m., .it the Franklin House, at 7.50 p. m. Monday fore- nooi. I devoted to walking about town, and talking with local riders; and in the afternoon, between 2 and 5, I wheeled leisurely to Lancaster, iim., es- wvi ic-i '^'j ,x ^'uii *-.*! '..i^i ^^' :iic>!y *->ii<:: '...** v*'i:^:ii wiiwi *,v.ir\^o mUttaircu tltC Cicris-.*: BULL RUN, LURA Y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 387 tour described on - z^:^. The mac. was rather dusty, for want of rain; but I think my companions said they had several times ridden between C and L without dismount. Another L. rider piloted me 4^ m.. next morning; to the Landis Valley House, where I t. r. and followed the Catfish pike to its end at Oregoti ; and then a dirt ^oad, winding over the hills, while locust blossoms filled the air with fragrance, just as on my afternoon's approach to Hagers- town. Passing the cross-roads of East Lynde and Akron, I came to Ephrata at 10.30 (i3i m. in 3 h. from L.), where " the Mt. Vernon House by Z. Under- cuffler" presented a decent appearance; and I stopped i h. later at Reams- town 4m., for ice-cream. Another 4 m. took me to Adam.town, and a stop of . h. for dinner; thence 5 m. in ij h. to the Five Mile House, in sight of Rciding. at 3. 1 s. The road was good, all the way into R., and I reached Penn St. ^here, sJ m.. at 4 ; and after a talk with local cyclers, and a detour to Ninth St., I was told to try Fifth St., as the be: t outlet from the city Climbing the hill past the cemetery, wheie a fine view was offered I t 1 It Its foot, and went under the first culvert but not the second. From this pent along the r. r. and so t. the Temple road-house,-6i m. at 6, I reversed the route by which I entered the city on the previous autumn (see p. 34.). and at 7 I reached the top of a hill, 4 m. from the Temple; and at 8 10 I reached Kutztown, 6 m.. riding without stop for i m. or more at the end spite c dusk and darkness. Afier a long but smooth ascent, I passed a large State institution on the r., before descending into K., whose hotels are all inferior. I afterwards thought that I might have fared quite as wHl if I had stopped at the lone road-house about midway between R. and K I covered 49 m., that day. on roads of soft yellow clay or brown loam, which were nearly all ridable, though they offered hardly any good riding. The sun shone brightly, but a breeze tempered the heat. The next day was hotter and the afternoon roads were dusty; and as my night's sleep after the long journey had been poor, I rode no further than Easton (35 m., 9 A. m. to 6 p. m ) Kothrocksville tempted me to stop for beer at 10, Trexlertown was passed ^t ti ; and the American House in Allentown, 18^ m. from K., was reached at 12.30. Light brown and yellow day supplied pretty good riding from K. to 1 ., but between T. and A. there were many stones covered by deep dust and several bad hills. Cheered by the first well-served dinner I had had sinte eavingthe Luray Inn, a week before (296 m.), I jogged to Bethlehem, be- tween 2 and 3.30, paying 8 c. toll for the use of the dusty mac. road, which is said to offer excellent riding in damper weather. Resting \ h. in B., I reached the tarmersville Hotel, 10 m. from A., at 4.40, and then took no further note of my cyclometer until the finish, 6im. beyond, at the United .States Hotel ■n Kaston. This stands on a corner, a short distance 1. of the public square, into which I descended by a very steep grade. ,h. I'lT. *'''!*^^ ^le^ribed (p. ,73) the next day's ride across New Jersey to Newark. 72 m.. . ,,^^ d:.~cai; :.. :r.c ..u Jay»' ^;.ri;uit of 705 m. which was thus completed, and which raised my cyclometer to 898 m. I mounted not again for more than three months ; and i .1 r. 41 ^ 38S TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the story of how I then continued the trail 100 m. .0 Springfield in September has been told on pp. 169-172, 146-148, 121 ; and of my December ride back to New York, on pp. 122, 134, 136. On the a4th of December, in the midst of a driving snow-storm, I rode my wheel from Washington H-ights to Washington Square, 7 J m., and stored it in my chambers, with the vow not to mount it again •' until after, the publication of my book." Hence, for more than a year I've had not even a taste of wheeimg. That final ride was my 44th on " No. 234, Jr.," during 8 months, and brought its record up to 1,408 m.,— showing a daily average of iiearl- 12 m. I fell with it on the 324th and 836th m., and dropped it on the 667lh and 1,407th m.- . -he 1. crank in the lat- ter case, and the ha-.dle-bar the other times. When I reached r starting-point in Hart- ford (Dec. 4), I completed a continuous circuit of 1,050 m. of l ; irate .jadway (excluding all detours as well as repetitions) ; and less than 250 m. of that circuit had b?pn included in the 5,000 m. previously explored by me in riding twice that distance on a bicycle. This fact suggests the readiness with which even the most exper enced of nders may lay out a pleasant course through country which is entirely new to him. T le good touring routes are nractically inexhaustible. The compiler of the " League Road Book of Pa. and N. J.," described on p. 177, H. S. Wood (b. Dec. iS, i860), of Philadelphia, ha supplied for me the following det.iils of his 215 m. ride from Staunton to Gettysburg and Columbia, which I have already alluded to (pp. 317, 383) as the longest three days' straightaway nm yet reported in America : " Starting from's. at 6 A. M., May 23, 18S4, i h. after completing an all-night, sleepless ride by train from Washing- ton, I reached HarrisonviUe at 9, and Newmarket, 44J m., at 11. 10. Between 2.20 and 4,1 rode from N. to Edinburg, where a storm stopped me till 5.40, when I wheeled 5 m. in a hard rain to Woodstock, at 6.20, completing thus a run of 63 m. in 6i h. of riding. The weather •va!' warm and ca'm, and the next day's was very hot, with a light breeze at my back ; while the road surface in the bottoms was heavy frrm the i^in. Leaving W. at 8 A. m., J reached Hagers- town at 6.30 p. M., a run of 73 m. in 7} h. of riding. My longest stop was at Winchester, 1} b., ending at 1.20 ; Bunker Hill, 11^ m., was passed at 2.45 ; Martinsburg, 10 m., at 4, and Will' iamsport, 14 m., at 5.35. On Sunday, I covered 79 m., H. to Columbia, 7 a. m. to 7.45 p. m. About half the road was very poor, and my riding time of loj h. was divided equal! ■ by my stop of I h. at Gettysburg, 37 m. from H., where 1 got a good dinner at the ' Eagle.' I reached Waynesboro, iii m. from H., at 8.35 ; Emmetsburg, y^ m., at 11..5 ; and Gettysburg, n m., at I p. M. As no road could be worse than this vile stretch from E. to G., where several hills must be walked, I advise others to avoid any such detour by taking the direct route from W. to G. The 10 m. from G. to O cford, -> to 3.40 p. m., offered ve.->' poor wheeling, and the surf.ice then gradually improved for 5 m. to Abbotstown. I rode all the hills but one between Staunton and Hagerstown; had no falls during the 215 m., and felt no ill effects on the fourth day, when I did considerable wheeling in the region of Columbia, before embarking there on a long boating trip, which finished my vacation. My wheel was a 58 in. Light Rudge, with Duryea saddle and McDonnell cyclometer. A year earlier (July i, '83), I took a straightaway ride of just 12 h., from Philadelphia to Columbia, about 80 m., ending at 4. i; p. m.,— my longest stop being ij h. for din«er at T,ancaster. I rode then a 54 in. Expert, and was favored with a cool wird at my back ; but I would not care to take the same trip again, for the 25 m. from Coatcsville to L. was very • •'Ugh and hilly, though much of it ridable. Let me say thai an excellent course of 53 m. from Philadelphia to Wilmington is to follow this same Lancaster pike 20 m. to Paoli, then t. 1. for West Chester and Chadd's Ford and follow the Brandywine to W. This allows 14 m. of splendid Tel- ford, 9 m. of very good clay and 20 tn. of good dirt, besides the pavement-riding in the terminal cities. I cannot tell how near my total riding approximates :o 10,000 m.. , as I kept no record the first year. Of my '82 tour from New Vork to Boston, to which the Wheelman's letter alluded, the less said the better. I can thir.k of nothing else in my record worth mentioning, except a ride of 106 m. on July 4, '84, between d^/brea! and darkness. Starting fro ,i Frank- ford (Phila.), I reached Plainfield, 69 m., in season for a i o'clock dinner, then continued to Jersey , and came back from there to Newark,— the latter part of th- journey being in the rain." .r W nrinfA^I tWO Columns in r!r;i;^? rvf "thf ::"if*r::"s1*='^ ^^-^r- — -^.-.-^ " '- i*-— ' S 1.1/ Birl!ei:n{.K\i'i. i-j, '85, p. 156); and on Oct. i8 he rode again from Phila. to Lancaster, 60 m. w BULL RUN, LJRA Y CA VE AND GETTYSBURG. 389 i.. 7i h., and reached Columbia, ,. m., a h. later. His route from Paoli to L. was about » m (or 3 h.) shorter than the pike between those points, which he had traversed on his previous lourney ; and the .4 m. section cf it from P. to Downingtown is thus described : " Leave the pike at Ureen Tree and take Indian King road, which is parallel to Penn. r. r., on s. side to Mal- vern whence it turns sou-ewhat s. w., to Indian King Inn, where it merges into the Boot road direct for D. At Valley Creek, abo". 2 m. before reaching D., it goes under r. r., and the w' down-grade of hill there is 1 dable. The surface is mostly hard clay, much superior to the pike " Possibly th« newer route was the one taken by S, B. Downey, of L., when he wheeled from that city to Phila. (Lane. av. and S2d. St.), " Sept. 20, 'Ss, between 6.30 a. m. and 2 p. m on a country road, a distance of about 70 m., with two stoppages for meals." Another notable' local ride was that of Frank Ernberg, LandisviUe to Phila., 76 m., 4 a. m. to 7 p. m., June 15, '85. "The Philadelphia riding district " is thus described by Mr. W. in his road-book- "Ail wheelman use the Park and the Lancaster pike on the n. w. ; m^ny take the gra-el highways ra- diating from Camden on the e., and a :ew of the bolder and more curious riders penetrate the com- paratively unknown regions to the n. and s. w. The Lancaster pike, whereon commence routes 10 West Chester, Lancaster, Norristown and Reading, begins at the 52d st. station of the Penn r. r. and leads the wheelman over an unsurpassed Telford road, with many hills, through Ard- more(4), H,, verford College (5), Bryn Mawr (t>), Wayne (.0), Devon (12), Berwya (,3) and Paoli (16). Branching from the main pike, generally to the n., are many roads whose surfaces are fast being laid with the Telford pavement. Already starting from Bryn Mawr the road s to (,. W. Childs's . ountry-seat, aid Montgomery av. w. to the Gulf Mills (a lovely spot) ofier inviting diversions, while most valuable of all appears the newly piked road to Conshohocken and Nomstown, leading from Bryn Mawr station n. From Ardnore in turn a Telford leads s to Coopertown, and a similar one n. to Merion Square, while from Overbrook a new and valuable route has been create 1 to the hitherto inaccessible General Wayne Hotel, with digressions on Highland and Union av's. The fashionable suburban character of this neighborhood ensures constant additions to the now quite respectable list of n. w. runs, and when the beautiful Mill I reek road shall have joined its well-paved companions, cyclers will have little more to desire m that direction. In Fairmount Park wheelmen enjoy perfect liberty on the carriage ways provided : (.) That a bell be carried always ; a lamp by night ; and a whistle, not at all (2) Ihat wheelmen ride not more than two abreast. (3) That no coasting be attempted (4) Ihat no wh«I be left unattended by the roadside. (5) That the pa.e shall not exceed ; m. per h. (the judgment of tlie police on this subject, however, beini; somewhat elasti'-) Ow ing to the cost of the City Hall, municipal expenditure on both Park and streets has been of recent years much too small for maintenance, and the Fairmount roads are, therefore, much inferior to the Lancaster pike. The West Park has the better surface at present, although the Kast Park is the more interesting in its river road, which, if followed up the Schuylkill and Wissahickon to Indian Rock, furnishes a straightaway of ,0 m. of ..nsurpa sed beauty but constancy increasing difficulty. The various deviations n. the West Park surround the'sites of the Ceritennial buildings, and finally concentrate at the top of Belmont into one highwav •eacng to the Old Ford liUl. n .aking the Park circ it, always start with the W.st. in order ward to the Falls Bndge over which one must walk to the East Park drive "To the n. of P. the comparatively inaccessible region of Germantown offer., a few mac sreets ,n the midst of a wilderness of pavement or san., and if, by skilful navi.a.ion, the A emerges on the farther side, he finds the abominable Reading road .0 Norristown and the .■ e naable Bethlehe:r. and Lime Kiln pikes leading due n., over a stony and hilly ccantry into ^le better new red sandstone " of Montgomery county. This condition remains unchanged «hen, m passing e., wt strike the Old York road-a prolongation of North Broad st Between t.as road and Frankford a riding wilderness intervenes, and a 7 m. jolt over cobbles or side- walks mLSt be endured before the f:.iHy good R, ;s. at some seasons, fairriding to Darby ; thence somewhat rough and rutty to Chester and Wilmmgton. But by far the most satisfactory southern outlet is the Tir.icum road, parallel to the Delaware below the mouth of .he Schuylkill. This road, approached by 5 m. of Belgian mac, and side paths, offers a dead level surface of very fair, quickly .ying gravel for another 4 m„ and finally jom, the Darby and Chester pike (after a sand hole and a turn inland) near Moore s Station. Crossing the river to Camden by Market St. Ferry, and beginning with the northernmost, we find the gravel pikes to Burlington (fair to poor), Merchantville and Moores- town (,:ood), Marlton (fair), Haddonfield and White Horse (good), and Mt. Ephraim (good) The connections with South Jersey are best made by South St. Ferry to Gloucester whence a good iTavel pike leads to Woodbury. From this point three highways radiate southward -the easlrmmost through Pitman Grove and Glassboro' to Vineland (fair to poor), the next to Woods town by way of Mullica Hill, and the last direct to Swedesboro', Woodstown and Salem From Salem a magnificent surface runs through Bridgeton and Millville to Vineland All the Jersey roads above mentioned are reclaimed from a sandy soil by gravel piking. They become vile in frosty weather and dusty in a very dry season, but are generally fine, especially after the sprinc scraping, or a soakingi rain in summer. The Devon Inn, the Wavne hotels, or that at Bryn Mawr, afford visitors the best and most compact riding with the highest social advanUges " The latter part of the next chapter is from the Whtfl ll^clj, London, Oct. , '85. The alle goncal design which 1 have described on the opposite page {HarptrU IVeekly, Jan 9 '69 p 25) was drawn by Winslow Homer, who, at about that time, occupied a studio in the Univereity Build mg. The same paper of April ,0 (p. 236) had a sketch of the Prince Imperial and a boy com panion practicing on velocipedes in the presence of th- Emperor, in the reserved garden of ihe Tuileries. Its final illustration of the subject (May i, p. 28.) was a full-page nicture, drawn b/ Thomas Worth, entitled " The Velocipede Mania— What It May Come To !" This is of a comic cast, and depicts eight bicycles and three four-wheelers, driving swiftly along in front of " J. Shank's Horse Meat Market." The latter vehicles are -.idden by women, one of them . r.vir.g a baby m her arms, another having a tarbage-cart atta.:hed, and the third being a lady of fafhion, for whom a parasol is held by a " tiger " in the rear. The bicvcle riders are an ed- itor, a soldier, a clerrman, a docto., a student, a baker, a milkman and a butcher-boy; and the single pedestrian in the sketch is emerging, with his arm in a sling, from the " Velocipede Man- ufactory and Rid^ g School." At just about the time when this picture wa.. printed, " the v-raze " came to its sudden end ; and this end was foretold by another comic cut in the' same issue of the paper : " The Fate of the Bicycles—' Knives to Grind ! ' " The only later allu- sion to it ever given in Harper's Weekly was contained in the following sketch of a " Wheel- ocipede " which the editor inserted twice (June 26, p. 407; Sept. 11, p. 5S7) : " It has only one wheel ; neither treadle nor saddle ; and is built in such shape that ; ju don't have to straddle. The man who propels it takes hold with his hands of two parallel bars, and on the ground stands : puts his feet in motion, one after the other, while the vehicle goes without any bother. This funny machine has no painting nor gilding : it is useful to carry material for buiiding- shingles and shavings, brick, lime and plaster— and, the lighter the load, it can travel the faster. It is better than a bicycle, for it isn't so narrow; and our wheelocipede we call a wheel- barrow! " The ancient bone-shakers of Alnwick Castle, mertioneH on p. 386 as exciting rc- '*■ "" " '"'"'• •''•"•~ •.;-.:::r : t.~.:;;y cy \^. :*.l. IvOUgiaSS, v^iiu (tiiudcb to iilein in iilc WhtclmaH (Dec. '84, p. 174), "A-wheel in Three Continents." 3 5*'^ri.WjH'-^"* ? : - xxvu. m BONE-SK'AKER DAYS.» Time plays queer tricks with nortal memory, but it never drives from the mmd of a college ' red man the distinctive number of his " class." About h.s particular numeral which marks the exact point in the century where h.s four years' undergraduate life was terminated, there is a certain magical significance that age has no power to spoil. His boyish dreams of ft. as ITrK"^';;^ T'""''"'^'''''^'" '^""'='" history, may nil have been dis- s pated; his collegian's enthusiasm m chanting it aloud, as a war-cry for "the class, may all have been forgotten ; but the numeral itseL clings everlast- ngiy to his consciousness. No man ever quite banishes from recollection the year when he graduated." It is a fixed fact in his existence; a well- defined objecti ve-point ; a clearly-lettered mile-stone on the roadway of life If he makes acquanuance with a graduate of some other college whose " vear " was Identical the coincidence appeals to him in much the same way as a similarity in b.rth-days. Indeed, the year of his « cla.s » is apt to be more vividly pictured upon his mind than the year of his birth It was not. therefore, on acco4nt of fear lest I forget the j>roper place in tne century of my own college class, that I have kept continuous?^ upon the wall of my bed-chamber, for more than a decade and a half, an allegorical representation of the advent into America of " ,869." It is simply a wood- engraving, nine by fo-rteen inches in .ize, which originally covered a page in I arper^s Weekly ; bui its historical and personal significance male ft seem me we 1 worthy of being mounted and framed and glazed and erected in " place of honor. The sketch shows Father Time in the act of trundling off red in^r'\ .K^''"^^" ^"'''''^' •" '""^ S"'^'^ of a drunken ma'co" lapsed m a wheelbarrow, just as the midnight bells ring in the New Year tl f 7r '" J"*^^^'^^^'- ^'^-"g'^ tl^e tissue-par.r hoop which is' proudly presided over by a pretty Columbine. Even th- black cat upon the ''1860 •'>"'"' r'" '" '^*^' '" "^•^''"'^ '« ^'^'^ ^'-^ °^ ^h^ Cranks ann -Ir. ^'^^'^^^'^^^y '^ pleasantly strewn with flowers, and whose happy appearance recalls to my mind these lines of the poet O'Brien : " Pink a= the rose is his skin so fair ; round as an apple his perfect shape ; Wh,le the hght .hat fall, on his ta ...y hair is like sun in the heart of a bursting grape." Thus the picture serves to remi..d me not only of the year when I ned crossing the bridge between youth and manho..H. hnf .f 'k. r fini « The fin.t part of this U f.om Tk^ Sprin^ld IVk^ei^', Ga^tU, Se, .ember, .885. hat as 392 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. the hobby, which has caused so notable a deviation to my career in middle age, crossed the ocean and took posses-ion of America at the opening „f that self-same year. On the first Thursday „f it, when I came down to \ew Haven, to enter ui,„n the final six months of my undergraduate life it seemed as if every waking hour of that period would have to be devoted to hard work. I had been kept out of college during the previous term, un.i.r a mistaken decision of the Faculty that it would be " practically hopeless " for me to attempt winning my degree with the class; and I was thercf- e at a great disadvantage in respect to my studies, and was bound by ev-^ry cm SKlerat.on of pride to ?n succeed in them as to demonstrate the unjustness nf the official judgment which had been pronounced against me. As one .,' the editors of "the oldest college m.igazinc in the world," I had vowed t., my four sceptical associates th.« (in spite of their expectation that the clit,,- na! board would be out-of-pocket, at the end of the year, as all previous boards had been, "in return f.r the honor of the position") the ma^^azinc must be made to y.ela a profit for our year's work upon it ; and to bring this thine to pass required that I should make my face hateful to all the underclassmen by the relentless persistency with which I puisued them for "subscriptions"' At the same time it wis incumbent upon me to persuade them to give an ad- ditional proof of patriotism by helping pay the printer's bill for my "index to the first thir,^v-three years of the magazine."_the indulgence in which monumental compilation had been the immediate cause of my failue to pass the Faculty's e.xamination, six months before. Finally, as the class had elected me to deliver their "valedictory poem " on Presentation Day I vas under bonds to "work the rhyming dictionary " industriously, in the hope of grinding out something that might dc no discredit to that honorable occa- sion ; and It was also my duty to compile for public readi - then a "four years' personal history of the First Division," whose mention of ach of the fifty men who had belonged to my own quarter of the class should be in such form as to amuse the others without giving any individual offense -..r t"/^"' kT''' ^^'"'^'"^d '°f«™ a :.,;avier load than my young shoul- ders had ever before attempted to carry; and I resolutely put away all hope of mdulging in any other kind of amusement thai, the demonstration that they were strong enough to carry it. I hardened my heart, therefore, against K rJ-V "'^^'''^' eating-club, discussing the great velocipedic furor wh.ch had taken sudden possession of the college and the city. Entrancing tales were told me daily of the comic and exciting scenes to be witnessed at thennk, and of the wonderful possibilities which even the most sedate and cautious of citizens attributed to this new means of locomotion. Great was my temptation, and it increased from week to week, as tne excitement inten- sihed and drew one classmate after another into the vortex ; but still I siid • ' I will not go; I cannot afford the time." At last, however, four weeks from the^day when the _.^rm opened, my curiosity got the better of my judg- m-?nt, a::d I <■ caouaiiy dropped in, at a riding school on State street, just to I BONESHAKER DA VS. 393 we what the thi.ig was like, anyhow." It w..s at half-past 8 o'clock, on the pvening of Thursday, February 4, .869, that my eyes thus for the first time leisted themselves upon the alluring outlines of a hone-shaker. My daily journal of that date records the simple fact without comment or explanation • but I thinU it not unlikely that the ultimate excuse which I g;ive my con- scR-nce, for this gratification of curiosity, was the need of doing something unusual to dispel t'v; gloom which oppressed mc on account of the death ten days before, of my much-loved bull-dog. At all events, [ did certainly re-iuire some lively a:,d cheerful experience, to alleviate the memory of that melancholy event; and the scenes of a velocipede rink were said to supply by common consent, "the greatest fun a-going." My fancv seems to have lx.cn captivated at once, -^he new love came on with a ru^h, as a solace for the love that was dead. The record shows that, on the following forenoon, '' I went m to watch the velocipedes, a little while," on my return from correcting magazmc proofs at the printing office, which was adjacent; and that, the very next day, I deliberately " went down to the hall, and practiced with a machine for fifteen minutes, after waiting there two hours for a chance." This re- mark gives an idea of the briskness of the business which the owners of niiks were doing; for not only was every velocipede kept continuously in use, at the rate of " a cent a minute," but crowds of eager patrons waited impatiently to "take their quarter-hour turns," or even gave a prer ium for the "chances" of those who had registered in advance. The enormous waste of time thus involved, in the process of "learning to ride," brought me back again to a realizing sense of the truth that I simply could not afford to acquire that most delightful accomplishment. I vowed that this third visit to the rink should be my last, and that I would banish from my ureast all ambi- tion for winning tne mastery over this exasperatingly insolent but marvel- ously seductive mechanism. I relied upon the axiom, " out of sight— out of mind," to cure the foolish passion which had been awakened within me. "Hut it seemed otherwise to the gods." The velocipede would n't stay out of sight. On the contrary, within three days from the taking of my solemn vow to shun the deadly allurements of the rink, it boldly emerged from the deco- rous concealment of that sawdust-sprinkled sanctum, and began flaunting it- self along the city sidewalks. A.11 in vain did I try to chain my thoughts to "the appointed studies of the curriculum," or to confine my enthusiasm to ''Lit. subscriptions and index-checks." Nc . -nount of absorption in books could deaden my ears to the bewitching rattle made by the approaching iron tires upon the bricks ; and when I gazed from my study window and actually Mw an acqraintaice proudly prancing by on a velocipede, my heart was quite gone. The charming spectacle enraptured my soul, and at the same time embittered it. I felt that I, too, must be a rider, or die ! This sensation stands unique in my experience, and I can recall it as freshly as if it had happened to me yesterday. My way of life has always oeen such as to ke me unusually free from envy ; and there has never been e II .A\ n I I 1^**; I 394 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. a time, save this one, when a consciousness of my inability to do a thing, Thich I saw another person doing, has had power to maice me unhappy! Though the ability to ride a hoise, to sail a boat, to row skilfully, to run ■wiftly, to throw or catch a ball, to box, to fence, to swing, to dance, to jump, or to vault— always seemed to me, in each case, a very pleasant possession, my own lack of it never gave me an instant's uneasiness. Hut here at last was an athletic accomplishment whose attainment seemed sui)crlatively de- sirable ! The idea of existing powerless any longer in the presence of the two-wheeler seemed personally ignominious. I could not bear to breathe the same air with men whose victory over it seemed to brand me as their in- ferior. So, seven days i.-om the date of my vow of total absti-ience from the rink, I rushed again to its embrace. The record says : " I run one of the machines for an hour, without learning anvthing at a.;i. Horribly hot work. Cool off in time for supper, and at lo v. m. take another half hour on the veloc, with no better result than before. Next morning (Sunday), when the chapel bell summons me to put on my clothes, I discover that the seat of mv trousers has been torn completely out." Monday's report adds : " Instead of usual evening exercise at the gym., I chase up the veloc. for an hour, an^ •learn how ' just a little." Immediately following j preliminary sugges- tion of victory, comes the triumphant ?ntry : "Tuesday, February 1 6— I rush right down to the velocipede hall, after mornir.g recitation, and ride there for an hour. Eureka ! Eureka I I 'm really a velocipedist at last ! " I indulged in two rides the next day, and engaged a " Pickering "for a sidewalk spin on the early moir, of the i8th; but, as a heavy snow-storm raged then, I trundled the hobby to the gymnasium, and circled fldightedly there for an hour,— repeating the experience on the 19th. On the 20 h, which was Satur- day, I had my first out-door riding, and made trial of tlie concrete walks of the same public green where Pierre Lallement, the inventor A "the crank idea," had given an exhibition of his mechanism, nearly three years before, as detailed on p. 140. "To think that only last Saturday I couldn't ride a velocipede I It seems a hundred years since then I " Such is the entry which shows the degree of my progress within a fortnight after vowing to ab- stain from the rink. The suspension of recitations on Washington's liirth- day {22d) and on the "day of fasting and prayer for colleges" (2Sth) gave me opportunity for "riding all around the city," and the record is similar for the I2th and 17th of March and the 3d and 13th of April, on which latter day I went home for a fortnight's vacation. Exclamations expressive of my joy and delight in the sport are sandwiched in among the memoranda of these gala occasions, and of the intermediate shorter rides. Westville, less than four miles distant from the college, is the most remote spot named (April 3) in m^ wheeling record, and the latest date is May 15. Four after- supper rides upon the rlag-stone walks of the college-yard are recorded during the week which ended then; and it is to be noted that my final experience With the machine in New ilavcii happened just three months from the day BONESHAKER DA YS. 395 of my <=r,t victory over it. The enforcement of a municipal law. dur.ng the April vacation, forbidding the use of velocipedes on the city sidewalks ex- I.lains why the field of my M:.y riding was so restricted. It was because of these cramped conditions, and not because of any diminution of my ardor that I aband led it altogether. ' One misfortune only befell my quarter-year's career on the bone-shaker- hut that one attained a national notoriety, in so far as universal newspaper mention could confer it. The facts of the case were these : I was driving a velocipede southward along the west sidewalk of Dwight street at a slow rate on the afternoon of February 24, when I noticed that an old white horse hitched beside the roadway, showed symptoms of fright. I dismounted im- mediately, but, though a distance of two or three rods still intervened the animal continued his contortions, made a vain attempt at impalement on the h,tching-post, and then threw himself down. He was soon brought up again, by the assistance of .ome men who ran out from an adjacen* carper- tors shop, and was a,,parently uninjured. I expresses my regret j to the owner, who had by this time appeared upon the scene; and, as one of the wheels of his carriage, to which the horse was attached, had suffered the loss of one or two spokes, in the animal's endeavor to kick himself free I made a tender of payment, to cover the probable cost of repairs, and the owner accepted a dollar with apparent satisfaction. The next fore.ioon however, those of my fellow-velocipedists, who chanced to see me riding' kindly shouted the information that the city police had been " visiting all the' rinks, in order to arrest the student whc scared a horse"; and I found, when I returned to my lodgings, at noon, that officia! inquiry had actually been ma'lc for me there. I hastened down to police headquarters, therefore, to demand an explanation of the threatened outrage, and was told by the chief that there had been no pretense of authority to arrest, but that, as a personal uvor to the owner of the horse, he had instructed some of his men to dis- cover the velocipe. list's identity. He gave me the address of the owner (Rosenbluth by name, broker and general agent by occupation, German Jew by descent), and I at once repaired thither to learn wh-t migt^t he wanted. The man said that a large sw.lling h; 1 appeared on the spot where the horse tried to run the post into his belly; that he valued the beast at 5150 and should hold me responsible if. as seeme, probable, he were to die; but that he would accept a tender of %ip, in ' tn of all prospective damages. In- stead of greedily jumping at this W al offer, I divided the sum of 1^4 equally between a horse-doctor and :> .wyer. The former, having examined the horse, suggested that he mi . „ardly sell for more than $50, even without the swelling, and that this might soon disappear (as in fact it did). The law- yer advised me that I was not responsible for any penalty ; and I sent a note of that effect to the owner. I repeated my decision to him, verbally, the next - "■ ■■"■- o>""--*=""":> '.vniic 1 was cngagcti in my customary club-swinging. And these be the final words of Rosenbluth, as "tx W\ '<•> 396 7-/-A' THOUSAND AtlLES ON A BICYCLE. recorded in my journal of March ; ; * S- you says you pay me noting ? Vcr' well I I '11 sue you, if it costs me five tousanu dollar I " (Jn the face of the facts, as here minutely presented by the chief actor in ihem, there seems little cxcMse for making this a "celebrated case"; but there arc ast latent possibilities in "journalism"; and the short story which these facts gave a local newspaper an xcuse for setting afloat (with eight er- rors in less »han that number uf lines) appealed to two circumstances which ensuied for it a currency quite unexampled among the " velocipede items " of that period. In .hr first place, as the .«to.y appeared at tl.- exact »imc when the vclocipedic furor was at its height, all over the Union, the newspapers were then most eager to print any possible paragraph wh jh concerned or il- lustratcd it; and, in the second place, the newspajicrs are always glad to give prominence to gossip concerning an undergraduate of a famous college, ts- pecially when it represents him in an unfortunate or humiliating light. They do this for the same reason that Knglish papers prattle about the personal errors and mishaps of "the nobility and gentry ": because they believe tiiaf " the masses " like to read such things about " their I ctters." A great Amer- ican college community exhibits, as regards the personal relations of the stu- dents to one another, the nearest approximation to an ideal democracy ("liberty, equality,' fraternity ") that exists anywhere in the world ; but, on the other hand, the only real and n»rmanent aristocracy which can be found in the American social system is its mass of undergraduate collegians. We possess no other well-defined body of men who are oblivious of money-mak- ing, or who are able to maintain their personal amusements and customs, on a scheme of exclusion, in a perfectly complete and unapproachable world of their own. Individual connection with this aristocracy must terminate in four years, but the thing itself continues unbroken through all the ages. After graduation, the ex-collegian descends at once to his proper level in the world of common-place.— whether it be to drive a ncrse-car, for his daily bread, or to drive a " tally-ho coach," for proclaiming his meuim.rship in the sham a."- acy of wealth aud fashion;— but, whatever happens to him, he knows that hate can never rob him of the consciousness of having once "bc- longcJ to the real nobility," universally so recognized by all Americans. Full proof of this universal recognition has been supplied me by a quarter century's acquaintance with the newspapers ; and no one can fail to be con- vinced of it who will study with any care the philosophy of their manage- ment. The rakish rhetoric of the illustrated police gazettes, just as unmistak- ably as the pious platitudes of the religious weeklies, bears testimony to this same truth, which the satirists and humorists of the daily press continually trade upon. All journalists understand that the trick of connecting their jokes, or pungent par.-xgrapns, or solemn homilies, or scandalous stories, with the name of some college well-known to their readers, is the best attainable trick for compelling their interest in the same. Of course, the names that are most frequentlv taken in vain are those of th." ri^.n.-rr.-s .-.f -.-;.J.=ct v^:-.:-.?^ BOXE-SHAKFR DA YS. 397 Silt even the smaller ones form a basis {fix considerable lyinR and misrepre- ^intation in trie coiuinns of the local papers. It is a traditional complaint in iiii'lerKfaduate journals, that collegians are the only class of American youth whose harmless horse-play and petty escapades are systematically paraded in the public press anH solemnly discoursed upon by the heavy moralists; and whose athletic pastimes (though notoriously confined to a few hours of leisure) arc habitua'ly joked about, by the public humorists, as if comprising the vliolc sum of college life. These complaints are entirely just, but the evils i.'rnplaincd of are a natural part cf the situation: they merely show the re- l.itionship which newspaper-makers, in a free country, necessarily bear to any rcicgnized aristocracy. When the pronrietor of one of the illustrated crimi- nal weeklies picture-. " fifty students . Harvard" as the patrons of some im.if;inary cock-light, he gives conclusive proof of his belief that that is the noblest name in America to conjure with, as a means of stimulating the in- iiTcst of even the most ignorant of readers in his obscene rubbish. Perhaps this prelude is !onger than necessary to account for the vogue which my "horse accident" had among the editors, but it will serve to em- phasize the fact that the paragraph made one of the most remarkable runs on record. I believe there was no sizable city between Bangor and San I'rancisco whose newspapers did not give it some sort of a show. The lying lines exasperated me at first, but I afterwards took a sort of perverse pleas- ure in watching them " limp from scissors to scissors " across the continent, ched them thus through the files of the college reading-room, but, as I resistv the base temptation to indulge in any surreptitious snipping thcre- frotn, and only purchased such few papers as came in my way, the number of distinct specimens which I find in my scrap-book, and now literally repro- duce, is only nine. The first of these is the original story, containing eight misstatements of fact, aiul ihe rest were all copied from or based upon it. I regret my neglect in failing to preserve the names of the papers to which the several extracts should be accredited; but the collection, even as it stands, has a certain representative > alue, as exhibiting the average trustworthiness of "journalism." The ninth and linal extract which I reproduce will be recog- nized by all experienced journalists as a really fine specimen of what is known in a newspaper office as " intelligent condensation,"— the art of re- casting the substance of a current story into the fewest possible words. The paragrapher concerned in this special case, instead of making a slovenly sur- render of " eight lines for the eight lies, " had the genius to " boil down the whole business into a single line," containing a single lie eight times as im- probable as any one of those in the original I This, surely, was a master stroke in the direction of securing " readableness." The simple majesty of such falsification compels me to pay the tribute of italics.* ' "On Wednesday, a student riduig a velocipede, in attempting to cross a street in the upper part of the city, ran into a horiS, throwing the animal down, and in attemptins; to nse the ani- ni \1 breached himself, and it is expected he will have to be killed. The owner considered him 398 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. of 1 '■"'"f ;"^''^,'^f «"^ «^ '^^ ^'"ks kept on exhibition a venerable « veloss " of the sort U at had seen service in New Haven during the rage of fifty yeal H TV'f " 7" '"'^ " ''"'''^ '^'"™^y ^'^^'^ ^hat the bonelhaker seemed ttl ' ^"' f ^"^"' •" ^°-P-'-"- A fair description of it is g ve^ ' hefol vvmg badly-wruten letter, dated at Yale, July ,4, 1819: "The 'v T '^,^^"-'^'^ '»>«= C""o-ty of the students. It is a small carriage" w. h one wheel placed before the other, and a saddle between the.n. on wS he r.der s.ts. and by touching his feet to the ground, sets the wheels in t.on. and keeps them rolling by now and then lightly touching the ground Some w.ll rKJe at the rate of /.« ^^.san hour. I have rode it a nuXrof nmes, and can advance six or seven miles an hour. It requires a leveT ard beaten road." The YaU Courant oi February ir ,860 hL -, r^^ ^'', "?- M.alf.Hours With the Best Velocipedes." deUrf^tfvf'ofl^ oTs S^T ' ence The first words were : " We caught the fever," an ' the last • ' Lo, ' hve It^f-the-swift-foot . " From the same paper of' a week a "r 'l ext thefollowmg: " Velocipedomania.-Every student and eery other man seems to have velocipede on the brain. Two halls have beer^pened inTh tiat .^Trrr''""' ™'^'"« ^'^ S^^^' ^«=--d; and Iload "romi that a third (the basement of Music Hall) shall be n r., r P'°™"'" bSh" "' r, •'"-"" "■' ^'-"^^ -"i»s tL pr'^po" rr :„; : Br«h.r^nd L,„o,„. and evening, by novices learnLg how to manage the machil "1 '"" "" ber of those engaged in the exerri.iP ar* \-,i . j machme. /. large num- wi.h .He vehicleTL Hd'^hT; • hrch':. ^^ 'Zle! aT^-^nT^^ """ "^^ ^"^^"^ •n th ,,, „, .,, ,,^_ ^„ .„,^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^-^-^ay . -or m c:rossm street on attempting tonse sustained injuries which it is thought will necesshl. Tu^' I , ?' owner calls upon the student for ^300 damages" (,)'\\ ".'";.'"^'';^'^" ^^'^' and the his ' animal ' attempted to cross a street inThe upper nr- of tZ^'t T T'^ "°' ^°"'"' he collided wi.h a horse, ,hro^ving the beas do3 nn7' ,u\ ^' ^='^""'^^y' ^•»'h. when was so injured that he wm have to ^^.X^i^nTr^ '" ^" ""' "= a) "A velocipedist ran his machine into a horse Ihlcros ^ s rTcrrclT' r\ T" was thrown down, and in attemotino- to ■,,» ..r, 1 j, • ? '^ecently. The horse owner of the horle now wan.TT-'lm ;™ ") '^fst'uT? M' '^ ''^ ,^°"''^-^'- ■'"^ Haven recently ran into a horse !hro JnTfh ■ . ''"''"« =* velocipede i„ New it. The owner values the hor^a^^^Z and c:,:™'' 7' '".'' ' ^^ "'^*"'"''' ^^'^"^ '"i"™« pect ,0 have .0 chronicle seve^ accidTnt of h nZ Lf H '" ,"^' ^"°""'- '^'"^ '^''- If thevelocipedes.riansgettoothkkont. * S nature before .he velocipede season closes. v.de .hemseWeswi..h stol! rnis ft e^t g^ Z -%: ^.-t^T'? H ^"' ^^^ '" "- against and threw down a valuable horse in New Haven he otlferd , T ''^ ^''"'''""^ >3oo from the unlucky rider because the horse is 7a al^ilrli " t^'"T / ^^""" """ Haven, last week, wMIp crossin- a street r;in n . T . *'^ ^ velocipedist in New wassoinjured by the fall thaM^^ rnt ;::3:Sg:d'r:i;t:Tnd1''™ 'r. ^T pede rider responsible to the ex.ent of $300 " fsT-A V^ ,^ '-- now holds the veloci- peded against a valuable horse The anitnardi.H /■ '"'' "'^ °"'" '^^y- ^=''^'- velocipeHUt '. .„. .. . A.I •„_"" """."' !^'^''' ='"'' "'<= o*^"" claims $300 from the 'a.al ■ "—/-.-«. r«« over a horse and kUUd him. " BONE-SHAKER DA YS. 399 pede arena has been actually agitated about college for some time, since the appearance of the fascinating bicyculars. Bring on your 'glorious memories,' ye babblers of the forum, for these Philistines be upon thee ; these Gauls a^ sault your very senate chamber; these ' wabblers ' mean business. Already have i\ifijervida ,-otcE wakened unwonted echoes about the ears of the grim . .demical ancestors in Alumni Hall. Neither bolts nor oaken doors have barred their entrance to those august presences. How, then, shall the flimsy trapi.ings of your bellowing-places avail to awe them > We think the mania is :ather subsiding, however, though one-, two-, three- and four-wheeled vehicles have made their appearance (the one-wheeler is a wheel-barrow). The best time on record is to the boat-house in twelve minutes, and back; distance, a mile and a quarter." The latter remark is ambiguous, but, as I do not believe that any Yale bone-shaker ever made the round trip of two miles and a half in twelve minutes, I suppose the reference is to the downward ride simply. Even on that interpretation, it was a faster one than I recollect taking. No races took place at New Haven, either in the rinks or on the side- walks ; but first prizes for " the most skilful riding " were won by two students in rink competitions, and one of these winners exhibited his skill at the ath- letic exhibition given in the college gymnasium about ihe middle of March. The truth of the opening remark of the present chapter, concerning the fallibility of memory, is again illustrated by the fact that, after writing those pages which tell how I for four weeks refrained from taking a look at the hobby which had aroused my classmates' enthusiasm, I find, on turning to my own printed chronicle of those times, that the actual period of my resist- ance to temptation was only four days ! Though the craze had captured New York on New Year's, it was exactly a month in reaching New Haven,— prob- ably because the metropolitan demand for machines prevented the man-.'* urers from taking any outside orders. In assigning "January " as th' . ■ of considerable college table-talk on the subject, my recollection m. „ot have been entirely at fault, however, because the current newspaper gossip must have attracted some attention, and some of the many undergraduates who spent their vacation in the big city must have brought back stories of the "wheelomania" which prevailed there. My own earliest printed para- graph on the subject is this (writt ,u February 4, 1869, the self-same day that I iirst saw a bone-shaker) : " The velocipede is the plaything of the hour among the Seniors, who find in its subtle and alluring capabilities their chief amusement." The progress and decline of the furor were minutely chroni- cled in three successive monthly issues of the Vale Literary Magazine, from which I ^,\\\ now present extracts, with the date of each. The first two were written by myself, and the verses have since seen the light in the Whidmun (July, 1883, pp. 256. 311). The record also has a certain historic value, as representing in a general way what happened, during that exciting period', at every other considerabh college, and every other wide-awake rity, throuffhout the entire land. In my tours, it is a common experience to meet with men— 400 TEA- THOUSAND MILES ON A B [CYCLE. of great d.vcrs.ty ,n character and occupation, but resembling eacn other in r. spect o be,ng about forty years o.d-who are inspired by thf sight of en w b.cycle to recount to me the comic experiences of their "bone-shaker days " " By all odds, the liveliest thing, of the month have been the velocioedM wh;.K f u .elves o.„h, to make February. .«69, famous in our history. They ca^rto .0 J H « ?" of the mo..h The old church on the con.er of S.a.e^n J Coun's^^nuLld ?', " rKl.ng.room. and beg.nners were 'at -■.,' nigh, and day. f„r the space ^f a wee? Th; V shop-keepers below objectefl to having the plaster from the walls sLink^rH u longer, and so the rink was nosed. On the .oth, two clerTs from W' ^m "T '^'"' school in Literary Hall, on State „. ; but thev too Z the end of , "^ ^ T""^ ' "'"■* obliged to -move on.' and so went home with 'tie r" ma h „ Tha.c^TrTc: """' ^"^ at DeGarmo's old dancing hail, ,0, Chapel st for th. 1 1, j^^ ''" =* ""'' tncn forced out of the bu.fding. as ^he o he7s had'^ent: f ^"""^°" ''' ^°"'' =""1 *- .uch falling piaster. Their /resent Hding-rLm^rer':f"'cr:w: a"d t:^',: iXt'erl;"" those already mentioned, and altogether superior to the nnlv 0,1, *^^'^'' '''s- '« better than ■ toadley-s. established in .b.t,asem'ent of m3h°1 on the 8th Hoad T '" °'""'"" ' of the first to introduce the ' veloss • and h.H " ' °" "'^ '^"'- ""^''- however, was one door usage, within a day or^.wo^The o^ ng'of helaS' rk "" S S' ''f, ''' r =;on2:r:fr^r:aSrzr ^-ir^'^^^^^^ -.es.c.iman.orbicycularprofir'^L^r'uI^irS chines for out-door use at a halfj^n,, ,„ u j -, . . >"ougn noaa. lets ma- v™., ..d h. „.„,„ „p.„, „,„ i. :.;~.^"."f.ir ^':,''^^2■-^■'': sidewalk at the west end of ChaneUt ;.fh. i^., ^ i resort, out the broad P..r, „ .., though „„y .cc J"wur flight, of stair, and reach the big ' Elm . „y R.nk, openeo March .6. Barring the dift. ulty of getting ,0 it, ,h„ i, the best in New Haven, as ,t certainly ,s the larger, it claims, indeed, to be the largest in New England and .IS outer track measure, one-sixteenth of a mile, exclusive of a good-sized L. reserved for be- .nmers. fts slock of machine, comprise, eighteen, mostly of the ' Hartford ' pattern hut is soon ,0 be mcreased by several ' Pickerings ' and ' Monods.' Hoad.'s original < Pickering ' ,v .he way. >s the only one thus far owned in the city, and we are fully confirmed in our opinio^ .hat ,t ,s the best vanety whtch ha, yet been put forth. The ..*o first mentioned rink, rent mt chmes for usage upon the street, a-, do also three or four o ..er concern,. A cent a minut- still cnmmues to be the reguU. .ax, and an admission fee of ten or fifteen cents is generally charged m the evemng.-the ticket entitling the visitor, at his option, .0 a similar number of m."„.esupona'veloss.' The subscription paper which was started about the middle of Feb- ruary, for the purchase of velocipedes for the gymnasium, has for more than a month made a ....Hin, ul exh,b.t,on of the two lonely legends : ' Instructor in gymnastics, $.5; D J Merrill dassof ^^ $^. A more complicated plan, devi.,ed by the same instructor, whereby evervi subscriber for the purchase of gymnasium velocipede, was to have a proportionate amount of riZ in, upon the saTne. was detailed upon several sheets of foolscap and posted in the reading. rrnm. for several dnvs ; but we believe it fared no better than its predecessor. We presume the l.".."r of the gym might make a good thing by getting a few machines and renting them a low rates to colleg men ; but to expect the latter to pledge the money in advance is absurd I wo or three velocipedes are already owned in college, and doubtless the number will be greatly .-.creased ,iext term. They as yet have the right of way on the sidewalks, and, if the cify offi- cials have any idea of restricting it, we are sure they will a: once change their minds, when , hey read the prayer ' appended to this chronicle. These . rses. by the w.y, are the ^ork of the pnvate sweep' of our Class Poet, who concocted them by the aid of the latter', rhyming die ....nary, while he (the C. P.) was ab«,rbed in calculating his ' InH.x ' iosses. ' The sweep 'al«. Kave us a list of words rhyming with ' velocipede,' ir lait=-^ 1 to those employed by hLself a.. .Iv we now publish, for general accommod. .on ^ c- re- pre- se ante- super- inter! cede .>,..palmi-muIti.plumi-centi-pede,suc-pro-ex-c ., feed, bleed, need, deed, reed hreed, freed, weed, bead, lead, ple,d, mislead, mead, read, knead.' Though the value of the rhviiies indicated is almost incalculable, the pn.e of the present Lii. will remain unchanged : city fathers, hear my prayer! I'm but a student, yet give heed. And. as you hope for mercy, spare ! Don't, Jan'i outlaw Velocioljde ' Why banish him ? He does no harm to any one. In 'ecd. indeed, 1 know the timid feel alarm and hatred for Velocipeae ; Hut yet I say he harms them not. Their fancy 't is which seems to need Repression, for it makes them plot and lie against Velocipede. Don't believe the stories that they tell, of accident or foul misdeed; The/^««wA • horse ' long since got well, uninju.ed by Velocipede ris envy simply that 's at work : the one who must on foot proceed Feels jealous when, with artful quirk, another rides Velocipede Some, too, there are, who hate all fun ; who count all sport of ill the seed • And such judge that the Evil One himself devised Velocipede Hut those who believe in life, and joy, and jollity, must fain concede The many virtues of this toy we fondly call Velocipede So let him have the right of way ! The sidewalks he will „nt impede Nor force the footman to dc'ay their steps for him. Ve!.K;ipeQe. Or, if from Chapel. State and Church you order him. we are agreed If, leaving these streets in the lu.ch, elsewhere may roam Velocipede Now, city fathers, hear my prayer : ! 'm but a student, yet give heed 36 r.y oiiiy luve, v eiocipede I '' (April 7, i86q, pp. 295, '96, 308, joq.) iT ii:^ I fc*l 402 TEN THOUSAND MILE': ON A BICYCLE. 1^^ *t I" " As for velocipedes, we caii only tell, what we never expected to have to tell, of their dv- ing days. Alas! Poor Yorick I A dire pronunciamento of the ci'y fathers (' No person shall use or propel by riding thereon any velocipede along or upon any paved walk in said city, formed for the convenience of foot passengers, under penalty of $25 ') has sent you to an unlimeiy grave. Many disciples nnoum their loss ; but columns full of complaints have availed not for repealing the obnoxious article. A couple of bold riders, who were arrested on the green owed their release to the fact that /)<»z<*ectations of its builders. Eli has grown thin from the total ' standstill ' of his velocipede stock. The comer rink at Park and Crown sts. offers big inducements ; but few are enticed. Elm City still assures us that his building ii warranted to stand for ages ; but few attempt to test the accuracy of his statements. Here and there a soli- tary ridei passes along the college yard, — sole remnants of your former greatness, — sole proofs of what you might have been. Nor is the sky overcast with circles of hope.. No more will your followers 'see stars.' Signs point to a premature di.ath. Your days are niunbered, Velocipedus! The Lit. has done with you. 'Green be the f urf above thee, friend of my earlier days ; None knew thee but to love thee ; none named thee but to praise.' " (May 22, i86g, p. 368.) A little book called " The Velocipede ; its History, Varieties and Prac- tice," by J. T. Goddard (N. Y.: Hurd & Houghton; pp. 107; large type; thirteen coarse wood-cuts), is the only such memorial which the mania pro- duced here ; and its preface — daied at Camb''idge, March 20, 1869 — assumes that no book on the subject bad then been published abroad. Though has- tily flung together, without literary skill, — a mere jumble und hodge-podge of unaccredited gleanings from the newspapers, and from tho circulars of man- ufacturers and inventors, — it serves well to show how extensive the craze really was, and to point the contrast between that noisy furor and the quiet advent, a decade later, of the sort of cycling which is destined to flourish for- ever. The history of the wheel in England e.xhibits no such contrasts. The London authority quoted in the first of the fine-type extracts appended to this paragraph (reprinted also in Harper's Weekly, March 30, 1869, p. 189) represents John Bull at that time as an amused spectator of Brother Jona- than's antics. The British bone-shaker days had no such wildly impetuoius and frenziedly hopeful beginning ; but, on the other hand, they had no such sudden and ignominious ending. Though the American carriage-makers all dropped the veloce in a hurry, with a feeling of contempt for their own folly in having interrupted their proper business in behalf of such a deceptive toy, the less-excitable Englishmen kept pegging away at it, both on the road and in the machine-shoji, until the modern bicycle was evolved. Velocipeding never entirely ceased in that country, in spite of the reaction which followed the impetus of 1868-9; ^"^d neither there nor here nor anywhere in the world has any " craze " or " mania " ever been developed in regard to the modciH oicycic. 1 ni3 giii 01 aw inc ages coincs to aii couiitncs c^Uictiy, as ii cot;- BONE-SHAKER DA YS. 403 scious of its power and permanency. It causes no general fuss or ferment ; it asserts its supremacy soberly; but it comes to stay. The furor has migrated from Fra, ce to our brethren across the Atlantic, passing ove- us. The g^-ahead vehicle is exactly suited to American ideas. Schools, with the imposing name of Velocinoiiums, lor teaching the young idea how to gyrate, are being established ; races are being rolled ; men and boys are whizzing here, there and every where, at a speed of twelve miles an hour. Inventors are improving the machines, and are making them wholesale, the supply at present falling short of the demand. Our turn may come yet. Or have we had it ? Thei e was a considerable rage for velocipedes in England some thirty [fifty ?] years ago. There may U; those living who can recollect seeing no less a man than Michael Faraday spinning one up Hampstead Hill.— TA* GentletHanU Mugazine, London, February, i86q. The two oest and largest rinks in the United Sutes are to be found at Harvard Square, t'ambridge. One of them has 12,000 sq. ft. of floor, and 25 good machines. The other, built by J. C. Stiles, is in the f&rm of an amphitheatre, and has a circular course of a little less than an eighth of a mile. Or'y part of the track is under cover. At night this rink is brilliantly lighted, and the scene is at once novel and inspiring. Scores of riders rush madly after each oi''.er at break-neck speed, round and round the arena. We have seen an expert wheel over the course in 17 sec, which is neariy as good time as any recorded abroad, and better than any heretofore made in this country. Harvard students crowd these rinks ; the billiard-halls and other places of resort are deserted, and all are eager votaries of the fascinating art. The fever is not confined to the Eastern and Middle States, but rages throughout the South and West. The Hanlon Brothers, well known as gymnasts, have the largest hal! in New York, with 25 machi.ies, and, at their recent ' velocipede reception and hop ' exhibited many daring feats upon the bicycle. Other gentlemen afterwards gave proof of their skill, among them Charies A. Dana, editor ot he Sun, who is an expert rider.— Goddard's " The Velocipede," pp. 93, 95. Several months have passed since we heard of a two-wheeled contrivance, called bicircU or veloce, by which it was possible for an active Frenchman to traverse ten miles of the streets of Paris in a single hour. The fever which raged so high there seems to have broken out in America. Schools for the instruction of velocipede-riding are being opened. Youngsters ride down Fifth Avenue with their school-books strapped in front of their velocipedes, and expert riders cause crowds cf spectators to visit the public squares, which afford excellent tracks for the light wheels to move swiftly over. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has secured two of the .A,merican machines, and other gentlemen, well known in the literary and artistic world, are possessed of their magic circles. One of them takes his ride of nearly ten miles daily, and saves time as well as enjoying the ride. A number of persons are already making use of the velocipede as a means of traversing the distance between their homes and places of business. Piofessional inventors are now laboring to bring it to American completeness, and the fewdeal- ei^ in New York are doing quite a driving business. Their prices range from $60 to 5 100, about the same as in France. The weight of a medium sized machine is about 60 los., and the size of driving-whee', most in favor from 30 to 36 in. The wintei eason is not favorable to r/iTiW/'-ridinK, but with opening of spring we may expect to see the two-wheeled affairs gliding gracefully about the streets and whizzing swifily through the smooth roads of Central Park.— Harper's Weekly, Dec. 19, 1868, p. 811. The above extract from that well-edited and really representative " journal of civiliznf'on " exhibits the date of its earliest mention of the matter, w'lich wa'; m.'.de to accfimpany a pair of pictures: " Velocipede Race in I'aris on Sunday Afternoon " and "The American Veloci- pede." The former, reproduced from a foreign paper, represents four women competing, in the presence of a large crowd ; and the latter, sketched by T. R. Davis, gives a grxxl idea of the Pickering machine, which was described in the following words from the Scientific American : " It differs from the French veloce in the arrangement of the tiller, which is brought well back and sufficiently high to allow of a perfectly unrieht position in ridins. The stirruDS or crank pedals are three-«ided, with circular flanges at each end ; and, as they turn on the crank pins. i a « 404 TE.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the pressure of ihe foot will always bring one of the three sides into proper position. Th? connecting apparatus differs from that of the French bicycle in thai the saddle-bar serves i:iiy as a seat and a brake, and is not attached to the rear wheel. By a simple pressure forw.ird against the tiller, and a backward pressure againsc the tail of the liaddle, the saddle-spriii'..; 1, compressed and the brake attached to it is brought firmly down upon the wheel." Harper's »f«*/j' afterwards printed (Feb. 20, 1869, p. 124) the picture of "an ice velocipede recently .seen on the river near Tarrytown. It has but one wheel, whose tire is armed with sharp points to prevent slipping. The frame is supported behind by two steel runners, like those afiched to ice-boats, and the machine is propelled with astonishing rapidity " This was folJDUtd (March 6, p. 149) by a reproduction of " the picture publi.shed by Ackerman of London in 1S19, showing precisely the same thing as the velocipede which is just at this moment so popular m New York, except in the crank or treadle." Quotations from a weekly paper of August of that year arc appended to show that "our excitable citizens went into an ecstasy of astonish- ment and delight over the introduction of these 'dandy horsis,' and x\\z laanufacturers for a time could not apparently meet the demand of the ' velocipeders. ' " Tlie editor adds : " Ihe velocipede mania of a half-century ago soon died out in New York, and the people who h.id purchased machines at high prices gave them away as playthings for grown-up boys. Time must decide whether history is to repeat itself. At present, however, there seems to be no diminution of the interest taken in this curious machine, of which a single agency in this city has prepared seventy patents for improvements." Ooddard's little book reprints all these details about the New Yorl: craze of 1S19 (pp.14, is), and also makes casual allusicm to the " ice velocipede, invented by a renlleman of Poughkeepsie, who pn»pels it with astonishing rapidity " (p. 81). A story is also quoted (p. 13) from William Howitt's " Visits to Remarkable Places," published 1S41, showing this odd dis- covery mads by him at Alnwick Castle: "Among the curiosities laid up here are two veloci- pedes, machines which tv-nty years ago were for a short period much in vogue. It is said that the duke and his physicians used to amuse themselves in careering about the grounds with these steeds. One young man of my acquaintance rode on one of these wciden horses all the way from London to Falkirk in Scotland, and was requested at various towns to exhibit his man- agement of it to the ladies and gentlemen of the place. He afterward made a long excursion to France upon it; for he was a very adroit velocipedean." Looking backward through the mists of more than sixteen year.s, I am quite unable to recall the image of a single one of my contemporaries a., he " sat his veloss " in New Haven. I remember the names of some who were persistent riders, but I have entirely forgotten whether they ever accompanied me, or whether I always rode solitarily. I cannot create a vivid mental pict- ure of how the bone-shakers used to look upon the .street; though the " scenes in a velocipede riding school " are called back with some degree of freshness whenever I turn to a certain wood-cut of that name which ap- peared in Harper's Weekly (Feb. 13, 1869, P- 109). It was on Saturday, the 24th ot July, that I brought ho le my " impossible" A. B. degree and the record shows that my first act, on the 26th, was to send for the lists of vari- ous velocipede makers. The price of a new " Pickering " had already dropped from )i5i30 to $80 ; but I bought a second-hand one of the ex-keeper of a rink, paying $20 for it. This was on the 13th of August, and on the following day I spent an hour and a half in riding it four miles to Spring- field, where I urged the dealer to return my money. Instead of consentiPLr ;•„• •.:::!, ::c iiiauc .i icw repair^ wnicfi He dcci ably never again mounted the Pickering in the open air, for, when the warm weather returned, I presented it to a twelve-year-old boy, who has preserved It, I believe, even unto the present time. When he last dragged it out for my insiK:ction, a year or two ago, I was impressed with surprise at my ever having had the ability to ride it, and at my ever having had the infatuation to see grace and loveliness in its clumsy outlines. My post-collegiate experiences with the bone-shaker were doubtless re- stricted by my lack of leisure for indulging the hobby; for it was during the half-year that ended with the last day of April, 1870, that I wrote " Four Years at Yale," a sort of cyclopedia of undergraduate life there, or matter- of-fact presentation of student customs and traditions. The production of such a manuscript (950 large pages, containing about 220,000 words) in so short a time required uninterrupted industry; and the events which followed Its completion proved almost cq.-.llv prohibitory to thoughts of velocipeding During a nme months' Europea,_ ..ur which began in October, 1871,1 made four distinct visits to England and London ; and, on the last and longest of these visits, I saw a sight which pleased me more, and made a stronger im- pression on my memory, than any other single experience of the tour. This was the dog show at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, where 1,050 specimens of the canine nobility of the kingdom (including a goodly number of adorable bull dogs) howled and barked a discordant chorus which made sweet melody in mv ears. No show of the sort had then been known in America, and a passage across the Atlantic seemed to me a small price to pay for the privi- lege of witnessing so sublime a spectacle. I record the date of it here, how- ever, only because that was the last day when I ever put myself astride of a bone-shaker, as shown by this entry (June 7, 1872) : " After regretfully tak- niR leave of the dogs, I went out into the garden d the palace and hired a velocipede 'for an hour'; but I got enough of it in ten minutes, because of the wetness of the eround and the bnr!;-..----.: I piovc to mv own satisfaction, however, that I still know how to ride." My memory of 4o6 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the unrecorded sights of tho e days is very vague, but it seems to me that I used to be confronted quite often by the veloct in the parks no* only of London, but of Paris, Vienna and other continental cities. In all thnsc places, however, my own favorite " mount ' was the roof of an omnibus or horse-car; though when I went to Ixindon again, in Dece'mber, 1875, ^ "w so many advertisements of the new-fangled, rubber-tired bicycles — giving prices at whicl-. they could he hired by the day or week, for use upon the road— th.u my old-time passion tor personal wheeling revived once more, and I resolved to take a tour with one before I left the country. Had I kept this resolve, I should inevitably have purchased a bicycle; and, as I sailed homeward from Liverpool on the 20th of April, 1876, thai same supposititious machine would have been the first of its sort to roll aloiii; our United .States roads,— because the first thai actually did this dated its ca- reer from the same summer's Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Pro- crastination, that thief of time, thus robbed me, " all unbeknownst," of mv possible honors as a pioneer. Though I lived for nearly five months in the unbroken seclusion of " No. 33, St. James's Place, S. W.," without once speaking to a private acquaintance, and though the rather remarkable task for which I established myself in that haughty and high-priced cul-de-sac (the construction of a secret tunnel thence to the innermost vaults of Somerset House) was completed long before the expiration of that period, I somehow never quite got leisure to indulge in the anticipated bicycling. Perhaps the thought that the roads would grow^ better with the advancing spring led me to postpone the experience to as late a date as possible ; until at last I sud denly saw, amid the rush of things which must be ('one as iling day drew near, that I had postponed it beyond the possibility of realization. Of course, I had no shadow ot a premonition of 'he brilliant future which was just then beginning to dawn upon the modified bone-shaker. I did not think of the proposed ride as a matter of vast latent significance. I did noi sus- pect that it concealed the " potency " of causing a definite deviation in mv whole course of life, such as my actual adoption of the wheel, three years later, has caused in fact. But it is certainly true that, among all the regret., for things undone and pleasures postponed, my chief regret, when I sailed away from England in '76, was connected with the fact that I had failed to explore its roads on a bicycle I My consolation was the old one: that the my: eries and attractions of the mighty metropolis are too vast and varied for any philosophic visitor ever to reach the end of. My own selected sam- ples of " life " there had proved sufficiently amusing and instructive, even without any trials of the wheel. Though the mystic formula " G. B. V. 4. 5. 6." had not availed to give me the hoped-for pot of gold, when I reached the end of its rainbow, it had at least been the means of impressing me anew with the significance of the=e lines from Cowper : " Where hsf. n!.T.f;'.;r!' sxrh 3 fi.-!H i.~. ri.-h =.-. ;!-.; Opulent, enlarged, and still increasing London I 1 XXVIII. CURL.* CuRi. was the best dog that ever lived. His face was his fortune. The* soul which shone through that ugly visage was one whose beauty not even the pen of Shaicespeare could do justice to. He was neither a gentleman nor a scholar,— for he was born in a beer-saloon kept by an Irishman, and the discipline of his earlier months was innjerfect ; but he was a genuine liiimorist, a devout believe.- in the supernatural, and a thoroughly honest seeker after a high ideal for the shading of his personal conduct. Realizing dearly the vanity of life, he early decided to attempt getting the most good possible from it by treating it as a joke ; and though his own vanities and affectations and pretenses were many and whimsical, they were too trans- parent to be a real blot upon his character. No one knew better than himself tiiat they were mere devices of " business," assumed for conventional and necessary purposes; and it rar'-ly happened, when the occasion was over, that he would refuse to admit this, or to join with me in laughing at them. His function in the universe was to serve as guardian of the ancestral larm or market-garden where I was born and brought up, and where a great many men and boys were employed under conditions favorable to the development of insolence and thievishness. For the repression of those lawless tendencies in such a place, no instrument of police h?s ever yet been found quite so effective as the presence of a savage watch-d.ig, i)rovided his own savage impulses can be repressed at the proper point. They are useful as a menace and a warning,— as a vague, overhanging terror, to discourage and dishearten the prospective doer-of-evil,— but they must nf-ver be gratified by the actual taste of blood. No man or boy will consent to work at a place where he is liable to be bitten, while in the discharge of his ordinary and proper tasks; but no such a one can fail to have his moral tendencies stiffened and confirmed in the right direction by an ever-present belief that, if he sneaks back in the night time for the special and improper task of liiggmg off a loid of farm-produce, or if he attempts to offer personal 'See heliot; - portrait facing the title-page. The likeness was made by the Photo-Gravure Company, of 853 Rroadway, N. Y. . from the origin.aI ambrotype, taken by A. F. Daniels, at Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 24, ii-8. This biographical sketch of Curl wa; unanimously lejected by tlie editors of a dozen magazines to whose inspection I submitved it, though my own necessarily partial judgment attributes to it the possession of more "contemporaneous human interest," witii respect to the general reader, than attat ' es to anything else contained in the book. Copies uf this chapter (with heliotype appended) will be mailed by the publisher for 25 c. each. I:i»iy< : iW. Ua\ 408 7-^W THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. violence to his employer, the jaws of a powerful bull-dog will simultaneoiisiv fasten upon his throat witii the rcinorsclcssncss of an avenging angel. Here, then, was Curl's opportu lity ; and wonderfully well did he im- prove it. He magnified his office to the utmost. He came in time to rani, himself as the true f>v,..er of the farm. Never failing to accord dignified ami affable toleration to the presence ')f other members of the family, it was plain that he after a while adopted the theory that they were a sjiecies the very perfection of canine beauty It was always hard for mc to realize •iiat folks were in earnest who called him "as homely as a hedge fence." Appreciating as I did his unbounded good-nature and kind-heartedness, the s|.ectacle of people shrinking back from him in terror and dismay was always very trying to my finer feelings. I might laugh at their foolishness, but the t. stimony thus involuntarily given to the sincerity of their belief in his evil ..ppcaiance was exasperating to mc. Curl's nose and ears were black and IkIow the ears were dark brindled patches, of irregular shape, which I con- sidered veritable Deauty-spots, though the one of them which encircled his Ictt eye doubtless served to i tensify the stern and implacable expression which gave him his practical value. All the rest ot his outward form was wlmc,- reflecting thus the purity of his inward character. In most respects he was a thoroughgoing bulldog, with square shoulders and flattened nose, l)iit he lacked the protrr.ding lower jaw characteristic of that type, and his large size and dignified deportment showed there was something of the strain of the mastiff in him His ancestry was obscure, but the Irish rum- seller who nurtured him had enough faith in it, or in his own eariy promise of "gameness," to solemnly dedicate him for service in the prize ring, Curl's ears were therefore cropped, the tip-end of his tail was bitten off by human teeth, and "the little white worm which makes a dog go mad" (presumably some short nerve or ligament) was carefully extracted from beneath his tongue These two latter ceremonies arr -if ar to the heart of Hibernian superstition, as supremely important step; he preliminary training of ;. successful fighter, and the inestimable vali , . them was dwelt upon with great earnestness when the time came for naming the price at which this most ferociously promising pup could be purchased. " The blackness of the roof of the mouth of him," which was u ideniable, was also alleged as another praiseworthy "point," indicative of tenacity and truculence. In short, such a dog as Curl seemed destined to become, up to the very moment "hen a change of ownership rescued him from behind the bar of a low grog. gery, and ensi-.ied for him a peaceful pastoral career,— such a dog as Curl seemed always in fact to be to those who casually met him,— was shown with a fairly graphic touch by the professional poet of Puck, when he put forth this " impression " : Bow-legged champion of the town, you yawn and lick your chops with glee, And watch the cat a- nd the tree like lightning, when yoa deign to frown. You chew all enemies pulp, and, neath the light of summer moons, The lover's doe-skin pantaloons you swallow at a single gulp. If -aicciv aiKl KeiRic ' THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. 411 |)crately for the fray >vhen "held back by their friends." But each dog wa* It heart a trifle afraid of the other; and I think they had secretly signed a mutual compact that the test of superior prowess should never really be maao I'.ven in his mos» confidential moments, however, Curl woul never admit to me the existence of any such treaty ; and always, at the mere mention of his ha'cd rival's name, " With every bristling hair along his back tie fiercely fi )wncd, And curled his tail until he raised his hind legs from the ground." Whenever, therefore, he failed promptly to answer -ny call, I had only to pretend to call Jack, or to speak pet wo ds to Jack, or to scrape the feed-dish for Jack, and I was sure that Curl, if with! 1 ear-shot, would soon come rushing iiulignantly forward. It was a diversior also, when Curl's eyes had been bandaged, to " make-lxlieve " feed or fonv::. Jack in his presence. His simulated rage and desperation over thi.s imaginary affront were in most amu'^- uig contrast to his transports of joy and affection when the ban-!age was re- moved and he was assured again of the fact that he himself was the only per- fect dog in the world. Once when Jack ran forth from his gale and barked vitiously at Curl who was proudly rolling by in an empty market-wagon, and wa.s therefore inaccessible. Curl fairly shrieked himself ho, rse by the rapidity and vigor of his replies. While then he was running franticany around the wagon, in a pretended paroxysm of dismay ? his inability to " out and at him," the tail-board suddenly gave way beneath his pressure, and the two furious enemies were thus brought close together on the ground, with never a I)arrier between them. The instant their surprise was over, the magnificent Jack was seen retreating within his gate, and the truculent Cu.l trotting homeward as mildly as if just returning from .Sunday f ch>. j|. It was a favor- ite demonstration of belligerency with Curl,— when the sight of Jack, running gayly along with a carriage, revivec in his breast an active sense of his rival's moral baseness, — to chase him violently for the thirty rods or so which repre- sented the garden's frontage upon the street. Had such pursuit been planned in good-faith, Curl would have taken to the road by way of the front ga»e ; but, instead of doing this, his practice was to run through the garden, along the inner side of the picket fence, shouting defiance and imprecations at Jack .IS he ran. When the angle of the garden fences was thus reached, Cur! always expressed great surprise and grief at finding no gate or other outlet there , and he would sometimes carry his pretense so far as to gnaw at a picket or dig a little dirt from under the fence, in his desperate desire to over- hai:: the hated Jack, who by this time would be far down the road. A great ch.-inge came over Curl's spirit on a certain morning when, having plunged through the garden with phenomenal speed and ferocity, in pursuit of a dc^ whom he had no real desire to reach, he found (as a result of my having re- moved two pickets, foi "s discomfiture) that an outlet to the street really existed there! Curl spru through it, as in duty bound, but his pursuit of the foe immediately relaxe.! i.. vigor, a.^d was very soon transformed into an ap- ^ 4" TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. parent endciivor to follow a chipmunk up the big maple tree. I ultimately replaced the pickets, for I wished to abet Curl in all his simulations of bravery ; but it seemed to me that he never afterwards took quite as thorough a satisfaction as. before in charging down upon his enemies from behind the safe barrier of the picket fence. The demonstrated element of danger in the case had somewhat impaired his confidence and enthusiasm. Knowing that his duty to the farm demanded the keeping up of a reputation as a " terrible fighter," he fulfilled that function perfectly without any violation of the peace. Except for the conventional necessities of their respective positions, I have no doubt that Jack and himself would gladly have joined in chanting the fol- lowing duet, with responsive wags of their tails, as well representing their ideal of canine wisdom and philosophy : " You may sing of your dog, your bottom dog, or of any dog that you please ; i go for the dog, the wise old dog, that knowingly takes his ease. And, wagging his tail outside the ring,— keeping, always, his bone in sight,— Cares not a pin, in his sound old head — the outside dog in the fight. Not his is the bone they are fighting for ; and why should my dog sail in. With nothing to gain, but a certain change to lose his own precious skin? There may be a few, perhaps, who fail to see it quite in this light, But, when the'fur flies, I had rather be the outside dog in the fight. I know there are dogs — injudicious dogs — who think it quite the thing To take the part of one of the dogs, and go yelping into the ring ; But I care not a pin what all may say, in regard to the wrong or right, My money goes, as well as my song, for the dog that keeps oui of the fight." In respect to a certain pair of dogs who stood in abject dread of him. Curl never assumed the existence of any better route uf approach than through the front gate. One of these was a black-and-tan, of about half his own size, whom Curl would tumble into the dust with his paw, and tlen stand above, rather shamefacedly, as if in doubt. After a while, he would settle the doubt by letting the dog run on to rejoin the milk-wagon to which he was attached. Curl never bit or otherwise injured this dog, and the dog never resented the indignity of Laving Curl stand on all fours above him ; but he would some- times make a long detoar into the field, to avoid this chance of being rolled in the dust ; and Curl would even then give chase and for -° the making of a longer detour. The other regular recipient of discipline from Curl was a meek greyhound, belonging to a cracker-pedlar who drove past the farm once a week, and gave notice of his passing by a string of sleig -bells on his horse's neck. Whenever Curl was observed to whine and show symptoms of un easiness without apparent cause, it usually happened that the sound of the cracker-pedlar's bells would become audible to human ears soon afterwards. The bells probably seemed, to Curl's mind, specially designed to taunt him with the announcement that an absurdly thin greyhound was about to run by; and he usually resented it by chasing after him, for a dozen or twenty rods, and growling savagely, — though he never flisgrrarpH him.self bv offcrina act- ual violence to so frail and spiritless a specimen. The ringing of the large ll^^ ■'IPfet'x • . THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. 413 dinner-bell, by which the men in the field were ordered to quit work at noon ind night, also had a sort of horrible fascination for Curl. He would place himself as .:lose as possible to the ringer, throw back his lars, lift his nose straight up to the sky, and dolefully howl a prolonged howi of despair. I myself used to be greatly entertained by these dismal outpourings, and I would sometimes jangle the bell for Curl's special edification ; but other peo- ple did not like them, and some of the superstitious would secretly say that they " boded a death in the family." The Fourth of July was a grievous day for Curl, and care had to be take, then to prevent him from committing involuntary suicide, so eager was he to attack and suppress the explosion of gunpowder in any and every shape. He would pounce upon and try to bite a pack of exploding fire-crackers, un- less dragged away from them by main force ; and, had the monster "cannon crackers " of the present day been then in vogue, he would doubtless have had his jaws blown off while furtively endeavoring to bite into silence one of those hissing enemies. Once, when I inadvertently left a Roman candle Hazing in the ground, I was reminded of his presence by hearing his teeth snapping above it; and his whiskers had been singed off before he could be rescued. On the same evening, while I was standing on c hot-bed frame, wav- ing another candle aloft, Curl gave a running jump with all his force, in the direction of the fire, and striking me in the stomach, knocked me backward into the soft earth of the hot-bed, — my head just barely escaping contact with the cross-bar of the frame, which contact would probably have been fatal. It was rare sport, hov/ever, to fire a pin-wheel, just high enough to be out of Curl's reach, but not too high to discourage him from jumping at it. Jump he would, tirelessly, so long as the wheel continued to whirl ; and the sparks, which formed a halo about his head, expired harmlessly at the instant of con- tact with it. To send Curl in pursuit of a fiery snake or " chaser," was also another approved diversion : one instant his white form would be seen speed- ing along, illuminated by the shower of sparks streaming from the tail of the " snake "—and the next instant, through the blackness of darkness, would be heard the dog's puzzled grunt, proclaiming his surprise at the sudden disap- pearance of the ifpiis fatuus. The setting off of fireworks was not, however, the only sort of human activity which Curl resented as immoral. It grieved him greatly to see any one walking on the roofs of i'ne house and barns; or to hear the district- school children rattle their sticks along the picket fence; and the rapid trundling of an empty wheelbarrow upon the brick sidewalk awakened his ictive hostility. He would endeavor to retard its progress bv pressing his thick neck against the revolving wheel, or even by biting it, and the sides of the harrow. He never interfered with this when it was loaded with vege- tables, nor when it was wh'-eled slowly about, even it empty ; but any attempt ;;; piisu it rapiuiy, as a. K'ailci ul apori, iic considered highly improper. It was a convention with him also to assume great anger whenever I pounded 1^ "** 414 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. %\ with a broomstick or rake-handle upon the door of his den, — which apartment occupied a recess beneath the stairs of the woodshed and was designated, bv a sign of large letters, as belonging specially to "THE DORG." The sham-fights which I there used to engage in with the beloved beast were something terrible to behold,— by any one who did not know that his frantic manifestations of the wildest rage were mere humorous assumptions. It was all in fun. The minute that my desperate attack upon his castle ceased, he was ready to rush out and overwhelm me with caresses. The sight of men wrestling or scuflfiing with one another was so objectionable to his mind that he would usually try to spring upon them and separate them; and it vexed him greatly to see men throwing missiles at one another, or at any object whatever. Instead of avoiding any missile coming in his own direction, he would put himself in the way of it,— jumping into the air, if necessary, in his endeavor to catch it in his mouth. The sharper the hurt which such a thing gave him, the more eager he became to stop the next one. Had it been allowable to persist in any such cruel experiment, I know that Curl would have " caught things " until he was killed in the effort. His hostility seemed to be directed against the missile itself, rather than against the thrower of it ; and, if a cannon-bjill had been hurled at him, he would never have flinched from his assumed duty of trying to stop it. This characteristic gave a chance for great fun in the winter, whenever the snow was sticky enough to pack well together ; for Curl would spring val- iantly against the largest lumps which could be lifted over him ; and the proc- ess of being overwhelmed by their bulk and impetus was not rea'ly a painful one. Curl enjoyed immensely these struggles in the snow, but he hated verv much to be imprisoned in a snow-cave. My plan was, when the cave was in readiness, to throw a piece of meat into its inmost recess, send Curl in pur- suit of it, and then, before he had time to withdraw, seal up the entrance with a heavy barrier of snow. Afterwards, I would torment my victim by offering honeyed compliments to " Jack," or pretending to feed him lavishly, until at last Curl would tunnel his way out of the prison, or else I would break its roof down upon his head. It became increasingly difficult, as experience sharpened his sagacity, to coax Curl into a trap of this sort ; and there was something very amusing in his various shrewd endeavors to secure the meat without irretrievably committing his entire body to the cave. No amount of coaxing or entreaty could ever persuade him to draw me on a sled, for so much as a single rod, when faced awa ' from home. But sometimes, when an ice-storm had made a stout crust upon the surface of the snow, I would get Curl away off in the field, and then, having hitched him to the sled on which I had seated myself, I would tell him to "Go home!" He went, on such occasions, with surprising swiftness. Under no other impulse did iny "(;cn. Scott " ever travel quite so fast. In skating times, also. Curl was emphatically "a big thine on ice," and the manner in which his rotund body would glide along the slippery surface, fi^'i:^ THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. as a sequel to any attempt on his part to make a sudden curve while running, was ludicrous in the extreme. He had a great dread of water in an unfrozen condition, however, and regarded the application of it to his body in the light of a punishment. Though always glad to accompany me into the field, he v, is apt to slink back, dubiously, as the river bank was approached ; and consider- able coaxing and dragging had to be resorted to in getting him into my flat- bottomed skiff, albeit the stern of this was conspicuously lettered " The Bull Dorg." The problem then was to row the boat out as far as possible before Curl sprang overboard; for, much as he hated the water he hated still more to see the solid earth receding from him, and there was always a point at which commands, reproofs and entreaties proved powerless to prevent his obeying the first law of nature, and swimming, .-^s he thought, for his life. The protruding, blood-shot eyes, and sad look of desperation, which characterized Curl on such occasions, — as he paddled rapidly to the shore and hurried breathlessly up the bank to secrete himself in the asparagus-bed or the corn- field, — gave risf to unsympathetic mirth on the part of those who knew the real benefit which the bath conferred upon him. He never ran home alone on such occasions, no matter how long I might be busied with the boat. At some point on my homeward walk. Curl would be sure to frisk out gayly from his lurking-place ; but he would also be sure to keep well in advance of me until the nearness of the house convinced him that I meditated no return to the river. Once or twice in his life Curl was regularly " tubbed " and scrubbed ; but the process was so saddening and depressing to his spirits, and the mem- ory of the indignity rankled so long in his mind, that the benefit to his bodily purity seemed hardly an adequate compensation for his mental distress. In the hottest and most thirst-provoking of days, he regarded with dis- trust and suspicion, any tender to him of fresh, cool water in a clean basin, lie could rarely be persuaded to taste it; and, if he did so, his manner showed that he believed the true object of the kindness was a plan of drenching him with the contents of the basin, — though that trick was in fact never played upon him. His favorite drinking-place was the spoui which carried the waste-water from the pump-room sink into the drain : and the dirtier and soapier this water happened to be, the better Curl seemed to relish it. He rarely consented to patronize the horses' drinking-trough, which was eqn-Ily accessible, and the water of which was reasonably clean. He probably thought, in fact, that the drinking of water at all was a sort of weak and igno- minious indulgence, which it hrcame him, as far as possible, to conceal. The great advantage of the spout was, that an overhanging bench or shelf gave him a certain sense of privacy and seclusion while in the act of slaking his thiist there. He always did it furtively, and ran away whenever he found himself observed. His favorite beverage was buttermilk, and, in respect to the imbibing of this, he also showed a perverse preference for the pail de- voted reached fr> til I 41 the brimming edge of the latter, however, after he had gorged him- 1l 410 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. self at the swill pail (Curl often took a vulgar satisfaction in plunging his entire head beneath its milky surface, in pursuit of possible delicacies hidden at the bottom), and had bolstered his distended Ijodv up against the fence to sleep off the effects of the debauch,— his eves immediately opened and his appetite returned. Walking with dignified and deprecatory tread to the basin, he would insert his nose therein and continue to lap the milk until the last drop, or the b.st cat, had disappeared. If the cats returned when the dish was refilled, Curl would also return from the fence and repeat the process The cats stood in no sort of awe of him, for he always gave a dignified tolera- tion to their friendly advances, and sometimes, in moods of special tender- ness, he would condescend to stroke their foreheads with his tongue when they purringly arched their backs upward for hi approval. He never even growled his resentment when they clawed bits of ,olid food out of the dish at which he was feeding,— though he once contemptuously tossed aside and thereby inadvercently killed, a kitten, who, not content with intruding into the dish, inserted her claws in his cheek. Hut, as regards the pre-emption of the milk, the point simply was that, as soon as Curl's flat nose covered the basin the cats were hopelessly shut off : there was no space left in which thev could insert their tonguej. It was always a pleasure to me to feed Curl at the table, and I taught him at that place the only real "trick" which he ever learned. He would patiently hold upon his no.se even the most tempting morsel of food until my exclamation of " There! Curl," gave permission to toss it in the air and swallow it on the descent. Hence, the cry of " There! Curl," or " There! Jack," uttered in his absence, was alwavs understood by him, when he heard it, as signifying a distribution of something to eat. There was something funny about the intentness with which Curl, after "swallowing at a single gulp " a large bit of meat which I had tossed into his mouth, would examine the carpet to see if by chance it had escaped him. It was only when thus convinced of his having really absorbed the morsel, that he would allow the complacent smile of the true gastronomer to overspread his face. There were perilous pyramids of chairs, and tottering wood piles, and slippery roofs, to whose summits I enticed Curl, with irresistibly tempting baits, in those dear old days; nor was the practice of teaching him a polite slowness in the swallowing of meat (by the device of having it hitched to a string whereof I held one end) entirely unknown to my experience. It used to seein to me that, when Curl watched the eople sitting at table, he everlastingly turned over in mind, as an inexplicable pu7 !e, the reason for their moderation in failing to greedily seize upon all the food which lay unprotected before them. A single yielding to a great temptation of this sort was the only blot that ever fell upon Curl's reputation for entire integrity. On a certain fated noon of his early youth, while the deleterious influences of his low associations be- hind the bar were still fresh upon him, the sieht of d platter of hnm. it-.t cooked and awaiting transfer from the stove-hearth to the dining-table, proved THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. 417 t .0 much for his virtue. He bolted the entire slice at a gulp, and then bolted, himself, for the lawn. Here the ham rose up and "gave him pause." He . Illicitly swallowed it again, but had no more than reached the corner of the house when the slippery slice once more asserted itself. His third absorp- tion of it proved effectual, however, as the digestive processes were doubtless ^tlmulated by the tremendous horsewhipping which he received from the heavy hand of outraged authority. 1 fe never stole again. The fifty acres within the farm limits gave Curl ample opportunity for ex- ercise, and he well understood that he was not expected to wander beyond thtin. He was not often allowed to accompany any one beyond them; and though he esteemed it a treat to ride— either in the family carriage, or in ,1 market-wagon, or a buggy, or a sleigh— he did not often feel aggrieved because not invited. The clumsy vigor with which he would, when requested, throw his hea-'y body far enough up on the big market-wagon to bring it within reach of the beckoning hand which would then drag him in by the collar WIS rather amusing. Still more so was his persistence in sitting on the lro;it seat, or in standing in a position that would allow him to look over the dash-board or one side of it. Under no circumstances would Curl ever toiKsent to occupy a rear position in any moving vehicle. He seemed to consider it a degradation. His sense of duty demanr'ed that he, as the true ■onimander, should have an outlook at the front. Even better than in the ...tse of wagons, his powers as a leaper were .xhibitcd by the act of scaling a certam high board-fence, which I had occasion to climb when on my way to collect maple sap. Crouching close to the ground. Curl would spring upward lar enough to clutch the top of the fence with his paws ; then, drawing his iK.dy up with them, he would balance himself for a mo-nent and jump down soiKlly upon the other side. O,. ono notable occasion, however,-as a result of too vigorc-s a jump, or of a subsequent loss of his foothold— Curl exhib- ite.l himself upon the summit of the fence, transfixed as to his stomach and with all fours waving wildly in the air. It was a recognized part of his duties to drive the neighbors' hens out of the garden; and it was his custom when they, with much squawking, flew over the picket fence which marked the boundary line, to continue at full speed, with head and eyes lifted ■tt, until the fence brought him to a sudden halt. * No matter how often ^..:s chase was repeated. Curl never seemed to remember that any fence ex- isted there, until his body came into violent collision with it. 'His entire attention was concentrated upon the hens, and upon envious thou-hts of their superior ability in flying. Yet he tried never to catch them. Heliever killed a hen ; and if a specially stupid specimen sometimes forced him to take a mouthful of feathers from her, before she would vacate t l,e premises he felt rather ashamed that his official duty in the case had demanded such rude tonduct from him. He was wont to paw the troublesome feathers from his mouth with a rueful and crestfallen, air. Somewhat similar to this was his distress at getting a fly in his mouth, S 'A 4i8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ,.,-iM '5: ) y when, after long continued efforts, he had managed to capture one. A fly on the end of Curl's nose would be watched by him with great intentness and deliberation befo.e he made the final endeavor to toss and catch it, like a piece of meat. He also had a way, when in a hostile mood toward the flies, of assuming a particularly fixed and stony stare, gazing straight into vacancv until a fly crossed his field of vision when his open jaws would come together with a snap. If the fly escaped, the operation was repeated ; if captureo, Curl was put to considerable trouble in getting his mouth clear of it. This recalls my own favorite device of sticking his jaws together with warm molas- ses candy, or maple wax, whereof he was so fond that, no matter how often the indulgence brought him to grief, he was always ready to partake. To ?' this besotted lover of sweets lie upon his back and awkwardly try to prv his jaws apart with his paws, or to dislodge with his paw a luscious lump clinging to the roof of his mouth, was a sight to be remembered, it was my custom to accelerate his movements in such cases by pretending that " Black Jack " was about to be introduced and pounce upon him in this shamelessly dis- abled condition. Curl once pounced upon and killed a big woodchuck, in a fair fight in the open field, while walk-ng with me one day; and that was a fairly crcditabla feat for a dog of his clumsiness to do. He appreciated fully the glory of his achievement; and, having dragged home the carcass of the foe, he proudly exhibited it, and at intervals made fierce jiublic attacks upon it, for a day or two, until it was hidden from him by burial. His on- slaught upon some bumble-bees, whose nest in the clover had been stirred up by the ]irogress of the mowing machine, was less happy in its conclusion. When the buzzing insects had stung Curl into a lively realization of the fact that he was utterly vanquished, and could hope for no relief or safety but in flight, he fled with a good degree of speed, — pausing once to roll upon the ground, as a means of shaking off his tormentors. I remember — as clearly as if I saw it yesterday, instead of in one of those remote summers " before the war " — the look of agonized bewilderment that overspread Curl's face when, on reaching the crest of the hill by the barn, he twisted his head far enough around to see that one of these tormentors was still clinging to him and vip orously " putting in his work." Curl's jaws snapped despairingly within an inch or so of the unapproachable bee, which was lodged exactly in the center of his back ; and further rollings on the ground were equally in vain ; but, finally, at the saw-horse, he scraped himself free. There was only one other occasion in Curl's life when he was thoroughly abashed and disconcerted and robbed of his self-conceit, by tlic undeniable superioritv of a fellow-animal. It was the day he saw the elephant. lie had barked with gay superciliousness at the circus-wagons, and had sniffed the sniff of contempt at the horsemen ; but when this vast and incredible mass of an- imated matter loped across his field of vision, Turl was simply overwhelmed, stupefied, paralyzed. His tail dropped, his legs trembled and refused to support him, his body shivered and shook as with a fit of ;i ue, in the prese ;nce of this THE liEST OF BULL-DOGS. 419 gigantic monster whose existence had never been dreamed of. Curl's belief in his own magnificence shrunk down to the lowest notch. He slunk off to his den and remained there all the day in woeful meditation, — trying to recon- cile his saddened soul to the astonishing discovery that the world contained something mightier than himself. At the other extreme in the animal king- dom were the fleas which infested Curl and inadc him grateful towards any one who would scratch his back along the central ridge where his own teeth could not do police duty efficiently. I know not whether there really exist two dis- tinct varieties of this particular species of vermin; but I mention it as a fact that, while I am very susceptible to the bite of the flea, and of every other poisonous insect, I never received any such bites as a result of my intimate as- sociation with Curl, though fleas could always be found skipping about in iiis fine white hair. His demonstration of pleasure at being scratched consisted in hold- ing his head and ears well back and rapidly protruding his tongue above his up- per lip. The most comic exhibition which Curl ever gave, however, of the essential blithcness and gayety of his nature, was the diversion which wc called "circling." There was no such word as " cycler " known in those days, but, as a "circler," Curl surely surpassed all the dogs of history. Whenever the sense of merriment took full control of him, — whenever a supreme conscious- ness of " the joy and pride of life " prompted him to work off his supera- bundance of animal spirits, — Curl would suddenly adopt a curious conven- tional attitude (arching his back, flattening his ears and giving a peculiar twist to his tail) and would dart off with unprecedented velocity, — scampering into the garden by one gate and out by the other, — maicmg a special circuit of the hot-bed frames while there, — and finally bringing his performance to a close by a most sprightly and mirth-provoking specimen of " circling " upon the lawn. Then he would resume his customary dignity with a sly wink of innocence, as if to say : " Lord, what fools wc mortals be ! " It was the deep religious element in Curl's nature, however, — the abiding faith which he had in the supernatural, — which chiefly distinguishes him in my mind from among all the dogs 1 iiave ever known or read about. Curl wor- shiped an idol ; and his unswerving belief in it cheered, comforted and strength- ened him in the most trying periods. His idol was a wooden saw-hor'^e. Its ap- pearance may be described as resembling two parallel specimens of the letter X, about twenty inches high, joined at their centers by a cross-piece a foot long, and at the ends of their legs by similar braces. The amount of space included between the two crossed uprights, the central cross-p-cco and the lower braces was so small that no dog of Curl's size could have been dragged through it against his wishes. Only on specially important occasions, indeed, did Curl really insist upon pushing himself through it, for the process was definitely a painful one. Ordinarily, he was satisfied to rub up against the side of the saw-horse, or even to lie down in front of it. Its simple presence ^nc\\)r\f^A liir*-* TififK 1 cor^oA wooden sympathy was grateful to him in every time of trouble. If Curl was i iiSiiM 420 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. seen bracing his body against the saw-horse and mildly whining, we all under- stood that some minor sorrow opprcs-scd him. His action signified that he had seen Jack just trot past; or that he heard the distant bells of the cracker- pedlar ; or that he noticed a man upon the roof; or that the wheelbarrow had been trundled rapidly along the bricks ; or that the dinner-bell had been rung ; or that the " shed boys " had varied the monotony of cleaning vegeta- l)les by throwing them at one another or by scuffling ; or that a gun or cannon had l>ccn fired ; or that a door had been violently slammed ; or that a horse, cow, or pig had escaped from confinement and been chased noisily around the' yard ; or that the district-school children Iiad been rattling their st' along the picket fence ; or that I had been hammering on the door of 1. den, or snowballing him, or placing tempting baits of meat in discouragingly danger- ous positions. When, however. Curl was observed to actually thrust himself into the saw-horse, and scrape his body painfully back and forth between its braces, uttering short barks and groans of anger and distress, he proclaimed that the serenity of his righteous soul had been most seriously ruffled. Whenever Curl left the presence of any one, with an air of resentment, or injury, or dejection, or sorrow, there was no doubt whatever as to his desti- nation. He at onte sought the saw-horse; and the degree of his mental dis- turbance could be accurately gauged both by the rapidity with which he sought it, and by his conduct on arriving in its sacred presence. If he at once lay down, the trouble was slight; if he walked aro.md the beloved idol and groaned plaintively, the matter was more serious ; but, if he wormed him- self through it and cried aloud, then, assuredly his moral sensibilities were stirred to their lowest depths. On the Fourth of July, as may be inferred, <'url was never absent from the saw-horse for a moment, except when actively engaged in the attempt to suppress the explosion of gunpowder; and in the evening, during the lull which f.^llowed the setting off of any large piece of fireworks, his indignant voice could be heard, coming from the direction of the saw-horse, in the peculiar, suppressed tones, which testified that he was scjueezed tightly between its rounds. After every attack of his upon Roman candle or pin-wheel or fiery serpent, he would rush back to his idol for a moment of comfort, and then hurry out again, with fresh zeal, to renew the fight. Likewise when snowballs or other missiles were hurled in his direction, he would— after jumping at or chasing each one of them, as a matter of tradi- tional duty— whirl rapidly around and back himself up against the saw-horse, before making the next onset. Such contact with it seemed to give him in- domitable courage and perseverance. I think he cherished the notion not only that defeat and retreat were alike impossible, so long as this magic de- vice w.is behind him, but that his onslaughts on the missiles somehow served to defend it from insult and desecration. His battle-cry seemed to be : " While stands the sturdy Saw-horse, Curl shall stand ; And when Curl falls, the world ! " THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. 42, I never had the heart to deprive the dog of this priceless treasure, for any preat length of time, and I usually took pains to let it stand in some easily ■uccssible spot, shady in summer and sunny in winter. But 'vhenever 1 did indulge in the perverse pleasure of exasperating Curl to the heart-breaking point, and witnessing his dismay when, having hurried off to seek the solace which a saw-horse grants, he found his idol had been removed from its wonted shrine, — in fsct, whenever, for any reason, this idol was not accessible lo him, — Curl adopted another device fur doing penance which was almost as carious as his riginal infatuation. There stood behind the high fence of the barn -yard a certain flat-roofed shed, in which were stored stacks of cord-wood, iiKJ heavy bits of logs, sawn into shape for use in the fire-place. Thrown roLi-hiy together, they made an insecure sort of a pyramid, whose apex, tottering just beneath the roof, was a favorit^ place for the baiting of Curl with meat. In his endeavors to reach the bait, the dog would usually pull down several logs and roll with them to the bottom,— getting, of course, somewhat brui-sed and ruffled by the process. When, however, the saw- horse could not be found, or when it was exposed to a pouring rain. Curl, if in affliction, would voluntarily resort to this unsteady wood-pile (which, ordi- narily, he was distrustful of, when the endeavor was made to persuade him to ascend it by baits), and would pull down the loose logs upon himself, and bite them, with every appearance of fTocious satisfaction. In spite of all tumbles, he would usually persevere until he reached the summit: and his ability, while there, to bump his head against the roof, each time that he nttcrcd a wrathful bark, seemed specially gratifying to him. Curl was born in the summer of 1856; and, as the illiterate people who |)rcsided over his birth preserved no written record of the exact dav of it, I insisted that it must have been the Fourth of July. That, certainly, was to me the happiest day in all the calendar ; and during no other day did Curl himself stick so steadfastly by the saw-horse and devote himself so unreserv- edly to serious meditation. Another supposititious date of his birth, advanced by a certain member of the household (whose gross partisanship as a Repub- lican obscured the nobler sentiment of patriotism), was the day when that new-born party nominated its first Presidential candidate, Colonel John C. Fremont. Party spirit even went so far as to decree that the new dog— just rescued from the actual groggery and the prospective fighting-pit— should be formally named "Colonel Fremont" But mv own ten-vear-old foot was planted in flat opposition. I declared that the new dog should noi thus be dragged into politics ; and I defied the ability of the proposer to foist such an awkward name upon the acceptance of the household. Knowing that I was powerless, in the face of hostile authority, to secure the adoption of the quite- contrasted name which was my real preference, I hit upon "Curl," as hav- ing a somewhat similar sound and being more smoothly-spoken. By cease- ■035iy pruclmiuing this as 'he dog's icai tltie, I soon forced it into general recognition ; so that, within a year, even the most persistent supporter of the ' \^ 422 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. \%^ I word "Colonel " was obliged to abandon it as obsolete and ineffectire in rcf erence to the noble animal. In political amiiation. Curl classified himself with those who were known as "War Democrats." Y.s, h would sa,. "I goes i„ for Daln: Linkun Omral Scott. Ginral Micklenan. and all the fine ginrals and sojers uv thr Union army -pretickerlerly T. F. Mahher. and the gallant Crunnel Crorcr. ran, of the 69th r.giment. Mahher's brigade." Such was his "platform " ^, inscribed upon the Union flag, nailed fast to the door of his den, in the "clafic days of -6.." When I called his attention to the l)cculiar orthography of this, or reminded him that no " r " was needed in the spc.iing of "dog" Curl smiled sadly and said in response that he was a plain, blunt bull-doc whose early educational advantages had been limited, who was now too old to learn new tricks, who never made any pretensions to elegance, and for whom, therefore, any kind of spelling was good enough. There were occa sions, perhaps a half-dozen in the whole course of his life, when Curl left the farm for a day and a night at a time, and returned with blood-shot eves a id disheveled hair, and a generally damaged and depraved appearance which betrayed the fact that he had been treading in paths of vice. At such times I used to profess my belief that he had revisited the vile groggery whence we had rescued him ; that he had freely volunteered to help his former master dispense rum and gin to wretched customers over the counter, or even to mi.x drinks for the more luxurious ones; and that I had no doubt he gloried in his shame, and secretly wished he might always be a wicked and despised saloon-keeper instead of an honest and respected farmer. Outside the farm, I never admitted that Curl had any individual name I always designated him simply as "the Dog,"-by eminence and superiority the dog; since ther- could be no other worth my talking about. Even in later years, when I introduced his portrait into the steel-plate vignette of a college secret-society, and had it emblazoned ^n the droi>curtain in the society-hall, I insisted that my classmates should know it only as " the dog." The health of Curl always seemed rugged, until impaired by artificial means; though, from a very early period, he was troubled occasionally by spells of a sort of whooping cough, whose spasms would almost strangle him. When they were over, he would wag his tail and wink, as much as to say : " It 's of no con- sequence, gentlemen. I 'm only in fu.,." But the paralysis which came upon Curl's hind-quarters-as a result of poison, left within his reach by some malicious or careless person— was a much more serious matter. The liberal doses of raw-eggs and sulphur, which were administered to him -^s an anti- dote, and which he swallowed with apparent intelligence of the design to help him. did indeed bring back to him the control of his limbs and help pro- long his life. Lut his full strength did not come '.,:, k. He was never arain the same dog. He no longer had power to spring into the market-wagon, or scale the b^ig board fence. His attempts at "circling " were brief and ii> enecUvc. i.ven the sad luxury of crawling through the saw-horse became THE BEST OF BULL-DOGS. 423 increasingly difficult of attainment. The vision of one eye was ultimately impaired by the poison. The dog's intellectual traits and characteristic*, however, remained unchanged until the last. He never could be made to really look upon his own reflection in the mirror, but would turn away his eyes from it restlessly, as if it were some trick or deception, which he did not comprehend, and did not wish in any way to be mixed up with. The sight of a person lying in bed oppressed him with. apprehension and dismay. A bed-chamber itself he regarded as an uncanny phice. Me was always uncomfortable wheii simmoned there; and the signal lo run down stairs was hailed with a joyous bark of relief. In winter even- inj^s, he liked to stretch himself out, close beside the stove or firc-i)lacc, and do/e there in a heat that was almost intense enough to roast him. lie often snored loudly, and, as became a dog of iiis superstitious nature, he was not infrequently vexed by dreams and visions and nightmares. I remember that he once, while in profound slumber, went through a . the motions of scenting init and digging up an imaginary bone which he had buried. Usually, how- ever, ihe phantasm took the guise of another dog — presumably Jack — with whoi. ' i grappled and fought. On such occasions the muffled growls and barks, and suppressed snapping of the jaws, had such a peculiarly ghostly etfcct that I was always greatly interested in watching them. Less sym- pathetic observers, however, sometimes thought them disagreeable ; and I re- call the fact that, on a certain rainy Sunday, when some newly-arrived guests of the house were left alone there, during the hours of church service, w'th the assurance that Curl would supply companionship and protection, his slumbrous activity caused them considerable alarm. The convulsive twitch- ings of his legs and jaws, and defiant vibrations of his tail, were accepted by them as symptoms of approaching madness ; and his muttered growlings were thought to be a warning of his probable attack upon them if they attempted to leave the room. So they sat still in their chairs until the return of the family from church released thcin from the seemingly perilous protection of this dreadful guardian. When the time came for the household to retire, it was the custom of the mistress thereof to say " Come, Curl, you want to go out ! *' and to impress that assumed want upon his recognition by various wheedling remarks as to his personal goodness ; or even by pretenses that Black Jack was about to be regaled with an appetizing repast, just outside the door. At such times. Curl would finally arise, with great deliberation, yawn tremendously, stretch him- self almost flat to the floor — first by a forward motion of the fore legs and then by a backward push of the hind legs— and at last advance with incredible slowness of tread towards the indicated exit. The instant that the door closed upon him, however, he would rush with great speed down the brick walk, barking briskly ; and having thus proclaimed at the outer gate his conti :ued 'Jcfl3.P.Cf* of r.Trl-' m'*,rl -tII fifHrr f*r*^rr*.if*'^ !■•.."■ ■^* .".:-.!.•? ■JVl^K^?r■^■;" ^.-. V.'-.z. A^%-. f.~,-r f*-^ night. In case the mistress attempted to accelerate Curl's progress towards |I|JUB^^ 424 ^TA' THOUSAND MILES ON A DICYCLK. the door.-and he often interrupted it. to Ka^c critically upon the pictures and furn.ture. .,r. haply, upon the ceilir„,-by dragging upon hi, collar, he w„ul.l resent the insult with a growl of such profundity and apparent wickedness that she usually respected it and returned to moral . -i.sion. " M..ther is reallv the only person left in the family whom Curl can sc c : " that, towards the last, was a recognized joke w.th all me rest of us. It did seem funny that mv one who had lived for long v.ars '• behind the scenes,"-where every ac"t of (.url s was known to have reflected the real harmlcssness of disposition the real gentleness of heart, which lay concealed 1,.- u-ath his rough exterior 'an.l h.s conventional assumptions of ferocity.-could actually be afraid of him I have no doubt that Clurl's sense of humor led him to enjoy the joke aho- i„d that. >n Ins old af^e. when the mistr-ss assumed courage en. ,gh to hasten him along by the collar, as all his other familiars had habitually done from his early youth, the knowledge that his blood-curdling growls had ceased „. be accepted as serious, was a source of secret - rrow to him. It was a sort of last straw, which bctoLcncd that the end was near. Curl died on a cold Sunday night in winter.-the night of the 24th of lan- uary. ,869 I was sixty miles awav from him,-as I had been, indeed, during most of the four years of my college course, then ending,-but I think that some subtle touch of the saw-horse had inspired his prophetic soul with a knowledge of the first incoming wave of that mania for " velocipeding " which w IS (lo.tmcd to mark the month as memorable in the annals of American cy- cling. I think he foresaw that the velocipede-the fore-runner of the modern b:cycle-vvas destined to receive from me an enthusiastic welcome. I think he r'-alizci al- most every one to occasionally meet with a man wh ^se pecuHir traics and endowments create this impression, that he is the only one of his kind that ever existed or ever could exist; but an inanimate building possessed of this indescriDable attribute ot "cha-.acter" is so rare an object-cspecally m a new count.y like America-that I presume a great majority of the people whose liv.3 have been spent here have never formed the acquaint- ance of even one such specime.i. Grotesque and singular mansions, whose exact types of grandeur or ugliness or absurdity are knov.n to be inique may be found on both slope, of the continent ; but they all afflict the nos^ trils with so strong an odor of fresh paint ard -arnish as to render them in a moral sense quite colorless. " Character " is a product of age and ex- perience, and it can no more h; attached to a house bv artificial process than a " moss-grown, historic ruin " can be incorporated into a landscape by contract with tho nearest stone-cutter. London is to me the most i..teresting cuy in the world, because of the amount of "character" which seems to have accumulated theic as a gift of all the ages. It is this, I take it, which gives the touch of truth to Dr Johnson's oft-quoted remark to the e^ect that it is all things to all men ■ that each individ „ '. .-onception of ii reflects his own nature; that it is a city of banks, or a city of ) ook-shops, or a citv of taverns, or a city of horse- markets, or a city of .hea.crs, or a city of a hundred other things, according to one's personal point-ot-view. The Modern Babvlon is certainly the only mnabited spot in Europe where a man may mind his o-.vn busi:,..-ss, and iso- late himself almost r.s completely from observation as if in a .lesert solitude. The fact th-: it contains mor- people than the cities of Pans, IJerlin, Vienna, •%-opiea oi iiiia wiiaplci, uii iicav '.CI p.ipcr, wi;i bc maiicd by the publisher f / 25 c. cich. CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 427 Rome, Dresden and Turin combined, suggests " the boundless contiguity of shade" that renders possible 1 degree of sr elusion ' hich is quite unat- tainable in those lesser cities. The immensity of Lond^ .i was the charac- teristic of it which never left my consciousness during the half-year that it was my good-fortune to be hidden there,— without once setting eyes upon a single personal acquaintance ; Lnd I do not pretend that my persistent ex- plorations of its mysteries revealed to me a one-hundredth part of them.' I know that there are secret chambers, in the " inns-of-court " and other se- cluded buildings, where men may live peacefully for years without having their existence or their daily movements known to more than a very few people. But I am confident that there is no place in London where the habit of bodily self-suporession can be maintained with such a degree of complete- ness as is possible to tenants of a certain Building in America whose phe- nomenal queerness it is my present object to exhibit and explain. The two millions of people who dwell upon Manhattan Island and the opposite shores— though equal in rumber to the combined inhabitants of ■'hiladelphia, Chicago, Boston and Baltimore— firm but a twenty-fifth part of the nation's population, whereas a fifth of all the people of England are conccnrated at London. Nevertheless, New York is the exact counterpart cf the latter city in rei'pect to the obliteration of the sense of locality. It is certainly the only inhabited spot in the western hemisphere -vhere a man is allowed to live as he likes, without question, or criticiam or notice from his ne.\*-door neighbor. I have visited all but two of the other twenty cities here which .lave a population in excess of a hundred thousand ; and I know- it is not po<:sible for even the obscurest persoii to live as much as a week in any one of them without attracting remark or recogniaon. No visitor who ralks along Broadway, or any other greaf thoroughtare of the metropolis, can fail to feel impressed, if not oppressed, by his own relative insignificance to the mas- in a far more intense degree than he is ever cr ,scious of when elsewhere An entire change in the moral atmosphere,— a subtle sense of greater L.angencss, and remoteness, and " unhumanity " in the active life around him,— mi st be Perceptible to any one who comes here after visiting a smaller city. This tnMropoIitan characteristic of indiff rence and impcson- a'ity is appreciathxiy shown by a certain accomplished Bostonian, when he describes, ^s a part cf his " midsummer day's dream of 97° in the shade," the business liko and effective, but entirely unsympathetic, way in which the wants of a victim cf sun-stroke were attended to in a Broadway drug-Ltore : " Did you sc; how the people looked, one aftrr another, so indifferently at thit couple, and fvid-.itly forgot the , the next instant ? It was dreadful. I shouldn't like to have jkotz sun- struck m New Vurk." " That '5 very considerate of you ; but, place lor piacc, if any accident must happen tome among strangers, I think I should prefer to have it in New York. The biggest place is always th? kindest as well as the cruelcst place. Amongst the housands of spectators the Good Samarilan as well as the Lcvite would be sure to be. As for a sun-stroke, .Via i j,| -i""^- 1 --^ ^■.io>. ijui II jfuu toiiipci iMe 10 a tnoice m tlie matter, then 1 say, give me the busiest part of '{roadway for a sun-stroke. There is such experience of calamity there that 428 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. you could hardiy fall the first victim of any misfortune. Probably the gentleman at the apothe cary s was merely exhausted by the heat, and ran in there for revival The apothecary ha, a case of the kind on his hands every blazing afternoon, ard knows just what to do The crowd may be a little tnnuyi of sun-strokes, and to that degree indifferent, but they most likely kr,r» that they can only do harm by an expression of sympathy, and so they delegate their pitvas.hev have delegated thei; helpfulness to the proper authority, and go about their business If a min was overcome m the middle of a village street, the blundering country druggist would n't know what, to do. and the tender-hearted people would crowd about so that no breath of air cou.l reach the victim."-" The^r Wedding Journey," by W. D. Howells, ,87., pp. 53, 54. Now, in just the same unique degree tl.at x\ew York is distinguished above all other American cities for the lightness of its " social pressure " s„ IS the particular Uuilding which I have in mind to describe distitigui'shed above all other abodes in New York. It offers the nearest approximation to a home of perfect individual liberty that has ever been heard of outside of a wilderness. I have said that nothing comparable to it is contained in Loii- don,-wl,ich is the only European city where the existence of its counteMr.rt could be conceived of as possiblc,-and 1 insist upon again designating it 'as the freest place to be found anywhere-not simply in free America but on the whole habitable globe. So singular a struc.M-e could not well survive the storms of fifty years without attracting the notice of the story-tellers- and one of them made it serve effectively as th . ene of a society novel. I quote his descriptions, written a quarter of a century ago, as showing with almost literal trutl-.fulness the facts of to-day : »•, rv^'''v'\"'',\'"'n r^'u"" ^""^'^'"^ ^^'^" '" Amenca." said he, as we left the Chuz.le. w.t[New York IlotelJ by the side door on Mannering [WaverleyJ Place and de.scended frn,„ Broadway as far as Ailanthus Square. On the corner, fronting that mean, shabby enclosu.,- btilltteet pointed out a huge granite or rough marble building. " There I live " said he. " It 's not a jail, as you might suppose from its grimmish aspect Not an Asylum. Not a Retreat. No lunatics, that I know of, kept there, nor anythin- mv' e- nous, guilty, or out of the way." * " Chrysalis College, is it not.' " '* You have not forgotten its monastic phiz ?" "No; I remember the si.im convent, sham castle, modem-antique affair. But how .!.. you happen to b'' quartered theri. .' Is the college defunct ? " " Not defunct ; only without vitality. The'Xi ustees fancied that, if thev built roomy, ili.ir college would be populous ; if they built marble, it would be perm.nent ; if they built C.othi. It would be scholastic .ind medieval in its influe.ices; if they had narrow, mullioned v.iiKlo« ' not too much disorgain/.ing modern thought would penetrate." Well, and what was the result? " "The result is that the old nickname of Chrysalis sticks to it, and whatever real name H rnay have ,s forgotten. There it stands, big, battlemented, buttressed, marble, with wlnd.m^ like o-enelles ; and inside they keep up the traditional methods of education." Iliit pupils don't hi>'<>aguer it ' " • " That is the Dlunt fact. It stays an ineffectual high-low school. The halls and lecture- rooms would stand vacant, so they let them to lodgers." " You are not very grateful to your landlords." " I pay my .ciii .ind have a right to criticise." " Who live there besides _,a ? " "Several artists, a brace -f young doctors, one or two quiet men-ilwut-town, Churm, a.Ki myself. But here we are, l?vng, at the grand portal of the grand front." " I see the front and the dcM)r. Where is the crandeur' " « jV'' — -• -••-- ■ • •••I i"f ■ .-.;:=, :irj:.j,i.r. viz ca.. tt.u .uij ^ould ,'et from a lank plant of a professor. We stopped at the farther door on the right, adjoining the one so carefully padlocked. It bore my friend's plate. Stillfleet drew a great key, aimed at the keyhole and snapped the bolt, all with a mysterious and theatrical air. " .Shut your eyes now, and enter into Rubbish Palace ! " exclaimed he, leading me several ^leps forward before he commanded " Open sesame ' " "Where am I?" I cried, staring about in surprise. "This is magic, phantasmagoria, H.irry. Outside was the nineteenth century; here is the fifteenth. When I shut my eyes, I was in a seedy building in a busy modern town. I open them, and here I am in the Palazzo Sforza of an old Italian city, in the great chamber where there was love and hate, passion and ilospair, revelry and poison, long before Columbus cracked the egg." " It is a rather rum old place," said Stillfleet, twisting his third mustache, and enjoying my surprise. " You call it thirty fe>.t square and seventeen high? Built for some grand college purpose, 1 suppose ?" ".As a hall, I believe, for the dons to receive lions in on great occasions. But lions and great Dceasious never came. So I h.ive inherited. It is the old story. Sic vos twn vobis eedificatis •fies. How do you like it? Not too somber, eh? with only those two narrow windows open- ing north ? '■ " Certainly not too somber. I don't want the remorseless day staring in upon my studies. How do I like it? K.r.ormously. The place is a romance. It is Dantesque, Eyronic, Victor Hugoisli. I shall be sure of rich old morbid fancies under this ceiling, with its frescoed , r.ibesque-, faded and crumbling. But what use has Densdeth for the dark room with the p.idlocked aoor, next to yours ?— here, too, in this public privacy of Chrysalis ? " " The publicity makes privacy. Densdeth savsit is his store-room for books and furniture. ' " Well, why noi ? You speak incredulously." " Because there's a faint suspicion that he lies. The last janitor, an ex-servant of Deiisdeth's, is dead. None now is allowed to enter there except the owner's own man, a > jrrid black creature. He opens the door cautiously, and a curtain appears. He closes the (ii)iirl fore he lifts it. Dc.isdeth may pestle poisons, grind stillettos, sweat eagles, revel by >; is-iigiu there. What do I know ? " " You are not inquisitive, then, in Chrysalis? " " No. We nave no concUrge by the street-door to spy ourselves or our visitors. We can live h>re in comileter privacy than anywhere in Christendom. Daggeroni, De Bogus, or Mademoiselle des Mollets rr.i^Kt r^r.H??v.".;:c •s:\\\\ m--- r.r*.=HK.-.r sn.-t ! r-.A-.,--r !-— tK- -.-t--*^ " "*'ecil Dreeme." by Theodore Winthrop, 1861, pp. 33-41 (N. V H. Hilt, 1876, pp. j6o). 4.3° TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. That final paragraph is the most significarit one of the entire quott>i de- scription, for it can be applied with similai truthfuhiess to no other habita- tion on the planet ; but, before attempting any commentary on the words of the novelist, I wish to compare with them the words which other well-in for 1 writers have printed, beginning with those of the present editor of the Atlantic Monthly. They apjjcared a half-decade later than the novel, in a series of sketches which he prepared concerning tl^e young artists of New York for a youths' magazii.c. He was then not quite thirty years old. An ill-drawn northwest view of the University accompanied one of his articles, and a well-drawn picture of an artist's chamber therein embellished the other: Trnd-s of a foalher, like the birds, are fond of flocking together, and have a habit of light- ing on particular sjrots without any - .nicular reason for so doing. Our friends, the artists possess the same social tendencies, and, in the selection of their studios, often display the same eccentricity. We shall never be able to understand why eight or ten of these pleasant fellow. have located themselves in the New York University. There isn't a more gloomy structure outside of one of Mrs. Radclifle's romances; and we hold that few men could pass a wee^ in those lugubrious chambers -vithout adding a m<.rbid streak to their natures,— the present gerial inmates to the contrary notwithstanding. There is something human in the changes which come ovei houses. Many of them keep up their respectability for a long period, and ripen gradually into a cheery, dignifi-,-a old-age; even if they become dilapidated and threadbare, you see ai once that ihcy are gerttlemen, in spite of their shabby coats. Other buildings appear tj suffer disappointments in life, and grow saturnine, and, if they happen to be the scene-of some tragedy they seem never to forget it. Something about them tells you, " As plain as whisper in the ear, the place is haunted." The University is one of those buildings that have lost their enthusiasm. It is dingy and despondent, and does n't care. Jt lifts its machicolated turrets above the tree t ps of Washing ton Square wuh an air of forlorn indifference. Summer or winter, fog, snow, or sunshine -thev are all one to this dreary old pile. It ought to be a cheerful place, just as some morose'people ought to be light-hearted, having everything to render them so. The edifice Jaces a beautiful park, full of fine old trees, and enlivened by one coflee-colored squirrel, who generously makes himself visible for nearly half an hour once every summer. As we write, his advent is anxiously expected, the foumain is singing a silvery prelude, and the blossoms are flaunting themselves under the very nose ,f we may say it, of the University. But it refuses to be merry, looming un there stiff and repellant, wuh the soft spring gales fanning its weather-beaten turrets -an arrhw tectural example of ingratitude. Mr. Longfellow says that " All houses '.vherein men have lived and died are haunted houses." In one of those same turrets, many years ago, a young artist grew very weary of this life. Per- haps his melancholy spirit still pervades the dusty chambers, goes wearily up and down -.he badly-.ighted staircases, as he used to do in the flesh. If so, that is what chills us, as yve pa...s ^rough the long uncarpeted halls, leading to the little nookery tenanted by Mr. Winslow Homer The University is not monopolized by artists, however. The ground floor is used for a v.iriety of purposes. We have an ill-defined id.a that there ,s a cla.ssical school located somewhere on the premises, for we have now and then met files of spectral little boys, with tattered Utin grammars under their a. ms, gliding stealthily out of the somber dooryvay, and disappearing in the sunshine. Several theological ar.d scientific societies have their meetings here, and a literary c.ub some- les holds fonh upstairs in a spacious lecture-room. Excepting the studios there iv httle to mtei.-st us, unless it be the locked apartment in which a whimsit.i! virtuoso has store.) » great quantity of cunosities, which he brought from Kurope, years ago, and has since left to the r:Tv.;i=. i::~ ...yc:„ .„-jr, room 13 iuiiini io very good dramatic account Dy „«... ( .1 CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 43' the late TTictdore Winflirop, in his romance of "Cecil Dreeme." (A friend informs us that this " antiquary's collection " has been removed within a year or two.)—" Among the Studios," by T. U. Aldnch {Our Young Folks, Boston, July, iSo6, pp. 394-393). In the September issue of the magazine (p. 573) ilio same writer added : " A little boy we know he must be a spectral little boy, and are sure he has a tattered Latin grammar under his nrrn— has written us a dispi.iting missive, in which he finds fault with us because we called the University a gloomy building, and wondered how people could live in it and not grow mor- bid. Now the tone of our sinister little friend's letter is an evidence of the deteriorating effect which the cheerless architecture of the University exercises on the youthful mind. Figuratively speaking, ho has thrown down the tattered Latin grammar, taken off his little jacket, and dared us to meet him in mortal combat on the threshold of the haunted castle. For our part, we shall avoid that spectral little boy." Mr. Aldrich also tells a story (p. J97) concerning a negro boot- :.ick called lioncs, who, after having been persuaded with great difSculty to enter one of the !„uJiQS, in ur mllepes ' ^. CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 437 that ha» managed in some way to outlive its infancy. Almost every alum- nus takes pride enough in his oachclor's degree to he n.iling to help away from the verge of bankruptcy the institution which conferred it. He may not be generous enough to help it achieve success, but he will rally to iu rescue when he sees it approaching actual dissolution. Such a prospect makes a very strong appeal to his self-love, for no man likes to confess that "the college where he graduated" is really defunct. The admission seems a sort of personal stigma upon his early life. It may be too poor an affair to boast about, or to send his sons to, or to help push into prosperity ; but he is not quite willing to sec it die. The New York University, lowever, is very far from being the poorest one among our four hundred American colleges. On the contrary, as soon as a dozen or twenty of the oldest and richest of them have been passed by, it can easily stand comparison to almost any one of the others. The contemptuous tone with which its educational advantages are belittled by the novelist whom I have quoted, and by others, is not based upon justice,— however much it may add to the literary effect of their remarkc The half-century catalogue of instructors and alumni exhibits as large a proportion of noteworthy names as any similar collection which is known to me. The professors who have distinguished themselves in science and literature; the graduates who have won fame and recognition as leaders in the various walks of active life, are as numerous as those whom any other college of its size can boast of. The circumstance which obscures this truth is the overshadowing immensity of the city itself, which seems to dwarf whatever comes into comparison with it. Stat tnagni nominis umbra. Situated elsewhere, the University might easily overshadow its surroundings, and give tone and distinction to some quiet village which would otherwise remain obscure. Many a lesser school has done this, and thereby ensured for itself the respect and deference of casual writers, who carelessly sneer at the University as if it were of smaller consequence. It is its fate to be misjudged and condemned in popular repute, not for lack of merits of its own, but because it has the misfortune to tak. the name of the great city in vain. Even Columbia College, ranking fourth in age and almost first in wealth among such foundations in America, is hardly recognized as a factor in the active life of the metropolis. This was well shown by the remark which its most authoritative newspaper made, a few years ago, in commenting on the great gains that had resulted to Har- vard from the policy of absolute publicity with respect to the college finances : "Our own Columbia treats its affairs as if they were the affairs of a pri- vate business partnership,— that is, keeps the details oi its management more secret than the law allows any banking corporation to keep theirs. * * Columbia is suffering, and must always suffer, from this mistaken policy. There is about as much known, and as much interest felt, about her by the ordinary New Yorker as about Trinity Church or the Sailors' Snug Harbon" — i'he Nation, July 7, 1881, p. 2. ^ll A.'-__X 438 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A Bi CYCLE. '■frii ,.y - ( ■« 1 |H|BHI'Ti' 1 iHi I believe that the Medical School ot the University has always been con- ducted at a distance of a mile or more from the Square ; and the School of Pharmacy has also, in recent years, been removed from the University Build ing ; but the Law School still flourishes there, the Department of Science and Arts, with its iour undergr.idi"te da^;i of Seniors, 'uniors, Soph( Tio-es and Irtshmen. It happens, ihv/cfore, 'hat, for five days of tht week, b tween cen in the morning and tvo i Y, -. ..' «rnoon, something likt two hundred people frequent the corridors in tlu . ;r part of the Bull 'inu, and the lecture-rooms which open out fiom *hcm. Several societies likewise have their halls and offices there, and the v n the center is usually rented to some religious organization which i.otds service in it cr Sundays, and occasionally on the evenings of other days, ''"he janitc- ind his family, and the servants in his employ, live upon the ground floor. His office or reception-room is not adjacent, however, to either one of the five entrances of the Building; and as these entrances face upon three different streets, and are left unlocked from daybreak until ten o'clock at night, whoever pleases may visit the Building without att-acting any one's observation, either outside or inside. Tenants may of course gain admission by their latch-keys at any hour of the night, and they also know how to arouse the janitor by rapping on a cer'.'in secluded window ; but that worthy is freed from the attacks of the gene. .. public, after his hour of locking-up, for no bell-pull or other device exists by which any casual vi'-itor may interrupt the nightly quiet of the Uni- versity. He might kick and pound for an hour upon its ponderous portals withoi.. being h*'ard inside, and without arousing anyone's protest except, perchance, that of a passing policeman. There is no other house in the world where the conditions of management combine so completely to protect each individual inhabitant from casual observation or deliberate espionage. The identity of the forty or fifty people who live there is merged in the mass of two hundred or more who daily visit there; and the attempt to watch the incomings and outgoings of any particular one of them would be extremely difficult, even V .'11 passed through a single doorway. But as all may in fact choose l)etwee 1 fv-i doorways,-- opening ort three separate streets, to the north, west and south, -no e*"; -ictive watch can be kept except by the estab- lishment of a spy svstem so elaborate as to deft«i its own object by attracting notice to itself. This peculiarity of the place was put into prominence by the novelist whom I have quoted, because the plausibility of his story of "Cecil Dreeme" depended c ''rely upon th" degree of his success in convincing his readers of the singular fact. He caused the heroine of the tale to live for a long time, disguised as a man, in a solitary chamber of the University, to which she had taken flight in order to escape marriage with the villain of the tale (who also had a room there, though he resided elsewhere), to whom she had been pledged by her wealthy hut mercenary father. This father believed she had -.'.f CASTllE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 439 lortunatc young woman, which was found floating in the river, and was identi- tiid as his daughter's. The daughter, living in disguise as "Cecil Dreemc, artist," never ventured into the open air except by night, and thus escaped recog- nition by her kindred and fashionable friends whose mansions were in the immediate neighborhood. Now, there is no other habitation in the city where such singular conduct could fail to attract suspicious obsorvation to the person who practiced it; and such observation would necessarily mean disco vciy when the person to whom it attached was a woman in disguise. Hut no conduct of dwellers in the University is accounted singular, or sus- picious or notict.ible. No one of them pretends to know or care about any other one, — whether he be in or out, ill or well, rich or poor, alive or dead! I may have troops of friends call upon me daily, or 1 may seclude myself for months without letting a creature cross my threshold, and no outsider need be aware of either circumstance; not even the jani.or need know whether I am enjoying a sociable or a solitary life. The novelist told the simple truth in saying : " IVe can live here in completer privacy than anywhere in Christendotn. Dai^geroni, De Bogus, or Madamoiselle De Moile^s might rendegvous with my neighbor, and I never be the wiser." ^ ' The main incident of the story turns upon the disguise of a woman as a man, and we are bound to say that we remember no instance of a like success,— perfectly pure, modest and spirited,— short of Viola and Ro3alind. • • • He has invested this building with a mysterious, romantic interest far beyond anything hitherto attained by our local writers. "e must protest against some of the charges of shabbiness, decay and flimsiness he has brought agninst an edifice of very fair architectural pretensions. The marble staircase would be a very respecUble flight of steps in any college edifice of the old world, and you can ascend without any fear of flakes of whitewash. Mr. Winthrop should have known that the boys did not mob their professors and that such men as • • • are not mullein stalks. An occasional injustice must, however, be pardoned to the satirist. His hits are in the main as well deserved as they are sharp.— Sketch of Winthrop, in " Supplement to Duyckinck's History of American Literature " (1866; p. 151). " The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop " edited by his sister, with portrait (N. Y. : H. Holt Si Co., 1884, pp. 313), is a book which I hoped might supply much quotable material, but it really contains no allusion whatever to the fact of his living in the University, and it ac- credits the writing of " Cecil Dreeme" to the year i86o only by implication. That sketch shows such intimate knowledge and sympathetic appreciation of the Building's queemess, however, as to foi the conviction th?.t the author must have resided in it during some part of the thirteen years w.,ich he lived after graduating p.t Yale. H not, he must '.lave been on intimate terms with some of the residents, and made frequent visitations at their chambers. Winthrop was bjrn at New Haven, September 22, 1828, and was killed at Great B'. 2I, Virginia, June .3, 1861, in the enrHest skirmish of the civil war. " He f'-U ne -er to the .nemy's works than any other man went during the fight. " H fame is worth dying for (which I doubt), he was singularly fortunate in his death. It made him the representati /e man of an r-a. It gave a strange stir and intensity to the patriotic passion for Union. It proclaimed that the very best youth of the North were bound to do battle in its defense. As his bir>grapher truly says, " his memory was idealized and worshiped b- the young men of that day." Even the youngest of us pve him reverent recognition a« lypica! hero of a troublous time. Thus, the books which appeared soon after his death (for he had won no wirie literary reputation while living) assumed a factitious impo. tance. and were ensured a remarkably wide circulation. I f^v rr-.tb:r.=- a-:;:r:5t tK--!r fj-.M^.- deserving this as pieces of literature. I merely record the fact that their great vogue was due to I .11 ilNiii If?? iiiii; 440 r£JV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICVCLE. A ^\'^^''' " '^'^ "°' ^" ''^'^' ^^""' ^«' '*>« ^«=>«si". the counterfeiter and the adventuress? What has prevented its becoming a very Aisat u disreputable refugees and enemi.s of society? What protection ex fo he tenants property or life, if unobservejl access maybe had by every on to these sohtan. corr.dors until ten o'clock at night, and no police^.pe? that, as robbers and rnurderers seek those places v.hich are most prom ^i J of spo.ls they avoid the University because of a belief that it contains noTh jr,g worth the trouble of stealmg. Us appearance is altogether to'p so ' l.ke for attractmg any escaped jail-birds who may chance to be flutterLb neath the trees of the Square. To the minds of the ignorant, the word college" or "university" is often synonymous with or sugges dv '•med,cal.school "; and. as the chief function of such schools is be iev d to be .he d^sect.on of a vast quantity of human bodies, the walls which concea th.s uncanny work are looked upo. with a good deal of superstitious lead an. abhorrence The casual sneak-thief has a healthy fear of prow ing fo plunder m the dark and dingy halls of the University, lest "the medi a students," who are presumably secreted there with their carving kni-"s snould se,ze upon and devour him. The story already quoted concerning the error shown by the negro boot-black in the artist's studio, illustrates th same trad.t.on. as to th. dangers of entering the IJuilding. which has wide currency m all the reg.on round about it. Another theory in reference to it occupants was disclosed to me as I sat in the Square, one Monday evening near he bench where two washerwomen were resting with their bundles.' called "Tie °nH- ITT''"" :r'*'" '''" ""^'^'■'^"'" apartment-house called The Benedick," whose red-brick front is on a line with the Uni- versity s, and not many rods to the south of it. and whose chambers were de- signed and advertised for the occupancy of men only. " It ', all the same as the big stone buildin' where they keeps the ;ld bachelors." said one of the women, gravely. « You see the popilation has growed since the city built it for jm, ,ong ago, and so they got too crowded like. That 's why the new brick house vvas built to ,H,t some of 'em in." This conception of an infirTiar- or retreat for < the old bachelors," as a sort of class apart, under nunicipalpro- tection and authority, doubtless has less vogue than the notion of a vast dis- sect.ng-room or , hamber-of-horrors ; but I think it probable that most of such evi.-d.sDosed frequenters of the locality as may know that there are other lodgers ,n the University besides " the medical students," believe tho^e others to be bachelors. They believe them to be impecunious ones also, for thej^^annot conceive of a man's living in so funereal a pile except under the " blooc and iron "behind them We felt that the pen which traced them had been dipped We were proud to read an author of whom we could rightly say, in sad and wrathful defiance : " A better or a braver man never rode in battle's van." CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 441 pressure of poverty. Furthermore, even if an adventurous thief managed to break into a half-dozen apartments without detection, he might not find any- thing better than empty recitation-benches, or dusty laboratory apparatus, or full-length " portraits of the chancellors," or ponderous law tomes,— fo." most of the ioors of the public rooms bear no labels, and they look exactly like those of the adjoining private rooms, which also, in many cases, make no showing of the tenants' names. But if a thief had the luck to avoid the col- legiate chambers, and penetiate a private room in the owner's absenc , the chance for plunder would still be much pooier than in a private hoi:be. It may fairly be assumed, of men who live alone, that the personal possessions with which they surround themselves— even when they have the ability to in- dulge in a good d. jree of splendor and luxury— are not of that compact and portable sort dear to the heart of the housebreakei. A bachelor, if he likes to have good furniture about him, may buy a costly sideboard to gratify that lik- ing ; but his idea) of lavishness in fitting it up will be more apt to take the shape of potables than of silver-plate. Hence the intelligent burglar's chief interest centers upon family life; for well he knows that, where the wife is. there shall the solid silver-ware be found also. I am not forgetful of the wide advertisement that the newspapers gave in 1883 tj the public auction of pictures and bric-a-brac which netted $50,000 to a departing tenant of the University (though some of the choicest of the treasures accumulated in his chambers, rumor said, were reserved from the sale) ; but I do not think the prevalent belief as to the unwealthy character of the other tenants was thereby diminished at all. If the thieves read about the auction, they must also h^ve read that the owner of the collections which brought such " big monpy " was the chief editor of a prominent daily newspaper, and that he kept a body-servant continually guarding his door. They must have rated him as an entire exception to the ordinary inhabitants of such a prison, whose possessions offer, ostensibly af well as actually, no real temptation to a robber. It would be hard to name another lodging-house in the city where the very nature of things makes the danger of sneak-thievery so slight. Some of the same considerations which deter the lower order of criminals from attempting to prey upon the tenants of the Building deter also the higher order of criminals from becoming tenants there, as a means --f more secretly concocting their schemes for preying upon society in general. Such ivrds-of-a-feather, however nmch they may like to hide themselves from the iijservation of the police, are very generally inclined to flock together ; and they are undoubtedly wise in believing that such procedure offers them the best chance of individual concealment. A man of evil-conscience looks upon solitude as a supreme terror; he cannot endure continued isolation; " the pro- found gloom of the University would turn his brain." It is about the last place in the world, therefore, where a bad woman would consent to -seclude herself ; though the entire truthfulness (so far as practicability goes) of the story of "Cecil Dreeme's " concealment there shows that no other place ex- ■ 1 i :iH 1 ^Hl« 1 ; ■ ' ffl s l I • E s • 5' >. I«S 442 r£-vV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ists in the world where such seclusion coulr' be made so complete. This peculiar possibility often gives rise to considerable verbal banter, represent- ing each bachelor tenant as the proprietor of a sort of harem ; and a dis- reputable daily newspaper once went so far as to publish silly stories of this kind, with the serious " business " purpbse of impairing the influence of a rival sheet in local politics. As a matter of fact, however, there is probably no other public house in the city where the conditions of existence offer so few temptations to indulgence in that particular sort cf "immorality." Such women as are encountered here exhibit in a pre-eminent degree the supreme virtue of minding their own business. They give no occasion or pretext for any gossip or tittle-tattle or scandal, like that which is continually cropping out in every hotel or boarding-house. If, therefore, a bachelor resident of the University is disposed "to sport with Amaryllis in the shade," the chosen scene of such indulgence seems more likely to be the hotel or boardinu' house than his own mysterious home. Since, not being at hand, she must deP-Mtely be sought, it is manifestly more easy as well as more prudent thus to meet her on neutral ground, or even in her personal and private haunts than to escort or summon her to his own grim chambers. No difficulty exists in any city where a million of the human race are herded, to prevent a man and woman from livir.g togeth-. though unmarried, with entire privacy and concealment ; and no city of that size can maintain a hotel— whether large or small, magnificent or humble, fashionable or exclusive— in the possession ot machinery powerful enough to exclude such unwedded pairs. "The nature of things," ou the other hand, seems sufficient to exclude them from the Uni- versity ; for I can conceive of no place where the mutual wearisomeness which always ends that sort of relationship would be more quickly developed. Nevertheless, though a most unsuitable place for the keeping ot a mis- tress, the Castle might conceivably supply an acceptable home for the shelter of a wife, provided her tastes were unconventional enough to be in sympathy with such solitary surroundings. Many a lonely dweller here has doubtless dreamed wistfully of these as a charming background ior some new I'aul-and- Virginia business, wherein he himself might play a most delighted and de- voted part,—" the world forgetting, by the world forgot." Indeed, the dream may have been realized, for aught that I know to the contrary. I possess a vague impression that one or two married pairs have at times had a place among my contemporaries in the Building; but, if this were so, they m.. t have tired of it quickly, for I think that al ' - 'ong-term stayers are sinulc men. I recall, too, the fact that an acquaintanc jf mine, who came back to live here in his bachelor chambers, during the summer months while his wife took an outing in Europe, spoke regretfully of the hopeless gap between the two kinds of existence. He was haj in his married life, and was too gen- erous to wish to deprive his wife of suv.n happiness as she found in " society " ; but, he thought, "if madame might really be inspired to throw it all over- board, in order to share a free life with me in this peaceful solitude,-ah ! liiNi V -3 CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 443 that would be fine I " His notion was that such existence might continuously supply the same sort of zest which a man briefly secures by dragging his wife off to some remote mountain or wilderness or mining-camp, "where there are no other women around, to keep her neck tightly chained beneath the yoke of conformity." The inn and freedom of the mininged. In the same way that, as Winthrop said, " its publicity makes pnvatT," so does its unique capacity for the complete concealment of a w ,- -.n keep it singularly free from scandal. A bachelor resident has a Ilii 444 TEN THOUSAND M/LES ON A BICYCLE. serene consciousness that the inquisitive eyes which would watch his move ments m any lodging-house or "hotel, and the idle tongues which would there set afloat s.lly stories of his " undue attentions " to any women of the place towards whom he showed a chance kindness or civility, cannot exist in Z University. A married resident knows likewise that heTe his wife is nr^ tected not only from all such invidious gossip, but from all contact with o^ suggestion of the sort of social evil which that gossip represents I have quoted the published testimony of many witnesses to show that he outward appearance of the Building is apt to suggest the notion of . castle tothemmd of a stranger; but I do not consider this circumstance of an great importance except as a coincidence. " Walls do not a prison make " • and It IS not because of its stone turrets and battlements that I account my' home a castle. Donius sua cuujue est tutissimum refugium. " Every man's house," as Lord Chatham said, "is called his castle. Why? Because it i surrounded by a moat, or defended by a wall .> No. It may be a straw-built hut; the wind may whistle around it, the rain may enter it,-but the kin. cannot Personal freedom, in other words, is what is distinctively predi- cated by the "castle " simile ; and the place where the largest amount o, this IS attainable by any one is inside his own doorway. The largest amount which he actually obtains there is npt to be small, however; for. though it is the general habit of people to sp.ak ,.,f individual liberty as a thing supremely desirable, they are not generally ^vi:;.ng to pay the price which it costs. They may occasionally make sacrifues fo. a bnef taste of it, but, as a regular diet there are other things which better .uit theu- digestion. The ordinary ambi- tion of people is to complicate rather than to simplify the machi> ,ry of their lives, and the ordinary result of success is that they become slaves to the machme. They welcome to the control of the castle a tyrant more relentless than any law-defying king could ever have been, and they pay him most liberally for robbing them of the last shred and atom of privacy and inde- pendence. " Custom " is the admired Juggernaut under whose wheels thev long to be rolled until they become as flat and undistinguishable as a row of postage stamps. Instead of the old, heroic, ^^Ave ! Cctsar, Imperator I Mon- turt te salutant!" these self-immolating moderns seem to cry : " Hurrah for the R-«ther of the Sun ! Hurrah for the Father of the Moon I In all the wo-"'.! there's none like Quashlboo. IU.ffr.!„ of biftaioes ! Bull of bulls! He sit3 on a throne of his subjects' skulls. A- .1 .• he needs more to play at foot-ball, ours all for him— all ! all I H.igKabajee 1 Huggabajoo ! Hail, Lord and Emperor of Bugaboo I " The perfection of creature-comfort-the highest imaginable ideal of purely physical well-being and material ease-may be found in the great cowntry houses and the London mansions of the wealthy men of England. No set of tellurians at least can affect to despise them.' The descendants CM Adam, the world over, can show nothing better." As machines for the dispensing of hospitality, nothing so complete exists elsswhere on this planet I CASTLE SOLITUDE FN THE METROPOLIS. 445 The visitor is charmed and delighted with the admirably effective devices by which his personal ease and tranquillity are at all times ensured. Yet the chief feeling left upon my mind, by a contemplation of these wonderfully fine establishments, has always been one of pity for the mental serfdom which the elaborateness of their management necessarily entails upon the proud pro- prietors. The " castle " ideal is completely obiitera.cd. The ostensible own- ers have no right of initiative,— no power to gratify any personal freak or whim. The real rulers are the so-called servants, who lord it over the master and mistress with a rod of iron. The movements of the latter must be as unvarying as the movements of automatons, or the smoothness and harmony of the play will be spoiled. If the chief actors attempt to vary the monotony by interpolations in the traditional text, the people behind the scenes .-ing down the curtain, and the show is stopped. The lives of the wealthy seem Renerally like a sort of clock-work, run for the benefit of a vast body of vassals and retainers, whose comfort depends upon the regularity of tl-at running. No matter, therefore, how pronounced an individuality a man may have been given by nature, he is powerless to assert \l in the presence of this pervasive and uncompromising opposition. The mere dead-weight of numbers is against him. The combined interest which all his hirelings have, in keeping liim moving inside the conventional groove, finally conquers any impulse of his own to mova out of it. Their opposition— though silent, and passive, and respectful and decorous— is irresistible because of its supreme stolidity. Having no heat nor passion, it never flags nor tires ; and, after the master's collisions with it have been numerous enough to produce intellectual weari- ness, he always abandons the game as not worth the candle, and submits to the inevitable necessity of living in strict accordance with the ideal which his servants have marked out for him as correct. The certainty of such ultimate submission is shown by the old story of the coachman who, when asked to bring his master a pitcher of water, respectfully urged that such service was the proper function of the butler. " Being a reasonable man. the master admitted the conventional justice of this, and ordered bim to harness the horses and transport the pitcher-bearing butler to the well which was a few rods distant." If people laugh at the coachman's punishment, it is because they lack the philosophy to see that the master was the worse punished. The mental wear of thus asserting himself was far more annoy- ing to him than the slight physical labor was to his coachman ; and it is to be presumed that he either changed his policy or ended his life in an asylum. The highly-organized social system of England, with its strictly-defined grades and "classes," produces various creditable rssults ; but one of its most obtrusively characteristic results is the prominent development given to that unlovely trait in human nature which causes a man to fawn on those of his race who are classed above him, and to spurn those who are classed be- low. This is why the English are so stilted and strait-laced in their manners and personal Dehavior. " Self-suppression is the lesson which the system iil 446 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. constantly inculcates, by prerspt and by very strong example." If a man ex- pects to " get on," he must adapt his notions and conduct as closely as pos- sible to those of " the class just above "; and he is under the constant pressure of temptation to so conduct himself as to deceive others into thinking that he has " got on," in advance of the fact. No scheme could be better devised for producing artificiality and uniformity, and for concealing every trace of " nature " ; and if any Englishman, from the highest to the lowest, pro- fesses that he is not in some degree affected by this fundamental fact of his environment, he declares that he is more than human. In every civ- ilized country the struggle to "keep up appearances" absorbs most of the energy of the human race; but the conditions of existence in England cause the struggle to rage there with phenomenal intensity and obtrusive- ness. The inevitable compulsion under which each class imitates " its bet- ters," results, of course, in the transfer of the same ideal from the richest to the poorest. As the chief ambition of the wealthy is to own an establishment so vast that the machinery for managing it obliterates the owner's personality tha chief vanity of the very poor is to boast the abilitv to hire some one still poorer, for a "slavey," and to put their necks under the yoke of her caprice and inefficiency. No Englishman feels that he is quite respectable unless he makes his life in some way dependent upon- a social inferior whom he can nominally command,— unless he occasionally postures, in one guise or an- other, as "an employer."i The universal prevalence of this habit-of-mind is illustrated by the story (otherwise pointless) of a certain " literary discus- sion " in which the first speaker indignantly asks : " Do you suppose there 's any truth in the rumor that Lord Suchaplace didn't really write his recently published book of poems.' " and the second speaker says, with languid sur- prise : " Write 'em > Why should he ? I never heard that he was such a sfngy man. Of course he employed a servant to make the book for him." The joke implied in this matter-of-fact stripping off of the last shred of re- sponsibility, in a case essentially personal, is relished by everybody, because 'There is no nation in thr world that has so acute a sense of the value, almost the necessity, of wealth for human intercours" as the English nation. They silently accept the maxim, " A large income is a necessary of life"; and they class each other according to the scale of 'thc-r establishments, looking up with unfeigned reverence to those who have many servants, many hors.s, and gigantic houses wh-re a grent hospitality is dispensed. An ordinary Engiishman thmks he has failed in life, and his friends are of the same opinion, if he does not arrive at tho ability to imitate this style and state, at least in a minor degree. I think it deeply to '.e deplored that an expenditure far beyond what can be met by the physical or intellectual labor of ordinary workers should be thought necessary, in order that people may meet and talk in comfort. The big English house is a machine, which runs with unrivaled smoothness ; but it masters its m.ister, It possesses its nominal possessor. George Borrow had the deepest sense of the Englishman's slavery to his big, well-ordered dwelling, and saw in it the cause of unnumbered anxieties, often ending in heart-disease, paralysis, bankruptcy, and in minor cases sacrificing all chance of leisure and quiet happiness. Many a land-owner has rrippled himself by erecting a great house on his estate,— one of those huge, tastelesr buildings that express nothing but pompous pride.- " Human Intercourse," by P. G. Hamerton, p. 145 (Boston: Roberts Bros., i!i84, pp. 430). CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 447 eich one is secretly conscious of the many cases where he himself feels con- strained, for appearance's sake, "to employ a servan.," in doing what mig' t be more pleasantly and decently done by his own hands. I believe it was President Lincoln who remarked, in reference to the expressed amaiement of some titled foreigner, over a newspaper statement that the President some- times expedited matters by blacking his own boots : '* Well, I 've always n >ticed that the folks who are ashamed of doing any such proper act for themselves never have any scruples about blacking other people's boots I " Perhaps the unpleasant necessity of continually "truckling to the class above " needs the counter irritant of rigid adherence to the custom of " em- ploying some one below," as a means of preserving to the Briton his self- respect. M all events, he is apt to look with contempt upon all fellow-beings wlio habitually perform certain personal offices without paid assistance. Poverty or peniiriousness is the oniy explanation which he can assign for such conduct, — or for the use of water as a beveraqe. The drinking of "something better" seems, in its way, to the minds of "the lower classes," a token of affluence and "respectability." That belief, therefore, helps in- tensify their resentment of legal .estrictions upon such indulgence, and to giv" political potency to their cry : " Damn your eyes, if ever you tries to rob -s. poor man of his beer ! " ^he "globe-trotting "proclivities of the well-to-do English, which have wnn for them the title of " a nation of travelers," seem to me perfectly ex- piiincd I'N 'he necessity they labor under of seeking abroad an antidote for th'.'ir continuous self-.nuppre&sion at home. " The great distinction which rank ami money - btain in England must at timer grow unspeakably irksome to those who spend their lives in the midf,t of its society." Unless they had the outer world to wreak themselves upan — unless they could occasionally break away from the self-imposed and ever-present thralldom of living in oubjection to their servants — they would simply die from the cunnilative pressure of their own eminent respectability ! When last I sojourned in the shadow ot this, a decade ago, I ha f^r a companion an excelleot litt).