The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-31


ing over Chicago on the Boulevards he
will be ready at once 10 curse the roads
Of the hub as miserable and abomlnaDle
and to wonder why a civilized commun-
ity should tolerate them. In Boston they
bump ind rumble and rattle their TEEN
as they DO over the rough cooble stones
and smile in complcent satisfaction ana
in the belief that bicycle riding here Is
an amusement. Really it Is not and IL Is
somewhat astounding TO westerners VINO
have been in the habit Of hearing so
much about the beautiful riding around
Boston," Boston could learne wonders
about the bicycle roads in ten minutes
in Chicago.
But not all Of the roads around Boston
are like those within the city. Some are
better and some are worse, TO be sure,
but the riding down here as a whole is
pleasant when you get used to the eiec-
trio cars that whiZ and buzz along al
most every road and make you feel as II
they were going TO crawl up your spine
when behind. or jump the track anu
mash your life out when they are ahead.
The environs Of Boston have the curse
OF the electric car in its worst form.
FINE RIDE UP THE COAST.
In spite of all the drawbacks,
though, party of Chicago riders man
aged toa pick out pleasant days rid
ing but a few days back, and to Wheei
themselves into regions that are inter-
esting and famous in the early history
OF the country. It was but random
ride for day, but it led into lots Of
PLACES that are mentioned In then lstory
books, and to others along the Atlantic
that are famous as fashionable summer
resorts, where just now Chicagoans Dy
the thousands and more ere enjoying
their summer outings in coaching par
ties. tennis and wheeling and plungins
in the sea. In a word, the trip led from
Boston out through Cambridge and Har-
ward college, Arlington. Medtord, wnere
Tufts college is situated, the Middlesex
woods, Maiden, Lynn. Swampscott, Mar
blehead, Manchester y-the-Sea, Bever-
ly Farms, Magnolia and on 70 Gloucester.
They ride from Boston out TO Cam
bridge and the Harvard College grounds
il over Massachusetts avenue, one OF me
principal thoroughfaras of the city, ana
one Of the worst imaginable for bicy-
Gle riding. The beauty Of the college
grounds compensates. however. for the
humping one gets in reaching them The
appearance Of picturesque age noucea-
bic in everything lends quaint interes.
that does not obtain in western and new
er institutions.
The ride on from Cambridge to Airing
ton was still over Massachusetts, avenue,
with it's whizzing electrics, but there are
places along the roadmarked by tablets
that carry one back one hundred years
and more to the times Of the revolution.
One Of the first met was az Tufts street.
which informs the passerby that Il rests
on the site Of the Black Horse Tavern.
where me. the commftte Of safety. A
mile or more farther on and in Arlington
is another tablet which announces tina.
Here Stood Cooper's Tavern, in which
Jabez Wyman and Jason Winship was
killed by the British There are other
things in the neighborhood TO keep the
names Of these men in the mind Of the
present-day inhabitants, for there are
streets named after them, and places are
pointed out as the ones which they used
to own
Turning east from Arlington, ride o.
a mile and a half over the first good
road encountered brought the party TO
Medford, pretty. quaint old town along
the banks OF the curling Mystic Rive.
A shoot off 70 the north OF here led into
the Middlesex reservation, one Of the
series of natural parks set aside by the
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts. Thro'
this park, which is one Of much natural
beauty, and, in fact, connecting IL wi-n
all the other parks in The Boston chain.
excellent gravel roads have been BULL
They are UP hill and down dale. 50 that
the climbing is hard and the ccasting is
easy and quite the most fun in the cycl-
ing around Boston.
From the Middlesex reservation the
Chicago party coasted down a couple o.
miles or so in 20 the old town OF Maiden
The road from here led on through Lin
den, Saugus and up 10 Lynn, part OF the
way furnishing delightful coasting and
a great deal of miserable trudging up
--o hills