New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-09
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sNoEi sLEIGHfNe. sessE4 ,fE SrFETs Ere --Yeassr.
Jay vas real touch Of winter IN the morning
Seos looked out and doubt many surprised 10 ss
he ground covered with the white mantle o winter as
The evening before the signs more Indicative Of rain
man snow Many were awakened at an early hour by
nepg sleigh bells which commenced fheir song before
1aybreak and kept it mp during The entire day Every
hing with runners on it in the stseets from the
trSt handsted to the richest gildad cutter good
~ r. ~ ~ snow s looked upon great boon and iuxnFy
lse It and love 20 reveI in Its freezing blasts
sonesnee s1s more than once or twice year and
ous tne ~ ros by without single chance for
5smna1t aT f sss groe unfolding the buffalo. Ccnse-
whitened but cossrad R1ce whitenad every6odyis
that wore well under the thouss.t %
eyery direction and which win Aices thai tew ia
three days to come The railroads wsrs.ar f,r teo -
all blocked up, and during the day were eTss rSv;.
few cars with the greatest difficulty The 80 r,,n :
Eighth avenues started their tracks SORT oY ts
shaped sled, which pushed away the snow and lai,o
followed with shoyels clearing the grooves By tE
means few started on boHcf these traek,
1t uphill work however az the Drifting snow s m
the grooved rails about fast human exsrtor,s could
clear them The Third avenue railroad made no attempt
OF tbe KIND and run no cars upon their track The HarS
lem road not being the srooved rail- &C much
embarrassed az the other roads their cars as
usual during the entire day Nevertheless everything
with wheels below par The eatter the sleigh and
sled we're kings yesterday The railroad lines turned out
tnef large omnibus seighs, capable 81 giving all New
fork sseign ride ior h7e cents each Up and
town street and avenue vas presented the came scene
q hurry bury merry ingIing and prancing steeds Ths
seemed to be present inFropria Soa breathing his chill
ing withering breath into the face Of every one
IAs tsFcary Was ao 10 EftSen degrees. being
teen degrees below freezing point But what did frozen
feet and frosted weigh the baauea with the rea
surs OF jolly sleigh ride2 Every body who had ten
minutes of time fTe-cent piece and no turnout of s
own ran up to Broadway froze fast to the first public
sleigh that along and thus took his aars af the
day sports Five cents sixty street and ten cent,
| to Harlem Here was ride that long enough 10
satisfy the most greedy in distance and economical in
purse A single trip Of these sleigas would fur
nE fun enough fo- months laughing Here they go
one bsek mass Of human beIngs-fasids ard e41tsie
pea upon one another and almost cingiGg tnebnt-
@ @soth are men, women and children. They hang Its
leeehes and look like Of bees around the en-
ttenee 70 tne nsSe Conductor along, turns To
right ana left. now dives down TO the bottons aud fy
swims top, eoiecting the half dimes from ths frezie
Laughing Joking crowd Boys gather in groups on street.
corners; and amuse themselves With rafrr a tr1ex M
such company Here come d shower Of snogbaifs
chunEs OF Ice and frozen Jumps! This man got crack
on the head-that one haek sTa-ere one Iooses MIA
hat-anether curses another austs hila the majority
give grand hnzza and they dash, ready for tha
same shower at the next corner Here lot Of Juveniles
mimic the doings Of the older ones in their own yay
The great rush made early in the moraiax for the
hantsleds, and aHay they dash in every direction With
the smallest specimens OF walking mortality hid behind
hgn comforters aud peeprg out beneath heavy bearsi
caps showing nothing of the human mould except susl
pug nose red boiled beet and as eold as lee itself
Here they slide hill here they pull one suoshsr
along the slippery paveent and in boysh gee pass the
day away Every thing merry aspect. The ring
ing bells played happy tune to which all appeared to
dance It was truly metropolitan POLKA; and couples
dashed by each other this way and that merry
attending the grandet ball Of the season which it really
was The streets were very slippery and doubt many
accidents happened by way falling etc but none have
come under our notice In short yesterday grand
day for jocaton which all seemed appreciate and
/ into with hearty good will.