- book (newly published then, by a Yale LiaJuate of '64) from which I 've already adapted a phrase or two, and from which I will now extract a longer paragraph, as well repre- senting my own observ.i'ions on the spot. I have italicized the sentence which seems to best for ulate the reason for the persona! colorlessness of "society people," in all ciwnes and countiies : 1 found everj-whcre 111 exi "^sive respect of the individual for the seniiment of the mass— I mtan in regard to behavior. I :. matters ot opinion there it greater latitude than with us. Now- adays a man in England may believe anything he chooses; the reason being, I suppose, that beliefs hav not much root or practical impr.;-tance. Authority seems to have left the domain of •.bought and literature, and 'o have invaded that of manners. Of the two sorts of t>Tanny, I think 1 should prefer the first. \ should rather be compelled to write my poetry in pentameters, and to .speak with respect of the Church and the Government, than to be forever made ,o behave as oth^r people dictate. I know Englishmen do not r.ccept this a« true of themselves. One of ■ t i, ! -, 448 TEA' THOUSAND Af/LIwS ON /i hlCVCLE. them, to whom I had hinted somethmg of the sort, said. " Oh, I don't know ; we do about . we pleane." Precisely; but they have lived so constantly in the eyes „f other people have . \ so used to conformmK, that they never think of wanting to do what «Kiety would disapprove nf Th,y havt been ,a m tlu hnbit 0/ suiduing whatewr fuUivt individuality they ^ss»ss that tlu, havt at Uut got rid 0/ ,t. Of course, it would Ije imjiossible to make them believe this The mistake their inattention, the hostile front they present to the world, and their indifference t the stnctures of foreigners when they are abroad, for real indei^ndence and a self-reliant a l" herence to nature. But there seems to me to be something conventional even about the ru.'ie and loungmg munners of which they are so proud, ft is like the " stand-at-ease " of soldiers It would be highly improper and contrary to orders to do anything else. Englishmen appeare I to me to be cr.tic.sing themselves away ; but the age everywhere partakes of the tendency I, has come to attach great importance to proper externals, to seemliness, to a dignified and harmo- nious behavior. We all demote an exceedingly particular and microscopic care to our outward walk and conversation. Tins is true of Americans, and it i, .rue of all educated English people but the disease reaches ,ts extremes, forr,. among Englishmen of f.ashion and qualitv -" Im' pressinns of London Social Life," by E. S. Nadal, pp. ,o-„ (New York : Scribners. ,875). The final words of the same book (pp. 217-223) seem al.so worth nuotin" here, as a correct showing of the social conditions which exist in the Amt-i- can metropolis. How such conditions are affected by aristocracy and bv democracy seems to me excellently shown by thus contrasting the two Kreat est cities of the Er.glish-speaking nee : There Is no society •,, New York which corre.p-.nds to tha, of London or Pari, and anv writer who aaemptsto make the idea that there is the keynote of his work will be likelv .! produce a sdly. vulgar book. Whether or no there .should be such societies, or whe.lL where they exist they do good or harm, I do not say. I only say that there is no such soeie,; among us, and that novelists should not wr„e as if there were. There are yet some unreasona- ble d.scnminafons concerning employments among us, but it is certain that the movement of public sentiment has been strongly and rapidly towards democracy. There was, during the earlv yeare of our existence, an approach to a nation.^] aristocratic society. A governor or a senator a ,udse, a commodore, or a general, was an aristocrat. Anybcnly who reflected or represented the d .-nity of the government was an aristocrat. This feeling continued till near the middle of the century, or un.,1 the second generation of statesmen had disappeared. It has now gone where the woodbine twine.h " to use the significant expression of the significant Jin. Fisk The extreme weakness of the aristocratic element among us at present is in part- in very small part-tp be explained by the want of respect in our people. A plain man in this country care, nothing for the man who is above him ; is rather proud, and believe, it to be a virtue that he does not care. Nor does it appear a thing to be regretted that such a state of mind exists in the humbler citizen towards the greater one. It is well .0 have A admire B, if he is a person of supenor rectitude, energy and intelligence. But what advantage will it be to society to have K admire B because B lives in a better house .nd may have a better dinner than A.' There IS no need to put the cart before the horse. The value of veneration among the masses of men IS obvious where they have anything to venerate. And there can be so want of the capacitv for respect among our people. It is absurd to call this " a country in which superiorities are -either coveted nor respected." The contrary is the fact; the few real superiorities that we have are, perhaps respected too much. The bulk of our reading public know enough to recog- mxe what IS excellent, but have no. the critical selfh.,. A ha, po....on therefore in hi, own town ; if he move, e!,ewhere he docs no. inevnaWy ,„L. .t wuh h,m. Now, .n very little and very si.nple com„,.nitios. the,* idea, of pcu on and ,r.Hedent arc most .mportant. In a very great place, on the other hand, few m^are Urge .. ..ugh .0 be seen over the whole town. A, a conscquoce, we see that New York i, ^rhan! ■ Ik. most democrat.c town in the country. It ha, become so .Inr.ns the year, in «h,ch t ha .., .. shoottng .nto a poK.t.on ,,f such national and cosmopohtan importance ,t i, now c u te ...K.rafc a place as the >nev,table varieties o'f acodent and talent among men will perm" t to b^ l...ar..r.ceofexdus.vene.ss which is sure to succeed .n a .mailer place. wTri he« ■„.p,e greatly de.s.re to do what they f.nd difficult to do. They do not cire at all to do what the^ .,.,w they n.ay do. Accordmgly. ,n a town or cty of m.Klerate size, the people who wish to b .0,,,,. better than the.r ne.,hl.rs, and who have son.e li.t.e adva,ua,e to's.ar, with, ar^ wile': Uq, ,0 themselves. Ihey thus prevent their neighbors from finding out that the excluded and .lu- ..xclu.s,ves arc ,ust alike. They hav- for their ally that profound wan, of confidence of ordi- ..... V l-cople m the.r own perceptions, liut this is a device which will not do in a city of the size m.l u ,.k-nach,ng m„v,rtance of New York. What will the mover of commerce or politics over .I..- f.,ce of the country care f„r the opinion of the gentlewon,an around the corner, who thinks him v..U..r. Ihu, we see ,t to be impossible that any dominant society may exist in this coontrv 1 h. recognition of ,h,s fact should teach quiet to people inclined to be restless. It need not be .n.w.kom. to the friend of man, for he will ren.ember that democracy doe, not mean the ,ri- "n„ I, of u„l,ty over d.gn.ty and refinement, but that i, means dignity ..nd refinement for the n,.u,y. Wr.ters of ficon n,ay regret ,he want of div, , si.y and picturesqueness which the fact HuoUes, bu, „ ,s always well to know the truth ; if ,l„,v desire to avoid vulgarity and the waste .f such opportur.mes as they have, they must heed it. To make men and women interesting as members of society ,s denied them ; but should these writers have the wit to paint men and w..r,en as they are the field is wide enough. There are on all sides people who are charming ! . contemplate, and whom it should be a ple-Lsure to describe. The social life of America is ruled l,y the .servants, jt.st as relentlessly as tl.at of 'ngland, but the tyr.inny takes a somewhat different .shape on ac- count of the changed environment. They rule here by their insoletice and wonhlessness (the result of a happy-Ro-hicky consciousness of ability to earn a livelihood, and "perhaps better their chances," whenever discharged by an employer), and not, as in England, bv the mechanical perfection of their de portment. An Knglishman's servatits are so proper and punctilious that tiKv constrain h.m to perform his appointed function in the social machine wuh .similar correctness and solemnity; but an American's are so pert and untrustworthy-so likely to desert him as soon as he has drilled them to a fa.r dc-rec of efficiency, or stands in special need of their services-that thev prevent the construction of any elaborate social machine ^vhatever. I am .iwarc, of course, that the non-cvi.stence of such a thing in the Western World IS due, in a broad sense, to the sweep of democracv. There is simply no place for it in our free system of living, as is well shown bv the writer whom I have just quoted. But as the impossibility of procuring a perma- nent rctmuc of personal servitors-a set of well-trained menials who can al- ways be depended upon to operate a complicated system of housekeeping without jar or friction-is itself a direct result of the one-man-'s-as-good-as- another axiom, I think it right to make a point of asserting this one imme- J.atcly i^r^actical part of the argument, in preference to the whole general \ s-r., \ i v^ 45° TK.\' THOUSAND Af/LfwS ON A lilCYCU:. truth. I know that, among the wtaltliv, there may l>c orcasionally found .1 family whose womankind are gifted with such an unusual amount ol imui five tact, coml)ine(l with kindness of heart, that they compel "the servant question" to assume much the same sfttK-d ])hase which it has in the home of a well-to-do Englishman. I know that, among the multitude of luxurious- ly-appointed houses in this rich city, a few may be found whose smoothmss of " movement " seems permanently assvircd, in spite of the tlemocratic rest- lessness which |)crvades the very atmosphere. Nevertheless, I helicv u may be s.ifely assumed that, wherever two Americin matrons meet togtiher inuler coiulitii' is favorable to an unreserved conversation, a prominent pluct in it will alim)st always be given to the trials and tribulations experienced at the hands of their "help." Like "politics" in the case of a pair of men similarly situated, this is one of the stock subjects to talk about, atopic which may be i)resumed to challenge the interest and sympathetic attention of every housekeeper,— a " burning question" which in some degree embit- ters every such woman's life. If hotels and boarding-houses here attraita larger proportion of families than in Kngland, it is not because the ])riv.u y and C(miforts of a home are prized less here than there. It is simplv be- cause our womankind bieak down under the strain and serfdom resulting from the effort to get any efticicnt service out of the only class available for household hire: the ignorant and ill-trained domestics of an alien raet. Whether the scale of the mt^nat^e implies the presence of only one scrv.int, or of a full dozen, the result is the same : the mistress of it is subjected u< constant annoyance and anxiety, until at last she " gives it up," and takes her husband an! children to a hotel.' Hotel-life, in its turn, produces a sort of constraint analogous to that which crushes an English householder in the presence of his servants, but without the compensation which he enjoys in dignity and privacy and re- pose. Whoever inhabits a house to which another fainily besides his own may have access is always exposed to the danger of contact with jjcojilc whose presence is disagreeable, whose acquaintanceship is undesirable, whose evil tongues produce gossip and backbiting, and whose evil acts result in •A few days after this paragraph was put in tj-pe, I came across a confirmitinn of it in .1 let- ter conccminc; " South -Co.ist Living in Engl.ind." It w.-is written in Devonshire, August 8; and, as New Yorkers will generally recognize the writer as an entirely competent witness, on account of his extensive international experiences, I am glad to quote the paragraph whirh coa- cems my argument : " In America we are very fond of boasting of our sujicrior cntnfnrf, Iiut this consists in our having houses proWded with every convenience and structural f.icility for comfort, in which, except for large incomeS; real comfort is out of the question, for want of gorm oi' incrca ed rent, or .f .1 transfer of the building to other owners or uses. These transfers in \\ w York are so continuous,— the ebb and flow of particular cla.s.ses of the po|iulation is so erratic,— that even if a man purchase a mansion, instead of mirily hiring apartmei.is, "in a genteel neighborhood," the fact of pro- pri.t.Tship gives no i)lcdgc of an extended stay there. A band of railway rolilurs may suddenly despoil him of his repose, ..r other invincible invaders mav ol)literate every trace of "gentility " from his surroundings. All additional social danger (which threatens the pride of permanent tciKUK y, if not the fact itself) results from the great length of the residence strt CIS, which stretch across the island in unbroken cast-and-west jiarallels, iKiiu river to river,— a distance of two full miles. I have already explained! in describing the topo.;ra[)hy of the city (p. 65), that there arc more than fifty su. li .streets (numbered successively northward from 7th st. to 5yth st.) be- twon Washington Scpiare and C'entral Park, H distance of two and a half miles, but that distinctive residential "cl-racter" attaches chiefly to the longitudinal thoroughfares of the island, .- lich are called " avenues," and which are also parallel (ip a north-and-sc. th direction, at distances' vary- in;; from a fifth to a tenth of a mile), and which therefore intersect the "striets " at right angles. Fifth Avenue, the center or backbone of the sys- tem, has none but wealthy people for residents, while the houses of Twelfth Av.-nuc, its westernmost parallel, an 1 of Avenue I), its easternmost, on the opposite water-fronts, shelter none but very poor people. Each of the fifteen other parallel avenues between these extremes has a more-or-Iess generally recignized "character" of its own; though there are, of course, great con- trasts between specific sections of the same avenue, that lie four or five miles apart. Nevertheless, the numbered ca.st-and-west streets of the metropolitan "gridiron " are the ones that contain the vast bulk of our well-io-do people; while, as the " character lines " are drawn across them at right angles by the "avenues" (of greatly varying reputations), no single " street " can hope to have a uniform "character" for its whole two miles,— such as is accredited to Fiftli Avenue's straight stretch of thrice that distance, from Washington Square to the Harlem. Hence results the social peril alluded to in the open- ing words of my paragraph: that the numerous people quite the reverse of "nice," who must of necessity occupy numerous houses at the river ends of -mm U?^o IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // "^ // ^^ ^^% :/. ,.v v^ t/. <^ f/. 1.0 l.i 1.25 1^ Ua 1^ IM .2 Illim U 11.6 6' y] vQ *;. '^ Sdences Corporation ^ ^^v ,v \ \ [\^. ^ ;v Q> -^^o- 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. MS80 (716) 872-4503 ^ b- s 4S2 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A niCVCLE. each of these streets, will so conduct themselves as to give its distinctive numeral " a bad name." New Yorkers themselves may know, in such a case. that the central section of the street (to which the bisecting line of Fifth Ave- nue gives character and dignity) has a longer row of handsome houses, than are usually comprised in the whole of a fashionable street in London'; and that none but the most eminently respectable of residents are to be accred- ited to those houses. New Yorkers may know that proximity of a doorway to Fifth Avenue is denoted by the lowness of its number (i, 2, 3 and the like), and proximity to the water-side by a high number, like 600 or 700. But oj. siders do not know these things, nor make any discrimination when they read the newspapers' appetizing stories of metropolitan vice and crime. A given street sometimes gets a sudden shove into national notoriety in this manner- and though fashionable folks may not feel forced to change their abodes on account of the evil deeds done in another neighborhood, many blocks away, the fact that such things are proclaimed as happening in " our street " must prove a bar to the development of much affection or enthusiasm for the pai- ticular numeral which represents it " Thirtieth Street," for example, is rather endeared to me personally because of a certain fine house there whose elegant hospitality has for twenty years been extended to me with un- varying kindness. The owner had built and occupied it, ten years or more before I knew him, at a time when the site seemed very far " up town." At first, indeed, I believe the house stood almost isolated between the Avenue and Broadway, though its individuality was soon swallowed up in the undis- tmguUhable mass of "solid front " which has long connected the two. No doubt, the other houses in this front may be filled with treasures just as fine, and possibly some of the owners may have lived there nearly as long, in spite of the temptation to follow the wave of fashion that through all these years has been ever receding northward. But though " Thirtieth Street "thus privately appeals to me as a shining example of the truth that the possession of wealth does not inevitably debar a New Yorker from having a permanent home of his own, "Ihirtieth Street," as projected on the mind of a casual reader of the newspapers, carries a definite suggestion of crime and ill-repute. In the western section of that street stands the " police station-house of the 29tb precinct," and the captain in command thereof is more talked about, for whatever reason, than any similar officer of the entire force. This excep- tional notoriety he is said to attribute to the exceptional difficulties inherent in his position,— as a result of the fact that within the limits of the region un- der his sway are included a majority of the great hotels and theaters, and (as their inevitable accompaniment) a large number of those resorts where the people who have been attracted to the hoteh and theaters, from all parts of America, like to go "in search of whom they may be devoured by." Thus it happens that, as a vast floating population, of the sort which practitioners of "the profitable vices" best like to prey upon, always demand police at- tention, either for control or defense, within the boundaries of " the 29th," CASTLE SOUTUDE IN THE METROPOUS. 453 the name of the street containing its station-house suffers somewhat by fall- ing under the shadow of their wickedness. But the name of the great cen- tral artery of the street system stands superior to all iu offshoots, and the fact that it alone is held so high above reproach tempts me to quote the fol- lowing description, recently written by Joseph H. Howard, jr. : Whenever a house U for sale or rent m Fifth Avenue iu ««dent. feei a profound interest ■n the chanicter of the inmate, that are to be. They dread lest the mansion may be converted .0 unworthy uses; lest they may be hourly shocked by a plebeian neighbor who is what they fiemselves were twenty years, or five years, or perhaps a few months before. Their vigilance >s sleepless m tLJ. rfgard; still they have often been compelled to buy out commo, tradesmen and ambitious courtesans, and enterpiising blacklegs, who had purchased an abiding place in the socially sacrod vidnage. It is the habit of New Yorkers to style Fifth Avenue the first street in America. So far as wealth and extent and uniformity of buildings go, it probably is. beginning at Washington Square, it extends above Harlem ; and as far as Fifty-ninth Street, it is almost an unbroken line of brownstone palaces, while from that point up its magnificence' is marvelous. The architecture is not only impressive, it U oppressive. Its great defect is in its monotony, which soon grows tiresome. A variation, a ocntrast— wmethin; nuch less orroUe or elabor-te— would be a relief, iu lack of enclosures, of ground, of grass-pUts, of gardens, is a visual vice. Block after block, mile upon mile, of the same lofty brownstone, high stoop, broad-suired fronts wearies the eye. It is like the perpetual red brick, with white steps aild white door and window facings for which Philadelphia has become proverbial. One longs in the avenue for more marble, more brick, more iron, more wood even— some change in the style and aspects of the somber-seeming houses, whose occupants, one fancies from the exterior, look, think, dress and act alike. One might go, it appears, into ajy drawing-room between Central Park and the old Washington Parade Grouinl, and he would be greeted with the same forms, see the same gestuies, hear the same speeches. The stately mansions give the impression that they have all dreamed the same dream of beauty the same night, and in the morning ha/e found it realiied ; so they frown sternly upon one another, for each has what the ether wished, antJ should have had alone. The slavish spirit of imiution with poverty of invention has spoiled the broad thoroughfare, where we should have had the Moorish and Gothic, Ionic and Doric order, Egyptian weight and Italian lightnes-s Tudor strength and Elizabeth picturesqueness. It is a grievous pity that where there is so much money there is so little taste. The sum of Fifth Avenue wealth is unquestionably far beyond that of any street in the country. The dwellings cost more ; the furniture and works of art are more expensive ; the incomes of the in- mates are larger and more prodigally spent than they are anywhere else on the continent. The interior of the houses U often gorgeous. Nothing within money's purchase, but much that per- fect taste would have suggested, seems omitted. There are few of the mansions that do not re- veal something like tawdriness in the excess of display. The outward eye is too much ad- dressed. The profusion is a trifle barbaric. The subtle suggestions of complete elegance are not there. Still, to those who have suffered from the absence of material comfort, or to those whose temperaments are voluptuous and indolent, as most poetic ones are, a feeling akin to happiness? must be bom of the splendid surroundings that belong to the homes of the Fifth Avenue rich. What soft velvet carpets are theirs; what handsome pictures; what rich cur- tains ; what charming frescoes ; what marbles of grace. Thi people who live side by side in the pretentious avenue know each other not. Knickerbocker and parvenu, the inheritor of wealth and the architect of his own fortune, the genuine genUeman -and the vulgar snob, reside in the same block. One house is visited by the best and most distinguished ; the house adjoining by men who Ulk loud in suicidal syntax, and vromen who wear hollyhocks in their hair, and yellow dresses with pink trimmings. Here dwells an author whose works give him a large income ; over the way, a fellow who has a genius for money-getting, but who cannot solve the mysteries of spelling. Some of the most spacious and expensive mansions on the avenue M »;*« r ^'■ 454 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. i|-flt:' lif'-l alway* have a deserted look. Only the occupanU and »erva.U8 appear on the 'aigh, carved stoop ; only the carriages the master of the esublishment owns stop before the door. Thai family purchased a house in the avenue, but society has not accepted its members. They have noihing but a new fortune to recommend tl.em. They must bide their time. The fimt genera tion of the unrecognized fares hard. The second is educated and the third claim* '.ineage— prates of " gentility," and frowns upon what it.- grandparents were. To get into the aven le and into its society are different things. They who struggle to enter certain circles are not wanted. Those who are indifferent to mere fashion are in request ; for r .t to seek, socially, is usually ti be sought. Fifth Avenue is, indeed, one of the phenomena, and its growth one of the extraor- dinary developments of this peculiar age.— N. V. cor. of '.ne Philadelphia Press, May 14, ,885 Thus, through this famous Avenue, my pen at last comes back to the curious Cast'.e which stands at the head of it, and which I wish to celebrate for the contrast which the freedom attainable within its walls offers to the " servitudp to servants " that generally prevails elsewhere. Though there may be some who actually enjoy personal contact with that sorf of people, it can be fairly assumed that the majority would prefer to employ any practi- cable mechanical appliance to effect the same resu'ts. The majority recog- nize that the employment of the human machine is an evil, but they resort to it as an inevitable necessity, — because no substitute is obtainable for properlv performing the, drudgery of civilized life. When their servitude to this " necessary evil " grows absolutely unendurable from long continuance, they " make a break for the woods," and adopt a savage life for a while,— camp- ing out and "doing their own work,"— or else they rcsor^ to travel, which, though it implies a great deal of dependence upon menials, at least frees the relationship from the personal element : no single one of; them wields supreme power. A variety of gams, of course, results both from "the visiting of many cities " and from " roughing it in the wilds " ; but the chief gain possi- ble from either experience is the relief offered from wearing the yoke of conformity. It is only while freed from the routine tyranny of his own house that a man can afford to be his simple self, to live naturally, to do just what he likes, to speak his own mind. When I assert, therefore, that a tenant of the University may there secure for himself continuously either the absolute isolation of a savage in the wilderness, or the relative isolation of a traveler through the cities,— that he may there approximate the ideal of intellectual independence exactly accord- ing to the degree of his willingness to sacrifice creature comforts and con- ventional luxuries, — I assert what can be truly said of no other house in the world. This statement of its distinctive quality shows, of course, why the Building makes so strong an appeal to those who can sympathize with the cr}- of Shelley : " I will submit to any other species of torture than that of being bored to death by idle ladies and gentlemen." The conveiitional escape which is allowed an active young New Yorker of wealth and fashion from this sort of conventional ♦orture, is "the running of a cattle ranch out in Montana." His frivolous friends do not resent as a personal affront such scurrying away for "the plains," and he may even print a book like " Hunt- CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 455 ing Trips of a Ranchman " without rousing their languid consciousness to the fact that its existence is a significant tribute to their own utter uninteresting- ness. They will be apt to act differently, however, if, instead of hidi.ig from them amid the mountains of Washir.gton Territory, " where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound save his own dashings," he ventures to pitch his lonely camp upon the castled crag that frowns o'er the wide acres of Washington Square. There, his seclusion seems re.idered more profound by the muffled roar of a mighty cit\ , traffic which ceaselessly rolls its human tide along the great ...oroughfares beyond ; and there, without the expense, and waste, and discomfort demanded by a sojourn in the Far West, he may " rough it " to his heart's content. But there, also, such unsocial conduct will be stigmatized as " crankiness " by the fine ladies and gentlemen who may chance to hear of it ; — for the notion of his permanently " camping out " in the midst of a great city, and leading the free and unsophisticated life of a gentle savage, in preference to taking part in their own " chromo civilization " which surrounds him, is a notion of such direct and unequivocal contempt for their authority that the sting of it has power to penetrate even the dense vanity and stolid self-complacency of such "social leaders." I entertain a theory as to a certain little room in the University, which is of about the size and shape of a hunter's hut, that the bachelor owner thereof never lets another human being enter it ; that h n.s no carpet, nor easy chairs, nor bed nor bed-clothing; and that, when he spends a night in the den, he throws himself into a hammock, pulls a bear-skin or buffalo-pelt over his usual attire, for the sake of warmth, and, with a pistol-holster under his head for a pillow, gazes at the stars above the tree-tops until his closed eyes bring dreams of "old times among the Rockies." I imagine that he has a few grimy paintings and dusty war-relics for ornaments, and a few well-worn books for companions ; and that he takes pride in the cobwebs and dirt and disorder which characterize his abode, — rejoicing daily at the tangible testi- mony which they give of the uninterruptedness of his occupancy, and of the powerlessness of any menial intruder to " arrange " his possessions accord- ing to some cast-iron system of propriety. I h.ow nothing at all of the life led by this man, or by any other one of my co-^jartners in the Castle. I only say that the sort of existence which I have at ributed to him would be entirely practicable here, and would attract no notice or comment. If a " society man " never really indulges in it, it is merely because he doe» not esteem such indulgence worth the sacrifice of all his fashionable affiliations; — be- cause he deems it cheaper to get the same kind of thing by "roughing it" under the conventional conditions which do not arouse the resentment of the stay at-homes of Fifth Avenue. He knows that " on the plains of the Far West " he can " run his own ranch " without seeming to them ridiculous or " cranky "; but he hardly has nerve enough to attempt the same experiment in their immediate presence, on the plains of Washington Square. Most men, however, even among those who hate conformity, do not care ;,Cl ill 4S6 TEN THOUiiAND MILES ON A lilCVCLE. o make the sacrifice impHed in securing complete independence from tV . mployment of household servitors. They are satisfied if they cln hold h latter at arm's length, in an impersonal relationship, such as resu hTfrom hi constant changes .mplied in traveling. The resources of modern sc e„« a, low a resident of the University to do this with a near approach to dp ct ' ness. If he .s w.lhng. at the outset, to expend as much upon the fittings ad permanent machmcry of his apartments as would suffice to purchase a «ood sued house m the country, he may enjoy a fair degree of 'comf or or'evet luxury, wuhout the loss of liberty .hich such enjoyment usually impH^s ,f he IS wulmg to put in water-works, telephones, electric-lights, fireplace chimneys, e evators, floorings, doors, windows and walls (all th;se without' any written lease and without any assurance, save the mere v. ,wJof h place, that h.s " improvements " will nof be made a pretext .or an C"1X hi. rent, or the transfer of his chambers to some one els.), he may fai I'y "u L ply the more obtrusive physical deficiencies of a house that has been stani mg for a half-century. that was built chiefly with a view to sec mt mprcssiveness of outward aspect, and that was not designed to be lived i at all. A man may readily arrange that a washer-woman shall bring a. d k his clothes withou^t entering his door, or even setting eyes on him ne o„ t He may adopt a similar scheme in reference to the waiters whom he summons by telephone rom a restaur..nt to bring him food or drink. He may ™ ti'ons th'? °? r"'" :'° "'^" ^"^ '^'^ ^^'^^' °^ °pp— him lith :;: tions that are not desired. The nnii,-P fh.c, i , , "" > aucn ucsiicu. me police, the fire alarm and the messenger s^rv in'oZ r?' '° his immediate command by the touchTng Zkno T In other words, if a man o. wealth thinks it worth while, it is entirely practi neonieT .T '^""""'^ '"^ ^ "'^^"^ "^ ^'^''^'^ "^^ "layemploy a g 'tma people to help h,m carry on quite an elegant and elaborate sysL oT iX but m a quite impersonal way.-I mean without the friction and a.iL a ce' of direct contact and acquaintanceship. Perhaps no such man eve does „ act ead such a life here. All I insist upon is t'hat the cond tionlex st he ^ for leading it. as they exist nowhere else, and that the fact o X^^^, would excite no observation or comment. ^ Pungent fumes from the chemical experiments in the laboratories mav sometimes ascend the stairwavs hnf ^^-u- •» i"c laooratones may life as the odor If TJl Z^t' u "^ '" suggestive of ordinary human life as the odor of food will often be encountered there or in the connecting corridors. No cooking goes on in the Building, except that of he anU or" mall «..«^., ,„ the subterranean regions; and it is only on great oica ion mg hou.es. of all styles and prices, may be found with-n a half-mile radius so" t" ::U^s^ '7''V\ ''' ^^^''^ "'^y ^^ P— '^ ^o take mos^of tt' of them h. . u "■' '■'^"'"'■'y ^'"""g^' •" '° ^he chambers of some to suZ'onTnVhT "^ " '""" '^'^P*^^"^ ^°""-^'- - ^-^t use it indornr r 7" ' "'"' '"'"'' °^ '^' ^^y' whenever bad weather or indolence disposes them to avoid the trouble of going out. The janitor, in CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 457 addition to his regular salary for general services, is paid a certain small per- centage on the rents, as a device for stimulating his activity and promptness ip making the quarterly collections thereof; but the power of this stimulus is more than offset by a stimulus of the opposite sort,— an incentive to dila- toriness,- which attaches to the fact that the janitor's income is much more largely affected by his success ia persuading tenants to employ his servants. He generally succeeds in impressing each ne-v-comer that it is an unwritten law of the place that they should be thus employed ; and, as it is easier for the new-comer to submit to the existing scheme than to devise a substitute for it, I suppose that most of the lodgers' rooms are ca'ed for in this way : thaf is, the janitor is paid a fixed monthly stipend for the services of his' servants, and is held responsible for their efficiency and honesty. At a cer- tain hour of the day they have access to the tenant's rooms and " put things in order " there ; but he exercises no personal authority over them, and, if their routine work is not .satisfactory, his complaint is not made to them per- sonally but to their employer. The wages which the janitor agrees to pay his servants being necessarily a fixed quantity, whether they have many or few rooms to care for, it is evidently for his interest that the number should be many rather than few. Thus it comes about that the janitor's percentage on the promptly-paid rent of a tenant who renders no tribute to him for servants, is of much less account than his profits in leasing these servants to a tenant who promptly pays the monthly stipend agreed upon, but who indefinitely postpones the payment of the rent due to the trustees of the University. I entertain a dreadful suspicion that, when the natural effects of this enlightened system are unpleasantly obtruded upon the minds of the latter, they are apt to decide that the exaction of increased rents, againct those per- inaner.t tenants who can be depended on to pay, is an easier device for "bringing up the average receipts " than the pursuit of hopelessly delinquent " transients." Perhaps I am wrong in this suspicion, as well as in tae one on which it is based (that the janitor's zeal in enforcing the law against such de- linquents is apt to be somewhat modified by the natural human desire "not to tike the bread out of his own mouth ") ; but, in any case, I must accredit the janitor with a great gift, akin to genius, for persuading people of the ap- palling dangers which overhang the existence of a tenant who declines to employ the regular servants of the University. Even the traditional Phila- delphia lawyer never rende.ed himself a more perfect master of the trick, which Demosthenes used to tell us about, as the characteristic one of the legal fraternity in his time, of " making the worse appear the better reason." If a prospective tenant finally forces out the unwelcome truth that private servants are not positively prohibited from entering these walls, the admission is coupled with such significant shrugg^ngs of shoulders, such dark hints of past misdeeds, and such dreadful suggestions of future peril, as to make a man feel that the employment of them here would be a sort of irnpiou? defi- ance of Providence,— a fool-hardy exposure of his life, his fortune and his 3'jm 458 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. sacred honor. He is somehow given to understand, without any ex?ct verbal formulation or assertion of the idea, that the pervasive gloom of the Univer sity has a subtle power to develop a morbidly thievish— not to say murderous —tendency in the minds ot such servitors as he might elsewhere rely upon as trust-.vorthy and kind ; and that no comfort or safety can, therefore, be ex- pected, unless he entrusts his chambers to the care of those competent do- mestics who are under th; responsible rule of the janitor, and who have been trained by this, and by habit and custom and experience, to resist the evils •vhich are inherent in so peculiar an atmosphere. There is enough truth on the surface of this theory to make it plain tliat a majority of the tenants act wisely in refraining from the introduction of a troop of special servants into the Castk, to prey upon themselves and their neighbors. I should regret the general adoption of any such system and should deprecate its dangers. The present plan ensures as good service as the average man is willing to pay for; and I would not recommend any new-comer to depart therefrom. It will certainly be wise for him, at the outset, to " make himself solid with the jan- itor," even though he may not share that worthy's conviction that the rob- beries, suicides and sudden deaths, sometimes noted in the newspapers as happening at the ; Building, are, in some occult way, ultimately due to the non-exclusion from its walls of all valets, body-servants and " private sweeps " except those controlled by himself. " The mighty concierge " is classed hostis humani generis, by the writers of all highly-civilized countries, just as universally as the subscription-book agent, or the patent-medicine pedlar; and the extract given below f.om the testimony of a recent witness (who prints more than a solid column to show "why the Parisian press sneer a.id mock at the candidacy of M. Aube be- cause he is a concierge") would be fairly applicable to the janitors of' the fas!.ionable apartment-houses in New York.i It would be quite unjust, how- ' Do not mistake this for a pleasantry. The concierge rules as autocratically over his king- dom as ever did any Russian Czar over hi, empire before the emancipation of the serfs and the invention of N.h.hsm. A great change has been made from the olden time when Cerberus in- habued a hole m the wall, as it were ; mended old boots and pieced ancient garments, while his spouse did odd jobs for tenants, and his olive-branches went of errands. While all the rest of Pans tends toward democratization, the concierge goes in for " aristocratization. " Like all func- tionaries, he has a supreme contempt for the public. He considers the tenants oi the dwelling which -.e manages ' as his subordinates, and you need no more expect civility from him than you o " T * ^°i ''• °' """ conductor of an omnibus, or a railway official, or an employ^ at the Pans Post Office. Nothing can convince him that he is rot the absolute master of every lodger. I represent, he says, the landlord, and as such have rull authority to let the premises to raise the rent, and to give warning. Tt is he who elaborates the " rules of the house," and it IS he who has invented the interdiction of dogs, children, and canary birds, an interdiction which IS only revocable at his good pleasure. And try to be on good terms with him, for he ha, at his dispo^l ways and means by which, if your emente be not c^diaU, your life will become a burden He will keep the door unopened for ,ou on a rainy day. he will invariably tell your fnends that you are not at home, he will shake his carpet over your head as you descend the staircase, and mflict upon you a thousand petty annoyances against which you have no redi^ss, CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE AfETROPOLfS. 459 cYcr, to confound with them 'he janitor of the University Building; and mjr quotation concerning the insolence and tyranny which must br submitted to at the hands of the others is chiefly designed to point by contrast his own relative politeness — and powerlessness. Though I >-ave hinted on a previous page that he may not always rise entirely superior to the distinguishing trait of his class, I am bound to add that he seems to be about as unique a phe- nomenon among janitors as tht Huilditig is among buildings. At all events, he is the only one I ev;r heard of, in any part of the world, in whoT. the usual strictly sordid and mercenary motives ars sometimes si^pianted by sentimental considerations as a basis for conduct. Th: janUur takes a per- sonal pride in the plact-, rot merely because he t.as lOr fifietii years person- ally helped maintain it " in the fronc rank of American universities" (with his name in the annual catalogue), but because he is vaguely conscious that its queerness as a lodging-house reflects a sort of personal distinction upon himself. He feels that no other janitor lives in so scholarly and mysterious and historic an atmosphere, or comes in suc' close contact with so many cu- rious and remarkable charactt is. According to the familiar principle, ootm/ igiiotutn pro magnifico, he learns io reverence those who will not submit to him. He points with a kind of hiish'id -nd awe-struck pride it ^hcse tenants who have asserted conr.plete independence of his authority, as if he would say, " What other janitor in New York can exhibit such tine specimens of crankiness and eccentricity?" He e.falts no one to this pantneoii, however, until the last conceivable device for aolding him dov/n 10 the icv«'l of ordi- nary mortals has been tried in vain. Reversing the maxim of Richelieu, Kis policy might perhaps thus be fairly formulated : " Fiiit, employ all means to crush ! " " Failing these ? " " All methods to conciliate ! " The janitor is quite loyal to the under/:;! aduates ; and when each depart- ing class of them (after having been for four years summoned to their daily recitations by his hourly beatings of the gong ; and after having, for that period, tormented him by the tricks and skylarking customary with such youth) present him or his wife with a gift of silver-ware or jewelry, as a final for to your complaint he will reply that it was " purely an acddent independent of his will." rnie, you can retaliate, but I am not sure that you will come off first best. And it is • .ot the concierge's ability to cause petty annoyances wiiirh constitutes his importance. In his hands he holds your credit, your reputation, your fortune, and your honor. Should you undertake any business enterprise it is of the concierge that is asked information of your standing ; shou'd you have any difficulty with Dame Justice, he is the first authority appealed to for proofs of your honorableness ; should you change your tailor, it is your concierge to whom will be put the question of your solvency. Everything depends upon your relations with this autocrat, who will giv" a certificate for the Prix Montyon to the blackest of scoundrels, or ruin the standing of an honest man, according to the degree of generosity of the individual. Last weik, a concierge was sentenced to a hea-y fine and sixteen days in jail for defamation of character, but few per- sons are brave enough to risk the scandal which that suit caused, when the plaintifTs character was torn to shreds by the defendant's counsel ; and so people go on and let themselves be bled and blackmailed.— Paris correspondence (Sept. 25) of the New York Timet, Oct. 12, 1884, p. 5. ^ m mn 460 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. testimonial of good-will, he is always equal to the occasion. I mean thai he makes it an ixcuse for "treating" the class to a "reception " whose ex- pensivc-iess must consider »bly exceed the mere money value of their gift, and whose chief feature is a " speech of acceptance," giorifying this latest class as superior to all its distinguished predecessors. The janitor rather pride i himself, indeed, on his oratorical powers, and as these hav5 given him a sort of reputatio . among the local political managers, he not unfrequently figu.es at their autumn " campaign rallies " in the thickiy-settled region below ihe ^u.ire. I believe this is the only vanity he ever indulges in out- side the Buildinj; and except during these brief seasons of shouting the praises of his party (which is the " G. O. P.," opposed to " R. R, R."), he may always be found there at evening time, ready to bar its doors against' the outside work!, promptly on the stroke of 10. Portraits of his admired polit- ical leaders form a prominent feature in the adornment of the walls of his office, but he is not an " offensive partisan " to any such extent as the Parisian concierge, who suppresses all political circulars' and newspapers which he does not wish his tenants to read, and who takes care to keep them fully sup- plied with the liteiature of his own party. Dwellers in the University, on the other hand, nqcd not allow any of their mail-matter to be submitted to the janitor's inspection, for the government postmen are instructed to make direct deliveries at the separate chambers of all who express a wish to that effect. In this way also it is distinguished from an ordinary apartment-house or^ hotel, for there the postal deliveries are all made at the main office. . * In enumerating the physical shortcomings of the place, which the tenant must rem ly at his own expense if he wishes to live with much comfort or elegance, I have noted by implication the general absence of what are called " modern improvements." The absence of any general means for heating or "elevating " serves the good purpose, however, of lessening the dangers of fire. These are already so considerable that the underwriters attach a high rate of insurance to the building ; and if it were to be " improved " by steam pipes and an elevator shaft, its dry wooden floors and staircases would doubt- less soon disappear oefore the flames. Such a disaster would not be likely to imperil the life of a tenant in the main structure,— for, in the improbable case of both its stairways burning simultaneously at the bottom, with such suddenness as to forbid descent, he could still ascend to the roof, and thence easily jump down to the roofs of the houses which adjoin each wing. If, however, a fire should start at the foot of the narrow stairway of either of these wings, it would be apt to leap almost instantly to the top of the tower (induced by the draft which a window kept constantly open there would en- sure), and thus shut off all chance of the tenants' escape, unless thty were able to lower themselves from the outer windows to the street below. In other words, these wings are distinctively death-traps, though they were orig- inally designed to serve as elegant abodes for the Chancellor and Vice Chan- cellor of the University, and were the only parts of it thought fit to live in. CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 461 I myself would not sleep in one of them for a single night without a fire- e^icape by my bedside (I keep one, in fact, even in my own much safer cham- bers) ; and the general hopelessness of saving any property from destruction. Ml case a fire should once get fairly started in any part of the Caiitle, may well serve as a barrier to prevent a cautious man from risking his treasures in it. A lazy one will likewise do well to think twice before he pitches his c.imp where access can only be gaimd by the ascent of n-rarly one hundred steps; for the best apartments — like so many other best things in le modernized and run on business principles," the peculiar charm of it would disappear. This charm attaches to one's individual ability to run his own part of the Castle in his own way; and " his part "is practically " the whole." for ail the rest of the tenants are in effect his vassals and servitors : their presence is essential to his own safety and happiness, though they ensure this without personal contact. Like the retinue of an old feudal castle, they give a human attractiveness to the few chambers which the lord thereof really uses as his own. Like the lord thereof, on the other hand, each resident of this Castle may always feel reflected upon himself the dignity of its entire owner- ship. The fact of such residence makes his iiie a mystery to every outsider. It conveys no notion of whether he is rich or poor; whether he occupies one room or many; whether he lives in <;>itire isolation with the simplicity of a savage, or with body-servants at his nod and beck to sui)ply him with all the luxuries of an epicurean. There is no general camaraderie among the resi- dents ; no cohesiviness between the independent atoms ; no visits exchanged between rooms unless the occupants have known each other elsewhere. It is tacitly understood by all that the object of a man's making his home in such a place is not to form new acquaintances, but to escape from those already formed,— to simplify the machinery of life rather than to complicate it. The inspiring fiction of " sole ownership by each " would l)e sadly impaired If the presence and partnership of the others were formally recognized. For my own part, I feel the utmost friendliness and good-will towards my co-pro- prietors of the Castle; but I believe that the most acceptable manifestation I can make of the sentiment is the negative one of letting them entirely alone while within its walls. V/cre I to be met in a remote part of the world by some man who had lived long in the University, his mention of that fact would be the best possible passport to my favor. I should feel in ad- ance that he would make an interesting companion, because no one without great resources in himself could long survive a stay here. The capacity to endure solitude with . neerfulness is a crucial test of character, so far as concerns showing that It is above the commonplace; and t'iough a man t„av le.id here a very social life of the strictly conventional sort, it is fairly to be presumed that, unless he were fully competent to enjoy a lonely one in his own wigwam, he would not long submit to the limitations which residence here imposes. Their lack of camaraderie ensures a sort of placid feeling in the janitor's mind that the tenants will not conspire to accomplish his overthrow, as is often done in other places where individual resentments of slight injuries and shortcomings are combined, by conversation and interchange of experiences, into a general hostile sentiment which has power to remove the object of it. On the other hand, there is a fair offset to this in the uncertainty that the janitor neces- liiJUlkt CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 463 larily haa concerning the po»9it"t " influence " of any given tenant with sonn unknown mcml>er of the board 01 tru*t<:cs. This fact that he is employed by a mysterious bodv of far-extending and undiscoverable connections, instead of by a single owner whose friends could be easily identified, is evidently a f.ict that tends to secure good treatment for the tenants. There is always a I'readfcl possibility that each one of these may hive a " friend at court," with powec to work the guillotine remorselessly, if things go wrong ! In explaining how " its publicity makes privacy," I have said that the hiibitual passing of many men and women through the corridors renders the presence there of any additional man or woman quite unnoticcable ; yet ' think that a chance visitor, late in the day, after the departure of the students and their instructors, would be apt to get the idea that the Building was quite uninhabited. It is certainly exceptional when the long halls re-echo any other tread than my own, on niy passage through them. During the seven years while the apartments adjoining mine *ere hrld by two college acquaint- ances, with whom I exchanged many calls, 1 am sure that I never met them on the stairways a dozen times. During an equally long interval while the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper which enrployed me had apartments here which I used to pass two or three times each day, and which I knew that he emerged from each day, I never saw him seven times, except inside his chambers or the editorial rooms. Reflecting upon these curious reversals of probability, one might almost be pardonid for a superstitious belief in the existence of some subtle influence which impels each owner of the Castle to enter or leave it only at times when he is least likely to be confronted by any living reminder of the truth that he is not really the sole proprietor of its magnificent solitude. As the chances of casual contact between tenants who are acquainted is so slight, it follows that a man may live. here for years be- fore the faces of non-acquaintances become familiar enough to impress then»- selves upon him as belonging to residents rather than to the ever-changing mass of visitors. Of the latter, as of tenants who stay but a year or two, it may be said : " Come they and go, we heed them not, though others hail their advent." Names of residents become fixed in mind sooner than faces, for ihey are seen accredited to the Building in newspapers and directories, or noticed at the janitor's post-office, or reported through mutual acquaintances. Indeed, there formerly existed a lonesome-looking bulletin-board where a new-comer sometimes nailed up his " card," as a guide to those who might wish to discover the exact number of his room ; but no old-resident ever en- couraged a device so inharmonious with the spirit of the place, and this mis- called " directory" has been wisely obliterated. Unless a visitor " gets his bearings," and exact information, at the ianitor's office, he may now wander about, as in a labyrinth, for an indefinite period, without finding the person whom he is in search of, or without being confronted by any obtrusive sign whatever. The corridors, I may add, are lighter at night i-han at any other time ; for gas jets burn there continuously until dawn. • t£-il m ^!wl^ 464 r/i:^ THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. Though a master of the Castle soon grows familiar, in these several ways, with certain names as belonging to its retinue, and, ultimately, with cer tain faces he may be a still longer time in connecting the faces with the names. Thus, the existence of the Nestor of the place never happened to be revealed to me until, in preparing for print " a directory of Yale men liv mg in New York and its environs " (1879), '- had occasion to unearth his name. Were it not for the conventional ban which rests upon each resident against impairing the freedom of the place by forming any acquaintanceships there, I should be tempted to intrude upon the privacy of this venerable man and beg him to tell me about some of the interesting people who have been hidden here with him behind these walls, at one time or another, during the half-century (for the tradition is that he began as a tenant, among the very first, as soon as his undergraduate days were over). I recall a rumor that Sam Colt was a resident during the years while he wrs perfecting the idea of the " revolver" which gave him f.me and fortune; and I know that quite a long catalogue might be made of men who have attained distinction as painters, or lawyers, or politicians, cr authors, as a sequel to obscurity here in earlier days. That obscurity seems to me to have had in it more likelihood of happiness, however, than the celebrity of later date. " As a man thinketh so IS he." I know nothing of the thoughts of the man who has lived here' longest: but =n the fact uf his long residence here I account him outwardly fortunate. When he went up to New Haven as a Freshman in 1833 he joined a class of young fellows from whom have since been elected a President of the United States, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (the officer o* great- est dignity in America), a United States Senator of New York, a Minister to England, a member of two Presidential Cabinets, a Governor, a General a College President, and a long line of professors, clergymen, lawyers, and other dignitaries whose names have attained wide repute in their several States, if not in the nation at large. Vet .nis veteran, who has kept secluded m Washington Square, during -V these years, not even reporting to the class secretary the fact of his existence, .ppears to me to have been happier in his "environment "than any of those more distinguished classmates who have flaunted themselves in the fierce light that beats about the great dome in Washington City. Not a single one of these eminent people possesses my personal admiration ; for even the Chief Justice has forbidden me to hold him in high honor since that lamentable day when he decided that neither the Constitution nor the Supreme Court should any longer serve the citizen as a barrier against the confiscating powers of Congress. Ind-ed, I am free to say that, of ail the men who have made any public stir m the world during the years in which I have been breathing its air, I can recall only two who have done anything which I myself should have taken su- preme pleasure in doing : pleasure enough, I mean, to compensate for the loss of personal freedom implied in the notorietv nersp.s.iri'v ar.-.-^rr.T-.2=,.,;,..-, . ...u public acts. One was an English playwright ; the other an "AmericanVrval* CASTLE SOUTUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 465 officer When the former paused from his routine work in London and lis- tened to the mirthful echoes coming back from every city and town and ham- let in the world that spoke his mother tongue, assuring him that the praises of " Pinafore " were being simultaneously chanted in a coi.tinuous chorus which encircled the planet,— whrn he reflected that no mortal's pen had ever before been given power thus to enliven the broad countenance of the whole mighty English-speaking race with such a burst of " vast and inextinguishable laughter," — I think the sensation must have been worth having. Likewise, when the other man laid his right hand on the Obelisk at Alexandria and with ills leit set it up again in New York,— when, having quietly accomplished, by means of his own invention, a unique enterprise which all well-informed persons had ridiculed as "impossible," he saw the mighty monolith swinging majes- tically into position on its pedestal in Central Park,— I think that he, too, on that icy midday of midwinter, must have felt entirely -'good."* It is the pri- vate, subjective sensation, in each of these cases, which appeals to me as exceptionably admirable,- not the public, objective celebrity attaching there- to. Indeed, I do not suppose that either man has won any permanent fame, since that is usually reserved for those who are appointed to do something of universal human interest, — such as successfully superintending the slaughter of a vast multitude of the human race, as Lincoln and Grant were appointed 111 our day. Finer far than that, however, seems to me the sensation of hav- ing secretly commanded Castle Solitude during all this troublous half -century ; though whether any resident has really lived here as its commander, or only as one of its retinue, can of course be known to his own heart alone. It is an intangible essence whose quality depends upon the intellectual bent of the individual,— upon his willingness to accept "xclusively one half or the other of this double-definition : Name and fame ? " Ti. fly sublime through the courts, the camps, the schools ! " " 'Tis to be the b, il of Time, bandied in the hands of fools ! " Aside from the artists, for whom this has always been a recognized haunt, I think that a majority of the tenants have always been college-bred men, and that Yale has always had more gradu.ttcs here than any other one college. This has certainly been the fact during the last decade; and Yale has also been continuously represented in the P^acultyby eminent and influen- tial professors. There existed at New Haven in my time, twenty years ago (manifesting itsei: most tangibly in the region of "the fence," on lazy sum- mer evenings), a sort of halo of sympathetic respect for the memory of the unknown genius to whom tradition had accredited the apothegm : " Yale College would be the ideal place for an education, if the Faculty would only dispense with the literary and religious exercises 1 " Perhaps the influence of that ancient but ever-appetizing jest accounts in part for the preponderance of M feel proud to record that, after erecting the Ot)elisk (Jan. ji, 1881), Lieutenant Com- "lanucr Hjiiry H. Gorringe iiveci for two or three years m ttie University Building. He died before completing his 45th year (July 6, 1885), in a house that fronts upon Washington Square. Ov y^i V Si-^-J ||;ni| 466 TEiV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the college in respect to the number of graduates who have sought to realize on Washington Square this delightful dream of an academic Utopia, by enroll- ing themselves as honorary members in this real University of Cockagiie ' To me, at all events, a special zest is given to life here by a consciousness of the "literary and religious exercises " which are raging on all sides of me, and which others are compelled to take part in while I mysef escape such thralldom. The dim strains from the chapel organ add to my tranquillity by reminding me that no Faculty any longer have power tp haul me from bed, by that signal, to an unwilling and unbreakfasted participation in the formality called "morning prayers." Even the bowlings and fights and rushes ami miscellaneous horse-play with which the younger classes of collegians some- times render the halls uproarious, serve an excellent moral purpose. IJke the constant demands which a troop of active children make upon their father, the turmoil and tomfoolery of these academic children help prevent the resi- dent bachelor from becoming entirely self-absorbed. Their antics help keep him in accord with the fun and freshness of the new generation, by the force of the reminiscence which they awaken of his own more frolicsome davs. " When I was imbibing classic culture," he reflects; " when I used to sock with Socrates, rip with Kuripides, and mark with Marcus Aurelius,' this same sort of nonsense pleased me too. As the dear, departed Calverley hath it, ' When within i../ veins the blocKl ran, and the cxiris were on my brow, I did, O ye undergraduates, much as ye are doing now ! ' " " Anything for a quiet life " is a rendering I like to make of Algernon Sidney's famous phrase, " Ease petit placidam sub liOertate quietem" which winds its Latin length around the historic Indian on the coat-of-ar.ns v); Massachusetts ; or, as I sometimes expand the idea, when I gaze upon the full-sizec' figure of that noble savage, frescoed upon the ceiling of my hall- way, " He '11 fight to the last gasp, if need be, but he will have peace." The unique advantage of Castle Solitude seems to me to be this : that peace may here be had for the least possible amount of fighting, — that a quiet life n.ay here be led without the sacrifice of an " anything " which is of supreme value. I do not extol the place as a hermitage, but rather because it allows those •Such a teniioHcy h.is even gained recognition in current fiction, as sliown br this extract from a Y.ile professor's tal). The allusion, of course, is to one of the characters who plays so prominent a part in " Bleak House," and who is described in the index to Charies T>icker.s's works, as follows : " Mr. Tulkinghom. an old-fashioned old gentleman, legal adviser of the D>?d!ocks: ' an oyster of the oM school, whom nobody can open.' " ■fWl CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 467 tnings which cannot elsewhere be had except amid the discomforts of a hermitage. As " the happiness of sympathetic human intercourse seems to me incomparably greater than any other pleasure," — as the companionship of my friends seems by far the finest enjoyment that existence has to offer, — fio do I value this curious Castk where I can assert my own nature without cutting myself off fron. the presence of the people whom I like, and can lead my own lite without arousing the resentment of the people whom I regard with indif- krencc. " The condition in which a man does not pay formal calls, and is not invited to state dinners and dances, may be very lamentable and deserving of polite contempt, but it need not be absolute solitude, as society people as- sume. Such is not the condition of any one in a civilized country who is out of a prison cell." In a large city, the social instinct can be gratified by chance acquaintanceships, which are continually changing, I'ke those formed on a journey. All sorts and patterns of " the human various" can be stud- ied off-hand, and without need of introduction. Plenty of people worth talk- ing to are always obtainable at every nook and corner. What fashionable folks re.illy mean %Vhen they stigmatize a city man as " solitary " is not that he really leads the lonely life of a hermit, but that he refrains from those social relationships of a formal and permanent sort which would subject him to the inflexible conventions of '' good society." In other words, the solitude of the Castle results not from its standing " out of the world " (for it is in the very center of a densely-iieopled and most interesting world), but only "out of the fashion." Its situation seems to combine many of the advantages 0/ both the places described in the opening words of the extract which I now give from a favorite author, who has already supplied me with a phrase or two, and whose remarks about solitude and independence shor' so well the value and the cost of each that I should like to quote even more extensively: Tlie solitude which is really injurious is the severance from all who are cpable of under- standing us. The most favorable life would have its times of open and equal intercourse with the best riinds, and also its periods of retreat. My ideal would be a house in London, not far from nne or two houses which are so full of light and warmth that it is a liberal education to have entered them, and a solitary tower on some island of the Hebrides, with no companions but the se.v;j;ulls and the thunde'ing surges of the Atlantic. One such island I know well, and it is before my mind's eye, clear as a picture, whilst I am writing. It was a dream of my youth to build a 'mver there, with three or four little rooms in it, and walls as strong as a lighthouse. There have \Kvn more foolish dreams, and there have been less competent teachers than the tempests that Would have roused me and the calms that would have brought mo peace. It is a traditional habit of mankind to see only the disadvanfai; . of solitude, without con- sidering its compensations ; but there are great compensations, some of the greatest being nega- tive. The lonely man is lord of his own hours and of his own purse ; his days are long and unbroken ; he escaprs from every form of Oitentation, and may live quite simply and sincerely in j;reat culm breadths of leisure. I knew one who passed his summers in the heart of a vast for- est, in a common thatched cottage with furniture of common deal, and for this retre:it he quitted very gladly a ricb. tine house in the city. He wore nothing but old clothes, read only a few old bonks, without the least regard to the opinions of the learned, and did not take in a newspaper. enter into his h'lraor, he had acquired a horror of towns and crowds. This was not from 1*1 '•dliiyMi f.nT m yi\i 468 TEA' THOUSAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. nervousness, bn' luse lie felt imprisoned and impeded in his thinkinR, which needed the d-pths of the fuiesl, the venerable trees, the communication with primjeval natu-e, from which he drew a mysterious but necessary nourishment f<-r the (wculiar activity of his mind. His temper was grave and earnest, but unfalimgly cheerful and entirely free from any tcndenq- to bitterness. On tH" walls of his habitation he inscribed with a piece of charcoal a quotation from I)c Senancour : " In the world a man lives in hi-t own age ; in solitude, in all the ages " He who h; s lived for some great space of existence apart from the tumult of the world, has discovered the vanity of those things for which he has no natural aptitude or gift— their rt'lativt vanity, I mean, their uselessiiess to himself, personally ; and at the same time he has learned what is truly preci.,us and go" a part of the space that formed the chaj,°l of the University at the time when the royal Oxford collegian, Albert Edward, was forced to do penance there, a quarter-century ago. The following report of the ceremonial was published soon afterwards in the stu- dents' Quarterly Magazine, and was reprinted as a curiosity in its issue of Octnher, 1878, from which I now quote it. The story has an independent interest to home readers, as throwing a strong side-light on the simplicity of social manners and customs in that remote era " before the war." Except the cemetery at Greenwood, and the prisons on Blackwell's Island, it seems that the chapel of the University was the only show-place the city then had for the entertainment of distinguished visitors whom it was desirable to im- press with an idea of the crs^Hpnr anri ciir>et-ir.r;fi, «f fK:»„.. * — -,«i:i._ When the royal visitor arrived in New York he was immediately besieged with numberless Invitations to visit our public institutions. But few of these, of course, could be honored with a * JIH^ S-; i^ f1ii:S 470 T&W THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. second thought, owing to want of time ; but that of Chancellor Ferris was promptly accepted ana the honor of his Srst visit in this city was awarded to our University. As soon as the Prince had signified his acceptance, a plan of reception was adopted, and ProfesMjr Wedgwood then at the head of the Law Faculty, appointed to carry it into effect, assisted by the students in the collegiate department. The visit was to take place on Friday, October 12, i860, at half^ past ten a. m., and the Prince was to be received in the large chapel. This chapil, risiiiT through three stories of the building, had a capacity for comfortably seating twelve hundred oef sons, and its rich ornamentation and beautiful windows gave it a very venerable appearan quite in contrast to the sma" chupo! in which we nov; worship every morning. Invitations w issued to the wives and daughters of the professors and members of the council, and to t'he mothers, sisters and "lady friends "of the students, and a stage was erected sufficiently large to accommodate the Prince and his suite, the officers of the Univ.nity, and other invited guesTs On the mommg of the appointed day, long before the ar.ival of the Prince, the chapel was densely filled with as brilliant and fascinating an audience as ever assembled within its walls The council, professors, and judges of the courts assembled in the Chancellor's room ; while the students, arrayed in their college gowns, and wearing the insignia of their various sccieties, we.e arranged ii, double columns from the sidewalk along the various halls through which the Prince was to pass in his visit to the several departments of the University. The Prince and his suite left the Fifth Avenue Hotel at half-p.ist ten o'clock and drove rapidly down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square, where a line view .f the University Building at the head of the Square Aas presented to them. Alighting at the main entrance on University Place, the Prince was met by Prof. Wedgwood, and conducted up the marble stairway to the main hall, where he was received by Chancellor Ferns in his official robes. Arm m arm the Chancellor aod the English student proceeded to the large chapel, followed by Lord Lyons, th- Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germains, General Bruce, the British Consul Archibald, and other members of the Prince's suite, with the officers of the University and the judges of the several courts. As the procession passed along through the lines of students to the ch.- pel, the Prince was greeted with the ut- most respect and deference. As he entered the chapel, the band struck up England's national anthem, and the whole audience rose to receive the Prince, and greeted him with the waving of handkerchiefs and half-suppressed words of welcome. The procession, led by the venerable Chancellor and the young Prince, ascended the platform and passed to the places assigned to them. The Prince, with his suite, took a position on one side of the platform, and the council, prrjfessors and invited guests occupied the other side. A short consultation was then held, at the termination of which a signal was given, the music ceased, and the audience was hushed to profoui ' silence, while the Chancellor pronounced an address of welcome. The Prince, the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Lyons had each expressed a wish to meet on the occasion of their visit three of the professors, who were personally known to them, and who had attained a Euro- pean celebrity— Prof. Valentine Mott, at that time acknowledged to be the first surgeon in Amer- ica ; Prof. John W. Draper, who first applied photography to the taking of portraits from life, and in his room in the University Building made the first picture of the hur-an face by the light of the sun ; and Prof. Samuel F B. Morse, who invented the electro-magne . telegraph, and performed his first successful experiment within the walls of N. Y. U. Ac rdingly the> were now spe- cially intrcKluced, and Prof, Morse expressed his most hearty thanks for the kind attentions shown him by the Duke of Newcastle on his first visit to London with his infant telegraph. A neatly engrossed copy of the Chancellor's address, with the resolutions previously adopted by the council, was then presented to the Prince, who received the same and made an appropriate reply. The Chancellor then presented to the Prince the members of the council, the professors of the several F::culties, the judges of the courts, and the ladies. The Prince mingled freely with the gentlemen upon the platform for some time, and then, taking the arm of the Chancellor, he left the chapel and passed into the law library and lecture-room. Here h.- noticed a large number of valuable books presented to the University by King William IV. an ! :ir: ;-:.:;=::iy v-=="- "• :c;G-a, a— ,or.g .vnicri are the cuUic pubiitjiions of the Record Commit sioners. Mr. John Taylor Johnston's gift, a complete modem law library, seemed to attra CASTLE SOLITUDE IN THE METROPOLIS. 471 e^ipecial attention. From the 'aw library the Prince waa conducted to the council chamber, and tlieiice to the marble stairway, where the Chancellor took leave of his royal guest. As the Prince and his suite entered their carriages, the studenis formed in front, and, joined by thou- sands of spectators there assembled, gave three times three he?rty cheers for the Oxford student Five days later, when the train which carried the Prince from Albany to Boston passed through Springfield, and that much-admired youth, standing on the rear platform thereof, lifted his litHe beaver hat, in acknowledgment of the acclamations of the populace, I recollect that the heavy hand of a hackman swept me and my school-fellows from the places of vantage we had gained on the wheels of his vehicle, — so that we saw nothing but the princely hat. The next afternoon, however, enthroned safely upon a stool in the win- dow of Little & Brown's bookstore, on Washington street, I gazed squarely upon the red-coated scion of royalty, as his carriage rolled along in the great procession which the Hoslonians arranged in his honor. I mention these facts for the sake of saying that though I was an "ordinary, human boy enough " to take a keen interest in any sort of a show that commanded uni- versal popular attention, I recall my personal feeling towards the central "ig- ure in it as one of pity rather than envy. It seemed to me that such a boy could have no fun. I felt that I was more fortunate in the possession of a frolicsome bull-dog, and in the liberty to play with him to my heart's content, after school hours were over, than this resplendent British boy could ever hope to be. Long years afterwards, in '76, a similar senti.aent possessed me, when I gazed upon the Prince's mother, as she made a royal " progress " through London, to signalize the opening of some charitable institution at the Kast End. Looking into the face of this most distinguished woman in the world, the uppermost thought in my mind was one of speculative curiosity as to what real pleasure there could conceivably be to her in the magnificent boredom of all such pomp and pageantry. It seemed to me as if she were owned absolutely, as a sort of toy, by the mighty mob that surged in loyal waves around her. I wondered, too, if she ever, in changing about from one castle or palace to another, felt any longing for that unattainable sort of castle, whose impossible solitude and privacy would make it truly her own. After all, however, the fo.mders of the University, a half-century ago, Ijuilded better than they knew ; and their successors c^ a quarter-century ago acted wiser than they knew when they dragged in the Prince to admire it. T le founders failed in their ostensi'ole object, because the .stars in their courses fo-ght against it as impracticable ; but their very failure was a part and parcel of a imique achievement, which, while I live, shall at least in one heart keep their memorv green. All unwittingly, they were the instruments for accomplishing what no one else has ever done, — what no mortal men could conceivably by design and premeditation ever have power to do. If " tne no- blest study of mankind is man," this temple of learning which they built oflfers ever possesses " the vision and the faculty divine " may clearly overlook the : iMmOsmmmsm. , . ' . .;' ^ • i V hi? isrf »■■■ 47a TEAT THOUSAXD AflLES OX A BICYCLE. universe. Like as a Lonaon cabman lookcth with critical and inii>crHon.il in tercst upon the tendered coin which represents no more than his legal fare s,, here the philosophic observer may hold at arm's length, as if it were no p„s,i blc concern of his. that mysterious gift called Life. If America is indeed dis tmctively a lanJ of liberty, th.it place in it where the quality reaches its hii-h est development ought specially to interest the foreign visitor Thus, thoush the "Chancellor" of twenty-five years a-o had no possible conception of it there was a certain poetic appropri. ....ess in forcing the future King „f England to do his earliest homage in America at what seems to me the most sacred shrine in the habitable globe because it is the chosen alKxle of Freedom. My pen may not ha\e had power to paint all its peculiarities with a graphic touch ; but I am sure that they deserve such painting. I an. sure that I rightly use the superlative when I characterize it on my letterheads by adapting these lines from Calverley : " 'Xulla Hon donanda lauru ' is tlint Huilding : ynu could not- Placing New Yiik's map before you— light on half so queer a spot." I am sure, too, that the seemingly strange act of giving to such a subject the longest chapter in a long book on bicycling, will not go unsupported by the sympathy of my three thousand subscribers. Understanding as they do the supremely e.xhilarating sense of independence which the whirling wheel imparts to the motion of the body, they will api)reciate the appropriateness of my describing to them the machinery of a unique habitation whose "simple shelter "allows a like liberty to -the movom .t of the mind. They will readily recognize, I doubt not, the subtle analogy which exists between the Building and the bicycle, and will clearly comprehend why the two must needs be coupled in my admiration. Yet, as the great majority of them are much younger than myself, they will perhaps be thankful for the reminder that, while I admire the two, my book recommend, to them only the one ; while I account freedom a very fine thing, I do not urge their general pur uit of it, to the exclusion of the other fine things which this world contains. My own experience is that Renan w?.s right in deprecating the common talk which ridicules the generous " illusions of youth." and in declaring rather that its only real illusion is a disbelief in the brevity of life. When a sense of this finally comes upon a man, I may name to hiiri not only the bicycle for balm but the Castle for consolation ; but for his earlier and brighter days my preferable pointer must always be this famous old poem of Robert Herrick's: " Gather the roses while ye may ! Old Time is still a-fiying ; And this same flower that smiles rt>-day, to-morrow will be dying. Tlie glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, the higher he 's a-gettine. The sooner will his course be run, the nearer he 's to setting. Tha» ige is best which is the first, when youth and blood are wanner ; But being spent, the worse and worst times shall succeed the former, f 1 _ . . . . .... '>'. 6" "liiry. ., , — ., _ — J , p_ ...... . J I Lest, having lost but once your prime, you may forever tarry." ^ii*^k. XXX. ,//. long-distancp: routes and riders. Confirmation has already been given— in the shape of foot-notes to my touring reports, showing the swifter average advance made by other riders on the same routes — of the fact insisted upon in the Preface, that such rc|)orts instructively exhibit what anybody of ordinary |)hysique can easily do. 1 have said that this book would seem much less likely to gain acceptance, as a valuable contribution to human knowledge, if it recorded the exploits of an athletic or exceptionally strong and vigorous traveler, rather than the common- place cxi)eriences of a man-of-no-account, who regulates the speed and the dis- tance of his riding by the simple rule of getting the most possible pleasure from it. As cumulative evidence in the same li.ie of argument, I offer the present chapter to prove tliat my capacity to take pleasure thus, in laying clown a long bicycle-trail, is by no means exceptional. There are plenty of other men who enjoy this particular form of " conquering the earth " just as heartily as I do; and several of them have indulged in such amusement 'nuch more extensively than myself. Those whose stories I here group together are fairly representative cases ; and though the first one is likely to forever siand unique in history, the number of less-notable long-distance tourists will surely increase with each advancing year. Some parts of my introduction to Chap- ter XXXI. might serve also as a suitable preface to the reports now given. Thomas Stevens (b. Dec. 24, 1854) rightly holds the place of honor on this record. He has already made a straightaway bicycle trail of Sooo m.,— an incomparably longer and more difficult one than any previously in existence,— and he will extend it during 1886, until it completely en- circles the globe, unless he gets killed on the way. Leaving the Pacific ocean at San Francisco, April j2, 1884, he pushed the bicycle 3700 m. before reaching the Atlantic at Boston, August 4 ; and resuming his trail, on the other side, at Liverpool, May 2, 1885, he extended it 4300 m. to Teheran, the capital of Persia, .September 30, where he halted again for the winter, to prepare himself for the third and most desperate st:. of his dangerous round-the-world adventure. A iLitive of Great Berkhamsted, rfertfordshire, Kngland, he emigrated to America at the age of iS, and went immediately to join a brother who had settled w. of the Mississippi. From that time (1871) :,e never recrossed the river until the bicycle brought him to it, 13 years later. Much of this period was given to farming and ranching in Missouri and Wyoming (his parents still c.irry on a farm near Kansas City) ; but for two years he was employed in the rolling mills of the Union Pacific r. r., at Laramie City, and he also engaged somewhat in out-door " railroad- ins," kept a small storj for a while, and turned his hand to a variety of things such as offer a livelihood to an enterprising emigrant in a new country. Having a desire to vary this sort of life by " seeing more of the world," the no'iin oc-^rred to him that the saddle of a bicycle might be made to offer a praaicable outlook. Hence his decision to attempt the ride from ocean to ctcaii, in the belief that the incidents ot so novel a journey might be formulated into an attract- ive book, whose publisher would supply funds for continuing the trail across Europe to Con- 'i i im 474 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. l! t stantinople, end perhap* ultimately •crou Asia alui. He had never even mounted a wheel jt the time d/ conceiving this idea ; but a two hours' trial (Nov., 'Sj) nude him a rider, and, mi iht early sprini;, he went to San Krancisco, for a few weeks' practice on the roads before stannii; out. He Niiight a Standard Columbia (painted, 50 in.), and quietly pushed it across the (.en vaguely kept m mind as a possible patron of it, was found not to be the man wl. jm such a scheme cou'd ileiiend upon for trustworthy sup|M>rt. So Stevens set about making his first serious eflort with the |>en ; and, in tho course of sir or seven weeks, produced a narrative of some jH.ooo wiprils which, by my advice, he sold to Outing, in whose columns it finally a|>|>eared (April. May, Juiic and July, 18S5, pp. 42-51, 164-177, iijo-joi, 4">4iJ). with 16 illuitraiiona by VV. A. ki.^crs. Encook form. Thos» which have appeared in the successive issues of Outing, as I write these words, are deslgmted as follows : "From America to Ihe German Frontier" (Oct., pp. 35-50), "Germany, Austria and Hun- gary" (Nov., pp. 183-198), "Through Slavonia and Servia " (Dec, pp. 2S6-302), " Ron- melia, and into Turkey" (Jan., pp. v9-39 ) "Through European Turkey" is announced for Feb., and the story of his Asiatic erp^riences, from ConsUntinople to Teheran (1576 m.), will begin in March and run through five or six numbers. H he survives the perils which beset the last section of his proposed pathway, through China, he will sail thence home to San Fran- cisco, and then re-write his entire experiences to form a large volume ("Around the World on a Uicycle," illustrated by all the pictures in the Outing series and many new ones), for publica- tion at the close of 1887. I believe that he left in London the inanuscript of his "Acros.s America," and I presume it would be p..nted there, in case he should get killed. Otherwise, he will incorporate it with the larger book, and never issue it separately. In contrast to my own " guide-bool; ideal " of supplying minute facts about roads and dis- tances, for the special benefit of cyclers who may wish to traverse the paths I have explored, he addresses himself to the task of pleasing the stay-p--home public in general, by exhibiting v^ them simply the salient points of his experience, without reference to its routine drudgery and common-place details. I think he must succeed in this, for his gifts as a descriptive writer are considerable, and he evidently has the knack of telling a story in a way to make it interesting without much waste of words. Considering thai such school days as he enjoyed were ended at 18, and that his only previous efforts with the pen were desultory paragraphs in a Laramie news- paper, the mere literal y shortcomings of his magazine pieces are surprisingly f-w and unimpor- tant. Indeed, T believe that a simple reprint of this Outing series, " From San Francisco to reheran," would make a more readable book than any existing specimen of cycling litera- ture ; and 1 predict for " Around the World on a Bicycle," if he completes it, a very extended sale. As he has little liking for statistics, he prints few .'acts ?.bout himself or his equipment, ex- cept incidentally ; and most of the information which I now give as to these points is derived less from Outing than from notes of conversations which I had with him during his eight months' stay in N. Y. On the first forenoon of his arrival here (Aug. 15, '84) he accepted an invitation to visit my chambers and submit to a rigorous cross-questioning ; and the last thing I urged upon him when I said good-bye, on the deck of the " City of Chicago," just about start- ing to carry him to Liverpool (April q, '85), was the " policy of puttine; some intere.iing sinti.;- tics :.ito his reports." A fairly-good full-length portrait of Stevens, in riding costume, standing LONG-D/STAACE ROC/TES AND R/DFRS. 475 l^^ide hit bicycle occupied a qiurtrr-p»ge of Har^t Wttkly (Aug. 30, '84, •' from a pholo- Hra|)h by Klaslor "), and was accompat^-^ by 11 linen Df biography. A rather better piaure, aUo lull length, was the lithograph which the Wlutt M-'or/./ (London, June, 'K5I included in its • gallery of cycling celebrities," with a two-page descriptive sketch. A fac-»imile of his auto- ^raph was appended to this, and also to Outing's vignette (Oct., '85, p. 34, from an Knglijh liluuograph), which is the most truthful liktness of the three. The distance by rail from San Krancisco to Boston is shok so little interest in the statistics of distance that he never even reckoned up .he total from the tables in the guidi . When I asked as to this total, hi' simply said that he " guessed his bicyc'e trail from ocean to ocean was at least 200 m. longer 1I1.111 the r. r. track, and that he had heard this called 3500 m. long." CoiLSulling the guide, however, I find that the distance from Hoston to < >iT).iba, by way of Chicago and Rock Island, IS i5i;o m. (Boston to Miiffalo, 510 m. ; thence to Chica>,o, 540 m.), and that the three sections of the Pacifier, r., near which his route generally lay as far as the Mismmri river, have .heir mileage given in the official guide thus : San Francisco to Ogden, 834; (). ;o ('heyenr.e, 515; ( to Omaha, 517. Of the first section, he was forced to walk from J to§ the way, and the'propor- tiiin of riding fur the next two sections was but little better. As to this roui,'h and desolate stretch of continent, where his own trail must have considerably exceeded if^> ni., he told me that, if he were to push a wheel across it again, he would lather have the same lielong to a barrow than a bicycle. Such propulsion would require more time, but would involve less hardship, for eiioiish fiKxl and blankets to make the tourist comfortable could easily be trundled alon^ in the wheelbarrow. Weighing \y, lbs. at the start (his height being about the same as my own, 5 ft. 5 in.), he lost 25 lbs. on th-- way to Cheyenne, but gradually regained it K-fore the end of his journey. One who saw him in the city just named wrote : " In appearance, he was anything but a holiday wheelman, lirown as a nut, j.nd mud-bespattered, all surplus fat had been worn otT by his severe and protracted woik. His blue ^annel shirt wa» a deal too large for him and much weather-stained His knickerbockers had given way to a pairof blue overalls, gathered at the knees within a pair of duck hunting leggings, once brown, but now completely disguised as to texture and color by heavy alkali mud." (These overalls were worn only 500 m., Rawlins to Kearney Junction, where he was overtaken by the breeches which he had ordered at f)gden, and which, I think, served to the end.) He cirried an extra riding-shirt, and a long cloak ot thin waterproof, which he used as a protection against the drippings from the icicles and melting snow during his 40 ra. tramp through the r. r. snow-sheds ; but he had no coat at all, from ocean to ocean. " Coats are not in styleamongthe Wyoming cow-boys," he told me. From Ft. Sidney, iixj ni. e. of Cheyenne, "by the courtesy of th-: commanding officer, he was enabled to journey eastward under the grateful shade of a military summer helmet, in lieu of the semi-sombrero slouch that had lasted through from San Francisco " ; and he wore this same head-gear on the- il,iy when I welcomed him to " No. 56." Ht used up four pairs of stockings and three pairs of canvas shoes. As for th-; bicycle itself, he certified to iu makers that it stood the strain with- out break or any excessive wear, though he " took uncounted headers." I now offer his storr, in the first person and present tenso, as if I were quoting an abstract which he had prepared for iiie from his Outing narrative. In truth, however, many of the words and facts never appeared in this, but are derived from talks I had with him; and all the bracketed numerals (indicating miles from San Francisco ^n the r. r.)are interpolated by me from the official guide, as ap- proximately showing the distances on his actual route. It should be understood that most of these names to which numerali are attached represent merely section-houses, in charge of a section-boss and five or six Chinese laborers ; and that the difiiculty of getting any sort of food at such places, or blankets to sleep on, was often extreme. " The rainiest winter known to California since '57 preceded my start from Oakland pier Tuesday, April 22, '84, at 8.28 a. m.), but level and good riding brought me to San Pablo, 16 n., in i.V h. Beyond comes a succession of short hills, with many mud-holes and washouts, and ;' r. ;.-,c low ;u;e .=i.vi,T m. beyond T. P. Tlie Mcnnd night U at Elmira, after ij m. pr<>|[reu in the rain, and the third at bacramento, jo m., whereuf b ni. had to be walked, ' bump, bump, bump,' on the iiet i>| the r. r. tremle, because oi the ri/er'i overflow. Thi* weary tatk takes 4 h., and when a tram CcHitci along, I iquat on the end uf a prujcctinK cross-beam, and let the bicycle hang over. An- other hi((h trestle-bridge has to l>e crossed \\ m. e. uf S. (whence a fine view uf the snow-capiwd Siciras), and then I enjoy a 10 m. ride through a park-like sheep-ranch of 60,000 acres, but have to t>ay for it by tramping across-lois through numberless gales and small ranches to reach the main road aga>n. Kocklin (ii]) is fairly in the foot-hill country, many of whose roads are of an excellent hard and stony surface, proof against the winter rains. Newcastle (lai) is a su- tion near the old-time mining camps of Ophir and Gold-hill ; then come Auburn (11;/, Clipper (Jap (133), Colfax (145), (Sold Run U55). Dutch Flat (157), and Hlue CaAon (169J, where 1 en- tered the gloomy bu: friendly shelter of the great protecting sheds, which extend with but lew breaks for nearly 40 m. Winding around the mountain-sides, their roofs are built so tUniin>[ that the mighty avalanche of rock and snow that comes thundering down frr-in above glides harmlessly over into the chasm beyond The stations, sectitm-houses and water-tanks are all under these huge sheds; and, when I emerge at :he other end I shall be over the summit and well down the eastern slope of the mountains, within a few m. of Truckee (jio). As I enter the sheds, gaunt winter rules supreme, and the only vegetation is the hr.rdy pine, half-buried in the snow ; though but four days have gone since I \vas in the semi-tropical Sacramento valley— which is ridable in dry weather for 150 m. lieyond Kocklin, I had ' footed it ' for 4 m. of ex. cellenf surface, owing to a header which temporarily disabled the bicyc!* ; but from Newcastle onwards no riding w^ possible in the wagon roads, on account of the stickiness of the red clay, and I kept to the railway track, where 1 occasionally found ridable side-paths. I sleep one night at Summit (196), in the snow-sheds, 7017 ft. above the sea level, and the next at Verdi (234), in Nevada, 4 m. out of California. The two States have neither scenery nor climate 111 common. " ' Over the Deserts of Nevada ' is the title of my second Outing article. After leaving the sheds, I had followed the rapid Truckee river down the slope of the Sierras, through its caftnn, without finding much good road till I crossed into the ' Sr.ge-brush State ' and approached Verdi; and good road continued when I started thence, on May Day morning, still follnwing the Truckee, so that I roll into Rene 1^245) at 10.30 o'clock. I am told that, in '82, F. T. Merrill and a companion had pushed their bicycles to t'lis point,— following the wagon road nvjr the mountains, as their tour was made in summer when progress is possible outside the snow-sheds. The mountains containing the Comstock lodes are in plain sight of Reno, which is the point from which those famous mining camps used to be reached, and my route leads through 1 strip of goad agricultural land, until the meadows gradually contract, and I am again following the Truckee down a narrow space between mountains. I sleep that night on the floor of a ranch- man's shanty, about 20 m. beyond R., having wheeled | the distance, by short stretches: and, the next forenoon, at Wadsworth (289), I bid adieu to the Truckee, -/hich f nave followed nearly 100 m. , and start across the Forty Mile Pi ert which separates it from the Humboldt river. Not a blade of grass nor drop of water can be found in the whole distance, and though much of the trail is quite unfit for cycling, there are occasional alkali flats, which I wheel swiftly across, while the blading sun casts my shadow on the white surface with start' ■ s? From the desert, mv road leads up the valley of the H'lnboldt. I halt during Sur>y a local -Solon. *ho gives this bright summary of the triHing ,;e<>graphical obstacles ahead of me : ' Theie is oi'ly a small rise at Sherman, and another still smaller at the AUcghanies; all the balance is down hill to the Atlantic. (.)f course you'll have til boat it across the Krog |x>nd. I'hen there's Europe — mostly level; go's Asia, e«(cpt the Himalayas — and you can soon cross 'em. Then you're all hunky, for there's no mountains to ,|K:ak of in China.' Pa.s.sing tialleck (jSj), near the fort of that name, 1 gradually app^tach the source of the Humboldt, which has fliM»ded the valley hereabouts, and at WelU I615), I take leave of It for good. My last night in Nevada is at Tecoma (677), close upon llie border. " ' Through Uuh, over the Rockies and ,er could skim like a bird, for many miles, on the smooth, hard, salt flats. A few m. e. of M., the road leads oi.r a spur of the Red Dome range, whence 1 had my first view of the Great Salt Lake, in whose cold waters • am soon taking a bath. After dinner at Kelton (742), I follow the lake shore to the salt-works near .Monument, at 6 p. m., and continue along it next day till my road leads over the n. spur o' the Promontory mountains, where I ?.nd some hard gravel that offers a few m. of th» '.wst riJing 1 have had in Utah. In the pass of another spur of the same range, 10 m. on, I have a view of 30 m. of mud-flats stretching e, to the Mormon settlements, which dot the strip r* fertile land between Bear river and the bas; of the mighty Wahsatch mountains. The flats are bor- dered on llie s. by the marshy shores of the lake, and on the n. by the Blue Creek mountaiis; and they swarm with gnats and mosquitoes. On leaving Promontory (781), I expect to r ach Corinne (809) for the night, but at 7 o'clock I accept the foreman's invitation to stop at the sec- tion-house of Quarry, and so it is 10 next day when I cross Bear river at C, and find myself on the somewhat superior road which takes me to Ogden (834) at supper time. The contrast between the dreary deserts I have been traversing, and this verdant region of prosperous Mormon farms, with orchards in full bloom, seems magical. Ogden, with Sooo inhabitants, is the only large town I have met since leavir.E Reno (which has about \ as many, and ranks second in Nevada), and I halt there during the whole of Sunday, May 18. Then, riding and w?lking alternately, 12 m. e , I enter Weber cafion, through which the river, the r. r., and an uncertain wagon-traU make their way throutrh the Wahsatch mountains to the table-lands of Wyoming Territory. As the river is flooded, I hav to do much slow trundling on the '. r. track, but I reach Echo (874) fr the night. My last memory of the caflon and of Otah is the .magnificent Castle Rock (890). " I entered Wyominc nt Evanston CgcK)\ lata in the afternoon of May ji, and followed the tra-i down Yellow creek to Hilliard (02;?) after dark. At Piedm.ont (938), I decide to go around by way of Ft. Bridger and strike the direct trail again at Carter (963) ; and the next noon finds me there in bed, after jxperiencing the toughest 24 h. of my entire tour. During that time I had nothing to eat ; I forded no less than nine streams of ice-cold water ; I spent the night in an abandoned freight-waRmi, on a rain-soaked aJobe plain; and I then had to carry the bicycle across 6 m. of deep, sticky clay, where trundling was quite impossible. On the ?^th, however, I am able to push 27 m th' ugh the Bad Lands, amid buttes of mingled clay and rock, for din- ner at Granger (990) ; and -ext da" I pass the castellated rocks at Green River (1020), and reach Rock Springs (1036) for the night. Splendid alkali flats abound e. of here and I bowl across -'%■• ■■ tmta»mjmisit\ reverse. Crossing the Red Desert (1104), so called from its surface of fire-red clay, on which 478 TEN THOUSAND MILLS OX A B/CVCLE. t'i E; -n 'T ■1 -''1 Et Its 4 U II' *a •I % ' ■ •. , !■-■ nuthing will grow, I stand on the morning of the 28th, at 10 o'clock, on the ' continental divide' (1129), where, as 1 face n., all waters on my r. flow e. to the Atlantic, and all on my 1. flow w. to the Pacific. 'i"he spot is a broad, low pass through the Rockies, more plain than mountain from which a commanding vie* of many mounuin chains may be had. Down-grade is then the rule to Rawlins {1157), where I spend two nights and a day. Hardly half of this descent is ridable ; but on the morning of the 30th I wheel a!ong a very good road 16 m. to breakfast at Kt. Steele (1172), on the w. bank of the North Platte river. Just before gettinj; to it, I ride through the first prairie-dog town on my route, though I meet plenty of others during the next " 300 m. E'.k mountain, a famous landmark, now looms up, 10 m. s., and, as I penetrate the Laramie plain.s, the persistent sage-brush, which has hovered about my trail for neaily 1000 m- grows beautifully less, and the short, nutritious buffalo grass is creeping everywhere. 1 stay over night . -It Carbon (1311) and, after passing through the valley of Medicine Bow (1220), find some good riding on the hard gravel surface of the high-ind-dry plains. These are divided into shallow basins by rocky ridges, and frcm the brow of one of them I have an extensive view 'pf many mountain langes, — the caster., one being the Black Hills, the last chain of the Rockies, and the only barrier that separates me from the broad prairies rolling towards the Missouri. After dmner at Rock Creek (1242), I get caught in a storm of rain and hail, but I spend the night at Lookout (12'xi), and by taking an early start reach Laramie (1294) for dinner. I stop there for the rest of Sunday and also Monday, with ray acquaintances, who comprise the first wheelmen I have seen since my tour began ; and on June 3 I scale the final range and descend to Cheyenne (1351), — the last 12 m. having such a smooth granite surface that my use of the brake heats the spoon find scorches the red rubber tire to blackness. The nijjht of the 4th is spent at Pine filuffs (1394), which is within a few milesof the Nebraska border ; and long before reaching it the Rockies have receded from sight and left me alone on the boundless prairie. In fording Pole creek, holding bicycle and clothes above my head, I tumble in the water and wet everything ; but f continue along the creek next day, and pass the night of the 5th at Potter (1434). The road imp ves as I approach Sidney (1453), and I sweep into town at a good pace, — taking a spin to the neighboring fort while I wait for dinner. I am now approaching the western border of the farming country, and .spend the night at Lodge Pole(i47i); but lo- moriow I shall sleep beside the waters of the Piatte. " ' From the Plains to the Atlantic ' is a title which shows the wide sweep of my fourth (?«//i>«^ article, for it covers much more than half of the tour. Trundling through the nuiddy bottoms of the South Platte, I pass Ogallala (1525), and, after a night in a homesteader's duq- oiit, take d'nner at North Platte (157^)), cross a substantial wagon-bridge just below where the n. and 3. branches join and proceed eastward as ' the Platte " simply, and so I reach Brady Island (1599) for the night. Stretches of sand alternate with ridable roads all down the Platte, and I remember Willow I -.land (161 7) as the place where a rattlesnake fastened his deadly fai^ps harmlessly in my thick canvas leggings. I consider it a lucky day that does not add to my long and eventful list of headers, but I am surprised when a squall blows me and the bicycle clear over, — though Nebrask.T is a very windy country, where a calm day seems quite the exception. More ridable roads are met e. of Plum Creek (1636), but they are still nothing more than traiit across the prairie, until at Ke.irney Jun'ttion (1672) they become excellent. J pass Grand Island (1713) and Central City (1735), and on June 15 ride from Duncan (1768) to North Bend (1.S05I. The Platte turns s. at Fremont (1820), to join the Missouri at Plattsmouth, and I leave it, to follow the ' old military road ' — a continuous mud-hole — through the Elkhorn valley to Omaha (1866). Vesting here a day, I obtain a permit to trundle my wheel along the r. r. bridge to Council Bluffs; and nine days after thus crossing the Missouri into Iowa, I wheel along the splendid government bridge from Davenport to Rock Island (218^), and thus cross the Mis.sis- sippi into Illinois, rejoicing that f of my tour is completed. I celebrate the Fourth of July by rolling into Chicago (2348), for a week's rest ; and my fortnight's route thither may be thus shown. — the last town mentioned with each date being my stonpinp;-nIa» '» for the nipht : and i!ie numerals signifying the distances by rail from Omaha : June 19, Council Bluffs to Carson hilly; 20th, good to Griswold ; 21st, very good and level to Casey, 90; 22d, similar to Stuart, LONG-DISTANCE ROUTES AND RIDERS. 479 iji, and Elarlham, 112; 23d, (air to Des Moines, 142, and Altoona, 153; 24th, variable to Colfax, 165, Newton, 177, and Kellogg, 186; asth, variable to Grirnell, 197, BrookJyn, 212, and Victor, 220 ; 26th, sandy to S. Amana, 238, Homestead, 243, and liftin,255; 27th, fair to Iowa City, 263, -andy to Moscow, 288, very g»od for last 20 m. to Davenport, 317, Rock Island, 319; 29th, some macadam, some sand, fair average, Moline, 321, Geneseo, 341, Atkinson, 348; 30th, level and improving, Sheffield, 363, Wyanet, 371, Princeton, 378, Lamoille; July i, sections of splendid gravel, Mendota, 3S9, Bartville, Sandwich, 4>6, Piano, 420, Yorkville ; 2d, fair, Oswego, Naperville, 453 : jd. Lyons, 472 ; 4th, rather poor and worn macadam to Chicago, 482. ' Variable ' is the word to describe the Iowa roads, whose surface greatly depend-, upon the weather. When wet, the farmers' heavy teams wear it into nits, which remain rough until ground down by traffic. The soil is a black loam or clay, very sticky after rain. Autumn is hence a better riding season than spring ; and I may say the same tor Nebraska and Wyoming, where I encountered the dampest May on record. The last 25 m. to Omaha, through the Elk river bottom, is somewhat rolling, and offered 3 fairiy good surface, in spite of the muddy ' military road.' For 75 m. e. of O., the prairie rolls like a heavy Atlantic swell, and during a day's journey I passed through a dozen alternate stretches of muddy and dusty road ; fo.-, like a huge watering-pot do the rain-clouds pass to and fro over this great gar- den of the West, which is practically one continuous fenile farm from the Missouri to the Mississippi. My route after cros.sing this led for some m. up the river bottom, whose roads (iff.-r much sand ; but this disappears near Rock river, where an excellent surface is found beneath the oak groves lining that beautiful stream, and their shade is specially grateful since the thermometer shows 100' in the sun. In Bureau county, the gravel roads are very fine. " Good riding for 15 m. from Chicago, and then tough trundling through deep sand for 3 m., land me in Indiana, which, for the first 35 m. around the s. shore of Lake Michigan, is simply sand. This is packed firmer on the water's edge, and. as the roads can hardly be traversed at all, I try trundling there for 20 m., and then shoulder the bicycle, and scale the sand- dunes which border the lake, and after wandering i h. through a wilderness of swamps, sand- hills and hickory thickets, reach Miller's Station for the night. At Chesterton, 5 m. on, the sur- face improves, but there is sand enough to break the force of headers, which I still manage fre- quently to take, in spite of iny long experience. At Laporte, i8 m. from C, the riding is good for some distance, but I traverse several m. of corduroy road, thr' ugh huckleberry swamps, be- fore reaching breakfast at Crum's Point (after sleeping under a wheat-shock), whence splendid gravel roads lead to South Bend (27 m. from L.), and on through Mishawaka (5 m.), alternating with sandy stretches, to Goshen (21 m.), a pretty town on tli ■ Elkhart river. It is 10 a. m. of July 17, when I bcwl across the boundary line into Ohio, w. .se first town is Edgarton (59 m. from (;.), whence I follow the course of the Merchants' & Bankers' telegraph, through deep dust caused by drought, to Napoleon, and then go up the Maumee river, — first trying the canal tow-path, and then exchanging it 'or the very fair wagon road. At Perrysburg (where I can see the smoke of Toledo) I strike the well-known ' Maumee pike,' — 40 m. of stone road, almost a dead level. The w. part of it is kept in rather poor repair, but the 16 m. frr.m Fremont to Hellevue is splendid. Patchi ■, of sand are found after leaving this e. end of the pike, but there are numerous good side-paths as far as Cleveland (67 m. from B.), where I spin down the fa- mous Euclid av., to the 'iHage of that name (10 m.), and continue by good or fair roads to Ash- tabula (54 m. from E.), and by rather hilly and sandy ones to Conneaut (14 m/l. just beyond which I enter Pennsylvania at West Springfield. .-Vs you have ridden w. from Boston to Ash- tabula (see p. 205), over roads mostly coincident with my own, I will only add that beyond Syra- cuse I tried the Erie tow-path and the highway by turns; but rode between the r. r. tracks from Schenectady to Albany, and thence to the State line of Massachusetts, and also from Palmer to Worcester, without trouble except at culverts. My sleeping-places from Chicago, were : July 12, Miller's Station; 13, Laporte ; 14, Goshen; 15, Kendalville ; 16, Ridgeville ; 17, near Per- r\'?.l>'.!r^ : :8. Bellevue : iq. Klyria : 20, M^disoti ; 2!. Oir?-rdt 2?. Anpnla : 71. Rnffalo : 24, Leroy , 25, Canandaigua ; 26, Marcellus ; 27, De Witt ; 28, near Uticr, ; 29, Indian Castle ; 30, Crane's Village; 31, near Nassau, Aug. i, Otis; 2, Palmer; 3, Worcester; 4, Boston. t;:|J -i* *istA '--i, >>:■■ 480 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. [» i>1 ♦ ? \ It wa$ a o'clock on Monday afternoon when I greeted the Atlantic, just 15 weeks from San Francisco. I made no all-day halts e. of Chicago, and my average for the 24 days thence to Do«ton (estimating the distance at 1024 m. ; it is 1050 by r. r.) was m\ m. The 14 days when I made no advance at all were April 27, at Clipper Gap ; May 4, Lo/elocks ; ii, Deeth ; 18, Og- den ; 29, Rawlins ; June 2, Laramie ; 18, Omaha ; and July 5 to 1 1 inclusive, at Chicago. My shorter halts for a half-day or more would increase the total to at least 21 complete days, so ihat my actual time in traveling may be called 12 weeks. East of the Mississippi, I had average good weather, though it was hot and showery nearly all the way through Iowa and Illinois. In Wyoming, it was the wettest season on record, and rain fell almost every day. The adobe clay of that Territory, when thus soaked, makes the most terrible mud imaginable. Next to the 8 m. of this which I waded through, .May 12-23, before getting to Carter station, the worst surface I encountered was on the day I left Chicago, and plunged into the swamps and sands of Indiana. Yet some of the gravel roads of that State an I llinois gave better riding than I usually found in N. Y. or Mass. ; though I nowhere met a single long stretch comparable to 'he ' ridge road ' that ends near Buffalo. On this, I took my longest day's ride, Girard to Angola (82 m. by r. r.); and the ride ranking second was in Nebraska ending at Kearney Junction, from a point near Plum Creek, about 65 m. away. Of the whole distance traversed, from ocean to ocean, I suppose at least } was done on foot. The chief discomfort ot the experience was hunger, as my appetite was all the while ravenous, and a sufficiency of even the coarsest food was often unattainable." (Dividing 3416, the total r. r. mileage from San Francisco to Boston, by 84, as representing the full days of touting, gives a daily average of 40} m., which seems a very high on;. The actual distance was much greatt., probably approaching nearly to the " rough guess " of 3700 m.) Stevens left Livei'pool on Saturday, May 2, 1885, at 4 p. m., and was escorted by local rid- ers, through several showers, to Warrington ; he stopiJed at Stone for the night of the 3d, ind rode on the 4th through Biimingham to Coventry (60 m.), in spite of continuous rain ; reached Berkhamsted, his native place, on the sth, and London on the 6th ; whence (after a three days' halt, to attend the annual tricycling parade) he fared to Croydon, on the 9th, and through Brighton to Newhaven, on the loth,— finishing thus " the first 300 m. he ever wheeled without a header." Disemhirking at Dieppe, next morning, his course lay through the Arques valley to Rouen and Eibeuf ; thence, on the 12th, to Mantes, on the Seine; and on the 13th to Paris, at 2 P. M., where he rested the next two days. On the i6th, he went through Fontenoy and Provins to Sezanne, where " a heavy rain during the night rather improved the gravel surface," so that on the 17th, starting at 8.3 j A. M. and stopping i h. for dinner at Vitry le Francois (65 'xil.), he " reached Bar le Due at 5 p. M., a distance of 160 kilometers (about 100 m.), without any undue exertion. The forenoon's road was one of the most enjoyable stretches imaginable, most of the surface being as perfect as an asphalt boulevard, and the contour of the country somewhat resembling the swelling prairies of Iowa." A storm of rain and hail enforced a halt during the 18th, at the village of Trouville, but on the 19th, in spite of bad weather, he reached Nancy, and on the zoth crossed into Germany (Lorraine), and spent the night at Pfalzburg. His French mileage .vas about 400, representing only six full riding days ; for he " found the Nor- mandy roads superior even to the English ; those e. of Paris not quite so good, but better than the roads around Boston. Through the Arques valley, there is not a loose stone or rut or depression anywhere ; and at every cross-roads stands an iron post, giving distances in kilometers and yards to several of the nearest towns ; while small stone posts along the roadside mark every 100 yards. The German roads possess the single merit of hardness, but generally make no pretense to smoothness ; the idea, apparently, being to keep spreading plenty of loc" flint- stones on the surface, — so that the wheelman must either follow the wheel-marks or pick his ,"ay along the edges. This is especially true of Bavaria. I was agreeably surprised to find :he roads through Servia rank next to the French and English, though, as they a e mostly unmac- adamiied, my experience of them might not have been as enjoyable if wet weather had pre- vailed. The camel-paths across the level plains of Persia, being of hard srave!. are simolv perfect for wheeling, as is shown by the fact that I covered the last aoo m. to Teheran, the cap- ital, in three days ; but that was incomparably the best stretch e. of Constantinople, and I had LONG-DISTANLE ROUTES AND RIDERS. 481 rather wheel from C. to London and back again, than from T ,midt to the Persian frontier. In Asia Minor and Koo. tan, I found little else but mountains, and they were the steepest ones I ever climbed. The mule-paths a 1 amel-trails which I followed there for nearly looo m., over a succession of mountain ranges and spurs, were immeasurably more difficult than any- thing experiei.ced in the Roclcies. Nevei theJess, all through Angora (which poverty-strickeo provinc3 ooasu 450 m. of artificial wagon-road, thanks to the f nergy of the present mayor of its uipital, Souleiman Efeiidi), I would prefer the bicycle to a horse " Constantinople was his first appointed stopping place, on account of the heat (July a to Aug. 12), and h' estimated his two months' mi'»-'^e thither from Liverpool as about 2750, — kis longest halt having been at Vienna, for the '' r .. • ree days of summer. His itinerary from the Kliine was as follows: "May 20, go, hilly roads, through the rain, to Savem*; slippery descent into the Rhine valley at Ma ; .ra; croti the river at Strasburg ; level and less muddy to Oberkirch; 21st, up the Rench valley, by well-nigh perfect road to Petersthal ; th;ii miles of steep trundling through the Black Forest, till I cross the line from Baden into Wurtemburg, at the summit, and have a smooth and gentle descent to Freudenstadt ; 22d, rather hilly and stony, to Rothenburg ; 23d, rain and mud, through Tubingen to Blaubeuren ; 24th, down the Danube to Ulm, where I cross i.ito Bavaria, and rtach Augsburg at early even- ing, having covered 120 kil. since 10 o'clock, spite of abundant loose stones; 25th, Munich, where I halt for the afternoon and next day ; 27th, starting after a night's rain, through • waste of loose flints and mud-filled rutS; I take my first European header ; find better roads along the Inn river to Alt Getting ; 28th, at Simpach, cross the Inn and enter Austria, whose upland roads thence to the valley of the Danube have less loose flints but are aggravatingly hilly ; 29th, Strenburg ; 30th, Neu Longbach ; 31st, at noon, Vienna. June 4, have an Austrian escort to Pressburg, where cross into Hungary at noon, and find a fair proportion of side-paths to Alien- I- ,r^^ — dry weather having made th' highway as unridable as a plowed field ; 5th, down the Danube, through the level wheat-fieWs to Nezmely; 6th, through broiling hot weather, by rather smoother but hillier roads, to Budapest, where I am welcomed by the C. T. C. coij^ul, L. D. Kostovitz, who introduced the first bicycle here, on his returrj from England, in the au- tumn of '79, though there are now 100 riders; 8th, to Duna Pentele, 75 m.; hot and dusty, but iuperior roads, fringed with mulberry trees, instead of the poplars, which were the crowning '.;iory of the French landscape, and the abundant apple and pear trees which shaded the way in Cermany ; 9th, Szeksard ; loth, Duna Siekeso,— where I halt half a day, as it is the home d. Svijtoiar Egali, who is my companion from Budapest to Belgrade, and who wheeled in '84 from Montpelli.;r, in France, through Italy, Styria and Croitia, to Budapest ; nth, Eszek, the '-apital of Slavonia, where rain stops us for a day, and causes much slow trundling through the mud, on the 13th, to Sarengrad ; 14th, Peterwardein, on ihe border of Hungary, opposite Neusati ; 15th, over the Fruskagora mountains to Batainitz ; i6th, early in the foren< to Belgrade, the capital of Servia, where a bicycle club of 30 forms the last cycling outpost towards the Orient ; iSth, Grotzka, 25 k., from 4 to 7.30 P. M.; 19th, Jagu-iina, 8 A. M. to 9 p. M.,— 145 k., in spite of the great heat, and much poor surface during the first 45 k. to Semendria, where I left the Danube which I had been following in a general way for a fortnight, and turned due s. up the smaller Morava valley; 20th, Nisch, 5.30 A. M., to 6 p. M., — 120 k. of even better average rid- in'^ than the day before ; 2ist, over the Balkans and through the Nissiva valley to Bela Pa- lanka, 50 k., where rain hnlds me over Sunday, while my companion from Belgrade (Douchan I'opovitz, 'theb2st rider in Servia') hires a team to drag him back through the mud to N.; 23d, through the border towns of Pirot and Zaribrod, unto Bulgaria, — a country of mountains and plateaas,— to Sofia, its capital, s A. n. to 4- 30 p. M., no k., in spite of mud, hill climbing and rutty roads ; 24th,, helped by the wind, the same as yesterday, I manage to ride, along the worst road yet experienced in Euv-pc, to Ichtiman, in Roumelia. at 3 o'clock; 25th, through mud and rain, over the Kodja Balkans, then down the Maritza valley by decent macadam to a n^haita beyond Tartar Bazardjik ; aoth, a ride of 2 h., on good surface, for breakfast at Phil- ippopolis, the capital; then through showers and mud to Cauheme ; 27th, fairiy smooth but hilly roads to Hermouli, the last town of Roumelia, at 11 A.M.; then against a head-wind to 31 4«a TEN THOUSAND MILES 0J\- A BICYCLE. Mustapha Pasha, the first town i.i Turkey pro|)er, and through the rain tcwarda Adranople until at lo p. M., I reach a dry spot and crawl under some prune bushes for the night ; iSih breakfast in A. , on roast lamb, the first well^ooked bit of meat I 've had since leaving Kisch rain has fallen during every one of these 8 days, but I suppose I should be glad of it, for unsuf^ ferable heat is the only other alternative in the Orient at this season ; iry road turnL from the Maritza valley at A., and leads across iH- ''»ary undulations of the Adrianople plains-tr-elesi and hilly grazing lands, traversed by small sloughs— to Lski Baba, where rain holds me during Sunday, i9th, and »• '.^re my fourth ChUing chapter is finished. My course for these last two days has led along an ancient and abai doned macadam, which gives occasional ridable stretches. where the traffic has worn down the weeds and thistles, and which offers a refuge from the mud- sloughs of the adjacent dirt road, though nearly every bridge and culvert has been destroyed; and during the next two days of rain and mud I complete the European section of my tour, ant! roll into Constantinople on thi morning ot July 2, fur a six weeks' halt. ' We fancy the rider looks a little fatigued,' says the SUmboid Jo orus into Asia Miner, at Ismidt, Aug. 12, I reach Angora (220m. by cyclom.)at 6 p. m. of the i6i;i, though the post service over the same route takes 9 days, and the first half of it is simply mule-paths over moun'ains,— the worst I ever traversed ; and 1 stop at the house of Mr. Henry Binns, an Englishman engaged in the mohair trade, as my only chance of gettmg a day's quiet, against the tremendous mobs of curious natives who besiege every k:uin where I put up, from the moment of my arrival until 1 leave ths town, importuT^ing me to bin I bin ! (' mount! mount ! "•, and offering to give me everytl ing conceivable, eycpt what I most need— rest. Here at Angora, it is promised that if the crowds will give me a day's peace for letter writing, I will ri(ie before them on the fo.enoon of departure, along a straight macadamized stretch of 600 yards, outside tlie town ; and at 10. ^o on the i8lh, I find more than 2000 people awaiting tfiere to see 'the crazy Englishman on the Devil's carriage.' The body-guard of the governor, Sirri Pacha (who is present, with most of t le government officials and the iliU of the city), whip back the throngs to clear the course for me, and f wheel up and down this thrice, be- fore starting on for Sivas (2S3 m.), a city of 50,000, where I halt a day and have an interview with the pasha, Halif Rifat, and with the American missionary, Rev. A. W. Hubbard. Be- tween Aug. 27 and Sept. 3, I traverse the next 30S m. to Erzeroum, a daily average of 40 m., Ill spite of bridgeless streams and precipitous mountain-trails, for in the valleys I often find stretches of road that would be creditable to a European country. Leaving E. on the 7th, I pass into Persia at a point beyond Khoi, nd reach Tabreez (389 m.) on the i8th, doing the list 40 m. on m.icadam in half a day. This is a part of the great caravan route, and though there are no wheeled vehicles at all in Persia, the country is less mountainous than Asia Minor, and the camel-trails allow more riding than I expected. Tabreez is the site of ancient Tarsus, and on the way hither I pa.ss close to the foot of Mt. Ararat, whose top is covered with snow. 1 halt in T. two days, as there are several Engli^h-speakinp residents with whom I can talk ; ami I find Europeans in charge of two telegraph stations which I encounter on the way to Teheran (576 m.), whe'-e I finish my touring for 1SS5 at noon of .Sept. 30. It seems n pity to be resting in O-tober, the best month of the twelve for traveling in Central Asia, but as I could get no farther e. than Herat this sason, and might be overtaken by bad weathe- on the way, it is wisest to spend the winter here at the capital, where I can learn something of the roads and customs and languages of the dangerous cnnntries to be traversed in '86 (for, though I ?m well past th-.- half-way stage of my round-the-world route, the real difficulties of it are still ahead), and write my f>^ m..of macadam which connects the city with the royal palace .-a ga. >ns at Doshan Tepe. My earher experi- ences in Koordistan and Persia have been strange and varied almost beyond belief, and my de- scriptions of them cannot fail to be far more novel and entertaining than anything I ever wrote about the tours across America and Europe." (Illustrated arlidts about Teheran, by S. G. W Benjamin, late U. S. Minister to Persia, appear in the current Century and Harper's, im., '86.) The foregoing summary of Stevens's story has been compiled by me, from several sources, at a cost of eight days' ?' ady work (56 h.); and I have gladly given to it this great amount of time and space— just when both are very precious to me— not only because I think his advent- ure the most remarkable and interesting exploit ever accomplished by a bicycle, or ever likely to be accomplished, but because it appeals to me personally, as having a sort of kinship with my own desperate struggle to push this book around the world. Stevens was born the day be- fore Christmas, the same as myself, though eight years later ; he learned bicycling at the close of "83, as the first step in his scheme, just when I was formulating the first prospectus of mine ; he made the " impossible " passage from the Pacific to the Mississippi during the same early months of '84 while I was capturing the " impossible " looo subscribers that I called for as a preliminary guarantee of ^ood-faith, — both of us thereby simultaneously winning from the cycling wcifld that sort nt. It is proper that he should have his pay ensured him in advance, because of tht vastly greater peril that he undergoes ; but I insist that such insur- < iwm 484 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ance does nol make his motive a whit more " mtrcenary " than my own. If any supercilious iiersons are inclined to sneer at Stevens because his round-ihe-world bicycling is " an advertise' raent." I hope to be compliir.ented by having them extend the sneer to cover me and my round th.'-world book. This was designed simply as " an advertisement,"-a more elaborate and painstaking advertisement of the power and permanence of cycling than any man's pen had previously attempted -and if (instead of wearily drumming up " 3000 subscribers") I could have persuaded a single generous patron of the - ort to have ensured my whole payment in advance, I should have thought myself much lucl, . than now, when the question of my re --..inf, an adequate reward for two years' work actually rendered is a question of my still find ing 30,000 hidividual patrons disposed to contribute their mites towards that result. The insu}anty and littleness of the average British business-man's mind were 'ever more perfectly show.) than in the inability of " the trade " of England to grasp the idea that the success of the St-vens scheme would be " an advertisement " for each and every one of them Instead, therefore, of "booming" it to the utmost, through the press, for their ovim business advantage, and getfng some share of the credit as its ostensible supporters, they held aloof from It, and as far as possible ignored it, as if it were a dangerous Yankee trick for discrediting the manufactures of i^ngland. I was glad to find, at our first interview, that Stevens himself had none of -his narrowness of vision, but heartily accepted my own theory as to the essential " so'idanty " (m distinction from rivalry) of our two schen»es for the manufacture and sale of cycling literature. " The success of one must help rather than hinder the success of the other I said to him then and still believe ; and my strong sympathy for the man himself may perhaps render the story of his Oriental adventures more interesting to me than to those who never met him, or who have less anthusiasm than I for .seeing the .vorld a-wheelback ; but I do not think 1 am controlled by any selfish or personal considerations when I urge every one of my readers to read his Outing sketches, and in due time to buy the book which is to be built from them Such slight hints as have already be.n printed about the " wild times" he has^iad in penetrat^ ing Asia, are enough to stir the blood of the most sluggish with a keen desire to learn the full details of them ; and if any cyclers exist who regard his story with indifference, I can only say as one of iny earliest subscribers said of those who might fail to pledge me their support on the instant of reading the first prospectus of this book : " Their bicycles ought to be taken right away from them ! " Second only to Stevens, in respect 'o the le-.gth of American roadwav explored in a single season, stands Hugh J. High (b. April 26, 1858), who in '85 wheeled from Pottstown, Pa., May 4, continuously to Middleton, la., Junes; and then, after a three months' stay in Nebraska, wheeled h.ime again, by a different route, Aug. ^^ to Oct. 10. The length of his westward trail was looi m., whc.eof 174 m. had to be walked, and his riding time was 193J h.; eastward trail, 1664 m., 227 1.1. walked, riding time 304 h. Combining the two, the corresponding figures are 2665, 40:, 497J ; and as he toured 343 m. to different points in Nebraska, his total mileage for the five months wis 3008. By occupation he is a " ieacher of b.ass and reed bands and orchestras, and leader of the orchestra at Pottstown Opera House," where he has lived since •82, when he finished jj years of service as musician in the U. S. Cavalry Band at Ft. Jeffer- son, Mo. He considers this army training " as good a school as we have in this country for the haniing of such music,"— his previous acquisitions of that sort having been gained under difficulties, during the leisure le: from working ,0 h. a day in the nail-mill at Birdshaw, 9 m. w. of P.,— for the death of his father forced him to leave school at the age of 14 and earn his own support. Proximity to the bicycles of his r.phew and brother led him to become a rider, at the opening of '83, and he took short rides of 8 to 12 ra., almost daily during that season, spite of abundant tumbles. The Pottstown B. C, of 12 members, was formed Aug. i, '84, and elected him captain. On the 25th, he sold his Standard Columbia and bought the Expert which has served him since. With it he got a McDonnell cyclometer, which durine the next 9 weeks registered 533 m. ihen, Nov. 8 to 25, in company with A. M. Sheffey and J. G. High, he took a 450 m. tour to Washington and back ; and his enjoyment of this led him to LONG-DISTANCE ROUTES AND RIDERS. 485 JUIi. plan a longer one for the spring; of 'S5. Meanwhile he added i83 m. to hit record, and decided to make Seward, Neb., his objective point, as he " wished to visit a friend there, and also see the intermediate country, — especially the mountains of Western Pennsylvania. My outfit com- prised corduroy breeches, having the seat and front faced with deer-skin, sewed with string in double seams, and they were in good condition at the end of the trip, though mysho, j were full of holes then. Thitse wen lowi, Havana, 49 (20), 13J ; June i, 'Lewi-stown, 8 (8), 3^ ; 2, *Bushnell, 36 (5), 8 ; 3, 'Disco, 30 (2), 6 ; 4, • Bur- lington, la., 13 (11), 4} ; 5, Middleton, 9 (6), 3. I was thus hindered by rain on g of my 18 riding days, and there were only 3 days when I did no walking, but my average daily advance was 35i m. for the looi m. An engagement at Seward on June 5 then fnrced me to take train, and that was the only section of my tour not done by wheel. My return record was as follows : Au;. 27, DeWitt, Neb., 47, 9; 28, Marysville, Kan., 51, 9; 29, •Waterville, 21 (6), 4; 30, Clay Center, 43 (3), 8i ; Sept. 2, Belone, 61 (5), (O ; 3, Medina, 53 (i), 8J ; 4, Perryv lie, 1 (1), i; 6, •Lawrence, 20(18), 5J ; 8, Edwardsville, z^ (24), 8J; 9, Independence, Mo., 27 (ii), 5}; 10, Strasburg, 37 (18), 9; 11, La Monte, 50 (5), 9; 13, *Otterville, 24 (g), b\\ 14, Centertown, JO (15), 8i ; 15, Linn, 38(22), 10; 16, at a farm-house, 34 (15), 9: 17, Gray's Summit, 35(15), 8J; 18, St. Louis, 38 (2), si ; 19, New Baden, 111., 30, 5 ; 20, Rome, 60, gj : 21, Albion, 53, 9 ; 22, Oakland, Ind., 43 (2), ^; 23, Boston, 46 (6), 9; 24, Berrville, 39 (12), 8; 25, Simpsonville, Ky., 40, si; 26, Winchestcir, 75, 10; 27, Farmers' Crossing, 41 (1), 6; 28, Grayson, 44(3), 9. (Itinerary for next 12 days may be found at foot of p. 351.; Rain stopped me entirely on 5 days of this return trip, and hindered me on 7 of tho other 39 when I did some riding (it was all riding on 9 days only), so that my average daily mileage for the 1664 m. was 42}. I printed t;ibles of these distances in Spr. Wh. Gaz. (*'ov.) and Phil. Cyc. Rec. (Nov. 14, 28^ and supplied for the latter th> following remarks about the roads : Pennsylvania. — ''ike to Chambersburg ; hilly to Ft. Ixindon, incl. g m. over Cone mtn. ; three mtn. ridges to ShcllsburR ; iq m., stony and sandy, over Alleghanies : 10 m., fair pike to Jannertown, where cross Laurel hill, steep ami stony for g m. ; fair road through Ligonier valley; stony and bad through Chestnut Ridge valley, g m. to Youngstown ; thence to Pittsburg by pike, fair but hilly, for 34 m., and then by rKv. rd. throuirh Rraddock, bitter in dry weather. Ohio. — Steubenville, by road of same name, can only be 1 'dden in dry weather. To Hcndrysburg,by Ohio riv. rd. to Bridgeport, 23 m., with s m. bad bluff ; on r. r. , gravel ballast. At Bridgeport took National pike ; hilly, good ; ^1 w 486 T£,V THOUSAND MILES ON 4 BICYCLE. Jacktown, 73 m., pike, hilly. /Wiix«,.,_Indianapo!i,, 206 m., pike level e.xxl • Cr. 4. m., p.ke, .om. ..-.xl ; 5 m. dir. to Greencastl^ p ke .. ^ ; „. 'Jed ^v^a'l Mr"'' tndged //W>.-Pari,; dir. to Hra.l. bad; bette'r .0 •I>rre C ■ ^,7 w 'b"" ■ "''' Spnngfield rd 5 n,. ; .he.. „o„y, ^ndy and bluff rd. 4 m. ; ,hen level. IJ ca ur i ' IT i muck ...ndable when we. ; as i. was n .„y, used r. r. bed, be.ween ..ik who ":""'' J Micoln, 33 m. ; on .lack .,f P. D. & K r r dirt balla,. H,„, j u n '»'»tRnce. ble ; b^ance „. . ... di. balla... Lewi.oJn. tl^iSi., r^,^:^ 'l, ^J^^^"^- AV..... Koads .h.u«h,L . e.'o. S.a^ J.^dTble inte tLt^n. " Tre'ry^^.r hard ran. a b.cyclercan venture on any of .he n,os.,y-...veled onel, but grea. care Ju ^ t: Ar„.«.„._Lee's Sun,mit, .7 m. by Missouri Pacific r. r., n,ostly ridable to Inde^ del m balance most.y unndable. An old stage road runs from Kansas City to St. T^utZJ^ weah ' T- ■" ■^'^'^"°" '''•'■ ''° ''""^'"'^' "• '"- "^y '"^-^e road f prairie, go^ iri wea.her. Ln.on. .09 m. ; miserable, bluffs, stones, sand and unbrid:;ed creeks. Gray's Sum nm. ,4 m. ; stone and dirt road alongside o.' each other, former mostly unridable St Louis' 38 m, same as last for 8 m., then fine grav.t pike. 30 m. N. side of Missouri' ri. is' sa,d o be mostly pra.ne road, and I advise cyders to take it. ////«,^._Mt. Carmel ... m ■ mostly prame road, clay and sand mixed ; some hills near Wabash riv. M,ana.-Ne^ Albany' .23 r- . about so m. good, ridable road ; balance bhuTs, strny and sandy. A>«/«<-tv -I ou' ' v.lle to Farmers' Crossing, ,4. m. ; fine pike. Catle.tsburg, jo m. ; sandy, stony, and se'veral rdTa^C T 'V"""- • "^f '^-^'''--'-"'ey Bridge, .00 m. ; valley road. sand. ; 4 m bad near G. B. F.r^;„,^._Staunton, .6, m. A worn-out stage road leads to Codington .V«ell and Mud Creek mtns., and several mountain ridges. The Alleghanies lie between Lew.sburg. W. Va., and Covi,:gton. Va., and are mostly ridable. From Covington to Goshen 38 m., there ,s scarcely any road, the railroad side-path being best for the bicycle There ar several nvers ,0 ford, fn .his way I crossed the Cow-Pasture riv. three times, and the Jackson nv. once. Goshen to Buffalo Gap, 5 m. ; bad branch road before reaching latter, where I strucka stage road, ,n fa,r condition, leading to the famous Shenandoah vallev pike a' M. Sidney (see p. 352) only ,0 m. n. of S.aunton. ^^ry/an^/.-Hagers.own .0 Roverville, ,5 m. pike where cross Sou.h mtn., 6 m., pike over mountain and 8 m, dirt road to G.ctysburg, Pa ' New Oxford, ,om. ; won.-out pike; summer road alongside. York, ,8 m. ; Columbia ,, m • I m- caster 9 m. • New Holland, ,5 m., all pike. Pot.stown,, ,% m., stone and dir. mixed." ' Or. H^ Jarvis (b. May 4, .S54) reports from Oxford, Md. ; " I have lived in this place for en years, but I was 00™ at St. Paul. I started thence on my bicycle July .0, '83, and was abon, .6 days on the way .0 Bal.,more.-say 23 days of actual all-day wheeling. I car.-ied no cyclom- eter but I estimate that more 'han .500 m. were travelled. My longest day's ride w'as ,-„, les,, than 85 m.fl th.nk ,t was nearer 95). and my shortest was 35 m., on the occasion of hein. ^..^p^a Dy .. ,..„.-„>„,„. M, >i,e monntams near IJeer Park, Md. On several nights, I rode as late as .0 or .. o clock, and for two weeks t slept comfortably in a portable tent of my own in- LO.WC-DISTAACI-: ROUTES AND R/DERS. 487 vention. As I perspire very freely, and had some warm days to contend with, I lost weight at ftrst but soon regained my normal condition. I drink abundamly on the road, no iwtter what s,„ne riders say about 'one glass of miU being enough.' My only fall on the entire tnp was ,K-ar Piedmont, caused by striking a loose stone while coasting a short hill. This bent the crank into the sixikes, but did no harm to myself, as I slid ..ff sidewise on to terra hrroa. I also br(,ke out three spokes by catching my heel in them on three separate occasions, b- *-..: «o other accidents. I resorted to trains from Chicago to Kt. Wayne, and from Massi'lon, (;., to Oakland Md , whence I wheeled to Hagerstown and Baltimore, and so home. 1,./ other wheeling, therefore, was from St. Paul to Chicago, and from Kt. Wayne to Ma».Mllon. The n.-r roads from St. Paul to Hastings, through the w. side, and thence to Winona ar- fair and good witn vc- fine views of the Mississippi. Kntering here Into Wisconsin, I found he reads across that State to Milwaukee almost all ridable, with but few hills. Thence to Chicago the nding is quite fair, and I may say the same of it to Kt. Wayne. Kroi . there throi-gh to Wheeling W. Va., it is more or less hilly and rough; thence to Krederick quite h.ll> (some very sharp hills) ; but between K. and Baltimore there is good coastir;-. My w..eel was a 52-in. Kxtraordinary; and between June, 'So. and Oct., 'S3, 1 rode it in the following fifteen states : Mass NY N J.. Penn., Del., Md., Va., W. Va., O., I.id., 111., Mich., Wis., Mmn., la., and Dakota Territory, I 'm inclined to think that my next purchase will be the same style of machine of smaller si^e ; since, after actual test of under-size and over-sue wheels. I will take the under-size at all times for all kinds of work on the road. 1 've taken interest in wheehng since '76, when I saw the first bicycle or exhibition at Philadelphia; but it was not until the fall of '79 that t procured my 'Columbia, No. 244,' which style of mauiine I think has never had an equal for rough wear and tear. Mine stood many miles of very rough runnmg, without costing anything for repairs, except a handle-bar and crank-shaft, both broken by falls on wet and greasy cobble-stones. If 1 am alive in the summer and autumn of '86, I in'end to nuake a continuous trail with the tire of my bicycle from Winnipeg, in Manitoba, to New York City." The youngest tourist among those who have made very long straightaway trails seems to be (leo. W. Baker (b. Nov. 3, 1864), of the St. Louis Ramblers, who puflied a48 in. Victor thence to Boston, July 1-2S, '85, without serious accident, as recorded in the '.Vheel and Bi. World of .Aug. 7, and Spr. Wh. Gaz. of Sept., from which sources I jondense the following : " Colum- l)u<, 454 m., was reached on the morning of the 9th, a daily average of 50 m., though I made the So m. ?rom Terre Haute to indiaiiapolis (half of it poor roads) in 8 h., thereby breaking the record between those places. My longest nde was 1.. m Erie to Buffalo, 90 m. in n h., whence through Albany to Boston I found the poorest average riding of all. I several times rode as much as 60 or T^ m. in a day. My only run after dark was from Batavia to Leroy, 10 m. My one day's illness apparently '-suited from a change in the drinking water, early in the tnp ; l)ut I wheeled 20 m. that day. Rain did not deter me, and I never caught cold. I found my best riding hours were from 4 A, M. to 12, und I rested considerably in the afternoons. Estimat- ing my rests as 84 days, my complete riding-days as 19 and my distance as 1354 m., would show an average daily mileage of almost 71m.; while dividing the distance by the full 28 days of the tour would still show an average of neariy 484 m. I tcok six headers while trying to ride down a single hill at Ashtabula, but had very few falls on level ground. My baggage was strapped be- hind the saddle in a little valise. My height is 5 ft, 6 in,, weight, 135 lbs,, and I lost hardly 3 lbs. on the way. I was forced to do considerable walking on the Ohio roads. Those of Illinois were the best." He has sent no leply to repeated letters of mine, askingif these statements rest upon his authority, and requesting him to supply a table of daily distances and halting-places ; and similar enquiries which I have addressed to subscribe s in St. Louis, and to the editors of the cycling papers there, for fuller details of His remarkable trip, have likewise brought no response. The mileage from St. L. to Boston, by r. r. guide, is 1228, divided thus : through Terre Haute to I.dianapolis, 264; Cleveland, 283; Buffalo, 183; Albany, 398. [After the above was in type, I received from Mr. B, a i?buiaicu repoii (jan, 14, SOi, ^iia ! nitr. a:— .c-;r/ —a— rvv::: for these extracts from it : " My cyclom, broke before I 'd gone 150 m,, and I took distances on th; authority of people, met on the road, who were supposed to know. I 'm sorry now -aMuiii> 488 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. lia: 1 V I dulD t keep . record of a grea. many thing,. The last two day. of ,ne *rip g.»e a lon.rr o.,ieage(.»3j than any other two, though I spoiled the conlnmuy of i. by taking train ( through H.K«ac tunnel, rather than walk 9 m. over the nuu. I was from 4 a m 1 ' '" r. u., m wheeling 83 m. from New Lebanon, N. V.. to Athol, besxle. the tunnel r.de JTx re. ed B«,ton, 80 m., next day at jo p. m. f give the miles of each day', ride *, h tl pUce and hour w^ere it end 1 I' p. m.' b.-n.g understood unle«* ' a. m.' U exprewed) as f " low.: July, io, Trenton. 4.30; ,d, 50, Kggcrstowu, 6; 3d, 34, Effingham, 4 i 4th 70' iv" Haute sjo; 5th, ,0. n, T. H.; 6,h. 80. Indianapolis, a.30; 7th, 70, Richmond, 6.3; «,h\7 Spnngficld 5; .>.h, 44. Columbus, .,.30 A.M.; ,.th,65, Uucyrus, 5 ; . .th, ao. I'lymouth, 3 • ,', ,,' 65,Klyr.a,6; .3th, .0, Lleveland, 8.30 a. M ; u.h. jo, -ieneva, (a 10)6.30; .jth 50 Kn. .6.h,.^.Bufialo.3 .;.h.Nia,araa.abackby.raln; .8th, 57. I.roy. s! .U. 35 C 1^^^^ ' ; aoth, a., farm-house. 4 ; a.st. 55. -Syracu.sc, 3; aad. .5, Chittenango, (6.30 to) 8- „d " ' Utica . . A . ; ,4th 45, Fort Pla,,,, 6 ; ,5.!,, O5, Albany 3 ; a6th, 40. New t.banon 5 ; ,; h 83.At^ol, 7.30; „S.h, ^, 13o.ton. 6.30. This makes a total of .347 m. I was ill on the Ihi o .oth and slep. only a li.tle ; rode ,0 m. 01. the . ..h, though feeling very weak, and on .,,h c^ pleted a three days' run of ,40 m., by taking a bad header. I still car-y scars from the fa 1, 1 h H a. Ashtabula on the .5th. Several d..ys were very hot, the a,d showing ^^ in I shad! " One of the earliest lM,g tours made in this country also terminated at Hoston (Oct ., 'So) nv mg been begun 54 days previously at f.ima.which is7i m. s.ofToledo. .30 m. n. of fi.ici'nnati, a"„d .bout 30 m. e. of the fnd ana border. The B,. IV^tUoi Dec. 3 gave two columns ,c a report ,f i ^m a talk with R. W. Harmen.er, and this f thuscondense : " My companion, Charles K. Cani beU^of Lima, rc-ie a ,a in., while f rode a 54 in., both being Standard Columbias, recently pro! cur-d, .or ne.the> A us had ndde.i .00 m. all told. My weight increased from , ,3 to .45 lbs durin. thetnp. WeMartedAug. 19. at 5 p. m, and rode ..* m. to Cranberry ; ,oth. Kinley «m ■ i- Tiffin, 28 m.: 2.d, Mo".:oeville; 23d, Norwalk, 4 • - ; 2.,th, bad clay roads for' 20 m '-my companion breaking down and going to Cleveland by train; 2sth, Cleveland; 27lh, (.leniva ■ »8»h, Girard ; joth, Westfield. Two days later, my companion rejoined me at Uke C hautau' qua, and our tour continued: Sept. ,. MayvUle to Silver Creek; 2d, Buffalo; 3d Niagara- 4th Albion; uh, Rochester ; 6th, Clyd- ; 7th. Syracuse; 9th, Utica ; loth, Little Falls • .',ih' Schenectady ; .2th. Albany. The road was bad for this last ,5m., and for most of the way . [ took the r. r. track ; as also from Utica to Little Falls, on acr-^nnt of rain ; while from Clyde to Syracuse we mostly tried the tow-path, as the road was sandy and stony. On the .,th we wheeled 30 m. down the river to fiudson, whence on .6th, Mr. Campbell started for Boston while I visited New York and the Catskills till Uct. o, when f wheeled 37 m. from Hudson to Mt^ Gray by gnod road, with only one large hill ; on the 7th, by sandy, stony and mountainous roads to Westfield ; 8th, to Springfield ; gth, to Worcester ; where I halted a day and then rode to Boston on Monday, the ..th." (By referring to p. 201, it will be seen that 1 left Ulica fomgw., on the morning of Sept. 9. 'So. while these tourist , coming e.. arrived there that' Mm. n.ght : but f failed to meet them or to hear of them.) Though the Bi. n'or/J ^>haw% that Mr. P. rode on 3. of the 54 days, it exagger-tcs the distance covered to " about .000 m " and says It was " accomplished in about 20 riding days, or an average of 50 m. a day." Similar vague and uncertain phrases were used in the papers to characterize the tour which Gale Sherman of the same town, took to Boston, the next .spring. I exchanRed a few words with him there at tlie time of the league meet in May. but have forgot, n what he said as tr the proportion of his (oumey which was done by train ; and the letter of enquiry which I addressed to Lima (Dec .9, -85) brought no response, from either him or Mr. Parmenter. The same fate befell my let- ter of same date to another tourist, whom I met on the same occasion : W. H. Craigin of Bos- ton who wheeled from Chicago to Wheeling, in the autumn following ; then sold his'mad.ii.e .nd took tram to Wash.ngton. where I met him again at the close of my ow^ autumn ride along the Potomac " (Oct. 28. '8,, see p. 242). I remember he told me that tonrint; had s„ch a fascination iThim that he had decided to 2b.-!:iH.".n !h.- -.vh.-sl a-.:;.^!.. r _; ...'_„ only security against letting his love for it get the better of his desire to '^succeed in busfnlss" He felt that, if he trusted himself in the saddle at all, he could hardly resist the temptation to [P LOXG-D/STAACE /iOUJES AA'D RIDERS. 489 "continually go i-toiirinK-" A report of hi> joii-n«v. wilh the title, " Chicigo 10 [lotton," wu ujiitinueil through several numben of ihe Bi. World, over the signature, " Cruokshank-i. " Western adventures of a bicycle touris* : being a truthful narration of a trip from Dan- ville, 111., to Cheyenne, Wy., written by the very ' idjit ' who did the deed," was ihe title of iliout 12,000 words which Will Rom printed in a half-dozen issues of his weekly taper, the Taothfkk ()vAy ij to Aug. 17, '83), at Ashmore, 111., concerning his tour of the previous vsa- wm, which also supplied him with materials for a public lecture. In the first place, lie adver- livd in the Bi. U'orldKo send the story in pamphlet form for 20 c. ; but tliose who, like myself, fnrwarded the amount, heard nothing from t for several months, until the Toothpick series ifived, with an apologetic remark as to the hopelessne-u, of issuing the projected book. The litirary quality of the report corresponds very well with is chosen title, but such few facts, dates and exact sta: sties as may be frund in it I present as follows : " S.arted the middle of Ar -ust, 'Sj ; was six v.x-ks vn the road ; traveled about 1400 m., of which lietween 300 m. and 400 m. was by train (on short jumps, when roads were unusually bad, because of mud, hills and sand) \ cost of trip, I140, including the r. r. ticket home; used u 52 in. Standard Columbia, and had had only three weeks' practice ; route lay llirough the mud to Mattoon, and Lincoln, then by dryer roads to I'eoria, Bureau, and Tishwilka ; final ^\ m. to Princeton took 3 h., through mud, .iiid while I waited there five days (or it to dry, I found some good wheeling in and around Hennepin, on e bank of Illinois riv. Friday, Sept. 6, 1 rode 45 m., from P. to (ieneseo, the first 12 m. Ijeing very good, the rest exceedingly rough and bumpy, with several bad swamp*; 7th, sandy and diffir-ilt for about 30 m. to Rock Island, at 5 p. m. ; ylh after a detour to .Moline, 5 m. e., I cross the Mississippi to Daven] anr'. have good roads for 35 m., but get lired of the hills, and so take train to Iowa City; ake train several times befo.j getting to (Irinnell, on the 1 iih ; between there and Oes Moines the hills are many and big ; but beyond the roads are quite good ; and after spending sevciai days in Council Hluffs I cross ti.e Missouri to Omaha, on the i8th, and find good roads to Elkhom and Central City (135 m.), whence I wheel for dinner 26 m. to Grand Island, and 20 ,:i. more to Wells River at 5 p. m. ; and next t, and alter fording the Saliiui. and sev.ral smaller stream., reached ihe Kl Mome Hotel m Monterey, with 4 day's record of 55^ m. <,f pleasant nding and walkin. through beautiful scenery. My road a. far as San Jose had been level and superbly stnooih and the region of M.nterey boasts 50 m. or more of wmlpapered ami polished drivewa-.; bu a. soon ai 1 left that great sea-side resort, tnonotonoua biliuws of >and had to be tra.-iiped'acK>s. and r<,iigh farm-road^ of ha.d adobe, so tS.. .„y record of the iSth, at Castroville. was but j,) m.. of wluch much h*l been ridden lu M. befoi • sUrting. \ he mosquit.^s caiiw.l grrai trouble fr. m C. to Watsonville. where 1 met the l.ibson brother., who had wheeled from S. V and w.. induced me to abandon the plan of continuing up the coast •.. Sa. ta Crui, as they said ihe sand on the roads would make progress t,». laborious. So 1 struck acr<»s. thr ign ihe ' hitman ai.d(.rayrantnes.to the hanla Clara valley, and with the wind's help s,».. reached (iilrov whence 1 doubled on my track of four days before to Madrone. 48^ m. for the day Ihence on the a. SI, by my former perfect road lor iS m. to San Jose, where at .0 I began a climb .,( asl tn. to the Lick (Jbserv.tory on Mt. Hamilton, at 5.30 r. m. This is an altitude of 4440 ft and the rise of the la>t 7 m. is 1^70 ft. From what is called ihe summit (1.. m. from S J • i,„o ft elevation), \ descended to Hill's Valley and Smith's Creek, 8J m., and then climbed up a winding grade, of aU.ut 6 ft to too. for the fir.al 6| m. to the Observatory. In returninK through a . avy fog. I twik a cross-cut trail to the brick-yard, i m.. and reached Smith's t reek a h. after leaving the top, with a day's record of 55* m. On the aid. 1 took a swift spin .„ Alum rock and back, before breakfasting at the Junction House, whence I returned to San Jose for a short stop -t chUrch, and then continued through Melp. u (6t m.\ Washington Cornem (8J m.), San Lorcnio (i6i m.), Oakland pier (16 J m.), and so across to me starting-point of my tour i. 5 p. M, -making 83 m. for the day, which was cooled by gentle showers, and 380} m. for the 8 days, during which I traveled in the counties of San Francisco. San Mateo, Santa Clara. San Benito a..d Alameda. The proposed run of the second week through Marin county from San Rafael had to be abandoned, because the rain, which continued during the a3d, made the roads too muddy; but I took boat to Petaluma instead, and at 6 a. m. of June 24. started thence, ..gainst a strong n. wind, for breakfast at Santa Rosa, i6} m. For the next 16 m. to Healdsburg, the wind rapidly improved the roads, which are of gravelly surface, so that two days later they would stand a fair comparison to the finest in the State. Numerous but gentle grades offered good chance* ',. coasting during the next 18 m. to Cloverdale, where I spent the night (soj m. for the d , ; 434^ m. for the tour), except those near the ' Swiss-Italian colony," whose constant wood-hauling had made things rough and rutty. As far as Hoptown, 16} m., I also found a bumpy adobe surface and steep hills, on the 25th, and I had te ord the Russian riv, before reaching Ukiab, 18 m., but the roads were then good, though very du 'v. to Cleve- land's Mill, 8 m. On the 26th, after ri.'ing 13 m., ' cnme in sight of the Blue lakes, and sped smoothly along a toll-road, exhi'arated by the mountain air and the grandeur of the scenery, until at last I coasted down a gentle slope to the hotel on the shore. After a brief halt here, 1 proceeded by fair roads 14 m. down-grade to Lake Port, on Lake Clear, a superb piece of water II m. wide and 27 m. long, where I halted several hours for a sail and swim ; and then went through Kelseyville, %\ m., to Olenbrook, 11 m., for the night. This day's surroundings were indescribably attractive : mountainous roads winding amid steep bluffs and deep caiions, with enchanting views of the lake at every turn ; but pleasanter than all was the fact of my overtak- ing three fellow-wheelmen at G., who had left Petaluma two days in a '•.ince of myself, and been delayed by bad weather and a broken bicycle. The trio wer' C-^- ri;e Rideout, Ernest Rideout and A. H. Cowen, the first of whom took train home next day ' S. c , while the other two wheeled with me to Napa, 56 m. We spent the forenoon in walking over the St. Helena mtn. to Calistoga, 28 m.. where we were fairly in the beautiful Napa valley, and we covered the next 9 m. to St. Helena in f h., for the road is the best in this n. part of the State, and it continues fair to Nana ^ with occasional bumGv natche*. W.* i.-v-.V 5r. ^ar!-..- ^t-.i :V._ .stK and finished 61 m., through the Saciamento valley, at Davisville, at 6 ?. m., after much tramp- LOXG-DISTANCE ROL TES AND RIDERS. 491 m,: coupled with (rightfui heat and n line' juj tomi^ntinK innects,— lh« intermediate points be- itiK lordelia, ijI m. ; Kairfield. 8 m. (at 11 o'clock); Klmira, 14 m. ; and Dixon, ij^ m. <)n ihe J^lh, we made an excursion to Wnodland and back (ij m), and then took can home for S K,— though I »toi :ied over it Sacramento long enough to do jo m. o< wheeling between there and Kivrnide. My six days' mileage thus amounted to J03I, and included six counties : ■>..iioma, Mendocino, Lake Na, , Solano. Volo and Sacramento; and I gained 5) lbs. during the fiirlnight's tour of 6«6} m. through eleven counties." Another notable fonnighl'i to-, in California (April 11-35. '85 ; 3^19 m. ; reported it. i>r. 1* h i'lat., A:i^ '«» "ii 63-ft4) was taken by Kmest Rideout (b. July jj, 1865) with his brothe. W.tltf.(b. Jul/ 11, 1H67), to the V'»emite Valley,— their first day's route covering nearly the s.iinc ground as the lait day's of the tour just given, but in a.i opposite direction : "As the road fr.irn S. K. to South Vallfjo is in very poor condition in April, we went thither by »teamer, and fmin.l (airly gooo riding through North ''allejo to the Four Mile House, 6 m., wheice we w.ilked most of the 11 m. to Cordelia, or Bridgeport, for dinner at n.30. We s|ieeded thence 111 Siiisun, 6 m. in J h. ; to Klmira, 11 m. of fair road, at 4, and to Dixon, by poorer ones at 7, whfii we stopped at the Arcade House. The main road along here is a pleasant one, but therr are so many side-tracks that the tourist is apt very frequently to bring up against a farm Kate, which compels him to turn back and begin again. After passing Davisville at 9 A. M. of ilie 13th, we obeyed the advice of a '>ad boy, who directed us across the fields to the 'top road,' which, when reached after many difficult tniles, proved scarcely walkable im account of deep mud, and led acros.s three bridgeless streams, where wo had to strip and wade, with our clothes and wheels above our heads. We reached Sacramento at 3 F. M., completely used up, with a diy's record of 26 m. ; but were fresh for a new Stan on the 14th, and reached KIk (Jrove, l^^ m , in 4^ h., just before noon, in spite of straying into by-paths, and meeting deep ruts which forteil us to walk. Walff's headers, to this point of the tcjr, nuriibered just eight ; and his new President bicycle suffered in handles and pedals, while an injury to one crank forced the shorten- ing up of both. Halting a h. for din,.er, we nxle i:} m. to dalt, in i} h. ; reached Woodbri Ig- 7)m ,at 4.?" and Stockton, 15 m., at 6.35. We stopped a day at S., which is the real poiti' of de(>arture for the Yosemite run (our preliminary visit to Sacramen o being chiefly foi the sake of seeing friends on the way), and on the i6lh reached Karmington, \^\ m., by good road, at 10 1;, Knight's Kerry, aoj m., at 3, and Cloudman'» or John Curtain's, at 6.30. On the 17th, up lull by rough roads to Chinese Camp, 8 m. (7. 10 to 10.10); then a still tougher ascent for 13 m to Priest's (including one hill which had to be "alked up for 3 m.); then 3 m. to Groveland, during which we twice waded the Tuolumne riv., ..esi'les crossing it by ferry (25 c.) at Jackson- ville. We each had to pay 50 c. toll on the road, for this is t---Td of every one, whether walk- •n)! or riding. On the -Sth, to Cror':er's, 23J m. (6.30 A. M. to 3.40 p. M.), with grand scene-y all ne way, but no houses. H..e we got the best meals we had had since leaving Stockton : and, as we were now well up in the mountains, the falling snow caused a delay in our start, on the mor.iing of the 19th, and afterwards drove us to the shelter of a deserted log-cabin. The rold stopped the working of my cyclometer; but the distance from Crocker's to Crane's Klat is 8 m., ind the summit .s i in. beyond, followed by a descent of 14 m. into the valley. We couldn't 1 de much, on account of the snow and the cold ; and at one time we were almost froien. Ice formed all over our bicycles and prevented the wheels from revolving, until we picked it away with cur knives. After a stretch of this sort of traveling, the roads became clearer, and allowed us to ride, until, at a certain bend in the road, we suddenly saw the famous valley smiling at our feet, in all its loveliness, though 4 m. of steep de.scents remained before we really reached It, and put up at the Barnard House. The backbone of Walter's machine broke o:. the way down, and vie tool, turns in trundling it until we reached a blacksmith, who clums.ly welded it together, at a charge of $5. Our mileage for the seven days was -.^\\, of which 118J represented the distance from Stockton. Having visited Bridal Veil falls and Mirror lake, we gave the rest of the day to scaling Glacier point (covered with snow), whence we could see the Vernal and Nevada fails, and almost everyttiing else in this indescribably splendid valley ; and at 7 a. m. of .April 21 resumed o'\s bicycles for the return. We reached Crocker's at 3.30 p. m.,— the cyclom- r'tr:-'! 492 TEX THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. Ifr's' 1' eter, which had thawed out while in the valley, giving the di&tanLe as 53 m.,— and spent the SL'corul niKlit at (Jrovoton, in order to fix ihi; tire of Walter's little wheel, which strip'Hd uff when 6 III. from there. Next inoriiiiig he bent Ills handle-bar by a fall and then broke ii, m try. ing to pull it straight ; and my own r. handle-bar snapped off on the 2sth, while coasting a hu' in less tnan 2 m. after starting from Kmglu'a Ferry at 6 a. m., and within half a mile after my pushing off a pedal. Kigging up a wooden handle, 10 correspond with Waller's, I rode 5 ni furih -r with one pedal, and then fitted in a carriage-bolt which served in place of the other as far as Karmington, where 1 took one of Walter's, and reachoi' Stockton at i v M.,— he goini; thither by train (as the welded backbone was near;y ready to 1 .\ apjrt again), and both of us thence ho— ■■" r. The bicycle used on this tour was my old Expert, which had been thiou^h r . ign ; and its brake-spoon was half worn away .vheii the tour ended." The » •■ .lU'ay ride in California seems to have been the one described in the Morninsr Ciiil A'i takL Sunil June 15, ';>. f™'" ^a" Francisco (Twentieth and Mission sts.j, jt A. M., to San Jose, at 1 jo p. m , with halts amounting to i h. 50 rain. The first stretch ii Cooma, wasroush'st, and req red much walking; the last, from Santa Clara, was smootlicM and swiftest. The people all along the route were as kind and hospitable as they were curious und admiring ; and the "time" was sent back by telegraph. Great surprise was expres.std j; the fact of wheeling so silently through a flock of 200 sheep, which were resting in the ro.i.l that onlv one of them got up to move aw.iy. This was the first long rid ■ ever taken bv Irt.i T. MeriMi b. 1S5S), who is now of the firm of Hollister & Merrill, | roprielors of the North- west stencil and rubber-stamp works, at Portland, Or., and whose personal report to me (.-icpi. 27, 84) is as follows : " I have kept no record of my out-door riding ; in fact, have not induli'ed in a great deal of it.' I once took a round-trip from S. F., with F. W. Caples, of that ciiy" 10 Santa Cruz, Monterey, Watsonville, (lilroy, San Jose and home ; and once with A. A Heniiet;, of S. F., climbed over the Sierra Nevadas to Reno, 300 m. in 6 days (see p. 470; also IVhe.-l, I eb. 6, '85). Most of the Oregon roads are inferior to those of California, tliough I 've not yet tri^t] 150 111. of them. I learned to ride ilie bone-shaker in Boston, 14 years ago, and have practic il on it or the bicycle pretty -leadilyever since. I 've appeared in public for about 10 years, and during that time have ric'den 80 weeks at Wotxlward's Gardens, in S. F., carrying my two brothers on my shoulders, one above the other. While there, also, I ga\ special performance before the King of the Sandwich Islands, 6 years ago. In these ways I have earned the title of ' profes- sional champion trick-bicycler of the Pacific coast.' I have taught 180 men and 12 women how- to ride the bicycle, and I intend to open another school at the Mechanics' Pavilion, next wiiucr. In last winter's race here, I covered 256 m. in 21 h., on a 50 in. Expert (46 lbs.). I've just now returned from ' doing the county fairs,' and I expect to continue riding for many years to come " A notable run of 100 in in 12} li. was made by H. C. Finkler, July 3, '84, " to see how much he could easily do wuliout straining, while invigorated by his fortnight's tour," already ('jscribed; and the record is as follows,— the first numera' showing the hour, the second the mileage : " Start 7.35, Mission and Twenty-sixth sts., o; 9, I'onrteen Mile House, iij; q.15, li. O. Mills's Villa, at Millbrae, 13*; 10. Belmont Hotel, 22; 1045, Redwood City, 25?: 11. 15! M-mlo Paik,2.)}; 11.25, Palo Alto, 31J ; 11.45, Mayfield, 34} ; 12, Mountain View. 39J; ,.05 p. u., Santa Clara, 47J : i-Jo, San Jnse, 51^; 3, Covote, 63J; ,.,0, Madrone, 69I ; 5 ::;, Gilrov, SiJ; 0.55, San Felipe, qiJ; S, Hollister. looj. At the outso( of the route, which wis a con- tinuation of .Mission St., a slow pace was enforced by the ■■vind. From Millbrae to San Jnse, the road is shaded on both sides by large trees, and it was on this smooth stretch that I look a terrific header while going down a gentle grade. My second mishap was within 1} m. of Hollis- ter : a collision with a farm-wagon, which refused to turn out. Allowing for !■; stops, my aver- age gait was about 10 m. per h., and the ride brought my total vacalion milci^je up to 7S7." This is the longest straightaway . un yet reported in California ; though greater number of m. in 12 h. have since been traversed upon the same roads. Thus, the Bi. H'orld (Apr. 24. 'S;) printed a report of 150 m. ride taken by Wm. J. Bowman, of Oakland B. C, to (lilroyanri back. sta-ting Sunday, .March 72, at 7.30 a. m , and finishing Monday at i A. M., with rests that re- duced his time in the saddle to ij h. 25 min. " His first dismount was made at the public LONG-DISTANCE ROUTES AND RIDERS. 493 sciuare, in front o£ St. Jame» Hotel, in San Jose (45 m.), at ....s.-ihe times at previous point. lx:.g: ban Lorenz., S.jo; Mt. Eden, S.45 ; Alvarado, 9.05; Centerville, y.^o; Washington Lorners. 9.55. He reached Gilroy (30 m.) at 3 r. m., !>aving pushed against a heavy wind for last iS m., and made one stop of i h. and one of 5 min., besides ihe J h. at San Jose He mad. three stops of 5 min. each on the return thither, 3,30 to 6.10 ... m. ; and his record then stood at .05 m. for 9 h. 20 min. of actual riding. He rode slowly for the final 45 m. (6 20 p m to 1 A. M., with three rests of i h. each^ to his home at Ninth and Grove stL., Oakland iji h tn.m the start, as the clouds obscured the moon." The same paper later said of the same man July 10, '»5) ; •' He claims to have made two bicycle runs, between midnight of May 30 and (,,47 A. u. of June 2. which gave a total of 347 m. for the 54 h. 47 min. included. After doin- .67 ,n , h. had a half night's sleep, and then rode the final 200 m, -about i of which was a^-ainsl a h ..d-wmd. Dunng the hours of darkness, he used a small hub-lamp and made slow progress " .AcLordmg to the ;r>4.W(Aug. 28, '85), " J. E. Gibson, Capt. of Garden City I'. C. San Fran u,co, made an attempt to beat the 24 b. road-recurd of 207 J m. which was won in' May by K R Cook. Startmg at 8.05 a. m., July 29, he completed 211 m. nt 8 A. M. of the 30th though w. judge by the reports that he rode more than twice . .rihe same stretch of roadway,-a rei^re- iKiiMble practice which the League racing board should legislate against." The J!i World ^id : '• We do not loam that J. E. Gibson, of San Jose, took any method to verify his route anti distances of July 29." My letters to both riders, request ,g details, have brought no response. A larger share of attention was given in the press to the ride of 1- red Russ Cook (b. Nov. 9, i36i), which was more carefully managed, and about which he authorized his friend, S. V. Booth, jr., to furnish me the following particulars : " He learned to ride March 15, '84, on a 54 in. Harvard, and won his first medal May 30 by doing J m. in 1.29J, on a .soft clay track. \\\~, height is 5 ft. 9 in., weight about 170 lbs., and his portrait was printed in Spr. IV/,. Gaz. (J.iii., '85). He now rides a 54 in. Victor, the same which served him in making the long record. Leaving Folsom and Twenty-first sts. at ..30 p. m. (May 2, '85), he went without stop to San Jose at 5.23,— a route which had never before been done without dismount or in so short a time iji m. in 3 h. 53 sec), and he did not leave the saddle again for the 30 m. to (;i!roy, at 8.30. Hispapjr was signed at the start by C. A. Kellogg; at Belmoi:» Cj3 m. at 3.15) by A.' Walter^ mire, while he circled slowly around ; at Sar Jose by A. M. Bogardus, and at Gilroy b> W. H. .Smith The first 14 m. is rather rough and hilly, and has one hill which few riders can con- quer; the next 9 m. is rolling and a little sandy ; but the next 28 m., B. to S. J., is the finest stretch of country road we have, and he covered it at v ly nearly the rate of .4 m. per h. The other route, leading down the c. side of ih ■ bay (Oakland to S. J.) offers fewer hills but poorer riding. Thence to Gilroy he had 10 m. of fine surface and 20 m. of poor p.iiches. Wailing it G. till 9, for the moon to rise, a fog cam^ instead and then a wind sprang up against him, so th u he was 5 h. on his way back to S. J. (paper signed by M. Coselino at 2 A. M.), and, pass'in^- a.;ain through Belmont, reached Millbrae, 34J m., at 6. 14 a. m. (signed by J. J. Callah.in), lieing •Ti t on the way by W M. Meeker, who, after breakfast, accompanied him back to S. J. (signed .11 10.30 by G. R. Bailey), where dinner was taken, and the final return made to Belmont, 27.J m., at 1.2S p. M. (signed by A. Walterraire), making a total of 207J m., in 19 h. 38 min. of ac- tual riding. His signers all resided near the r. r. stations,where the time is kept accurately, and coiTis|x)nded in each case with his own watch, which did not vary a minute. He had probably dune 1200 m. of road-riding, this year, before the long ride, and so was feeling pretty well ; anil Iv; attended to business as usual, the day after it, without showing any signs of weariness." With this may bo compared the straightaway record made on the same road by Joseph I.. B'ey(b Oct. 25, 1S73), whose exploit seems to place hi.n well ahead of all other long-distance 1 "irists who are not yet a dozen years old ! The following story is condensed from his letter to me of Oct. 4 '85 : " My bicycle is of the cheap iron kind called ' Ideal,' 38 in. and 38 lbs.. and I first began riding it in Aug., '84. I myself weigh 62 lbs. and am 4 ft. 4J in. high, f often -.;:;.- ::c.^aT;.■, nr.a or. r.ur.aay.^ n-.aKC longer injjn mio iiic Louiiiry, — always accompanied by some larger person. In February I took a silver medal for second place in 1 i m. race for boy» under 16, and was only J sec. behind the winner, Geo. Dixon, aged 15, who rode a 52 in. wheel. » j. f II^H - ' lili 494 TEX THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. and whose time was 4. 21 J, KncniiraRed by this, 1 .oaxrd my parents to let me attep^nt a l.irv- cle tour of 150 m., to my aunt's, at Salinas. I left home (Kiiis st. and Van Ness av.) July 2, ,„ II o'clock, VMih my cousin, Mr. Gambitz, and we got to San Jose at 5 p. m. (52 m.), though we stopped a nunute or two at almost every .station, for the weather was hot and the roads were lirv I wore a flannel suit, with canvas shoes and a straw hat, and took extra underclothinR in a lug- gage-carrier. We left S. J. at 6 a. m. of the jad, but returned again, .0 have a blackMiiith fix my cousin's bicycle, whose backbone bmke at the head; and we spent 1 h. in clambering to the top of the San Juan mtn., about 1 m., with a gale of ice-cold wind in our faces. I coas.ed down at a terrible rate, going so fast that I seerr-1 to be standing still. My eyes became sx:ked my rear wheel out of true, — these mishaps being caused by the working loose of my bag, which gave me two bad head- ers. Noble views are to be had from the tower on the mountain-top at Berkeley .Springs, and ,lso from various points on the trail which I followed thence through the mountains, 1 .n the 2 ist, to Pughtown, — riding through many small creeks, and one deep one, some 40 yds. wide, without a fall. After the first 8 m of ridable clay, much of this road led thro igh heavy forests and un- inhabi'ed 5elds, and where its middle was not overgrown with grass the big stones were abun- dant. My bed that night consisted of six chairs in a farmer's kitchen." (See p. 244 f^r account of W. W. Darnell's 1000 m. tour of '83, whose route coincided in parts with thisone.) " The longest day's rides included in the 665 m. recorded during my stay at W. were rounti- trips to Harper's Ferry, 52 m.; Martinsburg, 44 m.; Upper-ille (twice over the Blue Ridge\ 50 Starting at 7.45 a. m., I found the Romney pike gocd mac. for 5 m. to Kound hill, where it LONG-DISTANCn ROUTES AND RIDERS. 497 ih.inges to red slate, also fine, and I cnaMed down the w. dope of I.ittle Nortli mtn. through tine scenery. The creek which I forded 6 times in the 12 m. from W. to the cross-roads (i h ) was not stony, and gave slight trouble, but I had to ford it later, on foot, at 8 different pUces. At the cros»-roads I t. 1., and found tine surface for 4 m. and then rather sandy to the fork, \\ 111., where I t. r., by direction of guide-board, and found 2 m. more of good riding, and after- wards a direct ro^d, along steep and stony ridges, where the scenery compensated for the walk- ini; and the forests supplied pleasant shade, to Capon Springs, at noon. If I had t. 1. at the fork and gone } m. over the ridge, I should have reached Rock Enon Springs ; and I returned in ij h. from that fork to Wmchester, 17J ra., whereof the last 12 m. was done without dis- niniint, though mostly up-grade. On Sept. 9, I left W. at a. 10 A. m. and reached the National Hotel in Washington at 5 p. M., 76 m. in \i\ h. of the hottest day in the year. I had neailya full moon, but my lamp helped where trees made deep shade. At 4 m. I forded the Opequon (111 foot; passed Berryville (6 m.)at 3.30, and at 4 gut to Candleman's Ferry, 4J m., where I had 20 min. delay in being poled across the Shenandoah (see p. 383) ; then climbed the steep liliie Ridge, and at 6.25 got to Round Hill p. o., whence the road was gt of them have in fact consented to be dragged forward only l)ecause ihcy aw no other way of i)utting an end to my persistent clamor for their "lives." Let him understand, too, that I assume direct responsibility for any faults of exjiression which may apjiear in these narratives, while I freely ac- iTidit to each apparent narrator any literary merits which his story tray be thought to possess. Wherever I could easily save space by changing or condensing the language, I have done so; and if I ha"e thus put into any man's mouth words which he would prefer not to b accredited with, his dis- claimer of h. ving written them should be accepted without question, in spite of the evide ice of the printed page. I give most of these reports in the first jierson, for the sake of brev'ty, and I interpolate no ideas of my own, Init I do not pretend to adhere inflexibly to the original text. I ' ; each contributor may find I have quoted his thought with essential corrjctness, even wheffl make my widest departures from literal accuracy. Charles E. V\M. (b. March ij, 1845) deserves earliest mention, as the chief organizer of American cycling, as the first authoritative writer about it, and as the uniformly dignified de- fender of its rights and its respectability against the encroachments of the ignorant and the ridi- cule of the light-minded. He graduated at Haverford College in '70, and is now, as for some years past, at the head of the law and patent department of the Pope Mfg. Co., as attorney and counselor. A fairly good portrait of him appeared in he iVhrel (V)tz. 21, '81) accompa- nied by brief biography. He first mounted the bi. in Jan., '78, at the riding-school of Cunning- ham, Heath & Co.; took his first road-ride March i, and covered 1000 m. that year; in '79 bis mileaie was i^oo, and in the six years since then it r.as been represented by smaller figures as f illows : 900, 1300, 600, 500, 20.., and 30, — a total of 6080. His successive machines have been Tension 46, Harvard 48, Carver 50, .Sped;' Columbia 50, Standard Columbia .8 and Kx- pert 50, and he has also ridden Excelsior, Royal Salvo and Columbia tricycles. He has ridden in all the N. E. States except Vt.; also in N. Y., Pa. and D. C; and has probably co ered 2000 m. (if different roads ; longest day's ride, 60 m. " The first American bicycle tour " ( Boston to I'nrtland ; four daj-s in Aug., '79) was taken by him in company with E. W. Tope ani W. S, SIncum ; and when the report which he printed of it, with that title, in the j7/. WVr/f/CNi'.Tcli II, '^i, p. 275), was challenged by W. E. Gilman, in behalf of himself and a friend, who had taken their bicycles throuj;'.! the White Mtns. at an earlier date, the fact was pointed out that they were the retinue of a touring pany in carriages rather than bicycle explorers pure and ;;v....l_ \S,,.