1.
I,'ROil'l ALtsANY
l,'rank Chew ancl
twenty-first day boat
in
ciay
I
BUFFALO.
reached Albany precisely
of June, ha.ving
eompany
T0
with Abbot
eome
at 6.10 P.M. on the
up from New York by the
and Upshur, a couple
of
my
I'rince-
ton ehums. Franklin had left us at, Poughkeepsie, but Abllie
with us all the lvay. Thc first thing I did
to a repair
shop
to
have tl.re pedal mended;
I
was
to t,a&.e my wheel and I found that a
was
of ihe old ones replacecl lvith new 7-inch crarks, and lvhile that was being cione, Abbie and l"rank and I walked up Stat,e Street to take a look at, the State Capitol building. The doors were closed for the night, so lve could not
new crank was neecled.
see
had both
the int,erior, but an accommodating
ocopn eonducted us around
the outside--all the Albanians are very proud of their Capitol
cost. I suspect that much of the ]noney appropriated found its way into prlvate pockets. and
of its
enormous
ti1I about eiglit--I mean ten-o'elock, but as we Y/ere anxious to reach Schenectady that night, we started away on our wheels while it was still light, proml'sing Abbie's train did no1, leave
to visit hirri if possible on our way home. We had a series of mishaps that nigfrt, the flrst of whiclr came before we had left the ciiy limit,s: l'rank's chain refused to run smoothly . It t,eased us
for
about an hour-a:"rd-a-ha1f, but
finally
we mad.e a good
start
fine cycle path that extends, withbut one poor stretch, clear to Scheneetady. It was now so dark lhat Frank's Iamp was a
on the
i
io
!i*
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great help to us until--the ryhere
oil
oil
ran
outi
Not finding any place
could be borrowed, we rode along slowly, lighted only
by the stars, souretimes staying on the narrow path, aid often floundering around
in the ditches on either side. After
of this kind of work, I
found my tool-bag gone, wi.th
tent,s, and the other pedal coming
off;
and we were
an hour
al1 its
still
con-
three
It was either ride wi,th one pedal or walk, and so I rode. We finally reached the electric llghts of the town, and
riLes from S--.
then our progress was mueh faster. Wc rode up and down Uuion St.
Iookirg for I'lo. 718, Harry l4rright's address. lTe found the but as it
was nearer one
o'cloch in the momirg than tweLve at
night, and as no lights were visible,
we concluded
a hot,e1 rather than rouse hi.m up. So we went dolyn where we viere shown we
house,
to go down to
to the Edj.son
a fine room--our mon6y was p}ent,y then--and
lost no time in getting to
s1eep.
iune 22.
After sleeping as late in the morning as we felt like doing, and breakfasting and on whom
I
at a restaur.ant,
the steps of
lfll\
we saw
a
we rode again up Union Street
little
group
recognized Flarry. He ciid not reciprocate
of
of
fe11ows,
till I
among
had nearly
his face light,ed, and he ran out to rneet us. Lie look us in, introd"uced us to his fraternity mates, Alpha Delta Phi men, and then we went, up to his room, on the second floor of the club-house. Ii required a long time for me to become used to his voice, which has charged so comstared him out
countenance. Then, however,
3.
pletely since his leavirg Xenia seven years qgo. We had time, in t.,]re small pari of the forenoon that still I'emained, for only a hasty glance at the campus and buildlngs of Union Co11ege. It is
hill at the top of Union Street, overlooking the lovrer part of the city. ltilith the general appearance of the campus I lvas alrcady familiar from photographs belonging to Forsyth Crawsituated upon a
ford:
the "Blue Gateso and, passing the older recitation hall, eame in sight of curious round buildJ.ng chrisilve entered through
ened lilemorial
IIalI, but more commonly known as o (somebody's) fof-
1y". It, i.s a handsome strueture,
it,
but,
and much money was expended on
it is of such a shape that it
cannot be used
for
any pur-
but the holding of alumni dinners and. the throwing of baseballs through the flne stained-glass windows. 0ther buildings pose
to this solitary-looking rotunda that the rim of a wheel bears to.t,he hub. lYe saw,too, the room of the professor wirere the janitor's cow is annually imprisoned, and thoUgh we did not see the cow, the name of that animal , written on ths blackboards in every concoivabLe language showed that the students bear the same i'clation
still As
kept her in
it
memory.
