Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-20
Whitney Lake

A host of skaters were out on Lake Whit ! ney enjoying themselves and having a fine time generally on Saturday. Superintendent
 Davis, of the Whitneyville horse railroad, sup | piled extra transportation and the cars ran
 thronged with excursionists More skates
 have been sold this season thus far, says
 merchant than were sold the whole of last | winter. The ice was in fine condition It | blew up colder in the afternoon, the ther-
 mometer falling several degrees, but this | made little difference with the skating con- ! munity. The ice is in very fine condition 1 and some good skating is being done on the | lake, the art of superior skating evidently ! not having become one of the lost arts The
 presence of not few ladies lent, of course, special attraction to the scene, and beauty vied with muscle in the healthful sport A 1 few stars were seen by some in the throng The misfortunes of some of the fair sex un- | used to skates gave cause for chivalrous at- | tention and devotion which did much proba- ply to render the accidents a source of little regret. There were timorous expressions of | distrust and misgiving as ladies ventured
 upon dark ice which looked treacherousIy AOD~AS way to satisfaction as gallant attendants pointed out the absurdity of the alarm by ex- ecuting unheard-of agility on the thinnest
 spots. The brawn and muscle of Yale men, the result of evident attention to the un- written part of Yale's curriculum, came in
 play in world of helpfulness to the timid
 and fawn-like daughters of Eve who were es-
 saying their first lessons upon skates on the
 smooth, glistening surface of Lake Whitney
 on Saturday.
 Yesterday the old woods lying between this
 city and Lake Whitney looked down upon
 many group of youngsters, with patched
 pantaloons and garments the worse for wear,
 of the genus sometimes denominated street Arabs, who were en route to Lake Whitney,
 here and there one with skates slung over
 their shoulder. They looked suspi-
 ciously around as they threaded their
 way along through underbrush or along the path leading to Whitneyville, as
 if half expecting that Detective Brewer or some one else clothed with the terrors and majesty of the law was lying in wait ready to swoop down upon them and march them to the coops under the City Hall. But no
 ''cop" appeared. On the lake in the after noon there were to be seen many forms scudding along on the glib ice or executing figures, some of which were not dreamed of in Professor Loomis' philosophy. Many a merry laugh was heard, despite the fact that in the city many people were listening to ser mons or to the music of some superior choir, and perhaps some were listening to- warning and deprecating words regard ing the Vaccinations of Sarah Bern hardt But soon the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight had disappeared from the woods, leaving them gray and son. bre, though its departed light, red and beau tiful, still kissed the stern, rugged gray sides of East Rock with its departing glories, and the God of nature seemed to be leaving parting benediction for the city with it's teem- ing multitude in the beautiful scene