\, -....1:— jI.- .. i!-U V..-. \.^r '.\llr.\^ '-.a\ \'r " ;.---.V - t-.v.~. .^ - v-=* t.-.;-.- .-.' f--. i— ^~ exploring the roads of Mass. He planned and comipanded the " Wheel Around the Hub," 504 TEN THOUSAND MILES O.V A BICYCLE. I)! \ % lU^ii^,. Sept. 11-11, *7v(»ee p. it), »n. races' under city auspices, to give racing a hold on the supixirt of the substantial cla»»es 111 the community (j) As author of 'The American llicycler ' I gave a ready source of inforination to writers in the public press, who not only resorted to it for facts but also took frcra it their tone .pf writing seriously alxiiit the subject. The book, furthermore, was the direct means of making m.uiv professiiMii.I and ilderly men adopt the bicycle. I Ijcgan it in the autumn ot '7Saiid lioi^hcj m the spring of '79, though I can't tell how many solid hours I si>eiit uimn it. Houghton, OsjjckkI & Co. is.sucd the first edition (1000 copies at $0 and I netted #97. 50 from the sale of these ; whiie from the 2d ed. (3000 copies at 50c ) . received > 100. Hoth issues were cloth-bound and -re now nut of print. (3) I 'iropossd and promoted the l^eague of American Wheelmen ; drew 11, cons'itution ; served as its first president for neariy two yr.irs ; and have done .ictive work fur it ever since. I um still ana live member and officer of it, but not of any club ; ihouj;!! I w.is for four years president of the Uostim B.C., and am now an honorary member of the Nf.iss. B. C, the N. \'. B. t:., and the Montreal B. C. (4) I fojnded the Bicycling ii'arld ind la- bored with it, till the end of my editorshi," in Feb., '81, as no otiier editor has done since. I was midwife for the ll'heelman, -n Sept., '82, and one of its «tafl until the change was made into Outing, which I '^ -w served as editoi ior about a year. F"or these and other mediums, 1 have probably writtei. uS much in relation to bicycling as any one. ^5) My legal opinions on thf rights of wheelmen— the chief of which was printed in the Hi. H'trr/J {May 6, '81, p. 4o<>'l and condensed thence for the L. A. W. circular — have l)eeii in constant requisition and use ; have never been controverted, but always sustained ; and have thus L'cn helpful to the cause. As for the diminution in my wheeling for the last three years, it is accounted for by increased ab- sorption in work, and by the fict that my place of habitation is not favorable to the use of the wheel between it and my office. Ill-health in 'S5, and a resort . "-hting during such leisure as I had, reduced my record for that year to 30 m., but 1 expect to ride much more in '86." A veteran wheelman in a double sense is Joseph O. Dalton (b. Feb. 8, 182S). who prepared at my request the following story (If^/uef, Aug. 15, '84): " I was one of the three who were tlie earliest in using the English modern bicycle, on its real advent in this coimtrv at Boston in th^ summer or fall of '77. Col. Pope at the same time was trying, with an English friend, a mostly wooden imitation. Several young mechanics in this city had for a year or two been usini; similar michines made of wcxid or iron, after the improved pattern, and there had been a (lw ' 'oradic cases of true bicycle, on the race track and the stage, in New York and elsewhere. The Centennial expositio.i at Philadelphia contained a number of imported bicycles, exhibited by Lawford & Timms. Having learned the art of bal-ince on that sort of twivwheeler which now b.;ars only an opprobrious name, I borrowed one of the new kind, a Paragon, and on Sept. 19, '77, took my fL-st ride at once upon the road. Though a 48-!n. wheel, it had a seat as high as that of a ' -n. now. and was dangerously upright and top-heavy. After riding it 190 m. in about two m^. 'hs, I sold it for the owners (out of regard for my bones). In Dec. I got an Ariel, 46-in., from the same parties, and rode it to the end o5 the year, about 2kc» tightened at once. I then bought a liRht road- Mir, Club 5i>-in., *hii.h I rude until Oit , '8j. Siiict thcf I hi ■■>■ used an Xlraordiinry, safety inai..nne, JJ 111 , the tirst I have had which ran on anything Intter than roller or cone bearings, this kind 1 lliiiik is in mos' resiwcts the best for such riders as mysiK, though it :» not made lii;lit enough [ur ni -n of le>» than iy> lbs —in my case nearly 10 lbs. lets. I have adopted thia torni fur good and all ; in the words of a rhymster: ' ',ct si>ecd prevail, and records lower ; but Safety be my choice of goer.' " I object to these long-distance fellows who swfr|) over many lands, and measure nflP, in 4 or 5 years, leagues enough to girdle tin: (Mobe. They seem to < ant the earth, as the sayinj: 's. 1 o travel alx)ut the lenjith of its diai";^ii:r in '• ; !ar» is the more pro|H:r thing. After about . jo in. on the old, heavy, and high-built machines, 1 r(xie the I'lub nearly 4500 m., .md the Xtra, up to date, about jooo m. It wjs more than a year before I could rightly mount or dismount, and my fiilU fur two ur three y.ars were numerous and various, by the combined faults of machines and rider, but resulted ui no hurt worse than a sprain. My riding has been wholly for exercise, 111 relieve occupations mainly sedentary ; it has been done mostly near Boston, reaching only as l.ir as Worcester in one direction, and Gloucester in another ; making 45 to 50 iv day two or three limes, and longest tour 80 m.; have used a jyclomctcr but little, and :• < ' my mile- .i^e by the kimwii length of familiar routes, or often by estimating ai the n.(Kiir_;, rate of 5 to ji m. an hour fir the time out, including stops. The yearly di«l,o,ces are: iSy^, 1540; ';')> 1515; 'So, n(>s; '81,980; '82, 1135; 'S3, iif>e. Add 450 m. for '77, and 445 m. for '84 to Aug. 1, and my total is 8fx)5 m." He added 465 m. to tins before the year ended ( ' • and his gig ni. of '85 w.ii thus distributed: Jan., 19; Mar., 28; Apr., 116; May, 149; June. *S'< J"'y. 30; Aui!.,i54; Sept., .79; '>ct.,iio; Nov., 79; Dec, 10,— making the total for 9 years 10,079 m. Hi's'M.yra liicyclica: Forty Poets on the Wheel" lOct., '80; ed. 500) was the earliest hook of cycling verses issued in this country. The second edition apjieaied In March, '85, en- larged to 160 pp., with the amended title of " Sixty Poets." It is bound in doth, and may be h.iil by mailin- a postal-note for 75 c. to the author, at the house of the Hoston B C, 87 Hoyls- tnn St. His advertisement thus describes it: " A phenomenal series of high flights and carols 1 comic verse. To voice the cycling spirit in the best manner from many points of view, his Siiix-r-parodic method is applied at last to all available material fron' the whole range of poetry. TIiiTe is also a pyrotechnic and kaleidoscopic variety of other so.ifr many measures, mostly t'lrning upon the Wheel, and in its own steely and tonic style, by tl.^ :-irea'c bird of cvcling, cackle, lark and ch.inticleer in one ! Rare as it is to see anything really NKW in the field of poetry, occupied for ages by the finest wits of the world, it is found in this book, which is quite without a parallel in its plan and leading feature. Eri/iui/ mus^ igmin, carmenqtu canenti." Hardly five years younger than the Boston poet is the Mic'.igan journalist, I.. J. Bates (b. Sept. 24, 1S32), who assumed the editorship of the Lansing Republican, in Jan., '86, after about ;o years' connection with the Post and Tribune at Detroit. He is one of the few trained writers that have contributed to the cycling press,— his signature as '• President Bates " being familiar to all, and his style being sufficiently mp'Ued to "ix the authorship of even the shorter pieces which are signed "P.." His report to me is as follows (Dec. 12, '85): "My birth- place xvas Hunter, a little village in th.- Catskill section of the Hudson Valley. I was rnarried at Grand Rapids, Aug. 18, i860, to Aiiss Jenny L. Tracy, and have two children, a daughter and a son. I am now 53, but can k-;ep up with any kind of a procession on wheels, and have IS much fun a.s any of the crowd. I was the eariiest bicycler in Michigan ; received my Co- imbia March 21, '79, and struggled with it in the back-alley for a weet before learning to mount, as I 'd never watched any one else perform that act ; but when I did at last mount and ride through the alley, I went around the entire block on the street ; and I 've ridden about every fair day since. This was on March 29 [the self-.sam. iy tV.it the author of this u„„i, i,.3,^.,j .„ j{Af o, p,u.;or. : see n. i'.\. and om Sept •>. 1 orraniied the Detroit B. C, the first in the State, with S members, and was elected president. Kach year since then I 've been unanimously re-elected, in spite of my protest, except in '84, when I positively refused to serve. i^i 5o6 TEX THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. My wheeling amountea to over jooo m. during 6 months of summer and autumn the on'v year I ever kept a record. My annual totaJ must be large.-never less tlian 2000 to jcxi .n.-and m '84 I gue=:s it was 3500. I rid. about .0 m. a aay.-going to and from my olfice thus on almost -ver) -sible day,-and there are not more than 6 to .2 weeks in the year when weather prev is my riding. My present 50 in. Expert has carried md tours, of a fortnight each, managed by the Chicago men I 've been on .00 or niore short lours, of . to ., days' duration, and uncounted all-day runs' My only -venous accident was in '84, after safely returning from the Canada tour, wher 1 broke two nbs by a slight fall, which was produced by a block of wood-paving being tliiown against my wheel where some street repairs were in progress. The only fall of any kind I vl lud smce then >• s caused by the breaking under my wheel of a board in th.- sidewalk at Naparee giving me a slight bruise. I wrote my first bicycle article in winter of '79-'»o. and was aston' ished to find it going the rounds of the prcs». My imaginative sketch called 'A Midnight Ride ' in I)urba.,k's ' Wheelman's .Annual for '82,' also had quite a run, in EngLird as well as Amer Ki, and! believe is still afloat, accredited as a veritable adventure. Mv pieces for the Bi IVorld^A 'S. included 'Our New Year's Call on Wheels' (Jan. ,4) and 'The Bumps Sere' nado' (Nov. u). In the magazine ^alled the Wluelman, and then OtUing, be.ules my renorts of the Canadi tours (April, May, '84 ; May, '85). I printed ,,ractical essays on the ' Ideal Tri cycle ' (March, 'S3), ' Our Hijjhway Laws as Affected by fiicvcling ' (March April 'S,) ' Poi," ic.-.: Power of the L. A. W.' (.May, '83), and the follown.g sketches : ' True Hi'storv'of rh., ClubRun' (Dec -82), 'The Club Christening' (Jan.. '8,), • Th. Bi. Club Attend a Sewln. Circle (teb.), Irue History of Capt. Hardrider's Run ' (Mav), ' Mr. CufJ and Mis, M,r" fP H"^'!'.nu"""' "''^""''" ^'^'^ "•''^ Assassinated ' (Oct.), " Mr. Condor and Afiss Weal'.hv' Jan., '84), 'The Twiddle Twins' (Feb.), 'My Wife's Tricycle ' (JuM, 'The Perker H n ' >ept.) ' Ride • ,po..m, Nov.), 'How Mr. Pod .-inkle was' Encouraged ' (A, li ^ "Z rull.ver Bard Coa.ted the Bridge ' (July). 'On the Proper Econom; of Trith ' (Sept ) A for eye omete-s, I have examined several, and think the perfect one has no, yet appeared, lough the improved Butcher ,s pretty good. The fi,ures on the dial-pla.e should be J in long b ack on white ; and the best dial I 've seen was that of the proposed Lamson cvc. The per! feet me^r should run by friction-wheels. not ccgs, and should record r m exactly when me^s ured. The trouble with meters that allow a r.ed number of cogs to the m T.tt t ey n"; measure a few ft. or m. more or less than . m„ and the repetition of these sH.ht errors fi„„ causes a large one. In conclusion, let me add, as a notable fact about bicycling that I 've . v seen an experienced wheelman tlu>rou,yy ,ire4 by any :de or run, no m.-tt^ r how CZ-i mean not so tired but that, after resting a single h., he could froiic about as if sh o ily ride several m. more. The 24 Canada tourists of '8., wheeled a daily average of 50 m the 79 of 84.47i m and the ,07 of '85, 4sW ,-not only without sickness or serious acci dent, but wnh actual gain of wei,ht in the cases of all hut 4 of the 2,0 indi idu Tl ^ seems al^l the mo,e remarkable in view of the fact that they were often w t bytd r^ storms, drank everything on the road, and went late to bed " Hi \v''^u-, ^r^^'-^i^'"^ =>'-=<>- ^^ernred close attention from regular renders of the fhe ■ t '" "1 ''• '' " " •-'"1"«-P''- reversal of one which now «ive a y C A''H;:;:,Ub ^T ' .-.eresting a.ticles, of universal popularitv. whenever of^ciall use s'd astthh k of , i ■ ' "■; ■''^' "' ""^ ^'"'' ^="''""' ''^'■•^ •-" P-«-o"«h. X .row ad as I think of his pres, „, degeneracy, in ,1 is signing bank-notes and government drafts dur- and Excur^,. ns such as he used to supply for the ir/,ee/man (Feb., Mar, 'H4) when he wn, a simple bank-clerk and bach.lo,. Wiih a carefully-kept cyclometer-record about twice as gre as my own,-greater, 1,, fact, tnan that of any other American,-he cherishes mv own fond^ oraccmatestatistics of wheeling, and as he is abou- the only writer s.,ve mvself vho has a^ t^empted any painstaking presentation of the same, on .. large scale, I regret to see a i.c .ack of oiK nut 01 his pen. He still pushes it occa ally on a STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 507 1^: iiiaya/ine article called " Twenty Thousand Miles on New England Roads,"' embodying his experiences, but cannot say how soon this may be ready for publication. When I first persuaded him to attempt such a piece, in order that 1 might reprint a summary of it, " Fifteen " was the tir>i word in its title ; and, as the introductory numeral grew higher with advancing months he gr.idually came to see that his easiest way of keeping faith was to prepare a summary for me di- rectly, and trust to the future for finding leisure to expand it. His record is a most instructive oi:c, as showing the value of the bicycle to a man whose business keeps him larg... in-doors and tiiained to a single locality ; and it offers an interesting contrast to that of Mr. Drew Cp. 501 1, whose similarly extensive mileage proved the value of the bicycle to a man whose badness keeps him largely out-doors, and moving to many localities. As it seems likely that no other .Vnierican— with the possible exception of myself— has taken so many careful readings from the cyclometer, a special importance attaches to what he says on that point (Dec. q, '85) : " 1 have used various other kinds, but for the most part have carried Ritchie's magnetic cyclometer. I siill depend upon it, for it has never failed me, and regular tests convince me that it is accurate. 1 .1111 occasionally obliged to put in a new washer, or otherwise take up the wear, but its inside construction and operation have been satisfactory. Other makes have the advantage over it in r -iiect to a dial which can be read while riding ; and if a change in size of wheel should force Hi. to get a new eye, I think I should give the Butcher a test. " When my Columbia, No. 61, first reached me (Apr. 3, '79), a eye. was attached to it, and 1 hegan revolving the same at the rate of :ioo to 300 m. per month, so that at the end of the y ar it recorded 1660 m. My mileage in '80 was 2840 ; and, as I found I had missed riding only on a dozen winter days, I decided in '81 to make the first American out-door record for every day in the year. I accomplished this, though my rides through the snow, on a few stormy days, were short as well as uncomfortable, — the sum of the 365 rides being 3175. My '82 mileage was 31)25; '83,3675; '84, 3210; '85,2830,3 total of 21,015. My duties during the last year have been so pressing that I 've hardly taken time to do the wheeling that I think necessary as health fuel for my work. The first loio m. of it were ridden before the close of July, showing 1820 m. for the last 5 mor.ihs of the year. P.eginning in '7.S with a 46 in. wheel, I 've had a larger size nearly every year and now comfortably ride a 5). I retain four of my old bicycles in my wlieel-house, — the favorite veterans being Joh'. Hull (imported in '77 or '78 ; solid backbone), and .'"pecial Columbia, with its record of 6000 ni. They still do me good service, on ainy days and winter months, when my nickeled wheels are laid aside. I received the John Bull in June, '78, but take no note of the few hundred m. I rode that year. Mj cyclom. record also excludes the m. I have covered on the road by tricycle and tandem, the many h. I have bicycled in our club rink, and the luni; distances I have pushed the marine bicycle, on rivers, lakes and ocean. I have lot ridden at any time just to increase my record, but chiefly for enjoyment, and for the sake of counl'ract- iiii; the unhealthful tendencies of an occupation which confines me in-doors, under considerable mental strain. The daily rides my hobby gives me, between the house and bank, have kept me in perfect health ; and though these arc not the limits of my activity, it has been conii.'ed almost wlidlly to New England. The separate roadways I ha-, explored would probably not amount to5M)m. ; the longest of these being in Mass. , the hardest being across the stoep and sandy liills of Me., and tie most varied being around home in N. H. My first all-day's .straightaway ride was freni Portsmouth to Pioston, 66 m. (.Vug., '7'-' ; and 3'ou can consult my articles in the U7ic,-/»iatt (Jan., 'S3 ; Feb., Mar., '84) for details ot the 126 m. ride I took Oct. 2g, '82, with "inil and rain against me, and of the even 1,-10 m. run in 10 h., Nov. 3, '83. I have no scars to !;vv, and no serious accidents to relate of myself or wheels, my bills for repairs of which have been very slight. I have never been injured by reason of breakage or falls from crank bicycles, thnuii I have tried all the various accomplishments the wheel affords, — including fancy riding, drilling and racing. As to headers, I could relate a long chapter of them, but more happened in tlie first nxxi m. than in all the distance traversed since. One piece of my good luck seems peculiar : during hundreds of miles ridden by night and on the ice, I never yet h.ul a fall." "vViiiiaiii V. Ciiinian lii, Nov. 25, i^^'f), treasurer 01 tiie N.isima Carci and Giazrd Paper Co., is another New Hampshire pioneer who wrote extensively for the wheeling press in ' s earlier Vfl So8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. days, and who is now forced by the cares o£ businc 3S and married life to give less time to the wheel and the pen. His portrait and biography appeared in Spr. H^h. Gaz. (June, '84, p. k.). One of his earliest recollections is the departure of troops, fc. the South, from Albany, his H.ih- place, though his parents moved thence to Nashua, in war time, and he graduated at its hi^h school in '75, and entered as Freshman at Dartmouth. College was soon abandoned in favor cif a business school at lioston, whence he went into the employ of a papei' mill at West Henniker N. H. (Feb. I, '77)1 *'"!, after jj years there, assumed his present p<»ition in Nashua. Me learned to ride in Oct., ^^%, but did not buy a bicycle till late in Nov., and hardly covered 13 m that year. His mileage for '79 vas about 1830, and '80 proved his best year (4780 m.) ; the an- nual record decreasing since then as follows: '81,4100; '82, 2700; '83, 1509; '84, 11 17; 'S; 637; total, i2,6S5. "Though this decline, enforced ly business demands, seems a great ont " (he writes to me D^c. 10, '85), " my bicycles are nevertheless kept in constant use, the entire riding season. The difference is that f use them only in short spins, for healthful exerci.xe, in jogging about town, — my longest day's ride in '85 being a round trip of 30 m. Th jugh I have spent more than i^ioo on cyclometers, none are attached to the wheels I now use (a Rudge and an Expert), and, until a radical improvement can be made, I want none. The r„ugh, sandy, and hilly roads of N. H (where most of my riding has been done, though I have wheeled consider- ably in Mass., and a little in N. Y. and N. J.,— as also K Chicago and Washington, while at- tending the League meets) shake them all to pieces. My wheeling record has therefore been made up from my knowledge of distances traversed, estimated to the best of my judgment. I do not pretend that it is absolutely correct, and I make no claim or boast for it. I 've never half kept an account of mileage, except to add up the probable totals as I went along ; but, as you insist upon it, I supply the liest details I can. Though I have ridden a little in Jan. and Feb,, my nr- dinary season has been restricted to the other ten months of each year. Dur'ng '8o-'Si, for many days in succession I rode 40 m. or more, outside of business hours, th.is : to Lowell aiul b.ick without dismount (30 m,); then, after dinner, to lyngsboro and back without dismoinit (Hi m.),'in i h. 5 min. t used tc- indulge in many similar performances, of which I took no note, — riding persistently. ' nipht and day, up hill and uown, over all creation.' f grew so fond of knickerbockers that I wore them almost continuously, for every sort of business or pleasure ; and I tried all sorts of rigs and outfits, — bioadcloth, white flannel, club uniforms, plain shirts with belts, and all the colors in all combinations possible. I have ridden some 250 m. on tricycles ( Harvaid, Victor and Columbia), thoiitih none is now owned by me, or by any one else in this part of N. H., where the sandy roads hardly warrant their use. Besides my two ma.ine bicy- cles, I have owned and ridden th,. following : Newton Challenge, Velocity, 4 Colunibias (1 Standards, i Special, i Expert), 3 Harvards, Shadow, Vale, Rudge light roadster, American Rudge, Ro/al Mail, Club, Special Club, Union, Matchless, American Star, liritish Challenge, .Sanspareil, Kangaroo and Victor. I was appointed League consul, early in '81 and on Sept. 17, organized the Nashua Wheel Club (now defunct) ; was its first president, and n '82 was chosen captain. In May of that year, I was elected treasurer of the L. A. W., and ,vas re-elected in 'S3. I am N. H. consul of the C. T. C, and a member of the Canadian Wh;elmcn's Associa- tion, as well as of the Mass. B. C. and the Springfield 1.. C, — a life member in the latter case.'' " Ixion " was a familiar signature to early readers of the Bi. li-'orld, and t sometimes even now appears there, representing Llewellyn H. Johnson (b. March 17, 1851)), a graduate cf Swarthmore College in '78, and recently established as a dealer in cycles at East Orange (3 \\- lington PI.), who sent me this short story, Jan. i, '36 : " I took my first ride Jan. 7, '79, and have wheeled in N. J., N. V., Mass., Vt , N. H., Va., Md., D. C, R. L, Pro v. Que., Eng. and Wales. Mileage, 18,723, divided annually thus (the additional figures, after first 2 years, show bi. and tri. records respectively): '79,1643; '3o, 2030; '81, 3139— 3068, 71: '82, 13S7— 1224J, ■'^'2i; 'S3, 231,1 — gHii, 1319J; '84, 4048—1^77, 2171 ; '85, 4175—2245, 1930. This gives a lot.il of i3,o6<) for the bi. and 5654 for the tri. My experience with cyclometers (overs these eight : Lakin. Excelsior, UnderwoiKl, Stanton (the two latter are English), Pope, .VIcDonnell, Spa'd- denounce the Butcher as a fraud." A monthly analysis of his '84 road-recrrd was given in Bi. *l**i4i../ STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 509 ;/'or/i/(Jan. 23, 'S5) as follows; " Jan., 20J— 8J, 12; Feb., 101—25,7'!; .Mar., 182—11, 171; Apr., 520—266,254; May, 372— 130, 242; June, 452— 200. 252 ; July, 616- -2(90, 326; Aug., 448— 379, 69; Sept., 31S— 214, 104; Oct., 347—202, 145; Nov., 4J2— 8i, 34i ; l^ec, 2494—704, 179. The third numeral assigned to each month shows the records of tricj'cles, and they are designated by italics in this analysis of the year's mileage between the machines ridden : Humber, 1100; Kucker, 646; Humber Tandem, 613; Pony Star, 505^; Yale, 4224; Rucker, 347; Kuckcr Tandem, 127; Facile, 79; I'ictor, 68; Sanspareil, 45; Traveler, id; Kangaroo, 26 : Cheyles- more Sociable, 15; Rudge, 10; American Club, 10; Humber, 6; Columbia, 2." His ride of July 10, '84, on the roads around Orange, "lowering the American 24 h. tri. record," was fully d-scribed in the Bi. IVorld ul July 18, which said that he " carried a McDonnell cyclom. which had previously been tested over accurately-measured roads, and was accompanied by a veteran lider whose Excelsior cyclom. is known to be absolutely accurate." The same paper printed a biography (Jan. i', i88i), accompanied by a full-leni;.h wood-cut portrait of him in racing cos- tu"ie ; for his was the first well-known name upo.i the race-records of American amateurs, and 1 regret that the space he has consented to fill in this book is so slight. f may say the same about the captain of his club, the Orange Wanderers, J. Warren Smith, whom I take 'o be the only American possessed of an accurate cyclometpr-record that repre- sents the wheeling of 59 successive months, and whose entire record for 66 months (one month only with no riding) is 20,027^ m. These notable facts are shown in the following admirably- arranged table which he sent to me Jan. 5, '86, with this remark: " I began riding in Jan., '80, but I make no account in the table of my first 6 months, when I had no cyclometer. I have used only the very best procurable, testing each one on a carefully-measured track, and dis- carding it if not found correct." I assume that this valued contributor is a clerk in the Orange National bank, and that most of his riding has been done outside of office hours in the region light around there. My enquiries as to those poji.ls and many others, including the names of the good and bad cyclometers, have gone unanswered ; but much can be pardoned a man who has the patience to tabulate a mileage record in this shape : Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 1 Nov. Dec. Total 18S0 87 626J ii5i 73 87 i 66J 50J 47'^4 ■8SI -2i 65i i.u4 3754 523i 456i 54»i 4094 4444 3f'5 235i 3700? 1882 1014 107 456} 528J 47>3 5274 4014 1 4ooi 23oi 284 66J 4032? ISS3 "J 44 .434 .64} 2S4} 3693 338 305 187 '964 352* >97j 25565 18S4 loj "S t77i 601 7.14 901J 5034 7'4 65Si 2264 572* 326i 6o3i 5'7i 35'J 59314 ■885! 139} 224 2104 2504 462 324 232 1 207 704 3326.i Another rider who has made a large record in that sa.ne favored region is Robert D. Mead (b. May 19, 1851), of Newark, who has also done plenty of rough touring outside it, as shown by the report now given, in addition to that on p. 164. His letter to me says, Aug. 12, '85 " This morning's spin bri gs my total to 13,023^ m., representing 626 days on which I havo niounted the wheel, out of the 1035 days which have elapsed since the time of my first ride, Oct 13, '82." ' He added about 2000 m. during the next 4 months, for his letter of Dec. 23 says : " My mileage is now 15,154. I wish you could have been with me on the ride I enjoyed this morning,— starting in the moonlight at 5.30 and reaching Hemlock Falls just as d.iy was bre.ik- ing. The place is 7 m. from Roseville station (by Park or Central av. to the valley rnad ; t. r up hill at S. Orange av., and afterwards t. 1.), in the s. e. cor. of Essex co., and the water has a tall of about 25 ft. in a narrow ravine, thickly siiaucu. The icc whicii covcicii liic laCc 01 tnc falls, to-day, made a pretty winter picture. During my annual autumn vacation tour, stormy m^ fc^^MMaillMg. : tit [HI nil im l|gM: ISl^ H^HHl ■^^■^■'i ^^^^^^^^^^^^^H NIkH* ^^^^^M UI^KHi ^^^^^^^^^^^^B^B M^^B* ^^^^^H iBHl j^^^^^^^H "t^^^H ^^^^^K2^H ■ -■ "^^W^^B 510 TE.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. w^alhLT interfered on 5 days of the 12 (as I show by the •), but my circuit covered 4 States an ! 5S2i m., representing 121 h. in the saddle and x(^\ h. of rests on the road, the average s|>e -d be inga tritl^ over 6 ni. per h. In the following iist I give this speed for each day, expressed I'o tenths of 1 m., after the name of place where day's ride ended ; the numeral before each name shows the day's distance, expressed to sixteenths of i m. : < let. 5,62.10, Canterbury, e.42 ; 6th • 39.J, Washington Hollow, 6.53; 7th,* 47-3- Cornwall liridge, 4.60; Sth,» 37.14, .Stockhridge 6.31 ; 9th, 55.9, Hoosac Corners, 7.10; loth, 56.7, Caldwell, 6.71 ; i2ih, 70. 12, .Schodack 7 -x ' 13th,* 27.4, Hudson, 5; i4th,»3.o2, Poughkeeps.e, 6.02; 15th, 57.14, Monti'cello, 5.74 • yuxh 48.9. Hranchville, 6.0S ; I7tli, 49 ', Newark, 5.83. (Cars were taken from Hudson to Tivoli, „.i the 13th,* and from Cochecton to Port Jcrvis on the i6th,— the m. thus ridden of course bciii > disregarded in the record.) \\\ my 15,154 m. have been done on a single bicycle, which I bought at second-hand, with an Kxccisior cyclometer attached. 1 have tested the accuracy of this°b/ counting the turns of the wheel for many m., and its invariableness by going over the same course many times, at different rates of speed. One course, more than 17 ni. long, I have trav- ersed at least 100 times,— varying my speed from t h. 29 min. to 3 h.,— and I am satisfied that the cyclom. is very accurate. Its leather washers need replaci.ig after every 2000 or 3000 m .in,I once I have sent it for slight repairs, made necessary by long uso, to t'.e makers (E E lieiun,, Mfg. Co., 29. W. nth St., X. Y.). I have never met a wheelman, using any other make „E cyclom., who could, with equal reason, give so good a report." A Jerseyman also by residence since .Aug., '85 (at Jersey City, 52. Bergen av.), though for the 5 previous years a practitioner at New Haven, is the present official handicapper of tie League, Dr. N. P, Tyler (b. Oct. „, '48, at Barrytow;,, N. Y.), who says of his .4 3-4 „, 'f riding, ,„ 4yrs. and 2 mos., that it was "of necessity confined mostly to Connecticut and 1 limited number of roads.-probably not more than ,Soo m. of separate roadway havin^ been tnv ersed by me, all told. I learned to ride, at the end of May, '82, for the sake of s.avn,^ horse flesh ; and my own flesh increased .6 lbs. within 6 weeks. In '83, I gave up both horses md used the bicycle entirely for professional calls, except in rainy and snov.y weather Mv' fir~t long nde was 40 m. to Hartford (Oct.) ; ten days after which (Nov. 2) I went over thesime route and continued straight on to Springfield, 68 m., in 9 h. I made 2 other trips to H,ir.f!,rcl 4 to Lndgeport, and 2 to Meriden and back, that season (total, 428 m.), besides coMstanti- rid- ing about town. So 1 estimate my mileage of '82 as about 2200 m., though I once told von' •■ a guess, that .5-.0 m. might probably cover it. My Jan. record of '83 was compiled from knowl- edge of distances ; and from that point on I simply added up the cyclom. readings until at end of Pec. the total was 427S m In '84, I kept a regular log, showing 5009 m. ridden in 287 dav,; and I supplied the B.. »• W(Jan. ,6, '85, p. ,7.) a table of months, which I now reprod.ic.:- the first numeral showmg mileage, the second the riding days, and the third the greatest nvlei-e on any one calendar day : Jan., 107, .4, 20 ; Feb . 85, .4. .2 ; Mar., 34, 4, r,; Apr ,0, 26 20- o7'^' '°' '« ^ V '"•«"°' "'' '''• -'"'^■' '''' "'''' ^"« • ^7°' ^^' "= Sept.; 574,' =9,' 4^.- Oct., 699, 3.. 98 ; Nov., 8.3, 29, 68 ; Dec, 48., 23, 55- The Oct. ride of 98 L wast p^n of my .30 m. straightawav run (see p. ,28) whose 22J h. were divided by midnight. My mileage for hrst 7 mos. of 85 was 2S87, assigned to 203 days, as follows : Jan., 325, 28, 3. ; Feb., 303, 2^ 2, ; Mar., 282, 3., 39: -Apr,, 403. 30, 26; May, 50,, 29, 37: June, r„o, 30, 49: Julv, 4^.^ =«, 53. I began with a 50 in. wheel ; rode a 52 in. Expert through ',83, and a 5= in. Rudge (34 Ibs.l m 84 ; but the bi. that has given the most out-and-out satisfaction for general road riding, is ., 5. in. Rudge (29 lbs.), which I've used ever since (458S m.) without repairs.-and without brake, bell or lantern. I have made a few trials on the racing path, but mv professional en- gagements have thus far prevented any longer tour on the road than 24 h. P.-rhaps mv most noteworthy exploit was staying in the saddle straightaway for 25 m. of difficult surface, as recorded on p. ,38. Though I am accustomed to a fast pace on the road, and receive numerous falls, I have never been seriously hurt, or even laid up. Regarding cyclometers, I have used some make constantly, save the first few months of my ridins— 3 =- in Mrn.-.r.r..-I! !-.-.-.••::•.•. -.1- most always been on my machine. My experience is, that, when this is driven around a correct'v measured race track at a 3.30 or slower gait, it invarl.-My registers correctly, but a higher r.tte of STATIS7VCS FROM THE VETERA.XS. 51' speed causes it to stand still. E. g., from New Haven to Branford it measured jj m., but only 7J m. coming back, when two long hills were coasted at a high rate of speed. On the first appearance of the Butcher, 1 obtained a hand-made specimen which registered 52 ti. of a century run (Nov. 17, '83, see p. 149) and then stopped ; but, as my McDonnell was still on, I kept the record all right. I sent the Butcher to be repaired, but it stopiied again and again, until the makers replaced it by a machine-made one, which in turn played the same trick, imtil, after much trouble, they substituted for it their '85 movement. This stopped for repairs at 100 m., then ran to 1000 ni. and stopped. As I had been riding a 51 in. bi., for some time (subtracting i m. for t/ery 49 m. registered, to offset the excess of a 52 in. eye), I now procured a 51 in. eye. of the Butcher Co., but it stopped at 210 m., and being repaired then, it has run to 1005 m. without ac- cident. I liave found the McDonnell simple and always in working order, but in comparison with the Butcher, on siime wheel, it lust from 5 to 13 m. in every 100. The Butcher is accurate while it runs, and has the great advantage of being read from the saddle ; but it gives out when you most need it, .and the lantern atta< i.ent is con.stantly coming to pieces from the jar. I have tried the Kxcjlsior also. It is a' >lutely true, but only registers 100 m. An absolute eye. after the pattern of the Butcher, but containing no springs, would give universal satisfaction." Henry \V. Williams (b. June 6, 1847), solicitor of American and foreign patents at 258 Wash- ington St., Boston, is one of the few riders in that city who is willing to set a good example to the careless and diffident, by keeping an accurate record of his mileage, and making annual publication of the s;ime,— in spite of the Bi. H^orliTs sneers. Though born at Taunton, the .State capital has boen his home since 1850, and I was therefore justified in alluding to him (p. 25^) as the representative Bostonian of our touring party " in the Down liast fogs." I have ni ;ntioncd (p. 279) that his apijearance on that occasion was excellently represented in Sandham's Outing picture, and have expressed my heart-felt joy (p. 276) at his getting a bad header while piloting a party of us dov ■■ one of the steepest pitches of Mt. Desert, — for not r'therwise could he have received in this world a punishment suitable for his depravity in choosing so rough a route! The case is thus alluded to in a letter of his which was printed (5/. l^'orid, Apr. 24, 'S5) among the advertising " testimonials " of the Poi^e Mfg. Co. : " In these tin.es of ' safety ' wheels, small and great, it may be interesting to know that I traveled 7500 m., consecutively, on Columbia bicycles, without a single fall (save one) ; and that a bad hill, on the famous '22-m. drive' in .Mt. Desert, was what prevented the record from reaching 7501. My freedom from accidents while a-wheel I attribute mainly to three things: the exercise of ordinary care, re- fraining from coasting, and the stancliness, rigidity, and good workmanship of Columbia wheels. I have ridden 13,500 m. on Columbia machines, of which over 9000 m. were on the Expert bicy- cle, in many States and over all sorts of roads. As I regard the Expert as by far the most satis- f.ictory wheel made for every-day, take-em-as-you-find-era roa 3, I still ride it daily." Hisletter to me, of .\pr. 10, 'S4, gives funher details of the matter: "The only remarkable thing about my record seems the fact of my riding 7500 m. without a fall (or involuntary dismount of any kii\d), except in two instances, when I was nin into, — once by a careless driver, and or-f^ by a very fresh bicycler. In both cases the men stupidly t. 1., instead of r., and, as I was , at Sliced, I had no time for a backward spring, so that a collision ensued. My freedom fro., .alls, in spite of a great deal of hard and sandy road-riding, I attribute mainly to a knack which I have of makiiv.: a very quick dismount, when emergencv demands." His letter to me of Dec. 0, '85, combin 1 with the previous one, gives the following facts: " I first bestrode the bicycle i:i June, '80, .it the Poj ' riding school ; took my first out-door ride, at Washington, before the next month was a week old, and Ixinght my first machine, a Columbia Special, July 15 ; af- terwards, I i: , -d a Standard and then the Expert which I now have. M> 1277 m. of tricycling (S3, 601 m.; '84, 317 m.; '85, 359 m.) h.as been done on the National, the three-track Columbia, and the two-track C. Of cyclometers, I have thoroughly tried but three- Pope, McDonnell and Ritchie Magnetic, and the last is the only one I found to be accurate. Such small parts of :::y recurci aa r.avc not Dccn ;^cpt tjy II, Tiavc r>tlcii carciuiiy *CiiIicu uv ^uo*i iitau-niaps. 'iiie total is 15,578 m., of which 14,201 m. was bv bicycle. Outside the State limits, my wheeling hashard'y amounted 10650 m., divided about as follows: D. C, 150; N. Y., 225 ; N. H., 150; I ,IfJ -tmmus^i S" TEN THOUSAXD MILES 0\ A BICYCLE. m i ^li Mc, 120; R. I., 50. Ill the fnllowiiig annual summaries (after 'So, when I only kkIc 607 m ), the numerals stand for miles, riding-days, average miles per day, and longest mimthly mileatt.- '8i, 3060, iSj, i6j, 456; '82, 3559, 1S3, lyi, 553; '83,3451,20^1, if,}, 477; '84, 2450, 145, • (>}. 515; 'J*5. i\Vh '5'J. '53. 439i- ri'>; miniber of day'» rid.s exceeding 50 in. which I hive taken in the last 5 years is 34, arranged as follows; 7, 12, 6, 5, 4. (.),i each of 8 months in '12 I rode over 300 m.; and it was in '82 that I took my longest ride (118 m. inside of 18 h., as shown on p. 25S). The similarity of these averages shows the fact that i 've used the wheel as a commonplace factor in daily life — riding hundreds of times between my law office in the citv and my residence in the suburbs ; hurrying for the doctor with it, more than once ; goinj; in church ; and, on several occasions, taking a journey of 3 or 4 days, though no extended tnur E.g., 1 had a pleasant day's run of 48 m. along the n. shore from Boston to Pigeon Oivc through Salem, 25 m , and Gloucester, 16 m., with one bad hill beyond G. Next day I took a 9 m. route through Aimisquan to G. (fine scenery, and better roads) ; wlwncc, after 2 m. of liatl road, 1 liad fine riding to Ipswich and Newburyport (dinner), and |>oor onwards to Hamp- ton, 37 m. from G. Third day, by Little Hoar's Head and Rye Beach to Hotel Wentworth and Portsmouth (beautiful views and tolerable riding), whence the return to Newburyport was bv poor roads, which you are familiar with (p. 101). Earlyin'81, I joined the Mass. B. C, and have been an officer of ii almost ever since; though my third term as president, now nearly ended, will be the last. I may say of the club that its present active membership (241, ail fillers) is larger than that of any other in the U. S., — not excepting bicycle clubs like the hi. stun which allow assiKiate membership, — and it will soon exceed 250." Mr. W. has contributed a few road-reports and other practical pieces to the Bi. World, ?^n6. also at least one arjinmentative article to the Wheelman, deprecatory of the conduct of cycle's whose coasting and carelessnr !S make needless accidents that frighten away elderly men who would take to the wheel if they knew a right answer could be given to their question, " But is it safe?" The historian of his club, however, at least as concerns "The New House of the Mass. B. C." (Outing, Mar., '85, p. 429), is the Rev. S. H. Day (b. Mar. 11, 1S50), who in ',^4 held the office of first lieutenant thereof, and whose white-capped head may be found faciii.i; that of Mr. \V., in Sandham's picture of the " Down East party" (see pp. 279, 25S), across the fork of the bicycle which forms a frame-work for the portraits. He was one of the four Mt. Desert martyrs who did n't tumble on the fated afternoon which made " 6 bent handle-bars out of a possible 10" ; his story of the ride was given in Bi. World (Nov. 23, '83, p. 28), to which he has otherwise contributed ; and he also printed a piece deprecatory of " Fast Road Riding " (Whtelman, Dec, '83, p. 225). He was educated at Dickinson Coll. and DrewTheol. Sem., and is now in charge of a church at East Greenwich, R. I., whence he sends me this re- port (June 15 and Dec. i6, '85): " .My annual mileage, '80 to '85, is 500, 2300J, 2763J, 2800 and 846, — total, 9210. The McDonnell cyclometers are not of equal merit, but mine is reliable. Such riding as I d'din '3i and early in '82, before I got it, I have estimated carefully from known routes. The reason for the sudden shortenin;.; in my record is that I 've never had time to ridt for recreation ; the large road records I made the past ihree years, arcie from the fact that from \ to \ vas made in the course of my pastoral visiting. In my present pastorate, while my visiting list is from 3 to 4 times as large as at S. .Abinjton, yet the town is so compact that I do not need my bicycle to save time as formerly. Whatever mention you may make of my riding, notliint; would give me more satisfaction than to have you offer this — the correct — explanation of the dis- tance I have covered on the wheel. Such statements show the folly of ' :iKing upon it as a mere exercise-machine. Since being in R. I., I have ridden to church in making an exchange; and not a word of objection was uttered against this act, though the bicycle is not as familiar here as in M;iss. Some of the most delightful and exhilarating rides I 've ever enjoyed have been when the thciinometer was below zero. To the bicycle I attribute the fact that ' blue Mon- day ' is a thing unknown in my experience. My sometimes preaching without notes, ' loud snd long' (contrary to the Methodist discipline), may perhaps be accredited to the same in- strument. I bought a bi. in July, '81, because I had just sold my horse and carriage and iiccui-u a c0uV(_ juTiwC iv> atiCuu lO puatorai ciuiics, A puujic iViaii WaiiiS liiii... A pTcacHcr "tv^i;;;; i STATISTICS FROM THE VETEIiANS. 5»3 all the time for study (at apart from sermon-preparation) he can get. My bicycle and phonog- raphy enable me to put more into each week than without lliem would be pu:uible. As case of l>ropiilsion increased, the practicability of runs and tours, apart from home dunes, was seen and acted upon. The first season, '8r 1 toured to White nuns., partly by train, and j have since ex- |)lori.;l with system and care all of ». e. Mass. (Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth counties) and some o'.lier se-tions of the State. I once went from lioston to b. Abington without dismount, 35 in. siraiKhtawav. I have ridder 50 in. Columbias (btandard and Expert), and am now using a 53 in. Kudge light roadster, as for two years past." Thomas Midgley (b. Oct. 22, i860), whom 1 have described as the "champion handle-bar striiKlitener of the Down East party " (pp. 258, 277;, sends me a story which f present with very few changes. 1 had to write so much, in persuading him thus to " write anything," tli.it t can't spare any more time, in trying to "condense"' 1 believe he 'las born in to- sland, but emigrated to America when quite young, and made liis home ?' Worcester f'lr a iliizen years or so, until he removed to Pennsylvania, in iJec, '^4. I remember he used a .McDonnell cyclom. in the Maine tour, and had a good opinion of it (the college student and the clergyman just described also carried McDonnells, and the three agreed pretty well with one .mother and with my Pope cyclom., on the 22 m. test, at Mt. Desert, wnen these four wheels were the only ones that didn't fall, "out of a possible 10"); so I presume most of his '83 record was kept with it. As to his ace at the Washington Athletic Park, Oct. 26, 'S3, Haz- lett's " Summary " (H^k^elmnn, Feb., '84, p. 369) speaks as follows: " Hiscompetitor was R. F. Koste., of tialtimore, who had been suffering a fortnight from fever and a^ue, but, in lack of iiiher entries, determine! to start anyhow. Midgley shot away, and led I''. 100 yds. on the rirst lap (i m). Both rode with excellent judgment under the circumstances. M. knew he was -, and the 2 m. sufficed to give him first prize for "ot dismounting." The same article describes the 100 m. road race which M. won, over 9 com- petitors, though he does not allude to himself as winner in the fillowing autobiography. " I began on a Standard Columbia (' No. 10 '), in the fall of '80, and f had the riding fever so bad that I kept on wheeling right up to Christmas of that year, regardless of the weather, until the breaking of a crank brought my season's sport to a halt, with a record of about 750 m. The next year I did no riding to speak of, except one trip to Bost.m and back in 12 h., which was considered good in those days. My total for '81 did not exceed 300 m. It was in '82 that I began to ride in earnest thouch mostly ove'- roads which are very familiar to you. Of course all my wheeling had i.. he done before and after the hours of work. It w.is in the fail of this year that 1 made the road record of 136 m. in company with Lincoln Holland. W rode from South Framingham to ' pswich (54 m.) and returned to Worcester (82 33 % k,^'^ 514 TE.Y THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. m), inside of 22 h. A description of the road tnvened wa» published in au Oct. i,umbe o£ the lii. Horid. Ihe laurels, if «. ihey cai. be caiied, which were won on this ride we ' neon taken away by the Ijwrcuce B. C, but 1 was determined not to be beaten and"" (Nov. 5) 1 started out to better their record of ibo m. This resulted m my riding ,„ „ " J" the limited lime, and a report of it appeared in the next week's Hi. lyorid aiso in H T ■' " Summary of NoUble Runs " m the i^'luelmaH (Jan.. •83). This practically wound uV" ' Tiding for '81, giving me a total of j6oo m. A» I bad resolved that I would try fo 1 rea.rd in '83. on the first day of tlmt year (though the ground was covered with ,n ^7 managed to reel ofi .om.; but the next few days 1 was not as fortunate, and my ridin7 , the month dui not exceed 56 m. lu Feb. 1 covered about 40 m. and in March only to this Dreser.t f?ne fDer. zi. '^.z\ m— m'.\f^~~~ —.-;.; V— .--.!! : .^ ti.:- :.. really underestimated, except for '82-'83, in which years I kept a careful record and know it to STAT/ST/CS FROM THE VETERA AS. 5»S be about accurate. The latter year, you will see, covers just about half my total mileag;e for the live, i'tveral times in it I took day's rides of 60 to 90 m., but, as I 've said, all of them were on well-known roads. As for my performance in Washington, the only notable thing was the sim- ple fact of keeping the saddle 100 m. without dismount. I wish to explain, too, that there was a misunderstanding in ;he papers, at the time, in regard to ;his race, and a good deal of blame was unjustly attached to the Capital B. C; whereas the truth was that its members did every- thing in their power to make my trip to the Capital a pleasant one ; and they succeeded, too. The reception I had there will always remain one of the most pleasant recollecti(/n» of my bicy- cling days. As to Beaver Falls, let me say it is quite a growing town which has sprung up dur- ing the last 14 years, — its manufacturinp industry being confined to steel products chiefly, and its success (in a sense, its very existence) being due to iis favorable location. It is situated on the banks of the Beaver river, 4 m. fron- (he point where sam' < rupties • ,ie Ohio. Its r. r. facili- ties cannot be excelled. It ju.st abounds in natural ga.s, so that hare .lything else in the shape ol fuel is used here. The two larije ranges of hills between which tne town lies are full of coal also, inough little of it is now Mined. Our club, the Beaver Valley Wheelmen, organized last spring, has a membership of 14, and I have the honor of being captain. Though the riding sea- son is not as long as in the East, we have lots of fun and plenty of chances for trying our wheels. For one who loves scenery better than fast riding, Beaver Falls is a very good place, snice our scenery is superb ; whichever way you turn, you see long ranges of hills and abrupt blufls mixed in with winding sheets of water. Our hills here, would in Mass. be called mountains, and really some of them are not unlike the hills we went over in o-ir Mt. Desert ride. We have one road which I have called ' the Campobello,' owing to its similarity in scenery (only this is finer than the New Brunswick original), and another which I call ' Mt. Desert,' for a reason I have no need to explain. Vou can rest assured we don't ride over the latter very often." That other member of the " unbent handle-bar four at Mt. Desert," whose intention to wheel homeward therefrom I noted on p. 279, was W. L. Perham (b. Jan. i, 1S65), who after- war Is reported to me as follows : " My trip extended from Bar Harbor to Bangor, 59 m. ; thence by way of Rockland to Portland, 165 m., where I stopped over the 4th of July celebration ; thence home to Paris, 50 m. ; thence by way of Conway to the Glen House (at the foot of Mt. Washington), 72 m., and back through Gorham to Paris, 48 m. ; thence through Skowhe^an, l)exter and Bangor to Orono ,155 m., making a total of 549 m., without any crossing or doubling of my track, excepting at Portland on the bridge." His letter of Jan. 24, '86, reads thus : " I got my first Standard Columbia July 29, '82, and when I ended my last ride on it, Aug. i, '84, the record was 10,141 m. The old wheel was slightly shaky thei-, after two years of such usage, ihoiish you remember I 'm not subject to falls. My '83 mileage was 4850 (av. ride, 31 m.); last 5 mos. of '82, 2164 (av. ride, 24 m.) ; first 7 mos. of '84, 3124. My new wheel reached me at 5 p M of Aug. I (it is a 54 in. Standard, nickeled, though the first was painted), and at 6 A. m. of the 2d, I started ofi on it for a straightaway run for Bangor, 120 m., which I finished at 607 V. M. At Augusta, 45 m., I stopped 19 min., to drink a quart of milk; and, afterwards, in trying to get to B. inside the even 12 h., I rather strained myself, though I wheeled 53 m. next (lay. During the rest of '84, I rode 15S4 m., making a total of 4711, with an average day's ride of 42 m. In '85 my mileage was only 1681, with an av. ride of 11 m. The reason is that my employment at drawing, in an architect's office at Paris, leaves only my early mornings and evenings for the wheel. Still, you see my mileage for less than 3} years foots up to 13,406. I use a McDonnell cyclom., which I have tested thoroughly on standard trotting-tracks (we have no cinder paths in Maine) and I find it registers 47 m. for 48 m. on the track. This is all I would ask for as to accuracy, though I exchanged my cyclom. several times before getting a good one. My winter pastime is snow-shoeing, and I find it nearly as fascinating as wheeling." Theodore Rothe (b. Nov. 11, 1857) was second by 57 min. in the 100 m. race which began at '•.JO A M., of Oct. 6, 'S3 (and of whose winner the IVkeelman said : " Midgley was perfectly fresh at the finish, and could, without doubt, have made much faster time if he had been jmsiieii "), ills record being 10 ii. 45 min. The third man was L. A. Peabody, of Ivlarbiehead, in II h. 25 min. ; and the fourth was J. F. McClure, of the fVkeelman, at ta h. 40 min. Mr. R. hi i H'lifH '11 S'6 Ti:X THOUSAND .VILES ON A BICYCLE. f i has been (or nome years connected with the International Hotel, at Boston {.biiJ^^ Wa»liine ton »t.), anil has put this book on file at its office, beslik-, sub^.cribIllH for a personal copv \\^ was one of the " six in the Down K.iil party who took the noon boat homeward from the ( at Lubec ' (p. zi^y) ; and, by way of atoning for this desertion, he consented to prepare a few personal statistic* for m:, though his letter of Kcb. 15, 'S4, which 1 now quy2, and consequently a remarkable average of 31 ni. per ride There were 6 rides of between 50 and (« m , 3 of between 60 and 70 ;..., 1 of 73 m., 1 nf Si m I of 103 m., and 1 of iio m. ; yet I rememoer of but two days when I kept the saddle unusually long. The first occasion was a round trip to Urockloii ; the out ride of a m. was made in i h 55 mill, without dismount ; and [h;n, after a 5 miii. stop, 1 made th ; return of 24 „,. i,y ^ ^j^ cuilous route, in 2 h. 30 iniii., ovjr the IJlue hills, also without dismount. On this trip a pecul iar adventure happened. While riding at my very best speed, over a jwrfect road, 1 suddenly noticed, within a few rods, two piaiiks ^covering what proved to be a full-sized fire hose) stretched across the road. Imagine my pleasure! Vet a quick glance showed that, at one end, there was a space of a few inches uncovered ; luckily I managed to turn enough to take the lesser of the two evil.s' /. ^..obstructions, and I did make th.- ho.- 11 safety. 1 never had tri.d to cro.s; a hos before, and would never undertake it again, as I be, ve my great speed at the time was all that carried me over s.ifely. My second long-stay-in-saddle ride was Oct. 4, two days before our 1.^ m. road-race, and was to get an idea of the best speed we should be likely to attain durlii- the race. Having ridden about 10 in,, 1 mounted at Medlord, and rode to Lynn, 10 m, in \ h ;"tlKn without dismount rUturned to Medford, ag.iinst th.- wind, in 52 min.. and con;inned li-.ice home, making 34 m. in all without dismount. In the 100 m. race, we covered about 60 m of roadway, but 1 've no idea of the amount of roaHway covered by m.- in mv ye.nr's ridn-, exc pt that !t would be very small, as th.-re are but few roads leading from the city. Mon of'my rid- mg was done afternoons, and as i almost always returned to business for i nr 2 h afterwirds it was a matter of repetition of 15 or 20 m. out and back, save when I took an cxcur-ion of a day or two. I 'v. ridden in all the N, K, States except Vt.,- py longes straightawav Umhr on the return from the ' Down lOast trip' when, in company with Mr. Waterman, I ro.le from Portland to Iloston, .23 m, in 2 days ; the first one ending at Portsmouth. This I consider my hardest ride, owm- to the unusually hot weather, and innumerable heade.s in the sands of the first day. I used a McDonnell cycloin. during the early part of the season, but, finding it in- correct, made the greater part of distances by map-measurement or by local sign boards " His riding during the next two ye.^rs brou;;ht the total mileage up to . .,344, -is shown by his letfr to me of Dec, 9, '85, containing these further .st.itislics, " During '84, I rode 32.5 m, in . ,7 rides average 23^ m, to a ride ; 3 ri not proved so. Most of my riding has been confined to Ma.ss., and my longest day'- -ecord i- 75 ni. I rode a Paragon the first year ; then a bicycle built at Newton (by a man ho* lunie just now escaiies oil) for a year; then a Standard Columbia, for 3 years; and sine , an l..vi)Lrt,— the fize of each being 56 in. fn March, 'S6, I IxMight a Coventry Convertible tri, and am now riding that considerably more than the bicycle, f continue an enthusiastic believer in bolh bi. and tri., and in the usefulness and importance of the League of American Wheelmen." In iliis brief report of Dec. 10, '85, I add a remark made by " C. S. H." (H'heel, Jan. 2.., 'H6): " A. S. Parsons hangs to the honor of riding a tricycle more than any other man in f^oston. Last year he covered upwards of H-aa m." An article of his, descriptive of the League meet at t hicago, was published in the iriieelmanCSov., '82), and he also contributed many pieces to the earlier volumes of the Bi. H'orld. One of the founders of the Boston I!. C, Willis Farrington (whom f remember as representing that club in the escort of a parly to a lunch at the Blue Bell, Milton, after the League meet of '81), sends an even briefer report, thus, Dec. 14, '85 : " I bought my first bicycle in Sept., '78, and rode 438 m. that year ; mileage for 7 seasons since has been 816, 12.^, 1121, 1364, 2580, 1857, and 1452,— a total of 10,918. Mileage of machines ridden stands as follows : 50. in. Stanley, 5fx) ; 52 in. Stanley, 4142 ; 54 in. Humber, 327; 53 in. In- vincible, 3864 ; 48 in. Royal Salvo sociable, 233; 48 in. tricycle (hired), no; 48 in. Invincible 'ri , 1394 ; 4S in. Cripper tri., 28S. This shows 2025 m. for tricycling, as compared with 8893 m. on the bicycle, though I 've not ridden the bi. at all in '85. All my riding in '83-'84 was in Kngland, Isle of Wight and France,— the record on a sociable tri. being made with Paul Butler, • Lfoston '5. C, from London, to Bradford, in Yorkshire. I 've had a cyclom. on every machine. First I used Thompson's, which I judged to be correct, but, as it recorded revolutions only, I discarded it for a McDonnell. T tried several of these, and found them all defective. Then I used liutcher's. They went wrong at first, being their eariier productions. I have now one of the latest patterns, and am perfectly satisfied. It is a great comfort to be able to read it from the .sa-Jdi . A« to offices, I was League consul for Lowell, until I resigned, and am now C. T. C. consul for Lowell ; I have been captain of the Ix>well I!. C., and am still a member of it, as well as a life-member of the Bostons." I jud-e from his letter-head, that Mr. F. is connected with the U. S. r.uiiting Co., at Lowell. The Bi. iror/J nl Pec. 25, '85, mentions a group pho- tiigraph representing himself, his wife, his little girl and his little boy, all mounted on wheels,— together with the baby, in a four-wheeler, guarded by the family dog. K. A. Hemmenway (b. Feb. 4, 1857), secretary of the Tremont B. C, at Dorchester, whose occupation is that of mechanical draushtsman, reports to me thus: "I first mountet" at Cun- ningham's riding school, July 7, '79, and took my first road-ride Icily 18. All my riding has been done on two machines: the first a 50 in. Duplex Excelsior (r)02om.), the present, a 52 in. Ex- pert Columbia, '84 pattern (5433* m.). My earlie.«t cyclometer was one of the first style made by the Popes, and it was very unsatisfactory. The principle of it« operation being entirely defective, It wn aid recard on the average only about § the istance ; so I placed no reliance on it. My second eye. was of my own manufacture, remodeled from the first. It was perfectly accurate, and I used it for 3200 m. My present eye. is a Butcher, which I have run about sooo m. It is made on a correct principle and its durability depends merely upon the quality of the workman- ship. In the first cyclometers made by the Butcher Co. the work was, unfortunately, very poor u \ V 1| Si8 TEN THOl/SA.VD Mil es ON A BICYCLE. *ndag«xldealof trouble w», cau.■ ,. tramp across roads which at best are barely walka- ble . As he was m fact beyond thei, .h, the only solace left them was to remember him in their prayers,-and trust the non-clerical half of the party to do the cursing (see p. 324). His escape from destruction by their righteous wrath was a happy thing for the cause of cycling, since (speaking in all serious, ss) there are not many Americans who have done more to advance that cause than himself. M.h can easily be forgiven the man who has accomplished much ; and my object in thus noting these little slips from accuracy, which can hardly be helped when an exuberant fancy expresses itself in the rapid manipulation of a type-writer, is ralher to il- lustrate the rule that Ml men have their limitations, than to detr.ict anythinj from the respect due for solid results actually brought to pass. As I wished, too, to give his story a sizable sort of paragraph in this book (for the drift of thought which finally led me to conceive the idea of writing It was, in a sense, set in motion by some hearty praise of his concerning my "234' reminiscences in the U'luelman), I was forced to " cover space " hy nroyldins a Ion; inlr-duc- tion to It i because the longest autobiography I could extract from him was this : " I began STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 5'9 lidiiig a 4<> in Ariel, Oct. 5, ';9i — ''•« same month the (.'hicago B. C. wai organixMl,— and I ulieeled loa m. that year; ude a Standard Columbia in '8a, a 54 in. I). H. K. Premier from 'Ki to 'H4, and a 54 in. Victor in '85 ; toi>k a fortnight'i tour, around Grand Kapids, Mith., the Aral inoMlh I learned to ride, and engaged in annual three days' rum of the Milwaukee K. C, in W.»uke»ha Co , Wis., in 'bo, 'Si and '8j, bt. rt, of course, the Canadian tours of '8j, '84 and '^^ My inileaK ' is fully ij,ioo, and its distribu n through the last six sea.v> t was about as follows : ijoo, 2400, 1100, ijoo, 1800 and jioo. My birthplace was Ijmbeth, (Ontario." Though the Ciiicago B. C. proclaims itself very little in the (lapers, it i.i niir nf the perma- nent institutions of that wide-awake city, and hj« probably done more. In a quiet way, to gel cy- cling well establi^ihed and respected, in the great central section of the continent, than any simi- l.ir agency west of the Atlantic sloi«. I , captain, Norton H. Van Sicklen (b. Keb. 9, iSfco.'), made the notable record of 507SJ m. in '.^4, which was tabulated thus by inoiitht 1 Sfr. Uf'h. Gat., Keb., '«5, p. 160; : Jan., 95 ; Feb., 91J; .Mar., 114; Apr,, 3S5J ; May, 45MJ , June, 551 , July, 43HJ ; ,\ug.,7o,); Sept., <47 1 m. addi- tional, whereof '85 should be accredited with 4J00, and '83 with it,oo, though he did not kec,) a montlily record of mileage in either year. The letter adds : " 1 lea.med to nde the bi. in Dec., ';>;, and think my mileage was at lea"' .joo, on rented and borrowed tnachines, before I bought .) wheel of my own, at the close of '81. I 've used but two makes of cyclometers, — the IcDon- iiell and the Kutclier (petite), — and f account a good one of the former much l>elter than a giKxf oTie of the lattei. My experience with .his has been very unsatisfactory, — the cam being too rtexible and the rubber coming off,— while one of my Mcf)oi,nells has registered 3000 m. and is ^lill correct. During '84 I used two of them, — one on a 56 in. Exp' ;, which registered over 4ioo m. in a ye.ir, and one on a 57 in. Vale, which I rode only a fev. hundred m. in '84. As for separate road, t 've wheeled about 1100 m. of it : fll., Ind., O., N. Y., Minn, and Onl My li-st road ride was in Oct., '80, I think,— a trip with the club to S. Chicago and back. My first race was Feb. 22, 'S3 ; and, if you care to mention rr./ jiath performances, I suggest that Mr .\yers might send a more impartial account of them than I can " (see p. 321). During th"- previous year, another member of the same club, who was then its vice-president and a consul of the League, made an even higher record, — running up an annual mileage far in excess of any before accredited \o an American. This was Frank E. Yates (b. May 18, 1843), well known as an oarsman at double sculls, with W. B. Curtis and C. E. Courtney as partners, ■iikI as the winner of some 75 single-scull 1 , which included the American amateur cham- pionshi;-. in '74 and '76. He began riding the bi. Oit. 17, '.».,, and probably accomplished 2c3 m., though he took no note of it. His '83 record, in addition to 333 m. of tricycling, was 5052 rn., distributed through the months as follow j : Jan., no; Feb.,2i8J; Mar.,3'<3; Apr.,^i7j; .May, 228; June, 573; July, 401; Aug., 46S; Sept., 51.^: Oct., 437; Nov., b.f>\ Dec, 349. His letter which enclosed these scores to me (July 11, '84) said: •'T^o' large figures are ac- counted for by the fact thai f am an enthusiast at bicyc'.i.ig, and my business ii siitli as to enable me to ride 2oi h. out of the 24, should f feel disposed, since I am engaged only during Board of Trade hours (9.70 A. M. to i p. M.). My riding was done almost entirely on the strei- and boulevards and in the parks of the ci^y, save two trips to .South Chicago and one to Riverdale, probably 100 m. all told. My wife having a tricycle, wi- ui" *''" f'^' wheel. She .s universally conceded to J.h. mLZacet , J' , '"' "' "'""« ^ ^'"«'^ cetved an adverse cr.t.c.sm e.ther from the pres^ h'eTiL ct-''^'"^' '"'^ •>" """ ^^ - UtahsoldestrmerisprobablyGeo. J. Taylor (b Ian, • ^ ^«rr^/£t,,«,„^A'««. and coroner of Salt Lake Coun.v' , "^^,^' "'"^ "^ '-^. '>.oug »s to make '500 m. that could ride a 5. in. ^My longestMr^i;,;:;;;;,™' ":t:^?' *'"' "^"'^ ^>'-^. "-i'> dusk. 50 m ; swiftest ride., o:. a rather rough road, Tn.l.it'''^:';:'! ''"'' ' '■ " "" Petite Butcher, which weighs only . o^.. and never fai7s ,0 rl ', "' ^''^'""- '^ "'^ I>ec. ,5. '85, which encloses an extrac from Ih/^ T ^"^""y-" ">- '-is rote of .ntnted him July .., tluis: " The l^Zu censor:; TT "' ' ''''"' ""''" ^^ !-dal-pincxtendingi,everaIinche3rearward 2 etihied? ■"■='"''*''' '" "" '-■^■ rod is '.iiiged to the upper part of the fork lirrehv 1 ^-"^"^'"^ *™"'S'"B f"lcn,m-rod. which .ion wiihalmo. absolute frLlomll'^or^^^^^^^^ '"'^ -"' - t>- lover, which with the pedal projects forward 0' ^^1'!^^ "" K "''" ' '"'^""" '"^ .v^vantage in leverage over the ordinarv crank Th added I U ' ." ^"' ' '°-'''"='t"e exceed . lbs., a:,d the friction is so slight that when the whe^, " "" l'' '"'^''■"' "'^'^ - without stopping. Its advantages arc that , ^i he "£ Z7 " 1'- """ "^ ^ ™"- while at the same time it shortens the foot motion several i„ '""'", '" 'T"" '^^ *'''-^'- wmch passes :he dead center, with a comparati ^y ho pstr^k ' -^e T''!"' " ■^^'"'^'^• "«=d as a pedal, giving a s.ill shorter motion for down hili and easv J]^ T T ''" ""'"' *"= ^ichcanbedonein:::!.^::::,;:^:^-;:':^::^?:'^^^^ The mcreased power has been fully tested by means of wejh.s and lie , "m u """• s:t;r:;:x"^-:;— ■ ,^-'s^:;r£r "- "- = patent treadles, without taking a header. . ride ev ry day, lin'r or mme" "• " V over all sorts of roads I 'v<- .-.»J .1, d j .. , «"nter or sjmmer, /ain or shine, Oxlom. to either of tm, or to^n^ f Ve JirJ' '''""'' "' '" "^ '^' ''' ^^^ '^-^- ams. of whom more than .o:,tt:ero th. br:;-"""!.^- " ^'''--'^ -^^^■- are represented." he writes, Sept o '8= ■■forthlV ^' ^-^ 1 """"^ "^ ^'"'^'"'' "'-•'•■•" present one. 1 've pushed hi weiTto hr f t ■'" ""' '^"'' '""^'' ^'''"' """■ ' «"' "'- now we have qute a number aTlf 1 . ' ' ''■""*^ " -"''"'^ "^ '"'" commenda,; ,n, and .hat machine o:!! T ^^1; so ^ ft'eT " "' '"" " ^^' "''^ '"'^'•^'"^ "' ■"" •"^'"^ '" Columbia, which reached me hinir . T^ '" """ "'^' ^"^-'-1<". f ordered a >n. Speoa, Coh..bi::^l^:.i:;:f--^ ^ -- ;^ -^-^ J^^^ . -, by a . r •iisrr:;^^!^;^-- '^'?- --^ "-- woum „ott:^ wi::: ^i:.tr.: -. . .. in sept; , t^ii'f:;;^ ^:; :^i /Ci-^n^^:;- ::r STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 521 tion, liking ii better than any previous wheel. As I did a great deal of riding during the si ••.ars 1 ustd the Special, I can safely say that I pushed it more than i5,c>oo m. it is still r-!den herein town, in fair condition. My lirst Columbia is also r.-nning around here to-day, wiih the original tire upon its front wheel. Dur:ig the 13 months that } used it I wore the front bearings out three times. 1 had them renewed twice, and then, when the wheel got so loose as I.) rub against the brake, I sold it 'o a machinist who put in ball-bearings and a new axle. Ex- cept during these times of repair, it has been in use nearly every ridable day ^or u jwards of 7 years; and would thus make a good mate for your ' No. 234.' "My riding has all been done in New Jersey, south of Camden, where we have a con- siderable mileage of good roads — the best straightaway run being 40 ni., through .Salem and .\1- lowaystown to Woodstown. This round-trip of 80 ni. represents my longest day's ride ; and once while returning from it (Oct., '84), as I did n.'t happen to meet any bad horses or woi -e drivers, 1 came along easily for 29 m. without a dismount, in 2J 'i. This is a sandy country, and, as our roads i.re made of gravel or clay, they do not long remain muddy. We have consid- erable fair riding through the winter, and during the last i of the year I make good use of ten Mioonlight nights each month, if the weather is clear. As I live J m. from the office, 1 wheel back and forth and also on all business errands ; "a ' every pleasant afternoon, from 5.30 till (lark, will find nie in the saddif . This year, I an, 'y always accompanied on th'-se evening spins by my 10 year old son, Albertus Cwho is getti , be qui'." .', rider, and makes short trips independently, both before and after school) ; and my 'Ss mileage is much less than usual, on this account, for my af'er-supper ride is now only 10 or 15 m., in' t' of 20 or .-5 m. whi ' 't used to be when I rode alone. As I have a heavy f jt of books tj k.-ep, my touring is al. ..u entirely confined to Sundays." His postscript ol Jan. i, '86, idds: " My riding for the last 10 LIU'S, amounted to 4710 m., of which 1103J was registered from March 5 to May 31, and 3606J for the rest of the year, distributed thus: June, bi'- ; July, 574J ; Ai'g (vocation), 310 ; Sept., i)46j ; Oct., 564! ; No/., 468^; Dec, 41, V All through Dec. our roads have been excellent, — better than in summer, — and they are so still ; for we 've had very little freezinp- weather and nc ',';'■■%•. Up to March 5, I never used a cyclom., or attempted to keep a record. The ijUtcher «' ch I then attaci ed registered with perfect accuracy to Nov. 5°, from which time ii has lost in III J to J on nearly every m., as the bearings are getting badly worn, "^hey require to be frequently tinkered, to ke^T them right, and I boieve mme would wear out before running up to lo.ono in. I e been obliged also to fasten the balance weicht with rivets. The instrument must always be sonewhat of a nuisance v Ith the bearings in their present shape." An appropriate companion-piece to the foregoing is the report of James D. Dowling (b. .\ug. I, 1835), a r.'sic' nt of Camden, at 53A Broadway, though his place of business is in Phila. , at 406 Penn st. He learned to ride the ordinary bicycle, by raking a dozen lessons in Oct., '3r, but i ought a 51 in. Star, at second hand. May 10, 'S2, and has used it ever since, though it shows si.;'is of hr.rd wear. His son Harry (b. Aug. 6, 1870) learned on a wooclen bicwle, in Sept., '8t, and in Dec. bought a 42 in. wheel which he has since ridden, in company with his father, who writes: " Our mileage record from May 10 to Dec. 31, '>s, was 1S71 ; in '83, 2501 ; and in '84, 1920, — represtnting excursions to different points in N. J., !'a., and Del., varying from 10 to 66 m. straightaway from home. Whin I say that my son was .lith me on almost M the day's rides wb-s^e record is from 30 to to m., the story seems quite a cred'tabl? one for him In '85, he got r. .r 1 of the habit of ric'ing with me, — partly from illness, which confined him early in the ye.ir ; partly oni outgrowing his wheel, and partly from a naturally increasing preference for comn.des o.' .lis own age, — so that t 've had his youngei brother Joe (h. Dec 12, 1873) for a com- panion, on his 36 in. Otto, which he began riding in July, '8r. He holds out w 2II for short trips of 20 m., bat I do not think it *ell to pusli him farther, as ?iis «lifel runs rallier Iiard. My oldest son, x. 27, is not a rider, and I cannot get my three daughters to tr>' the tricycle, as their mother is opposed to it. In summer, my daughters st.iv a good deal at Moorfstnwn. where I once resided, an>". it is my custom to spend many evenincs there, — leading Cirmlen aboii' 7 and returning about 11. i wheel the 10 in. 111 u*, to /u iinii. .iiKi icluiu m ".is iu in» iimi., «» iiic ^laUc is down to C. Another 'avorite evening ride of mine I ca'. the triangle. The fi'st side, from ■i'i'^' III 522 TEAT THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. C. to Mt. Ephraim, j m., i, rolling but good. The base, from M. E. .0 Haddonfield , m k foot-path all the way. the firs, i m. ou s. side, the res. o„ n. The triangle Wds^', T' ' ' to the star,.ng pointat C. 6m., U all level a.d slightly down-grade. l^.l^^tZ'^' " without du.n.ou„t i„ .1 h. The road fron. Gloucester to Woodbury T" Ta th ^ '^ "■ n, ts always good, and has often been ridden in ,„ ™.n., either wayTls 17^ Wei 7 1 ""• ' nde was taken Nov. .., to Quakertown and back. 84 m. My record for '8. I • ^''' '"""''' age, the nding d.ys. and the longest ride for eaci month, is'asfolW ]an :";V'^'"^ 4.. 3. - ; Mar., .3.. 8, .5 : Apr., .,6, 9. ^. ; May. ,6;. ,0, 46 ; June .97. ».; } l" ;. ' 65; Aug.. 355, .4.65; bept..345, ...60; Oct., .99, .0,40; Nov ,c, ., L u T "' This gives a total of 2588 for the year, and 8880 for the 4 years " In «.l' ' ^ ' ' ' *' '"■ fall, the gravel pikes which are the rule in N. J. .re Lmlwhat Jf ■ buf "'"'" " *'^" " '" good. The stone pikes are generally heavy after a lon^ r LT '.he alT tl""'"!: '''' "^ have a bad habit of cleaning out the ditches on each side and .hrowi^ 'e ^i 1' "f -""''-=" which makes tough riding, as i. does no. pack until frost comeird then off / '" "'^' rutty. The g. aval pikes in N. J. are scntped after each snow Ind f j is frl ' "?" "^' are magnificent then-as smooth as a floor . s the vounr!^' a . T^ ""'"'"' "'^^ 30 years old are afraid of the cold, and I do nltc^rl L ride ZVT ^T "'" "^ '™'" " '" riding. However, I i^.e rdden'several tL be h^ the DlJiridtr' tT"' *""" fro.en and found it splend.u spor.,-the only drawback beLg ^T^ab ,t u^ rZ^ ^ Uc^day. . les as .lows: Mt. ^PH^^ ^1^=:^^ .^^IH :^™ ^^ 5. Aewneld 35, Vihela..d, 38, Hammondton, 35 ; Trenton, 40; Hardington, 25- Beveriv J funhe , .., Newcastle; and I 've ridden from P. ,0 Reading, 66 m., and returned by trai" Except ,n a few cases, when ihe start has been made as early as , a m and .h. r„ ? late as 8 . m my day's rides .ith my son have begun af.er\;ea\Lra.:d ende^ "T^^^^ upper. We 've never been caught in but .wo s.onns, bu, in one of these we had to r" , „ in a heavy wind and ra,n,-as we were ,00 late for any Sunday trains. After a warm b2' c aiige of clothes and good supper, neither of us felt any ill effects f... .he exp^uT A^r ' gardsthe press, I 've printed pieces in the l^'Aee/man, Feb., '83; 3, HWiJ Mar 'S. f chamc^ June, '83 (description of ride to Reading), and two in the Pkila. Cycling Rrcord\^!''< of .he^ -d ; "^'^" ^'- J=^M'.-^^) "- "-" '-"^<^^ o" P- "3 as one of^^.l^ v:?eSst of the long-distance men; and his letter to me xrom Go.tingen (Feb. .9, '84) reads thu My ndmg record ,s now .o,.oo m., though this does not cover my total mileag , fort, n an can keep count of all h.s -acng-practice and little spins. It was in the Hartz m.ns , las Nov hat I reached the .0,000 m. limit. I have driv m the bi. 34.0 m. in .. successive months, and I as smmer covered .085 m. in ,0 successive days. This was in efJea an almost con inuou trail, though I broke ,. once by taking steamer, and once by taking train, besides crossing one saddle was 4^ m. The other day, I went from G. .0 Hanover, 75 m„ against a rather sharn wind, without having to walk a step, 5 A. m. to 3.0 P. „. My riding time was ;i h..L I waT m poor practice, and wen, .0 sVep , h. at EIze, besides giving . h. to breakfast ; „ herwise could easily have got to H. at . o'clock. I found a f.-w steep hills, but the roads in general ar fine for long tours. The chief obstacle is the pavements in ,i,e small towns, but, a. worst h^ can be walked through in .o min. I do no. travel much wiih the wheelmen here, as .1, v Z inclined to patronize the h.ghes.-price hotels and take frequently to ,he trains V . a '-n b> myself from < )s end to G., cos, only $2^ though I visited all tiie picture galleries and o,he objects of in,eres..' His replv .0 my further enquiries (Halle, May 35.-85) adds: '• Record Z "IT^T.,. [^'^"'Tt '."' '''■• ""''■. ".• '^«' =" «-'-. » ■■<> 'ook my first all-day ride " ' "■' ' '" /yvrt"K 4 >o 14. I think), trom New Haven, '^*«4.,L,: STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 523 through Foughkeepsie and Albany, to Saratoga and back to P., 300 m., without any resort to trains (see p. 141). F. L. Bigelow was my companion all the way ; R. T. Low (a classmate of mine in Amherst '3i) joined us at P.; and our half-day's ride of 55 m. thence up the Hudson (5 \. M. to I p. M.) we thought quite an exploit at that time. I am now just on the eve of a grand tour, for I 've nearly s sale. In Jan., '79, he returned to the carpet trade, which he has since followed, and his mileage of that year, whose Sundays were mostly given to the wheel, u '^ probably 1000. In 'So, it was perhaps rather less th.m hat, his longest trip being from 1,5th St. to "iney Island and back, — though he took part in the League's first parade at New- port. In '«t. it did not amount to 500 m.; and in '82, which included some riding at Washing- ton, Boston, and twice at Baltimore, it was less than 1500 m. Combining these annual ap- l.''pt any record, shows a " guess-work total " of about 10,500 m,, at the close of '84. The bi- iiii *■ 524 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. cycle, u«>d by him have been Duplex Excelsior. Columbia ('S.-'S^) and Ilumber fg,^ • ,n 1 u Premier tncyclo, which he exhibited ,n Hostonl in autumn of '79, was the fi^t on e ' u .here. He ha. been for some years captain of the Ixion b/c ; owns manv med: "'"'^'' the earlier races, and is known among his fam.l.ars as " the vete;a„*' ' *™ '" Henry K. Ducker (b. June 27, 1848), who has done more than anv one el«. t. - cle racing in America, " never entered a race or competed in a ah, " ^ T'^^: T wheehng (,n '80 about 800 m.) was chiefly for pleasure and exercise ; L ^„ce then • eT too busy to use the bicycle except as a time-saver for my business The / ' "<= been thus wheeled for this stnctly p.act.ca, pur,x,se ('S. .0 '8 ) r pTe^nt a savitf of"'c6 ^ ' '" w..k.n, days, equivalent m c.sh to #400, while my .heels have cost , ess hTj a si'" ThT business mileage ' of mne. arranged by years, stands thus: 808 .,8, ...S i a..d it has in efl.c. added an average of .J days to .ny life eacht^: w^'t 'r^^^aTo i,":?; direct advantage, in preserving my general health. I rode in the annual processes oM League, at New York, Washington and Buffalo; and the longest tour I ever tookl Hartford (Oct. ... '85), which I accomplished with only two disinoun s The ro rd tri^' 'f \ m. to H.lyoke and back , have taken twice. These six cases comprise thi w,,. ^^f r/i, ■ngoutsidethecity and.hesumof themallis insignificant m comparison wuh my businet mile- ^e. My earliest wheel was a 48 in. Harvard, which I rode from May ,0 'So o the 1 of '8. ; I had a 50 in. Sanspareil for the next two years, and in '85 have r'ddl^I ii v 7 an a nickeled Expert. Uoth of which . still retain. . used the Exc!.sior .^vZ^^TZ'^Z Butcher.n '84, and the I.akin in .'85 ; and, as far as I can Judge, the 1 ,er s th be t organ.ed the .Sp.ngfield B. C, May 3.. '8.. and have been its president ever smce M es dence in his ci y dafes from April =7. '63 ; the previous ten years having been spent in Br^k lyr,. to which place I emigrated from England, as I was born in London, on Fleet t I was' married Nov. 4. .868, and have nine children. My wife and two oldest girls are riders < f T tricycle." An excelle. portrait of Mr. D. may be found among the lithog^^aph c ikei : ; ^ cycling editors .n the London " /rw„^ Annual for '86- (p. .6), alon^de h , of , p., lisher, Harry Ethenng.on. His editorial work upon tne monthly SpHnJeld «v2/I. W, " the .ub IS .-Ul done outs.de of office hours, so as not .0 conflict with his duties as superin. of the Springfield Printing Co. He has heM this position since '80; and in '85 was chl , cnief consul o the Massachusetts Division of the League of America^ Wheelmen Anr TT '?-'""l'?°^ """""• ''""' '-^tonepersistent wheelman. I. J KuseKb Apr. 23. .86.V i clothing dealer, who reports to me thus: " I began in '77 on a hnn. d I ^.o lbs.), whi.. I regularly rode, between the house and store. besiL:\a"- i tL t f .^ m. and one of 20 m So I probably covered 500 .0 600 m. with it, before Feb., '78 when and July, 80. I rode some .500 m. on a 46 in. Columbia ; then to July. -82, about 2500 m nd o ' L ' "/' ""' "' '''' '"^ ""■• •^>' ^>''^'^- - •-' 5^ in- "ickeled Expert: end of S4. 2v« m., on a 56 in. Expert, McDonnell cyclom.; to July, '85, .500 m., by Butcher StT 7o. m in" , ■ ?'";-^S0.o Milwaukee and back, .80 m., in 26 h.; second best, S. ,0 Jol a .07 m., in 3 davs of about 8 h. ruling each, though roads were in poor condition. Both hese tnps were in .he same week, and that was my longest riding week 287 m. It was the condweek.nSept..'83,andformsapartof my best month's record, 850 m. I've ridden We dar^n ?'■'?""' 'T' '" l'"' "^' '" "" ^"' ^^""'" ' ^^"'^ "^ ^° ^ ^° -' ^-^ "erne. \ e dare no venture out far on the roads of Central Illinois, except from June to Sept.. for the black soil ,s left ,n bad condition for a week or more after every rain. Our park has 25 m, n beaiitif,,! pavement, however: and there is some talk of applying concrete ,0 all the m..i„ ro,.h of Sangamon CO. ,-which would make cycling possible, the year round, through a very lar^e ;v,,on. In the n. and s. sections of 111., the roads are mostly gravel, instead of this black s.il. Though our cty ordinance against cycling has never been repealed, it is .nnV»K, , A..^ ,...„, - Anou.er member of tne o,d guard, Brandon Eewis(b. May 2. .838), sends meaVevcn shon.r STATISTICS FUC^r THE VETERANS. 525 itory. " I ami dealer in shoes, at Lafayette, Ind., and though I first iiiounicd the bi. in May, '70, and have been a rider ever since, I never kept a record of my wheeling experiences. I 've mainly u«jd the wheel between home and business, ?nd have taken no tours,— my longest day's rid., oeing j6 m." With this may be compared the report sent Sept. 2, '85, by Arthur Young lb. Nov. 30, 1861), of whom Cola Stone wrote to me, a few months before, that "what he .! les n't know about the roads around St. Louis isn't worth knowing": " 1 began to ride Ftb. 24, 'So, on a 46 in. Columbia ; changed in 'S2 to a 50 in.; in '83, u.-^ed a 54 in. Expert ; in '84, a 5 ) In. Expert, 4S in. Sanspareil and 48 in. Exper; ; in '85, a 48 in. Victor, and am now riding a Kiulge tandem tri. I never kept a log, or used a cyclom., but I average iSoo m. a year. Out- siilL- this State, I 've ridden in Kan., III., Me., Mass., and N. H.,— including trips up Corey 11,11 and down Mt. Washington. The chief roads from St. Louis, through St. L. and Jeff. counties, arc of limestone and gravel combined ; very good after a min and mi Jity mean when (iisty. I name their mileajfe thus: Telegraph, 16; Natural Bridge, i6j ; St.' Charles Rock, iS; IJellefontaine, If, : '.livest., 28 ; Manchester, 32J ; Oravoi:*, 42; Lem.iy Ferry, 50. The sr.ides of the latter a v so steep tliat none but natives attempt to ride it, and the Gravois road is also a bad one for the tenderfoot." The reference to Mt. W. suggests the insertion here of my report from E. H. Corson (b. Oil. 2h, 1S48), whom I have alluded to as " the Star man," on pp. 257, i(,,, 271, in describing my '83 riding with him in Maine; and who says, Jan. 19, '86: " I learned to ride in June, '82 ; •iml, on Sept. 18, after attending the meeting which organized the N. H. Div. of the League, wlieeled home 25 m., this being my first strai-htaway trial on the road. Though I 've kept no completL- record of it, I 've ridden a groat djal, especially in '83. It was on Aug. 16 of that yjar that I rode down Mt. Washington,— a thin;j that was never done before, and has never beL'n done .since succissfuUy. I 've written a full account of this for the new ed. of the ' Star Rider's Manual,' which I hope to issue in March. I conceived the idea of writing the ' Manual ' while wheeling home from ths Springfield tournament of '83. Th nrst ed. was exh.ius";d two months ago, and the ord-Ts for the new book show it is likely to have an even larger sale." The price of it is 50 c., the same as the annual subscription to the Siar Advo- cate, a monthly paper which Mr. C. has published at East 1 ochester, N. H., .since Mar., '^. The editor of the oldest of American cycling journals, Abbot Bassett {b. March 10, 1S45), sends me the following, Jan. 19, '86: " I 'm not much of a veteran, for it was in '81 that I learned to ride a bicycle of John S. Pnnce. I did n't get beyond the les.son period, fir my attention was diverted from the bi. to the tri. by the presence of a three-wheeler in the place where I dia my riding. I saw at once that the tri. was the wheel for me, and I began to study it and get my friends interested in it. I entered into a long correspondence with Sturmev and Wilson, anent tricycles, and the result was that a number of us brought over Kiiglish machines in '82. I never tried a bi. on the road. I have done no little missionary work for the three-wheeler, and to-day Boston has a very large number of tricyclers. A man who rides a tri. only h.as just been electei captain of the Boston B. C, and, when some one ur^ed that this was not wise, a look around showed that every prominent member of the club was a tricycler. As to my record,— it has been impossible for me to keep one, for 1 ride all ■sorts of machines and over all distances, 't is important for me, in a business way, to know all about machines, and so I ride the different ones as they come out. Do Stoddard, Lov- eniig & Co. get out a new wheel, I take it and ride it i few weeks, and then take some other dealer's. In this way, I make myself an authority on machines, and can answer those who n.itiirally call on me for advice about buying wheels. I never advise any particular make, tlvui^h, but give the good points of each one. So you will see that as there is no good cy- clom. that will lit every wheel, 1 can't keep a record. I have a cyclom. on my own wheel but I didn't ride that 1000 m. in '85. I 've kept no kind of memorandum of my riding, and I cannot form the slightest idea what my mileage is ; therefore I think you had better not try to touch it. I became business manager of the Bi. WorlH'm Aug., '81; was joint editor in '83 .ind fuii editor in '84; was on the editorial staff of the Manu/acturtrU Gazttte, boston, in the earlier months of '81, and for 12 years before that was editor of the C/ulsea Ntuii." Hisprede- i ;5( 526 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. cesser and associate in the editorxhip of the Bi World I <; ri,,„ ( 1 State St.). tens .e a si.i.a.y indefini,: stor,: ■■ I catoi ^ve'-cy'^": ITcL^'T,' n^' " kept any, except in an intermittent sort of way. I think I beean ridincr in ^T\ } Jan.. V8). and , Ve ridden. , '. sure, more fhan .o.oi . i^f :hi^ ifZ^ ^ !'''''''' Kngland. During the la.,t , or 3 years I Ve confined my riding almost entire t !Th i *" ,'" and in '85 the tricycle and tandem were my only mounts:excep!a 1^.: safrty'ci t T^' your request about my ««.. ^//„^,. i Ve ha.i so many that I cannot name , hem - L^ d nn W.' was my first and principal one. I also started the ' By the Way '" ^h , -7 pergonal statement which I Ve been able to extract from the publisher of the ^ 'r 'V^' ord, H. B. Hart, who sailed with me to Newport, for the Leagu r^e^ of C ■"a'',;„'''h c.--. of the ptoneer riders. I have never done any extended touring; have l^en kept to " .0 busmess. Cycling has been and will 1« benefited mainly by my inven^ons and Leh, " tempts at literature. A, concerns the former 1 fee. somewhaf proud'of my Z'd " '""^ "■ wH.ch reads as fol.ws: / ^"^ -^^..^^ . ..y..ir;:/J: ,:L:1-1 ^^^ .nth, d,scharse^k.dut,es uses your 54 in. E.pert Columbia. I have run the 'an.e 'sole th.n,^.er , , 000 ,«.,,« .4 months, o^.r all kinds 0/ roads, and an, „ad to s.y ZoJZ't >^^''f^^nt/orreM.rsand,ny,n.uhimisin/irst^l^s co.uHtion^ As this su'lem h been w.dely cop.ed and as no one else in America has professed .0 ride a bicycle stmTv ' m so short a fme.u seems fair ,0 expect that you should enable me to infot m™T L scnbers concenung the details of such remarkable wheeling. I therefore ask : I^«werwha^ ro d! r" r " T"""^ '"''•^'=' • '" *'^' ^'^'^ ^"^ -^-"^ ^^^ >- traverse 7k nds oads? By „ha, eye ome.er wer» your ..,«-«-'- dentist, W. G, Kendall (b. July ,, .854) : " First sea! of 8.? T^- "Vr •"•■ u'' '"'""' '°^ ''5 '' -"'■' -"■ - '^ ^' -'^ 677 on a tri., a total c284e. This was all done withm 50 m. of B., in riding from my reside, in the suburbs ,0 my office evening spins; trips of from 50 to 90 m. on every pleasant Sundav ; and, in general bv spenduig every possible moment on my machine. I took no long .straightaway to rs.' nd^l m S e fe ^alitMr " \]' Z ''''t'' "''' ""'"''"' *"" ' butcher cyclom' Thil I consider best, l^^t-^ 'he most legible ; though the I.akin cyclom. seems .. he giving great satisfaction ; InVrfa T ,, ^n '"T'" ' '""^ ""^^" ^''"^ '-""'^ '^"^S=- ^•''-- K^yal Mail Crip: per nd Traveller and, of ate, the first Crescent eve. ridden either here or in England. Of this e oH ber" 1 --derable next season. I hope to be able to add a few mov miles to this th "for w , k r '■. ■ T""" ' ^'''' P"'="^ "'^ '»"= '"■ "'°- •»'- "^e b,., as I think that for well-kept roads it is the mo" ..r-.^,;,.,i u;... . ., „_ _ _ _ three tri.s to every bi.; and on a r^cen. :::7 wa;;he only b;cy:;er^::; " l..^^^ "^ STATISTICS FROM THE VETERANS. 527 The latest record that comes to me for insertion in this chapter ia m the authentic form of an affidavit before John McCann, notary public at Louisville, subscribed and sworn to Jan. 16, '86, by J. D. Macaulay (b. Jan. 14, i860, at New Orleans), to the e£Eea that his bicycle mileage i>{ '8j amounted to 657], distributed through the 12 successive months as follows: 325, 383, 446, 563, 379, 305, 628, 663, 742, 1093, 526, 520. I append his reply to riy enquiries: " I am a mem- ber of the firm of Piatt, Macaulay & Co., wholesale dealers in whiskies, and manufacturers of spices. Learned to ride at Liverpool, Eng., in '72 ; but my wheel was so heavy as to disgust me with the sport, and (except for a few mos. in '80) I did no n>ore at it till '84, when I bought an Expert, and rode 1003 ra. between Sept. 15 and Dec. 31. I then determined to ride each day in '85, with the result given. My 50 in. Expert, No. 5012, stood the strain far better than I could expect, costing not a cent for repairs, — though I paid $b for an extra-long handle-bar, for ease in hill-climbing. I carried two McDonnell cyclometers ; but I had none at all on the Singer, wtiiili I used 61 days in May and June, train.ng for some races. This must have amounted to at least 350 m., in addition to what I recorded on my Expert during those months, for I never trained less than 3 m. a day on the track, or in the Exposition building. My longest stays in the sii'ldle, straightaway, were from L. to Bardstown, 46 m. in 4 h. 9 min., and from L. to Shelby- ville, 32 m. in 2 h. 24 min. In the Exposition building, I once rode without stop 62J m. in 5 h. My longest day's ride was from L. to L-exington, 94 m. in ii h. 23 min., which included a de- lour of 8 m. My longest week's ride was 423 m., Oct. 4 to 10, followed by 398 m., Oct. 11 to 17, making 82 1 m. for the fortnight. This was during my vacation in the Blue Grass Region. It is my intention to make at least 10,000 m. in '86, and I see no reason why I cannot go beyond that ; for my January mileage thus far averages high enough, considering the weather, to carry me well above that figure." Mr. M. has just been chosen president of the Louisville Wheel Club. The reasonableness of his intention thus expressed is shown by the actual record of 5000 m. made between Mav 21 and Nov. 14, '85, by Charles M. Goodno\y (b. Apr. 28, 1867), a clerk in the Hampden national bank at Westfield, Mass., and captain of the wheelmen there. He thus reports to me, Jan. 9 : "I learned to ride May i, '83, but had no cyclom. and took no note of mileage before this season. The only month's record I kept in 'Cs was that ending June 21 (1250 m.), and during one week of this, endin;^ June 15, 1 made 404 m. Longest day's ride, Oct. II, loi m. in SJ h. actual riding. Longest straightaway tour, to Holyoke, about 17 m. I 've only had a half-day's vacation, this year, and .ill my wheeling has been done before and after bank- hours. I added 56 m. to the 5000 before the year closed. My machine is a 54 in. Royal Mail, and is in fine condition." The Springfield Republican said, Jan. 6 : "All the summer and fall ("loodnow was up at sunrise, and rods even into the night when moonlight permitted. For 3 weeks in the 6 mos. he did no riding, owing to the breaking of his machine." All this was in competition for the "goH-plated Standard cjdometer valued at $25," which J. A. Lakin & Co., of VV., offered, at the beginning of the season, a', a prize to whoever would make the largest record on a wheel carrying their cyclom. (The price of this, nickel plated, is $10 ; and its dial, marking 250 m., is designed to be read from Ihe saddle, though riders have told me that the numer- als are too small to be easily distinguished.) Competitors were required " to make affidavit as to their records, signed by two witnesses knowing to the facts," and to hand in their reports by Jan. 15. Only 6 days before that, Mr. L. wrote to me thus : " We have not yet received many long-distance records. The second in size is that of Harry A. Ukin (b. Jan. 12, 1R67), who be- gan riding in '84, and whose '85 mileage, on a 54 in. Victor, is 3991. His longest day's ride, 4 A. M. to 8 p. M., was 116 m. H. M. Farr (b. May 28, 1S41), of Holyoke, has done 2S00 m., on a 38 in. Rudge Safety; C. Irving, secretary of the Dorchester B. C, 2333 J m., between Aug. and Dec; Gilbert J. Loomis (ae. about 14), of W., 1276 m., from Sept. i to Dec. 24, on a 52 in. Victor ; J. W. Holland, of W., 1354 m., on a 50 in. Expert ; Fred F. Shepard, of W., 1300 m." The Republican of Feb. 4 announced the avi-ard of the priie to Mr. G., and gave the mileage of the II competitors, all but 3 of whom are residents of Westfield. The records of the 4 not named to me in Mr. L.'s letter are : 2501 m. on a t.2 in. Victor, by Robert Gowdv : ^476 m nn a 54 m. Expert, by R. L. Scott; 1402 m. on a 54 in. Expert, by F. H. Scott ; and 152 1 m. on a 49 in. Columbia light roadster, by Joshua Reynolds, of Stockport, N. V. The same prize is to be 528 TEiW THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. offered again in 'so for the best certified score made bv the user of ,1,;. ; . oud «.d^.ted oc... to .be C.b wbose ,o r.ders n.l' ;re":::l;n:ar J ^t^r M . K. .s one of my early subscribers, and from his testimonul about the Lat '' ' ' dressed to the ntaker thereof (Jan. 6, '86;, 1 ^iadly copy the follown,^ ■ • A^-''^" c>c.om., .d- •So, and have Wept a careful .a„y account. \ '.' ..^n^SZ^.J^'I^TT '" '''''' 46 m Kxpert .. n,. and 50 n,.. and tny pr.,ent ,, n. lislu roadstert an^v h a^^^^^^^ '\ '"■ ^'"' on them.-ben„ thus able to jud.e the relative merus o. the prom.n „. m kes , ' e7 .".h"' aiso by specal n.achinery at our Kn,p,re Loom Works Furth.rm.r I u ^ '*'"" a..-d «hee, of ir.. .0 ft. .n circumf.Lce. wit^^^Lic^l m;::;::^.::^ • ^I^: -^'r the run mdicatcd ft. and n livrcnntr.H i.,^ „., f 1 . »> "^ ^'^voiui., ns while '• J"^'-!'"-*'''^'' •^"" careful measurements wrh ihi« li>:i rateim. straightaway on a .eve, road; and I also laid out around ^y ^Jr;:,: r;;;:,; .ack on a levdl road of gravel, hard and smooth. I used the stra.,l„ cLrse in tes ^.L uttons o my bicycle wheels to the i m.. when trundled as well a;whe:::;de " ^a es,:;'; have found your cyclum. the most satisfactory as to accuracy reliibilitv rnn.,r r • .en^ neatness, and case of reading front theLddie. My wif^^ a clZ r:r::r ^l'- with Butcher cy.lom. attached ; and though this has registered very closely Jith yourt I ] ,' hke the nK>des of attachment o^ actuation, nor the ./^.cLnge of the Sur -irK ^ d.fficu., , ,e,d. and were unreliable, though some of them worked fairly well and I h.d , ;:st^rsrr?;r-' IT' ^" °""- ' '^7^^'^'"' '-''- cyciomingjr:;t.':;iz uui.v to ut... 31, 85), .52, m. over common roads, in a rout;h and hilly country md thro,,, K 3 cayy ran, storms. The only improvenKnt I suggest is the insertion of a s 1;;^ v onr'l "'7,'^" M ;*" T"'°"' "" ''"■ """-^ ""^ '■^■''^ '■''' ^Sainst the sleeve, a...d its re" , ' .opp d. I would have been a great convenience to me, when trundling tlir^.h the mut bave been all . to hold the dial fast, by the simple turn of a thumb-screw ; for then LTd In pushed the b,. backwards, wi.h the small wheel in the air. and saved mud-clo-gin" in bh forks.-the brake actn.g as scraner, I mean to try such a screw on ,ny cyclom. , an;it^^ ' 544 m. before July .. so that my whole record for '35 is .065 m.. re'presen.nig .^ ly, record .'^ ' '"' " '°' '•■'" ' ''"^'''' ''"^"^ ''''''■ '"^'-^ -«^--'l -d t bula record, occupy .3 pp. ta a dury, ,.nd th.re are 5 pp. additional of tabulated distances I ha e measured, l-ro.n tins I have compiled a large mileage-card, .0 places within a rad of 35 m of Stockport, and h,.ve tacked it up iu the post office for general informatton " '' The re;,g,ous editor of the /'.s^-B.-s/aUA wheels 4679 m. in .; weeks, and knocks all ^mt.ar records nuo secondary place," is the somewhat sensational headline w,th wh h ,h A,>.r.an // /..^.r« (Jan. '.6) introduces an interesting two-column account of the mi e' ri f or ^ife' 'r. '""' k'""" ""''■ '' "'' '''''■ ■' '''' ""' ^"'^ ^- "--^^ ^ -poster . ,.cal . „ IT 'T'" '" ''"""°"' ""'"'= "^''«'" "'""''"''^ '(> 'bs. during the period " It was ft the fall of '8, that he Hrst h.,d occasion to pres^ a bicycle into service, hi sole ob^t the betng to save tntte m reach.ng the outlyin, portions ot the city, where his ne;s assignme we " d scarcely any thought ben,gg,von to the utility of the machine as a means of°.ravel arod the down-.own dtstncts. Such a convenient conveyance did it prove to be, l,ovvever that it was w.th regret that the fall of snow, which put an end to cyclin .as witnessed by him tt wTh the advent of the spnng of '85, he soon found, after the ped.d and vault mounts'lud been learned, that the b.cyc.e svas perfec:,y practicable for use in the short rides of a half a dozen blocks or so m the bur.ness portion of the city. It was in covering such short distances that bis wheel has been chiefly ernp.oyed during the summer; and it is no exaggeration to say that his feet have better known the motion of pedaling than the more natural but slower and more laborious one of walking. Ot,t of the 22. days, there were only 30 when he failed to ride; and the 2, days when ram caused this failure were distribttted thus: May, 4 ; Aug., 2: Sept.. 5: Oct., 5; Nov., 5. H,s only long tnp was 90 m. to Arcadia, though rides of ,0 m., to Manchester and Baldwin, were sometimes ,r,ade several times a week The estimate of 4679 m. is gained from multiplying .9, ridmg days by 24jm., since this wftsihr. .vpra^,^: —u,:,,.. , , ,„ . could be ascertained. It should be remembered that though fully j ofi'his'dista-nce w=;rtrverse"d STAT/ST/CS FRO.Xf THE VETEPANS. 529 on the granite streets, more or les, wet and treacheroa, and without bell or larap on the bicycle the colhs,on5 w.th pedestrians were bnt three, and they occurred in dayiight, wh.ie the coililni wuh velMcles were but two. and all 5 cases were without damage to any one. The mischief .lone by horses being frightened amounted to nothing, not even a piece of harness l.av.ng been oro.en. buch a record ought to instruct those few misguided wheelmen who second the effort. of Ignorant law-makers in regard to ' compulsory use of bells and lan.ps. ' It seems remarkable .hat the delicate frame-wurk of so fragile a piece of machinery has stood the wear and tear of so many days use; and the fact ought to silence forever the objection that the bicycl« was made only for pleasure-riding in the country or on smooth boulevards. The streets of St l-ouis are paved w.th square granite blocks, but, although the system has been well extended through the commercial parts of the city, it would be dallying w.th the truth to say that the sur- face IS not rough. A .ew other people in the world may have ridden further in 7 mos.' time but u IS doubtful .f they have done a, much as Mr. Hick, in threading crowded streets, turning sharp corners, crossing slippery car-tracks, and getting out of the entanglements which nearly every day of cty nding makes startlingly new and numerous." Two letters of mine, asking about cyclom. and other details, have brought no answer. The distance of ,46 m. without dismount was made in ,4 h. .7 min., at Chicago, beginning a. lo P. M. Aug. .1, '85. by John W. Ball (b. Sep,. 30, .866), who rode 3. m. in the first a h.' and whose additional mileage for the remaining .2 was as follows: ,, .4 ; 2, ,4 ; 3, ,0 ; 4 ,0; 5.io; 6,8; 7,7; 8 6; 9,9; 10,8; ,.,7; ,2 (17 min.), ,,. I copy these fit-ures from' his let! ter to me of Jan. 8, 86, which says: " I started from Rosalie Villa, the club headquarters and was accompamed all the while by one or more members of the Owl B. C. We rode s to the Boulevard, w. on this to the park, n. on Drexel Boul. to 39th St., and returned by same route to starting point. The course was shown as 8 m. by several cycloms. (mine being a Butcher, which I consider absolutely correct), and I went over it, again and again, with the intention of doinc at least .00 m. without dismount. Of the 4 stops which 1 made for refreshment, the longest l....ed a minute, when I leaned against a lam,vpost. My wheel was a ,2 in. Columbia lighw roadster, and my mileage was checked every hour. We were accompanied at the start by Ralph fnb.rg, who intended to lower the 24 h. professional record, but withdrew at the end of 50 ra because of cramps in the stomach. I learned to ride in '77. a 3J in. Otto ; had a 44 in Premier ." 79, and a 48 m. Standard Columbia for a short time in '8. ; did no more riding till the spring of 85, when I got a 52 in. Expert, and covered over 2000 m. before the year ended. Loneest' straightaway tour. Chicago to Bloomington, .26 m.; longest straightaway stay in saddle, .2 m : longest stay previous to the ,46 m. ride, 48 m." Other notable road-riding in that city was pro- moted in -83 (by a club called the Hermes, which was among those lately absorbed into the Chi- T'v f ■ h' ^J '!!' "*"■ °^ ^ ^°''' '""''='' ^°' ">= '''^Sest mileage made in J year, and this was wo.». by t-dward K Sharp, with a record of 2725; H. D. Higinbotham being second, with 24,2. the race began Sept. 29, wit.. ..early every member of the club competing " ^IVIuel Feb .8 S4). " but most of them dropped out before the first month ended, and the record on Oct 28. stood : H. M. Higinbotham, 4S0 ; H. D. Higinbotham, 460; E. F. Sharp, 450; M. D Hull 300. The second month's milea-e of the same men, with their totals, Nov. 28, stood thus- 620. I. .00); 950 (.4.0); 900(1550); 73o (,oSo). During the month ending Dec. 28, Sharp mad. 1375. to H. D. Higinbotham's ,22, and there were no other competitors." Krar.k P. Symonds, president of the b. c. at Salem, Mass., thus reports to me, Dec 14 '85- Regarding cyclometers, I have had one good McDonnell out of three. It was accurate • the others were not. My Butcher was accurate but faulty. First, I lost ray weight. Next the figured part of the cyclom. broke off. Third, the small screws came out and I lost the lower part from the upper. This was Oct. ., when the registry for .68 days in '85 stood at 2295 m Keepmg account of trips after that, I reckon my whole year's mileage to exceed 3000 I rode a 5J in. Expert. McDonnell cyclom. accredited me with 2845 m. in '84; and I kept no record c"'?J _*'^.''"w''"'°"'/"^"^: "^°'' °^ my riding has been about business." John V. ' "=•-"•" ■^■-■- -■">" =5. :i5i/, apr.ai,uai.i»i at Greensburg, Pa., since June, '80, thus reports Jan. 6, 86: "I learned to ride the old bone-shaker, and I first mounted the modern bi. at I S30 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. PittsburR in '79. "<■ perhaps V Boushf my fim wheel, a 56 in. Kxpert. in July, 'R,, . „d ^-^ it in '8j to buy a $•* in. I rcKie abio.i5." Charles 1 ar-ley (h. May 31, .856). a book-ketper'at Toronto " learned to ride Nov.. '.Si. On t>ec »5, v n« ir, had my first ' long ' ride of 10 m., taking nearly 3 h. to accomplish the t. -l.. »n , ^3 went at riding in earnest, and liefore close of season had taken one strai,. . v. v , , a..aCcompanied, of say 250 m., as well as several all-day trips, the tot.-il for sr- «m. x;ing not less than 1000 m. In '84, I was as enthusiastic as ever and covered fully 150.. including another tour of nearly 300 m. In '85, still more fasci- nated, and determined to eclipse previoiLS season ; completed 1800 m. including a tour of 325 m., whereof 300 was ridden in 5 d.iys .igainst a heavy September wind. On all tours I carried cv- dom., which proved as true as expected, the variati;... ixiw.'n it .nc". mileage as reported along the road not being of any acctmnt in a d.iy's r In May, '84, I r.-lei/m. straightawav without dismount, from Port Hope to within a couple of miles of Brighton. Have not specially undert.iken any long .ill-day rides,— my best being 70 m , though I've done th.it several times My wheel is a 54 in." (see p. 316), L. B. Craves (b. Aug. 8, 1S53), C, T. C. consul .it Minne- apolis, began riding in May, '82, and roughly estimates his total mil -age at 7500, divided thus by years : 1500, 2000, 2500, and 1500, the last only being in Minnesota. His machines have been 54 in. Star (2), 51 in. Sanspareil, 54 in. Rucker and 54 in. Yale (see pp. 114, nq, 324). F. A. KIwell (b. Nov. 7, 185S), manager of Down East and Bermuda tours (see pp. 257, 353 1, beg.in to ride in the spring of '81, and names 9000 as probable mileage. A. B. Barkman (b. Dec. 29, 1S59), compiler of the " Road Book of Long Island, 1886," says : " I do very little night riding, and have not yet covered 100 m. by daylight, though coming pretty near it more than once. 1 'm certain I 've explored more than 1000 m. of separate roadway, and can com- pute 250 m. of it on Ix5ng Island alone. I 've often made the run from the club rooms, 3^,^ Livingston St., to the cathedral at Garden City, in 2} h, and have ridden to Syosset in 3 h. 2c'min. From 9 to 10 ni. per h. is my touring gait, on a good road." Winslow T. Williams (b. F-b. i, 1863), League representative at Yantic, Ct., has ridden a 56 in. nickeled Expert, from '80 to 'ib, 5060 m., as measured by McDonnell and Butcher cv-clometers. E. P. Bumham, of Newton, well known as a racing man, reported to the Bi. lVor/d(Dec. 26, '84) a mileage of 3095 in 'sj and 3000 in '84, whereof 940 belonged to last two months, and 1140 to the tricycle. My appeal to him for '85 record has gone unanswered, as also my letter of enquiry to Percy Beltison, of Ix)uisville, who was said to have a cyclom. record of 4000 m. for the last 10 mos. of '.84. An October paragraph, in regard to Joseph Pernell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, his wife, authors of "A Tricycling Pilgrimage to Canterbury," and formerly re!=idents of Philadelphia, .said they "lately returned to London from a journey of 2000 m. on their Humber tandem, through France and Switzerland to North Italy and back." Quite as significant also is the tri- cycling score of 5957 m. made in '85 by a trio of less-adventurous American ladies, whrse husbands wheeled 9289 m. in the same interval, jo that the total ytar's mileage of these six "Orange Wanderers" reached the rather imposing figure of 15,246. The wheeling biocraphy of the most widely-known member of this club, L. H. Johnson (b. 1859), has been given on p. 508, which shows that in '85 he m.ide 2245 m. on the bi. and 1930m. on the three-wheeler. Mrs. J. rode 1776m. on the tandem and 210m. on the single tri. (total, 1986m.), and I believe this comprised considerable touring with her husband in England and Wales. H. C. Douglas rode 2454 m. , and Mrs. D. 2276 m. , all on a tandem tri. ,— and this is probably the largest year's mileage record yet made in America by a lady, or by man and wife together. L. H. Porter's bicycling was 1312 m. and tric^-cling 1348 m. (total, 2660m.); while Mrs. P. rode 1255 m "" the tandem and 439 tn- on the single tri., making a total of 1694 m., though this was herf^rst season as a cy- cler. The averages are 3096 m. for the men ; 1985 m. for their wives ; 5082 m. for each married pair, and 2541 m. for each individual. Statistics of such pleasant "Orange wanderings" as these have an evident tendencw however, to malce the hr.rh?»!nr r.nnir.:!i-r 1:1.-^ =t h.-srf • =-.-^ ^ir.. rather than print any more of them, I '11 put a stop to this chapter, right here ! XXXII. BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. Great Britain possesses at least a quarter-of a-million wheelmen. In- (iec(., some guessers insist that the real number is twice as large, though I am not aware that any attei.ipt has been made at a careful estimate. Yet onlv two dozen of this vast multitude have consented to answer my call for personal statistics. Hence, while some of these seem very remarkable, I do not pre- tend to assume that a still more extraordinary lot might not be collected in that country,— if the collector were powerful enough to get hold of every privately-kept wheeling record which is now hidden there. I simply assert that I got hold of all I could, and that I print all I got hold of. I offer these fij^ures for just what they are worth in each individual case, and I hope no writer in the Knglish press will be so unfair as to make sneering or censorious remarks against any of my contributors. Those whose records are small are by no means trying to pose before the American public as distinguished long- distance riders. My invitation was to aU foreign wheelmen of a statistical turn of mind, that they favor me with a summary of their personal memoianda. "The average man" is just as heartily welcome to a place in this chapter as the rvceptional man. I am grateful to all who have consented to stand here, l)iit the degree of my gratitude to each is measured by the amount of trouble which he may have e.xpended in supplying mt v.-ith his personal story, and not by the amount of miles included in it, nor by the amount of interest it may presumably have to readers in England. My introduction to the previous chapter applies in good part to the present also, and s d be carefully con- sidered by whomsoever the impulse seizes to say somc.ning satirical about any of the men mentioned here. ri.e first place in this group seems properly to belong to the only man I ever heard of as having an authentic year's record of .0,000 m. on a bicjcle. This is E. Tegetmeier, a member <.t the lielsize B. C. and a resident of the Finchley suburb of London, whose report to me (May 3, S4) IS dated at the office of the J^iM, 346 Strand. I infer that he is a regular writer for that paper, and assume that he is about 30 years old ; and I have somewhere seen the printed state- ment that h,s father is also an enthusiastic cycler : " From a wheelman's point of view En- gland may be regarded as possessing unequaled facilities for locomotion. Scarcely a mile of o umry b.t .s mtersected by a road of some kind, and although many are what we here call b.i(i, few m their normal condition are unridah: With these advantages, English riders are nnl only able to show better results, as far as distances go. than those less favorably situated, but they derive a degree of pleasure from the pursuit commensurate with thr smoothness of the rracls ihey travel upon. During '83, I was enabled to devote considerable time to bicycling and th.s may account for my riding a distance aboir three ti.nes greater than mv nrevions v!.,r1„ ..c.^ue. i.,ving near l.onaon,-about 7 m. due n. of Charing Cross,-! am fairly well situated tor nding. In going out for a day's run t generally take a northerly course, as by that means I I 532 /7:X THOUSAXD MILES OX A BICYCLE. I »m «>one»I -K (he rouKh granite roadi which surround the metro,H>li, f„r a r»Hiu. r.r .nor „ The greater part of the dlMance ridden lant year wa. made up by day run,, ou, an« home .,th„ul when I had a few .lays leisure, I womM g« ai,d .tay down in Bedfordshire, where thrrr \,' %»mt of the IxM road, .n the country, and ride about in all direction,. My l„ngeM d.y" (.:« m.) wa, from KmtlUey to Norman Cro«,. Hantingdon,hire, and back, with deviatw',,,,' Z .t occupied, with stoppage,, .o h. Wh.n traveling by main roads, the distance, are re.i.1,1.; [v,l covered, when not known, by reference to an interesting old b.x,k called * Paterson's K,iH • When lh„ fa.ls me, I mea-,ure the distance with _ • Weale.nefna' or ordnance or o,h-r lar.r «;.,le maps. My lo.tgest month's score wa, rj^j m. and the best week's record wa. 1 ,|,i„k' 45'y n,., rtdden m Nov. Although much of my distance was covered ,m Hertfordshire '.nnd Iw' fordsh.re roads, I made many excursions in other direction,, such a. Leicester. ,00 m ■ l,,,w,ch' 70 m,; Eastbourne 75 m.; H.rmmgham. ,.0 m., Karrtngdon. 75 m.; Coventry, 90 'm I ich' field .io m.; and Lly, 80 m.. returning in each case, often by a circuitous rou.e In a four days tour at Kaster, through Kent and along the south coast, ,40 m. were ridden The princi pal tour was undertaken in Sept., with three other -nembe^s of the Belsize B. C and .>cc,.n,„l' nearly three weeks. Crossn.g ,0 Antwerp and traveling by tram to Basle, in Switzerland w. rode throngl, some of the most picturesque scenery and traversed the Furca Pav<, 8co., f, hi.h On our return to liasle. we had covered nearly 5». m. of new ground. My total distance f„r th.yearm.'ud.s.5runsof .om.or under; but for these, the average length of each rule would exceed 46 m. fhe d.stance Iso comprises aa rides of ,o„ m. and upward, (an.nnnting altogether to 2373 m.) and 35 rides of 80 m, and over. About 80.x, m were ridde- n , ,, b,cycle,-a 5^ in. Matchless. During the whole year, I only met with two m^ . bnt'in netthe. cnse d,d an^ harm result. The first wa^ oy over-running the machine of a c,m„',ani„ owing to hi, puil..;c up suddenly to avoid a r c-monstrative native in Switzerland Ih,- second time f was unhorsed occur, cd near Londo, , and came of my encountering in the dark a l.uee l-.mp of coal. ne^Iiscntly dropped tn„^. a cart. My score of ,0,053 m. in '83 represented ,30 riding day,, giving 44 m as the average ride. In the following summary by months, the sue ce. .IS shown in the following story, dated iay 7 total number of m. traversed up to April, * ' s srparate road in a year, should say abou. 4500 in Miii-age by years, and longest rides, thus . ■at the 1030 m. ridden during the first half A native of London, and now a resident ')k his B. A. degree at Oxford (New Col- -f years ending then he wheeled 20,898 m., " I learned to ride in April, '77, and the Separatemilesof roadway, 15,150. Most '81. First lonr 'ide, too m., May j6, '77. '77. ic'>g, 115; '7*^. 5'4o, las; '79,6061, 105; '80, >~ST^, 140; '81, 8605, 140; 'Hi, 8700, 201 ; '83, 8380, 184. Have been into all the counties of KiiRland en bicycle, and know Sussex, Surrev, Middlesex, Herts, Uerks, Oxfordshire, Bucks, Hants and Worcestershire well. Have never ridden on Continent, nor in Wales, nor Ireland! My '83 mileage was chiefly done by riding from Croydon to Brighton (46 m.) on .Saturday afternoons and wheeling back early -jn the fol.'jwing Mondays, starting generally about 5 K. M. Furthermore, the fart that I do all my jou- .leys on bicycle, and also use my bicycle in all sorts of every-day pursuits, to save walking, -mtributes very largely to the amount. Longest day's ride in '84 was on a tricycle : 1S4 m. in 22J h. Longest ever done straightaway, 201 m., London to York, in '82 ; time, 21 h. 43 min. Longest stay in saddle, 70 m. in 6^ h. Longest I ar. Croydon to f.dinburgh and back, by the lake district to Exeter and thence to London iibout 1300 m.), measured by Thompson's cyclom. and checked by the ' Wealemefna ' on the orrliiance map. Percentage of night riding about 50, as I am in the City during the day. When I give 1300 m. as the length of my '83 tour, I don't mean that I went straight on all the while. I merely rode during the long vacation, from one place to another, to visit friends, for I use the bicvcle as a means of locomotion, and not merely for sport. My best performances, if I may mention what have been said to be my best, are I think the following: I^ndon B. C. I'ace, liaih to London (100 m.), 3d in '81 (7 h. 58 min.), ist in '82 (7 h. 26 min.) and 1st in '83 (7 h! 28 min.). lalso won the a m. race for Oxford University, at Cambridge, in 6 min. i} sec, which was prett. ist then, though nothing now. On June 29, '82, I rode from London to York, 200 m in 2iih., though the wind was adverse all day. Have got 'time medals' at the 50 m. chai.ipionships of the National Cyclists' Union 'of who^e executive I have been a member 3 years), lamely 2.47-52 and 2.48.16. Have not had much success in handicap racing, having only twice w( n an open handicap. Won championship of Brighton ^n '82. Started in '83 in 24 h. iri. rrce, without any intention of racing for first place, being quite unused to the tricycle, and gni a golt medal for Ao'r .< 176 m. (not counting 8 or 9 lost by misdirection) in 22} h. Dunn? llie last 7 year- I have • ,„n altogether about 20 nrizes." A postscript of July 9 added : " If you print the lor^-oing, I must request you to lay much stress upon the fact that neariy all my bicy- cling is c .nt a .. e„ns of locomotion,— simply to avoid walking or to save cab 01 railway fares. 1 do not wish to appear as one whose sole occupa'tlon is riding a bicycle, for I have my living to earn (I am a s'>licitor), and the circulation of „uch a report as that might injure me. It is, of course, very far from being the case. In fact, out of 600 m. I rode last month not 50 were . idden i eiy f ,r the sal. i amusement, and the whole was out of office hours, which are 10 a. m. to 5 P. M. Furthermore. I am by nu means a man with only one hobby. I have taken 3 or 4 prizes :it school and college (for examinations in classics, history, and the like) to every one pri^e I have laken at athletics ; I hive also won prizes at ice-skating, lawn-tennis, and running. I very often ride my bicycle merely to get to the lawn-tennis grounds. Another reason, besides the one I mrntioned above for my wishing to give prominence to the fact that I dcm't ride the bicycle much mfrply frir t}!e2£'_ire. !■-: thiF. : I wnr.t thr- n:-.K1-t.~ t.-. -;-.-.v-.--;-. :- \.\ : -,„^ ._.'- _:,.- ' z saving time and trouble ; as useful instruments, and not as toys. At present they are still too w I I' 534 r^.V THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. apt lo regard them in this latter light." OMting accepted my reports from both these long^iis. taiice men, as worthy of insertion in its columns, Aug., '84, pp. 394-396. " Kaod " is perhaps ilie best-known signature of I'lo manv used in the cycling press bv Arthur J. Wilson ^b. Keu. 17, 1858), vice-president of the ISorth ...ndon Tricycling Club, wlm«! wheeling record, 'S3 to '85, was 19,388 in., and rei)rcsented c.Hluor riding on loji of the ,„j, days iiicliulcd in the three years,— the exceptional 75 days beloiignig to '84. The rea,., wuniici- ful thing about the matter is that all this should have been accomplished without acci'dei, 1,,'^a man who is handicapped with a moU disheartening b«!ily intirinity ; for t lie name (which he earliest signed, in his 21st year, to a i)aro.ly in th- American BuylingJour,i,i/j ^i^mW,:^ that ihL rifier is totally deaf. His first letter to me (March 19, '84) reads thus : " My '83 rccrd i^ not at all noticeable for the mere distance tr.iversed, but rather on account of no sinj^le day ui the year being missed, proving the eminent :^ractic:'.biliiy of the tricycle. Kvery dayl whtded on the road, no matter what the weather ; and as 1 was for the first six months engaged all day at my business i\A>od engraving), I considered this worthy of publication. During my previous years' cycling experiences, I oaly kept record of distances in '80, when 1 rode about ,4.x) 111. „„ bicycles. It is impos ible to guess at my tibial mileage, so I will not try , on', if you desire to obtain a representative recoid of long-distatice bicycliirg, I should recommend you to refer to Mes^r, Reynolds or I'egetmeier, who have some very big annual totals. Keeping records is not vcy txte.-Mvely practiced in this country, and 1 could n,)t get wUhin thousands of m. of iny i.,t ,| bicychng and tricycling experiences, either in the aggregate or -.s regards distinct m. The laucr would be small in proportion to the t(;tal, as 1 have seldom toured far from home,-to KdinburL-l, and (llasgow being the only occasion upon which I went more than 150 m away. Of cours.. even in such a re«ricted radius, there are so many th.rusands of m. of roads in i;n..^laiid ihaj there is plenty of variety. Still, my habits are not of an exploring nature, but I ridLMlie saine roads over and over again. My longest day's straightaway was ,18 m., from my hoas- 1, .re to a friend's house in Dorsetshire. 1 've also done ,;;5 m. straightaway. My jiher 'centuries' « ,e 104 m., out-aiul-home on a sociable with a la where. My hill-ciimbing feats on hi|;h-geared tricycles have been due principally to ' t'liniun- It over as I go along,' and determination. When on a aay's journev, 1 fre(,uentl" walk up ve-v eas> h;lls simply because I happen to feel lazy. In a word, 1 ride for pleasure, no't for records " I urther enquiries of mine brought these other deta.is (April .4) : " liy a very cursory measure- r.ient of my map of I'.rna.n, 1 guess I have ridden over about 4000 distinct m. of grou- 1 in- cluding perhaps nearly 2000 within 20 m. of the center of London ! Our oids .-e so numerous, you see, compared with yours, that we can ride many thou.sands of distinct m. within r. jry sniali =Tea. With the exc.-ption of the tour to ErWiburgh, all my ridin- has been within .401,, of London I And slill there >re numberless places close at home v,-hich I have yet to visit ; and still the old familiar roads are ever attractive! Since last June, I 've been compelled to relin- quish wood.eng.avmg entirely, it was so hanr.ful to .ny eyesight ; and, if I had £y^ to spar,-, I would take a .2 months' tour ihrough Creat Riita'n. I believe I could cover .8.000 n. in the year, with pleasure and healthful enjoyment Sr.ch a journey would afford material for a very interesting book, I imagine ; but publishers here are not liberal enough to make it worth while. ' He seems, in fact, to hav- mnd it more profitabl; to describ- an imaginary "Journev through Cvrlnnia," which is the title .,.' an octavo of ..x, page.,, issued in \:<-c'. '85, as the "Christmas numlxf ot the '>//,■/," and which contains two or three likenesses of himself among Its many pictures and portraits. The work spent upon a similar b<«k, called "Our ,t' 1 BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 53S l amp," which served as the same paper's Christmas number in '84, was probably more remu- nerative also tlian that >;iveii to the actual "camp," at the Alexandra Halace grounds, a few inimthh earlier. 'Ihe joint-author with him in the production of both these annuals was A. (1. Moriisontb. i860), a member of the same tri. club, who uses the signature " Tilajiambungo," an.l the illustrations were supplied by U. Moore. In a printed analysis of his '84 tricycling, Mr. \S . says: "Owing to three successive accidents on the race-path, 1 was laid vp for several weeks during the best part of the summer, so that my mileage for May, June, July and Aug. ..,i» only 1510, as compared with 3189 for Mar., Apr., Sept. and Oct., and 1645 for Jan., Feb. .Nov and l)ec. Mileage of machines ridden was as follows: Tandems, geared to 57 in. and 64 ill., 1O14; (Juadratit, geared to 60 in., 1497; Kotary, geared to 58 in., 1361; ImperiaKlub, seared to u in., i;;! ; sociables geared to between 37 in. and 60 in., 476 ; Humber patiern, ijeared to between 52 in. and 60 in., 454; various, geared to be'ween 32 in. and 61 in., 371. Uiiigest day's mileages : 116, 131, 151, 154, and i6j." His report for '85 s^ys : " I rode the Quadrant tricycle, 4510 m.; tandom-s 1030; Rover safety bicycles, 1079; various machines, 402 ; Lilt though 1 did some wheeling in the open air on each of the 365 days, the same as in '83, it «as not all restricted to tricycles as then. Short-distance racing reduced my road ri- •■ 30- 3'-' 30. 3i- 3>- ■ 30-' ■ 3>- • 30- • 3'- 3f>5- 51S.. 537-- 529.. 822.. 426.. r>59.. 6or .. 407. . 36. . 10 48. . SJ 60. •>4 54- •'7 49- •■7i S3- ..7i 125. .24 79- ....i 70. ■7i .28. .21 48. 20 45- •13 128. .i6j 1 22... 29... 31.., 27... 30. .. 8... 21. .. 21. .. 27... 26. 18. 340. . 475... 969... 632.., 735-- 155... 256... 364 . . . 563... 1005 . . . 548... 282..-. ■• 35- . . 40. .,131. ■ «54- ,.82. .. 34. ..28. ..42. ..64. •••■5i . ..i6j ...31 ...24 ...24i ...19 •■7 ■32 3i- 28.. 3t- 30.. 3'-- 30.. 291 . .63^4- . 91. • 34- . 162 . 3'- 30. 3'- 30- 3' 365- • 390-" . 44S.... . 84/.... . 832 ... ■ 11^4.... ■ 43'' . 482.... . 495.... ■ 597---- . 64?.... . 291.... ■ 394 29. 66. 79- 82. . 702 1 . .107. .128. • 47- . 42. • S** • 49- ■ 33- • 35- .128. .<2j .lb 27 28 37i •■4i •5* 16 .20 .21 . 10 •'3 ■>9i "The mosi wonderful bicycle trip yet done " (CytVii/), " the greatest road-record in Kn- t:lind " {Wheeling), was that of 2054 m. taken during the first 19 days oi June, 'S5, by H. K. (iiKKiwin (b. Oct. 2!, 1S55), a wholesale jeweler, at Manchester, where he has been engaged ?.iiue '68 in the self-same shop, — No. 6 .Swan st. His business begins at 9 A. M. and lasts 12 h (14 h on Saturdays), and he personally attends to it for 67 h. each week, absenting himself Wednesday afternoons only. He takes a fortnight':; vacation, in the autumn, but his other h ili (lavs of the year do not exceed a week when combined. In the face of this cl_.se confinement lor 49 weeks out of the 52, he would not be picked out, off hand, as a probable long-distance ti -Si iJ "Mi ■m S36 tejV thousand miles on a bicycle. rider ; and the fact of his having nevertheless wheeled 30.000 m. durinR the las. 5! year, ou.lu .0 teac. people not to draw hasty inferences, from the large records of other men, th„ ^ f I mhers spend so nmcl, of their time in the saddle as .0 neglect the more serious duties of .f" H.S case is an excellent illustration of the economy of bicycling, as compared with other ra^ times for a man who*, leisure is limited. " Locked up here, much like a caged bird - h.' says, I saw I must have some sort of exercise; and. a:. I am kept out of other spor'ts b their happemng mostly on Saturdays. I resolved to lean. the. bicycle." Further quotations ir given from his letters to me of March 28, April 27, Julv .9 and Dec. j, '85 • "I ^m , f, in. high, and nde a 48 in. ordinary bi., anH. also a 3« in. Facile. In a general way' my PN\vv grass, the macl-'ic used being my old 54 in. Challenge, weighing 56 lbs, with ij in. rtibber on driving-wheel. Vh<: pri/es were filver cups, valued at ;{^i2 12s. and /'f. 6s. Of course this put me on mymetr.:, Tul I again tried my luck at the Whitmonday sports, at L>nn, but, being put next to scra.ch, did not get anything. During the season I ran at several meetings in Norfolk and Lincolnshire, m il !! i ifti II 538 T£.V THOUSAXD MILES OX A BICYCLE. with varying success, my most no.able win being in the annual inter^oun.y race between N,. «.cl., 45i m. 1 was at the last moment asked to go as one of the Norfolk team Ii,i. ^ o- f co,mu,on and not know,„g the road. 1 thought 1 should stand no chance, but I mana.'d to r tn first o the Norfolk team and third in the race.-being beaten by Vopplewell, of « xl L ; mm., and Oxborrow of the same place, by .^ mtn. My tm.e was 3 h ; min. Th ne da rode r.gh, ho.ne, a distance of S7 n,.,-my longest ride in one day. iJuring the se^ J. I « first . second and a thnd pn.es and rode 0.,, m. ,n '.., I „lved .0 D.lcki Tn IXu and rode during the year no less than 730. m. 1 this year used a 55 in. Sandrineh n, mad pecully for me by Cox. of Lym, and a splendid machine it was a. that time. M y os '^ L' rides tliKs year were : Docking .0 Di.ss, 6, m. in 5 h., Apr. .; ; Ipswich to D-.k ; 8 .01 h.. Apr. ,, (strong head w:nd). and Docking to Pe.erbo.o and back, ..; „,. Jn.'.e ■ , first time I ever rode as much as .00 m. in a day. I took during the year ; ,1 st, ;i.. „ Z, third prizes. sailed Sep. ., for Canada, where I spent the win,er,'retnrning ome in , , and back I was only able to use one arm, having a short time before put my wrist out by 1. ■ng off of my machine, besides medal in r.icile race, I took „ first prizes, , s co, d i ' lird ; also championship of the Fakenham K C, for ., m. in 4Si mi'n. ,\1, of y ' this ear I ran from scratch. In ',, I moved to Long Sutton, and rode „:s4 ".., .aKin^ - " and « second prizes and a gold medal. This brought my number of priz s up to 53 l/j he season I rode „.i m. in four .4 h. rides thus : Jnne .3. ..;2 ni., in the Fa"e r I could have increase^ this to .30 m., if I had known where Adams was. Jnlv 7. in the t'i vcl r f ;. ' ' 1 °" '"■■ " '"■ '" '^y •""• '"' "'"^ '' h. record, and although i, r.uned .of 1. day, aiid a strong wind was blowing, , succeeded in doing .3.! m., thus'asily b ' h t on r r "?"" "t '' ''"^■"■'-■'■' "' ''^"'« ^'''^' '" '" '""- "■«^- '-"- circu,„sL,ces, hat, on Aug. ,7, I made another attempt, and by midnight had ridden 255^ m. Aftei this ride announced my intention of retiring from the racing path, but the old love being so string in' ^4. I couk not resist the invitation to race again ; and, entering for four events at the Wi.b.ch e n « w ' -cond pnz.s ; also a medal in the ,«, m. Kangaroo race. My whole mile g m S was 4. o. On Whitmonday, -85, I won . ni. and 3 m. races from scratch ,u ,l,c ong Siitton Cricket Cub sports, thus raising my number of prizes to ... I now ride ,. light 5. 1 Sandrinsham and I keep by me my old 5. in. Sandrineham, which is still as good as n. v Although It has been ndden by my brother and myself over 30,000 m. it has had only one set „f th Mime "d I r '!"' ""''"' "" '''"'"' '^'"^ '"■■ '"••"«'> ' '='" "'' --••<^- ^ "'-e of - he tim , and I think they were turned once. The present tires will serve for tnanv m n,„re ^ vn i ""m'",'" , " "^ '" '•''' ^-'"- '^^' """■'^■^'' ' ""^^^ '" P- '" ^ Sood score bef-re ,:iirT. ?■ "-\'?'^V' r ^ """ =-^'^"- ^'^-^^ ^^--^^ --' => cyclometerwlnci, I could depend upon. I Ve kept the record from my knowledge of roads near home, and fr.in maps and county directories, supplemented by enquiries made while riding. Mo., of our hieh- ways have m. stones on them, and whenever there's been anv doubt about distances, I 've put down he owest one; so that I 'm sure, in fact, of having traveled manv more m. than rc- ,.1 1 1 "" """ "^ '»^'P--'^'-"e '"iles,' but my rides have embraced most of the principal roads in eastern, southern and central England " -The Haverstock Cycling Club are essentially a road-riding club," says jrA.e/i,,^, "and ..> we, be proud o their prowess in piling up distances." The sub-captain of iha, club. Mary J. Jones (b. .May 2. ,HC.,X rode ,6,oi6 m. during the 3 vears ending with "une, 'S,, ..nci no less ,l,an ,5,;; m. of this was separate roadway. The riding davs were 55S, showing nn average rule of .SJ m. Riding d.ivs, mile.age, longest ride, average' ride, and fresh ro.ul , f each year, are shown by the following figures : 'Sz, 37, .o.z, 65. .7, 3,9* ; '83. aoz. 50ZZ}, .... BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 539 -Mj.SS'ji; '84,287, 824ii,207j,j9, 1630; '85,32, 1740, i43,S4i, 74». It will be seen that the i»() years, 'S3-'S4, show a mileage of 13,264, as compared with 2852 of the two half-years cmbined. The rider's reports to me (Jan. and July, '85; are as follows: "I use the bicy- cit; to save walking whenever possible, both for journeying to busniess and fur various every. n, having the best roads in England. I also know liucks, Herts, Middle, ^ix, Nd.il. April 13, 'S3, to Wandsford and back, 162 m., winning a much-coveted prize, an old book called ' Paterson's Roads,' offered by Mr. Hayes for the greatest distance out-and-in 1)11 tlie Oreat North Road. I took the attendance prize as well, by covering 1536J m. in the 32 consecutive runs, which included the excursions to Ipswich, Lewes, and Portsmouth, and the two 15 -ni. competitions. Ilearned to ride in June, '82, and in Sept. took train to Lincoln, and wlueled bnck to London, 126 m, in aj days. This first ride in Lincolnshire was not a success; iv ' -i' ^^ all control on the dangerous hill at Wellingore, I fell on my head and back, breaking otT tl:r siddle as well. This, the blacksmith at Leadenham fastened on with wire, but the last 10 m. of my journey home was accomplished by means of string. First long ride (undertaken to top the 'century') 'vas on April 13, '83, to Wansford and back, 162 m., in igj h. My pre- vious best was 69 m. Longest stay in saddle, 39 m. in 3J h. I have kept a record of all my riding from the first, with remarks on the scencrv, levels, surface, and anything else useful or iiilorestiiig, about any fresh road traversed. These details, sorted into counties, prove very useful for reference. My distances have been taken from ' Paterson's Roads,' and ordnance ni.ips, and by actual measurement. My 8241 m. of riding in '84 was all done on a 49 in. Rejsent '!>>■ J. Trigwell, a London maker), ball bearings all over, including head, which has been adjusted liut once. My previous wheels were 50 in, and 48 in., plain bearings. In the following iiioiithly tables for "83 and '84, the four columns of .uimerals respectively denote riding days "' 540 TEN THOUSAND MILES UN A BICYCLE. milease, lonRest ride ind average riding (if 'ii4, and tlu ixlh shows Jan., o o o Feb I 32 M ar. 17 sbjj 69 . 20 704 l()2 494 So April, M.i Ju"e y SS^'I '5S July. 19 4»2 i5oi Aug., Sept, Oct.,. Nov., Dec, '7 '3 22 10 57S ^u\ 4/' 122 31 22 Total 202 502.1 J 162 2«4Si i, .3,2f,4 Totals, 2S7 8241J " The n>ikaKc for the first half of '85 gives tl,e meager total of ,740, made up by ,8 runs ,m,. J 50 m , 7 others r.ot exceeding c,^ m. . and 7 over the century; fresh ground covered, 742 m ,.. 34 percent. My longest straightaway stay iu the saddle was 13J h. (June 28, 6 a. m to - P. M.), a lowering of 6} h. from my previous best. After starting fiom ho.n'-, I made mv first a' tempt at riding up the notorious West Hill (Highgate), and having conquered this l' kept o„ through Kp,,ing Creen, Hertford, Cax-on, Kllington, Thrapslon, and Kettering lo Hnn„;d (lieds), lofi m. without a dismount. I ;iftorwards wheeled enough to make the day's total ij, m. My loolh ni was completed at the ' second danger-board liill ' ascent at Wollaston ; and -1 m. had never been ridden by me bef..re. As 1 was not intending such a feat when I started' I carried no refreshment whatever. Alfred Hayes's challenge for a 4; m ride to Hedfoul was what inspired n.e to keep the saddle, after once getting well started ; and my doing ihe .06 m mduced h.m in turn to ride 70 m. without a dismount. The Great North Road is certainlv tlie best average cycling highway in Kngland. I estimate to have wheeled 2700 m. or it, an analv- sis of the number of my visits to various places along it showing as follows : 1 19 times to Harriet II m. from home ; 4.3 to Hatfield, 20 m.; 6 to Haldock, 37 m.; (30 to Hitchin, 34 m.); ,8 tn(;irt- ford, 48 m.: 8 to Katon-Socon, 55 m.; i, to Alconbury Hill, 68 m.; 2 to Stamford ;;nd Crantham .70 and no m.: 4 to Newark, 124 m.; i to Tuxford and Doncaster, 138 and 162 m. It may be observed that these visits seem somewhat erratic. A. g:, I 've turned at Stamford only half as many times as at Newark, which is 34 m. beyond. The London editor of the Cjr/is/ C W Nairn, often advises tourists for Biggleswade to go by way of Hitchin (which I 've put in parent thesis, to show that it 's off the road), rather than by way of fialdock, which is <7« the road Had weather accounts in part for decreased mileage of '85, and a bad fall at Easter accounts for tlie rest of it. This resulted from my striking a lump of wood, dropped from a cart, in the du^k while bounding down a steep hill, iu the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. For days afterwards! my left arm was bent at right anglei, and my right wrist powerless for lifting even aciip,-to say nothing of a strained left ankle, a thumb crushed open up to the nail, and a bump on the back of my head. I had a serious fall also in Aug., '84, in front of the Mansion House, dislocating mv left shoulder; but within a fortnight afterwards, I entered a 24 h. competition, and rode the far- Ihest (103 m.), with my arm in 3 .sling and through a pouring rain,— two friends helping me on and off at first. The bicycle was not to be blamed for either of my accidents, and it proved the best cure for both. Perhaps you had better not publish anything about them, lest thev be made to serve wrongfully as texts against the safety of cycling." Alfred Hayes (b. Dec. 9, 1S51), one of the founders of the Haverstock C. C.,and its first sec- retary, has a 9 years' mileage record of considerablv more than the 29,2 16. which is divided thus : '77.20001 '78. 2868; -70, 2080: '»0:2H,y. -8,, 282r,: -82,359- '83, 53,4; '84, 43,6; '85 (u, Aug. ,6). 2380. The monthly analysis of hi-, best year, 'S3 (riding davs, mileage and longest ridel, ■s as follows: Jan., 3,, 2.5, 40; Feb., 2S. 28S, 57 : Mar., 3., 557, 90; Apr., 3c, 487, .of,; Mav, ^i*:' BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 541 ;i, 707, ijo; June, 25, 511, 156; July, 8, 697, 173; Aug., 10, 67,S, 140; Sept., 7, 424, 100; Oct., 7, 31O, 9c; Nov., 8, iij, 50; Dec, 8, 261, 45. Uf the 224 days, 52 were Sundays, with a mile- njju of 36<>i, as compared to the iWij m. ridden on the other 172 days. On 7 cunseculive Sun- (l.i>s, he rede 907 m.,as shown by this extract from the Bi. ..V«ru/j (Sept. 21, 'Sj), which de- scribed the Aug. s trip in full : "July 22, i'tterborough and back, 164 ; July 29, Market-Dee|>- in;,' and back, 174; Aug. 5, .Ounstable, Ware, liiihop Stortford and Colchester, 105; Aug 12, St. Neots and back, 104 ; Aug. ly, liigglcswade, Cambridge, and Huntingdon ; returning through I'.ackden, 140; Aug. 26, IJedford, St. Neots, and Caxton ; returning through koyston and W.ire, i2o; Sept. 2, to the Rye House, thence to Hertford, Stevenage, Biggleswade, and Girt- fiird ; returning through Hitchin, 100." From his letters to me of Aug. 15, '84, and Aug. 18, '85, 1 tondense the following : " Like yourself, i learned to ride the woixlen bone-shaker in '69, and line always stuck to 46 in. as the proper size of wheel, ^ty first was an Ariel, and I 've been rilling regularly ever since I got it, in '75 ; though it was not until 1 superseded tlii:> by an Eclipse, ill '77, that 1 began to keep a record. -My riding, that year, reached just 2000 in., and was ru- tciriled in the first of the bicycle ainiuals wl.ich published a diary of such things. In '82 a Lon- don mak« named Pick built me what I then thought a beautiful little bicycle; and I 'm now able to say (Aug. iS, '85), aftrr about 15,000 m. of experience with it, that it 's the best one I ever had. Though I was born in London, my parents ire natives of Lincolnshire ; and that f.ict perhaps accounts in part for my rides being mostly confined to the Great North Koad. Tlis number of visits I 've made to places along it (with figures in parenthesis showing some of the ilist.inces from home) may be noted thus : Larnet (Sj), 275 ; Hatfield (17), 151 ; Welw7n (22), Ml ; (iirtford, 41; Tempsford, 25 ; Eaton-Socoii, 23 ; lUickden, 29; Alconbury (63), 28 ; Nor- ni.in's Cross (73), 1 -s ; Stamford (86), 8 ; (Iraiitliam, i ; Newark, 1. I 've thrice done the 73 m. Ill Norman's Cross, inside 6 h. 50 min.; and some < f my other long rides may be named thus : June 5, '81, Stamford, 86 m. in 8 h. 50 min.; July 2, '82, Stamford and back in 23} li.; July 16, 'f-i, Peterborough, 78 m, in ^\ h.; and July 29, '83, Market-Deeping and back, 176 m. in 23 li. I p to July 22, '84, my runs to one or the other of the three places last named numbered 14. My longest day's ride in '84 was 134 m.ani' in '85 (to Aug. 18), 150 m. During these two years 1 've made 40 trips to Hitchin (31 m. out), and 19 trips to Bedford (47 m.). My business is tint of leather-seller, which I manage sirgle handed ; but on Thursdays I shut up shop at 2, and KLiieially devote the rest of the day to the wheel. Sunday is the favorite time for it, however, fur then the roads are mostly deserted of traffic, and are not made muddy by the water carts. 1 "ve ridden every Sunday since Apr. 30, '82." (This last remark is dated Apr. 19, '1:5.) The hon. sec. of the Belsize B. C, R. P. Hampton Roberts, in yielding to iny repeatetl requests for a personal statement, without regard to whether the mileage were much or little, sujiplicd the following rejjort, July 20, '85 : " It inu.st be remembered that these figures are n;ily those of an ordinary rider, and the presentation of such particulars in minute, analytical form is made merely to meet your requireinent.s for complete information about a f.-.irly repre- sentative record of an average Englishman who wheels 2000 m a year. I bof^an in May, '77, «iiliout any preliminary experience on the bone-shaker, and rode pretty steadily to the end of Miy, '84, wh';n my total was 16,000 m. In June, I was compelled, under medical advice, to aban- d.ui bicycling 'for a season,' owing to illness (brought on, in a large measure, it is feared, by a somewhat injudicious indulgence in the fascinating but slighilj treacherous pastime) ; and tbough the medical veto has since been removed, that has not, so far, led to a resumption of riding on the old scale. My only trials of the wheel for a year past have been two rides in June, .imiiunting to 60 m. Out of rny total mileage (16,060), only about 320 m. have been covered by tiicycle, and over 3300 m. have not been repeated ; that is to say, the ground has only once been tr.iveledover; 880 m. were ridden in '77-'78, when unattached to any club; 2700 m. in attend- ing the regular club runs of the Belsi/.e B. C. on Saturday aftenioons, and nearly 1000 m. in attending the official tours of the same club, which t.ike place three times a year, though I did lilt attend all of these. A total of 1784 m. was covered in 16 rides of r-m m. or over in a day of 24 li., thus : '79, no; '81, 105 ; '82, 100, 104, 107, 113, 129, 130, 150; '83, 100, loi, 103, 104, 107, loS, 113. It may be observed of my longest day's ride (150 m.), that it was part of a crmtinuous 54a TEX THOUSAXU M/LES OX A BICYCLE. ride of 189m., of which the other 39 m. were ridden before the dav began. On tlii, pcca«i, made my longest stay in the saddle without a dismount, 4S m. 'Ihe longest diMa.ice r HH, " ' n.onih was S72 m. in Aug., '»i ; though I rode 864 m. in Aug., ',S2, and monthly toi ,'kV.l'iV' from 797 to 522 m. were made in 8 other mos., between 'Si and '83. I have made thr ' ''' tended tours o.,t of England. In 'S,, nearly 3 weeks in Normandy and iJnttanv w'ith u Blackweil, of the Canonbury B. C, when a total distmce of 696 m. was covered In 'v weeks IV,w .Sn'oke Carver, a 53 m. Humber and a jr, in. Rucker. Th.' Humbcr saw th. greatest s.-rvice ' .m r- than I. ,850 m., including the three tours abn.ao. Th, c!is anres here given I av been c ufu Iv measured on various maps, in most cases ,hc Ordnance Surrey ma,,s 01 r.nglaiul n. «,.ll as those of France and .Switzerland f ,r the ruH g d .ne in th<.se countries), and in nianve,.'. tlio distances have also been checked from thr st..ndarc' mad bo<,ks of Carv, Paterson ,uul Howard. In the following tabular viev of seven years' wheeling, the riding day^ and mile^ of each month are shown, w,th .\ colon sep-irating 'h- m. First, however, I give the aimual totaK with average ride and longest ride: 14:225, ,( , 50: 28:590, 21, 63 ; 48:1280, 27, no: 43:. .-'-6, 29(77; 94:3 ")o. 34, 105; 109:4610, 42, 150; 9 :., 458:16,000, 35, 150. Year. Jan. Feb. '77 '78. 1:5 •••• '79 '80 'Xi .'82. ''83. '84. Mar. Apr. :■? 3o7 ('-^'o 7:115 7:270 3:40 9:279 4:6s V.63 T-97 '1:194 13:69.) C :o4 10:407 f:i70 3:63 Mav. 2:15 3:.r,2 8:.'9S 6:230 i6:;22 ir:;63 8:340 6:.j8 June. 3:42 2:;o 6:117 7:245 10:331 9:402 15797 3:'25 July. 5 :^' 5:114 9:67 6:212 14:567 ■37'5 12:653 43. "3 ; 27:773, 29, 70. Aug. in: 43: Ciand tot.i!, 2:-3 , :222 7 : , 56 I9:S72 S,pt. 2 7i 4 73 1:20 9:320 22:864 11:474 11:654 '3--i5o Oct. 1:15 6 : ' 4 1 2:46 8:25 = 6:16, 9:342 X.,v. 1:6 5:154 3:40 4:150 7'iS; 1:43 4:^9 4:i-'4 j:62 7:227 39:983 51:1582 60:2476 55:20X9 64:2404 6^:2791 43 ■529 32:i,.,,6 20:5,5 9:256 The five principal score? made in '83 by members of his club were tabulated for the ^'•. A'm'shy Mr. R , who vouched for the distances being careiullj verific i. His own ranked fourth. The rest stood thus : E. Tegetmeier (see p. 53..), 10,053, of wliirli 2375 was in 22 runs, thus: 100, 104, 112, i2fi, 102, to2, 154, 115, 122, 105, 100, 103, loi, 107, 103, 102, 103, 103, 100, 102, 102, 105; \V. E. Milner, 554^, of which 1434 was in 13 runs: 130,125, 114,111,110, no, io<;, 108, loS, ro3, 102, 102, 102; Roland Revell, 4063, of which 523 -vas in 5 runs: roS, no, 102, loi, 10.1 ; J. Miln'-r, 4033, includinq; i nin of 112. W. E. Milner's riding was d'^i e on 140 days, making his average rido 39jm.; but his record for 51 Sundays was 335.., an a ..-r.ige of 65im., as compared with 2194 m, on the other 89 days. The only Sunday when he did no ^\ l.eeling was while riding jv/th his bicycle towards Swit:-rrland ; and his machine came to grief rn each of the tw,. Sundays when his score was less than . 6 m. His 13 best scores have a:r,.?ady been given ; and the remaining 48 Sunday rides, in 'he ord.: of their mileage, were a.s follows : 86, 82, 76, 75, 74, 70, 70, 08, 60, 60, 50, 57, 57, 51^, 55, 54, 5,, 50. 50, 5c, 40, 48. 45, 4',, 4A, 41- 40, 40, 3'^. 3'5, 3", 3"^. 37, 3,1, 32, 26. 18, 10. By months, his S^ndivs' m.leage and .avor.ige ride stood thus : Jan., ,76, 44: Feb.. 23., 57; Mar., 304, 7f> ; ■' >r , 406. 8. ; May, 29S 74: Jime, 339, '''4; Jily, 3S71 77; Aug., 406, loi; S.-pt., 220, 55; Oct., 226, 51..; Nov., 193, 4S ; Dec, I nRiriSH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 543 170, 34. niouRh J. M liner's longest scores were 111 and S4 m., his riding was confined to gj H.\y~, and v> made llic high averagf nf 43 ni , or only 1 m li'>i^ than K Tegetmeier's Roland KevL'll's 116 rides averaged 35 m. each, though he did no wheeling ':. Jan. and Feb. and only 24 ni. in Nov. The mileage of the 5 men during the \ year, .\pr. to Sept., may be thus com- p.ired : Tegetmeier, 57S9; W. E. Milner, 3720; Roljerts, 3301 ; Revell,3o64; J. Milner, 2411. Tlie 3691m. ridden by A. Hayes on 52 Sundays of '83 (p. 541) may be compared with the 3154 m. of W. K. Milner ; and with both may be compared the 2770 m. done in '83 on a 50 in. trirycle by M. K. f). James, who does not ride on Sundays. Evenings and Saturday afternoons m.irk the limits of most of his riding, though he had one run of io(j ni., and his iiO rides repre- .S'lited all the months, the mileage of the 12 standing thus : 21, 73, 212, 425, 372, 30), 31)0, 451, 1S7, 62, 22S, 40. Another non-.Sunday rider is J. S. Warburton, of the Surrey United B. C, whose 160 rides of '83, averaging 22 J rn. (longest, 101 J m.), were taken on a 53 in. Rucker, and made a total mileatje of 3^)03, distributed through the mouths as follows 1 9, 37, 292^, 2.S7, 491^, 4-'>3. 5»4i. 772J, 241, 205, 114J, 1S2. J. Rowe, of the Centaur B. C, also rcxlc every month of 'S3 (279 davs), doing 1 125 m. on the bi., and 2755 m. on the tri. (single and 'uciable), a total ol 4jSom. His wife accomi>anied him on the sociable for ii49in. of this, — several times exceed. In;; 50m., and onre riding as much as h-j m. flis own longest run was 104 ni. in .May, in which iiicMith he rcKle 267 m. on the bi. and 25910. on the tri. In Air.;, his tricycling amounted to V7; m. (best nm, 57 m.), and he only made 4 m. on the bi. Ihe captain of the North London T. C, Henry T. Wliarlow (b. Aug. 27, 1S43), an ac- cnunt:,nt, sends me this bri f report ■ " I began on the hi. in '70 and the tri. in '7?, but only pot- ti led about, as most other fellows did in those days, fn '79, I took to wheeling in earnest, and mv annual mileage totals have gradi;, .ly uicreas,;! since then, thus : 6S0, 2050, 3205, 4162, 431 1, 5-115, and (in 'S; to June 30) 3002, making 23,32, m. for 6J years. I 've not taken many single rules in excessof 100 m.,— my 3 longest b-ing 140 in '83, 151 In '84 and 115 in 'S5, The machines principally riddrn have been Coventry Rotary and Humbcr." From tables in the Tricyc/ist, I n|.j'-nd his riinnthly mileage for two years, remarking that his 17S riding days of 'S3 averaged 24 m. each, and 2r>9 days nf '84 averaged 22 m. each: Jan., 111.301; Feb., 115,206; Mar., 467, 417; Apr., 556. 53&; May, 627, 523; June, 452, 444; July, 576, 541; Aug., 332, 557; Sept., 326, 7:5 : Oct., 238, 613 ; Nov., 100, 535; Dec, 4>',437- From the same paper, f reprint the tricy- c ;ig scores of C. W. Urowi (b. Apr. 4, 1865), a member of the same club, for the last 10 mos. cf '84, giving riding days, miles and furlongs: Mar., 30, 516.4; Apr,, 26, 743.7; May, 2^, 6^t.i; June, 30, 632.1; July, 29, 698.7; Aug., 28, 507.5; Sept., 20, 834.0; Oct., 25, 615.6; Nov., 25, 420.3; Dec , 21, 397 2- His longest runs were loi m. in .Apr. and 102 in Sept. ft will be seen that the 271 rides amounted to 6030} m., an average of 22^ m. His record for '83 was 35i'>oi m., and for '85, 6454 m., of which 4032 m. were ridden in the last J. The approxi- mate mileage of his first year, '82, was 1000,— malciii- a total of 17,043 m. Longest day's run. 1'.) m. In sending me these facts, " Faed," another member of the club (see p. 534), adds : '• He has ridden distances of at least 10 m. each on no different makes of cycles, but principally on the Coventry Rotar\', H'-nber, and Dearlove tricycles." Contrasted with this is the report of Walter Hinns (b. Jan. 31. 1845), ■"» draper, at Salford, who was persiiad-d by his friend, Mr. (niodwin (see p. 535^ to send me the following : " My present machine, a firitish Challenge, has carried me nearly 13,000 m.,— my total mileage being 22,147, divided thus : '79. 2447 ; 'So, 3407 ; 'Si, 2840; '82, 4437 ; '83, 4295 ; '84, 3732 : '85 (up to May 6>, 989. I 'm sorry that I never kept a record before '79, for f 've ridden constantly since the earliest days of the bone-shaker. I see from a diary of '6<} that I was riding then ; and I do not know how much earlier. As my work- ing hours are very long, I use the bicycle almost entirely in going to and from business, except that I take my annual holidays with it, and Sunday spins through Lancashire and Cheshire. I siiiipose I 'm getting to be rather an elderly bicycler as well as bachelor; but I mean to stick to the two-wheeler as long as f can get on the top of one. I believe in rake, mbber and spring." ".•\ monument of the highest value to the practical uses of the wheel sport " was the edito- rial remark attached to the following table in the Tricyclist (early in '84, p. 3971, prepared by the Rev. H. C. Courtney, Vicar of Halton, to exhibit his 14 years' riding. " I do not suppose 544 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICVCLE. anyone else has kept a strict account <,f their ruling f„r such a length of linu," he ^y, ■• „ h every county n. Lngla.ul but Kent; every county in Wales; eight counties in Scot'and and three departments •• ;' ■• " ••''■° •• "75 •• 868 ..650 .. 348 .. 47s ..74. ..34. .. 4,ri {"'y '°^ ■• "5 •• ^3 •• "^^ •■l" •• v/. .. 344 ..83, .. 465 .. 6,5 ..5^3 ..405 .. 4 ,8 August 262 .. ^ ..250 .. ,60 ..,36 .. 6.5 .. 355 -SSo .. 240 .. 635 ..3.3 ..5SS .. 4,11, September. 34 ■• o .. o .. „ .. 44 .. 234 .. 4^9 --Q^O .. 346 .. 40., ..453 ..4'.'> .. 3,„7 October 5.. o.. c. o..,75.. 4- •• 2,2 . . 5S3 . . 255 . . 28. . .3,, . ,607 .. .,,7' November. o.. o .. o.. 4 • -335 •• 3'-; •• 44^ • .3..S ■• 254 • . 404 ■ .3<>3 ..451 •• 2.,7, December.__o ■■^■■_^ .._^ ■ ._r!_ . . J65 .^3 •_R. • -^ . . J9., .^ ..374 ..2..,, Totals, ,03 ,S6 35. 3SS 24-3 330. 5772 6242 3055 547.J ^1 ^^, ^.^ J. S. Whatton (b. May 13, ,86,), cx-captain of the Cambridge University li C in a letter tome of July 25, '85, reported thus: " My mileage for the 7 years ending June 30, '85 is 20,700, exactly ; and it is in no way remarkable excejit for the fact that it is the road-record of a man who h.is gone in not unsuccessfully fur racing during the last 4 of the 7 years,-for many of our best racing men ride little, if at alt, on the road. I tabulate the mileage by seasons will, longer momii's record and longest day's ri,]e, thus : '7S, gSS, 40,, 57 ; '7,^, 2246 637 85' '80 2326, 63,, 67; '8,, 4530, 778,84; '82,3,43, 395, '25; '83, 359f., 609, ..3; '84, 2243, j.^'joj :' 85, 1&2S, sSo, 72. This includes riding in every English county but two, nearly all .Scotland and a little of Ireland. About a quarter of it is made up of touring. Since '8., mv road-riding has been much interfered with by racing. Road machines ridden, 58, 57, and 56 "' In reply tr, my further enquiries, he .,dded,Scpt. 22 : " My longest straightaway run without a dismount was from London (9, Somcrs Place, Hyde Park Square), to Petersfield, in Hampshire, 55 m., through Kingston and the Hind Head. Longest day's ride, Cambridge to Dath 202 m. in 20 h. Long- est continnov.s tour, Glasgow to John O'Ciroat's and back through Edinburgh, York, and Lon- don, to Easibonrnc (with my brother, A. B. Whatton). about i .00 m. I held the record for a J m. (flying start) from July, 'S2, for two years ; time, 36I sees.; and am ex-amateur champion for 5 m. Darring accid:;nts. I have never started in a scratch race without finishing either first or second. As re-nrds regimen, I am a teetotaler and a vegetarian. I took mv degree (2d class in Historical Tripos'), at Trinity Coll., C.imb.. in June, '84. and my earlier education was had at Hailcybury Coll. I belong to the London B. C. and Bath C. C. . and am a member of the execu- tive in the N. C. U. and C. T. C." Another Londoner, Frank Salsbury. of the Clarence B. C, sends me tab., s from the Bi. News, sh.iwing his record for each of 36 successive months. Each group of numerals gives the riding days, longest ride, and total mileage of each month, and dashf 3 serve to separate the monthly groups of '82 from those of '83 and '84 : Jan., 2, 20. 28- 8. 53. 155— '3. 57. 40-3; Feb., 8, 40, in— 7, 53. ,30— ,6, 5,5. 463; Mar., ,8, 35. 206—12. 71, 365—25. ^f^, 725; Apr., ,0, 62, 291—14, in, 503—20, 75, 6,,,; May, i,, 67, 336—23, 91, 569- 29,93.829; June, ,3.26, 203-,;, ,76,579-22, .12,758; July, 12, 70, 399-20,65,453-24,85, 63. ; Aug., ,4, 10,, 427-. 9, >oo, 499-27, 84, 8,2 ; Sept., ,3, ,28, 474-17, 113, 400-22, 120, 650; Oct., I., 63, 325-22, 130,600-20, 183, 92,; Nov., ,3, 53, 294-,4, 84, 375-2,, ,05, S,6; BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 545 L».c.,5, 53, 111—13, 5S. 387—'''. 64, 545- Totals ^^^'^>. Hi4 'i\ mileage was 1901, and a remark atlachiid toilie 'S^ tab was a 48 in. built by Grout, wiiicli has been riddcu a. together about 17, hi-, 9j rides in '85, up to Mjy ji, was 3407 (making his total th, that 30, iiS, 3J06— 1S6, 176, 5015—263, 183, le says that " ihe machine Th le mileage of n, ii,7ojj,and as this was larger than on any previous year at that date, it may be presumed that his entire score for 'it, surpassed all fornu-rones. It will h- noted that his day's rides in excess of 100 m. number at least a dozen. Fred. W. Brock, of Bristol, writes to me thus, June 29, '85 : " I learned to ride as far back as '6/ or '63, when f was but a small boy. My lirst machine, of the old wood.ii-wheel-aiid- iron-tire class, had a 33 in. driver, with a 32 in. back wheel and it weigh a yS lbs. Smail as til- . may se^m, 1 had to get on a pavement, or against a wail, in order to mount, ml 1 ;- .rnni 10 v.i.iit into the saddle. Having used this for some years, 1 grew out of it and neglected riding, exc.pt at spasmodic intervals, until '7; (or perhaps '76), whjii I purchased a modern bicyc e, and h.ive ridden up to the present tiiiu, alw.iys having at least 1 machines in my stud. My mileage, r.aing days and longest ride m.iy bj sliowii thus: '7S, 2o6<>, 121, 101 ; '79, 1352, 103, &»; 'So i5J4, So, 110; "Si, 2242, 140, 72 ; totals for the 4 years, 7017 m. in 444 days. I regr.:t to have niisl.iid my diaries for other years, but I think the forc-oiiig is about an average, and you will sec from it that my riding is of a very ordinary sort. My only tour was to P iris in '^'^, thou- h I took part in the Hampton Court meet of '3i. The only mos. in the 4 years when I did no riding were Feb. and Djc, '78; Jan. and Feb., '7';; ami Dec, 'So. My Lirgest month's rec Old was 570, in July, '78; second best, 430, in July, 'Si." Another contribution to my "statis- lies of average men " is made by Geori;e Hall Kushworth (b. July i, 1S4S), a stuff merchant's m.in.iger at Bradford, whose mileage from .May 4, '83, to Sept. 30, '85 (327 days), was 8213. ^Vn analysis of it may be shown as follows, each .?roup of numerals civinj tlia riding days, milea"e and longest ride of e.ich month, and dashes sepanitin- the monthly groups of 'Jj from those of ^84 and '85: Jan.,o, 0,0-2,42, 25-8, 164, 39; t"<:b.,o, o, o— 2, 47, 3^-2, 3', =3 ; Mar., 0.0,0- 9, 167, 40-12, 303, 53 ; Apr , o, o, 0-12, 23», 82—12, 426, 97 ; May, 14, 271, 54—12, 326, C3— ■.1. 3;5, 104; June, 13, 39,, 70-23, 6io, S3— 10, 235, Ot; July, 14, 432, 70—16, 37,, C2— 13, 3.0,33; Aug., 22, 693, 76-19, 5>5. 73-=i. 410,70; Sept., m. 333, 77-'7, 339, 5 i-'J, 353! (./; Oct., 4, 99, I'i—io, 267, 85— {?!, (:-), O; Nov., i, 19, 19— 11, 217, 5o-37. 3263, Ss-'og ? 2.S73? 104?. kly riding has been chi-^fly from and to Bradford ; and in the course of it I have visited 37 principal towns in (he present county of York, 9 in Lancashire, 5 in Durham, ar.d 3 in Northumberland My longest d.iy's run was to Catterick and b.ick (io( m.). May 31, '85. I mny add iliat my s--cond longest day's ride was to Sunderland (n. e. of Durham), on Good Friday last (97 m )• .i!,o that during all my riding I have not had a single mishap (of sufficient imponanco to rel nie.nb > >^ # w Hiotographic Sdences Corporation 23 WEST MA!N STREET WEBSTER, NY. MSSO (716) 873-4503 iV ,v gb iv \ \ o^ ^0." ,-^' 1 546 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Bntish Challenge wheel stood well, only having the tire worn, and a slight crack in a crank fcom gomg up the fearful hills of the Jura country. Riding .^.uU days „oom. would rive ftc^"' daily average, but 70 m. is nearer truth, a. on several day, I stopped many hours ,0 v^sit h t" ««ing spots, while on most 1 stopped up for a little at such places. I can travel theanlv T . becau«j I -m as familiar with French as with English, and know some German aul l ""h «he large hotels frequen'ed by tourists, ana am well suited with a clean bed in some li.ilp \^ house.. The average cost of this U shown to be less than 30 c. «5.5otr thT^ i ts^^^^^^^ he whole COS. of .3 days' al»e„ce from Glasgow was Uu whereo.' ,.3 went for t^ns^nati If you are surpn.sed at such economy, let me say that when only twenty year, old I t^k a s^, weeks pedestnal tour through France and Belgium which cost only $31." " Springfield " seems appropriate as the birthplace and residence of the only rider in In- Und who has contributed to my statistics : William Bowles (b. Dec. 8, .850), a country Eenilr" man livmg at Castlemaityr, 20 m. e. of Cork, and a consul of the C. T. C His renort to n (July 9, '85) reads thus : " Having kept an accurate diary of my bicycle riding from 'the ouj,' I can show you a to'il mileage ot 13,202, divided by years as follows: '75 342- '76 ,24,' 77,988; '78, ,05; V9,87.; -So. ,.2,; -8,, ..24; '82, ,644; '^3. .475; '8,. .560'; -85' (up t,', July 9) 865. You may rely on the distances being as accurate as it is possible to make then, Up to the sprmg of '83 I took them from large-scale maps, road books and m. stones, and sine- the.i I have been using Stanton's bi. log, which I always found correct when compared with m"^ itones and Ordnance Su-ve/ maps. As f car.not -.»« a hub lamp with it, I have lately eot a K:ng.<.f.the-Road lamp, with Hemu's cyclom. attached, and I find this perfectly accurate I am sure you u.ll have difficulty iu getting hold of another Irish bicycist who has been riding f„r .0 years and has k^pt such a diary as mine from the very start. This record gives the names of all the places where I rode each day, and includes the following tours : '78 Killarney ,„ n,. and Co. Limerick, ,78 m.; '82, England, 325 m.; '83. Scotland, 4.7 m.; '84, Connemar^ and -western highlands of Ireland, 488 m. My average rate of traveling on tours is 44^ m a day Total of separate roadway traversed, about 2250 m. My weight averages 140 lbs. The dates of service of my several machines, with mileage, are as follows : Sept. 20, '75, to june 13 '77.-48 in. Ariel (Haynes & Jeffries, Coventr>), 20S3 ; July 20, '77. to Sept. 25, '78 -50 in' Stanley Head Excelsior (Bayliss & Thomas, Coventry), 2237 ; Oct. 2, '78. to July 5. '79 -54 in Duplex Excelsior (Bayliss& Thomas), 663; Sept. 29, '79, to Feb. 26, '81,-52 in. Perfection (Gorton, Wolverhampton), .562; May 28, '8,, to March .4. '85.-52 in. Interchangeable (Pal- mer&Co., Birmingham), 5837; April 6, to Julyg, '85,-5, ■"• D. E. H. F. (Bayliss & Thomas) 865. My longest distance ridden in a month (Aug., '83) was 542 m. Longest in a week (Aug.' 22 to 28, '84), resting on Sunday and riding only 6 days, 315 m. Longest in 6 successive days Monday to Saturday (Aug. 6 to 11, '83), 221 m. My longest in a day was 85 m. (Sept. 9, SS),' when I went from Springfield to Nenagh, in Co. Tipperary, vui Lismore, Cahir, Cashel, Holy- cross and Borrisoleigh. On this ride I took photographs on the way, carrying the apparatus in knapsack, as well as a large m. i. p. bag filled with clothes. My longest recorded straightaway without dismount was 1% m., but I may have ridden further, without being aware of it, on other occasions." Post cards of Sept. 2 and Nov. 23 report additional mileage of 968i (raising the '85 record to 1833! and the total, for a trifle more than 10 years, to 14,170}), and I quote from them these final details. " Leaving Springfield on the 13th of Aug., I wheeled to Waterford, and look steamer across to Milford. In Wales. I rode through South Wales, the midland coun- ties of England, North Wales and back along the w. coast of Wales to M., where I took steamer back to W , and rode home on Aug. 29. a tour of 712 m. I rode every day except the a Sundays, so that the daily average was ^^\ m. My longest ride without dismount was from Waterford tc Dungar\an, 28 m. t also rode 287 m. between Aug. 17 and 22,— which was 66m. more than my best previous record for 6 days. My total mileago for Aug. was 765,— or 223 m. more than my longest pre-ious month's record (Aug., '8^ ' During Sept. and Oct. I only rode 94i m., which makes the 7 months' mileage of my present bicvcle 1833} m. I never do muck wheeling in the co!d weather, but hope to begin again next spring." "The name ,.f Harry Ktherington (b. Aug. 27. 1K55) is one known, and creditably known, ^ 1^ BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 5^^ U) every reader of the bicycling press in the United Kingdom and he i. n.nu,n,ii l perhap. more bicyclist, than any other rider." Thus spoke 2 A T P'^Wx >«own to •;8). in presenting his photograph and biography o„"t^Se ~ge aSlu saTr'^.^r " "' o,her English wheelman's name is nowsoTm'lfarly .nowLiX U^ti Sut^lf^ '^r ": successful organizer of the firat cycling " event " of ma«,;,..^.- i! "* ,n .he genera, press of America (nLefy. the iVrac^rA^cuZi Sairtrnd""' T'" '79, when Waller made the wonderful run of .404 m in .0, hTh- • ' ^'"'°"'"' S^pt- country. Oct. 3, V,. as manager of the pro^^ Ji^rt.! Keen xl- 'tT '° f' '"' ''" and though this exhibition-tour proved a'failure. finai^S; ^:2lr.Ti r^^lu ''"?"' clers „ the whole Western hemisphere), the renlembrance or trad, o'n o t ITaIT T heartmess of .he welcome extended h ^ on his second visit, in 'sT when he br^ I, I ' remarkably fleet band of - makers' amateurs " who swept off the prizes a S S ."7' '^ ment of the Springfield B. C. and " lowerea the world's records -' inTnei „ "l"- ""^ m order .0 give a thoroughly friendly cast .0 the notoriety ZsUedbrhlm r/a S d only one thmg was needed; and that one want was supDlied bv ,Z ^ '"','" *^^"'"=<:'"d. policy which a rival edito- adorned fnr ,h. ^"PPl'ed by the curiously short-sighted A. H. F,.'s sagacity, in idlf^tT Lll ^a^lZTi Sh "' '"T^''™ " ''•'^'• derfully good account of themselves in the " ct^^er 1 12 -^ of ThTJ ? '',/'T T""" iittled by a dei.ial ot accomplished fact, this rival the Th f k V "*' "'"''^ ""'^ ^ ^ claimed the theory (through the paper! ' ' t eToven.Vrt^^^^^ P- be accepted as authentic ! Inasmuch however as the ^ffl , '"""^ °"S''» "<" '» ..ming were more p«fect than at any b^r ™ce ever fn r''"'""'' '°, ''""'"' '"°" '" one of the many hundreds of watch hold. 7= . «J" ""y^^ere previously run. and as not ared .0 question the r rtord^dTv^ft^e f-.ZT^^ '^"') T """'"''' ""^ ""' -"'- siBle motive for raising the ,ues.i::raX lirwrdLV::;c^ trusive practical result of the rival edicor's act (whether hew,. iJ . '. ^' ""= "">"» °b- a foothold to in Eneland and I f».„.f T '^'" "nstrumenul in giving mentioned arti "le b the ^^^ij, '""'" •'"" ""'"''""^ """-" f™" '"e .Sori and ';.. after whU he jr ht'^;/; "' r^^ T'^" rl"" '""'"«'' '^' '^ he took a trip of 87 m. just a fortnight later 'rid p-. ^'"""^ "'' '""^"' ^" "' '«' superseded by a 54 in Keen and th- l ' '^"'^"'^' "^ ' 5° '"• AHH. which he soon made ,1,1 the end of '7,. He' joLed ,h" lL"^"r^-'T' "" '''"^'' ="' "■■* J°"-«y» -« ers of the Temple B. C (Tan ^6 'ts on vTL ' '" "' '"'^ "*' "•" '" '"* «« »« *<>'"'«»• credi. and the club's advantlee Thll'I ^ ' """'^ "* '"^''^'^ '"'' "^"K '" »•» <"" . m. race of his club ('""'';) Z^2tTT"lT' ""'' ''^ """ '"' ">'"* •='»- '•» *• ridden through North Waes Dershire v' wT ' r"" ""'•"'^ = ''"'• " » «-"'»- »>• »«• .-ish county except Cornll Un Kh 'mll^^^^^^ His . "'"'I;"": ' ■"'' '" ''«' '^'^ ^- Pany with Mr. Meyer, the Temple BcTh," His longest day's ride (May. '„,, in com- and Undon. ,56 m i; rV* h This w« ^J'7"'"','«» ^"^ Oc)ch^m to Portsmouth. Brighton corresponding day in '^^e ma^e T z m ' d" I "' ."*""""" ^'°"'' "'''• -" "" «»«. never had a'fall'fr»« Ws ,T„ :h thoueh 7 h t""' •"■" ""^-"■^"^ "■'^'"- "' "- ranged, and successf^y^.^^J^Tll:^''-;:-^^^^^^^^^^^^ S^S TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the idea and labor of collecting and acknowledging the ' Bicyclists' Indian Famine Fund ' (;£i39) *"« also his; while another proof of his business aptitude was shown in the punctual carrying out of last June's Temple races, in spite of 71 entries, and in the achievement (per- haps the first time on record in such an aSair) of a financial ..uccess. The club testified their appreciation by presenting him with a handsome watch and chain (valued at ^39), at their re- cent annual dinner, when he announced his retirement from active bicycling affairs, to enter his own account into comt.iercial life." Repeated requests from me caused hiin to promise (Mar. 10, '85), " I am just about doing a young history of my past for your book "; but he never really wrote it, and it was not until the end of the year that he even so much as supplied me wi-.h the Di. Tinus sketch, accompanying which were a few written details nhich I now quote : " In these days, my riding is principally on a Humber Undem with y wife, though I sometimes take to the road on a bike with the boys. The sportsman's exhibition, annually hcxi in Agricultural Hall, was my idja and has bian managed for four years as an acceptable feature of the spring season. It was in '80 that I started the IVkeel IVorU, with G. Lacy Hillier; ran it with great success for 18 mos., then sold it well to Iliffe & Son, and contracted an agreement to publish it and the Cyclut at thei' offices, 152 Fleet St., for the London district. I did well by both journals, but in May, '84, dissolved all connection with the Iliffes, aiic started the weekly Wheeling, with W. MacWilliam. He orithdren, on friendly terms, in Oct., and I ran the paper a^one t-!! Jan. i, '85, when I secured, as joint editor, Tom Moore, of the Bi. News." A year later, another important change was made,— the editorship being entrusted to W. McCandlish and F. Percy Low, in ord:r that the proprietor might devote all his energy to iu business inter- ests, — the weekly circulation being now advertised as 10,000 copies. "The best adtertising medium is the Cyclut, with a circulation of over 30,000 copies per month, or more than 3 times that of any other wheel publication." Such is the statement of the latest Ictter-head coming to me (Dec, '85) from the Coventry office of that old-established wsekly journal, whose sub-title is" bicyc'ing and tricycling trades' review," and whose chief appeal for support, if I rightly interpret its ideal, is addressed to the heavy-respectable element, — tha more solid (not to say stolid) section of the English cycling fraternity. As may be seen by consulting my final chapter, " Literature of the Wheel," its editor, Henry Sturmey (b. Feb. aS), is author and compiler of several standard hand-books on the subject, and I suppose he may be fairly called the most authori'ative newspaper writer in the worid, as regards the practical mechanics of wheeling. It pleases me, therefore, to learn that his thorouL-ligoing experience with all sorts and sizes of cycles has brou-ht him to the same conclusion which I myself (know- ing nothing and caring nothing about the relative mechanical advantages of different makes) reached by simply buying a 46 in. bicycle and pjshing it 10,000 m. He thinks, as I -lo, that the only appreciable element of danger in the case arises from the vanity of mankind, in refus- ing to seek comfort and security on an ordinary bicycle " which is three or four inches under- size." Instead of this, ihcy are "continually clamoring for close-build and hiph-position, to enable them to ride as big wheels as they can possibly stretch. But it is impossible to obtain either enjoyment or safety thus, and, as a consequence, the machines get the blame for having b'pn bni't too generally on pretty but unsafe lines." My quotation is from his summing up (Oct., '85) of a lont; discussion, carried on by correspondents of the Cyclist, as to the compara- tive advanta^s of the different types of cycles ; and I condense his final words thus : " There is no sinjtie form of cyck that will suit the wants of every one, but each particular type is ihe risrht thine when in the right place. As an all-weather vehicle, the tri., perhaps, is best; and for use where parcels have to be carried, as well as for traffic riding, it stands to the fore. But it is heavy and cumbersome and slow, compared with its confrhrts, and is not by any means so free from danger as some would make it, thouirh with care it is as safe as a horse aiid trap, and probably safer. The speed that has been obtained on the road by noted tri. riders has in some cas<-s surpassed that of riders on the bi., but such riders in all cases have been exceptini:al ones, with machines highly geared and very different in weight from those supplied to the ordinary customer. The safety bi. (so called) is suitable for traffic riding ; such, for instance, as short, quick business t-alls. It is easily stowed away, aud can be ridden slowly in a crowded street, or •*\f'--\" i': -^^<£W:'^ BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 549 brought lustantly to a dead «op. On the other hand, in the majority of ^eared-up machines the side-.lip on greasy roadi introduces an element of danger that is totally absent from the tri' and ordinary bi. All things considered, we believe that the bicycle proper, when sensibly built 15 no more dangerous than any other fom. of velocipede m the hands of a careful and experi- -nced rider; and that for general, what might be termed light, riding, that is. without luggage, it will never be wrested from txipular favor." Of course, whoever attempts to deliver an opinion as an expert on k subject where so many competing business-interesu are concern^ must expect to have his impartiality cr.lled in ques- lion oy those to whom his opinion is unfavorable. I do not pretend to say that this writer is never unfair or ill-informed,-for his specialty is one whereof I am profoundly ignorant I only insist that, as a specialist, his opinion is, in so far forth, worthy of respect ; and that I am not aware of the existence of any other vnjter who appears to be so well-equipped for this par- ticular sort of instruction, or to labor under stronger obligations for imparting it honestly to the public. At the same time, there seems justice in the censure which has been pronounced a^amst him for ignoring the American Star.