maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the
official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen.
Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the
Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership
blanks and information so far as possible.

[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.]

The map this week is of Boston and its vicinity, and the reader in using
it on the road must remember that a great many streets in the city have
been omitted here, and in many places it is impossible to put the names
of streets, owing to the necessity for covering so much ground on a
small map. Every macadamized or asphalted street is, however,
represented on the map. The object in publishing this map is not so much
to tell a rider how to get about in the city, _i.e._, in "old Boston,"
as to give him an idea of what roads to take in order to reach certain
suburbs and to follow certain bicycle routes which we intend giving in
the Department in the next few weeks. The city of Boston is eminently
suited for bicycle riding owing to the beautiful parks which are either
finished or in course of preparation at the present moment. As a usual
thing, the starting-point for a trip in the vicinity of Boston will be
laid at Copley Square, which is at the intersection of Boylston Street
and Huntington Avenue. The best way for reaching any of the suburbs or
towns to north and west is to run through any street from Copley Square
to Commonwealth Avenue, proceeding thence to Massachusetts Avenue,
turning right and crossing the Harvard Bridge, thence proceeding through
Cambridge out North Avenue to Arlington, Medford, Malden, etc.

To reach Chestnut Hill, Brookline, or Brighton, Commonwealth Avenue
should be followed across Massachusetts Avenue to Beacon Street, thence
out Beacon Street. Any of the suburbs further westward, such as Newton,
Wellesley, Jamaica Plain, etc., can be reached over one of the best
roads that was ever made for bicycle riders, _i.e._, through the new
park that has been built along the course of Stony Brook. To reach this
you proceed across Massachusetts Avenue on Commonwealth Avenue and turn
left into the Fenway, and follow what has been named "The Fens" by
keeping on any of the roads inside the park, such as the Riverway,
Jamaicaway, through Leverett Park, around Jamaica Pond, thence out
through the Arnold Arboretum, and from there taking