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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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-Hudson County Boulevardas a Sample. The red-roaded State of New Jersey, al-though it has been the subject of much humoramong travelling comedians, especially whenthey show in New York, is much treasuredby the cyclist. It was New Jersey which firstgave America a decent system of countryroads, and many other States have since fol- the mountainous and picturesque northernpart of the State, with the well-roaded centralpart and with that series of roads which skirtsthe river and ocean and which extends fromMatawan away down below Asbury. The Boulevard was opened on Thanksgiv-ing Day last, since which time it has much in-creased in popularity. Immediately afterleaving the Guttenberg district it leadsthrough Hoboken, Jersey City Heights, Green-ville, Bayonne and down to Bergen Point.The upper section of the Boulevard passesthrough a country which has always beendistinctively German, and the German suburb-anite may be studied there in all his simplic-ity. The entire Boulevard furnishes ample
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lowed her example. For more than a decadepast Orange has been the paradise of metro-politan wheelmen. In fact, in the early daysthe only ridable road systems were to befound in and about Boston and in the Orangeriding district, and these two centres—the onea great commercial metropolis and the othera section of quiet and stately homes—may beregarded as the kindergarten of cycle riding.It was Orange which first taught the Jersey-man the advantage of good roads, so that to-day a wheelman may tour in comfort throughalmost any part of the State. There are fewtouring cyclists who are not acquainted with The latest contribution of this State towardthe comfort of the rider was the constructionof the Hudson County Boulevard, a twelve-mile stretch of undulating macadam road,starting at Guttenburg, on the west bank of theHudson River, and terminating at the Killvon Kull. The map shows the exact locationof this popular stretch. The Boulevard isreached by New York riders over the FortLee ferr

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