News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
AT THE ICE CARNIVAL.
FEW NOTES DROPPED BY A VISI-
TOR ON THE ROUTE.
What the Reporter Saw and How IL STRUCK
Him-Fun in the Ice and SNOW

Canadian metropolis II seems 10 nlIl do
though if all the snow he had passed
had been gathered up and flung into the
streets there would not be more there
than there is. Where it has not been
sboveled off the sidewalks it reaches to
the bottoms of the old-fashioned pro-
iecting stone windows. 1t may not be
until next April that the curbs aud flag
ging will be visible. Where it has been
8hoveled 70 one side Il rises higher thar
ones head.
There was a murderer on the train
bound for Plattsburg jail. He was ex-
pected, and the whole village turned
out to see him. Picking out Brooklyn
contractor, who had to be steadied by a
friend. the crowd followed him until he
escaped into barroom.
One hundred and twenty men and wo-
men sat down at the first tables at
Plattsburg, and were served with beef
steak that a Newark doctor said made
him understand for the first time why
meals are technically spoken OF as
board.
The Canadian Custom House officer at
Rouse's Point found that every man and
woman had the-biggest-sized vallses and
vet carried nothing but single change
of linen. He said the United States IN
spector would have busy time looking
the bags over when they came back
again full. But the man to be pitied was
the inspector on the Central Vermont,
who would catch the Boston folks re-
turning home. It seems that special
bag. double the largest regular size, is
made in Boston on purpose for Journeys
to Canada.
When the stream of passengers is
sued from the depot in Montreal the
temperature was an inch below zero.
There seemed to be about one fur-clad
sleigh driver to each visitor Strange
looking policemen, in blue coats and su-
gar-ioaf fur caps, kept the drivers from
tearing the strangers to pieces. Ihey
were not like New York policemen.
Their clubs were kept in their belts, and
they spoke in low and respectful tones.
John Keith, of New York, who had
been hustled along like pillow in a
boarding school bedroom because he did
not stand in line in the Grand Central
Depot, asked one of these fur-capped
peelers how he could get to certain
street. ''Take the sleigh l show you
to. " said the policeman, ''and don't let
the driver swindle you. Give him half
n dollar" Keith was amazed, and went
aboGt all day shouting the praises OF the
police until a Montreal man told him he
was imposed upon, and that the law only
allowed the driver to charge a quarter.
The day proved abominable. Iteither
rained, hailed, or showed steadily until
NIGHT. The New York girls stayed in
doors, and pounded "We Never Speak
as We Pass By" "Gobble, Gobble, and
sI Can't Swim, bat You Ought to See
jim" out of the private pianos. The
Canadian girls care no more for weather
than as if they were ducks. They have
no feathers to spoil, and they don't veal
|
met with everywhere dragging tobog
gans, swinging skates on their arms
scudding along in sleighs, cheering tn
brawny Scots at the curling match, stalk
ing up the mountain side like so man.
Swiss. filling the air with their laughter
decking every scene with the gay color
of their wraps and muffiers,' and blush
ing rose red with excessive vitality. Th
young men were not behindhand.
There was hockey game, snow-sho
racing, and the grand annual drive {
the contractors. These contractors ar
the masons, builders. plumbers, carper
ters and what not. They cut eac
others throats in business 364 days
the year, and on one day they all driv
out to some country hotel to bury bu'
mess under beefsteak and drown har
feelings in hot Scotch. They made
big show in their sleighs, but sleighs al
SO common here they don't count. An
1 New York Office boy who happened
, be here could climb into one, have
/ man heap blankets and furs on hin
L see his driver climb up four feet abo'
e him with fur coat, and fur hat on, wit
a fur robe on his lap, bear skin han
!. ing from his seat, and four feet of bu
K falo fur flying from the tail of the sleig
e and ride anywhere in the city for Il
d price of seat in Bowery theatre.
o The Ice palace is bigger and ten tim
d more beautiful than the one of last yes
S In the day time it looked like cast
y whose battlements, tUrrets, arches, al
1t piers were hewn from a crystal. Ice
o perfectly clear is seldom seen in M
20 York. 1t is like plate glass, now tn
1t the glare of dozen carbon points shi
u through its side. 1t is like palace
d a dream of fairyland. It is as big as
lr new Barge Office, off the Battery, a
I'd its translucent walls have creamy to
lg like alabaster.
s, A notable event at the Montreal car
he val was an attack of the snowshoers
the Ice Palace. 1t had been surround
n. with mimic cannon from the battlemel
n. during the day. At a given signal
ed snowshoers surrounded the palace af
ld the fashion of the assault upon Jerlcl
On marching more than seven times, he
nd ever. At the proper moment the sh
el- mish line advanced and threw b
To-. lights, like mortar battery bombs, il
the palace. The fort replied with str
Cling shots. Then the snowsho
opened a hot fire and the battleme
at soon began to reply, when the pal
at blazed with repelling blue lights, ;
ill occasionally salvos of rockets shot fr
all the Long parlor, giving an idea of
,e. ploding powder magazines.
IN In the meantime the palace lig
ey changed color, exhibiting all the sha
De- of the rainbow. The longer the ba
ats continued the hotter the fire beca
lot until at length, after twenty minutes
r a continuous fireworks and thousands
lights shot into the air. the fusilade
all off and few dropping shots were he
all the last of the struggle. As i
er- show that their ammunition was
1b spent the besieged party kept up t
eir fire and belched forth fireworks dul
BAY the entire evening. Those who /
. seen the pictures of the night at