seemed necessary
re-repaired, Frank and
trip,
I
to go back to
AJ.bany
to
have my wheol
went over on the train--and.
first
this, with
last ride on the New york Centra1 during the whole time we spent in the Empi.re State. lrllhile waiting to have a crank replaced and the gear changed(from 68 to 76), we visited some of the luxurios ehambers of ihe State Capi1,o1 the return
was my
and
4. The Senate chamber
is
especially magnificent, each senator having
arevo}vingarm-chairandadesk,wit,hplentyoffloor-spaceon all sid.es. The walls are finished. in vari-col0red marbles and a1l the upholstorings are of rich maierial' In keeping wit'h t,he
of the legistat,ive apartments are the offices of the various officlals, the telegraph department, etc', etc' Wo came incomplete d.own by way of the grand staircase, which even in its stat,e is beautif u1 to look on. I3y scorel.ring through the streets of Albany and climblng into the baggage ear, I succeed.ed in board'ing t'he 5'00 train, but' Frank was not so fortunate: however, he had his wheel with him, and so r.od.e over. I didn't have enough cash to pay my lvay to schenectady but the conductor kindly let me rido, and i paid him at the staeLegance
to the Edison wi'tjr me lor supper, and then rvhen Frank canre in, we vrent alL t'ogethcr to the concert of the college musicaL clubs, for which Ilarry had procured tickets' tion. Iiarry
went
Theconcertseemed'tomever'ycreditableforacollegeofthe size of Union, and the i.mpersonat,or and the sophomore quart'ette vron rnuch
applause, but the singing
of the vrllole glee chlb and the
playing of the others conirasted with Princeton very unfavorably-they
seemed
to lack u:rity and volurne.
That nigirt
tile A.D.Ph. club-house was t,o be fu]l of old grad.s.,
at the hotet agaj'n' Some o5e' sodarthat we tried before retiring proved to be utter slush, and we realised that lve vrere stll1 ln the East. so Frank and
I
had the same room
5.
June 23.
This was Union's
to a1lof the except that, we substituted dinner for the Chan-
Commencement
nunerous speakers,
ee11or's long address.
Y[e
left
Dalr, ard we tistened
when he commenced,
as
it
was then
after twelve o'elock, went down to I{arry's boarding-place, took lots of time to our eating and lots of time afterwa.rd; and we calculated
it
so nicely
the last sentence.
ihe old
we returned
Then eame
In tire after.noon them
that
just
as he was pronouneing
the awarding of diplomas and prizez.
we satt/ many moro
Chi.nese nidoLo which
things on t]-r e campus,
suffers so much at the
among
hand.s
of the freshmen al.ld sophomores. At present i.t is painted t.ed, buL
it
has aliernated. between red and green (or other colors)fo" a
long t,ime. With a knife
it
I
shayed
nearly a quarter of an inch
I
a
little of the paint, anci. found
deep.
to talk about hefore we could say goodbye that we were a6ain lat,e in starting--8.10 was the time, I believe.We had good fortune, stopped at iloffman's for soda en route and reached Arnsterdam(16) in fair time. The road was good, but not so good as the cycle path from A-- to S--. After looking arou:d some time for eheap, tbagings(we wanted our money to last as long as possible)we found. all one could expeet for tweniy-five cents at a little hotel knolrr as tire Franklin House; so lve patronized a night-1unch car to the extent of roi1h, coffee, baked beans and Harry and
had so much
frankfUrters, and tlren turned j.n. count,
of mosquitoos or--
I
something.
lost, sleep that niglrt on ac-
_6. June 24.
