The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-01
LADIES' BOULEVARD
Jersey City's Fair Citizens
Charmed With the
County Road.
LIVING PICTURES ON BICYCLES
Names Of the Ladies Who Ride
and Points on Their
Costumes.
Blue and Gold and Gray and Tan
Society Weddings and
Other Social Notes.
LIVING PICTURES ON BICYCLES

vent there were lew WOuiSI ildCiS
this city. They said, and truly, What's
nothing to ride on but cobblestones.
That excuse is no longer valid. The
Boulevard is rideable from Bergen Point
out beyond Gutenberg, with the excep-
ton of a few blocks where bicyclists are
obliged to walk their wheels or take to
the path on the side. A nice ride which
Jersey CITY women often take is the
Boulevard to Bergen Point, Staten Island
ferry to Staten Island. rid along Staten
Island to ST. George, take st. George
ferry to New York, cross back to Jer-
sey City. Another ride often taken is
across the Twenty-third street ferry to
Eighth avenue, New York, up to Boule-
ward, and up Riverside Drive to Grants
Tomb.
FOND OF THE BOULEVARD.
Many Jersey City women are content
never to go further thar the Boulevard
and ride up and down it merely for the
exhilaration given by the wheel. Fine
afternoons the Boulevard is crowded
with women bicyclists, where a few
years ago there were four or five pio-
neers there are now hundreds of women
riding. To an onlooker the Boulevard
has an inextricable mass of wheels and
ONE The onlooker wonders what
keeps them from a continual collision,
but to the riders all is perfectly sim
pie; they pay attention to no one, and
consequently steer clear of all collisions,
for it is a fact known to most riders by
most horrible experiences that what you
look at, that will you run into.
Afternoons, between the hours of two
and six, the Boulevard is thronged with
riders. Horses and carriages are few In
comparison, and men are scarcely to be
seen. Among the many riders there are
some very pretty costumes and some
very pretty women. Mrs. George Allen,
who wears a blue, short skirt and
jacket, blue leggins, and a blue tam O.
shanter, is attende on the wheel by her
coiored maid. One young girl rides in a
black suit, with white collars and cuffs
and a black Derby.
BOOMERS FEW AND FAR Be
TWEEN.
Boomers are few and far between
once in a while a woman may be seen
who cares more for comfort n freedom
from danger than for looks. The ma
jority wear short skirts, reaching a Ut
lie below the knee. with boomers under
which comes to the shoe top, but these
are manitestly dangerous, and are sloWay
again proved that she does not slaYlshiy
follow in Fashions lead, for Paris Is
wild over boomers; women VINO raas
been held on one appear everywhere IN
Paris wearing boomers. The free ana
easy dress seems to have taken them py
Storm. There is hardly a woman VINO
will not admit that boomers are by Tar
the most comfortable and secure, u
they will add, Il wouldn't dare go out
in them"
The woman in Jersey City to whom
bicycling women owe most, is Ntrs. Franz
Eveland. Mrs. Eveland was the hrst Wo-
New Jersey to ride a wheel. She RODE
at a time when it was such a startling
and new thing that after riding with
her husband it would be a month before
she could summon courage enough 10
again venture, out. She paved the way,
however, for the Jersey City women VINO
where without attracting attention, ex-
cept in Hoboken. There the urchins
still insist upon the term monkey OF
FAVORITE HEAD GEAR.
The head gear most affected in Jersey
City is the felt tan o. shanter. This is
tionaf advantage of being so small that
the wind doesn't have much OF a snow
with it. Sweaters are very popular
they keep the wearers warm and pre-
vent them from catching cold and, para
mount to everything else, they are be-
coming. They may be seen on the Boule,
Known fact tina black and blue show
dust the most. the colors- most used are
those two. Brown and gray follow
A partial list of those women who ride
their own wheels is given below; also
an exact, account OF costumes worn on
~ THOSE WHO RIDE.
Mrs, Frank Eveland wears a steel
blue suit, long skirt, tan leggins, blue
cloth cap; Mrs. Brice Gollard, black long Y
cap; Miss Agnes Collard, black long skirt,
black jacket, blue leggins. black cap;
Miss Georgiana Collard, black suit. leg
gins and cap; Miss Edith Collar black
Suit, Higgins and cap; Mrs. George T;
Smith of Glenwood avenue wears a steel
colored suit, made with a long skirt and
Mrs. George Clifford, Bentley avenue,
steel gray suit made with a long skirt,
and a coat, steel colored leggins and
cap; Miss Grace Toffey. Glenwood ave
grey leggins, grey Alpine hat; Miss Lii
Ian Percy, Glenwood avenue, black suit,
long skirt, jacket, black leggins, black
long skirt. jacket, leggins and cap; Miss
trace Coffin, black suit, leggins and cap;
Miss Mallory, light grey suit, leggins
Bumsted, black suit, black leggins.
black cap; Mrs. Charles Hartshorne.
black suit trimmed with white. short skirt,
sack suit. black leggdns and black cap;
Mrs. Fred Pangborns black suit, short
skirt. leggins. cap; Miss Jessie Perry,
short blue skirt, Norfolk jacket, blue
tam-os-shanter hat, blue leggins; Miss
Louise Perry, blue suit, leggins, tam
and Black tweed, short skirt, jacket, leg
gins. cap; Mrs. W. e. Grattan, blue
short skirt, Jacket, high topped black
bicycle shoes, Continental hat: Mrs. w
black leggins; Mrs. pr. Bull; black suit,
wears a rather fancy and attractive suit
of black trimmed with red. white and
| red sweater. white and red tam-o'-shan
ter; Miss Prior, blue short skirt. blue
gray suit. short skirt: leggins;. Miss
| Clara Tuthill, gray suit trimmed with
| white; Miss Bessie White, BLU suit,
white sweater, white ta~m.o'-shanter
Miss Alice Fprst short blI;e skirt. blue leg
Skirt, blue blouse, blue leggins; Miss
Grace Stannard. long black skirt, blacl
Jacket, black leggins, black cap; Miss
Marie Hurley. steel colored suit, shorl
skirt. tan-o,-shanter; Miss Lizzie Near
white tam-o'-shanter; Miss Blauvelt rides
a full nickel wheel and wears a blue
suit, a blue t~am-o'-shanter and blue leg
gins; Mrs. r; w: Hicks, Of Greenville
wears a black s9it, short skirt, leggins
chor, black suit, short skirt, tan leg
! gins black and white sweater, blacl
Alpine hat; Miss Flora Burnham, sea
brown suit, white sweater. white tam
os-shanter; Miss Nellie Thomas, Glen
| gins. brown cap; Miss Lott, black suit
| ionr skirt black legginS. black cap; Miss