-the type of safety bi. which has incomparably the widest acceptance in this country.-since, as a distinctively Yankee notion, it dti-erves extend-d trial and Jescription at the hands oi any one who professes to treat exhaustively of wheeling mechanisms. Mr. S. was one of my earliest subscribers in England ; and his expressions of friendly interest in my scheme, both by printed paragraphs in the Cyclut and by private letters, did much to encourage me in ih- belief that it mife'.it be so shaped as to command some degree of attention in that country. I am told that he was a schoolmaster before the days of cycling journalism, and I regret my inability to wheedle from him more biographical detaiU than these few conuined in his letter to me of Mar. ,9, '84 : " We have no authentic account of men who have ndden 10,000 m. in England, but I do not think there can be less than 5000 or ;o,ooo of them, and their num^r is probably very much larger. I send you herewith a copy of our last two tabulated lists, jntaining the records of men who have ridden too m. within the day, up to Dec, '81, and I hope to publish the records for the past two seasons in a few weeks. I cannot give you any information concerning the largest number of separate m. of roadway covered by any individual rider, neither can I say who has ridden the longest straightaway distances in Great Britain, beyond the 3 or 4 riders from Land's End to John O'Groat's and vice verm. I should say the longest straightaway tour taken in Europe must be that of A. M. Bolton, who has published his experience in a book entitled ' Over the Pyrenees ' ; though there may very likely be several riders who have exceeded his distanc-s, yet kept their light under ?. bushel. With regard to my own riding, I usually cover about 1000 m. in the course of business ; and, as I have but little time, and do not care to ride on Sundays, my score is not great ; but I reckon to cover about 3000 m. yearly, and think I have done this for the past 8 years, which would give about 23,000 to 24,000 m. as my sum total, without counting the eariier days of the sport, when I did little more th^tn potter about, around the home district. I think many of our older riders have covered co' .jiderably more than 50,000 m." The full-l.ngth engraving of a helmeted bicycler, equipped for a tour, which is impres.sed upon the par er cover of " Over the Pyrenees," is said to b-; a fairiy recognizable likeness of ttie author, Alf.ed M. Boiton, who was bom, my informant added, not eariier than 1864. Mr. B.'s own letter to me (Apr. 24, '84) reads thus : "To save my life, I could n't answer your questions, as I 've never kept a record of the required facts. I began bicycling about 8 years ago, and have ridden about u different machines, but I cannot say what my total mi'eage mav be. As my holidays are limited, I never made a tour of more than 800 m.; though, besides vis ng most parts of England and a portion of Scotland, I have traveled by bicycle in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Norway and Sweden. I send herewith a copy , ' • Over the Pyrenees : a bicyclist's adventures among the Spaniards,' which was issjed some time Jince and sold well. I have also published, as a weekly supplement to the Bt. Ne7vs, ' The Rocky North, a summer's holiday among the fjelds, fjords and fosses of Norway, including a dash through Sweden,' and there will ?oo;i appear, in a similar manner, ' My Pilgrimage to Rome, or three weeks among the Italians.' " Not unlike the foregoing for indefiniteness, was ^^^^^WP 55C TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the reporttcnt me Aug. a4. '85, by Ch.rles Howard (b. Dec., 185,), whom I naturally exuect.d U the author of a sta:,darH ttatittical work on Engli.h road», to be poueiMd of an elaborii ' •heeling biography, ready at hand : " Strange ai you may think it, I 've never kept anaccoun! of my nding, *hich began about Vs- I cresume it would average about 2000 m. a year —« total of aj,ooo,— but I should not put my separate roadway as more than 6000 m., or even tjll m. My brother Alfred has a larger separate mileage th.-\n mine. I know a g^ portion"^ the roads in the mid'ind counties as far as Uncashire and Yorkshire, and the western and southwestern as far as Wihs and Dorset. Surrey f know well, both main roads and by-road, and I have ndden over the greater \xax of Kent and Sussex. I prefer, as a rule, to leave the beaten track and explore cut-of-thc-way comers,- never being deterret: by a bit of bad road"^ recessiuting the use of shaiiks's pony. I made the acquaintance of the bone-shaker in '69 or '70, and remember I was ambitious to have one. for the purpose of riding to and from school (some 20 m. from Manchester) at the end of each week ; but as the roads there are unfavo.able I afterwards abandoned the notion. As regards my books, ' The Roada of England and Wale.' was published in 'Sa. ..t ed. in June at js. 6d.; ad e.i in Aug. at 5s.. which has been the price ever smce. except that with map it is 6s. Third ed. appeared in May. '83, and 4th ed. m May. '84. The pagrs have remained the same in number (423), although some c'onsidera ble corrections have been introduced. Part I. of ' The Route Hook' was published about April, '85. It comprises southern England (south of London and Bristol) and sells at is The other two parts will be ready early in '86. Part II. shows middle England and Wales, and Part III. northern England. 1 am now engaged in writing and passing through the press a Cycl.s-'s Itinerary of .Scotland.' which will be publisheJ at is. and contain about 200 pp One feature of it will be the heifihts of the road at various points, to show the gradients." Robert EdwaAl Phillips (b. luly 30. .855), consulting engineer and patent agent, at Royal Courts Chambers, 70, ^^ and 72 Chancery Lane, thus reports to me. Sept. i6. '85 • " I was elected a graduate of the Institution of Mechanical Enginc-rs in '79 and a member of the same m 8a. I commenced with the bicycle in '72 and have ridden consistently ever since, but have never kept statistics of mileage. I can safely be put at not less than looo m. a year, and I have traveled over the greater part of England and the north of the continent. In business. I devote myself particularly to cycling patents, for I have made the construction of machines a special •tudy, and am now considered a leading authority on these matters. My first work was a table giving description of every existing machir.- in the market, published in the ' Bicyclist's Pocket Book of '79.' In '80, this was enlarged info t pamphlet entitled 'The Bicyclist's Guide to Machmes and Makers' In '8.. I published ' The Cyclist's Pocket Road Guides." which have proved very pooular. being now in their 3d ed. The year '8j saw the publication of my pamphlet. ' Things a Cyclist Ought to Know.' which has had an unpaiallelca circulation, for I •mnow selling the 4tli ed. (25th thousand). The price o<: tiiis is only a penny, nnd it co.ild not be produced at that low late except for the advertisements. Let me assure you that no cycling book in England can pay on its circuUf alone. I 've acted as my own publisher for these lit- tle works because I could find no one el enterprising enough to undertake them. At present. I am preparing for the press a 'Complete Abridgment of all Sijecifications relating to Veloci- pedes,' from the earliest enrolled to the end of '83. This will be completely indexed, and will prove invaluable to all connected with the rrade. Besides, I ha"e written and read a paper be- fore the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on ' The Construction of Modem Cycles,' which has been pronounced to be a most exhaustive article. I have invented and patented several im- provements in cycles, which are largely used in this country, such as the combination rubbe^and rat-trap pedal, the long centered Stanley head, the safetvgrip pedal, the present method of sus- pending hub lamps or. self-contained bearings, the combination bell, and the handy luggage carrier. I have been a member of the C. 1. C. and of the N. C. U. from their early dates and sit on the council of each." A November circular from Iliffe & Son explains that they are to rublish Mr. P.'s book on patents as soon as 100 subscriptions are en-olled at £,1 is.; that the price will afterwards be advanced, and that " no advertisements will be admitted toil." Geo. Soudon Bridgman (b. Feb. m, 1839), a.rhitec: and surwyor at Pai^jnton, writes to me. liRJTlsn AND COLONIAL HKCO/iDS. 551 S Irt. b, -85 : <• I un ore of the very earliest ride-i here, having imported t boneshaker from i-AXM, 15 or 16 jtnn once, and I hope to ride the bi., if all goes well, until I am 50 at least. Ijm year, I took a 900 m. tour on this little Uland; and last month I again went o/T soma hundred m., on a tandem, with my son ; and the enjo .ent is sUII on the increase." Another subscriber, S. Colder, of Coventry, sends me this incident : " On a rainy Sunday, in July, '8a, when I rode from Brixton homeward, iia m., my 58 in. had 3 spokes out of the front wheel at siarting, and 3 more came out before the journey's end, yet all the rest were tight and the wheel true, and showed no signs of jiving way. I have several times rnlden more than 100 m. in a day of I] or 13 h., and, a while ago, 1 did some long disunces without dismoun; ; but I cannot just now put hands on the papers conuiuing the details." To this I add the memorandum of whai a young New Yorker, Geo. Thaddeus Stevens (b. Apr. 14, ,865), told me concerning. private race of 100 m., Bath to London (Hammersmith), in which he competed with two En- glish acquaintances, June 27, •?4, riding a 44 in. K umber tri.. geared to 60 in. and weighing 44 lbs. The race was won in loj h., he himself doing the 100 m. in 11 h., ending at 6 p w , itiough he ro > 13 m. before the start and 15 m. to Surbiton afterwards, making 1J7 for the day.' His stops amounted to about i h., and his longest stay in the saddle was as m., though he had kept it for 36 m. on another occasion. Though my own straighuway ride of 1400 m. in '83 (pp. a94-35o) was known to me at the time as being twice or thrice the length of any previous performance of the sort in America I had no suspicion of its being a " worid's record," until my correspondence with the best-i'n- • lom.ed long^listance men of England (whom I asked to secure for me details of the longer lours th.it I assumed had been Uken in Europe) gave united testimony, which I have printed in this chap.er, that no continuous trail so long as mine had ever been heard of there. The near- est suggestion to anything of the sort which the most dUigent efforts on my part have been able to unearth, was contained in the following paiagraph, cut for me by a friend from an American newspaper of '83, which accredited it to a London literary weekly the Examiner : " The value of the velocipede or bicycle as a means of personal transport has been well shown by the ride across Europe of Ivan Zmertych, who left London on the 7th or 8th of June and rode to Dover. From Ostend he started on the 10th, and, after a journey of 1500 m., over bad roads in Delgium and good roads in Germany, he reached Pesth on the 30th. Thus he accomplished about 80 m. each day, in spite of some wet weather and vithout any mishap to himself or bicycle." Having besought the good offices of " Faed," to search the files of the cycling press for some further particulars of the case, I received this reply, Dec. 14, '85 : " I have been unable to trace any details of ths nde you enquire about ; but the London editor of the Cyclist, C. W. Nairn, tells me that the rider viras a young Magyar, temporarily residing in London, and at the time a mem- ber of one of our southern suburban clubs. I should think that you might safely ignor* the item altogether, as at that period i^urists often took the train without mentioning it, and the dis- tance IS not at all well authenticated." My letter of enquiry, which I forwarded to Pesth (Nov .6, directed to Mr. Z., "or to any officer of the bicycle club "), finally reached th* hands of L. D. Kostoviti, C. T. C. consul of Budapest (p. 481), who happened to know of him is residing at Pressburg, and who duly sent the letter thither, notifying me of the fact, Dec. 10. There- »pon, Dec. 28, I sent a second appeal to Mr. Z., at Pressburg, asking for at least a post card, to confirm or to correct the newspaper statement, and" to inform me whether the trail were continu- ous ; but no response has yet arrived (Feb. 10). Better success attended my efforts to reach the root of a story, vridely copied in the autumn of 84. and accredited to the Hamlmrfr ffews, which «iid : " Hugo Barthol, a native of Saxony, recently completed a bicycle journey of 2800 m. ini . weeks. He rode from Gera to Naples, go- ing down the w. coast of Italy and covering the whole length of the e. coast on his return. He twice accomplished the difficult task of crossing the Apennines. He remained from 3 to 6 dcy- •n the larger cities. The feat is the most remarkable on record." The implication of tl rar^graph is that the tourist made a continuous circuit, whereas he in fact resorted thrice i^ :n.ns and once to steam-r, -his whole distance by wheel being 3700 kilometers ; hv rail fi,o k' - a total of 4<29 k., or 2750 m. His bicycle .rail se^ms to have been unbroken from Cera'fo 552 "ViA' THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Naples, and was thus probably the longest straightaway laid down in Eiiroi>e until Th , Stevens marked a much longer one. Dieppe to Consuntinople, in the oarly summer of 'St (n "slT blevens's previous trail o£ 3700 ni. across America was ...mpleted at Boston on the verv d when Barthol was forced to take train alongside the Adriatic. His tour as a whole ranked to that of Stevens for more than a year ; and it still ranks as the third longest known , ""' record,-tl>e second place having been held, since Oct., '85, by the 3000 m. nde of HuJhT High (p. 484). 1 am indebted to the C. T. C. consul at Berlin. T. H. S. Walker (editor of th fortnightly Kad/akrer. .8 Krausen »t., W.), for the following abstract of the manu^ript report which Mr. li., who IS an acquaintance of his, sent in at my request (June 2, '85) though it was not published in his paper. " He tirst conceived the idea of riding to Italy after makL a Irio through (lermany and Holland (May . to Jun* 14, '82), but could not carry it out until 2 yrs Uter A,s an ordinary m. i. p. bag did not suffice to hold enough things for a ij weeks' trip, he al^, car ried a bundle on the handle-bar, the weight of both being 28 lbs. He rode a 56 in. Howe weigh ing 45 lbs., and his own weight was 151, making a total of 224. He left Gera at 6 a. m. on'the 8lh of June, and rode as far as Auma. The night's resting-places after that were as follows • 9th Saalfeld; loth, Meiningen ; nth, Fulda ; ijth, Frankfort; 13th, Mainz; (14th, visited Nied,'/ wall monument); 15th, Mannheim; .8th, Strasbourg (t/;i. Heidelberg and Speier) ; 20th Fre. bourg ; 27A, Basle ; 23d, Schaffhausen ; 24th, Constance ; 2Sth, Zurich. He found all the roads very good in Switzerland, and at Z. he met a friend, whom he persuaded to accompany .him to Italy. After a short stay at Z., they rode over the St. Gothard, arriving on the lyih at Airolo; 30th at Bronico ; and July ,st at Milan, which they left on 3d, and reached Turin on the 4th They rode over high mountain ridges (6th and 7th) to Genoa ; left on 9th via Si>ejia and Pisa, reaching Florence on .2th ; left on .fith, and after hard ride got to Rome on the 20th This was a stretch Where there were many steep hills and where no water was to be had for dis! tancesof 20 m. Under intense heat, they found great relief by wearing nvc. cloths on their heads. After a day's rest, they rode over the Albanian Hills and were obliged, on- night to encamp in the midst of the Pontine marshes. On the 26th they reached Capua at 10 a m 'on the 27th rode into Naples, the objective point of the tour. Six days were spent in visiting'the islands of Sochia and Capri, also Pompeu and Vesuvius. Then, Aug. 2, they rode to Crotto and caused here such excitement that loeo people collected around the house they stopped at Foggio was reached on the 3d, and they then took the wrong track and got to Serra Capriola on the Adiiatic, where, as the road came to an end, they had to take train to Pescara Thence they wheeled along the coast to Ancona, 7th; Rimini, 9th; and Bologna, ..th; taking train therefor Venice, on account of exhaustion from the intense heat, although their riding had mostly been done by night. Here B.'s friend left him, and he himself on the i6th took steamer to Trieste. On the i7th,herode to Miramarc and back, ?nd on the i8th leftT. fora6 days' ride through Kamhia, Stiermark and over the Semmering to Vienna, on the 23d. Thence (m the 28th, because of bad weather, he took train to Prague. He rode < ver the Era mountaii,. to Chemnitz (Germany) on the 30th, and arrived at his home in Ronneburg near Gera, on the jist at 5 p. .M. He afterwards suffered severely from intermittent fever. " The accompanying photo- graph (from Oscar Vogel in Ronneburg) shows a beardless youth, in eye-glasses, standing beside a mud bespattered bi., which is loaded down fore and aft, with big, ungainly bags. He wears a round hat, apparently of felt, surmounting a hand.'ierchief, which extends over his head and neck, and his riding jacket looks very much like a peasant's frock. A vague paragraph which was afloat in the American pii>ers of Sept., '85, said that "a Frenchman nameuGuyhas recently accomplished a 3 weeks' trip of 1400 m. on his bicycle, his average rate being 80 m. a Jay." More definite than this was the Cyclist's report (July 8, '85, p. 933) of the " magnificent performance " of P. Rousset (b. 1835), of Bordeaux, president of the V^loce Club Bordelais, who " started at 6 A. m., June 28, to accomplish 400 kilom. (300 m.) in 28 h. The previous day's rain had made the road very wet and heavy as far a-, Castres. F. D? Civr/ and H. O. Duncan accompanied him from Laprade to Marmande, and there awaited his return. A little beyond M., he was delayed \ h. in getting his tri. carted across a flooded road, but the surface then improved, and he reached the turning point (200 k.) well inside time. The fe-aJg-iit BRITISH AXD COLONIAL RECORDS. 553 mght •*« calm, .nd the moon made the path as clear a, day. On getting back to M . abont 4 c Clock, he appeared fresh and made no delay, and during the last h. of the 24 he rode 2>1 k nukmg a total of „4 k. (,65* m.) and beating by .5 k. the best previous French record which wa, h.s own. He continued on. and. though the roa.«s were in an awful state. con-,..cted the 400 k. .n a3 h. I mu.. rie rode a Cnpper semi-r-.cer (50 lbs., Marriott & Cooper), the same on which De C.vry won the champ.on.h.p of France, the previous Sunday. His performance se Mn, the more . ston.shing, because of his being almost 50 years old and somewhat stout " I msert an earlier allusion to him {Bi. World, A.g. a,, '84) : '• P. Roussef. tri. record of a88 k '" ■"! ; u" "°* !*"" '^'"" ^'' ^'"'''' <" ^'^'f "^' "' ^""' *''° '«»« » r.»r double^river tri' ,05 ^. (ab^.t .89i m.) July i6.» With this may be compared what is said to be (I^JUe/ Jan 8 v., the best ,, h. nde in Holland : " Kmil Kiderlen, of Delfsl.aven, a village near Kot'te^^m recently rod. , b:.ycle fro.n R. t . Leeuwarden, in „ h. 35 min., inclusive of stoppages, the dis! '■'T " TT!:'^' "^'"^ "' '"•" ^''"""'^' ' "'"""^ paragraph of iH-c.. '85, accredits the 2, h. record of Germany to " M. Josee Kohont, of the Cesky Klub Velocipedis.s, who recently covered J48 m. m 21^ h. actual riding time." ^ (» W«,r. Oct. 22. '85), for J. E. Robinson Tagart, of Facile fame, whose aggregate for the year up toj^„e u. over 7500 m.. on Thursday last covered at leas. „< m. in 74 h Leaving Hyde Park • „ri,er at m.dn.ght. he wheeled through St. Albans, a.,o a. m.. Ampthill, 4. .5 A. m "'"" ^o™- «««istics abo-jt th« Anfield B. C. of Liverpool which offere-^pnzes valued .t ^3=0 for the promotion of long-disUnce rides in '85, with the re- sult that 50 ,f Its 20s members made day's runs of more than .00 m.. and 25 of them exceeded (tncycle) 20.1 G. B Mercer. 228!, 2,2. 208, and 207; Uwrence Fletcher (tricycle), 2..* and .75 ; Land s End to John O'Groat's, 8 days 5 h. 20 min. (beating record); Land's End to Gretna (.reen, joo tn. .n 4 days; N. Crooke. 209 and 202; F. W. Mayor. 207; D. J. Bell. 205 ; A R tell, 20s end 2o.i, Live, ,1 to London, London to Liverpool-both within 24 h.; H Eraser' 205 (.00 m. Kangaroo race, 7 h. 6 min. 25 sec.) ; H. M. Walker, 205 ; E. Harrison, 204; h' Russell, 202; J K. Conway. 202; J. B. Beazley. .gSJ; A. H. Fletcher (tricycle), ,8. J; W Downes M.lls (tncycle), ,56; A. Barrow, .53; T. B. Conway, .53; J. H. Cook, .56; J. P. Hetcher, ,52; A. W. Gamble. .52; T. S. Hughes, .70; E. A. Thompson, .54; W M Ker- row, .54; F. A. Waring, .54; R. Fair. jr.. .73. The largest scores were as follows : Law- rr dTr ,f"'' ""FJ''''- '''°'' "■ ^"^^'^' '°'°' N- Crooke, 4500; G, B. Mercer, vl' ^' . [' '?'' • • ^ ^'""''''' "" ' ^ ^- ^'="' 35°°- The annual 24 h. road-ride tu Weedon and back was won by (;. P. Mill, with 2(., m.; G. B. Mercer being second, with 2,2 m. m 2, h. The club will offer the following prizes for '86 : A gold medal for 250 m. on a bi or tandem tn., 225 m. on a tri. ; a gold star for 200 m. on a bi. or tandem tri.; or ,75 m on a tr..; a gold-centered medal for .50 m. on any class of cycle ; a silver star fo.- 100 n,. on any class cycle ; a gold medal for the longest distance ridden in 24 !.. during the year ; three prizes for attendance at runs ; four prizes (total value. 20 guineas) for the greatest number of points gained under the rules, for long-distance riding ; special gold medals for beatir.g road records The best record for swiftnessffrom Land's End to John O'Groat's was latest taken on a .ri br T. R. Marriott Sept. 2.-27, '85,-the distance being 898 m. and the time 6 days ,5 h. 22 min 1I.S photograph farms the frontispiece of a 98 page book descriptive of this, written by Totn 554 'AW THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Moort, ex-cditor of tVkMling, and published at the office of that paper (Feb. lo, '86 ; price 6d V \ hv>pe it nuT contain a complete hit of the other ride» over tlie iame course, for the Matittici I ■ow give are ;mperfect. The twifteit bi ride is accredited to Jamet Lennox (J. O'O. to L t ) of Dumfriei, 6 days i6 h. 7 min., itarting June .9, '85, but 1 have no record of hi. earlier trial*. IVkttlMfol Sept. 5. '84, printed the halting place* and mileages of two ride™ ihus " H. J. Webb, on a Humbe. tri., Marling Aug. i;, reached Kxeter, 1J3J ; Gloucester 2,j» Shrewibury, 3Joi ; Lancaater, 4»8| ; Carliile, 497 1 ; Edinburgh, 5S8J ; John O'(;roat's, IS9.SJ Not saticfied with this grand performance, he turi.ed back, and early on the tenth day reached Inyemesa, bringing his total ride for 9 d. 6 h. 35 min. to 1048J m," " Alfred Nixon, st.irm.K > day earlier, Aug. 16, on an tmperial Club tii., reached Okehampton, 98I ; Taunton ,,>J Bridgenorth, 96; Uncaster. iioj; Car«»le. 68; Edinburgh. loi ; Inverness. i4sj;'j„|,n ©•(Jroat's, 11/4. This total of 856J m. in 8 days lowered his previous record by some 6 days On the iSth, 1.15 to u.45 p. m.. he rode from London (Holbom Viaduct) to Norman's Cr<,ss ^f m.\ agth, to Borough Bridge. 130^ m,; 30th. Dunbar, 161 m. (at 2 .\. m. of 3,st); 3,51 i<; a m to 1.45 p. M.. lidinburgh,— a total distance of 397 m in a d. 13 h." Sept. 12-15 W K Sutton made the 400 m. from L. to E. in a d. 9 h. whi:h remains the best record jH Adams, starting from I-and's End May 17. 'Sa, on a <6 in. Facile, reached John O'Grcit's in 1 h. less than 7 days,— doing 197 m. the last day, his total route being about 923 m. lon^ The best previous record was that of James Lennox. lo days', one of which had been devoted lo rest (except that H. R. Goodwin went over the course in 8 d. 15 h , starting just a day ahead of Adams). " A wonderful perfonnance on a tricycle " was ^'fueling'. d.:signation of a 24 h run of a3ii m. taken July i, '85 by C. H. R. Gossett, an elderly man, " to beat the record " which he did by 1) m. More remarkable than all was the ride of aoo m. taken July 6 by Mra J. H. Allen, of Birminsham, in 6 min. less than the 14 h.,on an ajtomatic steering Cripix-r tri., geared to 564 in. and weighing 65 lbs. She was accompanied by her husband, on a similar machine, geared to 60 in., and he probably rode ao m. more, in .trranging for her at various points. Her previous oest record of 15a m. in a4 h., was en a 4a in. single driving Royal Mail, geared to 48 in. She had used the Cripper more than 1900 m. in a little more than a mos., and she "finished the long ride perfectly fresh," said the Cyclut, "though having ridden all the hills." Among the several attendants for short stretches was J. H. Ball, of Coventry, who in '83 'ode a bi. las m. without dismount. The dates, winners and times of the annual too m. races on the London to Bath road are these : '77. June at. C. Walmesley. 8.13.30 : '78, June 10, F K Appleyard, 7.18.55 ; '79. June a, A. H. Koch, 8.57.55 ; '80, May 17. A. D. Butler, la.a o; '8. June 6, L. B. Reynolds. 7.55.0; 'Sa, May ag, H. R. Reynolds, 7.a6.o; '83, May 14 H R.' Reynold's, 7.2 i.o; '84. June a, G. F. Beck. 8.16.40; '85. May 15, P. H Watwn, 7.33.4, After the above paragraph was put in type. I received a copy of the little book named at the top of the page, and I find that it gives pp. 76.79 to a summary of 8 long-distance rides pre- vious to '83.— being all that the author had been able to discover any record of. The 4 of these that were from London to John O'Groat's are named first, for convenience' sake, though 2 of them were later in time than a of the rides " frcm comer to comer of Great Britain " ; thus : (i) Oil June a, '73, Chas. Spencer and 3 other members of the Middlesex B. C, started from the King's Arms, Kensington, at 7.30 a. m., followed the Great North Road to Newcastle-cn- Tyne (277 m. in 6 days), and reached J. O'G.. 768 m, at 8 p. m. oi the i6th. (a) in Aug., '^r,, H. Blackwell. jr., of the Canonbury B. C, rode alone over the same route in 11 d. 4 h , and coiTiputed the distance as 6S9 m. ,-which was probably more nearly correct than the 79 m gr^eater estimate of Spencer. (3) In Aug. , 'S . 3 i.iembers of the Brixton B. C. rode bv a different route through the Scotch lakes, to Invemes.s, and thence by the former route to T. O'G., 745 m, in 16 days, whereof 5 were devoted to visiting and sight-seeing. (4) In Oct., "'Si, H Line and W Bourdon, of the Bromley B. C. rode to J. O'G.. 727 m.. in ao aavs, including a 2 days' h.i!t for snow, and much other stormy weather. (5) On Monday, Julv la. '80. H. Blackwell, jr., and Harman. of the Canonbury B. C, left Penzance, and rode to J. O'G , S76 m.. in i, d.iys. BA'J//SH AiJD COLUMAL RHCOHD^. -j^ Th« mate from Edinburgh to the fini.h wa»the lame at in Aug., '79; «nd. two days before the .tart, they wheeled from P. to Land's End and back, ,a m. (6) ()„ Monday, June jo •«, I Unno« began a „ day.' ride, J. O'G , to L. E., 945 m. He whce'ed out from Wick before ihe .tart, and buk from L. E. to Peniance aTter the fini,h,-an additional jo m. in.ide the ., day.,-domg .J. m. ou the final day. Alter -, day,' ridmg. he re.ted during Sunday at hi. home ii. Uumfrie.; and m I suppovs he finished on Saturday night, with only •■ days of actuil rid- mg. He faced a head-wind all the way, and had 6 day. of wet weather. (7) On Monday June 5, 82. at 4.5 K M , fon Keith-Falconer left L. E., for a ride of 954 ,t.., ending at J O'C, ,, d.,ys later, at yxo A. M.-the final day', record being ,,0 m. He uH-d a 56 in. wheel, weighing 45 lbs. I bel.cvc he wa. then an undergraduate at Cambridge ; and his exploit Kerns to have .ttracted more public mtere.t than any previous long ride. By invitation of the citizen, of Aberdeen, he gave a sort of informal lecture about it in their Town Ha.l, and this was reported .n full by Ihe Aierdtm Free Preu and reprinted by the it^/uelman (Oct., '8j, pp. 57-60) show- ing the log of each day. (8) Two months liter, on Wednesdaj, Aug. 16, '8,, Alfred Niioi, of r^nilon, left J. O'G. at 11 a, m. and drove a tric7c!e to L. E. in 14 days, ending at -o 55 a m Mis route was identical with the previous one, except that he was misdirected for 3 m. and rode from Thurso before siarting.-so that the total was 1007 m., whereof ,04 m. belonged :o th^ l..st day. He published in the TricyclUt a detailed account of this earliest long-distance exploit on a t'lcycle, and the ll^heelmaH reprinted it (Nov., '8,, pp. „<>.,3a). As regard, the " corner to comer ndes of '83, Tom Moore's book merely says that, " J. Lennox was again the hero reatly reducing the bi. time ; and A. Nixon put in another capital performance on the tri " ;' and It mentions for the next two years only one ride besides the 6 wbicii f have already recorded — namely, that taken in '85 by E. Oxbop-ow. on a Facile, in 5 days ,3 h. " Thus the end of '85 taw T. R. Marriott absolutely at the top of the tree, and with the coveted record (certified by the Records Committee of the N. C. U., Nov. 2), which not only surpassed all previous time. un the tri. but ' knocked out ' the bi. record also, though every one knows the two-wheel^r is a faster machine. This Humber tri. madt the journey (87. m. by Hemu's cyclom.) without a nut or screw coming loose, though weighing only 54 lbs. It had 40 in. wheels, geared to 56 in and I in. tires." It was mads by Marriott & Cooper, of which firm the rider is senior partner. His height IS 5 ft. 8 in., and usual weight 146 lbs., though this increased to 150 lbs. within 3 days after the ride. The full-Iei-gth photograph which was taken then, at Glasgow, to form a frontis- piece for the book, suggests an age of abc ut 35- "The hotel where the ride began, at 3 min past midmght of Monday, Sept. .., stam's on a projecting headland, i\ m. beyond Sennen the last village in England, and at the very edge of the clifls,-thus fully justifying its title of Land's Knd. A thick fog, a pouring rain, a road of fearful surface and some gigantic hi.ls, character- ued the first ij h. (to Peniance, ,o\ m.), and the rain did not stop till 6.30 A. m., when 56 m had been covered. He halted for sleep at Bridgewater, at ,..45 P. M., after getting across ,65 m., which included more rough and hilly roads than any later day of the ride, and which was 30 ni. beyond the first day's stopping pbceof any previous rider from L. K." On the iind, after 3I h. in bed, he started at 4.30 A. M. and rode 147 m. to Hodnet, at 10 min. pa.st midnight, making 3um. forthe48h. ; 23rd, "much rain and wind " ; 430 a. m. to .0.10 p. m, to Kendal, 428 m. ; 24th, " winds and heavy showers " ; 3.45 a. m. to 2.30 A. m. (of 2sth), to Edinburgh, 570 m. ; 2sth, " storms of rain, snow and sleet " ; after only ij h. in bed, 6. 15 a. m. to 2.30 a. m. (- pears that the journey began with 35 h. of conlii.uous riding, and ended with a still longer puil of jg h. ; yet the rider gained 5^ lb., on the way. " Writing with a fresh recollection of tl»- difficulties," he says, " I am of the opinion that, with dry weather, and with no great am^uht of opposing wind, the distance from L. K, to J. O'G. ought to be completed in 5 days, by a competent rider, on bi. or tr;." He arranged to attempt this, Aug. 16, '86; but bad weaiht'r (or- bade. I believe the weather also caused A. Nixon to abandon the plan (announced in H'lutlmg, June 9, '86) of trying to push a tri. from Land's Knd to London in 1 days, by a route of 287 m., " whereof the first 118 m. are almost mountainoa,. and the rest very rough and hilly." " Beautiful weather and favorable wind " helped G. P. Mills, of Liverpool, during the first half of his 5 days' marvelous ride of 8^>i m., which began at I.. K , just after midnight of July 5, '86; b.it .1 gale was then encountered " which blew the three riders off their machines, i^me after time," and the wind continued adverse to the finish, wiih intense cold and cKcasional down-pours of raiiA Gretna Green, almost 5^0 m. from L. E., was reached in a) days, by the aid of various pace-makers, and A. H. Fletcher accompanied him thence to J. O'G. The lirsi wretch from L. E. was 25J h., to Gloucester, 230 m., where a 2 h. halt was made lor sleep be- fore the second stretch of 34J n. to Kendal, 200 m. ; and Edinburgh, 150 m. further, was reached at 11 p. m. of that third day. Crossing here by Granlon Ferry, at midnight, he had a •hort sleep in a r. r. c.irriage at the station, with three companions, and then wheeled to Perth, 27 m., at 8.55; Athole, 62 m, at 1.30; Kingussie, loom,, at 9.21, and Caribridge, 121 m., at J 1.55. On the fifth and final day, he reached Dingwall, 35 m, at 7; Helmsdale, 99 m., at 5.45; Wick, 141 m., at 10.30; and thence kept right on to J. O'G., 160 m., -finishing at 1.45 a. m. of July 10. A month later, he drove a Kumber tri. over the course, 881 m., in 5 days, 10 h. ; and I condense the following facts from his own two-column report (lyhetling, Sept. i, '86, p. 331) : The start was just after midnight of Monday, Aug. 15, the roads being wet and heavy from rain which had fallen until .0.30; and rain fell again from 2 to 6 A. M.,and also in the evening after 7. Nevertheless, he reached Bristol, 203 m., at ...30 p. m. ; started oa after 3 h. halt, and reached Warrenton, 164 m., in spite of head-winds during the day, at 11.30 p. m. (367); after another 3 h. halt, rode for 26J h., :o Crawford, 175 m. (542) ; after 2 h. halt, the fourth stage was completed to Dalwhinnie, 7 a. m. to 3 a. m., ,44 m. (686), slowness having been enforced by a dangerously rough road, and inability to use his lantern ; after 3 h. halt, he rode .og m. more dur- mgthat fifth day, to Golspie, at 11,25 (809^; and then, after \ h. sleep, started at .2.40 a. m. for the final 72 m., and reached J. O'G. (S81) exactly at 10, " fre,sher than at the start, though having had only 10 h. sleep on the trip." Dilworth Abbott, of the trcston C. C, in a Wednes- day's ride of 162 m., accompanied him for several hours; but A. W. Gamble was his most effi- aent pace-maker and assistant during this great journey; and the proofs of it, as well as of his July bi. ride, were promptly accepted by the officers of the N. C. U. Neither of these " rec- ords" seem lik- !y soon to be essentially lowered ; and if the distance " from corner to comer " •hall ever be covered more quickly, unexampled good-luck in respect to winds and weather will doubtless be a chief factor in the phenomenon. But the end of 'S6 certainly finds all the long- distance racers in the world ready to accord the highest place of honor among the.a to this young George Pilkington Mills (b. Jan. 8, '67), whose po-trait forms the frontispiece of the fourth annual issue of the " Liverpool Cyclists' Guide " (by Geo. E. Young, b. July 30. '52 ; a wheel- man continuously since '69), and faces a table of his monthly riding-record for '85, cut from the BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 557 Bi S^^ J.n^ ,* '«^ Thi. .how. „;o n.. .ccr«i.,.d to „ day.. or .„ ..er.,. daily rid. ol 57» a. On ., of ih... day. h. rod. more ,tun .«, ra.. and on 5 ot the „ he rode JL^^l nd ».o„.hly m.lea,e average r.de. lo.ge., r.de, and ,o,al mileage from Jan. ,. •,, Jan - 5. '15. »7. j8, MSi ►eb— 4, 1,7, a,|, j8. ,5j; Mar -,. ,11 ,,i a, .a. a 6^ ; Au,.-,, ;„, 83^ ,^ ,,„ ; Sept.-,. „». 334, „. ,;», , Oc,.-,. .„/„, J; 'J^ ."j};:*^ .8 h. . thu. : May ,5 he rod. from Liverpool to Daventry .nd back to Covent^ .,6 m in 'i h., wh.ch mcluded ., h. of ra.n (hi. father. W. Down,. M-IU. accomp:^r'7;n^',hr f'u 1 jt .ance.on a tricycle); May ,6. C. .0 Glouc.er. .,. m. : May ,; to Jul , G .' I O'^ «3 n,.. .n 6 day,. , h. -accompanying L. Kle.ch.r. who ..ar.co frl L 7. Ma^ ,6 /„d wo,' the r.. record, by reach.ng J. O'G.. 8;, m. In 8 day,. 5 h. ,0 mi„.. in .pi,; „f 'b^'^d.In^ wea her. Three mo. later. Sep.. „ .0 Oct. ,. Mr. F pu.hed a tri. from L. T to GretnJ Oreen. 500 .-.. . .„ J h. le„ than 4 day., though having rain and wet road, for 360 m. The «,^ 00 m^were covered by G. P. M.. a. the outset of hi, great bi. ride of July. '86. in a da« u, h. and with only J h. of ,leep. Of the latter'. 24 h bi . ,Je, ol '8. nam.a „r * him ■. the record " of th. Anfield B. C. the .on e,t. asc " Ll^ . "• r'om kZJ and i:d ff .."'xk"' '" ^'-^ ""''"''• --""'-^y. "P -" down hill.'ov" Jd.T«^72 and.nd.ffereni." The ,5. m. rid. wa. on July „. from Liverpool to Dunchu^ch anrb^cT^ r::r:rr..:'aZ::rp;?aK^' ""• ''- -' ^-^ ■•' - '^^ - -• -- -« ■- - .hu!r •'.*** ^°"""": ^"'%'l"''« ""P"'^ h" earlier day's ride., and he al«, made the retr.ark- ble datly average of 75 m. for 8a ride, between Jan. . and Oct. 9. by covering . total o 6 » ^ I. was on Aug. j-.en days before hi. tri. ride to J. O'G.-that he .urpri«d people bywtelir; He7a.7H% r" k""*"' '"• "'''"" '^"•"•'' ^^«-*" """-'-"ring h^'which wa J nE,d at the finish as when .tartins." The start wa. , m. n. of Biggleswade at tl-e 46th m ^ton^ of the Great North Road. Along thi, he went straightaway from „ to ^ !< 4 I. .Tr^h!' turnedbacj.o Lynn, for breaWa,.. with .0. m. donl-.ho'ugh ^..L.m.wa"- finished « 7.5. be.ng J h. better than the previous record, held by Appleyard. He dined a. Holl^ch (a 1 , ; ^ u f ? S'^S''''*'""' « "•". with ^65 m. : and finished at the 45th m.-stonrt^j m 0: T'8r "shT"''"'" '«''• fr»'='-«P--— ord was,66jm..madeby ,. H.' Ii:.'. ^.r •• n ,^^'!'y. " ""' *°'"'*'''" °' =» ^""i'^"ct for the last .80 m. Signatures we^ taken ,n al the ch.ef towns, and pace-maker, were with him for much of the way.-l^ .hauh^ cta,l. of the r.de were proved beyond doubt. Two mos. later. Oct. 6. in the .a;7region t, bettered th.s record a.J m.. starting again a. B., and finishing on the troke of ,a. whe r* ^ from . a town, wuh ,,,» m. done. " Hi.chin. Peterborough. Wisbeach. Cambt^ie d Be" ford w re the pnnc.pal places on the chosen route, which is one of ,he very best that can be go m England ; the roads were in grand order and the weather most favoraWe. The firs, .» m bTnanTlb' '* ; T '"." '■ ""' ^°° '" ''* "• "' ''^' - '-' --<^"ving saLy b .. na"; by Dan Albone. of B anH was accompanied by Dan for about .60 m., and by others neariyS ar," A G H ll" ""' °' ' ■'' "»«-"'="'"- -^^ '^--^^'^ "P. f-h an'd strong as tt^i O , .«M ■ .,. *" T""" '""^ "'"'•''"P'^ •»>« ''""e as on the ride of Aug. 5 " (W-^^^/iW Sorth'koad C C :::^' "" ""' ""•'"''• °" '*•''• -■ '^""' *°" '"= '^ b'road.racr:S bv r W R C --^"'"K "7 "1- a« against aaj m. by — . Waterhouse. of Sheffield ; a.- m ?J' uT' "' ■"• ''^—- "'•"'""»". °f London; .90 m. by T. R. Marriott friT darkne« h H "V ";,« ^'"^yt" *ho escaped any falls, on account of the keavy m st. pitd^ S cole t" ' ;' '"" °' ''" """■"" °" ^'P'- ^' J- K- Conway rl ,55 m. on ngaT; lt'"RTrb"; :,^ l'^ '".'"•'"■ "" '^- ^- ^ ^^"-^ °" ^ept. 7. G. B. Merce" Wo4 8 . J H ■ ^-^ " 'f ""^ '»'"'-<'°i"g "7 m. before breakfast, and aao m. before 8 ". m. He wm accompanied for aoo m. by N. Crooke, who then had a bad faU which d I SS8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I forced him to give up at 2Jo m. All four of these men belong to the AiificM B. C, and their '85 .ides are recorded on p. 553, along with those of Mi. Is. The latter lowered the -o ni bi road-record 19 miii., on Saturday, Oct. 2, starting at 3.10 v. m., on an Ivel safety bi., from the 3olh m.-po.st (which is 4 ni. s. of Hitchin) and riding to the i'oth m.-post, at Peterborough in 1 h. 47 min. 36 sec. " The •■ jad was in perfect condition, and the breeze slightly favorable. 1 he first 15 m. to Biggleswade were done in 45 min., and Dan Albone was pace-maker thence to the finish." I'he time was 1 min. 33 sec. more than that on the notable 50 m. ride which Milk took with A. J. Wilson, Sept. 22, on a Ueeston Humber tandem, from the 76th m.-post, 4 ni .^ of Peterborough, straightaway to Langford. The first 20 m. occupied only i h. 4 min. ; the lirst 38 m., 2 h. (being faster than the bi. record on path); and the total of 2 h. 46 min. 3 sec. was only s sec. slower than the bi. path record, and was 23 min. 52 sec. faster tiian the previous best 50 m. tandem ride, accredited to S. Lee and Dr. Turner. Droves of cattle hindered progress at several places, and the wind was contrary near ^he finish. On Sep'. 25, Mills and Wilso,, began an attempt to do 300 m. in a day ; but a". 2.45 A. m., when 44 m. had been covered, their tandem was overturned and disableci, by running into a heap of road-metal. The most notable !■ ng-distance tri. ride reported in Frai.ce, was that of Daniel (known a:i " Baby " ; see p. 553), from Pau to Calais, Aug. 12, at 4 .\. s.., to Aug. 17, .it 2.17 v. m.,— a di:^ tance of 66r m., in 5 days, 10 h. 17 min., whereof 99 h. 37 min. were spent m the saddle. "He reached Bergerae, about 137 m., at 9.40 p. m. of Aug. 12 ; then plodded on from 4.20 a .m. of the 13th to 3 A. M. of the 14th, and slept 2 h. at Laumont ; reached Orleans at 8.30 v. m. „f 14th ; passed through Paris to Pontoise, on 15th (after a delay of 2 or 3 h. by mistake in road); reached Auxy-le-Chateau on i6th, and Calais on 17th. He sent back postcards, from each vill lage, signed by th.^ officer in charge, to verify the ride." I quote from the Paris mr of il.e Wheelnun's Gazette (Oct., '86, p. ,07), who also said : " H. O. Duncan tried a similar . ,.k earlier m the year, but, after fighting 5 or 6 days' rain, gave up any idea of making a record " IVheelmg, of Aug. 4, '86, said : " Mr. lortner, of Vienna, has just ridden a bi. from V to Pans, in :i days, 2 h., thus beating Lieut. Zubowitz's famous horseback ride of 14 days " (Forroute of T. Stevens, P. ,0 V., May ,6-3., '85, see pp. 480-8,.) On Sept. 2., '86, J V Warren and G. Adams, of St Helens, rode from ' H. to LlandafiF. Wales, ,93* m in -, I, 8 mm. As regards the rumored " ,2,000 m. done on a tri. in '82, by W. W. Williams, of Lon^ don I am obliged ,0 report that he has neglected to answer my letters of enquiry, though oth.r Londoners have told me that the " record " has no known basis of cvclom. or written log I, ;L'?'"f,"' "7' '; ^«=P:"-' a "general guess of about .000 m. a month." ridden chieflv in riX;:f '".p /.. r^^'" ^ °' msurance-agent, I think); but since such well-knnwn public as If It were authentic (" Faed " did this in Spr. IVh. Gaz. Julv, '83. p. 3;). I feel forced 13 V T ''""' 7P'"""°"' '" ^"^"^ "^'■•* I did not write in ignorance, on p. 53,, when f named E. Tegetme.er's .0,053 m. as the highest annual record then accedited to a wheelman. [The first part of this chapter, as far as the break in p. 554, is 9 mos. older than the res. of t having all bee^ put m type by Feb, .5, '86,-whereas these final page, are writte,. and e).c- trotyped during the latter half of Nov. Meanwhile, my correspondents at the Antipodes, ex- pectmgeach month to receive the completed book, have failed to send reports of their more recent "des; so that the following summaries are mostly prepared from materials which 1 .ccumulated in 84-s,-supplemented by a file .r ;he fortnightly Australian Cycling .V«t-r, up to the date of its discontinuance, Sept. 25. '86.] My earliest subscriber in that pari of the world-enrolled as " No. ,,38 " on the list-i. Geo. \\. Rurston Capt. of the Melbourne B. C, which is not only one of the largest cli-bs of he sort on the Island Continent, but is also one of the oldest anywhere existing,-for it was formed about the middle of Aug,. '78. Hi, letter to me of Mar. 22. '84. said : "As vou ask c..... .. ...c .uo M,. straightaway ride which brought my name to your notice, I enclose a correct .ccount, written by T. A. Edwards, from the hftlb^n* Bu,tin of May 25, '83, I also ^'?V;--^'?r'-.- ^^ BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. •end you our little club-book, conuining records of such tours and loo ra. runs as have been take, by our 80 members. You will observe that a club rule grants a gold medal to each member on the first occasion of h.s wheeling .00 m. within .2 h., provided he rides at least 50 m. straiehUwav so as not to traverse the same road twice, except on the return. The book n.Tmes 6 such medall takers, and, since it was priuttd, these 7 have also ridden the .00 m : G S Gedde. r,« Irwin. J_ /arnsworth, J. F. Cole, Chas. Walker. T. B. Mason, A. Wa.erman.' i am now ust. a 57 '»• Lrilish Challenge, which is my fourth bicycle, and I have ridden at least » 000 m dJ i„g the last s years." His ,00 m. ride of Sunday. May ,0. '83, in 9 h. 50 min., though much imidered by bad roads and weather, was a h. better than any previously made in his club and ,. ■ema.neci for 5 mos. " the best Australian record." 1 think no earlier rider in that region had done he ,00 m. straightaway, or stayed in the saddle for 48 m. " Starting from Ballarat (Uster's Hotel) a. 6..0 ., M in pitchy darkness, he found the cold increase in bitterness to C „nt„ .0 1. faced for a ... to the Batesford H^l. which forcedS;! '^:::::::S:^T^ iiext6i-.). were done in 28 min.. to Geelonc where ,nr„;, ,• . 1 j j , "* ^7 '"^- '"' . , -..i . • , ' *'*""^ 2° """rest was had, and a breeze hebed then .0 Little river, where rain began. This soon made a certain b,d stretch of clay unridable and ,0 mm. were spent m walking . m. at the end of it. Werribee was reached at ,37. and ao min res was had ; thence a good pace was taken ,0 Footscray. where . m. across the" t was unr d! able; andthendee..dedatMelbourne(MitreTavern)..oom..at 4P.M." On Oct. .4, '83 T P Jenkins, of Ballarat, lowered this record ,5 min.. " on a 54 in. D. H. F. Premier, which he had recently won in a ,0 m. Premier road-race." Starting from the post-crfice in B. at 5.30 a m he reached Elaine. 20m.. in , h. 25 min.. and Geelong, 54 m.. 3 h. later. After 25 min. for bath and refreshments, he began the return at 10.25, and, with wind ac his back and roads in perfect order sped swiftly to Lethbndge, at .1.45 ; halted . h. at Meredith for food and rest ; passed through Clarendon, and finished at Buninyong, at 3, with a record of 10: m. On Jan. 31. '84, F. W. Hriggs, sec. of Wamiambool C. C, took 14 min. less in doing the 100 m.. on a 51'in. Invinci- ble, weighing 28 lbs., thus : Starting from W. (Pumim) at 7.37 a. m , he rode through Mort- lake and Terang to Camperdown. 44 m.. in 3 h. 38 i-in. without dismount. After 20 min. for lunch, he began the return, at 11.35. through T. and M. to Darlington ; then turned again and finished v \\., at 4.48. completing the 100 m. in 9 h. 11 min. (8J h. of riding). This seems to have remained record" until Sept. 28. '85, when T. F. Hallam rode 100 m.. straight across Tasmania, in 9 h. 9 min. " The longest road-race ever held in Australia " was that of 7; ni., under the auspices of the Warrnambool C. C. (which has about 100 members), Nov. 9, '83, and it was won by the captain. E. White, in 6 h. 17 min. 43 sec. ; F. Proudfoot was second, W. P. Croll was third ; but the fourth and last man. A. J. Foote, did the whole distance with- out a dismount, and was less than 7 min. behind the winner. On Oct. 11, '83, be rode 100 m. in 9 h. 54 min., 2nd. in the autumn of '85, 170 m. in two diys. I think all three ol these rides were straightaway ; and the 7; m. stay in the saddle is the longest reported to me from Austra- lia,— the nearest approach to it being made, a month later, P'C. 14, '83. by R. O. Bishop (x. 16), who rode without stop from Geelong to Melbourne, 52 n. , in 4} h. (For comparison with Londoners' straightaway stays, 106 m. and 70 m., see p. 540.) On May 9, '83, F. W. Briggs and A. J. Foote both wheeled 100 m. in 9 h. 26 min. of " riding time." On Oct. 10, '83, H. R. Stokes, of Melbourne B. C. did .00 m.. in it h. 4 min.,— probably on the same road where he won the 50 m. straight race, from Kyneton to M., in 3 h. 13 min., Oct 27, '83. On this road also were made the three earliest 100 m. records of the c!ub, from M. to K. and back, thus : Jan 3, '82, W. S. Harelton, 11 h. 54 min. ; Jan. 8, '82, H. R. Stokes, II h, 54 min. ; Nov -6. '82. Alf. Joy, 11 h. 46 min. The club's next record was made straight- away by G. W. Burston, as already detailed; and, after this, Sept. 26, '83, O. A. Thome and F. J. Lcwellyn rode from M. to Moolap and back (4 m. past Geelong), 100 m., in 10 h. 59 min. On Apr. 4, '85, starting from Camperdown at 6 A. M.. G. \. Thome (54 in. British Challenge) rode 100 r.i. in 9 h. 49 min., while trying to lower the record of F. W. Briggs but was hindered by the wind. The club-book gives nc date for the earliest recorded tour, 254 m. in three day^ ;•■<;" fe ■St: i fi 560 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I which was taken by J. A. K. Clarke, A. S. Manmb U Stevenson and H. H. Turner rode from Ueelong to Warmambool, 121 m. ; and, at Chrisuim the two first named sailed across to Tasmania aud wheeled from l>uuuceston to Uubari 121 m.,— while H. C. Bagot, J. A. K. Clarke, W. Caivert, E. J. Giil, J. flail aud Lu Mogot, C. Carter, H. C. Haud- ford and W. S. Haielton rode to Geelons, Ballarat, Warmimbool and Co.ac, 290 ni. in 4 days, — while G. A. Thome rode from M. to Echuca and back, 320 m. in 5 days, — E. being a border town whence a bridge crosses the Murray into N. S. W. Melbourne's iilust. mag., Once « Month, of May 15, '85, contained a 6-column sketch of the club's Easter tour of ilut y<;ar written by K. J. Empson, who named, as the other participants, G. W. Burston, E. C. Carter G. S. Geddes, J. Baird, H. Hars:on, . Skoglund and C. Wragge, — together wiih Geo. Spicer, Captain of the Victoria B. C. (and, at the start, two long-distance lourisis from Ade- laide). Train was taken to ballarat, as astarting-poin*, and the officers of the club there accom- panied the party |o a midnight supper on arrival, and gave an escort of 20 nicn for the first few miles of the tour, next morning. Then at Beaufc-t, 28 m. on, : other escort of 30 welcomed them to a banquet in the Shire Hall ; and at Buangor, 14} m., still others were waiting to ride with them the last 14 m. to Ararat, for the night. The second day ended at Hamilton, 70 m.,— the first 50 m. being covered in s h. 10 min. of the forenoon,— but on the outskirts of the town Ihey found the local club awaiting them with a stack of bottled lager, and, after this introduc- tion, "a drag and four" took the entire company out to supper at Wannon Falls, uj m. In spite of a rainy night, 82 m. were covered on the third day, the last 14 m., to Camperdown, being done in the darkness without a dismcunt. A previous stretch of 14 m., to Terang, was covered in i h. 12 min. The fourth day's record wras 75 m., to Geelong, making a total, includ- ing detours, of 300 m. Breakfast on that final day was at Colac, after 39 m. The lake and mountain scenery of the route WiS highly praised. The two Adelaide men mentioned in the above tour were A. Gault and R. C. Cox, who had recently (Mar. 21-29) pushed their bicycles across from A. to M., 508 m. except that they took train from Kingston to Narracoorte, 53 m. of uii.idable swamps and sand hills. Mr. G., after a day with the Melbourne tourists, returned by train to M. and thence by boat to A. ; while Mr. C, after two days with the party, retraced his former route alone by wheel and train to A. The pioneer tour between the two capitals had been taken 3 mos. earlier (Christmas, '84), by A. H. Padman, of A., who wheeled 495 m., but resorted to the train from K. to N., "because assured that a previous tourist, Mr. Nimmo, had done this, and that the 53 m. stretch inc udcd at least 12 m. of positively unridable sand, and 3 or 4 m. of swamp, a or 3 ft. deep." A part of this bad stretch was tried, in the opposite direction, by W. J. S. Story, who, on Jan. 14, '85, wheeled from Mt. Gambier to Narracoorte, 54 m., 10.30 a. m. to 8.20.P. m., " enjoying the fine •cenery, in spite of the great heat " ; and on the 15th, tramped 22 m. through the sanHs and swamps and along the r. r. ties to Lucindale, where he was glad to take train for K. Thence, on the afternoon of the i6th, he wheeled 33 m. to Coolatoo, along with the mail coach, thn«t:h much of the ro.id was bad ; and then the drivers of the coach, as a practical joke, fnrribly put him and his bicycle on top thereof, rnd insisted on having his company to Mcnin;jic, 60 m., through the nig.'- , during which the thunder storms raged until all were soaked. On the 17th, 2 to 8 p. M.. he pushed Ihrnnch heavy sanH to WelUiirton. i.« rr.. : .-.r.H. nr. \\:r s.o.!^ .-. -.r-. a v !."5 to P. M., by 67 m. of generally good roads to Adelaide ; total aaj m. Bad as is thi» route f.om Mt^f& BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 36, Wellington, along the Coorong. the only dtern.tive i. a wor« one, for it leads throuirh .K. " de^rt to Bordemown." Hi. report oi thi. tou. wa. printed in ;. C ^<:^, a""*.' % ^,\ *h.le A H Pad^an's report likewise occupied , or 4 issues, bfginninK Jan "7^' 1^' '' '' age of the Gault and Cox ride stood thus: 32 w «q « .6 .. w. "''•""• ''• «»« daily mile- g,ve a.uch interesting evidence to show that'tj^ ^X: h SoufhTr^L" '"k""" "^'^ cult than in Victoria, whose Western District seems to contJn a g^" ^ "lea I." ^T '"*■ than any other section of the continent. Ballarat U a sort oTcen.er or ! ^^ ^ u.'~"^ .em, and the B. B. & T. C. (org., '„) is second in age o"; To he Me^fnTH r ""7" alrnost equally act.ve in the promotion of tours. The L/W C^^^.f J^;™',f -S' '"' " column account of the club's annual ride of 4oj m Veh . ' ^' *f"" » trothers,-K. A. & T. H. Thompson, H p"& G:'H.1l,.Z^;/rrE"Mr^''rr";' first-named was captain and the last named was " a boy no, v^ .'6 v;.fr M I '~! ?°'" "" way without showing any signs of fatigue " So lar.e a . f ., V ' "^^^ "^' "" *'"''• a r,dc in Victoria ; and all L loil dubs ea!e 11 '' ""' P"""''""^'^ '"'=" «> '="8 days was thus distributed G et g "' ^oUc T- W™ 'T'T' ""'^ ""'"^^ °' ">' » .. .S m. like a race track',. H.^^ :::2^, .^-^ ^n^ LTJ. ?!:' s,on of hills and dales, covered Ju. fe and „ L h™ J ^l^r'"'"" '""" 30 ,n^ of dasmal progress across the S.reatham plains ; but .he second " took in 1^ ?,'Sott^ tin ZTl 1 -d T-ng." On Apr. .,. '83. H. P. Shimmin rode .dm in „ h 7 m n. and he d.d .t agam. Oct. .,, ;„ company with R. A. Tho-npson. also in .. h. 57 min C. M^ Bennett, of the same club, with favorable roads and weather, made .00 m., Feb .0 'S6 .n .0 h 3. m.n.. wh.ch included .J h. for rests. He used a 50 in. British Challenge ; and' thai same style of b>. earned 5 of the 6 tourists, without break, in the 400 m. ride of '84. Mr B w„ awarded a |,o trophy in May, for having attended every weekly club-ru.. for 6 mos ,-the T'frn 1 *'J""'^ '" ^ "• ^^'"^'"'"'' *•"' "''^ =''^^"' ^"' °"^«- The Easter .;ur in were r B,?L T p "i' 'f '"""""f '''""=" '° ^"'''"^' '*"'"■ '" ' ^"y^- ^""^ '>>e participanu were (,. Blauk. E. E. Lording and A. Starkey. At Christmas, '83, Walter Hume, of Melboame, " covered 530 m. in 6* days of actual riding," through Geelong, CoIac,Warmambool. Ararat, Stawell, Castlemaine and home to M. A year later -on the same bi.. a D. H. F. Premier, which gave entire satistactio.i both times.-he rode from M to Sydney, about 5S3 m. , a-companied by H. G. Keefe. an English visitor. From the second part of his report (A. C. News, Jan. 3., '85), I find that the last 343 m. were distributed through Srinys thiis : Dec. 23, Tarcutta, 55 ; 24,h, Colac. 48 ; 25th, BogalonR, 35 ; 26th. Gunning. 44 ; 27th, Goulbum, 30; 28th, Mittagong, 55: 29th, Liverpool, 54; 30th, at .0 a. m.. Sydney, 21 niense heat was the chief hindrance to quicker progress. On Nov. 26, '83, C. Greensidcs and J Uoije of Castlemaine wo., the gold medals offered by their club, for doing ,00 m. inside of 12 h ' bv ndu.fe ^rom C. to Melbourne, 5.30 A. M. to 5.20 P. m. Thev covered the first 27 m. in 2 h 25 min. , and the first 49 m. , to Kyneton , inside of 5 h. Their rests amounted to 1 h. . and their last .. m, were done in exactly , h. On Dec. 30, '83, A. C. Destree, S. A. Mott, and . Gray, of Hamilton rode thence to Colac. ,,2 m., 6 A, M. to 5.35 p- M.,-Juing the first .00 m. in ,0 h. tr. min. The two former reached H. again at 5.45 p. m. of Jan. ., with a record of 264 m. A few day, earher, J. A. Little, sec. of the Ararat B. C tarting at 6 A. M.. reached Ballarat at noon and Leigh Road before dark. .02 m. . in 9 h. 36 mi f actual riding ; next day, to Geelonr ; ' , ."" ■""■ ' • '"" ■■"■■■" -''' '" "■»=iS="'"C, ,j ill.. Ill 4 ii. 55 min.. — a total of ibom., >n .5 h. 43 mm. of actual riding. From a list of 28 Australian ,00 m. road-rides, to the close of IM iprepared for me by a Melbourne subscriber and printed in Wtutlnun's GautU, July, '85 36 56a TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ■p. 4»), I take the following f of '83, u being the only onos no' elsewhere mentioned by me in greater detail : Jan. 1, A. Bartram, of Carlton B. C, 11:58; May 14, in Tasmania (" riding time"), H. Knight, 10:55; F. Turner. 10:53; . Hodgman, 11:49; Sept. 18, at Melbourne, C. Walker, 11:4; T. B. Bason, 11:55; A. L. Wood, 11:55; Ddc a8, J. S. Foulkes, 10:15.' The same letter said that the best day's lide on a tri. which had then been taken ia Vic'.oru was accredited to R. J. P?rker, Nov. 2, '83, 90 m., in lo} h., when the breaking of machine prevented a*ioo m. record. About the close of Mar., '85, a Miss Douchier and two other young ladies, of Ballarat, drove their tricycles to Melbourne, nearly loom., in a single day; and their renort in the Ballarat Courier said : "As to the effects of the ride, w^ all felt much better during the latter part of the journey than in th; middie of it, for thj nu:nbir of cxcssdingly steep hills at th; outSL-t, up which we had to shove our machines, tended greatly to exhaust us, and proved more fati-uin" than the whole of the work on the machines. None of the party felt any distressing eff.'cis che next day, md the whole trip was a very pleasant one." Similar testimony was given {A . C. Neu't Nov. 7, '85, pp. 89-90) by Miss E. M. Thomfeldt, in reporting " the longef* tri. t.-ip yet taken by ladies in Victoria " ; FromSUwell to Ararat, Oct. 16, 4 to 8 p.m., i3m., through intense h.at; thence to Ballarat, 58 m., on 17th, and homi to S., on 19th, 5 a. m. to 10 p. m.,— a three days' ride of 15a m. " Almost incredible as it seems, we were no more tired after tlii 5! m. of the second day than after the iS m. of the first. Though people at home said it was a most danger- ous thing for tvro girls to attempt riding such a distance alone, every one whom we met was both kind and respectful to us ; and we wer2 in fact escorted almost every yard of the journey, eitl.cr by family friends or by members of the local clubs,— not to mention the protection of our little dog, ' Dandy,' who showed more weariness than we ourselves felt. We each rode a 4S in. rear. steering Cheylesmore Club, and both machines stood the journey splendidly. The last 8 m. were accomplished in } h., — a glorious moonlight finish for the trip." The writer's father, M. Thornfoldt, pushed a tricycle straightaway to Sydney about 750 m.. Mar. 8-14, '86, as deuiled later (pp 565-6). Another elderiy rider, Geo. R. Brcadbent, took the earliest tri. tour in Vic- loria, some time before the close of '84, — Melbourne to Murchison, 94 m., — which was increased to 135 m. on the return, when bad weather forced a resort to the tr?'n. His letter to mc, dated at Crowie Villa, Flemington Bridge, Hotham Hill, Melbourne, Apr. 18, '85, said : "Though a grandfather, I am a great enthusiast at cycling, which is truly ' the king of sports ' ; and noth- ing suits me I ;iter than a good long ride. In '83, I wheeled considerably more than 5000 ri. ; in '84, my total reached 5767 m., being an average of 15} m. per riding day, and forming the largest year's record in the colony ; while in '85, to date, I have ridden iSoo m." His complete record for '85 was 6814 m., distributed through 345 days, making a daily average of i8g m. In the following summary of it, the figures sh^w respectively riding days, monthly mileage, longest day's ride, and largest weekly mileage : Jan.,— 27, 518, 50, 157; Feb.,— j8, 621, 45, 164 ; Mar., —31,688, 50, 165; Apr.,— 29, 602, 70, 159; May,— 30, 541, 50, 133; June,— 24, 367, 20, 104; July,— 2S, 496, 46, 140; Aug.,— 31, 58S, so, 137; Sept.,— 28, 604, 73, 182, Oct.,- 30, 55, 43, 154; Nov.,— 29, 585, 60, 201 ; D'c- 30, 619, 53, 151. This is an exhibit of very evenly-dij- trib-.ited riding, appropri.nte for an elderly man, absorbed in business cares. I copy it from the A. C. Aews (Jail. 16, '86), which says that the costs for wear and tear of his machine during the 63i4 m. were I38. The three years' wheeling of this enthusiastic " grandfather " amounted, as may be seen, to 17,600 m. From earlier issues of the iVnvs, I learr. tliat on Nov. 2, '85 C. Neuhoffer rode from Sa.idhurst to Melbourne, loo m., between 6.30 A. M. and 5.30 p. M., thus winning one of the gold medals offered to those members of the Sandhurst C. C. who could cover the distance in 11 h. The weather was perfect, and the roads were in very fair order,— the first 14 m. being covered in i h. J. W. Tonkin and S. Keam also accompanied him, except that they reached M. a little too late for the medal ; while M. E. Gilbert, the fourth member of the party, withdrew near Kyneton, the half-way point, because his bicycle broke, in fork, head and tire. The first of the club's medals was won by T. Goyne, about a lortnight earlier; and the third, on Nov. 19, by W. Upstill, who wheeled from S. to M., in 10] h., ending at 5.1$ p. m., and who found all the roads in fine condition. --, 'vi-^ . •*:/*■- >-■;■/ ..^••- ;>.■' -i)* 5f^»^^-^i3ifc' BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 353 Until the clo« of '8j. the only longer tour in Victoria thau that of the M. B. C in Oct 8a (soom a ready described), was one of 5.0 m., in 8 days, accredited .0 A. E. Robert^ ; but on . i'^t . °. ""',""• *"'' '"'* "°' •''" =°"'P'"«' '''• '*'" y'". b^gan a fo^nighf. tour of 66,J m. (w days of actual .iding) thus : ,3rd. South Va,.a to Gee ongVs^ ; 24th Bun Y^^^^"%T'\'1' ^^""'"' r •/'"' '^"'^ »"'» '«c>c. M ; Sth, Kyneton and bad; to S. days (4.76 m. n, 297 days of '8a. and ^.ao m. in 33. days of Jj) ; and I 've already noted hi. b^s sra.gh.away stay ... the saddle.-ja ™. in ,i h., G. .0 M., Dec. .,. He rL a^in Mauhless dunng ,h. tour, .nd was highly pleased with it ; and h= was accompanieffor „o m. by Wm. Harr-son. Pr.v.ous m.- .h.nes ridden had varied from 50 to 55 in. ; but, assuming 5a in as he aveiage size dunng the 8296 m., he estimated that he had taken 7..34.7a4 strokes at the pedals ■nforcu,g,567.,,6a revolutions of the driver, and ao8,684,o3o revoh.tions of the .Sin rear wheel Ihe followng ,s n summary of his riding days and mileage for each month-the first pair of numerals stai.du.K for '8a, the second for '83 : Jan.-o, o ; ,9, 67, • Feb -.0 66 • .9,3^9; Mar.-3o,332; 27,400, Apr.-a6, 443 i 28,464; May-a3,a89; 3-. 378; Junel3„; 33.; aa,a5a; July-a8,3a9; 30,,.,; Aug.-a8,394; 3.. .84; Sept.-jo, 377 aS «, • Oct -31. 4^3; 3.. 3.a; N0V.-30. 4a6; 30, 309; DCC.-3., 726*; aj, ajj. Early in '84, he removed from Me.bourrc to Hobart, the capital of the island^olony of Tasmania and on Mar .8, wheeled from Snakeshanks .0 H., .0, m.. n .. h. .9mln.; 'on Sept. 4 ;;;m Lb ^ H., ,,a m m .0 h. 35 mn,.; and, in '85. Apr. a .0 7, 329 m. along the east coast.-each ride bem^ the best on record " there. His letter to me of June a, '85, .aid : - My riding diary, .0 May a4. shows a total of .3,352 m., dating from F- b., '8a, when I took my first ride a- l^he age of .5. My lon^^s, record for a day is ..a m., and for a week 473 m. I have ridden rowh"o'dTc„Hl"°"'' T'^"'" ' "•^i"'"— f .rick riding, at Hobart and Lannces.on ; now ho.d record for 3. 4 and 5 m. on grass, and for , a,.d a m. on board track ; have starteH « scratch in most races, and won trophies .0 value of |6o6. I now ride 5, in. Rudge My en ployment .s that of agent for the Davis Sewing Machine Co., which has offices at Hobart Uunceston, Melbourne, Sandhurst, Geelons and Warraambool. I was for some time capt' of the Marm.on C C, of this town, and sec. of th. Tasmanian Cyclists' Union, and was the founder of both. I send yon the 7««.-.«,a« JV^. of June 6. which devotes a column to me " His successor, as capt. of the Marmion C. C, Thos. F. Hallam, wrote to me thus • "I purchased a b.cycle Sep.. 6, '83. when I was .3 years old, and have ridden it i,,f>-^ miles up to this present day, Aug. .0, '8s,-my longest journey being .00 m., in ,0 h. 38 min., through a h.,ly country, wuh ligh. winds to contend against. On June a9, '85, I won the 50 m. road-race of the club, m J h. 50 m., the fastest time ever made in Tasmai.ia, though 3 m. of the road had been newly metaled. I have competed in a. other races, winning .3 first, j second and 3 ihird prizes. On Sept. aS, '85, he rode .00 m, straightaway, in 9 h. 9 min.-being a min. less than the record nde of F. W. Rriggs, of Warrnambool, Jan, 3., '84. The rice^pt. of .he same club, F. J. Bowen (builder and con.ractor of Campbell St., who pledged a dozen subscribers to this book), ,hus reported to me, Aug. aS, '85 : " There are ,60 members now belonging to the 4 clubs in this city, the Tasmanian beins the oldest, with 38, next the Marmion, with 66, the City with as, and the Hobart, with 3,. Cycling has lately been making rapid strides here, as a popu- lar pastime. The li.ile ' Excursionists' Guide ' which I enclose will show you that the r-ad 5lre.ch.ng northward ta. m. across the island to Launceston, our second important port and the nearest to Melbourne on the opposite continent ' is one of the best in the worid, having been built by convicts when this was a penal colony. The first settlement of prisoner, was made here ... .803, under Lieut. Bowen. Townships are now found about ,0 m. apart, along the road, with good hotel accomi,.,4ation at most of them. The railway between H. and L. is .3, m inner *-ttlin!n» .«-_ _/ .1. . * . . . _ J** • ^ ._........._., ... ..._ .-i:::~:cr.:: siy.c, or; a imiruw hourc of 3J ft., iwo through trains dally ... each direction, at a speed of ,3 m. per h.' The starting point in our .00 m. rides is ,a m Jrom L. and . m. s. of the village of Perth, and the finish i. at S. Bridgewater, 9 m. n. of H. 564 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Our dub offers a gold medal to each member, the first time he covers the disunre fiukle o( u I, I myself did tnis, in 10 h. 48 rain., Oct. 16, '8j, only 3 mos. after learning how to ride. Six oihtrs have also taken the medal : T. F. hallam. J. Needhain (10 h. 48 rain., Oct. 16, '83), G Ami ing, G. Gregory, T. N. Spong a-id R. O. Bishop. In the 50 :n. road-race of 3 mos. ago whe>^ a medal was given to all who did the disUnce in 5 h., I reached the finish in 4) h. —though 1 had a broken pedal for the last 37 m., which forced me to walk up the hills. Thu was the re- sult of a bad fall, produced by some miscreants' alacing timber right across the road ; and I 've not been well enough to do much riding since. The best 50 m. records of the club are held in the following order, by T. F. Hallam, C. Bailow, R. O. Bishop, T. N. Spong and W. Rice " Wheelbig of Scot. 8, '86, mentioned th.-.t Bishop had rcwcnlly lowered .he record to 3 h. 44 min though ntaking a sto 'jr lunch. The first long tri. ride on the island was taken by Kdwj, f'Pair wheel, buckled by bad fall ... careless down-hill riding) ; aoth, Bookham, 46 (ove, 3 big range, of hill,) ..St. Gunn.,-, 46 (last a6. worst of route); aand, Marulam. ja (,0 Ly lautem); ajrd. Picton 6a (7 30 A M. to .0 p. M. ; hrst 28 m. were bad. but a dociine of ,500 ft. in the last 28 m made such pleasai.t r.dn.g that even a thunder shower could noc mar the e..joy. .ent); 24th Syd,.ey 53. On this last day, i started just after midnight a..d got over Mt. Razorback. into'camden' .2 m , at 3.40 ; camped out there on a hotel veranda until 5, then rode 8 m. to Campbelltown' (or a poor breakfast, and during the next 7 m. had snch an attack of illness that I gave up hope ..f pushmg any further ; but, after a while. I felt better. a.,d jogged slowly into Sydney at 8 30 . . «. .My btanu„.'s log made 9 revolutions of 6. m. each and 29 m. more.~a total of 578 m .A-Uhng the 5S3 m. of outw.ud trip, and ,2, m. .nade between, the whcle mileage from Aug .4 to Sept. 24 was .2S, My tool-bag and baggage weighed 2, lbs. On the outward trip, my Cheyles- .nore Cuo t... w.nt through wi.l.out any breakage or loosening. On the return. I used a ' two t...ck Club double driver, front steerer, and I praise it for showing no sign of weakness for the ya nnles fo.Iown.g the accident which buckled one wheel. My mackintosh coat also got wound up ,n the Chan,, four days earlier, and loosened it ; but I was able to tighten the chain in-o work- ing order again, though the coat was utterly destroyed." Five days behind this pioneer tricycler. on hi. outward ioumey, were two youthful acquaint- aocesof h,.,. f.om the Redfern B. C, on bicycles.-jas. F. Rugg. its sec.etary. and Geo. L. liudds.-who printed a report of their tour in the A. C. News of Sept. .3. The latter rod- a 52 .n. Columbia (No. 4.42). which he had been using for 2 years previously and which we.,"t through w.thout mishap.-staying safely on the bridge while he took a header into a creek on the 6th day of the tour. On the previous day. his companion, who rode a 52 in Club new look a bad header on a steep down-grade, disabling the brake ; and. on the final day, his spring snapped, just behind the saddle, so that about 60 m. of " backbone jolting " had to be erdured •' Despite the bad state of the roads, adverse winds, and la-:k of previous training, both enjoyed the tour immensely and finished in perfect health. The best meal of the trip was had at Vin- cent s hotel .n Colac (50 c.) ; and the return to Sydney was made by express train (.9 h.), as our L-ave-of-absence lasted but a fortni-,ht." The total mileage (,82 for ,3 days. incl. 6 m for detours) was divided thus : Aug. ,9, 8 A. m. to 5.45 r. M., Camden, 4, ; 20th, Mittagonj;. 36 tiearly 2000 ft. above the sea level of the start); 2,st, 9.40 to 7.30, Goulburn. 55 ; 22iul,7.,5,o 8, Yass, 55 (frost and bitter cold at start); 23rd, 7 to 6, Jugiong, 39; 24th, 9.30 to 7, Adelong Crossing, 37 ; 25th, 8.30 to 8, Kyamba, 46^ (tel. station ; no hotel) ; 26th. 9 to 4, Germanton 2f. (ram) ; 27th, 9.30 to ^.,5, Alb.iry, 38 ; 28th. 8 to 5, Wangaretta. 47 ; 29th, 7- .5 to 7.30, Violei lown, 43 ; 30th, 2.30 to 7, Avenal, 4. ; 3,st, 7 a. m. to ...45 p. r.i., Melbourne, 72. The to,, of W. Hume and H. G. Keefe, at the end of Dec, '84 (desoibed on p. 56,), was the earliest bi rule made on this route in the opposite direction, M. to S. ; and no one seems to have cone ov.r it at all during '85. fn Mar.. '86, however, it was again traversed by a pair of elderly Victorians, on bi and tri *Ho " made the longest straightaway trail in Australia," about 670 m,, in ,7 davs, and had drj^ woather throughout the trip. They were 5 days in doing their first 202 m., from Stawell to \;olet Town (which is only ,,3 m. from Melbourne); and thence to Sydney they followed the nv.te of >he earlier tourists. This, by the mileages latest quoted, was 463 m. , but they added at liast 5 m. tc. it, by losing the way near Liverpool. At the end of their first w^k, when about J75 m. had been traversed, a third companion, the little dog. " Dandy," began to j;row footsore -iKl weary ; and he was thenceforth allowed to ride on the tri. during many miles of bad -oing when the owner had to walk and push it. Sometimes also he was given a ride when the owner rode,-being packed in the valise with the other baggage.-but, at Vass, 187 m. from the finish. "1 agent was instructed to catch the belated dog or his arrival and forward him bv tr.nin ,0 oyu.„ry. , ne subsequent tate ot " Dandy " is not told in the record from which I quote,-thi. record being in the shape of sheet-reprints from six donble-tolumn articles in the weekly Nnvs I 566 TEN THOUSAND .dILES ON A BICYCLE. <&♦ ChronuU, of S'awell, written by the projecto. of the tour, M. Thomfeldt, and giving fairly full details of the 670 m. traversed. He alludes to himself as having taken a losjng contract to build a brick bridge at Sandhurst (" Bendigo"), in '5S, " when his knowledge o.' the English language was very limited," and when he " used to congregate with his compatriots, on Satur- day nights, at the ' Stadt Hamburg ' tavern, and take part in the strange babel of tongues which prevailed there." I infer from this that hi is a German, aged about 50; and I have alnady lecorded (1 . 56=) the tri. lour taken by his grown-up daughter, in Oct., '85. He mentions a pleasant tri. tour of his own, through Western Victoria, in the summer of '85, as inspiring the later r,ie , and he secured as a companion C. H. Lyne, of Ararat, who rode a Club Safety bi whii • he himself used a rear-3teering Cheylesmore Club tri. Both machines were as good at the finish (after aboi!t 750 m.) as at the start, and neither rider suffered any accident,— except that the tri. once upset the bi. by a careless colii.sion. " Why should two old blokes like you be R.iing about the country in knickerbockers and on them things .> " was the pleasant greeting of a w.iy. side landlady, on the third day ; and on the 5th, a wagon-driver whose horses took fright at the tri., seemed greatly amused at it, when he got them under control, and remarked : " Though you don't look like a big man, you must have a great stomach to go tramping about the country on a thing like that,— vhich seems to be a horse and buggy all in one." A good stomach was, indeed, as usual, essential to pleasant touring, " for the country seemed inundated with corned beef," and in many cases not even that delicacy could be had ; while at least two nights were devoted to fighting bed-bugs. The orly other live animals encountered were " two wallabies and a very large iguana " ; though a ''ead snake, 5 ft. long, gave the tri. rider a great scare when he suddenly ran over it in the road. The tourists regulated their pace simply by personal c„ n- fort,-bemK tcx) o|d for any silly ambition about " making a record for swiftness, "-and though they expected in advance to average about 50 m. a day, they were quite content with the actual average of 40 m. Their itinerary was as follows : Monday, Mar. 8, from 7 a. m. till about 5 p. M., Stawell to Moonambel, 40 m. (very tired from lack of previous training ; much heavy and Sfndy road); 9th, Eddmgton (sandy and then good, through undulating field.); .oth, Sandhurst (breakfasted on grapes in a fine orchard) ; Mth, Rushworth, a large town, reached in th- dark u »,"^; ' '""^ '"veling ; ,2th, a farm house within 5 m. of Violet Town ; ,3th, Glenrowan • Mth, Wodonga, 54 m. (first favorable wind); .jth (entering N. S. V/., by bridge over the Murray with no sign of customs officers). Germanton, 43 m. (detour to 50 m. ; last .0 m very fine); .6th, private house called Kelvin Grove; ,7th, Gundagai, 50 m., by bridge i m. long; I noo '" ?H ' " •• 7^' '" ■"■ ' '°'^' ^''""'"S = '"'' ^""'='"- S^-- (through Goulbum), at noon the prettiest and most compactly-built .own on the route " ; a.nd, Mittagong; ,3rd. M « y^i ' '•'° '° '° *• "•' ^'^ "'■"^^'''^ ' "'*" => ^ h. rest before climJng ove; r.lW fl f :'" ^°'"P'"'^"7'!h -''ich "'« "revious hills seemed easy, to Camden, .. m ; and ! V IL ^ ^"^ ""■""^ '°1 / '" •'''''""'■ '° ^'"'^°°'' ^ '"'='' °f ^- >"• ' ^^.h, reached Syd- ney about ,.30 P. M. escorted for the last ,6 m. by a party of about 40 on bi. and tri. Six days a r, steamer was taken for Melbourne (a ride of 65 h., a. compared to :, h. by tr,in) ; and the las. stage of the ,ourney home to Stawell was wheeled Apr. 6-8, about .75 m., finishing a. .0.30 p. M an exac. calendar mon.h from the s.art. " In spite of some hard up-hill work, it wa, .. most p easant experience. We saw a vast tract of country, and saw it better than any o'.her kind of locomotion wou.d enable us to do ; and we did no. feel in the leas, fatigued a. the end. In fact, I was less tired .he las. day, riding 6a m., .ban the fi.s. day. riding only forty." New Zealand lies about ,200 m. s. e. of Aus.ralia. and its cycling season las.s from Sept. to May, though riders in the northern districts are active for most of the other 3 mos. Of .he .wo dis.inc. islands which comprise .i,e colony, North Island has Auckland for its northerly port and Wellin^.on for „s por. nearest .0 Sou.h Island. " Pakeha." .h, Christchnrch cor. of the Wheelman t Gazette, who has "been identified with the pastime since its infancy" in the colony, writing July .8, '85, said : " Though we are now snnnoseH .. h„ in „:d-»;n,., ,h. weatner nas tnus tar been so exceedingly mild .ha. we can scarcely .erm i. w:n.er, I see no BR'TISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 5 -atralians do not. The season just closed has been the most successful recorded in the colony. The N. Z. C. Alliance has had good luck 1.1 carrying through .ts series of championships (,, 5 and ,0 m.). with faster times; and the number of nders has doubled .-causing a great improvement in the merobershio «d finances of li.e older clubs, and the springing up of new ones." A year earlier he wrote (Aug .c -JU) • • Ihe number of b.cycle riders ia N. Z. is estimated as at least ,000. though the clubs do not exceed a doien.-the largest U-ing at Christchurch, Dunedin and Auckland. In '^^ there were h.ndly so riders, all told, but the mcrease in their number has been very rapid during the last years. The oldest club is the Pioneer B. C. org. Apr. .0, '79, at Chnstchurch, the capital. 1 .e flat nature of the country around C. allows ,00 m. to be traversed without encountering a iMl.. Though some machines are made here, most are imported from England " His letter of M..y 22, 'ab, said: " The advance of cycling during the season now closing does not seem to have been as great as I expected. I attribute tins chiefly to the very dry summer, which has ,v„dered the roads too loose for easy riding ; though several tours haye nevertheless been m- du,ged ni. The recent extensive popularity won here by the safety bi. has almost entirely ban- ished the tncycles." Another resident of that town, who was my earliest subscriber in the colony. J. toxley Norris (b. Feb. 6, '57). a law stationer, v^ote to me thus, Apr -. '84 • "I don't think It possible to ride 50 m. without a dismount, here in N. Z., owing to the 'river beds and shingle. At Easter, '82, I wheeled and walked from C. to Dunedin, J42 m. (in 5 days 3 of which were rainy), crossing 3 mountain ranges and finding rough roads. This still remains tne longest straight iway trail, though J. Fitton made a tou. of considerably greater mileage at Christmas, '83, and I will try to have him send you the details of it. The following have ridden .00 m. in a day : F. R. Dunsford, H. J. Jenkins, R. W. Mountfort, J. F. Norris, and A E Preece, of Pioneer B. C. ; F. W. Painter, J. W. Painter and T. W. May. of Christchurch B. C. ; and F. A. Cutten, of Dunedin C. C. Four of us rode together to Hurunui and back, 114 ni. in 14 h., and I believe an account appeared in one of the English wheel papers in '82 or '83. It was a much harder journey than the 114 r.i. I rode in '77, with the Middlesex B. C, from P.ath to London (East End). My longest stay without dismount was made July 6, '79. in a drizzling rain, just 50 m., from Bath to Newbury, over Box and Marlboro hills ; and I then kept onto Maidenhead. 30 m.. for second dismount, and to the outskirts of London, 20 m.. for third,— making 100 m. in the day. I formerly held the position of ' Mr. Perker ' in the' old Pickwick B. C, of London. More recently, I have been sec. of the Pioneer B. C, and sec, of the N. Z. C. Alliance, and am now its treasurer ; but, being a married man and much occupied with business, I am trying to give up active club work." Replying to later enquiries of mine, his letter of Oct. 2, '85, dated at London, said : " I left N. Z, in July, and do not think it likely that I shall return there. My riding began on a hired bone-shaker, in '74 ; but I soon bought a ?6 in. bone-shaker, then a 48 in. Gentleman, and I 've had 20 machines in all. My mileage for ^n years— while I was ?.n rpprenlice, and only had a week's holiday at mid-summer— stood thus : '74, 13' ; '75. '052; '76. "05; '77. •&'4; '78. 2546; '79. 1676. This small total of 8274 m. represents short morning rides and Saturday afternoons with the club. .Since then. I 've not kept -ount. I've done no distances worth chronicling. My height is s ft. 5 in., and weight 140 lbs." The long-distance Christmas tour alluded to in the foregoing was taken by J. Fitton (of Service & Fitton, makers and importers of bicycles, 35 Grey St., Auckland), who printed a two- column report of it in the Auckland Her.%ld, of Jan, 19, '84. In the 19 days, Dec. 25 to Jan. ■ 2, hiscyclom. registered 611 m., but, as it usually fell short 3 m, in 20, he estimated the dis- tance covered as 702 m. He rode a 52 in, kudge, which sustained no serious damage, despite Its lightness (35 lbs,), though he had a great many tumbles, one of which, at the end of the first v/eek, snapped the brake-handle, so that he was forced to walk down 5 good many ridable hills during the next 5 days, until he got it repaired. The worst fall of the trip was had wi'hin 6 h. of the start, Dec. 25,— cutting his hand on the rough road-metal. On the 5th day, he rearhed Ohinemutu, 148 m., after a straight tramp of i. m, through 'he bush, and from there took a de- '"'"■"• "•••-S= V""'~'^ "'IS w.T-.;; a^toriisricd ific imlin;a), ihe j;eysers arm the boiling springs. On the 9th day, Jan. 2, 10 a. m, to 6 p, m,, Tarawera ^o Puhoi, 23 m,, the road-sur- 568 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. «»ce was good, out the fint 9 m. led up hill, ...d the denccntt could not be ridden for wani of br»ke. At one of two creek croMingi. ho dropped his bi. and then jumped into (he water a "d ■ timllar bath had been taken two day. before, in trying to ride through a creek. MaEnificr, 1 Tiewaof rough and rugged country could be had at every sharp turn in the mountain road Napier, his objective point, jjj m. from A., was reached at 5 p. m. of Jan j after a journey, half of which was along the gully of the Kiwaka creek and the edgei'of the Peu*" nver. where constant wading was necessarv. a-i almost 50 crossings had to be made within i,'? The only other ro-ie was the " telcRraph tracU," which was thought to be even more d.fficul,' He halted a day 1.. N., to gel hi, brake repaired, »nd talk with local cyclers about the road, .0 Wellington. He also met an English touriM. W. K. Adam, who was wheeling in ihe opp„.i„ direcon. from W. to the hot springs. The " shinjled road " out of N. wa« good enou.h ,0 allow ,9 m. in a h.,-t:ie last 5 m. in ,5 min.,-and then a stretch of „ m. was done w.ihou. .lis- -nount. in aj h ; .0 that the day's record. „ a. m. to .0 -. m.. ending at Takapo, wa, 65 n, the longest of the tcur. though it included a bad and swamny stretch of ,S m.. where the tourint' lost his way in the dark. Next day. Jan. 6. 9.5 to 7 ,5, he rode 50 m. to Pahinau •'hav in^ nice and cool wheeling through the Koi'y Mile Uush " ; and on the 7th, to MaMrrt,.n 4, m., m 5 h. 50 min.. which included i h. of stop,. He t.n.k train there to Wellington inlculm' to wheel back next day to Al . over the Rimataka hills ; but. as rain was falling then, he cime back by tram as far as Featherston. and thence wheeled through Masterton, and along his f„r mer raid to I.kefahuna, 55 m. .1 a. m. to 6 p. m. On the ,oth, he kept along his old course till some distance beyond Pahiatau, and then turn-d by new road " through the famous M.ma watu (.orge, up which the wind was blowing great guns." t„ Fielding, 60 m., 8.20 to 6 .5 whc-re helo<.k tram to \Yan:.;anui. On the nth and .jth, he rode by tram as well as wheel, and' on ih- .ath also by boat, from New Plymouth to Onehunga. whenre his cycling friends escorted hi,n home to Auckland. Of the 700 m. estimated as a total for the .9 days, nearly 500 m. were .lone before the first taking of train ; and, during those first 14 days, the repetitions seem not .0 h.ive exceeded 50 m. Mosquitoes were named as troublesome on the loth. and his waterproof cn.ie was found of go.s .} m. apart.-...id are inipossi- ble to .ord. on account of the trees, bowlders and all sorts of d/^brU sweeping along. We found the Kowai ve.y low, however, and had no trouble in fording its treacherous bed ; but the Wni- para, l m. beyond, was deeper and swifter, and wet ii.s to the waist, as we waded through. You must know that we keep on our shoes and stockings at such fording places, and dry off as we whiri along. Beyond the river we reached the famous Weka Pass, and went up and down a multitude of spurs abng a 20 ft. road, with a wall of stone towering on one side, and a rocky slope of 70 or 80 ft. sheering down to the creek on the other. After the hills, we passed Waikan, 46 m., but our first real stoppage was at Hurunui, 57 m., just before 1 1 o'clock, showing an average of 8 m. per h. from the start. A good breakfast was had here at the little hotel, and «lvA w\A,^ „»., -^ -J _. _ ^rt( ■ . . . ----rtir-^ ::•. :: 3c, ;i:;;3 wss lac luiiituj^ ^Kiuii in ihe 114 m. run which Mr. N. BRITISH AND COLONIAL RECORDS. 569 •nW you wi took with him, .t an orlier date, and which remained until ..ow the lonn.t da,', nrcord .n N. Z ) The road virtually end. at H.. but we puUied on. .cro« the ' riddl.n,. of •reation. wtthaut Memg a houw or even a wire (ence. to the little clump of building, called kotherham. ., m ; and -hen, by ,o m. o. the roughe.t riding I ever experienc«J, to Waiau the »„.l o. our hops,, at , P. m. We were met by ; cavalcade of nearly all the inhabitant., at' th. r..nd new br,dse. about . m. from W, anJ given a triumphal en.ry into town,-«,m. one in H hAvmg telegraphed our approach, quite to our .urpri.e. The hotel-keeper. in both place, de- clined to take any pay for our lefre.hmenl., k> great wa. the popular intere.t in the affair Starting again at j 40. we reached H. at 7. ;u,t after .undown ; rode Weica Pas. in the dark l.iM b -fore the moon came up ; forded the Waipara in utter darkness, and the Kcwai at , , 30 .«w.rd Karapot at ,.30, and finished )u,t bifore 3 a. M-.-luving done 170 m. wul.in J4 h.,or45 m' more than tiK- b'st previous record in N. Z. My next long r.de was on Good Friday, to Akaroa 60 m , in company with F. Cooper and W. Skii.ner ; but the head of my British Challenge cracked . hen, so that I lud to get it and myself brou-^lu home by carrie .arriving Sunday night .oon aft.r my fn.-n U. wl.o rode back. Canterbu, y, in which our city lies, has a greater .tretch of flat country than the neishborins provinces.-th-re being so.ne 15, m. contained on its >/«,>,-but there are no goo 'S6, It was .aid that. " at the o|,enii,g of the year. F. W. Painter. A. I.owry and Parker look a .o days' tour of 380 m. from Christchurch to Hokitika. or across the entire country Many large rivers had to be forded and mountain ranges cros«d. so that the journey proved one uf toMsid.-raole difficulty. In fad. though previous tours had been made on that route, the full distance had never before bfen traversed." I had the pleasure of receiving a personal call, Sept ,0, '86. from a native New Zealan.ler «lK., having subscribid for this book, two years before, decided at last that he must make the ,^ooo m. journev to New York, in ord.-r to ;nake sure of getting ,.. Incidentallv, he may de- a.le t. reside here for a few months or years, after really securing the volumes-engaged it minor business aflfairs of his own. H. is a native of Christchurch. though hi, parents were born in England, and he had never left his i>,'land. home until he sailed for San Franciwo last July. I refer to \Vm. H. Langdown (b. Nov. i, '64). ex-Cant, of the Pioneer B. C, a fairly recgnuable likeness of whom was printed in the IVJuehntn' ., Gazttte (Aug., p. 86), apropos of hi. competing in the autumn races at Springfield and elsewhere. His letter of Sept 30 replv- M.^ to my appeal for statistics, is as follow, : " From Oct., '78, to Dec, 'Si, when I rode a bi , 10 m. daily, to and from school. I must have covered at least 6000 m.. for I did not miss riding a .lozen tun;., and I used to do about 40 m. on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. First lone da> s ride was ,n Apr.. •8t.-66 m.. whereof I did 30 without dismount. Longest day', ride I .ver took was 84 m. on Dec. 8. '83. whereof 57 were done in 4 h. 34 min.. -including time Uken in walking over two river beds. Month with longest mileage. No . '84,-821 m. First bi., tx.ught Oct.. '78, had no name ; neither had the second, bought Nov., '7^; jrd wa. a special Club; 4th, a IJentleman's Club; 5«ii. a 5, in. D. H. F. Premier; 6th. an Excelsior tri. ; 7th. a 52 in. D. fc H. F. Excelsior. On the latter. I rode 8940 m.-Nov. i. '84. to Oct. 30 "85 - in- cluding my longest tour (558 m.) as follows : Left Wellington Sept. 5. '85. ca^rving 8 lbs. luggage m knapsack, and rode to Upp.r Hnit, where I took train to Fealherston, and rode from there to Masterton. making day's total wheeling 48 m. by McDonnell's cvclom. I had tested this several times, riding slow and riding fast, over good and Kid roads, and had always found it cor- rect when compared with the m.-stones. On 6th, rode to Woodville, 50 m. (walked 9); 7th, Takapan. 44 m, (walked 8); 8th, Hastings. 48 m.. 15 of which \ had to walk at one stretch. 9lh, Napier, 12 m Stayed here until ,7th. at 5 p. m., but reached Waipawa. 41 m.. that same night. From he-e to Opunake. I had a strong h>ad wind, and it took me 1 1 dayn to do 234 m. One day I walked 18 m. without mounting, and this was included in a 44 m. stretch I had to go without coming across a hotel. One day I made only 9 m, on account of the wind. During the whole trip I only had 3 days without rain and none without wind. From Opunake to New "•" - ■'^ "■ ' ' -•■- •■•" ===*="== ;"• •»< •".. iuciiuiiiig acvcrdi stoppages. Next evening, 1 rode •»t 12 IP. to Stratford, and on the following morning left before breakfast, so as to do a good 11 Ml 57° TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. \ .^-' day's nde. When I had covered jb iti., at It A. m., my crank broke and I had to lake th; car* (or NV'inganui and the *teaiii<-r from there to Wellington. My tilil ol separate or l ri-iieaird road was 454 m The only mishap of the tour was a spill caused by a bullock's kicking me off the machine. I'hls bent the crank and afterwards caused it to break. During the last djy'» ride I h.id to walk 6 m. on the car track, the road being impassable. This was the first bi. lour ever made .icrossihe North I." (Population of N. Z., joo.ooo; with 1461 ni. of r, r. and 4111 m of id 1 "■■Vintralian "ictures," by Howard Willoughby, of the MtltxntrM* Argm, with large mnpind 107 illiiit. from photographs and sketches (8vo, cloth and gilt, %%. 50), was named as a " new liook " ill Oct , 'S'), bv Scribiier & Welford, of N. V , whose adv. says : " The author is tnoronnliiy acquainted with the scenery, life, produce and bu.siness capacities of the different parts n attempt to reach Inau. Hi. inn.rary f„r the next i\ mo*. w.i* mailed to me from Constantinople, June i6 ,d I 4uote as follow, ,»,>' 7. Me.hed to Sherlfabad, hUly ; 8lh, mo.lly hilly, with eome e««ll,nt '«• '" •'■'y»"le carava.l^Jry 9th, Torbet-i-Hiiderie, mountainoua ; lolh, eplendid wheeling, I .niihted iu dcwrrt . iilli, Kak. a, lome Mnd, Kiine good gravel ; lath, Nukhab, bad Mountami;' Mil. mall hamlet, average fair wheeling; Mth, Hirjand, joo m from M.good wheeling; 15th! All abid(Kue.tof Ameer of Sei.tan) , i6ih, iJarniian, bad mountains; 17th, Tabbat, acroes a ll.im, fairly ridable; i8lh, inouniainoiu journey to huu on edge of the desert; i<,tli, enter AfKJianUtan and camp out on Ua.hl-i-na-oomed (' Desert of Despair '); joth. nom.i.l camp, half tl.. wheeling fair, much of It ,ough ; Jist.bad sand-hills after li .ing camp, reacli a village near II iriid ; jand, Ghalikue, irrigating ditches and cultivated land ; ajrd, nonud camp, good wheel- in; on gravel plain; 14th, Karrah, about aoo m. from UirjanJ." Here the Governor of (■. irreited him, and sent him back, under escort of Afghans, to Herat. 160 m., asth to loth. For half this distance, to Subgowan, on the a7th, he found most of ihe wheeling fairly good, though r.uhcr Uin'.y ; but for the linal 80 m. thence to h. he and the bi. were carried on horses', ami ,1 siK,Ucs were broken from the front wheel by an attempt of the carrying liorw: to roll ,.,>on it. Having 6 extra spokes, he managed to partly repair the damage, and he used the machine 1, this ,i,.ipe for the next 680 m. to the Caspian Sea. During 9 days' delay at H., he wrote to i ol. Kulgway, o'. the British Boundary Commission, asking his intercession for a permit tc r.. , ,he .- ■ hundred m. b .^n that place and I.-.dia; but Col. R.'s only answer was to in,truct the Dovemor of H. that he be escorted ba. W into Persia. So. on May 10, he resumed e back- ward journey, by a road about \ ridable, to a village whose name his Afghan guar.i d to tdl; on i.th, toa " water umbar," with very little wheeling ; on lath, Ly bad road to ca.i.p ir lltrirud jungle; and on 13th, by fair riding, to Kar.z, 100 m. from Herat. K.-re the Afghans released him, after 19 days' arrest; and on i.,t'' he kept on ...one, Miiough Persia, to n nad camp; on 15th, to Kurriman.and on i6th, to Mesi.ed,at i p. M, -thus covering 160 m. of good road m a} days, and corfipleting a vain circuit ;f about 920 m. , which began Apr. 7, at M. " The next 300 n.. to Sharood, oflered a decent road the whole distance and no bad mtns., to that I reached S. in 8 days,-the nightly halu being as fellows : May 19, caravansary ; aoth, village near Ni^hapoor; jist, Lafaram ; aand, water umbat ; a3rd, Mazinan ; a+th, camped out ..ear cara- vansary ; a 5th, camped out. From S. to Bunder Qua, the port on Caspian Sea where ! embarked June „ wasa 4 days' journey of iao.n.,-the first part of it by fearful trail over the mtns., with mule carrying the wheel, to Asterabad, May aS-so ; and on the 31st I reached B. G. The r.st of my route is shown thus : June 6, Baku; 7th, Tiflis ; 8th, Batoum ; isth, Constantino- P ." Outing tor Sept. (p. 671) printed a letter dated at C, June a4, from Erne.: Raleigh, who describes h, ..self as "an unhappy and discomfited tourist, forbidden to travel anywhere beyond .Meshed," and says he "therefore f^veled back with Stevens, from M. to the Caspian, whence, after many days, we finally turned up at Constantinople." He declares that the push...„ of a bicycle across Afghanistan to Farrah-" inrluding a clear 120 m. of howling wilderness which no European had heretofore traversed in its entirety "—was "one of the most adventurous feats of modern times"; a;.d he speaks with sarcasm of the "strained diplomacy" which caused S. -.0 be turned back when he had thus " penetrated to within 370 m. of the British out-posts " Thus, the middle of June, '86, found Stevens again on the edge .f Europe, at the same city "Inch he first reached July 1, '^'s, and from which he had sailed 75 m. to Ismidt, Aug lo (mis- printed "Aug. .2 " on p. 482), to begin the stretch of .576 m. ending at Teheran, Sept 30 During the 3 mos. of his return wanderinf , between T. and Constantinople, he seems to have Pi«l,ed the bi. neariy 2000 m. On July 3, '86, he wrote from Suez : " I expect the steamer, on which I take passage to India, to arrive here to-morrow or next day. The monsoon season will be ... full swing when I reach Kur.achee, but I don't know yet whether it will delay my start across India." Writing from K., July 26, he said he was in good health and was about lo start on a good road straight for Calcutta ; and he announced his arrival there, in 'etter of Sent la th ' My tour has been accnmplish'jd in the :3:s;y escape from business are up in the hill stations, and when exposure and much exertion IrVc^n 572 TE.W THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. sidered highly indiscreet. 1 have, however, escaped with only one slight a.tack of fever, which laid me up for a couple of days at Benares. This is worthy of mention only as being the 6rst occasion on the entire journey that I have had anything approaching a day's illness, oi even'a day's i..disposition. Altogether, it is regarded as remarkable by 'he English in Calc'u^.a thai I have traversed 1400 m. of Indian road on a bicycle at this season of the year and escaped wiili on! one slight attack of fever. The weather has bjen very trying and fever-inducing. All tliiuurh Lower Bengal the clouds were hovering near the tree tops; v/hen it wasn't pouring rain it w ,s drizzling, and the roads wjre shallow streams. What with the profuse perspiration, the lain aii,l the excessively humid atmo^ihere, a dry thread of clothing was entirely out of the'queslion I passed through districts wlierL- the nr.tives were dying at a fearful rate, with a peculiarly maii'- nar.t type of fever. My own immunity from serious illness I credit to the daily exercise. It niuM be this, bjcausi, from sliu-er ii>.-c«sity, I have daily drank indifferent water, slept in damp c'cUk-v and committed various other indiscretions inseparable from a bicycle tour through Ii.dia in An-usi and September. Notwithstanding these discomforts and drawbacks, there has bejn all alnn.. , genuine element of pleasure and satisfaction in the splendidly-metaled roads, smooth for U,. most part as an asphalt pavement, as well as in the many interesting objects and equally interest- ing people, so dlfl-'rent from any other country. From Labor.- to Sasseraw, a dis.ance of about 1000 m., the road may truthfully be described as the finest in ilie world. It is perfectly level, metaled with kiink.ih, which makes a smooth, c;ment-like surface, and for a good portion nf the way it is no exaggeration to call it an avenue. Through the Bengal hills it is less level, and is metaled with rock ; the drenching monsoon rains have washed away the earth, and left the sur- face rough and trying on a wheel. My stay in Calcutta will be but three or four days, as I am anxious to push dn to China and avoid the possibility of being overtaken there by winter." The same page of /,. A. 11^. Bit/Mi>i which printed the foregoing letter (Nov. 5, '86, p, 4.7-) also quoted a longer one from " A. W," a correspondent of IF/teetiiis:, who talked with Stevens at Allahabad, Aug. 29-31,— after lie had passed through Umballa, Delhi, Agra and Cawnpore At 6 A. M. of the 31st, " \. W." and another cycler wheeled out with him to the Ganges, anil saw him well started by boat across the broad river, totake the road for Benares. " k. W." .savs : " It was perhaps lucky that he was turned back in Afghanistan, because, if he had been allowetl to continue his ride, the chances were m favor of his being stuck by the Afghans for his m.ichine and revolver ; or he might have succumbed to the heat if the Indian sun, as he would have rrrived here early in June, and the hardships he would have been compelled to go through must have been terrible. Indeed, the actual hardships which he has had to contend with here are what very few Europeans wo>ild care to try, even in the cold season, But, in spite of bad food (and very little of that, at times), wet clothes, mosquitoes, ants, jackals, dogs and other disagreeables too numerous to mention, he keeps his health and spirits and is gaining in musclt- cnnsider.-.Wy." His experiences in China were the most difficult and dangerous of all. Leaving Canton, Oct. 14, he reached the British consulate at Kiuki.ing, Nov. 14; thence by s. s. reached Shang- hai on iSth, and Nasasaki (Japan) on 21st. " For 4 days out from C, there were no roads but an intricate maze of tracks through the rice-fields. Then even these paths stopped and left lunli - ing but the Pe-Kang river and the rocky mtns, sloping ;o its edge. F'our days' poling, rowin;.; and towing, to Chao-choo-foo, and 4 more with coolies carrying the bi., brought me over tl:? .\leeling |)asr>, into the province of Kiang-tse Its paths were better than those of (hiang-tui c, and I wheeled my way down to Kin-_-an-foo, Here the mob would have killed nif, except for the two soldiers appointed by the authorities of the previous city, Ta-ho, to escort me within the gates of the chief magistrate, .^fter midiiiiiht \vh"ii he had succeeded in dispersing the rioters, I was spirited away in a boat, under guard of (> soldiers. Thenceforth tlv authorities never allowed mc to wheel, but jiassed iiie on dowi. stream by boat, fiom town to town, to Wii-chiug, where, by .nuch persuasion, I obtained leave to take a shirt cut across country to Kinkiang, but still with an escort" In Japan, however, where the native journals had heralded his advent, " officials and people viev' with each other in paying him attention," so that his tour (Nov. 23 to I'zz. 17; ■" .^cc~.c,t, ;ri contj'tai imhi, iiive « soil i>\ pT(»v;rrss iiirougii paratiise." S.ihini; iiooi Yokohama, Dec 22, he reached San Francisco, Jan 7, '87, and was vpry warmly welcomed ■ — .O* ^,li._,*J«,',_ XXXIIl. SUMMARY BY STATES. '■t-\=. Under this heading, I originally i)lanncd to present not only a special "index by counties" to such roads of each State as the book might describe; init also complete references to road-reports which have been printed in the cycling press (giving date and page of each, witli abstracts of the more im- l)ortant) ; a digest of all similar information prepared for mo by private cor- resjiondcnts; and a list of mai)s, guide-books, local histories and other jiubli- cations of possible use to the tourist in any given State. Such a chapter would needs be so very long and laborious, however, that I find myself obliged to substitute for it something of smaller scoi)e. When I l.iegin writing this (Nov. 22, '86), not only have the previous 569 pp. been electrotyped, but also Chaps. 34 to 41, comprising the last 210 pp. of the book, which thus already contains four times the number of words originally intended. For the short- comings of this latest-written chapter, the jnomise of " My Second Ten Thou- sand " is the best excuse and remedy which I can offer ; and, if I ever print such a book, I dc.-6i, 765-66. Chap. XX., " In the Down-East Fog.s " (.'ij-Si), tells of my tour with K. A. Klwell's '83 party, Kastport to Calais, 2.; ni. ; Lubec to M.ichiasport, 32 m., and 30 m. on Mt. Desert, with 10 m. of other roads, and a total whteliiii; ' f 171 in. Routes leading into Portland are noted, pp. 257-59; 3° '"• of good shore road, p. 274: lVrb.\in's 500 m. ride, p. 515. "Along the Kennebec Valley" was the route of the second Klwell tour, July 30 to Aug. 3, '84, which altr.ictud 27 participants.— several of whom had iu'.t t.iken part in the Chicago H. C.'s second amuijl tour (p. 320'). which ended at Hosinn. I think It w.is one of the latter. K. E. Prtillard. of Huffal". who p'i.ited in the /j;. ll'arJi^ {^^pi. 19, p. U3) a four-column report, from wnich I condense the following : T.oston was the rendezvous, July 29, when train was taken direct to .\ugusta, on account of rain. tliou;.;h the intention had hien to take it only from I,ynn to C.ardiner, wheeling thence the last 7 ni. to A. On 30th, after _..;«:.. f^.*_ 'r---;;^ j ... ~«J Ut. rl.' ^ \'. .~ " ^s T t V r.-.,4 p ! ". W-t.irvP.1^ .^ -.-.-. , -; :,. '.;*- • ... - " m. in I h. ; Aug. i, to liingham, 26 m. (dinner at Solon, half way); 2nd, to Forks of the Kennebec, 25 m. (dinner at Carney's hoi. ', half way), " .i charn r s 4 » t ^1-" 1 • ( ing run, along a hiU.ide iU^M: m 574 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. looking (he river, with high slopes above, and lofty trees forming an arcliway over a ro. jid fit for a i;ark.'" Sunday was spent iiero, and a visit pii<) (o tlu picturesque Moxey's Kaiis {t. liigh. On 4tli, .1 return was made to lilngham, and on stli, to Skow!iegan, by new 'xo2l on other side of river (dinner at North Anson),— mist and rain on this last day fo.iowing (, d.i^i of pleasant weather. Rev. H. F. ruller, of Chicago, printed a sketch of h.a trip, in // i<,/of Oct. lo, showing that .5. m. were ridden. A paragraph of Aug., '85, gave the 4 days' milt.!-. of a Boston m.in, F. W. Heym-r, in the same region, thus : WaterviUe to Forks of KeniicuV 42J ; Moose River, 46 ; Mariow, 31 ; St. Joseph, 3S. The two latter towns are in (•inada In,i he took train from St. J. to QuLbcc. " From the lake in the mountains to the mountains by the «ca " was the characterization cf the ihiiU ainiual tour, whose i^r jector, F. A. Elwell sert ni< this report : " ]!y far the most successful of all. Here is its summing up : A pleasant party of 30; perfect weather ; the finest scenery in Maine ; and the best 130 m. of str.iij;htaway wheel ini I ever experienced. You know my ideal of these tours is enjoyment, pure and sin.ple,-i,ni to 'cover' a big stretch of country at speed, but to see what is woilh seeing at leisure ' SV9 arranged to take oi'r meals together at specifod times and places ; and our b.-.gpage-wa'on fol- lowed in the rear, to provide against accidents; but we chose our own companions on the road" and went as we pleased, fast or slow, without any attempt at regularity. Saturday aflernnoii and the whole of Sunday were spent most delightfully at Moosehead Lake,— sailing, fishing church-going, c.imbing Mt. Kineo and the like, as c.ich one pleased,— ar.d the Mt. K. lloiel where we stayed was a very fine one. On Monday, July 20, we b^gan our 5 day.v leisure'y ride to the sea-coast at Mt. Desert, and went only 14 m., Oeenville to Monson, through maciiificent scenery,— the rorvd being excellent except that 2 or 3 big hills had to be walked up aiid down The wind favored us, and our leader reached M. in li h. Next forenoon, j.st, we jopged on to Dexter, 17 m. : and on 22nd, to Uangor, 2i m., through fine far'ning country, with read smooth enough for 12 m. per h. ; 24th, to Ellsworth, 2S m., on rein .lot quite so good; 25th, to Bar Harbor, 24 m., entering the town in a body at 11.30 a. m. Just then, the weather grew very hot, and wc were glad to vary our enjoyment during Saturday afternoon and Sunday by try. ing the elevated r. r. to the top of Green mtn., or riding in buck-boards, sail-boats or canoes. We took steamer homeward to Portland on Monday, and thus pleasantly terminated the tour. At Bangor we were escorted in by the local wheelmen, and halted a day to attend their races, a public reception and a moonlight ride on the Penobscot, Ma'ne'.s largest river." W. B. Page's report : " On July 23, '86, 7 a. m. to 8. .5 p. m., I went from Bridgeton to Augusta, 71 m., whereof I walked 19. Good clay prevailed through Harrison, 6 1,1., and Nor- way, 14 m., to S. Paris, but from there over the mtns. the road was sandy and stony, and rain de- layed me. I descended to Bucksport, 12 m. fron. N,, for noon dinner (ij h. halt), and u.ilked much of the next 8 m. to N. Turner, at 3. 15, where I t. 1. to Wayne, 12 m. , over an improved road. From 5.30 to 6.15 p. M., I enjoyed a finely shaded shale course along two pretty lakes, to Wiii- throp, 8 111., and then climbed the long hill towards .Augusta. On 24th, throu;.-h Palermo, Mont- ville and Belmont to Belfast, 48 m. in 5J h. of riding ; on 25th, 2 to 5 p. m., back to Buck^iioil, 18 m., by good loam and shale road, through Starsport and Stockton ; on 26th, by fine clayronci to Ellsworth, 20 m., and, at last, through the afternoon's rain, to Bar Harbor, on the island (,f Mt. Desert. I had been 22 days in doing the 836J m. from Phila. to this objective pc irt. but my stops on the way amounted to more than a week. During a 15 days' stay at I!. H , ! covered only 31^ m. ; but on Aug. 10, wheeled to South West Harbor, 16 m., in 1} h., ana uwV boat to Rockland, — wheeling thence on nth to Augusta, 52 m., in 6 h. of riding ; !2tli, 9 -o A. M. to 7.30 p. M., to Solon, fK) m., in 7 J h. ;• 4 and 13th, 8. 15 A. M. to 6.45 p. M.,to the l;cirGcr cuslom-liouse at Moose River Plantation, 62 m. Tl-isis3om. beyond the forks of the Kennebec, which I left at 1.45 p. m. : and th? b.ilf-w.iy house called Tackman's Plantation i^ ilie only dwell- ing on the route. .At the Forks I entered ' the 100 .n. fou'^t ' ; and for the whole 15 m. of myjcur- ney up the sth.fith, 7»h and ist ranges, to Jackman's, the thick branches of the trees overlapped and caused pleasant shade over a fine road : the next 4 m. al.so were good, and then 1 had o m. of continuous descent, with imiiressive views of rugged mtn. peaks, and glimpses of rivers and of Moosehead Lake. Rain delayed my start on the 14th till 1.15 r, m., when I began a climb of SUM MA RV BY STA TES : MA INE. S7S i6 m. to the summit of the Bald ridge, where stands the huge iron post .uurking the divide be- tween U. S. and Can. ; but at 4 o'clock I was, for the first time in my lifo, on British soil. I reached St. Come, 21 m., in 3 h., as the hills were in my favor. On the 15111, 3tarting at S.30 I found a good clay road to St. George, 9 m., and then loose stones and grass, through which I tried to ride fast, t> avoid being overtaken by the customs officers. I reached St. Joseph, 34 m, at I p. M. (dinner, \\ h.), and for much of the next 35 m. of wretched road to St. Henry (7 p. M.) f ran and pushed my bi., for I still feared pursuit by the customs men. Thence to Point I^- ■ 'retched 12 m. of mac, and I crossed the ferry by moonlight, and rode i m. more to the House in Quebec, at 8.30. This 8i m. spurt was a severe trial of endurance both for the machine, but the fear of having the latter seized and confiscated, because of my fail- u. leposit 550 surety for it, kept me up to my work. After 2 days in Q , I rode on iSth to Desch.imbault, 43 m. ; on 19th, to Mas-kiiionge, 74i m., and on 20th, to Montreal, 66j m., the last 13 m., on the island, being the only good riding of all, for the rest was through sand grass and weeds. The food of thi se 3 days was hardly fit to eat and the beds had no sheets On the 23rd, 10 A. M. to 4 p. m., I wheeled from M. »o St. Anne, 22 m., across the island of Perrot, 3 m., and to Coteau du Lac, 10 m., — ending there my tour of 1423 m." (For earlier sections of the same, in Vt. and N. H., see pp. 578, 577-, for fuller details of the who'e, see Wheelmen's Gazette, Jan., '87 ; for other reports about Quebec, see pp. 32S-330.) In a letter of Aur. 20, '81, " Telzah " said : " The road from Biddeford to Prrtland is very good, and the side trip from Saco to Old Orchard Beach and return is excellent." On Sept. 3, '85, F. C. Kirkwood, of Baltimore, in the course of a 3 weeks' tour of 336 m., rode from Portland to Saco, 15 m., in 3 h., with J h. of stops ; and then from Dover Point to Kittery, 10 m., in \\ h. The former stretch was so badly cut up as to be only barely ridable, but the lat- ter was better and offered attractive water-scenery. (In Mass., a few days later, Mr. K. rode without dismount from a point near Wakefield to S. Framingham, 26 m.) Osgood's " New England Guide," described on p. 293, will be of service to any tourist in Maine or the other 5 States. " Muosehead Lake and Northern Maine Wilderness," with map of the lake region ('84, 7th ed., 219 pp., iliust,), and " Androscogfm Lake and the Headwaters of the Connecti- cut, Magalloway and Androscoggin Rivers " ('84, gth ed., 319 pp.), are a pair of paper-covered guides, by C. A. J. Farrar, pub. at Jamaica Plain, Mass., chiefly for the benefit of those who fish and hunt. Two township maps of Maine are issued by the Coltons, iSj Wi.liam St., N. Y. : 40 b^ 32 in., at $150, and 18 h- 14 in., at 50 c Nbw Hampshire: 12, 37,50, 112, i77>24>^, '57. 259. '93. 5". 594. 597.610,617, 618,627, 631,643,654, 766. Reports from Portsmouth, Manchester and Nashua are on pp. 101, 128, 500 507, 508; and two rides down Mt. Washington are noted on pp. 525, 671. The Bi. World of Aug. I, '83 (p. 210), described the -oast down the mtii by the trio of tourists from St. Louis: C. F. A. Beckers, J. S. Rogers and A. Young,— the first of whom reacned the Glen House in 51 min., the others 25 min. later. They rode Expert Columbias, fitted with special brakes; and they had a tota' of 31 falls (divided thus : B., 7 ; R., 14 ; Y., 10), but struck on their feet in every case. J. A. Spead, of So. Newmarket, vn-ote to me thus : " We often ride to Ports- mouth, 12 m., without dismount, inside of i h., in spite of a stiff hill and 100 rod:, of sand. The road to Dover, 12 m., is rather sandy and hilly, but, by using care, I can cover it with one dis- mount. The 4 m. from here to Exeter are all ridable, but include two steep hills." C. F. Sawtelle, of Manchester, went through Francestown, Hillsboro, Washington and Lcmpster, to Charlestown, 85 m., in 10 1'.. of actual riding, and returjied nrxt day in %\ h. (full time, 11 h.) the last 14 m. being done in i h. of almost continuous coasting {IVherl, Aug. 15, '84'). C. D. Hatchelder, of Lancaster (pub. of " Rec.rd Book " ; see p. 676), reported to me as follows : " I first mounted a crank bi. Aug. 17, '82, and rode it one s- ,ison. I now use a Star and think ii tiie best wheel miide. Mileage: '82, 500; '83, 800; '84, 1200; '85, 1500; '86, to July 17, 53S. My longest ride in '85 has been 40 m., as I work 10 h. a day, and have not lost an hour on ac- " " ^ r;*!TTT---- .-. ;-;*jl*-„':t::c:: eyes...., ir.rrGu^r.iy T.~St>i»;. , uiSv.^iucd two specimens as unsatisfactory, but I think that when a man gets a good McDonnell he will find it quite good enough. My longer tour was in July, '85, L. to Machias, Me., and back,— »*! I ■ 576 TEA rnuUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. 300 m. in 10 days of wheeling, besides mucli ridinj; on train and boat. Longest stretch in ihi tour, 142 m. in 4 days. Longest run ever mad.- by daylight was .Sept. 19, 'S5, a circuit of 80 m" around the Pilot Range, an offshoot of the Whiiu \Itns., forming a chain of beautiful w.hhM hills, 2000 to 3000 ft. high. From L. we rode n., along the winding Connecticut, to (;r„v,ion 10 m., and Stark Water, 8 m., on stretches of hard gravel and through groves of beech and maple. Thence through a rougher country, acros-, the watershed between the Com. ,„rl the Androscoggin, to West Milan, 8 m. ; followed by 2 m. upward tramp and 2 m. of descent „„ > stony and sandy road to Pontook Falls; th.-nce along the r, bank of the river to Kethel i> „, was the swiftest spin of the day. We arrived at 12.3c, and after \ h. for dinner, ! pr(^eeHtd alone to Gorham, 6 m., expecting to make good lime for the 26 m. thence to L., though np-grade and rather rough ; but a gale of wind opposed me for a while, and I got on a wrong road which forced me to retrace 3 m. Reaching home sjon after sundown, I was comparatively fre^i, .„ that I might have done 20 m. more without trouble. The route is a pleasant one but mi In l,e enjoyed better by giving 2 days to it. The stretch of 25 m. up the river from Gorham ,. ,he only good road of any length in the whole of Coos county." K. F. Peavey, of Fannington, filled p. 26, in Ui. ir^rld nl Oct. 7. '8., with an intert-ln^e sketch of his 3 day.s' straightaway tour from F. to Fabyan's, 47 m. in 21 li. of actual time on tl,e road. Starting S.!pt. 7, on a 52 in. Standard Columbia, he leach.d Ossipee, 26 m., at noon .ind spent night at Tamworth, ir, m.,— having walked a good deal Ihrough hilly and sandy slreicli.-. On 7th, throjgh N. Conway to Hartlett, 35 m. of superb scenery and fair riding. (;n the Sih he tramped most of the 15 m. t,,,-gradcs to Crawford's Notch, in 5 h., a.-i thence along il, ■ sandy level for 5 m. to Fabyan's, whence he went home by train,-well satisfied with hav- ing pushe." " the first bicycle over that route." Allusion is made on p. 503 to the tour taken throu.-h the White .Mtns., before Aug., '79, by W. K. Gilman ; and I think he gave an acox .., of .' n, B,. World, but 1 cannot now refjr to date and page. Four carefu!lv-writ;en chapters of White Mtn. travels were printed in B. /K, June 23 to Aug. 4, '82, giving the '8, experiences and observations of three Worcester men, who mention a Waiting's map(2i in. to i m.) as seiv ing them well. The writer of the report appended to it several outline routes for tours of 4, ., or 15 days, and said : " I advis- moving from w. to e., as the up-grades are much easier, in ilic Ammonoosuc valley, approaching the Notch, than those of the Saco valley from the e. An average of 5 m. an hour and 25 m. a day will be enough for comfort. From Plymouth, the lii^t 5 or 6 m. up the Pemigewass^t valley are reported sandy and the next 20 m. o the ^-lume. fair ndmg. At N. Conway, g m. may be done with only 2 dismounts, and the roads in the redon around Littleton are also exceptionally good. We struck 2 m. of unridable sand just n. of Franconia, 5 m. of it from Fabyan's to Crawford's and 2 m of it e. of Fryeburg. We met few grades too steep to ride up, if llu ir surface had been good, though the big hills were all aninnrf us. Little hills, softness of surface ami occasional patches of sand are the bicycler's troubles in the White Mtns." Four years later, in Oct., '85, Geo. B. Thayer wheeled from Vernon, Ct , to the White Mtns. (Profile Hous.:), 236 ni., in 5 days. He rode a 46 in. Expert, carried his bag- gage on his shoulders, in an army knapsack, and covered 1200 m. during the tour. Going np the Conn valley, he crossed fr,„n Bcrnardston i: -o Vt. on the evening of the second day: on the third into N. H., through Charlestown and W»st Claremont ; on the fourtli, back into Vt , at Windsor, and to a point 25 m. beyond White River Junction. On the forenoon of the fifth div. he turned from the Conn, river at Wells River, and followed up the Ammonoosuc to N. Lisbmi, wlie'e, after climbing a hill about i m. long, he found an easy descent into Franconia, and then 3 m. of up-hill to the Profile (the route first intended, through Littleton, would have taken a da> longer). " The 24 m. thence to Fahvan's can easily be ridden in an afternoon ; hnt the next / m. through Crawford's Notch to Willey's art poor riding. An excellent road of 17 m. led me do«n the Saco to a poi .4 m. beyond Upper Pi-fUtt, and next daj through N. Conway to W Ossipee. The day's ride the.,ce to Center fi md around Lake Winnipiseogee to \Veir«, wasoneof the best on the trip; nnd frnm Lacot:!.L vt; !o Cniirr-.rH ^j rr. fh.- r.-.3.-! U fr:- t!\n:r.-b mostly through the woods. Above and below Marchesier, the wheeling was poorer : but the whole trip was so pleasant that the poor coads have almost been forgotten " (RulUti,,. Jan 33. SC/AfAfARV n Y STA TES: A'EW HAMPSHIRE. 577 'S6, p. 52). Willi ihl.i may be compared the report of W. 15. Page : " On afternoon of July 19, •S6, my riUeof 16 in., Baili 10 Kraiico;iia, was interrupted by thunder storms, wiih rain and hail, III iking the usually good road difficult. On 2oih, I took a detour 10 the Kiume (13 in., incl. 6 m.' up ano 6 m. down, on good sha.e, each way), and ihjn went by hiiiy clay road, from Kranconia 10 H.lhiehem, 6 m. (dinner at i); thence past Maplewujd, Iwin Mtn. House, Kabyai.'s and Cra-'{„r,l Hojsj to Wiiley Housj,— makiii- 52 in. for 8 h. of riding. On 2 -st, a tine 12 ni. run 1- •• for breakfast i then 6 m. to U.en .Siaiion and 16 ni., inost.y unridubie, up the Peabody r le Gien House, though the wond.Tfnl vijws w.re a compensation, between 3 and 8 . -., 1 I -k a tramp to the top of Mt. W.ishingion and back, lO m.,— .hns comp.eting one of ill ■ h.iidj'^t 50 m. records in my experijiic.-. On 22nd, I retraced my course to Glen .■Ration ; reached N. Convv.iy, 22 m., at noon; walked most of 12 m. thence to tryeburg, M ,-. ; whcncj 10 lirid^.'ton, I) m., h.i.f the ro.Ad is s.md, thro.i-h a siunted forest, and the rest is fi.u shaie, ill si'.4iit of pretty lakes." (See p. 574 for itniaiiid,.r of route through Me., and p. 5,8 for first p.nt of to r, fioin I'hi.adelpliia to Uaih.) A fortniju's tour, July 31 to Aug. 13, '8), was reported by E. H. Corson to his home paper, ih : Rj.kjsUr Cjnr,er of An,'. 2 1 ; and ih .• M h i.i.. .iliei wards cL voted 4 cohnnns to a rei>riiit()f ill: skjlch. I'he rider combined busi.i.si witli p.. .isure,-b cause his fun d. Au-. 1, i^'an.icook, lics;awen and Frank in Fills; 2 k1. very fine rid; along the bhore of Sanboi ton bay to L.iconia ; 3rd, to Weirs aid b.ick ; 4ih, tiTOiiJi Ashland and PiyinoaJi 10 Haverhill; whenc: o., 5J,. | followed the Conn, river, aniid beauilful scenery to Welis Kiv.r, and then the Anmonoosnc, by s.iiidv roads 10 Liiile- tn 1 ; :.:ood hard road to Whit fi.-ld .ind hilly ih mi 10 Lancaster, 56 m. ; 6lh to <>ih, in and around I..,iiic,nding a tramp to th; top of .M:. Pro.p -ct iwh r; may b: had one of the finest views in tl'2 Stat •) and a ride to Gui dh.ill Falls, Vt. On loih, by \m\ road, to (iorh.-m, 2; m. ; nth, to l!:,hi', .\I .., 2ii m. in 3} h., thence in rain to Lovell , 12, h, E. 1 ry. burg and Kezah Falls, 3 'in.; 13. h, ill rain, lhioj;h Cornish, Lime.ickand Milton Mills home to Rochester at r.30 r. .M.,-ih ; last ,5 m. in i\ h " The whole mileage ^s vapu-Iy alluded to as " 500," but no detal.s of It are givn sav; ih .-se q,iot.-d. Th; sam; " .Star man " (p. 25;) on July lo, 'Sj, ro! , 250 lip,), a smaller and cheap-r book, proved vrry servlc able to me. as a pede.strian, in '71- ';-. .111 1 I pr.sum? it is siill in the market. Ft contains a pv^d mnp nf the mtns., as do s W. il. Pickeaii-'s " Walking Guile to the Mt. Washington Range '' (lioston: A. Williams & Co., 'v- : Hi pp., 75 c.), which won'd presumably be of use to the wh ■elman, ihoii'^h I 'vp n»ver s-cii a copy. I may say the same of " Gaz.-tterr of Gr.ifton County, .70.,-iSSf.," -ompii-d and piib. by Hamilton U.ild, at .Syracuse, V.. Y. (large 8vo; pp. 64,, ,ie is ih"niiinb>rof me road where his house mav be found on ihe iicomi-ianvin- wnv — . ' ' " '■■'^■' •-■ '■"■'A "•-■p.:ra:e;y :u::,.or--,-. /;. g,^ ■ ;•, , ;;. i'ii,.li|-., 1 25 tcr 71 ' siuiws in t where he lives in the town of Lisbon." The Coltons publish a township map of N. H., 'S by 14 i.i., at so c ; J. 15. Deers & Co., a wall map of Portsmouth, at $8. 31 w -J^ 578 T-^-iV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. VlRMOMT : J,, „j, .,9, .77, ,93, soj, S08. S16, sSo, 594, 609. 6.0, 617, 6.8, 627. 63, 6,4 671. 7M. 766. My ride up the river to Bellows Falls, and tl.en from Rutland to Lake George' 182-84; other lake tourists in s. w. cor. of Vt., .79, ,93 ; route from White River Junction to Montpeher, Lake Champlain and Canada, 500. Colton's maps : 40 by 30 in Jiso-iSbvi 50 c. ; Vt. & N. H., 3. by ,5 in., |.. The Bi. IVorUi (Apr. .4. 'Ss, p. 457) .Printed a .olul' about the Vt. roads, by F. W. Sherburne, of Barre, who said he had explored some 400 m of then -his best day's ride being 68 m., from B. to Windsor, in Sept., '83, though he hoped soon 10 do .00 m. His letter to me of Aug. ,,, '85, reported this as accomplished thus ■ " On July J7, between 3 A. m. and 9.4s P. M., on a 5a in. Rudge, I covered i.jj m., reg by l!utch-.r cyclom. Roads and weather were at their best, and a very light wind prevailed. I maae fr'e quent stops, amounting in all to 3} h. ; used a Lillibridge saddle, but no lantern, though 1 h of morning and i h. of night were quite dark. From B. I went to Montpelier, Middlesex M„re town and Wakefield, 26 m. at 6.20 (i h. stop for breakfast) ; back by same road to near Mont- pelier, thence through Northfield, to W. R.iMdolph, 70 m., at 1.2s ;diimer till 3); W. Bethel K Bethel (supper); E. Randolph, N. Randolph, K. Brookfield, Williamstown, Barre,-,!,',i„j. last 27 m. in 3J h. The longest day's ride previously takrn in Vt. was on July 9, '.S,, l,y two Rutland boys, W. Egleston and N. .S. Marshal, looi n-.. 1 have ridden from Bellows' Falls to Montpelier and Burlington, and call the roads, as a whole, fair. From B. F. to Windsor, 25 m., I took the N. H. side of the Conn. riv-. and" found some patches of .sand; thence tn White River Junction, 15 m., some fine stretches, some unridable ; thence to Royalton, 20 m ridabic but rather sandy ; thence to Montpelier, 38 m., all good but the first 4 m. (or, for bettfr ar.d shor-er road, turn from r. r. about i m. beyond R.,and go to Willian.stown (;ulf, whence 10 Barre is a charming run of 10 m.); xM. to Burlington, 46 m., quite fair, with some spots of sand. Mt. Mansfield, highest p^ak of the Green Mtns., where a tuperb view may be had, i» only 30 m. from Barre, and may be reac'.ied by a half day's ride, through the valley and .Middle- sex Notch, where another fine sight is given by the Winooski rushing through the narrows." Vermont supplied 3 days' wheeling in the I4i3 m. tour of W. B. Page, July 5 to Aug. j,, '86. His eariier rides (7500 m.) are detailed on pp. 41)4-99. and his report to me of Dec. i.S, '80, says : " In my delightful summer outing of 50 days, only 26 were used in active riding,— show- ing a daily average of about 59} m.,— and only 3 riding day-, were stopped by rain. I had only j falls: the first between Saratoga and Lake Oeorge,~the others between Quebec and J.ront- real. I used a new, full-nickeled Expert, which I h:id ridden 80 m., a few days before startin-.: In the eariy autumn, I indulged in 499 m. of local riding, and a tour of 158^ m. to Pottstown and Reading. At the end of Nov., I tookarun, through rain and snow, m4 m., to Winchester, Va.,— doing the last 50 m. in 8 h., through about 6 "i. of snow,— and this raised the total of nir '86 record, since July i, to 2306 m. I was 5 days in riding from Phila. to Saratoga (jig m, with detours), and I rested there as well as at Lake George, 40 m. beyond. On the afternoon of July 14, 1 wheeled from the lake, at Baldwin's, by rutty clay roads, through Ticonderoga and the old fort, to W. Cornwall, Vt. (no hotel), 22 m. On 15th, 10 A. M. to 5 p. M., with many step.- .m account of rain and mud, through Middlebury (7 m.), E. M. (6 m.), and by vile road up mm. to Ripton and the Bread Loaf Inn (6 m.), near the summit. Rain fell till 1..30 on i6th, «1kh I walked i m. to summit, and thence had beautiful descent over good shale road. At Han- cock (10 m.), where grand effect is produced by closing in of mtns. on all sides, I t. r., at . r. M., and followed White river, along a fair loam road to Rochester (4^ m.), where I t. ihe last and steepest spur of the Green Mtns.,— walking ij m. to ammit at 3.30 v. 11. scent, of red shale, was ridden, and surface continued fine to Bethel (11 m.), at 4.30; men sandy, along the river, to hotel in S. Royalton (8 m.), at 6,-making n\ m. for 5J h. of ridin.-. On 17th, by good mud road to C:iieisea (14 m), where t. r. and walked a 3 m. hill, from whosr top I rode most of the 22 m. to Bradford, on Conn, river; along which, by good limestone ro.irl. winding in and out, with fine views of the stream and the White Mtns., I went to Wells River (14 m.), and there crossed into N. H. at Woodville and walked most of 7 m. of sand to Bath " : ?-.-.r .-.-.r-..-Ti,=,.-7-. ..! (,||,^ iiiioui;ii N. H. auo Me., see pp. 577, 574. reports {Vt. Bicycle. Sept., '%) that the road from Bellows Falls to Clare- I. np De- then 'luSiuil Ol U II), ^b:-:L SUMMA RY BY STATE"^: VERMONT. mont (N. H.). 20 m., is mostly good, with one fine 5-ni. stretch; then 10 m. to Windsor by nver road : but a better route from C. to W. is by Hanover st. and the Cornish road. ^\ m. „ , .ind then si m. w. Rather sandy and hilly roads prevail for 16 m. from W, to Woodstock ; and they are sandier and hillier for the 50 m. w. fr-m Claremont to Rutland,-the last half, Ludlow 10 R., being the worst, including deep sand from E. Wallingford to R. From R. to Brandon 17 m. of fairly good road; then towards Middlebur>', Mr. U. encountered j cr 3 m. of sand and did not explore further. The best stretch between C. and R. is the level 7 m. leading' into Ludlow. The old stage road, which is the continuation of R.'s Main st. n. towards Pitlsford .s fairly good, and the road between R. and Proctor is still better. G. P. MacCiowan reports an easy j h. ride of ,8 m. from Middlebury to Larrabee's Point, where ferry boat and lake steamer ...ay both be taken,-the intermediate towns being Cornwall, 6 m., pnd .Shoreham, <4i m. Wilmington, no m. from Boston, was reached in a 2 days' ride by U L Parmeley' who "started from B. at 4 A. M. of Oct. 8. '83, and rode 67 m, .0 A.hol, taking breakfast »i •Stowe. 23 m. from B. and .4 m. beyond Waltham. The roads continued good f.om S for .7 m , through Lancaster to Leominster; then came 7 m. of up-hill and deep sand to Westminster (longer route through Fitchbur,' would have been easier); then 20 m. of decent riding, through (.ardner and Templeton to A. Next day's route led through Orange, and the 3 N. H towns of Winchester. Ashuelot and Hinsdale, to Brattleboro (ridable side-paths where road is sandy) M.ulboro' and Wilmington (a -ery steep mtn. had to be walked, between M. and W ai.H another one on entering N. H.), 47 m. Third day's ride led down-hill 6 m. from W to Jack- sonville ; then .2 m. mostly ridable to Coleraii.e ; then , m. up-grade and 6 m, easy descent and S-K-d road to Greenfidd ; and so to Deerfield, Sunderland and N. Hadlev, 45 m. Fourth day Amherst, Belchertown, Ware, Hardwick (36 m.), Coldbrook, Paxton, Worcester and Boston' 77 m.,-a total of 232 m. without repetition. Good roads, H. to P.. tl.en 7 m. sandy but down- grade to W." The Siar AdvocaU (Nov., '86) details a July ride of .70 m. from Milford, N. H., to Stowe, Vt. (excursion thence to top of Mt. Mansfield), and a day's return-ride of 6. m. to Roy^lton. In regard to the rumor tl at the Vt. and N. H. Divisions would jointly publish a road-book of the two .States, or else that tne Vt. Division would supply material for several pages in the forthcoming book of the N, Y. Division. I received the following denial from the chief consul of Vt.. C. G Ross, Dec. .6, '86 : " I have found it almost impossible to get any reports at all, as to roads, from Vt. wheelmen ; and mv own riding has been too largely local to furnish much information." Colton's maps of Vt. are 40 by 30 in., $..- ■ ,8 by 14 in 50 c, and 31 by 25 in., Ji,-the latter containing N. H. and parts of adjoining 'Mtes. Massach-sbtts : 26, 3,, 42, 50, 09, .29, 132. i.!3-4, m8, 176-8, 182, 20S, .46, 258-9, 269 2'^;. .152. 36.1, 3&7. 37J, 383, 385-6, 466, 480, 525, 579, 59^, 594. 597, 6og, 6.0, 6.7, 6.8, 625 627 ^,,,643, 653-65, 672-So, 723, 766-g. My " Boston " and " Springfield " chapters report a pretty thorough exploration of this State, 100-128; "winter wheeling" around S., with sketch of nradley's road-map, 251-54 ; State and county maps and atlases and local guides. .11-113 126 673. 677, 700; Southwick to S., .46; Sheffield to S., .47, .21 : Williamstown to 8., .93 ; (jonn.' valley, ,79.8,, 25., 377, 50.; Andover to State Line, 20-5 ; Worcester to Boston, w d 5.4- throiish tours, 479, 488, 500: mileage of Mass. "veterans," 503-8, 5,o-.4. 5.8, 524, 5.7 529-30 I'uring the 3 years since Chap. X. was written, much gravel has been spread in the environ".' of >, for the bettering of the roads. C;ates's hill (,,p. ,,8, .83) is now smooth enough to be readily ndden, and the n. ascent from the r. r. crossing, just below it, is also ridable, though rough and d.mcult. This IS 6 m. above the bridge at Hampden Park ; and the next 3 m. n continue Mi.ooth and hard along a level ridge, which ends with a fine view of river and mtns where the downward slope begins towards Smith's Ferr>'. Just at this point a private wood-road or path may be taken by a pedestrian who wishes to scale the summit of Mt. Tom,-leaf!ng !,is wheel at the adjacent farm house. I reccmmend such a one to do this, in preference to trying the other route from Craft's corner, . m. below, with its 2 m. of up-grade to the half-way house, a.id a tramp thence to the summit fp. 118). No pleasanter spin need be 25>.k?H f.-ir s^ r<=-ar.-l= either road-smface or scenery (in fair weather), than this 9 m. stretch n. from the brid-e ^'^^x^A when ridden s., it may be covered w. d. by the weakest of wheeImen,-for its single sizable 58o TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BfCVCLE. ««cent is quite smooth. For 14} m. ». of the biidRC, I found no obstacle to cau-w a Mop in Dec *i\ (p. I2i), and ill.- mad il)rou..;li A,.;awaiii lia> be^ii improved since then. Hcnc.-, ihi, ,«irai •l,t'^ TiiM do*., .he vaiiuy, 2» in . iii.iy L..- r.adi.y done w. d.,— from ihe river het' nts opp. .Mi 1"^ to Ih- rivr bi.ik b.-.ow Winds.,, Locks. The "loo soft" ic.ad (p. i84> from Wi,!i,nji,«-it thro,i:h CMicni:.- .Stre.-t ui the town ha.i in C, jj ni., I found a.l ridab.e (.Oct. 17, S(,j -i|,e lHtt:rhalf, iromih; charc.i »., having an exc,;..en: gray l^.iy surface, whi,e me n'. part «.!, loler.ib; •, ia sid>.i,iihi a. id ruts, ih.m-h its scenery is mucii poorer than ih.ii of the tine lo.id ,,n Ih.- w, si.I: of ih; riv;r. A f ir b.-tt.r rojte to th.- M •inorial Church than that named on ,, u, m w noA- bi h.id by ridi..;^ u.. ih.- s;,.;v.. n. of the town hall in C, and then turning r alon-^ ,l,r r. w ilk of ,h .• str.-jt 01. wi. >s : I. si.f.- st m»U th ■ hish-school bui.dii,.- -for thi. .-.treet soon le „I, into S,..i,i'^f.:;d St. (.'so cill,-l th- liouluvard), whose 1. waik may be kept -ill one read e. ,!,• sm.H.ih v-raveled r.,.ulway, whicl. used to b-- deep sand. A siraifl.t , m. ihrou:;h ihe «,„ds ', sh ir . and somewhat wi,.Ji.u dsdit of J m. (I rode up this, N„v. ,4, ,h„„.h it lir.d nul „'„| a stru -ht \ Ml. <. 1 IJhjstnut St.. wi I brin- the rider 1.. the corner of Car w St., «h re the sn,r»,ili prav -I ends anl ti...- roa,-h r inacul.iin 1. .iJiis. on boih streets. This is 3 m. from the town h.ill li. C. : anJCar:wst. enjs J m. w, .,t .Main s!.. just bc.ow the Memorial Church If a rider w, ,h 's to -tvoul Ih ; ,,i .v.iy . ,11 ul ly m .cadam, and the horse-car tracks, of M..,n st. (when he ciers Ih.- cty from th. n. w.. by ih.' brid:^e above liampy avoid that b isiness section of th.- ciiy ei lireiy by niaki gal. !., whic.i at the I..p of Ih.- I.., I (1 ro I; u.. thisby Kreat .rf.irt, Nov. ..), wil l.rini- him to the sireet'lendin-'r p,st Ih: U. S. .»..,-.. ry, to Stat.; st.,-ihi oid Hosto.i road.-wh.re he should <. I., if bouncU,,r she la;t:rcny. la /.in; acr-ss th ; plain to Indian < )rcharH, he will find ihat the new bridge over Ih ■ r. r. trie': xn\ th: ,, or 4 m. of i.:w .uravel will enab:e him to get there easi!v, w. d. On No/. !:, Ini.lrnonini at the Armory corner, on State st., hut kept straight s, throuh Wal- m.tst, .Jm .toth: w.it .-r-shop. ; ih.-n rode up the hill whh difncuhy, and turned s. for,,irn to ;■,. l/>.:.nMlov, »:.;r:6ro,dsm-t. Th.; o.ie that leads w. 4 m. 10 the main street of I, at th • cl. irch, , . ,h I! i I by won it. The sur/ace havins; been recnily se, i^.-d and s. of S. has b-en alreadv hinted at, thus : Ch -stnnt st. at Carew, to Memorial Chnrrh. to \-,;h hrid- ■, to Chico'.e- brid--, to inwn hall, to hi.eh school, to Boulevard, and s. to starlin ; ;v,i-,t, S m. Four short and easi'v ri.lab'" ascents are ;he only obstacles on this route, .and ih >M' \ ..f is .-nrfac- ar; of almost id:al smoothness, in mod we.ather. An t m , including every State in New Kngland. was begun May-?*, ''6, at ^ r. f , bv X trio of Hartford riiiers, who finished at Pawti-cket, June 5. at i r. m. Fr.m rv.rt .n :i.'",-f;,i (Vtc. v np. i;i;o-q.>, T learn that they "coasted down the i m. n. slope of M'. Tti., 'ho :-'i it mid' th«ir hair rise": and from report in Sfiring-Mrt Union (Sept. 7, '"^V I ■ -irn that goo.l sid.-.oath riding may be had from foot of mtn. to the r. r. station called Mt, 1 ••■::. 1 r.;., rxy.x ;;, ,; ;;,,■ ,,, •,ii.in...i,,..- aopie-trees are apt to scrape ott the rider's hat (s.'e p-. 1 13, (>}o). P. 4o5 in Bulletin of Oct. 15, '86, described the suburban riding of Boston, " as«xi«- SUM MAR y By STA TES . MASS A UIUSE ITS. 58 , ricnccd by a Wos.en. man," John R. Clarke; and p. ,,4. in issue of Sep,. ,;, described ,he manym.les of well-made roads i„ the 3 valleysof .he Ilerkshire Hills." Ihe BuUrl,^ (Dec .0. p. 572) gave an account of the League's projecto.l Mass. koa.l-liook. essentially the s;,me a. XV. fol ow„,g. comained in a letter received by me at that time from the chief consul of the Mass. l),v,s.o„, H. W. t.ayes : '■ The work of e.li.in. n,.,, ,o„„,i,i,„ ;, j,, „,, ,,^„.,, „j ^ nn.tee, co,,s„„nK of J. H. Grime, K, '.. T-.u, and myseif. The book will follow the i'enn. .....del. and w.ll probably appear next s .mmer, tho.,(;h it is st.ll in an embryo Mate A cony will I. ■ };.ven ,0 each member of the Divisi m. I estimate its cost-for an ed, of, say .500 copies- ... from ?6oo to #700." This w,ll be mnch superior to the ',^4 book (p. ,.,), a.'.d will ren ler ....necessary the cheaper affair authoriz.d '» Keb. (p. ^,77) and .he club book which Mr Pratt ...tended to tomp.le (p. 67S). " History ot the Conn. Valley in Mass." (Philadel, l,ia • I H Kv..r.s; '79. 4to, 2 vols., .,.2 pp.,, which „,ay be cnsui.ed in every local l.bra,y, contains a .ceneral account of the valley , of Hampde ,, Hamnshho and I-ranklin counties; and of each ..ne o their towns,-wi,h ,nany illustrations and biographical sketches. lis r.atcnal was sup- l...ed by a Rroat number of volunteer conrributors, and covers a great variety of subjects • and .IS preface mentions J. G. Holland's " Hist, of Western Ma.,..," as a standard reference-lxx.k Rhode Island : 3., 4^. ^95, 50S, 50^ 5^.7. 6.5. 6,7, 6,S, f,2S, 63,, 643, 670, 760, 800. My route to Pawtucket, Warren and Bristol, -.hence back to Providence and Woonsocket ,07.., student s route from 15. ,0 Middletown and Newport, loS; clerRyman's report from K '(Ireen w.ch 5... Mapr., ,.2, .,3, .49, .77, ^9^ 55^- Colton's map of R. J [,, by 27 in., $,.,0) ha, ndded to .t a plan of the surroundings of Newport, giving names of chief owners ; also a plan of Providence, H„h statistics ; map 01 R. J. and M.tss., ,8 by ,4 in.. 50 c. " Road-Iiook of Mass Division, above,willp,obablycontainseveralpp. of R. I. routes. On July 5 '86 Rev S H Day rode from K. Greenwich to N. Dighton, 42 m., and then back to N. Easton is m ' " ' C0N.SF.CT.CUT : 3.. 42, 43, 57. 7,1, ..o, .55. .97, 230, 246, 24S, 2SS, 295, 352.' 4W,, 500. 593. 597, 609, 6,o, 6,7, . .S, 028 63., 032, 643, (y,o, 723, 769-70. Chap. XI. ^,,^4,) ,ives my rotite *.f .85 m. along the shore of th.e Sound from New London to New Haven, .29-33 thence up the Naugat.,ck valley to the hill-tops of Litchfield, and through the Farmington valley to Granby and Springheld, .39-46 ; 'so my more direct routes between N. H. and S.. through Hartford .33-38 ; my ride t'irough the n. w. corner, ,47 ; and other riders' experiences along the shore be' tween Greenwich, at the s. w. corner, and New Havui ; and between N. H., H and S 138 142. 149. ,• " winter wheeling " between Greenwich. N. H., H. and .S.. ,41.53. ,22. Mai«' 99, 112, T,3, , . ,77. 293. Dr. Tyler's statistics. 5.0. On Oct. 4. '86, I wheeled from N h' to West Springfield, 64i m. by Pope cyclom., 9..5 A.^,. to 8.. 5 P. M.,-,he last 2 h. in .he moon! Iig,.t. This was one of the longest rides I ever look in 1, h. ; and in all previous tours between .Hose two po.nts I had spent i\ days upon the -oad. The surface averaged better than on any previous trial, and I was helped somewhat by the wind. I went out of N. H on the macad of Dixwell av., and then the 1. sidewalk of the sandy Boulevard, to Centerville (6i m ) the.', due n. 3 m. to the first brick house above Mt. Caimel, where sign savs " 6 m. to Wallin-ford " and «here I obeyed advice given on p. ,34, by turning off to explore 4} .n. new to me, m.til I reached the W. turnpike. I did not regret the experiment, for the road was a rather plets.nt ..ne. and mostly ridable, but it ended wiih . m. of descent so rough .hat I walked parts of it a.id I am sure 1. could not be ridcl.-n up. A Meriden ric':r confirmed my previous belief that the -MMest route between M. and Mt. Carmel (an.l so fortourists between N. H. and H ) i, through < hesh.re ; but 1 understoo.l him to say that the one given by mc at the foot of p ,34 mig/it be ...proved upon by t.,rning r.. at end of the "smooth ridge," where ny advice says, "follow .el. poles to I. ' (7th line from bottom). He tolgrades. .,e surface i.'self wa. aU 1 ^1 >■»'-» S82 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ridable, and I probably found it at its besl. A fine i m. ittretch of macad. , almott parallel to ihe pike, offer-, belter riding into the suburbs, at the eni of the qt'n m. from H. I know if no oilier lo m. of air-line highway in New KnglancI ; anil I recommend this only to through tourists wlio are in a hurry, — for no gDod views reward one's hill-climbing, and both Ihe roundabout routes throuRh New llritain (p. 137) are pleasanter. 1 wheeled across the river to K. Hartford, and thence kept the w. sidewalk or path for most if the next 11 m. lo the new brid(;e,by which 1 crossed back to Windsor Locks. I think the bridge was officially opened on that very day, though traffic had been allowed upon it s'nce its acceptance from the contractors, Sr|i|. 17, nnd indeed for some time previous. 1 reached ihr bridge just 8 b. from the start, and tin- cycium showed just 50 m. Hctween Cirecnwiili and New Haven, Oct. 2, it showed only ^5 m , as cini pared with 50 n; between the same points on previous tmirs. I rode to (;., 25 m., mi the aim noon of Oct. I, — thus doing the 140 in. between N. V. anil S in 2J ilavs. .\s regards route between H.irtford, Waterlniry and New Haven (pp. 14-, 250 , (,. ( McNeil, a student in the Mass. Inst, of Technology,— whose previous wheeling comprised onl-, Soo m., mostly in the Moston region, — wrote lo me thus, Aug. 24, 'H5 : " Koad is goo*e got to Walerville, whence goo77. '7'^> '87, 331 ; (juide-books, 100, 177, 186, 293, 19S, 221, 678, 700. My declaration, en p. 71, that " I once managed to ride up " the hill from Kingsbridge towards Jerome Park, h,15 based upon the word " climbed " in a ms. report of such early date that f cannot now recollect whether all the "climbing" was done on wheel or part .if it on foot. I mention this becall^e the riding up of the hill in '86 was noted in the papers as " first on record," and I do nnt wi?.h to detract from the glory due any one else for a difficult exploit. As I am told 'hat many h >ve tried in vain to surmount this hill,— though its surface is smoother now than formerly— and as I am not a Rneriallv nnwerf'jl bill-dimber. I think it like!.' that I never resllv wheeled to the summit. Anyhow, J have no wish to claim a thing which 1 cannot certainly recall to memery ; and, if 1 SCA/A/AA'i/n s/.r/ts.- AEIV iVA/:. 5H^ iMti kn.iwn Ihal m.iny kockI riders hid bee-^ vanquithed bv ...i, hill, I sliould not have ventured iM interpret "climbed" in the original log by rode up." InMead ..f " dekcendiiig tliii hill, to ...ich the head of Itroadway in Kingsbridge " (p. 711, ihe wheelman may lu.w go n. } ■... along ih.- creM of it, on ideal i.iac, and then I. I by a r.ithcr ron^h diiccnt to K ; or he nay ^o v on niw mat. to the road for lordham Landing (p. 71), and then t. I. for Rid-e av and hordliam. Ihe work of lowering the grade from Washington Heights n tc .ards Kiiigsbri-iii.. (p. 72) is r 'iMirted unfinished at the close of '86 ; but a new route in thai region, ridable in all weathers, I- now supplied by a strip of asphalt, bctweer the tracks of the cable r. r., sirclching from 115th n. throu;h loth av., 3J m., to Kort St. George (p. 70). Instcid of climbiMj; down the steps -.1 lu reach Hi^h Bridge (p. 70), a path may be taken n. e. tl.rou:.;h the l.otel-yard. Tlic road w li'in the Itoiilevard through frcinont to Central av., 1) m., is all mac, .ind it naches lli.- a/, ij ni n of Gab! Case's hotel (p. 73). Much o. the av. itself was so soft during ',S6 as to rtuke iis « si, '85, the "An- nex " boats of the Erie r. r., between B. and J' >ey City (p. 97, fare 10 c), have made no charge for carrying a passenger's bi. During the summer, boat may b taken at Market St. wharf, Newark, and a pleasant sail of 1} h. had to Bay Ridge, within eas ; wheeling distance of Prospect Park and Brooklyn ; or the excursion may be prolonged by connecting train to Coney Island (p. 89) ; for the fare, 30 c, is the same in either case, and no charge is made for wheel. Ihe Staten Island Rapid Transit r. r. (p. 158) was opened Mar. 8, '86, with 34 connecting boat- d.iily between S. I. and N. Y., — all starting from a single landi. •;■ ' m. from the Battery. Thf BulUtii. (Jan. 8, '86, p. 24) qu^^lcd a Herald report that some Elizabeth capitalists were inteiid- 1113; to spend $5oo,o.» upon a toll-bridge, crossing Newark bay, \\ m., alongside the r. r, brid-c, to connect Elizabeth|)ort with Bergen Point (foot of Av. D), whence a ferry-boat makes quick trips to S. I. (p. 157); but I 've heard nothing later of the project, and fear it may lie as basel- as that ancient scheme about building a 6 m. asphalt toll-track, from Prospect Park to ' ,ey Island,— which scheme the Ftiiletin recorded seriouslv as " news," Apr. 9, 'S6 Broadway can no longer be inspected from the roof of an omnibus, as advised 01, ,99: for, in June, '85, some horse-car swindlers captured the street, from the Battery to Union Sq., and drove off the ancient vehicles. Encouraged by this, the highwaymen then attempted to despoil the city of its only remainint; thoroughfare ; and, as a first step in their villainnns scheme, filed :irticles concerning the " Fifth Av. R. R. Co." in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, .•^"pt. 9, '85. Popular indignation over the Broadway r. r. fraud, whose exposure came a little later, ''oubtless deterred them from active efforts to upset by bribery the law which declares li I n 5«4 /•£A' THOUSAXD MII.llS ().\ A UlCYCLE. thit s!ic tiiy'* .ioMeU avci uc xhaii never l>c cut .iiiu bound by llic vulg.ir lyraniiv of ih. raiU, ll.cir formal llirc.K, however, forced the fricnUi of llie .wciui.- to at one. e„|,veti I'l w',ih an omnibus In-, ..lul improved vehicle, were put ui«)U ilie same ul the close of >,e,,t 'v, The,.- run from ihe illeccker st. Mjlion .,(il,c cleaned r. r .jiM IkIow \V..,hiii^ion St, i„ Cen' tral l'.i,k, .11 j.^.h >t. ; and I advise a trial thereof, on the .Iriver'. ,eat, by every vsi'ior «h„ wishes bi see the cily and enjoy th : best attainable subslilule which it now ofTers for , ,„le , „ to,, of the B.HKl old l;road«.,y -bus. Contract for the re-jMving of I- ifth av., uhich involve in iinineiise expenditure of money, have been aw. ded miicc the spring ot '.Sj, and troubV* ha'vr insen on acu mt of ihe inspector's refusal to accept inferior work. Co.nmontin;; „n these the // from the West Sliore ferry to the central r. r. terminus on 4th av. Since p. yS was printea ' the fence" ha. been removed from the iifuh st. station on 8th av., so that new payment of'i.ue is .10 longer needed 111 making transfer between trains going in opposite directions. The rate was reduced to 5 c. at all i.iurs, on all the elevated line>, Oct, .. '86. Ihe same fare also prev.iu, on l.rooklyn's elevated r. r., which was opened between the big IJridge ana Kast New York in the summer of 'Sj. On .Su.idays, when D., L, & W. trains do not run, the best mode of transfer between N. V. and the " Oange triangle " (p. ,5^,) is given by the Krie (23rd s, and Chambers st., about 8.30 a. .m. : no charge for wheels), to liloomfield av, in Newaik or Main SI, in 0.,-returning about 5 f, m. An excellent cycling map of the " t.iangle " (, m' to 1 in ; showing Its mac, and other good roads, is on the s„me sheet with 2 similar m.nps. showing the chief roaas of Long Island, w. of a line ORK. 58: BuU^tm wy. (Dec. .7, •»6. p. 593) w.ll probably «p|,.ar m Mar ,„d conr-in about ,00 np o. ti.e Penn. model. Prcse.u membcr> o» the iMvu.oi. *,ll each re«,v« a (r« copy, b..i iho« who loii. during the and, jrd and 4lli qaara-ri inu.t re.iHrct.vcly pay 13 c , 15 t. a„cl 3; c (or (he book, *ho»e price lo olher Uatjuc m.n. and to per«,n, not cl.RiUe to 'n.einber.h.p v,|| be <■ All letter, conccrinnx ih... or the " L. I. koad-!l,K,k.- ,|.oald be Knt to the con.'p.ler A h' lUiknian, 60S Kurlhav., Urooklyn, N. Y. Upi>oioted Uookmaster of League, Dec, 18,' '86; The rule, of Dec. 4, '84, for the restriction of cycling in Central Park (p. 94), have not been liUc:raliied in the two years since.-except. I believe, that the queer di«;,n-unaiion against tricy- c:ci has been revoked. My impression is that the lack of au " official bad«c " on his left breas- .uvercaus>" a mature rider to be dismissed from the kiversidc Drive, after he is once fa, ly ui.on It, and .hat even the keeper, of 11, terminal entrances very rarely turn ,urh a man back I.I, IS forrnshim lo gain hi* r.^hl, f,,rtively, throush one of the nu.nerous s.de-approaches) • but .1,. sate, of Central Park itself are more .arefull) guarded, and the rule of carrying 3 hght-d u.,..ri. after dark ,s strictly enforced there, even thoush the absence of badjje be passed ur ",""v V ^^\-'''^'!f """■ '^' ''^' ''"'""•■'* " '"'" '"^^^"»"' '" '•"= »^"'' i:ommis.sioi.er, bv -I.-- N. Y. R C. and xion H. C, as an accompaniment to a ,>etitioii that wheelmen be now pu, ,m an equality w„h olher ci.uens. in respect to having equal rixhl, upon all the drive-wa.sof lie parks,-,ust a, in Pl.iladelpliia. lialiimore. ChicaRo, and all olher civilized cine, Ihe let ur «.ves a statement of f.ic,,, in live para«rapl„, ,I,„wi„g that, •' as not a single accident from cull.sion of bi. or tri. w„h olher vehicle, horse or pedestrian has happened in nearly 3 years' ex- prience u,»n the most-frequented roads controlled by the commi,Moners, iherc is no logic in cxcUiding cycle, from .lie other and less-frequenled roads, a, if they were peculiarly danjrou, or obnoxious vehicles. The pe.itio,, itself received the signatures of several hundred wheel- n,.., (.he two clubs making a thorough canvass of all League member, in the citv), and many , .a.pendent endorsements of it were addressed directly to the commissioner, by citizens who ore .-! cyclers. 1 he committee of the clubs also had personal interview, with the commissioners the president of whom, H R. Heekn.ai,. w... : ic candidate for the presidcncv of the l.o,rd of Aldermen ; aud they recomm-nded '; cyclers t, ote (or him. as an assured supporter o llie.r claim to equ.: rights upon all the city roads. He received about .0,000 majoritv '.t the .1. c.ion of Nov. ^. In case the commissioners persist in a stolid refusal to do justice the rext or^.„r d endeavor will probably lake the form of pressure through the Ne-.-. York I , c ■ hture Ihe Brooklyn cor. of the ^«//.//« (Nov. .9, '86, p. 5..)rep„rts a recnt sa,i.f..,„ry inter! V,:. of the local wheelmen's committee with the governors of Prospect Park ' ImI.p., to a bCK, ihat.in the spring, cycles will be allowed on all the roads of the parkcxcepMl, 1 ast Orivc l.o,n the mam .....ince to the end of the woods l,ey«nd the Deer Pad numbered as " 26 W. 6oth "; ; the Ixion B. C:., 351 W. 59th .St. (Oct., '85), and the Harlem Wheelmen 104 W. 124th st. (for lists of members, see pp. 772-4) ; while the Citizens' former house, 313 W. 58th ■ , is now leased as a cycling sale.s- room, riding sclit"' and repair-shop, by G. R. Bidwell, who has taken thither the business ac- credited to him on )6, as at E. 60th St. The new numbering of the Citizens' pre: . iit house results from an edict of the aldermen, in the autumn jf '86, that the 'Street., running w. from Central Park (6oth to 109th incl.) shall have their houses tiumbered i, 2, 3 and so on, from 8th av. (which is the w. border of the park), just as if it were 5th av., which is the park's e. border. As explained on pp. 65-66, the " e." and " w." enumeration, for the whole region above Wash- ington Square, has hitherto started from 5th av. as a central line ; and that so intelligible and convenient a system should be thrown into confusion, for the sake of gratifying the vanity of those residents who object to " unfashionably high numbers" (see p 452), seems a freak more suited to fickle Paris than sedate America. Since my reports about Niagara were put in type (pp. 203, 215, 325), the environs of that noble waterfall have been form.-.lly ass'.imed by the State of New York, for a public paik (July '5i '85); and 'he tourist is thusgivi 11 a new motive for turning his wheel thither, and seeing with his own eyes how grand a piece of nature has been everlastingly rescued from the mill-owners and the hackmen. I have been told that many charming views along the Hudson may be had, and the hi' -climbing between Yonkers and Hastings may at the same lime be avoided, if, in- stf ad of walking up the rough hill at the end of Warburton av, (as noted at foot of p, 7s), the tourist keeps due n. on the aqueduct : for the 2 or 3 fences which cross it can be easily got over. My remark (p, 81) that a tourist had best turn inland from the Hudson at Piermont. to Sjiarkill aiul other towns, " because the ; ath on top of the Palisades, from Alpine to S., would pie>um- ably demand more walking than riding," deserves modification by these words of an actual ;; ''-'"■r'y ■^"'V- ^^^ --"y HdaWe. Panama Rocks is the chief point ^f ".'^rcs t A nilly route, d , f,, leads from Sherman to Findley's Lake. 8 m., thus ■ " T 1 at vchoo hou.se then t. r. and keep straight away w. ;" and this is the direction for 20 m. of good TZ\r n", T';',"^- '• =" ^'""^" ^^'="'"' '' '-""-^ 'f°- — .' '■ -. -xtt. ,. '.>ke I. f. v^a Columbus." From Siierman to Westfield, „ m.. bv wav nf V,.l„«;, " ,),„„ ;„ , u7i "'"T "'."■'"' T "" '' " ""' """'"y "''•''''' • '■'''"= ""-" "'<> P'''"'' f"'-'^ " ^>om Westfield Mayvule. 7 m. of gravel road, with some sand ; all up-hill " (.u-e p 206) '## ^^ 588 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. A I . ip of the city of Buffalo (40 by 26 in., about i m. to 1 in.) compiKd by Wm. McMillai Park .Superintendent, and showing the park system, is published by Matthews, Northrup i4 e.i ' at the office of ihc Express ; and another one (28 by liJ in., about i m. to i in.) is publishtdby Peter Paul & liro., at 303 Main st. The attractions of the city as a scene for the sixth .nniM meet of the League were thus described {S. (K G., June, .S85J : " Buffalo is full of trees "and fo'iuge, and is conr.tintly fanned by breezes from the lake, .n th.-t it is always cch,1 and sha.lv in Euninier time. It has a beautiful system of drive-ways, and parks, and m.re m. of a.sphaii pavir.t; than any other city except Washington. The ^-.reots ui>-town are lined with handsome resi- dences, and bordered with rows of large trees, making at onc3 pleasing conti.nsts in architecture an.... grateful shade for the wheelman as he spins over the: smooth surface of the roadway' I>ilawire av. is the longest of these ; but some of the side streets, such as North, may fairly vie with it -n the beauty of their b.iildings. Both Delaware av. and North st. are asphalted, as ij also Liinvood av.— a broad and b jautiful street oi.e block east of Delaware. By way of North St. the wheelman reaches ' the circle,' a broad, circular plaza, from which wide and handsome streets radiate in all directions. This is the grand rendezvous for Buffalo wheelmen, and almost all the club runs and tours start from it. No,thw stward .stretches the broaH smooth macndam surface of Porter avenue, by which is reached ' the front,' .> small park with graveled drive- ways and foot-paths, a splendid .qreen lawn, and a terraced green slope dotted with trees and shrubs. Here is obtained the f^rst good view of Lake Erie. At the northern end of ' the front ' stands the military post known as Fort Porter, occupied by two companies of the 23d U. S. Infantry. A part of the old redoubt is still standing, and from its top, fo ft. above the Uke a fine view is obtained." More del liled accounts of the fine wheclir.g offered by the city were printed it. the SH.lMm (Au^. ■ \ug. .3, Nov. ,2, '86; pp. ,28, ,5,, 497) -the latest being by F. J. Shepard, of the B,ere supplemented on pp. 80-85, 5'<3. Reports of local riders, 164, .70, 50S-10, 521-2, 530. M.ips and guides, 99, ,00, 159, ,68, 174-S, 5«9- Nos. i, 9, ,3 and ,7 of the officiM atlas (p. .7S)reached me Mar. 19, '86 ; and, at about the same time, a map showing good and bad roads for 5 to S m out of Westfield was issued by Dr. F . A. Kiiich, jr.. League consul. A large-scale map of •' the Orange triangle," reproduced from the city directory but having the mac. roads specially marked, IS sold for 15 c. by L. H: Johnson (biog. on p. 50S). whose new and handsome store, for the sale and rent of cycles, is close beside the East Orange station of the D., L. & W. r. r. I know ,.f no other place where ladies of the metropolis may so conveniently and unobtrusively learn the art of tricycling,— or start forth on so many easy and pleasantly-vaned tri. runs, with their friends, when they have grown experienced in the art. .Several smooth streets lead from the store int« almost immediate retirement ; and beginners can practice in peace along these shaded levels ard gentle grades, without dread of any such observation and comment as may attach to first t.ials in the region of Central Park. Trains are frequent, and the round trip costs but 50 c. On June 20, '85, 1.etween midnight and 10.27 P- "-, Mr. J- and li ,ife drove a Beestoii Humber taiulera 150J m. (r. f., 16 h. 37 min.) over a tolerably level circuit o' 13 m. The first 60 m. were done at 6.25 A. M. (stop for breakfast till 8.5); looj m. at 12.40 p. m. (stop for & r and nap till 3 next 30 m. at 6.35 (stop for supper till 8). Various friends went with them, as pacemakers, i..r most of Ihe distance; and the tri. used was the same on which they made an English tour of 85S m. in Oct., '8s (p. '.^o). As regards the illegal local by-laws mentioned at foot of p 725, Mr J. wrote to me. D t. 28 : " No one has b»en ari-»sfed for breaking them, although they are linivcrsallv broken." On p, 82, the "disagreeable suburb of Newark" should not be called " Marion," for that nam- belongs to the Penn. r. r. station at Bergen hill. In bad wcailier, the preferable route from N. to N. Y. is th- one named at foot of p. 82; l-'' at other lini.s. when neither mud, frost, nor deep dnst prevail, the he«t route is alons the siQswalk of Mi-,,,H St. and Belleville av 2 m, mac. 3 m., to cross-roads, where descend r. across bridge at Avondale, sc/A/j/AA'y ny sta tes: new jerse v. 5^9 and follow side-paths and board-walks 3^ m. to Carlstadt, where djsc^nd r. by so-called Pat.;rs<)n ro.ii' and cross ih.j marshes (\>\). 166, loi, Sj). !■ rum C lo ih.' uuc. ui liji^eii Li.u iJua cvard (/. e., to the lop of ihj West ahor^ tuuiul, p. 84) isoi m., which I foaiid ailruUb.j, Apr. 1^, '6), whjii 1 covered it in tho opposite direction. 1 wliee.ed dow.i a st.-.-p hui at ihj lirat I. tur.i s. of thj iiiniiel to thi tiac.tj.isacii road \l in.», at a point a iittio s. of ihj ton-gaie at thj ceaui-iy (p. S«); thin want s. J in. ; then t. r. to ihj inar^hjs 1^ m. to fori, wlurj t. r. and weiit 2 111. to second bridge, wh.-re road-houie sign says "9 ni. to Paterso.i." Between here and r. 1. at toot of hill at C is ij m. of cay, which woa.d 'ive iroubie in wet weathjr. A riJer fioni C. 10 N. Y. need not t. n., aftir crossiim marshes, but may go directly up-hi.l to a point near ilie .Wonas- t.ry, and th;nci to fjrriis entering thjcity at Jay st., 14th st.,42nd st. or ijoJi si.,aaslio*ii 011 pp. 81, S(, I'j), 53. 52', 593-6,609-10, O17-18, 625, 628,631. 643,652, f)6o, 6/|, 6/;, 6/8, 778-81. .My rides alo.ig Lake Erie, 2o5-(j; aiong the Delaware to the VV.aer Gap, 207 : to Bristol and Phila., 173; in P., 23^; P. to Chester, ;/2; Towaiida to VVi.kesbarre, 2i>-2o; 6trai;.;ht across the State, Susqu.-hanna to (ireencastle, 339-14, 2j}; VVayn sboio to Gettysb.ir" and Easton (165 m.), 385-7. VV. W. Darnell's tour, Phila. 10 Meyersd.ile (322 m.i, 2(4- W. 1!. Pace's tours, Phila. to Pittsbur.; (\y) m ), 49'i; '/i.liainspnrt to Greeiicast'.e (205 111. >, 49'^ ; Phiia. to Water Gap and beyond, 4 , 5/8; A. J. tilth's tou^ Potlsiown to Pi:i,bur;,' (2^1 in.), 4^5,351. In the -All.'ghani.-s, 215, j io. Susquihanna tow-;)ath, 378. Trips from Scnnton, 3(0. Beaver Valley, 515. Environs of Phiia., 16), 37 sJ^^-g. 495, 497, 49), 522. Whn.'vcr attempts any tourin;? in this .-jnie slioul 1 Ciiry with hi n the Le.iga/s o.ficiil ro.id-book, whos; 1st ed. is fully describ.'d on p. 17;, and whov; 3rd ed. (2000 printed, Apr., '86 ; 20S pp., 8 in ips) is reviseJ aid enlarged by the addition of 48 pp., with an index referring 10 658 P.M)n. towns on the tabulated routes. Penn., N. J. and Md. members receive th : book gratis ; other Lea;n' •:ijn may buy ii for $1, but it is not sold to wh ^eimen who do not join ih; L-.igue. All viiitorj are welromjd, tiowever, at the rooms of th'; Phila. " Association for th ■ .\dvanc;m'nt of Cy. ciin-," 5 S. .Merrick St., opp. the Public Bji.din :s. The d .dicatory m ;;ting was 01 A'lr. ,j, •86, wh;ii E. M. Aaron was chosen president. He may be found also at ih; olic" of the Z.. A. W. Bulletin, 506 Walnut st.. Room 12. Didlcation was made Dec. 3, '86, of the Phila. B. C.'^ new b liiding, at cor. of 26;h a id P.-rot sts., wh)s; cost was about 517,000 ; and anoih -r exp.vi- siv; structure is in procjss of erectio.i by tli ; P ; 11 B. C. (r.p 777.^0). Th • chief ho ise i>i the cycling tr.id; of Phila. i* at Si I Arch St., condnct"d bv H. B. Hirt, on; of ih; found -rs of ihj Le.igne, and a local pion-er in th : literature and bnnness of th: spo-t (s?- op. f^-^n.nh^. ■j%3\. Dklawakb: 31, 177, 2(4. 521, 59"^. 617. ''rS, 62S, 631, fsi. Map, 352. Mv 22 ni. ride across the Stale, 372-3. A fine ro.ite of about 68 m., from WinniiTton to To'ch :ster, M 1., whence boat may be t,-k':n to Bi'timore. 12 m., is report-d iBu'Min, V>>'c. 17, '86, p. 5)5) by J. E. Palmer, c. c. of Lea^^u .-'s D ;1, Division (ort. Nov. 2 (, '86, wilh C. W. To Id as s-c.-treas.). Makyla.s'd: 12,31,42,99, 177, 2M. 4%, 4^7. S^, S?^ 514. 605. 617, 61S, 628, 631, 643, 781-2. Map, 352. My '81 rid : of 26 m. from Frederick lo Wi linn port and 12s m. ,1 C. & O. caii.il p.^th, 238-42 ; tour of '83 ihrouph W.,303, 3M; throti:li Biltimore in '8(, 373-, ; s-cond txp-rience of to^v-path and Hag^r^town, 3S4. 0;h-r tourists on C. & O. path, 2tt-5, 3t'' ; be- tween B.i't. and Wishin -ton, 30. 371. 377- S'*''- 4'^'''-7, 497. Environs of B.ilt., 377. National pike in o'd lim's. 243- The 3rd ed of Ecat-ue's guid •, described above, contains a kev-ma-> of rt(,...icii M..I.U in .Viii., wnh 12 oil. of labu it-d rout -s and an ind»x to 1 r2 towns namied upon them ; also a detailed account of the Bait, riding district and a sketch of the general topography 590 TEN THOL/SAND MILES ON A BICYLLE. of the State. Latest local information for tourists may be had in Halt at 2 Hanover i \ the largest cycling stor', in Md. (the largest in the U. S., indeed, s. oi Phila ) is earthed \' S. T. Clark, one of the founders of the League and its recording secretary durin. ,he seuJ year. He was f..r a longtime Pres. of the Md. B. C, whose elegant club-house cuW*„ was specully buUt, of brick, is 3 stories high, 24 by 80 ft. in size, and contains a gymna'sium ' District OF Columbia : 3,, 497, 503, 508, 5.., 594,6.0, r,;, 618, 62S 63, ,82 M 352. My ndesmWashmgton, 24,,37,,374, Suburban routes, 376. .ff«//^/;« (.Sept , •% 232) gave an account of the District and its enviro-is, bv N. L. Collamer On Dec 4 'Sfi 'h' Capital B. C. dedicated a $20,000 club-I ouse on ,5th St.; and its front was pictured'in'o /, ViR-.INIA: 3., 42, 46, .69, 173, ,76, ,77, 204, 20S, 242, 296, 307, 487 50S rn, / 6,0, 6,7 6,s, 628. 63., 782. M.,ps and guide-book.,, 245. 34^ 35^, 382.' -My '83 tour up ,1,1' Shenandoah 10 Staunton, 543-, ; '84 tour from the Potomac to Hull Run and Warrento-, , orerthe Blue Pdgeto Luray and down the Shenandoah to Harper's Kerry 37H 84 'ca i i a C. tour, H.rper's Ferry to Natural Brid.;e ^.nd back, 348-9, 382. W. 1!. Pace's rides LL Shenandoah a,.,i elsewhere, 495-98, 578. H. J. High's rough route to Staunton, 486 ,„ „ S. Wood,n Shena.Kloah, 388. Other Va. roads, 35., 376. Topography of the Shenandoah 347. K.r^connect.onsbetween Natural Bridg. and Luray, 350-5., 382. The Shenandoah pit' between Mart.nsburg and Staunton, offers a course for a longer and more interesting road race than has yet been wheeled in Am.-rica : and, if the proper conditions could be ensured ,0 me I should rather hke to assume the management of such a contest. The fi.st condition ,s thai the manufacturers (who would be profited by a demonstration of that sort in a region so well adapted for the use of the bicycle as an economical vehicle for every-day business) should pro v,de me w„h n,„rtey enough to pay for perfect arrangements. The second condition is that the owners of the road, and the officer^- of the towns situated upon it, should enter heartily into the scheme, and co-operate with me in maintaining an efficient police. Kentlckv. 30,3.. 38, 50, 53, 57,58, .97. 5'M, 595, 609,6.0, 617, 6.8,628. 6m 78, Chap. XVII. ,s g,ven to my 8 days' tour of 340 m. (224-34), and to reports of roads in 9 counties by J. M. Verhoeff (235-7), who has sent other routes which I cannot here make room for J D. Macauley's report, 587. In BuiUtiu (Oct ., '86, p. 538), N. G. Crawford describes the Ky roads, and says that a man may v.i.ecl from them w. d. into I„d. by the new bridge at Louisville " Although some fine ro ^--s are found in the part of the St -.f-," says a writer in the Wheel (Jan. 23, '85), " those counties bordering on the Ohio seem to be specially favored. At Asl,- land, in the extreme e. end are some nice routes, such as the one to Catlettsbiirg, 5 m. Skipping then M Owensboro, perhaps 70 m. s. w. of Louisville, the ' finest gravel pikes ' are reported, hke that to Gelvington, .2 m n. e. Henderson and Paducah, river fowns beyond, have a goodly showing of cyclers. Augusta to Milford, 22 m. s. ; Augusta to Germantown. ,2 m. e. ; Mays- ville to Germantown, 12 m. w ; Newport to Alexandria, .3 m. s. e. ; Covington to De Moss- v,lle, 28 m. s.,— these are among the many routes, embracing a network of 1500 m. of as pretty roads as any one could desir whereof I might give you minute descriptions." The above words were signed by P. N. Myers (b. Sept. .6, '66), League consul at Covington, who .,';,ve much time during the following six months to the systematic compilation of materials for a State road-book, which he hoped that the Kentucky Div. might publish (see p. 678). Colton's ma,i of Kentucky, 25 by .4 in., sells foi 50 c Kentucky and Tennessee combined, 27 bv .7 in., 75 c. Though I began thi^ chapter on Nov. 22, the interruptions caused by proof-readiny .iiu! correspondence have combined with my general weariness to prevent its advance at more than .1 snail's pace; so that, as I write these fin.a! lines, midnight of Dec. 3. Is almost at hand. The plates of pp. 591 to 800 have already been cas'. ; and, much as I dislike to cut short thi- ml', of States, there is no room left in which to prirt the facts that I have collected about the others. I shall try to give full references to those omlited States in the general index ; but now the strik- ins clocic. W^^ifH *v.~r!:^"t:r.~!v '- -.-V- ....; ;!... r\\J^ \*-.^_ cs.- . a .— .- : . s ,....^.„ -_;; . -3 -;.j. .^;;;- ■^•;^ «Cur, looO, ScOiVtS iu say . " i iliitt > u\^'. iiCi the rest wait for ' 2 X. M.' ! Stop : " Thus, after all, I leave my task unfinished. t XXXIV. THE TRANSPORTATION TAX. " In the case of the railroads, it seems right that some payment should be made where trouble is actually caused ; but I hope that bicyclers, whether traveling singly or in clubs, will stand firm against paying any transportation tax at all to steamboat agent;, anywhere." Such were the final words of a four-column article (5/. World, May 6, '8r, p. 416) in which I detailed my two years' experiences among the baggage-smashers, in the days before the League made any attempt to reform the chaotic conditions under which public carriage was granted to tourists' bicycles ; and such are the ideas whose truth I stili strongly insist upon. This distinc- tion between boat and train cannot be drawn too sharply, but it has been generally ignored in all printed reports and discussions aLout the matter. The remarkable success achieved by the Transportation Committee of the League (as noted on p. 518, where a sketch is given of its energetic chairman, B. B. Ayers), in persiipding so many of the railroads to carry passengers' bicycles free, the same as any other peKonal baggage, has 1 ad th-. effect of turning attention away from the important truth that the lesser matter of water-l.ar.bportation remains almost un- touched. The circumstances which characterize this, however, roder possible the accomplish- ment of much from mere individual effort ; and it was a part of the original plan of my book that I would make the preparation of t present chapter a pretext f -r personally pledging to the free-.'st a majority of the chief American steamship lines (river, lake, coast and ocean), by ■tiering ,hem the free advertisemen; of a mention here as being thus pledged. Lack of tim« has forced me to regretfully abandon this scheme, as too burdensome an addition to my pro- tracted labors as a publisher ; but such steamship managers as I have had occasion to state the case to, incidentally, were all so quick to see tlie merits of it, and give their consent, that I am sure any extended canvass would have shown a notably good result. Since a bicycle, even when crated or boxed for a long voyage, comes well within the limits of space and weight allowed a pas.senger's baggage, and since, on a short voyage, it does not require any handling or alter, in whatever (as the owner trundles it on and off the boat, and stows it in some convenient corner), there is a plain injustice in discriminating against it. In a crowded baggage-car, on the other hand, a bi-ycle may sometimes cause more inconvenience than a trunk. Hence, whenever a railway company agrees to take it as a trunk, the act should be recognized ;.s a genuine conces- sion,— as a definite premium for attracting the patronage of wheelmen. The reported experiences of others, added to my own, encourage the belief, that on very many, if not on most, of the boats which ply along our rivers, lakes and coasts, no attempt will be made to levy an extra tax against a tourist who is accompanied by a bicycle. There are very few Imes, I am sure, which wiil refuse to give a written pledge to abstain fro-n any such attempt, if the tourist seasonably insists upon (hat pledge as a condition of buying his ticket, liy " season- ably " I mean several days in advance of the time when he proposes to embark,— for he will thus be able to use, as an argumentative club, his determination to gn to the same place by some other line, or to take a tour in some other direction, in case any hesitation is shown in granting the desired pledge. The ease of pt -uring these individual p-^rmits shows that not much extra effort and explanatory argument would be needed to convince the steamboat people of the profit- ableness of proclaimin? free rnrriagre as a seneral tioHcv. I !hirpf.".rr :'.r=^.- .-nrh ?.-.::rUf Kv K.~.=t lot to rest satisfied with simply securing for himself immunity from imposition, but to endeavor 592 TE^r THOUSAND M/LES ON A BICYCLE. to secure from llic managers of the line a formal letter, authorizing the Transf)ortatIon Commit. Ice of thj I-.eagu;; to announce that the line will regular. y class bicycles as pa-ienpcrs' ba'ij;a"e Setting asido ihj i.b-lrati jusiici of th.- case entlr.ly, the practical point to be insi^ied uixiu is this : thai bicyclers, in diciuing abo.it where to go on a vacaiioii-liiur, are not r^itncleJ to ant iiitgle locitlcty. "Thj whole boundless continent islhjirs; " and, as tht: atti active i()uiiii''-|)laces are i.icxhaustible, tirjy .re under no possible compulsion to choose one which iinp.ies iiavine incidental t: ibiil -■ to an unreasonable steamboat corjioraiion. Thjy may occasioi'.ally b • forced to patronize railroads wliosi regulations are unfair, — but water-routes can almost always b^- avoided wiihnut ?.ny gr^-at inconvenience or loss of \\mi. Hone, thj correct caper for llu sieanibo.it owners evid.ntly is to outbid the railroads, by off jring as attractive a bait as possible for ilie capture of this special sort of excursioi iralBc. The problem for wheelmen simp'y is toconvii:ce th jm that such traRic is worth the captur;, — that bicycle touring is a substantial fact (incompa- rably more important to its volaries tlia i any incidental resort to a given line of steanibonis), and thpt th.- abi ity to advertise a line as off . 'ring cheap and comfortable passage to a good ion int; ground h-lps to ensure it substantial patronajte. Th y sliou d be made plainly lo undiiv:,-ii(i, furlh.rmore, that, if th •/ insist on being blind to ihfir own i;it:;rests, their infliciion of an un- just transportation tax upon an individual bicycler will bo resented by the whole fratcriiiiy, Tho first duty of every tourist who is thus discriminated against on any water-route in this coun- try is to proc'aim his misfortune ai widely as possible, in th • cycling press, in order that others may avoid being similarly swindled there. I^et such lines oT boats as may presume to infringe on a passenger's ordinary rijht of carrying a'ong hii necessary personal outfit, be put under the ban, so far as the just hosii'ity of cyclers and their friends may be able to accomplish it. On the other hand, in contrast to this dutiful utterance of warning, there exists the inore pleasing duty of advertising the names r), thmi'^h formerly cliari;- ing 8 c. per cubic ft. of space occupied ; and that the r..-me rule i<: rbserved by ihe r thei Nmi Scotia line, connecting Boston with Yarmouth and Dicby. The International line, between Boston, Portla-.id, F.astport and St. John (p. 259), and the Portland, Binrror and Machias line, whose boats also run to Boston (;}. 279>, were on the free-list in '83, ard doubtless so continue. A note to m; from C. D. Whitcomb, passenger ag^nt, says (Feb. 27, 'S^) : " You mayannnnnce that the holder of a first-class ticket can have his bicycle carried free on any of the steamers of the Detroit and Cleveland S. N. Co." The League's official free-list includes the " Anchor Line," which has 43 steamers eag&ged THE TR A ASPORTATION TAX. 59 J in tlie tr.ins-Atlantic, Peninsula, Meditrrranean and Oriental service, and which sends boat^ from Boston as well as New Vork ; and I presume that the oiher ocean lines which start from thobe cities grant free can-iaRe whenever the passenger insists upon it in advance. Frobably ail of them coLld be easily won for thi> ^, ral free-list, if ihe effort were made, by exhibiting to their agents the examples of the Anchor and White Star lines. Two short water-routes are advertised by the League committee as exacting a tax against bicycles, as follows : the boats be- tween New Vork and Fall River (170 m.) charge $1; and the People's Line (night boats) be- tween New York and Alba ;■ (145 m.) charge 40 c. for the bicycle of a solitary passenger, and .