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 | New Haven - Page 394 the week which ended then; and it is to be noted that my final experience with the machine in New Haven happened just three months from the daj. |
| Hartford - Page 46 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 ... |
| Brooklyn - Page 90 During that interval, the return may be made to New York or Brooklyn by various lines of steamboats and railway cars ; but the man who wheels back ... |
| Buffalo - Page 321 ened the route before joining the tour at Buffalo; but Munger, Westervelt and Van Sicklen had dung to the main body of the tourists, ... |
| Boston - Page 295 Still further, I was inspired somewhat by the longing which oppressed the Indian chief whom Father Taylor tells about as visiting the stately Boston ... |
| Morristown - Page 175 It is specially to be recommended to riders from Elizabeth who may wish to go to Milburn or Morristown, because it ends quite near the head of ... |
| Cazenovia - Page 336 This ride suggests a desirable variation in my own route between the Thousand Islands and Cazenovia ; and I recommend any tourist between those points ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 242 The three Philadelphia wheelmen who made that trip seem to have passed through Hagerstown and Williamsport only a day or two after myself. ... |
| New York - Page 152 The tour of Long Island I think can be safely recommended as a pleasant one for the wheelman, though he had best ride in the cars between New York and ... |
| Yonkers - Page 79 The first notable roadside residence, which the tourist northward from Yonkers may be presumed to have some curiosity about, is less than a mile above ... |
| Baltimore - Page 241 my baggage from Baltimore. But the room in the chief hotel where dinner was served me was so intolerably dirty that I feared the bed-rooms might be as ... |
| Hagerstown - Page 242 The three Philadelphia wheelmen who made that trip seem to have passed through Hagerstown and Williamsport only a day or two after myself. ... |
| Halifax - Page 289 and it is the terminus of the railroad from Halifax, along whose general line runs a highway, by which the tourist could doubtless wheel back to that ... |
| Poughkeepsie - Page 29 for on that occasion I took train to Poughkeepsie, and then was forced by the rain to take train homeward again without doing any riding there. ... |
| Canandaigua - Page 201 to try any riding from Syracuse, as originally planned for Friday, and therefore went directly through by train to Canandaigua, the objective point to ... |
| Toronto - Page 318 I turned towards Toronto again. Smooth gravel roads led me across a succession of hills, past Eramosa PO and the hamlet of Osprey to the ruins of the ... |
| Chicago - Page 242 I have a vague notion of trying the track again on returning from the next League meet at Chicago. In that case 1 shall start from Cumberland at ... |
| Phila - Page 593 HS W owl) gives the following facts about steamers from Hal timoré, none of which have ever charged for bicycles: "The Ericsson Line leaves for Phila. ... |
| London - Page 467 My ideal would be a house in London, not far from one or two houses which are so full of light and warmth that it is a liberal education to have ... |
| Erie - Page 197 The road from Saratoga through Ballston to Amsterdam (on the Mohawk river and Erie canal) is reported by Mr. Joslin as hilly and somewhat sandy; ... |
| Syracuse - Page 201 to try any riding from Syracuse, as originally planned for Friday, and therefore went directly through by train to Canandaigua, the objective point to ... |
| St. Louis - Page 487 similar enquiries which I have addressed to subscribers in St. Louis, and to the editors of the cycling papers there, for fuller details of this ... |
| Chicopee - Page 124 The village streets of Chicopee and Chicopee Falls are not particularly bad, but their numerous concrete sidewalks supply much pleasanter riding, ... |
| Montreal - Page 325 I had just traversed; and that he believed the macadam continued through to Montreal. Approximate truthfulness on the part of my informant seems shown ... |
| Albany - Page 198 At every town between Albany and Hudson, the inhabitants turned out in Sunday attire, and lustily cheered the wheelmen as they passed. ... |
