Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-01
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The Bufialonians have a place ofwinter rec
reation and amusement that is healthy and ex-
hilerating as well as sensible It is a private
enterprise publicly patrOnized. Eight or ten
influential men some two years ago subscribed
small sum each to get a lot, prepare pond
for skating, hire a keeper, put up building for
putting on skates in, DC The thing took so
well, that the sale of season tickets paid the
expenses the first year.
Last season they enlarged the pond and i'm
proved the lot of two acres, enclosed it with
good fence, lighted it with gas, kept the ice
swept on skating days, and have expended in
all including rent of land, grading, DC. DC, the
sum of SI,64O Gentemen's season tickets
are SIS each, admitting one gentleman and one
lady. Ladies' tickets So. Spectators tickets
Ito ladies only--free Of charge Tho past
winter tho proprietors sold tickets till they
we're satisfied and refused to sell any more. In
a late article in the Ohio Farmer, Mrs. AREY,
editor of the Home Monthly, presents this
pretty picture of the Buffalo fashionable
amusement:
We think that nothing is so much the fash.
ion, or the rage this winter, among the ladies'
here, as skating. Almost every feminine who
is old enough to walk without assistance, has
made il a first necessity to procure ticket of
admission to the skating pOnd,on Upper street,
and there, steel Shod, they exercise their skill,
and show their rivalry, by skimming over the
ice, marking it with the plOwshares they wear
on their feet, and sowing, it is to be hoped, the
seeds Of health in every furrOw. Four or tive
hundred skaters are sometimes on the pond at
time, and very skillful skaters they are, some
of them. Little feet, so small that we should
think the skates would have to be mannfactur
ed on purpose for them, go fittiug over the
pond as ambitious as older bodies in their trials
of skill. The skating costumes of the ladies,
and of many of the little girIs, are very SNOWY
and attractive. Many wear bloOmers-most
of them with the dress, saequs and Persian
drawers of the same bright colored material;
red, trimmed with velvet, or pink, trimmed with
down. Balmorals, with dark dresses lOOped up
over them, and fastened with bright ribbons to
match the gay sacque which is used as an over
dress, are also worn. Saturday evening there
was a regular ice festival among the skaters,
and hundreds of spectators were gathered in
and about the pond, enjoying the spectacle with
bue Aeeneat Lest. Auo pOiu ls II 53uteu Win gus
in the evening, and on this occasion Poppen-
burg's baud was present, and the skaters varied
the simplicity of their usual eVOlutions, by
dancing 'the Lancisrs," and waltzing over the
ice wi h skill and grace that one would have
thought impossible. considering the naTrOlUnesS
of their understandings.
While the enjoyment of the spectators was at
its hight, sudden display Of fireworks was
sent off to enliven the scene. The skaters, as
they darted here and there, were sending up
Roman candles from all parts of the pond, while
colOred fires were blazing here and there, and
the many colored stars formed beautiful sky
accompaniment to the music, and the graceful
figures of young girls that, two and two, went
whirling through the waltz During the pres
ent week, this exhibition has been repeated
with variations, Frank Leslie's artist being
present to perpetuate it on paper