At I
left the thrivine little manufaeturing city and passed tlrrough Tr.ibe's Hill to Fonda. Here lve stopped only Long enough to get an ice-cr.eam soda, and then rode on, past a little station called Yost's, near which Frank took a picture of some of the beautiful hills ryith our pike in the foreground. After a short rest in the shade, for this was the first rea}ly hot day on the lrip, we pushed on to Palatine Bridge, where we left the pike and crossing the irlohawk soon entered the town of Canajoharie. It was now dinner time, and we wer.e glad to stop at the fuiohawk llouse(tjre L.A.W. irotel). In contrast to the hot, roads, we greatly enjoyed A.iv1. rve
the coolinq faueet, breezy rooms, and abundantly supplied table
(aII for 25 eents). l{hile waiting her.e after dinner for the h-^at to subsicle, we heard further parti.culars of a sad aecident that had happened helow this plaee the nig.ht before, when three young boys of the neighborhood ivere drowned in the river whose course lve were followi.ng. Not very far from the lilohawk ilouse we for.rnd a creainery--through t,he kindness of the hotel barber--where rve rvere shown the process of making ereamery butter and were 6iven all the pure cream that we dared to drink. Returning to the pike at about twenty minutes to fl,ve, we rode) of Palatine Bridge, notecl as being the home of the sleeping-ear manufacturer Wagner. It, is prineipally a resalong the main street
idenee tolvn, having a high loeation and many
beautiful dwelling-
houses. Then we went on over poorer roads through Fort PLain and
St. JoL,.nsville, where we coneluded to try the pienie p1an,
antl
7, SO
invested in
sorne
fruit
zrnd
cakes, carried them oui of town with
in a pretty little spot at the side of the road. l:ine miles further on, when darkness had begun to make riding difficult, we passed a rar.her '.minvi.ti.ng place, which looked as if it mighi be an inn; seeing some houses on the other side of the
us
and ate them
ri.ver, however, across a
suspension bri,dge, we made inquiries
t,here. Bul they were very indifferent about taking lodger.s there,
ard as the place that we had passed was said to be respact,able, eam6
back and asked
to be taken in. Built, a hundred years a6o, and
once a
hotel, the old
an olcl
woman named
kept room with
we
house was very
quiet noty, inhabited only by
Vosburgh, and her son.
German
prints on the walls
which, after we had taken a verjr
brief
IYe
were shown a neatly
and a huge feather-bed,
d.i.p
in the dark river just
below the house, ki.ndly receiyed our weary selves, June 25.
I{e had paid ri'e
ow quartcrs for our quarters the night before,
could st,art as early as we lrleased; but when morning
so
came lve
di.dn't care particularly aboul geliing up ear1y, so our hostess
had
the start of us by a couple of hours. As we rodo away toward Littlo Fa1Is, we looked in vain along the river for the very small whi.clL we rvere
li.ttLe
,,-oli
told gave its
name
to
eascade
t,he town; guess theli are so
c?.nrt see them. The plae-" seemed to have been
built
on
the sides of two or three hil1s--we eoasted along the uneyen st,reet, and anc.Iiored was abor':t
at a oladies'and
all tirat
we could
gents 'restaurant, owhere ham-and-eggs
get for breakfast.
B.
From
Litt,le FalLs, which we left at
9-sorne-+,hing,
to
llerki.mer,
there was a cycle path and ri'ding tl.rat would otherwise have been very 1)oor became
fair.
of the roads along lhis part for by the beaut;. of the .hiII scen-
The roughness
of the rou't e was fu1ly atoned ery. At llerkj.mer a pret,ty girl servcd us rvith ice-cream soda; ive crossed
lhe river anrl passed through the adjoini.ng towns
then
ilIohawk,
IJ.ion, and Frankfort. ilere the cj,nder patir Iay between the tracks
or rails of the M.I.&F. Electric R.R. Strawber.ries
ancl doughnuts,
at Frankfort, consti,tuted our ditrner. A ]it,tle further on Frank's tire went, down so much that his wheel could not be ridden, and we had to walk about two miLes t,o the nearest repair shop, whicli happened to be in the eastern end
purchased
of Iltica on Rutger Street. The repair dolvn
was soon mado, and wo gJ,ided
the asphalt together with a rather quest,ionable young sport
who i.nsisted on accompanying r-rs through
lo us,
however, and sholed us our road
--whieh we follolved, not stopping at,
all .