| Portsmouth - Page 12 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 ... |
| Detroit - Page 297 bicycle race might be laid out upon them, between Detroit and Quebec, to very much better advantage than between any two points in the United States. ... |
| Louisville - Page 233 My route from Louisville to Paris had been almost due e. ; but I now turned to the ne, and kept in that direction to the end, at Maysville. ... |
| Schenectady - Page 12 attractive force, and I will also add that the scenery of the lower Mohawk Valley from Schenectady to Utica makes the route a pleasant one to explore. ... |
| Staten Island - Page 159 representation is clearly made of a large section of land and water, including all of Staten Island, the w. end of Long Island, the bay and city of ... |
| Brighton - Page 321 Munger, who had been plodding steadily along, now began to pick up, and, as they neared Brighton, he saw a team back down on Weber and cause him to ... |
| Flushing - Page 90 By turning left, I might then have reached the direct road for Flushing, which I tried on a return journey some. |
| White Plains - Page 76 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 ... |
| New Brunswick - Page 167 Red clay 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. ... |
| Quebec - Page 297 bicycle race might be laid out upon them, between Detroit and Quebec, to very much better advantage than between any two points in the United States. ... |
| Northampton - Page 119 to Northampton, is for the most part ridable, and that they had little difficulty in proceeding thence through Hatfield and Whately to Deerfield. ... |
| Hackensack - Page 165 Red clay was the material of the final ridge or hill from which I descended into Hackensack, and the view of the river and valley of that name, ... |
| Indianapolis - Page xcvii His longest day's ride was 76 m., best stretch of riding was from Columbus to Indianapolis, and longest straightaway was from Vernon to Omaha, ... |
| Lancaster - Page 208 and rolled through Le Roy to Batavia, whence the road is hard most of the way to Buffalo; but I turned off from it at Alden and went to Lancaster. ... |
| Georgetown - Page 290 Stewart, a railway junction, where one line branches off to Souris and the other to Georgetown. On the other side of Charlottetown the railroad runs ... |
| Newport - Page 108 upon whose southern extremity, about IO m. below, stands the city of Newport; and the present keeper of the lighthouse, at the old ferry landing, ... |
| Kinderhook - Page 148 Chatham The country between there and Chatham is rolling, with one big hill; roads thence to Valencia and Kinderhook are mostly smooth and level. ... |
| 55 Hart st., Brooklyn, NY - Page 628 4, '60), 55 Hart st., Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 3, '86. NJ—May 30, 'Зз ; EW Johnson, 211 Broadway, NY ; FK Bound!, 51 Crescent av., Jersey City, Aug. ... |
| San Francisco - Page 474 If he survives the perils which beset the last section of his proposed pathway, through China, he will sail thence home to San Francisco, ... |
| Windsor - Page 289 Basin of Minas and the river Avon to Windsor; or he might follow the general line of the n. coast, at some distance inland, to Amherst, about 100 ... |
| Bridgeport - Page 249 On the following forenoon I rode from Bridgeport to New Haven, 19 m., being still favored with a slight breeze at my back, as well as with bright ... |
| Harrisonburg - Page 347 Near Harrisonburg, 25 mn of Staunton, an isolated chain called Massanutten, rising abruptly to a height equal to that of the Blue Ridge, ... |
| Norristown - Page 389 offer inviting diversions, while most valuable of all appears the newly piked road lo Conshohocken and Norristown, leading from Bryn Mawr station n. ... |
| Paris - Page 448 There is no society in New York which corresponds to that of London or Paris, and any writer who attempts to make the idea that there is the key-note ... |
| Bristol - Page 108 A ferry used to connect Bristol with the northern end of Rhode Island island, upon whose southern extremity, about IO m. below, stands the city of ... |
| Vineland - Page 390 From Salem a magnificent surface runs through Bridget on and M ill ville to Vineland. All the Jersey roads above mentioned are reclaimed from a sandy ... |
