Passing through Passaic, the run is direct to the cemetery on the
Passaic River at the outskirts of Paterson. Keep to this road until you
run into Market Street. At the bridge turn sharp left and pass through
the city of Paterson on Market Street to its end. Then turn to the right
up a short grade to the bridge that crosses the Passaic again. The
rider should not cross the bridge, but should turn sharp to the left and
follow the car tracks through West Paterson Station to Little Falls.
This stretch of road is in fine condition, is macadamized and level.
From Little Falls it is a one-mile run to Singac. Immediately on leaving
Singac and crossing the track the rider comes to cross roads. He should
keep on the main road, skirting around with the river on the right, over
a hilly country, by a hotel, into Fairfield; or if he chooses, he may
turn to the left just before reaching Fairfield into Pier Lane. But if
he wishes to make a stop in Fairfield, he must keep on to the hotel in
the centre of the town. This stretch of country is a rolling macadamized
road in reasonably good condition. From Fairfield, or from the junction
of the main road and Pier Lane, the road southward to Franklin
Post-office is in poorer condition and clay, and is much more hilly. At
the junction of the roads in Franklin the rider should inquire for
Bloomfield 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.
[Illustration: STAMPS]
This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp collectors,
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