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 Tickets not good during the afternoons of races.

4.00 P. M. Opening of official headquarters of Meet Committees, National and Division Officers, at Hotel Brunswick, Boylston and Clarendon streets, where credentials, badges and souvenir programmes will be issued.

6.00 P.M. Old Colonial Club, Washington and Brookline streets. Reception to visiting wheelmen. L. A. W. ticket admits.

7.15 p. m. Leave Brunswick Hotel, L. A. W. Headquarters, for a moonlight run through the Boston Park System, including Back Bay Fens, Riverway into Jamaicaway, past Leverett Pond, up hill to Jamaica Pond, into Arborway, to Arnold Arboretum. (The Arboretum is distinguished as the finest tree museum in the world, is the territory of Buzzey Institution, and is the School of Agriculture and Horticulture of Harvard University.) Passing on under the stone archways of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. at Forest Hills, direct to Franklin Park, which covers 527 acres, around the Park to the Refectory and Hagboune Hills, also Schoolmaster's Hill (so called because William and Ralph Waldo Emerson, while keeping school in Roxbury, lived in a house on the east side of this hill), around the Playstead and over to the Blue Hill Avenue entrance of the Park, thence over the new Columbia road to the club-house of the Tiger Roadsters, where a stag lawn-party is to be held. This run is one of the most popular rides around Boston, and cyclists can always be found on its roads, the total distance being about twelve miles, over excellent roads. Nothing better can be found anywhere the world over.

7.30 P. M. Concert by Boston Municipal Band at Highland St., West Roxbury.

7.30 p. m. Leave Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, for a moonlight run through the suburbs of Longwood and Brookline to Chestnut Hill Pumping Station, visiting the water works, seeing the immense engines of the high service of the Boston water supply, and then ride around the Reservoir and up the hill, passing Chestnut Hill railroad station, through Brookline Woodlands, South street, Weld street, Centre street, to the rooms of the Roslindale Cycle Club, where the party will be entertained for an hour or so, and on to Jamaica Plain, and into Boston via Park System. Distance about fourteen miles. A most delightful run for a moonlight ride

8.00 P. M. Stag lawn-party given by Tiger Roadsters at their club-house, Dorchester.

8.00 P. M. Entertainment for visiting wheelmen at Roslindale Cycle Club, Roslindale,

Special harbor excursions at greatly reduced rates for League Members only. See Monday's program.

Nantasket.—Rowe's Wharf, 6.20, 8.20, 9.20, 9.50, 10.20, 10.50, 11.20 A. M., 12.20, 1.20, 2.20, 2,50, 3.20, 4.20, 5.20, 5.50, 6.20, 7.20, 8.20 and 9.20 P.M. Round trip 80 cents. Good Tuesday only.

Bass Point, Nahant, Winthrop, Plymouth, Salem Willows, Gloucester, Cape Ann and Provincetown. See Monday's program for details.

6.00 a. m. Leave Copley Square for a run of about six miles to Marine Park, South Boston, before breakfast. From the Park can be had an excellent view of the harbor and the city from the water front. Also Forts Independence and Winthrop, Deer Island, where the city prisoners are sent, Long Island and Boston Light Houses, Thompson's Island, where the Farm School is located, Dorchester Bay and Squantum. We pass the yacht club houses of the Boston and South Boston clubs and visit a park of which the city is proud, there being probably no other city in the world that has such a fine marine park. There are two long piers that extend out into the harbor, and at the entrance of the pier is a picturesque head house, fashioned after a mediæval municipal council house of a German city, with its exterior panels of decorative designs depicting the story of Boston Bay

9.00 a. m. Leave Copley Square for an all day run along the South Shore to Nantasket and Cohasset, getting a shore dinner at Nantasket and a chance to have a bath in the briny deep. The route takes one by Edward Everett Square and the old Everett mansion built in 1945 and the birthplace of the famous statesman; onto Upham's Corner and Dorchester Lower Mills, up Milton hill, from which an excellent view can be had of Dorchester Bay and Neponset River; from here are some excellent coasts on the way to Quincy, passing the Quincy quarries. Quincey is most conspicuous in the popular mind as the birthplace and burial place of the two Presidents—Adams—the birthplace of John Hancock, and the home of the distinguished Quincy family, for a member of which (Col. John Quincy) it was named. It was the place where granite quarries were first opened with drills, the first work being by Solomon Willard to obtain granite for the Hunker Hill Monument, and the place of the first railroad in the coun try, contrived by Gridley Bryant for the removal of granite to the shipping point. We pass the Stone Temple, "Church of Statesmen," in which are buried two of the Presidents of the United States, whose ashes lie with those of their admirbleadmirable [sic] wives, in massive stone tombs beneath it. From here we go to Quincy Point and over bridge to North Weymouth and on to Hingham, passing by the residence of Hon. John D. Long, the Secretary of the Navy, and on to Nantasket Beach, where a shore dinner of clams, lobsters and fish can be had, all you want, and those that wish to take a bath can do so. In the afternoon those that do not care to return over the road can take the steamers which run quite frequently up the harbor to Boston, a most delightful sail. Fare twenty-five cents, wheels twenty-five cents, or a ride can be had over a good road following the beach to Hotel Pemberton in Hull and steamer up from there. In the afternoon before going home a side trip will be made over to Cohasset over the famous Jerusalem Road following along the water's edge, from which an elegant view can be had of the ocean and on a clear day the North Shore and Cape Ann can be discerned in outline; passing beautiful residences and grounds, including that of Col. A. A. Pope, the father of cycling, to Stony Beach, Sandy Beach, Cunningham's Bridge, from which can be had a most excellent view of the most famous lighthouse on the Atlantic coast, "Minot's Light." Passing on by the residence of the well-known actors, Robson and Crane, to Cohasset and then partly over same road back to Boston. Distance for the day about forty miles.

9.15 a. m. Leave Copley Square for a run through the Park System to Arnold Arboretum (the School of Agriculture and Horticulture of Harvard University), passing Allandale Spring, past the residence of Senator Sprague to Brookline Woodlands, riding over beautiful roads through the woods to Newton Highlands and to Echo Bridge and Hemlock Gorge Reservation of the Metropolitan Park System. This bridge in the largest stone arch in the country, thrown over