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crossed over to New York. Then we rode 

 out Broadway, on the cable slot, to our 

 hotel. 



The next day, Sunday, we visited the Bat- 

 tery, rode through Central park, and over 

 the great bridge to Brooklyn, where we 

 dined. Then we mounted our wheels and 

 rode to Coney Island over the famous cycle 

 path. 



After taking a rapid survey of this resort 

 we returned to Brooklyn, thence to New 

 York, over the bridge, and continued to 

 Jersey City by the ferry. Here we boarded 

 the train for Philadelphia, where we ar- 

 rived at 7 P. M. 



The trip was a very enjoyable one, to all 

 of us, and not one of us was fatigued when 

 we reached home. We had seen a great 

 deal in the 2 days and shall make a similar 

 run this year. 



THE WHEEL. 



The girls were dolls in Gran'ma's days, 

 The spinning wheel was half their life. 



Man's equals now, in modern ways, 

 Yet spinning wheels is far more rife. 



E. S. T. 



I intend to spend next winter revelling 

 in the charms of Jamaica, that sunny island 

 of a summer sea, and if any reader of Rec- 

 reation would like information about the 

 roads, or the people, of the geography of 

 the isle, I shall be glad to give it. 



Our New England roads are again alive 

 with happy wheelers — happy if they are 

 owners of decent mounts, and if they have 

 not been putting good money into bad 

 wheels, to swell the wallets of repairers 

 and of bargain counter men. 



On the whole, since the average would- 

 be-cycler is determined to work against 

 his own best interests, maybe it is well that 

 the drygoods wheel is his first mount; for 

 then he becomes a rider, and next time he 

 buys a good wheel. Meantime he has been 

 picking up experience and sprains, and 

 helping Doctor Fixem to pay his rent. 



Any of Recreation's cycling readers, 

 who would like to know all about " touring 

 in England at small cost," from start to 

 finish, can secure such by writing the vet- 

 eran tourist, Arthur Munson, Stamford, 

 Ct. 



Those who ignore brakes, and a good 

 lamp, at night, will some time realize that 

 they have gone unprotected once too often. 

 While the doctor is pulling them through 

 they will have time to reflect and to turn 

 over that long neglected new leaf. 



Stamson. 



In April, '97, the Ticonderoga Cycle Club 

 commenced the building of a path from 

 Ticonderoga to Baldwin, a distance of 3^2 

 miles. Permission was obtained from the 

 town authorities to level off the side of the 

 road, near the sidewalks, and to cover it 

 with cinders. This space was then rolled 

 with an iron roller. In places where drain- 

 age was necessary, to carry off surface 

 water, a ditch was dug alongside the path, 

 emptying into the sewers. 



The path is 4 feet wide, and will permit 

 an easy and safe passage of 2 wheelmen 

 without dismounting. It is a pleasure to 

 ride on it to the Baldwin dock, on a hot 

 summer day, sit in the cool breeze of the 

 beautiful Lake George, and view the grand 

 scenery for which the locality is noted. 



The question as to how to raise the 

 money for this path was a perplexing one; 

 but a subscription paper was circulated 

 among the boys, who were asked to give 

 as much as they felt able to spare. Most 

 of them gave $1 each. There are about 200 

 riders here, but the number will be doubled 

 this year. 



Recreation is the only sportsmen's 

 magazine published. J. C. R. 



That athletic preacher of ours made a 

 bad break in his sermon yesterday. 



What did he say? 



He was speaking of the earth and called 

 it God's green football. 



Miss E. Marguerite Lindley recently 

 gave a lecture for the benefit of the sick 

 fund of the Brooklyn Hospital Training 

 School on the " Care of the Human Ma- 

 chine and the Good and Evil Effects of 

 Bicycling." She included in her discourse 

 these " don'ts " : 



" Don't feel yourself above advice from 

 other people who know more than you do, 

 when you are going to buy a wheel. 



" Don't swallow all advice undigested. 



" Don't buy your neighbor's cast off 

 wheel. If it's not good enough for her it's 

 not good enough for you. 



" Don't consider your ambition any 

 measure of your staying power. The great- 

 est danger of wheeling is of overdoing. 



" Don't try to reduce your weight by 

 scorching. 



" Don't give ear to the cyclometer fiend. 

 She is apt to see double when she reads the 

 figures on the dial. 



"Don't talk of miles covered, but of 

 hours spent in the open air." 



The National Board of Trade of Cycle 

 Manufacturers has decided that no national 

 or local cycle shows shall be held or sanc- 

 tioned by it next winter. 



" Simpkins is a bicycle instructor, isn't 

 he?" 



" No — no; bicycles know everything al- 

 ready; he merely teaches people how to 

 ride." 