I,'rom
to
the city. ile was very kind
to the west--or-rt
see the business
Genesee St.
part of
the residences that we salv, though, I think it
Uti.ca
must
be a very prettlr p1ace. lrom Uiica to
New
Hartford we travell,ed over a fine ci.nd.er path
bullt by local wheelmen. In spite of the many placard.s hinting lhal lhose who di.d not help pay need not ride, lve sailed along with easy consciences, believing that as visiting wheelmen we.were entitled to a1l the privile5les of guests. Just out of IJew llartford r,,e supped by ihe side of the patli on cakes and cottage cheese. Then the path forked, and as often happens, we took the wrong road,going
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to Clinton instead of Kirkland. We discovered our mistake while drinking some milh at a dairy fam on the road, but learning that Hamil,ton College rvas near Clinton, lve decided not to turn back. IVhen I had disposed of two glasses of milk I thanked the boy waim1y and was about to move on, when F,i'ank, seeing a strangc look come
over his faee, said,rDo you ever chargc for niLk?o Very de-
for two glasses.' So we paid him and left. No one in lhese r egions is baekwald aboui
murely the boy replied,olYe usually ge', a nieltel
accepting remrrneration. We
rode through Cli.nton and uI) the long and sleep College Iti11
that ls, just a little piece. I{e iralked ^,he rest of i,}re way, and vuor"e duly impressed. with its size. Ilalf tray up, some one has thoughtfulJ-y
built
an arbor, ',yhere braath
ls
recovered free of
nrllar
marklng the
line of the territory of the "Six Nationsn.
0nee on the
charge; a:'rd a short distanee above is a slone bormd.ary
summit, we rode easily arouncl the campus, anong very tasteful
buildings, b*i, wii,houv seeing any one who could show,.s point,s of
interest. That, of cgurse, is due t,o its being vacation time. From Clinion over to Kirkland we had a fine nacadam road lined in many places with shade +-rees. Flerc I lvrote a postal home, and
in, the hotels of the village looked so unpr:omi s i.ng that rnre start,ed on once more, intending to reach Veralthough niglrt was set.ting
non. But the road.s were stony and the riding disagreeable,
fivo miles out that blasted. tire of Frank's
riave up
and
it.s air,.
We
trarirp
ed two miles further befor-e we found a house yrhere we eould
sta;p
all night,.
Mr.. A.Y/.Lewis was t,he philanthropist tha', took us
;
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in.
June 26.
.breakfasl
witi.r fresh-picked strawIn the morning se had a good berries, a:rd were glad to 1'a3r fifty cents apiece for our entertainment. The l-rouse is over 100;ears o1d, and usect to be a hot,el(we}I; so did half the houses alons tho pike, for that, matter).Tilen rve set,
onr feet toward Vetrron, and on reaching l,here, nor, being able vyith much
trouble to find a repair-shop, boqght a small repair outfi.t --
of tire mor.ning repairing the tlre o."rrse1ves, with and assistance of all the inhabitants thai could be
and we spent most
the counsel
spared from other work. lYe had greai trouble
gelting ttre iruren
tube
in place r-urtil rve learned to'lubricate'it rvith whiting. AL l2z41, buying some bananas, etc. for dinner by tire road, lve left the iown, but alas j for our efforr,s at repair, four mj.les on Frank announced, lvith a look of extreme ennui,"It's gono down again.n That set,tled
it.
No human being
nor even Irrank
Chew cou&d
stand
it
any longer.