| San Jose - Page 492 From Millbrae to San Jose, the road is shaded on both sides by large trees, and it was on this smooth stretch that I took a terrific header while ... |
| New Rochelle - Page 247 So far as natural obstacles were concerned, however, I might well have gone without dismount from New Rochelle to the hill at Rye, where the flagpole ... |
| Exeter - Page 313 Exeter to imbibe two lemonades. The cyclometer showed icj m. as the distance ; and on only one previous occasion had I ever gone over such a stretch ... |
| Brattleboro - Page 182 Reaching there at i PM, I started on at 2.30, and arrived at Brattleboro at 5.10. A wheelman there told me that hardly any riding had been indulged in ... |
| Paterson - Page 165 The road down the river from Little Falls to Paterson, about 4 m., was said to be very good, but I have not yet tried it. ... |
| Charlottetown - Page 289 the Dominion from selling me a passage from Halifax to Charlottetown, on Prince Edward Island, kindly consented, in selling me a passage "from ... |
| Kansas City - Page 473 Much of this period was given to farming and ranching in Missouri and Wyoming (his parents still carry on a farm near Kansas City) ; but for two years ... |
| Norwich - Page 130 Local riders assured me, three years later, that they had occasionally gone northward along the river as far as Norwich without any serious trouble, ... |
| Salamanca - Page 206 My intention had been to go from Westfield to Mayville, and there take a Chautauqua Lake steamer to Jamestown, going thence by train to Salamanca to ... |
| Ashford - Page 80 they in the world of wheeling, by reason of his having caused that mile of smooth macadamized roadway to be built from Ashford station to the Hudson. ... |
| Madison - Page 433 They generally fall prey to some distinct class, as with Tompkins Square, or else become mere thoroughfares, like Madison and Union Squares. ... |
| Florence - Page 119 Good coasting is offered between Florence and Northampton on the return. At Haydenville, the tourist may take the Horse Mountain road ... |
| Charleston - Page 355 is " as far south as Charleston and as far east as Nova Scotia ; and there is said to be no habitable land so isolated on the face of the round globe, ... |
| Rome - Page 201 For I m. or so out of Rome the riding was good on road or sidewalk. Then the track grew stony and hilly and only occasionally ridable, ... |
| Sacramento - Page 491 We stopped a day at S., which is the real point of departure for the Yosemite run (our preliminary visit to Sacramento being chiefly for the sake of ... |
| Milwaukee - Page 487 across that State to Milwaukee almost all ridable, with but few hills. Thence to Chicago the riding is quite fair, and I may say the same of it to Ft. ... |
| Amsterdam - Page 197 The road from Saratoga through Ballston to Amsterdam (on the Mohawk river and Erie canal) is reported by Mr. Joslin as hilly and somewhat sandy; ... |
| Cincinnati - Page 594 Louis its through sleepers run over the Wabash, connecting with the Michigan Central at Detroit, Its connection from Cincinnati and Ohio points is the ... |
| Annapolis - Page 282 should go " straight through," it was seized upon by the agent of some rival express at Digby or Annapolis, shipped thence by slow steamer to St. ... |
| Brantford - Page 314 and who had planned to ride during the next two days to Mitchell and Brantford, but were forced by bad weather to take train thither. ... |
| Binghamton - Page 338 (whereas the r. was recommended by riders of both Binghamton and Susquehanna), and soon found stones sprinkled on a soft surface. ... |
| Dover - Page 599 Dover to Ostend ; on Danish steamers from Newcastle and Hull to Bergen, and from Harwich to Esbjerg; on the United line from Newcastle to Copenhagen; ... |
| Dublin - Page 75 and still another such track branches off from the river road, about half a mile above, and passes through the hamlet of Dublin. ... |
| Des Moines - Page 489 and so take train to Iowa City; take train several times before getting to Grinnell, on the nth ; between there and Des Moines the hills are many and ... |
