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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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WIS ^Z Branch House, 285 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Address all mail to general offices and factories—Kenosha, Wis. Kindly mention The Wheel. ^iiUiiiiiliUiUii °0^l> iuuuuuttttutrc 32 August 28, accommodation for hungry and thirsty wheel-men. Perhaps the two most notable placesare Salters Inn at Forty-ninth street, andthe Shore House, at the terminus of the road.The Salters place is a fine, modern hotel,handsomely decorated and conveniently con-structed, surrounded by a pleasure grove.This grove runs down to Newark Bay, androwing, bathing, swinging and the like are tobe indulged in theie. On Sunday afternoonsit is the resort of the Salvation Army, who the atudent of nature, either human or other-wise. There are no lofty hills, no thick for-ests, nor is there any cosmopolitanism ormetropolitans m. There is no high life, noswell life. The pleasure vehicles which are erected a palatial mansion, and near himsome other prosperous people have erectedhouses somewhat in keeping with the big
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add not a little to the excitement and pict-uresqueness of the place. The Shore House,situated on the Kill von Kull, must be visitedto be appreciated. It is built out over thewater, the service is excellent, and no pleas-anter lounging place can be imagined. The Boulevard is a plainish sort of road.There is not much on it or lining it to attract driven over it are of the most modest kind,arid are entirely devoid of swagger. Thehorses are good sound, honest animals, butnot stylish; that is, if we except a few nattyanimals who are the special pets of sportingmen with whom horseflesh is a habit. Thehouses mostly are wooden structures, exceptat one point, where a prosperous banker has home. At two points only is there any par-ticular beauty to the student of nature. Oneis the brief glimpse of the Morris and EssexCanal, and the road is so generally dull thatwhen this spot is reached the rider turns to itwith pleasure and relief. Again, the grovesnear Bayonne, through which are shown thespa

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