Fortnnately there lvas a shop not far away, and the depraved windbag rvas exchangod
foi'a
Vi.m
Shat vras second-handed. and patched, bul
still r in t,he ring' . tr"1eanlvhlle, as we ylere anxlous
to
reaeh Syracr-rse that nrght,
we
that I should rlde on in, J.eaving hj.m to make his way by wheel or train, as might seem most ::onvenient,. I can,ied out my part of the program, taking the st,raiglrtest pike and passing arrar6ed
through very sma11 towns onIy. 0neida Chittenango
miles
to
t,he
left little
1eft. I
I left
pushed along
in
on my near
siJ.ence, and
:right, and lhat
impression on my mind except t,hat a strong
wind was holdi.ng me l;ack, and
that I
wqntod
to be in
30 west,
syracuse.Onee
11.
on the stone road the riding was easier, but the wind and the
still
offered opposition. At last(at 5:10)I droppeci
lVest Shore R.R.
station,
and wait,ed awhile
d"own
hills
into the
for l'rank. IVe met at
o'clock in the N.Y.Centra] station--he had come all the
l,ray on
B
his
just as tired as Iwas. i4le took the Solvay trolley car, and whizzed out to that suburb at a surprising rate. At the Solvay Process Co. works we made inqul"ry for l[i11 Mclauchli4,the Princeton tutor who was m,'cornpany on a trip last Easter vacation. ilc had asked us to st,op and see him at Syracuse, and. we tyere now t,aking advant,age of the invitation. lVe found him at a wheelmen's ball, then being held at Guild HaJ.I, a ha.ndsome club-house owned by the Company. As we were too tired to join in the fostivities(we lvere properly eostumed, to be sure)he took us up to his nicely-funwheel, and was
nished room, and broug;ht, us cake, ice-cream, and catdy,
the room to us for the ni.{rt. Well iixed? WelL,
I
and. Eave up
guess.
June 27.
It
being Sabbatli day, we essayed to go to chure'r. ut hoarciing
the wrong street-car, we fountl ourselves Jut in a d.istrict where there were no churehes--the line ran t,o a plaee caltecl l{opper's
i.t up for tho mori.ring, and i.r.the aft,ernoon, being left, to ourselves, lve for.rnd a quiet, spot on the high hi.ll baek of
Glen.So rve 6ave
the S;'racuse Univer.sity buildj.ngs, whero we rosted
among
tho daisie
un1,il evening. Aecording to agreement wlth lJclauchlin, we were on the corner in front of the First Presbyterian ehureh prompil.y at
7:30, but learning that there would be no services there, r,re listened for a time to some Salvat,ion Army exereiscs, and. then went
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inside the Graee Episcopal Chureh, and got part of the serrriees. The siirging bum
all
of the boy ehoir
was
beautiful .
We
felt rather on ihe
day, beeause, not boing ahle to get our suit-eases on Sat,-
urday night,, wc had
to go about in our whcefmen's clothos all
day.
June 28.
Nlelaughlin wont 1,i11 two
to work at,8.30, but
did nol, leave Syraeuse
in the aft,ernoon, for it took us all
repairs, changing elothes, ete. narne
we
We lvent,
oul
morning
to ;et
roady;
lV.Genesee S1,., which
the A1bany-Buffalo pike almost, invariably tak-os
when passing
eity, and on to Camillus, on each side of which is a long stccp hi1l, wi.th warnings to cyclers not to eoast; tl-ren to EJ.bridge
t,hrough a
wc had easier
ridi,ng. lle took the straight road to Weedsport, and
hi1ly stretches, we passed over the eisht miles wlthoul, much diffieulty. At ltt-' v,ie saiv a procession and purehased our supplies for supper. From l4leedsport to Port Byron
althougfr there were sandy and
and on t,o l\lontezuma wc followed
the Erie Canal along l,he tow-path,
that was said to be better tiran the regular road. We had to be on our guard, however, against being thrown into the canal by lhe
as
mule-ropes
It,
.
was now
nearly dark, but we started on to Clyde in
rvith a rid.or from lltiea. About, tliree miles out,
company
I struck a rut,
and
flying leap -- immediately after the Utican eolLided with tho wreck ard I went into tire air again. Both of us landed on our feet unhurt, and found my front tire knoeked completely off tho rim, but nothing broken. Franh arrd I refused to allow our ncw act,ook a
l- ,.