| Augusta - Page 573 July 29, when train was taken direct to Augusta, on account of rain, though the intention had been to take it only from Lynn to Gardiner, ... |
| Denver - Page xcvii He there took train to Denver, and afterwards used both rr and ss in exploring California and Oregon, and on homeward trip, as he journeyed for the ... |
| Tonawanda - Page 203 Most of the road is of very hard clay, which was rather rough ; and beyond Tonawanda (where the bridge almost caused a dismount) there is a long, ... |
| Ann Arbor - Page 501 Albany to Buffalo; then Niagara to Cleveland; Toledo to Ann Arbor; Jackson; Lansing; Chicago; Indianapolis; Milwaukee to Oconomowoc and the lakes ... |
| Birmingham - Page 142 Though I kept on the e. bank from Seymour to Waterbury, a road reaches f*m that city down the west side of the valley to Birmingham, and thence to ... |
| Nashua - Page 508 One of his earliest recollections is the departure of troops, for the South, from Albany, his birthplace, though his parents moved thence to Nashua, ... |
| Coventry - Page 692 ind I can testify that my own contributions to ït have been carefully " edited from Coventry," to the extent of printing " cycling " in place of ... |
| Berlin - Page 137 I lately learned, also, from a resident of Berlin, that the direct road between there and Hartford, which I have described as difficult in December, ... |
| Carlstadt - Page 83 but the road in the course of another mile bends westward down the hill to Homestead station, and then crosses the marshes to Carlstadt (5 m. ... |
| Englewood - Page 167 start at Englewood. Crossing the West st. bridge, I turned 1. up the hill, passed the soldiers' monument which overlooks Broadway, and then descended ... |
| Liverpool - Page 566 Razorback, in comparison with which the previous hills seemed easy, to Camden, 11 m. ; and finally, after taking wrong roads in darkness, to Liverpool ... |
| Waterbury - Page 142 Though I kept on the e. bank from Seymour to Waterbury, a road reaches f*m that city down the west side of the valley to Birmingham, and thence to ... |
| Watertown - Page 201 Later in the same month, he covered the distance from Watertown (through Martinsburg and Boonville) to Rome in 9 h. of actual riding. ... |
| Millbrae - Page 492 From Millbrae to San Jose, the road is shaded on both sides by large trees, and it was on this smooth stretch that I took a terrific header while ... |
| Ostend - Page 599 Dover to Ostend ; on Danish steamers from Newcastle and Hull to Bergen, and from Harwich to Esbjerg; on the United line from Newcastle to Copenhagen; ... |
| Valencia - Page 148 Chatham The country between there and Chatham is rolling, with one big hill; roads thence to Valencia and Kinderhook are mostly smooth and level. ... |
| Allentown - Page 220 The sun shone brilliantly every day between September 22, when the rain stopped me at Oneida, and October I!, when it again stopped me at Allentown; ... |
| Dansville - Page 214 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 ... |
| Springfield, Mass - Page 654 to the United States, but Wneelixg and the Wheelmen's Gazelle are botb mailed for #2, in case the money is sent to the latter at Springfield, Mass. ... |
| Melbourne - Page 570 He describes station life with considerable graphic power, and is least effective in his accounts of Melbourne and Sydney, though he gives a fair idea ... |
| Sydney - Page 570 He describes station life with considerable graphic power, and is least effective in his accounts of Melbourne and Sydney, though he gives a fair idea ... |
| Auckland - Page 566 Of the two distinct islands which comprise the colony, North Island has Auckland for its northerly port and Wellington for its port nearest to South ... |
| Wellington - Page 566 Of the two distinct islands which comprise the colony, North Island has Auckland for its northerly port and Wellington for its port nearest to South ... |
| Colac - Page 560 Breakfast on that final day was at Colac, after 29 m. The lake and mountain scenery of the route was highly praised. The two Adelaide men mentioned in ... |
| Herat - Page 482 It seems a pity to be resting in October, the best month of the twelve for traveling in Central Asia, but as I could gel no farther e. than Herat this ... |
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