•; c. each for those of a party of two, three or four ; while, for parties of five or more, no charge rth.itever is made I Adherence to any such queer rule seems all the more singular because the ^.ime League li^t also advertises that the day line of boats between those two cities carries Licv- lits free. As to the Fall River Line, it should be added that the $1 tax pays for passage tliroiish to P.oston on 50 m. of the OH Colony r. r. (whose separate charge is 50 c. for that or r , less distance, and i c. a mile for greater distances), and that a similar rule is maintained l)y the " pooling system " of three competing lines which run steamers from New Vork, respectively, tn Stonington (120 m), Norw'ch (133 m.) and Providence (iSo m.), and trains thence to Boston. Ihe charge for bicycle between N. Y. and I!., by cilher of these four routes is $1 ; though the League has relations only with the first nan-"d. When the; passenger's ticket relates simply to \h<: boat, and implit-s no r. r. ride between its terminus and Boston, h • is forced to pay no more ihan 50 c. for his wheel. The cost of taking it through by train, between N. V. & B. on either the Springfield or the Providence route, is Si 25 ; and the r. r. from P. to Boston (44 m.) charges 50 c., without regard to distance. I believe the three lines of boats from New Vork to New Haven, New London and Hartford, which gave free carriage to my wheel in 'So-'Si, have more recently enforced a 50 c. rate,— perhaps under the influence of the " pool " just mentioned. Kxactions against bicyclers on other short water-routes leading from New Vork have been re- ported to me, but I will not make ihjm matters of record here, because I hoiie that the mana- C'-rs of them all may soon be induced to terminate such suicidal policy, and adopt the "pposite i/an of encouraging, and baiting away from the railrn.ads, a profitable sort of pleasure traffic. The League's " Road Book of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland " (May, 'S6, H. S. Wood) gives the following facts about steamers from Baltimore, none of which have evi / fhargedfor bicycles: "The EricsEon Line leaves for Phila., except Sunday, at 3 p. m. The Maryland Steamboat Co., for Boston, and Oxford, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 9 p. m. The Hay Line to Norfolk, 8.30 p. M. daily, except Sunday ; fare, $3.00. The Richmond and Vork River Line, for Richmond, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 5 p. m ■irt, J1.50. The Eastern Shore S. B. Co., for Clearfield, Tuestlav, Wednesday, Friday, S «,y. 5 IV M. E:xcursion Steamers daily, in summer, to all points on the Chesapeake and tributaries; tare, 50 cents. From Philadelphia the Ericsson Line propeller .eaves for Baltimore via Canal! every afternoon, except Sunday, at 3 o'clock. The steamcr"Repub!ic starts at 7 a. m. daily! from the Arch st. wharf, for Cape May and its hard teaches ; but this boat charges a transpo'r- taii.m fee." A recent tourist on Lake Ontario reports a free steamer from Niagara to Toronto, though the boat from Toronto to Hamilton levied a tax against his bicycle. It is no reproach to the Transportation Committee of the League that they have thus far en- tirely neglected the water-routes; for, in grappling with the railroad problem, they have ex- pended all the t-me and energy which co- .A be expected of a volunteer band working without pay for the general t. ,d. The results accomplished by this concentration of effort are very re- n.irk.ible, and ofifer the most notable example yet given of the power inherent in the League, A-^ representatives of an organization with a membership of several thousands, whose patronage IS in their control, the Committee have seemed to the railroad men well worthy of respect, and have been able, by appealing to the fierce competition between rival trunk lines, to make sati'sfar- t"rv treaties with th_m in regard to that patronage. It should never be forgotten that a rail- road's consent to class bicycles as baggage is a definite surrender of its own undoubted nght in t:ie case, and is made with the idea that profit will iiltimntply accrue from th.e offer of -.-.irh t, liiemium for placating the good-will of wheelmen. Individuals would be powerless thus to treat 38 594, TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. wilh the companies on a large »c.ile, because they could not pretend to offer .-.n eqii! ilent in patr..nage for the concession granted ; but the League cm make bargains wrth the ro...!-, as wt'l as any other one of their customers, and each member of it should feel in duty bound to see th .1 his personal share in these bargains is honestly carried out. I mean that he should not onl'' travel on the " League railroads," in preference to rival lines, *hcre a choice is offered b'i should influence his friends to do the same. ' " In anticipation of the annual meet at Boston a " map of the L. A. W. trunk lines" (as far s. and w. from that city as Washington, .St. Louis and Chicago) was published in the BulUtin , f May 7, -86, and in three other cycling weeKlies of the , ame date, accompanied by the following: remarks from the Chairman of the Transportation Com nittee : " These lines work verv c'osel in the interest of wheelmen, and form the foundation of present facilities accorded the craft'^in the United Stales, The main n. trunk line is the Michigan Central r. r., whose through trah.s run from Chicago to Boston, with connections in Michigan, Canada and Ohio. From St Louis its through sleepers run over the Wabash, connecting with the Michigan Central at Detroit Its connection from Cincinnati and Ohio points is the Cin,, Hamilton and Dayton r r also at Detroit. From Cleveland and Eastern Ohio points the Lake .Shore r. r. runs through cars con nectmg with the New York Central at DufTalo. The Baltimore & Ohio, old and staunch League road, from Chicago to New York, can take Southern members, from Washington northward There is no League trunk road in New England save the Fitchburg. Wheeimen bound for Boston from the n. and w. parts of New Yo,-k should take the West Shore road, wli.ch is the only line running through cars over the Fitchburg. The Boston connection of the New York Central from Albany east, is a road that practically prohibits wheel travel over its line during the year, but maizes concessions to our parties whe.i traveling in numbers. The Fitchburg is its competitor and accommodates wheelmen all the year round, when traveling alone as well as in parties. From Ea ,tern Pennsylvania and Southern New York, the Erie and the Lehi-h Valley roads afford every accommodation. From Portland down, the Eastern r. r, has worked closer with us than any other. The map gives a perfect general index of L. A. W. trunk lines and the regular printed list will show all others. Arrangements for transportation c .n be made very conveniently by O. R. Bidwell, New York, he being in correspondence with all lines run- ning from N. Y. and Phila. to the East; W. S. Bull, Buffalo, can arrange matters with lines running from Buffalo and Canada to the East; while F. T. Sholes, Cleveland; H. S. Livings- ton, Cincinnati ; W. M. Brewster, St. Louis, and B. B. Ayers, Chicago, place their „-vices at the disposal of the craft journeying from their respective sections of country." The quotation gives an idea of the business-like way in which the matter has been s,-stem- atized, and also the general policy which has been pursued of making favorable terms with certain through lines, and trusting to their example and a sort of " law of gravitation " for forc- ing the local roads affiliated with them to adopt the same liberal practices. The names of the railroads which have agreed with the League to carry passengers' bicycles free are advertised hy \\\c Bulletin in two geographical groups, the first comprising those "east of Buffalo and Pittsburg," as follows : Alleghany Valley ; Atlanta Zi West Point ; Baltimore & Ohio ; Ben- nington & Rutland; Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western; Buffalo, N. Y., & Phil.i. ; C.ma- dian Pacific; Chesapeake & Ohio; Credit Valley ; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ; Elmira, Cortland & Northern; Erie (N. Y., L. E. & W.); Fall Brook; Fitchburg; Grand Trunk; Lehigh Valley; Montrose ; New London Northern ; N. Y., Buff.ilo & Pittsburg; N. Y., Lak > Erie & Western; N. Y., West Shore & Buffalo; Portland & Ogde.isburg; Portland &' Wor- cester ; Rochester & Pittsburg ; Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg ; Southern Central of N. Y. ; Syracuse, Ontario & N. Y. ; Tioga; Troy & Bo:-ton ; Utica & Black River; WallkiU Valley; West Shore (N. Y., W. S. & B); Western Alabama; Western Maryl.and. The much larger group " west of Buffalo and Pittsburg " is alphabetized thus : Alliance, Niles& Ashtabula; Ashtabula & Pittsburg ; Atchison, Topeka & Santa F^ ; Atlantic & Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio; Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern; Canada Sou.nem; Canadian Pacific; Central Pacific; Central Iowa: Chartiers; Chicaso & Atlantic: (>.. .«.' F.ir'.lprn !]!■ nois ; Ch. & Grand Trunk ; Ch. & Iowa ; Ch. & Western Michigan ; Ch., Alton & St. Louis ; THE TRAXSPORTATION TAX. 595 Ch., Burlington & Qiiincy ; Ch., Inwa & Oakota ; Ch., Milwaukee & St. Paul ; C'l., St. Louis .V I'ittsburg ; Chcsai)eal' • & Ohio ; Lintiimati li Muskingum Valley; Cin., Hamilton & Day. 1 11 ; Cin., Indianapolis, St. l.ouis i4 Chicago; Cin., New Orleans & Texas; Cleveland & e .mlon ; CI. & Marietta ; CI. & I'ittsbuig ; CI., Akron & Canton ; CI., Columbus, Cincinnati .V Indianapolis; CI., Lorain & Wheeling; CI., Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling; Columbus, Hacking Valley & Toledo ; Des Moines & Ft. Dodge; Detroit, Lansing & Northern; Krie & Pittsburg ; Kvansville & Tcrre Flaute ; Klint & P4re Marquette ; Tt. Wayne, Cincinnati & 1 oil sville ; (irand Rapids & Indiana; C and Trunk; Illinois Central; Indianapolis & St. I.nuis; Ind. & Viiicennes; Ind., Bloomington & Western ; International ^ Great Northern; Kffersonville, Madison & Iiulianapolis; Kansas City, St. Joseph & Counci. 'luffs; Kentucky Central; Lake Shore & Michigan South-.rn ; Little Miami; Louisville & Nashville ; Louisville, New Albany & Chicago; Michigan & Ohio; Michigan Central; Milwaukee & Northern; Minneapolis & St. Louis; Missouri, Kansas & l>.xas; Missouri Pacific; N. Y., Penn. & O. ; Newport News & .^lississippi Valley; Nickel Plate (N. V., Chicago & St. L.); Northwestern (lliio; Northern & Northwestern of Canada; Ohio & Mississippi; Ohio Central; Pennsyl- vania; Pittsburg & Lake Krie; Pilts., Cincinnati & St. Louis ; Pitts., Ft. Wayne & Chicago; Port Huron & Northwestern ; St. Louis & Cairo (St. L., A. & T. H.) ; St. L. & San Francisco; St. L., Des MoinesS: Northern ; Southern Pacific; Texas Pacific; Toledo, Ann Arbor ck. Grand Trunk; Vandalia ; Valky(0.); Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific; Wheeling & Lake Erie; Wis- consin Central ; Wisconsin, 'owa & Nebraska. (As corrected by the committee June lo, '86.) "The agreement is that the bicycle goes at owner's risk for loss or damage. Some roads require it to be checked, like baggage. In every case the owner should apply to the depot bag- gage-master, before getting on cars, and have him mark the bicycle to destination. Dealings should be with him as much as possible and not with the train baggageman. In case charges shmild be exacted by baggagemen, receipts should be taken and forwarded to the chairman of the League's Transportation Committee." The ultimate result of the latter process has always bjen the refunding of the money by the company, with an apology, accompanied by a reprimand oi ihe offending ba-'gageman, or, in some cases, his dismissal from the service. Private at- tempts of this sii ' to disregard th"; rules 'vould be still further discouraged, I think, by printing with ihe name ^ ich road on the League's official list the exact date of its circular ordering tliat bicycles be carried as baggage, and perhaps also the name of the officer issuing the circular. .\ passenger's ability to point to such exact evidence would probably convert even the most igno- r.int or obstinate of baggagemen ; for it vould scom only second in authority to the official circu- l.ir itself. If 1 meet such a man on the Erie, for instance, and am able to say to him : " See 1; re '. Vour general passenger agent, J. N. Abbott, gave orders, Nov. i8, '84, that this bicycle should be carried in your car, free cf ;'. ~ and .should be handled carefully," the man will get a pretty clear idea that I know what I am talking about, and know how to have him punished if he insists on swindling me. My mere showing of the name "Erie,'" m the League's printed list of free roads, might not have so powerful an effect upon him. The Eric regulations say : " The owner of bicycle to be transported should be required to deliver it at the baggage-car of the train, and notified to be on hand there promptly upon arrival at destination to receive his property. If he desires to have it taken beyond our line, or beyond the run of the baggage- master or car, he should be distinctly informed at what point to claim and receive it, and ar- r.iiij;e iox its further care and transportation." Such conduct on the wheelman's part is always wise, even in the casi. of roads which do not formally demand it. While firmly insisting on his right to enjoy the privilege which the company his conceded to him, he should endeavor to give the baggage-sn. ' -s as little trouble as pos- sble, — to conciliate rather than exasperate them. Working as they do under great strain and pressure, it isonlynaturalthat they should occasionally relieve their souls by the ,'tteranceof vio- lent bnpuage ; but the bicycle-owner should not take this seriously or resent it. I have generally f uiid them to be at heart a good-natured set of men, whose conduct quickly illustrates the truth ot the proverb that " a solt answer tumeth away wrath." Let the bicycle be held pa- tiently on the platform until all the heavy baggage has been thrown in, and the commander of 5'/' Ti:\ TIIOUS.LVD M/LIiS OX A niCWl.E. the car gives iIil signal lliat iie is ready to take this also. 1',-rliaps he nay then inviie the owner inside toallcnd to the machine until the blR trniikj have been packed, and a place made where it may l>e stowed securely. It is a rikkI plan to carry alonn -onie pieces of cord and a few pici- ure-franie screws, l.y the use of which the wheel may !« readily fastened to the side of the car in case the emptiness of this suggests insecurity and rolling. On the other '. -"nd, if the car U known to be crowded, the pedals and handle-bar should be closely packtii ; and this m.iv \«- wisely done in anticipation of any long journey, unless, in such case, the to-rist prefers, as I ,1,, to send the bicycle in advance by fast-freight line. Where a car is so full of baggaijc that the presence of the bicycle causes evident trouble, I think it fair and proper to placate the lia—n-e- liian with a personal fee of 25 c. for looking after its safety ; and whenever accident or dam.u-e results, I think the tourist ought to accept it placidly rarher than render the whole frateniiiv odious in the eyes of the railro.ul managers by " making a row about it." The League could afford to say to every such unfortunate one who feels unable to pocket the loss : ' We will pav you the full amount of it, if only you will keep quiet, and not nag the railroad officers back into their first belief that a bicycle is too fragile and troublesome a thing for handling in th' r b.i-- gage-cars." The will of the men in immediate control cf these should always be recognized .is supreme, in regard to all details of handling and packi-,,; and diffetenccs of opinion should he arranged by the adoption of a persuasive and deferential air, rather than by a show of imperious ness and truculence. Whoever thus affronts the proper pride of these men, by any such wanl.m ■ display of hostility, or is tempted by arrogance or k.J language on their part into making an uii- dignified retort, not only lowers his own self-respect, and lessens his influence with them, but he inflicts a detinite injury upon all well-mannered cyclers who may chance to follow in his foot- s.eps. In the baggage-car, as upon the highway, the wheelman, while insisting upon his rccoi;- nizcd rights with firmness, should also do it with calmness and courtesy,— both for his persoii.il profit and satisfaction, and fur "the good of the cause" in general. Whent ?r the horsf- driving Hog publicly froths at the mouth in the presence of a bicycler, the latter c n perforin no Iwlter service as an educator of opinion, than to let him enjoy a monopoly of all the cursing and vituperation. Silence is the one thing which surel convicts the Hog of havir.g encountered a superior order of intellect. In his liearl he knows that all who witnessed his outburst, and its inability to provoke a retort, are secretly laughing at him for the discomfiture which is produced by this bitterest form of contempt. In addition to the ra" ids which have issue-' general orders for free carriage, the I.eauue advertises two trunk lines (" Chicago & Northwestern " and " Chicago, Rock Island ^\; Pacilic "1 which grant such concession only by special permits, to be had by calling upon or addressini; thdir general baggage agents at the first-named city. The Lake Erie and Western r. r. (San- dusky to Bloomin^-'ton, 37S m.) charges a passenger's bicycle the same rate as if it were " 100 lbs. of excess baggage "; while the arrangement with the Del. & Hudson Canal Co. is reported as "pending." Three other important lines advertise a tariff of \ c. per m.,— except that the min- imum charge is 25 c. (or as much for i m. as for 50 m.): Pe.insylvania (e. of Pittsburg), Phila. cV Reading, and N. Y. Central & Hudson River. I consider this rate of j c. per m. a reasnnalile one, but think that for a distance of 10 or 15 m. the charge should be no more than 10 c. Inr such short distances, indeed, I believe the r. r. 's would find it profitable to make no charge at all, even while re'aining their present rule as to long distances. A touring bicycler who wcju!'! willingly pay his fare on a local train, for the sake of getting; past a few miles of sand or mud, will determine to push through it rather than submit to a tax of 25 c on his wheel's account. I remember of acting thus severa" times (once even after buying my train-ticket), and on one occasion I deliberately tramped 8 m. through the darV, in preference to letting a r. r. wrest 50 c. from me for carrying my bicycle that distance. I believe the amount of such possible fares lost considerably exceeds the amount of such unjust taxes collected, — to say iiithing of the loss of good-will. Bicyclers who might be persuaded to tak'i tours along tlie line of certain r. ' 's (where good and bad wheeling are both found) if brief resorts could be freely had to the trains, will simply make their excursions elsewhere, in the face of threatened exactions. The Eastern r* r. ^liostOii iO 1't.^riiaiiii, > ^1 crt Lmiiu lu V aiit.cLJolu, I'^yj iti./, v\ , -^^4. THE TRANsrORTATIOX TAX. 597 various branches, l.ix the bicycle 15 c. for any distance up to 50 m., and 50 c. for any greater (il^tance. The " N Y , N. H. & H." (Niw Vork t.. Si.rinKfield, 1)6 m , and New York to New London, 114 tn , with several leased lines) pui , the tax .-.I 50 c. /or any distance up -o 51 m , and 75 c. for any greater distance; while the liost.m & Albany r. r. (201 m.), starting with a similar ininiinutn tliar(;e of 50 c, outranks all others by .idlieriiiK stiffly to the extreme tariff of I c. per m., even for a bicycle which is carried the «hole length of its line. As the highways alongside this are in many places attractive lo the tourist and in many places unridable, •'le road ml'-ht make considerable money, on the theory just now explained, l,y offering gi«]- Trom N. Y. to Atlanta, without charge ; and again from Atlanta to Augusta ; and I think the same may be done on the Shenandoah Valley r. r. i-Moir..,seep. 350). In M.iy, '86, W J. Farrell orought his bicycle from Fernandina, Fla , to N. Y., without any other trouble than that implied in transferrin;, it from one b.n:.;gnge-car to .mother, at the terminal points along tl j route ; and he expressed t > me the opinion that all the r r.'s in the South could be depended , n to grant this privilege, though they might not think it worth while to make a formal arrangei.-ent with the League, because of the rarity of bicycle touring in that region. On the other hano, complaints were printed in May, '85, of the baggage- men on the L, &. N. r. r., between Cincinnati and Louisville, as " invariably refusing to take wheels on their cars,"— though I had no trouble about the free carriage of nun n the same ine, between Cave City and Louisville, in June, '82 ; and printed mention was made of it in I let,, '84, as regulariy granting thr.L privilege between Louisville and New Orieans. The re- c^^iitlv published notion of an Tndi.in.T min that tV/>*» rTrri'-i.,„..„ j.. »t „i — u i.. granted only to those bicycles whose ownei can show "League tickets," deserves mention 598 TEX THOUSAXD MILES OX A n/CVCLE. simply that it may Im! Hrnnunrp.l Kvfn were it practicable, the di^jnity of the I.r.iKue would not iHjrniit a resort to such a iwlty policy for recruiting; its iiiemlH.p,hip; and it woul.l U- an un. wiic and di%aMrous confession of weakness U-M.-oi.le arises from their belief that it not ,,iily co.nmands the pair, riagc of its H.«, member- but indirci tlv controls that of the other wheelmen (say 4o,ix).,l who arc not members. It is f,,r the cviJert merest of the f^anue to strengthen this U-lief, and magnify its own ability f!,r swinging in a given direction tli • entire wheel interest of the continent. The greater the iium- l)orof bicyclers wh.. patroni/e a Kiveii " I cague road," the greater the respect whicl. its managers will nave for Uie League's apparent power to influence traffic. A policy of exclusion and ?elf. belittlemeri. Aould show that the organization had no practical capacity for "bi'siness." "The C. W. A. (luide li.H.k " (Apr, •S4 ; see p jju) devotes three pages to priming i,, full the replies received to the circular letter <,f Keb. ji, "84, addressed by the secretary of the Canadian Wheelmen'. AsvMriation to the general managers of all the r. r. lines in the Dominion asking that pas.sengers' bicycles be allowed free cirriage. The affirmative responses, in behalf of seven road.s, are signed and dated as follows: Michigan Central ((). W. Ruggles, ChicaE. Keb. 26); (;rand Trunks Stevenson, M(mtreal, Feb. 27); Ontario & Quebec (I). McNicoll' Tonmto, Keb. js); Midland (A. While, Peterboro', Feb. 29); Canadian Pacific fC. \\. H,l,! bard, Montreal, Mar. 1); Intercolonial (A. liasby, Moncton, Mar. 4); Northern .t Northwest- ern (K. Kerr, Toronio, Mar. 8). These seven are said to " include nearly all the railr.iads . f Canada"; iiid any wheelman against whom exactions are attempted by baggagemen shou„l send exact details of the s.ime (with rec.-ipts for any money actually paid) to the .if losaid secre- tary, \\. !!. Donly, Simcoe, Ont. The r. r.'s of Prince Kdwnrd Island and Nova .^cr.tia. which I briefly resorte^ to in Sept., '83 (p. 2f;i-2\ made no cha.;;e for the bicycle,— though, in tiie case of one rather crowded baegage-car, I was told that I "must get in and attend to it niysolt " In Kngland (where liberal ideas of traffic management, such as prevail in this free com.try are seldom put in practice), the r. r. charge for a bicycle " when accompanied by p,-.ssenger aiul at owner's risk " was formerly 25 c. f.-r any distance up to 50 m., 37 c. to 7; m , 50 c. to 100 m,, 61 c. to 150 m., and so on, increasing 12 c. for each additional 50 m. or fraction thereof. The fifth edition of the " B. T. C. Handbook" (Apr., '82), from which I extract the tit;ures, said: " These n-^w rate' show a material reduction,— in response to the memorial and through the in- fluence of the Council of the B. T. C. They are in for on every li. In the kingdom, with the exception of the London, Brighton & South Coast, the South Eastern, and the Londi.n, Ihat- ham & Dover r: --vs, which corporations are earning an unenviable notoriety by their obdurate resistance to what we hoped was a universal concession." During the four years which have elapsed since those words were written, tricycling has come into general vogue, and the latest edition of the " C. T. C. Handbook '' (Apr., '86) devotes pp. 30-34 to the transportation question. It gives a tabulated statement of the charges made on e?-h of the 22 railways in England, Scot- laiid an; Ireland for distances of .2, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 and 250 m.,— the rate for a tricycle being usually double that for a bicycle. The lowest for the latter is 25c., which is not increased until the 50 m. limit is passed; while a tricycle is charged at least 25 c. for 12 m., 37 c. up to 23 m. and 50 c. up to 50 m. These rates are for " luggage at the owner's risk," but when classed as ■• parcels at the owner's risk " (/. t., as we Americans say, " sent by ex^.ess ") the rates are increased about 25 percent, for bicycles and 50 per cent, for tricycles; and still another .'5 or 50 per cent, is added in case of classification as " parcels at the company's risk." The three roads named as " obdurate " in '82 still retain their bad eminence,— their charge for carr\ing a tri. 200 m. being ^3, and #1.50 for a bi. ; and these r.ites are doubled for "parcels at owner's risk," and all machines so sent must be packed, and no admittance to the cloak- rooms is granted them at any price. The charge of the other r.iads is only half as great, in these several cases, and the rule about packing is enforced by only two. The cloak-room charge fnr storing machii es at the various r. r. stations varies from 4 c. to 12 c. .'or a period not exceeding three days, and from 2 c. to 4 c. for each day after that. A list i:, also printed of five places in London where they may be stored at rates varying from 4 c. to 12 c. a day, and from 12 c ■ > 37 c. a mon'.h. " Cycles gc free, when accomnanitd by own.^r. on Belgian mail steamers fr.-:-. THE TRANSrORTAriOX TAX. S99 I lover to Ottend ; on Danish steamer* from Newcastle and Hull to Bergen, and from Harwich I" Kibjcru; un the United line from Newcastle to C opcnhajten ; and un the river buats (run ■ Mily ill sumriier) from Lundun to Margate, KamSKate and Varmculh." The Cjeneral b. N. Cu. charges for a Loiidun i>assenger''« bicvcle to Hull, Havre, Doulogne, <>>lend, iif Antwerp, fu c. ; to Kdinburgh, |i.i;; to (iurdeaux or H,\inburg, ^i.S;, and to I >|)orto, ^3, with .ulvano.'d rates for tricycles, according to »i/c. The Loiulun & ^Alinbiirgh S. N. t ci. ch.irges li J5 for bicycle; and the London & Alwrdcen S N. Co |i.J5 fur bi. and #i.S; [nrtri., — whether packed and dcspitchcil as parcels or taken along as luggage. The London and Ch.uinel S. S. Co. takes a i)as»onger's bi. to tiravescnc' or Southsca for 15 c., and to Ips- Willi, H.irwich, Walton and Clacton for 6i c. From Ifarwich to Rotterdam or Antwerp the <.li.irge is 75 c. for bi. and ^i.S; for tri., as com red to the $1.25 and |i. 50 exacted up to '84. .Aher tabul;:ting ili< rates charged by the various railway steamers from Southanii^ton and other ■.ua-coast towns to various ports in Krance, the " Handbook " says : "As the charges from I 'over tn Calais and from Folkestone to Iloulognc are so exorbitant, and as duly is levied at both C. ,\tul li., these routes should be avoided. The French duty a|>pears to be about #5 for b and $10 f'tr tri. Dieppe and Cherbourg apjx^a. to be the only two ports where cycles accompanied by llie rider enter duty free. Tourists entfring byroad sometimes pay, as at the ' douane ' near keiorville, coining from .Meti to Vc but riders ii.ive entered by road from liilc to lielfort, and also at Delle, without beirg nui . . any charge. The French railroads u-iually carry pas- sengers' cycles as luggai^c, for a verv small charge. Cycles entering Switzerland by rail are li.ible to a duty of 10 per cent, ad milorem (returnable on leaving the country) ; but tourists en- tet ng by road are not usually called upon to pay anything. A tricycle in a crate (up to 112 lbs) may be sent by ' petitff vittsse ' fri .. ,ondon to Udle (10 days on the road), for >a.j7, on appli- cation to Wheatley & Co., 23 Regent st., whose agent at B. (where loc.il charges of 6j c. must be added) will store cycles for 10 c. a month. Tourists entering Germany with cycles are in some places required to pay duty (returnable)." In Sept., '83, the lielgian customs officers at Antwerp prohibited the landing of three London tourists' bicycles until a duty of #2 each had been paid. The owners were Fl. Teget- nieier, W. E. Milner, and R. P. Hampton Roberts (subscribes to this book, whose wheeling records may be found on pp. 531-543); anil, as they afterwards noticed that another F.nglishnian, <;. D. Ingall, who had been similarly treated in Holland, had secured redress by appealing to the Minister of Finance, hey thought it worth while '■ write to the C. T. C. consul at Ant- werp (Alban Thorburn i> n at Uddevalla, Sweden), to soe what could be done. He put the cise so effectively before the .iiinistire des Fi„ances de Belgique, that that functionary not \ly returned the J6 but on F"eb. 6 issued the following Decree No. S179 (Cyclist, Mar. 26, '84, p. 351) " In future the agents of customs may admit freely, and without any formalities, veloci- pedes of tourists who can prove — by means of a railway circular return ticket, for instance — that ihey only pass the territory of Belgium, when there can be no suspicion of fraud." In Hollard, t ■>, a similar rule v. as put in force, ?.f; a result of the Ingall piotest. Nevertheless, a complaint ot "vexatious imposts" was made in the C. T C. Gazette of Feb., '86 (by " 1410, 14 S. W. K D," p. 54), because, " some time ago," he had to pay fj to the customs officer at Ant- werp, who at r.. ;t demanded $20, for duty on a tricycle. The same magazine for May (p. 185) I'.a.^ a letter from G. H. Rutter, saying : " I have found that some of the French ports are more particular than others ; for instance, Havre S! .-ms to have the pre-eminence in charging. After consultation with the C. C. for France, I have decided to leave matters as they are, in preference til stirring up the authorities and thereby making it lik.Iy that the laws will be rigidly enforced at all ports in future." With this may be compared Thomas Stevens's report of considerable trouble had in persuading the cus.^ms people to " pass " him at Dieppe, in '85 {Outing, Oct., p. 42 ; also the letter writien in '84, to the Ca,uxdian Wheelman, by A. C. Beasley. " Vou will not be required to pay duly on your machine at the French frontier, and the French railways will all carry it as luggagi , for every passenger is allowed 30 kilos, (about 60 lbs They seldom weigh the machine, but stick on a label and charge you 'he nominal sum of one -. ly for regis- iiaiiou. Usuaiiy yuu aiu ie'|uiieu Lu :>igi' a lori.i cxoucrdtiiig ihc cuinpany iroi any damage f 6oo TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. that may be sustained." A telegram from Rome, Dec. ij, '85. announced the decision of ,|,e managers of the railway system -f Italy to carry cycles as personal baggage (a later report s.us " free '•),— reversing thus the prohibitory policy proclaimed in a September order that the r a ■' would not tran.si>o.t cycles at ».ll except . freight trains. This reform was apparently ^Z'^\ by the influence of the C. T. C, while the N. C. U. has the credit of a simi.ar one in perM„k,. ,; oiiiy a single time in t-,ngland did not constitute such "actual ii>. abroad as was contemplated by the regulations of the Treasury. XXXV. If THE HOTEL QUESTION. Bed-bugs, cold victuals and bad service are things which the wheelman who patronizes country hotels cannot always -"'"""d. The question is, " Why increase the probability of his suffering from them, by adopting a policy which must render him an object of contempt to every landlord pretending to recognize it?" In the previous chapter, I have given unstinted praise to the League, for the wise use made of its power in lessening the transporta- tion tax levied by the railroads upon passengers' bicycles; but in the present one I wish most unreservedly to denounce the folly of attempting any similar cut-down in respect to the charges of country hotels. In so far as the League may be considered as committed to the support of such foolishness, I am forced to part company from it, and to cry aloud, in the name of economy as well as humanity, for a reversal of its policy. To those hotel-keepers who have proclaimed, by the offei of "reduced rates to wheelmen," that they consider them to be a cheap and despicable set, for whose entertainment " the leavings " of more respectable patrons are quite good enough, let me say: " Vou are mistaken. It will be money in your pockets if you promptly abandon that plan of giving your houses an evil reputation, among a well-to-do class of people who hate humbuggery. An- nounce ! ather that you shall charge full rates to touring bicyclers, because you think them worthy of the very best of treatment, and because you want to win the permanent good-will of their friends as well as themselves." On the other hand, I say to tourists : " Take pains to avoid all hotels which offer ' reduced rates '; or, if obliged to patronize any such, be careful to make their managers understand in advance that you prefer to pay full price and enjoy decent u^commodations, including a bathing privilege." It has always seemed to me a great misfortune that, in the absence of any other model, the " C. T. C. plan " has been so generally allowed to guide the u erances and actions of such League otiTicers as have attempted to say or do anything in regard to getting together a select list of American hotels for the patronage of bicycle tourists. They have taken a purely perfunctory view of the matter, without giving serious thought to the bodily discomforts in- flicted upon innocent victims as an ultimate logical result of adoptnig a wrong theory of "official duties." They have been more officious than wise,— more zealous than di.screet. The tourists themselves have had no voice" in shapinir .ii-.y sucn suiCia.ii poiii,^. Aii men wiio iiave pustied their bicycles straight through the country for as mucl \s a week seem to agree with me in demand- 6o2 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ing better food and lodging rather than cheaper. At least, no one of them has ever tried to controvert my numerous articles in the cycling press, show- ing the deplorable tendency of the opposite demand ; nor have I ever found an experienced tourist to express in private any other than a hostile opinion of the picayune policy which misrepresents him as a poverty-stricken and penurious person, humbly begging for a petty " reduction of rates." Kven in England (where the social conditions and inn-keeping customs are so sharply contrasted fo our own as to render a " reduced-rates plan "less obtrusively absurd than here), the results A.\i not entirely admirable, as may be judged by this recent extract from a London weekly's leading editorial ( Whediii:-, May 5, '86, p. 49) : " We object to the greater number of C. T. C. hotels, be- cause at them the cyclist is regarded as a sort of strange, wild beast, to be packed away in a bed-room, into whose window the tile-prowling cat can sing the whole night long ; and as a waif, to be fed in a careless sort of w.-iy,— quantify being the only item studied with reference to his comfort. That such is the rbU of many C. T. C. houses we know from personal experience, and it is against such treatment that we protest." So thorough a condemna- tion from an expert seems specially \\°11 calculated to show the wisdom of what was sajd, after English experiences of five years ago, by the League consul for Boston, in the e;:rliest-published report ever addressed to that body concerning the hotel question. His words were substantially as follows: " Having seen repeatedly, since my return from England, how much fault has been lately found with the B. T. C. method, the more I have thought of the matter the more firmly I have become fixed in the belief that any reduction should be made a secondary consideration in the appointment of hotels. What we want is goodiooA and beds, at a fair rate. The main thin- is to have in each town and village some place where suitable refreshment can be secured. I should recommend that consuls in small places select the best, regardless of any reduction. k\. present, the tourist is ignorant as to which is 'the best,' in towns where two or more hotels exist, and ignorant also as to towns where any sort of entertainment may be had. The accom- modations in our average country hotels are so poor that the proprietors should understand th.it it will be for their advantage to make an extra effort in their treatment of bicyclers; that they want good fare and good attendance, for which they are willing to pay." The d.ite of these remarks was Oct. 20, 'Si, and they were signed by J. S. Dean, now editor of the Hi. World. They were printed, with the rest of his report, in that paper of Xuv. 4, and they so commended themselves to my approval that I at once offered congratulations, saying (9. "., Nov. 25, '81, p. 28) ; " Yes, indeed ! What the touring wheelman wants of the country t?vern-keeper is not a ' reduction of rates,' but an increase of comforts. The League ought to issue a list of the hotels known to be ' the best ' in the smaller towns visited by bicy- clers, and the proprietors thereof should be made to pledge themselves, in return for the adver- tisement thus given them, to provide 'the best' in their power for the acconinio to keep pounding away at them everlastingly with the sledge-hammer of tnith." I added; "Let me say to those non-touring wheelmen who mi.stakenly suppose that anything is really gained by a pretended 'reduction of rates,' There is no such thing in this world as 'eating your cake and having it too ' ; and any apparent reduction of 10 or 20 per cent., which a hotel- Kccper li.ay rnak.^ Imm ioauiuinary piiees, means a real reduction by him of twice as great a percentage in the accommodations which he supplies for the money. By the b'.er memories of f K 7 , ^ 6o4 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. many bed-bug bites, I warn every tourist to patroniie the highest-priced hotels within his reach and to shun, as he would shun a pestilence, those hostelries which announce a 'reduction ,,( rites.' " A fortnight later (A W., Jan. 30, '85) 1 again plied the sledge-hammer, thus : " s, long as ' champagne ' continues preferable to 'cider,' so long as clean and costly thmgs coi,' tinue preferable to cheap and nasty ones, the trader who enters the markets of the world witna really good article, will dutse'il the ' Cheap John,' every time. Nothin-,' is cheap which .i m.ui d THE HOTEL QUESTION. 605 sr-Mt faith m .is attracting customers to their houses. I say 'costs them nothing,' because .h,-,r promise of ' reduced rates ' implies the intention to reduce he accommodations propor- tim.ately, in case any victims are drawn ii by such promise. When asked to make a definite H.ulay for attracting patronage (even so small an outlay as #,, to ensure the presence in ,h-ir -ffices of 'the great American road-book, club-directory and hotel-guide,' for the convenience of t.H.nng wheelmen, and for the world-wide advertisement of their own hostelties), they are so slow and .-eluctant about it as to prove their general scepticism on the subject of wheeling" The diffi- HMies of overcoming this scepticism were detailed m a four-column article of mine (;r>l,r/ n... 26, 84), showing that most of the SS hotels then enrolled as supporters of my scheme had he.,, won to It by the verbal persuasion of local subscribers. Only .0 responses came ,0 me f' -m 90 hotels to which 1 addressed sealed hectograph letters, reminding each proprietor of the .x,.ct date when I registered at his house, while touring on a bicycle, and asking him to fairlv con- •.:.ler the argument of my printed " hotel circular," As originally published, in the Spyi„gfield ■..elmensGazftte,M,d freely mailed by the editor thereof to the 61S leading hoiels with hose names I suppUed him, the circular brought " just one " response ! A trio of exception- aJy intelligent and goml-natured landlords, whom I severally met ^.hile touring in Pennsvl- vama, New York and Connecticut, and persuaded to take the book, told me they'did'so Lecause they believed its road-reports might be worth a dollar to them, and not because of my argument that the advertisement implied in the book's triple mention of hotel's name would be nf value. They professed an entire disbelief as to the existence of any bicycling traffic worth m.ikmg a bid for. Now, if such men cherish this mistaken idea of the case, and attach no l.usiness importance to so tangible a thing as an advertisement in a book with a guaranteed cir- niiation of 5000 copies, what value would they be likely to put on so shadowy and remote a iliiii;,' as " official recommendation of the L. A. VV." or C. T. C. ? I answer this by again reiterating the truth that their willingness to " offer reduced rates to ;lie League" will always be in exact proportion to their contempt for the League If that "-^anuation wishes to convince the landlords of its respectability and practical importance, the vt,y hrst step must be in the line of proving that the people whom it represents demand the best attainable treatment, and are willing to pay the highest price for it. The age of the vast m,.jnntyof American cyclers ranges between 20 and 35 years; and they are not only young ni'-n. but, from the nature of things, they are active and enterprising men ; they are men who travel (by train and boat, as a matter of business, as well as by bicycle as a matter of pleasure) a.id whose family friends and connections also travel ; they are me, .vho, if not wealthy are as 1 d.iss distinctively well-to-«,-r to divert tliat patronage and good-will towards the hotels which make a bid for it by ■ ifirinc; the highest standard of comfort, it will fimlly f„rce them to reco-uize its recommend,!- tinn as worthy of real respect. For a certificate, - hung in the hotel-offices, I should sue- 2est some such formula as the following : " The . ,ue of American Wheelmen recommends iliis hotel to the patrona-c of all tourists by wheel. The consid -ntion offered by the owner is 1 willingness to help ensure the comfort of such tourists by certain special attentions not needed t ir travelers by rail. Any wheelman who may be denied these advantages (such as the serving "1 nieals e.^riier or later than regular hours, the prompt drying of clothes, the convenient storage •>f machine, the assignment to a quiet and well-ventilated sleeping-room), or wl.o may suffer incvihty or neglect, at this hotel, is requested to write a definite statement of his grievances to il'e Secretary-Editor, Box 916, Philadelphia, Pa. On the other hand, every (me who may be ■mprossed with the comfortable and courteous treatment accorded him here should take pains I" proclaim the fact among his acquaintances, and thus help give the hotel a reputation as a * " " ' ""-"-'"-■"''-' it;i;r:::g v*'ncc:,i,Cii. i Tus ».t;il(u\,dlt; is issued lo Brown \- Jones, proprietors ol the American House, May 20, '86, and may be withdrawn at the pleasure of the League." (Signatures of president and chief consul.) Those who are cu-ious to I ;l 6o6 TEN THOUSAXD MILES ON A BICYCLE. compare this with the League's actual formula " reported by the committee on hotel certificate ' and approved by the board of officers " may find the same in the Wluelo\ Apr. ii, '84. I pre- sume this is still nominally in vogue, though I have never been able to discover a copy in prim elsewhere ; but I should think that a consul whu could seriously secV a hotel-keeper's signature for so trivial a document must be a person of great innocence, or -ilse hau^ihood. It may be worth remembering that, as keepers of country taverns often rely chiefly for profit upon sales at the bar (food and lodging being supplied incidentally), and as bicyclers rarely pur- chase any firetwater, a suggestion of " reduced rates " for such abstemious guests must seem specially exasperating to them. The absurdity of the case is intensified by the fact that out- door exerci.se tends to give the touri,st a ravenous appetite. The extra quantity of food, the extr.i labor of serving it outside of regular hours, the extra trouble, however slight, of drying clothes and storing the wheel, — these are things which a good-natured landlord will concede with cheer- fulness, though they would justify him in charging more than the regular rates ; but what can he think of a policy which, besides these concessions, tries to knock ofl a beggarly five or ten cents from his regular half-dollar charge ? The active tourist rarely stops " a day " at any one place ; but he often in that time uses four hotels for his breakfast, dinner, supper and lodging. .\nv one hotel's " reduction " therefore affects not a full day's rate, but only a fractional part of it,— and is thereby made to appear all the moie contemptible. As regards myself, the one time of all others when a consciousness of a hotel-man's looking upon me with contempt has power to depress my spints is at the end of a long day's ride. Tired thus, it annoys me to think that some " League consul " may have worried him into the belief that every bicycle owner is a fair victim for " rqduced rates," Then is the one time when it cheers me to be treated with some show of welcome and friendliness. I like to have the clerk act as if he recognized the fairness of rewarding my day's struggle on the road by a prompt endeavor to make me comfortable, — In- showing me to a bath-room, if there is one, giving me a quiet chamber, and accepting cheerfuliv my rule of " a half hour's rest before supper," As an ordinary traveler by train, I do not care for any special attentions of this sort. Anything that is offered is "good enough," and the less said about it the better. But at the end of a day's wheeling, a few pleasant words and a manifested effort to be obliging, help take away the sonse of weariness. Examples of the opp.i- site kind have been described on pp. 338, 241 ; and it is for the prevention of that sort of thing that the League should use its influence. As regards food, likewise, I speak as an economist, in denouncing the folly of " reduced rates " — not as an epicure. Blessed with a good digestion, I can live on very simple fare, or even abstain entirely from eating for many hours at a stretch, without any special discomfort. It is only when I am " on the road " that the desire to pro. cure the best of food seems exalted to a wo.thy ambition. The chance of getting a " 75 c. din- ner," instead of the usual " 50 c. dinner," seems then worth riding many miles to improve. The prospect of finding a "high-priced hotel" seems as tempting then as the mirage of an oasis to a traveler in the de.sert. The severest economy seems then to demand " the best." The quasi-adoption by the League of a " reduced-rates " policy, contrary to the recommen- dation of that earliest one of its officers who had given any study to the matter, was doubtless due in part to the feelinr; that there was need of having some " tangible argument " to offer candidates wh.i hesitated 'bout paying membership fees merely as a matter of sentiment. In these later days, however, v.li ••.) each member receives a weekly newspaper which would alone cost more than those fees, iid when members of the older Divisions also freely receive maps and road-hooks similarly expensive, the hotel question may well be omitted from the " money argument." The wrong policy was also due in part to a confusion of ideas, — a failure to dis- tinguish sharply between city and countr\', — a careless assumption that the conditions which give satisfaction when a lot of officers hold a committee me ing, or a lot of club-men assemble for a parade, and employ a grand hotel as their rendezvous and headquarters, are identical with the conditions which the individual tourist encounters when pushing his bicycle straight along through the little towns and villages. It it to the defense of the interests of this countrv tour- ist that I have been careful to restrict my remarks, in condemnation of the " cheap and nasty " system ; whereas such slight defense as I have ever seen given the system has been in the inter- :> ' T//E HOTEL QUESTION. C07 e , .he on,m..t^.m*n and clubmen, who go by train from one big hostelry ,0 another, and «l,o feel pleased by a pohcy wh.ch materially lessens their expenses at those place. The error . ,n assuming that such experience i pairs my argument a, all, or is in any wav analogous to .h. of genu,„e explorer, of remote .oun.ry highways. When some touring neophv.e having ■Kledadayswheel.ng from Providence or Worcester ,0 Boston, rests two days at' th; Hotel \ e,K ome, he may perhaps devote one of them to writing a letter ,0 show that, '' as the deduc- ..on from h.s b.ll, on account of his League ticket, amounted .0 more than t^e cos, of it and ■rnpl.ed no perceptible d.mmut.on tn comfort, the ' reduced-rates policy ' is a wise one " • b,.t " ";:!/"'! u"'' '" ""' "^°P''y'''^ -^^' -"'^ drag him off for a little experience with the straw beds and broken v.ctuals of Podunk and Waybackville, he would sing a differen « ain As restncte to t e cities' high-priced hotels (those whose daily char,e\ ,5, or J.^ even M n ^ '" '^t' . ' ' """^"^ "'" '"'■'^'" *" •^""'^''^'y ''^f-'l^d and hough I should ,^0. approve of .t there ar. ^veral reaso.,s which would deter me from offering any vio .e„. protest agatnst ... On the one hand, a variety of choice as regards lodging-places and res- ...rants ,s offered the wayfarer in every great city ; and, on the other hand the hi«he t pri'e" represent so broad a marg.n of profit and so great a degree of luxury that a reductt,n in th m d..s not s,gn,fy loss to the landlord or discomfort ,0 the beneficiarj-. E. g., the very po< re^t accommodations wht'ch would be offered a " reduced-rates" patron of an establishment like the cKlome would probably be superior ,0 the best which can be got a. any of the ordinary coin .y hotels. S ,1! further, there may be manifest justice in arranging for reduced rates when a .tr^e party of wheelmen quarter themselves upon a small hotel.-inasmuch as they will inevi- tab y have to subm.t to a loss of comfort, from the exhaustion of its resources, even though fu 1 Pncebe pa.d. Thus, when a little city like Springfield is invaded by several thousands" smngers, on an occaston I,ke the tournament, no one of them can reasonably ex, ect ,0 eet as q.„e, a room, or as good a variety of food, or as prompt service, as when he has the town more toh.mself. He may nghtly then demand reduced rates for diminished comforts, because his con,for,s wtll be d.m.n.shed anyhow. The best that the hotel-keepers can do in taking care ol suchacrowdtsof necessity much inferior to their ordinary ■■best." and they can make a fair profit by rhargtng less than the.r ordinary prices. Let no one presume ,0 misrepresent me there ore. as object.ng to special ho.el-ra.es for special occasions. If a party of wheelme,; wshtobargam w.th an tnn-keeper for a specified sort of supper or lodgings at a specifi d pnce (whether greater or less than his usual one). I say well and good.' I,' is slmpfv he' ownpnvate bus„,ess; and the arrangement of it cannot affect the reputation or comfort o tnvse.f or any otner tour.st. What I cry out against is the poor economy of trying to knock 7, ^'::l^^ benefit of the touring bicycler." any ordinary hotel-rate which st.'nds at less than $3. Penny w,se and pound foolish " is the only title for such a policy. What I in^^ t .hu the tounng b.cycler really wants is the reputation of cheerfully paving for "the best" wh.ch the hjghes, prtced hotels can offer, and of freely advertising the names of those which cheerfully offer him "their best." c wmtn I think it unfortunate that the cheapest and meanest of our countrv hotels should persist in .m.tat.ng the h.gher-pnced ones, by clinging to the " American system " of offering a great pro- .us.nn and variety of food .t a fixed rate per meal. I should be much better pleased if the average bilKof-fare were simplified, by omitting half its items and improving the qualitv of the re- mainder. But the contrast which is presented by the cut-and-dried '■ English svstem " goire to the other extreme .,f frugality and sameness, is not entirely admirable; and "the followine i..u>.tration of it seems worth reprinting as a curiosity (■' C. T. C. Hand-book " Apr '86 nn 35-^?'): ' J. Smith, proprietor of the Bull Hotel, hereby agrees (,), hat he will at all timjsrecdve "em rr W "vl T. """'"" °' "'^ '■ ""• "" • "'''="^" ''■'^■" "^ f^'^""*^"'-' -d -i" charge .hem a tariff wli.ch shall in no case exceed the following : Breakfast or tea, of eggs, with tea flee, c hoco^te or cocoa. „ c. (or 43 c. if ham, chops, steak, cold joint or fish be added); lun! eon. ot cold meat, salad and cheese, CO c. : dinner, .-.f =.-.:;-. .-.r f.=H I..:..: •; chee=., 50 c, ; supper, of cold meat and salad, 43 c. ; .singleUeddedVoom'foront'so'c'rdluble'! bed. , room for two, 87 c.; chambermaid's fee for each member each night, .. c. ; booth's fee for I't I I . ■ :| 6o8 TEX THOUSAND MILES OX A BICYCLE. each membtfreach night, 6 c. ; waiter's fee for each member each meal, 6 c. Stabling or warehous- ing of cycles provided free during the member's stay at his lujuse. (i) Thp, he will charge the vi .1 tariff only to the boni/iiii' members of the club, but they shall first be required by him to prixlikc their respective and individual tickets of membership for the then current year, and furihir th.it li. will not accord or admit to any privileges, benefits or reduction derivable under this ,i'.;rrcmeiii any cyclist or tourist who is not a member of the C. T. C. (3) That he will at any time sit a ul. i room for the holding of any conmiittee or council meeting (pf the club without charge. (4) Tli.it upon the termination of this agreement, he wiil remove, or cause to be removed, any and everv sign, notice or advertisement, which may have been exhibited upin any part of his hole! ir premises, or in any publication, si'.5nifying that his said hotel is a he.ulquartersof, or in any oilur way connected with, the club. This agreement to be terminable only by the giving of eillior party to th'.- other one calendar month's notice in writing of his or their intention so to do." Such is the formula signed by the secretary of the C. T. C, in certifying the appointment of "official hotels" in England ....d Ireland. The one used in Scotland is identical, except that the tarifif is as follows : " Tea or coffee, with eggs, in the morning, or plain tea, with eggs, at evening, 37 c. (or 50 c. if ham or li>h be added to either rcnast) ; luncheon, in the foreniHin, nr Slipper at night, of cold-meat, bread and cheese, 37 c. j dinner, pf soup or fish, joints, sweets, bread and cheese, 62 c. ; single-bedded room for onj, 50 c. ; double-bedded room for two, S7 c. ; attendance fees per night for each, 25 c." The C. T. C. hotels in France agree to a cIrm] tr tariff, thus : " Coftee, tea or chocolate, with bread and butter, 20 c. ; tahU d'libte, with wine or cider, 50 c. for breakfast and 60 c. for dinner; b'^d-room, 40 c, waiter's fee, 5 c. ; chamber- maid's fee, 10 c." " On the continent, outside of I'rance, it has been found that the charges in the various tow^is and villages vary to such a degree that no advantage would attend the adop- tion of a fixed tariff. The figures exacted at the hotels recommended in the Hand-book v.\\\, however, as a rule, be found to be a reduction upon those in force in England, while the ac- commodation is such as has commended itself ti> the majority of wheel tourists. In the Uiiitid States, the hotels under arrangements with the C. T. C. adopt no tariff, but make a reduction of 20 per cent, from their ordinary prices upon production of membership ticket." (See pp. 639-41 1 The foregoing statement shows that all the C. T. C. hotels of Great Hritain and Ireland charge 75 c. for lodging (with attendance fees), as against 50 c. of the usual $2 hotels in this country; and it is a fair inference that the three meals which could be got for the remaiiiinL; #1.25 in the former case would be far less satisfactory than the " breakfast, dinner and sup- per" which could be got for the remaining ;fi.5o in the latter case. In other words, after ail the fuss and petty dickering imjilied in the quoted arrangement for British C. T. C. hoiels, tlif patron thereof cannot pretemi to get along for less than $2 a day ; and the comforts ensured him by that expenditure appear in most cases to be much inferior to what a man gets at the b -st of our own *,2 country taverns. This again demonstrates the folly of trying to beat down that standard rate. C.ood accommodations cannot profitably be provided for less. What bicycle tour- ists should strive for is the encouragement of the more poorly-appointed among the ?2 houses to rise to the very creditable level of the best in that class. What every really economical tourist longs for, is a larger number of country hotels of the ^2.50 and ^3 class, which will charge him 75 c. or $1 for dinner, and give him his money's worth. As I account it unprofitable for ilie I,. A. W. to copy the " small potatoes " policy of the C. T. C. in regard to " reduced rates," ^n I account it undignified in the L. A. W. to copy the narrow-mindedness implied in the C. T. C.'s endeavor to exclude wheelmen who are non-members from such benefits as may attach to its negotiations with the inn-keepers. Rather should the League try to magnify its own impor- tance by assuming to have a good degree of control upon the inclinations of all cyclers, — in re- spect to their patronage of certain hotels, as well as of certain railways (p. 59?). It should sny nothing to the landlords about tickets or badges, but strive s-mply to assure them, by the issue of a certificate such as I have suggested, that every tourist who ccmc- to their houses with a bicycle deserves specially good treatment, and that he will advertise the fact of such treatment amon? all his cvclinc friends, .^r. eictreme ."vnmr.l." .-.f --i-V.-t tt-..-^ 1 .-^rirr;-.,-- .-.-.-...rht i^.-.i t.-. .-^.-. V.^-^ l'.;-:>:; offered, oddly enough, by its chief consul in the great gold-bearing State which is specially cred- THE HOTEL QUESTION. 609 ited with faTonng largr and liberal idea-, about money matters ; for he announced in the IngUsiJs (June 16, '86. p. , .)," official organ of the California Divi.ion," that he had sent to each appointed hotel a copy of the following letter : " ()n the recommendation of , your hotel ha> been ap. pomted the League Hotel for , at rate, a. agreed upon, viz : You are not expected to give th. benefit of favorable rates and accommodations to wheelmen *ho are not members of the League, and unless they are personally known to you as such, you must require them to prov, .he>r nght to claim League benefits, by producing the printed membership ticket, which every League member has. GraKting equal rights and priviUgt, to ivluflmen who an not Loagnt member, wUl be consuUred sufficient cause /or revoking thU appointment. This action is rendered necessary, by the fact tl«t there are wheelmen perfectly willing to avail themselves of the adva..tages secureH by our organization, without, however, .eing possessed of sufficient .nanlmess o jom m : ,p„rt and advancement. Please post this in a conspicuous place for your own conven.em ..d our protection." If any California tavern-keeper really has so little respect for himself, and such unmitigated contempt for wheelmen, as to consent to a manifesto of this sort, an unusual frigidity and staleness may be assumed to characterize the cold victuals and other leavings which he doles out to " League members," and the bed-rooms to which he as- signs them must be unusually dirty and ill-ventilated. Such a certificate is useful to the intelli- gent tourist only as a danger signal, like the yellow flag of small-pox or cholera, telling him the places to avoid. Its promulgation in Califomi;; seems to show that the silly formula already noted as recommended to the League in April, '84, by its " committee on hotel certificate." has never come into general use. Whether or not the executive officers of the League shall repudiate this and the California plan for my own straightforward one, the duty is incumbent upon every consul and every tour- ist, who believes as I do, to recommend all hotels which are known to him as honoring bicyclers by the offer of their best accommodations, instead cf humiliating them by the infliction of " re- duced rates." Though a few of the latter sort are included in the following list of towns whose hotels have subicribed for my book, I trust that a perusal of these remarks may persuade their proprietors into a prompt change of policy ; since it is my earnest wish that the list shall have distinctive value as a directory to those hotels where the touring wheelman can always be sure of a welcome to indulgence in " the best " : Academy, Pa., Gen. Wayne. Akron, O., Sumner. Allentown, Pa., American. Altoona, Vi.., Logan. Annapolis, N. S., Dominion. Ann Arbor, Mich., Cook. Ardmore, Pa., Ardmore. Ardmore, Pa., Red Lion. Augusta, Ky., Taylor. Augusta, Me., Augusta. Aurora, III,, Evans. Baltimore, Md., Rennert. Bardstown, Ky., Central. Bedford, Pa., Bedford. Bdis^ City, Id., Overland. Bordentown, N. J., Washing- ion. Boston, Ms., International. Boston, Ms., Vendome. Brattleboro, Vt., Brooks. Brookline, Ms., Hawthorne. Brownsville, Pa., Bar. Buffalo, N. Y., Gene^;. 3» Buffalo, N. Y., Ti/t. Calais, Me., American. Caldwell, N. J., Caldwell Caldwell, N. Y., Lake. Canton, O., Barnett. Cave City, Ky., Mammoth Cave. Cazenovia, N. Y., Stanton. Chambersburg, Pa., National. Chatham, N. Y., Stamvix. Cheshire, Ct., Wallace. Cheyenne, Wyo., Inter-Ocean. Clearfield, Pa. , Leonard. Clearfield, Pa., Windsor. Columbia, Pa., Franklin. Constantinople, Turkey, Chamber of Commerce. Corftwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., Elmer. Corry, Pa.. St. James. Curwinsville, Pa., nraucker. Curvrinsville, Pa., Park. Defiance, O., Crody. Devon, Pa., Devon. Kaston, Pa., UniUd States. Elyria, O., Beebe. Garrison's, N. Y., Highland. Gettysburg, Pa , Eagle. Glens Falls, N. Y., RockweU. Gloucester, Masr., Belmont. Grand Forks, Dak., Griggs. Greenfield, Mass., Mansion. Greenwich, Ct. , Lenox. Hagerstown, Md., Baldwist. Hailey, Id., Hailey. Hailey, Id., Merchants'. Halifax, N. S., Halifax. Hamilton, Ber., Hamilton. Hartford, Ct., MerrUTs. Hawley, Pa., Keystone. Henderson, Ky., Barrett. Highland Mills, N. Y., HigK. land MiUs. Ho'voke. Ms.. Witt.'issr Howard Lake, Mi "Windsor. Hudson, N. Y., WortK. 6io TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Indiana, Pa., Amtrican. Indianapulii, \x\A., Battt. Indianapolii, Iiid., English. Jamestown, N. V., Shtrman. Kinderltook, N . Y. ,KiHcUrh'k. Kingtion, Onl., h'lntfsor. Lake (Jeorge, NY., La**. Latrobe, Pu., Parker. I^cbanon, Ky., Norrit. Lee, Mast., Morgan. Lehighton, Pa., Exchangi. Lubec, Me., Cobscock. Meridtn, Ct., iVinthrop. Montgomery, Al\ , Windsor. Morristown, N. J., MaMsion. Morristown, N. J., Park. My -stown. Pa., Baney. Na \\ Bridge, Va., Fortst. Newark, N. J., Continental. Vev»buTf,N. v., l/t''' estates. New London, Ct., Crocker. New Vork, Carntansvi/. Fork. New York, Grand Union. Niagara Falls, Cataract. 'Niagara Falls, International. Northampton, Ms., Mansion. Orange, N. J., M.xnsion. Penfield, Pa., PenfitU. Philadelphia, t'a., ColoinneU. Philadelphia, Pa., Lafayette. I Stillwater, N. Y., Ensign Pine Bluff, Ark., Amis. \ Strasburg, Va., Chalybeate. Port Jervis, N. Y., Ctaren- i Suffern, N. Y., Eureka. daman and Delaware. Portland, Me , PrtbU. Portland, Or. , HoUon. Portsmouth, N. H., Kear- sarge. Princeton, Ms., H^achusett. Punxsutawney, Pa.,iV. Elmo. Rochester, N. H., Dodge's. Rutland, Vt., Bardwell. St. Cloud, Minn., GrandCen- tral. St. George's, Ber., Globe and St. George's. indhurst, Wcx., Niagara. Schenectady, N. Y., Carley. Schuylerville, N. Y., Schuy- lerville. Scranton, Pa., Forest. Shepherdst'wn,W.Va.,£>«//>r Silver C.celc, N. Y., Main St. Soloi, Me., Maynard. Son-.erville, N. J., County. Springfield, III., Revere. Stamford, Ct., Stamford. Stamford, Ct., Depot Rest. Tarrytown, N. Y., V'inc'-~t. Titusville, Pa., Bnnnvi.k Towanda, Pa., H'arJ. Trenton, N. J., Trenton Uniontown, V»., MiClei7,ind Ulica, N. Y , Bagg's Vicksburg, Mis., U'mhinglon Warrenton, Va., t^'ar. (irren. VVishington, U C. , H-'itlard's. Washington, N. J., St. Sloud Waterville, Me., ElmuvoJ. Waynesboro, Pa., National. Waynesburg, Pa., Downey. Wellsboro, Pa., Colee. Westboro, Ms., H''estioro West Orange, N . J . , Llnvel- lyn Park. West Point, Ga., Clark. W. Randolph, VL.^rrf /./en. Wheeling, W Va., New Mc- dure. Williamstown, Ms., Mansion. Windsor, N. S., Victoria. Yonkers, N. Y., Getty. Yonkers, N. Y., .Mansion. York, Pa., Washington. Staunton, Va., Virginia. Ten times as many tciwns as are named above might well keep this book on file in their chief hotels ; and the size of the supplementary list of such, which I hope to print in the second and later editions, will depend largely upon the disposition of my subscrii'>ers t( exhibit the volume to the landlords of their respective loctlities and persuade them to buy it. For the use of volun- teer agents of this sort, I reprint the following plea for it as a valuable piece of " hotel litera- ture," entirely independent of its power to attract the special patronage of wheelmen (Spr. Wh. Gat., Aug., '84, p. 52) : " Its descriptions of roads will be of service to riders and drivers of horses and wagons as well as to bicyclers ; the appearance of the book will be ouite as orna- mental as that of the ' city directory,' and the ' railroad and steamboat guides,' which it will lie among ; and the novelty of its title will compel the perusal of it in preference to them, by trav- elers who are engaged in killing time. Some of these, noticing the book's list of hotels, will naturally be attracted to make trial of one or another of those mentioned there. Hence, it is lor the interest of each hotel which has the book that the hotels of as many other towns as pos- sible should have it ; for the copies thus placed will be consulted by a much larger number of people than those which are privately held. It is for the interest of each private owner, who may be tempted to do any touring, that the book should be thus kept publicly accessible to liim in as many towns as possible, in order that its information as to roads, hotels and clubs should always be at his command, without the need of dragging about the heavy volume itself. It is for my own private interest, as calculated to assist the sal« of the book, that a very large hotel list should add to its value in the eyes of purchasers, by giving ther- a knowledge of as many places as possible to which baggage, letters and telegrams may sifely be sent, in advance of their own arrival. Still further, though it is conceivable that some tourists might be deterred from purchasing the book by a knowledge that they couid consult it ' ior iiuiimis ' it even' hotel on their route, the mere presence of the book in all these public resoru could not fail t-j THE HOTEL QUESTION. 6ii Kcure for it * great many private purchaaere. " Indeed, aa I do not intend making aaJet through the bookstores, this exhibition of it in the hotel officea may probably be my chief means of catch- ing the eye of the non4. There are not many better restaurants in the world, and I do not suppose that the best in either Paris or London can p'-sent so extensive a bill-of-fare ; but, if this be ordered from with discretion, two fnends may dine together quite sumptuously for $1.50 each, or satisfactorily even for f 1. The secret of it is that a single " portion " (of soup, fish, meat, vegetables or what not) is liberal enough to suffice for two. The same rule holds good at the Delmonico, Brunswick, Hoffman, St. James and other high-priced resUurants, where the solitary diner must pay for about twice as much as he can consume. Only four blocks n. of Washington Square, is the Hotel St. Stiphen, on nth St., and a few rods e. of this, at the comer of Broadway, is the St. Denis. Comfortable ruoms can be had at each place for %i or I1.50 a day, and I recommend them as liKlgings for those who feel oppressed by the heavy r-spectability of the Brevoort. Their res- taurants are rather gilt-edged, as to style .iixl prices, but several other satisfactory ones, of less elegance and lower rates, may be found near by,— such as the Sinclair, on the comer of Broad- way and 8th St., and McManus's oyster and chop house (open irom noon until a a. m ), at 52 University Place. For visitors who insist on patronizing " American plan " hotels, 1 can recommend these two which are nearest to me on Broadway : the New York, at No. 721 and the Grand Central, at No. 671, I believe their daily rate is $3.50, which is liable lo be in- creased when specially fine rooms are ordered ; and the same may be said of the Metropoli- i.in, at 584 Broadway. I mention the latter for the sake of recommending its tabU d'hdte dinner (8 or 9 courses, with a bottle of wine), which is served for $1, from 5 to 8 p. m. Similar dinners m.iy be had at those hours, for 75 c., at the St. George (No. 823, just above 12th .st). and the Hungaria (s. e. corner of Union Square, just above 14th St.). The Hungaria serves an exc.-llent lunch (soup, meat, vegetables and dessert) for 35 c, from 12 to a p. m., except on Sund.iys, when its dinner hour begins at i instead of 5. Dinner from 1 to 9 p. m. may be had on every day in the week, fur 65 c, at Colombo's, 51 Third av. ; also from 11 a. m' to 8 f. .m. (except Sundays), at Delisle's, in the basement of 92 Fulton st.,-the price being 50 c. for X courses, or 25 c. for 4 courses which constitute " lunch." Wine or beer costs extra at each of the three V ces last named, but is included in the 50 c. rate charged for taiU cC/i3te at the Plevano, 13O Third av. ; at Theodore's, 47 E. loth st. ; at Jacquin's, 107 W. 25th st. ; at 400 Sixth av ,' ju« above 24th St. ; at 5 W. 14th st. ; at 133 Third av. ; at >oth st. corner of Third av . and at several "'=«ci'e'" st- region w- o« Broadway. This dinner may be had from i to It begins at 5 or other days, when a lunch is served from la to 2, at 25 c. I resiaurani: 6i. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON i B /CYCLE. or 3J c. RreakfaM may be had for the latter price, 8 to ii a m , at moat auch place* Th,- proprietor* o( ihei* (and of the higher-priced one*, whose names and location* may ht foun.' .„, p. 187 ol the " dictionary " before-mentioned) are generally (oreignem, as also are many of ihi-i. patrons ; and this fact should be an additional attraction to those American* who rnjoy a ch.inc.' for incidentally studying the diileient phases of metropolitan life. I advise tach visitor to 1^.,,, hi* ;ity experience* at the cheapeM places nan. , in order to convince himself ho» much nor,- excellent and better-served a dinner these French and Italian caterers will cflfcr him than hr can Ret (or 50c at any "American plan " hotel. Afterwards, he m«y pay ft, (iij ,,, ;, ,„ („, hi»/e welcomed to a temporary shelter for his wheel at eithe. plac^. John Fleig, the first owner of the Carmansville, now keeps a snloon on the w. side of loth av. , at about isgth st. , and would doubtless be as good-nitured towards any new-comer as he always used to be towards me ; and the " 104th st. Hotel," on the corner of the Boulevard, also deserves gratetul mention here, as havinj often provided me with a free club- room in '79-'8o. Since no money was ever accepted for such favors, at any of these four hnstel- ries, I think it only fair to give them all a monumental advertisement ; and so I say that wheel- men in those regions, when they thirst for the beer which perisheth, should resort to these same shrines of Gambrinus and (haply) drink from the sa .e glasses which invigorated the author of this book during the historic hours which he gave to polishing the nickel-plate of " No. 234." As a proper tail-piece for the chapter, I append an index to all the hotels mentioned in the text. The towns containing them are alphabetized, and the numeral after each hotel's name shows the page where mention is made : Academy, Pa., Gen. Wayne, 389 ; Allentown, Pa., Allen, J20, American, 387 ; Amenia, N. Y., Pratt's, 147 ; Amityville, L. I., Douglass, 152 : Annapolis, N. S., Dominion, 285; Auburn, N. Y., Osborn, 212, 221 ; Aylmer, Que., Pitcher's, 327; Bar Harbor, Me., Grand Central, 275; Beacon Falls, Ct., Beacon Falls, 141, High Rock, 141; Bedford, N. S., Bellevue, 287; Belleville, On.., Dafoe, 317; Berlin, Ont., American, 317; Bemardston, Ms., New England, 182 ■, Bland'.'rd, Mi., Mountain, 131, 208; Blue Lick Spring, Ky., Larue, xit. Boston, Ms , RrnrswiVV loi '06. Crawford. :s:. ;;;. Tntemstir.r.ri!. ::f^. Pirker**, loj, Rerere, 105, Tremont, 105, Ui i States, H4, Vendome, ag, 102, 103, io6, ////:• HOTEL QUESTIOX. 613 hoo, Youns's, 105; Hridsriwrt, O , AiUniic. 24». J49. Sterling, ,48; BrklRtlowti N S (.ruml C tntr»l, iM, ; llmt..l Kerry, K. I., Unstol Kerry, io« ; Hr.Krkv.lle, ()m , Revere ,,« •' K.iffalo, N V , Mansion, ,03. Power,. 115 , IluUikill. Pa., Maple lirove, 199; Caco-. a (Jue ' M.iMwon, jjq, St. Lawrence Hall, ,j.;; CalaU, Me , American, j6j, i6j ; Caldwell, N. Y . V\ kViliam Henry, iSy; Caledonia Spring!, (Jue, (;rand, ja8; Camix.bello, N. » , Owen ^70- C )ohar.e, N V , Nelli,. 100; Caneadea, N. Y., Garriwn, 1.4; CaniMeo, N. Y., C.m»i«,' ..7. a,.;lam.m, C, , Hawk., ,45; Carli.le, Pa., Horence, ,44; Ca«bum Comer,, y,« ' (.ttaw,i, j,H; Catsk.ll ,mtn,.), N. \., (Jrand, 498. Kaa.er.ki:i, .S7, ,M, Uurel. ,M, M,«n.ain' .XH, lW,>ect Park. .88; Ca.enovia, N. Y., Sunton, 336; Chambcrsburg, Pa.. Nalioual ,44' I harle,.own, W. Va , Carter, 3S4 ; Clinton. Ct., liacon, ,u ; CoU.urg, On... Arlington,' ,.7,' ( oUimbia, Pa . Kranklin, j86; Coney Island, N. Y , Vandcrverr'., 90 ; Corning N Y Dick mson, 2,8, .i,; Cumberland, M,i , (Jueen City, 240 ; Dan.v.lle.N. Y., Hyland,„4 "i '>atby Pa . ButtonwcKKl, 37,; Delaware Water (iap, Kittatinny, ,07; Detroit, Mid, Mit.u tx change, jV,. 3m; Devon. Pa., Devon. 39"; Pixon, Cal., Arcade. 4',.: KaMon, Pa ; Ur.iled State,. .73. JS?; Kllicott City. Md., fjoward. 349; F.phrata, Pa.. Mt. Vernor, ,«7: Krie N \.. Reed, 50, J04, 105; Fairfield, Pa.. Mansion. 385 ; Farmersville, Pa., 387 „■, [' I ' Harry Hill's ,5,; Fonda, N. Y., Snell.,08; Fort Kdward. N. Y., St. James. '4'; For^ Hunter, N. Y., Mohawk, aoo ; Frankfort. Ky..Iiul.rV, 233; Frederick. Md, Ci:y ,38 377- (.alt, Ont ,(^ueen, 3,7; C.ananoque, Om , International, 3,7, 315; Garrison's, N. Y Hikk! land, ,<,4; ( ;etty,burt;. Pa., Kagle. 3S5 ; (;o,hen, Ct.. Goshen. .43; G, verneur N Y Van Huren,334; Great Harrington, .Ms., Berkshire, ,48; (;reat Bend, Pa., liodfrey '^o;- Green- castle, Pa., National. 344; Greenfield, Ms., Mansion, .83; Greenport, I.. I., Wya.ulank .w- Hagerstown, Md., Bald :n, 23S, 348, 384; Halifax, N. S., Four Mile, 287, Halifax ,87 aW Seaside ,88, Three I.iile, a88; Hamilton, Ber, 359; Hancock, Md., Light, ,39/Han*r'; terry. W. Va.. Mountain View, 384; Harr.«lsburg, Ky., Curry's Nation,.!, a,;; Hatfield Ma Kagg's. 183; Hawley. Pa.. Keystone, 340 ; Haydenville, Ms.. Briggs. ,,9; Hicksvill, 'l l' (Jrand C-.mral, ,53 ; Highland Mills, N. Y., Highland Mills, ,7., Lake, .7. ; Hoffman's F.'rry.' N v.. Patterson, 200; Holyoke, Ms., Craft's, i.S, Holyoke, ,.7, „8, ,24. .25. .a6 «, • Hone^ale. Pa. Allen 339; Hudson, N. Y.. Worth, ,„,; Jersey City, N. J, Taylor's, 8.. 85! .68; Kingston, Ont.. Windsor, 3,7; Kingston, N. V., Kagle, .88; I.ickawaxen, Pa , William! son, 340; Lake George, N. Y.. Ft. William Henry, .8,, Horicon Pavilion, .86; Ubanon Ky., Noms, 2J9; Lee, Ms.. Morgan, ,ai, 148; Lehighton, Pa., Kxcl.ange, 34,; Lexington' ., Monument, .03; Lexington, Va., National, 349, 350: Li-c'-fieM, Ct., Pantam Lake' .42, Uke View, 142, Mansion, 142, United States, .42 ; Little F; v -.j^,,, ^^. Li,„J Metis, Que., Astor, 329, Tariff Hall, 329 ; Little Neck, L. L, Sr ■ d's Neck' I I Columbia Grove, .5.; London, Eng., Anderton, 5^6; London, . .leh 312- 'l ubec' Me Cobsc.K>k, 268 , Luray, Va., Luray, 34S, 378, 38., 382, 387 , Viac.ias, Me., 'Eastern^ 27, :' Malvern, Pa., Indian King, 389; Martinsburg, W. Va., Continental, ,44; Mattituck I I Matt.tuck, .54; Meriden, Ct., Wimhrop, .33; Millersburg, Ky., Pumell, 233; Milto'n Ms' Blue Bell, 29. .02, 109, 5.7; Mitchell, Out., Hicks, ,.3; Montclair, N. J., Mansion, ,67' Monterey, Cal., EI Monte, 490; Morristow. , N. J., Mansion, ,63; Mt. Desert Me Grand Central 275; Mt. Jackson, Va., Wilson's, 382; Mt. McGregory, N. Y., Balmora'l, ,92; Mount Morns N. Y Scoville, 58. 2.3; Mt. Washington, N. H., Glen, 5.5 ; Myers.own, Pa.. Baney. 343 ; Natural Bndge, Va., Natural Bridge, 348, 35° i Naugatuck. Ct., Nauga.uck .4. ■ Newark, Del.. Deer Park, 37^; Newburyrort. Ms., Merrimac. 10,; Newfou.idland N J Brown s, ,70 ; New Hartford. Ct., Carter. ,44 ; New Haven, Ct., Madison, 400, Park ,oo- New Haven, Ky., New Haven, 230; New London, Ct., Pequot. ,30; New Ma.ket, Va Central 34^ 348, 38', Valley View Springs, ^S. 382 ; New Oxford, Pa., Eagle, 495 ; Now York Fifth Avenue, 470, Grand Union, 138, N.w York, 428; Niagara, N. V., International, 203 ; Nor^h- ampton.Ms,. Mansion, .,9, ,20; Nor.h.East, Pa., Haynes, 205, 2or,: North Vallejo, Cal. Four Mile. 49.; Nerval, Ont., Dew Droplnn^j.g; Ogdensburg. N. V.. Seymour. 326. 33, : ■■•:=.y::^, •.: •^:nr;cs, 132; Une.ua, N. Y., h.agie, 212; Orwigsburg. Pa., Arcadian, 34J; Osprey, Ont.. Bristol, 3,6, 3.8; Paterson, N. J., Pickwick, .65 ; Peekskili, N. Y.. Eagle. .94; 6i4 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Pfrth, Ont., Hick's, 327 ; Philadelphia, Pa., Bingham, 173, 37J ; Pitf burg, Fa., Monongahela, 496; Pompton, N. J., Norton's, 165, 170; Pond Eddy, N. Y., Dv.'**are, 304; Portage, N. Y Cascade, 222 ; Port Clinton, Pa., Center, 342 ; Port Elgin, Ont., Half Way, 315 ; l>(,rt Jervis N. Y., Delaware, 29S, 340 ; Port Richmond, S. 1., Bull's Head, 156, Continental, 156; port Stanley, Ont., Fr'ser. 331 ; Portsmouth, N. H., Rockingham, loi ; Prescott, Ont., Revere a96, 317; Princeton, N. J., Nassau, 377; Providence, R. I., Dorrance, 108, 109; Putney, Vt. Kendrick's, 182; Quincy, Ms., Robertson, 109; Rahway, N. J., Farmers' and Mechanics' 167, Sheridan, 167; Reading, Pa., Keystone, 343, Temple House, 387; Richmond, Ont., Reilly's, 327 ; Riverhead, L. i.. Griffin, 154; Riviire du Loup, Que., La Roche'le, 329 ; Rob- binston. Me., Brewer, ~6i, 265, 266; Rome, N. Y., Stanwix, 201 ; St. Anne's, Que., Clarendon 32S; .Salem, Ms , Essex, lot ; Salem, Va., Roanoke, 34S; Salisbury, Ct., Maple Shade, 147; Sandy Creek, N. Y., Sandy Creek., 335 ; San Jose, Cal., St. James, 493 ; Sarat0(;a, N. Y. Con. gress Hall, 213, Knickerbocker, 213, 221 ; Savin Rock, Ct., Beach, 402 ; ..chcoley's Mm., N. J., Belmont, 173; Seymour, Ct , Wilbur, 141; Sharon, Ms., Cobb's, 106, 109; Shippensburg, Pa., Sherman, 344; Simcoe, Ont., Battersby, 332; Smith's Creek, Cal., Junction, 490; Smith's Falls, Ont., Butler's, 327; Somerset, Ber., Somerset, 361 ; Somerville, N. J., Moore's County, 172; Spencer, Ms., Massasoit, no, 114; Staunton, Va., Virginia, 300, 346; Stillwater, N. Y. Center, 192, Ensign. 192; Strasburg, Va., Chalybeate Springs, 345, 348, 383 ; Stratford, Ont, Windsor, 317; Strouiisburg, Pa., Burnett, 341 ; Susquehanna, Pa., Starucca, 338, 339 ; Suflem, N. Y., Eureka, 171 ; Tamaqua, Pa., Unitsd States, 299; Tairytown, N. Y., Vincent, 75, 76, 77, 194, 281 ; Thompson, Pa., Jeilerson, 3^9 ; Toronto, Ont., Rossin, 317 ; Tracadie, N. S., Lome, 291; Trenton Falls, N. \., Moore's, 200; Tuscarora, N. Y., Tuscarora, 214; Utica, N. Y., American, 2or, Bagg's, 201, 209, 210, 220; Warrenton, Va., Warren Green, 374; Washing. ton, D. C, National, 497, St. Marc, 374, Wormley's, 241 ; Washington, N. J., St. Cloud, 173; Watertown, N. Y., Woodruff, 334; Waynesboro, Pa., Nationrl, 385; Wliitehall, N Y., Opers House, 184; White Sulphur Springs, Va., 3S2 ; Wilkesbarre, P^., Wyoming Valley, 220; Will- ian.sport, Md., Taylor, 239; Williamstown, Ky., Campbell, 225, Sherman, 225; Wilmot Cor. ners, N. Y., Wilmot, 210; Winchester, Va., Taylor's, 344; Windca., N. S., Victoria, 286; Windsor, Ont., Crawford, 296; Woodstock, Va., Shenandoah, 383, trickier, 346; Yi nkers, N. Y., Getty, 53, 77, 79, Peahody, 19 • Vork, Pa., National, 386; Yoscmite (Val.), Cal., 491. I "vish it wer« possible for me to compel every landlord in America to read and reflect up 'a the "reasons for the stagnation of country hotel-keeping," as given in the Naiun (Sept. 11, '84, p. 217), to explain the general losses in the summer-resort business of that year " Intelli- gent people look to the quality rather than the quantity of what is announced upon a bill of fare. They want well-i epareU food of the simpler kinds, instead of an endless variety of nferior cocking, and dabs of vegetables everlastiifgly served in small bird dishes. They want complete quiet and darkness at night, instead of rattling hallways heated up to 'he furnac pitch by flar- ing gas-jets. They want bed-rooms without glass transoms wltich let in the light and noise from the halls, and wit'iout thin and ill-fitted doors which connect with adjoining mums and (July repor the mover"?nts, the talk and the snoring of their occupants. Then take the water supply. Tliere is no greaier luxury in summer than abundance of water and convenience for bathing in it. Many a man is reconciled to a sun.mer in town by the possession of a bath in his house. But go where one will to the summer hotels all over the coun*-v, he will find thai there are no bathing arrangements in the house, except one or two 'jath-roi ■ ..,, j bably at 1 consider- able distance fron-. his room, and which can only be had at cenain times and by i .evious engage- ment. Such a simple thing as thr prox'ision of a tub and a pail of z^ater .'a his room at a ttHoil extra c/uirge, is probably unk.ioum thrmighout the country ; we certainly never heard of it or met with it, and yet what a luxury it would be. How many hotel-keepers are there to whom one couh' mention it without having him shak.' his head over it as visionary or impracti- cable? " I quote this for the sake of saying that every landlord who owns a bath-rcom should make a tcrdci of it to the touring bicycler as soon as he arrives ; and that all hott!s which will Ssres iQ si.t?t5lv every such tourist with a t^oriable listK.Jiih \x\ Hi'', n'^vn H?r?-rnniTi ri:'",?ivt* to hay? their names freely advertised in the League's various rocd-books and in its weekly Bulletin. XXXVI. THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN.^ •* We may not care to fight ; but, by Jingo ! ifvt do, We 've got the votes ! We 've got th-; men ! We 'v! got the money, too ! " The Great American Hog (Porcus Americanus) has been elsewhere de- fined by me as an unfortunate species of humanity " in whose mind the mere act of purchasing a horse creates the curious hallucination that he simulta- neou 'y purchases an exclusive right to the public highways" (p. to). Thia sin;. delusion suffuses the Si' ul of the Hog, in spite of the unanimous ad- vcrf. ..greement of all the laws, judges, and juries in Christendom, that who- ever ventures ui^op the road with so unruly and dangerous a beast as the horse ■:: ust " sta-n. jy his own accid .s." There is no civilized country in tht world where the horseman has any legal right-of-way superior to that of the footman or the wheelman ; and, in a dei.iocratic country like ours, the final source of all authority is lodged. in the votes,— which are cait not by horses but by men. Like other mor.omaniacs who are bereft of any sense of natural justice, this horse-ownmg !Iog is not o!ily submissive to the actual application of physical force but he is cowed in ^dvance by ary impressive display of it. He tee, th'- ugh an individual wheelman who suffers dam;tge from him on the road can always be sure of an exemplary verdict when he drags the Hog into a law-court, it is the part ui wisdom as well as of economy, for wheelmen in general to combine for his intimidation before he does the damage. The success thus far achieved encourages the hope that in the course of a decade this 'epulsive type of a«iimal ly become as extinct as the dodo ; and the credit of suppressing it will th' , as a matter of history, be- long m large measure to the League of AmenLan Wheelmen. Newport, in Rhode Island, was the birthplace of this assccialioii ; and Monday, May ji, iSSo, its natal day. The initiative must be accredited to KirK Munroe (at tl.at lime editor of Har- fer's Young reople and President if the New York Bicycle Club) who ai-anRed that the other clubs should join with his own in making a public display of tnei wheelmanship, and who in- vited the unattached also to take part in the pageant. Two 'iozjn of ihim did in fact help sus- tain this " first annual parade of the League," when the whole number of bicycles in line wa* 133. The editor of the Di. ll^c.~ld, who was also the President of the Boston Bicycle Club (Chas. E. Pratt, whose biog. may be found on p. 503), in alluding to th: assured success of the New Yo.kers' scheme for a ^'--y meet at Newport, sugc-stcd(5. ,'('.. March 20, 'Sid as he is not an acquaintance 6i8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. of mine, I cannot be accused of any personal motive in now applying to him the same hope. My GazttU article shows why the number of really Jewrable men who can afford to take the presidency must always be small ; and I wish its facts and logic mijth*. be considered by such writers as are accustomed to prir.: gossip about possible " candidates " for :he place, in advance of (he appearance of any signs of dissatisfaction with ''.e holder of it. Space forbids my quot- ing more than the follow. :ig : "I believe that no cr ^e of incompetency or neglect of duty has yet been raised against any executive officer ; and 1 think there can be no doubt that the high average of personal and official character in the men chosen, and the ab-ence of a spirit of political scheming for ' rotating ' them out of office, have both helped greatly to build up the reputation of the League. It will be a bad thing for it if prevalence is ever given to ' Hal's ' idi.., that the offices are a sort of baubles, -vhich ought to be portioned out geographically for the soothing of sectional pride, as playthings are divided equally among children." The seventh annual parade, according to detailed statement in Bullttin (June 4, '86, p. -:i), attracted 824 riders, of whom hardly half belonged outside Mass., and only 200 outside " w Kng.; but by other accounts the number really riding was considerably smaller (. Icbt^i said 653, incl. 50 tri's). The Secretary's report showed the membership on May 28, '86, to be 8463, an increase of nearly 64 per cent, from Dec. 31, when it stood at 517^ Of the latter, a very large propor- tion (4379) paid their renewal fees; hence, ''^e new members of the five months numbered 4084,— the largest weel ■: atccssion being 318, fcr the week ending May 15. During the sum- mer, 12 13 new men join^ 1. so that on Sept. t the Secretary was able to report a total of 9676,— more than three-fourths of whom (7315) were accredited to these 7 states : N. Y., Mass., I'a., N. J., O., Ct. and III., i.amed in the order of their ni;mbership. The ,'eographical distribution of the entire 9676, and of tho 5176 who formed tho League's membership just 8 months earlier, are shown by the following pairs of numerals : Me., 199, 63 ; N. H., 143, 82 ; Vt., 100, 58 ; Mass., 1418, 591 ; R. I., 133, 30; Ct., 571, 355 ; N. Y., 1655, 1028; N. J., 918, 493 ; Pa., 1411, «39; Del, 24, 4; Md., 199,88; D. C, 59, 49; \V. Va., 46, 21; Va., 54,5; N. C, 11,9; S. C, ., 3 ; Ga., 27, I ; Fla., 9, o ; Ala., 13, i ; Miss., 3,0; La., 59, lo ; Tex., 14, 3 ; Ark., 4, o; Tenn.,67, 6; Ky.,79, 42; 0.,8o9, 58'; Mich., 218,77; Ind., 185, 75; 111., 433, 283 ; Mo., 236,94; la., no, 67; Wis., 30, 17; Minn., 105,67; Dak., 8,4; Neb., 67, 15; Kan., 70, 7; Ind. Ter.,oi N. Mex.,o, i; Col., 46, 28; Wy., 49, 33; Mon., 3,2; Id., 20,0; Wash.,o; Or., 3,0; Utah, 10, 6; Nev., o; Ariz., o; Cal., 148, 13; Ontario, 7, 5; Nova Scotia, 4, 2; Ber- muda, I, o; England, 2, o; Germany, i, i. This shows only 5 States and Territories having no League members, as compared with 16 unrepresented three years earlier, when the total was 2131. My statistics are from tables in the Bullttin of June 11 and Sept. 17, '86, pp. 533, 297 ; and the editor thereof took a natural pride in proclaiming, Oct. 29, that the membership had "grown to five figures " (10,175), and the Bulletin'' s regular edition to 10,850. The record of the first convention shows that, " on motion of Mr. Longstreth, of Philadel- phia, it was unanimously voted that the Bi. World be made the official organ of this League." This was then the only American cycling journal, having but lately begun .is a fortnightly, Nov. 15, '79, at $2. 50. A year later, it became a weekly, at ti, and has so continued ever since, ex- cept that the price was reduced to %i, on May 13, '81, and to $1, on June 4, '86. The conven- tions of '81 and '82 perfunctorily repeated the unanimous vote of '80, retaining the paper as " League organ " ; and a friend of its publisher, in nominating him for the presidency at Chica?o, alluded to it, " as a journal which has the honor of diminishing his yearly income very considerably," in proof of his enthusiasm for advancing the interests of bicycling. The three successive annual appointments, which no one thought of opposing or disapproving, were simply hap-hazard votes of thanks and recommendation. They had no othe' practical value than that of formally advertising the paper as worthy the individual palroEiage i)f League members and of wheelmen in general. Its publishers received no s' sidy, nor did they make any definite agreement as to the amount of space they would give to . dvertising the League in return. lu fact, however, the names of applicants for membership, official notices, reports of meetings and tptc iiivc, Were ail priiucii, in ritliaCiivo ar.cl rca^laLfic sriiipc , niiu ! am not avvarc triar, ariyscr^cuj objection was ever urged against the B. W. for failure to fulfill all the functions of an " organ." THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN. 6i( Meanwhile, the IVfuel, a smaller and cheaper paper, had become esublijhed at New York beginning a weekly issue at I1.50, " as the official organ of the (English) U. T. C. in America,'' Ocj. 4, '8a,-after two years' existence as a %i fortnightly (Sept. 25, '80, to Sept. 13, '82 ; ex- cept that Its price was I1.25 until ]^x)^ 6, '81, and its " organship " began June 7, '82). The pub- lishers of this came before the convention of '83 with an offer to mail it to each member of the League at 50 c. (one-third the regular rate), provided it were recognized as the official organ and provided the payments were made monthly by the League's Treasurer. This scheme was adopted by a vote of 368 to 260, its most active advocate being the first President of the League and first editor of the Bi. iVorld, whose name had been printed as " editorial contributor " to the first 3. weekly issues of the .'fA/r/,-ch came to them each week, in consequence of this contract, felt almost affronted whenever reramded by its staring sub-title that it was really " the official gazette of the Leaeue " The acceptance of either one of the other three offers would have insured an " organ " of far s nor typographic appearance ; and I think they deserved acceptance in the order named Tn' either case, the monthly reception by each League member of an interesting newspaper enclos ing his official gazette, must have been far moro satisfactory than the weekly arrival of this blotchy collection of black-letter advertisements, which was habitually hurled unopened into the waste-basket by many disgusted recipients. The utmost efforts of the hardworkiiie " pro- fessional » editor in Philadelphia were unable to make the sheet rise superior to the trammels imposed by its " amateur " printing contractors in New York. 1 do not say that any particular blame attached to them, for they offered a cheap job and probably lost money on it The mis- take was rather in the Executive Board's assuming that their " quarter-dollar allowance " si,«,d a chance of swing a better return from investment in a wild<;.t « ,ekly experiment than from the monthly patronage of a well-printed journal, whose established character gave assurance of a re spectable result. Whatever error of judgment was committed, however, was paid for most heavily by those who were chiefly responsible for it ; and f presume that no one else in the I eaizue • hated the sight of the official gazette " so thoroughly as the Recording Secretary « hose duty it was to supply the material for the printers, and whose ambition it was to produce a creditable paper. With the long-hoped-for " expiration of the amateur printing contract," a chance Nvas given him to gratify his ideal by an order from the President that he issue a specimen copy of what such a galette ought to be. Hence originated the first number of " the L. A. IV. Bullttin, a journal devoted to the interests of cycling in America; published weekly at «i a year, or 3 c. a cooy, by Ei -ene M Aaron, for the Executive Committee of he League of American Wheelmen, at the 1° A W office, 506 Walnut St., Philadelphia ; p,;,.ied by E. Stanley Hart & Co., 32. Chestnui .t.'and entered at the post office as second class matter." The convention at Buffalo adopted this on the day of its date (July 2, '85), and it has appeared every week since then,-the first 9 issues dated Thursday, the later ones Friday, -in spite of the fears expressed by many well-wishers ,.f the scheme that ihe League could not afford to supply its members with so handsome and ex- pensive a print. A title-page and index to the 416 pp. of the 1st vol. accompanied the 26th number (Dec. 25, '85) ; and the report of the Secretary-Editor to the officers' meeting of two months later seemed to show that the journal was in a fair way of reaching a permanent finan- cial basis of self-support. Its ad vol. (Jan. ., to June 25,'86) had 624 pp. and was indexed even more thoroughly than the first. Tabular statements of the receipts and expenses for 14 mo were pnnted June 11 and Sept. 17 (pp. 534, 2.9), in the reports of the officers' meetings, and showed an actual profit for 2 mos. : #37 in Aug., '85, and «.3o in May, '86. The first 44 issues of the Bulletin (285,075 copies) cost the League $.245, or less than half as much as its " ama- teur organ " of the previous year, though the 812 pp. of those issues contained a much greater amount of ietterpress,-the official matter alone covering 143 pp. The next 17 Bulletins. .May to Aug., '86(160,650 opies; 460 pp.), cost i;59o, " or at the rate of less than 19 c. a yt-.ir for each League member,-s wing the remarkable cheapness of thus publishing a superior ^veekiy paper on the co-operative plan." The net adv. recdpts for 14 mos. were ». 0,445, .md the printing expenses #12,280. One-third the League's income from membership-fees during the year ending with May, '86, was spent in procuring and printing verbatim reports of all the talk at the officers' meeti. s; and the Secretary-Editor suggests that money be saved hereafter by restr:-ting the reports of such meetings to things actually done. During the first year, he relied upon volunteers for supplying the Bulletin with " news " ; but regular correspondents have since been employed at the chief c cling centers to furnish it, and carefully-compiled reports of "famous riding Histricis" have regularly appeared upon the paper's second page. The need contributions because the p. lability of delay dampens the ardor of volunteer writers ; but he THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN IVHEELMEN. 621 has succeeded, nevrrtheless, in making a very readable journal, and in proving that the other papers were wrong when they predicted that his estimates of the adv. patronage requisite for supporting it would never be realized. His report of Sept. i says that thr adv. pp. average i8 or thrice as many as first hoped for, and that the rales have not been raised, though the circu- lation has increased f.om 5000 to 10,500. I should think that an advance of 50 or 100 per cent, might well be made in adv. rates ; and I urge the policy of inviting quarter-year subscriptions to the Bulletin, for I believe that nearly every reader thus secured will be persuaded to join the League. Criticisms of the paper and its editor may be fairly assumed as based on business or personal rivalry, unless their writers' sincerity be shown by the clearest proof. Ihere is an overwhelming presu-nption that the man who originated the BuUttin, and brought it to its pres- ent plane of success, in the face of general scepticism and opposition, will take more pride in nushin- it higher than any one else could take ; and the first principles of justice forbid that he should be superseded in office for anything less than demonstrated incompetency. Mistakes must be made, and enemies must be made, by every holder of such a pla'.e ; but good business- policy nevertheless demands that the Secretary-Editor should be a fixture, even more than the President. The officers' debate, in advance of their vote which practically made him so, may be found in the Bulletin of Mar. 19, p. 246 ; while as regards their policy of excluding from the paper all discussions of rival machines, the arguments for and against, as presented at the BufJalo meeting, cover p. 304 of the issue of Sept. 17. I consider the act of joining the League of American Wheelmen one of the very first duties which every cycler in this country owes to his fellows ; but I think that the considerations which can be effectively used for the attraction of desirable members may be reduce.! to two. First, and incomparably the strongest, is the argument of sentiment and sympathy,— the gratification of the sense of partnership and power by the mere act of standing up and being counted,— the ability, in short, to feel that one plays a personal part in swelling the chorus which I have quoted at the head of this sketch for the possible enlightenment of the Great American Hog. As Presi- dent Bates says, " the organization is more valuable because of the political power it possesses, and may wield when necessary, than for any other of its qualities " ; and no one will pretend that such a veteran journalist can have worked a quarter-century in a newspaper office without attaining some degree of shrewdness as a politician. I quote the phrase from his article in the Whetlman (May, '83, pp. 98-100), descriptive of the manner in which an Ohio legislator named Green made a bid for the ballots of the Hog, by proposing an enactment for the suppression o£ bicycling in that State ; and of the manner in 'which his verdant little boom was obliterated when the League formally showed its hand before the legislative committee. That hand held alto- gether too many voters to be laughed out of court. The committee saw clearly that the inflic- tion of :.ijustice upon them, for the sake of currying favor with the Hog, would be bad politics. The fmal words of the article are these : " The fact that we possess political power is our shield ; the fact that we are ready to use it when attacked will double the strength of our shield. We trespass upon the rights of no man ; let us make it plainly understood that no man vriU be per- mitted to trespass upon our rights with impunity. . I say again that the latent political power of the L. A. W. is its most valuable quality, and is alone worth much more than its cost." The second and final argument which can be effectively employed for attracting recruits to the League— such recruits as insist on having a direct and tangible return for their money— is the fact that no other weekly cycling journal, of as much merit and attractiveness as the BulUtin, is to be purchased except at a price about equal to the entire cost of membership ; and that most of the official road-books are supplied only to League members, and are generally supplied with- out charge to members of those Divisions which publish them. I am sure that it is a waste of time to rehearse the lesser arguments and advantages. Men who cannot be converted by the two principal ones, are not worth having at all. The cycler who takes no pleasure in contribut- ing his personal mite to increase the " solidarity " of cycling— in helping perfect a system which shall convince the horse-owning Hog that whenever his cloven hoof is shown for the tramriing down of wheelmen's rights in the backwoods of Maine, its appearance there will make enemies for him clear across to the coast of California,— is a cycler not specially wanted by the brother- 622 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. hood ■ but the one v.ho doesn't even care enough about the busineu to read a repreuntatirc newspaper, or to supply himseii with valuable iiiformation about the roads, had best be left out- side the League entirely. As defined in its official hand-book, " The League of American Wheelmen is an organiia- tion to promote the general imerests of cycling ; to ascertain, defend, and protect the rights o£ wheelmcM (which are those of any driver of liurse and wagon), to encourage and facilitate lour- ing, » id to regulate the government of a.l amateur sports connected with the use of the wheel As 7. national organization, it is chiefly composed of bute Divisions, which bear relations to it very similar to those between State and Nation in the political world. The Sutes not yet possessed of sufficient membership (25) to organize a separate Division are governed directly from headquarters, as are the Umtorits by the nation, politically considered. It is miter of experience that id«al efficiency is only reached when a rider belongs to a club, the club to a well- organized State Division, and the State Division to the national body, with well paid and centr^l- iied machinery of business and information." The mode of government adopted may be shown by the following extracts from the League's organic law : " Its officers shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretai^- Editor, a Treasurer, Chi'^f Consuls (one from each State), and Representatives (each State being entitled to one Representative for every 50 members); and these officers sh.-iil form a Board of Officers, of whom 15 shall constitute a quorum, who shall direct and decide in a'.l matters not provided for in this Constitution, and shall have power to fill vacancies. The President, the Vice-President, and one other member of the Board of Officers annually chosen by the board, shall form an Executive Committee, to whom shall be referred all matters relating to revenue and disbursements and League funds, and all routine business not otherwise disposed of ; and such comm-ttee shall report to the board at each regular meeting. Each State in which there are aj or more nembers may organize a State Division, with a code of by-laws, in keeping with this Constitution, and governed b/ an Executive Board comprising the Chief Consul and Reps. , together with the Secretary-Treasurer. The latter may be chosen at large by a vote of the Division, and it shall hold at least one meeting each year for that purpose. "All officers shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed ; but the Secre- tary-Editor shall hold office during good-behavior or until death or his resignation shall cause his removal. (The Board of Officers may, however, by a vote of two-thirds of the members and proxies present, after one month's notice has been given. Je.lare his offici vacant, and order a new election.) He shall receive a salary of $1500 per annum, and shall be allowed to draw from the treasury such part of I2000 as may be necessaVy for the support of his office ; and from this sum he shall pay all assistants whom it may be necessary for him to employ, but he shall be reimbursed for his stationery and posta7e expenses. He shall give bonds for the faithful dis- charge of his duties in the sum of %\a, , and the bond must be acceptable to the Executive Conimiitee; he shall at all times be under the control of the Executive Committee ; he may be suspended by them to await the action of llie board ; he shall report to the Board of Officers at their meetings, anfl once every three months he shall publish in the official organ a report of the general status of the League." The rules as to his salary and official jjermanency were adopted Feb. 22, '86. The previous rules required his annual election, the same as the other officers ; and the ru adopted Feb. 23, '85, said : " He shall receive a salary of #83.33 ?*"■ month, and shall be reimbursed for his stationery, postage and kindred expenses." The first salary voted to any League officer was I250 a year for the Corresponding Secretary, May 30, '81 ; and the same w.is afterwards given to the Recording Secretary, Feb. 23, '85. When both secretaryships were consolidated, and combined with the editorship, June i, '85, the salary which had been raised to $1000 by rule of Feb. 23, '85, on condition of such consolidation, really began to be paid. Of the half-dozen standing committees, appointed by the President, for a year's service, end- ing with the annual meeting, those on "membership," "rules and regulations" and "rights and privileges " must consist of j men each, who must be taken from the Board of Officers; ■while the committees on "transportation," "racing," and "touring" may be taken from '.he ssembershii- in creneral. and the t^o former mav ezrh have £ n^i^n The last-nnfned cotntD'tt^e is the youngest of all, having been established by vote of Feb. aa, '86, which says it " shall be I HE LEA ^UE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN. 623 tailed the Touring Board, and thall consist of a Tnunnaster and a liookmaster, as assocat: chairmen of sub-committees. The former, as chief director of League tours, is empowered to appoint members as liis assistants in any quarter, for organizing and conducting such tours; and, wiih the concurrence of the President, he may assume other duties appropriate for a manager. The liookmaster shall have as associate tx-offLio members of his sub-committee (to be known as the Bureau of Information) all compilers or assistant-compilers of read-books, or hand-books, past, present or prospective, as long as they remain League members ; and he is empowered to obtain and keep on file books, maps, road-reports and all other written or printed facts of inter- est to cycling tourists, and to supply information to applicants." Th; committee on racing "shall bi called the Racing Board, and shall have charije of all matters pertaining to racing and the championships. They shall make all arrangements for the annual championships which are held under L^eague auspices, and sliall assign such other championships as arj now or may be established, to be run under thi auspices of such clubs or associations as they may consider most desirable. They shall have power to make such rules for their government and thi govern- ment of race meetings as may be deem;d expedient, and may appoint one or morj oflScial handi- cappers at their discretion." No member shall belong to more than two committees ; and every committee-chairman, who may not b^ a member of the Board of Officers by election, shall be- come one ex-afficio, " and shall bj remunerated for all expenditures which in the opinion of the Executive Committee were made for the good of the department under his charge." "There shall be an annual business meeting of the League at such time and such place as the Board of O.licers may determine at a meeting to be held at least 2 mos. previous to the 15th day of May, and of which general meeting at least one month's public notice shall be given. At this meeting, each member present shall have one vote on any question, and 50 members shall constitute a quorum. Two meetings of the Board of Officers shall h: held each year, one at least 2 mos., and not more than 4 mos., previous to May 15th, and one in the fall, subject to the call of the President. The Presidjnt and Secretary may, at any time, submit any matter of busi- ness properly before the board in writing, in the form of a vote or resolution, to each member of the board by mail, upon which thi members may indicate their approval or disapproval ; and when replies in approval shall be received from a majority of the members, the President shall diclare such vote or resolution carried, and it shall be taken as the action of the board, as if done at a regular meeting. Between the ist and loth day of March each year the Secretary shall send to each member of the League a voting blank for Chief Consuls and Representatives. Each member who was admitted or whose dues were paid up to the ist day of March, shall be entitled to one vote for Chief Consul for the State wherein hi resides, and one vote for each Representative that his State is entitled to under these rules ; each vote shall be signed by the member voting it, and returned to the Secretary before the 10th day of April, and by him de- livered to the Committee on Rights and Privileges. This committee shall sort and count the votes, and make a return of the same to the President on or before the loth day of April ; the person obtaining the largest number of votes in each State for Chief Consul shall be elected, and the persons receiving the largest number of votes as Representatives shall be elected. (A Division having a membership of 500 or more may, however, adopt the rule of sending votes to the Division Secretary, before April 10, and he shall certify the result directly to the League's President, before April jo.) The President shall, on or before the ist day of May, declare the result of the election, cause the sami to be published without dday in the o.'ficial organ and also notify every member of the Board of O.Ticers and persons so elected of the result. At the same time and place as the annual meeting the Chief Consuls and Representatives so chosen shall meet and form themselves into a Board of Officers for ths ensuing year. At this meeting they shall elect from the membership a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, and a third member for tl»e Executive Committee. If any of th^se officers be chosen from the general membership but not from the members of the Board of Officers, such officer shall become a member of the • board, and shall rontintif »% ^uch SO \oTiz as he shall hold r.:;rh r.?9,rr " Each Chief Consul shall have general management and oversight of the affairs of the League in his respective State ; he shall call and preside at all Sute meetings, shall approve and H 624 TEN TtlOUSAND Af/LES ON A B/ CYCLE. i appoint one Consul for each locality tl.at in his juagment is entitled .ireto, and Mi.i;! api-mit League hotels. KeprcMntatives 5h.ill recommend to their Chief Consuls names of mcnilxTs i,f the League to serve as Consuls, and shall recommend hotels lor apjmintment as Leai;ue head- quarters. They shall, in jonneclion with their Chief Consul, have power to decide all local nut- t'-'s in their .States as provided for in these rules, and shall have a general oversight over the .airs of the League in their immediate district. The iJivision .Secretary-Treasurer shall keep ,i lull register of all members of his Division, shall keep suitable books of account of all rc(ri|)ii and expenditures, and shall transact such other busnicss for his Division as may be assigned him by the members thereof at any of their meetin:,'s. Consuls shall acquire and give any inforniatinn a'ito roads, hotels, laws, and other matters of interest in their localities 'o members of the Lcigue calling upon tliem in person or by letter; keep the -State officers infi ined from time to time by rc|X)rt! perform such duties as the latter may require of them, and generally promote the in.er- «st. C.I ih- : •^a: .e .iiid its members. Consuls' term of office shall expire July i, but they nnv lie rem ..ed for '■luse at any tune by the Chief Consul of their State, whose lieutenants they are "Any amateur wheelman, in good standing, eighteen years of age or over, shall be eligible to membership in this League upon payment of an initiation fee and dues, and with the indorse- nieiitof two League members in good standing, or of three reputable citizens of the Inited States or Canada. Upon the approval of the Board of Officers or a committee thereof, two weeks after the publication of his name in a list of candidates in the official c gan of the I,.' i-uc, the applicant shall become a member. An amateur is one who has never engaged in, nor a^-.l^lcd in, nor taught any recognized athletic exercise for money or other remuneration, nor knowingly competed witjt or against a professional for a prize of any description. To prevent misunder- standing in interpreting the above, the League draws attention to the following explanation : A wheelman forfeits his rights to compete as an amatetir, and thereby becomes a professioii.il, by engaging in cycli ig or any other recognized athletic exercise, or personally teaching, training, or coaching any other person therein, either as a means of obtaining a livelihood, or for a stated bet, money prize, or for gate money, competing with, pace-making for, or having the pace mad,- by, a professional, in public or for a prize ; selling, realizing upon, or otherwise turning into ca>li any prize won by him. Thii rule does not apply to teaching the elements of bicycling solely for the purpose of effecting the sale of a bicycle. The League recognizes as athletic exercises all those sports under the jurisdiction of the National Ass'n of Amateur .Athletes of America, includ- ing running, walking, jumping, pole-leaping, putting the shot, throwing the hammer, ihrowiiiK the weights, tug-of-war, and rowing, boxing, sparring, lacrosse, polo, roller and ice skating " An application-blank containing the above definition, may be found in each issue of ihe Bulletin, or procured from any I^eague officer. Appended to it are the following words, ad- dressed to the Secretary-Editor : " Inclosed you will find initiation-fee and annual dues for the L. A. W. I hereby certify that I am over 18 years of age and an amaieur within the meanitit; of the definition. I refer to the persons named below." The applicant whose member^lnp is to begin during the first quarter of the year (Jan. to March) must enclose %i ; second quarter (April to June), $1.75 ; third quarter (July to Sept ), $1.50; fourth quarter (Oct. to Dec), $1.25. Continuance of membership costs %\ a year, payable in advance on January i ; and all names not paid for by March i are dropped from the rolls. Life-memberships are obtainable on pay- ment of $10. A certificate of annual membership, in the shape of a card signed by both the Secretary and Treasurer, is issued to each member each year, and contains his name and en- rollment-number, together with a " series letter." Thus, as the cards of '86 belong to scries "G," those of '87 will belong to series " H," and so on. The new member usually receives his card about a month after sending in his money, though the Bulletin meanwhile comes to him each week, beginning with the issue which prints his name as an applicant. The act of joining the League makes him a member of a State Division also, if one exists in the State where he resides ; and no direct tax is levied for the support of this, inasmuch as one-half the annual dues which he pays the League are returned to the treasury of his State Division. Aii applications and money lor membership must be sent to the League's aecretary-iiuiioi. i. M. Aaron, Box gi6, Philadelphia, Pa. THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEA\ 62 K.e.. .CO.. n.a, ... „^„;":: Z";::i x^'^^^^^^^^ -^ '-. of eyeing. KorexaiiiDle the S.;,., !»,.;.: to '^ ,"*""'*"'' '""ne encouragcn.ein has pa.d ou. no less .ha.. ,.ooi for pHml^;.^!: . ^ ^^f oTa J^^":": "' '"'.'•""-'-"'•" lar report, of .,.000 .„. of road». ch.efly .n Pa., N J a. d MJ t ? "^'"""" """ .idered .h. joi... p.Ulica.io.. of ...e Div.L... of'.hose-'.hr s' ts I. ofT^L'T" "^ ^""• -e cop.es of ... .hough i.s ,,nc.- ,0 Uague „,e,. of o.her S.a.cs L J The aT r"'" u..sj(pi^,,trr;::e:i: 's i^.^r„^:,:ir^^^ ^'•"•r'^"" '"- ^'---^ .a..,s a large road-.ap of .h. Su.e (',;„. for > by .hlh c Zirfn ' 'T'":! '"' ^""■ California Division w>s h.r,!I„ , V < "J"";- "-""-"-o"*"'. J- K. Dunn, Massillon) The Au«.. -86, on .h °U . If W J- '"' """=" " '""''' "" """'"' '-''-'-°'' ("* PP- s.ub;on lich l-p^^'eihe ..^^ta^rwhi rr.rK ""'^ 'I'T '"' *"'"" "''"•'°-- ^"' »'- *l.en ,h= comple.e book wil ll ^M f *"''•""'' " "'"""''y P""* ""'" J^'v. '5*7- t« . cover and t.tle-page, as already recorded : but the book's wor..f m;.f-,« w,.s to pn„t as ,ts opening phras= .h. folio*!,,-; perversion of his.orv "^ I -"^^fortune can Wh=eln,.n was born a. N .v,.,rt, R. I M^v ,0 Tso " ^7 ' c ^"^"' "' '^'""'- -late of na.ivi.y was Mond.y U,. ,,st but Z I T u- '^ '^" ^""'^'^' ^"^ ""= '"' ■aions about Hnin,;rrei^r:;^;;^ f''™''-^"^^ R-"« Board. In- pr.n.ed in ,h .■ /^W and as .^'^A./ ^"-"f;"" »"<> ""-» important rep.latlon^ were F"u- oy tn»! .'secretary about a year aterfFeh ic >Sr • -j \ / usedonthe-amatrurpatette." As earlv as Dec 'Sc h. /? //7' k ^5°°^ f^""' «yP«^ ■ " L. A. W. Handbook .„ , ._ 2^." „ 1 ^?' "'^ ^'"'''""' began .0 print articles for ■itterwards destroyed unns-H lv.«,„- < u "' •""'"; -'^^""'M'" were made from these, and .l-eactualpublicatllytStTow v"'"*''"''" ^-'—her causes have delaved P cafon^ay so that now, m Nov., ,t seems unlikely to arrive before '87. The I m ■« I 9' I 626 Tl■:^f THOUSAND miles on a bicycle. fwmphlct is designed a:i an electioneering document, and is to be supplied to all a.>plicjnis who will pay I'le |x.stage. It wi.l b ive about 70 pp., and 5000 copir, will be printed as a isi ed In Aug., 'i«>, a little pimphlct was prepared by the Sec.-Kd. for officers' use (34 pp., 150 copies, from type which had been used in Bu/Utin). contaiiiin;.^ constitut'on and by-law-, on its lefi-hand pages, and on ihe opi)Osile pages certain proposed anicndnimts which were adopted I pt. , A vole was passed at the .-...nual meeting of July 2, '-5, authorizing the Executive Lom- mi'tee to tal.c m.-asures f„r getting the League incor|X)rati : iiiuUr the laws of some State ; but Ihe commitire, having examined the difficulties of the case, d cided not to act until af--r rf|)ort- ing the same to th; board. These didiciillies were d.scrib.-d bv the Vice-PreMdent, .S. 1 mv a lawyer, in a report which was printed in Bulletin, Dec. 25, p. 410; and again Mar. 5, 'gf,. p i-^f), with the account of the tx)ard meeting of Keb. la, which voted to rescind the act of July; b-it the matter was revived Sept. 3 when the board voted that " the Ex. Com. should proceed with the incorporation, if, as a result of consulting witli the Committee on kights and I'rivi- Ifges, they consider it practicabi- " The same meeting ameii(kd the clection-iaw s,. as In ,nn„w any Division having a membershi|) of 5^0 or more to adopt ihe rule of sending ballots m ihe Divi.sion'.s .Secretary, instead of the I.ea^ue'i Secretary, and ordering the former to tcriify tin resu.t directly to the Lea-ue's President. The Now V,.rk Division at once took advantage of •he change by apiwrtioning the Stale into six votiiij-districts, according to county lines, and ordering that each district be entitled to one representative for every 50 members residing then in. If these district representatives prove f -t than the State is entitled to, the Chief Consu. ,s •uthorized to nomina.e the needed r r of representatives-at-Iarge, for appointment by the P-.sident. Tl»p Secretary-Treasure- , i« directed to keep a geographical list of members' ri-si- deuces, as well as an alphabetical list, and was voted an allowance of #joo for the ensuing year. Hereafter, he is to be elected on the same mail-vote v\ith ;i' representatives, and so is the Vice- Consul ; and the latter, in case the office of Chief Cons.il becomes v?:ant, is to hold that office until the next election,— though these provisions seem to conflict with the conslitutic . of the League. On r.eit. 1, the Division had a cash balance of %ii\i, after expending |46g during the year. (The balance in the League treasury at the same me was 1(1757; and the Executive Committee reivjrted the adoption of an improved system of book-keep'ng, \ hich cures the evils of the plan inherited from the early day? f the League, and allows its exact financial status in be very promptly discovered.) Rules similar to those of New York will doubtless soon be adopted by the other large Divisions of the League, and help ensure the •lection of its repre- sentatives from a much greater number of localities. The Secretary- Editor is earnestly in favor of a long-studied plan for allowing every Division to c. nvass its own votes, by a local relurn- ing-board of three ; and a part of the plan is that, if this local board fails to act by Mar n, ihe Division Secretary must send the ballots to the Executive Committee, .n order that thev may canvass the same not later than Mar. 30, and report to the Pre«ident b Apr 2c. The plan also contemplates that voting-blanks shall be supplied to the members of ( ach Division by its ( ' ief Consul, so that the League Secretary's task of sending blan;»s and recei in;- v les ma' . re- stricted to the case of non-Di.-ision members only. His attempt to secun the adoption of ibis reform did not succeed at the meeting of Sept. 3, and he then announced t' en'-in of appeal- ing to a mail-vote; but, on further reflection, he decided not to do this until afte. seeing ihe operation of the local election-law already adopted. Allusion may be made here to the scheme of "President 13ates " (in the Cycle, May or June, 'S&) for superseding the " bureaucraiic svstem " now in vogue, by a congress of real representatives, wl shoii'd convene siricilv for business and should actually govern the League, I think the plan implies too mut.i patriotism to be practicable, but the ideas advanced in favor of it are interesting and suggestive. My own tend"ncy is towards letting well-enough alone : and, as the present League governmert is hnnest and fairly efficient, t .im not alarmed at all when f hear it called a " bureaucracy " ; but if ideal- ists yearn to radically reform it, I urge them to work on the lines laid down by President Bates The League's seven annual boards of executive officers have been constituted as follows ? Longstreth, Philadelphia; Commander, C. K. Munroe, New York ; Corresponding Secretary, THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN. 627 A. S. Par»,n,(b. Nov. 6. •4,). Cambridge; R.cordint Surelar,, J. F. Ilurrill Ne- York. r„anr,r, H. I,. WiUoughby, Saratoga ^. J ■•■ "umii, «ew Yorkj ,. """'"''• "''!■ /'•^, ••-• *-""• «-°": ^--Z-. J. M. Fairfield. Chicago; C CK. yj: ""s s"T[T[l"f'''- '''"^'"^ N- Haven); f. ^.. K. N. Pu.^a™ New >"*, .. 5., S. r. Clark. Balt.more; T., D.llwyn Wi.tar. Ph.ladelpl.ia . ..R„, ,SS,.3. /'.. W. n. Miller (b. .S4a). Columbus; t- -J- A a 'p,r^„, r, K ,, ukee . /-., W. V. (oilman (b. Ntv. 25, '56), Nashua. oiHTH, 1S83.4. /'.. 1: M.Bcckwith(b. Apr. 24 ',.). New York • r /> W w mm '""' a' L'^llb'i'^rr ^"^ ^^"- '^' •*^^' ^^- ^'°^^ <^''" ^^-^' ^^^^. N"^S ... A. S. H.bbard, Milwaukee ; T., W. V. Oilman, Nashua """ua;. S- c'k";/.''''?; ''•' "'x.'"- "-'"'*'"'• "^^^ ^"^''' ^•/'- W- H. Miller, Colun.bu. • C S,L X' T'/'J'J-^ ''■. ^"'•"' ''""^'^'T-H-; /•.. S. Terry, Hartford. ' Ken!an^h'M 'T \ V ' I^=^''*"'>. New York ; K-/'.. S. Terry, Hartford ; T F P KendalKb^May .., -5,), Worcester ; S..rr,ar^.Edi,,r, E. M. Aaron. PhUadelphia ^TW M.,.i.r ./E.,rutn.. T. J. Kirkpa.r.ck (b. Sept. ,3. '55), Springfield, a '^ ' '' O tTL:ZL ,'''^'^!-':-^-'>. New York; K../-., 't. J. Kirkpa.rick, Springfield. m'c/eI' ^ cr ■■ ITT- ''\^"""«'^^^-'''' ^'' • ■^-^■. E. M. Aaron, Pbilade^hif; r fli. oj I.X., J. C. Gu.ick (b. Apr. 11, '52), Ne* York. In the following Hst of League cmmittees, serving Oct ,0 '86 the d,;,;rm,n „f 1. • ..r.t.named: Memdersmip.-E. K. Hil! Peekskill Yi \. c r i7 '^™»" °' "ch .. te.h. N. J. ; J. K. Dunn, Massillon. O ' kIc -^^ 1 as'seu.b ' MaT' '• ^ ^V •"'"■ Boston ; E. L. Miller, .34 S. Front' st., PhJael hia ; N H \^^^„'L kl';.; tvTrl:'' V. [Offica! Hand.capper, N. P. Tyler (b, Oct. .,, '4S). New Rochelle, N. Y ] RutBs ^nd Kegui.at.ons.-W. I. Harris, Boston; C. S. Butler, ,63 Main s, Buffalo N V K^ d elp'hia F A tlwe^'r "*r'.'-"°'o ''=^'='"''' ^^ = ^""'' '*"''• ^-^"^ Building pE v^a . , r . A. Mucid, A. *£ W. P. Railroad, Montgomery, Ala. ; W M Biew^tPr V,n,l,i;, i ■ >5. '64), General Agent, I$oston ; F. Jenkins, Chief Quart rmalrNe; Yorf: E Ol " i""' retary. Chicago ; W. G. Kendall (b. July ..'54), Boston ; V^S Bulf Bullo W G e'p '"' Clucago; N. L. Collamer. Washington ; I. P -11 London tL c 1 . ' ^ ' u ' peclive marshals of the E..stem, Middle SoleJw. T.Jl ' '"'""''"''d "« 'h« '«- In .h. f n • 1- , , '"i-uie, oojinern, w*., ni, and European tourine d v si- i« In the following list of Stale officers who are serving the League, Oct ,0 'sf the fir^ ' hetndated siateT r .h J " '"'' "'''' *^°*' *''"=" '" ^'-^'°" -" °^"-«« ! and ne undated States are those having no organization or Secretary-Treasurer RirTh^^^ t known, are enclosed in parenthe.:.; and re-elections are des Ztld by .he • The Ir.' aTotfdT^'^t'-''^^^^^'^''^'"^ "-'^ '-'"- where^o'll'-^ave Z'n^ZZ a,.pomted, though League members reside in most of them f. Hi,^ G^.. r.„.. j„„ I .i. V.-,;,. rri.- e'r: "ij. S'tt' •,';r,='f'!,'.L?: ^ r.. iju:^„T^„. j„„^ ,^^ ;jg,^ ^y^^j Randolph, July 5, '86. Mass -Oci 2,"'8/-"h' m' Haye,(b. Mar. .6, ...,,. Sute .... Boston; S. LawtL'.(b. June ao. ^^ Sprli A^.' hi' ^ i' » 628 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. •86. R. I.— Dec. 9, '85; J. A. Chase, Pawtucket ; II. L. Perkins, Providence, Dec. 10, '85. Ct.— Jan. 22. '84; C. G. HuntinRton,* Hartford; D. J. Post (b. Jan. 2S, V,i), Hartford, June 29, 86. N. V —May -g, "83 ; G. R. Lidwell, 313 W. sSlh St., N. V. ; K. K. Austin* twefn " amateur" and "prn- fessional " racing cyclers, is to my mind conclusive and unanswerable. Almost any young fel- low who l.kes to exhibit liiniself on the race tnck, and who has power to do any specially swift wheeling ihe.e, will accept pay, in one shape or another, from the maker of the machine which THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN. 629 his victories help advertise into popularity ; and no v^t of rule, which aim to make .uch accent ance put h,m at a soc.al d.sadvantage alongside a less-lucky racer, whose swiftness i n't wohS: maker's payng for will command general support in a democr^t.c commun"r If '' in^e^ lu.nal tournaments " are to exist at all, they ,nust be p .moted by " the trade " ! ~S are to be held on a scale large enough, and with busineLmanagemen. 1^ etu.h o'c ,""' the notice of the outside public, ti.ey must be " professional "r^Z' • r ^ ' "^' .hey may be called. President BatL showed thrt^T^rlyTs ;i„rS' "Zr^f '«., p. .65) : " I, is the flying Got There whocaptures the money and enth. stsm oT^tl' [^ ■' can people. They want to see the flier. ; they don't care a straw for h dXT uu T' wants .0 captivate the American people, i, bas got ,0 parade the fli r f ,f \ '"'"« Somebodyhasgottopayfortheircuhivation. Hendee^^rKlr^d wTbe td':; -rra?. beat the tngl.sh unless they spend months of ,„ne and hundrcls of dollars of exp nse .ra n ers IS a r,ch man. The flymg stock ,s usuallv derived from the ra, ks of '.Ln, ,„ 1 .• u ness. Unless somebody foots the bills, you don't have fliers wtth r' dub ^ '^.a::' result. It IS the framed cracks who draw, and who alwavs will dnw " n( ■ , the following extract from /.^..V^ .eading ed. of Sept":^::^ ^e.^tin^a;"; sT'^Z fe\r fu wa te of money ,,u„k ,n useless prizes," and against the lack of logic and of wi dom n the rule wh,ch tempts tacers mto dishonesty by forbidding them to compete openly ^,r ^a h " 'cvcl racng .s a sport the expenses attending which are .so heavy, and Ihe order 'f men p^.^onlin' wh,d, .s proportionately so poorly endowed with this world's gifts, that the srntimn.a'i.y of acmg or honor has no real chance of general adoption. 1. many parts of England Slma ffi' T 7 I "■"'' ■" '^"='^^"'«'- stockbrokers', lawyers', and all kinds of offices . they are employed m warehouses, they are l«.hi„d the counter in sho ,s Allow nf fo exceptions, the.r ages range between .7 and 34. T:.eir wealth is not great but Their Tve o athletic sport, which IS . national characteristic, prompts them to go in foTcv cle c ng and ou contention is that, than s to ' amateurism,' they do so under thelorst possible spl^ -' At the sixth annual general meeting of the League (fulv 'Sr^ <■-, ,K a \r . ,. greeted the motion of the Chairman of the Racing Boa;, thl't^the wo '■■ an .'rr'^.-rsSe from the phrase defining the conditions of membership. His own <' .-.ve - was the or^ o " given in 1,, ...ppor, ; but the plan which he favored was not designed to abol^h ss diLr t.ff law ,0 protc true amateur racers" against further competition with 'makers' rr,^ essional amateurs," and it was adopted with a heartiness which showed that J.e I.eaTue fav^ed ts stnc, enforcement. Tins '■ stiff law " w..s the definition quoted on p. ,.,, which has snce been in vogue ; and 1. is practically identical with the one which professes ,„ gover^^ he f',g h I . rxecu.ive. nunng the latter half of '.5, f-c Racing Hoard collected evidence that almost very prominent pr.e-w„iner known to American wheeling h..d accepted pay frol some l>.cyce.maker, and they perfected a plan by which they could fairly expd from I eaTue membership, as "professionals," all such suspected ones as would not si^n a ce tah formni certificate 'which made it easily possible for every innocent man to clear I 'nisel '■ Th sl^' was thoroughly approved by the Executive Committee, on Feb. =. ; and the b ard thi iss^d their manifesto.-priniing a list of the " s„s„oc's " (Bu'/,f,„ \lJ , L .h. documents which they had forwarded to tlm for^^::^^ 'sign:., ', "^ r^onTh a:;';!:' ::^'Z"^^'::z-:::;t^i:^: t^-^i-^:^. -''- --" ^« -- whom they ^ — ...... ..i„„i (,»,ui toe debate which 630 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. enlhusiastically approved iu adoption, and an attorney's written opinion that the acts taken had been strictly legal as well as just) covered pp. 538-42 in Bulletin of June 11, '86, and contained many instructive revelations of the difficulties which beset "amateurism." It showed that the clubs which are prominent as race-managers " were in favor of the amateur rule, but agin' the enforcement of it," thus : " One large club in Mass., of good standing in the League, filled the entry list of a race-meeting without personal communication with a single racing man,— every one of these ' amateurs ' being entered by a dealer, and every entrance-fee coming from a dealer's till." I suppose that enterprising clubs of this sort took all possible pains to increase the torrent of abuse which the sporting papers, and most of the cycling papers, poured out upon the head of the Chairman of the Racing Board, as a sort of autocralic monster who had suddenly broken loose for the destruction of American racing interests. There was something very funny in the illogical fury with which these writers "pitched into" a man who was simply doing the duty demanded by his official position. His three associates unanimously agreed with him as to ihii duty, and their report thus forniulated the evideni truth about it : " We have acted under tlic rules of the Leagui ; .and any criticism of our course reflects, not upon us, but upon the rules which you have given us to enforce." A reader who got his opinio-is solely from the cyclins press, during the three months of spring, must have supposed that llicsc rules luid been forced upon the Leag.ie by some sort of trickery; that thiy would be altered at the next anrual n.eet- ing, so as to rehabilitate si ihe swift racers as "amateurs"; and that the Chairman of the Racing Hoard would be dismissed in disgrace. The round after round of applaus- which greeted him, in fact, as the most popular man of the occasion, when he related how effectively he had done the exact things which the League liad ordered him to do, showed that the cycling papers had failed to reflect or to influence League opinion upon this matter. T.i y had mer 'v as trade circulars, reflected the wishes of the dealers, who disliked to have their summer acK eras- ing interfered with ; but all their talk and bluster represented such a pitiful mino-ity of actual votes that not even an attempt was made in open meeting to change the well-established policy. The League's steadfast-sticking to this honorable line of conduct gave good proof of excjp- tionally excellent moral fiber as a controlling element in its membership, and offered a no;abIe contrast to the vacillating and irresolute action of the English N. C. U., which, after a few half- hearted attempts to exclude the " makers' amateurs," openly pleaded a fear of the libel-law as an excuse for inability to enforce its own definition against them. The League's firmness nf course won it great respect,— both from those who furiously denounced it for not adhering to the hypocritical English plan («, e., classing the men who are secretly paid for racing as socially superior -.0 the men who professedly race for a livelihood), and from those who, like myself, believe it unwise for the League, or for any similar body, to encourage bitterness and bad-blood by setting itself up as a social censor between wheelmen. This firmness has shamed even the N. C. U. into plucking up a little courage for a new attempt to assert its rule ; and if its recent edicts of ostracism against the best racers of England shall arouse public sentiment for the abol- ishment of lh.it rule, the ^eagiie may ultimately Mke some credit for such abolishment,— and I hope may be led by it to abolish its own rule, improbable as such act now seems. The Insical line of d.-markation which should b; insisted on by those who favor a social separation between rich and poor in the cyclnig world (for that is all which their contention about " amateur '- and " professional " really amounts to\ is the line drawn between wheelmen who exhibit them- selves on the race-track, and wheelmen who do not. The wealthy ones may be said never to race, because so many other pleasanter paths to enjoyment and distinction are open to them ; while the young fellows who enjoy making a display of their speed would almost always prefer to earn a litt'e money as an incident tn such display. Almost every such one, at heart, reseru the injustice of a rule which brands him as a " professional " if he competes for public money, or accepts a private gift from the maker of a machine which he hns pushed to victory,— ralher than some trumpery medal or costly eew-sjaw, of no practical use to him, and which he is for- bidden to sell. To my own mind, it is perfectly clear that the only legitim.ite let;islatlve function for those bodies which assume the government of cycle racing is to so clas'sifv cnmpelitors that each shall be encouraged to develop his highest possible speed. Racers of similar records and THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN. 631 experience should be matched with one another, and those of evil repute should be ruled out ; but no social stigma should bo attached to any one for earning either public or private money by earning a victory, and no further use should be had in the cycler's vocabulary for either of those two tiresome epithets, " amateur " and " professional." The social position and value of each individual racer may well be left to the personal decisions of those who come in contact with him. Estimates of character are formed from such a great variety of circumstances and private prejudices, that no one has a right to complain because his own is not actively " recognized " as admirable by a given person or society ; but I think c 'int may rightly be made against an> person or society for proclaiming a hard-and-fast rule which tends to impair a racing-man's social recognition because he U poor,— which assumes such infallible knowledge of every human heart as to say that a racer who makes money from his racing must necessarily be any less genuine and enthusiastic a sportsman,— any less honest and earnest a competitor for the glory of victory,— than the racer who strives for the laurel-wreath alone. Returning, now, from the digression of the last paragraph, I resume my narrative at the end of the previous one, which left the friends of the expelled " makers' amateurs " listening in dismay to the roars of acclamation by which the League's general meeting (Boston, May 29, '^ <) showed that any attempt to reinstate them would be hopeless. Yet it was plain that if all these " American cracks " were to be excluded from the Springfield tournament, none of the English makers would send over t/uir " amateurs " to give it an " international " attractiveness. H nee the manager at once brought forth " tlu Americ.in Cyclists' Union " as a device for getting around the dilTiculty,— 18 other League men (from the Springfield, Lynn aiul Newton clubs) convening with him in a parlor of the Hotel Vendome to give it recognition a ,i appoint th> fol- lowing officers : Pres., H. E. Pucker, Springfield; V.-I'res., J. H. Lewis, Boston; Sec, A. O. McGarrett, Springfield; Trem., G. F. I3arnard, Lynn; Iix. Com. (in addition to the three first-named), T. A. Car'oll, Lynn ; W. E. Wentworth, Newtonville. These officers were confirmed for an annual term by a later and more formal vote, and the constitution and by-laws which they prepared were printed as a supplement to the Guelmen's Gtzette for June, together with a set of racing rules which were identical in most respects with those of the League. " This association shall consist of bicycle and tricycle clubs ($10), unattached amateur riders (50 c.), and cycling track associations ($20). " Their respective annual fees are the sums named, which are payable on Jan. i to the Secretary, and he on th.it day must mail a voting- blank to the two representatives whom each club or association has elected to the governing board (provided all their dues and fines have bee.i paid) ■ whicli representatives shall remail to him by Feb. i signed ballots showing their choice for the next year's officers, a,,d the result shall be announced by the President between Feb. 15 and Mar. i. The annual meeting shall beheld in March ; special meetings on written application of 8 representatives; and 10 repr»senl..,ives person-illy present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum, and have power to adopt such rules as they please for the guidance of racing. So long as they refrair fr-- asserting this power, however, all such rules shall be at the discretion of the Racing Board,— consisting of the Sec- retary, ex officio, and four others, appointed by the President. He shall also appoint a mem- bership committee of three, who shall count and certify to him the .>; on Feb. 15; but they shall " leave to the dccisioi. of the Racing Board any quesiionof si;sper«ion or expulsion which is due to the non-amateur Ei.>Mding of a member." The Pres. pnd Sc may at any time take a mail-vote of the governing board upon any business mat'er , 1; to rest with a majority of all the representatives); and constitutional changes may 1, ..^^ at the annual meeting, and changes in by-laws at any meeting, by a J vote,— ./rovided -. weeks' notice o' every change has been sent to each member of the poi'Tiiing board. The continent is apportioned into racing districts as follows : (i, " Eastern") New England and Canad ,. " Atlantic ") N. Y., N. J., Pa , Del., Md., D. C, W. Va., Va., .'■ C, S. ( , Ga. a: Ila. ; (3, " Central ") O., Mich., Ind., lil., la.. Wis., Minn., Dak., Neb., Kar , N. Mex.. Col., Wy. ; (4, " Southern ") Ala., Miss. , La,, Tex. , Ark. , Tenn. , Mo. atul Indian f er.; (5, " Pacific ") Mon., Id. , Wash, , Or,, Utah, Nev , Ariz., Cal. The "chairmen of district boards.'' to whom application should be made by promoters of " race meetings under A. C. U. ru! .;.-,* in those respective districts, are as 632 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. follow* : (i) C. H. Burt, Hartford, ft. ; (s) W. F. Coddington, Newark, N. J. ; (3) j 3 Rogers, St. Louis, Mo. ; (4) W. L. Surprise, Memphis, T.-nn. ; (5) S. F. Booth, jr.* Sau Frani Cisco, Cal. These names arc derived from a vest-pocket pamphlet, printed by the Sprinafield" Printing Co. (Aug., '86; pp. 20; mailed free on application to the Sec. of A. C. U ; givin constitution and rules but no other information and no statistics of membership. My 'requ'e« that the President supply mj with the latter, brought the following response (Nov. 4) ; " | pose that if you count individuals as members, we have nearly 1000 ; if clubs, about 1 1." The A. C. U.'s earliest definition of "amateur " was designed to let the " makers' hired men "compete under that guise, in spite of the League's having branded them as " profss- sionals"; but the hopelessness of persuading any of the English makers to defy the League by sending their men across to race against the branded ones at Springfield, became almost immediately evident. However great their contempt for the N. C. U.'s ability to suppress evasions of its own rules, the Knglish makers knew it would never tolerate the open violation thereof implied by having its " amateurs" compete with men whom the ruling government in a foreign country had declared" professionals." The A. C. U., therefore, submitting to the inevitable, changed its animus towards the League from hostility to friendliness, and early in July, adopted a " strict amateur rule," in harmony with the League's, thus (the signifidnt addi tions being italicized) : " The standard of A. C. U. membership shall be determined by these rules : (A) An am.iteur is any person who has never engaged in, nor ass^ted in, nor laugki any recognized athletic exercise for mi>,iey, or who ,'*.« never, either m public or in private raced or exhibited his skill for a public or for a private ^X3.Vb.n, or road-racing spoils ,„::;uti of a7' a™ .? ^ rer/hr "' """'""''"« ^' •""- The autumn r.port of League's Racing Board 2^1"!;,/-^ " °" ? ""■'"''> believe there is room for the A C U I. will h. ^ „ '"'. ''7" '7- 86, p. 299) „id ; ■■ w, racing and road-racing are rfguUted • and s we ca" f 'V" °"' 'P'^" '*''" P-'"*'-*' operation of an, hod^hich ^.iU^e'it^rn 'h^d^' ' • wtst'esTt:'""", ^'T ' '"' ^- .^.nseso, .„,, -er':Sa:rni:Tir/argrrd'° t:.t^^ .Ins, without such sanction, and also forbids the acceptance of ex^nses iro™ , ' and the ma.l-vote, just taken, decides that the rule shall Itand ^Ih! f """■ ' occasion to expel a man for receiving expenses from his club bm in^h Ah "'"I '" ''" '=''• manufacturer might easily ' get up a itttle club to pav a lo, of ex'pe^L " Th"": "^ "''' ' " Kule H •' was made by the organizers of the I r V "f^"""', , ^^'^ """^"^P' "> rt^^^d n^eetingof May ,, .0 th^e sobe?s:rori;s"oiceV. :nd^i::aTy"ir.:e'';:.e:rSl^^^^^^^ of the League's President n, deposing^he A Tu .; p7es 1 ' /r^^^ '?. ?^"" ""= '« the Massachusetts Division (87 to 9). ''•''• ^ ' " ^'■"'dent from the chief consulship of The correspondence between the latter and the Secretary of the N C ir ,.1„- formation of '■ an International Alliance ,0 co.urol racing " wTs printed^n LV.' . " '^" 209), together with letter from the Leag-e's Kacn^ Boafd *^! P""'"* '" ^"^^""' (•'^•'g- ='7, p. i..g" amateurs" .ha- -He I,eague ■' woLd L'^^^es. :« n« thrN"cT':i''^ ^"t'' "^- be allowed to compete." The actual " proma,e„r races "of W S , het "° " » ™p,H,i»„.„,,,„.„a„|,;MhopirL„Zf i, J '^ .7 " T ""'' ™''""' or ... „.,„p.,„i„ .,*,„„..■„„„ i^,! , ; " i" vl, " J7"'°;v:T* '"",""?"" -x! 634 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. ciation" : H. S. Tibbs, Montreal; R. H. McBride, Toronto; J. S. Brierley, St. Thomas; P Doolittle, Aylmer ; F. Weslbrook, Brantford ; J. H. Eager, Hamilton; W. Payne, London- and J. K.. Johnston, St. Catherines. All except the first-named were residents of Ontario and that province supplies ( of the present membership. Arguments were offered in favor of organ- izing as an Ontario Association, and as a Canadian Division of the L. A. W. (not of the Englisli C. T. C, as might have seemed probable), but the plan of an independent national body, to represent the entire Dominion, finally prevailed ; and a committee of 4 were appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, and submit the same to the ratification of the clubs. About a dozen dt thesa were represented in a meeting of some 50 wheelmen, at St. Thomas, Sept. 11, when the committee's work waf -dopted and a provisional government was formed to serve uniil the first regular annual meet and election, at London, July 2, '83. The parade, then, attracted 250 riders ; a year later, at Toronto, there were 350; the third meet, in '85, at Woodatwk, had nearly HOC, — " thi most representative gathering of cyclers and the largest crowd of spectators ever seen at a wheeling event in Canada " ; and the fourth, in '86, at Montreal, was the greatest social suc- cess of the series, — thoa:;h there were only 165 parader? , of whom the local club supplied 53, be- cause the mjeting-pl.\ce was more distant from most members' homes than had been the ca.se in previous years. The provisional president of the C. W. A. was J. B. Boustead, Pres. of Toronto B. C, and the Secretary-Treasurer was J. S. Brierley. As he declined to serve longer, the first regular election made by the directors conferred the office upon H. li. Donly (b. Jan. 4, '61), of Simcoe, editor and proprietor of the weekly Norfolk Reformer, and the subsequent boards have unanimously re-elected him each year. In '36, an annual salary of ^200, payable monthly, was attached to the office, and an allowance of J150 for the past year's service", was also granted. The President and Vice-President are chosen at and by the annual meetings (f July I (DoiT.inion D.iy), and are ineligible for second terms. The four elections have resulted as follows : '83— R. H. .McBride, of Toronto, and P. Doolittle (b. Mar. 22, '61), of Aylmer; '84— H. S. Tibbs, of Montreal, and J. S. Brierley (b. Mar. 4, '5S), of St. Thomas; '85— J. S. Brierley, of St. Thomas, and W. G. Eakins, of Toronto; '86— W. A. Karn (b. June 27, '57), of Woodstock, and J. D. Miller, of Montreal. Of the 8 districts into which Cai.ada is divided for the government of membership, 5 belong to Ontario. Each if i-ntitled to elect a Chief Consul and a Representative (also one additional Rep. for each 50 members beyond the first 50), on ballots which must be sent out by the Sec- Treas. before April 10, be returned to him before May 10, and be counted and reported to the President (by 3 scrutineers whom he appoints) before May 20. He declares the result as soon as practicable ; and the new officers organize on July i, immediately after the annual meeting, and elect the Sec.-Treas., who becomes, ex officio, a member of their board and of every stand- ing committee. The officers must meet at least once a year, not less than two months before the annual meeting ; and they may be ordered to meet at any time by the President, or by 5 mem- bers of the board ; and a quorum of the board shall be constituted by 5. Each Chief Consul shall appoint a consul for every town or village, and their terms shall expire Dec. 31, but they may be removed for cause by the President. He may also remove any officer of the board f(ir misconduct, and he shall remove any officer at the written request of 15 members of his district who charge misconduct against him. Such act of the President may be revoked by an appeal to the board, if a J vote can be gained at one of their meetings, or if a majority of a mail-vote can be gained. The Pres. and Sec. may order a mail-vote at any time, and so may a minority greater than two, at any board meeting, when they wish to give any defeated motion a second trial. The board of officers also may order a mail-vote of the members in general ; and, in case of a proposed change in constitution, a majority of votes thus cast shall decide. Otherwise, such changes must be made by § vote, at the annual meeting ; and, in ?ither case, a fortiiiiiht's notice must be given. The Racing Board shall be formed of the Chief Consuls, each hnvinj chart-e of his own district (its chairman is now F. J. Gnsdinger, of Montreal); the Membership Committee shall consist of the Sec.-Treas. and two other members of the board who live most convenient to him ; the Committee on Rules and Regulations shall consist of 3 members of the board ; but »lte Transiwrtation Committee may be appointed from the general membership. MINOR CYCLING INSTITUTIONS. 635 Any amateur wheelman in good .tanding may become a member of the C. W A " by procurmg from the SecrcUry an appiication-blank. and returning it. .igned. with >. endo^d together w,th the mtroductory signatures of , member,, or of 3 reputable citizen, of ,h. place b wh,ch he hves. A prov.s^onal certificate U at once «:nt to him. and if no prote« i. raised within afortn,gh.a£terh.s name appears in the monthly " official organ," a full-membership card is 5ent. cov.r.ng the penod until July . foUowing.-except that the tickets of those who join after Apr. .extend to July . of the next year. Clubs of 5 or more whose rules require every clut n^ember to ,on, the C. W. A. may be admitted at 50 c. per member ; and their renewal ee. shall also be at the same rate, though others' renewals cost $,. Renewal fees are payable ayearn, advance, on July ..and membership ceases in the case of those uhose fees are not pa,d by Sep,. . The parade at each annual meet shall be arranged and commanded by the apuu> of the oldest local club ; and clubs shall have precedence in the order of their joining the ,h r ■ w A \ """' ""* ''''" ''''"' ^ '"=''' ^ ^^'^ ■""''"8- f"' championship prizes of he C. W. A. Its motto .. - A pas He Cant," and its badge is a wheel, .he same Le as .he League s. wuh the three uuuals in relief, but >. has a maple-leaf in the center, ard above this a beaver, fepecmens n, gold (#3.50) and silver (#,.50) may be had of .he Sec -Treas..-wl,„ de- .Mgned the badge .n D.c, '83. and has sold mo in all. He also supplies, a. 40 c. ^er yd the .vpeoal make of dark gray Hal.fax .weed which was adopted for a uniform in '85, and which is sa,d to have given grea. satisfaction for its wearing qualities on the road. My next chapter ,p 669) explains how the Cuui.an IV/ueinu^n, which began in Sept., '83. has been mailed each month smce Nov.. '85, .0 every member of the C. VV. A., -.he net cost for .he first year being es.una.ed a, J.ao. Ihe account.s of the .Sec.-Treas., July ., '86, as published by .he two audi- tors whom the President must annually appoint ,0 examine the same, show I33, received for membership fees. Uok for profit on the races of the annual meet, and a balance on hand of |3,„ or $48 more than on July .. '85. The year's expendi.i.r., were #500, whereof .he largest si. g^^ sum wem to the ^^^ heel,nan. That paper of Feb., '.. . .e a .able of membership, showing 66z Sept.. 86. .he Sec.-Treas. prmted a statement showin ; 2; unat.. I,ed members in a total of 566 assigned .0 the several districts. The numbers, name., limits, me nbersh.p. a.d officers of these stand as follows,-the Chief Consul being memioned first in each case : .st, "Huron" the counties of Elgin. Middlesex, Perth and Bruce and the others west .0 .he lake; ..3; W M IW of London j J S. Brieriey, of St. Thomas; R. M. Ballantyne, of Stratford, zd. " Niarara " ' the counties of Norfolk, Haldimand. Welland, Lincoln, Wen.wor.h, Waterloo, Oxford and Brant; .38; W. E. Tisdale, of Simcoe ; S. Woodroofe, of Woods.ock ; H C Goodman of St. Catherines. 3rd. " Toronto " ; the counties of Halton. Peel, Wellnig.on, Dufferin Grey' ^.mcoe, York and Ontario; 92; C. Langley (b. May 3., '56). G. H. Orr, H. Ryrie ' all of Toronto. 4th, " Midland," the 8 counties of Durham and Victoria u i ron.enac, inclusive- 84 ; VV. P. Way, R. H. Fenwick. W. E. Tester, all of Belleville, jih, ' , )t.a«a " ; the remain^ .nRC8unt.es of Ontario; 27; F. M. S. Jenkins, W. C. Bly.he, both of Ottawa. 6ih, "Quebec" .he en.ire province ; 97 ; F. J. Gnidinger, W. G. Rxiss, both of Mon.real. y.h, " Winnipeg '' • Mani.oba, the North West territories and British Columbia; .0; S. B. Bla ; hall J S* Housser, botn of Winnipeg. 8th, " Maritime " ; the provinces of N. B., N s ., d p.' E I • 5 ; C. Coster, J. M. Barnes, both of St. John. In a letter .0 me of Oct. .-( , ih,- Sec.-Trcas' s.-.:,s the membership has almost reached 700 again, and will increase to .000 1.1 ,!„■ spring and take another sudden drop in Sep.,, '87, because of failures .0 renew. Hardiy rmre than 20 fees of $1 come to him in a vear, for the cliib men pav only the 50 c. rate. Even tliis sum will ensure ,7 months' membership, if a man joins on March 31 and declines to pay a renewal fee. The C, VV. A. defines an amateur as "a person who nev»r competed (a) in an o|ien com- petition, (6) or for a stake, (c) or for public money, (rf) or for gate money, (e) or under a fal.e r.ame,(/)orw..h a professional for a prize, f^-) or wiih a professional when ga.e money is charged; ' and its " explanation of the definition" is verbally identical with .he one printed each week m the [,ea,.:ne's Buf/eiin. " Rule D " of its Racing Board says : " No competitor in amateur events shall accept from hi. own dub, or from a club or any person promotine sportaat 636 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. which he competes, or from any cycle manufacturer or from any such source, any payment for his expenses." The complete racing rules occupy 11 pp. in the new " C. W A (iuid- " 1 are generally similar to those of the L. A. W. and A. C. U. The constitution and'by-',iws"as amended at ih.- offiirors' meeting of Feb. ig, '86, and adopted by mail-vote in May occiw' ,, pp. in the sam;; b; Fr.-.nce, 60; Canada, 56; Denmark, 23 ; Belgium, 2.. The government of the club is vested m a Council ot abort 12; men, known as Representative Councilors and Chief Consuls,- the latu-r beinp appointed by the former, who are elected by the 37 Divisions. A Division which has less than 200 m^-mbers ca- elect r R. C. ; 200 to 399 members, 2 R. C.'s ; 400 to 799 mem- bers, 3 V. C.'s; 800 to 1499 members, 4 R. C.'s; 1500 to 2499 members, 5 R. C.'s; 2500 to 3499 memb:;rs 6 V C.'s : 3500 to 4499, 7 R. C.'s, and so on. At the end of '85, the largest Divisions were the ..th (Middlesex, Es-.ex and Suffolk, 3687) and 12th (Kent, Surrey 'nnd Sussex, 3275), which divide the city of London between them and include the s. e. cornp. t Englani, from Yarmouth, its easternmost town, to Port.-imou;h, on the s. coast. The combined membership of the two (6962) comprised much more than J that of the entire C. T. C, which was reported as .9,05^ at the anr al meeting o' May 8. '86, when the Secrctai-y said he " expected It would regain the 20,000 by ,Miie. nid hoped it might reach 25,000 by Dec." The Nov. Ga- =^//* gr,ve th-. .accessioi: f '86 thus : Jan.jjj; Feb., 688; Mar., 972; Apr., 970; May, qvs ; June, iom; July. 027; Aug.esi; .Sept., 347; Oct., 19- Nov., 64,-a total of 7190 new mem- bers in ■.' e II m.nths; and, as there were 15,095 renewals from ',S5, an entire niemlx-r^^hlp of 22,2'5. The Divisio 15 rankiuLr next in size to the two which surround London, are ihe 4th (L;.ncashiro, 1510I anr" 3d (Yorkshire, 1383), which lie well to the n.,and contain Liverpool and Leeds. The 14th Div. includes the s. w. corner of England ; the 15th and i5th. Wales; the «7th to 2olh, Ireland; the 21st to 27th, Scotland ; the 2Sth, the U.S.; the 29th, all the rest of the world c .oept th.- 7 countries which comprise the other foreign Divisions : 30th, France; MINOR Cy CLING INSTITUTIONS. 637 ,.M, Germany; jjd, IJelgium; 33d. Holland; J4th. Auitria-Hungary ; jsih. Canada; i6ih t ..nmark ; 37th. Switicriand. '• It is desirable Hut K. C.-» .hail reside wuh... the l.m.u of the' Divisions ihey represent; and that their residences shall be widely «;parated. in the case oi li.visions having more than one R. C; but non-residence in a particular district shall not dis- qualify a candidate for election there, nor for service as its k. C." The hand-book of Apr •X6, showed that, in fact, resident, ot Great Britain serve as R. C.'s for 5 of the foreign t)iv» ' and that for the other 5 (including U. S. and Canada) none had then been elected or appointed! " 1 he number of R. C.'s to which the several Divisions are entitled shall be set out in each Jan. Gaultf ; and any member may be proposed and seconded for R. C, by two members of any D.vu^.on. who shall file with the Secretary (before Feb. 7. on a blank obtained from him) the name, address and description of such member, with his written statement that he is prepared u, undertake the duties of R. C. \i elected. The March Gazette shall contain a separate vot- iHR-paper for each Division, naming the candidates who seek its suffrages. Each member may rote for as many R. C.'s as the voting-pjper shows his Division is entitled to ; but the vote shall be invalid unles. the Secretary .ecei-es the paper within 8 days after its original despatch by hnn. The votes sha-1 be counted by 5 scrutineer,, appointed by the Council, to whom they shall report the result^ The R. C.'s thus chosen shall come into office Apr. . and form a p!ovisioni Council whose first meeting shall, if possible, appoint a Chi.f Consul for each Division, ft is ist.nctly provided th.nt they shall be at liberty not to re-appoint any C. C. who may previously have held office; but any C. C. so superseded shall have power to appeal to the next generJ to the posts of President and Vice-President of the C. T. C, for an annual term ; and shall then elea from their own number a Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council, and also (from their own number or from the members at large) an Honorary Trea.surer of the C. T. C, ..s follows • Cand,da,es for either post may be nominated by two members of the Council (on forms ,0 be had le," TuT'' '° '«=/^'""-'l '° him by May ,) ; and a voting-paper. naming all such candi- dates, *hall be sent to e.-tch of the C ouncil by May 7, and be returned by May ,4 to the Secre- tary, who shal keep such papers sealed until the Council-meeting immediately preceding the »nnua general meeting He shall then hand them to the Chairman of the Council, who shall cause them to be counted and the result forthwi-.h to be ueclared to the meeting. The three officers so chosen shall serve from the end of the annual general meeting ,0 the end of the an- nual general meeting next ensuing. This shall be held each May. a. a place and date fixed by , ",','■ f '^ * *". ^^ ' •'■'" """^ '^'' *°' " h^li-y^^^r^y general meeting, and maj call an additional one at any time. On requisition of aoo members, the Secretary shall call a special general meeting, at place and time requested, provided this be not less than ,0 days after usual date of issue of Ah„,A/j, Gazette, in which particulars of the meeting and names of the conveners shall be announced ; and the Secretary may call a meeting of the Council at any time on .4 days notice. Regular meetings thereof shall be held on the second Saturday of each month. The quorum at Council-meetings shall be 5, and at general meetings it shall l,e 50- and precedence in taking the chair shall be in this order : President, Vice-President, Chairman Vice-Cha.rman, according as those officers are in attendance. In case one of them dies „r re- signs, the Council may either order a new election or appoint a /r<, t.m. deputy. If a Division fails to elect a R. C. to whom it is entitled, or if it, growth entitles it to an additional R C after the election, the Council may fill the v.tcancy by appointment. They shall have power to remove any officer by a § vote of those present at any Council meeting, provided the Secretary has given 7 days written notice of their intended action to the officer concerned; but he mar appeal to the next general meeting. They shall appoint the Secretary at such salary and upon such terms and conditions as they may think proper [the present salary is I.500J ; and they may a.so appoint an Honorary Secretary for the conducting of any special business. They may expel a member who ceases to be an amateur, and they shall expel any member who fails to resign after being so requested, when such request is based upon the examination of charges which hare been brought against h.m in writing, by any two Councilors or any other ten members. The lend- ing of membership ticket shall be sufficient cause for expulsion ; and the Council are aUo bound 638 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. lo inveitigate the case ol iny member who is expelled from a cycling or athletic club l-.xiiellH men may appeal to the general meeting. Members' annual tines (6a c ) are payable ni advan Jan. I ; and the (act of non payment by t eb. i puts an end to membersliip. i |,e Setreta ' mint then forward to the C C. of each Division a list of the names and addresses of all reside ^ in thai Division whose meinbeiship his thus lapsed ; ana he must also cause to be prmicd book form, Division lists of the entire renewed membershi|> of the club. [The '85 book h. H pp. and about 14,000 names, whereof the U. -S. supplied nearly 400.J He must admit immji- •tely to the Gaulle any document about club business which is signed by 50 members Us must receive ail moneys and dei)Osit the same with the club bankers; must attend all meeiincs of the Council, and conduct all club business under their direction ; and, in case <,f temporary inability to act, may appoint a member as deputy, subject to their a proval. The Hon-IVcav iirer fhall make all payments, under direc:ion of the Council's Finance CommiUce ; and hii accounts and those of the Secretary shall be audited at least once a year, by a professional accountant engaged by the Council ; and, after confirmation by ihem, sh.ill be printed in the CaMttle, prior to the annual meeting. Chief Consuls shall have power to appoint in their respeciive Divisions, Consuls, /ro tern. Consuls, and C. T. C. hotels, and to revoke such aiipi)intm-nts; but any one who feels aggrieved by such action may appeal to the I'mincil through the Secretary ; and no ^o Urn. Consul shall receive a full appointment until he h.isbeen teen and approved of by a member of the Council or by the Secretary. No alteration can be made in the club rules, except at a general meeting, after notice of such alteration has been given in the Gazette." This final rule (the 70th) declares also that the club's regulations, "shall, as far as possible, be held to apply to lady members," of whom there are " many hii;idredb." Foreign cytlurs are by the C. T. C. " accepted as amateurs according to the rules in force in their own country, [ lovided they have not at any lime been guilty of brenches of the amateur laws of any country when riding in such country " ; but " the definition applicable to natives of, or residents in, the United Kingdom, shall be that of the N. C. U., and a copy thereof shall be printed upon the back of each form of application for membership," This definition is as fol- lows : " An amateur is one who has never engaged in, nor assisted in, nor taught any athletic exercise for money, or other remuneration ; nor knowingly competed with or against a profes- sional for a prize of any description, or in public fexcept at a meeting specially sanctioned by the Union). To prevent misunderstanding in interpreting the above, the Union draws atten;ion to the following explanation : A cyclist ceases to be an amateur, and thereby becomes a profes- sional by— (fj) Engaging in cycling, or any other athletic exercise, or personally teaching, train- ing, or coaching any other person therein, either as a means of obtaining a livelihood, or for a staked bet, a money prize, or gate-money ; (b) Competing with, or pace-making for, or having the pace made by a professional, or person under sentence of suspension, in public, or for a prize; (c) Selling, realizing upon, or otherwise turning into cash, any prize won by him; { simple sh.dd of silver or silver-plate, with the club's name s|*lled upon it in «,uare. raised let- leis. Copies in gold were also made, for use on the scarf or watch-chain. Hadges for Consult hid red enamel ; those for the Council had blue enamel, with " k. C." or " C. C." added ia K.li : and that for the Secretary had green enamel and gilt. " The Octopus " thus annouii. -d .. clLvige (HlueUng, Sept. .\ '86) : " The C. T. C. mountain has been in lal-or. and has pro. on. the remedy lies in the adoption of a second Tariff .nr r /^ u' ^ """""''^ on the rocommended hst." Tl i, shcvs that ,he 1 ' "Pf'''^^'''' '° '^e houses now sisted -n, after the fatui.v of it h s J^^J e pol d ^^o J'/t """"t"'^^^^ """^^ '^ '° ''•= P"^' .oprevent the meanest inns of En^ran" rn^hlt in"' th' ^.r^^^^Mi^t^r '"'^'^rr charpmgthe " ful tariif" which ha- been l.K^,i i , '^''" ^^gga" " by a trifle less " cheap and nasty '" Tl e execu.^! b ' '""f ' ""' """ "'"^^ '""» "-- -' alon, in a rut.-from lack of leader i:.e el „v cm "^ t ' '"'""""'' *'''^'' ""'^ >-"- ment to touring wheelmen, without regard to 'rites '' Th. /. .' ^""^ •*'"'' ''"' '^"•- wi.hthis final bit of testimony (Sep, 6 '86) "'r,eco..^, T °1 '"^"^'"'"^ ^""P'^ "" -y upon the tariff question, J„, how long ley hav suZ d " "[' °' '''/"-«' "«= '" f"" ..i. which they are now raising. Our oL priL^lt coITc ^w^'h C ;"ct'^'' '"" l.as been always, ' Avoid them ! ' Last year we went to the C T P i, ^J'^'^''"''"'" upon mentioning the club's name were conducted to "he rcll L T f- "''""^' '""^ still the roof-though th. house was half emnVv XK 7 '""" '"'= °^ " """'""x. but houses as a dangerous speculat n He LyTre'ak L .h7h" " T''1 "' ""^"^ "' '»>'- silent watches of the night, or he mar,!ot AnH ' - "' ^ ^^ '"^"^"«'" '" '^' ■n.e generic title ' cyc.fst '' cove:s 'Ar^rrand IrgerZ'"""''''"''" '^ "° '"P^"" °^ P-^^-- oil's annual report in the GaL,l " as comnln/ f' ^,'^"=^""^ ^°^ ^S, from the Coun- "f figures is a delightful rcc'aL " WiZ Vk', f ""^ '° "''°'" '»"= '"-"ip-'ation n.ass of o«cial figuL wo^rrpatie:': t^tu^^ ou t rmlte'teTol," "' ""%"'^'* summaries : C. T. C. gross profit on trading accounts S66, T * "'"^ 3>gn>fican, f..S3 on badges, I39, on handbooks ^^/"°""''' *,'^^'3'-""'P"«"'g «46o9 on uniforms. absorbed by the net cost of Ga^^^^L, . ' "" f """"• "^"'^ P^""' ^^' ""^'V «" printing, ji. for postal andT^f!, ''''°^^ '°'^' '-' «".3.7) consisted of I6804 for Dec. 30 b^in. $4870 The "tene^j" ''" -™™-°-.-'be adv. receipts (besides ,680 due excluding theL*:. cL. jus na^d 1::^,': o'"h H '"' ''t ''"'"''''' ''^'^^ °' *'^°°- ^- ery, and *,64o for pn^taje -a tmal ol/,, .^ , """' ^" '"^^"^ '^"^ '°^ "'«" ^•="i°"- shipKiues, J.U.o The s^moftL "' °' °'' '' '""''' " ">' ^'=^^"« f^""" '"-'"ber was spen for danger Zds ^' ZT '^^''T""'^ '" "' " ''• ^^ "• ^^^"^ f""'''" -^ «55 ^,,.,;. Its revenue exctd'd'th;::;';:; ::t:i:h t.h' '''"""• "^ ^'-"'^ '°'^' -p-- - deposits, J,38, which sum added toth.nir.l] " "'"* ^""^ '^"'^'^ ^^^ '"'""t raised the total to $,,,,,T\n,^^Z^^^^^ all, by rule, appro r^d to e^'^serve unV'''^ xf ^ """"""''' '" ''-''' ^"' ^"^ .ions, which yielded a profit A |66 3 were ,^8 .,. and"" """'' °" "= '"''"^ •""^^^■ -ere ,..,3,7, the whole amount^C T C cash h Ic^L"'. -"'T"'' °" """^"''^ ^"''""' excess of Jso.ooo " Those who r.n./ ' .7 T , """"^ ""^ ^^^ '^^ considerably in P ». .„..„, b, P."hr:;z: *; ; ; ;;^,^rJ:;L;5;;^?' "^^^ r" - has no vital spark. Without th^ 1:.™. „ (., ^marks M^/uel,ng, since but for th s it ".e ground..." At the ainuai ^.^^ru^^ZZZ '"''"f J' '^°"" "'^^"""^ '^" '" ^j "ng 01 May 8, 86, the Treasurer hkewwe said that each mem- 642 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. m ', ber ai.nually cost the club S7 c, or 25 c. more than his annual dues. He repnried ihnt tlio monthly amount of checks drawn by him on the C. T. C. bankers f fien reached #7500. Hie Secretary reported that the club had been represented at England's first road conference ; had distributed some 2oo,o>jo pamphlets on reform in road-repairs, and had arranged with the N c U. to lay a specimen road in Birmingham. The Coi.ncil voted to establish life menibersMps at %%b ; and one of their 7 rules about the same provides that all reci;ipts therefrom shnil be in- vested as a special fund under 4 trustees. The scheme appeals to stntiment rathtr than econ- omy, however, as shown by the fact that a man wlio should put #25 in the P. O. .Savinps llank would receive 62 c. a year, by which he might pay his annual C. T. C. dues and siill retain owner- ship in the tit,. Me' ion was made at the same meeting that " the club's attemi t to get incor- porated without the »..rd ' limited,' had not been successful before the Board of Trade " ; that the ..ub's long-delayed road-book of Great Britain would be issued in the spring of '87 ; and il.n the club was also engaged upon i road-book of the Continent. " which would be incomparal/v in advance of anything hitherto attempted in that line,— its indefatigable compiler, .S. A. Si ad, C. C. of the General Foreign Division, having been complimented on his work by forei^;n num- bers, as knowing more about their own count ies than they did themselves." The SecKtarv alsc reported that Council meeting-; had been field at Manchester, Edinbur'^h, Carlisle, lli:ni- gnte, Dublin, Shrewsbury, London, Newcastle, l^icesler, Bristol, and Liverpool, res|)eciivtl\, with an average attendance of i4§ per meeting; and that this peranibulatory plan would be inr- «isted in. The weakness of it was pointed out long ago (in Dec, '84, 1 think) by l.ai.d and Water, which said that, as regarded the last 12 meetings, 22 of about 75 Councilors had alter. dcd only once. 23 twice and 15 thrice,— so that only about a dozen had attended a third or nmre if the year's meetings : " Yet each Council-meeting is supposed to be supreme • and one pn at fault is that each, instead of keeping itself to the business arising in its own disliici, passes n-o- lutions affecting the most remote districts. The consequence is that sometimes a rcsointion passed at one Council is disowned at the next. There is '■- iwer of appeal, except under very special circumstances, to a general meeting. The confusioi. rfhich has thus arisen is very extraor- dinary. Councilors, not being watched by any executive, do acts to which there is grave objection. E.g., at one Council-meeting it was resolved that no Councilor should participate directly or in- directly in any contract which the Council issued, yet within a few weeks another Comcil gave a contract vvorth neariy ^2500 a year to the partner of one of their body wlm was pnsei.t at the time. Evidently, the leading members of the club have not been able to frame a '^liftl- rienily elastic constitution to meet its present growth." At present these evils are intensified, for there are 21,000 members, nominally governed by 125 Councilor ; ; yet any three of the latter wh may happen to form a majority in a quorum of five, can commit the entire C. T C. on any ques- tion or policy not expressly forbidden by its 70 rules. Of course, under such an irresponsible system, the Secretary must needs be the real executive chief. The influence of the C. T. C. upon American wheeling is, of course, a purely social and sentimental influence,— since the League controls all pr-cticable arrangements that can be effi- ciently worked for the encouragement of bicycle tour.ig in this country. I recommend every League member who wishes to get a journal which can tell him most about foreign tours and tourists, at least expense, to join the C. T. C. simp'y for the sake of its Gazeti \ 1 call this an interesting and valuable paper, in spite of all the fun poked at it by the rival trade-circulars which chiefly cater to the racing men, and in spite of all the drivel and commonplace which it prints for " filling." Every American who plans to do any riding abroad should likewise join the club for the sake of the introduction which its ticket will give him to the vtibal civilities of the consuls who may be found in ne?rly every large town. Besides these two reasons, member- ship in the American Division offers the social reward implied in attending its annual conven- tion and parade, and there forming the acquaintance of a somewhat select body of cyclers,— " seleitt " !n the sense that most of them are enthusiasts enough to pay an annual tax in supnort of the iT.ere sentiment of " int»mational good-fellowship," in addition to paying loyal tribute in support of the League at home, f assume that most of them are League men, thrjgh I do not know the exact proportion, — my assumption beiug partly based upon the League membership MINOR CYCLING INSTITUTIONS. 643 of their 15 State Consuls, whos; geographical distribution is as follows : A'. //.—'W. V. Cil- rnan, Nashua. Af,i.xs.—f. A. Pratt, 3 .Somerset St., Boston. X. /.-A. G. Carpenter * Westminster st., Providence. C/.-F. A. Jackson, 608 Chapel St., New Haven A' >--F J. Pool, 3 Broad St., N. Y. N. J.-h. H. Jolinson, East Orange. ra.-V. S. Harris 718 Arch St.. Ph^ladelphi?. Md.-?>. T. Clark, 2 Hanover St., Bahi.-nore f.-Alfred Kly ' 873 ■'rospeci St., Cbveland. ///.-L. W. Conkling, 108 Madison St., Chicago. Mo.—\/ M IJrewstor, 309 Olive St., St. Louis. la.— '6. B. Wright, Oskaloosa. Wis.