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PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



WHERE TO GO. 



Many worthy people want to go to 

 Heaven when they die. I hope they may. 

 Personally I would prefer a trip on the 

 Clyde Line steamer to Florida, and I have 

 a still stronger preference for going while I 

 am yet alive. 



Not being in the habit of flitting across 

 the ocean with the frequency of a Richard 

 Harding Davis heroine, I ventured with 

 some trepidation into the Clyde Line offices 

 at No. 5 Bowling Green to arrange for a 

 Florida trip. I more than half expected to 

 be scorned by the porter, snubbed by the 

 clerks and all but annihilated by the office 

 boy. Instead I was made to feel that the 

 entire Clyde Line was my exclusive posses- 

 sion ; that the employes lived only to serve 

 me, and that I was to be practically the 

 only passenger on the boat. General Pas- 

 senger Agents are always called " genial." 

 Why the transportation business should 

 produce such an effect on a man is impos- 

 sible to say, unless it be, it gives him an 

 exceptional opportunity to shove people 

 along and get rid of them. Admitting that 

 by hypothesis, Mr. Warburton must cer- 

 tainly have exported even more people than 

 the usual G. P. A. ; for genial he is, to the 

 highest degree. He not only smooths away 

 all difficulties which oppose the passenger 

 but even provides moonlight nights and 

 calm seas, to order. It is not well to say 

 too much about the comforts and luxuries 

 provided passengers by the Clyde Line, lest 

 I be mistaken for an ex-writer of guide 

 books ; but certainly their steamers furnish 

 the perfection of traveling. The most desir- 

 able time to visit a resort is just when every 

 one else thinks the season is closing. Then 

 you own the place and the people. If you 

 have a weakness for elbow room you can 

 indulge it and peace will reign in your soul. 

 The Cylde Line steamers are still running 

 and Florida is only 3 days away. 



Myra Emmons. 



GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE CO., GRAND RAPIDS, 

 MICH. 



If there is any concern which is more 

 vigorously pushing the bevel-geared chain- 

 less machine than the Grand Rapids Cycle 

 Co., it must be doing it quietly, and pos- 

 sibly not so effectively. This machine is the 

 leading feature of the exhibit of the Clipper 

 people. It is a beautiful machine. Its fin- 

 ish is golden tan, which combines exquis- 

 itely with the nickeling. Aside from the 

 bevel gear and finish, the machine is me- 

 chanically excellent. It can be taken en- 

 tirely apart without disturbing adjustments. 



The method of adjusting the gear is so 

 simple that one cannot make a mistake. 

 You know that you want the teeth to mesh; 

 therefore, you loosen the necessary nuts, 

 push the parts of the gear together until 

 they fit right, screw up, and there you are. 



Nothing simpler was ever produced in a 

 chain-driven machine. The crank bearing 

 adjustment is also made for those who don't 

 want to puzzle over things. The head has 

 an internal binder, and the method of hold- 

 ing the seat post comes under the head of 

 happy discoveries, it is so simple and 

 handy. It amounts to working a bolt on a 

 cam principle. 



The bevel-gear Clipper, like the chain- 

 driven Clippers, has the best material 

 throughout — no stampings — and tool steel 

 bearings. In the chain machines, the bot- 

 tom bracket includes a portion of the lower 

 rear stay, elliptical in section, hard to de- 

 scribe in words, and very effective in re- 

 sisting strains of all kinds in the rear stay. 

 The Clipper rider who pulls and hauls, 

 while climbing a hill, has the comfort of 

 knowing the frame of his machine is doing 

 the least possible amount of twisting, while 

 at the same time it is elastic. This is no 

 freak idea — just a horse-sense adaptation 

 of mechanical knowledge. The machines 

 are all fitted with the best of equipment — 

 in fact, no stock fittings whatever are used. 

 The company set out a good many years 

 ago to be in business a good many years 

 farther on, and expect to have orders then, 

 as they have now, from old-time customers 

 who want to know the dies for the parts of 

 their machines are in the company's die- 

 room. — The Wheel's New York Cycle 

 Show Report 



"SARATOGA THE BEAUTIFUL." 



One of the most attractive booklets of its 

 kind yet produced is No. 2.2 of the " Four 

 Track Series," published by the Passenger 

 Department of the New York Central, and 

 bears the above title. 



It contains 56 pages, 4 by 9 inches and has 

 75 beautiful half-tone illustrations, the ma- 

 jority of which have never before been 

 printed. 



The cover is beautifully illuminated, and 

 includes a map 4 by 9 inches, of the route 

 along the Hudson river from New York to 

 Saratoga. 



In the center of the book is a new and 

 beautifully engraved map, 9 by 16 inches, 

 printed in 4 colors, showing the country 

 from the Mississippi river on the West, to 

 New York, Boston and Portland on the 

 East, Quebec and Sault Ste. Marie on the 

 North, and Richmond and Cairo on the 

 South. 



The historical and other descriptive mat- 

 ter is very interesting and will give to those 

 unacquainted with Saratoga an excellent 

 idea of the diversified attractions of what 

 has long been termed " America's greatest 

 watering place." 



A copy of " Saratoga the Beautiful " will 

 be sent to any address free, postpaid, on re- 

 ceipt of 2 2-cent stamps, by George H. 

 Daniels, G. P. A., Grand Central Station, 

 New York. 



