hat the
Boulevard is as yet only paved on the west side from here out. At 108th
Street the asphalt stops, and he must either go through that street to
the Riverside Drive or keep on the Boulevard, which from here to 125th
Street is in bad condition, awaiting asphalt pavement. If he takes the
drive he should turn east and go down a very steep but short hill on
122d Street, just opposite Grant's Tomb, into the Boulevard, and as soon
as he comes to 125th Street a long and pretty steep hill confronts him.
It is not difficult, however, if taken slowly, since the macadam is
good, and the hill a steady incline. At 154th Street, which is
asphalted, he should turn east to St. Nicholas Avenue, which is better
here than below, though the macadam is old. Keeping on St. Nicholas
Avenue he soon comes into the Boulevard again at 168th Street, which is
here called Kingsbridge Road, and is newly macadamized. By making this
slight detour at 155th Street the rider avoids going down the hill back
of Trinity Cemetery, and up another bad one on the Boulevard. If he is
going up the Hudson he should turn east at 181st Street, through a bad
two hundred yards of the latter, cross the Harlem on Washington Bridge,
(2), and turn north into Featherbed Lane. This is necessary, because the
Kingsbridge Road at the foot of the hill, which begins at 181st Street,
is in a very bad condition as far as Spuyten Duyvil.

On the west side of the city down-town it is the rider's first object to
get to Eighth Avenue as directly as possible. He then has a clear course
out. Starting from the Grand Central Station, a good seven-mile ride is
to go, as already described, up the Boulevard to 106th Street, then
turn east to the Park, and come back to the Plaza. On a dry day one of
the most beautiful, perhaps _the_ most beautiful, ten-mile ride in
America is from the Grand Central, as described, to the Plaza, thence
through the Park to West Seventy-second Street to Riverside Drive, by
Grant's Tomb to Claremont, at the end of the Drive, and back, turning
east through 108th Street to Boulevard to 106th Street, thence east to
the Park, and so down.

[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK]

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