-^i. K. Miller 103 Wisconsin St., Milwaukee. Col-G<^o. E. Bittingcr, 6o3 Harrison av., Leadville. Ityo'-C. P. Wassung, Rock Springs. These .State Consuls nominate local consuls and they also supply application-blanks to those who send stamped and addressed envelopes. Each candidate who si-ns such a blank sends it with $t to the Acting Chief Consul (C. H. Potter, 99 Suj.erior St., Cleveland, O.), who transmits the same to the Secretary in England ; and the renewal-fee of later years, if sent in the same way, is 75 c, instead of 62 c. These facti are announced in each w.;ek's S/. ircrM, together with the names .ind addre&.ses of otficers just given ; and the canUi- d.ites for .ii^mbership are similarly mentioned there, before being advertised in the Ca;r«*. This plan has prevailed for more than two years, and a very few additions have been made to th. list of State Co.isuk .luring ihat period. Previously, the irAeei called itself the club's " official org^n in America" (June 6, '82, to Feb. 29, '84), but did not regularly print names; and the Canadian Wlieelman has inserted a similar "honorary adv." of itself, as "official organ of the C. T. C. in Canada," ever since Oct., '8... The slight hold which the club has gained upon that country is chiefly due to the absence of any such enthusiast as the one who pushed It into recognition in the United States : namely, F. W. Weston (b. July 14, '43), an Knglishman long resident in Boston, an architect by training, and originator of Kh^Am'.Bi. Jourmil, in '77, as detailed in the next chapter (see pp. 655, 676). He was tht eariiest Chief Consul on this side the ocean, and still nominally retains the position, though a serious illness in the summer of '85 caused a transfer of its d, ies to C. H. Potter (b. May 20, '55), Capt of the Cleveland T. C. and Sec. of the Cleveland W. C, who has since acted in his stead. I believe Mr. P. was the eariiest American R. C. of the Division,-his predecessor having been Lacy Hilher, of London, while E. R. Shipton and H. Sturmey served in previous years. The two just named " conjointly devised a reciprocal scheme whereby membership in the L. A. W. should entitle the holder ipso facto to th.- benefits and privileges of the C. T. C. when on a visit to England, and vice versa. The premanire alteration of the amateur definition in the U S. , however, dealt the project its death blow ('82), and I do not know that at the present time of day I am m favor of recurrii.,; to the principle for which we then contended. Yet I believe that a great future lies before the C. T C, in the U. S., if only an efficient corps of workers can be obtained to define some feasible method adapted to the peculiarities of the country " These words of Mr. S. in the Gazette were reprinted by " Faed," as the text for a long article («/. IVorld, May 15, '85, pp. 33.35), which aimed to show that, "instead of the mere senti- mentahsm which now prompts 500 Americans to pay small annual fees to the C T C " a practical plan might be devised for levying larger amounts, " so that as much as $250 a year might be retained by the Division for the promotion of American touring, without actually being a drain upon the parent body in England." Of the same date (May ,3 '85) was the report of the Division's treasurer, showing that #62.25 had been subscribed by .5 memoers for the erection of " danger-botrds " at all the bad hills of the American continent, a-^d that one such board had in fart been erected, at a cost of $5.27. The comicality of this attempt to "do something ' seems intensified by the fact that the " parent body," with a revenue of more than f 20,000 m 85, ,. propriated an even smaller sum (I55) for ,he erection of " dan-er-boards " in i- ngland. Furthermore, the League has an efficient system of supplying stencils for sip-.-boards and whoever may wish t jend money in that way can spend it most economicallv under League auspices. " But it is a m.stake for the League to pattern afte. the practices of a small countrv like Lngland, where dangerous hills are except.onal,"-just as it is a mistake for the League to'copy he cheap and nasty " hotel-pc.icy of the C. T. C, and thus give vogue to the wrong idea that American tourists are a beggariy lot, who prefer the inferior food and lodgings implied by If ^'"t 644 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. "reduced rates." Tlie compiler of the League's " Penn. Road- Dock " rightly wys "The natural conditions render cycling sign-posting impracticable in this country. A few danrerou., hills on the most traveled suburban roads, and a few forks and turns where habitual mistake are made, may be labeled with advantage ; but, in general, considering the immense area l, 1 covered by a small number of riders and volunteers, the placing of League sign -boards i, | , less desirable than the publication of good road-books.- The same writer also gave vicorou, warning, in the .st ed. of his book, that any endeavor, by the Boston managers of the C T e (o advance it beyond the stage of mere socip.l recognition, and use it as a practical ins.rumeni to U3nrpthe government of touring relations in the U. S.," would be resisted to the uttermost The B,. IVorlU. having called this a " cowardly attack, which must bring upon the author the contempt of every fai.-minded man," becar.se "the country has ample room for two such socie lies, he responded by quoting from itr, columns the " creed " which formed the final paraeranh in the report written by Chief Consul Weston to the annual Division-meeting at ClevHand May i8, '85, thus : " A legislative cycling club should be a national club; but a merely natical o^anization for touring purposes is a waste of power. A touring organization to be thorouehlv efficient must be international. This little world of ours is not large enough for more tlnn one such organization, and th^t organization is and should be, everywhere and always, the C T C " After this elegant extract, l^e f.eague's defender nailed up, as an opposing " creed " the fol lowing neat paraphrase: "A legislative cycling club should be a State club with a na.ional backing. A touring organization to be thoroughly efficient, mus' be a State organization wiih national oversight. This little America of ours is not large enough for more than one organi- Mtion, and that organization is, and shall be, everywhere and always, in its own territory, ,ne L. A. W." These words seem to me to formulate 'he almost universal belief of touring wheel- men in America, arfd I think they put an effectual quietus on the visionary schemes of those who prof.'ssed to believe that no arrangements to help such louring could be " thoroughly effi- cient " unless supervised b- some shadowy authority in London. However hard it may be for an American who has much sense of humor, to accept such professions as seriously intended It IS a matter of record that Mr. Weston devo.ed most of the long report ju3t mentioned to ex! plaining his scheme for a " reformed C. T. C, composed of self-governing Divisions, and really e r.uracing the worid '■ (B. VA, May 29, '85, p. 80). As one of a committee of 5, appointed at a Council-meetin,; at Leeds, in Aug., '83, " to consider such changes in its laws as might en- hance the international features of the club," he said the committee had delayed reporting, to await the action of the American Division, and he urged it to act at once. How the advice was followed is shown by this extra^i from the Bi. U'orlcTs review of the year, Jan. i, '86 : " A committee was appointed in May, to devise a plan for some systematx C. T.C. work in America, but has not yet met. The sign-board fund is now $56.98, the same as then." I do not think the fund will ever grow any larger, or that any further attempt will be made to " develop" the C.T. C. in America, outside the smctly social lines to which the nature of th.-ngs confines its growth. Whoever sincerely wishes to help the cause of touring here can work most effectively through tht League ; and no attempt to supersede this by an inferior foreign machine for going over the same ground and accomplishing the same results, will ever be supported by practical Americans. " The n. T. C. Handbook " of Apr., '82, mentioned S. A. Auty, of Bradford, as Secretary', and I believe his immediate predecessor was W. D. Welford, of Newcastle, but the earliest of all was S. J. A. Cotterell. One of the committee of three who prepared the '82 book was the present Sec, E. R. Shipton, who I think assumed the office in Sept., '82 (seep. 6gi). The present Hon. Treas. is W. B. Gumey, of Bradford, re-elected. The handbook of Apr., '86, catalogued the Council, whose annual term began then, as consisting of 61 Representative Councilors (with none named for 7 Divisions) and 54 Chief Consuls. These officers were arranged in two lists anu iu the order of their Divisions ; but I present them now (except 2 C. C.'s since resigned) in a single alphabetical list, together with 5 additional R.C.'s, and 5 C. C.'s named in the Oct. Gaxtte. The 34th rule, which says the R. C.'s " shall appoint a C. C. for each Division," is modified somewhat by Rule 63, which allows the Council to appoint addi- MINOR CYCLING INSTITUTIONS. 645 list, .he star i. prefixed .„ C C 's -„d .he bn.T,"'. rv '"'"' '"'" " '° "" '" '"' '""--8 Leeds; ..u..n,.c;..^Thi'h^r";:::i;.a"e:T:'Bz:'„^'rr^^ rd., Kensington; •Bhwham C H ,„ <-..h ■ f ,,'"• ^'^ J' "- 2' Holland Villa. s.., Wolverha-nplon .tc:iceV("e'u '.o J'T'l K tr''' ''f "^ *'"''"'=-^' ^ ' ' ^^^ S., 7 VVarrender Park. CVescen'. ir h 5.^ ' M.ti': E ' G "w f ^l' ^J'^^'^"' '^^ Minrn. John. Victoria Park, Forres. Scof ; »H„ w Ken' n' l.T ' '^'"'' ■^""■•■ iV^/. ; Caldcleu.h, C , 3S Silver .. Durham • fl F ,■ , ' "^^ ^""'" *'' Aberdeen, .er; Cook. K^Vhi.e Hon e K /.n chel'sf h'/- ^- ' ^=— '^^^ ^'i' «-bourne,Worce.- v..le. Fores. Hm ; .Coop" (Rev K I Uffi , 7"' ''^ '- '""""'^'' ^odge. Wood- Chapel s... Penzance ; cLrlney G H w' uSf d H ""^■.^"""'"^''' '''''"^''' «' P- " i. J.. Huckhnrs. Hiil. Essex ;'bi,": TviaHj^H ril'Th: T^^^*^' '^ 'r' = ^"°"^"'' i>....n«h Hants; Crawshay. De Ba^i.' KojLds."setnoa; S^' l^^F "m" T™: Cas.le, Oranmore, /r*.; n.viesO r it. v,i »ij 1 ... '-unm, J, h., Mucknish Apr. 5. -5.). .8 Rue ^o^^^^'^li^S:^'^-'''''^;:"' ^ *'"' '^--"■"- A- (b- Hotanique. Brussels, Sel ; .Edwa d A 'w CI K ""/■ ' '' ''""'""'^ '^" J^^"'" ".. 8 Ai.a rd . Sheemeslo'n-Sea; Evani •/ a' LennardV^'V^re s'^'"' ""r '' ^^'"'' ^• 8 Queen's Terrace. Morecambe ; 'FarrinAon Thnf w , T* ""'^ ' farrar. (Dr.) J., K. VV.. Fernlea. Kelvinside. GuJZT IZ' H XZ ' ' ""7^ ""■ '" '^'=""'"''"''' A. E.. Shelbume Villa, Lansdown Bath ^^TH r' !^u^^^^ '''•■ ^'''^°' ' •*"''". sliire; *Gibb F W Drume-.rn T ?• ' ' <-'«"'^«''«'ale. Iron Works, Shrop- en.. Fairfield: wlngfo; sTp HaH^ "f r '': l''^ "'"'^"^«"' •^^'''- '^ *^--' ^■'- Dupeti.Thouars, ^^l2r f7 ■ hZ k ^ ^"^"-t; Salisbury ; -Har.. L., 5 Rue Sunley. Derond^ House, 'swrn.a^.'kLnTvK-cl;'' t' ^^'"'' '""■ • ""^''• eth.VV. T.. .67 Moss Lane Eas., ManchestC;;" 4ilde;;a?d rxh^^^^^ /)««.; *Hills. A I Market L «• .'.^''■^■•^"•'Ol'^^gasse, I Vienna, V J T^ ! ■^'' '""''*' ^^ Biggleswade; Hinchcliffe. B Ahva Vi'la I7.,„ . hill, Glasgow. 5-fW • .Luke I , i.f u ;, *■ ^°S^"' ^- T-, 4 Park Terrace, Cross- I-vnton HolmdStl' West Hamn ^ I Tl ^''- ^'''"''"'^'' ' •^-'- = r34] Maddox, C. R„ morton s.., London, E. cftj;] Mills F W Vl , ^'J^' " ^°''"''" ^ourt. Throg- 4 Donegal sq.. East BeUa , /L "vfonk P ?"" "' ' ""^'!"'*fi<='d ; .Mitchell, G. T., U'O P.. ,5 High St Potl. ■ '.Mo: s' C Out^rf. Ta,;?^ N ' '^Tt ' ''"''''' g^test.. Bury St. Edmunds • .Oliver ( F r-, " ^'"' '^""- ' '^"""' '"• "- ^* West- -. Pres.onTpa.tison, Vcastle T^ce' H^h w""' K "'n ' ""■'■ '''■ ^- " ^^•■''^'°'' "-dhrd; [3.]Pe.erk :. Lin hglH L tt!^^"""' p = '^"''"^' ^^ ^ ' '""' '^>^^«' R E., Rochelle Selh, , J T Z 17' i \ ' "■• ^^'°" ^^"■*"' '^^°^''l = Phillip,, .. K.OC. eue, belhi: i rd., South Norv.-ood, London. S E ■ Potter r^ u c • Ceveland,0.,J/ S.^. ; .po.,,,,, (Dr.) F. Hihbank, Red Hi J:Su?e T'-Rank;^^':^ t' St. Ronan's, Malvern; Kobbins, C. Dunkerque House, S.u.h Ga.V, G^^es.;;; .Robert.; 1 :. ft i: :=J :|| ■'3n\' *-~- ">»c^-'f - -,»• : - i ■»* i^^i^i^ 646 tejv thousand miles on a bicycle. H. Croydon, Royne House, Noiting Hill, London, W. ; Roberts, R., 13 Victoria Chambers, Leeds; •Robinson, T., 36 Waierloo pi.. North Shields; Roylance, F. W., 11 Cannon »t., Mancliesltr ; •Kumney, A. W., Keswick; [30] Rutter, G. H., Glenhyrst, Prince's av,, Liver- pool; •Savi.all, W. J., 37 Marsham St., Maidstone; "Savile, (Maj.) A. R., Royal Military Coll., Karnborough Sintion ; •Searle, G. F. C, Si. Peter's Coll., Cambridge, SherrirF, \-., J , Holly House, Mortlake ; Sherriff, H. H., Holly House, Mortlalce ; Sider, C. J., 123 GcorRe St., Kdinburgh, Scat.; Simpson, (Col.) R., Salisbury, The Orchard, Portishead, Somerset; •Smith, Albert, Wilton Park Fart Norih Walsham ; Stacpoole-Westropp, (Dr.) W. H, Lis- doonvarna, Ennis, Ire. ; "Stead, S. A., 19 Tabley rd., Hollo'vay, London, N. ; Stoii»r, C. IV, 145 Western rd., Brighton; Stoney, Gerald, 9 Pal .lerston Pk., Dublin, /re. ; •Thomas, J. M , 3 Market St., Penryn ; ♦Thomso;:, A. Scarlett, Tho Lilies, Upper Richmond rd., I'wtney, Lo.ulon, S W. ; 'Tibbs, H. S., 16 Union av.. '.fintMal, P. O,, Can.; Tobias, H. A., 25 Ullct id. ^ Liverp(X)l , •Towuson, T. W., Hutton Dene, Bowdon, Cheshire; •Turrell, W. J , Turrell's Hall, Oxford; Ure, W. P., Cairndhu, Helensburgh; Variey, J. L., 52 Holgate Terrace, York; Wide-Gery, A. J., Compton Grange, Shefford ; Walker, (Capt.) E., R(Kk House, Cromford, Derby; •Walker, T. H. S., 87 Zimmer-strasse, Rerlin, W., Oer. ; Warner, F. H., The Labumams, Redditch ; Waymouth, H., Flora Villa, Hanwell ; 'Wenley, R. M., 10 Hamilton Pk. Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, S-ai. ; •Weston, F. W., Savin Hill, I'.oston, Mass., (/. S. A. ; Whatton, J. S., 9 Sorters pi., Ilyde Pk., London, W. ; •Wigglcsworth, J , Long Row, Nottingham ; •WoovJs, J. C, i Worcester pi., Swans-.a ; Wright, John, iiS Stone St., Newcastle-on-Tyne ; •Young, J. h.,i Teviot Terrace, KelviuEide, Glasgow, Scot. ; Young, T. S., 97 Buchanan st., Glasgow, Sc-?i. "The National Cyclists' Union,"' according to ar official leaflet dated Jati., 'S5, " is the ruling body in all branches of cvcling th-(u.ghout the Unittd Kingdom. It i> -ntim.ntely allied with the C. T. C, the Am. Athletic Ase'.i, and the Swi-nmiii^; Ass'n cf Grta; fJritain. The work of the Union is carried on by a Council of Delegates, whicli is elected by the members, and meets quarterly ; and by an Executive Committee, which meets weekly, and vhose action is fully reported in the press each week under t!.. heading: ''!''!. C. U. Executive Report.' It has, throughout England and Scotland, brandies — or Local i^enters — which afford to each district the advantages of local self-government, sul ;ect to the guidance of the General Executive, and it already possesses a membership of many ihousands. The 11 Local Centers, with the Sec.-Treas. of each, are named alphabetically as follows : BirminghaM, J. P. Derrington, 53 Union Passage ; Brighton, H. J. Gimblette, 106 Church rrl W. ; Bristol, Geo. Ashmead, Glenthorne, A'nia Vale rd., Clifton; Devon and Cormva. F. Blanchard, 33 Bedford st. (Plymouth) ; Dot , the Secretary, Robert Todd (b. 1S47), and the Treasurer, A. R. Sheppee. In June, '82, those respective offices were held by G. F. Cobb, W. P. English, and T. E. Scrutton,— the Pres. and Treas. both belonging to the Camb Univ. B. C. Of the 16 men then serving on the Executive Committee, only 2 (shown by *) were elected to the present board, who are named as follows, in the order of votes received (Jan. 28, '86, ranging in number from 92 vo6i): M. D. Rucker, J. S. Whatton, H. H. Griffin, E. S. Wallis Roberts, J. H. Price, (Maj.-Gen.) L. R. Christo|^her, W. F. Sutton, G. H. Green, G. P. Coleman, R. E. Phillips, F. G. Dray, A. Prout,^ R. L. Philpot, E. R. Shipton,» H. R. Reynolds, H. E. J. Irons. At about this time, the central office of the MINOR CYCLING INSTITUTIONS. 647 Umon, in LoiKfon, wa* moved to 57 Hasinghall M., E. C, from 17 Ironmonger Lane where :» had l.can ...r jt least 4 years. The club was founded in '78, as the " llicycle Union," and a .ul, meeting shall elect a chairman, who shall ha -e unlimited authority,— nn api>eal from his r'uline, being possible except lo a special meeting, -and who shall have the nt,lii lo speak an.l v.,i.- „» every motion, and shall also have a caMm- vole in case of a tie. Any (wrson agyrieveU by action of a f,ocal Center may appeal to the bixtculive, and from it to the C ouncil. The Kxicii- tive shall have full power over all proceedings of the f.. C.N, including their diss. Union i; „, J essary, subject to an appeal to the Council. The Sec.-Trcas. of each I,. C. after m, un, from the clubs and unattached belonging thereto the Union menibershii>-fees shall r.i.,u, lu;^ for local use, and remit the rest to a de.'ignated meml«.-r of the Kxeculive, fur general u,, i v the Union. Kach [., C. shall elect at least . Delegates to the Coaiicil, an.l an a.ldiii.i,.,! ,,,1,. for every complete 50 members beyond the first 5.>,-')ut the clubs thus reprcsenleil of eoui,e surrender their original ri.^ht of electing Delegates directly ; and these need not be m.nilKrs , f the clubs or 1,. C.'s which elect them. A I,. C. may be voted a money-grant by the l.\er„ne after a week's written notice lo each of its m.-nibers. Kach L. C. is expected to sup. rv race meetings of its district, increase the memberslilp, erect danger-boards, and work . renrcssivc legislation by local authorities; but all legal c.ises, and questions as to ' anu must be referred to the txecutive." The amateur definition hai already been given, on p 1 1 have condensed the foregoing from an official pamphlet (llitfos, 38 pp) dated June, 'S.. . but it is not likely that any of the quoted rules have since b'-en essentially changed. A writer lii Vlhteling .^\ Dec. 11, '84, declared that the \. C. U. work had grown too large tobecanie.l on mnch longer by honorary officers, wiiliout salaries, and added : " 1 am one who has l„ii- foreseen the eventual amalgamation of the C. T. C. and N. C. U., and consider that the wlieer. iiig world would benefit considerably thereby; " but no movement in that directioitseenis yet to have been attempted. The same paper ol Mar. 24, '86, said : " The N. C. U.'s liiiniiti.il statement for the year '85 is eminently satisfactory and creditable, showing a balance of j;jS,j,y, including the reserve fund of «i48o. The Local Centers alsc have balances as follows' Birmingham, #129; firighlon, I27: Bristol, #37; (llasgow, #76; Liverpool ( ncl. grant of $125), $152; Manchester, «-4; Newcastle, $92; N'otiiiigham, #l.tie.. For .h>. purpose .t muM be thoroughly bucked, fiuancaliy and morally, by .t, dunliU. And herV. the rub I here are too „,a..y cryu.g eviU, iu.ereM.ng to tl, ....racnB thousand, of the Umon to ju,l.{y ihe.r money being ,hro«n away ,u l.ghtmg p^rha^.s . firm .aturally mcen.ed that the' promateur ,n the.r employ ha, been taken, and the pronu(c., in another cn,i,l.,y left " Thi, Utter phrase allude, .0 probable Ubel-,ui„, brought in behalf of - suspend,," whose name, may be offically p.lloried for the senlm.ental and certan.ly not moral offense of promateuri,m •' nM..g «y, ihat if the N. C. U. ExccuMve would only have courage enon^h .0 suspend and Publ„h the names of racers who have " ropc-d " {/. ,., «,id out for bets) o. • *M,dled clubs ou, ..f entry fees, wuh the connivance of the l^>cal Centers, '■it would gladly Marl a defense fund (o protect them from the libel-suits of .uch sinners ; but that, i' they get into trouble b» tryn.g ,0 U,l.,er up so sorry a fraud as " anu.eurism." " it w.ll strenuously op,H,se the votM., of any n,o„ey for them from the reserve fund,"-a fund laboriously accumulated by voluntary subscr,p,.or ,0 enable the Union more effectually to take legal pr.^eedings for the protection J( rjUers. and for other purposes." l^u.-Ung will al-.o op,«se any attempt to increase the n.en.ber- .slnjvfees from 25 c. to 6, c, " for mat.y of the clubs are themselves run on fees of only *. ,c - • and urges that a proper device for ratsing money is ,0 establish a racn.g register, with an annual' en .anc.feeof ,..,5.and ,hu, force all the racers to help pay for the trouble taken in the. behalf, f says taat this ha, been done, hitherto, only by the " Hiers," whose pre«:ncr at the champ,on,lnp meetn-g, has produced the gate-money which has kept the N. C U al.ve • and .tco„.,em„Mhe special meanness of enforcing the " amateur rule " against these' men a', the d of the sea.son after play.ng them fo. all they were worth " before the public, instead of at he outset of he season, when the proofs of their offenses against "amateurism" were just exactly as complete and well-known. ' one fft"' T'"^ t:ouncil-mee,ingof '86, all .art.es were agreed that a time had arrived when Ir M H ^ 7 T r ^' '"'""'^ °' ''""^••'''- "y * P"="""y unanimous vote, the Council declared .n favor of enforcing it ; and undertook the tmpossible task of transform! g a sham mtc a real.ty. Why. then, did they re-insta.e all the suspected riders within a week after suspendmg them? Because they absolutely did not dare .0 face the consequences of a ig d Chesion to the.r ed.c.s. ,f they are suspend^.g men now. it is only because, having sev d e,r purpose at the championships, the racing season is over, and fhey imag ne that before other season comes round • something may turn up • to smooth and allay the irritatio which f'l'Th M """ T" ""'" ''"'" "^""^•^^ °f ""= ^--"- "- not fools: they re next season w th a host of men the public would not walk a yard to see, besides having to fight t^n U>" s::h°"th J: "°™°"^ "'""'"-^ "^^^ *■" "^- '--^ away. w"fyroud they do It? Such is the dilemma as stated by J. k. Hogg ( /rA.,//„^, Oct. 6. '86>, in the first demand '''' T" " ?'^' "'"''' "^ ^-^'"""^ ■°«'^' "^^' "^^ only real remedy I law He sa ■"'"" W """ ''''"" °' ""= " ""^"^"^ '«* " '^ '»'' "»" =>bolition of tha. law. He says : 'We want to see the Union legislate for cvcling as a whole , to recognize i as a great sport and not as a class distinction. We wan. them to act with a firm hand ,; 1 ea e vis wh,ch are only .00 apparent, and no. to manufacture others. We want them o g e li .;:'ir'lawr W rr "^ r*"" ^-^ ^^^^^.r....^ of .he racing world into harmony wuh their laws. We want them .0 shape .heir iaws in harmony wi.h the racing world. • • 1 he members of the Executive must surely know that as long as the maker is willing to pay for a ndingadv. ,n .he amateur ranks, .here always will be .hose who are willing .0 accep. the pay men,. Is 1. reasonable .0 suppose that the maker will ever be blind to the splendid adv of a man winning races a over the country on his machine ? Is it reasonable to imac^ine that the average champion will insist on paying his own expenses, and despise a substantial addition to -mr^} 650 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. hH ready money? Time will ,i o,. all things; b i' to ui it appeai, a» clear ai da-light that •Bapeniiont of malcera' amateurs .a '86 will clear the way for a new crop in '^^ and .u^|.rnv.,Iitic », to ruin your exchequer for next year by susptndinj the men whose grand perfnnnan< ,-, l,ri„g the public to your chanipionsliip meetings.' " The contempt which the general outride pul.iic mu»t needs feel towards this " whole silly-Ililly liisiness," -of pretending to miintain in,i n-si. ble WKial distinctions, under the guise of " regulating the sport,"— was shown fairly w.ll l,y a •arcistic article in a London satirical weekly (the But, Oct. 6) from wliich I quote ih,- f,,l|,',w. ing . "I'erlups the natural snobbery of the liitish middle classes has never l^en more th..r. oughly cxi.(,sed than by the institution of the e-itraordinary sentiment known as ' Vm.iliurism.' The origin of it is lost in obscurity ; but the f ict of its existence has been made patent of late years principally by the total disregard of its la-As Iiy those i«ipularlv supposed to be its devotees." " Issued under the authority of the Kxecitive, and edited by Wm. Cole, Ass't Sec," is the N. C. V. Kevirtv anJ O^itii Record, whereof there lies before me the second number (Oct , '86; 24 pp and blue adv. cover of 4 pp, ; 7J by 10 in.), the first having appeared in June. It i» designed as a quarterly, io be sent to each Delegate in advance of the four regular truncil- meetings, and to Contain the reports and a,;etid^i which arc to be brought before those meetings. Doubtless it is also mailed to the unattached or iiide[iendent members, in recognition of th»ir paying 62 c, instead of the 25 c. fees paid by the club-men ; but this is left to inference, and no price is named at which outsiders may siibscrilw for it. A few might gladly do this, for it is neatly printed, and has a seriour, and dignified air not attaching to other specimens of cycling journalism "The Repair and .Maintenance of Roads," an article specially written for it by W. H. Wheeler, a member of the Insti.ution of Civil Engineers, occupies 16 columns in this Oct. number, and probably the piece "On the I-egal Aspects of Road Repair," by Mr. (Uen, ii: the June number, was of similar length ; for both are " soon to be re-issued, in pamphlet form, for general distribution, at a minimum charge." I assume that th» same will p.ove irue in regard to the article promised for the Jan. Revinv, b> a legal member of the Executive, "giving a summary of all the by-laws enacted by local governments for the regulation of cycle traffic." The pamphlet of Union rules may be obtained at 50 c. per doz., and --ntry-forms (or race-meet- ings, at 62 c. per too, plus postage. The reference library, at 57 Basinghall St., may be fieely Cv-msulted by all wheelmen, 10 A M. to 5 p. M. "A list of its books, maps and other mntcrial, with notes as to desiderata, for the guidance o( those willing to aid in completing the collection, will be issued as soon as possible. A classified catalogue will also be prepared in ms., and kept up to date, for readers' use ; and this will be printed whenever the size of the collection justifies such a step." An appeal from the librarian, R. L. Philpot {Wheeling, Jan. 27, '.'<6, p. 251), names ten classes o( desirable contributions, — including not only complete sets o( all cycling journals, and complete eds. o( all books and pamphlets which concern the spoil, but also .naps, atlases, plans, ch.irts, itineraries, guides, tteers, local histories, geographies, books of travel, ancient and modern road-reports, arts o( Parliament, worl-.s on road-constniction and repair. highway law, railway statistics, training and general athleJcs, athletic hygiene ; " trade lists, catalogues of cycling exhibitions, programmes o{ cycling sports : photographs, engravings and drawings of well-known cyclers, machines, and views o( places o( inte.-est; and, finally, news- paper cuttings and scraps relating to any of the above subjects, for preseiTation in th'? library albums." The Union has never issued a badge or even a membership ticket; and the Oct. Rei'ieiv urges that something of the sort should be done, as a ::'eans for attracting recruits, and for reconciling present supporters to such an 'ncrease of fees as will be necessary to solve the present pressing " question of finance." It prints on p. 26 a picture of the " record medal," A ill MIXOR CYCLING INSTITUTIONS. 6-i the -ii. of a half^ollar, for which a die hai l.itely Icen cut; and a list of 8 award* of it for • break, „K records," b..l«,cn Alay and July. 86. On the back of each medal are in«cril.am« of the winner and of the club or individual presenting it. A Ubular-view of the winners of a'l N C. U. championahipv '78 to '86. cover, p. 15 ; and on p. 1. , a lilt of " 16 danij... I«.ard,, erect.d .ince last quarterly report," with names of the persons nd clubs jreaing thrnl And notices of the liill-tops where ihey stand. ThrouRhout the wh. !e of Great llritain after 8 '"""''^ '''""' 'ffor'."* N C. U. ..Id C. T. C, both of ..vh<.»e n.imes are put upon each iKiard, ■• .he number now standing is lij." '< Thete malleable iron placards are obtainable urai.H, at 57 llasinKhall ..t, or throuKh any o. the N. C. U. Ivnal Centers, by any riders or club, who w.ll u.Klertake their erection, and, preferably, bear the trivial expense involved in so doinr " .So ,ays the C T. C. GazetU (Oct., '86, p. 4.9), beneath a reduced facsimile of the ' boara • which .s a rectangle, inscribed in larpe car'tals : " To Cjc'ists. This Hill is Dang..ro.,s." A vimewliat sarcaMic s.-cKes.ion as to the impracticable nature of the device was offrrcd ih.is by " The Octopus " (//'/^,/,«f., Oct. I,. -86) : " As these boardsor t.,.s(under the paternal care of i.r,. Dray) are Renerally placed behind hedges, in fields, or at a considerable distance from the road, whilst the paint is .arefully knocked off, it is only fair to assume that ihey are erected under the supervision of the local doctors and undertakers who object to trade >>eing spoilt" On ifie Continent, the largest club of the sort is the " Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund " (C.er- man Wheelme.iN Union), whose fortnightly organ, the RaJ/.ihrer, was sent to 71S7 memljerj Oct. I, '86, when its whole ed. was 7700. This shows that the memb.rship has increased 9.6 in 3 mos., and has more than doubled in 18 mos.,— for the revised list of Apr. i, '85, had only 3327 "ames. The s.Kie:y was founded at Leipzig, Aug. .7, '84, by th-.- amalgam'atio.'i of a pair of earlier ones, whose officer- au' delegates co-.vened for that purpose, and thus amicably put an end to the two years .actional rivalry -tween the Cycling Un,ons of the North (org. Oct. ?.2, '82, at Hanover) and the South (" Gc lan-Austrian," org. May 29, '82, at Munich) At the close of '83, according to Walker's " Jahrbuch " (pp. ,04, .08), the latter comprised 49 dubs, with about .100 members, whose annual fee of 50 c. included the piic. of 2 monthly " organ " ; the former comprised .0 clubs with 242 members, p.iying 25 c. fees, and 115 of the unattached, paying 75 c. A catalog je of their respective publications may be found on p 697 .Since that was electrotyped, the Radfahrrr's office has been changed to 87 Zimmer St., Berlin] VV. Its ed., T. i:. .S Walker, was one of the founders at Hanover in '82, and got his paper (then called the Velociptd) adopted there as official organ. He is an Englishman, and a chief consul of the C. T. C. ; and the same may be said ..f C. H. Bingham, of Utrecht, the first presi- dent of the " Nederlandsche Velocipedisten Bund " (Dutch Cvclers' Union), founded July i '83, who perhaps still holds that office. Its publications, and the official organ of the Belgians' Union,-" F^d^ratio.i V^locip^dique Beige," founded at Brussels, Jan 2,, '83,-are mentioned on p. 700. The " Union Vrflocipddique de France " was founded at Paris Feb 6 '81 De Haroncelli's '■ Annuaire " of Jan., '83, mentioned 8 leading clubs in 7 cities as sup^rting it • and, a year later, gave a list of its chief-consuls and Consuls in 29 towns. The eenefal officeni were as follows, at both those dates: Pr,s., E. Varlet, 90 av. Niel . Sec, H Pagis „,.-,? ; ^'''''" '• '(''■""•■ ^- '^"•^^'^' '» "'^ ^^ '» Z""« (Charenton). Mention was made in Feb '86 of a Consul General." Mr. Jacquot. as in the act of preparing a road-book of France The S.-C. ised. of the oldest French cycling journal (the .S>«-/ Vilocipedtque ; legun 'So- weekly .2 pp., $2.40) : and Ir-s ride from Paris to Vienna, se-eral years ago, attracted much notice as .he first longdistance tour on the Continent. H is paper is the official organ of the Union Th,- .d. of another one, the Veto PyrMen of Pau, was spoken of scofSngly, in the summer of '85' ..s trying to form an opposition society the "Alliance Velocip^dique de France." and put him- self at the head of it ; but I think nothing w.s really done. Switzeria. d is the fifth continental countrv known to me as possessed of a cyclers', -.emm, t,-.he ' Union V.flocip.'dique Su.s.,e having been founded in '8,. I take this from De BirotJcelU's " Aunuaire " of '84 which m .-ntions the clubs of ten towns as supporting the Union. 1 1 1; ■■ i i- IS > 1 ■-' 3 1 1 ^^^1 ).,:| H "I 1 tk. ' i 1 1 . ■ % m^ ■ 652 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. DeB.'i '84 book aUo names the " N. Z.Cyclists' Alliance (org.Oct. ao.'Sa) " and the '■ AuMra lian Cyclists' Union (org. Feb. 6, '82 ; 2000 members;." The Mtlbournt BuIUUh of Mar '84, reported a council-meeting of the latter, as having arranged for a parade in Apnl'and for races m May ; but 1 think Us name must vtry soon have been changed to " Victorian Cyclists' Union," for aU the wheel legishtion which I have seen mentioned since Tilv '?.a in.h.. i ^ Victoria, hasbeenthusaccreditedjandlhreeoftheothercolonicshavesimilarKovemmenis which seem to recognize no superior or cei a, authority. In Sept., '86, the sec of the V C U wa V W, Moody, of the Prothonotary's Office, Melbourne; D. Tough was treas,,and Geo Spi-er^., official handicapper. "His Honor. Mr. Justice Williams," accepted the presidencv^f the L 1.101. .1. May, '85, and doubtless still holds it. as well as the presidency of the Mcihourne 'i C. whtch he was holding i„ 'Sj.-though I i.ifer that his relation towards each is a i>urclv cm p. nentary ore. The " New South Wales Cyclists' Union " was alluded to as early as l„ly' 84. as an old^stablished affair, with James Martin, of Sydney, as president; aiKl 1 presunie' he still keep- the position, for he was reelected at the annual meeting of June i (8) '8, l,v a v.,te of 53 10 38, after an attempt ,0 render liiin ineligible, by adopting a rule that no o„e i"„ 'the cycling trade should hold office, had been defe:.ted 70 to 10. At the same lime, t; W 1 1, ,n,bers was chosen sec, and K. H. Mckae treas. The "South Australian Cyclists' Uni„„ " K younger, for its first " annual parade " was on Jn„ 20. '86 ^attracting ,44 riders), and its first rat. meeting was held Oct. 2, in Adelaide. Ihe project of forming a branch of the N '^ W C I for the colony of Queensland, was discussed at the annual meeting of the lirisbane H C A-.r' 16, '85. and a committee was appointed to confer with other clubs upon the subject In'-Vug '84, the treas. of the " New Zealand Cyclists' Alliance " sent me p copy of its rules and rec.n,! mendations, pnnlrd in the shape of a broadside or poster, .6 by 24 in. Of the four officers named at the top of the sheet, I think these two may still be in service : Pres., W H Wymi Williams, of Christchurch ; sec, E. H. burn, of Dunedin. The annual fee is' 62 c (or 50 c when an entire club joins), and life-membershii. may be had for $5 ; but the sheet gives no token as to the number of members. I suppose this must be small, though there are nearly ,00 riders .n the two clubs at Christchurch (the chief city, pop., 30,000), and sizable clubs exist at a dozen other towns of the islands. My only knowledge of the " Tasmanian Cyclists' Union " is an allu sion to It in a letter of June 2. '85. from R. O. Bishop, who said he founded it, after con.inK to Hobart in '84, and was .ts first secretary. I suppose its activity is slight. The same is prohably the case with the three Unions on the contmeni , neither of them has attempted to issue an "official organ"; and not even the V. C. U. has been given much mention in the Australian Cycling Nnvs, whose hi n.iry may be found on p. 6q6. Its editor and proprietor, W. H. „ew is in announcing its discontinuance. Sep. 25, '86, said he had "conducted it for three years as a hobby, and must now bid farewell to cycling and to journalism, because of the incessant demands of the practice of his profession, "-presumably that of law. The " Irish Cyclists' Associa- tion " has for an official organ ih. Irish Cyclist and Athlete (fortnightly, begun May 20, 'S5 ; J1.35). and the ed. thereof is its Secretary, R. J. Mecredy, who successfuliv conducted a'tour- ing party of 30 from Dublin to the Lakes of Killarney. eariy m Aug., '86. " When, in the autumn of '84, some emissaries of the N. C U sought to establish a Local Center in Irtlaiul, they urged as a reason that the I. C. A. was essentially a Di'blin body, which only roused f.oni ts torpor once a v»ar to hold the championships, and then went to sleep for another season. Thouch the effort failed, because of Irish antipathy to ' English importations.' it had Ihe valu- able effect of stirring the I. C. A. into vigorous action,— resulting in an increased and more repre- sentative membership. That bcH'y has since created an agitation upon the roads question ; and, at the C. T. C Council-meeting of Mar. 13, a vote was passed givirs $125 to the I. C. A., 10 assist its prosecution of the demand for better-kept liighw.iys." Thus reported the C. T. C. Gazette, of .Apr.. '86, p. 124. Other " institutions " deserving a record are the expensive club-houses which have been erected in several large cities. Those of New York and Boston have been described on pp. (^, :■-■-, , .-.;:•.: : ::r.r::;:r;: :■■• p:vc ari .~ccr,;;r.t ocrc 01 iiic iiiic mansions more recently built by liie clubs of Baltimore. Washington. Phila. and St. Louis. But the chapter is too long already. XXXVII. LITERATCJRE OF THE WHEEL. "By whatever means the dissemination of information upon cyclini? matters may be accomplished, it cannot fail to aid our purposes and benefit our busmess. Tiiereforc. although this catalogue is essentially and strictly a business document, it will not be out of place if we commend to our readers the perusal of the columns of the ycling press. To some it may be news that m England, on the continent of Europe, and in far Australia, as well as in th,s country and Canada, some fifty or more regularly issued periodicals are entirely devoted to cycling matters. The fact is s., .ificant in demonstrat- i.ig the mtell.gence of the class from which wc obtain our customers, and the permanence of the interests with which we are identified." Such were the words with which the editor of the Cunningham Com- pany s eighth annual catalogue (Hoston : Feb.. '84) introduced its most prom- inent page, in giving a free advertisement there to the names. ,,rices and publishers addresses of the chief journals in the trade. I commend the wisdom of that example to every cycle dealer who issues a catalogue or price- ist; and I urge him to improve upon it by adding similar facts concerning this book of mine, and every other wheeling book known to be in the market I urge upon the authors and publishers, of all such books to adopt the same pol.cy.-assurmg them that there can be no rivalrv, but rather that the sale of each helps instead of hindering the sale of al! the others. Though I can- not assert this as a reason why each journal should freelv advertise every other journal. I yet believe it would be good policv for them to do so- and I am certain ,t would be a profitable policy for them to j;ive such treatment to all the books. A fine-type list of these (naming publisher's address, price date and number of pages) would occupy but a very small space, and would be likely to prove "interesting reading matter " to some new patron of the paper, every time it was inserted ; and the .',ame may be said of a list "f c>-cling journals. I call this system "free advertising" merely to show that It involves no payments of money, and no making of contracts ; but it is 111 fact a system of informal exchanges, under which each beneficiary is likelv, .n the long run, to give just about as much as he receives. Since the jour- na!s editors often bargain with oi.e another, and with book-publisher?, for the exchange of a certain amount of " advertising space," in which to proclaim 'heir names and prices in large type, why would it not be just as business-like *" '* *""- i*"-^* *.T:ii-j:; i rccounncriu, ul giving t'^"T^ ' ''"• '"'""'= ''''^''' ''=^'^y ""'» ^'- ^»"^" Louis. Smirh; pp 288 cloth. .Ilust., #...5, boston: Cupples, Upham & Co., July, '84); ,d ed., revised, May 'S^' pape covers ma. ed for 50 c, by J. S. P.rowning, 9. Oliver St.. Boston. " Rhymes o Z Koadand K.ver.' by Chris Wheeler (Nov.. '85. pp. .54. cloth, 5.); PhilauelphT Pa , E Staney Hart & Co. 3.. Chestnut st. " A Canterbury Pilgrimage, ridden, written and i lut .rated by Joseph and Khzabeth Robim. Penneli " (.Vug., '85. square 8vo. paper, 50 c ) ■ N V : C. Scnbner s Sons, 743 Broadway. " In and Around Cape Ann," wheelman's guide'(Aug ' 85, pp. .00, eleven engravmgs, cloth bound, about 30,000 words); mailed on receipt of postal! note for 75 c, by the author, John S. Webber, jr., Gloucester, Mass. ; revised ed. in p.epara- of the est ndms wuhm 50 m. of N. Y. City, with through routes, and special maps of various r.d.ng districts; mailed by the compiler, A. D. Earkman, 6o3 Fourth av., Eroo-.Iyn N Y Canadian Wheelmen's Ass'n Guide" .Apr.. 'S,, pp. ..8. cloth, 50 c.) ; a revved 'andenl larged edition, wi.h maps, to be published i:> Oct., '86. by the secretary of the association, H D. Donly, Simcoe, Ont. Cyclist's Road Book of Boston and Vicinity " (2d ed . May 20 '86 W ,' .'p'Tp" ^"\"/^ TT'- ""''''^^"'' " '■ ^y ""^ ^"'"P""' A. L. Atkins. .7 Wesi Walnut Park. Boston, Ms. Wh..i..iai.'s Hand-book of Essex County " (3d ed., kul '86 pp. 74); mailed far 20 c. by the compiler, Geo. Chinn, Beverly, Ms. " Wheelmen's Reference Look May, 86, pp. ,83 : 49 lithographic portraits; 50 c. in paper, J. in cloth; ed ,000) • Hartforc, Ct. : Ducker & Goodman. " Star-Rider's Manual " (ad ed.. Mar.. '86. pp „,) • an instruction book on the use of the American Star bicycle ; mailed for 75 c. by the author E H Corson, ed. of Siar Advocate, East Rochester, X. H. " A. B. C. of Bicycling " (Apr ''80' 36 pp., .oc); inslructio,:, for beginners, by H. B. Hart, 8m Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. "Bicyl cle Tactics a manual of drill for -lubs (Apr., '84, 20 c). by T. S. Miller, .62 Washington I, Chicago. Club Songs" (20 bicycle songs set to popular airs; 25 c ), by A S Hibbard Ar.hur Young and T S. Miller. More important to the tourist than'mos. of't.^" abo" named are tlie elab- rate road-books publUhed by the several State Divisions of the League, and sold (at 10 only to League members of other Divisions. The roads of Penn N J Md O and Mass. have already been tabulated thus; while Conn., N. Y.. Mich., lil.. Ind. 'and other States have similar books in preparation. More interesting to the general reader th.,n any cycling bocKnow in existence, will be Thomas Stevens's 'Around the World on a Bicycle "to be reproduced in '87 from the series of illustrated articles which Outing has published monthly since Apr., 85. More voluminous than any other is "Ton Thousand Miles on a Bicycle " (Apr.,'S7, fi,5o), for it contains a greater number of words than all the above-catalogued books and pamphlets combined. In o-der the better to advertise this fact, the publisher of it will give an electrotype of the present list to any one who will agree to print (in trade-catalogue, book pamphlet or paper) this brief summary of all the wheel literature now in the market. Requests for such electrotype should be addressed to the Univeftity Building, New York City, D. Of the prints which are no lon-cr in the market, the earliest mention belongs to th-. Ameri- can Bicycling Journal, which made 14 regular fortnightly issues, Dec. 22, '77, to June 22, '78, and four later ones in '7^, dated Jan. 25, Aug. r, Oct. 18 and Nov. i. " It will be publfBIied every other .Saturday, and mailed post-paid for 10 r. a copy, or H2.50 a year, and all communica- tions should be addressed to the editor, 178 Devonshire St., Boston." Such was a part of the formula which stood unchanged through the entire 18 numbers (and one of its other phrases for the first half-year w?s, " As soon as the .demand will warrant it, we propos- publishing each week ") ; but announcement -vas made in the T4th number that " the paper will now become an irregular instead of a regular noun its fmure dates of issue being somewhat erratic, regulated in ..L^uruance with the best judgment ot the proprietors, keeping in view the best interests of the bicycle movement, with which their own interests are, of course, identified. They do not seek ipiKL 656 TEN THOUSA: D MILES ON A BICYCLE. to shirk any necessary outlay, but they do desire .0 avoid waste and make their loss as stnill as possible." No names were evt.- printed ; but the proprietors were Cunningham, Heath & Co the earliest firm organized for the importation of bicycles into this country, and the eaitor was their junior partner, Frank W. Wjdton (b. July 13, '43). He afterwa.ds used the sig'iaturc " Jack Easy " for many articles in the Bi. IVortd, and his standing as ? pirneer is proclaimed by the nickname " Papa," applied by his familiars of the Boston B. C, on whose original ro.l of founders his name was signed sixth. Its pages measured 9 by 12 in. (a standard-size which has been adhered to by the Bi. IVorldznA most of the later journals, — thus rendering it easy to file and bind them tofjether) and were numbered from i to 16 in each issue, — the lasti, 3 or 4 of them being given to advL-rtiscments. An index to these 2S8 double-column pages was printed as a supplement to the Bt. If'ar/J(Ji.ne 26, '80, p. 2S9I, whose initial number gave admission to the/iwrnt/'s illumiii.Ted heading, m order that the editor might deliver his valedictory beneath it, — declaring his intention to fill unexpired subscriptions with the new pnp-r and also to serve as one of its regular contributors. This h-^ading was i' ..-signed by C. W. Reed, and it depicts a bi- tycler gayly whirling -iway from Father Time on a bone-shaker. A scroll or ribbon, cUnnsily piled up botween the two, exhibits the four words of the title, in black capitals of surpassing ugliness; but the main figure in .Scotch cap, velveteen jacket and white flannel breeches has always been endeared to me, as conveying a.i admirpble notion of the airy ease and gracefulness which rend?r .he sport so alluring. The first number contained a card from Cunningham, Heath & Co. (whose advertisement covered the final page, whereof the price was named as J^;, " or J 13 a half-nage "), saying that a signature-book had been openjd at their office for such as ml-ht wish to join the p.oposed Boston B. C, and urging them to sign promptly and ensure for thci- city the honor of, having the earliest American bicycle club. The same number also said: " There are now published in London two '-eeklies, one monthly and three annuals devoted entirely to the bicycling interest ; and a single London firm sold 60,000 machines last year." A large share of the Journars matter w,is reprinted from thes» F.nglish papers, and from the Boston dailies, whose columns contained many argumentai e and descriptive articles written by the enthusiastic local pioneers of wheeling ; but it also published considerable 'resh material. My own earliest road-report appeared here (" Birycling in New York, " Oct. iS, '79), and alongside it a list of 23 clubs then existing ; while the issue of Jan. 25, '79, gave an alpha- betical list of about 250 riders, with their addresses, " though we have reason to believe that it does not represent more than half the bicyclers that are scattered over the land,— whereas a year ago they could almost have been counted on one's fingers." This list was afterwards reprint?''. in the Bi. World; and the publishers thereof for several years advertised the sale ($4) of bound files of \\\f: Journal, which will always remain an interesting memorial of the manner in which wheeling first won recognition here. Another notable monument in the journalistic cemetery is that made by the 15 monthly numbers of the Wheelman (Oct., '82 to Dec, '83), an illustrated octavo magazine of So double- column pages, handsomely printed by Rockwell & Churchill, who took oath (Boston, Apr. 27, 'S3; 'at theyhn' issued " three editions of No. 1, two editions of No. 2, and 20,000 copies uf No. 9,'" and that the-r " arrangements with the publishers required the printing of never less than 10,000 copies monthly." The publishers were the " Wheelmen Co.," of fwS Washington St., Boston, who announced the following editorial board: S. S. McClure, editor-in-chief ; J. F. McCIure, managing ed. ; J. S. Phillips, literary ed. ; Charles E. Pratt, contributing ed., and P. B. Lansing, ulverti.sing agent. Its cover, of reddish-brown paper, had a circular picture exhibiting ten cyclers in rather awkward positions ; but this was superseded in six months by greenish paper and a medallion design which lasted a year. Proclamation was made in No. 15 that there wujid be a consolidation with '• Oulinf^, a magazine of pleasure-travel, outdcc sports and the general field of recreation, which was begun in May, '82, and has steadily improved in quality, influence and prosperity, with each successive issue,"— having been published at 53 N. Pearl St., Albany, by W. B. Howland (b. June 10, '49), editor of a paper near there,— and that "the new monthly, Outint; ami ik^ WAff/tifaH. will combine th? r!'p_".;:r.-?= .-.f K-.iK " Th.- r.r.:rl_ nation and style perpetuated the latter rather than the former, continuing its series (No. 4 of Vol. LITERA TURE OF THE WHEEL. 657 .1 ' ^ ^k1 ''*,'~""''y '""* «* " ^^"^ ~«»vo ; and thi. site wu retained until the 30th number (Mar. , bj), completing the fifth semiannual volume. The cover «>r« the double- name dunng all this interval (though the inside heading was simply Outing after Mar '8^^ and exhibited, in place of the original editorial board, the following formula • " Published .,' • 75 Tremont St.. Boston, by the Wheelmen Co. (incorporated Nov. 7. '80 • Ch.. F P„» president ; Wm. B. How.and. treasurer." The president's name appea J for thelast'.i^ii July, »5, and t..e treasurer s m Dec, when rumors began to appear that the ...agaxine would be sole to a new company in New York. The editorial work had presumably been divided 1^"!L„ >:^■•'»- --Jjf, ^ ■:C^^= 3?.^-':C= LITERATi/RE OF THE WHEEL. 659 Nassau st., N. Y.) supplied the needed element of " push "and audad.v in Hmm-- ..bscnbers con.nbu.o„ and «iverti.r,-whi.e .he fine Koman' h fd .he • ~S.:! eduor ; cou d be depended upon .0 tone down their exuUrance, and give an a r ^^2, mg the second semi-annual volume Apr., '81. p 68) • " Sinro .K. wi. 1 ■ '"«««»€. for financial gain, and since the Uteratufe den^n'de^ or its^e, U .^t'liTI ^'th"* " '"'"" only wheelmen «n furnish it, the voluntary aid of tho« ,.Sd to w it^ S : ^'^^Z- lutelv necessary for >M success in the future. The company has already .,«„. TV . dollars on the work of publication, and is prepared ,0 sS $Z^( TL Tl*" ing the H^*.,^^ upon a self-supporting Lis. ItTs expl«;T?;J T^'"' '" T^'"^ cop.es will reach every library and every imUnt city' ," tl^'l^re "^Lt' and ^3^ " °'"" The latter phnue suggests a mention of my belief .ha., of the usual monSe^i,io„ „, 10,000, quite as many copie; were given .0 libraues reaHin- .. T . """ """""n °' other resorts, as were sold to subiribers in o.h' ^ '^""' ' ''"^er's-shops a- J ■llustrated advertisemen.,-an eno^r^Sl exJLnsive t J^I: ' ! ""Tu' "" '" '"'~"" a, .he heads of .he American peopi. Tthe h^^ '"!^=^'7"'»''- *h.ch was hurled monthly a new aid .0 health and JomZ Ever^ Ser nTZil T T '" '\"T'' "' ^''"' ^ ..is indebted .0 .me extent for this fre7arr„g^:::ir.rj:Lrr^^^^^^ ask every such ore .0 remember the fact, when he hears any silly talkabout '^mono^i; " a„d .0 ask himse! where "the trade " would have been to-day. in the absence of a con.rS. cor pora..on. wealthy and intelligen. enough to stake large sum, for remote results which nec^ sar,ly confer an incidental benefit upon every one of i.s rivals ? I don', suppose Col. Po^wt :::errt^deVto" s'k *'*''''''^'' "-'' '-" *- ""^^ ^ns.,^-..,, anTTm conStTe Ike y tha. at the end of .he first year, when he found p.rhaps a .en.h of the sum named hope. lessly sunk, he may have called h,s merry men together and told them .hat the experimenT having accomplished its purpose ^n arousing a new and serious-minded set of patron, foi the wheel, would mow be discontinued. Such discontinuance would certainly have been the part of wisdom ; but, a. .his assumed j.incure, I assume that the syren song of the tempter came to him from the mouth of his legal adviser, recommending .he acceptance of a " consolidadon " as proposed by Outing's publisher. The familiar argument in all such cases U that, though each of two magazines may have lost money separately, money may be made when expends have been leuened one-half by the combination. The fallacy consists in assuming that— instead cf a proportionate lessening of receipts— " these convergent streams of good-wiirand influence will blend naturally and speedily into one." The quoted words are those of Charles E. Pratt ; and, though he has done more than any other American .0 give decency and dignity to cycling journalism, th- words show that he had learned nothing from the failure of hi, attempt in '81 to help the Bi. IVorU, by burdening it, for six wea-? months, with an entirely unrelated depart- men. called .he A rchery Field. Much wiser was his earlier remark that " .he literary assistance of enthusias.ic bicyclers has been as essen.ial .0 .he success of .he Wheelman's firs, volume as was the capitol inves.ed in i.s publication " ; for, v^hen they discovered .ha. Outing had really swallowed the original magajinc, their assistance rapidly dwindled aw.y until it quite disap. peared. A conclusive token of this, and of impending disaster, was given by increasing the size and pnce (Apr., '85). with the remark: " As a steadily growing influence and circulation have attended the combined magazine, Outing's field will henceforth include the entire range of topic, withm the domain of refined recreation." Having thu, pushed the enterprise to a thoroi.ghly ideal and ethereal position, where i» was quite beyond the reach of support 01 sympathy fiom any single pastime, its originator q.-ickly returned to his original vocation of running a weekly newspaper; and Col. P^pe, as soon af.erwards as possible. " unloaded " upon .he li.tle bard of wealthy New Yorkers who compose the " Outi'ng Co. ^limited)." The June issue said that ' Outing's paid circulation has doubled since Jan. i. in this country al/,nr." and a!...o adyertiieH « cawe despatch for 5000 copies, from Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London agents of the magazine." A month later (p. 476). it gave the following " figure, of circulation : Jan 8000 • ■ i. '' 66o TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Feb., lo.ooc; M«r., 11,000; Apr., 15,000 ; May, 20,000." About a third of iu laS pp. uk now devoted to statistical, editorial and miscellaneous matter in brevier, and the remaining two-ihirds to mor^ formal articles in coarser type. The pictures and letter-press of many of these are reprinted from various kinds of sporting books ; and the avowed aim of the periodical is to be recognised as " the American gentleman's magazme of sport." When the American gen- tlemen who now own it have had sport enough, I suppose its publication will be stopped. A very creditable little fortnightly was the Philadtipkia Cycling Rtcord, which made ^h appearances, on alternate Fridays, from Mar. 7, '84, to Feb. ao, '85, when its di.'continuance wai. thus announced by the publisher. H. B. Hart (b. Dec. 18, '46): " 1 deeply regret ihc necessity of withdrawing the paper, which has been profitable and well-supported ; but arduous and exacting duties in other matters leave me no time for the management of its business. The completed volume comprises 317 pp., containing uver 350 columns of reading matter, of whicli over eight-ninths is original ; and it includes three continued stories, five original pieces uf poetry, and one of music, and much other matenal of interest." A few sets can still be supplied at the original subscription rate of 50 c. (811 Arch St., Phila. ). The editor was Melmolh M. Cts- borne. The paper was adopted as the "offici.il gazette of Penr.. Division of the League "; its typography was attractive, and its literary expression was unpretentious, good natured and decent. Contrasted to it in most ways was the poorly-printed IVtstem 'Cyclist, "published semi-monthlv for the good of the cause," at Ovid, Mich., from May i, '84, to Dec. i, '85, for 50 c. a year,— after making la monthly appearances, Apr., '83, to Mar., '84, for 340. The publishers were the Ovid B. C. ; and the Mich. Division of the League oarly gave it a sanction as " official organ." W. C. Marvin (b. Jan. 15, '62 ; d. Apr. 13, '86) was n.imed as managing editor, from the start till May 15, 'Sji, and C. S. Reeves for the remaining months. The pages of each issue were numbered from i to 16, and the time of appearance was often, if not usually, several days or weeks later than the date. Much more creditable was the " official organ of the Ohio Division, published monthly by the Cleveland B. C, at a subscription rate of to c. for the half-year, Apr. to Sept., '84." Its name was the CUvtland Mercury; its editor was Alfred Ely, \t. ; its pages (10 by 7 in.) were numbered from i to 88 ; and though its chief object was to advenise and pro- mote the August races of the Division and the October races of the club, it made a specialty of road information, and printed many facts of value to tourists in Ohio. Its final number declared that a second volume would begin in Oct., as " Cycling, a monthly journal of cycling and the trade, at 50 c. a year, giving the latest wheel news and special attention to touring." In fact, however, "Vol. a. No. 1," under the new title, anu with pape enlarged to 11 by 8 in., was dated Apr., '85, and the S-jpt. issue announced its absorption in the Springfitld M^Meelmen's Ga- aette, whose publisher agreed to fill all unexpired subscriptions, besides paying 50 c. for each name on the list. Cycling was well printed, and the Aug. issue, which was the last one that reached me, had a colored cover, bringing the total of pages up to 88. Montgomery, the capital of Ala- bama, could boast of the Bicycle, a semi-monthly of 8 pp., from July 15. '84, to Oct. 15, '85, with a subscription-rate of $1. Frank X. Mudd and J. C. McKenzie, the original " editors and proprietors," issued the first 6 numbers, and R. H. Polk the remaining 24. Advertisement was made in '83, by H. L. Nelson a d C. H. Fisher, at Milford, Mass., of the Cycle, an 8-p, paper, devoted to the interests of L vclers and tricyclers, and issued by them on the nth of every month, at 35 c. a year; but I have never been able to secure a specimen, or extract any other information than that " the issue was confined to 6 or 7 numbers." The birth of the Hamilton Wheel Journal, planned as a monthly, was announced late in May, '85 ; but I rever heard of a second number. Of th" same date was the Yale Cyclist, designed to ndvertise the races of the Yale B. C. Similarly, the fourth annual parade and fall races of the New Haven B. C. wwe promoted by the AVte/ iVrtfvit 5a5'c/?^W(ti/(Spp., Sept., '83, price s c); and the EUza- btlh H^AeelmoHiS pp., Dec, '84, drculation 5000) was issued in support of an exhibition bv the enterprising club of that narnt The Lawrence B. C. likewise issued the Bicycler's Record, Jan. and Feb., '84. The Bicyc'e, "Vol. i.. No. i." (8 pp., illustrated, Feb., '81), was pub- lished hy W M Wriebt. I^O Fu!tOT> «t.. K. V.. " fnr rraf;!it.--.!;f;.HUtT:h::t:.-.r: == =n =H.vrrf>--m!T.». nothing more nor less." The Canadian Whetlman't earliest page (Sept., '83) mentioned as ■•/. .. |->h:ji-*fi*l LITERA TURE OF THE IVHEEL. 66i defunct the HamUt^n BicycU, which perhap. «ever reached , .econd i»ue ; .nd even , fim .ssue wa. never achieved by the Main. WW. which wa, projected in Nov., '84. a. BanJrTJ W V. Stone. Perhap. I should add ,0 the catalogue the Cai./omu, Af>,,u, "a w^^^u^ n.., of Pacfic .port, and pa.time. " (8 pp.. U.,o).-.^^ described a. vo ted .^ ir.e Hv-r... ...d publ..hed every Saturday by Ben Benjan,.n, "-which made nine app.«ancrTa San ... .l,e /,^/«,a!,. rins « a ^^ell.p^nted weekly (.6 pp., Jj. Ju„e. -gj), Urgely given to local P.....cal comment and hght literature ; and one of it, departments, edited b/c A .« Je ' « «,.h.he..t.." Pacific Sports and Pas.im.s," is called "Ihe offici:. org^of th. Ca' D Z „' of the League." .ud exhibits its badge and list of officers. TnH American Cycling Press of 1886. As my account of the H keelman has shown that it was in fact a " trade circular " who«! expensjveness caused ,.s early discontinuance, the less^ma.e and less pretentious cycHng Z- na s wh,ch st.ll ex.st can lay claim to r.o higher title. Their sole reliance for suppcr.l the patronage of adverfsers ; for .f they seek subscrioers, by the offer of " news and o.h^ i„.„ «- ...g readmg matter," ,t ,s only .0 use the «ime as a basis for the sale of " advertising space^' the two whiJ. occupy a commanding position in regard to thio are the iC >f W BulUti^ 'ZTJ'Z^"^ ■"' '^'f'""''''.^ Ga«/,. (.3,000 circ), for each of them distributes more copies .1.. n all he other journals comb>..ed. Each can therefore afford to :„aintain high rates and tc hold Itself qu.te independent of any tradesman's favor or " influence." As the BulUin is sent free to every member of the League, and as its printed mailing-iists of nearly .0,000 names are pub- laly accessible, the editor and publisher has no need of talking with advertiser, about the genuine- ness of Its circulation." The problem before him simply is to offset thedry " official notices " «,.h such an amount of interesting reading matter as shall convince them that the paper is in fact read. The problem before the managers of the other weeklies is to convince aavertiM,, that a smaller circulation, as compared with the BulUtMs, is atoned for by greater readablenes. as well as lower rates. (Its history has been given in the chapter on the League. See p fao ) Th.«= "l^J^^ °f 'he IVkeelmen^s Gazette is to advertise the annual tournament of the Spring. field Bicycle Club, a.id the excellent typograph- of the Springfield Printing Company.-the editor and manager, Henry E. Ducker (b. June ,7. '48) being president of the former and Mipenntendent of the latter. Having thus a definite business-basis which the other papers lack he IS enabled to undersell them and attract an enormous mass of half-dollar subscribers -esti! mated to outnumber theirs and the membership of the League combined. As these 'lists of n.imes are constantly changing, they are kept in manuscript, but in such shape as to be readily accessible to any advertiser who wishes to assure himself as to the localities chiefly represented there. Occasional summaries are published, showing the number of towns and of subscribers that the paper is sent to in each State ; and the other journals are challenged to make a similar exhibit. Their refusal to do this, or to allow the inspection of their subscription-books and mailing-hsts by outsiders, carries its own lesson. The editor of the Gazette keeps on file the name and address of ever>' American wheelman that he can discover, and once a year he sends to each a sample copy of the paper, with a request that the postmaster return it if undelivered. Name; thus returned are set aside until correct addresses can be found, and the list is in this «ay kept fresh and trustworthy. It is arranged by States and towns, and is incomparably the largest and most authentic record of ti.e sort in existence. The names upon it, Aug. ., '86, numbered 28 423, but probably included no more than half the wheelmen of the country. The owner of this list, though freely exhibiting, it. will not allow copies ;o be taken, but he will agree to send tradesmen's catalogues, circulars, and the like, to all the addresses mentioned, or to any desired proportion of them, at a stipulated rate. He had hardly more than 8.«o of thes-> ad- dresses when he distributed the first issue of the Gaa. title pane could not be sold lo any other patron. Rather than submit to buch a view of •■'m\j contr.ict, the G«ss the best con! nected history of the growth oC American cycling for the period covered. The annual rate was *j during the second volume, |a for the next live years, and on June 4, '86, was reduced to t\, —single copies being priced at 10 c. until May 13, '' 1 ; then 7 c. until June 7, '84, and 5 c. since.' The B. /K had 16 pp. during the 10 c. period, la pp. during the 7 c. pen-xl, and 16 pp. to 14 pp. since, with occasion: i additions to each of those sizes. The shape has i..ways been 9 by 1 j in. .ind the pi.per of a pale lemon tint. The printing has been done by Alfred Mudge & Son, except ih.^; the first volume was from the press of Rockwell & Churchill. Doutle-columns were used for the first 10 numbers, givit.g a better typographic eflect than the triple-columns since in vogue ; and the earliest he.iding, which was of simple block-letters and lasted about as long, wemed superior to the more ornate one now current. This wai adopted Aug. 7, '80, having " ** ^rchtry FUld " attacl.jd, and, when the latter excrescence was removed (.May 13, '81), an arrow was left slicking in the initial of World, as a reminder of it. Between the dates men- tioned, i or 3 pages of each issue were given to archery, and " and A rcUry Field ' was the head- line of every right-hand page. Announcement was then made that a separate sheet of th.it name would be issued fortnightly at |i a year; but I suppose the arch.-rs soon let it die. (Its pctt-mortem " good-will " attached to the ArcA^ry &• Tennis Nr7vt, which I describe later as dying in the arms of the Cy.list &• AthUti- ; and this in turn pas.sed the " good-will " along to the archery column of i"< successor, ."rfm.wK.) The name of Charles E. Pratt (b. M.>r. 13, '45). as sole editor and man. r, appeared at the head of the B. /f., from Nov. 15, '79, to Dec* 31, '80; then for 7 weeks, " C. E. Pratt and Louis Harrison, editors" ; .I.cn from Feb. 25 to May 6,"L. Mamson, editor; C. E. Pratt and Will H. Thompson, editorial contributors." Here ended the archery foolishness and the vomme, to whose clamsy double-heading had been attached the repulsive legend " A Weekly Journal of Polite Athletics." Hardly less sickening than this to the heart of a true wheelman, was the phrase whch had disfigured the otherwise simple heading of the first volume : " A Journal of Bicycling, Archery and other Polite Ath- let.cs; " but, since the beginning of the third volume, ."le B. W. has kept its title clear from all such irrelevant matter. Only 8 issues of that volume carried the name " T. Harrison editor." however; for on July ,. after a half-year's service, he printed a valedictory, introduc' ing as h>s successor " Wm. E. Oilman, president of the Chel5*a B. C. . an enthusiastic wheelman for over three years, and a journalist of considerable experience, having conducted a suburbs newspaper and reported for one of the Boston dailies for wjveral years." He in turn offered a farewell, Feb. 23. '83, naming his successor, J. S. Dean, as a " valued assistant to the paper almost from the first number,"-his lame ha/ing in fact been regularly printed from Jan ,3 '8j, as " editona' contributor," which title was thence'/orth accredited to C. W Fourd-inier' until Jan. 23. '85. Meanwhile, beginning with Feb. 15, '84, " Abbot Bassett, managing editor " had been pnnted alongside the other two, ranking second ; and on Jan 30, '85, the style became 'J. S. Dean and A. Bassett, editors." This lasted but three months, and then A Bassett was named as sole editor. May 8, 'S;, to Mar. ,9, '86, when he withdrew to start a paper of his own, the Cycle, Apr. i. On that date the editorship -.vas resumed again by C. W. Fourdrinier and J. S. Dean (joined by F. W. Weston, who retiref". May 7). The plan of printing the naiues of editor and publisher as a part of the heading was last observed Dec. 7, '83 ; since when t^-y have appearert on the editorial page only. " The Official Organ of the League of American Wheelmen " formed a pert of the heading from Nov. 11, '81, to May 25, '83, and " Devoted to the Interests of Bicycling and Tricycling " has since stood iti place of it. Though advertisements were allowed to intrude upon the title-page as eariy as the r.ir,:h humbc. , ihey did not take entire possession ol it until July 22, '81, and they were restricted to the outer pages for two years following; but on Aug. 3, '83, all pretense of typographical I 664 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. •ttractivencM wu abandoned, by adopting the pUn which h»« since prevailed, oi inUrpoUting auch i«iverti >ncnU into the body o£ the p^per, and ' di.pUying " them with cnormoui black type. HeiKc. the B. /f. '/ appearance u that of x u. .'..n of tradeamen'i handbill., .luck together by a few columns o< letter-press; aiiU il.i^ descnption applies about as well to i.e»rl. •11 tie other trade-circulars which make up the cycling (.jurnalism ..i America and Kiigland "Published every Friday by E. C. Hoc'ges & Co." was a .'ormula of many year.' xwnding which gave place, on Apr. j, •»6. to " by Ui. World Co.," which had been the formula during the first year. I suppose moat of the money has always been supplied by Mr \U rupture, the tone of the paper has been uniformly hostile towards its first editor, the Popes' attorney. His wheeling autobiography may be found on p. 503, and similar reports from his two latest successors on p. 525. Tliis pair of quondam partners are at swords' points, and the B. W. continually attacks Mr. Bassett, whose circular announcing the Cycle (a 16-p. sheet, which has been ii^sued every Friday since Apr. 2, from the same press of A. Mudgc & Son) was .u follows : " After an erpsrience of 5 years in the editorial chair [and business department] o' the B. 'K, I am obli^jed to give up the position uecause the future Tu.icy mapped out for I'nf paper by the proprietor is not one that I can endorse. I have deter- mined to start an ii.defiendent weekly, which will have no interest for or against any manufact- urer or dealer. I shall giv2 all the news, but I shall let the courts decide matters in dispute between parties in litiijation. I recognize more than any one else that the field of cycling peri- odicals is alrear'.y ovcicnwded, but ' there 's always room at the top,' and that 's where 1 want to be I shall have a ful corps of able correspondents, many of whom foliow me into my new home, and I can safe 'y promise a readable and an instructive paper." The ma.iagerof the B. W. having made a formal iack on him, because of this, in the Bulletin, he replied in that paper as follows(May 21, p. 450 , first explaining that the three words which I have bracketed were omitted from the circular by a printer's error : " I joined the force of the /?. iV. in ',Si and was with it within a few roontlu of 5 years. So long as Mr. Gilman was editor, I had little, if anything, to LITERATURE 01' THE WHEFL. 665 I MfeC., M^ K t " "^ '^- '"^ "• '"""" '^'"*^ "^ "• fi^h. with -h. Pope Mfg C., . Mr. ,. h.d ,0 rcre .o «„ ..pen... .„H I became eduor in Uc, though no. i„ „.„V Mr. Dc.„ w« .e,..r k....wn .. , cycler .han I wa. .„d h.. na™e wa. pu. forward a. ,d..or .hough ,11 h» manu«:np. went through my hand, for correction and revision. When Mr D* accepted ,h, po...,on .f afomey (or th. Coventry Machinist O.. he wa. discharged from the B. ur. t,ec.u.c a. attorney for that company he wa. oppcecJ to the Overman Wheel Co who were preM.nR the Coventry people on the Uurn patent. From the time of M,. D.'. di.mii«J I wa, .K.,h ed„or and editorial writer, though I wa. forced to publiah article, that did no. m J my app.ova . W.th th., statement of the case , have done with it. ( leave my friend, of Z due, ,h ' ' . °' "° ' ^^"^ "^^'"^ "■" ''''"°"'''« P*"- "»«» ' ^- »"o-d to con- duct he paper accordmg to th. dictate, of my con«:.ence ...d good bu.ine« policy I ,hou"d have ,.... ,„ my oid rhair.today." The C>^ i, pubL.hed at „ Lhool ... , allliTai adver^J, n.em, and readmg m..,c, on altemat. page. A. =., .ate i. I..50. the reduction from ,, .0 $^ a-hfrdL'""",.'"'.' 1'°'""^"'"•"'"•'"'"""'^•*'""' -"«=' «'"'<• .mailer and price a rh.rd larger It, b- chance of lonKCv.ty i...,ere, in .he fact tha' the Pope Mfg Co mav feel d,>,H,,cd to pr. vent i,. „bli.era,i..n by .he o!d-establi,hed trade-circular of .he opp«ii.ion concern ber "n'^"''Z ^^ '""'.■'''• '"'•'»"" " * •^•""Pi'" *» given in .he " B. IV. special num! (Jan. , ...and special numbe.- supplemen. " (Oc. .. '83). which con.ain«l League constnuno, IM ,.f club officer,, racing records, tables of best times, and other .tatist^ n« ca«ly obu, ..... The B. /f. ha, also occasionally publUhed wcnKut portr-.s and cal^n. and has n. • U.-c„ . ^K of extra pages when important ne^^s nreded to be chronicled. Of he fn nH "T , "'"'"""'". """"^' " ^»"- '4. '»■). .0.000 copies were printed. From h foundauon ,„ the League urMl May a,, '83, i. served satisfactorily as it.. " organ - (a. de- tailed on p 6.8 , and since then ha. regulariy printed the list, of American applican.s for mem- fea of Its S^U^,. as a busmeM competitor, ,h. writer of any hostile comment concrning either the Har'vaT, "J, T' '.° '" '°''"""- '''' ^"" was catalogued a, a special .tuSent at the Harvard Law Sch«.l, m '83-4. and has sii... practiced that profession a. a8 State at He has taken two or three trips .0 Europe, and he figured somewhat on the racing-oath, in ,he earlier days of .he sport. His connec.ion wi.h .he B. i^. has been that of a free-lance HeseemstoenjoypUying with the paper, when nothing more important is at hand : and his pen seems most .ffeC.ve when pointed wi.h sa.ir. and wrcasm. Mr. Ba...... on ,he other hand, belong. ,0 the steady-going, " heavy-respectable " type of writer, and I bt ieve he is the only man in America who ha, earned a livelihood for a. much a, five years by exclusive devotion .0 the busmess of cycling journalism. The B. If. represen.s the expendi.ure of a.or. hard work, and more money, .han ly of .he o.her younger trade^irculars which compete wi.h i. • and much mismanagement will be required to desiroy the traditional prestige thus won as an enterprising a-i decently-written newspaper. It is quoted more frequently -han the younger pnnls and (in proportion to it, drcula-^on, about which the proprietors have always kept silem) .. probably read more carrfully. Its present chief editor, Mr. Fourdrinier (b. Mar. 24. '54) is a nfr.H kI l"' ^l^"'''"^^'^''-'' ^"«' --^ i" -^^'ged in the insurance business, as Jor year! pabt, though he has always done more or less writing for the press. "In .h ; fall of 'So, three enthusiastic cyclers were si.ting in the office of Wm. M. Wright, bicy- cle dealer, at .60 Fulton st. One was a practical printer, another a newspaper writer^ and the S Jl*^^ r™; ^'"^P~""^""""«-'"'»f°""ishtly.at*..a5(halfthepnceoftrefort- nightly i?. If the only paper .hen ,„ ,he field) was snapped up a. once, and our three worthies were soon racking their bra;... in search of a suitable title. Finally the l^h^,! was selected as a name. Shortly after it, fourth issL.e the associate editor was laid up for a long time, and hi. connection with Us columns unavoidably ceased. It, business manager was obliged to leave the country, and the burden fell upon the practical printer, who has from that day to this controlled ...an.:„. J q.^otc ;.-.c iiitci-, «o,u» from a hi,toncal sketch of the paper, introducing iu fifth year and seventh volume. Oct. „ '84. The first number (.Sep.. ,5. '80) announced " Fred 666 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Jenkins, ed. and proprietor ; M. Lazare, associate ed. ; C. Otto Manny, business manarer " The latter name did not again appear, and the second was last printed with No. 8. "Julius Wilcox, associate ed.," appeared with No. 15, and continued for just a year, or till Apr. 12 '82 He usually signed " J. W." to his writings, which were of a serious and argumenutive sort • and he has since printed considerable in the B. W. concerning the Facile bi., for which he is the American agent. The first issue after his withdrawal put forward the new style, " Edited and published by the Wheel Publishing Co., at 38 Cortlandt st." (the otfice of the paper had been there for the first three months, then at 75 Fulton st. for eleven months, and then at 1S7 Broadway), and contained a farewell editorial from F. Jenkins (b. Jan. 20, '59), saying : " As we have gone into the wheel business, in the capacity of manager for the Cunningham Co.'s N. Y. office, we hardly think the best interests of bicycling can be preserved by our remaining at the head of this paper." His name was put at the head again, however, five months later (Oct. 4, '82), when the third year and volume began with the formula, " issued every Wednesday morn- ing at 22 New Chuvch St., at $1.50 a year"; and the name of C. E. Pratt was printed alongside it as " editorial contributor" until May 4, '83, C. J. Howard and A. D. Wheeler were named as " artistic contributors," from Jan. 24, to Nov. 9, '83 ; and N. M. Beckwith and \V. V. Oilman rs " editorial contributors," from June i, '83, when the Wheel became "the official organ of the League," to Feb. 29, '84, when Mr. J. ceased to be its ccresponding secretary. Meanwhile, the name of Edwin Oliver, as business manager, was printed from Dec. 6, '82, to Feb. 7, '83, after which the firm-name " Oliver & Jenkins" took the place of " Wheel Publish- ing Co.," for a year, and was followed (Feb. 13, '84) by " Cycling Publishing Co." until super- seded by " Central Press & Publishing Co.," Mar. 5, '86, when the length of the columns was reduced a half-irich. The size of the present page when trimmed is only about a half-inch longer and broader than the regular 9 by 12 iti. untrimmed page of the WheeCs first five volumes. From Apr. 4, '84, to Sept. 25, '85, it was an 8 p. sheet, of 11 by 13J in., set in four columns; ar.d the pages were then narrowed an inch, increased in number to 12, and set in three columns, which had been the style from the time the paper became a week'y. It adopted an ornamental heading then, which lasted only six months, the present one dating from Apr. 6, '83. Its two annual volumes as a fortnightly had double columns and a plain heading, and were paged from I to 208. Their typor-aphy pleased me better than that of the weekly, which was paged from i to 8 cr I to 12 only, until at the end of '84 the paging was entire W abandoned. No contents-tables or indexes have ever been printed. Friday was first noted as publication day on Apr. 6, '83. Its price was reduced from $1.25 to |i, July 6, '8r (after B. W. reduced to %i) ; raised to |i. 50 when weekly issue began, Oct. 4 ; reduced to 75 c, Oct. 5, '8i, and raised again to %\, Mar. 7, '84. Advertisements eariy appeared on the title-page of the ■ tnightly but were kept off that of the weekly till the close of '85 ; and the rule banishing them therefrom was again adopted June 25, 'S6. Otherwise, the paper is, like the B. W, a " sandwich circular," with handbills and letterpress alternating. Vaux & Co., of 27 Rose st., were named as printers, June i to Nov. 2, '8i ; then B. W. Dinsmore & Co., of 15 Frankfort St., to Mar. 28, '84. The publication office was changed to ai Park row, on May 30, '84; and then to 12 Vesey st.. May 15, '85 ; and the printing has since been done there by W. N. Oliver & Co. (the junior partner being F. Jenkins), and the " Central Press & Publishing Co.," which was adopted as a firm name Jan. 22, '86. A fortnight later, the simple announcement was made : " Mr. Fred Jenkins or. the ist instant resigned his position as editor of the /*^.«**/, and severed his connection with this journal" Since the:, he has established hin-self at 322 W. 59th St., as dealer in cycles, and manufacturer of the Excebior cyclometer (which he introduced to the public in the IVheel oi Nov. 20. 'Sol. and he also finds time to send a weel:'y " manifold " letter to the Bulletin, Cycle and Sfiortins: L if^. No name has been printed as editor of the Wheel since Mar. 7, '84 ; but the practical woik of editorship has been performed since Apr. 3, '85 (except Oct., '85, to Mar.'Sd). by Francis I" Trial (b. Nov. 22, '63), who had been similarly employed by the Cyclist &' Athlete from June, '84. At the time of the tournament of '83, in order to give .ereater vogue to the " Springfield nurir^t:: vii. ii:r i3. .. .. :::r (.;:i;:;3;:cr ;nc7CGl SUpj^rciScu iiic lyhrtri \\n iwo weeks, bv liit trtck of persuading: the authornies at Washington to " investigate" its right of circulnting in the -vtJ'^S LITERATURE OF THE WHEEL. dfi-l ma.l. at the •«ond^ -ate of postage aceoried to registered newpaper.. The withdrawal of this right would ha«i been i-umous, because the payment of third-class postage would have swallowed up the narrow margin of profit on the contract for supplying the paper to the League Of course, the right was not withdrawn ; but the " investigation " served the purpose of annoy- ing each member of the League by delaying two copies of his paper. The Wyi/r/exnlained the rsTvai°;eb"'"'8'':^- i:^-^''''TTr-'^'- "■ ''«— •'"proof of -LCionf': itsnval. feb. 29, 84. by publishing the following " strictly confidential" circular, under ore icnse th.t the fact of its being printed on an official letter-head showed an " evident intension Ty. Tl , ^^" '° bolster and give color to .his scheme » : " I„ order to extend the utiii.y of the H^JUe/. .t IS proposed to incorporate the Cycling Pub. Co.. under the laws of '48. and iLe 200 shares of stock at $25. to form a capital of $5000. Half of this stock will be issued .0 Oliver & Jenkins, in payment for the good-will, subscription-list and advert.r.ing contracts of the l^Jue/ and the remaining .00 shares will form a working capital of I2500, which we consider ample' The publishing expenses are moderate and can be kept at a low figure. Mr. J. will be retained as editor and manager, at a weekly salary of $23. and Mr. O. will superintend the advertising business on a commission. As he will be on the roau all .his year, the advertising can, no doubt! be largely increased, and the paper enlarged to .6 p- From the business of last year we fee! that we can almost guarantee a dividend of from ,0 to ,2 per cent. Should you care io enter mto the scheme, we will submit figures, showing the net profiu under past management. Upon subscribing, 25 per c.;nt. is to be paid, and the balance in three equal monthly payments. Vour answer *, 1 not be considered as a subscription, but it is necessary to ascertain the feeling in the matter before placing the stock on the market and incorporating the company, E. Oliver, F Jenkins, N. M. Peckwilh, W. A. Bryant, and others, incorporators. Address replies to F. J » How much of a "working capiul " may have been raised in this way I am not aware, but I presume It was all worked out when the " Cycling Pub. Co." made its last appearance, Feb T !■ ,0 t''^'' ""''' '"*" '*'* " ^^^'''^ «"«»" °^ "-^ (B) ^- T- C. in America," f. .m June 6 32, to Feb. 29, '84 ; and its year's experience as League organ has been detailed o„ p. 6.9. The chief advertiser during the fortnightly period was the Cunningham Co., after which the Popes took the lead; and it was during the period of rupture with the B. IV. that their attorney, Mr. Pratt, figured as " editorial contributor " to the first 31 weekly issues of the /r>4«/ and helped persuade the League to adopt it as organ. An obituary of S. C. Foster (d. Mar. 8. 85. «. 3') mentioned him as having suggested the paper's name and contributed much to its eariier issues. Boston news was sent to it in those days by " Handy Andy." the present mana- ger of the B. H . Perhaps its most persistent contributor was Frank A. Egan, president of the Ixion B. C, who never used that signature, but preferred to print his paragraphs beneath the figure of an owl, standing on a bicycle's handle-bar, with a pen in his claw. This appeared Apr. 6, '83, and pretty regulariy for a year and a half following; while longer articles by the same writer were signed " Selah " and " The Owl." The pictures furnished by C. J. Howard and A. r. Wheeler formed an attractive feature during '83 ; and a few portraits and other de- signs had illuminated previous issues. The fFA<'r/'r'- special number " of Apr. 3, '85, giving an Illustrated programme of the " Big Four tour," was also a pronounced success. The policy of .IS manager was a'-vays favorable to giving a '' free boom " to whatever seemed of interest to cyclers,— in contrast to the B. «'. plan of carefully rejecting all " gratuitous advertising," in the hope of forcing a sale of its columns for " reading notices." The present publishers m.ike a specialty of " clubbing rates " with other journals, ko that subscribers who send in their money to 12 Vesey st. " in effect receive the l^fuel free." An offer to ma.l the IVkerl Utt to each of the 1600 League members of the N. Y. Division, for the sake of the advertising patron.ige as " official ortran," was made at the Division meeting of June 29,'cV,, and " declined with thanks." In describing the League's unfortunate and unbusiness-like refusal to continue i.i '84 its ron- nection with the tVheel, which had served it well fcr a year, I have said that the resulting ' organ " was a shabby-looking affair (p. 620) ; but no such remark could apDly to the first number ot the Amateur AihUtt, published by Oliver & Jenkins, Apr. 4, '83. which was a la p. sheet of the same size and typography of the Wheel, and whose plan probably implied the S%h'--.-?fi^^rrL. 668 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. transfer of much matter from one paper to the other withjut resetting. It was advertised as a $2 weekly, " officii rgan of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, the Amateur Athletic Base Ball Ass( ion, and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association," wiih K Jenkins as editor, and a half-dozen officers of the associations as editorial contributors. A call for subscriptions appeared as late as ihe June issue of the H'hetlmtnU GaxeUe ; but I think a susp.-r.jion took place about that time, as money was steac'.ily lost on every number. Several months later, W. F. Coffee, jr. , revived the sheet as a fortnightly; and after he had also lost enough money fat the end of a half-yea', I think) a transfer was made to Baird & Co. , who turned it inio a week'v in season to offer it as a bait '' - the " League organship." This began with the is.sue of June n, '84, which was designati .- No. 25 of Xtit AtnateHr AthltU and No. 44 of the Archery &• Tennis News," and whici i a sub-title, " Official organ N. A. A. A. A. and National Archery and Tennis associations , >• ains the official gazette of the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen." The latter could be had separately on an ?p. sheet, headed Cyclist Edition of Amateur Athlete, for 65 c. a year, while the conglomerated paper of 16 pp. cost %i. It was the 8 p. sheet that, by contract, was mailed to each League member, for } :. per copy,— unless he chose, by the individual payment of $1, to have the 16 p. mongrel sent to him instead. O' the Archery &• Tennis News it may be said that 43 numbers were issued independently, the final one (June a, '84), which announced absorption by the Athlete, being called " Vol. 3, No. 7." I have already explained that it was a sort of continuation of the Archery Field, which began as a %\ fortnightlv at Boston, in May, '81, after having existed nine months as a depart- ment in the weekly B. W. This third experiment, the /} . <&* T. News, was planned to appear monihly for the first half of each year and semi-monthly for the last half, at a subscription of $1.50, and was welllprinted and edited,— the proprietor being A. H. Gibbes and the editor J. W. Auten. In less than three months, the latter got tirtd of tending to the AthleU's archery "olumn, and so spoke his farewel' on Aug. -^i. On Apr. 23, '86, the paper was revived with the reversed title of Tennis &• Archery News (" Vol. 6, No. 17, whole No. 138 "), as a 4 p. supplement to the Athlete, and it kept that shape for two months, or until transformed into departments of Recreation, the successor of the Athlete. Meanwhile, Jan. i, '85, the name of this had been changed to Cyclist b' Athlete, and the style of the firm *o Baird Brothers, who an- nounced the suspension of the concern Oct. 30, '85, and said that, if they failed of persuading any one else to continue it, the amount due for unexpired subscriptions would be refunded. Three weeks later, " D. M. Kurtz, editor and manager, and J. W. Barnes, treasurer," revived the paper, at Newark, N. J., reducing its price to |i and its pages to 8, -hough these were after- wards mcreased to 12 and 16. On Mar. 26, it was announced that D. M. Kurtz had withdrawn fro:n and E. R. Collins joined the staff ; that the office had been changed from 800 Broad st. to No. 755 ; that a stock company was being incorporated to act as publishers ; and that C. !.. Meyers would continue manager of the branch office at 125 Chamben; ..., N. V. City. Nc further change was noted until the paper reached the end of its semi-annual volume, June 25, and no notice was given then that this 126th number was the final one; but, on the following week, there was issued, from the same office, "Recreation, an illustrated journal of outdoor life. Vol. I, No. I, published every Saturday by the Cyclist Printing Co., at JI1.50 a year." The illustra- tions of this first number were taken from the Stevens series in Outing, and from Texas Si/i- ings; and, in combination with a well-drawn heading, and the banishment of advertisements from tne title-page, they hj![i_»d muke it ati incomparably better-lookinf^ paper (20 pp., 5c.) than its predecessor had ever been. The C. .V .,4. of July 3, '85, the first issue after the expiration of its contract for supplying the League an 8 p. gazette at § c. per copy, printed its offer for contin- uing the contract at the same price, but allowing 2§ pp. of reading m?tter (or double the allowance of the first contract) and charging $3 a cniumn for extra space, instead A %% as before. The Leaj;iie having rejected this hi favor of printing its own Bulletin, the publishers then ad- dressed themselves to the chief consul of the New York Division, with an offer to send the i^p sheet to each member for \ c. per copy. A " mail vote " of the 1300 members brought only 1S6 Trp::r:, L"j: r.3 cn.'y 50 r,r rnc.^c were ne^.i;ivc, a irijiiirav.i was made, lasting from Au^. 7 to Jan I, during which the C.b' A. called itself " official organ of the Division." At the an- ■i^Jt' LITERA TURK OF THE WHEEL. 669 nual meeting o.' the Division, Sept. u. the lentiment was unanimously hostile to the " organ " but the contract was not canceled. The vote againct renewing it (taken by mail in Mar '86) was a.6 to „ ; and this probably had an influence upon the Division officers, three months later when they declined to recognize any " organ " whatever,-even though the Wluit offered to mail .soocopies gratuitously, each week. " The weekly circulation of Rtcrtation is guaranteed to be at least 2500 copies."-a statement to that effect being printed at the head of its editorial colun.ns,-and it is widely distributed by the American News Co. among the dealers 'u chance for commanding a resi^ctable sale at the news-sunds seems better than that of the older trade^irculars, because its pictured front-page is more attractive, and its well-chosen title is cal- culated to conceal the predominance which cycling still holds in its letterpress. The archers and tennis players, and patrons of what Mr. Pratt used to call "other polite athletics," and lazy people who covet a reputation for being in; rested in reading about " breezy, outdoor life," —are all likely enough to be beguiled, at times, into squandering 5 c. on the casual purchase of a good looking picture-paper with so comprehensive a name as Recrtatton ; whereas none of them would admit to their houses a mere " advertising sandwich " with so restrictive a title as Wkeel or Bi. H^'o,/J, or so obtrusively bruUl a title as Cyc/ist &• Athlete. " Bad-will " rather than " good-will " was what th originators of this title sold to the men who revived the luckless sheet at Newark in Novem. and though the new owner, very soon improved the quality of the reading matter, and increased the circulation to " 2500 or more copies each week " (cer- tifying to the same by affidavit), they seem to have finally found themselves sinking beneath the weight of their top-heavy title. Its " ist " and its ill-repute were like a blight and an incubus upon their best efforts at reform. The death of that wild Western print in Michigan-tbe only other one m America which had presumed to court popular contempt by calling itself Cyclist- perhaps helped to strengthen the popular desire that this second '< ist " should u. buried also ; for the very sight of it was apt to arouse a sort of resentful memory of its two bad bargains with the League. The happy thought of wiping out old score, , and beginning over again as Vol. i. No. . of Recreation, is to be accredited to J. W. Barnes (b. Jan. ,8, -j;), the secreUry of the t^iZTl t V r p °'^'=", '"^ ''"'""''"• "'^ '" ^^"'"^ "' Lafayette Coll. in 'So a b other of Prof. SO. Barnes, of Iowa Coll.. whom I have q.oted on p. 323), and has been the leading sp.nt in the enterprise since its transfer to Newark. E. R. Collins, of Summit, and C. H.Townsend continue associated with him in the editorship, though no names of editor, a e printed. ^..r,^,<;„ , best chance for financial success seems to me to lie in the direction of reproducing pictures enough to make the paper sell at sight from the newsstands. The use of old cuts which belong .0 Out,„^, ,he l^Aeei, Puck and other papers, can be had at slight expense; and. If selections are judiciously made, they will be just about as efficacious as new ones m attracting the patronage of a new generation of readers '•The official gazette of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association and of the C. T. C. in Canada " has been a sub-title of the C.«.^«. ^Aeei^„ ,;„,, .^e beginning of its s. .nd volume (Oct., iSed bv th 'r W T '"T" °' •'' ""'^^ ^"'"""^ ^^"^•' '«5) »>- i« been directly "pub: li^hed by the C. W. A monthly, at 420 Talbot st. , London, Ont. , and supplied to all members : subscnption price to others, |.." The editing d„ring this latter period has been done by the som^wCb r"" ■"• '• ''"""^ ^'- '^^^- *• '5«>' "^ '^"^ ■"■ THo^^ Journal, asJs.ed somewhat by the secretary-treasurer. H. B. Donly (b. Jan. ,. '6,). of the Sinuoe Reform though heir names have not been printed as editorr. The first volume (Sept '8, to Au^T pp. .12) named W. Kingsley Evans as editor, and he announced in June the pthai b'y'h ^l self of the interest of J. B. Dignam. who was named as business manager during those first niTe served dunng that penod, and was then superseded by the more dignified Hesien which has since been m vog.e. The 2d vol. was paged from . ,0 .8, and publbhed by " the Wheelman Co., composed of 24 of the most prominent members of the C. W. A.." with J S Brierlev as secretary-treasurer, H. B. Donly as Association editor, and W K £-1- - iL.'.J, '^^ . Sn^' TT, *'°"'"="''.f"'l ^'- «• ^^--' °f Toronto, as assistants. They InToun^ed'jn September that they were " considerably out of pocket by their year's engagemem to provide 670 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE, the C. W. A. with an organ Subscriptions have been insignificant in number, compelling the company, in justice to its advertisers, to send out many free copies. Apathy and indifference have been shown by the general membership. The H^/uelman will not cease to exist, but will no longer be published under the same auspices." Its issue had been semi-monthly from Mav to August, and London h.id continued the publication-place, as from the outset. Its cost for the year had been about #600, and its receipts |ioo from subscriptions, $250 from advertisements and *96 from grant of C. W. A.,— showing a loss of about #150, to be divided among its 24 publishers. The lattei declined to continu" ' -.her year, even for an increased subsidy of $200, and argued that the C. W. A. might f- um (or at most $250), send the paper direct to each member,— its annual cost being r _„a . $500 by the omission of the four extra numbers of summer, and its advertising receipts increased by the fact of its assured circula- tion among neariy ijoo wheelmen. Accepting this argument, the C. W. A. decided by mail vote to be it:, own publisher, a.id the result was shown to be satisfactory by the reiort at the annual meet of ju'.) i, '86, proving the net cost to have been only $120. The paper is well printed and has 12 pp., of standard size (9 by 12 in.), though the rule for the first seven issues was 8 pp. The editorial work has been done with decency and soberness— small space liavitiR been granted to quarrels or personal puffery, or sensational paragraphing— and contributors have been encoun-ged to supply solid facts of advantage to tourists and road-riders. The official re- port, showing that only 100 subscriptions were paid during the second year (when the editors worked gratuitously, when the C. W. A. gave official sanction, and when no competitor was known in the whole Dominion of Canada) has a suggestive interest to those who reflect upon the probable support given to such trade- peared,— and the first four numbers comprised only 12 pp. each. The paper excels its former rival, the Bicycle, of Montgomery, in respect to typography ; and it presents fresh reports from local roads and excursions, each month, instead of " filling up with general reprint matter," as that did. Similar praise for good typography and proper attention to local interests must be accorded to the Bicycle South (monthly, 16 pp., 50 c, begun Dec. '84), published by Hunter & Genslinger, at 116 Gravier St., New Orleans. The issue of July, '86, prints the valedictory of the min who had served as editor for 15 months, W. W. Crane, captain ci the N. O. B. C, Baying : " From an 8 p. sheet taken up by me in May, '85, this paper has growm to 12 and then to !.6 pp., and I now withdraw from the management, leaving it a sturdy, healthy and paying in- stitution." His predecessor was G. D. McNathan, and his successor is to be Sam M. Fatten (b. July 17, '57). Its proprietors are E.W. Hunter(b. iS46)and Chas. H. Genslinger (b. 1855), who »re selling-agents for the caligraph and whose advertisement says : " Edited and published by wheelmen ; official organ of the Louisiana Division of the League ; circulated and read in ever)- Southern cycliiig community ; live, progressive, entertaining, and 50 c. per year. A miniature bale of cotton, souvenir of the N. O. Exposition, sent to each new subscriber." I am told that they profess to circulate 1800 copies. Of the initial letters in the paper's heading, the " B " is outlined by a falling bicycle ; and another one, ridden by a devil, forms the lower part of the " S," — its upper half being represented by the tail, which curves over his head. New Haripshire roads and tours get a fair amount of attention in the Star Advocate (monthly, 8 pp., 50 c. ; begun Mar., '85^ of East Rochester, N. H., in so far as any space can be spared from its main purpose of advocating the American Star bicycle as the crowning tri- umph of mechanical genius. This type of safety machine, having the little wheel in f. „ .1, seems to be a better " coaste-" th-n any other ; and t\\t Advocate's neatly-designed heading represents a rider of it descending a steep mountain-grade. I presume thic is designed to com- memorate the exploit ol July 16, '83, when " the only successful coast down Mt. Washington " WS3 taken Dy XTt^ editor sou puDiisricr, ii». ii. t^orson \ii, uci. iO, '40 , ace p. j^^;. i»y >'ic ex- clusion of advertisements from the title-page, this paper ensures itself a more attractive appear- " v>. V ;' ^'N LITERA TURE OF THE WHEEL. 671 ance than the larger and more pretentioui trade uiKcu -t the op. „ng ot the present chapter. The final words of the quotation allude to my suggestion that I desired to print ' ere the exict ages of all the cycling editors. [Since the 672 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. foregoing was put in type, I have seen several notices of the paper for Aug., '86, compliment- ing its improved typography and in cliange in shape to the sundard 9 by 12 in. page. It is also reported to have " absorbed " both the Sontlum Cydir and the BicycU Smth. Rumor from California says that a new monthly, the Pacific Whetlman, is about to appear at San Kran- cisco. Springfield, Ms., also sends out in Sept. the BicycU Herald (monthly, 4 pp., ,5 c.;, ed by Kev. H. A. King, to herald his new safety bicycle. It is " pub. by the Evangtlut Co. "J The Vermont Bicycle, " divoted to good roads, healthful recreation and the wheel interest " is of the same siie and shape as the St. Louis sheet first described, though its " hand-bill type " is rather more pronounced. The seven monthly numbers, Apr. to Oct., '86, are sent for 25 c • and 1 suppose the plan is to supply seven similar issues in '87 and later years ^t the same rate! " A copy is maiLd to every post-office and every League member in the State ; and a column advertisement, 17} by aj in., costs only I3." V. ... issued at West Randolph, Vt., by L. P. Thayer, dealer in cycles, who also publishes the weekly Herald &• A'ews. The praiseworthy continence of Chicago, in failing to foist a representative journalistic bantling into " that large and struggling family called the American cycling press," is probably due to the early adopticn of a local weekly, the Mirror 0/ American Sports, as " ofiicial organ of the Illinois Division." In June, '86, this paper succumbed to the weight of its name, and, though briefly revived in July, as the " Pastime Gaxette, a mirror of American sports," its suspension sufficed to cause a transferof the " League organship " to its hated rival, the Sporting Cj- Theatrical Journal. The editor of this, Sam Miles, is an enthusiastic wheelman, ?nd he celebrated the happy event by adding " and tVestem Cycler " to the heading of his paper, thougli the full title is not repeated on the running headlines. Of the 12 pp. (13 by 18 in.), about 2} pp. are given to cycling, in the specimen copy f'pm which I write this notice. I have never seen a specimen of the St. Louis weekly, t!ie Spectator, which is said to give much space to wheeling. " Tail- Talk, a Western weekly society and family journal, and official organ for the Iowa Division, L. A. W,," adver- tises itself thus, for |i.so, at Oltumwa ; and I have previously alluded to the Ingteside, San Francisco, as " organ of the California Division." The Sportsman, of Pittsburg, the Sporting Life, of Philadelphia, the halt dozen sporting weeklies of New York, and the similar prints In several smaller cities, have regular departments devoted to cycle racing ; and a " cycling colun;n " is also a fixture in many of the special Sunday papers, and in several of the prominent dallies at stated intervals. A long " exchange list of journals, thus giving prominence to the wheel " was kept standing thrcj^h many issues of the ff«/^r« 'Cyf/Zx/, and it was about the only original feature in that defunct handbill which I can record to ito credit. The great amount of space accorded by the outside press to the pastime seems to ensure that the literary quality of its spe- ci;.l trade i- . ^ «" mc ciiu. me second issue iisine ser a,e and type. The cyclmg romance" which gave a title to this '8. hn.v u an ideal wheel." and I think the resi of -h. "^""^ '""P''"'^ " .^peciik,uions for r.view of the '^ mechanic ^ a:^^;:::^ i::^ ::f Z iT ^^^^H!. J^n '''"' 7'^''' ' ' on account of havine done the work „f •, ^ allowance for errors, effusion of the busie'st'rut-itrn s^tl^rtrStt''' ^'"^' ''l "''''''- ^^ limited time which could be given to the WW 7 / expressed regret that the •al^en in great part from the En,, "h " s, ^ '" '""" '* ""^"^ '""" ''^""' •"»»-• i... the " Bicycle Boom " S Mar " i 7 "" h "%" °' '"" ""' " "^ ^""' '■■■^'■"^- ^how the spirit of cvcline be».; ih t' '^^ '^'•."''°^<= Tenn.sonian swing seems to me ,0 Mr. Burbank's review memtned as'.^ "' 1 Tf '""' '"'='"•'* "•^'^'' ''^'' ^""^^ '" -^ "--• ^""""'^*'' 's the most notabe eye n-v book •\..^ "'^P^=■'"'«"•• A. D. Chandler, and captain. J. C. ■t'-t .. pp. „i ,„„ p.p„.-,h. ,di,„, ., .hi.H ,, . .,., H"l"'.!.';„*^*'-..'' ": ">'.!"«™ston B C. Postal notes for 75 c. should be sent to him there by those who wish the revised ed. of '85 (" Sixty I'oft. '• pp. 160), though he can a'so supply it in flexible binding for 50 c, and the iir.;;inal cd. of '80 (" Kurty Poets," pp. 110) for 20 c. E. C. Hodges & Co. are the nominal | u'-'ishers. Tlie book is electrotyped and printed in attractive shape by Rand, Avery & Co., a.id is well worth its price to any wheelman who has a taste for literary curicsilies. The worst thing alxuit it is ,-■ prefatory remark that " the incorrect termination, as in cycler, was too common o .eclifv in .ill the i.mtc-. but it does not occur in the later pieces; " for this shows that, thoi.c;h the aiitluir originally had a true ear for euphony, he lacked the courage to defend it in his id ^d.,— simply because there had meanwhile appeared a "revised dictionary," into wnich some c.-.-se-hartkncd hack, who knew nothing about the prevalent American usage, had carele«=ly in erpolatid "cy- c\ist " as the correct kibosh. More ornate than the unique collection of this eiii^rly lioston bard, whom the shadow of a dictionary " revisist " so thoroughly scared, was the " elcR.ir.t quarto volume, bound in blue silk cloth, with side-stamp in gilt and silver " which a sprightly young New Vorker issued in July, '84, with the title, " Wheel Songs ; poems of bicycling." The 80 pp. carried nearly 50 engravings, many of which had appeared in Outing with the ac- companying text, and the advertisements described this as " sentimental and humorous." The price was f 1.75, and the publiihcis were White, Stokes & Allen, of 1S2 ""ifth avenue, who, in ohoring me the fclectrotypes (Dec. 11, '85), at a very low rate, said the volume was then entirely out of print. I see, ho-vever, that copies are still advertised for sale at the office of Outing. The author was S. Conant Foster (d. Mar. 8, '85, x. 31), known among his friends as the "poet wheelman," who learned to ride the bicycle in '79, wos manager of the original wheel agency at " No. 791 " during the Wriijht ownership, and was then, for the four years ending with his death, in the employ of the firm who make the Otis elevators. Another notably elegant volume, which, as a specimen of the typographic art, stands far superior t( anything yet projected in the shape of cycling literature in any part of the world, is " Rhymes of the Road and River, by Chris. Wheeler '' (pp. 154, $2), pri.-.ted and published at Philadelphia, in Nov., 'S5, by E. Stanley Hart & Co., printers of the L. A. If^. Bulletin. The pages are gilt-edged, 7 by 8} in. in siz"-, and of a luxurious sort of paper, almost as ck "is cardboard. There are no disfiguring advertisements, and no illustrations, but th^re is a 1 on amental side-stamp, of gold and bl.ick, upon the cover, which is of olive-green muslin and is beveled, and it exhibits the following sub- title : " Cent Oars and Broken Spokes, bent and broken on both sides of the Atlantic." The title-page also shows that tic " rh^-mes " are classed under these four divisions : " La\s of Lan- caster Pike: Songs of A.z Schuylkill River; B';nt Oars and Broken Spokes; Cycling I'ab Ballads." The preface, dated Sept. 20, holds the author's friends responsible for the production of the book ; and the editors of the cycling press, to which many of the pieces had been contrib- uted, gave it a friendly welcome. The author's real name is Arthur Henry Mac Owen (b. iS6i\ whose first five years were spent in Boston, and who has been a Philadelphian only since 'St, the intermediate or educational period being acCTedited to Dublin ; for his parents are of Irish- Scotch ancestry. He has written many pieces in advocacy of the pleasures of touring (usin_', the signattire " Ninon Neckar ■' as v.ell as " Chris. Wheeler "), has printed " Steel Wings, a romance of the road, in ten chapters," in the Phila. Cyc. Record, and he supplies a page of "jottings" f 01- each monthly Wheelmen's Gnzttte. The latter journal also printed in advance (May, '85) a specimen chapter of " In and .\roi.nd Cape Ann : a hand-book of C'"'.:cestcr, Mass., and its immediate vicinity, for the whe'-lman tourist and the summer visitor, with eleven illustrations, printed at the Caf^ Ann Advertiser office." The volume contains 100 pp. of c'^out 3o,cx» words, is well printed and nea.ly bound in cloth, and is mailed for postal-note of t- -u -- J t,V t- _ T !-— C "'^U' .,- t- ,'V. TT-i- - •-C\ ........ .t ..f jV.- J' T* i^ T^v'^. 75 C. Dy tTiC uutnor anc piitj:t3T;cr, jcnn n. it cciDcr, jr. vc r ci^, i, 5.";. ct:::r.u: *.•: :"" '^ 1 *. ■ for the past eleven years book-keeper and clerk of the Cape Ann Savings Bank. 51 M.iin s;., I LITER A TURE OF THE WHEEL. ^7S Gloucester. A pioneer rider of 'r^ he had printed many newspaper .ketches about wheelin, before he began wntinR this guide-book in the winter of '»y^. kesun.ing work upon it in the winter of '84-5, be completed the task in July and publish..d in August. The edition was ,,50 copies, and the sale was so good that, though rot electrutyi«;d, a new and greatly enlarKed ed IS to be issued u. June, '87. Unsolicited orders for ,00 copies were received before the book .appeared (chiefly as a result of the sixjcimen chapter, before mentioned) ; about 100 were givt away to newspaper editors and others ; and a large share of the ed.iion was «,ld to sun ner VI... , at (;. The 10 pp. of advenisemeiits brought in ^iSj. 1 am indebted to this author for freely advertising my own book upon his labels and circulars ; and my list -{ "other cycling pub- hcations " was also impressed by him j,x,n 1000 of the latter. In regard to " Wheels and Whims." caflogued on a previous page, t;«//«^ sjMke as follows (July, 'S4, p 307) • " In this the tncyde score, its f^rst novel. It is an animated little story of four young women on a tricy- cle trip from Hartford to the ocean, with many movii.g girlish adventures u, flood and by field A good H al of romance is interwoven, and it ends in a double wedding m the most blissful style. It IS not the work of a skillful writer, and the illustrations a'e saddening; but it is an amusing story notwithstanding. • • The experienced wheelman will of course not rely upon the reported roads, which are in fact too sandy for the excursions which the author's imairi- nat^ion has made over them," The Br HW/J said (July 4, p. .52) : " The boo|- :s very breezy and the sto y i, well told. The illustrations detract from the excellence of the work " '■ Wheelmen's Reference Book " (.May, '86 ; pp. ,83 and adv. pp. ,7 ; pric 50 c. in paper and $t in cloth ; published by Ducker & Coodman, at Hartford, Ct.), has pages almost ex- actly the same sue as this present one and rs also manufactured by the S -ingfield Printing to from the same brevier type used in my earUer chapters. The superintendent of that company IS one of the publishers, and the other is Henry (loodman (b. Nov. 27, '60), widely-known as the inventor of the patent cycling score-cards which are sold at all ," e chief race-meetings. A wood- engraved portrait of Col. Albert A, Pope covers a page a. the front of the book, and i, followed byabnef biography; and the heads of eight other men connected with the trade supply ma- tenal for two pages of tinted lithographs. There are ten such lithographed sheets inserted, but p P » v^lr^J"^' "u "' ^'" '•'^^'''"'-'he frontispiece being given to League officers : C E. Pran, N. M. Beckwith A^ Hassett. I P. Kendall and C. H. Potter. The ^tourist page " shows T. Stevens, H. J. High, B. B. Avers, C. A. Hazlett and W. W. .Stall; tie - profe^ sional page," R. Howell, J. S. ^Prince, F. Wood, W. M. Woodside and R. A Neilson h" " Enghsh amateur page," P. Fumiva.l, R. H. English, M. V. J. Webber, R. Crip^r n'd R K^tT R R VT T'r '" 'T •" " '""'=''"" '"'''''"' "■■ (■' E- P- Burnham, C. E. P r-\ M »",/ c ^"^'PP^-'d ■'• ''■ Hitchcock; (a) G. M. Hendee, E. F. I^i dv F R. Cook, N^ H^Van Sicklen and W. C. Marvin (d. '86); (3) F. F. Ives, W. H. Huntlev D E. Hunter L. D^Munger and W. A. Rhodes ; (4) W. A. Rowe, L. B. Hamilton. W. E. Cri" G. t Weber and L. A. Miller. Pictures and descriptions of ,9 machines which have a lend! ing place ,n the .Wncan market occupy as many pages, and are followed by the League racing -es,anda ' club director,- " which names 3,, clubs, alphabetically by States and .owns, and he secretary of each. An alphabe.ica, list of 554 A;nericans who have competed in races gives e residence of each, and is followed by brief biographies of ,67 of them, an"^ of .8 others Z e prominent as tourists Leag- officers or tradesmen. These biographies cover 44 pp. and xh.bit the subject'., birthday m nearlv every case. The next .0 pp. give mv own sketch of the League and a list of free railroads." " Chronology of '85," a hodge-podge calendar of sligh ^alue, covers . pp., and is followed by " Comparative Cycling Records," ,4 pp., of fine t^ carefully : ..uiated. The final feature in the book is a list of 390 " agents and dealers in the U Sairanged by States and towns. "Touring" and " training " are treated of very brieflv by B.B Avers and C. L. Meyers ; and there are 25 pp. of •' filling," called " opinions of leading men (copied from the Popes' advertising scrap-book), which exhibit in brief paragraphs the various advantage nf <-,-^i;t,™ a ...u j v., , , . . 1 J- "l'"' '"c BB various advantages of cycling. A well-drawn lithoar^Dh ...t T '■■Idwood, is impt^ssed upon^he crver in blue andorange 7atid"^ page of'" addll^oiir'^!? <^ ctions forms the append-x. The preface says that less than half the 600 racing men filled 676 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. out the blanks which were tent to them, requesting itatistiral details ; and that only 60 dea'en took the trouble to make returns,— which ensured them a Iree advcnismcnt,— thuugh blanks were sent to 413. The book wci^hi. 7 ui. and has no index. It was planned chiefly fur sale ai the racing meets, alongside of the " official score-cards," which have |>r ir.. long, with jj lines to write upon. There are 72 of these blank sheets in the book, and at its end is a page ruled to contain monthly totals and anoi her to contain yearly totals, " by the echelon method," from '77 to '90 inciusi' t. In dcr ihat there may be no niis- take about using these blanks, " filled " specimen', are printed at the opening of the bixik, with a few words of directions, preface and dedication. "The exclusive right of adveriisinR in the first 5000 copies has been purchased by the Overman Wheel Co., who beg to call your attention to the last page." This phrase stands opposite the title, in small type; and the last page, in larger tyi)e, exhibits the following : " The Victor bicycle is the most popular, because ir. nin- ning it is the easiest, in construction it is the most costly, and yet— in price it is the most reason- able« Whether the machine justifies th^se superlatives ■ "eave without fear to our customers. Send for our new illustrated catalogue to 181 Columbus ^ ., Boston." I am giad thus ' give a " free ad." to the man whose appreciaiion of my own toilsome effort to put money in* > the pockets of every bicycle dealer in Amerira was shown by his offer lO pay a monthly subsiiy of ^3$ if the H'keelmen s Gazette would simply refrain from printing any allusions to me or the progress of my bonk ; and as regards Mr. Westoi/s c-.«'n effort to render the keeping of wheel revxirdi more eai; ind attractive, I only wish it was in my power to compel every rider in the country to buy a >. ,py of the " log," ixjst it at the close o.' every ride, and mail to me a copy of its monthly table it the close of every year ! Siipplen-.^nti.rv to the foregoing — or, if need be, a substitute for it— is " Batchelder's Record Book," for imnp liate use upon the road. It was is- sued in Mar., '84, at Lancaster, N. H., by C. D. lUtcheldci (l Nov. 22, '57), who began riding Aug. 17, '82, as the pioneer tourist of the White ..-Itn. region, and whose mileage was 4000, it the close of '85. It weighs 3 oz. and has 4:4 leaves, of which every second one is ruled on the left to contain a tabulated memorandum ; and special directions for using this, with convenient ab- breviations for roads and weather, are printed at the outset. Each leaf is the sii.e of a post.il- card, and such c.irds with the tabular ruling printed upon them are furnished by the publisher for 1 c. each. In recommending this excellent little fxjcket book to the attention of every rider, I urge in particular that lonp;-distance tourists, who wish to put their friends (or, let me say, cer- tain cycling editors) in prompt possession of an authenticated record of the country gone over, should buy a lot of these cards to use with the book. The latter's daily table could be copied ,pon a card, each night, with but a minimum of trouble, and sent off by the first mail. 'Ihe book is bound with a lap to protect the edges, and its price is 30 c. in cloth ; 50 c. in roan leather (with pocket and pencil loop),— a discount of 10 p. c. being given on orders for 6 or more. 'Ihe publisher says : "A page, when properly filled, gives the names of all places visited; cyclom. at starting and stopping ; distance between the places ; time of starting and stopping ; time of wheeling from one place to any other; length of rests and stops by the way ; time spent at each recorHing place ; condition of roads and weather all along the route, etc. At a glance are shown total aistance, total time, total rests, and net riding time. Blank pages interleaved give nmiile room for remarks. One hook is large enough to record a month's touring, and will serve a sea- son for most wheelmen." Somewiiat cheaper than this, and having the advantage of ofScial sanction, is H. 5. Wood's '' Blank Koad-Book, aa iidupicu by i'cuii. aoU K. j. ; crsi^rca :'t the combined uses of correspondence and publication," which contains 125 blanks of the same LITERATURE OF THE WHEEt.. «77 WM announced (or po»s,l,ie publication in \Iar 'S. hv I , , ^ * »core-book - i».e or Hi, .. annua,,. ,Ka. L.. .Im ^^f^ ^li^^i^ ^lu ic:" rS'i:;:;"' wluch no one seem, to have clone, for no book was >ssu.«^"?ribedo"p.'t. ,•:;:: oT'; prm. and w.ll not be reissued. I should have credited its compilation to W S I uirrh ,1 and Penn. books, but is uprisht instead of oblong, as thoy are The first Ohio book (Mar., '85 ; pp. 62) was a vest-pocket affair c by , in clo.h hnnn^ tainmg league and Division constitution and officer, and r.cinr u , .n ' '''\"-^°""''' ^^""- about the roads. Of the same sco,., shape and appe,;": e,TuTi s Id d7:^ 'aL". ""* suirV': \: "r'' ^"^ 1 "- ''--' ^''^■^- •• (=^'- Louis : E M. Sen'sen ; . f'Z. sul). The ..eague's early and unnamed handbook (Sent '81 • nn ,n. • „.,. y. cniei con- described on p. 5.5. now has a certain historic va ue falid t^ ■' Orci'a.Toerar"' 7^' Seventh A.nua. Meet' (May,-. 86) was an illustrated pamphW; of a^PP wi^Tn oTa^el ' o u.cue design. The .d ed. of A. I.. Atkins's ■• Road Look of LI' a ^ ci i y " (M^; .0. 86 , mailed for .5 c. by the a. hor at .; West Walnut Park) is better printed than the ,s' eo., described on p. .„. ana xhibits 55 routes instead of 4.. It LJh, .Toz and tzrT]^":' °' ii' '' '■ '^'''' '--' ""•^'^ "-■= ^' '"• oi .h "Whee,;::.' no of a^d V r? ' ^'"' ''"' °" f'- • "^ ^''''"'' f™- 'he .st ed. only in having ,^ Ha! been rel'a:f ai'id ^o L ^"^ ex.T:.": w^:: lilMl':, TT' ?'''''' '''""• '-'^■' '''-' ,„, „, .• .• c ■ rewritten,— Its final feature being an abstract of these ores rhiciit''r h""'" , .^'^----'-"i'erature. <-on,ribmio' s tothe Mich, o d boc" which It ,s hoped may be issued early in '87, should be sen. to the chief consul J H Johnson' rmbiran^'i.?"""; \-'" ^T'" "" ^■'^-"■•— - -" "e furnished Le K. D,: o^ membe^, and its pnce .0 others will no. exceed 50 c. The Conn, road-book is in preparation by >- t'. Huntmgton, chief consul, a. Conn p;«», p.,^1, u— r..j ,. • .._.... ' 'h^rLucTT'i^ f "'"r ""■^'' '^ '™ "" '° ^"- "'" '^«''^'';;ia;;d;fi;rth'e ;;;:" book pa..em. A. B. Barkman, chairman of the touring committee of .he N. Y. S.a.e Division, 678 TEN THOUSAND MILE^, ON A BICYCLE. writes a limilar report to me (/vug, 5) .^ to tbi pronpe-*! of the N. Y. road-book : " Jan 'M7 ii the pi.ij)abli. I'eiin. tabular model is followed, but there will be leiterprcw al»„ and maps. No adv't admitted. Contributions should be sent to nie at <»8 Kourlh av., Urooklvn N Y. My 1,. I. bo.jk has not yet paid cost of printiiiK, as 200 copies re.-nain unsold. I hardly expect to isHUe a jd ed., for all ess ntial L. I. facts will apjiear in N. V. !j old mountaineer, being also author of the " Sportsman'i Hand-Hook " (i6mi , ft), and who says that " a careful study of this little manual will enable any person of ordinary mechanical skill to make his own re- pairs, at a very slight expense, and greatly prolong the life of his bicycle." In a list of publica- tions recommended by C. K. Pratt, in Apr., '84, I find the following : " Suggestions forthoite. Care and Repair of Hicycles and Tricycles; by an Old Wheelman (jd cd.. 36 pp., 10 c.)" ; but I never saw a copy, and tlo not know whf n or where it was printed. A little pamphlet of some- what similar scope, "Instructions to Wheelmen " (designed to warn them against those special sorts of negligence and risk which threaten to strain, bend, break or otherwise injure their ma- chines), is in preparation for ine spring of 'S7, by C. M. Richards (b. Keb. 10, Vkj), who has been for the last three years connected with the Popes' New York office, at 12 Warren st. Many of his leisure hours during 'S5 were devoted to compiling road-reports (solicited from correspond- ents in the South and West, a: the request of the editor of Outing), for monthly pubiication during 'S6 in that magazine. Its sale to new owners, who give no space to cycling matters, look place just about at the time whei. his bulky manuscrint was ready for delivery ; and he tells me it was lost in the transfer. F. Alcctt Pratt, sec. oi ,0 Mass. H. C, informs me of his inten- tion to compile a list of roads explored by members of the club in Mass. and beyond, as a sort of club guide, as soon as he may have leisure. The imprint of W. L. Mershon & Co., Rahwav, iN. ., is the only local hint of i*s origin given on a pamphlet (16 pp., Feb., '*.) entitled, " Tie Advantages of Cycling, with practical suggestions on leaniing and riding; by 567S." I suppose it is no secret that the numeral stands for L. H. Porter, president of the Orange Wanderers, who has frequ-ntly signed it to pieces in the Bi. Wor! J and Cycle. The pamphlet refrains from naming any panic. ,ar machine, and it seems to have been issued for distribution among his frien is, and " for the good of the cause." "Wh.it and Why: some common questions answered" (72 pp., 6 by 4 in.), compiled and copyrighted by Chas. E. Pratt, printed by Rockwell Si Churchill and circulated by the Vo\k Mfg. Co., is d ^signed to recommend the latter's wares, but it does this unobtrusively, .oid it is packed full of facts and opinions well calculated to interest the public in cycling. Issued in Apr., 84, its 3d ed. of a year later was called " the loo.oooth " ; and its final paragraph announ-ed the free distribution, by t'.e same publishers, of a 48 p. 8vo, named as follows : " Letters 1 f Intere.st to All Wheelmen, Present and Prosnective ; containing much experience gathered from many points." This is a well-printed Ci,llection of testimonials in favor of the Columbia machines, and is not disfigured by advertisements. The same can be said of " What and Why," and of the nrt_nai-n^ their business and to that of every other dealer in cycles. The covers of this represent a repro- LITERATURE OF THE WHEEL. 679 iluciKin in miniature o( the title-pages of the chief American dailiea, weeklie* and nugaiinei, ar- tiilicaily hiuuped; and a double column of extracts (credited to these and other lourcei, and printed in vdhoui uiet and style* of type) cover each .>a){e 4iid look like vehubla clippings (lasted on sheets o( brown pap.-r. Praise of the Columbia wheels uf course abounds in these " scrips," but At le4Ht lialf of them (five testimony for cycling in general ; and the sjme rule was observed ... putting together the " Columbia Calendar for '86," on whose central pad \.i\ by 4 in ) a new label for each day in the year brings to li^ht a bit of similar testimony. The calendj'- card itself (ij by ii in), lithographed in gilt and colors, is formed of three attraciive cycling pict- ures, and the trade-mark of its publishers is quiet and inoffensive. A very small fac -simile of the ornamental tille-page to their ninth annual catalogue (5a pp., Svo, Rockwell & Churchill, print.) was inclurled in the group on the !>crj|>-book cover, )ust mentioned, and was the only hint there given of its origin. The catalogue was reproduced bodily, from electrotypes, in the L. A. W. BulUtin (Keo 16, '86, "o. 133-161), and the latler's printer took oaih that mori- than a ton of p;>i)er was reiiuired for , 75i» copies. The Overman Wheel Co , in !>iinilar fashion, reprinted their fourth annual catalogUL- (31 pp., Svo) in the Bi. /^Vr/^(.\I,iy i6, 'f , pp. 19-46). StoiliUril, l,overiir< Si Co. seem to have set the example in this sort j. enterprise, however, as the 6/r. H'h. Gaz. of Mar., 'S5, gave 16 pp. to their catalogue ; and ii' K-b., '86, they made another notable contribution to tlie trade's literature, calling it " The Agent's Guide, or how to tnake money by selling the Rudge bicycles and tricycles." The book is compiled by their man- ager, H. D Corey ^b. Jan. 35, '64), from material collected abroad and in this country, and from four years' experience in the business; and it includes chapters headed as folL.ws: "The present want in the cycling trade ; where to commence and how ; about hiring, — the jfest plan , second-hand machinea and exchange ; repairs— what shall we do with them ; advertising— when and how it pays; sundries, and how to select them ; best machines for sale and hire." A 2d ed. was announced in July, the first 5000 copies having been exhausted. An earlier scheme in the trade was that of the Cunningham Co., who in '8j issued sheet music (" may be sung in public without payment of any fee "), having their illustrated advertise, menis ujwn the second and last pages. The Srst of their proposed " seven cycling songs at jo c, each " (and the only one 1 ever saw, though " Over the (iarden Wall " was named as ^o. a) bore the title, " All on account of Eliia ; air from the opera of fjillee Taylor ; words by ' ( luila '; dedicated to the Boston fi. C." At the top was the legend, "As sung by (possibly) Kol Kron, and ether les-i u ninaries,"— suggested, I suppose, by my Pinaforic chant at th>; Newport dinner of ihe Le.i.nu" m "isi In July, '80, was advertised " ^Mister Tobias Isaias Elias, a rollick- ing bi. .song; woru.. by S Conant Foster; music by H. N .Sawyer; price 40c."; and the words were reproduced in the ''4 vol. of " Wheel Sonss." The Bi. li^orld (Sept. 4, 'Ho. p. 370) ac- knowledged ihe rec ipt, fnim Lee & Wa.ker, of Philadelphia, of " Bicycle Glide, a sheet of in- strumental music, by W DIederich, prettily illustrated with a scene from Fairmount Park"; and the Bulletin CSVi,: 5, 'S6, p. 183) speaks thus of the illustrated title-page to the " League Waltz, dedicated to the L. A. VV., by Geo. Fred. lirooks," of the Albany B. C. : " Behind the folds of the L. A. W. banner, is an oval scroll, on which are crowded grotesque masks, mostly in profile, and among them is seen the full face of the worthy composer, ' N'o. 29o.>5,' in riding cap and spectacles." I have never seen either of the two little bf^iks published by T. S. ^!:ller, ex-Capt. and ex-Pres. of the Chic,M;o B. C, " Bicycle Tactics " (Apr , '84, 20 c, a manual ol drill for clubs), and " Club Songs " (set to popular airs, 25 c.); but I am told that more than 1000 of the former have been sold, and that the latter's ist ed. was chiefly composed of the Milwaukee B. C. songs which A. S. Hibbard printed in the irAe^lman (Dec, '82, pp. i87-9ot, and that to them were added (in the 2d ed., July, '85) the St. Louis songs printed in the same maKazinc(.May, •33, pp. 140-43) by Arthur Young, and a few Chicago songs by Mr. M. " Bugle Calls, adapted for wheelmen from the manual of the U. S. Army " (5 c), and " Bicycle Primer, by J. K. Heard, illus ted by J. C. Clark ; a iiumorous alphabet of the wheel " (10 c.) are sold by the Bi. l^orld, which advertised the latter as early as '82, though po^ibly it originated in England. A Newburyport correspondent ot that paper, W. C. Johnson, recommends (May 29, '85, p. 87) as the best attainable tract ou the subject of road-making and road-repairing, the closing 68o TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. pigfs of " Agriculture of Massachusetts, second series, 1869-70," an annual report officially pub- lished by the State at lioston ; and the implication is that the League ought to circulate a chea-) reprint thereof for the general good. " The World on Wheels '' was the title of a bulky octavo' issued in the centennial year, " by a practical carriage builder," whose name and publisher ( forgot to lake note of when I saw the mighty tome appealing for help in a second-hand bookstore The author-builder dismissed cycling quite curtly in a single page, as a subject unworthy of so practical a personage as himself ; and he evidently considered that in giving pictures of its two representative " toys,"- the z;^/^^ of '68, and its prototype, the draUiHe,oi a half-centurv earlier,— he was duing the last act of history for this despised corner of the " wheel world " " The Koad and the Roadside," by Burton Willis Potter (b. Keb. 8, '43), a lawyur of Wor- cester^ lioston : Little, Brown & Co.; uo pp. of :o,ooo words, cloth, J.), is a well-written and neatly-printed book which ought to be owned by every American wheel c!ub, and read by every rider. Its preface, dated May, '86, says : " The laws as herein stated are the present ones of Mass., relative to public and private ways, and therefore may not all be applicable in other States; but inasmuch as the common law is the basis of the road law in all the States, it will be found that the general principles herein laid down are as applicable in one State as in another These chapters were written and read as a lecture bef.e the Mass. I3oard of Agriculture, in Dec, '85, at Framinghain, and have since been pub. in the ' Report on the Agr. of Mass. for '85.' They are now given to the public with the hope that ihey will exert some little imlueiicc in promoting good roads and the love of rural life,— two iIihiks which I sincerely believe are essential to the lasting prosperity of any people." The author's enthusiasm for open-air prog- ress is that of a pedestrian simply, but it shows such a hearty sympathy for the true spirit of wheeling, that I hope he'may soon decide to attach the bicycle's wings to his feet. His book wholly ignores the tiresome legal verbiage of the statutes and judicial rulings, but gives the gist of them in simple and clear-cut phrases which are pleasant to read and easy to remember. He deserves the thanks of all wheelmen for putting in their reach so compact a statement of the defence which the common law offers them against "repressive local legislation," ainiin" at interference with their equal rights upon the road. He demonstrates that there, as elsewhere, thj one essential thing for them to remember is the ancient axiom (wliich, except for my dislike of a Latinized title-page, I should have adopted as a motto for thi.-. book) : "Sic utere tuo ut Kon alieniim Iced i:,." That maxim is only a Roman amplification of the sturdy .Saxon pln.ise, " Mind your business"; and those three words, when rightly interpreted and obeyed, seem to me a sufficient rule for ensuring to any man an honorable pro'j:ress along tlie great highway of Life. An authoritative biogr.nphy of Col. .Mbert A. Pope ib- May 20, '43), written by John N. McClintock, editor of the Massachusetts .lugazitu, covers the first 8 pp. of its June, '86, issue (Boston, 25 c), and is fronted by a wood-rut ))ortrait and fac-simile autograph (the same block being used also in" Wheelmen's Reference Book "), copied from the lithographic reproductit.n of a life-size cravon sketch (July, '85; sheet iciby24in. ; 25 c), published by Root &Tinkp', Nassau St., N. Y. , as No. 6 in their series called " Men of ALirk ; library edition." Another ornament for a club-room wall is a colored lithograph of a cycling scene (Jan., '85; 12 by 24 in. ; 15 c), w'lich has no other suggestion of advertisement about it than the word " Columbia," half-hidden in the tessellated pavement of the foreground. On Feb. 14, '85, the owners of the same tmdc- mark distributed among their patrons many thousands of a " Columbia valentine," — a card 6 by 8111., lithographed in gilt and colors with seen -s of "morning, noon and night," and having appropriate verses upon the back. As an advertising novelty in '86, they issued a " slate " ii8 by 24 in.) on whose black surface the " Columbia records " were apparently chplked in white; and they promise that the pictori.il calendar now in preparation for '87 shall surpass all previous issues in magnificence. An early picture of Col. Pope can be found in /?/. World (July 22, '81, p. 120), accompanied by biographical sketch. Mention may be made of the " <":f'/vr Almanac" as ; ejiosltory for tlie race-records of cyclers and other athletes, which is often quoted as an authority by "sporting men." The Gov't Printing Office, by authority of the Sec- retary of War, issues "Official Table of Distances " (8vo. 104 pp., Apr. 13, '81;), for the guid- ance of disbursing officers of the Army charged with payment of money allowances for travel. LITER A TURE OF THE WHEEL. 68 1 English Books, Maps and Papers. "The Roads of England & Wales; an itinerary for cyclists, tourists and travellers: con- ^rindLl" °"? J"Tr°? °' ""= ""'°" =""' ^"^'"'=' *"" ■"''"«=, of the main (direct and pnnc [«1 cross) roads of England and Wales, and part of Scotland ; particularly adapted for the use of bicyclists and tncyclists; together with topographical notes of the chief cities and towns and references to the antiquities, natur.., curiosit.es, and places of interest along the various Wanderers B. C. and C. 1. C). tourth edition. London: [Mason & Payne, 4. CornhUI t C successors in '86 to] Letts, Son & Co., Limited. .884." So reads the long^rawn-ou. ti'tle: pa„e of the longest and most laborious book ever put together for the encoura-m.nt of cycle touring, in advance of this present volume of my own. The author has supp led some little account of its various editions, and of him, .If, to my 550th page; and I supplement i, by saying that whoever intends to do much riding in England should study this standard work a. home the r t" ' t7 °"? r ""'"'' '"'"'"« " -"'-^-"^ " '" his pocket for actual service upon he road. Ihe index of towns, in triple columns, covers the last 40 of the 437 PP. in the book (exclusive of 34 adv. pp., some of which are interpolated among the reading matter), and names about 9000 of them.-g.vng p -e-numerals in all cases, and also in most cases mileage-numerals which show the town's distance from London by direct road. The typography is compacT and clea., .hough not elegant, and the style is strictly statistical,-no personal native whatever Roads'"?; fh J- , r "-t" "7 "'' " '-' '"""^'^ '^ '^^-'^ "P"" "•^' «'-" '" ' P^'-son's Koads (,8th «d ,8.6 , with some few correction, from the Ordnance Survey and milestones " and ,330, the heyday of the coaching period." and gives a brief review of " road.." " maps " cause o7'ttr7ff'"'" "' "V ""■ ^^ """ ^'""'"^ ""'^^ *^^ °''i-'^'' '° ^^ "-• -'"or '"be- cause of their difference in scale; irregularity of v ir relative position ; ir.exactness of finish and wan of coincidence at the boundaries, whereby the tracing of roads from one coun^to another is n>ade difficult ; then again, they seldom show the hill! well, some nTtat all and 6 :rthe"^:hTm"::te \::r ""T' rr---" °" '"^ °'''" '^"'' " •" -^^^ VI me wnoie may be had in no sheets (24 by ie n i m tn i in ^ ,. <;, „ u l , , c. eacl.. It IS issued by the Governmeiu Ordnance Survey, and thou-h sorre r .rt, „f ;, . than 50 years old, it forms the basis of all the privately-p bli^ d m°ap hill, 7 7" nons are shown by shaded lines.-dark and sharply defined where the . ' ""Zf, T" no, ,„clude mounting or folding." (The Letts ed. of this map is adve^ised in sn .! of o by „,„ / , . „ - "■"-•'"=''"-•="'«'* jus' been quoted, IS inserted a " lii>v • y Part7t;."e 'c 7 " '"'^ '^ ' '""'^ ''''''' ""'' '" ^" sheets,"'wi.h a marginal note thM any part of the country embraced wnhin the squares drawn can be had. on the scale of , m. .0 682 TEN THOUSAND MILE. ON A BICYCLE. I in., 27 by 21 in., with roads colored, in stiff cover, at 37 c. per square (or 62 c, If mounted on linen)." I have before me No. 13 of these squares, which shows the south coast from Hastinijs to Brighton and beyond, and it seems as perfect a guide as a wheelman need ask for. It is backed with cloth, and iointed into 21 parf, i\ by 4 in., so as to fold into a pasteboard cover of that size, and its weight is 4} oz. The same publishers have also sent rne their " cycling map of 50 m. round London," 4 m. .to i in., the sheet being jointed into 32 sections, so as to fold mto a cloth cover 4 by 6 in. (#1.25, or 62 c. without the linen back ; weighs 4J oz.) ; and this has blue circles drawn at 5 m. intervals Irom St. Paul's, and bright red marks for dangerous hills. I likewise have their " Fiance, compiled and reduced from the Government maps, and colored in de- partments, railways and roads, 28 by 26 in., 28 ra. to i in." (62 c. and $1.25), the main-roads being shown in yellow. In cloth cover, 8 by 4 in., without linen backing, it weighs 3 J oz. ; and I should recommend this cheaper and lighter edition of all their maps as quite durable enousli for any ordh-.ary usage. Their " cycling map of England and Wales " is on more than ci.,uble the scale of " Fran-e," being 12 m. to 1 in., but though it covers a sheet 37 by 32 ii. , it weighs only I oz., as the paper used is of the " bank-note" quality,— thin and tough. I speak of the edition which is supplied at 25 c. as a supplement to " Howard's Roads " (whose cost, Udund in blue cloth, limp, is otherwise Ji.25), but 62 c. is charged for it, if it be bought, separatelv from the " RoadG," in a pasteboard case of its own. I should say ihat this map alone would be amply sufficient for the wants of any American long-distance rider in England ; and to indicate hs excellence by comparison, I call it far superior to the lithographed map (34 by 34 in., 8 m. to I in.) which accompanies the '86 ed. of the League's Ohio road-book, though the latter's scale is one-third larger. Two other more expensive editions of the same chart (thick paper at Jii.25, linen backed at J2.62 ; Weight of the latter, 12 oz.) are offeredthe tourist who isn't content with it as found in Howard's book ; and in these the best cycling roads are marked yellow and the dangerous h'' . red, with a special dot showing the more dangerous side of the road. The same publishers supply for the " C. T. C. Handbook" (5th ed., Apr., '86) its colored divisional map of the British isles" (13 by 19 in., 40 m. to i in.) with county boundaries ted, and rivers and mountain ranges shown, but no roads ; and from their advertising list I anmaince the iollowing: " Scotland " and " Ireland," tai.h 21 by 27 in., 12 m. to i in. (25 c. or 62 c), " show- ing the road, rail and water communicat'-in, with mountains, hills and lochs"; "Kentish Watering Places, Her;.- Bay to Dover, 2+ by 24 in., i m. to i in." (12 c. and 25 c.) ; " En- virons of London," t,c) by 30 in. (25 and 50 c), " showing each r. r. system in distinct color, and all the parks, streams and landmarks in bold style " ; and " County Maps " (46), 17 by 14 in., (12 c, 25 (.'. and 50C.). Four of these maps form a monthl ■ part (25 c.) in " Letts's County Atlas," and besides their showing of best cyclin; roads in yellow, dangerous hills in red and dis- tances fr.im town to town, a great deal of special and statistical information is appended to each. Their " World's .^tlas " (Jio to $25) has had a very large sale. I repeat the new firm-name and address (Mason & Payne, 41 Cornhill, London, E. C ) of the men who have succeeded to the old-established map business of the Lettses, for the sak ■ of saying that they not only adver- tise to siinplv " maps, atlases, globes, guide-books and nil standard works of travel," but have shov.-n their sincerity by subscribing for ten copies of this book of mine, — the largest order which has come to me from beyond the United States. .A lesser number have been bespoken, how- ever,byneo. Philip & Son, of -• Fleet St., who express the hope that they may " want more," and wh' id for my review 1 " map of Surrey" (2 m. to i in., with London in n. w. corner), saying th.u, as all their 46 " county maps for cyclists " (25 c.) arc on she is of the same size (21 by 15 in. : stout paper, weighing 2 oz. in cloth cover, 6 by 3 J in,), tiie scale decreases in the larger counties, the lowest being 5 m. to i in. The main roads are distinctly colored ; red arrows of varying designs indicate (i) " hill to b» ridr'.;n with cautio-i," (2) " put on brake," (3) " danger- ous — dismount " : red capitals show, " (C), consul of C. T. C. ; (H), recommended hotel : and (X), repair shop " : and on the back of map an alphabetical list of towns naming the "(H)" hotels. I ca- hardly imagine a toi-ist wanting a better guide than this. Copies with liixn backs can be had at double-price (50c.), and that sum is also charged for " Lancashire" which covers a double sheet. The same publishers advertise " handy county atlases " (crown 8vo, LITERATURE OF THE WHEEL. 683 cloth 87 c, leather $1.50) as follo' ■ " England," 43 maps; " Ireland," 33 maps ;" Scotland," 32 maps i •■ Wales," ih maps (62 c ; together with a great variety of tourist ma; s of the liritish isl.-s, and of various localities and districts therein (indexes being promised iviih many of them), and a series of 38 pocket maps (22 oy 2/ in., 25 c), comprising nearly all the other countries.' L. Upcott Gill (170 Strand, London) advertises (IVfueling, July 14, 'S6) a 30 c. "route map of England and WaVs, linen-mounted and cased in cloth, showing dearly the main roads, dis- tances between towns as well as mileage from London, and having 30 of tiie most interesting tours specially marked in red." Thi; same adv. Jso names, as an eighth annual iosu^-, " bicycle's & Tricycles of '86, a '.hronicle of all the new i' .jntions and improvements of the present season, designed to u^ist intending purchasers in the choice of a machine " (illust., 25 c), by H. H. Griffin, formerly ed. of the Hi. Ne7vs. Wm. Collins, Sons & Co., llridewell PI., London, E. C, pub. a cycling map of England and Wales, in 15 sections (each, in a case, 50 c. or 62 c.; '4 m. to 1 in.), which the Cyclist, of June 11, '84, called "of an extremely useful n.uure, more accurate than many, and witli main routes clearly marked m colors." Jarrold it Sons', Nor- wich, were recommended by l^lueling (July 2S, '86) as pub. a serie., of cheap but well-p'ri'ited county maps; and T. Coventry & Co., Moss-side, Manchester (.Aug. 4, 'S6\ as pub. these local maps : " Forty Miles Round Manchester," " Yorkshire," " Lake Districts," " North Wales." Some account has been given on p. 5 19 of .A. M. Bolton, thi youthful author of " Over the Pyrenees on a Bicycle " (.67 pp. of about 58,000 words ; 25 c. Strand Publishing Co., London, '83), wl ich is a fairly readable story of " adventures among the Spaniards," though all the prac- tical information as to roads and distances is compressed into three pages at the end P 550 maybe consulted for R. E. Phillips's description of his " Guide to Machines and Makers" ('79-'8o), " Pocket Road Guides " ('8.-'86\ " Things a Cyclist Ought to Know " ('82-'S6, 25 000 sold at2C.), and "Abridgment of Ve!,. .ede Specifications" (Ilifles, '87, by subscription at $5-25)- The paper " On the Construction of M,xlern Cycles " which ho read before the Institu- tion of Mechanical Engineers (Oct. 26, '85, at Co";;nt:y) was publish-'d bv tne same in a pam- phlet which Wluding characterized " p.ofusely illustrated and invaluable for reference" ; while the Bi. IVorld repeated this comp .le iry adjective and many others in devoting its entir^ editorial page to a description and review c ,e book (Mar. 5, '86). His " Pocket (luides " cost only 4 c. each (i c. being added for postage .,n every 12), and the whole set of 160, in a case with key index, #5.25 ; while his " ke, index, with skeletor maps, from which anv desired route mav be selected, containing also the description of the contour, and the surface of the roa.'. " is mailed separately for 14 c.,-his home address being Sslhurst Road, South Norwood, Lo don S. E. " Self Propulsion andthe Rise and Progres, of Velocipedes and Manumotive C'arria-es ''' by W. M. Morris (b. Dec. 20, '59), Consul of C. T. C, is a book of 89 pp., exclusive of o'adv pp. and a half-dozen inserted lithographs of queer machines that preceded the bicycle There are 30 pictures in all ; and the last half of the letterpress is divided between " advantages and statistics," and " practical hints and instructions, useful either for a novice or an adept " (board covers, 6 oz , 25 c. ). The substance of the compilation was read at two evening sessions of the " Pontypridd Mutual Improvement Class,'" early in '85, and publication was made at their re- quest by Morris Brothers, of Cardiflf, South Waler,, manufacturers of the " Cambrian " cycles -ind dealers in all sorts of cycling specialties.— whose price-list of Jan., '85, covers , . pp. and says "established in '72." I have received from Fred. Warner Jones (b. 1843), "X Treatise on the Theoretical & Practical Construction of the Tricvcle " (Iliffes, '84, pp. 76, 4J oz 37 c ) a carefully written and neatly printed pamphlet, with 2; illustrative diagrams, accompa'nied by tlie following autograph letter, responding to my enquiries (Sept. -.6, '85) : " I was educate,! at the Exeter Grammar School, where, at 15 years of .14,., I took first mathematical prize among .70 boys ; and, after becoming civil engineer, I completed mv studies in locomotive engineer- ing by nine months' tuition at the Bow Locomotive Works. I fir.t turned mv attention to cy- cles in '78, when I patented the Devon tri. and tlu- Devon Safety bi.,-the latter being now rnnHp jn Arne*'ic3 bv Oormiillv S-: T;*ff;T-* "f f 'K-'.--. . . -. ;!. - — ,i . u *. ;-:-.- " " -" *" - ~' ""■ * -"-'--•^'-^i -- •"- pa:cr.: r.as irtji^cJ. 1 iuiiiicr in- vented and patented the tri. roller-saddle and swing-frame, which shift the rider's position according to the gradient ; and, this year, the swing-framed safety bi. The Devon stop bell, 684 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. the tri. tug and the sliding spring Tor tricycles were also originated by me. Among my various cuntrib aions to the cycling papers, 1 may name articles on the adjustment of a rider to a tricycle and on the correct position and sizet I tricycle wheels ; ana my treatise, hereby forwarded to you is the only work as yet published on the subject." From W. J. Spurrier (b. Apr. jo '47) u( 3 (Jueenswood Koad, Moseley, Birmingham, there has come to me the following simnle list of his pamphlet contributions to wheel knowledge: " Tourists' Guide," 'Si (13J1 thousand in 'Sj)- " Cycios, with road maps and descriptive routes and lists of dangerous hills," 'Sj • " Iluw to Kide a Cycle," 'S^; " The Cyclist's Touring & Road Guidj," 'iJ4 ; " The Cyclist's Ko,.tr liook, for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with map," 'S6. '^he last named is issued by the Iliffes at 14 c, and I presume the rest may also be published by them. "The Coventry ring " is a title often given by opposition writers to this publishine firm of IlifTc & Son, whose printing-works are at 12 Smithford St., in that town, and whose I.timlmi office is at 98 Fleet St. 1 hey apparently issue more cycling journals, books and pamphlels ili.iii any other firm in England, — or, possibly, than all other firms, — and perhaps this is the reason why others stigmatize them as a " ring. " I do not know whether the term is restricted to them, or is designed to include tiic various cycle makers in their town whose wares they advertise and recom- mend ; but I judge that familiarity has deprived it of most of its mtended offensiveness as an epithet, for I notice that it is occasionally used, as a convenient descriptive phrase, by writers who are iu the employ of the Iliffes, or at least on friendly terms with them. An interest in the firm seems to be owned by Henry Sturmey, editor of their chief journal, of whom I have printed some account on pp 548-9, and from whom I have vainly tried to coax the material for a c-nnplete bibli- ography and free advertisement of the firm's productions. The best he would do was to send (Nov. 28, 'S5) an undated list of these9books,with a.i assurance that it embraced all which the nrm then had in the market : (i) "Tricyclists' Indispensable Annual & Handbook ; by H. Sturmev ; describes every machine made ; profusely illust. ; new ed. for '84, revised and enlarged ; demy Svo, 410PP ; 75 c. and $1. 12. (2) Safety ISicycles: their vnrieties,construction, and use ; by H. Sturmey ; an indispensable handbook for nervous ri Jers; demy Svo, 18 c. and 30 c. (3) Health upon Wheels; or, cycling as a means of preserving and restoring the vital powers; by W. Gordon Sta es, M. D., C. M. ; crown Svo, 125 pp ; 2S c. and 50 c. (4) Tricy :ling for Ladies ; by Miss F. J. Erskine ; crown Svo, 14 c. (5) Nauticus in Scotland ; 24*^)2 Miles on a Tricycle ; with numerous Illust. ; demy Svo; new ed. 56 c. (6) Training for Amateur Athletes, with special regard to Bicyclists; by Dr. H. L. Cortis ; 2d ed. ; crown Svo. , colored illust. ; 28 c. and 50 c. (7) Complete Guide to Bicycling; by H. Sturmey ; 3d ed. ; crown Svo, 100 pp. 28 c. and 50 c. (S) The Rights and Lia- bilities of Cyclists; a legal handbook, b/ John A. Williamson, solicitor; crown Svo, 32 pp. 14 c." The 9th book on the list is F. W. Jones's treatise on the tricycle, which I have already described. The English prices, as translated by m; into American currency and named first in each case, include a postage charge of from 2 c. to 2 c.; while the .second and higher fieures represent the prices for which the books are mailed by the firm's American agents, the Bi. World Co., of Boston. " Demy Svo " means a page sj by 8J in. and " crown " means one of about 5 by 7 in. All the 9 are in paper covers, and I suppose contain many advertisements. I think that No. i appeared in July, '84, and its two earlier eds. in '82 a-id '83. No. 2 came out in the summer of '85 ; and, in Aug., '85, No. 7, which the Bi. H'orUadw. called " an improve- ment over the two previous editions, which have reached pn enormous sale, for the work in- cludes everything which can possibly be needed by the novice, and a great deal of value to the veteran." No. 4 was thus " reviewed " by IVheeUng^ (Sept. 3, '85) : " ' Tricycling for Ladies' i.^ out. Very much out. It's cheap, and there we draw the line. Whether or no one cares to pay sixpence, to wade through 54 pp. of news as old as Adam, we leave to the judgment of common-sense ; so let's pass on." No. 5 was originally issued in cloth at $t.i2. and an ndv. ol Mar., '85, announcing the cheaper edition, says : " The author, a retired naval man, laic', down his 2500 m. tricycle tour so as to embrace the most interesting scenery in Scotlrrd. Though giving valuble details as to roads, hotels and equipment, the record is so pleasantly written that it is in every sense a readable book. Interesting, i.istnictive and amusing, it is also an accurate guide to the country. It has 31 taking illust. and a map." The author of No. 6 (b LITERATURE OF THE WHEEL. 68s lime 17, '57 ; d. Dec. 29, '85) was the first man who ever pushed a bicycle 20 m. within the hour, and was probably the best known and best liked amateur racer in England, benig cham- pion at all distances in "So. He died while practicing as a physician in Australi ; , leaving a wile ,1110 two children ; and his brother printed there a formal contradiction of ih( story that racing w.is in any remote way a cause of the fatality. No. 8 probably appeared in June, '85, and is .irranged under three heads: "As Cyclists in General," "As Tourists" and "As kegards thj Betting Law." The Bi. IKor/jT called it "an admirable work; for, although it treats mat- lors of law from an English standpoint, it has much in it of value to Americans." Its appen- dix gives "the model by-laws approved by the local government board"; and its chapter h.-adings are as follows: " Vegligence ; master and servant; the V-.rt system; distraint; hi-hways; by-laws and tolls ; furious driving and footpath riding ; law of the road; accidents; what to do in case of an accident ; duties of innkeepers." No. 3 was issued in Feb., 'S5 ; and iliL- same author pubhshed, through the same house, just a year bter " Rota Vilae : a guide to h'ahh and rational enjoyment," of which the adv. says that "among other highly interest. ng .iiid useful matter it describes his long tricycle tour (1200 m.) through England and Scot- l.iiid." I suppoise it is a shilling pamplilet. Such, certainly, is "The Tricycle, in Relation to Health and Recreation," which appeared about the same time, though I think from another publishing house. It is a collection of articles written for the Good h''ords magazine, by B. W. Richardson, M. D., F. R. S., author of "Diseases of Moder; Life." and other' books, to whom I have ventured to dedicate a few verses on p. 63 ante. There lies before me " The ' Indispensable ' Bicyclist's Handbook, a complete cyclopedia of ;lie subject ; profusely illustrated ; third year; eighth thousand " (lliffes ; demy 8vo, 285 pp. and 50 adv. pp., 25 c), by H. Slurmey, whose preface, of June 30, '80, says, as a reason for omitting cer- t.iin sections which appeared in the -ds. of '78 and '79: " WhUst I do not wish to raise tlu price, I -nnnot again undertake the very great work of compilation at a positive monetary loss to m 'self[ ,.s hi.: been the case with those twoeds., notwithstanding their unprecedented success fro.-ri every other point of vie*. This book is » practical guide for the selection and purchase of the bicy- ■le, and s -me 360 makes are concisely described." A table of comparative prices is given, with V.-x of manufacturers and an index. New eds. came out in '81 and '82 ; and the 6th ed., though promised for '85 (when all the old ones were out of print), did not appear tUI after '86. At that ume, the Bi. ll^orld Co. offered to " close out the old stock of ' Tri. Indispensables ' " (before d •scribed as issued by the same author in '82, '83 and '8.,), at 15 c. each, or 25 c. bv mail, in- stead of #1.12. I mention this to say that the coming of a new ed. usually spoils the price of tiie old, without at all spoiling its value for ordinary use or reference. This " Indispensable " ..f 'So announced that " the Tricycle Annual, or indispensable handbook, will be ready in Aug." (though I believe it did not really appear till '82), and it also advertised the following : " Bicy- lie Road Book : a complete guide to the roads of Eng., Scot, and Wales, with a list of the best lintels and notible pl.ices on each journey," by Charles Spencer, author of "the Modern (iymnast" and "the Modern Bicycle " (London : Griffith & Farran, St. Paul's Churchyard; limp c'oth, 50 c), who rode i bone-shaker from Londo" to Bath, Sept., '69 ; " Cyclist's Pocket l!.mk and Diary, for reference and registration, iSSo-i " (London : 170 Strand; roan, 67 c.) ; •■ rhe Golden Rules of Training" chiellv for cyclers (4th ed., 5th thousand, 5 c), pub. at Wey- mouth by H. A. Jiidd, the present ed. of ll'heel li^orid ; " Romances of the Wheel " (Ilifies, 28 ), and " Hotel Charges Directory," by S. KusseU (llif es, 28 c). From another source I learn tint Spencer's " The Modem Bicycle," named :ibove, was issued b; K. Wan e & Co., Londn ., 1 '70, with a 2cl or 3d ed. in '76 ; " but it is meager and relates to the bone-shaker." In Feb., ' 1' I 686 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. scribed on p. 554. " The Liverpool Cyclists' Pocket Guide and Club Directory Jor "85 " u,. pp. aiid 40 adv. pp. ; 8 c, 2^ oz.), third year, is edited and published at 2 brunsw.ck st., by Oeo. t. Voung, " official tailor and uniform maker to the C. T. C." and various cycling tlubs lis frontispiece is a photo, of G. 'J. Mercer, president oi the Anfield iS. C, who is distii -uished as a long-distance rider; and its "long-distance register" jives details of 103 rid-js i.i loo ni or more in 24 h., which were taken in '84 by men living in or near Liverpool. The fourth aiimial issue of the guide (July, '86) contains a photo, of I i. P. Mills, who look the " J. O'G. rtcord " in the wonderful time of 5 days, i hour, 45 minutes. "Tricycles and Ho-v to Ride Them " a series of penny reprints from the Tricydtst, describing the 8 following machines, are maik-d fur 3 c. each by the llifies : Humber, Coventry Rotary, No. i Challenge, Omnicycle, Premier (Jnadraiit, Rucker and Diana. These little tracts ire "revised from the original by (;. L Hillitr and H. Sturmey." Of similar sii.e is " Cordingley's Penny Guide to Iricycling " (10,- OOQ printed for ist ed., Apr., '86), mailed for 3 c. from office of Tri. Journai namti\ below. A letter to me from the publisher of the Tri. Journal, C. Cordingley (Hammersmith Print- ing Works, London, W., May 27, '84), says : " I publish, every Feb., ' The Tricyclics' Wvle Mecnm ' (30 c), giving a history of the previous year's improvements, with a descriptioii of every tri. in the Kngllsh market. Another annual of mine, ' The Wheelman's Year Hook,' gives a chronology of the year's bicycling. The £/'. W^or/rf recommended the " Vade Mecum " of '86 as " well worth tlie money." The dates given for the following half-dozen pamjililets are those of notices in Wlueiing, whose opinions and descriptions I quote : " The Scottish A. C. Pocket Directory," compiled by H. Buchanan, Sec. Ayr C. C. (pub. at Ayr by A. H. I.ang, C c), gives a pile of information in its columns, including a complete directory of Scottish clubs, sketches of C. T. C. cJnd N. C. U., the rules to be observed on .jcottish roads, and the various railway rates (Oct. 8, '84). A valuable little " Guide to North-West Kent " (46 routes, 6 c), by Edgar Neve, Sec. Facile B. C, can be obtained at the Eng. and Foreign Library, Blacklieatb, S. E. (J"ne 10, '85); the 2d ed. (60 routes, 6 c.)has just been published at the Cycle Supply Depot at Blackheath (June 16, '86). We have received from James Lennox, of Dumfries, the well-known long-distance rider, a copy of his " Road Guide to the Southern Counties of Scot- land." It is an admirably compiled little book, and is far in advance of any work of its kind that has ever fallen into our hands. No detail, however insignificant, that can be required by the tourist, has been overlooked by the compiler, while the work is got up in such a compact form that it can be carried in a coat-pocket without inconvenience. Pub. by J. Menzies & Co. of Edinburgh (St-pt. 16, '85). An interesting little pamphlet, extracted from the Church of Ireland Temperance Visitor, entitled " From Holyhead to London on Tricycles," by L. MacD. C, has reached us, and provides good reading. Pub. by Falconer, Dublin (Feb. 3, '86). " The Tricycle and Tricycling " is the title of a neatly got up little handbook issued by the Ballantyne Press. It contains much valuable information and is worth the price ^12 c.) and a bit more to a novice. The author is " B., C. T. C. and N. C. U.," which is a gratifying piece of information (June g, '86). We have received a copy of the " Southern Counties Camp Handbook," which is a capitally gotten up little pamphlet, giving every information to the would-be camper, whilst the way in which advs. have been captured for the handbook reflects tl e greatest credit upon the business capabilities of the hon. sec, Jupiter Pearce (July 14, '86). " The Training Instructor," pub. from the Sportsman office, 139 Fleet St., E. C. ('85, cloth bound, 25 c), is recommended to bi. racers by Wheeling, which also praised "The Son;.; of the Wheelist," music by Harriet Kendall, words by " Rr Banks," Liverpool (London Music Pub. Co., '84). Among the books advertised for sale in the Cycling Times oi Nov. 3, '85, at its office. East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars St., I infer that these two wire published there : " British High Roads, arranged for the use of tourists; illust. by 41 splendid maps o;-. a scale of J of a m. to i in. Part I., crimson cloth, 93 c," and " The Bicycle Annual for 'So (a few copies only left), containing 170 road routes and an enorm'>us mass of useful information, together with a photo, of the Anglo-American Professional Bicycle Team, 68 c." The similar ar.r,;:a:3 lor 77 (ea. 'cy •*^. v.-. iNain;, igc pp.;, 7^ \pcnra;t c; j. Keen;, '79 vportrn:: .;: r. Cooper, III bi. routes), '81 and '82, compiled by C. J. Fox, editor of the Times, cost 30 c. , which LITER A TURE OF THE WHEEL. 687 was presumably the first price of the '80 issue. Each annual differed in miscellaneous rontents and perhaps the series was prolonged beyond '81. " The Bicycle for '74 " (Svo, 250 pp ,0 c ) was also followed by '76, '77 and '78 issues, differing in contents, having fewer pa^es. and sell- ing for 15 c. It was published from the office of the BkycU Journal (n St. Uride St.] I-idgate Hill), a penny weekly of u pp. whic' iiade a specialty of racing news, and died long ago " ihe Cyclist's Guide to the Roads of the I^ke District and Isle of Man " ■ as issued previous to -84 by N. F. Duncan, of Carlisle. " A Canter^jury Pilgrimage, ridden, written and illus- trated by Josep'i and Elizabeth Robins Penuell '■ (London : Seeley & Co., Kssex st. ; Ju.y, '85 ; sq. Svo, 25 c), describes a three days' tour from London to Canterbury, taken in Aug '84' on a tandem tricycle, by a Philadelphia artist and his wife. It was republished a month later by C. Scribner's Sons, of New Yorl:, at 50 c, and has been praised by the wheel press of both countries. The same happy pair will issue in Oct. a similar book, " Two Pilgrims' Pro-ress • or, Italy ,rom a Tricycle" (London : Seeley & Co. ; Boston : Roberts Bros.), bein- a reprint of articles contributed by them t :. the CinturyiSUx. and Apr.,'86), called " Through Italy on a Tri- cycle." Longman & Co. announce in preparation a series of volumes, " designed as a standard hbrary of sports and pastimes," whereof the book on cycling will be written'by Viscount Bury and G. Lacy Hillier, editor of Bi. News. That paper of Feb. 12, '86, said : " ' The W ir's Sport' (Longmans, 550 pp.) has just made its first appearance ; is carefully put together and readably written ; and the cycling section is supplied by ' B.,' "-who is perhaps the viscount just mentioned, and also the author of the recent tricycling book, sarcastically alluded to by irheel tng, as quoted on the previous page. " My Cycling Friends, designed and compiled for collec tion of autographs," by C. Alan Palmer (London, A. Palmer & Sons; ,00 pp., doth, gilt ,0 c.), was advertised as early as Mar., >S4, at ?., by the late W. C. Marvin, of Ovid Mich sole agent for .he U. S." It contains 300 spaces for autographs, with a picture and poetical quotation accompanying each ; and it has been very well spoken of by the press " A P. cket Manual of the Bicycle " (,, pp., ji by 5 in.) was issued by Hamilton, Adams & Co. in '78 The Bicychst's Pocket-Book and Diary for '7S " (,67 pp., 2J by 4i in . morocco, with pencii and pockets) was issued from the office of the Country, .70 Strand, and had " contents well chosen and valuable." It appeared again in '79 and perhaps later. " The Wheelman's Ye.tr Book, Diary and Almanack for '82" (paper 30 c, cloth 60 c. ; edited by H T Round com piled and pub. by W. D. Welford, Newcastle-on-Tyne) promised in its advertisement to •' con' tain 250 to 300 pp.," and quoted many favorable press notices of the similar book for 'S, which was sold at same prices. Perhaps there were later issues. The earliest adv. which I hale seen of a touring pamphlet -as '.he following (^«. y.?,./<;«r., Aug Q '70 D 111 ' \ p- i i.j from Russia,-Eydk. . . to Lan.-enweddingen, ifear '^^{^l Wm. S. ^^Z^. worth, with miniature map, and photographs of pen-and-ink sketches by the author (London • I Snow & ^0.. 2 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; 30 c.)." The Cyclist ol June ir '84 had .n -' The cZd"^;' "" 'C^.^'^T' '' ''' ^"^^"^ ''"'-' ^ ^^■' '^ ^•> -'^ '-'to The Cycle Directory," by Chas. Spencer (London ; CasseU & Co., 200 pp doth ,0 c ) de voted to names and addresses of dubs, hotels, machines, manufactu;rs, deal'er^^ nd'° ^It men generally.'^ no less than 5000 of the latter being alphabetized. Of the same date w.s t e 2d ed. of Capt. Robert Cook's " Offidal Handbook of the Cydine Cricket Foothill Tl "ci c HLi'Trc^r'^f:"= ""-"' * '-• -- - -" -e^^^^^^^^^ - ".r c) "com^^H ; k,T; ^•''"■' '''= 304PP.,4 by6iin..noadv.,Iimpdo,h,r,oz,25 the 0,000 club members. It contains constitution and rules, Hsts of officers, local consuls els,^ epairshops^ . . ,„d s. s. charges for cvdes, .4 pp. of blanks for a diarv (Apr. 'S6 t o the ch.! "^ r '" '"^"' '"'^ ' ""'"■■"' ""^P ^'-^ ^y -9 i"-. 40 m. to . in 1, '' how ng Book ' LT" : '''""' '"* "?' "^ •■"''^•" '• ^■^>'^ "^'" "''^ " ^ T, C. Ma; and Road Book, tor several years in preparation, will Hp i.;su»^ i„ ,t, ; i .o_ ^, ._ . . the "Handbook " were dated July and Oct. , '7,, and the firs, nine^eds. had aVrge^'ilnTa^Tw:; than that adopted ,n '86. " List of Renewed Subscribers for '85 " is a pamphlet of Tpp 7 '■•/•^ 11 688 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. by lo in., the same »ue as the Ga,etU, without title-page, or date, or price-mark ; but I infer that u appeared m Ja; , '86, and that copies may be bought of the secretary for .S c Tl, ...troductory note says : " These names of those -vho renewed their membership by payment of the annual fee, when added to names of candidates published month by month in t .. Gu:.,u (bepnn.ng with Jan.J. w.il give the com. !ete C. T. C. membership at any period during ,l,e current year. As each page contain, 95 line, of fine type, in double columns, and as nearly every lu.e contains the name and address of , subscriber, the total is about ,4 000 The name, are arranged alphabetically in 36 geographical "divisions, "-whereof 27 belon- to En-land Scotland ar.d Ireland, and cover all but j of the 76 pp. Of the 9 foreign " .^visions"" the American .s by far the largest, covering a pp., with near'y 400 names. " Goy's Athletic' liub Directory for S. (London : a. Leadenhall st.) w..s mentioned in '83 by a French compiler A. DelJaroncelli, as "giving the names and addresses of all the English cycling clubs " ■ and l.u" also cntalogued the following titles of English pamphlets, without any other details than those now reproduced : " The Whizz," pub. ,it the office of the Di. Times ; " On Wheels fi cyclist's Handy Record;" "He Would Be a Bicyclist;" "Velocipedes," by Ve'ox (illust 69); " The Velocipede," by T. F. B. (25 il,:ist., '6<^) ; and " The Modern Velocipede " (illust' 69). It seems hkely enough, however, that the real ..riginal of one of these latter titles may have been J. T. G;her : " How I Cured Myself of Nervousness, by Clericus,"— the " simple means of restoration" being presumably a bicycle. An adv. of Dec, '81, mentioned /xitr.t (12 c.) as " a new illust. monthly," issued from the Bi. Times office ; though it began in Jan., '75, if I am to believe a chronicler (IVkeel World, Mar., '85, p. 412) who says, " Ij::,"i was the first cycling monthly and had but a short life." On the same authority, " the BicyJe Rider's Magazine was begun in June, '76, and ed. by T. Francis Garrett, a somewhat erratic medico, who preferred practicing with his pen, instead of in the orthodox manner, and whose attempts at facetiousness were particularly extraordinary." Perhaps there were two Ixions,— the " short-liveH " one of '75, and the " new " and rot long-lived one of 'Si. On this theory. I infer that tht If^flffStt-ltyrH n' ~1! t^* .-1;=--' i- jV- ".■«.._.•-. r— , .,,• :,:-t, r- -7 — ..r_ !:-. ^r Mar., '79, notes as "a u p. weekly, sm. 4to, making a specialty of racing news and selling I LITER A JURE OF THE IVHEEL. 689 for a penny " j becau5e he records that an annual called " the Hicvde " «. i 1 . office. ,4 St. Uride st . l.udgate Hill, .'rem '74 to ',8 A, ,hi l7 '"" *" annual, u muM have begun fully two yeZ el Jr thl tt ^ r ' T:'"'"' ''""'*^ "*' ...urnal now liv.n, andl .nay L ha^e-Z:":;"!";." 1^:;::'.: '^ '""""' "'""'^ ■it.,-beKiniiingthencwsencs, Oct. 9, '85, as " Vol XI No . " .1 . """"'"■ ^^ •• 'f" would no, regularly have ended unti^Dec. ., ^^:^.^:trtrX Tl, ct.. -S. hen Ton. Moore (who had been his as.stant fron, Mar,, '8 t , Dec ^ 'L ' ,'h Marry Hew.tt Griffin, tiil the change in ownership ; since when he hi r n^ .' •'. t ' ,^ Chronicle, a permanent 3 p. suppiement to the 5 V f r i , conducted "the Club conlinues Friday, .-.s from the outset " M sr vil,,,Ki 1 • 1 1 A «»» 4 c. Its dale Prati'^ i,.H^, ► f , valuable part is its correspondence " was C F 77. a Las. Temple Chambers, Whitefriars st. ; weekly, 6 c. , .0 np. mcl, .0 adv pp ) I Z .hat Its editors were C. W. Nairn and C. J. Tnx, as they edited the " liicycle Anin--;. ."or C" and following years, which was issued from the same office • tnd ih^TZTr " T:^::'.rTr ''''- --^ ^"^"-' '^ "- --^- - ^- •-- ^m^ ;::: knock doff ' ,"T '' ""' ''"-"■>«d. I do not know just when the •' B, " wa, knod«'-- -ree' is niff/VQ V ^^ '"■■• '■^" " *'"' ^'^' ^"«'-''' f"^ •'' -"OS-, tben sold it well to f ,H ,' "f ~':'""''' '" '''«^^'="^"' "^ ""'^"■->' " --l -he O.//.^ a. tl^elr offices 117^ :o'n with tht^S" 'T'- ' ? r"' '^ "^""^ ''^"™'^''- •"" -- ''^y '«- '•i-lved ^n con : luy To 'v/,; fh ;,"'c! T "'^'^'"^' "''-^-^-" I ">ink that, at about this time, he •-,1 ,1,, T . ^ '■' *''^ P"' '" <^''arge of Harry A. Judd (b Aue .6 pensab e had b.en pub., at Weymouth, in 'j, and '7,. with other books before mentioned r.d„cd by W. liam McWiUiain & Harry Ktlierington " wa, a phras^ i,. the writers' fac s..eta..hipofferedbyt;::p^pLtoro;i^K:tt::trZ:;^^^^^ one unt, the , is, issue (though Tom Moore was his assistant during ',,, ; "wMle silf . '6, the autr.graph,c .lyle has been : " edited by VVm, McCandlish & F. Percy I ow " sur ounting the legend, in black capitals : " Sole Proprietor, Harry Ftherington." The iatte 's v.sit to Amena in '79 somehow suggested to him the title (which seems to me bv far the h pp es .ne^ye. hit upon in the entire cyclin. press), but the existence of ;k>^,/,W itself is L io M ^y I perseverance. Hut for him, I doubt whether I should liave P 690 TEN THOUSAND MILES UN A BICYCLE. euayed to rival the paper I had previously publi>.heu." Thi* was the O-t/u/, issued everj Wednesday since (Jet. ii, '79, of which I have given wmie account on p. 54M. It was at ih.ii time undoubtedly the most prosperous journal in tile trade, — the issue j of June 4 and ii,',<« (which .irL- the latest ones 1 've % en), each havin)^ 40 adv pp., with central letterpress of jo |.| . and lit pp. respectively, double-coluiniis, as meat for the " sandwich " ; and " all for a penny " Its sub-title " bicycling and Tricycling Trader' Review," and its tinal line reads ilms " Printed and pub. foi the proprietors, W. I. Iliffe li H. ."iturniey, by Ilitfe & Son, li .-iniith- ford St , C.jv'entry. " Mr. S. is named as provincial editor, and C. W, Nairn as editor for the London district. The H'httl H'orld, illust. monthly, with the same editors and publishers, is adv. as " ..ompanion mai;azine to the Cyclat ", and from July, '82, until Oct., '85, the IlifJes also issued ( "ridays, 4 c.) the Tricyclist, " duutea to the sixirt, the pastime and the trade ; edited by Lac, llillier ". This had ! a to 16 pp. of ■eatly-priiit'-'l letteri ess, same siie as Si .Veivs but douule- columned, and an outer advertiser of S or 10 pp. ; and I think that A. J. U'llsoi, (see p. 554 for bioR.) was employed as a regular -ibutor or assislant cd. , thou^^h his name was not priiUcu as such. Thus, " the Coventry ring " possessed the tield, with these three eminently respectable irade-c'-culars of the " heavy literary " sort, when their quondam partner audaciously projected Hf'keeliHg, and soiiRht to win a i.iothold for it by forcing as pointed a contrast as possible in re- gard to " style." He chopped everything up into short paragraphs, excluded all elaborate racrij and touring reports, offered money prizes (or brief articles on current topics, printed autographs and portraits, and adopted a " slap-bang, hurrah-boys," unconventional form of editorial e;,prc<- gion, garnished with an abundance of that well-known s-^ cyclists' society paper, edited by W. McCandlish." It had 16 pp., the same size as lyfueling 'q by 13 in.), but better printed, with a supplementary " cartoon sheet " and only a few adven seraents ; whereas irheeiing; \\3d n adv. pp. in addition to 12 pp. of letter- press between them, ll'/uei Life devoted innumerable paragiaphs and articles to ridicule and abuse of Wheeling, though without printing its name (and the latter adopted the s» 'ule in its retorts, and also refrained from priming the names Cyclist and Tricyclist, and even . ■ word, " cyclist ") ; but, nevertheless, IVheel Life and the Tricyclist both " lost money for their own- ers with great hebdomadal regularity," until, in the early autumn of '85, the Iliffes gave up all hope of trying to " run out " the h^Med interloper, and adopted a more prudent way of lessen- ing the comi etition in an overcrowd 'd field. In preference :o a flat admi-ssion of defeat, they bought up the moribund B:. News, as before related, for the sake of " consolid.iting " their two unfortunate ventures under the title of that " oldest cycling paper, estab. 1876," whose full heading now reads thus : " Bicycling- .\'ews and Tricycling Gazette with which are incorporated th2 Tricyclist and ' Wheel Life ' (with Club Chronicle)." The phrase " edited by Lacy Hillier & W. McCandlish " was shortened to include L. H. alone when W. McC. ■.