13.
to wait for us, so rviilr a wish for good luck, he rod.e on into the growing darkness, while Frank and I fussed with the stj.eky cemenl and fought the swarms of mosquitoes ihai were t,rsing to prey upon us. Some of t,h-^ preying was suecessful , too. I rvas afraj.d ,to ride my wheel immedi.ately , for fear t,he cement would not hold; quaintancc
moreovor,
it
was almost 9
luek al a larm-house onee ile tur.ned off at the house we eamo
to
lirst
that it
our
more.
t.oad
to the right,
and the
appea.ed bloekadect: boards anri stones
t,he door indieated
seeing a
o'clock, and so we eoncludeci to try
had not been usecl
light at the window, we looked in,
first
in front of
for a long t,ime.
Rut,
and saw a queer-J.ooking
with a bottle i.n one hand, and very mueh disturbed by our presence. nYou <ra,n't stop herel Go on io Henr.y jjarton'sl Henry Baroldman,
ton'sinhe cried out before we had said a worcl. llis i'ear thal,
we
to stay was quite ungrounded. The next holrse was more inviting, and on telling our hard luck story wc wcrc rcceived l_y [1r. Barton, and shown to a neat, room with double bed. were going
June 29. We
enioyed the pJ-entiful eountry breakfast with the amiable l{en-
ry Il., his large wife, pnett,y dark-eyed daugtrter, and bri.ght-faeed boy. The price, only 75e. for everything, was also eheering. We
went by the turnpike through Clyde, Loek
l'lewark. The road belwecn the two
last
named
Berlin, and Lyons to
places was verl" good.
At N-- wc found several cherry-trees loaded with ripe fruit--whitehearts mainly; and as we were allowed to help oursclvcs, we pocket,ed our
fill
and then
firled our pockets. After 1eavi.ng
Newark
we
f tr
t,
misscd
t4. our road but were set right after traversing a couple of
extra miles.
It
was here
that
we passed
the so-called
!spookohousc;
it, is a smaLl whi.tewashed framc, entirely desertod, and over the open doorway is this j.nscription:iSPIBITUALISi,{ originated j.n this iiouse, 1848. " IVe
reached Palmyra a
lit,tle atLer 2 P.[1. Our dinner had been
entirely of cherrj.es, so wc up, and were iusl waltLng
it for the rain--rhe fir.st on our trip--to p_;o
L some eake and iee-crcam to baek
s1ack, when who should come swin6ling down the sl,reet but thc Rev.
T.
of coursc he has a eharere i.n Pa1ni1.ra,N.y. Ilut we hadn't connccted that fact with lhe fact that we our.selves Chas.
Wa1k1eyi"Why,
n
were i.n Palmyra. He greeted us most cordi.ally and look us up i,o
lhe rectory, whcre we found iilrs. iiolen Shearer WalkIcy entertainir6 a houseful of S.[]. ehilci.ren: thei.r.picni.c being spoiJ.ed by the rain they had invaded the reetory inst-.ad.
i\tr. and Mrs. I[alkley insisted on our staying to supper, and as t,he rain scemed to be a steady onc, on our staying alJ. night as wel1.
Afler the last of the 1i1,1,1e scliolar.s had left, we irad an oppor.tunil,y to look at thc house, which is beauti.fully furnished, and to talk"Xcnia'wj.th one anothor. In the evenl,ng, a CornelL student named
Cleveland, and a h,Ir. Bournc, caIled.
of the parlor
!'rank too.ir a f'lashlight
and study. June 30.
lilr. Walk1ey, who was i1l during ttre night, did not get up; vue went up to his room to say good-bye. lyc wcrc glad to be assured that, thc illness was not the result of our visit. iiclen Next morning
r'F'
"-E 15.
vcry kind to us. Before we lefi, wc wcrc iold that the following thi.ngs originated in or near Palmyra:spiritualism, l!,lormonism,the lvas
first
expross company(IVeIls Fargo), and Lady Randolph Ohurchhilt.
