mfield Avenue, which is the direct road to Pine Brook. This is a
sandy road, somewhat hilly, and it is necessary to take the side path.
At Pine Brook he has made about thirty miles, and may stop either at the
hotel just off the Bloomfield road about a mile before reaching the town
or at the hotel in the centre of the town.

By examining the map it will be seen that the same trip may be made by
riding up to 125th Street in New York, taking the Fort Lee ferry, and
riding over the direct route from Fort Lee through Taylorsville on to
Hackensack, and thence over a reasonably good straight road, crossing
the Passaic, and meeting Market Street above the cemetery at the point
where the Paterson Plank Road joins it. A good run would be to take this
latter road, to leave Market Street in Paterson, and strike for the fair
bicycle road indicated on the map, which runs nearly due south through
South Paterson, leaving on the west, or right hand, Montclair Heights,
Cedar Grove, Upper Montclair, and riding into Montclair through
Watchung, where the train may be taken for New York. This is, of course,
a somewhat hilly road.

NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810, New York to Stamford,
Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp collectors,
and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor
Stamp Department.

A subscriber asks if the value of United States postage-stamps is likely
to increase in the future in a manner to make them a safe investment. We
can only judge of the future by the past, and taking that as a
criterion, the United States stamps, with, of course, the exception of
the common low values, will increase in value in the future to a far
greater extent than they ever have in the past. There are to-day many
millions of dollars invested in postage-stamps for collections, and
while the question of stamps as an investment was somewhat doubtful ten
or more years ago, at present the prominent collectors have less
hesitation in investing in rare stamps than in United States bonds. The
former they know will pay large interest. The recent great increase in
the price of all old United States stamps is due to the buying up by
collectors of all the r