■.i'hdrc-.v, ':■:. 1..^,, than three months, to become editor of Wheeling, taking with him F. Percy Low and E. .\. Lloyd, of the Bi. AV?w stafi, and leaving there H. H. Griffin, A. J. Wilson, A. G. M<"-:,on (see p, ^35) and H. G. Kelly, who had worked for one or another of the three old p.ipers. A portrait and brief sketch of W. McCandlish (b. Oct. 14, '60), appeared in Ei. H'arl ' CSlir. 5, '86, p. 305), showing that he was born in Belleville, Canada, of Scotch parents, and that he uses " Agcnistes" and " Junius Junior" for press signatures. His associate, F. Pc cy Low (b. Dec. 9, '61), is a native of London, and I think that "The Octopus" is a pm-name which belongs to him. His predeces.sor as " joint ed. of Wheeling," during '85, «vs Tom Moore (b. June 30, '60), who also preceded him as ed. of Bi. Ne^vs, '81-4. and whose poi'i-ait and biog. appeared in Wheeling, Dec. 31, '84, when he began with that paper a year's engage- ment. In the course of this, he often used the signatures " Ubique," " The O'Flanigin " and " The Man with the Gimlet Eye " ; and since Feb. 3, '86, he has been ed. of the Tricycling Journal, " the representative tri-newspaper ; also devoted to amateur photography :.iid kindred subjects ; printed and pub. every Wednesday by Chas. Cordingley, Hammersmith Printing LITER A TURE OF THE WHEEL. 691 Wo k London. W, • The latter's ICcr .0 me. May .;. •,,, said : " Th. T. J. w« cMab in May S. ; „ ed. by Lh«. tord.ngiey. and pub. by Cord.n^k.y At sharp (,„ pp., sj by , . .„ , • ■■ bu..he ulcpa^eof ..I. . read, U,u, : - TH. Tr.yU.n, J.urnul anU ^,L;Jurl, ^Lr- user: Ihe Ir.cycl.^l.' Advm.s«r. Vadc Mccu.n and Gu.Uc >« Cycl.,., ; June- ,5 .„ iJcc 7^. London: pub. by Aif. d O.bbons. .;, Mrand." Announccn.en'waA.ai Ju, 5. ij .h« C Cord,ngley.,r.. had assumed .he «l..or,h,p; and 1 .uppo=-= he succeeded hj fa ,„ .hen .o^ held .he place u»..l Keb., '86. The ed. oi .he i'ho.o. Dcp.. U Caleb U Smi.h • .n! ^•a..o.. ...h reference .0 a .h,.uld be addressed .0 h.n. a. ^'s Covety ltd J ' : ihrTi he pap.V» ,0 pp « 0U..UIC and , or 3 .n.de are g.ven .0 adv. ; and .he ou.er T^^Jil has an engraved headn.g more o.na.e than a..rac..ve (.hougn by no mean, as u«ly ., .h;I ^ ■ngs of ,he C^./„/. C^,y,.^ yw, and C. T. C. O.^t,.,, «a. formerly of colored pi;, -bl^' ellow p„,U, and ,he res,. Much of i.. nu..er i. repr.n.. The pr.ce has been a c undo n J from the outse.. f..f.,rtyJo.rn.U .•■, a n.c.name of.en appUed .0 i. by wri.er, in o.i.er pa^et Ih,s magazine has ,„comp.-.r.,hIy ,he large... and mo.s. bon„Ji.U circula.ion of any v,Veel paper >n, he world." .Such i. .he legend prn,.ed at the .op of each advertising page m the Monthly uazette and OJfuuU Record of .he Lydis.s' Touring Club (f. ^unde.l A u, 5 •;. a, H 1. C.„ whose 2i,oc« mer jers receive it in part return for their annui.1 dues (',2 c piy.ible be fore Dec. 3,, l«sides .he firs, entrance fee of 25 c.;. There are jo adv. pp., of pink paper m .he issue of May, '8r,, which is called " New .Series. Vol. V.. No. 5," and ,S pp. of le.'erpr^s. 7 by 9j m.. tn double columns; .hou^h I ihink the average number is somewhat less since Vol* M., emhng w„h Ilec , VSj, shows only 404 pp. Monthly Crcut.zr was .he name a( i- mens which have rome to mt-, I should say that its lithographs and smaller pictures are mnn's. In London, as in Boston, the editor of such an affair .as a hard struggle to get en.' iltahie material from amateurs, and is constantly tempted to admit their " love stories," ' p' .y " and other trash, no matter how forced or flimsy its pretended relationship :o ' the wheel." I am afraid, too, that /('. W sometimes fails to accredit the original source of reprinted article.?; ami I can testify that my o»*n contributions to it have been carefully "' edited from C -ntry," to the extent of printing " cycli.ig " in place of " wheeling " which ! wrote,— lest the appearance of tliat word should help to adv.nise the liated weekly, Wheelini;. With all its fa.ilis, how- ever, I should say that W. W. >iTfers an American a smallei propf)rtion of matter neces.sarily uninteresting to him, because of its merely personal and local significance, than any of the weekly Irade-circulars ; and I should recommend him to spend J 1.50 for it rather than <2 fur a weekly. I do not think, though, that «'. »'. is worth twice as much to him as the Gazette which he can secure by paying 75 c. to the C. T. (.'. " The Cyclist and IVheel H'or/ii AnnuaX " (IlifFes, Jan., '84 ; demy 8vo, J50 pp., 30 c. ; ed. by C. W. Nairn and H. Sturmey) was said to contain " the fullest statistical information con- cerning the racing of the past season ; and over 500 illust. of the clubs the world and their badges." It was out of print in Dec, when a similar book was annou -d in press for Jan.. •85. Perhaps another api>eared in '86 ; and there may have been earlier eds. , as a sort of con- tinuation of the " liicycle Annual," put forth by the sam- Mr. N. from the Bi. Timrs office, '77 to '79 or later. In another sense, those supposed ea er eds. may have been a substitute for the ty. /f.'x Christmas " Icycles," whereof a second issue possibly appeared in 'Si. I presume that nearly all the other trade-circulars, living and dead, have habitually offered " special feat- ures " at Christmas tin,e, after t' ■ custom of Knglish weeklies in general ; but I think no pre- vious issue approached in elaborateness " Our Camp, the '84 Christmas Number of the Cyclnt " (82 pp. an ' 57 adv. pp., 30 c), with ornate ever, litho.crapherl in gilt and colors, three double- page cartoon supplements (portraying racers, legislators and exhibitors; "see key in IV. II'. for Jan. ''), and 86 smaller cuts, drawn by G. Moore. This seems to have been a great success, for the copy which came to me in Mar. W3j marked " 3d ed." The similar issue for '85 wn-. called " The Great S , or, A Journey through Cyclonia " [gS pp. and 61 adv pp.— the latter of greenish paper, .scattered tl-.roughoiit the boo'K and cheapening its appearance), wlicc adv. • lys ; " The illust. are far in advance of anything ever before attempted ; the inventive genius of the authors being splendidly carried into effect by the facile pencil of G. Moore, who ■supplies 14 full page lithographs, comically depicting all manner of cyclii^g episodes, and many s'naller illust., including 43 portraits of typical racing cyclists, introduce-" ;. -. certer-pieces of 4\ medals of different designs. The text abounds in wit humor, fun, satire, in both prose and veise ; and there are two original cycling songs set to music, either of which is alone worth more LITERATURE OF THE 11 HEEL. 693 than the co«t of the Uwlc while ' Kailki..)'. c l- i . anybody fo,„l .,r a lH*„y Uul' 1^^ . "^•" '"^ '^ ' """' "°« ^ >"'"««» ''Y A < M ' " * """'y '•«"«''■ I I'c joint authors of theiw two annuals are A I U.I 5 A. (j. Morrison (seen. 5,4, who !u>vil..i •■ „ " annuals are A. J W il»o„ and .uu. out of the r.,.:. :;;^:::;ir, i:::=:"::':7?:i::::r"'r-- 7" with the variou. phases of cychna All ih, ,1,., . i couiietted ... rati»e dealing .heir r..peu ve 'writers. J 1, ', up. s e ct::"' ' , """" l" ■"".""- '"«^" •""'««' ''^ Marlowe.' ' f. I,.- and ' Frank Severn '•'A r ,' "'"""" "''"""'■ ^' ^- '■ "*• '^"* men of - fum.y business -whl^l ' / •"'^""^""■•" «-k. therefore, a. the beM .peci- a..c to pr...i „ h::i,rr:;^;d; :z;':^;^r: t".:s r "' r^-' "- -- ..- .':■;:;:;":,;: ."f r;.r;i:x I'l?:;: r 7? "r "- -* '• the bost-hcnrtcd rider in Kneland"- C T Fn. „f /- / ' -"^« ■ L. W. Nairn, of C>£/„/, •V^,; G. Atkinson, of .>.':; ^,>'.' .^ndf' F^I^leCfr ^7;^'/" 'T"' °^ ^''''"" Knglish racers, and these 4 American. : <;. M. „.. dee P Burlt T \ '' "'"^ " Iind ,. pp. (.„h , . pp_ „, „.di„ j). ..d .n pp. . .,,.,„ .„„;„„ ,,„, „p ,„ .,; pp V7, ' pt ., ,...,",", ■■;" ^"■™' >*■ '"""'". or more than iha. of afj o.lier cvdine Miun.ak ..»b,pri.'. I„ J, ,, .„, i, ..^a,,, H.J „ „ ^ .J, p^^ ,„j , j^ _,^, kncto, K!!^; 694 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. success has reduced their number. The C T. C. Gazette says, loftily (Feb., '86, p. 43): " There are papers which exist solely by reasou of the misrepresentation and effrontery of their proprietors, but no one has yet had the courage to point to them by name. The reason is obvious — the mere statement of the facts by an interested party would, in all probability, be deemed libelous, and few would care to be involved in a law suit with unscrupulous and penni- less opponents. We shall, however, be much mistaken if the present enquiry — supplemented by revelations which are to follow — does not exhibit a h>ipelessly rotten state of affai: -n cycling journalism. Whatever may be the result, however, the Gazette will be affected not a tittle. U has a bonafide distribution at the present moment of over 21,000, a number which compiettiv swamps any of its compeers, and we can, therefore, await the verdict with equanimity." As there can be no doubt about the 21,000 members of C T. C, the Cyclist's estimate would leave only 9000 a month for its four weekly competitors and IV. IV., or say an average circulation for each of about 500 copies ! Perhaps, though, it refuses to class the Gazette as a " journal." The present editors of IVheeling; announced, in taking control (Jan. 13, '86), that the pro- prietor had offered the position of joint ed. to each of them, in succession, 15 months earlier- that they joined the lliffes' IV heel Life adventure, in the belief that it offered a better chance of stability; that, after the failure of this, their positions on the Bi. News were not altogether a;;reeable ; that, as Wheeling had meantime become an established success, they accepted its owner's second proposal to take it in hand (their satirical attacks upon him having been under- stood, on both sides, to be " mere matters of business ") ; that their exodus from the "Coventry ring " was attended with the utmost good feeling on the part of every one excppt Lacy Hillier; and that they hoped hereafter to " act in friendly concert with the Cyclist and Bi. Neivs both." In the introduction toHhe new series of the latter (Oct. g, '85), a harsher policy had been pro- claimed, thus: " We shall consider it our duty to the sport to point out, pillory, and pelt to the best of our ability the bad form, bad English, bad blood, and bad faith i..hich, we unhesitatingly state, must, in the long run, if allowed to flourish unchecked as though tacitly acquiesced in, make cycling a sport which no man with the slightest pretensions to the description of ' gentle ' can allow his name to be connected with. The abuses of wheel life shall feel the lash if the right hands of the Bicycling Newsmen have not lost the cunning enabling them to curl the quivering thong with a hiss in the all-too-deserving flesh--a bloodthirsty sentence, but tiie hopes of cycling salvation lie in the application of the lar cet, and why should physicians he'itate?" The writer of these curious phrases seems not to have accepted the peaceful overture^ of his former associates, for they say of him {Wheeling, Mar, 8, '86, p. ^47): " The state of the cycling press just now is in many respects scandalous, and while we are ready at any time to hold out the right hand of fellowship to our contemporaries, and close the long-standing war, we must, of cou.se, baited as we are by semi-authorized touts, and sneered at as ' sham cyclists,' etc., carry out a policy of reprisal:, though it is distinctly not our wish to do so. Hence we may mention that the editors of Wheeling were active members of the Lombard B. C. when the great and praclical Lary Hillier was breeding cocks and hens and selling eggs in the good town of Chichester, where he was not thought to be nearly so b! j a gun as he has educated the public hereaway to consider him." Again (June 29, '86, p. 165): "This embodiment of egregious vanity, who, because he won championships in a second-rate year, conti.iually, and years after, thrusts the fact down our throats, thought propjr to r^'er to the private affairs of a set of men who chose to remain in their hotel instea 1 of swaggering about Weston and playing the cheap showman. Because a fe*' i.ien chose to play cards with thei,- own money in their own apart- ments, and tn bet among themselves about the results of the racing, Sir Pecksniff, who earns part of his living on the Stock Exchange where the widow and the orphan fall victims to the ' bull ' and the ' bear ' publicly raises his hands, and thanks high heaven that he is not as these men are." Still further (July 14. 'S6 ; p. 210) : " We, on this paper, do not, we hope, profi-;s much. We were n't champions in '81, and we 're only ordinary people in '86. We don't mind if other people please themselves as to how they spend their leisure time and spare money, hut at the same time we don't rim out a platform from the window of a stockbroker'?, i^ffire .ind de- nounce gambling, nor do we print without protest advertisements which we and ail " ■ world LITER A TURE OF THE WHEEL. %5 t^^H^trTl,^" '"" ^''V° ''^ '"""^"' ">' P""' -^ 'he Pecksniffian." A week later (p 246), H heeltng repnnted the following commeutary on this sort of talk from , I .? press which represents their int-rests is probably the smalest anrf nl.V , '*''' ' .he spirit of iournalism has assumed as yn on this s de of " Attm c ThT .'"""'''"'"'°" and their nun,ber is as great as their l.ves are short-positively lit uZ ealh 0,^""^'""" tngs. The kingdo,^ of the cyclist is one of unending dvil war and its v,r ^,^'^°»«>- them out of their owt, mouths, interestingly eccentrk individuals " Simnr' '"^ ' 'I '"'^' tion uttered in C. T. C. Gazette (Mar 4) bv I R H v ^""''" *^^ "'= c°"demna- " Coventry ring" and the - If J 1^ ere w'' at the N C u' "'^ .*^''''f "^ ""= -^''^ "^ 'he ^ve th^ateur definition abolishedf .. The sTat^oflateLr^^^^^^^^^^^ a£Fa'•"''"" "'"^ ■" ^"""^ ^ ''- ''^"" ""--^ oil from i:'^ tavern bills seems ,0 me a s.gn.hcant token that the " heavy swells " of England have thus Z w^r;;' :r::r:rtr"'°^'''-^- -r"''^^"^"' '"^^'^'^^ havecenafmyhadno;!::; Whl I hav. M ' I "" '"^ """'' '° ""'"'' "^"^ ^^^'^'""^ °f 'h-r London originals Wha I hav ..^d on j. 446 ./ se,., about the phenomenal obtrusivene.s of the struggle to " get on _ n £ng^„d could have no more perfect illustration than is given by it, cycling journalism The official org.n of the frish Cyclists' Association " is the /risA CyLt IL aJ2 pr J: ::^";:r b' "^ r ^"'r f -' ''"'''-' --' ^"■^^^""^' ^•^-^ ■" ^-ht 1:1 : rrZ f M "^ ?" '"■""'' W»dn.sdays by J. G. Hodgins, of Tralee (4 c. or $. 35) Lr w ^h tThe :,y°' ''■ ^': "r' '•'" °^ '^^ -'"^ ^^^ ^^^--^^ ■-" "^- 'he 4th nm- be which IS the only specimen that has reached me, and which consists of ,6 pp.. 8 by ., in A^lT"- ■ •' ''""■■'' ''""^^ '^ '° ^°^" ^••'^'^-"^ ^'■. I^"Win: and learn fro^ rj^MSrT'nrT't"""'^ "-penny Christmas number" that his :ameTs K.J.McCredy Ihe ^rjsA Cyci,^^ 6^ A tA/efc/our„at (heg^^r^ ^tDubWn in Nov., '85) I presume ^a penny weekly; and I find in «>W/«^ of Aug. 4. '86, an allus.on to frsAcJtZZ AthUt,c Ae^os, though whether this is an old or new rival to the Ja,.r„a/, or a successor oft t ^ub ir^'Th? f ;^" T'°' ''"^ '' '''"' '' ''■ '"'■ ^--^^>-^- - «3 Middle Abb^^; Ni'sb?t & Co X T1 7r ^ '"'''''"' '''^"''' ^' '■^' P"*^- Wednesdays bv Hay! tmde " and .'now h '; ''' "^T' ""^ '"'' " "^"^ '"''' ^'^^^ '"^'■"- '" -Scdandfor .) e .mde, and ..Hows aboMt a quarter of its space to wheel matters ; while Xhe Scottish AtkUtu /.«.«./ gives them much less prominence. Sports ^ Play (begun Feb.. '86, at ,5., ,.- ^-"-- adearla f wheeling aflfairs on the island-continen, beyond the Pacific, though E. H. Rum had previously ^},< P- 3,^.1). Mr. E. -:j — was the editor of told something about the v.heel in New Zealand ( \iig. the earliest paper, the Bicycte (S pp.). which anne.^rpH on ,« al,„™, .4. »2, and then gave way to the Australian Bicycli»^ Ne,vs (,2 po.), which h," 1 bee; pub'o'n .he same Fridays, beg.nmng with May „, and which has continued ever since as a fortnigh "y 696 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. The " 3i" wan cut {rnm its title, Iiowever, Aug. 16, '83, whtn a new scries was begun (16 pp ) and a transfer of ownership made from "the /\. B. N. Co." to W. H. LewiM, whose name has ever since stood at the head as editor. His predecessor was not announced, !.ut was generally supposed to be H.C. llagot, local a^cnt for the Coventry firm of Singer & Co. The heading says "An impartial organ of the sport, the pastime and the trade ; subscribed to by cyclists throuoh- '>ut the Australian colonies, and circulating largely in all up-country towns of any size ; di». tributed gratis to the principal libraries, reading-rooms, hotels, etc., throughout the coJoii'ies." The price is 6 c. a copy or #1.87 a year to any part of Victoria ; %i a year elsewhere. The head- ing exhibits three groups of cyclers, and is followed by adv., to which 5 or 6 later pp. are given (S X II in.), ihc rates per year, 9 inos., 6 nios. and 3 iiios. being as follows: 1^250; /joo, $150 ami >'/>; \ P- for similar periixls : $150, 1^125, #^ and $50; \ p. for similar periods; #79, Ji,;, ^47 and I25. H. R. Reynolds's London tract on " Road Repairs " (^ pp., Ssth thousand), with a special he.idlng " To Vitlorian Rate-payers," was circulated as a supplement to the A'.-jm „1 I'eb. 13, '8(1,— its edilor having become a candidate for i.e vacancy in the Mclljourne (.:iiv Council,— and the issue of May 22 contained a call fro.n the " cyclists' committee, (urmed t.. improve the opportunity to make a bid for themselves, and cause their intlucnce to be felt in be- half of better highways," saying : " Roll up and support Lewis, the proper repair of the mads and the proKress of the wheel." Whatever the result nay have been, this altmipt at n.illy practical ;u)litics seems significant and suggestive. The News is printed by C. 'I loedel & Co. , and its office is at 47 IJiieen st. Tlie Melbourne liulletin, the Australasian, and the Sfortsman each have a weekly deiurtnieiit of cycling,— "Ollapod " ( L. A. IMwards) having coiiliibuled J or 3 cohimns of iiialtcr to each issue of the former since the autumn of '«2. " The Austra!i.(n Cyclists' Animal," by J, P. Russell (Melbourne, I>jc., 'S3 ; 60 pp., 25 c.) was mildly welcomed, as " the pioneer book from that region, of u.e and interest fo beginners " by Cyclist, June u,' 'S4; but a local writer calls it "too Kngiish ; for it l.aks to a distressing extent in information pertaining to the wheel in Australia." Australian Sports . »J J'astiines, "edited by H. Ste«.\ri liale, maiKiger of the Melbourne Sports Depot," appeared in Dec, '84, but was a mere nivc- away adv. circular, which never attained the dignity of a .second issue. " Overland to .Sydnc» on t'ycles; by M. lliornfeldt ; printed at the .\'e~.vs &• CkronUlt office. Main s!., .Slawell.'' is the he.idins attaelud to a half-dozen single sheets, varying in .si.c and undated, which c.ime to me by Australian ni.iil of Aug. i&, '86, and which were printed, on one side only, from columns "f ty|)e useil in six successive issues of that paper. The author, aged about 5D, rode a tri., and his comrade (C. H. Lyne, of Ararat), a bi.; and the time of their tour was Mar. S to 24, 'Sh Though longer rides have been taken in Australia, I think no other has been reported at such length, for the story would ii:ake a good sized pamphlet, if recast in that form. " Rules and Regulations of the Melbourne U. C." ('S3, 16 pp. neatly printed and leather bound) gives lists of officers .iiid members, and also touring records of the latter and 100 m. runs. New .South Wales was lirielly represented in the field of cycling jcurnalisni by 7 issues <.f the Australian Cyclist, on alternate Kridays from May 16 to Aug. 8, '85 (16 to 24 pp., iiicl. h to n adv. pp. . 4 c), ed. by J. Copland and 1 ub. by the proprietor, P. Gornall, at the Times office, cor. RecUern and liotany sts., Redfeni (a suburb of .Sydney, the capital). New Zealand'-, only approach to the field is the A'. /.. Rc/eree, " a journal of sport, music and the drama " ( 12 pj)., (^ c), wlii- h has been pub. at Christclmrch, on I'ridays, since May, '84, with a regular column for cyclitig. .Viiica's sole contribution to my chapter tak's the shape of this extract from ll'/ieeliiig {\m S, ,S5) : " I have been reading 1.1 a Cape Town paper a report of a rule by two members of ihe Cape Town II. C, from their cit> to I'ort Klizibeth. They found poor roads but scenery nuignificcnt beyond description. They Uepi a Vict.- .Silberer, pub. each Mar. (club lists and Union statistics, J.). The two latter are issued from the office of the Allgtmeine Sport-Zeitung(\\„vMi, : ,7 Elizabeth St.), whereof Mr. .Silberer is editor. Tin, w.is started in 'So, has 20 to ,4 pp., appears every Thurs' day, is the official organ <,( many sporting associations and costs I7.50 a year. The (krman and German-Austrian Cycling Union (founded May 29, '82) began to pub. early in '83, the reloci/'fdht (Munich : 4 Quai st. ; moiuhly, 12 pp., #i.,o to non-members), under the editor- ship of Carl l.anger. The editor was to be elected yearly, and the jiaiKr was sent free to each member. This arrangement probably la-.ed 'ill the e,-d of '84, when the " organship " was given to the Rad/.ihn-r, wlil.h had previously i-eeii "organ of the North (lerman Cycling Union (founded Oct. 2., '82)," though not in the sense of having e.ach member for a sub- scriber. IViliaps the. Veloci/ '^' ; and in '78. " Tricycle ct Velocipede i vapeur," by L. G. Perr-aux, « Jean-Bart st. In '74, there were pub. at Paris 33 weekly numbers of the VHoci/>>de, edited by B Bonami^ which was the third French journal of that name ; and it was apparently the only one known in France during the interval between the death of its " Il/ustri" namesake in '72, and the es- tablishment, in '80, of the Sport Vihciprdiqiie (Paris : iii Villiers av. ; 12 pp., weekly, j;2.4o) managed by Henri Pagis, and named in '85 as " the official organ of the Union V^locipedique de France." Next to it in age is the Revue Vdocipedique, which was mentioned in '83,33 pub. in Paris, three times a month, at 114 boulevard National i Clichy (R. Rigoley, manager; E. Forestier, ed. in chief; $1), and in '84, as pub. at Rouen, " semi-monthly, but weekly during the riding season, "—the ed. retaining the same address in Paris, as before. I have received Nos. 90 to 97, dated Mar. 5 to Apr. 23, '85 ; and the inscription on them is : " Fourth year ; pub. every Tluirsday, at $2, or 5 c. a copy; independent organ of French and foreign cycling clubs; F. G-hert, manager and publi.sher, at Rouen." The size j 11 by 15 in., and the pp. van- from 8 to 10,— the first and the last four being given to adv., of gigantic handbill type. Its appearance is inferior to that of any cycling journal in my collection, though [ do i.ot know whether the other French papers attempt a more elegant typography. I am not familiar enouf '- with the language to say anything of its literary quality ; but I see that much space is given tours, inventions and practical information, as well as to race-reports, and I infer that gossi,, and short paragraphs may be made more prominent by its rivals. Lithographic supplements, called " Pantheon Vc^Iocipddique," to its issues of Mar. 19 and Apr. 2 give portraits of Chns.' Garrard (b. Nov. i '55, at London), racer and dealer, and of Adrian De Baroncelli (h. Apr. 5, '52, at Paris), tourist, authr- and publisher, of whom I shall sneak later. Its issue of Ian. 22, '85, and many following dates contained: "Thdorie du Velocipede, by J. Macquorn Rankine, Prof, in the Univ. of Glasgow; tianslation of M. J. Viollet; reviewed by the Abb^ Moigno." This is a learned treatise, with many mathematic.il formulx : and De Baroncelli says ('S4\ " it was issued as a pamphlet, at Paris, in '70" If this date is not a mispr'nt, the re-np- pearance of the matter as a serial, 15 years later, speaks well for its intrinsic merits as a me- chanical essay on the two-wheeler. De B. also mentions ('8 :) the Vr/nrii^d/e ///u,tr*e. as issued from the Revue office, at $1 a year ; but I think it was short lived. The same office pub , early LITERATURE OF THE WHEEL. 699 t '^'h'e Lv "T'^'h?"'' '' '" 7"^''"''^'»'' P°- "84 " ; and a similar one. a year later, for prep:;::r jr c' ' ^° ^- '^"""" *"" '^ ■""' '•"^-^'^ '^"'^' ^-•^ ">" * '"-^ ^ - I have ;;eceived from the author (who publishes the san,e a. .8 Rcqu^pine ,.., Pari,) Amu.a,re de la v„„c,ped.e Pratique," by A. De Baroncelli, Consul of C T C • in V vo , 4i by 7 m.. bound in stiff paper and weighing 7 oz. each. The " First Year, :88,.4 " (mo nr," 50 c), appeared early in '83 ; the " Second Year. .884-S " (.67 pp.. 55 c). early in '84, Z each Pans -' : d ''■ "'""• '■'' ■''" '"" '" '°' "^ ^'•'•^^ •""= •' ""^"^^ Environ de Pa,,s, and g.ves pp. 37.,3^ ,0 40 tabulated " routes for wheelmen.»-,he introductory pp be- .ng devoted to general information about roads, maps. r. r. and s. s. charges, distance- Tbbrevt Jons and the hke. Statistics of French and foreign clubs cover pp. .33-L • and the ™ e Hereof are urged .0 send corrected hs.s of officers .0 the author, annually, not later th^n Sb ! I he 83 book has a more vaned contents: "practical information and advice for tourists " ovenng.ts first 57 PP. ; then "routes" top. 84; French club-lis.s to p. .05; facts abonor- Mu"ch ^f II!: 'l' '^^:^' ^•■--'^ -«1 f-eiS"." 'o p. .30. and racing records ,0 1 4 . Much of he n,forn.afon m the first par, of this '83 book was republished, two years later re- ...ed and corrected, as a separ..,e pamphlet (Jan.. '85; 4. PP, . oz.. ^o adv.! .6 c). " La bv V Serf "■'" ; ^-"^ '"-""^— '-- 'he existence of another one of the sam name by V. Uger (presumably pub. >n Paris before '84) ; also " Le Guide en France," for the us<^ of cyders, as bemg „, preparation " by himself. The original title announced for this whe^ first planned m '83, was " Vade Mecum du Touriste V.loceman." , have not heir^'o^h" book s appearance, but I judge from the works before me that De Baroncelli is by all odds the France and I should hke to urge all Americans .ho may intend to wheel there, tha, they buy SvraLt"f ■,?[■■"■"/'''""• ""^ "''""'"* ^^'^^""^'^ ignorance of the language! they cannot fa 1 .0 d,g out mformation -nough for doubly repaying the slight investment I am mdebted to this fellow-compiler for most of ,he foregoing facts about the trade-Iitera- u of France, and to " I3,bhopil " (1'elocip.asport, Berlin. Mar, .5, 'Ss. p. ..) for a list of hs alf-dozen ex.st.ng trade journals. Besides these, De B. catalogues the rJ,. 2. Sports (Paris S Faubourg Mon.mar.re ; weekly, $2.,o; F. Pagnioud, manager), though I suppose that cy- yr^n es), whose ma.ager, Tonne., of Ecoles PI., never issued No. .. Pau. however, oon b - T) a LST""'?"- '"'^ 7!" '^''"""' ^" ^"""'^^'^"^^ ''- ' ^^- -^'h of each mont,, the ivt ..'r "^^S-""'"^/' ^'' ^"'^ ' ^"PP"- " i^ «»!■ i-"ed there. Another monthly he U;.c.ma,., '.Ilust. mag. of the sport and trade," was begun at Mon.pellier (:8 Nation!] l:rr" n '" /^"- '^5' ""^"" ""= -'^"^^ '"'"^'^ liy:ee//„^, of London"; and i, suc- :l ctrtC T '" ^ '' ". ' --i-n.hly on June ,5,-retaining the same su'b. pnce.It educmg that of su.gle copies from ,0 c. to 5 c. Its editor is Herbert O. Duncan (b. Nov, '6.. London), whose portrau appeared in the re^oc:pe^j>ort, already quoted, with 3 pp. of biog aphv , and ,t agau, appears, combined with heads of his fellow-racers. De Civry ..nd Duboi! asasupplement ,0 -he ra...;«.„ i.self. Aug. r, 'S6,_all three likenesses being called ".ery excellent" by ,VAe.,„^. M, !,„„„„ j, correspondent of several English and Amercan spor,n,g sheets. H,s partner, in founding the K./..,«,.„, was L. Suberbie. A weekly, the , ret'meS'7" r'"" "1 '"r"'""'"' """• '' ''' • ""^ '^'""^'^ f™-' '-" -"""^^ '^<-. -^ I eat, Knubrpr . ^ ^-^ (Sanhe). the " Legio-. V.locip,5diq„e "-whose rooms a e at 3. Kepubhc PI., and whose annual fee is 50 c. -sends a monthly organ, the ^V/., free to e.K:h member. Two weeklies which the ^«,«. -recommends to cyclers " Ire the Sport 1 ../.^.(r,o.Jeaux , Cours de Gourgues, #.), and ,1, 7-/r.«. (Paris, ,2 St. George st,. $,). A .etch of French cyclmg, from '67 to '74. was contributed by P. De Villers to the /fW^<,« of Jan. and Aug., 83 (pp. 307. 331I: and an official road-book for the Union V^locip^dique de trance was mentioned by the «W, of Mar. 5, '86, as in preparation bv Mr Um.L '.^S'- ''""'^;""'^^<'^^"^,''^d '' semi-monthly numbers, in >8.-2, at Brussels; and was fol- .owed, m Nov., 8i, by a s.m.lar sheet, the IWoce Beige (45 Brouckire PI., It.jo). whose title 700 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. wac changed \.q Journal tUs Sports, on the loth number. Its adv. of '84 named E. De Gline a% >.d., with office at 38 IJoul. du Jardin Botanique. Perhaps it s'ill flourishes; and so, I presume does the Cycliste Beige, of Louvaiii (18 Uiest St., semi-monthly, J1.30), which began in Jan '85, as "official organ of the Jed^ration V^locip^iquf Beige." Three Italian .wns belonii on my list ; for, in '83, the V^loc. .lubdu Rome issued an official organ, RevistadegU Sport, 025 via S. Maria Maggiore ; 80 c.) ; and, at Leghorn, Sport was pub. by R. Basilone, of , Scali Manzino; while Turin now boasts of the Reviita i^ elociptdistica {10 Corso S. Martino illust. semi-monthly, J2), whi-h finished its first year as a f i monthly, not later than June, '84' when its manager was V. Fenoglio, and its chief editor C. Toscani, who, I suppose, are still in control, and still remain, as then, the only cycling journalists in Italy. " Statuto d'ella SocieU C.'clisti Itdliani," issued by the Turin Wheel Club, and exhibiting in 21 articles the objects, co.,- sti utionand advantages thereof, was praised by U' fueling {i^i^^. 6, '85), as a " compact 'little thi mb-book, of an excellence without parallel in England ..long wlieel-clul epitomes." A fritnd of mine who visited Christiania, Norway, in May, '84, found a cycling jou.nal issued there, but failed to secure for me a .siiecimen, or even its name. The Swedish wheelmen aU, have' such a paper, Tid-.ingfor Idrott, pub. in Stockholm, at 13 Storkyrkobrinken, which the niwel of Jan. 8, '86, noted as just begun ; and I aii told that the Spaniards support the Veloijipedj, at Madrid. As for the Dutch, I have no later information than the following, which was writ^ ten for me May .0, '84, by C. H. Bingham, an English resident of Utrecht, who is not only chief consul for Holland of the C. T. J., but also president of the Nederlandsche Velncipedis- tenbund (Dutch Cyclers' Union, founded July i, '83) : "The only cycling print in Holland is the ALiandblad, a small monthly circ ilar of official notices, which began in April. We have however, pub. a map «f the country, for tourists' use ; and shall also pub., before this montli closes, an official road-guide, containing descriptions of the surface of all our chief roads, with distances, names of hotels, smiths and cafes, and other information. This will be, I believe, the first official and complete route-book pub. in any country." (The " C. W. A. Guide " was really the first, having appeared before these words were written. See p. 330.) " Frankfort-on- Main I's about to issue a new paper, the Steel IVIieei;' says the C. 7'. C. Gaaette uf Oct., '86. General Guides. Under this title, I hoped to specify many maps, hand-books, local histories and topograph- ical publications which seem specially worth the attention of touring wheelmen, though designed for explorers in general ; but as only a half-page remains to me, my list must be brief. First, for its newness, I name "The Book of Berkshire: describing and illustrating its hills and homes," by Clark W. Bryan (Great Barrington, Ms. : C. W. B. & Co., May, •s& ; 368 pp. and 30 adv. pp. ; 40 illust. ; 50 c. in paper covers, 75 c. in leatherette), which ought to be in the hands of every cycler proposing to visit that favorite touring-ground. It is accompanied by the excellent road-mnp of the county, and of northern Ct., which I have described 01. p. 112; and it gives the mileage of no less than 500 drives, starting from Pittsfield, Lenox, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, Sheffield, South Egremont, Adams, North Adams, Williamstown, Salisbury! Canaan and Norfolk. Eariy June and late Sept. are named as the best times for seeing the beauties of Berkshire. In neariy every public library may be found, " Picturesque America; or, the Land we Live In : a delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-f.ills, shores, cations, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country ; with illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists ; edited by W. C. Bryant " (N. Y. : Appletons; 410, I., '72, pp. 568 ; II., '74, pp. 5,-6). There are some 60 chapters in this great work, supplied by 24 contributors, though its projector and real editor, O. B. Bunce, sup- plies 10. B. J. Lossing's " Field Book of the American Revolution " (N. Y : Harpers, 8vo, '50, pp. 772, 842), and " Field Book of the War of 1812 " ('68, pp. 1084), both profusely illus- trated, are full of local lore for the tourist. The author drove his horse from N. Y. to S. C, 1400 m., and traveled 1400 m. further (Nov •, '48, to Feb. 4, '49), in visiting the battle-fields of 1777-81 ; and he also traveled 10,000 m. in collecting materials for his book of iSia. XXXVIII. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. "But courage still ! Without return or swerving, across the globe's huge shadow keep the tracV, Till, unperceived, the slow meridian's curving, that loads thee onward, yet shall lead thee back, To stand again with daybreak on the mountains, and, where the paths of night and morning meet. To drink once more of youth's forgotten fountains, when thou hast put the world between thy feet."— r^ Thankless Muse, by H. A. Beers. "Money" being a universal language, whose eloquence is appreciated even by the simplest and whose significance cannot be questioned even by the most sophistical, I aim to have the success of this book announced in golden letters large enough to be read by eveiybody. I argue that such sort of suc- cess must have a far more impressive effect upon the general public, in demonstrating the power and permanence of cycling, than any mere " literary " success could have ; and I therefore, as a means of persuading my 3000 copart- ners to help me achieve it, feel bound to confide to them the inmost history of the scheme, the precise methods which seem most effective for working it out, and the reasons why I hope for their assistance. If I am wrong in assum- ing that six-sevenths of my subscribers will actively recognize the " copartner- ship," I shall be quite satisfied to address a smaller proportion of them. Ab I insist upon is that, as they have given a practical pledge of their friendly curiosity in me whose sincerity cannot be gainsaid, I have a right to suppose that at least a majority of them may be glad to read my personal story ; and a right to remind the minority— as well as later purchasers of the book— who may care nothing for such details, that they should not censure the others for having an interest in them, nor me for trying to make money by catering to that interest. The u dom of such attempt may be criticised, and the failure of it, if failure comes, may make it a fair mark for ridicule; but each reader is meanwhile bound to recognize that it is inspired by " business " rather than by vanity, and that his own perusal of these pages i.s in no sense compulson,'. Unique pecuniary ^^"^'' ^" '^^ '"atenals for the previous chapter had been laboriously ideal. collected, the mere act of writing it occupied me from June 9 to Aug. 28 (275 hours' solid work, divided between (- davs; besides 16 h. of proof- reading) : and I mention its extraordinary cost in order to emphasize -he importance which I auach to exhibiting the difference between .11 previous attempts at wheel literature and my own I wish to show clearly that this is not only incomparably more massive than anv othrr. in resnect to mere bulk of words grouped together, and unique in respect to the amount of painstaking effort devoted to grouping them, but that it differs essentially from the rest in respect to its pecuniary ideal. All other books and pamphlet i-save those issued " merely for the fun of it " (/. e., to gratify the author's vanity, or " for the i;ood of the cause "V-ha. niainlv h^..n rnn^.,. and nvals ot tne trade-journals : seeking to make money only from advertisements, and caring 7oa TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. nothing for readers except as a bait to catch this patronage of " the trade." To therefo the outer world, erelore, all such prints seem simply devices of the makers and dealers, for increasing the cycle business. Hut an elabf.rate and expensive volume which can rise superior to all trade iiiHu.-nces and, by virtue of demonstrating its independence of them, can win profitable support fn.m an unexampled multitude of readL-rs, is a thing which must impress the imagination of the outer world with the power 'A cycling itself. I think each owner of this book will like j better be cause it nowhere affronts him with any block-type " adv.," or even with the picture of a bicy' cle ; and 1 hope each " copartner " will have his pride in it so increased, by the knowledge that not a single line has lieen offered for sale or barter, as to render him eager to reward me and paralyze a sceptical public, by helping force a speedy sale of 30,000 copies. Germ and con- " ^" '"'*'"' "^ P'^"* " *^* recommended by me when the B/. Ifor/J cettion '''''* """" '''^ '"'^ "^ '■'' *■"' """"' "'''"'"* = ^""^ '^'^ ''^''°''' '" printing my / • argument (Nov. 16. 'S,,, p. 36), said it I ad induce " „ to begin on such an index, but that the threatened bulk^ -ss thereof seemed to , ender it- iletion and puLlic.ition impracticable. The idea in that letter was the germ from which 1. . grown this book- and when the ir/utlman was started, nearly two years later, I talked over the same idea wiJh its editor, and at last agreed to prepare for him an article, formulating my scheme for a series of such elaborate indexes as would " make the successive semi-.innual volumes of his monthly m.iga- line assume the character of standard guides to American roads." I wrote this in July, and It was printed at the end of the jd vol. of the lyhfelman (Sept., '83, pp. 45S-463\ with the title, " \ Colossus of Roads." Having shown the reasons why this title represented my ideal of the lyfuelman, and having urged the sort of indexing which would win it in fact, 1 concludod by offering the following confession : " Th^re remains, however, tne profound dictum of Benjamin Franklin : ' If a man insists on having a thing really well done, in this world, he must do it himself.' So, three months ago, as I reclined beside my bicycle on the green slope of the old battle-field at White Plains, though it was the centennial anniversary of the day (April 19, 17S, ; see p. 74) when Washington proclaimed the cessation of hostilities to the army at Newburghi my mind was not wholly taken up with patriotic reminiscences. I bethought me at times of the promised production of the present article; and as I reflected on the impossibility of ever per- suading another man to prepare an index exactly in accordance with my own ideal of it, the question gradually took shape before me, ' Why not publish a bicycler's road-bixik of your own. and index every proper name in it entirely to your heart's content ?' To this question, when fairly formulated, I at once replied, ' I will ' ; and before I resumed my homeward journey 1 decided that the book should be called 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Uit,cle,' and should be ready for publicatic.i in J>ecember, 18S4." , Simultaneous wih this was the decision that a portrait of my beloved bull-dog should face the title-page, that his biography should form the chief " literary " feature of the volume, and that another chapter should describe " the queer house that I live in." The notion of writing something about these two unique subjects had possessed me for several years, but the improbability of .Inding any pub- lisher, for such sort of sketches as I planned, had prevented the actual writing. On the fifth pajje of the previous chapter, I have explained how the Pope Mfg. Co.'s offer of a prize (July, '81) led me to produce the book's introductory essay, " On the Wheel " ; but the incidents of my first long tour (500 m. in Sept., '80; see pp. 199-20S) had previously decided me to attempt such an article, for Li/>/>i>u:ot/'s Magazine, because I felt sure that I could write more amusinjly than another contributor who had already been allowed to exhibit the bicycle in its pages. The Popes' offer simply hastened the execution of this long-delayed plan,— for I thought that my magazine article might as well take a preliminary chance at their prize (which, if won, would be Letter pay than the usual magazine rates); but the very general praise given to the article, by reviewers who noticed the June issue of Lifipincott containing it, had a more important mental effect upon me, ultimately, than the winning of the prize could have had. Remembrance of it, when the idea of the book first took shape in my consciousness, made me confident that the essay would serve as a suitable introduction thereto ; and I have mentioned on p. 519 that the hearty Early notions and influences. Arrani^ement with Col. Pope. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND IHE NEXT. 703 enthusiasm of » certain Western tourist, expretsinjf his pleasure ii. my series of statistical reini- niscences about " No. ,34," contributed to the MVt,,/.^«, was a defiiule factor in forcing my thoughts to drift bookward. On that historic i^lh of April, when all these remote elements and long-nathering tendencies, culminated in the conception of the book, my riding record lacked more than 3600 m. of justifying the chosen title ; but f have explained in the preface ot my "Straightaway " chapter (p. 195) that I then anticipated an unusually active season of wheeling, as a means of regaining my impaired hoalth, and laying up a supply of strength equal tc; .he pub^ lishmg scheme ahead of me.-though 1 had no idea ih.it this was destined to develop into the extensive and tiresome enterprise I am now grappling with. Within a week from ihe iqth in acknowledging an annual payment from the publisher of my eariier bo volumes purchased, and that none of them should be sold for less than $1. I agreed that the ed. should be at least 4000, and that I would not issue a new ed. without first oflering to buy back at the purchase price any unsold copies of the 2000. This proposition was formally accepted by the Pope Mfg. Co., Dec. 19, '83 ; but, on Sept. 17, '84, when I met its president again at the Springfield tournament, 1 told him that I could not bring out the book within the specified time, and that, instead of being, as first planned, an aflair of 300 pp. (capable of being manufactured, say, for 25 c. a copy), it was likely to be so large as to leave no decent margin on a contract at half the subscription- price. So, by mutual consent, our agreement was abrogated. I said I should probably offer him another chance, later on, to make money as a bookseller; but I did not do so in fact till June 3, '86 ; and I am gl.id, for reasons given hereafter, that he then declined it. (See p. 711.) My prospectus said, "The publication of the volume is made con- ditional -m. my ability to secure m advance the pledges of at least 1000 wheelmen that they will purchase copies at $: each ; " but it of course gave no hint of the fact, now first proclaimed, th.it double that number had previously been pledged for at half-price. I hope I may make the truth clcariy understood that the chief value to me of this preliminary pledge was a mora! value ; for, in the absence of it, I should probably never have printed the prospectus at all. My feeling was that the Popes ought, as business men, to feel a thousand-fold the interest which any individual rider might, from mere sentiment, feel in the success of such a scheme ; and that, unless I had the ability to persuade them to risk |iooo on it T f^niilr^ wrA ■\M.t\co\-,t ico. .»«.<> Moral support of prospectus. ^u:i:... *_ _- If 704 TEX THOirSAND MfLES ON A BICYCLE. Having f^ainrd Ihii fir»t point, however, I w.u emb<)Mene, the publishers of ths Hi. iVinr/d tent to me the following letter : " Oear Sir - rhe prospectus is t.m much i-i the line of an ac'vertisement to be admitted free. We are wiiliiii; to help you ail wa ca--, out you are .lewspaper-man enough to know that if you h.>ve roixIs t.. sell you must arivettise them and pay for the same. We are in the business not for the love „f it, but to make money, and we cannot aflford to j-ive our siiace (or nothing t. those who have Koods to sell to wheelmen. kesjiectfully, E. C. » Oixiits & Oi " ./ prophecy from \ ^'*'* "'*"*• *"' '" '■"rx'nse to my suRRestion that the B,. World x.A lioston. **'*"/ (ihe only cyclinR papers |l,ci, in the field) should be given a chance I to m.ike simultaneous aiinounceiii.-nt of the scheme, either on Jan. 25 cir a week later, as they might agree ; for 1 wished that neith journal should win exclusive crclii by first bringing out an important piece of " news." On the 18th, t mailed to each a i.,r ' ro ,y of prospectus and circular, and remarked to ed. of B. If. that I hope.l, when he actu.. s. w the same, he would think it cnntnined much m.ilter worth publishing,— esiwcially as id. of W'***/ had notified me of his intention to give a liberal amount of space to it on the 25th, lie replied on 23d, in friendly spirit, admitlins that my argument h.id so fur overcome his expressed objection of the 15th to " a free adv." that alxiut a column and a quarter of my matt.r l.id iHcn marked for insertion ; and regrelling that, by a printer's blunder, it had been held over for the next issue, Keb. i. He added these memorable words : " And now, pray, let me draw a little from my experience. My opinion has not been asked, but I venture toofler a few hints regiird- ing your road-book. I have been selling bicycling literature for nearly three years, and I know a little about the marHet. Let me say then, frankly, that you cannot sell 1000 copies of a bicy- cling work at 5i each.— no matter how good it is nor how much it commends itself. The m.ir- ket will not absorb that quantity of books. I place the outside limit of your .sales at 300 copies, and I can't believe you will se'! that numlier. You will say that the wheelmen h.ive been cry- ing for just such a book, and that the gre.it majority ou-ht to buy it. Experience will show yoii that, no matter how much the bicyclers may howl for a thing, they fail to come to time when asked to pay for it. • • • I don't d -sire to throw a wet blanket on your enterprise ; neither do I desire to see you enter on a speculation without a full knowledge of the facts. I think your road-book will sell ; but, if you must have an advance • -.le of 1000 copies, you will wa.te vour time and money working on the thing," //(>7a " 300 " fixi'if mc \ '"'''* mistaken prediction is by no means quoted for the s.ike of for " -loOO " i ° -'^'■'^'''''"K '*"= sl'rewdness of its author, but rather for showing ' ^ ■ ! clea.-ly the antecedent probabilities of the case. The writer of those words w.is more competent than any other man in America to form an intelligent and dis- passionate " business " judgment of the chances for making money by publishing such a book as my prospectus described. He was familiar with my writings and had a good opinion of them, and his warning was prompted by sincere good-will, and it deserved the re.siwct always due t.i the opinion of an experienced an.l careful observer. Yet it supplied the best conceivable sp.i; for driving me ahead,— as shown by what I at once (Jan. 3 , ) wrote to the H'luel : " He believes that, as regards the assumed demand for a ro.id-book, the cyclers of the country will ' talk tatTv ' everlastingly, but will not ' talk money ' worth a cent. Nevertheless, if I really publish such a book, it will be with the intention of having it show on its very face that no less than 3000 of the * taffy-talkers ' have braced me up with their %i bills, and thereby demon.strated that this theory as to their character was -ivrong." In the same letter, I suggest.- ' " X M, Miles on a Bi," as a tolerable abbreviation for the long title of the book, and reported th.it almost 200 League members were subscribers to it, though only six d.iys had gone since the li'httlm3.At public^he scheme. For that journal, much to my surpr"'^ . printed my prospectus and circular in full, together with a long editorial recommendation tnereof.-giving nearly two pages of space in all, including its title-pase, I was thus enabled without expense to make a " preliminary canvass of the League " (the WA^-?/ being mailed to each member, as " official onran ">: and ! «id in Sut, ess of pnlimi- \ iiiiry ,;i»7'iiss. THIS nooi^ OF Af/Xl-:, AXD THE NE^ Ih.s fir»t i,ki>.K for pledsje, ; " The number and char.ictt- of ,he r,.n« • . ■ me to declc whcnhcr or ,.o, u m «„r,l, „,„ wlul/, ?^r 7 '«'P«"«« received will enable uix„, a r,ud.UK,k f.,r wl,.ch .h.r<= i, „„ real demand. " '""■" ""' "'"""' 1 he enlhu-iiastic " clip acttr " of tl>» ,. . i- i ■_ , ...... ....-.._„ .,r«;.., .ha. " 't:r:;;::::i xr :::r " w, r.rs, call u. .h.T.;i r*^ :, ,r ""'''"'-r' '"'' -" "-^ '*'''"• •'•'>■ -^f'" "-^ IxH-k. 1 e.nl.. i,.d' s, J f , " 1 r T'-'f ^ "..a..a.nable), .vcn for .h. final sale of ,h • i:iub-I,i., as wdl as Road I oL •• ' '" "' "'"' ""'"""" '" » '■^"" -""I '• V wa. really inserted .n tlJ-^^nlart:: ' I'Zd "lu T"''^^ '" "'^'^^'"""^ '"^ •^'- " -" »-Wof Jan. ,5 ; and I mention the fact .fsLltci ,'""","'!''' "' ' ' "■ ■■'■"^"" '''"" i-r..al by its w,llin,nes, .„ freely help y ^ .^7 I T^': "' ^"^^"'-™='" ~' •" ••■a. 2i), I reminded l,i, readers thi.-" th,„ !h \ .,^^^''" " "^ '<'""•■■ '^I-'V » (pHntrd May .'.KKi-will towards n,., forT r " V ex e f^ " ' ""'," ''"' """' '" '''"'^'^ •'"y *P-ial s^."-.l,..i..n for it. and f . " h ; ^I / ^ ^'T '" " T"" '"^^""'' ""^'"^ "'> — ' ..^ Had pn. in type every word f tcUr^ri: :ill ^l^::: '-'' rT""'"- mony that for all this v.ilnable service I have n,,d not . ■ ^^ "^"^^' ' *'^'' '" ''-ar testi- P..yment in the shape of en -aein. ■ adv ,' ' f .f ' '^ ' '''''■" «'^"'" "" l'-"'- "' .nuchasasharein:hestoc;:f ^ ^^^^'''^^^ UWl'lT/ "^r "'"^"''•^" '"^ """ ^ in Sivins a b.,m to ,ny lx.ol<, than a b oad-m led . tlf h t , "" T- "" "' '"^'"^^""" 'l.i..S forcycli„,s-a,ood thin, for the er ' T, « ' /^ '"'"" " *""'•' *"-■ ' >"""^ ...ake any immeliate ^ro.t ont:. th ^ i '^ . h' I ",:T; i^V"" T T^' ^' """■""" "' P-Pcr share in the nUimate pro.., '.,J. mtl^ r^^ ' Zr : ,): e IVr^^^^ '' '^ '^ papers, m va. ions parts of the worl.l. have had kind words \ot7Zn JT7 ''''". I l>"pe r am properly gratefnl for the sam- • but th • Il'A. , u ', "''"■'""'• ''"^ -her papers combined to make my prelill 'ry ^ ts a ncc^s '^r; "f"" ","": """' "•^" ^" "on of the f.act should be put .,n nrorH ,= • ','^ success, and I wish that my recogni- -era, aid extended to my z: i:^:^^ ZZ'!:^::^!.::,: f "--- - - r;..^.Z.,.,..,J,.,^''^;i, :^;^^.'^;;^^- ^"--^ announcement of ,, which .as dated >f ay S, J^^ :ered lie ^uli^ ^^rS 7 T^'l ^ ^ """'' was reproduced my - prospectus and table of contents, as arr. ^d \Z '\ o'" "'^ ""l^^ ^'.^ stead of naming " about !oo nn •' for SI-,,. ,„ 1 ". i . ^'•" "-'^- 3. 'J> except that, in- .« PP." and .^bout Oct.",; ^. wJ: :::^ :L^''' '- " " '- --^'i-'"" ^^y. - about /vr/«^/;^,-m/x,- I "i"-rto, ,ny work had been tentative and conditional. This circnbr /.yiW;. ^'■"'■J'^] -- -y --li---' promise to push on to a finish It sa d ' c I ceptm;; the tjcx, subscriptions already pled-^ed as an affirm, ' my enquiry concerning the alleged demand for such a voluni ["7. '"'^^"^'"'^'^ --"--er to .ion to conduct a formal canvass for subscribes uniUst"' ""V"""""^^- ->' ''^-'"-in- 5'xx, copies of th.- book. The profits on the sa I I \ '"" """"'"• ""' ""■'" '" '""" veld a fair compensation for tl'e labo r^ ; rsZ: ? " "' ^'YV ^"'^^ '" demands that my entire tim- and en-r-^'es ! JVu u "'''■ "'"""'' ''"^' ^"""* -ct. Dec. has been named ^^l^^^ 'Z^Jl^ T ^^^ .^^'^"■"-'' ^ ^^'^ -^le proj- ... .e exerted to brin, this book out :::!:T ^t i^irS^v^tr^^^rr -.. ..-ns of ^ta.io are represented on my list by 40 subscHb^r^atid z'towns;; No^^ Sc^i^; 7o6 TEN TltOUSAND Af/LES OX A niCVCLE. Attruitioit of Ei»;^tislt patrons. by jo; whitr Hrrmiicl.i, Kngl.iivl. Scolland. IIdIUikI, Cerm.inv. and A(icrieni.e of some three ye.ir* in Soulheri' wheel lift- liai |irr- milted me to form, with tolerable certainty, .i estimate of the mind ui the average colonial ty- clist. l.'on»e<|nen'ly I can My ; He not »ani;uint ' dismi'tinn of many copies . i yonr IxMik in llii-i part of iht hcmispliere. If you obtain li »cfil>ers I shall be most aj^retably nurpriwil However, I shall do my level l)e»t to pro inhahil.ints. AsrejjariK l',n^;land, I waited till the end of Keb , when <«») n.ini.s were enrolled, ■fore scndinj; my tirciil.irs to llii' eililors of its cy- cliiiH press. Ni.irly all of thrni snbscrilieil, ami m "minrnded iheir re.idiTs to do likewise ; but it rem. lined for ll'hteling, which w.is started a f w months l.iiir, to really pick up the scheme ".nd " run it " as a re^uLir f.-ature. On the lirst anniversary of mv pros|>eclu» (I'ec. ,J, '.'*4, p. 71), it printed a \m\f, letter of mine,»howinK that I had tin n obtained as many -upporters from iNew Zealand as from Kngland, ami more fiom the whole of Anstra. :• «ia (\\) than from the whole of Kurope. I explained this by sayini; that, thnngh I had from ihe outset kept vinoronsly at work in th<' .emoto regions, thrnn;;h the Auitr.iliiin CyctiHf; Sfim iind private correspondents, " I had not yet beRun any serious attempt for suiiporl am \f, ihr clubs of Cireat llritaiii." My first rei;iilar broadside was fired in that direction Keb. 5, '.S5, aimiil at aoo club-orticers and other wheelmen of iirominence. I sent to each a copy of the chapter on " Itjrmuda," as f specimen of my work, with a variety of circulars, — one of which s.iid ihai my toial list (1411) included jo^> palnnis outside the U. S., whereof 41 • ere residents of drcal Krilain. "lam afraid K.. K. will be sadiy disappointed " (wrote ' Comus," in H'hfel Life, Keb. 17, p. 2ji) " when he finds the 41 Knijlishmen on his b(voks not greatly increased by this la- 1 bold adv. He is, I should say, a firm believer in the frecm.tsonry of the wheel. It is :i pity to cure him of his belief." In fact, however, the ,- were increased more than fourfold, bv reason of this ' Uild adv." and later ones, — chief amonj; which was li'heelini^'s offer to frcily m .il my circulars to all applicants, to announce through its " Ans. to Correspondents " all sib pledges addressed to me at its oHfice, and ultimately to acknowledjo throir.;li the same medium all payments made to its pnblis' jr, as my ai;ent, by actual recipients of the lx>ok. Kor Ihesr valu.ible services, i" should be understood, ther^j was never any sort of " private bargaining " or mulua! a:.;reement ; but, as occasion offered, . printin;^ thousands of new labels and circulars, I natiirany took pains to reciprocate, by appcndini; thereto u " free adv." of ll'ltrelhii^. I di<' this the more readily because the act would at the sam.- time help ilie S/irimiftrld M'hfilmcns Gizettf, whose adv. was combined with li'liftliiii^'s, — •acli paper seekin'.; supporters in the country of the other, whereas the rest of the wheel press have made slitjht effort for such ' in- ternational " patronaRe. When the G.izftte was revived as a permanent mnnlhly (May, 'S4), it was by the editor's special request that I contributed thereto a speci- men article designed for my book, with a full-pac:e summary of in pre- liminary canvass; and if any of the later issues has failed to contain a simil.ir .irticle, or some sort of par.agraph or advertisement about the scheme, the omission has been due to my o\mi negligence in supplying copy. Whatever I have seen fit to write has been given full and free insertion, t'oncerning this liberal policy, a leading editorial of Feb., VSs, remarked that it had been adopted quite independently of any interest which the editor might have in getting the contract for the manufacture of the book awarded to the Springfield Printing Co., of which he is superintendent. "The policy was adopted at a time when the contract seemed destined logo to New York ; and, if it had gone there instead of coming to Springfield, the pi;',i y would havi- been adhered to, the same as now, on the simple scor of giving a boom to cycling." My "Circular to Hotel Keepers" and sketch of "The Costs of Book-making" covered 4 pp. in tViA n,tm*ff* nf Alio-. V'li artfl T /-ii-riiJat^^H ir,rtn r^nrtut^ ,_if thi^ same I'hrn. Sent. 2S. I Dre- " Cizcf/f " //<•// at Sprin^^fielJ. Defensr of the " IV/uei's' fret aih'. rma book oy ailxe, axd the nex^. 707 P.r«l a r.»i«d comrn,.:.,Uo. callcj ■ Thr (Irra. Am.nc4.. k.«,UUo«k." wh.ch fillH . pp „, Oct U unwritten chap. ler.. I «ul : " At th.i w.ll be more than (.mrt.me* tl... ..un.brr ol word, .1, the ' Wheelma..', A.inuai for 'S,,' wh.ch ..,1.1 for >., „.y pr.-^n. doubt co.,crrns not .0 n.u.h m> .b.l.ty ,.. ..l^dge the .o',. na.«., lack.ng for the 30.x,. a, ,„ ,„akr any profit ... .upply...^ v. expen..ve a l«>..k a. the .,-c,(.rd rate. I vc lh.-r.fore deeded .0 ...creane it. pr,.e to *. 50 for all pur.. .h«, p.ibl....l..m ,l,iy. Two .nonth. before, I I,., I ..,.,.ou.,ced that .uch buyer, woul,. ..ve . >. iS ; and even my May e.rc.d.r had «.d that ... .x.ra po..ase charge against the... wa, pr.. . al.l.- I he Dec. Ua^u. g.ive a pag.- to my " i'ointer for ' the Trade.' ' and tl.e Marcl „ue an e , lor other, previously n.c.tioned. I t.K.k pain, l.owever to apm mar^.nal adv. of th,.- (;„«//, a..d H-tu.l.HgU, ihe later ed,. of all lhe«: ; and the -. '.dy wa.aU K.ven 75<«. n. ,„ in a c«nte..tvtaMe which f prepared in (an., V 5, f„r .,,.■, .s a final page :;■'''" '''':77 ••"'"^'' "■■ " »'^' ■"''•» " ('S-. o-p.e,, in 3 eds.^, and which I ,| agai.. with Ho.ie-Shaker Day, " (Nov., '85, ..>.o copies) and i.,depe„dently ;,«»„ Krom May S.'S^. when 1 declared I would " print the bo<,k after getting iScw i.,„.-e snbiicriptions," to J ,|y 4, 'h;, ^he.. . J " ''" '»•'' " *■>» really enrolled, nearly ev. / 'veek's V^'heel contn.ned «,metl..,^ about the ca„. -vary.ng from a .wo.|i.,e par.. .r..,„ .0 a 1.. • letter Ihe longest coverc-d five columns, Nov. i,. and was written (I . response to t.. aitor'sre.rue.t (or any' from the purely personal part of u; and tha;. .t, the latter could be easily skipped!,. " coi'stant readers.'' they .should not re- sent Its presence as a bait for new-comers. I believe th iK.idian U'hfelman, Southern Cyder, B;cyc!e(ni Mr,„t nery)and .?/ar/(d't'<;c-a/^ printed every! thing I ever wrote ' ; them about the scheme, and I was more than once n^ed to " write oftei.er." The League's ofiicial weekly (during the year which elapsed between the departure from the ^>i.,/and the establishment of the /.W,/,„, was such a sma 1 and m^nly-prmted sheet that I wrote very little for it,-*specially after learning that .is ed.tor^had^n cnt.ased for " helping a non-member of the League." by publishing a short •■••••r •.•: ::::::r. .-u; 1 -.iiiur. uia: ill i »i«i w.iic was printed, except a long •' Argutnenl to Hotel- Press ettcmirai^ement at Boston and elscT.uhere. ^ %4l 7o8 '^EN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Keepers,"' which finally filled three columns irt the Wheel (Dec. 26, '34). I believe too thit thr r,i. iVoria u; d almost evfrylhii)g 1 wrote for it, though the whole amourt was small, bc- LuiiSe, as all the othsr papers were surely open to me, and called for mort " adv. copy " than I could supply, 1 hesitated about risking time in a quarter where ihere w'lS doubt of accei)iance An odd contradiction was represented by this doubt ; for, while the other papers had no motive for favoring me except the general one before explained, the Bi. World might have been pre- sumed, n priori, to be anxious to favor me, as an easy way ot paying for the tojring reiwrts and other articles which I had contributed to its columns, almost exclusively, for the pievious five years. I had never received a cent for these, though earning my li-elihood wi'.olly by news- paper writing during al' that interval ; and, as the B. /K. would be advertised by having several of my chapters accredited to it, and as .t had more than once cried aloud for some one to publi-.|i a road-book, I naturally supposed it would take 'In lead in helping m_, scheme along. Thur^' seemed a •'enuine Hoston coolness, therefore, in its publishers' note, saying that even my pre- liminary circv'ar, prepared merely as a scientific tesi of its own .neory al)(Hit the existing de- mand for such a Ixxk, was classed as "goods to sell to wheelmen," and would not l-e reprinted " unless paid for at regular adv. ra* s." The logic ot eveiit; forced a quick change of this o|)iii- ion, and space was really given for the circular (after the chajiter-titles, the most readable and significant part cf it, had been cul cut '.), as well a - later " advertising" ; but the B. II'. 's delay and " ofliishness " resulte 1 in a public surren i the li'keil ol the entire creuit for the brilliant success of my opening canvass, — which 1 • . planned »o have accredited equallv to each, — and a gradual transfer thither of such "good-will" as ma • line attached to an exrli'- sive use of my signature. I "ve neve, cherished any gr!»vance agan u ,ie B. W., or thouc;h ■ any one coiinected wyth it as being unfriendly to 1 e ; but its " f!or'.o;i notion " of looking upon my many-sided scheme as possessed of no more pulilic interest tban " bicycling goods for sale," was adhered to so long that, rather than contend agamst it, I got into the way of sending r.iast of my writings else vhore. " New V'ork shrew'ness," on the other hand, must be attributed 10 the IVheers editor for at once recognizing my prospectus as the most notable chance of the winter in cycling journalism. He may have erred afterwards, in allowing me to "11 jp s- much sp.ict with a record •.f the scheme's progress (though the B. /fVjplan of "filling" with re- prii !s about " crypio-dynamic gear," and the like, might have | roved rqually tiresome) ; but no one can question the wisdom of his iudgnient that the original lub'icat.on thereof would prove generally i; leresting. The 23S subscription pledge" which came to me within a week thereafter 'howed beyond dispute that my statements had been comtiended as "readable." Ineffectiveness of " lincs- ' '' ^'^'•'"^ proper to say here that no later appeal th.ough any ,, j paper has compared in immediate effectiveness with this initia- papt. rat ^. j (orycall for f^eague support made through the ll'hfel. After the [..eague had doubled in size, its Bulletin printed specimen extracts troi., the book, with foot- note :.dv. ; and ilie Wlieebnen^s Giizette has often done likewise (giving 2 or 3 pp. at a time, when sending out special eds. of 15,000 or 20,000 copies) ; yet, at best, 1 never got more thai. ,•". dc ,en respon.^es from any single adv. of that sort, and it was unusual for an ordinary letter, in Wheel or other papers, to bring a quarter as many. A half-column editorial in the leading daily of a city havmg 175.000 people, among whom cycling is' popular, recommended my book by name, with price and publisher's address; and a similar "free adv.," though ■ lorter, adorned bo:' He daily and weekly issues of the chief " literary " journal in the metropolis. Kach writer subscribe^ for a personal copy of the book, but the friendly " notices " of neither availed, so far ns f could liscover, to win a single additional patron ! My earliest attempt to proclaim the scheme at all outside the cycling world was on May 15, '84. when I sent tirr lars to 100 papers. half of them representing colleges; bi't it was not until Pec. m, ',^5, tliat I sought to rail 'iter- ary reviewers' attention to it as an accomplishea fact. To 100 repi^.i..ntativcs of the general press of America, to 30 of the college press and 40 Enc-Ush and foreign journal?, I then sent specimen chapters and circulars, with a special note saying, the book could be a.mounced as " !:l:."!v t.". sr.T-.f^r i*r..-l*-* :r. ^9.^. " T -?.".n't ^■.!r-.nn':.~ t.;:it n-.-v.v n? thf'm ^-i :5r.r..'^.::nr-'».'4 it. or e.l\'e any sort of mention to it ; but what chiefly surprised me was the refusal of the college editors to THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. pected many, and rhose ew seem to '" , '""' ""' '.'^" ""^'^'"'^' '"^'"^ °' '"e ex- cep. by .he persistent personal efforts of hundreds of strX. T T '" *°" "' arouse. I " worked the Dre« " ,n , """'!'"''" "\ strangers whose enthusiasm I managed to vo>.n.eercanvasLrs; but.rtla e ::T. ::'::;a:;\^' ""''' '''' '" ''''"- ^^ "'"^ all the "newspaper talk" in the wor^wo d no tv aviy;:^""'' r^^^f ''7 ""^'^^ this revelation may confer a benef,. nn ,h ""' "^ve availed to fill my rcll. nncidentally, u as a sign that ' 'reading Ltes • se e.^TThl r^"' '1 T 7'"-' ''""'' " ■-'"' '° mcnts, are not really as effective in Zm • ""' ""' '''"°"^' ='"'' ""^"^ '^^P^^' ...... .. ,,. .„i. --;;:;;:crrx:3::;.::i- ;:,:""^-"' "-- InJig,;„„t ,.f\ Th. ch.d d,,app„l„„„, i„ „, ,„,, j„ ,„^,, , P.,. ... p,.i,.„ :*r sr.- rzr ^rriirr 7'? " -- - •"' packages of circula^wh 1 I ' 1 ^ " .^'' ' ""^ ' '''^'^'^''^ '^"^ ^"J-^g--- '« P"»i"g "^ respo-fses ,ver h rXt; o" i^e N^'" '" l'^ ''""'' '"' ^'"'"'"'^'^ ^''^^•^■'-- ^'-' i adc-.es.ed a second arllmni::! ^'^'^'^^''V'- 1^'''' ^"^ ^"^'^"<^'^' if each dealer would at once pled>:e *. f r ,wn I T' "' ^'' "• '^5). ^ay.ng that would appear in my " trade d,>ec,orv" Z l!n f ""' ,7f "" ''^ """= '°^ *^- '"'^ "*™ appear at the end of wint'r Tess than a d ' -^ T "^ "" ""^^ '"' ""-' '°"'' ''-'^ -'«»« eral of those were old ubscriber Th t ' \ T^ """"' "' "■'" " '"''"'''" '"'' -- cycling tradesmen of ^^^Z .e ': e^^'^ctse^in'^T ^'' ""''"' ^V'' '''^ '^ "^ ■- which I addressed to ,hem callin, a.te. on e po m /.T^^ 'T T''^'"' """" by all thi. effort. On Iu|. . 'H. ,t ' , , '^ f"'"'^"^- 0"^ fi"-"! only was captured note to .,o English de. is wih ,n ' T ' '''" ^°°°'" ' '"^'''^'^ ^ --"^ ^P^^^J ..-anadc.e„ re^p:!!.^' m;; , c r^Vp^r^^^^^^ "^ f^ -re no more a.-e of bicyclers." reproduce/the first ^ndl, ^' ,' •"^'^^■'"^" ^^o want the patron- could be i doubt aboiuthe »1 , "l^" "'' alphabetical sub. list, to show there .l.e bock would tTl pp of " ' T ";: "''" '"' "^"^'""^ P"n^-"- I' -id that '.-. . .hat I aime 1 o Tree an u i"r T / '""■ " ''"'■" ' "'■"" "'^ «-' '='^- -"'^i ^e OU.S... for 3ooosub d T. th wa^t^f "I ^^T """ ^""''^""^ "'^" ' "^^ ^'^^^ ^ '"^ inserted i- ^rade direc.orv '• Ma in ! , M , ', " '" '""'' '"° '""'^ ' ^°^ *^ -"' "-"■ -'"= Clin., pre.s. I ,ot two r pFes IrlZ' T '" ;" "'" "'" "■^"'''"^'y '''d-'"'- '" ""^ cy- .^-eswhichrcally p^^h re ;h vtf"h' f Z'" °"''^'""^ """' "^■""^ '^^ "- "cheme to the u.mos. Vna who h^v. """" '''''°"^ '" ""'" *'"' "^-^^^ P'-^^ed my recogni. in i. a vauJbi; et 7' "^I '' "rr'"'^"' " "'^^ '"''''^ ''' .-.her dealers to' would h,.ve helped me, all, he sane even if he' J"* ">' ^ ^-""" ^ >'-' <''-e .nthusias.s ^ee,. whether cvclin. tnde ment 1 n " "" ^''" '" "^"^ '"''•=• " ^«'"^'"'' •" be .-.her rewa.d .ban ,he 7em e le in , lild .^T "' "'"'' """^ "^^ ^^"^"' -"'"« '^ - ^alenfwheels; bu.. af.erXir " rn it f ! T "'' '' """'^'■"^ -" -crease .he - .ive them a " f ee dv '■ ..: ir!!.!';" *" '■^•'^'^ ""^ ^''-"- --< ••" >■'• <" allow me Rnpri'alli iitMi it) ■• help along .">^ir business by .he ac. of helping mine" Their ,„»„„i i .u ^ "" "'*' °'""« 1 11 710 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. a " free adv." in the " Wheelmen's Reference Book," before described, only 60 took the trouble to fill out the blank form which ensured it. V I My contract with the Springfield Printing Co. was made Jan. 19, Progress tn wrt.ing ,^^^ ^^^ ^j^,^^ j^^ _^ ^^ ^j _^^^^ chapter (" Bermuda ") were finished and electrotyping | ^^m. month, from same type which had been used in puUing the story into Gazette plates. Copy for first 7 chapters (reprint, with a few additions) was sent to printers Feb. 15; and I worked from then till Apr. 11, 105 h., in writing the 8th. The nth was also a;i entirely new chapter, which cost me 54 h., and all the others to the 21st required labouous additions. The plates for the 21 were done by the end of June (except that the " last pages " of several chapters were held over for completion in Sept.); and these 293 pp. comprised all the material of the book which existed when iu first prospectus was prepared. Chap. 28 was next electrotyped, in July (I wTote it just a year earlier, in 6 days; 49 h.); Chap. 27 in Aug. (10 days; 67 h.); Chap. 29 in Sept. (29 days; 167 h.) ; and I then printed 1000 of each as separate pamphlets. I gave 23 h. to proof-reading of these 3 chapters ; and therefore their 8j pp., which conuin no facts about " roads," cost me 306 h., and delayed the book about 2 mos. At this point my right hand gave out, and I began pen-practice with my left, which has done nearly all the later work. Chaps. 22 (10 days; 66 h.), 23 (17 days; 93 h.), 24 (11 days; 60 h.), and 26 (11 days ; 61 h.) were then successively written and put in type ; so that on Dec. 15, '85, the plates of book were complete from p. i to p. 472. I worked steadily from Dec. 5 lo Feb. 10, in preparing copy for pp. 473-554, which comprise Chaps. 30 (116 h.), 31 (77 h.) and part of 32 (63 h.) ; and after printing thest I put in type 39 and 40, containing the two sub. lists. These w>;re arranged by other hands, u.-.r'er my direction, and the alphabetical list gavv. no special trouble ; butafter the slips of the geographical list had been pasted in provisional order for the printer, I myself was forced tr n k. 84 h. in revising them and 39 h. in correcting proofs,— the whole process stretching through 2 mos., and ending May 7. Chap. 36 was meanwhile written, in Apr. (by request, for first use in " Wh. Ref. Book "), and finally enlarged and sent to printer in Oct. Chaps. 34 (7 days ; 50 h.) and 35(11 days ; 67 h.) were mostly written in May, and electrotyped in July. Chap. 37, as already noted, absorbed me till the end of summer (52 days ; 275 h.) ; the Preface (41 h.) during the first week of Sept., and this present chap. (21 days; 150 h.) until Sept. 30. I plan next to prepare Chaps. 32 and 40 (final sections), and 33, in the order named,— thus making the latter the latest part of the book, except its contents-tabie and indexes. This irregularity of construction will explain some seeming incongruities in the text,— such as statements of late and early dates in certain pages whose relative positions appear contra- dictory. I may say, tno, that any such record as "writing a chapter in 61 h. on 11 days" should not be cons rued as excluding other work ; for on those same days 1 may have devoted nearly as many more hiurs to correspondence, proof-reading and the like. The act of attaching my left- handed signature 103368 "numbered fly-leaves, forthe subscribers' autograph edition," required 36 h. during the four days ending with Feb. 19 ; and in reporting this to the S/>r. IVA. Gaz. for Mch. (" Owed to Spring," p. 192) I announced that no more subscriptions would be enrolled except at $1 50, and that I felt fairiy confident of publishing before the end of May. Th^ > ariiest forms of the book were actually put to pre^s Sept. 3, '85, and 224 pp. were printed within a month, 320 pp. by the end of Dec, and 514 PP- (first 34 forms) eariy in Apr. ; but Work 0/ the Springfield Printing Co. all the remaining press-work will be done after the completio.i of the final plates. Besides the .cguiar ed. of 6000, there are 200 impressions, on heavy paper, designed for buyers who may wish to indulge i.i a handsome binding. These sheets, simply folded for the binde., cost the same as cloth-bound copies of the ordinary book ; and they can either be mailed for binding rkewhere, or be bound on the premises for any one who nay make a bargain as to style ai.J price witl ;ne Springfield Printing Co. In regard to this establishment, it seems proper fnr me to say •'cre, that I have employed it during every year of the last quarter-century in rin.ri; smaller pieces of work for me, and that I expect its manufacture of my book will be completed as satisfactorily as those previous things have been. I consider myseif ionunaic m in. :..-": that its superintendent, H. E. Ducker (s ;e biog. on p. 524), is enough of a cycling enthusiast Col. Pope's reply to secon J proposal. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. 7„ lo take a personal pride in helping ensure the typographic excellence of thi. boot „i,ich wiU exhibit the firm I work to cyclers everywhere, and to understand and make allowance for the stress of circumstances which has delayed the time of paying for it so far beyond the implication of the contract. I suppose that any metropoliun firm, capable of carrying so large a bb, would have insisted on naming specihc times of payment, instead of letting them stand relaled to an in. definite publicationK^ay ; and I am thankful to have escaped the troubles which any such CRSt-.ron contract might readily have brought .ipon me. The ant.cipated disadavantage of giving . dc^ and correctip.s proofs, through ihe mails, from a diotance of .40 m., 1 have found to be' largely imaginary. In Apnl, as soon as the hr.t S44 Pp. were printed, I sent complimentary copies (special ed.) to En-hsh and Australian e.ltors, who had subscribed, and to a few others saying that the final sheets would be mailed at the same time with their bound books. I ilso'put the sneets on exhibition with certain dealers in New York, Boston, Newark and Orange About ao advance copies were give-, out, altogether ; and such printed notices as J have seen concerning them have been favorable. One of the English recipients, however, wrote to me thus- '• ; have casually glanced through the first portions of your book, and I much fear that, at any rate on this side of the water, its contents will be voied dull a ,d uninteresting. Thts of course in confidence. ' H.s words recall the London Examiners verdict on my " Four Years at Yale "• ^A dull, stupid, iU-written book, on a subject which might have been made highly interesting."' '^'".J""^ 3. I mailed the 544 pp. to Col. Pope (together with proofs of frontispiece, title-page and sub. list chapters), and proposed that Ihe , ^^''Pe Mfg. Co. subscribe for 1000 copies at }i each. I argued that they could be quickly sold for $1500, by reason of the unexampled advei 'sm^ already received • and I requested that a decision be made simply on the merit, of tlie offer, ^^ a business invest^ ment promising a ready return on a slij;ht risk. I asked nothing as a favor, and distinctly dis- owned any claim of inheritance or obligation under the 'ii agreement about buying 2000 books at 50 c. each ; but I felt confident that the ofler would be accepted. The actual answer, dated Boston, June j, was as follows : " D,ar Sir: -It is now two years and a half since you pro- posed getting out your book, which was to have come out in the summer of '84. It has taken so long to get the book out, and you have made it so large and the type so small, that I think it has detracted largely from the interest it otherwise would have had, and from the benefit that we would have received. We appreciate your hard work, but we are sure we could never sell .000 copies of your book, on which you think we could make #500. Even if we sold ,000 it would CO.. a great deal to make the sale. The book is j..st at hand, and I have put on my stronges. glasses, and then -find it difficult to wade through a single page, without my eyes water- mg and my nerves getting out of order. The "oook, it seems to me, will only be used as a T,at- ter of reference. If you had made it into about six volumes, with krger print, I should have enjoyed it better; and still better if you had boiled the -.vhole thing down into one volume of coarse print. Do not think, because I criticise, that I do not appreciate vour hard work, because 1 do, and have only the very kindest feelings towards you ; and I shall be willing to send you a check for $250, and in exchange shall be satisfied to receive 25 volume; ■ or shall be satisfied to have you keep the #250, for the good you have done the cause, and we will take some books on consignment here, and in New York and Chicago, ahd sell them for ycu, if we can, without any commission. I think Uiis arrangement will be just as profitable to you as though I bought the 1000 volumes. With best wishes, I am " Yours very truly, Albert A. Pope, Pres't." The foregoing letter was a genuine surprise, but it also had genuine value to me as an " eye-opener,"— for it fixed my mind at once in regard to the methods upon which I must rely for By demonstrating th.- tlifficultv thereof, it supplied the best pos- sible spur for clnvtng me forward to " conquer the impossible,"-in the same way as another Boston man s friendly warning, that I could noi get 300 subscribers, served as mv chief in- -, ira:iu„ .„ ^cii.ng 3,00. 1 he contrast between the conduct of those cycle dealers who are not named m my " trade directory " (because of their unwillingness to pledge even $2 for my scheme. Condemnation from com- petent judges. forcing a sale of 30.000 books. 712 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. thou^jh that investment vould directly return $3;, and the conduct of Col. Pope, in offering tne a gift of J2 50,— merely on general principles of rewarding energy misapplied in a good cause — is a contrast whose signiticance needs no comment. To n.e, however, the chief importance '(.( the offjr IIl-s in its showing the sincerity of his belief that, from a business point-of-view my eti- terpiisf is entirely hopeless and visionary. This, be it remembered, is the opinion of the man mo.st competent of all men in the world to pronounce an accurate and impartial judgment on its prospects,— the man who will be profited more than any one else, not even excepting myself in case I succeed in demonstrating that that judgment was xvrong] He stands at the head of the world's cycling industry because of the exceptional shrewdness of his foresight ; because ot his willingness to stake ,„rge risks on remote results; and because of his sagacity in pronKlinj in- direct and general advertisements which help the whole trade,— and help his own the most, merely because his share of the whole is thi largest. For these reasons 1 expected, in spite of my fail- ure to overcome the apathy of the lesser tradesmen, that-he would be readily v\( ,1 to my tlieory, which accounts the three y.?ars' l.ibor on the " subscribers' autograph edition " as an advertise- ment ensuring a quick ■^-'. for ten times as many books. But his letter shows the adoption of an opposite theory, whicl. apparently is that most of the probable purchasers of the book have already been worried into pledging for it, or else have grown prejudiced against it !>ecause of the long delay,— so that there is no hope of forcing the market to " absorb " arvtliing like an edi- tion of 3o,rKX). Similar to this is the opinion of another well-known member of the trade, C. K. Z.icharias, of Newark (who has " made it a business as well as a pleasure to jjledge n« names to my list,"— or more than have been put there by any one else) ; for he " fears the field is less promising than three years ago," because the numerous road-books which have meanwhile ap- peared om likely tto diminish the demand for my own. Such, then, being the sentiments of representative men, who have manifested the sincerest desire to push my scheme forward, I record them here as an impressive proof that " the trade " in general look upon it as having not the ghost of a show of financial success. Its foredoomed failure, in the mind of every dealer who reflects at all about the result, seems as plain as a pikestaff. Ilanniessness of my \ '"^^-^ "^'''^ '" '""'■ ^^P*^'^ proposal admitted that it was, on its face, I,/. ; (■ .. ■ r ' (more advantageous to me than an out-and-out acceptance of mv : otter,— for his gift of $250 would ; jst .bout equal what was then my prospective margin of profit in letting him have the 1000 books at the subscription-rate,— while the chance which I had thus o.lered him for making $500, by retailing them, would then accrue to myself besides. Hut I declined it, as inconsistent with my plan of seeking a profit solely from actual sales of the book; and said I preferred to supply him with 250 co|>ies at #1 each, and lo avajl myself of his Nev/ York office only, as a distributing agency. He ch.-erfully consented to this, but the number of my pages so increased that, in Oct., when I saw there could be but a nominal profit in supplying them at$i, I threw up the bargain and arranged that the Pope Mfg. Lo. should simply keep the books on sale fur me, without commission, at its offices in lioston, New York and Chicago. I ask this same f.ivor of every cycling agency in the country, no more and no less : and purchasers of my book at any such place may know that they put the entire profit into my pocket as surely as if they made a direct remittance. I prefer indeed that these agencies should be patronized, whenever practicable, as a means of avoiding the risk, trouble and expense of resorting to the mails ; but I -vish each one who thus buys the book indirectly would afterward? file with me his name and adt'.ress, even though he may not care to send an ex- pression of opinion also. Until the end of '87 at least, I shall be glad to have cash orders for books sent direct to Springfield Printing Co., instead of to myself; for books will usually be mailed from S., even when ordered from me in N. Y. On Feb. 4, '84, when the Cunningham Co. was the chief business competitor of tlie Popes, the following note was sent to me by the firm's junior partner, F. \V. Weston : "Although your book seems likely— with its ' 234 Co. lumbia' allusions— to bo one of the most valuable free advs. they ever received, I feel sure its value in general will be none the less on that account, and I shall deem it a privilege if you will put me down for 5 conies." Quoting this in mv " ll'Iiee' Fxtra of Feb 22." .i.". a me.ms of urging other dealers to adopt the same liberal opinion, I said ; " I never yet spoke a word, or "^e THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. 7,, wrote a word, or printed a word, i.. praise of the Columbia bicycle, to the prejudice or disparage- ment of any other n.anufac.ure. I never intend to. When people ask my advice about the relafve merus of different n.aclunes, I tell them it is a subject ab<,ut which I know nothing and care nothmg. As I lack the mechan.cal aptitude to form an intelligent and authoritative oph on on the matter, I never pronounce an opinion. All i say is that any kind of a bicycle is uood enough for me, and that I naturally stuck to the first one which I happened to t'ct astride of ■ but I do not reconnnend other people to follow my example in that respect, or in any other " The foregou.g words are st.Il true ; and I wish to ren.ind every tradesman who is disposed 'to begrudge the adv. winch mast needs accrue to the Popes from the fact of my having ridden a Cohnnb.a. .hat my ent-re .nexperience wij, any other maclune robs the adv. of power to injure any other and reduces the value of the adv. to th.- lowest possible terms. My case is utterly d.fferent from that of a man who proclaims th..t, •' having thoroughly tried all the rival makes he settled down on a Columb.a as ' the best,' and has already ridden it .5,cx» m., at a Tott oi only .si c. for o,l and repa.rs." On the contrary, this book proclaims the defects and "Jair and necessary expenses of my machine, with a scientific exhaustiveness never bestowed upon any other ; a.ul a very plausible argument against the Columbia's reputation night be made by reprorlucn.g. outs^e of the.r connection, all the damaging f.»cts recorded against " Xo .,. '^ or pp. 35-48. I feel sure, therefore, that if my .o,<«o n>. had been measured on an EnglUh b.cycie, Co . Pope s support of my publishing scheme in -83, and his present offer to help sell the actual book, would have been just exactly as li'x^ral ; and so 1 ask the friends of all rival maclnnes also to help sell it, on its merits as an aid to the spread of their business. I ask them to recog,nze Us value as an honest advertisement of the superiority of bicycling to all other .nodes of travel ; and to banish the false idea that it is planned for the praise of any style of bicycll Indepetidence of all Popes \ I ''-^ve said on p. 47 that when my old wheel had become and pcnuers. I '" '"T^^'- ""-' ^"'' ^'"^"' ^^ ^'^'''^^'"' ""^ '" J'scourage mv plan , ^ , I ^* rebundmg, I decided to have another built as nearly 'like it as poss.be ; and the makers w. re well aware that I intended to pay the full price for it \n csh just as I had pa,d m the frst case. They had no motive, therefore, of " hiring me to ride a Coa.mb,a, or to be par;:al to their interests, when they accepted my offer to ,,..y for the new wheel by present.ng tb, m with the old. They accepted it si.nply because old - Xo .,. " was worth more to them, for exhibition purposes, a., a strictly legitimate adv., than the money I should otherw.se have pa. d them for " Xo. .34, Jr." My pushing it " ,0,000 n.. through .4 States and Prov.nces, and writing so much to arouse public curiosity in its individuality had conferred upo., ,t a factitious value ; and f was quite justified in selling it at that value to ■ - ,se who could prout by it. I would .I't have sold it to any one else for a dollar less. I would n't have sold It at all, n, fact, without the assurance that it should be preserved for a public relic As the first b.cycie in America to traverse ,0,000 m.,-as the firs, bicycle in the world to make a straightaway trail of .400 i,..,-it certainly has more value to the makers than the newes mach.ne n. the.r shop ; and there rests on me not the shadow of an obligation towards them by reason of this transaction, or by reason of any other. I am quite as free to speak my mind about the Pope of Boston as about the Pope of Rome. I have a sincere respect for each as men eminently s.agacous .n discovering ti side on which their own bread is buttered; but I humbly hope the success o my present scheme may be striki.ig enough to show that, as regards the possib.ut.es of the book-business, I have power to " give points " to both of th.m ' When the 30 000 cop.es shall have been sold, if Col. Pope and the lesser leaders of the trade choose to publ.cly present me w.tl. a purse of $,0,000, or 55re a record of full name, address and price seemed appropriate or useful, I have taken pains to freely advertise the same. My refusal to admit paid advertisements was a pledge of impar- tiality which seemed needed for the attraction of subscribers; but, besides its effect in convincing readers that I have written this bonk solely in their interest, I rely upon it to give thein a sort of feeling of personal pride as " copart- ners " in the prtxluction of a volume whose handsome typography is unmarred by such vulgari- ties. Py proving how my subscrijition scheme has been carried through without any sort of subsidy from " the trade," and how slight my hope is of help from the same in pushing futnf^ sales, I trust this truth has been shown : that the inain chance of any reward coming to me, from three years' work and risk, now depends upon the amount of good-will and enthusiasm which the book rtiay be able to arouse in its 3000 subscribers. I have served as their self-ap- pointed agent in doing a thing which no one else in the world had power to do ; and, if they shall decide that it was worth doing, I am confident they will individually take pleasure in help- ing ensure the enormous sale now needed to pay me for thus serving them. By exhibiting the volume to librarians, hotel-keepers and cycling acquaintances, they may advertise it in a mori- effective way than would be possible by any expenditure of printer's ink. I do not intend to sell through the bookstores, for the price has been put too low for the payments of commissions to middle-men, but I shall bend all my energy to the pursuit of direct buyers through the mails, — sending contents-table, preface and other specimen pages to thousands of cyclers. I shall also print for them " opinions of the press and of subscribers" ; and this intention forms one of several rea.sons why I shall be glad to have any one write to me just what he thinks of the book, or of any part )f it. I ask every such private reviewer to say what his preference is,— in case I publish any of his remarks, — as regards attaching to them his full name and residence. or his initials and club, or his League number, or no signature whatever. If his preference is A'ced of private help and criticisms. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. ,,r that I publish none of hi, remarks, even anonymously, I will re.pect that also; but I wish none ,he less to pu, them on file. I specially urge .hat errors and faults be called to my a.Ten non w,. . .he utmost freedom. I mean by these not only printers' blunders. mi,.Ma.en e .s of" f.u t, and defects of execufon, but everything wh.ch .o the mind of a subscriber seems an e^o of ,udgn,en,,-as regards om.ssion. a, well as commission. In .nh.T worxls, I shall f e, ha.Ufu bee, b,c.iuse a .ne,..l agreement of cm.cs concerning objecionable points will give me . V uable wammg of what .o avoid in my next a..e,np, ,„ placate th,- same patrons. Th re r three quest.ons m particular, which I should l.ke ,„ have u large vo.e cast upon as a melns of infornung .e whe.her subscribers think that the great size of .h'e book a.ones'f. i J, ng dela- a persuad.ng 3000 stranger, to serve a, volunteer book-agents is likely 10 succeed A, have ...own that the plate, for first .. chapters were finished in June, '85. I m,gh, have issued he book next mon.h, w„h alphabe.ical sub. lis. as Chap. .3, and .hj, k'ept ins.d h , mi f ! ne hf U '"'.'""•T""' ""^^^'^f-"--' - = " Are you sorry .ha. I did no, s.op short, and g,ve Z .he book >n that shape, at .ha. earliest practicable date (July, '85), raiher.han Z^TL \Z of work Ind Tin "" "".:'°"' "'"'"« '"^ ™ad.informa.ion at all-cost 306 h. ot work, andaddayof ,mos.,my second question is : "Does their insertion repay you for vZ If^' ■■ ■■^"' ^°" '"'""ted in .h.s presen. chapter's attempt to .\ke D^'s ,h ' T" ''""'" ^"'""^ '"'' Pl'ilosophy, as connected wi.h and affected bv the sam ' Does the revelat.on ,mpress you as possessed of any • potentiality.' a. an appeal to the s^xial sympathy of cyclers, for putting money in my purse .' " ^ My labor and risk as " publisher" are what I seek pay for - not my writings as " author." These, in .heir original form, w^re ,h,, ,h»fi , • /''"°" ^"^^'■'^'^S'f"°"^^P"bHc; and it seems in .he nature of .hines that the firs, preparation of road-reports should have no other reward t„an the sen^^ema one,-whe.her .hey are prepared for the cycling press, or for the Uague'. officia road Zks or for use by a pr.va.e publisher like myself. The experin.en. which I am engrg,^ up" a^s to discover whether the editing and publishing of such repor.s, on an extensive a,!d ex^ ive s-1 can be made ,0 pay. " If -i. succeeds, I shall at once begin work on a second collect Ipu.t' ne.ther the present vol. nor its possible successor can compete or conflict at " w th the offici ™t^ rr^hVe T fTV"'"" '•""'• ''''" *'"" P^'^P""' '" '^''"'" f-". demand, ^hen '!'^-^'".*'";" '^' P-^« °f 'he League's unpaid officer, ; while mv own plan of presenting .hem n narrative form, as ac.ually observed by individual .ouris.s. demands hat the ed or a,"d :7o hi; wa" ' rs Tr '"'-^i °' '*•" --' "°' -- ^"^-p' - -™ ^sn:^z:t neCed bvenoLh ,K ""P--"-'! ^'a'is.ics, and the book of narrated observation, con- TZ- and el s T '"""l' '''"""' '" "^'= '' "^'^'^'^' "'='' ''^^ ''' ^P--' f"-,ion and ill . .t r 'T T"''' "^^ °"'-- I recommend every reader of mine ,0 procure .he local road-books and gu.de-books of all regions where he .ravels ; and I feel sure that this vol of mme w„l st.mulate rather than discourage the production of such book The r„ed i or r.heT t''f'^°-'^^-' '-''^ '" •^'^P"- 'hem of .he aid of possible contributor, ; whi on the other hand, the transt.ortness of public.y in the cvcline naners .!.„..» f.,..;^. .u;..-:.:_, itl rellTh" '" '^T '','""'■"• '''''• ^'^ "^"'^^ '""^ '='""''"'^' his'7to;;m"ust capture all .ts reader, withm a sntgle week, and hence can do very little permanent good to the cauM- Costs and conditions of road-book making. 7i6 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. while, as regards (he former, his patriotism may not be equal to the strain of suppressing all in- cident and individuality for the greater glory of pure statistics. But even if 'ourists would write an abundance of good road-reports for a given journal, any attempt to print them, as an exclu- sive or controlling feature, would quickly prove fatal to its prosperity. My history of cycling journals has shown that they are all, of necessity, "advertising circulars, su|)i)ortcd by the trade " ; and, as trade policy promotes racing rather than touring, no journal devoted :o the lat- ter could make money. Races possess the element of "news," and tours do not. Hence, while the veriest tyro of the pen can fling together a race-report which will attract readers, noth- ing sliort of genius can fashion so prosaic a thing as a road-report into such shape as to be gen- erally attractive. " When you talk to a man of louring, there is so little to say, that he regards it as a very dull pastime, — until he once tries it. I suppose there are a few writers who could make a report of a tour sufficiently interesting to rouse public interest ; but such men are very tcarce and should coinmund big salaries." The quoted words are those of an enthusiastic tour- ist (B. H. Ayers, in Am. H'/ieelitiiin, Aug., '86, p. 7); and I support their underlying idea by saying that, if one of those " few writers " ever did in fact prepare a touring sketch which could be called " readable " in a strict literary sense, I never had the happiness to read it. The power of compelling " the general reader," who is indifferent about cycling, to take an inter- est in such a sketch, is a power I do not pretend to possess; and 1 know of no one else who possesses it. i simply claim for myself that a quarter-century's training as " a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," has given me a certain exceptional skill for editing and compiling road-re- ports, in a concise and instructive manner which is calculated to please bicycle tourists. If the cyclers of the country decide that that skill ought henceforth to be employed exclusively for their benefit, I had just as s<^n sell it to them as to any one else. Proposals for "My Second ^'^ painstaking style of compilation is shown in Chaps. ' ,1 30-32 ; and I have said that these (pp. 473-554) cost me 2 inos. Icn I nousaiui. of 256 h., in addition to the enormous labor of collecting the material. I tried there to give each man's story in his own peculiar fashion, while at the same time largely recasting each, after a fashion of my own. I shall be glad to have each subscriber give me his opinion as to whether those three chapters repay him for the delay they caused the book. I may have been foolish in promising to insert such chapters, and in promising to prepare a history of wheel literature; but, after attracting, by those promises, a great quantity of mss. , maps, pamphlets, papers and books (to say nothing of subscribers), I was in duty bound to ful- fill them. A similar remark will apply to various other features of the book, which I never should have promised if I could have foreseen their cost. In fact, I should never have under- taken it at all, if I 'd had the faintest conception that it was to be so big. I simply could n't have lived through these three years, except for my unreasonable hopefulness ; for this continually had power to deceive me as to my capacity for speed in " getting to the end." Yet even my actual speed would have been impossible, save under the inspiration of seeing my chapters go into type as fast as written, and of feeling the printers' prod always at my heels. There must needs be danger to an author in publishing his own book, and an es[x;cial danger in fixing a price for it, and beginning to print, before the whole is written ; but it is evident that my own could have been produced in no other way. The bigness of it, too, seems a sort of business necessity, for an adv.; liecause, since I am de! arred from praising the quality of my own work, there is need of a chance for proclaiming its ( unity, as a fact extraordinary enough to command attention. Similarly, I felt forced to collect and print all the "wheeling biographies" within reach, in order to show that my own biography was put into the book as a mere matter of business, and not at all for vanity. I am thus enabled to declare that, even if all the pages which concern myself and my travels be disregarded, enough others will remain to make the vol. worth its price to any wheelman who cares at all about roads and lours and tourists. Hence, too, I plan to have my own travels and personality hold a much less prominent place in the next book ; and to give it gre.iter variety, by devoting most of its space to the lives and explorations of other push- ers of the wheel. I plan to have it contain not less than 300 pp. (of same size as the present, but with little or none of the present fine type) ; to have it indexed even better than this book ; Request for personal statistics THIS BOOK OF M/XE, AXD THE A EXT. ytj tn exclude all aHver.i,*mc„„ ; ,o ,„ue it in ,S,^ ; and .„ sell i, Un 5,.5o,-excep, ,„ ,ho,e who ..|.h.^e,,c.l 1,„ of such supporter,; bu. I do no, promise i,. or pronuse any other ••frill, " wl„ch n,,K'h, ge, me .n.o .rouble. Kvery reader whom the pre«.n. vol. pleases enough .o m k. ,n, w.h,o ..courage me n,pro.luc„.g another one of sim.lar style, is hereby n.vUed o ^e * for My Second fen Thousan,! " (or. for short. " , X. M."), a, outlined above, with th! ders a.uhng tha, he can revoke the pledge a, pleasure, and that, if the actual L.K.k shall o please h,m he can return ,. .ns.ead of paying for it. Thus, by incurring a merely nonnnal Z wh To' t T' ': "' "'" ""'" "'"'^' '" "" ''^'" ""= - -^-^'^ -'-"'" i. i. worth and on '"" ' T "f'""" ■'" '^ =• P"»''i''her. I shall be glad to receive suggestion, and op,n,ons. a, to what ou.ht to go in or be kept ou, of the proposed book ; and I spec' lly wan. .0 know whether readers prefer larger type than the largest (brevier) used in the present one A" P"'<'"s wl"' have kept a wheeling record by cvclom., during 86, M, any part of the world, are requested lo send the same to me ,. ., . , "''y '" ''"^7, no matter if it only amounts to 500 m. I wish to have ^ r mdeage g.ven by months ; an est.mate of the year's •• separate mils of road." a dis i , g. shed from m.les of repet.t.on on th. same road , a report of all tours of ,50 m. o more (with w A'c'T' r '"''' "'" -—'V traversed or described), and name of cyclom ve r, I reaT""'"" ""' "^'""'" ""' '""'■ '"''"''' "' ^" cydoms., used in hi, previou year , I ask each reporter to tell every detail he can, good or bad, for I want ,0 make an ex- haust,ve chapter of test.mony on that subject. The amount of it already contributed „ th "e pages, by n,any observers, the index show. .0 be greater than exists els;wi.ere ; and the rea! (Sent"'j T. '""Tf T7' ""'" '" "' '^"^""^ """ '"••'^ ''•' '"""'' '" "^•= ^""^^'"'^ "T-' vo,d„,g trouble w„h adverfsers.- by excluding all mention of their wares from th literary columns of that paper Kvery .-Vmerican who has ridden .00 m. of separate road in .4 h. (either . ra,gh,away or tn a c.rcu.t), or .5 m. straightaway without dismount ; or who has taken a tou of 500 m . or a stra.ghtaway tour of .50 m., or who has explored .00 m. of unreported roads -s reques ed .0 supply me w,th exact dates and details. On p. 485 and p. 497 n>ay be found Tir eTn': 1 'T"' 'TTrY' """''''""' "^""'" '''"' ^'^^ at'th^utsef. and n the r general remark.s, w.th b..ck references. Contributors of such special reports. a;d of gen- eral mdenge records for 'SG, are invited to observe the following rules : Write on only one side of paper ; beg.n first page with full name and residence, occupation or profession, and exact .a.eofb,r,h (place of .t. also, when d.fferent from residence); give date of learning .0 r^de ./and make of whee s ruUlen, and approximate mileage of each ; also annual mileage previou complete or exclusive. In general, my wish is that each contributor should tel' all that he .hu.ks would tnterest other wheelmen ; and a g.KKl way for him to decide about this is to reflec upon the facts and style of others' reports, in this book or elsewhere, which have been of chief mterest to himself. My own aim. in describing a tour. is. as said in the Preface, to give jus, that sort of ,nformat,on about every point, which I myself would pladlv have had in advance Ihe dates of tours are important because road-srrfaoe varies in different years and seasons.' C.ondmon of w,nd and weather deserves mention in reporting long straightaway stavs in saddle or 24 h^ndes I value such things not as exploit., bat as brief statements of the goodness of he roads. If a skilful nder can cover a given =5 m. of ground without stop, the same must be fairly ridable by every one. If he can cover a given ,00 m. in 24 h., every one else can easily g.t over the same in 2 or 3 days. Hence, I shall be glad to be told of Ions stretches of country which r«« be covered without dismount, even though the reporter may not have done so in fact. So far as concerns reports of annual mileage, the older a man is. the more desirous I am of filing his statistics. I wish, by collecting a lot of these, to show about how much time the average man of 35 or 40. absorbed by business cares, gives lo wheel exercise. Records of the younger and more active are also welcomed, of .-.-.:■ r== ■ K..: T ^ ._ !.. _•. .; that a mileage need not be of exceptional size, or go up into tVe thousands, in order'o serve my 7i8 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Units to authors and {•uhlishers. purpo«* - lew riders uv! cyclometers, that there is no danger of my being overwhelmed l>y ll>e iiiu.. uUf of replies. Men wliose records 4|>(>var in this book arc urged to correct ihuni (nr nir at ihf claw o( '«'>, and Kive birthdays, if not already given. All lorrciiwiidents who may refuHC the latter request will please say "age declined," in order to diow lli.it the oiiiinskhi in intentional. All who object to having tl.-ir contributions, or parts thereof, printed in cyi.:inK press, or in any particular paper, in advance of insertion in " i X. M.," will please so specify ( )therwise, I shall feel free to put them to such preliminary use. " Reciprocation," t trust, will be the rule adopted t<, wards nii- by all to whom I have given a free adv. in the previous chapter. Whenever new b'xiks or edj. of theirs may offer the chance, I hope they wil' reprint the word.s of my title-page, and announce bricHy the sijie, style and scope of my book,— even tluniKh they refrain from adopting the larger |K>licy of giving ..imilar treatment to all cycUng books known to bo in the m.irkel. Quite aside from this, however, I ask th.il each author and publisher named in the chapter should seiiil me corrections of any errors maile there, and should remedy omissions, llii-tlid.iys are also desired. 1 wish to receive adv.iiicc announcements of all new cycling books and pamphlets, and the things themselves when issued. If my prospective adv. thereof, in cycling press and later cds., docs not seem worth the trouble. 1 suggest that .It least the tille-pagc, and a statement of siie, style and price, should be filed with me ill every case. I offer a similar wish and suggestion to publishers of guide-ljooks, maps and pictures which may be asMuned to have a special interest to wheelmen. I assure every cycle dealer who sends me his cat.ilogue or price-list that it shall be carefully preserved ; but I lio|i<- nothing of the sort will hereafter be printed which does not at least fnely reproiluce the w any, and the dates of its adoption and use. , , A There are not many joumalists-of-the-wheel towards whom, at - ' ■'^ ' ' ' this late day, it seems needful that I should shout the slogan of the its Ji\e aJv. I Siddall'sroap advertiser :" Don't be a clam 1 " There are not many whose minds run in a grmive of such case-hardened impenetrability to new ideas as utterly to deny the existence of a " certain something " in my scheme which lifts it a little above the common, and demands for i: a somewhat exceptional treatment. Yet it is fitt lat I should fornuilaie the logic of my position with a plainness that can leave no pretext for srepresenting it, — even to the stupidest of mortals. Let me then declare, in the first place, that a vital objection to what is called " free advertising " \i, e., an interpolation, amid a journal's ordinary reading-matter, of facts and opinions designed to further some private scheme or interest) is its ^ual lack of the " readable " qualitv. Readers are not interested in such stuff, because its boaslfulness offends their sense of justice. They instinctively resent self-praise ; and a covert attempt of Smith to wheedle them into the belief that his wares are better than ;he similar ones of Brown, 's espe- cially obnoxious. No one likes puffery or attempted deception ; and I think tradesmen oficn make a mist.ike, even in their big-type advs., in triHir.g with the intelligence of possible patrons, bv speaking too well of themselves. But no such mistake has been made by me in my three years' tiresome campaign as a free advertiser ; and it will not be made in the future. I have tried to arouse public attention and curiosity by iging all possible changes on \.he /acts of the case ; but I have printed not a line in praise of ilie scheme, nor have I sought to inspire such printing by others. Indeed, by preference, I would have suppressed certain fl Utery which others have volunteered to print. Sincere praise is always sweet to the object of it ; but I do not be- i:»-^.. *\\tt*. an uncritical pron^ulsition thereof is jico'' '^usit^ess I'olicv. The Athenisns sot tifd of hearing their great general and law-giver, .Aristides, everlastingly called " the Just," though they Til IS BOOK OF MLXE, AND THE NEXT. pr.,v.,ku.g c..nusi,y.ana..,.rcbya,.ract,n« ,,nrd,a«:r, ...an tl^n f*,' : K'"-"'" l-wcr .,f bcs. lHH,k uf „s Class ever published," (all» on .l.e „r wi... . 1 I . ''''"'"'' '""= "" forKonen ; bu. a s.nar, sarca^n. a, .u ■' .he au„.. • lu ," t .'o::. '"", ""'"' "'" '" ''" .o .1... ■ nnlcage ' of ,„s var.ous pair, o( stocUiuK,." suc^ , V"' ^ "' ' "'" """ "' " " worry him into a bc-M.f .ha. he mus. ul.ima.dy l.^.k ^,, .''""'-"; ^"■"-"•"""-». .^"d nc!;„ Therc-fure, I .ay .„ c^cl.ng c-ai.or,. as I have m 1 , „ 1 , !" "l'"^'^ "'"' '"" "«" '>" of .he booicN fanl.s w„l p,ea,c n.e be..er .h, a -u Z::! ^ 7' '"" ' '" " """-'- ""^'' "I«'-it will be acco„.pani.a by ,..o M a '' ^T'' ^"' ' '^"'''^ '^"^ •• in .pi.e of ,h..so fauUs. ,..e uL i, Jn wor i ^^ ? Th^: ''T T *""""' '*'-• even briefly f,o,„ U,e book will ^ive exac. credi, b' .i , ' " "'""' *''° """'" acknow,ea,n...„. ; and will append pri a d p n. ill r'^ ^l^^'V T ""'""'" '" ^" "■"— propricies of the case allow. 1. wi I be seen ,1 ,1 k " ,' ".""' "''•""' *'"--'"^" "" .he cycling papers ; and . a,k all pu Ser; ,. o w,::.,: "r' ""^ ?'' '" '"' '"-'""'"^ "' ing me complin.en.ary copio,. .o o.,.de h . h.S " '.' ''' " ""' ''" ''"' "' """• Kvery such io„rnal .Inc.! co^.es .o n.e s rJlt r .d , d '''d '" ',"''" " '""" ^■ reference; and whenever (K^fsion • '",.'"">'""''• "flexed and permanently filed for give due credi ^ iVr/vCI,; j;,:; "' '"r'^""""« "-"<= -'"-CCS into an article. , Knglish paper, i. is U.;J^:^tZ'Z]:ZZ::)tu'' '" '"•" T" ""'" ^"^ '"-" se...s no nartialliy „r ..uflerv It : , regularly filed for my use ; bu. ,uch adv. repre- needs enlploy .,;e\:;.T:farLal\ Zd'-anV^r! Z:ZT'"^"'' ''""- ' ^^^ ii^he. who may no. care .o supply me w^h Tlple. ',».:: .ed'To^sl^a""™:"'" '"^ numbers, containing s,.cia. features which thoy ,hL worthy o] Znl,;" "'"'°"" "Enlightened selfishness " is the sen.i.Tient which I wish should govern the cycling press in its treatment ot myself If ''i./«.^x/,./,„.„,,^;C wf; ;:' t:r ' ' -^^emplovin pushing i,.-^<^,^rf „,rh VI,.,,- t ■ ^ ,' ""''^' ** A*'/ togfther tn a ivay conticUred " read,ihle " I ask ih-,t t;rer u'/'h :v,;;f ' ''"''''"" '- -"'^^^ ---^ P<^r^^'s^^.L,-C^ yo.ncr. '" have hterary capacity enough to concoct an adv. which can amuse ;, n,n.,' may be interested ,n the record of how Jones beat Robinson on the race-track is a. least v^o^h Z : :7o Tit""'- 1'7 ''"''' '"^'"-- '""• "^- ■ '-- refra.Vd f ;: t" g to .a ttlS "J T"^^ '' "'""'^ •■'"^ ''''^' "^ "^'^ ''""'^ '" ■"'-^'--. o^ by starting a ivl trade-ctrcular devoted to touring." Still further, if I freelv con.rihn,. /. ,ul „!,..!^_ _ . ^a^th^Th ''r^' "^' ' "''"' P"^'"'''^'' "•'"''"- to contribute 'fo^'mysec^ book, and wh,ch I have labortously recast m.o proper shape for the press, is it not just thaUhe TAe doctrine of intelligent selfishness. 720 TEX THOUSAND MILES OX A III CYCLE. /lira' I t^t li-isioc' for toiiriit!^. editor* should help repay me by allowing an advrrtising tai^ Licked on to «uch coniribiitionn ' Kiually, as regards the official orgyn oi' the League,— since I h.tve inentuned some hosiiiuy ,l^ oTice shown me there because of my non-m-inbcrsliip, — It seems fitting to present a speti,d ari{u"irnt wimh cannot apply to the other pr,)Kr5. Ihounh I niiKht plausibly claim that iis "amateur dclinition " renders a " professional" '' " ineligible to membership, I pnfer to ur^e the broader truth t'lat my own inll-ji' refraining; from memlx.rship in anv huin.in association whatever, is not .1 'o^i- I prvK »4 the League's departing from sirm bu-.iness principles in its treatment of mc. i' I had offered to "swap advertising space " wiih the Bu'Utin, page for pi,.?e, no doubt I co i Kavs iuneso; but the business \alue to ihv.' I.i-asue of the " free .idv," whici: 1 havt jTcft ~ ' nive it instead, is not lessened al all by the fact of iny |H)sition as in outsider, and the >.. .lial justice of rcpayiiiK it is the same as under a formal contract. I have no fault > find ' the liullftins past treatment of me, m.r tears of unfairness in its future treatment ' i to provide in advance against any scnli- incntal confusion of ideas about facts whicli iiave no connection. As a bii«iness man, I h.ive an incomparably greater stake in the success of the League th.-n any of its officers can cv,t have, and I am Ixiund to use every chance in my reach to help increase its pros|>erity ; but 1 wish each member to see clearly that the l-eague, as a business institution, is bound to support nie without any swervivg from the rule of " enliijhteiied self-interest." " Mister, you must be ali-tired ri^ii ; ain't you, now?" is a ques- tion recorded in one of Kirr Munroe's canoeing sketches (/(7;,',7;«,(»<, Dec. 'Sj, p. i2o), as put by a spec'ally blunt and inquisitive rustic to a young city nian, viho in fact earned a orecar' > is livelihood at newspaper work. It was liis ownership of a fijo cynoe, in which he presumed to take a brief vacation voyage, that thus in. tiamud the rural imagination into glorifying him as a millionaire ; and the glitter of a nickel- plated bicycle often lias the same funny effect, in the backwoods, as suggested on p. 7. I ca'l such misapprehension "funny," because cheapness is one of the distinctive recommendalions of each conveyance, — because each is reajly a " poor man's plea;.ure-carriage." Nfy sense of humor has therefore had great gratification in recogniiii.g that innocently-written reports of in- expensive bicycle travels somehow caused people to hwk upon me as a creature of vast wealth and illimitaMe leisure. I have never been such a person in fact ; but, on the other hand, I have always had enough of both those very desirable things to make mc feel loath to sacrifice any of the latter in order to attempt an increase of the former. I have always been an industrious man, but have designedly limited my field of money-making, — as the only sure device for avoid- ing the da^t,;r of overwork. When I established myself here in the big city, on the first day of autumn in '-/(>, I brought with me a long-considered plan for inaking a weekly appeal to college interests through the columns of some existing newspaper; and I very soon persuaded the ed- itor of tl e ;/'yr/./(who knew me not from Adam) to take stock in my scheme, — so that an en- gagerr 11 resulted which lasted a trifle more thin 6 years. In every Monday's issue, I printed 2 or 3 columns calied "College Chronicle"; and the vast and varied mass of correspondence and collog •. journals whii '. .ormed the raw-material for this, was all addressed to me, at my pri- vate abod !, as " H'orlu s Coll. Ciinn." Hence, when I began to write about bicycling i. '7c), I vari ri ''is signature to " Rol krnn " ; and when the //Vr.'>i '82, that II had .0 iriher use for any College Chronicler, I expanded the " Kol '' to " Kari," and explained the change, with some detail, on p. 230 of Dec. H'/ieelinm, which I think first printed the revised version. Now, my usual rule, as to this //'£;r('i/bu.^iness, was to work at w somewhat on 6 days of every week,— for it was a very laborious department, in spite ,{ its liui >ed s.ze, — but . as never obliged to work on any given day ; and, if I chose to do double work on a given week, I could win the following week for leisure. During the summer vaca- tion of the colleges, in particular, when no letters or papers needed reading, I could easily shove my work 3 or 4 weeks ahead, and roam where I pleased for that interval. Hence it was that so unusual a proportion of my bicycling took the form of touring. I was freed from the local limitations of most workers ; and so I was very apt to stay at least a day in the saddle whe.iever I mounted at all. Liut even lu my most extended journeys, i wascirawing a salar' all the while, THIS BOOK OF Af/NE, AND THE NEXT. " IVi/r/J" txptriences as a non-"ch apar. from my a thing as the chronicle seTmed to them an ""J^f '" "'"'•'"^"' ""'^'' »»'»" °" -^^ to discourage i.; but tow^Tme J^l , ";;''*^"'""'=b''^ '>•"'' = '"d they did all tl.ey dared though, tha't their imp^e^S eri'^ra ^eVa tU'T f , ''"^ "7 "' "'■^="- ' -"'-«• '• .uch as we instinctively feel on reaZl ^ ohV^' V ''"' ""'' ^'^-"""^d ^"""n-Pt. jus. ceased to live." The "was I son o", 1"^ ' "r''"'"' -"'"-of-'he-world who has case of a worker whose ,oTbr?u.h,T T'''^'^^""" '° '^eir self-love in contemplating th. own superior sag, i^h." ducted heTne T"" """" "="" '"'^•" '"'^'= re..,tH if'.heir men..owards me wouldt ,rou«d in 'h mil f T"'"" ' '''"""'« "^« » similar sen.i- migh. .... the .rouble to^fZ^.W, lyTtll Zir/o '.r^^'^ "^ -"^ " *»- enon- _^ amoun. of labor " needlessly inl \::S^r^L^l ^'^::^^T^r:'::^. .'f 722 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. best, even though the reward may not be visible," and that I "have self-reliance enough (» trust my own convictions, and my own gifts, such as they are, or such as they may become, wilh- out either echoing the opinions or desiring the more-brilliant gifts of others." I think, toe, that if one who had known me familiarly since childhood were to try to convey his conception of me in brief phrase, he might well use the formula by which Andrew Lang characterizes Moliere ; "a man who sought for the permanent element of life in divertitumtnt ; in the pieasjre of looking on, a spectator of the accidents of existence, an observer of the follies of mankind." 1 hope I may always be accredited with humor enough to laugh at my own follies also ; but mv ability to convince certain people that I am a looker-on, rather than a competitor in their strug- gles for existence, is the essential thing on which the success of this book seems to depend. ,,„,,. „ , I St'U earlier evidence of my willingness to let other men win all the "Elective^ honor s\.. . . , u Tu j .• r i i . ' high prizes around me was shown m the production ol my book about o/ coUege. I YjIj^ which fulfilled very acceptably the function that I designed it for, and crowded out nothing else to make a place for itself, — though the chance had been waiting a quarter-century or more, for some one else to improve it. My four years' course of undergradu- ate study paid no attention whatever to the pursuit cf " honors" offered by the >• acuity, and 1 accorded no more respect to their " marking-system " than was necessary for simply " keepini; in the class." I was quite satisfied to stand at the foot, by reason of studying after an " elect- ive system," of my own, t'lough knowing that the same amount of work expended for the capt- ure of " marks " would have won me a respectable rank. In those days, 20 years ago, while I was of very small account in the official world of college, I had great repute in a certain stili smaller world, as an authority on a certain small science called " philaiely." All well-read votaries of this, throtghout England and Canada as well as the United States, recognized my initials as representing " ihe mos.t eminent living writer on the subject of American postage- stamps." Now, this well-won but entirely secret fame, which interfered with no other creat- ure's complacency, seemed much pleasanter to me than a certaiiiiy of capturing ihe highest prize could have seemed, if I had cared to compete with the midnight-oil-burning section of n\y classmates, who were "seeking reputation's bubble at the Prex's mouth." My pleasure was increased by knowin j that even the existence of " philately's " world-spread science and litera- ture was quite unknown to these learned instructors, who sedately recorded the grades of glory due to such ambitious youth us best " caught on to" their own professorial crotchets. Similarly, the fascination attending certain explorations in genealogy, which I gave a good many off-hours to, during a half-dozen years, was intensitied by knowing how incomprehensible it seems to most people, and how generally ignorant even the best-educated are in legird to the commonness of such in- vestigations and the abundance of the material for them. I wished some one else had taken pains to collect my ancestral tablets in advance of me ; and a belief that no one else would ever be likely to do it was what induced me to volunteer as family historian. Nothing can be sillier than the off-hand opinion of the unrefli;cting that the bent o. such compilations is " undemo- cratic." On the contrary, they are the outcome of a strictly scientific spirit ; and their most im- pressive lesson is the one hinted at on p. 79, — the utter fatuity of supposing that " a permancit family " can exist in any such shifting social structure as our own. Almost ill the first settlers in this country, as in every other, were poor people who came here to take a more-or-less des- perate chance of bettering their lots. No prosperous American of to-day, therefore, is likely to have his vanity vastly increased, by a mere ability to show his own exact line of descent from certain ones among those adventurous emigrants; but, in various other ways, such knowledge has value and interest. The study of genealogy may, on its sentimental side, be fairly con- sidered as in the line of the Scriptural command, " Honor thy parents " ; and, on its practical side, as enjoined by, '' Know thyself." The man whose name I have inherited through six generations was among the earliest settlers in Springfield, where I was born ; and the man whose name my mother inherited through six generations was one of the founders of New Haven, where she was born ; and all my intermediate ancestors of those two names spent their entire lives in those two places. In general, the same may be said in regard to my ancestors of Illustrations from getutilogy. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. 72, WHO Wishes to ge„en.ii7e .bout th^; in Z17Z T t e i^.: htch"""' '' n' ' '"^° is bound to procure the viul stati-.ir.. ,f ^// u- ■ '*'""'"= '"* chances of longevity) so great as might seem; for the local records nf hirth ""'.^"""* "* '^th century, is not if ..lere ever was one -the remarl, r -■^Keeviiie, that I am » true son of the soil, readily prove themseWes hLr f y cZe" tr-S^Tt '' H "T "'"^ °^ •"''" '^""''^ "- my father's family name howeve odd or oU I « u " """'" ""= '" ''""" «hat William the ConUror^ a~.5tri^:^l ^it" ! 7^^^^^^^ ?' earliest American progenitor brought across wnh him in T T ""^ ""'"'"» erations of Kentish ancestors. It amuses me to know ha, fh ' T'""'' "''"■' °' '"'"' «^"- done by a man of my name in this couZ ZltZl oilt' T ' ^^^Jr^'^"" "'"« "^^^ lived into his loand -ear. He lasted so Ion. hJ T 7 ^""dfather's cousins, who quiet life. He worked a little farm in "1-'n ^^' '"^'""' ^' P"'«"'» P"« ""d a sightofarailwayra dw£n I rnl thereT'Vn rr "" "" '^"'"°"' '-^'^"' «"" "« birthday, his talk impresTed my mind whh ,1 "" ""' '™'' °" '" '^"^ much longer th-n he had (iuZne bv e ;""""' """"'°" "''' ' "'y'^" *'="» ^'^^^y li^.d world alnLt ;o years aterhLuses me t'o^k ""T "^."P"'--")- "'-^h coming in'to the six generations was much La r than h V ."u "^'"^'^ ^«' "' '" ""y ='-"'°" 'o' ^^ " t „ '", ='""P'';"8 » ■'■'" °f a" the people who have borne my name, I knew full well that it could interest only a few score of field-however sm^- wL , "'1:^ f"' "" ^^'"^'' '"'^ "'^■"' ^""" ' '=1. that in each pretend to do the same work as 'Z ' Jo L" "' ' 7'f' "^ "'"''" *"" ■"'' °^ """^ can decide whether it wasLise y n nned'to l' '"^ ''*, ^''""' ^"^ " "^"'"'"' ""'y could have planned ^^^11 not^.hV .' t*!, '"" '""'" ''"'""'''■ ''"' "° °'»'" »'""«'" quicksaleof 30,oLci^sTal rei to he'L 7' °"" '"1""" "'^""'- = --^ «»>. .ur. to newspaper work, and thought that six month.' would 7u«X ^J:^:^^^ Preference for small and \ special tasks. 724 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Im'olvid beyond my wishes. road-reports in book form, with a fair chance of $500 profit. I had spent great care upon them, and I rather haled to let them lie buried where first printed,— especially as there was an evident demand for a road-book, and no signs appeared of any other tourist or writer voiuiileering t* take up the task. So, like the mariner in the old slory, " i floated away for the Loadstone Rock." This chapter's report of how my first very simple plan gradually ex- panded until, by imperceptible degrees, I found myself involved beyond all hope of returniu); to my former mode of livelihood, illusirntes very well the uncertainties of human existence. It seems, therefore, like a sort of sarcasm of destiny thai, in spite of the wish to confine my achievements to small things, " a great affair " has soineliow got saddled on my shoulders ; that, in spite of an indisposition to speculate or assume liiian- cial risks, I h.ive perforce staked at least ;|io,ooo worth of my time and money upon a chance which all the wise-heads consider visionary and hopeless; that, in spite of a preference for a quiet and obscure life, I am now driven to beat the advertising gong u|>on all the housetops of the cycling world, and make merchandise of my notoriety. The very perversity of such a fate gives it a sort of grotesqueness which is not unamusing to me ; but I wjsh to leave no room cpen for doubt upon this essential fact : that my volubility as a book-agent (whether it shall prove eflfoctive or not) is as strictly inspired by "business" as isth.il of America's most eminent political talker, Senator Kvarts. 1 .tccount it quite unjust to call him " a sophistical rhetorician, intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity"; for sophistry iias always been the law- yers' sland-by, since those early times when Memosthenes told about their making the worse ap- pear the better reason. I never saw any sii;iis of intoxication in his talk, or of in?bility to use the simple words of les.s-gifted jieople, when he cared to make himself comprehensible. When, for example, • ". the gre.tt m.tss-nieeting of Jan. 11, '75, serving as the mouthpiece of this indig- nant metropolis in its dei. "I for constitutional government at the South, he said, " The outrage on f^onisiana was an outrage on New York and on every State in the Union," President Cirant and his "senatorial group" knew just what was meant. They made no more experiments at organizing State legislatures with foderal bayonets. It was during this Presidency, or soon afterwards, that Grant told a fr-e idof mine an incident about liimself which seems worth lugging in here, to (X)int a comparison with, and also to preserve for its own sake. 1 am not aware that it has ever been printed, though I was strongly tempted to publish it at the time when a cracked-brained adventurer's shooting of President Garfuld ilirew the Tribunt into an unusually silly fit of its >'^manish hysterics. Though the Czar of all the Kussias, command- ing the unlimited resources of an absolute despotism, had just exemplified the utter impotence of the most elabor.ite precautions for preserving, in these modern times, a single human !ife which a single determined man is willing to risk his own to destroy, — the Tribunt was actually weak enoiig' to cry aloud that the executive chief of this r.imocratic republic must henceforth be de- fended by a personal body-guard, with drawn swords and rixed bayonets ! Something of this sort had been suggested to Ijen. Grant, sixteen ye.trs earlier, in Apr., '65, just when the assassina- tion of Pres'dent L'ncoln and the assault on Secretary Seward were causing people to dread lest the conquered rebels had lotted to bring confusion upon their victorious government by a general slaughter of its leaders. He was cautioned a;;ainst going about the streets of Washing- ton, in his customary simple manner, as needle .sly exposing to peril vhat Ihei- seemed the most valuable life in America. Grant told r fri<^i.J that he realized the possible peril, but that he also realized, and so assured his advisers, \; , was a necessity of his positirn, and thai it would only be intensified by any action of h''. which pave public token of recognizing it. " If political plotters or private fanatics have reallydetermined tokill me." 'aid Grant, " there is no certain way of preventing them. Rut the best way of disconracring them is to go about my usual business in my usu^l manner. If 1 thiissh' ly belief that t+iis government does nut depend for perpetuity upon any single life, I shall heli recall that truth to flithty minds which may teniporat j have forgotten it." The sturdy wisdom of this decision endears < "irant's memory to me quite as much as any saying I recall as accredited to h'm, for it shows what a really ceniiine American he w.is. and how thoroughly he appreciated — in spite of his incapacity to avoid rudimentary blunders in Anecdote of Gen Grant. THIS IWOK O/'- MINE, AND THE NEXT. 7,5 political administration-il.e ultimate idea on which the crMtn,.. „» .1 • .0 who.„ . have .o.u.„„.d the ...c.de.u have sonti!' ^p" e7i XZ::^'TJr^ consider that Its niportdiii fi-arnr.. .a„ce ... prov...g h,s dow..ri;ht »agaci a 7goS ^ .1 ,7'' " t'"'" '"' '" ;».. ^cc... .. ,0., prc...,„ious preh,de u, explaining «,fy , If.rce^ n 'off 7" '""' "-^ '• courage," for putting so .nany pa-'.s in „ thi.lw I "* »•"'" "' '"V "*" ^'^ ■• ■' ' ^- ^' ^-""- ^ ' w c ,s ihjrnrrsh ' 'i f''"T' ""' -' »tcp .f I could hav. for.«e.. ,he troubles wh.ch i, wa, atL , r > ''' '""■" "'•" '"'"' i-ist upon ., .|,a. „,y U.«r actio,., have bee udlr the sues "n"" '^''"' ' """ '" .".u. ca..-t turn baC, .,.„e ,. no parucular " c urag •• ^Zai:^!^^"'''''- ^''" "" iic- K,«;s ahead, thoush i. n,,,v sunnlv a., in,....,' . T . "'eadfastness wi.h which andofhis n.en.al c^paa.y UZl: Ih^S" ir I '^J^^::; T''' ""' "f— sometimes used to dig their wav on. .hr„„ I. 7 , 1 **"""'^ "'« ""Prisoned soldiers and the day of comple.,,,, , gre. ...arer, .heir own L:d :rd scovfry i .'cr r: ^7 'rT .ndheart.brea.,;g.h^.,:^;::^;r^:::-r::^,::::;— ---3^^^^^^^ - Ueep,„g a., unruffled front t.ll the '^s, was s„.„e.hing rather dii^e.u frZ "Lurage^" '"""' Delay a^rd worry ca'fsed fy "side-issue^."* My m,„ul „„ ,hi. ,.,1, ,,„ ^^.,„ _.,,j,_^ 1^ ^1 _^^ ^1 2r;t,:* TLr*'.r,.'";''Hr",'f "i- >-' '■"'■■ "»--"-:;■.•■:' Lite or sobme hn ' " '"'' ''''"' °'' '="'^"B''='"-' '^-^-^ -'ough to bu.ld„^ o a half-m.lhon words into a book is no, quite so simple a process as thel ,g „f ',3 r.lf mir" """,' \ ""' ' ^'""'' '^'^ '' ' «""'• '»'=« ' l-ave meanwhile written ano he half-m.Ihon words, .n advert.sing and pushing the scheme. In ,he spring of '.5, one of , he « fnends of the book print, . carelessly-wnrded letter, saying that i's pLpec.e value id As thl r ' :T" "' "*" '""' '''='^^' '"" " "^-■■•"^'"K =« -'- of subscribers' mone;-- to write r "• "°'r "■•" ' '■'" '"" ^"""•■"'^ "'''^- """- '^'- P-enses. I waT fo ced to wnte wo long er.e, of letters .0 ail the cycling papers.-explaining that my pi n called m P y for prom.ses, not money, in advance. Ab>.nt a year later, a New Jersey cycling club of Teain -M f "'"""^""'^'"'^ '^<^ '""" government ,0 enact certa.n illegal discrimination, "to ;?17 "1 '"''''''" r' ""^ ■^-"••'' (J"'y ') -commending wheelmen generally " llT /f the actual enactments (wh.ch threa.ened them with "#, f,ne or ,0 days' impril. ntent. for exerc.s.ng the.r common-law rights upon the road) us -perfectly proper "™' 726 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. A political inter- ruption. unaccountable display of fatuity was reproved by me to the extent of three columns (Bulletin, July 23, p. 80) of as vigorous language as my heart-felt mdignation could inspire ; and much other writing, public and private, was extorted from me by the later necessities of the case. These two " side-issues " of '85 and '86 — such is the worry and annoyance and mental interrup- tion which personal contentions of that sort cause — combined to knock a month's vitality squarely out of my life, and by at least that extent delayed the book ; yet I simply could iiot go on writ- ing it until those side-issues were settled. Similarly, in the autumn of '84, I had to sacrifice the equivalent of two months' progress, because of inability to maintain my usual attitude of unconcerned spectator, in the presence of what seemed to me a grave national peril. "Politics" of the common sort makes no more of a personal appeal to me than any other outside game, which I have no wish to share in. So far as votes are concerned, it is self-evident that the only sii;nificant ones are those cast by men who are independent of party dictation, — for all the rest simply form two inert masses whose sole function is to offset each other. Hence it seems to me that every citizen whose circumstances are exceptional enough to allow him to indulge in a mind of his own, owes a special duty to the public in for- mally registering his opinion at every election. P'or myself, it is quite impossible that I should have the slightest loyalty for " a party " as an abstraction or a superstition ; and I find it hard to understand such a sentiment when shown by other people towards either of the " parties " which now nominally oppose each other, though really " without form aiid void." I judge " a party " in each election simply for its value as an instrument in expressing an idea, or btinjiing to pass a result ; but I care no more for the name pasted on the instrument lli.m for the color of the ballot-box into whi^h my vote is cast. This is not by way of suggestint; iliat I have no per- manent political prejudices (for I am necessarily a bitter opponent of " the interference theory of government " in all its Ghnpes and guises, and have no patience with any scheme which seeks to lessen individual fr«e;'.oni,j, \u\ oi.Iy by way of explaining that the trouble which delayed this book two months in "S4 wr»s q, ' .<. disconnected from partisanship. That deplorable attempt to destroy an honest man'"! guod-r- ...• s,- jviehow appealed to my personal sense of justice. It made me thoroughly angry, as no other pisbiic event had ever had power to make me, except the assassination of Lincoln. And so, according to the measure of my opportunity, I did what little I could to he'pthe Honest Tricycler win the great Presidential race. ; lis triumph may be mad:? to teach various plausible " lessons," but the lesson which the philosophic historian of the future is sure to insist upon as the mof t significant is that one which is an omen of triumph for wheeling. The strife, in its ultimate essence, was between the old and the new, — between the veterans who " pointed with pride " to the rear, and the youngsters who insisted on pointing with hope to the front. A new generation asserted itself in that victory,— a generation which contains the bicyclers, and which can sympathize with their demands for better roads. Many of my subscribers no doubt " voted the wrong way '' ; but I hope no one of them really regretsa re- sult which gave us a wheelman for chief ruler, and proved the potency of those new ideas and tendencies to which cycling makes its chief appeal. It is proper that I should say here, to prepare for a later remark, that I have had some sort of direct knowledge (irrespective of all printed re- ports) about the lasl seven Presidents and their cabinets and foreign ir.iaisfers; the Supreme Court judges and lesser ones; the great railroad managers and their 'a'.iT'ers (who really rule this country); Sv;nators, congressmen, governors, mayors, and the political machinists who " work " those automatons in nation, State and city ; the chief officers of the army and navy ; newspaper owners and college executives ; distinguished clergymen and physicians, merchants and bankers, travelers and scientists, historians and poets, novel-writers and artists, singers and actors. In regard to those Americans who have been most prominent during the last 20 years, I may say that I have talked with a good many of them, have watched with my own eyes a larger number, and, through my friends (who could trust my discretion in reyealing their own experiences among such peojlc), have been able to get a pn-tiy direct judg- ment of nearly all of them, and form a fairly independent opinion as to how they conduct them- The range of my acaua'fuance. * .( •. THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. ,„ selves and what they amount to when " out of harness " All .Ki. 1,,, k j • ., .ar order of business.--, the appointed drift of :; fe.-^d n tt- LTetA XT .hegener:,, def-rence paid to all other "people at the top -'t a^r o " 't ^ """"'" habit wh.ch is ruffled a little by a new-c^' .ho ■ b^^s buine !>'";. . ■"•°^'"'"♦'' preliminary incense. , can. re.e.ber when f was ever y' ng e „ ; to f elThelXt '"" m the presence of any human being; though, on the other hand, 1 have^Iw 1 b^ f;:"::! accord whatever respect attaches to silence, when in the presence of a bTin ' h ' .dea of trymg to force a recognition " from anybody, never occurs to me ; for my mind canno! grasp the not.on of any value attaching to such " recognition." The proverbTal car hat ' mTv erence to the .nfluence which each has upon the comfort of himself, the en, ; and under simihr provocation, he w.ll purr for each, or will scratch each with equal claw. I:, ,he same waTt man^f-no^account, who sees ,.s clearly as Rurke <,id " what shadows we all are a d Jh" sh d ows we a,l pursue," can afford to laugh quietly in his sleeve when some partL, hIv hi shadow-chaser presumes to adopt an arrogant air because of the superior bigness or po puhri v mir:r''fenorsrd^''' •■' "^ " ""'-' "^"'^"^ ^ "= -'-^ ^'-- ^^^ -- ^^^^^ 01 eminent fellow-shadows ,s apt to impress me in much ,ht same way as contact with one who dec nes to nde a bicycle for fear he may appear - undignified."-! mean it r a s rX foucau d's shrewd definition : " Gravity is a peculiar carria,e of the body, invented ocorci he defects of the mn.d." As an offset to my asserted indifference abou.'he sort ^"recogn t.on extended ,0 me by such "persons of position" as I have happened to meet -to ml demal of 'awe" and "patronage" as factors in my independent gr'owth,-! wish t'o Lrd here very hun.b y, the genun,e sense of gratitude I hold towards my family and my friend for nghtlyshapM.gthe development of any good traits which may belong to my character fi owes exceptionally little to outsiders, to M,«, it assuredly owes much The pleasure of e s ence, indeed, lies largely in the certainty I feel that the men who have known me o gs. -who" ^the r: ' ,^"7--"'-y'^ ;"--y. understand most fully my faults and shortcomings - are the men who ike me best. I hate to think of " what might have chanced me, all these years as boy and man," were there not a half^ozen such of whom I can sincerely say : " The kindly hand has never failed me yet. and never yet has failed the cheering word • Nor ever went Perplexity unheard, but ever was by thoughtful Counsel met." ''Literary " types and comparisons. The foregoing admission forbids any one applying to me the characterization which Henry Clapp, jr., so aptly applied to Horace too that I h, . ,'•='?= "^"^"-'"'■'^=™^" «''"' worships his creator." I, shows too, that I have enough of the humorous sense to forbid my accepting seriouslv a grotesoue nommation for the Presidency, against a successful general of world-wide fame and th'^^^ng from disappom.ed vanity over the inevitable result. Clapp's obscure death, in a hospital, was not a very noble one ; but it was less contemptible than that of the man whom he satLed -a man whose inability to see his own limitations was fated to delay for a decade this nation's hope a -hi I "f ;" ''"" '''" '"•"• *■ " '^ ^""^^"''"e '" -" - <>-ley a Cireelev " as Charles Astor Bnsted used to say. There is some slight advantage in pointing out th. pub ic roubles which have resulted from the worship of a defunct popular idol.'if onlv to help lessen he number of worshipers about the shrine of the next one. I doubt if the name of \.r Rris- ted(d. Jan. ,5, ,874,1. 53) signifies anything to as many as ,00 of my 3000 subscribers ; and yet he was a -^rt of man whose life was worth more to the higher civilization of .- country tike h,s than a whole army of Greeleys. He was the only man of wealth whom I ever happened to know anything about a:; using it for the development of his own intellectual freedom, iil^ead of for fettering ,t by the customary social a ,d conventional shackles ; and the only man of letters 728 TEI, THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE, who ever wrote a book tUat I should have been proud to have been able to write, because of its power, from first word to last, to reHect my own mind on the subject which it concerned. That subject was the trick of winning popularity by preaching the suppression of the individual for the flattery of the mass ; and that book was in form a personal letter to our most admired apostle of mediiicriiy and commonplace, — our late "American I'upper," J. G. Holland, — " Con- cerning his Habit of Giving Advice to Everybody, and his (Qualifications for the 'i'ask"(8vo, 45 pp., N. Y., '04). As regards my dislike for most " literary men," which my Preface alludes to, 1 suppose it is because I class tlicin among the "show people " or "play-actors"; and because, as regards tha stage, f asreu with the remark of Fanny Kemble, whose life-long suc- cess there makes her opinion significant, that the theatrical business is " incessant excitement and factitious emotion, unworthy of a man ; public exhibition, unworthy of a woman." If an actor amuses me, 1 am glad to applaud him; but f liave no more interest in his personality, after the curtain falls, than on the " properties" which assist him to amuse me. My personal indiffer- ence to a novelist is almost as complete ; though I must confess that f was glad to see Dickens, in '69, — for there seemed somethiiig really genuine about him. I by no means condemn any one for resorting to the stage, or to novel-making, if he does so because that happens to be, in his case, the most practicable chance for earning a livelihood. No more do I look with contempt upon any man who, for the same reason, elects to carry a hod. The law of necessity is a com- plete defen.se for evcy human occupation ; and that is why I have brought it forward so often as an excuse for writing this chapter and publishing this book. I certainly should have done neither under any less powerful impulse. But I say of a man, who, for the mere gratification of vanity, spends a lot of time in trying to " hold the mirror up to nature," either on the mimic stage or the printed page, that I have no more sympathy for him than I should have for an amateur hod-carrier, w^o thought it funny to serve the public in that rough way, while a free life of his own could be had for asking. " If we really understand life, we should command it, reap its principal rewards, comfortably live it, instead of vaguely speculating about it." So says a college contemporary of mine, W. H. Bishop, whom 1 account quite as good a story- teller as any American of his age ; and he also agrees with me in " sometimes thinking that the literary faculty, instead of strength, is a form of weakness." As illustrative of the same idea, I quote from a letter which the Russian novelist, Turgenefl, wrote, in his decrepitude, as to the vanity of certain " fla'tering notices." If I could assume that similar praises were com. ing to me from wheelmen of all countries, that the quick sale of 30,000 books had won me a decent competence, and that my health had meanwhile been broken down by the overwork involved, — I anticipate that my feelings would be exactly refiected in these words of his : " To say that this does not touch me would be untrue ; but it would be just as false to declare that it greatly pleases me. All that is ' shadow of smoke.' For a few weeks of youth — the most fool- ish, impulsive, reckless, but youth — I would give not only my reputation, but the glory of being an actual genius, if I were one. What would you do then ? you ask. I would be off with a [bicycle] for ten hours on the stretch, without stopping. Ah ! that would be worth while, and that for me now is not to be thought of." There is thus no doubt of the answer he would have given to George Arnold's question, as to the relative value of repute and realit,' : " Ye who list Fame's trumpet-call ; waste your lives and pleasures all ; Vi'hen your eyes in death are glazing, what i'.te future glories worth ? " The significance of " society." I have no possible quarrel with what is called " society," nor sym- pathy with the small satirists who affect to ridicule its rules. The.se are just as necessary as the rules of any other game, and the man who doesn't like them ought to seek some other game for his amusement. I myself should no more think of trying to play at " society " than at billiards or base-ball, — for any such cast-iron form of pleasuring is necessarily a bore to me ; but I am happy to recognize that other people can enjoy it " because they are built that way." Society is a much older and much more generally interesting game than any of the less el.iborate ones, for it has existed as long as the institution of property, on which it is based ; and, as almost all people desire to get property, they are apt t» THIS BOOK OF MINE, AND THE NEXT. 7,5 ttke .n intere., in the moyemen,. of thc^ people who« .muMment it i. to di,pl,y ,he fact .ha. U.e, h„e go. a. Now. 1 bl«ne no one .or amusing himself thus, nor for ado^™^„ «Jes and convent.ons by wh.ch .hv di.pUy may be mo,, convenien.i; and .fi.^^^l^\ .sera le lives to the '.keeping up of appearances." To all such I clmZ t^e ^.Xm t the following msptred hnes of a Western woman who calls herself "The S*J, c^ M ch " in a printed collection of her "poems," and who once onTLe was pub l/Z'nel wtth a laurel wreath, by her admiring fellow-citizens. No doubt, they felt as I do ,1,^.7 three lines alone were well worth the price of it : ' "'" "'''* If you turn and look around you, you '11 often have to smile, To see so many poor people putting on style ! " My personal relations •with cyclers. Coutjt Tolstoi's recent book, '. My Religion," show, that be oueht to be a b.cycler, if he .'s not one,-so hearfly does he sympa- th-ze with the thmgs which give its charm to wheelin'* saying so much about one's self as no, ,o llw th! T ^"^"\ '^'°"''"« "" ^"''' " ^^ A'>.self." No one can be bored hvTh 7 /""'' '"^" ' "'""" '° '"^ """fih about while, as for the ,!r te ^ tl ' / Tf ■"^'' ^"^ ""= " ""^" "° compulsion .o read it ; hisid albythe -rdn , " / ' ''""^" °^ ^'"^ '^'^'""^'' 'nd turned away from he tl -nks w'oi te ing ^^rhTmrnlr"'" '"""^""'^- "= '^"' ^^-•"^ ""^ ^^^ ^hich far as an author's immedi. '"'^.'"""'^* =""°^"y '° »<"P when he is done. Still further, so " familiarity has Lrht, T"""" '^^^°""-'d, he reali.es that, as Hamerton says, .lightest c Is. vrnt.'7epri^^^ '" '•^--V- '"at they have only ,he' fectly outside of'wsIo^L .hey reeard" h wf ' ^''T' "'=^' '""' ''"''' ''"°" ''- ^^■ he perfor.ns before helbl-c '• fTI '^ "" ''"' °"'^ =* '°'-' "' ^"'"""'^ '" ^'^''^h tempt any one els. „ revea L characTer r^e"'!. H^'^'^^"^'^ " "^ ' ""'""' '^ ' "" he inevitably knows more han lA^VVlu " ' °"' "^'"^ '" ""= ""^'"^ a^^"' *hich y Knows more than I do ; and, ,f he be a good enough talker to interest me at all, he ? 'lUi 732 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A niCyCLk. can surely interest me most in that, r( only he will talk iquarely. In thi'^ " if" lies a!l the trouble, The insincerity of a man's egotism is what makes him a bore, — not the amount of it Kew mea are willing to discus themselves in a scientific spirit. Nearly all wear a mask of some sort, aii4 are in a constant worry lest any casual remark may reveal the cracks in it. flcnce they weary us by th^ munmuiiy with which the b^st (not is thrust forward ic admiration ; by the tiresome cndjavur to make themselves seem better than they an;. It is for the 0|)|x>sito rc;iSoD that the egotism uf unsui>hi:ilicated childhood is so charming. It aims simply to reveal the truth ; it has DO scheme or thiory to work off upon us. Now, the highest function of any really ennobling sport is to bring men back towards this condition of child.ike simplicity, in their relations to each oth.-r, as votaries of it (see p. 14). In the presence uf this idol, they have no ambitions or rival- ries or concjalinenls. They simply like to free their minds and exchange ideas in regard to its iurassing m.-rits and altr.iclioiis. Thinking of cyclers thu«, I have assumed that they would take kindly to this " cxhibiiion of my mental processes," as indicative of a character that (ci m- biniiig pridj without ostentation, conceit without vanity, and enthusiasm without ambition) can be counted on to serve them squarely, f wish them to sec that my mind — though it may not be very brilliant, nor very profound, nor very original — is at least my very own. If any are curious to know, beyond this, the statistical details of the life from which it has been developed, they may discover the same in the privately-printed graduates' biographies which are preserved by the college library at Yale. As for my " patient treating of small things as if they were large," — my " acceptance of Emerson's maxim that no man can do any work well who does not regard it, for the timj being, as the center of the universe," — the business-basis thereof is a belief that those who are ple.is--d by ths resulting show will take pains to increase my gate-money. I shall proclaim to them, therefore, the exact costs of the enterprise, as soon as the same are known to me, and its exact prosp.-cts of profit or loss. Meanwhile, the risk I incur, in putting so small a price as I1.50 upon a collection 01 more than 500,000 words, may be guessed at by a comparison with the best-known of recent subscription-works, " Grant's Memoirs," whose 12 n pages contain only 300,000 words, though the price is $7. My chance of gain consists solely ni the possible demand for large Inter editions, after the ist ed. of 6000 shall have been disposed cf : because thase later eds. can hi produced at slight expense from the " plant " alre.idy pos- sessed,— whereas, in Kick of such demand, these electrotype plates, which have cost me so much, will be no better than waste copper. I think the cycling world can be made to " absorb " 30,000 of these books; but the private profit and the public impressivejiess of the process both depend ui>on its promptness. D.-sirins, therefore, to " get through " in 3 years rather than 30, I say to my assumed volunteer helpers, " Please be quick about it ! " . . With his b3st ten years just in front of him, a healthy man of 15 is, to his own consciousness, practically immortal ; and that may be his general down-grade. fgeii„g at 35, in spite of the death-darts which must needs meanwhile strike those near to him. But, at 40, a man has " climbed the peaks of Darlen " ; he has begun the descent ; and, if at all refl:ctiva, he sees clearly what the end must be. I have no special appre- hension of reaching that end in l.-ss than 30 years. My chances of filling the appointed span seem as good as a man's well can be ; and I hope I may be able to keep fairly light-hearted to the last. But it is ri-ht th.it I should record certain events which have tended > give a serious tinge to my recent meditations. On the afternoon of my return from the prinling-oflicc, whither I h.id carried the first prospectus of this book (Jan. 12, 'S4), the breaking of an iron handle on the top of a Broadway sta-;e ciused m^ to fall thenci to the icy pavement, at the very place, where, two years earlier, I had had a remarkably narrow escape from being struck by a runaway horse. A few hours Later, while still pondering over this grim coincidence (for each event might well have been fatal), word came to me thit a friend of long-standing had deliberately killed himself. He was the oldest man of the 200 in my college class, and I always looked ujxjn him and took pride in him as its most representative man. He w\s a good comrade who appealed effectively to men of diverse tastes and likings. H2 had commanded a battery in the regular army during the civil war, and was of exceptionally fine physique. No one of us seemed more competent to quit himself well in the struggle for exi!>teDCe. He had faced Death in a hundred Iirs IIOUK OF MIA H. AND THE NEXT. 73, who was .1.. greatest physical eiant I evTr haH ■'^■°"«"'". of an academy cla«in,a.e. fitted to Mand the „res' when fa" I UhelirrT *L'''' "'' "'' *''° •*""'«« -"' Washington. „.s voice was Powe'lM^et^ To th aTd'^XnTn,"";""'* '^"■"'•'" " mere physical ma,., supported a. ,t was bv re,n.^,M """"«'' •'"">« »"y "P'oar. nnd hi. advantage over the ruck of Congre sme„ 've, he h" 'T"' ' ' '"' '*"" "" '■"°""'"» i recan that .ore than . do.en ofri: Ji'tlr ^ L'loT'avTSred'y "' \ '"" ^""• of .t.-ihnugh they were all younger men than mvJif T • . u '''"' •*"""« the progres. presumably under a. uch ^..^Z^ ^:::^:::'::;t 1^7^^ T'''^' my own narrow escape from destruction lune a. '«A J, f I 1 ^' '"" *"'' '■"°'''* Tille. N. J.. .5 m., before breakfal" 7 was.h^ , • 7 !' "u**'"* '™'" '"'""'"R'O" «o Somer- S. . that I brought my bicycle near y to rtandt, ' " 7' """^ °" ' " " "°»'"''' ' ^ '-" my right that a par, of the mol g mach ' e S H I T '"'°™ "" ''"^" "' » -"^on oo .hor. distance b hind. At ."7^1 1 !„ ^ *"' '"^^'""^ '"'' '*"'" '""> '*■« '-''. • direction, on my left- and the rr.r„ Tk"' .."'?"' *" """'"^ "'« '"'''• '" '"e opposite est warning of the fac't "at ah W 1- ""^ "r^'r"""-". P-vented my having theTgh.. . ii«ht bu^y. being:;:dt:d'rm ITa. r^ttT/re 'V^IH. ^ *'''''"' Horse, at.ache^d to den leap from the same -the dnver of ,h! K , ? ^°''"' »'"* "^^ » '^y'" «"««■ •ween me and the omnibus Hewould h, T T u^' "'""' "'''"" °' '^'"« '° P"« »-- •inued straight, but Th variation Z L " T' ' ",''"''* ''""''''' '' ""^ """<= "ad con. His buggy ;Ld ™y fi^tZo t ;tn : wasHnsh": chT'' "'V'" '^''" '" ""«' °' horse's heels. As I struck the «-o,,„H ,K ^ """^ ""* ''"^'•■'' "sHt under hi. of th. beast were n the a r a^vfrn ?■ u" ' '""'""'* *'"""°" "^^' «He forward hoof. .eriously hurt.-neither was thrbicv e H K , . ^^^ "'' "''""' *"" ""«- ' -" "«" nightfall. The Ieather- '<" well have stru;k the L„ J. wi ^ ml riuT' A,' .h "' ""' '"J"^ " ""' "'°"«'' " "'«•" came to me.-no. even «cep in "t «rl"rtll off °^ K '." '"f "" " ""'"• ""' " "'•'' «^' h suggested th:- enquiry as ,^1 ! Jom in ir , .f ' ' """'" °' "" '""-'''"' 'P" "*): »"<» «lherence .o it had reL" Id me di ', I t '' "°" '''°''''''<"' P- 388, after .5 n.onth.' occasional resort to the whlel Intf 1 ' "'"!''' '° '"^^' '"""'" »""'"'« '^tHou. an our choice of peri s but we 1 neve "I "^ ■" ''"'"" " ""' " '"'■°"- ^^ «" «-T " We stand oT.Z^Z-Z "the 'mTr f H^*? "' ""'''""' *" °"' ""'«" -vironml^ we get glimpses, now anT:h ^ o, pa hTth ch :a:t'd'"'':"" w"""^ ""*'' "'™"«'^ **"^ frozen to death. If we Uke the wronl r„^J "lay be decept.ve. If we stand still, we shall b. Know whether there is^ary'rirhtoT^Wha; Z^^JZ^'' '" ''''^ ^^ "> -«-""r Straight words for the finis'i. writtin bv l"'"'' i.""^'""°" °f "'^ •'''°'« -"y^'ry °f human life wa. written by James Fitzjames Stephen, for his book on " Liberty Equal- which cycler, should ever^wherrSTowlrd"' '* ""V'" "°"'' "'" "'""' "'* relaiionship well with their own specTaT exirience n .rt T^": *" •'^' "'"""•■°" « -« -Hid. fit. together with the answT wh^ch he "".ei .T """ '" "' "'""°'^' " '''»" ^^^ ''^o. which I have decided to reprint as the fini, wo^! ''TtT' l* '"^ '""' *°^'* "' "" ^"^ ""» words may seem as ,„ ansTr eve^ one m , 'u"""" "°*"" ■""^""'■''' 'H. injunction is that of Moses to j'oshuaTr f ''"^'"" "' '"" °' ""'' "'^'<=' ^^^ «"» Act for the best, hope^foTthe ist aS ^ T " ^"'^ ' ' ^' "^°"« ""^ »' ^ood courage.' and tell no lies, but ^o our wa-^wher. . \ T"\^'^'" ""' '" " "^"^ ■"> d-am. If death ends all. we cannot m^ttl^:; 7' ",'' "'"' ""' ''" °'""' ""> ^^ ''"<^' "««. ^e honest men. witH no .is\:z.j::ci::^::::::::;i::::^ ''- -' -- I 'f: ..,, "^^^A ^m ^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) y. :/- 1.0 IJ it^l2.8 1^ 11.25 2.0 iiiiiM i.4 mil 1.6 V2 S% A A- /} '/A V.V' 'W nl__A !_•„ riiuujgicipiiic Sciences Corporation <■!> s^^ <^ \ \ r\^ ^\^\ ^.^ '^ 23 WCST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.r. 14SS0 (716) 872-4503 m^^m 1 xx:x;ix. THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. Thb following persons have each subscribed $i to ensure the publication of this book and they are authoiized to persuade as many other persons as possible to buy copies of it at #1.50 each. Numerals signify the order of enrollment upon the subscription-list, and town- names sho\/ where other details may be found by consulting the alph.. «tized lists of the Geographical Directory (XL.), in which the Sutes stand as follows : Me., N. H., Vt, Mass., R. I., Ct., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Md., DUt. of Col., W. Va.,Va., N. C, S. 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D., Oakland, Cal. 3238 Affleck, Robert, Gateshead, Eng. 2784 Aiken, W. H., College Hill, O. 1933 Albee, E. D., Wakefield, Mass. 102 Albright, H. S , Orw=ssburg, Pa. 3362 Aldrich, James, Spencer, Mass. 3152, 3153 Alexander, A., Liverpool, Eng. 2904 Allen, Add S., Summit Point, W. Va. 1437 Allen, jr., Chas. W., Cincinnati, O. 1305 Allen, F. H., Brattleboro, Vt. 1565 Allen, N. G., Athens, N. Y. 2? Allerton, jr., O. H., Pittsburg, Pa. 2958 Alley, Chas. K., New York 1683 Allison, Geo. F., Oswego, N. Y. 89 Allison, J. G., (Galveston, Tex.) 318 Allison, Robt., Greenock, Scat. 3079 Aim, H. A., Minneapolis, Minn. 281 1 Alter, C. H., Homestead, Pa. 2115 Alvord, C. E., Detroit, Mich. 665 Alvord, Jas. Leslie, Philadelphia, Pa. 1369 A merican Hotel, Alletitown, Pa. 1265 American House, Calais, Me. 2090 American House, Indiana, Pa. 1899 Ames, E. H., Titusville, Pa. 1301 Ames, F. V., S. Abington Station, Mass. 1289 Amis Houu, Pine Bluff, Ark. 2725 Antory, R. G., New York ijiW 'it' THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. Anderson, D., Sandhurst, Vkt. Anderwn, Robert W., Plainfield, N J Anderson, W. B., New York Andrews, E. J., Rockford, III. Andrews, F. S., Au({u»U, Ky. And.ews, J., Hobart, Tat. Andrews, Richard, Sandhurst, yut Angell, Jas. P., Pine Bluff, Ark. Annable, Edwin W.,Fitzwilliam,N H Anthony, Wendell P., Providence, R. I Anthony, W. R., New York App. W. A., Cleveland, O. Ardill & Co., John, Leeds. Eng. ,4,., \ Ariel Touring Club, London, Ont. , Ariel H'heelClub, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Armaindo,(M'lle)Louise, Montreal, 0«r j Anning, G. A., Hobart, Tai. Armington, F. B., Providence, R. I, Armstrong, R. L., AugusU, Ky. Armstrong, T. H., Augusta, Ky , Arnold, H. B., New Britain, Ct. „ Ashley, L. L., Norwood, N. Y. „ Ashton, Frank J., Rockford, 111. ,. Atherton, E. H., Brattleboro, Vt. ,1 Atkins, Fred. E., Waterbury, Vt. ,; Atkinson. Geo. H., Philadelphia, Pa j Atkinson. W. J., Baltimore, Md. , Atterbury, Grosvenor, New York ,0 Atwater, Geo. S., MassiUon, O. ,, Atwater, Robert H., Orange, N. J „ Atwater, Wm. E., Brooklyn, N. Y Atwater, Wyllys, New Haven, Ct. 7, Atwood, L. L., Pittsfield, Mass. joi Avgusta House. Augusta, Me. ,8., Auschutz, Louis F., Ansonia, Ct. ,63 Austin, E. K., Brooklyn, N. Y. Austin, M., Brattleboro, Vt. Jj Austin, W. H., Brooklyn, N. Y g, Auten, James W., New York ,,4 Avery, F. C, Elgin, 111., , .* Axtell, W. C, Gardner, Mass. „. Ayer, Ira, Morristown N. J Jj Ayers, Burley B., Chicago, III. L Aylsworth, Robert M., Milford, Pa. ,0,, Ayres, H., Philadelphia, Pa. j.g^ Babcock, G.. Brooklyn, N. Y. ,.,- Badcock, Joseph, London, Eng. ,,,, Baetjer. J. Frank, Baltimore, Md. ,,5 Bagg, Ernest N., Boston, Mass. Cxi± Bagg. Harvey D.. W. Springfield, Mass. .87a Bagg, John S., Springfield, Mass. ,4,, Bagg. Lyman H., New York ,,^ Bagg. Sam. F., Watertown, N. Y ,0^ 735 37 Bagg, W. S., W. Springfield, Mass Btigft Hotel, Utica, N. Y. Baggot, E. p., Jen^y city, N. J Baglej, W. J., Rutland, vt. B»«ot, H. 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G., Corpus Christi, Tex Barnes, E. W., New York Barnes, Harry S., Orange Valley, N Barnes, J. M.; St. John, A^. A Barnes, S. G., Grinnell, la. Bamet. E.. Canton, O. Barnett, E. G. , Springfield, O. Barrett Hotel, Henderson, Ky. Barrick, C. M., Washington, D. C. Bartholomew, C. C, Ogdensbun;, N. Bartlett, Geo. F. H., Buffalo, N. Y. Bartlett, J. Kemp, Baltimore, Md., Barton, John M., Rome, N. Y. Barto.1, Uwis N., Winchester, Va. Barton, O. M., Rutland, Vt. 1240 2104 »377 2170 a96s 2990 448 a9'3 i7Qa a?4o M34 "447 300S 8 3006 1615 2670 2960 aii7 1675 • 72o-ai 1251 a«44 "5 590 a63 1672 2077 1805 '936 1683 '-94 2165 2680 1370 3210 2337 2029 1036 3988 '37.1 1836 3230 •93 « 1700 3384 87.1 V. 2752 1929 1920 2485 1546 2166 '■(tM m :f 736 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Banett, Abbot, Boston, Mass. 8a8 Bassett, C. F., Pittsfield, Mass. 3084 Bassett, Harry J., Coldwaier, Mich. 3176 B.uutt Hotel, New Hritain, Ct. 1314 B.ustU House, Birmingham, Ct. 987 Batchelder, C. D., Lancaster, N. H. 307 Batet House, Indianapolis, Ind. 2304 Bates, J. R., Rutland, Vt. 2163 Bates, W. G., New York 1389 Batterfi.;ld, Arthur R , Hobart, Tas. itn Btttersby, James, 1 iladclphia. Pa. 3265 I vn, 'Jhas. E., Ix)ndon, Eng. 2618 Baxter, Caleb G., Philadelphia, Pa. 1669 Bayer, J. E., Grinnell, la. 1947 Bayne, Geo. H., Halifax, J^. S. 634 Beach. Geo. O., New York 3181 B'ach. Leonard, Ojata, Dak. 3166 Beach, William, Orange, N. J. aio? Beal, E. E., Ann Arbor, Mich. 676 Beal, Junius E., Ann Arbor, Mich. 323 Bean, Clarence H., Oshkosh, Wis. 2658 Beatty, H. W., Arlington, Minn. 1686 Beavis, b'rank S., Peoria, 111. 190, 2493 Beavis, Horatio S., Macomb, III. 299a Beck, jr., Fred W., Baltimore, Md. 553 Beck, John A., Philadelphia, Pa. 370 Beck, W. L., Lockport, N. Y. 1815 Becker, T. M., Portsmouth, O. 2113 Beckwilh, E. L., (Galveston, Tex.) 319 Beckwith, N. Mahlon, New York 51a, 1601 Beckwith, T. S., Cleveland, O. 1916 Beddo, Horace, Louisville, Ky. 3010 Bedford Cycling Clui, Brooklyn, N. Y. 2437 Bedford House, Bedford, Pa. 1618 BeeAe House, Elyria, O. 2352 Beers & Co., J. B., New York 2567, 23^.8 Beers, Henry A., New Haven, Ct. 1215 Beers, Jas. L., New York 2275 Begg, W. M., London, Out. 826 Beggs, Chas. N., St. Louis, Mo. 238 Beggs, W. F., Paterson, N. J. 479 Belden, David A., Aurora, III. 1642 Belden, F. E., Hartford, Ct. 790 Bell, Grant, Minneapolis, Minn. 1699 Bell, H. H., Halifax, A'. S. 1499 Bell, jr., Henry H., New York »i,8 Bell, Malcolm, Shrewsbury, N. J. 609 Benedict, A. J., Little Falls, N. Y. 2657 Benedict, Gilbert S., Stamford, Ct. 680 Benedict, J. G., Lebanon, O. 1229 Benjamin, Alfred, L-ncoln Park, N. J. 399 Benjamin, B. S., San Francisco, Cal. 2354 Benjainiii, T Eugene, New York 1967 Benjamin, W. R., New York 1324 Bennett, A. A., Cincinnati, O. 1121 Bennett, A. P., Jersey City, N. J. 13J6 Bennett, Edgar R., Amherst, Mass. *359 Bennett, G. W., London, Ehj. 2941 Bennett, H. M., Manchester, N. H. 3312 Benninghofen, P., Hamilton, O. 1J13 Benson, Clarence E., Great Falls, N. H. 2690 Benson, Ernest R., Cambridf^eport, Masa. 266 Bergen, Frank, Elizabeth, N. J. 2347 Bergen. J. B., Red Bank, N. J. 45 Berger, L. J., St. Louis, Mo. 228 Bernard, Chus. E., Elgin, III. ^697 Bemhard, Percival J., Jamaica, N. Y. 1497 Berry, G. M., Columbia, S. C. 1296 Besserer, John W., Bozeman, Mont. 1360 BeSi, James B., Kinderbook, N. Y. 797 BeswicK, Will, AucUisuu, iV. Z. 1405 Bettison, P. R., Louisville, Ky. 1423 Betts, Frederick H., New York 1077 Bevin, Leander A.. New York 1154 Bibb, Harry, Montgomery, Ala. 19^5 Bick, Charles, Greenville, Pa. 1579 Bick, Eli, Greensburg, Pa. 180S Bickford, L M., Portland, Me. 2843 Bidweti Geo. H., Utica, N. Y. 155^ Bidw. , G. R., New York 9-1 1 Bidwell & Co., Geo. R., New York 27 15-272 3 Bidwell, H. E., Pittsburg, Pa. 2244 Biedcrman, Chas., San Francisco, Cal. 2S05 Bictte, Harry, Woodstock, Ont. 935 Bily, J. G., 338 Binford, Fred, Pawtucket, R. L 2997 Bingham, C. H., Utrecht, Holland 806 Bingham, Wm. W., Newark, N. J. ((99 Binns, Henry, Angora, Asia Minor 3297 Binns, Walter, Salford, Eng. 2632 Bird, Rollin R., Waterbury, Ct. 530 Bird.«all, Edward T., New York 298 Bi-.iop, Phil. H., Sittingboume, Eng. 2089 liishop, Roland A., Hobart, Tas. 3039 Bissell, Frank C, Neenah, Wis. 2539 Bissell, W. S., Buffalo, N. Y. 1467 Bittinger, Geo. S., Leadville, Col. 1629 Bixby, James E., Dayton, N. Y. 499 Black, Owen J., Albion, Ind. 3245 Black, Wm. M., Halifax, A^. S. m Blackham, Geo. E., Dunkirk, N. Y. i8oq Blake, Henry, New York 1602 Blair, G. H., Truro, A^. S. 1038 Biasing, H. W., Henderson, Minn. 1685 Btenett, jr., Wm. E., Newark, N. J. 397 Slock, J., Moscow, Ruuia J>49 THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. j^j **'<«:. A. E., Toronto, OtU. Bloodgood, W. D , Brooklyn, N. Y Bail', W. C, Le Roy, N. Y. Bcrdman, C. E. C, MarsWltown, la. Bochm, G , Hoboken, N. I. Soger, J. H , hindlay, O. ' Bo.and, J A , MU.ville, N J. Bolion. Alfred M , Sydcsiham, £ng Bond, Stephen T , Jort Wayne, Ind Bonnett, D UlaJte, Elizabeth, N. J. Bonnett, L B., E.izabeth, N. J. Book, W. H., New York Booth, Richard, Medford, Mass. B«>»h.. jr., S. F., San Francisco, Cal. Booz, Washington B., Baltimore, Md. Borst, Chas. A., Clinton, N. Y. Borton, Fred S., Cleveland, O. Boston, F. H., Boston, Mass. Umitm AthtixM'n Library, Mass Bo6worth, N. C, Cleveland, O. Eoudrias, jr., L., Cohoes, N. Y. Bourn, A. W., Newark, N. J. Bourne, Ednar K., New York Bouttell, Thomas, York, Eng. Bowditch, I. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. "7» 954 "759 187 »774 1905 not iiSa '75« 3051 >53o 1603 1857 a6i2 3 16 766 1589 265 2851 3021 3822 510 »995 3902 Aw«&/« Cell. Library, Erunswick, Me. ,,,, Bowen, E. N., Buffalo, N. Y. Bowen, P. J., Ilobart, TVw. Bower, D. 11,, Newbur^h, N. Y. Bowcrfind, Geo. J., Adrian, Mich. Bowers, Ralph, Greenville, Pa. Bowkcr, C. H., Meriden, Ct. Bowler, F. W., Cleveland, O. Bowles, Pv. J., Brighton, Ont. Bowles, Wm., Castlemai'yr, Irt. Bowman, II. N., Springfield, Mass. Bowtell, jr., S., Rutland, Vt. Boycc, Chas. S., Portland, Or. Boyd, Chas. H., Baltimore, Md. Boyd, T. H., Ardmore, Pa. Boyle, Samuel A., Philadelphia, Pa. Brackett, F. H., Brattleboro, Vt. Bradeen, Fred J., Springfield, Mass. Bradford, Ed^vard A., New York Bradford, William, New York Bradley, K. K., Meridtn, Ct. Bradley, ■ m., Kinderhook, N. Y. Bradley, W H., Sandhurst, VUt. Brainard, J. E., M-riden, Ct. Braisted, Otis S., './ooklyn, N. Y. Brakeley, P. F. H., Bcrdentown, N. J. gj Braman, W. M., Mariner's 'larb., N. Y 2o8< Brandi, E. E., Lawrence. Mass. 4,, 3:63 2S8t looa 699 I'Jla 2 :} S96 1740 3066 957 3167 2&74 SS7 369 ^57 176s 769 480 184 1058 3894 3050 lost 2468 95 9t8 »598 3149 "93 1386 3098 loia Brand, John B., New Haven, Ct Brangs, P. H., Newark, N. J. Bratt, Wm. S., Oxford, Md. Braunsdorf, E. J., New York Brayton, jr.. Geo. B., Bo«on, Mai* Breck, Geo, Portland, Or Breck, M. B., Springfi.W. m,m. 2731 190a 2120 3306 3349 3638 206 333w 2190 1141 288a 3029 2707 3333 1764 '573 3393 687 1581 3042 3319 3346 3180 3478 1790 983 400 '983 3041 955 4«4 Bresee, Winston, Baltimore, Md, Brewer, Sterling, Cleveland, O Brewster, W. M., St. Louis, Mo Bndgeman, Geo. S., Paignton, Eng. Bridgman, M. L., Brooklyn, N. Y. Brij-gs, F. W., Warrnambool, Via Brigham, C. P'iny, Baltimore, Md. Bnmer, Fred J., Toronto, Can. Bristol Library, Bristol, Pa. BHtish ATuitum, London, Eng Broadbent, G. R., Melbourne, Vict Brock, Fred W., Bristol, Eng. Brooklyn Public Library, N. Y. Brooks, Benjamin, Kolyoke, Mass. Brooks House, Brattleboro, Vt. BrcumS Hotel, Newfoundland. N. J Broi*-n, B. F., Lock Haven, Pa. Brown, C. A., Genoa, III. Brown, C. M., Greenville, Pa. Brown, Chas. R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Brown, C. Ross, Dansviile, N. Y. Brown, C. W., London, Eng. Brown, Elmer E., Manchester, N. H. Crown, E. L., Rahway, N. J. Brown, Fred A., Philadelphia, Pa. Brown, Frank H., Rockvi:ic, Ct. Brown, G. C, Elizabeth, N. J. Brown, Geo. R., Philadelphia, Pa Brown, Geo. T., Brooklyn, N. Y. Brown, Geo. W., Brooklyn, N. Y Brown, H. D., Weedsport, N. Y. .^.^ Brown, H. H., Wappinger's Falls. N Y r,, Brown, Herbert L., Harrisburg, p, „g Brown, John G., Danville, Pa "° Brown, John W. M., L.ng Su;ton, Eng. [3906, 3087.30S9 _ I Brown, Kenneth, Chicago, III Brown, Louis H., Elmira, N. Y. Brown, Morris, Baltimore, Md. Brown, Orvon G., Cincinnati, O. Brown, Rodney, Northampton, Mass. Brown, R. W., Sandhurst, Vict. Brown, Thos. Case, Sandhurst, Viet. Bmwn, T. McKee, New York Brown, W. C, Cincinnati. O. •975 »97 336 487 3348 3057 3356 '385 »9'5 *,. r + y n ■:~\\ 111 ^'^:*: 738 TEJV THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Brown, W. J., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1676 Browne, John T., Faterson, N. J. iji6 Browne, William G., Orlai.do, Fla. 886 Brubaker, J. C. & P., Ashland, Ky. 3191 Brnimukh H»tel,'X'\\.ii&s\\[t, Pa. 1535 Bryan, G. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 1978 Bryan, H. R., Hudson, N. Y. 758 Bryant, W. A., New York 2135 BrycL-, Wm. '£.., Indianapolis, InJ. aia6 Buchanan, C. P., Newport, Ky. 2734 Buchanan, jr., James, Gateshead, Eng. 7753 Buchanan, W. H., Autigonish, //. S. ijai Buck, Livy Jay, Empsria, Kan. 2506 Buckingham, Harry W., Pittsfi^-ld, Mass. 62} budden, A. H., Sandhurst, Vict. 3051 Budds, Geo. L., Sydney, A'. S. IK 38S6 Buehler, L. M., GMtysburg, Pa. 1255 Bucll, Frank S., Buffalo, N. Y. 3320 Bull & Bowen, Baifaio, N. Y. 2356-2262 Bull, Sumner, Wald.n, N. Y. 2571 Bull, Wm. H., West Springlitld, Mass. 2013 Bull, Will S., Buffalo, N. Y. 301 Bulk>ck, Carl, Worcester, Mass. 3183 Bunner, H. C, New York 917 Burbank, J. P., Boston, Mass. 693 Burch, jr., John G., Albany, N. Y. 513 Burchell, John A., New York 1292 Burdekiii, R. E., York, Sng: 233;, 2333 Burdj't, J. B., Nashville, Tenn. 2387, 2395 Burkert, C. O., Ashland, Pa. 3269 Burklin, Wm. C. H., Portland, Or. 2673 Burley, C. F., Stamford, Ct. 1727 Burn, David W. M., Wellington, JV. Z. 1882 Burn, Edgar Hine, Ounedin, A^ ?. 18,81 Burnett, J. G. D., New York 2810 Burnett, P., Dover, Del. 3009 Burnett, W. Kendall, Aberdeen, Scot. 841 Eurnham, Edw. P., Newton, Mass. 3075 Burnham, W. H., Adrian, Micii. 431 Burns, D. C, Bedford, Pa. 1617 Burns, E. F., Smithville, N. J. 1512 Burpee, Herman N., Rockford, 111. 683 Burr, T. S., New York 470-71 Burr, W W., Rutland, Vt. 2168 Burrell, B. W., Weymouth, Mass. 602 Burrill, Charlos, Weymouth, A^. 5". 889 Burrill, Frank H., Wakefield, Mass. 2546 Burroughs, Fred. C, Bridgeport, C*. 2140 Burrowes, Chris F., Springfield, Mass. 3277 Burston, Geo. W., Melbourne, Vict. 1138 Burt, Geo. H., Hartford, Ct. rjs Burt, H. L., Rutland, Vt. 2169 Burt, Wm. Vinal, Bosi.»n, Mass. 2307 i 1301 1516 240 2490 '45 '-7$ Burtis, C, W,, Titusyille, Pa. Burtis, E. H., .Smithville, N. J. Bush, E. A., New York Bush, jr., Geo. M., Peoria, III. Butcher, Joseph, Boston, Mass. Butcher, Nelson R., Toronto, Otit. Butler, Augustus R., W. Brighton, N. Y.1507 Butler, jr., John T., Richmond, Va. 3024 Butler, W. H.. Olean, N Y. ,701 Butt, W. L , Oamani, N. Z. ,70, Buttle, George M., New York- 3039 Buzby & Co., G. N., Philadelphia, Pa. 1982 Cabell, James B., Henderson, Ky. 2325 Cade, S. I., Brownsboro, Tex. Cain, George E., Lynn, Mass. CcUdiuell House, Caldwell, N. J. Caldwell, James, Elgin, 111. Calkins, Chas. A., Tomah, Wis. Calkins, W. Scott, Millville, N. J. Callan, Hugh, Glasgow, Scot. Cameron, Alex., Brooklyn, N. Y. Cameron, G. D., London, OtU. Cameron, W. H., St. Joseph, Mo. Camp, S. P., Trenton, N. J. Campbell, A. B., Bradford, Pa. Campbell, D. R., Wcstville, A''. S. Campbell, M. F., New Haven, Ct. Campbell, Neil, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Campbell, R. E., Florida, N. Y. Campbell. Thos. P., Howard, Kan. Canaiy, D. J., Meriden, Ct. Candidas, E. W., Brooklyn, N. Y. Candy, Chas. C, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. [2203, 3107 Canedy, C. F., New RcchelU: N. Y. 2000 Caner, Edward A., Brook'yn, N. Y. 1712 Canfield, jr., F. D., Phila., Pa. 3358, 3359 Canfield, W. W., Randolph, N. Y. 518 Capell, V,'ill H., Mansfield, Pa. 1781 Carberry, John, Westfield, N. J. 1136 Card, Eugene, Shennan, N. Y. 644 Carl, John C, Ansonia, Ct. 887 Carmantville Park Hotel, New York 2156 Carmichal, W, R., Belleville, Can. 565 Carney, L. J., Portland, Me. 1624 Carpenter, A. G., Providence, R. I. 831 Carpenter, Ed., Wilkesbarre, Pa. 3290 Carpenter, jr., Samuel, Oswego, Kan. 2602 Carpenter, jr., W. W., St. Louis, Mo. 2713 Carr, Frank, Elgin, 111. 1477 Carter, C. G., Titusville, Pa. 1314, 1536 Carter, E. C, Melbourne, Vict. 11 39 Carter, H. W., Worcester, Mass. 1227 2412 1620 1767 1476 »953 1102 319ft 1411 "75 3036 <966 2031 910 9'3 • 823 2968 '947 364 956 THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. ■064 91a 3J57 3060 3JS« 2026 20 82, 2.''76 40S 284J 9S8 6 »-S 9« 2096 3363 '37 •779 744 1630 2580 81-82 2798 1919 2014 2389 2581 2312 '7' '4 CoUs House, Wellsboro, Pa. Coles, J. Howard, Nashville, Tenn Collier, W. F., London, Eng. Collins,G. R.,Troy, N. Y. .204, ,375 Colhns, Geo. Stuart, Plainfield, N. J ,,56 Col!ins. H. T., Cleveland, O. Coilins, John S., Dover, Del. Collins, William, Meriden, Ct Collister, (Jeo , Cleveland, O. Collister, J. H., Cleveland, O. Fl M »834 3104 »794 1901 '58t 740 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Cahnnade Hettl, PhiladelphU, P«. 1763 Colton & Co., New York, j8o6, i8ot Colvin, Fred A., Philadelphia. Pa. ijii Comes, Arthur N., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1047 Comley, William, Lincoln Park, N. J. 1108 Comsiock, W. C, Cava City, Ky. 1093 Condon, T. G., Urooklyn, N. Y. 178 Conger, A. L., Adrian, Mich. 334 Conger, Kenyon B., Akron, O. 2466 C»Hgr*u, Tkt Library of, '^»Aii\u^tiia,Xi. C. Conkiin, C. C, ^ranton, Pa. 2199 Conkiin, Wm. G., New York 2999 Conkling, Howard, New York 1328 Connell, W. L., Scranton, Pa. 2.96 Conner, E. V., New York 2633 Connolly, B. P., Scranton, Pa. 36 Conover, Chas. A , Coldwater, Mich. 320 Continental Hotel, Newark, N. J. 745 Cook House, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1092 Cook, C. S., Hanover, N. H. 13 10 Cook, Frank H., New Rrunswirk, N. J. 2105 Cook, Fred R., San Francisco, Cai. 2535 Cook, Geo. R., Simcoc, Ont, \i^% Cooke, Chas. D., Paterson, N 'J. 189 Cookman, T. E., Philadelphia, Pa. 2444 Coolidge, E. L., Lowell, Mass. 1316 Coombc, F. E., Kincardine, Ont. 1741 Cooper, r., Christchurch, K. Z. i8?6 Cooper, W. H., London, Ont. 825 Copeland, A. D., Springfield, Mass. 3278 Copland, James, Sydney, A^. .S. W. 2057 Cppp, Wm. A., Now York 462 Corbctt, J. E., Whitehall, N. Y. 2467 Corbin, Albert F., New Britain, Ct. 1059 Corbin, C. E., Si. Johns, Mich. 1653 Cordingly, C, London, Eng. 869, 3360 Corey, H. I>., P-oston, Mass. 2373 Corken, Chas II., Boston, Mass. 1239 Cormick, H. M., East Portland, Or. 2391 Corriveaut, A. J., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 2473 Corson, Elmer E., Roch-ster, N. H. 2316 Corson, E. H., East Roch-^ster, N. H. 717 Conon, (Miss) Mabel E., East Rochester, FN. H. 2370 CortlanJt Wheelmen, Pefkskill, N. Y. 542 Corthell, W. M., Sprinpfield, Mass. 619 Corwin, Chas. E., Newburp, N. Y. 1172 Cosack, jr., H., Buffa'o, N. Y. 1822 Cnssum, C. F., Pnuirhkeepsie, N. Y. 702 Coster, Charles, S'. John, A'. B. 205 1 Cotant, E. S., Dc" Moines, la. 1090 Cottrell, F., Oamaru, A' Z. 1705 Cottrell, M. Bourdon, Friendship, N.Y. 1708 Conghenour, Will, Irwin, Pa. Coughlan, J. C, Christchurch, N. Z. Couaer, M. W., Cornwall, N. Y. Covert, M. K., Flushing, L. \. ',"owan, J. F., Pittsburg, Pa. Co wen, A. H., Petaluma, Cal. Cowhick, W. S., Cheyenne, Wy. Cow!, Clarkson, New York Cox, Chas M., Salem, Or. Co/, W. H., Kingston, Ont. Craig, B. J., Springfield, Masr Cramer, Geo. H., Lyons, N. Y. Crarier, W. P.. Albia, la. Cnii. \al', C. L., L-cnarJsville, N. Y. Crane, A. S., Elixabeth, N. J. Crane, jr., J. E., Albany, N. Y. Crane, Samuel C, Elizabeth, N. J. Crapo, F. H., Concord, Mass. Craven, Geo. F., Philadelphia, P«. 'Jrawfoid, Exlw., Ashland, Ky. Crawford, Geo. F., Kankakie, III. Crawford, Neivior. G., Louisville, Ky. Crawford, Wri. C , Baltimore, Md. Craycroft, B. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Creagh, C, Brick Church, N. J. Cressman, N. F., Philadelphia, Pa. Cresswell, A., Sandhursi, Vict. Cresty; F., Brattleboro, Vt. Crixhfield, E. E., Mt. Mt, ant, Pa. Crichton, Thos. C, BrooWI>r.. N. Y. 218a 188S 971 a8oo IJ46 33S4 joo •745 907 •OJ4 2267 333] 2655 »34ft 2103 3284 3314 ■363 3188 1094 1361 337 »44S 1576 47 J063 1560 19S6 »335 Crittenden, A. W., Canandaigxta, N. Y. 588 Crofton, W. . A., Welwyn, Eng. 1974 Cromwell, S. L., Brooklyn, N. Y. 2621 Crosby House, Defiance, O. 2343 Crosby, C. R., Brattleboro, Vt. 1557 Crosby, Frank, Elgin, 111. 1478 Crosby, J.t •?, Bangor, Me. iioo Grossman, Henry S., Springfield, Mass. 1191 Grossman, M. R., Springfield, Mass. 118ft Grossman, W. F., Washington 637, 873 Crothers, A. M., Springfield, O. 1911 Crouch, Thomas E., Branford, Ot. 801 Crumley, Harry, Mt. Vernon, O. 440 Crow, William, Dunedin, N. Z. 2767 Crowe, W., Halifax, tf. S. 659 Crowle, John D. , Staunton, Va. 1371 Croier, W. M., Trenton, N. J. 1772 Cudworth, H. J., Brattleboro, Vt. 1564 Culver, J. Dana, Whitehall, N. Y. 2706 Cumminp, Thomas, Stanford, Ct. 2507 Cumminps, S. W., Truro, A^. S. 1040 Cunningham, Artnur, Boston, Mass. 453 Cunningham, A. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. 46} THE THREE THOC/SAND SUBSCRIBERS. 45* I4J6 1080 U94 6$j 673 1320 450 1887 3366 846 »73J Cunningham Co., The, Bo.ton. Maia. CoTan, jr., John P., Philadelphia, Pa Currier, A. F., New York Currier, Mahlon D., Lawrence, Mats. Ciirtue, w. Jl., Kocheiter, N. V. Curtis, Frank Z., Dttroit, Mich. Curtii, Howard, Waterbury, Ct. Curtis, J. Arthur, Reading, Pa. Curtis, J. W.. New York Curtis, Sam. f., Buffalo, N. Y. Curtis, Wm. B., Caienovia, N. Y Cushing, D. Albert, Chicopee, M , . .^^^ Cusliings& Bailey, Baltimoie, Md. jji5, 3,,; Cushman, A., Bridgewater, Mass. ,769 Cushman, W. H., Portland, Or. a6;a Cutter, Wilson, Bordentown, N. J. 1,67 Daggett, Wm. H., Indianapolis, lud. 3133 Dahon, Joseph O., Boston, Mass. 1648, a 108 Dalton.Wm. E , Ft. 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J. 658 380 74' 8SS 690 176a ^5»S 1783 a$7o 139a 4SS 753 43 agoj 1968 2838 2059 '43S 3074 1600 913 321 3814 1520 ^■*^:ii K- ii*- It It "' ■'' 'I if, 74« TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Dixon, Fred A., Otwego, N. Y. 1864 Dixnn, Robert, Clreenock, Sett. 3015 Dobbie, Jt)hn, Thoiold, Ont. 777 Dobbini, Edwin A., Middletown, N. Y. 751 Pt'bbins, Kmnk S , Allentown, Pa. Ii8j. Dockham, Chas. M., Kochetter, N. H. Jj6$ Doiigt't ffaUl, Rochester, N. H. 1364 Dodge, Charles, Bloomington, 111. as '3 Dodge, Chas. Richards, Boston, Mat*. 163] Dodge, jr., H. W., Austin, lex. 356 Dods, A. Wilson, Silver Creek, N. Y. 19J7 Dodson, J. S., Bethlehem, Pa. mS, Doland, S. C, Newark, N. J. 1340 DominioH Houst, Annapc.lis, A''. S. 1846 Donaldson, W. E., Buffalo, N. Y. 1813 Donly, A. VV., Simcoc, Ont. nyj Donly, Hal. 15., Simcoc, OtU. 534, 535 Donou^h, C. R., Mjrcrslown, Pa. 3077 Dco'itile, Perry E., Toronto, Ont. 843 Dorion, S^vire, Caierovia, N. Y. 8;4 Dorr, (Mrs.) J. C. 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W., Brattleboro, Vt. 5a Dr\illard, Frank E., Buffalo, N. Y. 1619 Dryer, J. B., Tuskejfee, Ala. 1891 DuBois, F, E., W. Rand Iph, Vt. 241 Dubois, Frank G., New York 25 Ducker, Henry E., SprinRfield, Mass. 349 Dudley, Chas. B , Altoona, Pa. mj^ Dudley, Chas. E., Detroit, Mich. 66( Dudley, W. W., Whitinsvillc, Mais. joft Duff, James C, Charlcstown, Mass. 1084 Duffill, T. P., Great Kails, N H 7574. 1873 Dunahue, Will J., Sinclai.ville, N. Y. 511 Dunbar, A. D., Peekskill, N. Y. 344 Dunbar, P. H., Springfield, Mass. 1011 Dunbar, W. R., Cleveland, <). 2780 Duncan, A. T., Hamilton, Ont. 2734 D-incan, Bowman, Nashville Tenn. 2379 Duncan, Wm., Allegheny City, Pa. 597 Dunn, A. P., Troy, N. Y. 1203 Dunn, James R., Massillon, (>. 1914 Dunn, W. Ellis, Bloomington, III. 2119 Dunn, W. E., Noble«vJlle, Ind. 1341 Dunnell, Alex. R., Brnnklyn, N. Y. 1404 Durnell, F. L., Brooklyn, N. Y. 357 Durham, J. S., Philadelphia, Pa. 2854 Durkee, Albert, Chicago, III. 1347 Durrie, John, Brick Church, N. J. 2911 Duryea, Charles E., Wyoming. 111. 106 Dusenberry,Chat. K., Middletown, N.Y. 233^ Duston, John S., Newark, N, J. 3S2 Dutton, Wm., London, Eng. 3142 Dwyer, Thomas J., Caxencvia, N. Y. 853 Dyer, S. F., Christchurch, N. Z. 1887 Dyotte, E J., Springfield. Mass. 1016 Eady, B. F., West Point, Ga. 932 Eagle Hotfl, Gettysburg, Pa. 1254 Eakins, Arthur W., Yarmouth, N. S. 1892 Eakins, W. G., Toronto, Out. 586 Earhart, M., Indiana, Pa. 1899 Eaton, Alfred, Ne.v York i6oj EUiton, A. L., OtiumwA, ia. 244 Eaton, Will. E., Wakefield, Mass. 1847 Eberman, J. W., Baltimore, Md. 3267 Ebert, Horace M., Norristown, Pa. 2552 Eck, T. W., New York 2463 Eckert, W. F., Curwinsville, Pi. 1898 Edgar, E. A., Rutherford, N. J. 773 Edge, David, Newark, N. J. (d. June, '84) 387 Edgerton, C. W., fort Wayne, Ind. 1749 Edman, G. A., Melbourne, Vict. 2637 Edmands, Wm. H., Boston, Mass. 3287 Edmans, Fred P., Troy, N. V. 286 Edwards, Edward T., St. Gallen, Switz. 2566 Edwards, Thomas A., Melbourne, Vict. 1354 Egan, Frank A., Nashville, Tenn. 475 Ehrich, Louis R., Colorado Springs, Col. 3342 Ehrllch. Julius J,, Buffalo, N. Y. 2802 Eldred, Fred C. , Springfield, Mass. 1189 Eldred, Will., Springfield, Mass. 1190 ///A THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRUiEKS. EUrwlKe. [rank P., Chicago, 111. FIIinnwd. Kdward, Ixjwell, Ma«». Klliot, U. K , BrcKiklyn, N. Y. Klliott, W. «; , Tolrd... () Kllis, Lharif* H., Kansas City, Mo. lilMtr Hausf, Cornwall-on-Hudson KImer, W. H., Winrna, Minn. eUtmvcoJ HoUl, Watervillt, Me. KIwell, Frank A , Portland, Me. J.lwell, Krank I).. Sai. Francisco, Cal KIwell, I»aac, Philadelphia, Pa. Kly, jr., Alfred, Cleveland, O. *- • ^V. A., Caienovia, N. Y. Kmerson, Charles S., Milford, N. H Kmmeii, H. J., Seneca Falls, N. Y. K' ion», C. G., Hamilton, Ber 4J8 •457 »44» 1400 »73J Jit<) 884 1801 446 >75S ^36, lf)o S'4 2476 2071 3322 'o»5-<> Faulkner, W. H., W.lden, N. Y. »"»uquier, A. E., Ml. Vernon, N Y Eay. Fre<' L , Hopedalc, MaM. Fell, Kenn, Hloomiiigton, III. t'llowes, Freds., E»eter, N H ^>"nesly,A L.. SpHuKfield, Ma». ,0,5., V nneMy, jr , J „., Springfield, Ma... ,09 959 2915 974 1213 483 1582 1130 »83 334S 330 696 2480 669 '7'3 629 "34 716 9813 »977 404 »»3S 372 3073 1015 945 1022 7'9 181 1890 1641 "53 "79 Fenno, Herbert, Holyoke, Mas..' Fenstermaker, F. N., Brooklyn N Y Fergu«,n, W M [rfTerson, la. Ficlithom, W k . Keadinp, Pa field, C. H.,<:reenfie!d, Mas.s. Field, F. F, West Philadelphia, Pa Field, W. R, Greenville, Pa. Fi.-lding, Fred. A., Boiem.in, Mont. Filbert, Charles L., Columbia, Pa. Fillmore, Henry D,, Bennington, Vt. Filmcr, Herbert, New York Finch, I. H., Adrian, Mich. Finckel, Geo. M., Washington, D. C. Fink, Leon C, Detroit, Mich. Finkler, H. C, .San Francisco,' Cal. rirzcr. Wm. T , Washington, D. C. Fischer, John I! , New York Fish, Eben, Abington, Mass. Fish, H. I., Chaiham, N. Y. Fish, jr., Wm. H., So. Scituate, Maw Fisher, Chas. 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Otrmrntown, Pi. 40 (;ilm«n. Wm. V , Nashua. N. H. ji, x^J^.^% Gilmer, T. T., Lluriocte, N. C. ,08 Gilmour, W. O., Malbourna, K*-/. ,,,', tJiin, C. H., Springfield, MaM. Ij^ Oilchrll, Jo« H., Hamilton, Ont. ,,78 (iivcn, John B., So. Boiton, Maw. «„o Olidden, Hany, Cleveland, O ,„, •7/*^ lltttl, St. G«org«». A,.. ,^», Clover, John S., Columbia, Pa. ,6ys lilover, Thomai, Hanford. Ct. jj, tJobey, C;eo. W., Cirenceiter, Etg. ,60$ Godct, K. Lennock, Hamilton, B*r. 614 Coetic, Will. K., Lockland, (). ,004 Golder, Stephen, Coventry, Eng. 800, i7j( Conialei, O. G.. '.v^hington, D. C. 1141 OcKxlall, George, London, Kng. ,jj, Goodhue, F., Brattleb»>ro, Vt. j^t^ Goodrich, E. P., New Britain, Ct. ,o« Gjodwll, F. W,, Newark. N. J. ,8a Goodwin, Henry M., Philadelphia, Pa. ,84a Goodwin, H. R., Manchester, Eng. ,631 Goodwin, S. D. M., Albany, N. Y. j,„ Gordon, D. J., Plainfield, N. J. j,8j Gorgat, Geo. A., I li. rrisourg, Pa. 3, Gormully & Jeftery. Chicago, III ,45, ,^6 Gorrecht. W. Frank, Lancaater, la. a868 Goaa, Edward O., Boaton, Maaa. ,,,, Gotwald, Geo. D., York. Pa. ,„8 Gould, Chai. W.. New York ,616. a6i7 Gourley, N. R., Glena Fall., N. Y. 90, 9, Graf, E. P., Punxsutawney, Pa. Graham, jr., J. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. Graham, \V. E., St. John, N. B. Graif, Philip, Athena, N. Y. i8<)7 M7I 1156 .87 Grand Centrai Hotel, St. Cloud, Minn ,46, Grand Union HottI, New York Grant, Jas. E., Liverpool, Eng. Grant, John C, Chic;K:ar, West Chester, Pa. Green, Charles, Columbus, Ind. Green, H. Martin, Havant, Eng. Green, Wm. O., Holyoke, Mass. Greene, S. T., Belleville, Ont. »35« 1890 J30« '436 1819 648 65 '71 •J '5 io6j 'SO 1123 3014 •99 3'33 745 Greenbaum. C. S., U>M>i« City, W. T. aij Greenfield, J. H,, Pi.ufieU. Maaa. Greenlj-ai, A. K., Amesbury, Maaa. Greer, RobMNi C. Covington, Ky. Gregg, F W., Tucaon, Ariion.. C'^Ut. Geo. M., Ktniielt Square, Pa Gridky. (Ulward L.. New York tiHc«iDger, C. L., Medina, O. Griggs, John B., Hartford, Ct. Griffln, Chaa., Greenwich, N. Y. (JrifRn, C. H., Ravenna, O. Griffin, .Seth J., Ogden, Utah Griffith, M.. Berry villc. Va. Griffiths & Co., Coventry, Eng. GriffiH.s, H., Much Wenlock, Eng. Griffiths. J. B., Utica, N. Y. Griaconi, Joseph W.. Jcnki.iiown, Pa. Griswold, Chas., Aurora, III. Grosch, August, Brooklyn, N. Y. Grover, T. L., Galveston, lex. Grow, Arthur R., Summit, N. J. Grose, A., Chicago, III. Gue, Joe, Montgomery, Ala. Guerin, B. C, Morristown, N. J. Gulick, John C, New Yoric Gullen, W. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gulliver. Wm. C, New York Gump, A. W., Da>lon, O. Gunckel, E. W., Middletown, O. Gunnis, Russell H., PhiladelphU, Pa. Gunther, H. P., Louisville, Xy. Guy, Arthur W., New York Gwen, Robert, Carnarvon, Eng. Haas, J. Franklin, Summit, N. J. Haberbush, Chas. E., Unc;«ster, Pa. Hafer, John, Bedford, Pa. Hager, Stansbury, Brooklyn, N. Y. Hahi.e, August, Newark, N. J. Hali/ajc Hottl, Halifax. N. S. Hall, A. M., Smithville, N. J. H.ill, George O., Bangor, Me. Hall, jr., H. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hall, jr., Harry J., New York Hall, jr., Thos. J., Brooklyn, N. V. Hall, jr, Wm. H., New York Hall. W. J., BoMon, Mass. Hall, W. J., Reading, Mas*. Hallam, Chas., Hobart, Tas. Hallam, Thos. F., Hobart. Tat. Hallett, F. B., Orange, N. J. Hallock, L H., Portland, Me. IJaIsey,C. \^. K , Eliaabeth. N. J. HaLi.y, M V\., .^Iix4beth, N. J. 3oij aii6 S3a 60 *45J •J* I4,'J a»7i it\% 3i'7, 3"S 3160 •M 79 1645 1046 »7<» »5K i'49 876 1784 3S9 »S»4 19I1 7»! 1136 484 3'78 1674 »940 J 147 «4»9 i6i8 186a aote IJM «J«7 lOOJ 957 •73 ao43 »S/ »738 2768 3116 3209 «r^ >979 »345 •J»7 'i i r 746 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Halstead, C. T., Morristown, N. J. 375 Hainan, George £., Ellington, N. Y. 2069 Hamill, i>. B., Springfield, Mass. 3205 Hamilton Holtt, Hamilton, Btr. 2455 Hamilton, Jay Benson, Providence, R. 1. 2966 Hamilton, Robert A., Albany, N. V 1863 Hamlin, Arthur S., Canandaign 1, N. Y. 489 Hamlin, George W., Canandaigua, N. Y. 488 Hamlin, H. B., Wadena, Minn. 2028 Hamm, J. J., Halifax, N. S. 664 Hammar, A. H., Worcester, Mass. 714 Hampton, jr., S. Wade, Memphis, Tenn. 2237 Hananer, Chas. W., Covington, Ky. aii3 Hananer & Myers, Covii-.gton, Ky. 2984-86 Hancock, B. P., Corpus Chr'sli, Tex. 1954 Hand, Fred C;., Scranion, Pa. 226 Hannon, G. E., Denver, Col. im Htnson, Conrad R., Gloucester, Mass. 1976 Hanson, Linwood E., Gieat Falls, N. H. 2688 HapgoofI, O. D., Orange, Mass. Haradon, C. R., Springfield, Mass. Harberson, Ben, Aupusta, Ky. Harder, J. E., Clearfield, Pa. Hardinf;, EdA-ard H., Philadelphia, Pa. H.nrdinp, M. A., Chnlham, N. Y. Hardy, T. S., Oakland, Cal. Hare, Thomas, Philadelphia, Pa. Harley, jr., Chas. R., Philadelphia, Pa. Harlow, Fred. M., Springfield, Yt. Harmon, John M., Meriden, Ct. Harmony, W. P., Sidney, O. Harper, Wm. S., Philadelphia, Pa. Harpster, J. W, Canton, O. Harriman, Smith A.. New York Harriman, S. F., Vineyard Haven, 'lass. 2981 Harrington, Chas. R., Lyons, N. V. 891, 1149 Harrington, E. D., Newark, N. j. 1599 Harrington, George S., Mald"n, Mass. 1290 Harris, Frank L., Harrisonburg, Va. Harris, Frank S., Philadelphia, Pa. Hanis, Howard P., Buffalo, N. V. Harris, J. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Harris, P. M., New York Harris, Will. .., Boston, Mass. Harris, W. M., Calumet, Mich. Harrison, F, H., Fredonia, N. Y. Harrison, Reginald Fairfax, New York 2174 Harrison, W. H., Mercer, Pa. 776 Hart, A. A., ,St. Louis, Mo. 3343 Hart, Amos W., Washington, D. C. 1117 Hart, E. Stanley & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. li^iA, 3'(5 Hart, ij. K., h'ipeBtone City, Mmn. 3292 »77' 996 it6o 2247 339 »634 2710 3272 1365 2053 •053 303 34-< »95y 2401 3065 1362 2264 •39' 3»94 53 »993 2032 »5> 2249-22 S4 2896 »3>7 2820 2823 »435 2024 '3'9 315 2951 363 548 3254 1528 1663 2743 715 2778 231 2363 3367 Hart, George S., Rockford, IH. Hart, H. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Hart, H. R., Croydon, Eng. Hartford, Willie M., Rochester, N. H H.-rtshorn, A. E Worcester, Mass. Hartshorn, E. E., Perth Amboy, N. J. Hartung, Henry, Nashville, Tenn. Hanwell, Edward M., Baltimore, Md. Harvard College Library, Mass. Harvey, E. W., Sparta, Wis. Harwood, Henry, Ishperning, Mich. Harwood, John, Paterson, N. J. Hasbrouck, D. C, Peekskill N. Y. Hasbrouck, jr., R. S., New York Hasking, C, Sandhurst, Vict. Hastings, W. H., Elizabeth, N. J. Hatch, H. L., Portland, Or. Hatch, H. L., Salem, Or. Hatha*ay, A. A., Milwaukee, Wis. Hathaway, A. S., Cleveland, O. Hathaway, D J., Topeka, Kan. Hathaway, S. T., St. Mary's, Kan. Haven, Hrrry B., Florence, Mass. Haviland, Thomas T., Newburgh, N. Y. 96; Hawkes, F. E., Greenfield, Mass. 3183 Hawley, C. E., Washington, D. C. 1425 Hawley, Harry W., Ann Arbor, Mich. 678 Hawley, John H., Washington, D. C. 1638 Hay, J. G., Woodstock, Ont. 1222 Hayden, H. A., Allentown, Pa. 1265 Haydock, R. R., New York T325 Hayes, Alfred, London, Eng. 1550 Hayes, Chester C, Canandaigua, N. Y. 588 Hayes, Harry, London, Eng. 1943 Hayes, Herbert, London, Eng. 1944 Hayes, John Joseph, Hatfield, Eng. 1942 Hayes, William, London, Eng. 2793 Hayford, H. Hartley. Buffalo, N. Y. 708 Haynep, Fred. W., London, Eng. 271 •, Haynes, Gideon, Boston, Mass. 2262 Haynes, Nelson T., Kansas City, Mo. 3263 Hays, A, A., Newark, N. J. 1799 Hayward, A. H., Greenville, N. J. 1107 Hayward, A. H., New York 2737 Hayward, F. H., Providence, R. f. 379 Hayward, J. E., St. Cloud, Minn. 2461 HaywarH, T. A., Susi|uehanna, Pa. 2835 H.-.rellon, W S., Melbourne, Vict. 2919 Ha/lfti, Charles A., Portsmouth. N. H. i Hailelt,(Mrs.)C. A., Portsmouth, N. H. 3000 Heales, H. C, Hamilton, Vict. 2036 Healy, Wm. F., Bridgeport, Ct. 1452 Heath, S. K., Minneapolis, Minn. 928 THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 747 Helwrd, F. S., Cheyenne, V/y. Heberhart, Wm. G., Madison, Ind. Heckman, J. W., Halifax, A^. S. Heermans, W. J., Corning, N. Y. Hegeman, TSomai B., Brooklyn, N. Y Heming, A., New York Hemmenn-ay. E. A., Dorchester, Mass Hendee, George M., Spri.igfield, Mass. Henderson, E. C, Cleveland, O. Henderson, John, Ashland, Ky. Henderson, J. S., Elitabeth, N. J. Henderson, M. S., Elizabeth, N. J. Henderson, S., Brooklyn, N. Y. Henderson, S., New Yorl. Hendrickson, Hlake, Meilma, ' ) Hendrie, C. W., Stamford, Ct. Henry, H. S., Pittsfield, Mass. Hentz, F. A., Boston, Mass. Hepinstall, C. H., Si. Thomas, Ota. Herendem, F. Albert, Geneva, N. Y. Herfurth, Paul, Elgin, III. Henick, C B., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Herring, W. C, New York Hertz, W. H., Hazleton, Pa. Hetz, Lewis, Baltimore, Md. Heweitzer, J. L., Reading, Pa. Hewitt, E. H , Columbia, S. C. Heymer, F. W., Boston, Mass Heyser, E. R., Huntingdon, Pa. Hibbard, Angus S , Milwaukee, Wis. Hibson, Robert F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hichbom, C. S., Augusta, Me. Hickling & Co., Maidenhead, Eng. Hickman, J. R., Newcastle, Ind. Hickok, Lester E., Birmingham, Ct. Higdon, jr., John T., Owe-isboro', Ky. Higginbotham, C. T., Springfield, Mass I Higgins, C. W., Smithville, N. J Higgins, F. E., Worcester, Mass. Higgins, Henry C, Cincinnitus, N. Y Higgins, H. Stephen, Portland, Me. Higginson, T. W., Cambridge, Mass. Higham, H. W., Washington, D. C. Highberger, J. B., Clearfield, Pa. HigKlnnd House, Garrison's, N. Y. Highland Mills Hotel, High. M's, N.Y Higlie, T. C, Canton, 111. Hfldrelh, Charles D., Rome, N. Y. Hill, A. M., New Orleans, La. Hill, E. F.,PeekskilI, N. Y. Hill, E. .S., St. Cloitd, Minn. Hi!!. Or.-.rfrs V ru* • — !!. iT Hill, Steriing, Eugrtie City, Or, 789 •49 657 69, 958 1120 '495 350 2653 3190 '533 •532 2438 3243 3342 406 3109 2595 1851 575 '479 427 • 487 166S 186 977 1297 '374 710 1894 941 2875 3077 3030 804 2946 '33 1504 806 1690 2847 1800 1246 1896 2079 1866 2678 2512 1217 545 2458-2461 il. 2570 1210 Hill, Tho». L., San Francisco, Gal. Hill & Tolman, Worcester, Mas*. Hiller, Y. J., Cohoes, N. Y. Hiilis, F. D., Halifax, M ,y. Hills, Arthur C, Brighton. N. Y. Hinckcli£fe, B., Derby, Eng. Hinds, C. G., San Louis Obispo, Cal. Hinman, J. A., :alikosh. Wis. Hobart, C. H., East Portland, Or. Hobbs, C. A., Wi.kesbarrc, Pa. Hoddick, A. E., Buffalo, N. Y. Hodges, E. C, Boston, Mais. Hodges, F. B., Kome, N. Y. Hodgins, John G., Tralee, Ire. 3071 $8a 201 663 «'3 2891 SoW 3-25 3023 "97 1821 827 2540 2735. 30'9 Hodgson, George, Northampton, Eng. 2839 Ho. Holloway, W. Dosh, Danville, Pa. Holman, C. F., Millbury, Mass. Holman, G. y., Willimantic, Ct. Holmes, G. C, Brockton, Mass. Holmes, Herbert, Rockvillc, Ct. Holmes, S. J., Montclair, N. J. Holt, Arthur B., Kankakee, III. Holton House, Portland, Or. Honiss, W. H., Hartford, Ct. Honk, George W., Wellsboro, Pa. Honybun, W., London, Eng. Hooker, Thomas, New Haven, Ct. Horn, Charies A., Brooklyn, N. Y. Home, Clark H., Chattanooga, Tenn. Home, R. H., .Stamford, Ct. Horton.G. H., Brattleboro, Vt. Horton, W. P., Cleveland, O. Hosford, E. B., Denver, Col. Hotchkiss, John B,, Washington, D. C. House, Edward S., Hartford, Ct. Hovey, C. F., Rochester, N. Y. Howard, (.has., London. Eng. Howard, Chas. S., Boston, Mass. 970 355 77» 1664 232a '449 119a 2777 2614 982 2353 23* 239' 28S 2417 »935 '4'3 2299 "94 '730 1567 3'12 1112 40 loSi 6ej 3102 1171 74» TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Howard, Chas. W. , Boston, Mas». Howard, H. T., New York Howard, Leiand, Washington, D. C. Howard, T., Salim, Or. Howe, A. A., Denver, Col. Howe, (). K., Brati. boro, Vt. Howe, H. E., ChesI ire, Ct. Howe, W. L., Oskaioosa, la. Howell, Altred E., Nashville, Tenn. Howell, Charles L., Winter»et, la. Howell, Edgar, Philadelphia, Pa. Howell, Kred L., St. Thomas, Ont. Howell, H. v., Sandhurst, Vul. Howell, Lewis, Millville, N. J. Howell, L. A, Miilviile, N. J. Howland, Wm. B., Cambridge, Mass. Hoyt, Charles L., Stamford, Ct. Hfbbard, Chas. P., Birmingham, Ct. Hubbard, Lyle, Toledo, O. Hubbell, H., Norwich, Ct. Hi;bbell, L. L., Danbury, Ct. Huber, J. W., Ashland, Pa. Huber, Stanley B., Louisvillk, Ky. Huggins, James, New York Hughes, C. W., Shreve, O. Hughes, Isaac, Mt. Vernon, O. Hughes, J. E., Newmarket, C«/. Hughes, T. J., Liverpool, Eng. Hughs, f. M., Bardstown, Ky. Hull, George S., Chambersburg, Pa. Hull, H. H., Waynesb'irg, Pa. Hull, O. E., Chariton, la. H umber & Co., London, ^w/*.^ 3126, Humphrey, Eugene, Yarmouth, Me. Humphrey, Osman B., Bangor, Me. Humphreys, Henry, Philadelphia, Pa. Humphreys, R. E., Irwin, Pa. Hunt, E. P., Cleveland, O. Hunt, Riley, Orange, Ind. Huntington, C. G., Hartford, Ct. Huntington, J. T , Cleveland, O. Hurlbutt, Harry W., Stamford, Ct. Hurlbutt, \Vm. A., Stamford. Ct. Hurxthal, jr., Benj., Mansfield, O. Huss, George Martin, New York Huss, Theodore, East Saginaw, Mich. Husted, George \V., Camden, N. I. Husted, J'amuH G., New Haven, Ct. Hutchins, C. W., Springfield, Mass. HutcliiMs, Lovell, Baltimore, Md. Hutchinson, Chas. A., Elizabeth, N. J. .j..,pU|^a^n f* _ Frnrp.!r.{Th?.!?>. Miss. Hutchinson, ir, R. G., Montclair, N. J. >83S 1424 152a 2740 1113 1562 2075 506 2434 2238 341 •332 3047 M03 2474 3" 1729 985 1458 •03 980 3270 1396 1231 2052 ■79* 235 2443 1930 96 1803 2^72 3"7 2694 3002 1447 a'77 2S32 3348 2954 '593 «73' 1724 '09 3007 920 1035 563 5J7 Hutchinson & Myers, Sandhurst, Vict. 3253 Iddings, Frank A., Warren, O. 1913 Ideal Pen Co., The, New York 1758, 1759 Ingalls, D. W., Little Falls, N. Y. 280c, Ingham, Alfred M., Brattl boro, Vt. 1568 Ingram, T. L., Columbus, Ga. 1956 /nterfuiiiffHo/ f/oU!, Boiton, Miss. --^j Inur-OctaH Hottl, Cheyenne, Wy. 1450 Iredell, George -S., Philadelphia. Pa. 1366 Ireland, J. E., La Chute Mills, Oni. 2967 Irving, Arthur B., Westfield, N. J. 1135 Irving, J. G., Danbury, Ct. 979 Irwin, A, B., Rushville, Ind. 373 Irwin, Wm. G , Columbus, Ind. 2121 Irwin, W. R., Emporia, Kan. 2-3 Irwin, W. T., Peoria, III. 2492 Isaacs, Chas. C, Baltimore, Md. 559 Isbell, W. H., Bridgeport, Ct. 2173 Isham, James H., Buffalo, N. Y. 679 IxioH BicycU Club, New York 1155 Jackson, B. F., Lockport, N. Y. 1810 Jackson, C. L., Rutherford, N. J. 771 Jackson, Fred A., New Haven, Ct. 416 Jackson, H. H., Ir lii^napolis, Ind. 2305 Jacksoi., jr., H. R., Rutherford, N. J. 328 Jackson, Schuyler fi., Newark, N. J. 3303 Jackson, Thomas W., Newark, N. J. 386 Jacobi, G. N., Baltimore, Md. 3076 Jacobs, Albert P., Detroit, Mich. 1079 Jacobs, Chas. H., Detroit, Mich. 1344 Jacobsen, Peter N., Detroit, Mich. 240? Jaffiay, H. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 2175 Jagger, L. Courtlandt, Newburgh, N. Y. 968 James, Frank B., New York 2396 James, Mortimer E. O., London, Eng. 1745 James, Sam'l R., Schenectady, N. Y. '125 Janes, Henry E., New York 24S8 Jansen, L. W., Walden, N. Y. 2541 Jaques, J., Salt Lake City, Utah 1505 Jarvis, C. W., Port Arthur, Ont. 723 Jarvis, H., Oxford, Md. 2210, 3273 Jarvis, H. E., Burlington, la. 606 Jeffords, H. R., Cazeno/ia, N. Y. 993 Jenidon W., Columbia, S. C. 1295 Jenkins, Chas. H., Louisville, Ky. 122 Jenkins, Fred, New York 119 Jenkins, F. M. S., Ottawa, Ont. 1854 Jenkins, H. J.. Christchurch, N. Z. 1885 Jennings, A. F., Springf.eld, Mass. 2900,2901 Jennings, George H., New Haven, Ct. 922 Jennings, Walter, Salt Lake City, U 1323 Tsralds. E O.. New Haven, Ct- .<407 1732 22SS Jessup, Nelson, Stamford, Ct. £v9Lr f i: THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 749 Jewell, L. W., Georgetown, D. C. a8o8 Jewett, J. Waldo, New Haven, Ct. 1138 Jimenis, J. 0«wald, Kew York 38 Johnfon, A. A., Cazenovia, N. Y. 849 Johnson, A. B., New York 963 Johnson, B. F., Weymouth, Mass. 1958 Johnson, C. E., Salt Lake tity, Utah 3034 Johnson, Elliott, New York ,387 Johnson, Eph., Brooklyn, N. Y. 950 Johnson, E. P., Marshall, Mich. 198a Johnson, Fred H., Syracuse, N. Y. 757 » Johnson, Frank M., Philadelphia, Pa. J398 Jbhnson, (leo. H., Bridgeport, Ct. 3599 Johnson, Harold, London, Eng. 2666 Johnson, H. G., North Andover, Mass. 3898 Johnson, Henry J., Ashford, Eng. 1977 Johnson, Joseph L., Indianapoli>, Ind. 1303 Johnson, J. Q. A., New York 964 Johnson, L. H., Orange, N. J. ,489 .», inson, William, Brisbane, Queentland 2880 Johnson, Will S., Newark, »'. J. Johnston, C. F., Louisville, Ky. Johnston, Paul S., Pittsburg, Pa. Johnston, Sam. B., Columbus, Miss. Johnston, W. H., Irwin, Pa. Jones, A. A., Willi^mstown, Mass. Jones, Clift W., Newark, N. J. Jones, Edward Jas., London, Eng. Jenti Hotel, Forbet, Weymouth, N. S. Jones, Gerry, Binghamton, N. Y. Jores, H. C, Brooklyn, N. Y. Jones, Harry John, London, Eng. Jones, John, Jamestown, O. Jones, O. M., Simcoe, Ont. Jones, P. W., Pittsiield, Mass. Jones, R. L., Charlotte, N. C Jones, T. D., Henderson, Ky. Jones, Wm. A., Richmond Hill, L. I. Jones, Walker J., Harrisbuix, Pa. Jones, Wm. T., Coal Dale, Pa. Jordan, W. H., Springfield, Mass. Joslin, JameiT., Newburgh, N. Y. Joslin, Joel A., Newburgh, N. Y. Jouet, C. H., Roselle, N J. Joy, Charles F., Boston, Mass. Judd, H. A., London, Eng. Judge, Herbert E., Helena, Mont. Judge, Henry M.. Adrian, Mich. Judson, A. L., Albany, N. Y. Jullien, H., Sandhurst, K/W. Kahler, Wm. S., B.:simore, Md. Kam, W. A.. Woof'stock, Oti/. Katzeotack, P., Trenton, N. J. 743 1880 2878 193a 1178 1893 38s 3682 890 3 "84 1670 t02I a8s 1279 3865 1081 »3" 720 U17 3351 1031 965 969 *V7 364 1569 1539 697 1470 3053 SS3 '.?* 1965 Kauffman, Bruner, Columbia. Pa. Kaufman, Abe, Clarion, Pa. Kaulbach, G. H., Greenfield, Mass. Kavanaugh, H. S., Cohoes, N. Y. Keam & Co., S., Sandhurst, yict. Ktartargt Hotat, Portsmouth, N. H. Keck, George, Ann Arbor, Mich. Keene, Chas. J., Era hampton, Masr Keer, Frank, Newark, N. J. Keller, A. L., Elgin, III. Kelley, Wm. S., Smiihville, N. J. Kellogg, Chas. A., Hartford, Ct. Kells, W. S., Piitsfield, Mass Kelly, H. P. , Philadelphia. Pa. Kelly, W. S., Lowell, Mass. Kelly & Ballard, Ubanon, Ky. Kemper, A. P., Harris, nbuig, Va. Kendall, F. P., Worceste-, Mass. Kendall, Hugh H., Coming, N. Y. Kendall, W. G., Boston, Mass. Kenly, A. C, Baltimore, Md. Kennard, J. B., Clearfield, Pa. Kennedy, C. C, Pitufield, Mass. Kennedy, Erwin H., Pittsfield, Mas*. Kent, G. W., Halifax, N. S. Kent, Wm. Geo., Washington, D. C. KtnyoH College Library, Gambier, O. Kern, L. S., Philadelphia, Pa. Kerr, D. W., New Castle, Ind. Kerr, Henry H., Fort Worth, Tex. Kefcham, Reeve, Cornwall, N. Y. Keyer, C. E., Elyria, O. Keyitotu Houst, Haw'.^/, Pa. Kidder, H. 3., Elmira, N. Y. Kimball, Edward J., Minneapolis, Minn. 3811 Kimball, Fred. H., Bellows Falls, Vt. 3687 Kimkrkook Hotel, Kinderhook, N. Y King, A. B., Smithville, N. J. King, A. Foster, Flushing, L. I, King, A. J., Halifax, A^. J. Kings County IVheelmen, Biooklyn, N.Y. 94^ King, Fred G. , Corry, Pa. 87 King, John C, Brook'yn, N. Y. 1388 King, L. Stone, Baltimore, Md. 417, 418 King, Moses, New York 3858 King, Thomas Geo., Ixindon, En;, 1941 Kingsbury, R. S., Xenia, O. ,904 Kinnamon, J, E. , Tilghman's Island, Md. 3470 Kinch, Charles A,, New York 1834 .Kinch, jr., Fred. A., Weitfield, N. J. 230S Kipp, P. E., Schenectady, N. Y. 3974 Kirkpatrick, Chas. R., London, Eng. 3361 1694 '9$ 1313 2837 325* 3383 32$ 3607 •9H 1480 1510 793 3866 33' 3918 2088 7»$ 76* 68S IJ3I 469 138) 308J 3864 660 1639 1185 S9» 3031 1416 97» »35» aoT^ "7 3894 "S'$ »799 655 7SO TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Kirkpatrick, Sam. H., Middlc.own, Ct. 1098 Kirkpalrick, T. J., Springfield, O. 1910 Kirk wood, K. C, Baltimore, Md. 1658 Kirtley, jr., Wm.. Defiance,©. 1343 Kitchell, H. N., Cincinnati, O. 1122 Kilchell, J. C, Cincinnati, O. 1935 Kilching, K. W., New York 127, 2382 Kittinger, Chas. H., Seattle, Wash. Ter. 1166 Klots, Walter, New York 1219 Kluge, Chas. E., jersey City, N. J. 2100 Knapp, U. L., ?oston, Mass. iu6i Knapp, C. P., Wyoming, Pa. 2903 Knapp, F. W., Rutland, Vt. 2164 Knapp, Lawrence, Portland, Or. 2671 Knapp, S. Norris Peekskill, N. Y. 546 Knapp, W. K., Cleveland, O. 3021 Knauss, Chas. C, Bethlehem, Pa. 1439 Knight, Henry C, Silver Creek, N. Y. 1926 3J5S 2585 2668 84s 2751 3»44 20 »349. »350 I04S Knight, J. H., Sandhurst, yict. Knight, T., Eastbourne, Eng. Knowles, R., Gan (pris Pau), France Knowlton, Chas. M., Cazenovia, N. Y Knox, C. D., Lime Rock, C|. Knox, J. H., Portsmouth, N. H. Knox, Thos. W., New York Koch Brothers, Peoria, 111. Koch, John H., Peoria, III. Kohler, G. A. Edward, Philadelphia, Pa. 346 Kelp, A. J., Scranton, Pa. 34 Kostovitz, L. D., Budapest, Austria 3307 Krag, C. J., Columbus, O. 1907 Krank, J. W., Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. 2205 Kreis, Harry P.; Baltimore, Md. 374 Kroh, C. E., Foboken, N. J. 2293 Kroppack, Otto, Burlington, la. 1959 Krug, Wm. B., Fordham, N. Y. 214 Kudner, Chas., Detroit, Mich. 671 Kiigemann, E. E., Cincinnati, O. 1086 Kugler, John G., Pottstown, Pa. 2910 Kuhns, John M., F'ort Wayne, Ind. 1752 Kumler, L. M., Berwick, Pa. 1259 Kusel, I. J., Springfield, 111. 3328 Lafayitlt, Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. 909 Lailey, C. E., Toronto, Ont. 1271 Lake House, < 'ildwell, N. Y. 1877 Lake, Edwin 1 , New York 2660 Lake, Frank L., Rockford, 111. 684 Lakin, T. A. & Co., Westfield, Mass. 3331-2 Lamb, James, London, Ont. 11 77 Lambert, F. P., York, Eng. 2897 Lamoreaux, D. A., High'd Ms., N. Y. 1866 Lamson, Chas. H., Portland, Me. 180,447 Lamson, J. H., Poniand, Me. 587 I.>indes, W. G., Springfield, Ma&s. 640 l^ndis, D. B., Landisville, Pa. ^^q Landy, E. F., Cincinnati, O. 1934 Lane, A. T., Montreal, Que. jgi Lant, Chas. H., Templeton, Mass. 2411 I.angdown, W. H., Cnristchurch, A'. Z. 1883 Langlcy, Charles, Toronto, Ont. i860 I.angley, H. W., Daytoi., Ky. 2019 I^nier, Henry & Frank, West Point, Ga. 931 Lansford, Thos. Coll, Coal Dale, Pa. 3340 I^nsing, R. R., Detroit, Mich. 113 Larkiii, W. L., Haydenville, Mass. 704 Lathrop, C. E , Armada, Mich. 202 La louche, R. M., Scranton, Pa. 2200 Latta, A. G., Friendship, N. Y. 302/ Latta, E. G., Friendship, N. Y. 3026 Lauterbach, John, Birmingham, Eng. 2663 Lnutz, Howard O., York, Pa. 1096 Lawrence, G. H., Milwaukee, Wis. 3321 Lawson, Orville W., Louisville, Ky. 645 Lawton, Sanford, Springfield, Mass. 222 Lazarus, S , oandhurst, Vict. 3045 L'-nr, Henry, Doylestown, Pa. 3301 Learned, D. W., Y^mXo, Japan 2627 Learned, W. H., Rochester, N. Y. 647 Leddell, C. S., Morristown, N. J. 750 Ledry, W. " , Fostoria, O. 503 Lee, N. DeKoy, Westmoreland, N. Y. 2510 Lee, R. E., St. Louis, Mo. 367 Lee, W. H. L., New York 2022 Leeson, Arthur J., Birmingham, Eng. 2910 Le Fevre, Lynn A., Belleville, O. 227* Lefferts, L. E. , New York 1940 Leffingwell, Geo. E., Hartford, Ct. 79; Leibert, Frank J., Bethlehem, p2. 3146 Leisen, C. L., Philadelphia, Pa. 2912 Lemeris, A. O., Newark, N. J. 389 Lenox Htmse,GttKnyi\c^,C\. 1723 Lenox, J. G., Rochester, N. Y. 650 Z..j»»arrf//<7»«r, Clearfield, Pa. 1896 Leonard, E. F., Springfield, Mass. looi Leonard, O. R., Brattleboro, Vt. 1569 Leonard, Wm. D., New York 1326 Lesh, H. A., Auburn, Ind. 2427 Leslie-Lickley, Alex. Wm., Wandsworth- (Common, London, Eng. 3240 Lester, C. E., Miller's Falls, Mass. 3o'^9 Letcher, jr., J. H., Henderson, Ky. 2323 Le Touman, J. K., Baltimore, Md. 209 Letts, Son & Co., London, Eng. 3093-3101 Leve & Alden, New York 80 Levering, T. D., Champaign, III. 3032 Lewis, Arthur P., Pfaiiadeiphia, Pa. 139 THE THREE THOUSAND SLBSCRIBERS. 751 Lewis, Brandon, La Fayette, Ind. Lewu, D. B., Yonkere, N. Y. Lewis, E. G., Caienovia, N. Y. Lewis, Eugene H., New York Lewis, Henry A., Philadelphia, Pa. Lewis, Harold R., Philadelphia, Pa. Lewis, S. R., Otego, N. Y. Lewis, Wilbur E , Sumford, Ct. Lewis, W. H., Melbourne, Vict. Leypoldt, Rudolph G., New York Libenow, F. E., Walden, N. Y. lightfoot, F. S., Fort Wayn;, Ind. Lighthouse, Benj., Rochester, N. V. Lilley, G'jrge P., London, Ont. Lillibridge Brothers, Rockiord, III. Lincoln, L. J., Lubec, Me. Lindemuth, E. E., Wichita, Kan. Lindenberg, Henry, Columbus, O. Lindner, jr., John, Newark, N. J. Lindquist, N. E., Menekanne, Wis. L;ndsay, John S., Chattanooga, Tenr.. Lindsay, Frank A., Lynn, Mass. Lindsley, jr., A. V., Nashville, Tenn. LinkfieH, R. E., Elgin, 111. LinoniaH Library, New Haven, Ct. Lintz, W. D., New York Lippincott, Benj., Cinnaminson, N. J. Lippincott, G. A., Mt. Holly, N. J. Littell, Hiram E,, Newark, N. J. Little, Arth *f., Roxbury, Mass. Littlejohn, Edw.^rd, Chatham, N. J. Livingston, H. S., Cincinnati, O. 1870 1776 994 1657 •39 410 »3»9 '7J3 »o37 II »356 •753 1817 1176 $40 2096 281 863 390 2996 "95 1628 1410 1481 456 3185 682 '5'3 39» 6.5 508 '35 LUwllyn Park Hotel, W. Orange, N. J. 900 Llewelyn, F., South Y»rra, Vict. Lloyd, S. M., Goderich, Ont. Locke, Herbert E., Brooklyn, N. Y. Locke, W. S., City of Mexico, Mix. Lockwood, S. A., Red Bank, N. J. Logan House, Altoona, Pa. Logan, John L., Harrisonburg, Va. Logan, John W., Merrimac, Mass. Logan, W. T., Glasgow, Scot. 2691 204, 1925 85 3236 3>75 2282 2679 London Cycle Supply As's'n, Eng.-!,xt%, 3.29 Long, John, Irwin, Pa. Long, J. H., Brooklyn, N, Y. Longenecker, C. b., Newark, N. J. Longood, S. S., Meadville, Pa. Lorber, L. J. E. J., Ithaca, N. Y. Lord, Frank N., New York L«reni, Wm A., Hartford, Ct. Loucks, A. C. D., Brooklyn, N Y. Lovell, George M., Southbridge, Mass. >3S) 740 lOOJ 56 8J9 558 •537 305J 292J 1801 33" 1013 2102 775 1052 2877 M» 167S 242 Ci3 iSi Lowry, A., Cliristchurch, N. Z. Lucas, liurt G., Monmouth, Or. Lucas, G. H., Sprii.^fSela, Mai*. Lucas, G. Loutrel, Baltimore, Md. Lucas, Philip H., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Ludwig, Charles B., Baltimore, Md. Lufkin, E. C, Titusville, Pa. Luke, J. H., Sandhurst, Vict. Lunger, John B., Newark, N. J. Luse, Stephen W., Morristown, N. J. Lyman, Charles, Montreal, Qut. Lyman, W. I., Springtield, Masa. Lyne, Lewis F., Jersey City, N. J. Lyon, Charles A., Bangor, Me. Lyon, C. L., Meriden, Ct. Lyon, C;eorge A., Pittsburg, Pa, Mabbett, Edwin J., Baltimore, Md. Mabie, Geo. W., Brooklyn, N. Y. McAuslan, John W., Providence, R. I McBride, R. H., Toronto, Oni. McCarthy, John, London, OwA M'Glintock, W. C, W. Philadelphia, Pa. ^47 McCIure, S. S., New York 4,, McComas, W. E., Hagerstown, Md. 861,86a McCormack, W. H., New York 4, McCoy, Wm. D., Wheeling, 'V. Va. 1850 McCre.-..ry, W. J. . Nr -* York ,33, McCroskery, L. W. Y., Newburj;h, N. Y. 9C6 McCulIoch, Arch., T-.iiro, N. S. ,041 McCulIouch, W. G., Trenton, N. J. j,,; McCune, Jos., Columbus, O. Macdonald, Samuel J., Newark, N. J McDougall, Chas., Brooklyn, N. Y. Macduff, R. E., CleveUnd, O. McElwain, J S., Holyoke, Mass. McEwen, D. C, Brooklyn, N. V. McFaddcn, Walter C, Mt. Vernon, O. 1791 McFadden, Will. C, Mt. Vernon, O. 1839 McFnrland, A., Corry, Pa. 1030 McGarrett, A. O., Springfield, Mass. 1007 MacGowan, G. P., NewHaven, Ct. 1548 McGowin„ J. W., Pittsburp, Pa. 2033 McGuire, Philip, Halifax, A'. 5'. ,501 Mclntire, John W., Salmon Falls, N. H. 2578 Mclntire, W. W., Portsmouth, N. H. 43, 191a 394 204s 3".1 2020 576 Mcintosh, H. A., Kincardine, Ont. Mclnturff, A. P., Strasburj;, Va. Mack, F. O., Wabpeton, Dak. Mack, J. S., Warmambool, Vict. McKay, G. W., Auburn, Ind. McKay, S. L., Woodstock, Ont. McKee, Chas. W., St. John, A^. B. Mackee, HE., Stamford, Ct. '742 1247 2J90 264a »43' 1223 20CI 1726 752 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. McKenna, Louis A., Anuapolift, N. S. 1462 McKenney, C. K., Lake City, Col. 2376 McKenzie, Alf. E., Vruro, iV. S. 104a Mack.in, W. C, Frankfort, Ky. 767 McKnight, Clias. H., Springfield.. Mais. 536 Macknight, J., Newry, Eitg. 7937 McKnight, J. B., Krookville, Pa. 2786 McKnight, W. M., Clearfield, Pa. 2287 McLain, Cha». J., Kort Wayne, Ind. 1750 McLaren, James, Ft. William, Ont. 50"; McLaughlin, J. K., Hagtrstown, Md. 1251 McLindon, Wm., Schuylerville, N. Y. 1878 McN , New Orleans, La. 25 ,3 McNeil, G. C, Akron, O. 260S MacOwen, Arthur IX., PhilatJelphia, Pa. 520 MacOwen, Frederick, Philadelphia, Pa. 1345 McQueston, E. A., Manchester, N. H. 432 McRae, E. H., Sydney, A^. S. IK 2212 McWorkman, Wm., Indianapolis, Ind. 2131 Maddux, J. H., Warrenton, Va. 1246 Mapill, Frank, Irwin, Pa. 2179 Mahafifey, James, Clearfield, Pa. 22S3 Maier, Geo. E., Rochester, N. Y. 322 JtfaiH S/. Houst, Silver Creek, N. Y. 1926 Mains, Isaac N., Pleasant Gap, Mo. 2957 Mallalicu, S. M., Meiiphis, Tenn. 2086 Maltby, L. U., Philadtlphia, Pa. 909 Malvern, Frank. Port Jervis, N. Y. uoS, 3199 Mammoth Cave Hotel, Cave City, Ky. 2093 Manaway, John, Uniontown, Pa. 1807 Mandell, A., Titusville, Pa. 1538 Mang, A. G., Buffalo, N. Y. 1812 Mann, Chas. A., Cizenovia, N. Y. 2154 Manning, David, Worcester, Mass. 14 iS Manning, W. B., Kokomo, Ind. 3179 Mansfield, Geo. E., Sprin^eld, Mass. 64 Mansfield, Howard, New York 112S A(i»u/«i //...1^«#1 Yt. ai"! 2288 2094 2214 2215 1226 »744 i»8 1692 66 »39 2962 Martin, Alf. F., Qearfield, Pa. Maniu, Frank P., Boston, Mass. Martin, George, Sydney, N. S. W. Ma. tin, Geo. J., Kiiiabeth, N. J. Martin, James, Sydney, A'. .S. W. Martin, W. E , New Haven, Ct. Martin, W. W., Salem, Or. Mariiue, J. B., New York Marvin, Will C, Ovid, Mich. Maslin, G. William, Baltimore, Md. Mason, Crawford, New York Mason, Elliott, New York Mason, H. P., So. Kilvington, Eng: Mason, jr., Volney W., Providence, R. I. 1312 Maisey, L. J., Charlotte, S. C. 1298 Matem, W. J., Bloomington, 111. 2483 Mather, Geo. E., Mentor, O. 2824 Mathers, Hugh T., Sidney, O. 1865 Mathews, Albert, New York 2925 Matthews, Brander, New York 908 Matthews, J. R., Madison, Ii.d. 2597 Maurer, J. M., Washington, Pa. 2n5 Mayer, Geo. L., Scranton, Pa. 2194 Mayer, V. F., Chicago, 111. 2137 Maynadier, Henry D., Washington, D. C. 203 Maj/nard House, Solon, Me. 1831 Mead, jr., Fi derick. New York 2209 Mead, Robert D., Newark, N. J. 395 Mead, S. Allen, Peekskill, N. Y. 754 Mealy, A. E., Baltimore, Md. <4i Meeker, James R., Newark, N. J. 894 Meeker, W. M., San Francisco, Cal. 2613 Meerhoff, Charies, Irwin, Pa. 2181 Meeteer, W. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1350 Mehring, H. W., Elgin, III. 1481 Menus, W. K., Burhngton, Vt. 1970 Mellor, Wm. E., Philadelphia, Pa. 84 Mentz-^l, A. W., Baltimore, Md. 352 Morccreau, E. W., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1678 Mirgenthaler, A. E., Fostoria, O. 442 Merrill, Edwin R., Yarmouthvillt, Me. 264$ Merrill, Fred. T., Portland, Or. 1573 Merrill's Hestaurant, Haniord, Ct. 2138 Merritt. Henry K., Morristown, N. J. 246 Merritt, W. H., Woodstock, Ont. 936 Mersch, Herman, Appleton City, Mo. 2573 Merwin, jr., E. P., New Haven, Ct. 2273 Messer, Frank H., Stoneham, Mass. 1625 Mes-sler, Leon B., Canton, III. 2677 Mctcalf, H. J., So. Framinphain, Mass. 2187 Metiver, C, St. Heliers, Eng. 2934 Meyer, Frank C, Canton, O. 104 Mever. H. H.. New York 116$ THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. I Meyer, H. J., Fort Wayne, Ind. ,754 Meyer, jr., Jos. A., Canton, O. 1849 Meyer, O. H., Richmond, Va. 3090 Meyen, Geo. M., Washington, D. C a6«4 Michels, Walter, Stamford, Ct. 1715 Mickey, H. E., Fostoria, O. 501 Middleton, W. H , Harrisburg, Pa. 194 Mfid.iUtown tV/uelClub, Middletown,Ct. 3J00 Midgley, Thomas, Beaver Falls, Pa. Mildrum, W. W., Easi Berlin, Ct. Miles, Samuel A., Chicago, 111. Miles, W. G., Cincinnati, O. Milhau, R. L., Brcwkiyn, N. Y. Milieman, W. i!., New York Miller, A, E., Shepherdsiown, W. Va. Miiler, jr., B. K., P 'waukee. Wis. Miller, C. Herbert, Huntington, Pa. Miller, Chas. H., Springfi;ld, Mass. Miller, Chas. M., Philadelphia, Pa. Miller, Dayton C, Berea, O. MiUer, D. E., Spriusfield, Mass. Miller, E. C, Haydenville, Mass. Miller, E. E., Cantor, O. Miller, Edw. H., Portland, Or. Miller, Frank A., Susquehanna, Pa. Miller, Frank S., Westfield, N. J. Miller, F. W., Ashland, O. Miller, G. A., Sandhurst, yict. Milhr, Geo. D., New Haven, Ct. Miller, Geo. S., Springfijld, Mass. Miller, Howard, Newark, N. J. Miller, H. G., Meriden, Ct. Miller, J. D., Montreal, ^«». Miller, J. E., Troy, N. Y. Miller, Julius M., Emsworth, Pa. Miller, John P., Oswego, N. Y. fioS 'S3 2S93 I9J8 2620 '7;3 1376 •47 627 1 169 345 1460 993 703 5SO 2393 ii()6 "33 •79 3046 422 1009 1596 3232 1 144 1202 2446 883 Miller, Stuart C, Cambridgeport, Mass. 1282 Miller, T.. Ballarat, yici. Miller, Wm. Allen, New York Miller, W. H., Columbus, O. Mills, B. O., Camden, N. J. Milner, W. E., London, Eng. Milner, Wm. N., Brooklyn, N. V Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, Ma&i. Milvin, Samuel, Waynesburp, Pa. Minton, Joseph C, Chatham, N. J. Mirick,jr., Frank B., New York Misner, John S., Peoria, III. Mitchell, Alex., New Preston, Q. Mitchell, Z. T., Canandaigua, N. Y. Mitchell, J. T., Bellows Falls, Vt. Mitchell, W. E.. Portland, Or. Mitchell, W. L,, Middletown, Ct 48 3043 1421 128 121 1924 1659 3'4i 1806 507 1832 2579 »3>4 78 2?6i »34i Mixer, Earl A., Van Homesville, N. Moessnrr, Thomas E., New York Moflelt, C. L., Newton, N. J. Monell, S. H., New York Monfort, W. L.,Wapp'ger'« F'lls, N. Montrou Bicycle Club, Montrose, Pa, Moody, F. C, Springueld, Mass. Moody, M., Dennison, O. Moore't County Hotel, Somerville, N. Moore, Douglas G., Oamaru, N. Z. Moon, Frank C, New York Moore, Frank H., Calais, Me. Moore, H. C, Brooklyn, N. Y. Moore, J. L., Moorestown, 1.. J. I Moresby, W. H , With.im, Eng. Mjrgan House, Lee, Mass. Morgan, II. P., Providence, R. I. Morgan, James, Bath, Eng. Morgan, J. Howard, Westerly, R. I. Morgan, W. J., Chicago, 111. Morrill, E. H., Rochester, N. H. Morrill, G. B., Portland, Me. Morris Bros., Pontypridd, Eng. Morris, G. W., Fort Wayne, Ind. Morris, Marriott C, Germantown, Pa. Mo.-ris, Wm. M., Pontypridd, Eng. Morrison, W. J., Moorestown, N. J. Morrow, J. F., New Orleans, La. Moses, Frank W., Portsmouth, N. H. Moses, Howrrd B., Trenton, N. J. Moses, O. I.., New York Mothersill, G. A., Ottawa, Ont. Mott, J. A., Scranton, Pa. Mott, J. C, New York Moulton, F. O., Manchester, N. H. Moulton, F. W., Washington, D. C. Moultrie, Lloyd, San Jose, Cal. Mount, W. B., Red Bank, N. J. Mountjoy, Chas. E., London, Oni. Mudd, Frank X., Montgomery, Ala. Muger, jr., C, Now York Muirhead, J. A., London, Ont. Mulford, Herschel, Millville, N. J. Mtilford, W. S., Morristown, N. J. Mtimford, W. B., Adrian, Mich. Mnndy, H. L., (Williamsport, Pa.) Miinsell, F., Albany, N. V. Mun?on, Arthur, Stamford, Ct. Murdock, J. M., Johnstown, Pa. Murphy, John W., Oxford, Md. Murray, Wm. J., Truro, .V. .9. \M o I .. „ ... _ "- ------ "•. sc-s-cKicy, i'a. Musser, John S., Columbia, Pa. 7W V. 335.< 156 1428 3M5 Y. 3-43 ■660 1021 3013 }■ I24> 1707 2825 3 "92 2472 7«I ^963 1868 604 »S63 6t2 1242 2318 2846 3aoS »75S 570 3207 904 2917 196 JJ34 '545 '853 2198 83 33 '3 >-.6j 307a 6.0 1 178 78J •S8 824 1 104 46s 69s 3004 24 »734 760 2296 •043 12fio par- 754 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A B JYCLE. Mycr*, Frank, l^ndon, En^- 1964 Myers, Philip N., Covingtu.i, Ky. joo National HfM, Chambersburg, Pa. 2790 NatioMcUHoUl, Waynesboro, Pa. 1253 Nedels, S. T., Uroveport, O. 1199 Neill, Jm. W., Mine U Motte, Mo. 2310 Newby, Geo. Rayaon, New York ij6 J4ewcastle, C. C, Portland, Or. 1665 Newliall, Kugene P., Minneapolis, Minn. 300 New McClurt Houu, Wheeling, W.Vx 2145 Newman, J. Ernest, Canton, Pa. 2626 Newman, W. G., New York 1379 Neui York BicycU Cltib 2400 New York Toy Co., New York 2062-2064 Nichol, Robert W., Nashville, Tenn. 2436 Nicholas, Arthur I., Youngstown, O. 104) Nichols, John W., Westfield, N. J. 1131 Nichols, W. C, Oxford, Md. 2295 Nicholson, A., St. Louis, Mo. 2948 Nicholson, John C , Cleveland, O. 2651 Nicholson, J. W., Philadelphia, Pa. 2791 Nickerson, H. C, Portland, Or. 2675 Niesley, C. M., Mechanicsburg, Pa. 681 Niles, Aaron R., Wellsboro, Pa. 2420 Nivling, Curtin, Clearfield, Pa. 22S9 Nixon, Alfred, London, Eng. 841 Nixon, T. S., Stafford, Eng. 2531 Nixon, W. G., Chambersburg, Pa. 1127,2747 Norman, Benj. M., Philadelphia, Pa. 284 Norman, C. W., Cleveland, O. 1587 Norman, Wescott, Philadelphia, Pa. 248, 249 Normecutt ci Co., J. E., Pittsburg, Pa. 19S0 Norris House, Lebanon, Ky. ao88 Norris, Albert A., Philadelphia, Pa. 59 Norris, J. Foxley, London, Eng. 1250 Norris, Will E., Helena, Mont. 2324 North, Wm., Teheran, Persia 3361 Northern, C. C, Nashville, Tenn. 2297 Northern, J. B., Nashville, Tenn. 229S Northern, K., Nashville, Tenn. rjggS Northrop, C. W., Newark, N. J. 393 Norton, F. J., Wheeling, W. Va. 2145 Norton, M. J., Ft. Leavenworth, . an. 247 Norton, P. T., Elizabeth, N. J. 1526 Novirse, C. G. K., Whitby, Ont. 724 Nourse, W. H., Buffalo, N. Y. 607 Nunn, C. _H., Bury St. Edmunds, Eng. 2562 Nutting, A. F., Lewiston, Me. 2970 Oak, H. C, Merrimac, Mass. 2300 Obreiter, S. H., Lancaster, Pa 3239 O'Connell, jr., Colman, Lime.-itk, Ire. 3028 O'Connor, Frank, London, Eng. 3324 ■v,0"ncr, jr., i. j., rt:r'.:.::;u, *. ^:. -'-v^7 Odeil, Chas. H., Salem, Ma.vi. Odell, Chas. W., Cazenovia, N. Y. Odell, W. P., Pittsfield, Ma&s. Oeters, George C, St. Louis, Mo. Oettinger, Jacob, Rochester, N. Y. Ogden, H. C, Middletown, N. Y. Ogilvie, James, i^undee, Scot. Oglesbee, R. B., Plymouth, Ind. Ohnhous, Louis, Fort Wayne, Ind. Okey, J., Sandhurst, Vict. Oliver, E., Baltimore, Md. Oliver, Edwin, New York Oliver, W. George, Edinburgh, Scat. Oliver & Co., W. N., New York Olmstead, W. W,, Mt. Carmel, 111. Olney, Charles M., Mansfield, Pa. Ormsbee, James J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Orr, C. P., New Castle, Ala. 0.rr, G. H., Toronto, Oni. Osbom, George P., So. Boston, Mass. Osbome, G. N., Philadelphia, Pa. Oslxime, M. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Osgood, W. S., St. Joseph, Mo. Osterhout, W. E., Orange, Mass. Otis, Charles, New York Ottman, A. B., Titusville, Pa. Otto, Frank R., Williansport, Pa. Oviatt, N. C, Waterbury, Ct. Ovid Bicycle Club, Ovid, Mich. Owen, O. L., Whitinsville, Ma5->. Owen, W. O., Laramie City, Wy. Ter. Owens, J. E., Liverpool, Eng. Packard, W. D., Warren, O. Page, Arthur H., Boston, Mass. Page, Fred S., Willimantic, Ct. Page, Irvin N., Chicopee Falls, Mass. Page, W. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Paillard, Alf. E., New York Paine, Richmond P., Meriden, Ct. Painter, J. W., Christchurch, N. Z. Painter, R. S., Washington, D. C. Painter, Will H., Williamsport, Pa. Palen, Wm. W., Boston, Mass. Palmer, C. R., Burlington, Vt. Palmer, jr., Robert, Noank, Ct. Palmer, Ralph H., Buffalo, N. Y. Paoli, M. G., New York Park House, Curwinsville, Pa. Park House, Morristown, N. J. Parker Hoiue, Latrobe, Pa. Parker, A. B., Norristown, Pa. Parker, Edwin C, New York 3J> ■ 111 }o8j »V9 2095 759 1842 18 '757 305* M»i 120 3«ii 2696 872 1780 ■ 401 1047 2266 2003 >JS '335 3'39 2772 4»' '539 88 J983 '474 3357 »52 2662 1906 »477 1088 2895 3296 15, 16 1067 1884 369 54' '738 a54 2410 1814 '377 1898 1801 2818 2619 2208 .a. THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 187J 48s 105s 838 1014 1287 Parker, K. K., Chico{y!e, MaM. Parker, F. M., C:hicop<; KalU, Maa*. Parker, Will W., Meriden, Ct. Parkhill, Charles K., Belvidere, 111. Parks, C. W., Springfield, Maia. Parkyn, Chas. C, Boaton, Mas*. Parmelee, Edwin I, , New Haven, Ct. J874 Parme'ee, G. L., Huston, Mass. uj6 Parmenter, Jas. S., Woodstock, Ont. laii Parris, J. \V. L., Augusta, Ky. ,,6i Parry, W. J., Sandhurst, Vict. J766 Parshley, F. B., East Rochester, N. H. J368 Parsons, Albert S., Lexington, Mass. iji8 Parsons, F. H., Washington, D. C. Parsons, Fred W., Buffalo, N. Y. Parsons, H. C, Natural Bridge, Va Parsons, Walter H., Newark, N. J. Partridge, W. H., Portland, Or. Pa.ierson, Sam, Logansport, Ind. Paltillc, J. B., Halifax. N. S. Pattillo, T. .S, Truro, V. .y. Pattison, Arthur E., Boston, Mass. Patton, Geo. E., Chatham, N. Y. Patton, J. Hervey, Harrisburg, Pa Patton, S. M., Holly Springs, Miss. Patton, T. M.,Truro, A'. J. Payfair, Jos. E., Scranton, Pa. Payne, Geo. S., Springfield, Mass. Payne, H. R., Clev»land, O. Payne, W. E., Rockville, Ct. Payne, William, London, Ont. Pearce, W. J., London, Eng. Pearson, Geo. B., New York Peck, Albert F., Detioit, Mich. Peck, Wm. L., New Haven, Ct. Peirson, E. E., Batavia, N. Y. Pelouse, Frank H., Washington, D. C. "07 Pendleton, J. Louis, Belfast, Me. Pendleton, Wm. H., Taunton, Mass. PtHfitld Hotel, Penfield, Pa. Penfield, Chas. H., Cleveland, O. Pennell, G. C, Elizabeth, N. J. Penney, Frank E., Meriden, Ct. Penniman, Yates, Baltimore, Md 2025 1811 1 185 J8i 1666 2942 661 1037 '317 261 1 204 1796 1044 220I 3179 2650 1961 430 197a •383 2481 55' 1816 '743 3170 »374 2831 2698 '555 3'7 PtHHsylvania BicycU Club, Philadelphia 519 Pentecost, J. W., Scranton, Fa. Ptnria Public Library, Peoria, III. Perego, Arthur W., New York Perham, Will L., Paris, Me. Perkins, H. A., Genoa, III. Perkins, Howard L., Providence, R. I. Perkins, L. C, Philadelphia, Fa. Viiiiy, vViuU o., Coiumbus, O. 2193 290S 1610 880 '635 '35' 3'4' 3286 75$ P«i.7. Chas. S., Middletown, Cr j„8 Peters. Wm. C, Buffalo, N. Y. .g,, Petiee, jr., J., S. Abiogton Station, Mass 250 Pettengill, 1 'w. T., Waahington, D. C. 47J Pettus, Edv „d, Brooklyn, N. Y. Pferd, John A., Buffalo, N. Y. Pforr, Geo. J., Jersey City, N. J. Pharo, Charles, Newark, N. J. Pharr, Will L., Charlotte, N. C. Phelps, Henry C., Cleveland, O. Phi of Psi Upsilon, Ann Arbor, Mich 94a 18a] 1091 159S 1167 1989 730-39 PhiiaJtlpkia BicycU Club, 60 N. 13th st. 306 Philbrick, A. J., Salem, Mass. ,5, Philips, Clayton, Waynesboro, Pa. 2708 Philips, Geo, & Son, London, Eng 3334, 3335 Phillip, Frank, Scranton, Pa. ,508 Phillips, A. A., London, Eng. 197,, jj,, Phillips, A. L., Pottsville, Pa. ,7,6 Phiilips, R. E., London, Eng. 2239, 3'36 Photo- Electrotype Co., Boston, Mass. 2449 PIckard, Daniel, Northamptcn, Mass. 2536 Pierce, Ash, Butte, Mom. ,330 Pierrepont, J. Shepherd, New Haven, Ct. 921 Pierson, Arthur N., Westfield, N. J. 1132 Pierson, John V. L., Bloomfield, N. J. 2785 Pierson, Leopold, Uoinford, Eng. 2018, 2933 Pigman, J. R., Cincinnati, O Pilling, Chas. J., PhiUdelphia, Pa. Pinkerton, Chas. E., Zanesville, O. Pitcher, Wilbcrt R., Portland, Me. Pitman, Will R., New York Pittenger, Wm., Haddonfield, N. J 2760 1656 2138 1627 1378 ■'975 Pittsburg Fire Arms Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 2879 Place, V. C, Pinos Altos, N. M. Piatt, H. M., Jersey City, N. J. Plowe, C. Harold, Peoria, III. Plumb, Clarence, Indianapolis, Ind. Plumb, jr., Willie E., Birmingham, Ct. Plummer, jr., W. E., Buffalo, N. Y. Poage, AsMand, Ashland Ky. Polhill, J. H., Macon, Ga. Polk. J. Knox, Nashville, Tenn. Polk, R. H., Montgomery, Ala. Pomeroy, B. F., Meriden, Ct. Pomeroy, C. S., Cleveland, O. Pool, Frar.k J., New York Fool, Harwood R. , New York Pool, S. E., West Newton, Pa. Pool, S. H., Rochester, N. Y. Pope, Albert A.. Poston, Mauj. Pope, Edward W., Boston, Mass. Pope, George. Soston, Mass Pope, Louia A., Warren, R. I. '583 1876 2494 2127 9«6 1820 3 '68 '957 2348 2082 1057 3111 •3'7 161 1 »:'3 54 '54 260 454 498 &: h:| ^m t8« TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Porter & B^iker, Bay Ci»y, Mich 1093 Porter, E.^., Ueerfield, Mau. lifto Porter, John A., Wathingtoii, D. C. 1100 Porter, J. Madiaon, Hackettttown, N. J. uh? Porter, l.ulher H., Eait Orange, N. J. Mqj Pest Library, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. J707 Poat, U. J., Hartford, Cl. 796 Potter, Charles M., Cleveland, O. 4JS Potter, Howard W., Keadiiig, Pa. io<) Potter, Samuel, Callan, Irr. 3197 Pound, Robinson, Plainficid, N. J. 901 Powell, Abr., Philadelphia, Pa. 1817 Powell, Joe, Smithville, N. J. isiS Power, Chai., New York 1407 Powers, H. D., Tomah, Wis. J803 Pratt, Arthur M., Chelsea, Masa. 1151 Pratt, Charles E., Boaton, Mass. 311 Pratt, Ed., Rockville, Ct. 196a Pratt, F. Alcott, Concord, Mass. 3a9, 1299 Pray, Chas. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1718 Pray, William E., Coldwater, Mich. 3317 Pray, W. P., Bristol, Pa. 49 Pray, W. S., Simco, C?»i/. 1177 PribU Haute, Portland, Me. 1279 Preece, A. E., Christchurch, A^. Z. 3220 Preston, Frank, Portsmouth, N. H. 426 Price, C. A., Jamestowr, N. Y. 3159 Price, Ed. A., Huntington, Ind. 3921 Prince, A. K., Eliiab.th, N. J. 1699 Prince, John S., tiew York 1244 Pritchard, W. J., Elgin, 111. 1483 Probst & Fisbeck, Terre Haute, Ind. 2231-33 Probst, J. F., Terre Haute, Ind. 1709 Procter, T. R., Utica, N. Y. 3104 ProvidtHCt Bi. Club, Providence, R. I. 2789 Psi UfisUoH Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. 19 PMk Library, Bridgeport, Ct. 3150, 3151 Pugh, jr., J. D., New York 1590 Punderson, San.uel F., New Haven. Ct. 533 Purington, A. J., Boston, Mas.s. 2176 Putnam, Kingman, New York 2487 Putnam, L. R., Ashland, Ky. 3189 Putnam, S. G., Jersey City, N. J. 2693 Putnam, T. J., Washington, D. C. 878 Pyle, Geo. C. , D ton, O. 1342 Ragan, H. H., Syracuse, N. Y. 2755 Rahter, Chas. E., Lancaster, Fa. 1431 Rail, J. F., Iowa Falls, la. 3352 Ramage, Chas. W., Holyoke, Mass. 2068 Ramsay, John, Fife, Scot. J017 Ramsey, Wm. Sidney, Danville, Pa. 1448 Randall, Howard E., Millersville, Pa. 1198 RandaU, W. West. Philadelphia. Pa. 4Q1 Rathbone, Wm L , R»ndoli>h, N. Y. Kay, Frank S., Battle Creek, Mich Raymond, Samuel A., Cleveland, (). Kayl & Co., T. B., Detroit, Mich. Kaven, H. S., Ne« York Read, Frank, Philadelphia, Pa. Read, Geo. T., Belfast, Me. Read, John G., Detroit, Mich. Redman, W. F., Henderson, Ky. Reed, Charles, Antonia, Ct. Reed, jr., C. C, New York Reed, Isaac D., Newton, N. J. Reese, James S., Baltimore, Md. Reeser, Wm., St. Thomas, Unt. Reeve, A. B., Princeton, 111. Reeve, Sidney A., I)aylon, O. Reid, C. v.. Clarion, Pa. Reid, F. F., Brattleboro, Vt. Reifold, Louis, Indianapolis, Ind. Reimbold, E. H., St. Paul, Minn. Reist, H. G., Florin, Pa. Retmngton, W. D., Springfield, Masa, Rennie, Will H., T.-uro, N. S. Renninger, John S., Marshall, Minn. Retallack, S. C;., Belleville, Ont. Rivtrt Houit, Springfield, III. Reynolds, F. W., Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Reynolds, jr., H. R., London, Eng. Reynolds, Joshua, Stockport, N. Y. Reynolds, (Mis.) J., Sttckport, N. Y. Reynolds, R. B., Stockport, N. Y. Rheubottom, jr., J. R.Weedsport, N.Y. 1869 Ribble, George W., Harrisonburg, Va. 726 Rice, A., Columbus, Ind. 2125 Rice, Albert D., Boston, Mass. 504 Rice, Arthur W., Millbury, Mass. 1230 Rice, Dan., Girard, Pa. 3067 Rice, H. B., Cheyenne, Wy. 3353 Rice, Lewis C, Denver, Col. 626 Rice, Reuben, Meriden, Ct. 2795 Rich, A. C, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 118 Richards, Charles I.I., New York 2185 Richards, Frank B., Chicago, III. 1348 Richards, Geo. O., E. Roi:hester, N. H. 3008 Richards, H. E., Toledo, O. 312S Richardson, A. C, Buffalo, N. Y. 2781 Richardson, A. J., St. George's, Ber. 2499 Richardson, Harry, WeslSeld, N. J. 42J Richardson, W. H., Norristown, Pa. 2553 Uichardsnn, T. J., Minneapolis, Minn. 929 Riddle, Robert M., Altoona, Pa. 3234 Rideout, E., San Francisco, Cal. 3070 P.idlev. Henrv E.. Fairfield. Ont. 17!* 42« 2601 2926 MJ »495 2 1556 2304 2230 1871 1039 330s 564 3314 28; S 1356 50 '443 5' THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. kigfs, K., Suffcm, N. Y. Riley, Alfred t , Goulburii, N. S. W Ringer, Kred. C, New York Ripley, Kdwiii, Sherman, N. Y. Ripley, K. E., Springfield, Mm. Roache, A. L., Iiidnnapoli*, Ind. Robbint, Uert C , Auburn, Ind. Robbing, J. M., l^wrcnce, Kan. Robert*, C .\ , I'hiUdelphia, Pa. Roberts, K. M , Ashland, Ky. Roberts, t. I'., Titusvillc, Pa. , Robert!., i. L., Philadelphia, Pa. Roberts, J. K , Wobiirn, Mass. Roberts, Jamei W., Harrisburg, Pa. Roberts, l.yman S., Wellslv.ro, Pa. Roberts, P. H., Ithaca, N, Y. 18] 7 a6j6 68 a«96 ■ o]j ai29 »4Ji 1614 140 jiH6 1540 J44 1631 aoo8 J419 707 Roberts, R. P. Hampton. London, Eng. 1869 Roberts, Wm. M., Philadelphia, Pa. Roberts, W. R., Bangor, Me. RoHtrt.son, Gecree M., St. John, A'. B Robertson, Robert C, Greenock, Scol. Robins, (leorge H., Rochester, N. Y. Robinson, George L., Garnett, Kan. Robinson, J. A , Hamilton, OhI. Robinson, J. «•:., Ann Art.-, Mid. Robinsf.n, J. No, , Wilmington, Del. .„„ Robinson, Thoma.s, North Shields, Eng 865 Rocl-wcll, C. J., East Windsor Hill, Ct. j,8j Rockwell, G. F., Stamford, Ct. ,735 Rockwell Hautt, Glens Falls, N. Y. ,879 Rodifers, Howard S., Covington, Ky Roe, jr., John F., Scranton, Pa. Roether, Samuel, Port Elgin, Ont. Rogers, A. C, Cleveland, O. Rogers, A. W., Columbia, Pa. Rogers, H. Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa. Rogers, John S., St. Louis, Mo. Rogers, John Z., Lowell, Mass. Rogers, S. Edgcumbe, London, Eng. Rogers, S. M., Ottawa, Ont. Rogers, W., Nev.- York Rolfe, C. J., Cambridge, Mass. Romaine, Girard, New York Ro«/. Ri'nyon, D. M., Plainfield, N. J. Runyon, J F., Morristown, N. J. Ruoff, George i., Washington, D. C Rushworth, G. H., Friiinghall, Eng. Russell, E. L., Blossburg, Pa. Russell, Howard H., Oberlin, O. Russell, Talcott H.. New Haven, Ct. Rus.sum. T. B., Eliiabeth, N. J. Rust, T. S., Meriden, Ct. Rutland Bicycit Club, Rutland, Vt. Ryder, E. J., Waynesboro, Pa. Ryle, Reuben. Paterson, N J. Ryrie. Harry, Toronto. Out. Sackett. Henry W., New York Sadlier, C. W., Walden, N. Y. Saff,:r,G. C, New York Sagendorf. H. W., Hoboken. N. J. St. Cloud Hotel, Canton. O. St. Cloud Hotel, Washington. N. J. St. Elmo Hotel, Punxsutawney. Pa. St. George's Hotel, St. Geerge's, Ber. St. Jamet Hotel, Corry, Pa. Saker, S., Eastbourne, Eng Salem Bicycle Club, Salem, Mass. Salsbury. Frank, London. Eng. 3alsbury. J. E.. Cazenovia, N. Y. Salter, Wesley B.. New York Sanders, W. H . ro!ij.>nh;:s. Ir..J. Sanders, W. H., Indianapolis. Ind. 1720 MS8 77 2III 3m6 3266 »973 859 2697 353 a 160 1698 428 1270 2469 »355 1381 1769 '93 « ■j68 1897 623 2030 2586 '83 2«R9 847 424 ■•306 ■2 V *T\^ r-'?» «,)!..« ^ 758 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. SiiMUrtoo, )r., G«o., Scnnton, Pa. ir<>i Sandcrum, *>. K., Kochcitci, N. H. i)i'> Sanford, IJen. CJ., New York 11 j Sanford, Pardon B., Greenville, S. C. >V' Sanioni, Krancii J., Pornmouth, Fmg. 3917 Sargeanl, S H., Newark, N. J. 74'' Sargent, F. L., Cincinnati, U. 19)7 Sargent, John R. W., Chicago, Hi. 779 Saunders, W. E., London, Ont. 1693 Savell, J. E., Koxbury, Maia. aoio Sawtell, Everett E., Springfield, Maia. jjoj Sawyer, E. I. , Faribault, Minn. 1951 Sawyer, Jo«. H., Easthampton, Mau. jSjj Sawyer, Will. T, Akron, O. 1085 Saxe, John W., Troy, N. Y 1097 Saxman, S. A., Allegheny City, Pa. 598 Saxtoiv Will. G., Canton, O. 310J Saylei, Wm. H., Corning, N. Y. 691 Scatei, John R., Paaiich, Ky. 318X Scearce, Frank P., Lexington, Ky. 90; Schaeffer, T. A , Philadelphia, P 458 Schaufelbcrgcr, Curt E., Foxtoria, O. yn Schauher, Joe, Negaunee, N^ich. 3366 Scherer, C. J., Memphis, Tenn. 1654 Schieser, jr., G, Bristol, Pa. 1838 Schlegel, Adolfo, Milan, //--> 3308 Schmitt, N. B, Woodstock, Va. 3168 Schnauber, F. W., London, Eng. joo6 Schneider, Louis H.,Wa.*hington, D. C. 1115 .Schofield, James S, Penfield, Pa. 1374 Schooley, Frank, Indianola, la. 3165 Schoorimaker, H. D., New York 113a Schroeter, H. M., Watertown, Wis. 2654 Schumacher ft Co., A., Baltimore, Md. 1691 SckuylervJUHcHU, Schuylerville, NY. 1878 Schwalbach, Charles, Brooklyn, NY. 944 Scoit, Austin W., Wew Brunswick, N. J. 1301 Scott, C. W., Portland, Or. 1667 Scott, Julius, Hawley, Pa. J076 Scott, Jonathan F., New Brunswick, 580 Scott, Truman H., Morristown, N. J. 1797 Scott, W. E., Lockport, N. Y. 1818 Scoville, W. L., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1J36 Scranton Bicycle Club, Scranton, Pa. 2191 Scribner, Wm. C, Washington, D.C. 630-635 Scrimgeour, C. M., (Jalveston, Tex. 2756 Scroggs, C. J , Bucyrus, O. 1095 Scudder, Townseiid, Glen Head, L. I 2801 Seabrook, Wm. L. Westminster, Md. 1256 Searle, F., Sprincfield, Mass. 1065 Sears, Proctor 1 , Orrville, O. 3295 Seaver, James \\ , Sheldon, III. 1549 C. ^T_._ ¥^ ^T_„ I. XT ¥ O Scccombc, S. H., SantM Agency, Neb. 7^9 Seely, L. W , Washington, I). C. 1)41 ^giir, W. B., Arxlover, Mats. jjj Scibt.n, E. S., Brooklyn, N Y. 1336 Seigle, T B., Charlotte, N. C. uj; Seller, A. P., Mansfield, (). 1C81 Sclden, R. C , Titusville, Pa. ijoj Selvey, W. H., West Springfield, Mas*, looj Serrell, Harold, Plainfield, N. J. 17; Service & Fitton, Auckland, A' Z. 1889 Shafer, >1arriii T. , «..hica!;o, ill. 601 Shaffer, A. N., PouRhkefpsie, N. Y. 1951 Shaffer, jr., F. L., Haliimore, Md. 613 Shakespeare, Wm , Waltham, Mass. 6i> Shannon, R. T., Pittsburg, Pa. 2841 Shannon, W. J., Cambridgejio. . Mass. 622 Share, W. W., Brooklyn, N V 1673 Sharp, Arthur D., Amherst, A' .S 114^ Sharp, Edward F., Chicago, 111. 780 Sharpe, J. Henry, Philadelphi.i, Pa. 3147 P' ...^e, jr., T. H., Helena, Mont. 1944 Shaw, Edgar C, Clearfield, Pa 229> Shepard, C. H., Orange, Mass. 2773 Shepard, Fred. J., Buffalo, N. Y. 860 Shepard, Geo. G., Niagara Fall*, »I. Y. 2600 Sherburne, F. W., Barre, Vt. 313. Sherman Houtt, Jamestown, S. Y. 312J Sherman, Geo. C, Watertown, N. Y. 833-837 Sherriff, Edgar J., Mortlake, Eng. 198} Shillaber, C. F., Little Rock, Ark. 234 Shimmin, G. H., Ballarat, Vk:. 3044 Shimmin, H. P., Balla.at, Vict. 304* Shipton, Emeat R., London, Eng. 1357 Shirley, P. Howard, Marblehead, Maw. 1208 Shoemaker, George A., Bristol, Pa. 1785. Sholes, Fred T. , Cleveland , O. 112s Shriver, Edward J., New York 49J Shrom, C. B., Greenville, Pa. 158J Sibbald, E. W., Belleville, Ont. \tg, Sibell, H. Gardner, Brooklyn, N. V. 628 S'eweke, L. W., Ashland, Ky. 3187 Sikcs, Leroy H., Suffield, Ct. 2152 Silkworth.W. W., E. Long Branch, N. J. 139s Simmons, W. H., Sandhurst, Vict. 3054 Simons, John F., Philadelphia, Pa. 407 Simpers, Harry H., North East, Md. 41s Simpson, H. L., Passaic, N. J. 774 Simpson, H. P., Scranton, Pa. 2197 Sinclair, Eugene, Nashville, Tenn. 2378 Sinclair, James A., Liverpool, Eng. 2606 Sinclair, Percy L., Sr.yre, Pa. 2545 Sinclaire, jr., H. P., Coming, N. Y. 689 c:-!....,. (u-s p (Tatfnrd H:!!. Ex—. fs~?:> THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. Siier, Htnry D , Cleveland, O. Skinner, KImer, Hr.mklyn, N Y. Skin, r, K. H., Hamilion, Oni. Slade, John A., Columbia, Pa. Slanler, V. S., New Haven, Ct. -Slater, K , Mew Britain, Ct. Slater, Sam A., Oenoa, III. Slegel, Samuel E , Reading, Pa. SInKht, K. H., Moline, 111. SliK-um, Clias. E., Defiance, O. Slncum, W'infield S.. Boston, Ma»«. Sl.>cuml), JtMe E., Macon, Ga. SInper, F. ( , , Syr'ney, ;V. .$•. «'. •-'osson, T. M., Minneapolis, Mir .. Smnli. (ha^ H., Harrisburg, Pa. . ('. ' iifford, Newark, N. J. Gran', Aimiy, Or. P., Brooklyn, N. Y. I.a Crosse, Wis. Indianapolis, Ind. Detroit, Mich, ard, Philadelphia, Pa Bethlehem, Pa. Smith, D. Sherman, Lancaster, Pa. Smith, Ernest B., East Brimfield, Mass. 313! Smith, Edward C , Brooklyn, N. Y. J184 Smith, E. D., Allegheny Cit), Pa. Smith, Eugene L., Springfield, Ma.ss. Smith, Eugene M., Jersey City, N. j Smith, Frank J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Smith, Frank W., Beech ClifiF, Pa. Tmith, Gordon F., New York Smith, George L., Little Fa!I», N. Y. Smith, Howard A., Newark, N. J. Smith, H. B., Smithville, N. J. Smith, Horace E , Philadelphia, Pa. Smith, H. Kessler, Cincinnati, O. ..„. Smith, Harry S., Martinsbur^, W. Va. 3180 Smi.: , J. Chas. V., Washington, D. C. 2685 Smilli Smiih, A Smith \. Smith. .Smith, f. F., Smith, C M S.i^^th, C. . ' C. T.. aSjy J7 1874 |]6| 9»7 1207 686 97J 1560 I4'/> 1488 »454 JJ13 1.S19 "4 2922 "SI 2724 1946 1636 67» 342 '440 3J'7 »90 638 1875 949 '979 "442 2630 391 1509 571 299' Smith, J. Edwa.-ds, Cleveland, O. Smith, J. E., St. I..ouis, Mo. Sm!»h, J. W., Orange, N. J. Smith, L. Logan, Germantown, Pa. Snith, Robert A., New Haven, Ct. Smith, Reuben G., Ardmore, Pa. Smith, Sigma, London, Eng Smith, Thompson, Cheboyg.in, Mich. Smith, T. C, New York Smith, W. E., Lynn, Mass. Smith, Willard P., Jersey City, N. J. 92, 93 Smith Machin; Co., The H. B, mfrs. of [Star bicycle, Smithville, N. J. 1508 | SiUic, Frederick, Huntington, Pa. 115 j 1918 3020 2106 571 2787 26S 2604 3001 1386 '93 759 Snedeckei, C. D., New Brunswick. N.J. 143 Snow, Charles F,, Worcester, Maia. Snow, H., Oamaru, A^. Z. Snow, J. W , Orange, N. J. Snyder, A. A.. Caldwell, N. J. Snyder, A. M., Baltimore, Md. Snyder, J. W., Belleville, 0«/. Solyom, Charles J., New York So!/om, Louii C, W«ihin!;ton, D. C. Somen, Thos. B . Millville, N. J. Soper, B. W., High Wycombe, Eng. .Sorzano, jr., J. M., Brooklyn, N. Y Soule, George T , New Milford, Ct. Sourbeer, Chas., Columbia, Pa. .Southard, Wm. B., Newark, N. J. Southern CycUr, The, Memphis, Tenn Southworth, George C. S., Gambitr, O. Spalding, George M., Wellsboro, P.. Sparling, Fred J, Toronto, Ont. Sp.-\rrow, John P. , Portland, Me. Spaulding, W. D., Jackson, Mich. .Spead, J. A., .So. Newmarket, N. H. .Spenceley, J. Winfred, Boston, Mass. Spencer, I. A., Scranton, Pa. Spencer, J. B., Hartford, Ct. Spencer, Lee, St. Louis, Mo. Spillane, P, H., Cohoes, N. Y. Spindler, Frank L., Mt. Vernon, O. .Spindler, Frank N., Mt. Vernon, O. Spinning, L. N., Summit, N, J. Spohn, Frank M., Ardmore, Pa. Spooner, A. L., SpringfieU, Mast, Spooner, C. W., Bridgeport, Ct. Spooner, D. M., Law.en, ■, Ma«8. Spoo.ier, H., London, Eng. Spottsylvania Hotel, Uniontown, Pa Spranger, jr., F. X., Detroit, Mich. Sprigg, W., Edgar, Baltimore, Md. S^tHgfield Bicycle Club, Mass. Sprinkel, C. C, Harrisonburg, Va. Spurgeon, Wm., Baltimore, Md. Spurrier, W. J., Birmingham, Eng. Squier, Burt O , Bellville, O. Staates, C. F., Washington, N. J. Stadelman, S. F., Ardmore, Pa. Stadelman, W. A., Ardmore, Fa. Stafford & Co., Buff.ilo, N. Y. Stahl, Henry A., Buffalo, N, Y. Stairs, J. Wiseman, Halifax, A^. S. Staley, E. T., Portland, Or. Staley, Paul A., Springfield, O. Stall. Sylvaniis, Lancaster. Pn. Stamford Depot ReiiauraMt,Q\. ,087 «77 1701 •!7I 1767 561 14''. 879 1105 2929 9S» 1844 1647 896 2388 128., 2416 "74 45° »9M 2070 1703 74 1770 368 2821 2066 ■793 1548 788 1030 98 718 >932 1807 2702 361 348 727 1119 3171 303 s 1268 267 •3« 2265 402 656 2099 1908 \^. ' ;(i'.fl i 760 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Siam/erd House, Stamiord.Ct. 1712 Stamm, Alex, Carson, H-.msburg, Pa. 10S9 Standish, Chas. D., Detroit, Mich. 215 StaDton, A, N., Bridgeport, Ct. 903 Stantrn Hn.e, Caienovia, N. Y. 851 Stanwix Hall, Chatham, N. Y. 2634 Staples, S., Morristown, N. J. 466 Stark, Jas. H., Uoston, Mass. 244S Starr, John T., Coldwater, Mich. 3177 Starr, R. West, Wichita Falls, Tex. 906 Stearns, Charles W., Elgin, 111. 1484 Stebbins, W. K., Worcester, Mass. 2742 Stedinan, Frank B., Cleveland, O. 1684 Steel, R. G., .St. Johns, Mich. 2603 Steele, Allen D., Elmira, N. Y. 2705 Steele, T. Sedgwick, Hartford, Ct. 791 Stephens, E. V., Sandhurst, Vict. 3259 Stephe.is, Frank L., kiverton, Ct. 1554 Stephenson, A. H., Buffalo, N. Y. 2537 Stephenson, Fred J., Belfast, Me. 840 Stephenson, John V., Greensburg, Pa. 526 Steigus, J. J., New Tacoma.Wash.Ter. 1719 Stetson, A. L., Sioux City, I4. 882 Stevens, Chas. A., Cincinnati, O. 434 Stevens, C. S., Melville, N. J. 2143 Stevens, David M., Chicago, 111. 1281 Stevens, Geo. Thaddeus, New York 2796, 2797 Stevens, John C, Portland, Me. 451 Stevens, L. W. P., New York 1547 Stevens, Thomas, Laramie City, Wy. 1689 Stevenson, E. P., Fittsfield, Mass. 3 110 Stevenson, John M., Pittsfielfi, Mass. 1409 Steves, R. W., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1760 Stewart, Chas. E., Chatham, N. Y. 2609 Stewart, R. L., Roselle, N. J. 2987 Stickney, E. R., Springfield, Mass. 3204 Stiles, P. H., Great Falls, N. H. 2692 Stiles, Wm. H., Henderson, Ky. 2326 Stimson, W. F., Ann Arlir, Mich. 677 Stine, W. C, Sycamore, 111. 2916 Stippick, H. B., Aurora, 111. 1949 Stiles, vV. .Scott, Wn ,minj;, Pa. 2976 Stoddard, S. R., Glens Falls, N, Y. 2850, 2S51 Stokes, F. C, Moorestown, N. J. 61, 62 Stone C. E., St. Louis, Mo. (d. Sept., '80 '^21 Stone, Henry D., Westboro, Mass. 1948 Stone, W. C, Springfield, Mass. 694 Stone, W. E., Concord, Mass. -,316 Stone, W. F., Bangor, Me. 2083 Storey, B. W,, Smilhville, N. J. 1514 Story, Will. J , Goldendale, Wash. Ter. 2331 Stover. H. E.. AUoona. P?i, .1^37 Strait, H. N,, Troy, NY. 3 131 S^ran, Chas. S., Baltimore, Md. 71 Strong, A. Warren, Brooklyn, N. Y. 946 Strong, E. L., Cleveland, O. 1J94 Stubblefield, Smiili, Pine Bluff, Ark. 2727 Stults, H. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. 2049 Sturdevant, H., Philadelphia, Pa. 132 Sturmey, Henry, Coventry, Eng. 870 Sturtevant, A. F., Concord, Mass. 3317 Sturtevant, James, Madison, N. Y. 1211 Styles, Fred W., New York '306 Sullivan, R. E., Harrisonburg, Va. 728 Sumner House, WroT[, O. 1786 .Surprise, W. L. , Memphis, Tenn. 1543 Surrey Machinists Co., London, Eng. 3124 Sutton, E. S., B.ooklyn, N. Y. 2857 Swain, Fremont, Cambridge, Mass. 2589 Swain, S. H., London, Eng. 2661 Swaine, Seorim, Rochester, N. H. 2367 Swallow, Francis O., Westboro, Mass. 603 Swan, Cameron, Bromley, Eng. 2565 Swarthout, Fred, Aurora, 111. 1643 Sweeley, Frank L., Adel, la. 778, 1091 Sweet, F. Grant, Carpenters, Pa. 2023 Sweetser, M. F., Boston, Mr.ss. 937 Swift, Samuel, Chatham, N. Y. 2893 Swinden, S., Scarborough, Eng. 2936 Sylvester, (Miss) Annie, Chicago, 111. 1466 Symonds, Frank P., Salem, Mass. 182 Tabor, K. S., Schuylerville, N. Y. 70 Talbot, J. D., Nashville, Tenn. 892 Tate, Henry, Verplank's Pt., N. Y. 547 Tatnall. Richard P., Wilmington, Del. 7308 Taylor, Edgar A., Buffalo, N. Y. 2202 Taylor, Edie, Preston, Minn. 2159 T.T 'or, E. Howard, New Britain, Ct. 1205 T.I.. or, G. Burton, Newark, N. J. 749 Taylor, Geo. J., Salt Lake City, Utah 1399 Taylor, H. L., Augusta, Ky. 1162 Taylor House, Augusta, Ky. i "63 Taylor, Joseph H., Philadelphia, Pa. 30 T.iylor, Lewis D., Ann Arbor, Mich. 324 Taylor, Kobt. E., Pmighkeepsie, N. Y. 617 Taylor, Theodore E., Norristown, Pa. 2618 Tay'or, Will G., Birming'.iam, Ct. 642 Teames, H. H., Thomaston, Ct. 2783 Tears, Erwin, Walden, N. Y. 2572 Teet/el, J. J,, St. Thomas, Oni. 1854 Tegetmeier, E., London, Eng. 13SS Temple, Herbert, Halifax, A^. S. 30? Tenlon, Arthur M., Boston, Mass. 1744 Terry, A. R., New York 21 Teny, H. Warren, New Castle. Pa I445 Terry, Stephen, Hartford, Ct. 23 %'*;' THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 761 I rhalimer, A. G., Greenville, Pa. Thayer, Francis, New York Thayer, Glenroy A., Amherst, Mass. Thayer, Geo. B., Vernon Depot, Ct. Thayer, Herbert A., So. Boston, Mass. Thayer, John M., Norwich, Ct. Thayer, Willard A., Amherst, Mass. Theberatli, T. E., Newark, N. J. Thieme, T. F., Fort Wayne, Ind. Thomas, Aaron S., New York Thomas, Elmer I., Lewiston, Me. Thomas, Fred. C, New York Thomas, P. S., Harrisonburg, Va. Thomas, W., Cazenovia, N. Y. Thomas, Wm. A., Conway, Mass. Thomas, W. E. P., Sandhurst, Vict. Thomas, jr., Wm. H., Baltimore, Md. Thomas, Wm. H. , New Haven, Ct. Thompson, Alfred C, Baltimore, Md. Thompson, A. E., Rockford, III. Thompson, Arthur L., Louisville, Ky. Thompson, James, Baltimore, Md. Thompson, J. F., New York Thompson, John M., VVatkins, N. Y. Thompson, Robt., Rochester, N. Y. Thompson, R. A., Ballarat, Vict. Tho.mpson, W. B., Bound Brook, N. 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Y. 261Q 1588 4«3 aiSr 192 864 3300 2186 2505 1756 1414 807 «33' 3173 848 2302 2763 556 919 5S 539 '397 i8s 2276 -587 1827 304« 722 i6j7 1895 2909 1406 1485 '597 579 3250 2265 1766 362 307S 1280 799 2749 666 802 So,, 2765 Travers, L. C, So. Gardner, Mass. 3009, 1109 3'S7 97* 196s 3340 '444 3538 593 574 2583 Trego, Albert, Baltimore, Md. Tremere, Francis H., Boston, Mass. Trenton Home, TrentOB, N. J. Trigswell, James, London, Eng. Trimmer, Daniel K., York, Pa. Tripp, S. H., Peoria, 111. Troth, Henry, Philadelphia, Pa. Trotter, Frederick, Philadelphia, Pa. Troup, Montague L., London, Eng. «,„. Trowbridge, John M., New Haven, Ct. 3837 Truslow, John K., Amherst, Mass. 2363 Tryon, James M., Toledo, O. j.jo Tubby, C. A., Toronto, Ont. ,,;, Tucker, George, Smiths, Ber. 1080, 3498 Tucker, H. M., Portsmouth, N. H. 3113 Tukesbury, Charles C, Portland, Me Tulane, V. B., Jersey City, N. J. Tullis, W: J., Montgomery, Ala. Turner, W. J., H«mi!ton, Cnt. Turpin, W. A., Rochester, N. Y. Tuttle, Chas. 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Bethlehem, Pa. 2330 Vendotnr, Hotel, Boston, Mass. 2074 Verhoeff, Harry, Louisville, Ky. 3193 Verhoeff, John M., Lou;s>ille, Ky. 1129 Verhoeff, (M=ss) Mattie, Louisville, Ky. 3194 vcrriiiijrd, iiniig, Tuckaiioe, N. Y. 1164 Veysey, W,.lter H. P., New York 1655 . 1636 2101 863 3167 1826 3067 aifa 1644 1408 231 307J '2J7 3368 126. . 1867 7'2 1253 1856 '304 6(5 U06 3249 2456 962 35 3174 763 TEN THOU. AND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Victoria Hotel, Windsor, A''. S. 914 Vincent, Harry '^., Philadelphia, Pa. J071 Vincent Hota€, ^arrytown, N Y. 3211 Vino, Monroe L., New York 409 Vinton, W., Sandhurst, Vict. 5764 V-ginia Hotel, Staunton, Va. 1371 Von Brandis, G. A., Los Angeles, Cal. 1953 Voorhees, jr., Geo. E., Morristown, N.J. 354 Voorhees, James D., Morristown, N. J. 1798 Wackuteit Hotue, Princeton, Mass. 5 Wade, B. F., Cleveland, O. Wade, jr., J. H., Cleveland, O. Wady, C. S., Fall River, Mass. 2815, 3 Wagner, Chas. W., Ann Arbor, Mich. 326 Wagner, H A., I.aramie City, Wy. 2425 Wainwright, L. M., Noblesrille, Ind. 174 Wakefield, Frank A., Springfield, Mass. 3276 Wakefield, J. L., Preston, O. 1932 Walcott, J. W., Boston, Mass. 2074 Walker, D., Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. 3144 Walker, Geo. R , West Randolph, Vt. 236 Walker & Co., G. H., Boston, 2782, 3792 Wa'.ker, T. H. S., Berlin, Ger. 7S6 Walker, V. G., Cleveland, O. 2779 Walker, W. F., Brattleboro, Vt. 1570 Walkley, A. B. A., Plantsvillc, Ct. 1524 yVallace House, Cheshire, Ct. 2075 Wallace, H. C, Scranton, Pa. 4195 Walley, Joseph H., Chester, Pa. 461 Walter, Geo. W., Washington, D. C. 3141 Walter, T. A., Hyde Park, Mass. 73 Walton, Cyrus, Latrobe, Pa. 2818 Walworth, A. W., Collamer, O. 1972 Wanner, Ellwood J., Norristown, Pa. 2554 Waid, Harry C, Middletown, Ct. 1928 Warder, Chas. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 2328 Wardwell, J. F., Stam'ord, Ct 1736 Waring, E. J., Plainfield, N. J. 305 Warner, D. D., Bloomington, III. 2475 Warner, F. Howard, Redditch, Eng. 939 Warner, Russell D., Greenfield, Mass. 2361 Warren, F. E., Portland, Me. 2844 Warren, Henry J., Stamford, Ct. 2242 Warren, Henry P., Lawrence ville, N.J. 2659 Warren, H. W , Jamaica Plain, Mass. loi Warren, W. E., Astoria, Or. 1652 h''arreH Green Hotel, Warrenton, Va. 1246 hVarrnamliool Mecktincs' Institute, Vi, 2644 Waslihum, H., Solon, Mr. iVashington House, York, Fa. W.is.sall, J. W.,ChicaKo, 111. W,Tss(>riri.Tn Ben. 'St. Louis. Mo.) Wassung, K. B., Springfield, Mass. 183 1 3338 148 Wassung, Charies P., Rock SpriDjs.Wy. (41 Waterbury, Lyie, Denver, Col. ij^g Waterman, L. E., New York ijp Waikins, W. W., Caienovia, N. V. 854 Watson, H., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1,48 Watson, Jamns, New York J45 Watstn, J. H. H., Boston, Mass. 2594 Watson, Perry S., New York 159 Watt & Lanier, Montgomery, Ala. 1988 Walters, J. H., Cincinnati, O. 1939 Watts, Frank D., Scranton, Pa. 48 Way, Robert F., Hartford, Ct. 1062 Way, T. B., Troy, N. Y. 2334 Weaver, Harry P., Norristown, Pa. 2555 Webb, Arthur N., Salem, Mass. 259 Webber, jr., J. S., Gloucester, Mass. 528 Webber, W. S., Caienovia, N. Y. 850 Webster, A. F., Toronto, Ont. 1269 Webster, B. A., Jackson, Mich. 3119 Webster, J. W., Dublin, Ire. 3038 Webster, Ralph D., Schenevus, N. Y. 2629 Weed, Edw. O., Chicago, III. 585 Weed S. M. Co., The, Hartford, Ct. 810-821 Weekes, R. H., Detroit, Mich. 885 Weeks, Francis H., New York 2615 Weeks, Jos. H., Norristown, Pa. 2556 Weir, Ross W., New York 1329 Welch, Woodbury, Yarmouthville, Me. 2695 Weller, John A., Sf. Louis, Mich. 1051 Welles, A. J., Hartford, Ct. 792 Wells, Channing M., Southbridge, Mass. 3247 Wells, F. E., Corpus Christi, Tex. 1955 Wells, Geo. A., New York 1612 Wells, Geo. H., tjt. Albans, Vt. 3091 Welter, Frank T., Hoboken, N. J. 2649 Wendell, Harmon, Detroit, Mich. 670 Wentworth, Nathan, '''eat Falls, N. H. ■)l,^^ Wesley, E. L., Chambersburg, Pa. 2790 '.Vessels, C. T., Brooklyn, N. Y. .523 Wessels, E. T., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1679 West, H. G., Pittsfield, Mass. 3108 Wetiboro' Hotel, Westboro, Mass. 2826 Westervelt, F. W., Springfield, Mass. 1004 Weston, Edward B., Highland Park, 111. 1334 Weston, F. C, Bangor, Me. 3^48 Weston, Frank W., Boston, Mas.s. 2<)i-2()i; West Sf>riugfield{}A-\'.%.) Toivn Library 1737 Wesfwood, William H., New.irk, N. J. 893 Wetmore, John C, Elizabeth, N. J. njg Wetzel, C. J., Chicopee, Mas.4. 1010 Wetzel, jr., Wm., Elgin, III. i486 TX71.*-l-.„ TI_ 1018 I Whatton, A. B. M.. Cambridge. Ene- 2862 1 --»!'.. THE THREE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 3106 22 57 2730 Whatton, J. S., Londsn, £nf. Whe03 "4 3382 3380 76 J 709 2268 2291 403 619 698 524 98, 685 2150 4J 2338 I4I2 3086 210 C 47» 4" 1033 White, Stokes & /Uen, New York Whitehead, B. S., New.rk, N. J. Whitehead, John, Trenton, N. J. Whtehead, Robert V., Trenton, N. J. Whitehouse, Henry W., Hartford, Cl Whiteside, Wm., New York Whiting, Homer J., Worcester, Mass. Whiting, John H., New Haven, Ct. Whiting, W. A.. 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Y. ,„ Wilkinson, Will W., Mt. Vernon, O. Willard, W. C, Brattleboro, Vt. Willbum, F. W., Doncajter, Eh^. Willever, J. C, Newark, N. J. Williams, Chas. D., Philadelphia, Pa. 2399 Williams, jr., D. E., Montgomery, Ala. 784 Williams, Edward H., Bethlehem, Pa. 2955 Williams, Edwin S., Minneapolis, Minn. 3306 Wilhams, F. J., So. Boston, Mass. Williams, G. P., Newark, N. J. Williams, Geo. W., Wellsboro, Pa. Williams, H., Level, O. Williams, H. D., Johnstown, Pa. Williams, Henry W., Boston, Mass. Williams, J. Ellsworth, Delaware, O. Williams, Ramon V., New York Williams, Walter, Boonville, Mo. Williams, Wm. C, Taunton, Mass. Williams, Winslow T., Yantic, Ct Williams, W. L., Ridgeway, Pa. Wills, jr., Thos., Calumet, Mich. Willson, Chas. G., "-ading, Pa. Willscn, Joh.1 I., Winona, Wis. Willson, T. E., New York Vilmarlh, H. C, Mansfield, Mass. Wilson, A. J., London, Em^. Wilson. A. L., Rockland Lake, N. Y. Wilson, Chas. E., Troy, N. Y. Wilso.i, D. R., Sandhurst, Kji:/. Wilson, E. A., Nilei, O. Wilson, Geo. A., Fitchbutg, Mast. Wilson, Geo. T., New York Wilson, jr., James, Rockville, Ct. Wilson, J. E., Newburgh, N. Y. Wilson, L. S., Syracuse, N. Y. ,300, 1595 Wilson, Samuel E Montgomery, Ala. 2270 Wilson. T. J., Pine liluff. Ark. 2J1S Wilson, W. W., Leytonstone, E»g: 3337 Winans, H. J., Springfield, Mass. 1006 Winans, Wilbur N., Springfield, Mass. 1002 Winans, jr., W. S., Katonah, N. Y. Winberg, J. C, Macon, Ga. Winchell, M R., Brooklyn, N. Y. lytndsor, Haiti, Clearfield, Pa. Windsor Hotel, Kingston, Ont. Windsor Hotel, Montgomery, Ala. Windsor Hottse, How.ird Lake, Minn. 2234 Winfield, H. W, Jersey City, N. J. 2950 Winslow, G. B, Brooklyn, N. V ,6ga Winter, Percy, New York 209J Winterle, Chas. J., Baltimore, Md. j6o •794 'S63 2994 383 •57' 24'4 289 523 58. 1841 •372 •634 2956 1170 ;h3>8 297' 975 2949 500 3242 867 '337 2547 3056 «57 65 1613 i960 1083 '4« 2625 583 2283 881 198S 764 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. -■.V m M Wirterrowd, Ed. C, Shelbyville, Ind. 605 Wir.temteen, W. S., BethLhem, Pa. 1441 IVintkrop HottI, Meriden, Ct. jijg Wintringham, C. V., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1283 Wiseman, A., Auckland, A^. Z. 2884 Wistar, Dillwyn, Germantown, Pa. 1046 Wocher, Wm. K., Indianapolis, Ind. jijo Wombaker, H. Z., Pipestone, Minn. 3327 Wood Rivtr Bi. Club, Hailey, Idaho, 3.: Woole sho.tcommgs and errors. Yet with all ;». fa„i.. :. represents an enormous amount of pain^takinp • =,n,» i ,u i 7 . *' " I) t»»t they danced w("; the wonder was they dar.ced at all." >son . Ume- MAINE. AognsU : {Ktnntbec County H"rn\ Augusta Houst, C. ,S Michbom. BangOP: {Pine Tree IK C, Oct. 21, '83), James Crosby, W. R. Rober-.s, VP Geo. O. Hall, C. J. H. Ropes, In] O. B. Humphrey, I L,W. F. Stone, Charles A. Lyon,« F. C. Weston. BelfHt : J. Louis Pendleton. Geo. T. Read,* Fred J. Stephenson. Brunrwlck : Bmudnn College Library. CaUu : {Calau B. C, 18S5), Amtrican Heme, by D. M. Ganlner, Frank H. Moore, S. Dext .r : W. A. Small. Fairfield .- James O. Wfchtemore. Lewiiton : ^ A. F. Nutting, Elmer I. Thoou» i^Ut.-== : i-iCic^i iioiei, hy T. J. Lincola. P»rl« : Will. L. PerhaiiL 766 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. FortUnd : (/•.«' C.org.as/'.A.C.Mar.'So), I'rebU Houu, C. H. La.nsoii,** lk, Herbert M. Bailey, J. H. I^mson, L. M. BicWford, (J. H. Morrill, L. J.Carney.tLK), iL,Wilberl R.Pilcher.B, F. S. Clarke, I L, John P. Sparrow, (J. L. Clough), J. C. Stevens, (C),P, F. A. Elwell, LCC, C.C.Tukesbury,S-T, L. H. Hallock, tN, F. E. Wanen, (S-T), H.S.Higgins, (iL),C, F. W. Woodman. Solon : R'ayn.tt-d House, Waterville : Elmwood Hottl. Yarmouth ; Kugene Humphrey. YarmouthTille : J. H. Adams, Edwin R. Merrill, Wooflbury Welch. NEW HAMP.SIiIRE. Concord: (.ManclusUr B. C, Mar. 21, '82), F. H. Crapo, W. E. Stone, F. E. Gale, A. F. Stnrtevant. Eaat Bochester : (Star ir. C. , Oct. 6,'82), Mabel E. Corson (Miss), G. O. Richards, F. B. Parshley, P, G. C. Vamey. Exeter : A. H. Giddings, Fred S. Feijowes, W. Burt Folsom. FitZWilllam : Edwin W. Annable. Great Falle : (Crescent C. C. ), Clarence E. Benson, Geo. F". Hill, S-T, G. Fred Drew, P. H Stiles, Thos. P. Duffill,** Nathan Wentworth. L. E. Hanson, P, C, Ebmover : Dartmouth Coll. Library, C. S. Cook, J. H. Wright. Lancaster : C. D. Batchelder,* lr. Manchester : (M.B.C.), H.M. Bennett, ixc, Elmer E. Brown, F. O. Moulfon, E. A.McQueston,(i^.), C. H.Wilkinstixc). Milford : Chas. S. Emerson.* Nashua ; Wm. V. Gilman, lc, tcc, (lT). Portemoutk : (RockinghamB. C. ,May8,'8o), Kearsarge House, W. W. Mclntire, C, C.A. Ha»lett,(LCc),P, Frank W. Moses. Mrs. C. A. Hazlett, Frank Preston, J. H. Knox, H. M. Tucker, S-T. Rochester : {Star W. C, Oct. 6, '82), Dodge's Hotel, T, C. M. Dockham, Fred L. Chesley, Willie M. Hartford, C. H. Cole, ^. H. Morrill, E. H. Corson,** re, S. F. Sanderson, 5 Elmer E. Corson, Seorim Swaine. Salmon Falls : John W. Mclntire. South Newmarket : J. A. Spead, *lc. VF.RMONT. Bam : F. W. Sherburne. BeUowa Falls : Geo. F. Ball, Fred H. Kimball, lc, J. T. Mitcnell. Bennington : Menry D. Fillmore. Brattleboro : (^>r»«tf«/;f'.C.,May6,'84), U Brooks House, LT, C. R. Crosby, L, lc, K. H. Allen, J.W. rjiovvn,LH,S-T. E. H. Atherton, O. R. Leonard, A. W. Childs,* (C), F. F. Reid, C. The following are not club men.bers : -M. Austin, o, G. H. Horton, o, F. H. Brackett, o, O. R. Howe,o, F. Cressy, Alfred M. Ingham, o, H, J. Cudworth, (L. M. Tillinghast), J. G. Esiey, W. F. Walker, o, F. Goodhue, o, W. C. Willard. Burlington: W.K. Menns,C.R. Palmer., u.c. Rutland : Rutland Bi. Club, L, Nov. 12, '81, Bardwetl House, L, F. W. Knapp, L, W. J. Bagley, A. S. Marshall, P, N. R. Bardy, (P), N. S. Marshall, O. M. Barton, C. G. Ross, LCC, C, ' R. Bates, S,lc,tc, William Ross, S. Bowtell, jr., F. G. Tuttle, (T), W. W. Burr, lc, H. L. Burt, (B), N. St. Albans : Geo. H. Wells. Springfield : Fred M. Harlow, lc. Wallingf ord : H. C. Townsend, lc. Waterbury : Fred E. Atkins, lc. West Randolph : F. E. DuBois, LC, Geo. R. Walker. MASSACHUSETTS. Abington : Eben Fish, LC, Charles Reed.t Allston: (/I. .ff.C, Mar. i4,'85),A. H.Everett. Amesbury : A. F. Greenleaf, lc. Amherst: Edgar R. Bennett, Willard A. Thayer, Glenroy A. Thayer, John K. Truslow. Andover : W. B. Segur. Beverly : (Thomdike B. C), J. Wood, jr.* Boston ; State Librarj^, State House, Boston Athentrum Library, Beacon St., Hotel Vendome, L, Commonwealth av.. International Hotel, 623-625 Washington st. Abbot Bassett.LR, (ed. Cycle), 22 School St., John R. Chadwick, 75 State St., Joseph G. Dalton, 87 Boylston st., J. S. Dean, t (lc, C), i L, 28 State it., Wm. H. Edmands, (C), 87 Boylston St., W. B. Everett, (T), 338 Washington st., Willis Farrington,(Lc), TC, (Lowell), E. C. Hodges, P., 28 State st , i Cbas. S. Howard, 48 Chester sq., DIRECTORY OF VVHEELME,\/. 767 W.G. Kendall, || lc, lr, tc, 176 Treinor;&t., B. L. Knapp, 161 Tren;ont St., Theodore Rothe, 613 Washington it., Frank W. Weston, (rcr), Savin Hill, Edw. S. Wheeler, 45 H.gh st., E. G. Whitney, lc, jL, 106 Dartmouth tt. The 14 names above given belong to mem- bers of the Boston B. C, the oldest in Amer- ica, now at 36 St. James avenue,— wo/ as noted on p. .05. The a8 names following, arranged in double 160 Tremont st, J. H. H. Watson, 499 Dudley st. Bridgewater. A. Cushman. BrightWOOd: Chas". A. Fisk. Brockton. (CUy B. C, May 24, '81), G. C. Holmes, (K. H. Johnson, C). Cambridge: Harvard CoU. Library, T. W. Higginson, C. J. Rolfe, W. B. Howland, Fremont bwain.t Cambridgeport: Ernest R. Benson^ Stuart r. Miller, W. J. Shannon. Charlesu:---^: (C. B. C), Jas. C. Duff. Chelsea: (C. B. C, 1879), Arth-r M. Pratt Chlcopee: D. Albert Cushing, F. F. Parker, ^ v, C. J. Wetzel. Chicopee Fall*: I.-vin w. Page, F. M. Parker, Corey Wood. Concord: F. Alcott Pratt, lc, tcc Conway: Wm. A. Thomas,t o. Deerfleld: E. R. Porter. Dorchester: (r.B.c.'Sz), W s. Doane. TC, E.A.Hemmenway,S, C. J. Upham, P. East Brimfield: Ernest B. Smith. East Cambridge : W. C. Dillingham. Easthampton: Ade/J^A, Library 0/ IV. S., Chas. J. Kuene, J. H. Sswyer.f o. Fall Eirer: (i?. C), C. S. Wady, S-T. FitChbnrg: {F. ^.C.,'79), G, A, Wilson, ,.c Florence: (/^.C.C), Harry B Haven, jr., iL. Framlngham: Franklin Hwchinsor t Gardiier: W. C. Axtell. Greenfield: (C. B. c, July 14, '82), (Hollis B. BagK, P), F.R. Holliste'r, lc,C, C. H. Field, 2L, -. H. Kaulbach, S, F. K. Hawks, I R, R. D. Warner. Gloucester: Conrad R. Hanson, J. S. Webber, jr. , lr, tc. HaverhUl: (//. b. C.\ J. F. Adams, (S), lc. HaydenvUle: W. j. Fuller, W. L. Larkin, E. C. .Miller. HolL iton: Willie H. Fiske, lc. Holyoke: (H. B. C, Sept. .. 'Si), Benj. Brooks, o, J. S. McEIwain, o, E. C. Clarke, lc, C, C. W. Ramage, H. M. Farr, iL, C. B. Ross, Herbert Fenno,( I L),(F. B. Towne), Wm. O. Green, Lii.P, Chas. A. Tuttle, B. Hopedale: Fred L. Fay. Jamaica Plain: H. W. Warren. 768 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Le...?«Be*: (L. B. C, '79), E. E. Branch, M. I). Currier, (l.cc), P, D. M. Spooner, B. ZiM: Morgan HouM. Lezlacton: Albert S.Panont.LC, (lr, lCS). Lowell: (/..^C., Apr., '8j), E. L-Coolidge,} Edw.Kllingwood.LC, J.Z. Rogers, Willis Karrii'.gton.TC, W. S. Kelly. Lynn: {StarB. C, Nov. s.Vv ^- C. C.,«nd Boscobtl B. C), Geo. E. Cain, K. A. Liiidsey,(P),S, W.E. Smith, lc,(VF). Maiden: {A/.C.C, July,'84),C.W. Flanders, Geo. S. Harrington, Fred. A. Wilcox. MillsSsId: H. C. Wilmarth. M&rbleheAd: {M. B. C, May 21, '80, MarbWd Bi. Club, cor. School and Pleasant, Geo. Chiim, lr, P, P. Howard Shirley,S. Medford: Richard Booth, C, Cl.as. J. Holland, iL, 17 Park, Joseph H. Wheeler. Merrick: Glen. C. Frissell, o. Merrimac: (M- B. C, July, '84), John W. Logan, C, H. C. Oak, LC, iL. MUford: (B.C., May,'8o'», C. »!. Fi.her, LC &>:mbury: (M. a. C), Wm. E. Gale, P, C. F. Holman, S, T, Arthur W. Rice, L. MlUefi Falll: C. E. Lester. Milton: Arthur Cunningham. Keedham: W. C. Freeman, jr. Newton: (Nonantum C.C), E. P. Bumhaui. Morttuunpton: (A^. S. C, March i, '8i), ATansUm Houu, (W. J. Fuller), E. C. Davis, C, Daniel Piciard, T P. North Andoyer: H. G. Johnson. Cracge: (O. W. C, Sept., &♦), O.D.Hapvrood,(S,P), C. H. Shepard, C, W. E. Osterhout, L, (M. R. Winchell). Palmer: Louis E. Chandler, LC. Pittsfleld: {Berkshire C H^rti), L. L. Atwood, 5 tx, CO. Kennedy ,(iL),C, C. F. Bassett, E. H. K-nneUy, P, H. W. Buckingham, W. P. Odell, Chas. E. Churchill, E. P. Stevenson, VP, J. H.Greenfield,(2L), J. M. Stevenson, o, H. E. Henry, H. G. West, (C), T, P. W. Jones, (S), W. R. Wilder. W. S. Kells, S, (Org.as/'.5.C.,May,'79) Princeton: iVackuseti House (Beamans'). Reading: V. J. Hall. Boxbtiry: Arthur M. Little, J. E. Savell, j.c. Salem: Saiem Bicycle Club, 252 Essex St., Chas. H, Odell, F. P. Symonds, P, A. J. Philbrick, Arthur N. Webb. MOmerriiie: (o. C. C), 0*0. E. Whitaker. Boath Abiagton Station: F. V. Ames, Joseph Pettee, Jr. South Boeton: John B. Given, Geo. P. Osborn, F. J. William^ Herbert A. Thayer, John H. Wright. Southbrtdge: G. M. Lovell, LcC.M.WelU. South Framlngham: H. J. Metcalf. South Gardner: kKmoc'uUkm ir. C, 1884), Lewis C. Travers,LC, (P), 41 Broadway. South Hadlejr Falls: F. }j. lowne. South Scltuate: Wm. H. Fish, jr. t Spencer: James Aldrich. •* Springfield: <,S. B. C), l, < /V> Library, Sprifif field BicycU Club, l. May 6, 1881, H. N. Bowman, W. L Lyman, M. B. Breck, A. O. McGarrett, C, Charles CU-V, C. H. MoKnight, B. J. Craig, W. C. Marsh, T, Henry S. Grossman, C. H. Miller, F, M. R. Grossman, D. E. Miller, (Orel E. Davies), Geo. S. Miller, H.E. Ducker,Lcc,P., F. O. Moody, P. H. Dunbar, C. W. Parks, E. T. Dyotte, F. E. Ripley, Fred. E. LIdred, 2L, Everett E. Sawtell, Will Eldred, W. H. Selvey, VP, (A.L.Fennessy,S,T), Eugene L. Smith, J. H. Fennessy, jr., A. L. Spooner, Chas. A. Fisk, ^T), W. C. Stone, C. S. Fiske A. B. Wassung, A. H. R. Toss, B, (Chas. P. Wassung), J. ;L Foulds, jr., F, C. J. Wetzel, M. D. Gillett,» F. W. Westervelt, C. R. Haradon, C. E.Whipple,(C),LC,, ^^orge M. Hendee, O. N. Whipple, (C.T.Higginbotham), Robt. D. White, C. W. Hutchins, Fred G. Wight, W. H. Jordan, (VP), E. M. Wilhins, San{ordLawton,LR,S, H. J. Winans, 2L, E. F. Uonard, iL, W. N. Winans, (C), G. H. Lucas, L. E. Zuchtmann. These 54 names are outnumbered by only one club-representation upon my list; and, as 20 non-club subscribers are named below, the total representation of Springfield is mu-^h larger than that of any other town having 35,000 people, and is only exceeded by a few of the great cities. John S. Bafw.lfo, Fred J. Bradley, Chris. F. Burrowes, Thos. W. Cobum, A. D. Cooeland, W. M. Corthell, Frank H. Fuller, o, J. D. Gill,** o. ^~ --^«=c^-^ Dlh ECTOR Y OF WHEELMEN. 769 (Jeo. S. Payne, W. D. Kemingtoii, F. Searle.n o, E. R. Slickney, F. A. Wakefield. n. Me»ser,(S). S. B. Hair ill, A. F. Jennings, •• W. G. Landes, C. E. Mansfield, M. Bradley Co.,»» Stoneluun: (-? .s.f./si), K Taunton: {T. B. C), Wm H. Pendleton, Wm. C. Williams, C. Templeton: 'Jhav H. Lane. Vineyard Haven: .S. F. Harriman.t Wakefield: (/f. B. C, July, '83), f'eo. p. Abom, C, Frank H. nurrill, (I), ED Albee,LC,(S.T), Will K. Katon, (VI'), Waltham: Wm. Shakespeare,* O.E. Davies Wayland: Clias.^'. Parkyn. WeUesley HlllM (leo. K. White. Westboro: ( ir. B. C. , Apr. '83), H^eit'o l/cul, Henry L. Clnise, Henry D. Stone, H. Scudder Drake.t F. O. Swallow, lc J Vastfleld: I^H^'oronoco H^Th, Aug. 14, '«4), J. A. Likin & Co.,** Arthur E. White' West Sprinjfleld: if. S. ruis A. Po|)e t Westerly: J Howard Morgan. T CONNECTICUT. AasOQla: Loui» F. Auschuti, John C. Carl, Fred. M. Drew. Birmingham: (Derby ly. c), Bassett House, by Wm. Kell^, o, E^B. Oager, Willie E. Plumb, jr . (H. W. Gilbert), Will G. Taylor, Lester E. 'lickok, E. N. Tolles, Charles P. Hubbard, J. H. Tomlinson. Branford: Thomas E. Crouch, lc. Bridgeport: (/Vyw«.«««ivi *f.C.,JuIy is.'So), Public Library, Geo, H. Johnson, P ' I red. C. Burroughs, C. W, .Spooner, (lh), Wm. F. Healy,(Lc), A. N. Stanton, (C) Bristol: M. L. Tiffany. Cheshire: (C. If. C. March ,7, '85). Wallace House, b^ H. »••, Howe Danbury: (Pahguio<,ur B. C. ,883, merK.W# CiM. Library, Li'unian Library, Jamc» B. Brand, LcRoy J. Kirkham, M. K. Campbell, Wm. L. Peck, aL, H. A. Chldsey, J. S. Pierrepont, W. M. Kri»bic, I .i.K, Sam K. Punderson, Samuel (J. Uustcd, K. S. Sianter, K. A jackson, Tc, W H. Thomai, (us), G. H. (eiminnn, M. K. ''yler, t (P). J.W.Jewrtt.UCn.jL, John H. Wliiting. J The following are not club nien-'wrs: Wyllys Atwater, o, G. P. MacCiowan, (Geo. D. Miller, o), E. L. Parmelee, T. H. Russell, X Robert A. Smith,* W. K. Townsend.to Henry A. Heers, o, F. B. Dexter, o, C. T. Dilscoll, to, Thomas !Iooker, o, W. E. Martin, Ed, P. Merwin, jr., J. M. Trowbridge, E. O. Jeralds, Eli Whitney, jr., o. New MUford; (Cornelia »'. C), Joe K. Karrally, S, Georgii T. Soule, C. New Pretton: Alexander Mitchell. NOVL^' Robert Palmer, jr. Nor* !h: (.V. LonJart CoirTn, Jun,,'84), H. i.ubbell, John M. Thayer, to. PUntlvlUe: A. B. A. Walkley. RlvertOQ: Frank L. Stephens. Bockvllle: {R. B. C.,Oct. jj, '84), Frank M. Adams, W. E. Payne, i.R, Frank H. Brown, Edw. R. Pratt, i.c.S, A. N. Gaonette, J. C. Whittlesey, Herbert Holmes, James Wilson, jr. Stamford: {S. ir. c, Jan. 10, '84), Stamford House, I., Harry W. Hurlbutt, Depot Restaurant, I., W. A. Hurlbutt, I.R, P, W. I.. Ii.ildwin,i.i.',S-T, Nelson Jessup, Gilbert S. Benedict, Wilbur E. Lewis, C. F. Burley,l| H. E. Mackce, VP, Thos. Cummings, Walter Michels, C, Arthur Munson, n, G. F. Rockwell, J. F. Ward well, Henry J. Warren. Frank E. DeCamp C. W. Hendrie, R. H. Home, Chas. L. Hoyt, SufSeld: Leroy H. Sikes, LC. Thomas ton: C. T. Higginbotham, H. H. Teames, Venion Dflpot: Geo. B. Thayer, ^r, Waterbury; (»'. W. C, April, '81), Hollis B.nagg,(P),N, Howard Curtin, Rollin R Bird, iL, N. C. Ovialt, S-T. West Ansonla: Wm. (i. Brown. WUUmantlC: Horace A. Adams, ix, (;. W. Holman, t Fred S. Page. TantlO: Winsl, E. A. Bradford, ■° , Chas.M.RIchard^.fS) R. N. Chich ster, C, J. B. Wright, If m. Kings Co. Wheelmen ,\.,\fi<^ Clymer st.,E.P., (org.. Mar. 17, '81 ; incorp.. May 7, '84), W. \. Amerman, 240 Lafayette .iv. , E.K.Austin,(i.R),i.s,(S,B), (loiWillTiby av., W. H. Austin, (B), 268 S. Fourth St., (F. G. F. Barlow, (T), 170 Lee av.), W. D. Bloodgood, 10 1 Wilson St., L S. Bowdish, 100 Patchen av., M. T.. Rndirman. i.R, iT.,aia Adelnhi St.. Chas. R. Brown, 232 Power* st.. DIRECTORY OF liHEELMEN. 77« I (fieo. T. Ilrown, (P), m Roid av ), ((rto. W Ilrown, iv5 I'enn m.), K W. Caiididun, jjS S. Niiiih •!., (Chjrlo Clulli, .,00 Grand %\..), Ar.iiur N. Comes, lo*. Hancock »«., I ho». C. Crichton, 70 S. Sixth »t., K.H.lJounUs, (S, sub t ), J5 lltdford av., hrank N. l-instrrmukcr, Si .S. Ninth »«., Kd. V. KiiJt, (,!,;, y6 Kee av., Auuuiit (.ronch, H jjj Ur.ind »t., H J. Hall, jr., 43; I laiuMm av., Th'«. J. Mall, jr., 7<)7j Myrtle av., ll'w H. Hcgcnian, VI', ijv SuMiii-r av., Kobt. V. Hibwjn, I', LK, 64 S. lenth »l., Kph, Johusoii, (.ub C';, 156 HedfurU av., Kobert J. Kiio», ; , i74 S. jih .(., Herbert E. Locke, 44 S. Ninth »t., J. H. !xmg, (K), 356 K.o»ciu8ko St., A C. U. LoULks, S, i.Sj McDonough St., K. W. Loucks, 181 McDonough st., William Lowey, 72 Cumberland St., C'lias. MclJougall, ^,^ I.eeav,, F. H. Meeker, 844 liusliwick av., J. IJ. Miller, aL, ai8 Koss »i., R. VV. Munr, iji MtDonouxh st., Edward Pettus, C, i.c, 49 S. Ttnlh St., Chas. .Schwalbach," T, i.R, 13 1 Penii st., K. S. Seibert, 106 Penn St., (Frank J. .Smith, (P, C), 195 Division av.), J. M. .Sorzano, jr., (T^ 146 Carlton av., (\. Warren Strong, A., 171 F.mrth St.), H. H. Stults, 1134 Fnlton St., E. Valentine, (Mt. Vernon, N. V.), H. Watson, 101 Division av., r,. P. Weber, 36 Bedford av. , {K. V). Wilder, Sr S. Ninth st), Ramon V. Williams, ,, Cambridee Place. L. /. IV'Pn, cor. Flatbnsh av. and Ninth av., (org. Nov. 2s:%i\, O.W. Mahic, fF),VP, R.W. Baldwii (S\T, D. C. McF.wen, A.] Hen.-y H. Bel jr., E. W. Mercereau, W. J. Brown, .S. H. Monell, Edw. A. Caner, ( r), W. W. .Share, P, H. F. Frasse, C. T. Wes.sels, Arthur W. O , (Q, E. T. Weswls, James H „ins, O. B. Winslow, lr. The fr" ng are not club members: W XL. .^twnter, 276 Madison St., Alex. Cameron, to, (62 Wall St., N. V), S. L. Cromwell, 18S Columbia Heights, A. M. Cunningham, to, 189 Montague St., r c r^ I :_ ^, Stansbury Hager, (Bojt 532, N. V. P. O.), J M. Harris, 7 Halscy at., thar A Horn, llrcMjklyn L.bnry, H. .S. Jailray, 1^4 Carroll »t., H. C. Jones, 39 (juinry n., Edwin \. Lake, 229 Hamilton a»., Wm. N. Milner, Jale av., C. C. Woolworth, jr., 582 Washington av Buffalo. (//. * C-., Feb. '7.,),t, 0>«,,„ „ou,r, I'/t llouit, 465 Main st., <; F. H. Hartlcit,1l3„ Delaware av.. V N. Itowen,»37i Pennsylvania st , Will.S, l!ull,» I.R, T. . 5,S7 Main St., Harry E. Choale, 75 W Tupper it., C. P. Churchill, jr., H. Cosack, jr., 203 Clinton St., Samuel J. Curtis, 204 .Seneca St., J. E. Danicl.v.n, P, 754 Main st., ".. E I'onaldson, <,73 Delawarcav., Frank E. Drullard, (2L), tc,82 Hodge av., Julius J. Ehrlicli, 6X8 Elliott St., J. F. Foster, 68 Main St., ( H. Graves, 200 N. Division St., I H. Hartley Hayford, 235 Conicut st., ' A. E. Hoddick, 222 Eagle st., I James B. Ishani,* 14 E. .Seneca si., A. (;. Mang, 212 Main st., Ralph H. Palmer, r',, College st., Fred W Parsons, 4:sell, to, 276 .Main st., Bull & Bowen,** 587-589 Main st., Frank S. Buell.o, 192 Niagara St., L. W. fJay, 184 Franklin st., W. J. H. Nourse, 22 West Eagle st, Ulbrich & Kinjjsley,** 365 Main »t. Burke: Elmer A. Day. i/'aldweli (Lake George;: Lake H(mte, by F. 0. Tucker. 1121 ff9i 772 TEN THOUSAND AflLES ON A BICYCLE. OaUMldAlfUa: (('. B I . June, '8i), A G.Coleman, 11.11, TIC, (Jec W Hjmlin, A W. Crittenden, ix, Chester C. Hayei, Arthur S. Hamlin, n, C. I. Mitchell. f CMSadAfk: :. S. Dezendorf. CuenOTlft: (C B rffttr. C , May lo, '»»), •Stanton Hcmu, v M. Knowlton, C, t C. Clarke, Ctias. A. Mann, o, Wm. II. Curtiv(T), Ch-- ,. W. Odell, P. K. Dennlfiw, n, J. K. Sal»bur>,1[ Severe Dorion, l',**5(Jr.». Sturtevant), Tho». J. iJwyer, N, W Thomas, H, W. A. Kmerick, n, W. W. Watkins, n, A. A, Johnson. W. .S. Wtbljr. Chatham: St,t>r.vix/f. Coming: (C. B. C), S. S. Denton, S, LC, W J. Heerma"s, Wm. H. Sayles, H. H. Kendall, P, H.P.Sinclaire, jr., C. Cornwall: M. W. Couser, Reeve Ketcham. Cor^wall-On-Hudaon: Elmer Hovse. Cortland: H. P. Gray. Croton Fails: Edwin H. Abrams. Danaville: C. Ross Brown. Dayton: James E. Bixby, i.c. Dunkirk: (^. C), Geo. E. Blackham, ^- r. Ellington: Geo. E. Haman, LC. Klmira: (E.B.C.), Lou. H.Brown, P, lt, H. S. Kidd- -.C.lLx), Allen D. Steele. Florida: R. E. Can.,;bell,t FlUBhing, L. I. : {Aferairy /K. C. , Api . 10, '84), A. P. Cobb, LC, C, A. Kotter King, IIP, (.\I. E. Covert, S-T), Townsend Scudder. Fordhif'in: Wm. B. Krug. Fredonia: E. H. Harrison. FxiendBhip: (AlUgany Co.lV'PitJune.'Si), M.BourdonCottrell,ir A. C. Latta, I^tla Brothers, •* E. G. Latta. OaiTlson'a: Highland Home, byG. F. Garrison. Oeceva: .''. Albert Herendem. Gerry: C. E. Gates, V Jimestmun B. C. OlenaFalla: .^«:/hw//V/i>«j^,byC.L.Rock'l, N. R. Gourley, S. R. Stoddard.** Gruenwicu: iG.o.C), Ciios. Giuiiu, C HATtom: (// K'Tn, 104 W. ■14th M ), Vitn SturfHeyt Stt/tum, 500 E. ijjd >t , (lulgar K. Bourne), Fred W Styles, Wm. H iJegraaf, P, Frank N. Lord, C. H. Diamond, Ed. C.Parker, (C),T See fourth list of New Vork City for full addresses ol the above, and for 10 later sub- scribers from the same club. The following Harlem subscribers are not mert.bers of it: Geo. O. Boach, Writer Klots. J. (i. D. Burnett, Frank C. Moore, ;■:. V Conner, J. FitiGerald. Highland Mlll«: }ligkland Mills Hotel. Hudson: (/{ BC.,}n. i,'S2), n'or.hHouif. H.R. Bryan, i.c,TL-,C,*Wm. V. Rossman, jr Ithaca: (Ccrn. Univ. B. C), J. i\. Day, jr , L.J. E. J. Urber,(C), P. B. Roberts. Jamaica: Percival J. Bernhard, lleiij.W. Doughty, LC, Chas. R. Gallic. Jamestown: (/. B. C, Oct. 4, '84), Sherman House, E. R. Demphrey, lc, r". A. Clapsadel, C. A. Price, T. Katonah: W. S. Winans.t Kinderhook:A-/>//i'r'»'*iV<7/?/,byW.Br'dry, James B. Kest,(C./«wA^rj/C<»//.5.C. 1H841. Lake Gsorge: Lake House, by F.G.Tucker. LeonardSVille: (UnadillaV'al.B.C.,]n. '84), C. L. Crandall, T, L. B. Whiel" '■ : LeBoy: {L. B. C), W. C. Boaii. P. Little FlOlS: A. J. Bened.:t, D. W. Ingalls, Geo. L. Smith. Lockport: {Lock City IV'Cn, May, '84), W. L. Beck, B. F. Jackson, C. Lyons: G.H. Cramer,* C. R. Harrington, lc. Madison: James Sturtevant. Mariner's Harbor, 8.L: W. M. Braman. Middletown: {M. B. C, Aug. 15, '82), Wm. Clemsen, C. H. I oster, C. S. Dusenberry, H. C. (gden, lc, C* Mt. Vernon: {.Mt. V. B. C, Aug. 8, '81), A.E.Fauquier,(P,LR), Chas. E. Nichols, Philip H. Lucas, S, E. Valentine. Newburgh: (.v. B. C), t, U. states Hotel, A. J. Barton, L.Courtlandt Jagger, D. H. Bower, J. T. Joslin, §•• TC, Chas. E. Corwin, Jod A. Joslin,§ Thos. T. Haviland, Frank Hollister, L.W.Y.McCroskeryt J. E. Wilson. NewBochelle: Chas. F. Cancdy.t New York City: (-V, K. B. C, Dec. i8,'79), Grand Union Hotel, L, 4th av. at 42d St., A^. y. Bicycle Clui, l, 302 W. 58th St., DIRECTORY Of M'HEELMEA. 773 W. R. Amhony, 311 Produce Exchange, (Walter R. Henjamin, Jwi, office), C. E. Chapman, 7 Wall .1., Howard Conkling, (C), 17 E. loth »t.. Clarkion Cowl, 41J Produce Exchange, <;eorge Daniels, 140 Nassau »t., (Frank E. Davidson, 610 Lexington av ), Edward I,. (Iridley, jjS W. a8th St., Smith A. Harriman, 46 W, 16th St., R. R. Haydock, T, 83 Chambers St , Edw. F. Hill, LR, (Lcc), (Peekskill, N.V.) Henry t. Janes, Broadway at 36lh St., J. Oswald Jimenis, (iL), iL, 113 Wall'st., F. W. Kitchi -'. 94Readest., (Thos. W. K, <, Lotos Club), H. H. Meyer, (T), 38 Exchange Place, J. C. Mott, 118 Warren st., Charles Power, 31, Produce Exchange, Kingman Putnam, t (.S.lCS), 54 Wall tt H .S. Raven, 15 Wall St., Cirard Romaine, ?» Beaver St., J B. Roy, (,L), C, 31a Produce Exchange, E J. Shriver, S, N. Y, Metal Exchange, Rr>ss W. Weir, 105 Front St., W. A. Whiting, Grand Central Hotel, CitiuHS Bi.Club, (June i,'8i), 3i8W.6oth St., Chas. K. Alley (lCS), 33 W. 13d St., H. O. Barnard, 9 Clinton Place, W. G. Bates, 154 Madison av., N.M.Beckwilh,||(C,ixc,LP),2, W. 37th st., VP, LR [C, June, '82, to March.'Ss ; lP, May, '83, to May, '86], .Civ M. Benedict, 94 Beekman st., n R. KidwJl, (LR), LCC, ••315 W. 58th St., I[.nr- Blake, 7 Bee'Kinan St., W. li r5ook, P. O. Box 1147, ! red ' ; Bourne, (VP;, 25 W. 23d st., Om'.. F. Bouton, 225 E. 60th st., Ir.nnj; P. Boyd, Produce Ex. Buildli>g, T. McK.ee Brown, (P), 226 W. 45th st.', Wm. A. Bryant, (2L), ,2 Maiden Lane, S. H. Byro 1, Union League Club, J. G. Case, S. W., 301 Sixth av. Robert Center, 18 W. 21st st., Knight L. Clapp, lr, S, 280 Broadway, Fred A. Coleman, Windsor Hotel, W.G.Conki;n,Frank.Sav.B'k, 8av. &42 st, Atherton Curtis, 16 W. S3d st., J. W. Curtis, I r 53d St., Frank G. Dubois, 512 W. 30th St., Ce E. Dunlap, 228 E. baxii st., Alfred Eaton, 206 W. loth st., John B. Fischer, 339 W. 83d st., J. FitiGerald, 494 ij-j g| Simeon Ford, (K), C, (;rand Union U...CI, J. T. Francis, jo E. 41st st , Wm. C. Fraiee. T, 156 Brvjadway, O. Benedict Frisbie, 43 South »t., J H. Giffin, jr., 156 Broadway, •imesG. Gulick, 371 W. Ijd st , John C. Gulick, tLK, P, ,3, Nassau st., Harry J. Hall, jr., ft, W. 56th st., Frank L. Handlen, Produce Kx. Building, t. A. Hoffman, jr., B, Azi, W. 23d st , W. K. Howell, lao Broadway, r.eo. Martin Htiss, 1285 Broadway, Fred Jenkins, (lCS), 45 W. 35,1, st., A. B. Johnson, 4 Warren ^t., J- »J. A. Johnson, 4 Warren st., H.irry S. Jones, Fifth Avenue Hotel, W. B. Xrug, No. River Savings Pank L. E. Leffert8,6W. 33d8t., Wm. D. Leonard, 32 Nassau st., A. W. Lozirr, 339 W. 46th St., W. H. McC<,rmack, F, 736 \/. jjd st., J. B. Martine, Naval office, Elliott Mason," 12 Warren .st., Wm. Allen Miller, 805 Broadway, E. A. Morrison, jr., 893 HroaJway, Chas. E. Nichols, (Mt. Vernon, N. V), John Nightingale, 525 W. 83d s ., Alf. E. Paillard, 680 Broadway, Oeo. A. Paillard, < ^o Broadway, Arthur W. Perego, 128-130 {■ult'on st.. Frank J. Pool, tc, (T), 3 Broad st., Harwood R. Pool, 2L, Produce Exchange, F. Austin Roy.ll 165 W. 53d St., M. Schachtel, jr., ,53 W. lOth st., James Simpsoti, 426 W. 35ih st., S. W. Simpson, ,26 W. 35111 st., A. P. Smith, Tribuiu (m-j-S6-)-i9-)-26) are listed above. The following 117 subscribers are sup, ..ed to be outside the membership of those clubs, but the names of some of them will be found catalogued again with the clubs at Brooklyn, Harlem, Jersey City and elsewhere. It is to be noted that there are many non-riders on this list, and that many of the addresses i.eed to be verified. The last 26 names are alpha- betized separately, without addresses: ". \j. Amory, 70 Reade St., {Mass. B. C), Grosvenor Atterbury, 7 E. 33d st. , Lyman H. Bagg, Washington Square, Geo. O. Beach, 63 E. J25th St., J. li. Beers & Co.,** 36 Vesey St., J.is. L. Beers, 36 Vesey St., T. Eugene Benjamin, 654 Broadway, Frederick H. Belts, to, 78 Irving Place, Geo. R. Bidwell & Co.,»* 315 W. 58th St.. Edward T. Birdsall, 107 E. 70th st., Edward A. Bradford, tP, Times office, Wm. Bradford, t 55 Broadway, E. J. Braunsdorf, 223 W. loth st., H. C. Bunner, Puck Building, John .\. Burchell, 1143 Park av., J. (J. D. Burn.:tt, 138th st. ,betw. 3d & 4th avs. , T. S. Burr, 24 Thomas St., E-.'V. Bush, prof, fancy bi.rider,(234 E. 35th), Geo. M. Buttle, 310 W. 32d St., CarmansvilU Park Hotel, 155th st.. Central Press and Pub. Co. 12 Vesey St., Wm. t'. Clarke, o, 75 Maider Lane, G.W.&C.B.Colton&Co.,** 182 William st, E. V. Connor, 129 W. 33d st., Wm. A. Copp, to, 206 Broadway, A. F. Currier.Uo, 38 W. 36th St., Frank E. Davidson, 610 Lexington av., Harry L. DeForest, 7 Washington Sq., N, Henry W. DeForest, to, 15 W. 30th ^i., Lockwood DeForest, o, 9 W. 17th St., Johnston DeForest, 7 Washington Sq., N, Robert W. DeForest, to, 120 Broadway, Wm. H. Demnrest, 25 Catherine slip, David Dewitt, S2 Br'dway, f//. C. H^Tn), Allen W. Evarts.to, 52 Wall st., Herbert Filmer, 318 Broadway, Josepll K. Koisoiii.^~'"u, 751 iJludtiwrty, Forest and stream Pub.Co.,39,4oP'k R'« DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. H. F.Frasse, 6a Chatham sf., (L. 1. WPh), Charles W. Gould, to, 2 Wall st., W. F. Gullen, 37 Broadway, (^'ytT* ^.C.), Wm. C. Gulliver.to, 120 Broadway, Wm. H. Hall, jr., 61 W. 56th St., Reg. Fairfax Harrison, n Lexington av., R. S. Hasbrouck, jr., .yi Liberty St., A. Heming, i8 Cedar St., S. Henderson, 56 Worth St., {Bed/. C.C.), Ideal Pen Co.,** 155 Hroadway, Fred. D. Ives, 52 White St., Elliott Johnson, iiC,2 12 Br'dway,(yy.C. W.) Henry K. Jones, 19 K. 17th St., Charles A. Kinch.H 256 W. 54th St., Moses King,o, 279-283 Broadway, Walter Klots, i62d St., W. H. L. Lee, to, 20 Nassau st., Leve & a; len,*» 207 Hroadway, Eugene H. Lewis.to, 120 Broadway, W. D. Lintz, 315 W. 42Hst., W. J McCreary, 801 liioadway, Howard Mansfield.+o, 15 Broad st., Wm. C. Marion, 126-1^0 Nassau st., Albert Mathews,+o, 31 Pine St., Brander Matthews.o, 121 E. i8th st., Frank B. Mirick, jr., 457 W. 43,: t., Thos. E. Moessner, 107 Liberty st., S. H. Monell, 2 Maiden Lane, (L.I. IVTri), Frank C. Moore, 59 W. i3oih st., C. Muger, jr., 23 E. 37th st,, Geo. Rayson Newby, 247 W. 52d st.. New York Toy Co.,»» ,4 Howard st.', Charles Otis, 313 Greenwich st.. Pope Manufacturing Co.,** 12 Warren st. John S. Prince, prof, rder, Clipptr office, ' W. Rogers, 107 Liberty st., Wesl.-y H. Salter, 314 E. 79th st., Gordon F. Smith, \>. O. Box 3640, Geo. Thad. Stevens, 37 E. 20th st., L. W. P. Stevens, 20 Warren st., Dan S-ceruy's Saloon, 500 E. 133d St., B. C. Unseld, 76 E. 9th st., H. A. Van Liew, 21 E. 73d st., L. [•:. Waterman,o, 155 Broadway, Perry S. Watson, 520 W. 43d st., Francis H. Weeks.to, 120 Broadway, White, Stokes & Allen,** 192 Fifth av., C'las. E. Whittemorc, 579 Broadway, Julius Wilcox,* 15 Park Place, T. E. Willson,o, M-Vr/rf office, L O. WoodrufT.o, 88 Maiden Lane, Mason Young,to, 35 Wall st.. '.iifftr umce, Geo. F. Allison,o, James W. Auten, A. W. Baird, E. P. Baird, G. D. Baird,o, R. B. Baird, Wm. R. Baird,to, W. T. Baird, 775 Monroe Le Vino, S. S. McCIure, (Crawford Mason), Fred. Mead, jr.,o, J. D. Pugh, jr., H. D. Schoonmaker, Chas. J. .Solyom, (Thomas Stevens), Leander A. Bevin,o, Aaron S. Thomas.o. W. F. Coffee, jr., (James Watson,o), T. G. Condon, Edw. P. Wilder.to, (Richard Garvey), Percy Wintei, tc, A. H. Hayward, ( C. Woolworth. Niagara FalU: (A'. F. B. C, Aug. 29, '85), Neil Campbell, lc,C, Geo.G.Shepard, S-T. Norwood: L. L. Ashley. Olean: (O. B. C, Aug.. '83), W. H. Butler. Ogwego: (O. IV. C), Fred A. Dixon, VP, (Geo. F. Allison, o), John P. Miller, lc Otego: S. K. Lewis. ParkvlUe, L. I.: W. F. Gullen, Wash'n av. Peconlc: Joe C. Case. Peeklklll: CortUindt WheelmenJ th.22:%i, A. D. Dunbar, .S-T, S. Norris Knapp. D.C. Hasbrouck, (C),lc, S. A. Mead, L, R. S Hasbrouck, jr., Henry Tate. Edward F. Hill, (lr.lcc), lr, {N.Y.BC), Plattsburg: Curtis H. Veeder. Port Henry: Wallace T. Foote, jr. Port Jervls: {Delaware B.C., May 20, '83), D.'Uivare Hotel, by J. E. Wickham, C/arf«--«/a«/,r^/,/,byEd.G.Giesenheimer, F:jr- .ivern,** Edd C.Wickham,(S). Por ••.!,> M.Fleming. Poujj. .epwo: ArieUVfuel Club,Xiic.,''%i, J. R. .\ '.riance,P,i.R, A. N. Shaffer,* C.F.Cossum,S-T,Tc, Robt. E. Taylor.to. C. B. Herrick,to, Bandolph: (R. B. C), D. C. Adams, C, W.W.Canfiek!.»(S),C, W.L. Rathbone,P Richmond Hill. L.I.: Wm. A. Jones, o. Riverhead, L.I. A. O. Downs, t* Rochelle (New): Charles F. Cane^y.to, N. P. Tyler, ITtc, (lc<;), l ha- Jicapper. Rochester: {R. B. C, Feb. f, '80), Phil A ( lum, J. G Lenox, W. J. CLirtice, C, Gejrge E. Maier, F. R. Freatman, Jacob Oettinger, F. B. Graves, (T),LC, S.H.Pool,P,(C,S,T), A. C. Hills, Geo. H. Robins, C. F. Hovey, S. Robert Thomnson, W. H. Learned, (P), W. A. Turpin. Rockland Lake: A. L. Wilson.t .,^!l* 776 TEN THOUSAND ILES ON ^. BICYCLE. Borne: (^.^. C.Jan. J9, '84), J. M. Barton ,• G. Harry Chase, F. B. Hodges, Chas. D. Hildreth, H.J.Rowland,LC,S-T. Saratoga: \.S.B.C.,]va. 29,'8o),A. C. Rich. II Schenectady: {S. B. C, r.ov. 13, '83), Carle^' House, by L. Sickler, Jacob W. Clute.t C,LR, Sam. R. James, Ed. L. Davii, i.c, P. E. Kipp, tN. Schenevui: Ralph D. Webster. Sciincott. Newark: Cont in'/ Hotel, L,opp. D. L.&W., Newjersey Hrpn, (Oct.,'83). Jraton Hall.' J. E. Baker, 748 : id '•., P. H. Brangs, 3a i»ov -d St., r>. E. Drake, vp, ,^ a. Pleasant av., John S. Duston, (VP), 60 Fifth av., T. E. Gay, R, ag; New St., F. W. Goodsell, 114 Commerce st., Arthur R. Grow, (Summit, N. J.), August Hahne, 649 Broad St., Thomas W. Jackson, u Myr"!e av., Clift W. Jones, (aL), 375 Broad St., Frank J. Keer, aL, liroadway, A. O. Leroeris, iL, 880 Broad st., John Lindner, jr., 1,9 S. Orange av., Hiram E. Littell, P, 460 Broad st., C. B. Longenecker, 289 Washington st., Howard Miller, 48 Webster st., C. W. Northrop, (.L, F), VP, as Cedar St., W. H. Parsons, P, lr, 119 Belleville av., Howard A. Smith,** 494 Broad st., Louis N. Spinning, (S), (Summit, N J.), T E. Theberath, Clifton and Filiii avs., Wm. H. West wood, 4a Eighth av., J. C. Willever, S, 494 Broad st., G. P. Williams, C, 390 Washington av.. r^-..yj. ITiurDci, i4yrourihst., C. R. Zacharias, (C),** 494 Broad st. 777 The Essex B. C. (Mar. 8, '70) aim. the JoUowing .a, and the rest are not member, of either club, though one or two belong to the A/alan/a M^T*, (org. Mar. .,,'86): E. D. Famsworth, Charle. Pharo, Arthur L.Genuag. S. H. Sanjeant, .L, wm b. Johnson, Nate B. Seaver, John B. Lunger, C Clifford Smillic, Robert D. Mead,(C). Wm, B. Southard, J.K.Meeker, G. Burton Taylor, 'Adams, 784 Broad st., Wm. W. Bingham, a -a S. Sixth st., Wm. E. Blen^tt, jr., .86 W.ishington av., A. W. Bourn,t 67 Sherman a. , Wilbur F. Coddinj'ton, a4 Taylor .t., S-T, John J. Daly, 593 Broad St., C. Dennison, 107 Pacific st., S. C. Doland, 140 Union st., James P. Downs, N. Seventh st., Samuel W. Gcery, 769 Broad St., A. H. Hayes, as Walnut st., E. D. Harrington, 153 Orange St., Schuyler B. Jackson,to, 756 Broad St., Samuel J. Macdonald, 75 Libe ty st., N. T. Slee, Oralon Hall, 494 Broad, Howard A. Smith & Co.,**OratonHal], B. S. Whitehead, 94 Market «t New BrUMWick: (B B. C, May ,9,'8.),L, frank H. Cook, J. French Scott, n, A.Wakeman Scott,N, C.D.Snedecker,(LT> Newton: C. L. MofJett, Isaac D. Reed. Newfoundland: Brckw(HHl,Ji.c,C'.W. B. Mount. Rldgefleld: Robert t. larke, W. f. Clarke, o. Roselle. (Kosti/t Rambltrs, 1885), C . H Jouct, R. L. Stewart, C. Rutherford: (/Vmkj/i tV. WTn, Nov. ij/gj), K. A. K.lK.>r, T, C. L. Jackson, S, '"i. T. Iliillister, H.R.J.icksoii.jr ,(C),L,LC. Seftbright: Jdhnslon DeKorett, (N.Y.City). Shrewsbury M Hell, W. M. Vanschoick. StnithvUle; The H. B. Smith Mach. Cc..,»*' K. K. Burns, u, Wm. S. Kelley, K. H. Biirtis, A. H. King, C. H. Chickering, (\. A. Lippincott, C'has. K. Kraiier, Joe Powell, A. M. Hall, H. B. Smith, C. W. HiKRiiis, B. W. Storey. Somerville : County Hi>itl^%s KwfXm Moore. Summit: {Xnv JersfY H-'Tn, Newark), Arthur R. Grow, L. N. Spinning, J. Kranklin Ha.w, A. J. Youngs. Trenton: (T. B. C, Mar. 15, '80), TrtHtoH Houst, by P. Katzentack, S. P. Camp, S, W. P. Pray,(nristol>, W. M. Crozer. F., B.S. Rose,LC,VP,iI,, W.(;.McCullo,iRh,»Pi.Kir JohnWhitehead, How.nrd B. Moses, R.V. Whitehead, B. Upper Montclftir: Philip Young. Wuhington; .SV. Cloud ffotfl, by C. F. Staates. Westfleld: (Hfl/erofihoH irTn, Dec. j,'85), John Carberry, F, John W. Nichols, Arthur B. Irving, Arthur N.Pierstin,C, F.A.Kinch,jr.,1IP,TC, H. Richardson, N. F. S. Miller, S-T, West Long Branch: J. W. Curtis, (N.Y.) West Orange: LlrwfUyn }\rk HcUl. Woodstown: (S. C, '83) E. S. Fogg,t (lr). PKNNSYLVANIA. Academy: Gfn. IVitynt Hotel, by J. Baird. Allegheny City: W Duncan, S.A.Saxman. Allentown: Am. Hotel, hy H. A. Hayden, Frank S. Dobbins, t 607 Chew st. Ashland: C. O. Burkctt, J. W. Hnber. Altoona: Logan House, by W. R. Dunham, Chas. B. Dudley.o, Robert M. Riddle, H. E. Stover,_j3ii Broad st. AnImnrA ; 4 •-//mt/m*^ Houtf f?e{i A triM Ht*tel T. H. Boyd, W. C. McClintock,§ R. G. Smith, S. F. Stadelman.J Frank M. SiM)hn, W. A.Stadelman, tc Beaver Falls: (B.Vaileyty'rn, May 7,'8s), A. B. Chalfant, Will. H. Leigh, P, J. M. Critchlow, Thomas Midgley, (. S. H. Dawson, S, J. E. Wickersham, W. H. Hubbard, Geo. Whysall. Bedford: Bed/ord House, by John Hafer, 1). C. Burns, Harry Gilchnat, Beech Cliff: Frank W. Smith. Berwick: L. M. Kumlcr.t Bethlehem: (Al/^Ma ly. C, Mar. i6, '83), J. .S. D(Kison, P, C. T. Smith, S, C. C. Ki.auss,C, i.c, F.dw. H.Williams, jr., Frank J. l.eibert, V.S.Wintersteen, B. Blossburg: V I.. Russell. Bristol: Bristol Library, W. M. Downing, jr., Geo. A. Shoemaker, W. P. Pray, i.c, John T. Thorn, G. .Schieser, jr., Wm. S. Wright. Brookville: J. B. McKniRht. Brownsville: Bar Houst, 1., by Eli Bar. Canton: (C. H'. C), E. L. Davenport, H. B. DaveniK)rt,TC, J. F>nebt Newman. Carpenters: F. Cirant Sweet. Chambersburg: (C. IV. C), JVittiotal Hotel, by E. L. Wesley, Geo. S. Hull, t P, W. G. Nixon, C.»« Chester: Joseph H. Walle^. Clarion: (C.B.C.), A. Kaufman, C. V. Reid. Clearfield: (C. B. C), Leonard House, }{otel \Cindsor, L, J. B. Kennard, H. B. Fulford, W. M. McKr.ight, W.M.Gearhart,VP,iL, Alf. F. M.irtin, J.E. Hardcr,*P,C,LR, Curtin Nivling, S, J. B. Highberger, N, Edgar C.Shaw,T,2L. CoalDlUe: Jona. Evans, Wm. T. Jones, T. C. Lansford, E. G. Zem. Columbia: (C. IVtu), Franklin House, Wm. P. Evans,tN, Bruner Kauffnian, Chas. L. Filbert, John S. Musser, C, Elmer L. Formalt,L, A. W. Rogers, ||P, John S. Glover, Chas. Sourbeer. Corry: St. James Hotel, \., G. H. Bailow, Fred G. King, LC. S. J. Franklin, Curwinsville : Draucher House, Park House, i., bv W. F. Eckert. Danville: John G. Urown, W. Dosh. Holloway, Wm. Sidney Ramsey. Devon: Devon Inn, fc H.J. & G.R. Crump. DoyleStOWn; Htnry I.ear.tn. Easton: ^''.^'.Mit//, by Kershaw & Brandon. DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. 779 Florin: H. O. Reidt. 0«riIUUltOwn: (for G. B. C, net ■' I'hi'a") M. C. Morrill, Dillwyn Wistar.d.r). Oetty. buTf: Engl, Hotel, by H. Yingli.ig, 1.. M. Huchlcr.J (T. \\, Seigle). Oirard: Dan Rice, jr. Olenfleld: K. I». Smith, (PiKsburg). Oreeniburf: K.Hick, J.V. Slephenson,»i.R. QrocavUle: {.yktvr B. C, Nov. n, '83), Charles Mick, V. C. I'lacc, Ralpli Howers, C. A. Rouse, C. M. Urown, C. B. .Shrom, TC, W. R. Field, C, A. G. Thalimcr. Hanisburg: (Harritburg Cycling CluS), Herbert I,. Hrowii,H, W. H. MiUdleton, J. WilRoii Kortirv, J. Hervey Patton,* (;eo.A.(«)rKa>!,§.S-r, Jas. W. Roberts, L, Jonn (lastrock, C. H. Small, lc, tc,P, Walker J. Jones, Alex. C. Si.amm. Hayerford College P. O.: Alfred Chase. Hawley: Keystone House, by Julius .Scott. Haileton: J. A. Chase, W. H. Hertz.|| Homeitead: C. H. Alter. Huntingdon: (AC.,()ct.,'84),E. R. Heyser, C. Herbert Mi:ier,C, Frederick Snare, P. Indiana: Anurkan House, by M. Earhart. Irwin. Will Coughenour, Wilbur M. Fulton, ix, John Long, R. E. Humphreys, Frank MaRill, W. H. Johnston, C.Meerhoff, (mayor). Jenklntown: Joseph W. Griscom. Tertey Shore: Kred H. Freeborn, i.e. dkhnstown: {Mountain B. C, May 8, '8j), J. M. Murdock, H.D.Williams. Kennett Square: CJeorge M. Gregg. Lancaster: (L. B C. Dec. 7, '81), E. P. Day,||(L), P, S. H. Obrei'ter, S. B. Downey, VP, Chas E. Rahter, J. R. Foster, Martin n'idy,**(C), M. T. Garvin, D. Sherman ."T-nith, W. F. Gorrecht, B, Sylvanus S 'I,tN,..«, C.E.Haberbush,iR,(W.H.Yrungman,S.T). Landl«ville: D. h. Landis, LC, ed. rigil. Latrobe: Parker Hous^x, by Cyrus Walton. Lebanon: (Lebanon Wheelmen, 181)4), John H. Cilliy, P, ftrrKngG. Valentine. Lr-tk Haven: B. F. Bicwn. Mansfield: (M. Ramblers, Aug. j8, '84), C. M Adams, S, O. E. Dewer, Will H. Capell, Chas. M. OIney. James Cockbtim, ix. %^.. i_ y^« « «.— ___ _ raau-wii -wUUiis: \.M. c. iJ. C, i/ct. i, '03), Ira G. Ross,S-T,LC, Richard S. Ruddle. Meadvllle: s. s. l,ongoo<>. Mercar: W. H. Harrison. Meohan insburg: C. M. Niesley. MUfor-l: Robert M. Aylsworth.t MUlenvUle: Howard E. Randall. Montrose: Montrose Bi. Club,(OcX. 17, '83), Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland Co.: E. E. CritchSeld, F. W. Reynolds. Myerstcsn: Baney //««»,byC.R.Donough. Nazarech: Harry E. Clewell. New Castle: H. Warren Terry, i.c Norrlstown: (N. B. C, Dec, '83), L, W. Wallace Acker.C, Theo. E. Taylor, H. M. Ebeii, (S), U Elwood J. Warner, A B. Parker, Harry P. Weaver, W.H.Richardson, T, Jos. H. Weeks. Orwlgsbur^': H. S. Alb.=ght. Penfleld: Penfield Hotel,h^ }. .S. .Schofield. Philadelphia: Colonnade Hotel (Crump*'), Hotel Ln/ayette, by L. U. Maltby, 1'hil.idelfkia Bi.Club, l, (May a2,'79), houM at cor. of 26th and Perot sts., .S. Eldred(;ilbert, 1237 Arch »t., H. B. Hart,»*,?ii Arch St., H. P. Kelly, ,3,8. 3d St., Harold R. Lewis, JJ), lk, 115 N. adst., (J. N. C)sbrrne,i.R, 115 N. 2d St., Melmoth V.. Osborne, 1025 Arch St., E. C. Stokes, (Moorestown, N. J.), Joseph H. Taylor, 1924 Green St., Chas. B. Warder, 1212 N. Broad st. Germantovm Bi. Club, (Sept. 5, '79), l, rooms at 2314 Fairmount av., John A. Beck, 133 1 Race St., Geo. F. Craven, 1440 N. 7th St., John P. Curran, jr., 1451 N. 14th St., Geo. B. Darby, 231 Arch St., Geo. D. Gideon,»S, (lr), 6 S. Broad St., Harold E. Gillingham, 466/ .vnox St., Chas. R. Harley, jr., 223 1 .. 2olh St., Frank S. Harris, C.Tcc, 718 Arch »t., Geo. S. Iredell, 227 Chestnut St., J. »V. Nicholson, : 410 Race St., Westcoti "/orman. Chestnut and 12th eU., Abr. Pjwell, 1539 R.ice St., W. \Vest Randall, Frank Read, VP,lr, 400 Chestnut rt., H, Taylor Rogers, 1015 Vine St., John F. Simons, 2105 Venango St., L. Logan Smith, 4653 Main St., H. S. Wood, LC, 310 Chestnut St., Chas. G. Wright. 1028 New Market »t., T. Houard Wright, ls, 232 Walnut st. I ySo TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. I'eHKtylvaMia Bi. Club, (Aug. 3, '8j), i., club-house at 41st st. and Kim av., Kugene M. Aaron, lS-E,lcc, 39 S. 4th St., Jas. Leslie Alvord, 43J Chestnut St., Kred. A. Brown, (T), 23*5 St. Albans PI., S. W. Cheyney, S, 654 N. 43d st., Isaac Elwell,t (C,S), P, lag S. 6th st., W. T. Fleming, 1317 N. Broad st., Wm. S. Harper, 233 S. 4th st., Edgar C. Howell, (VP), 3435 Lancasterav., Frank M. Johnson, 1713 Jefferson St., (J. A. Edward Kohler, 1339 "arish st., Arthur P. Lewis, 1909 Green st., Henry A. Lewis, 1909 Green St., Arthur H. MacOwen, S, 216 S. 3d m , Frederick MacOwen, lk, (P), Chas. M. Miller, (C), 1600 Hamilton st., C. A. Roberts, lr,(C), 1203 Arch St., H. L. Roberts, 211 Arch St., T. A. Schaeffer, 216 S. 3d st., C. Shillard Smith, 125 Market st., W. A. Stadelman, LC, (Ardmore Station), Chas. I). Williams, (P), lr, 122 S. nth St., H. B. Worrell, UR,(VP), 560 N. 17th st. For early history of the tiiree clubs above catalogued (10+21+23), see H. B. Hart's il- 1 unrated sketch in the lyfuelmaH (July, 'S3, pp. 257-265). The following 40 are presumed to be unattached riders, though there are a half-dozen lesser clubs in Philadelphia to which some of them may belong: J. Howe Adams, LR, 1901 Chestnut jt., Geo. H. Atkinson, 162 N. 2d st., H. Ayers, 527 Arch St., James Battersby, 879 N. 30th St., Samuel A. Boyle, t 733 Walnut St., Geo. R. Brown, Front and Market sts., G. B. Bryan, 36 N. 4th St., (i. N. Buzby, LR, 517 Market St., F. D. Canfield, Mt. Airyav., Fred A. Colvin, 3906 Fairmount av., N. F. Cressman, Chestnut Hill, H. J. & G. R. Crump, Colonnade Hotel, J. S. Durham, Univ. of Penn.,ed. Maga., Edward H. IiardinR, 28 N. 6th St., Jas. Alvo-d Gale, 6 Chestnut St., John H. Geil,t 30 N. 5th St., Henry M. Goodwin, 1119 N. 4th St., Russell H.Gunnis.n. w.cor.aist & Chestnut, Thomas Hare, 2045 N. 13th st., E. Stanley Hart & Co.,*» 321 Chestnut st., Henry Humphreys, 1315 Mt. Vernon st., J. W. Johnson, 3600 Market St., L. S. Kern, 425 N. 3d Et., C L. Leisen, Putnam and Maacherit*., L. U. Maltby,o, Hotel Lafayette, Wm. E. Mellor, 2030 N. nth st., Benj. M. Norman, 831 Ani. st., Albert A. Norris, 1525 S. Broad st., W. B. Page, 381 S. Fourth st., L. C. Perkins, i8i8 E. Lehigh St., Chas. J. Pil' g, 3412 Sansom St., Wm. H. Roberts, 127 Catherine st., J. Henry Sharpe, 4006 Pine st., Horace E. Smith, 1213 Walnut st., H. Sturdevant, Wissohickon Station, Henry Troth, 150 N. aolh st., Frederick Trotter, 255 S. 3d st., Harry B. Vincent, 1 4087 Locust st., Charles E. Vrrkes, 1535 Girard av., Pittsburg: (Keystone B. C, Dec. 14, '79), O. H. Allerton, jr., Paul 3. Johnston, H.E.Bidwell,LR,C, G. A. Lyon, (P), Harvey Childs,o, J.W.Mc(Jowin, C.M.Clarke,LC,P,(S-T), R. T. Shannon, J. F. ^owan, E. D. Smith. J. E. Norrnecutt & Co.,** 94 Fifth av., Pittsburg Fire Arras Co.** Pottatown: (/». .ff. C. , Aug. i , '84), J. C. Kugler. PottsviUe: A. L. Phillips. PunxBUtawney: St.ElmoHotel.hyE.P.Grni. Reading: (H. B. C), J. Arthur Curtis, Will S. Dotter,(B), Samuel E. Slegel, W. R. Fichthom, H. K. Whitner,S,LR, J.L.Henreitzer,(S),W.LWUhelm,LC,(P,C), Howard W. Potter, Chas. G. Willson. Ridgway: W. L. Williams, ITlc. Sayrrings Hotel, ■'■^: -' -'. Leland Howard, (P), 1407 15th st.. [by A. P. Mclnturff. :V— .--"^ L. W. Seely,t(LC,S,C), 56 Pacific Building, W -renton: Warren Green Hotel, :' • Benj. F. Wilkins, jr., 923 23d st. [by J. H. Maddux. ---;' Washington C. C, L, (Mar. 31, '83), Wincheater: Lewis N. Barton, Union B'nk. ' ''M club-house, 1023 iith st. n. w , Woodatock: N. B. Schmitt. J"? (James I. Brereton, (C), A st. n. e.), V, "'* A. P. Crenshaw, jr., T, 621 19th St., NORTH CAROLINA. - ^ (Geo. E. Emmons, (lr), 602 E st. s. e.). Charlotte :(C. .S. C. , Mar. 1 5,'82),T.T. Gilmer, ^1 Wm. T. Fizer.ITT, 1819 15th st. n.w., R. L. Jones, S-T, V/iu „ I .■-.arr,(F),sub C, ^1 W. B. Hardy, 25 Lafayette sq., L. J. Massey, T. B. Seigle. J2_^l Amos W. Hart,(P), 1112 N. Y. av., Wilmington: (W. B. C, Nov. 9, '83), d^^^l John H. H?.wley,S, (Chicago), James L. Yopp, P,LC ^^^^H Wm. Geo. Kent, 1117 Penn. av.. ^^^1 G.M.Meyers,(L,S-T),S, Citizens Nat. B'k, SOUTH CAROLINA. ^^^H| F. W. Moulton, 1420 N. Y. av.. Columbia:(C. B. C. , Aug.9, '82),G. M. Berry,C, I^^Hfl F. H. Pelouze,(P\ 314-316 8th St., E. H. Hewitt, W. Jenidon. ^^^13 E. T. Pettengill,§P,(S), lcc, 1713 N. Y. av.. Oreenville: Pardon B. Sanford. ^^^Hj T. J. Putram,(S), Library of Congress, ^^^H L. H. Schneider, t(i.cc), 611 20th st. n. w., GEORGIA. ^^Bfi J. Cha3.V. Smith,*(C,VP), 1206 Penn. av.. Columbua: iC.B.C), T. L. Ingram, 'C. ^^^^1 Louis C. Solyom, Library of Congress. Macon: (Af. B. C, May 13, '83), 2^^^^H The rest are supposed to be unattached: John C. Flynn, iL, Jesse E.SIocumb,2L, IH^H V. ston Bresee, 1324 F St. n. w., oco. ill. i mi-iwci, ii. VV. Uigiiain, i J. H. Polhill,§C, Jas. C. Winberg, S. Xhomtutvilie: W. F. Ivioss, DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. We«t Point: (W. p. 8. C), Clark //oust, by R. S. Clark B. F. Eady, Kranit Unier, R. T. Frost, Henry Lanier.* FLORIDA. Fernandiaa: W. J. Farrell (Pioria B C.) Orlando. William O. Brown. ALABAMA. Blpinlngham: (B. B. C), Geo. L. Root Montgomery: (Ar B. C .884), T/u Windsor, by Watt & Lanier, Harry Bibb, R. H. Poiki Oliver A. Ciapp, W. J. Tullis, Joe One, d. E. Williams, jr., Frank X. Mudd.» Sara. E. Wilson. Wow Caatle: C. P. Orr. Tiukegee: (r. B. C), J. B. Dryer, C. MISSISSIPPL Coliunbua: .Sam, B. Johnston. Holly Springs: S. M. Patton. VlckBburg: James Purvis Bruce, lVashi,igton Hotel, by Welch & Co. LOUr,SIAN.\. Mew Orleans: {N.O.B.C), G. G. Gonzalez, A. M. Hill, (P), J. F. Morrow, W. C. Macklin, John M. Parker. TEXAS. AuBtln: H. W. Dotlpe. Brownsboro: S. I. Cade. Corpus ChrlBtl: (Victor B C, May 7, '84), B.G. Barnes.C, B.P. Hancock, F.E.Wells.' Fort Worth: Henry H. Kerr.o. Oalveston: {G. B. C), (J. G. Allison, C), T. L. Grover, (E.L.Beckwith,(Lcc,S),). C.M.Scrimgeour. Wlchlto Falls: R. West Starr. ARKANSAS. Little Kock: Charles F. Shillaber. Pine Bluff: A mU House, by Sam. H. Amis Jos. P. Angell,* Smith Sti.bblefield, ' Chester Flournoy, T. J. Wilson. S. Geisreiter, TENNESSEE. Chattanooga: {Crescent B. C, ,883), Clarke H. Home.C, John S. Lindsly, S. Memphis: {AT. B C, June 23, '84), J. R. Garrison, c. J. Scherer,* S.WadeHamptor,,jr.,B,W.L.Surprise,LCc, 783 S.M.Malb!;!-:; C .r. xatc5,/L,, [S-T, Tht Southern CycUr, pub. at 209 Main st NashTiUe: Library 0/ /*, Y. Af, C A {.WatkvUlt BUycU Club, .Sept. 14, 'go), J. B. Uurdett,"C, A.E.Howell,(C,P lcc) J. Howard Cole., J. Knox Polk, B ' Ed. D. Fisher, J. s. R„„. p. {Rock City Bicycle CM, Feb., '84) Bowman Duncan, C. C. Northern, VP Henry Hartung, P, J. B. Northern, B, ' AdnanV, Lindsley,jr.,o.K. Northem.v, Henry Morris.T, Eugene Sinclair, Robert W. Nichol, J. D. Talbot, S. KENTUCKY. Ashland: (Park City H'Tn, Apr. ,0, '84), J C. Brubaker,P, Ashland Poage, S-T Lc P. Brubaker, L.R. Putnam, Edw. Crawford, E. M. Roberts, (P), John Henderson, L. W. Sieweke Augusta: {A. B. C), Taylor House, l, by F. S. Andrews, R. L. Armstrong, Ben Harbesson, T, T. H. Armstrong, S J. W. L. Parris, J. N. Flemms', .x, H. L. Taylor. Bardstown: Central Hc'.l by I.M.Hughs C ave City: Mammoth C Hotel, [by W. C. Comstock. Covington: (/Centon IK C, Oct. 15, 83), R. B. Baldwin, Hananer& Myers •• RobsonC.Greer,(C), P.N. Myers,(.S.T,L'c), Chas. W. Hananer, H. S. Rodgers, B Dayton: H. W. Ungley. Dulaney: Robert D. Garrett. Henderson: {H. B. C.),l, Barrett Hotel, R. G. Adams, J. H. Letcher, jr., Jas. B. Cabell, W. F. Redman, B, M. F. Holloway, R. '.',. Rudy, S-T, T. D. Jones, Wm. H. Stills. Lebanon: AWr«Af,««*,byKellv& Ballard Lexington: {L. B. C, May 15, '80), Frank P. Scearce.* Louisville: (Falls City B. C, Feb., '81), P.R,Bettison,C2L),B, Hugo Helbum,! L, A. S. Dietzman, S-T, (ls), C. F. Johnston, L.<;,(P,S), C. The last-named belongs to the Louisville W. C. (org. 1884), and perhaps some of the following do also, as some were members of the Kentucky B. C. (org. 1881), which dis- banded early in '85: Horace Beddo, 'lr, Orville W. Lawson, Newton G.Crawford, Arthur L.Thompson, H. B. Gunther, Harrv Verhopff StanleyB.Huber,«(iL), John M. Verhoef!, Chas H. Jenkia', (Mi^s) MattieVerhoeff.' V m€. % 784 T/tA' THOUSAND Af, f/.ES ON A BICYCLE. ^^H Newport: C P. Buchanan, )r 1 C. W. Norman, (Si, 68 Rr^it «l . ■ ^^^H Owensboro: John T. Higdon, jr., LC. M R. P.iyne, (C), P, 11 .Standard Block, ««^tiB PadUOah: John R Scales. C. H Pi)t;er, (H), rci , (^j Sujirrior st., Priac«tOn: John M. Verhoeff (Louisville). A. C. Rogers, 2L, i\ Standar.l Block, OHIO. Fred 1'. RH H'/uelmrn, May 15, 'Si), Frank li. Stednian, (P), 323 Cedar av., SuntHfr Houst, (1. C McNeil, K. L. Strcing, Euclid av., C. K. Cankey, i.c. Will. T. Sawyer 11. F. Wade, 17 Cheshire St., Alhland: K. W. Miller.n. J. H. Wade, jr , 986 Kuclid ;■. ■ , ^^^^^H Avondale: ^A.B.C.)Xk. Steven5,P,(Cin.). U. ... Walker, 25S6 Broadway. ^^1 BellevlUe: l.ynn A. I.eKevre, B (). Squier.; CVnr/,i«(//"r.,(M,ir 2i,'M5),io32\ ilUonav., Bereft: Dayton C. Mil'-r, i.c H. T. Collins, iKx) Willson av , Bucynu; C J, ScroRKS. J. H. Collister, S-T, 147 (Jniariost., ^^^H Canton: (C B. C), S 'ud Hotel, <;. T. Do.vlins.t 965 Euclid a^.. J '__^^B K. Barnet, n, »• . C. Meyer, u, VP, E. P. Hunt, 425 Woodland av., Wade Chance, Jos. A. Meyer, jr.,],, K. E. Macduff,t 1252 Slater av.. C. S. C: st., N. J. Worley, 21 Standard Block. H. Kessler Smi'h,(T), 168 York st. College HUl: {B. C ), W. H. Aiken, l.c. The following are not club members: ColumbtlS: (Buckeye B. C, Oct. 21, '80), Chas. W.Allen,jr.,s.w.cor. Main andsthsts., C. J. Krag, (S), Jos. McCune, (C), Warner E. Galway, 125 W. Seventh st. Henry Lindenburg, Ward B. Perley, (S). Cleveland:(C. 5. C, Sept., '79,927 Euclid av.). W. H. Miller, P, ' «, (lP, lVD, T. S. Beckwith, (iL), 974 Euclid av., Dayton: (/?. B. C, 1881), A.W. Gump,*«S, Fred. S. Borton, (S), 743 Euclid av.. Geo. C. Pyle, Sidnoy A. Reeve. F. W. Bowler, 208 Superior St., Defiance: Crosfy House, byWm. Kirtley.jr., Sterling Brewer, 14 Champlain St., Charles E. Slo-um.lT Geo. Collister, Delaware: (Roz>ers C. C, Aug. 20, '83), J. H. Collister, 147 Ortario st., J. Ellsworth Williams, ('.,). John Q. De Klyn, 41 Euclid av.. DenniBon: Maurice Mooo', lr. W. R. Dunbar, 2530 Sawyer St., Elyrla: (E. B. C, Sept.,'83\ Bee/v House, L. Alfred Ely, jr., lr, tcc, S, 873 Prospect st.. Findlay: J. H. B..ger, LR. S. H. Freeman, FoStOrU: {F. B. T. C, May 18, '82), Harry Glidden, Weddell House, W. G. Ledry, H. E. Mickey, (S,C), A. S. Hathaway, 2578 Broadway, A. E. Mergenthaler, lc, C. E. Schaufelberger. J. T. Huntington, 106 Summit St. , John C. Nicholson, 21 S.andard Block, ' Gambler: Kenyan Colleze Library, Geo. C. S. Southworth, to. Directory of ivheelmen. OrOTeport: S. T. Nredel.. H*mUtoij: p. Heiiniiighofen,* LC Jamestown: Join. J .ie». Labanon: J u. 3eiiet'.ict. Uvel. H Williams, lc. Lockland: Will K. Ooctie. ManafleM; (M,rcury W. C, Aug. JO, 'JU), Honj. Hur«ih.i;, jr., A. J'. Seiler • MaaaUlon: (.1/ ;k. c, June i, '84), 0*0. .S. A- water, C, Jamei K. Dunn, lh Medina. (,I/,r,/.,., Co. iVCn, July 4, '84), Blake Hendriclc«>n. lc, Phanix Nat B'l.'k Mentor: O.o. K Maiher. Mlddletown. iC. W. Gunckel, J. n. Tytus Mount Vertioa: (■«?. K/KV«, Feb. .9. '84) Harry Crumley, S, Will. c. McFadden ' W.H.Di8ney.LC.(T), Frank L. Spindler H rry W. Ewalt. Will W Wilkin«,n. Iwac Hughes, C. Dw.gnt Young. W.C. McFadden., L, Kewark: (ValUy H C, June, '8i). I.uinley E. Evan.s, Walter H. Evans, Nilet: E. A. Wil.s(,n. Norwalk: Voung Afe„', Li/^ary O. F. Titus. t Oberlln: H. H. R>,ssell,t Oberlin College OmrUle: Procior E. Sears. Portamouth: (P. B. C. Nov. 8. '8j) T. M. Becker. i.c. Proaton: J. L. Wakefield. Rivenna: C. H. Griffin. Buggies. M. O. Daniels. Shreve: C. W. Hu lc Sidney:, r«//,^ a r, March ..'83>. W. K H:,rm„ny, P, .^h T. Mathers, B Springfield: (CAam/i^ C,/y B. C , Jun '8 , ) K. <;. Barnett. S. Paul A. .Staley. L, ' A. M^ Crothers, lt. Arthur Worthington. IJ.Kirkpalrick.LCC.*' ToledO:(ir. 5. C, Dec.,'8o\,., W G. E liott, James M^Tryon. S-T Lvle Hubbard, H. E. Richards, C. Warren: (Trumbull B. C). Krank A Idding,. W. b. Packard, lc. Xenla: (X B C..Mar..'8,), R. .S. Kingsbury Youngstown: (Y.BC.\\. I. Nicholas, S,lc. Zanesvme:(-?. 5. CMayj.'s,^ Chas. E. Pinkerton. MICHIGAN. Wan: M. B C\ Geo. J. Bo^rfind, *^. H. Biirnham, S-T, Henry M. Judge.VP, A. L. Conger, W. B. Mnmf,.,^ • o' 1. M. Finch. C, C. G. Wiesinger, .L.' 60 7«'j Ann Arbor (a. a. B. C, '8,). C^ Hou.,, iuUp..UHL^.,r,, (;eo. K. Keck, S. ,.c. t.t. Beal, J. E. kobin«,n. Jun E.B«al,P,Lcc, W. F. S,in,K,n. C. B. Dav.»on, B, Louis D. Taylor C JUrry W Hawley, Chas. W. Wae,,;, .' Armad*.: c. E. Uihrop, u. ' Battle CreeL. E.C.Adams, Franks Rar BayClty:,/?. c /•. c. -83). "*•**'• Porter & Baker.* Calumet: W.M. Harris. Th.,. Well.. jr.,LC. Cheboygan: Thomp„,„ Sm\ih LC C0ldwater:(C./? C.,July,..-83',, HarryJ.Bassett.F. D. W. Marsh. C.A.Conover.(C,P),C,u:, Wm E. Pray C. H Dickinson, John T. .Starr' Detrolt:(/> 5. C.,Sept.,,';9). C. t. Alvord, K. R. , ,„,; FrankZ.Curti.,.(L), A, F. Peck. Lc,S.T Chas. E. Dudley, T. B Kayl & Co •• W. H. Elmer.tS-T). John G. Read ' LeonC.Fmk.(.S-T), C. H. Smith, (C) Chanmng T.Gage.J F. H. Spranger. jr Albert P. Jacobs.to, C. D. Standi.sh, (pj Chas. H. Jacobs, o, Fred T. Todd Peter N. Jacobsen, R. H. Weekes. Chas. Kudner. 'O, Harmon Wendell East Saginaw: (e. s. b c. May ,4, ■84). Theo. Hnsx, P. " Grand Bapids: Frank H. Escott lc Greenville: W. G. c:iark. iahpemlng: Henry Harwood. JackBon:(y. ^. Cjuiyj,, '85), W. D. SpauK'ing. B. A. Webster. P Lansing: i^., lc. MarshaU: E. P. Johnson.f Negaunee: Joe Schauher.§ Ovid: O. B. C, (Apr..'82),W. C. Marv.n.(.S) OWOSSO: E. W. Woodward. St. Johns: G. E.Corbm.H R. G. Stee' lc St Louis: (St. L. B. C), John A. Wel'ier." INDIANA. Albion: Owen J. Black. Auburn: (A. B. C, Sept.. •84>, F. E. Davenport. §• C. W. McKay, F. C. Davis,* Bert. C. Robbins, S, O. P. Ensley, O. F. Wood. H. A. Ush. G. H. Yesbera. Columbus: (Indiana B C), G. Freidgeon, Charles Green, A. Rice.H M-:t7. C liwii,. LC. vv. H. banders, (C. F. Smith. InaianapoIU). 786 TEN THO(ri:AND MILES ON A BICYCLE. Fort Wayna: (Ft. U'ayn* B C, Apr %'^^), Stephen I) Hond.t,, H. J. Meyer, C.W.KdKarion,»C,VP, G. W. Morris, John M. Kiihns, Louis Ohnhous, V. S. I.iKhtfoot, G. A. Ross.t V, Chan. J Mcl-ain, S, T. K. Thieme. Qraenaburs: W H. Wooden.Hu:. Huntlnr;ton; Kd. A. Price, lc. IndiaoApolU: (/. B. C , Sept. 24, '84), Bat 1 Home, by \jn\in Keifold, Hottl Engtiih, L, by H. H. Jackfon, Wm. K. Bryci-, ST, 13 E. South St., Wm. H. Daggett, 100 'j. Meridian St., Gus. Davore, 320 E Vermont Jt., Josepli L. Jolmso'i, 24 Kentucky av., Wm. McWorkman, 35 S. Alabama St., C. Plumb, (S-T), LC, iS N. Meridian St., A. L. Roache, Ind. IVidge Works, W. H. Sanders, 142 N. Mississippi St., C. F. Smith,** C, 59 S. Illinois St., Wm. Wiegel, 10 W. Louisiana St., Wm. K. Wocher, 179 E. St. Mary's sf.. Jnshii.i Zlmm'!rman, (S), 39 V. Alabama st. Jrvlngfton : L ihrary of Butter University. Kokomo: W H, Man-ing, LC. La Fayette: (L. B C, '79), B. Lewis, (S). Log^ansport: Sam Patterson. Madiaon: W.(;. Heberhart, J. R. Matthews. New Castle: Oscar E. Evans, J. R. lllckm.m, D. W. Kerr. Nobleaville: (.v. B. C, March II, '85>, W. K. Dunn, lc, L. M.\Vainwright,»i.cc. Orange: Will A. George, Riley Hunt. Plymouth: R. !$. Oglesbee, o. Richmond: C. V. Wright. Eushville: (Rush Co. ir'fn), A.B. Irvin,LC. Bussiaville: Sam. p. Hollingsworth, LC. ShelbyviUe: E. O. Winterrowd.* Terre Haute: (T. H. B. C), J. F. Probst, Probst & Kisbeck," ^j.25 S. Fourth st. ILLINOIS. .^.flhmore: Wilt Rose.** Aurora: (A.H'Tn, May,'84), Hotel Evans, David A. Belden, H. B. Stippick, G.O.Clayton, '(S-T), Fred. Swarthout, E.A.Fitzgerald,(C),S-T, G.I.Tuttle,C,VP, Edward Frazier, P, Harric Voung, Chas. Griswold, N. H. Wood, n. Belvldere: Charles E. Parkhill. Bloomington: (B. B. C.,'83), Chas. Dodge, C, J. M. Fulton, HP, W.Ellis Dunn,(C),B, W. J. Matern, tN. Benn FeU, F, D. D. Warner. BracevlUe: j»hn J. Young. Canton I' (. Higbie, Leon B. Mesalct. Carmi: ,C. B C), John K. Kraser. Champaign: K. D. Levering. Charleston J W. Dikol. Chicago: (C B C, Sept. 1, '79), Chwgo Biiycit Club, 189 Michigan «»., Uurley H. Aycrs, 54 Clark St., J. O. Blake. P, LLL, 68.70 Wabash av., L. W. Conkling, S, tcc, 108 Madison »t., H. F Fuller, f 470 N. State »t., John R. W. Sargent, C, 1720 !• . .ly., Edward F. Sharp, (S), iL, i243Wabaih a»,, ilarrie T. Slafer, 5X36 Division st., David M. Stevens, 477 V/. Madison tt., Wm. C. Thome, S-T, 227 Wabash av., lohn Valentine, 80 Taylor st., N. H. Van Sicklen, '", Adams st., J. W. Wassail, 20'; H m av., E.O. Weed.n. wrcir M...;.aon st.& Mich.av., F. E. Vaics, (VP, LC, 84 La Salle st. The following are not club members: Clarence W. Ballan" ■< I^ Salle st, Kennetn Brown, 289 Erie st., Sam'l Danzijer, 10 N. Jefferson St., Albert Durkee, 157 Dearborn st., Frank P. Eldredge, Woodruff Hotel, Geo. F. Fiske,ir 789 Fullerton av., Henry V. Freeman, t Gormully & Jeffery,*» 222-214 N- FTcliti st , John C. Grant, 21C1 Indiana av., A. Gruse, '33 E. Pearson st., J.H.Hawl' cor. Wabash av. & Adams st., Clarence i... . H. 4900 Washington av., V. 1'". Mayer, 95 Fifth av., Sam Mile's, 125 S. Clark st., W. J. Morgan, (C////«- office, N. Y.), Edwin Oliver, 222 N. Franklin st., Pope Mfg. Co.,** 291 Wabash av., Frank B. Richards, A. G. Spaldinrr & Bros.,** 108 Madison st., 'Miss)A. Sylvester, prof.rider, 2501 Ind.av., The J. Wilkinson Co.,** 68-70 Wabash av. Elgin: (E. B. C, June, '84), F. C. Avery, Chas.E.Bemard.LC, R. E. Linkfield, (C), Jar..es Caldwell, VP, H. W. Mehring, F, Frank Carr, Frank Crosby, (S) Paul iloifurth, A. L. Keller, Genoa: (K utukc.' B. C), C. A. Brown, Sam A. Slater, H. A. Perking, Ed. H. Wilcox W. J. P.-;tchard, C.W. Stearns, (P), J. M. Thrasher,C, Wm.Wetzel.jr., S-T. HlfWwid Park. Kdward B. We-.on t lUnkakee. (A'. B C, June ,4, -8,). C«r«. K. Crawford. Arthur 11. llolt.VP Macomb: Horaiio S. Beavi».t Mollne: K. H. Sleight, lc Monmouth: He Davie.. F.R.VanTuyl.Lc Mount Carmel: ' W. W. Ulmsicul, (P) CarmiJJ C i^rU: (P. B. C, Jan.. 'S,,, I'ub Library t-fank S. Ilcavi,, J„h„ n. Koch C DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. 787 Koch Bros ,•• John S. Misncr, (". Harold Plowe, G.W. Rouse & Son,* '. G. Rouse, S, LR, !■'• J. Soldan, n. &• H. Tripp. Wm. H. Young. Geo. M. Hush, jr., W. E. Coe, E rank J. Ashton, Frank L. Lake, P ' J. S. G.bson, A. E. Thompson, lk. G.bson & Hart,- (E H. Wilcox). Sheldon: James \\. Senver Springfield: R„,.re m^,^ j. j y^^^ Sycamore: W. c. Stine. Wyoming: Chas. K. Duryea. lc MIS.SOURI. Appleton City: Herman Mersch BoonvUle: Walter Williams, ed. Topic Fredericktown: (Madison CountylV^m) L Chas. D...,ire, C. (Jas. W. Ne.ll, L)' ' K««a« City: (A-, C. ty^), C. B. Ellis,, c Nelson TH,ynes,,L, (F. S. Ray. C). MineLaM-.lte: Jas. W. Neill. lc Pleaaant Gap: Kiac W. Mains St. Joseph: W, H. Cameron, W. S. Osgoc., St. Loma: The Afissouri B. C. (org. Jufy ./ SO.has a club-house on the w. of Cardinal av., between Pine and Olive sts. Eurola ^ C(Oct.,'8.), >?^,«^^,,^C.andJ/ LOU.S SUr B. C. are also represented anions the following ,6 subscribers, of whom 6 belonged to Frisco IV^P„ f'84,. Chas. N. Beggs. R, r. Lee C .^^ •l/"^''" '-"'' A. NichoIs<^n.' V.M.Brewster.(C), G.C.r-ters,(P,LR), ^.W.Carpenter,jr.,(S-T).J.S.Ro^,„ L» d vm i^avies, (L), J. E. Smith"^ " " ' ^ "^^' Lee Spencer, J- K. TifIany,to. F. P. Wherry fP> ("«.> Wa-erman). Arthur You^lS's. IOWA. Adel: Frani L. Sweeley, lc AlWa: W. p. earner, x.c Burlln,toa:H. E.Jarvi..O,.oKr„pp,ck Charlton: O. E. Hull. De. .0in« (^,/.^C. of la. Mav ..'««) *-• S. ^oti.nt. ■ Orinnell: S. O. Bames.t J. E. Bayer. IadiaaoU:(/.y,. o.j.o. Bake, Jrank.Schooley, F. E. Worth, .^ Iowa FalU: J. f. fall, us. Jeffrr,on: W, M. Fergn.«>n. lcc Marshalltown: C. E. C. Boardman. • Oskaloo.* (a ly. c, Feb ,'85^ l W. L. Hnwe,(Lcc), P,C, S. B. Wright. Ttx. Ottumwa: (a /?, C, Feb. ,6, -^s) 1 A.L.Eaton,.S.T,(LT), C, M. Woo'wo'rth P Sioux City: A. L. Stetson, LC Winterwt: Chas. D. iiowell. (ux). WISCONSIN. Beloit: R. B. Clark. Jefferson: J. C. Hoflman T La Crosse: (La C. B. C.,-8„,c. A Smith.P. Menekanne: N. E. LinH- MUwaukee: (Af. b. C, Ap... ..,, _) A.A.Hatl.away.Lcc. G. H. La« -rce n Angus S. Hibbard, B. K. Miller, tc' ' Neenah: Frank C. Bissell ?D^V«?"""" ''""•JA.Hinman Sparta: (BC, Mar. ,5,'8,), E.W. Harvey,.S. " Toma*: Ch..s. A. Calkin,, H. D. Powe^ Watertowr: Herman M. Schroeter Wmona: («'. B. C). John L Wilson, ^.T. MINNESOTA. Arlington: H. W. Beatty Duluth: Chas. B. Woodru.T Faribault: (^.^CJnly 7,'8,).E. L.Sawyer. Henderson. H. W. Biasing. Howard Lake: ll-in,lsor House, by H. C. Bra ;'.ett Marshall: John S. Renninger.TT Minneapolis: (Mercury IV. C) H A AI Grant Bell, F.-rene P. Newhall ' Lou.sB.Gn...s,LC, T,J.Richardson,(Lcc). S.F. Heath,- LCC. T. M. .Slossor, Kdw. J. Kimball, Edwin S. Williams.tN ?~!f.!!°V!"'';.^".^ "='^*' " I Wombak... St Cloud: (St. C. B C, March, '85), Grand Central Hotel, by J. E. Hayward. 788 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. St. P»ul: E. H. Reimbold, 670 De Soto «t. Waden»: H. U. Hamlin. Winona: L. W. Wonhington. DAKOTA. Grand Forks: (Dakota B. C, May i3,'82), Griggs Hotat, by F. W. Boardman, G A. Baichelder, C, Joe E. Clifford, S-T. OJata: Leonard Beach. Wahpeton: F. O. MacW. NEBRASKA. Omaha: (O. W. C, Mar. 19, '81), C. M. Woodman, S-T. Sai^M Agency: Samuel H. Seccombe. KANSAS. Dulaney: Robert D. Garrett. Emporia: (E. B. C, 1882), Livy Jay Buck, W. R. Irwin ,• P. Fort Leavenworth: Tht fast Library, John J. Fitzpatrick, Chas. C. Candy, Josef)h W. Krank, William E. Dalton, M. J. Norton. (lamett: George L. Robinson. Harper: Fr<^nk R. Zacharias. Hazletcn: W. M. Fulton, lc), S. E. Pool. Howard: Thos. P. Campbell. Junction City: Chas. S. Davis. Lawrence: (.t.^.C.,Dec.,'82),J.M.Robbmt. OlwegO: Sam'l Carpenter, jr. Ottawa: Clarence N. Brown. St. Mary'8: S. T. Hathaway. Topeka: D. J. Hathawny. "(Wichita: E. E. Lind.:muth. NEW MEXICO. Plnoi Altos : V. C. Place (Greensburg, Pa.)i COLORADO. Colorado Springs: L. R. Ehricli, o, 211) N Nevada av. Denver: {Colorado ly. C, Sept. 26, '83), F. J. Chamard, A. A. Howe, G. E. Hannon, (C), Lewis C. Rice, (S), E. H. Ho-,ford, S, Lyle Waterbury. Lake City: C. F. McKenney. Leadvllle: Geo. E. Bittinger, tcc WYOMING. Clieyenne: (C B. C, Nov. », »82), Inter Octan Hate!, by John Chase, F. H. Ciark, 5, u-i., V. b. iicuira," r, W. S. Cowhick, H. B. Rice, C. Laramie City: (L. B. C, Aug. j6, '82), C. S. Greeubaum, lc, (Thomas Stevens), W. O. Owen, lk, H. A. Wagner. Bock Springs: Chas. P. Wassung, tcc MONTANA. Boseman: J.W.Besserer,F.A.Fielding,*ux. Butte: Ash Pi;:rce. Helena: (H. B. C), Herbert E. Judge, Will E. Norris,* S, T. H. Sharpo, jr., C. IDAHO, Boise City: Overland Hotel, by Eastman Brothe, 3. Halley: (Vi^ood River B. C, Feb., '86), L, Hailey Hotel, by Don McKay, Merchants' Hotel, P. A. Reagan, H. Z. Burkhart, Norman M. Ruick, E. C. Coffin, LCC, C, Chas. J. Selwyn,VP, Scott Keiper, Fred B. Tinker, J. A. McCloud, John J. Trr.cy, Lyltleton Price, S-T, Wm. H. Watt, P. WASHINGTON. Ooldendale: Will J. Story. New Tacoma: J. J. Siergus.T Seattle: Chas. H. Kittinger. OREGON. Amity: A. Grant Smith. Astoria: W. E. Warren. E. Portland: H. M. Cormick, C. H. Hobart Eugene City: Sterling Hill. HcMinnville: E. \/. Fuller. Monmouth: Hurt G. Lucas, lcc Portland: (Oregon B. C, Nov. 17, '83), HoltOH House, by David HoHon, Chas. S. Boyce, EJw. H. Miller, George Breck, P, W. E Mitchell, Wm. C. H. Burklin, C. C. Newcastle, S-T, (H. M. Cormick), H. C. Nickerson,(P), W. H. Cushman, T. J. O'Connor, H. L. Hatch, W.H.Partridge,aub.C, J. C. Hollister,* C. W. Scott, B, Lawrence Knapp, E. T. Staley, FredT. Merrill ,*C, (W. E. Warren). Salem: {Chemeketa B. C, Nov. 27, '84), Chas. M. Cox, L, T. Howard, H. L. Hatch, C, W. W. Martin, P. UTAH. Ogden: Seto J. Griffin. Salt Lake City: 'Salt Lak* B. C, May,'8i), Barnes & Davis,** W. JeniiiiiRS, S-T, r^ I? T-U.. J. Jaques, 0-0. J. Taylor, P. DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. ARIZONA. Tnctoa: F. W. Gregg. CALIFORNIA. I^AnjfelM: {Ctntomt B. C, 1883) Nathan White, C, G. A. Von Brandis, S. New Almaden: E. R. Abadie. Oakland: (O. B. c, Aug., '80), J- D. Aekison, T. S. Hardy. Petaluma: A. H. Cowen. Riverside. P. L. Abel. San FrancUco: The S. F. B. C. (Nov. 28, '78) is one of the very oldest, and its ab^ sorption ot the California C. C, in Jan., '86, will doubtless give it increased pros-' perity. The B»y CUy IV Pn (Sept. , '84) boasts a membership of nearly ,00, and supports the League. The Golden CUy B. C. (Nov. 30, '84) wras organized by 789 I professional racers. See pp. 489.494. Subscribers from all these clubs, atxl from the unattached, are arranged below B. S. Benjamin, 518 ' jn Ness av Milton Berolzhime, 7 and 8 Batterir st Chas. Biederman, (C), 8,8 Sutter st Melville A. Bley, 905 Ellis St., S. F. Booth,(VP),c, s..Shotwellst.. tredR. Cook, C, 4.5 Market St., Frank D. El well, 3.6 California St.. Munro Falkenstein, 300 Battery st. H. C. Finkler, (C,P), ...Postst., Thos. L. Hill, HP, .46Eddy,t., VV. M. Meeker, 813 2,st St., E. Rideout, 804 Filbert st. San Jose: (Garden City B. C, Aug. .0 '84) Lloyd Moultrie. L. 8 - «H;. San LouiB Obiapo: C. G. Hinds. Woodland: Frank Dieti. DOMINION OF CANADA. ONTARIO. Belleville: {RambUn IV. C), W. R. Carmichal, W. Ho'lden, W.R.Ga,erin S.G. Retallack.(C),v, !5- T. Greene, VP, E. W. Sibbald,t W. L. Hogg, J. w. Snyder. Brighton: R. J. Bowles, wr, wc. Fairfield: Henry E. Ridley. Fort William: Jrmes McLaren Ooderich: (G B C, Apr.,'83), S. M. Lloyd. Hamilton: (//. S. C, Aug. 23, -S,), A. T^ Duncan, B, J.A.Robinson, JoeH.G,tchell,(S.T),,L,R.H. Skinner, W. J. Turner, N, Mountain Top Kincardine: F. E. Coomb.;, wc. H. A. Mcintosh. Kingston: (K.B.C., Aug.. '83). H^'indsor Hotel, by Martin O'Brien W. H. Coy, S-T. La Chute Mills: J. E. Ireland London: Ariel Touring Club., w, (Aug. 9, '«3), Albion Block. ' ^V'W.Begg.(S),wc, James L.-,mb. 2L. G. D^ Cameron. (P). Geo. P. Lilley, .L, W. H. Cooper. John McCarthy, J. L. Fitzgerald, Chas. E. Mountjoy.B, Geo. Forsythe, J. a. Muirhead. { (j^^r«/O?,-5.C.,w,0ct..'82,Vic.o,ia B'Id'gs) I A.N. Chisholm.jL, William I'ayne* W K F-=r.- -.- -.5- -- ., . .-^ ._. ... j^ oduiiders. \ Newmarket: J. E. Hughes. | Ottawa: (a B. C, Aug. 4, >8,), w, F.M.SJenkins,C,wc.S.M.Rogers,(aL),.L. G. A. Mothersill, (P). wcc. Port Arthur: C. W. Jarvis.' Port Elgin: (p, E, B. C), w, Samuel Roether. S-T, wr. St Mary's: (St. M. B. C), w, C. S. Rumsey, C, wc. St Thomas: (St. r. B. C.,Aug. .4,'82).w, Jas. S. Bnerley, (wcc).wP, Wm. Reeser C.H. Hepinstall,C,wc,WR, J. J. Teetiel.'l {• red L. Howell, Simcoe: (S. B. C, Sept. 8, '82), w, Ceo. R. Cook, F, O. M. Jones, A. W. Donly, L, W. S. Perry, P, wc Hal.B.Donly.w.S-T, n.R.Tisdale.S-T.WR. Thorold: John Dobbie,*WR. Toronto: ( T.B.C, Apr. ij.'S, ; Adelaide st ) A..E. Blogg, S, Chas. Langley, (,L), F.ed J. Brimer.iL, R.H.McBride,(C,wP) N.R.Butcher.(S). Harry Rj.He. (2L) wr' P.E.Doolitlle.(wVP), Fr,d J. Spariing, ' W. G. Eakins. C. A. Tubby. A. G. Eraser. Robert Tysor. C. E. Lailey.(T. VP, wr),A. F. WebMer,(C). P O. H. Orr. iL, (IVanderers B. C.Oct '82) Whitby: C. G. K. Nourse. Woodstock: (ir. B. C). Harry Biette.jL, Henry Davidson. S, L. McKsv J G. Hav, C, W. H. MerWtt, W.A.Kat.,.I.,wcc, Jas. S. Parmenter, '^1 790 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. MANITOBA. J. W. Heckman, (J. B. Pattillo), Winnlpes: {W. B. C), r. D. Hillis, J. Wiseman Suirs, W. H. Nourte. (Buffalo, N. Y.)i G. W. Kent,t Hei oert Temple, A. J. King, W. L. Temple. QUEBEC. Philip H. McGuire, ^^1 Montreal: (A/. B. C, Dec. a, '78: rooms, Truro: {T. B. C), Hiiriiside Place), J. W. Davis, G. H. Blair, S-T, Wm. J. Murray, A.T.Lane,»wn,J.D.Miller,(S-T,VP),B,WR S. W. Cummings, T. S. Pattillo, C, ^^^^H Chas. Lyman, 0, H.S.Tibb8,(P,wP,LCc). Arch. McCulloch, T. M. Patton, Alf. E. McKenzie, Will. H. Rennie, L. NEW BRUNSWICK. WestviUe: D. R. C:ampbell. 8»ckvUl0: A. E. Cogswell. Weymouth: Fortes Jones's Hotel,C. Burrill. ^^^^^B at John: (St. J. B. C), J. M. Barnes, Windsor: Victoria Hotel, by T. Doran, - ^^H Charles Coster, aL, Chas. W. McKce, J. Fred Carvei, C. H. Dimodu ': j^l W. E. Graham, Geo. W. Robertson. Yarmouth: Arthur W. Eakins. NOVA SCOTIA. BERMUDA. Amhent: A. C. (7asey, Hamilton: HamUton Hotel, by W. Aike» T. Hodgson,* Arthur D. Sharp. F. Lennock Gudei. AnnapoUa: St. George's: DommioH Hotel, by A. H. Riordan, St. George's Hotel, by N. Escobel, W. M. De Blois.tTC, Louis A. McKenna. Globe Hotel, by A. J. Richardson. Antigonish: W. H. Buchanan, pub./4»roni. Smith's: George Tucker. t Halifax: Halifax Hotel, by H. Hesslien, ^ (Geo. H. Bayne), A. W. Cogswell, MEXICO. f^<: H. H. Bell, W. Crowe, City of Mexico: {.El Club Naciotul Veloci- y^H^ij'' Wm. M. Black, L. I. Fuller, Pedista, 1883), i^^m J. A. Clark, J. J. Hamm, W. S. Locke,** I* Cinco de Mayo No. 4. %m EUROPE, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. ■1 ENGLAND. Cirencester: Geo. Wm. Gobey, 73 Castle st. S ashford (Kent C. C): H. J. Johnson, C Coventry: (C. C. C), S. Colder, 65 Butts, ^B Bath: James Morgan, 26 Union St. Griffiths & Co.,** Priory Mill, ■' ai Beeston: Humber & Co.** Henry Sturmey, 12 Smithford st.,ed.O'f/«/. ^1 Birmingham: Croydon: H.R. Hart, Beachley, Chichester rd. ^K^H John Lauterbach, 33? New John St., w.. Derby (Derbyshire): Ben Hinchclifle. ^H^l Arthur J. Leeson, Florence Viila, Albert Diss: Edward G. Abbott, Mere st. ^^^H rd., Aston, sec. Birchfield B. C, Doncaster: F. W. Willbtim, Lin&en View. ^^^1 W. J. Spurrier, 3 Queengood rd., Moseley. Ealing: F. Fry, Wyvenhoe, Castle Bar Hill. ^^^H Bradford: Day & Raisbeck,** i E. Parade, Eastbourne (Sussex): ^^^H A. Fame)], 51 Cross Lane, Great Horton. L. Adams, Brooklyn House, capt£. B. C, ^^^1 Frisinghall: G. H. Rushworth. T. Knight, 36 Terminus rd., I^^^H Bristol: Fred W. Brock, Belle Vue House. S. Saker, 35 Terminus rd. ^^^1 Bromley (KeiiiY. Caineron Swan, Lauriston. Enfield (Middlesex): ^^^H Bury: John Dewhursv 21 Market st. Sidney Chester Fox Bush Hili Park. ^^^H Bnrv St. Edmunds: C. H Nunn. Oateshead-on-Tyne : - ^^^^1 Cambridge: A. B. M. Whatton,C. U. B. C. James Buchanan, jr., 2 Osborne Terrace, ^^^^B Cardiff: Henry Warne Flint, 36 Park PI., Robert Affleck, 10 Osborne Terrace. ^^^1 Herbert White Flint, St. John's Square. Hatfield (Herts): John Joseph Hayes. ^^^^^H Camavon {f/. lyales): R. Gwen, St. David's Hayant: K. Martin Green, Southbrook. ^^^H Catford HUl (A'e»t): [rd. Charles f. bisley, 15 Exbury rd. High Wycombe (Bucks): B. Waison Soper (i^ondwater). Kaswiek: A. W. Rumney, tcc, (ex^ec. C. V B C) Lead.: J. Ardill & Co.,^ St. George'. Wlu.' Leytonitone: W. W. Wilson. Uverpool: A. Alexander, The Gymna.ium, John Gabriel, a Priory rd., Everton, Ja». E. Grant, 5 Parkfield rd., VV. J. Hughes, ijj Whitetield rd., J. E. Owens, 69 Sowther st. (Crown St.), bugler of Se/ton ami DingU C. C. ; hon. sec. and treas. of Liverpool Cv- cit Buglers' Clui, Jas. A. Sinclair, 55 Whitechapel. LlandjTMUl (S. lyaUs): David J. Evans. lK)ndon. Library o/t/u British Afuseum. Joseph Hadcock, 270 Victoria Park rd., e., Chas. 1. Hawn, 4,.S01d Kordrd.,e. O.W.Bennett,;. .St. Peter's St., Mile End.e , A. M. Bolton, Pense Lane, Sydenham, n., C. W. Brown, 2 Oak Villas, Feyern Park, W. E. Ciay, 6'.Tnrnpike Lane, Hornse/, n. G. P.-mbrokc Coleman, Craig's ct., Charing Cross, ex-official h^ndicapper N. C. U , W. F. Collier, 47 Weedington rd., n. w. Charles Cordingly. pres. If. Ke.uingtcn T. C. and pub. Tricycling /ournai. The Grove, Hammersmith, w., also 6 Marl- boroushrd., Bedford Park, w., Edward Daneil, 22 Barbican, e c Henry C. Dewell, 2. Arlington sq'., Isling- ton, n., hon. sec. N. London f farriers, t. E^ Doyle, ,4 Osbaldeston rd.. Stoke Newington, William Dutton, Penrhyn Lodge, Amesland rd., Wandsworth, Harry Etherington, publisher of IVhtelinr 151 Fleet St., e. c, C. J^f-ox. ed. Cyclin. Ti»u.- East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars st e - G.Goodall,. Everingrd., Stoke' Ne;vington, H R^ Hart, Ouchester rd., Crovdon. Alfred Hayes, „4 Maiden rd., n. w., capt Haver stock B. C, Harnr Hayes, 97 Pemberton rd., Kilbum I Kise, n. w., I Herbert Hayes and William Hayes, 2 Whit- t.ngton Terrace, Highgate Hill, n w ►red^W. Haynes, ,22 Albany .t , Regent's Park, hon. sec. Sxuallmvs C. C W. Hon^ybum, jr., 204 Uxbridge rd.' Shep- ard's Bush, w.. DIRECTORY OF IVf^EELAfEN. 791 H^ John«,n. ,0 Harvest td., HoIIoway, „.. tdw. J lone., , .6 Stoke Newington rd..n . Harry John Jones, .9 Gillie. «., Rentuh Town, n. w., (Haverslock, B C) H. \. Judd, .d. U'Aeel IVorlJ, 98 Flee'. .... Tho,^ Geo. King, , Lancaster rd., Upp.; ToUmgton Park, „.. (c«„^„^^^.t-,. C R. K,rkpatnck, Wandsworth Common, Alex. Wm. LesJie-Lickley. ,3 Strathblain. rd., Wandsworth Common, London Cycle Supply A»'n.^ j; gueen Victoria St., Mason & Payne,*. 4, Cornhill,e.c., W. t. M,,„er, ,7 Park rd., Haver.,ock "'II, n. w. (Belsize B. C), F. Myers, . Testerton st.. No.t'ing Hill, w., Aifred Nixon,(capt. London T.C.), Beacon- ^alcKockmont rd.,Central Hill,Upper Norwood, s. e., J. Foxley Norris, . Wenlock s,., Hoxton, n., I" rank O'Connor, .08 Croftonrd.,s.e W. J. Pearce, 18 St. John's Wood Ter- race, n. w., Geo. Philip & Son,** 32 Fleet st , Alfred A. Phillips, Hope Cottage, Hill ,t.. Upper (.:iapton, Robert E. Phillips.t*. 70 Chancery Lane (also Rochelle, Selhurst rd., s. e.), ' H. R. Reynolds, jr.,t 3, Craven st., w. c R. P. Hampton-Roberts, .70 Alexandra rd.,' St. John's Wood, s. w., S. Edgcumbe Rogers, Rockley, Champion PArk, s. e., Edward Rourke, ,3 Bow Lane, Chcapside Frank Salsbury, 80 Albert st., Regent'. Park, n. w., F. W, Schnauber, Spanish Patriots, White Conduit St., Pcntonville, n., {Haver- stock B. C), E. R. Shipton, ed. C. T. C. Gazette, ,3,. •fo Fleet St., e. c, Sigma Smith, Hornsey, n., (River Cottage), H. Spooner, 18 Royal av., Chelsea, s. w., ' Surrey Machinists Co.,** " Jnvincibl- " Cycle Works, 128-.29 Gt. Suffolk st., Borough, s. e., S. H. Swain, .93 Carlton rd., Kilborn, E. Tegetmeier, Field ofdce, 346 Strand James Trigwell,** 49 Boston PI., Do'rset Square, n. w., Montao.,, L.Trf>:;r. 'xf ^f^^v-U-^f- — :..t i\ w 792 TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE. , J, S. Whatton and A B. M. Whatton, 9 GlaagOW: Hugh Callan, 6 Wilton Terrace, 1 Somers PI., Hyde Park Square, W. T. Logan, 72 Buchanan st. " WkttliHg" Library, 15a Fleet St., e. c. Qreenock: (Amateur B. C), ■4 A. J.Wilson, Powerscroft House, Clapton. Robert Allison, 43 Esplanade, ■ A- Lutton, Long Sutton: J.W. M. Brown, TC. Robert Dixon, Dempster St., Maidenhead: Hickling & Co., 39 King St. Andrew Forrest, Fairmount, 40 Esplanade, ^i_ s Manoheater: H. R. Goodwin, 6 Swan st. John Forrest, C, Fairmount, 40 Esplanade, Mlpfield( Korifo): John Barker. Robert C. Robertson, 68 Union tt Mortlake (SMrrey): Kdgar J. Sherriff, Tcc, Holly House. IRELAND. Much Wenlock: H. Griffiths, The LaureU. Callan: Samuel Potter, Bank of Ireland. Ne wcaatle-on-Tyne : Caatlemartyr: Wm, Bowles.rc, Epringfield. 1). M. M. Dawson, 17 Warden st. Dublin: John Rowland, 30 Westland Row, Newry: J.Macknight, j6 Barrack St. J. W. Webster, 23 Geraldine, Berkley rd., Northampton :G. Hodgson.S St. Edmundsrd. S Young, 43 Portland Row. North Shields: J. R. Hogg, Unioi .., Limerick: Colman O'Connell, jr. Thos. Robinson, tcc, 36 Waterlr pl. Tralee: J. G. Hodgins, Castle st. Paignton: Geo. Soudon Bridgeman. SWEDEN. Pontypridd: Morris Bros.,Wm. M. Morris. ITddevalla: Alban Thorbum, tc Tortamouth: F. J. Samson, 36 Fleet St. Bedditch: HOLLAND. F. H. Warner, C, tcc, Laburnum Villa. Utrecht: C. H. Bingham, Tcc, pres. N.V. B. Bomford (Essex): SWITZERLAND. Leopold Pierson, Stanford Aiver. St GaUen: £. T. Edwards, Zur Alten Bank. St. Heliera (Jersey, Channel Islands): C. Metiver, 60 King st., VP,/. B. &' T. C. FRANCE. Salford: Walter Binr-, 235 Chapel st. Oan prea Pan (I^asses Pyrenees): Scarborough: S. Swinden, 70 Oxford st. R. Knowles, tc. Sheffield: F. Percy Dickinson, Farm Bank. Paris: Sittlngbourne: (S. C. C), A. de Baroncelli, 18 Ru"- Roquepine, ed. -■■-"?— -"'^^^H Phil. H. Bishop, Station St. "Annuaire de la V^Iocip^die Practique." South Kilvington: H. P. Mason. ITALY. SUfford: T. S. Nixon, 69 Marstoa td. Milan: Stanford River: Adolpho Schlegel,jr. ,*Via Filodrammatici 8. Leopold Pierson, The Wayletter. GERMANY. Sydenham: Alfred Bolton, Penge Lane. Wandaworth Common (Surrey): Berlin: T. H. S.WaIker,Tcc, 18 Krausen str.. Chas. R. Kirkpalrick, Fernhill, Boling- editor of Der Radfakrer. broke Grove, AUSTRIA (HUNGARY). Alex.W. Leslie-Lickley,43 Strathblaine rd. Budapeat: L. D. Kostovitz, TC. Welwyn (Hertfordshire): W. d'A. Crofton,t Hillside. RUSSIA. Witham: W. H. Moresby. Moscow: J. Block,* capt. M. B. York: Thomas Bouttell, 14 Feasegate, TURKEY. R. E. Burdekin,** Constantinople : Chamber of Commerct F. P. L,T ibert, 5 St. Clements PI. Hotel, William V. Shelton, (Bey), 0. ^^^^1 SCOTLAND. Aberdeen: Angora (Asia Minor): Henry Binns, 0. ~" ~ ^^H W. Kendall Burnett, t tcc, \^l\ Union st. PERSIA. Teheran: Dundee: Janes Ogilvie, 86 High st. Edinburgh: W.Geo.01iver,9 S.E. Circus PI., Wm. North, 0, Indo-European Tel. Ca C. P. C. Roques, jr., 16 George st. JAPAN. TPifA- Tnhn Ra.TKUv Ralmal/^rtlr,- T a/1i.K.i.ib- iriAfA. Ti W T ^'i^t^m.A ♦/% 1 * ^*** M^i J' > * « . ■ • - A — — -* > -«*.^*«. ** ^a SOUTH AUSTRALIA, North AdeUlde: {N. a. B c.) Albert E. Thurston, S-T. 6 Connell St. QUEENSLAND. ^^••(BrisUn.AmaUurC,clinfCM). Wra. Johnson, C, 9. Edward st. NEW SOUTH WALES. Goulburn: Alfred E. Riley Sydney: (SyJ„^ BicycU CM), Geo. L. Budds, 253 Elizabeth it, James Copland, 85 Market st, W. R. George, T, E. H. McRae, S, 60 Wynward So George Martin,! Cleveland st James Martin, pres. " N. S. W. Cyclists' Union," 389 George St., F. G. Sloper, Oxford st. West Sydney: Jas. F. Rugg, Kent Brewery. VICTORIA. B»U*rat:(i?. /?.&.7-. C. ,879), T. Miller, u p ci,-— • ..„ G M ck- • t>himmm, VC, ir._iii. , ^" ^ompson, C. Hamilton: (H. a. C), Walter G.Farroll.c",. Gray St., H. C. Heales, Colonial Bank Melbourne: (^ AC, Aug. .5. V8), w. E. Adams, Lonsdale st., (hon. see Normamhy B. C), H. C. Bagot, VC, ,00 Bourke :t., w Geo. R. Broadbent. Crowle Villa, Fleming- ton Bridge, Hotham Hill (C, B Eu- rtka B. C), ' Geo^W.Burston,C,„3 Flinders St., e t- C. Carter, 58 Russell st ^' ""pTc. 'cT"""' "•(^-dsor),(capt. Thos.A^Edwards, ..Little Collins St.. w.. O. A. Ekman, .00 Victoria st., w Fred. J. Empson, Little Collins st. Oeo^eS.Geddes...LaTrollest. Z t ""^'"°"' T, Whitehall St., i-ychng Nnvs, F. Llewelyn, 60 Col/ins st., Sandhurst: (.S-, AC,, June a.. -80; ,eor- ganued as ^.C.C, June .,,'84), W. H. Bradley, Pall Mall. A. H. Budden, B, Willianaton st. , DIRECTORY OF WHEELMEN. 793 John DriscoII, Honeysuckle st Melvin E. Gilbert. George Ter;;ce, Bull «. H. y. Howell. C, Bank of Austraiia,' H. Jullien. Charing Cross, S. Keam & Co,* S. Lazarus, West End Hall, J- H. Luke, Police SUtion,' G. A. Miller, S, Kent Brewery, W- J. Parry, (C,S),Kenfig Villa, Will. «., W.H. Simmons, (C), Pan Mall. U. R. WiUon, Hargreavesst., Chas. Woods, Mitchell st., W. Wotherspoon, Barnard st. were Pledged for the list by Le^e^^tf'v^^ J- Parry, consul of the Victorian Cyclisu^ resided since '75. Sandhurat is .00 ra d^ tant from Melbourne, the capital. Tnd ha^ t population of about ,c 000 • .iT^., '""'"»»» •« itwa,»,„. ' "'°"8'', as Ute as w"d bl^ f "'"'' °' calico-tents in the IZtl' ""2"' '" *"'■• -•"•'"e-woriJ Par^^'s 1/ ''~"l''.''°«' ° 'he wheel " as Mr. .n "theeoM" """r' '''"" "-V Pa.rons on B c '!k ""If '""•""='•" '^he Bos- In. T ^ °''^"' '" "'« United States," and one of the richest -did not put up ^s much money to encoun.ge the publication of the American road-book as did each of two An^rl^ r "J""'^"«d ■"-'"« town at the Antipodes! (See pp. 558-70). D. Ande.-son, Viewpoint, Richard Andrews, Golden Square R. W. Brown, S, Bullst., T. Case Brown, Crystal Palace, Pall Mall. Guy Carwardine, Chariston rd., H. S. Carwardine, Chariston rd., Hugh Carwardine, Chariston rd.' Robert Dare, Viewpoint, Chas. J. Davis, Kangaroo Flat, A. G. Daymond, Viewpoint. C. Hosking, jB, Olindast., Hutchinson & Myera, Mitchell .t.. .-.^.i-' r ' ■ 794 r^iV THOUSAND MILES OJV A BICYCLE. J. H. Knight, Myers st.. Will Beswick, C. J. Okey, C, Kangaroo Flat, J. M. Chambers, (S-T IVaUtmata B. C), ^^^^^^^1 E. V. Stephens, Kangaroo Flat, J. Fitton, 35 Grey St., W. E. P. Thomas, (C), Bailey St., Service & Fitton, •• 15 Grey St., A. Cresswell, VC, Ca'''omia Gully, A. Wiseman, L. Chas. J. Fly, Barnard St., Christchurch: {Pioneer B. C, April, 1879), ^^fc J. W. Tonkin, S, Bailey st.. F. Cooper, Tuam St., -Tf- * .^^H W. Vinton, C, C lifornia Gully. J. C. Coughlan, Bank of N. Z., South Yarra: F. Llewelyn, 37 Lang st. S. F. Dyer, Higl. st.. ^1 Warmambool: (/f. C. C), H. J. Jenkins, Bank of N. Z., H'arrnainbool Mechanics' Inst. Library, [W. H. Langdown, 134 St. Asaph st.J, -' J^l F. W. Briggs, S, A. J. Foote, A. Lowry, S, Coshcl st.. .' '^^^H D. Ceamond, J. S. Mack, ' I. Foxley Norris, 226 Hereford st. (S, T, R. J. Davokins, E. White, C,B New Zeala- Cyclistb' .•MWancc). Re- TASMANIA, turned in 1885 to London (i Wenlock - ^ ^^^^^^1 Hobart: {.Marmion C. C, 1S83), St., Hoxton)], J. W. Painter, Church rd., St. Albans, A. Adcock, Hampden r4., J. Andrews, Hill st., A. E. Preece,* sub. C, Cyclists' Exchange. G. A. Arming, (C), Liverrool & Harrington Chas. Barlow, B, Coolley s Hotel, [sts., Roland A. Bishop,*(C), 58 Elizabeth st., Dunedin: {D. C. C, Aug., '79), Edgar Hine Burn, William Crow. ' '4ii_!^^B Oamaru: {MartA Otago C. C, 1881), Kenneth Bain, S, P. J. Bowen, VC, 112 Arjyle St., Arthur R. Butterfield, S, Elizabeth st 44.^^^H W. L. Butt, Ure st., ^^ Chas. Davis. 't L. P. Christeson, Thames St., Chas. Hallam, Glenorchy, Thos. F. Hallam, C, Glenorchy, Chas. Wherrett, New Town. F. Cottrell, Thames St., F. J. Forbes, North School st.. ^•qrr-^--^ - ^H Douglas G. Moore, Union Bank, :^~ -' ^H H. Snow, C, Porough Engineer', office. NEW ZEALAND. Wellington: (t^. Cyclists' Ass' n, Oct., '81), Auckland: (A. B. C, Nov., '81), David W. M. Bum. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. After the main list (Chap. 39) was electro yped, the following 200 subs, were enrolled, — three-fourths of them during the two months ending Apr. 24, '86. The price was then ad- vanced to $1.50, and Nos. 3520 to 3571 were pledged at that rate, during ihe next six months. Almost all the names up to No. 3500 may be fou nd in the geographical directory just preceding. Abbott, C. W., Baltimore, Md. 34>S Bouton, Chas. F., New York 3457 Amerman, W. I., Brooklyn, N. V. 347S Eoyd, Irving P., New York. 3458 Balderston, O. H., Baltimore, Md. 3469 Brown, Clarence N .Ottawa, Kan. 3386 Baltimore Cycle Chtb, Baltimore, Md. 34>3 Brown, W. B., Baltimore, Md. 3416 Barker, C. L., Pittsfield, Mass. 35'S Bruce, Jas. P., Vicksburg, Miss. 3490 Barkman, A. B., Brooklyn, N. V. 3.S02 Bnrkhart, H. Z., Hailey, Id. 3407 Barnard, H. G., New York. 3441 Butler Utiiv. Library, Irvington, Ind. 3525 Karnes, J. W., Newark, N. J. 3549 Byron, S. H., New York. 3443 Barton, A. J., Newburgh, N. Y. 33»3 Campbell, A. H., St. Louis, Mo. 3548 Batchelder, Geo. A., Grand Forks, Dak 3495 Carley House, Schenectady, N. Y. 3489 Bayley, W. S., Baltimore, Md. 3412 Case, Chas. V., San Francisco, Cal. 3534 Belmont Hotel, Gloucester. Mass. 35"9 Cataract House, Niagai,\ F'alls, N. Y. 3497 Benedict, Chas. M., New Vork. 3442 Center, Robert., New York. 3464 Bennett, A. A., Cincinnati, O. J50V4 Chalfant, A. B., Beaver Falls, Pa. 3376 Bingham, F. L., New York. Boardman, f. W., Grand Forks, Uak * • 3421 3496 Cilley, Geo. B., Kingston, N. H. 3568 Clemson, Wm., Middletown, N Y. 3393 Clifford, Joe E.. Grand Forks. Dak. ,.^ Cochrane, H. D., New York. ,^ Coffin, Edwin C, Hailey, Id. '*!. Co a,ner, N. L., Washington, D. C \2 Con„,Geo.W.,Morristo;n,N.J '' Connell. Maurice, West Springfield, Ms. \2 Cooney, R. L., Atlanta, Ga. , l^Per,jr..Jas..RedBank,N.J '"° Cord,ngley, jr. , chas. , London, £„^ \^'' Coss,ns.E.R.. London, £„^.' ^^ "? Crenshaw, jr., A. P.,Washing,on, D, C. 3!^ Cruchlow J. M., Beaver Falls, Pa. ~ Cr^k^ House, New London, Ct. "" Curtis, Atherton, New York Curtis, G. S., New York. Karrow, P. f., Indianapolis, Ind. Davidson,;. E., Baltimore, Md I>avis, Chas., Hobari, Tas. Davis, Fred M., Madison Wis Dawson, Sam., Beaver Falls, Pa ,,5, ^'^oUPublULU^^ry, Detroit, Mich. 3 40 f f"* ^''>''* C/«^. Hud«,„, N. V. ,,^ Internai^'UUt. I, Niagara Falls. N. Y \Z Ives. Fred n V v.. ' 'J*?" 3-M4 34J3 3547 34«7 3561 3565-6 3381 Doane, W. S., Dorchester, Mass Dunlap, Geo. E., New York Dutcher, Wm., New York. Edwards, W. D., New York fixckange Hotel, Lehighton, Pa. '■'■Hd, C. A., Norfolk, Va. Fraser, Ed., Red Bank, N. J. Krisbie, G. B., New York. Oallien, Henry, Albany, N Y Oay, L. W., Biffalo, N. Y. Gibson,;. W., San Francisco, Cal (•oodman, Henry, Hartford, Ct Gulick, ;as. G., New York. HaiUy Hotel, Hailey, Id. Halstend, E. J., New York. Hammond, ;. H., St. Paul, Minn. Handlen, Frank B., New York Hardy, W. R, Washington, DC Harris, C. M., Red Bank, N J Hartley, W. G., Kingston, Tenn. Hawthorne, The, Brookline, Mass. Henry, Patrick, Vicksburg, Miss. Hill, E. F., Pittsfield, Mass. Hill, Geo. A., New York. Holland, Lincoln. Worcester, Mass. 3508-3 J'^ Hotel Re^nfrt, Baltimore, Md. ,,„ Howe (Miss) Jennie M., Springfield, Ms. 30 Howell, W. E., New York. " o Howland, Chas. H., Provider :e, R I ,„, Hubbard. T---.!:U V. zs .--...: ... ^^^ Mubbard, W. H.,'^^;;;';Falls.^Pa. 3J75 3373 337« 3483-« 346J 34*S 3520 3409 3470 3429 3473 j430 •563 3431 343a 3379 35'6 3418 3474 3449 3398 3556 3545 3526 Ives, JredD., New York John«>„.;.w., Philadelphia. Pa Johnson, L. H., East Orange. N. ;, Jones, Harry S., New York Jones, P. s., New York. Judd, Edwin Y.. Hartford, Ct. Keiper, Scott, Hailey, Id Keyser, N. A. S., Baltimore. Md. Knowles, A. A.,NewYork Knox. Robt. ;., Brooklyn, N Y Lane, jr., Geo, New York Latliam, Calhoun, Bridgeport. Ct. Leflerts,;. A.NewYork Leggett, C. H., New York Leigh, Will H., Beaver Fa'ls Pa L.vermore,F.H., Pittsfield, Mass Lockwood, jr.. R.M., Baltimore, Md, Loucks, F. W.. Brooklyn. N Y Lozier, A. W., NewYork. McCloud, J. A., Hailey, Id McCurdy, I. P., Philadelphia. Pa Magill, S. E., Athens, Tenn f ;'"'';" """'^ Greenfield, Mass. , „6 Maryland tricycle Club, Baltimore, Md. ,' Mass^ State Lrirary, B^ton, Mas^. \'2 Meeker, F. H., Broo" , N Y ^^"■^f^'t's' Hotel, Hailey] Id M.dgley, Thos., Beaver Falls Pa Milord IVheel Clul, Milford,'Ma„ ^I' lard, J. A., Dinard les Baines, Fr Miller, J. D., Brooklvn, N Y Millikin, Wm. H.. Plainfield, N J Morrison, jr., E. A., New York Moss, W. F.,Thomasville,Ga ' Mumfnrd, W. B., Adrian, Mich Afuns, R. \V., Brooklyn, N Y Nichols, Chas. E., Mt. Vernon. N Y Nightingale, John, New York. Overland Hotel, Bois^ City Id Parker, John M.. New Orleans! La. Perkins, W. H., Baltimore, Md. Phelps, W. C, New York. Phillips.jr.,F. A., NewYork Potter, B. W., Worcester, Mass. Powers, jr., J. W., New York. Price, Lyttleton, Hailey, Id. Rauchfuss. A., New York. Reagan, P. A., Hailey, Id. Red Lion Inn, West Randolph.'Vt' ' ■* * Reilly, P. Harvard, New York. 3479 3405 3374 3544 3533 3477 3535 3450 3390 3522-23 3475 33S0 3451 34U 3387 3468 3433 3435 3562 3436 3400 3417 3410 3550 3532 346$ 796 TEN THOUSAND Af/LES ON A BICYCLE. Robbinr, J. N., Pittifield, M«««. 3517 Robinson & Co., C, , Toronto, Ont. 3539, 3543 Rockwell, K. S., Red Hank, N. J. 3527 Ruick, Norman N., Hailey, Id. lyf) Ryer. F. A . New York. 343S Sackett, C. 1'., New York. 3439 Schaclitel, jr., M., New York. 3403 Schott, W. C, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. 3561 Selwyn, Chas. J., Ilailey, Id. 3397 Shelton, W. V , Constantinople, I'ltrkfy. 3392 Sheriden, W. H., Pittsfield, Mjss. 3514 Simpson, J.1S., New York. 345^ Simpson, S. W., New Yr «. 3453 Slee, N. T., Baltimore, Md. 34f.6 Sloan, Henry C., Sinclairville, N. Y. 3456 Small, W. A., Dexter, Me. 33S5 Sneeden, R. H., Red Bank, N J. 3530 Snyder, A. F., Weissport, Pa. 3537 Spalding & Hro., A. C, New York. 3505-6 Sleiner, A., New York. 3440 Stratton, T. C, New York. 3460 Swartout, A. K., Auburn, N. Y. 3553-4 Taylor, John W., Baltimore, 'Md. 3467 Terhune, Chas. F., New York. Thompson Kngraving Co. , Camden, N. Tinker, Fred U., Hailey, Id. Tolten, R. J., New Wilmington, Pa. Tracy, John J., Hailey, Id. Tracy, W. C , Kockville, Ct. Tuck, Fred H , Kingston, N. H. Upson, Wm. F., New York. Valentine, E., Brooklyn, N. Y. WashinglOH Hotil, Vicksburg, Miss. WaskingtoH House, Bordentown, N. Watt, W"< H., Hailey, Id. Weber, , Brooklyn, N. Y. Whysall, >.o., Beaver Falls, Pa. WicUersham, J. E., Beaver Falls, Pa, WilUrd's Haiti, Washington, D, C. Windsor Haiti, Holyoke, Mas*. Wood, John S., New York. n'ooil River Bi. Club, Hailey, Id. lyorth House, Hudson, N. Y. Yopp, Jas. L., Wilmington, N. C. Yojng, Geo. E., Liverpool, Eng. YuenRling, W. J., New York. 3461 J 3$'4 3408 J55'* J30 33'* 3567 3454 3480 349' J- 3546 3395 347^ 337S 3380 3499 3507 3455 3401 3 49 J 339' 3557-8 3461 TRADE DIRECTORY Copies of this book may be consulted or purchased at the offices of the following subscrib- ers. The (*) designates those who are either authors, editors, publishers or bookseller? ; and nearly all the others are dealers in cycles, or selling-agents for the same. I have found it impracticable to particularize each man's business, as originally intended, though I give many exact addresses and other details in the geographical list which follows the next p7j;e. If any subscriber will report to me, within a month after receiving the book, that he is so dissatisfied with this " directory " as to regret having agreed to support it, I will refund any money which he may have paid me, and will at the same time send to him some stamped labels by which he may mail thr books to later purchasers. Aaron,* F. M., Philadelphia, Pa. Aldrich, Jas , Spencer, Mass. Amee Brothers,'* Cambridge, Mass. Angell, Jos. P., Pine Bluff, Ark. Ardlll & Co., J., Leeds, Eng. Hardeen,* C. W., Syracuse, N. Y. Barkman,* A. B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Barnes & Davis, Salt Lake City, Utah. Batchelder,* C. D., Lancaster, N. H. Beers & Co.,* J. B., 36 Vesey st, New York. Bennett, A. A., 14 W. 4th st., Cincinnati, O. Bicycling World Co.,* Boston, Mass. Bidwell, G. R, 35S W. 58th st.. New York. Biederman, Chas., San Francisco, Cal. Block, J., Moscow, Russia. Bradley, Co., 'The Milton, Springfield, Mass. Bowen, E. N.. Buffalo. N. Y. Burdekin, R. E., York, Eng. Burdett, J. B., Nashville, Tenn. Central Press & Publishing Co. ,• la Vesey St., New York (pub. U-'keel, $2). Childs, A. W., Brattleboro, Vt. Chinn, Geo., Beverly, Mass. Clark & Co., S. T., Baltimore, Md. Clayton, G. O. , Aurora, 111. Colton & Co.,* G. W. & C. B., 182 William St., New York (map publishers). Cordingley,* Chas., London, Eng. Corson,* E. H., Rochester, N. H. Dalton,* J. G., Boston, Mass. Davis, Frank M., Madison, Wis. Day & Raisbeck, Bradford, Eng. Deans, F. A., Wellsboro, Pa. Donly,* H. B., Simcoe, Oni. Ducker & Goodman,* Hartford, Ct. Duffill, Thos. P., Gt. Falls, N. H. TRADE DIRECTORY. Ednrton, C. W.. Fort Wayne. Ind •idJMin, Fred V., Iroy, N Y EJ'i«. C. B.. Kanw, ci.y, Mo. Klherinron.' Harry. London. Kni Folding, K. A., Uoieman, Mont /•r«/&. Strr.uH Pub. Co.. New York. *•"«.•(-•■ J.. London, £'«,^. Cibeon.* J. W.. San Franci«:o. Lai Cib«)n & Hart, Rockiord. III. Gideon. Geo. D., Philadelphia, Ta. CiH,» J. D., Springfield, Mass. Gillett, M. D., Springfield. Ma.^ Gormi.lly & Jeffcry, Lhicago, IlL Griffith* & Co., Coventry, Eng. Gump. A. W., Dayton, O. Hananer & Myers, CoHngton, Ky Harder, J. E., Ue.rfield, Pa. Hart & Co.,» E. Stanley, Philadelphia. Pa. Hart H. B.. 8.. Arch St.. Philadelphia. Pa Heath. S. F., Minneapolis, Minn Hebard. F. S.. Cheyenne, Wyo. Hill & Tolman, Worcester, Mass. Hodpon, T., Amherst, N. S. Holland,* Lincoln, Worcester, Mass. Hollister & Merrill, Portland. Or. Huber & Allison, Louisville, Ky Humbet & Co., Beeston, Eng. Ideal Pen Co., 15$ Broadway, New York. Ingram, T. L., Columbus, Ga. Irwin, W. R., Emporia, Kan. Jarvis H., Oxford, Md. Jenkins.Fred,3« W. 59«h 8t.,N.Y.(cydom.) Jennings,* A. F.. Springfield, Mas^ Johnson, L. H., East Orange, N. J. Joalin, J. T., Newburgh, N. Y. Judd,» H. A., London, Eng. Kirkpatrick,* T. J., Springfield, O. Koch Bros., Peoria, III. Kolph, A. J., Scranton, Pa. Lakin & Co., J. A., Westfield, Ms. (cyclom.) Lamson, C. H., Portland, Me. Lane, A. T., Montreal, P. Q. Lanier, H. & F., West Point, Ga. Latta Broi,,, Friendship, N. Y. Leve & Iden, 207 Broadway, New York Lewis,* W. H., Melbourne, Vict., ^„Wi,. Lilhbndpe, Freeman. Rockford, III. (saddles) Locke, W. S , City of Mexico, Mtx. London Cycle Supply Ass'n. London, Eng McComas, W. E., Hagerstown, Md. Malvern, Frank, Port Jervis, N. Y. Mawin. F.llinit 1. \u, . »t .. . I ........ „, ..^ _,_y jjj^jj_ Mason & Payne,* London, Eng. \ 797 Mudd Frank X.. Montgomery, AJ.. Mumford, W. B., Adrian, ..l,ch. New York loy Co.. u Howard .t.. N Y Nuon. W. O., Chambsrsburii, P«. Normecut. & Co., J. E.. Pit.sburg, p.. ^'O'"'. Will .'.. Helena, Mom. Patton, Geo. E., Chatham, N. Y. Payne, Wm., Undon, OhI. Philip &. Son.* Geo., Undon,^„- Phillip*.* Robt. E., London, Eng Pittsburg Fire Arms Co.. Pit..burg, P.. Pope Mfg. Co.. HoMon (;, Franklin .tk Chicago (i„ Wabash av.), Hartford (We«l b. M.Co.),and New York (., Warren M L Porter&Baker, Bay City. Mich. Probst & FiUjeck, Terre Haute, Ind. Rayl & Co., T.B., Detroit, Mich. Read, Geo. T., Belfast. Me. "R.creati,»,r* Pubiishersof. Newark. N. J. Kibble, Geo. W.. Harrisonburg. Va. Rob.n«>n & Co., Cha... Toronto. Ont, Rogers.*;. S.St. Louis, Mo. Rose,* Will, Ashmore, III. Rouse & Son, G. 'V., Peoria, IlL Rust, T. S., Merid.n, Ct. Scherer, C. J., Memphis, Tenn. Schlegel, jr., Adolpho. Milan, Itai,. 3chwalbach, Cha*., Brooklyn. N. Y, Service & Fitton, Auckland, N. Z. ' Shipton,* E. R., London, Eng. Smith & Co., Howard A., Newark, N. J, Smith, C. F., Indianapolis, Ind. Smith. J. C. v., Washington, D C Smith Mach. Co., H. B . SmithviUe', N. J, I Smith, Robt. A., New Haven, Ct. Spalding & Bro., A. G., Chicago and N V Spnngfieid Printing Co.,* Spring^t'd, MaM. Sturmey,* Henry, Coventry, Eng. Surrey Machinist Co., London, Eng. Swartout, A. E., Auburn, N Y Terhune & Co.. C. F., 89 Libe.iy st., N Y Ticknor & Co.,* Boston, Mass. Triffwell, Ja... 49 Boston p|., London, Eng. Wady, C. S., Fall River, Masorhces, jr. Moscow, RustU, J. lllock, Capt. M U. C. NMhvlUo, Tenn., J It liurdett. Natural Bridge, Va., K. N. Bagg. Newark, N. J., HA Smilh S Co., Oraton Hall. Newburgh, N. Y., J. T. Joslin. New Haven, Ct., Rnbt. A. Smiih. New York City, J. U. Hetrs& Co , 36 Vescy »t. (map,); ' .. K. liidwell, 315 W. s.Sih •t. ; Central Press & i'ub. Co., 11 Vesey %\..{n-luel,%,y, K,. W. & C. II Coltoii &Co. , 1S2 William st. (maps); h'jrfit &• Slrfani Pub. Co. , 39-40 Park Row ; Ideal IVn Co., 155 liroadway ; F. Jenkins, 321 \V. srjtli St. ; I.eve & AUlen, 207 Broadway; N.Y.'i'o Co., 14 Howards!.; Popo Mt-.Co., 12 Warren St.; C. F. Ter- hiuie & Co., 89 Liberty si. ; A. G. Spald- ing it liros , 241 lirnadway. NobleeviUe, Ind., I.. M;. Wainwright. Orange, N. J., Howaid A. Smith & Co. Oxford, Md., 11. Jarvis, M. D., druggist. Peoria, 111., Knch llros. ; C;. W. Rouse. Philadelphia, Pa., K. M. Aaron, 506 Wal- nut St., editor and publisher of L.A. W. Bulletin, weekly, ^i ; Geo. D. (Jideon, 6 S. liroad St. ; E. Stanley Hart Si. Co., 321 Chestnut St., printers of Bulletin and publishers of " Rhymes of Road and River," $2 ; H. IJ. Hart, 811 Arch st. Pine Bluff, Ark., Jos. P. Angell. Pittsburgh, Pa., J. K. Normecutt & Co., 94 Fifth .IV. ; Pittsburgh Fire Arms Co. Port Jervis, N. Y., Frank Malvern. Portland, Me., C H. I.amson, inventor of the luj,'!;a;.;e-car: ier and L. A. W. badge. This book may be bought at the four main offices of the Pope Mfg. Co.: Boston (79 Franklin st.), Chicago 1291 Wabash av.), Hartford (Weed S. M. Co. 's works) nnd New York (12 Warren St.); also of the John Wilkinson Co., 77 State .., Chicago, and of G. R. liidwell, 315 W. 58th St., New York; and in ten other cities, as follows : Baltimore, S. T. Clark & Co., 2 & 4 Hanover St.; Buffalo, E. N. Howen, 505 Main St.; Cincinnati, A. A. Bennett, 14 W. 4th st.; Cleveland, C. H. Potter,* 99 Superior st.; Newark and Orange, H. A. Smith & Co., Oraton Hall; Philadelphia, H. B. Hart, Sii Arch st.; St. Louis, L. J. Berger,* Temple Building; San FranciSCO, Chas. Bied rman,* Fourth & Townsend sis.; Washington, K. T. Pettcnpill,* 1713 New York av. All these will act as agents without pay. Orders for single copies, to be mailed at $1.50 each, should be sent directly to the Springfield Printing Co., Springfield, MasS., because, when such orders reach me in N. V., I shall gen- erally send the mailing-labels for them to S. 'T' e four thus marked are not engaged either in Portland, Or., Hollister & Merrill. Rochester, N. H., K. H. Corson, ed. and pub. "Star Rider's Manual," 75 c. Sockford. HL. (.ibson & Hart; Freeman l.illibridge (saddles). St. Louis, Mo, J S. Rogers, 516 Olive st (pub Am. iyiutlmaH, niomhly, 50 c.) ; I.. J. Berger, Temple Building. Bait Lake City, Utah, Barnes & Davis. Sandhurst, Vict., W. J. party, Will.s st. San Francisco, CaL, Chas. Biiderman ; J W. tiibson. On Hyde St., ;iib. " League Road BookofCal," 25 c., 75 c. and |i. Scranton, Pa., A J Koip. Slmcoe, Ont., H. B. Donly, pub. C. W. A. (unde," iiid cd. in Mar., '87; 50 c. SmithviUe, N. J., The H. B. Smith Ma- cliiiie Co , makers of the Star bicycle. Spencer, BCaas., Jas. Aldrich. Springheld. Maaa., American Bicycle Co. (Cooke iS: Dunbar): Mi'tnn Br.ulley Co. (maps); J. D. Gill (L ks) ; A. F. Jennings (books); Springfield Priming Co., printers of i/heelmen''s Gazftle{td. H. I'. Ducker, monthly, 50 c). 8prlngfleId,0.,T.J.Kirkpatrick ; L.F.Olds. Terre Haute, ind., Probst & Fi^beck, 23-25 S. Fiiurth St., gen. agents for cycles. ((TTacuse, N. Y., C. W. Bardeen, publisher. Toronto, Ont., C. Robinson & Co., 2: Church St., cycles and sporting goods. Troy, N. Y., Fred P. Edmans. Washington, D. C, J. C. V. Smith, 1206 Penn. av. ; E T. Pettengill. Wftllsboro, Pa., F. A. Deans. West Point, Ga., !•. & H. Lanier. Westfield, Mass., J A. Lakin &Co.,cyclom. Worcester, Ms., Lincoln Holland. York, Eng., R. E. Eurdekin. ;ii> i(»jr dAica uuiin^ iiic lust iiait oi 07, THE LAST WORD. fa.hil?o"l7'H '" ''''" °' '""'' Unattached." chanted after the fa.h.o„ o. The Roatswa.n in "Pinafore." at the conclusion ot the first Newport, R. I., Monc!.^ evening, May 31, ,880.] For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his cnait, That he is a Bi-cy-r/^rr/ TAaf he is a Bi-cy-cL^n ! For he might have played at base -ball, Or i.1 ten-nis, or at foot -ball, Or pe.-haps at po-lol Or per-haps at po-lol But, in spite of all temptations. Towards other recreations, He remains a Bi-cy-cL^Kl He remains a Bi-cy-cleri M«I U^y .<. ^1,,^ ,^ ,„„^ kr tk< 8ri imwiiu rr.ini.. 0»«rA«,, j»,., jns, u Apt., ih;. '■-n^