Also, Capt. Morgan exposed l,la.sonry here. The town is not,-.d besides
for il,s pretty shaded streets, numerous }eeel politieians, for the 'church squaren, uJ)on whieh fo i,r houses of ivorship
ancl
face,
i'ir. l{a1k1ey's among them. The Eplscolral chureh is a beaut,iful de3 i,,ln and ha.nd.soniel;i I'urnisired.. We
lefl
wit,ii t,]re gooci wishes
of orir r'riends,
1,o
struggle over
nuddy roads tltr.oqgh an atmosphere heav.1: wi1,h tiampness. The f ir.st
t,oln
r,ve
reach-.C rvas l,iacedon; I'r'om ther_.
to Fairpor.t, the riding
be-
I commeneerl to fecl rheumatic twinges irr my knoe. In the rear of a 1itlle bakery in eame evcn
harder and more disagr.eeable, and
Iiairl,61l, we tlined otr cakes,lemon pic,cream lruffs,beans,and broiyn breadi To Iloehesier we hail a good cinder path and consequently marlc
better time. eit,y,
I,ie slopped at,
the
hand.some Powers
whero rre took a rcfreshing bath;ny knoe
Building in ilrat
I treated with hot
water. lYest,
of
Roehester lve lound th."
riding to Churohville very
good,
last thrco miles on a path. Our supper lvas mace r.om tho remnanls ol the beans and brown bread, in ilie st,rength of whieh we rvent over fair roads to B creen (prono unc ed. Ferj en) .ilorc, out of eonsideration to mlr injure.1 joint--I had l;-"en pushing on but one pedal fo. some time--w-" halted., ai.rd engaged a room at a house that espeeialJ"y the
was onco a hotel
.
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16.
July
1.
failed to take the cold out of my knee, and we seriously considored. ridiqg in to Buffalo on the train;but I hated to give up when so close to the end of our jourrrey, and so Alcohol and
wormwood had
decided to'push ono--at an casy pace,howevcr.July ha<l brought
different kind of rveather, and this
was
the
first
day
of that
a
hot
that lasted nearl,i' two weeks. We passed through llatavia and East Pembroko to 0orfu, where we boqght some fruit and cahes for spe11
dinner. Sevent,een
rnilos out from lluffalo, as wc rvere rldi.ng along
t,h-"
smooth roa<i, Frank's wheel suddenly doubled up anrl lvent, down with
hiur--the front fork had broken from old age. Frank was not
mueh
hurt, although his back was a 1i,t,tle bruised. I helped Frank carry the pieces over to t,he nearest, rai.lroad sta.tion(Wendo, on the }tr.Y. Central , about two mi.1es alvay)r'rhere he reluctantly waited to board a train,while I,dot,ermined to matle lt by wheel if possible, went on by myscLf. There',vrrc no mor:e impoylant towns. The last fourand-a-ha1f miles were asphalt e.nd ovcr i,his I rode donrn into the heart of the city of Buffalo--the goaL attained at, lasti I was about as tired as I ever was when I reachad thc N.Y.C. station and found Frank. We
spent Frlda;:
in Buffalo,
Saturday aL Nlagara, Sabbath
in Buf-
falo again; on hlonday we ivent, to Pittsburgh by the W.N.Y.&P.,spent Tuesday at Aunt, Mary Gil]'s,and reached. Xenia and home tho next day.
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17.
SUMMABY OF DISTANCES.
19 2l 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 July 1 2 June
New
York, Brooklyn, and Coney Island
35 miles.
New
York, aird Albany to Schcnectady
24
Schencctady ancl Albany Schenectady and
t)
ditto to Amsterdam
,9
to Vosburgh,s(1 mile from L.Falls) Vosburgh's to Lewis's(2 mi. from verrron) Lewis's to Syracuse Syracuso to Barton's(B mi.lleyond Llontezuma) Amsterdam
to Palmxra Palmyra to Bergen Bergen to Buffalo Bart,on's
Q, 46 4C)
37 37
M --<.'6rc*<qr5r.
60
Niagara Fal1s
11
402 mi1es.
Albany ni{
to Buffalo, beo line
270 miles
by the straight road
actual di.stance traveled by
302 us
350.
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