New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-08
COLD WrA7HER AND EXCELLENT SKATING
ONLY SEVEN DEGREES ABOVE zERO-GREAr
CROWDS on THE ICE.

ONLY SEVEN DEGREES ABOVE ZERO-GREAT
CROWDS on THE ICE.
The weather started out Yesterday as if it
meant 70 eclipse all previous efforts in being cold ana
Hudnuts thermometer felt 80 chilled and discouraged
that the mercury In It sank to 70 above zero, at
Here ii rested until o'clock, when it went up again and
managed to reach 1Oo by O'Clock. This so
encouraged IL that at it got up TO i6,'
and at $3.50 it had risen to 22o Then il went into de-
cline and at o'clock stood at 30 and gradually fell
lower. Taken as a whole yesterday a frst-class
winter day II cold enough to send the blood ting
ling to the cheeks of pedestrians and to make them step
along lively but not too cold for OUtOdOOr exercise Ia
fact, 1t was just the day for IT,
flag OF white and red foated from
the gray tower of the Belydere above
the brown and leafess Of Central Park and all who
It waving against the cold. blue sky knew that there
skating on the lake. The lake was black with
swiftly moving thrOng Young and Old rich and poor
there force and the sound Of the steel runner on
tho fee. the talking and the laughter made confused
babel of sounds that could be heard all over
the lower portion of the Park There were
bevies of red checked brghteyed girls gliding over tho
fee with their around each other and parties OF boys
who projected themselves through the crowd Ike
"hacyOn and vocterous" batterng-rans entirely I'M
mindful OF what who was In their way. Here tail
youth would gliding along "doing the outer edge
or cutting an with graceful skill and smiling smile
aoundered around him. Then young
lady wrapped in seaskns and flushed with the heathm
exercise would glide about with the ightness OF an Ice
fairy Ladies reclining in chairs upon runners talked
over their shoulders 10 their escorts who propelled them
from behind There others the lee who wore no
seasns and whose skates not Of the latest fashion
and most expensive make They were young women
plaiuly dressed who had for one afternoon left the
sewing machine or the shop aud abOring youths In coarse
clothes and wooen mtens, who for few hours toIs9s
that the world was anything more than playground.
From the lighthouses on the eastern sore OF ne aAe up
10 the cave, the ice was covered win people. lhe
"a long a. the skating lasted. As 1t grew
dark calcium lights and jets OF gas before cuectOs MADE
the lake light as day and the sport continued up 10 III
The sleghng in the park good, and large number
and there we're the nglng of bells the waving Of plumes
and the gleam OF silvermounted harnesses.
at work with their curling stones and they made the Ice
ring they sent them singing across the smooth surface
There were three clubs Out-he Manhattan Thistle and
Caledonian Curling Clubs The Thses and Maintains
occupied five Kinks and there were eight men al eacn
BaVne Tor the Thses and Thomas Wallace for the Man
hattans; ID rink Alexander Pyle for the MAnhattans
rink. DAVID Bslendnee, for the M3nnata ans
and James Mitchell for the lhStlesi 4th rink, j. l. Adj
Tbisie The result was score Of 100 80 In favor OF
the Thistle Club. The Caedonians PLAYED an officers
match which resulted IN the victory Of the ylce-pesi.
dents rink by a OF 10 to D. In the Caedo4lans
point match the medal was won by Jona IemPetoh,
who made points. IL estimated that 10000 people
visited the lake for skaung, IN the course OF
the day, and about 5000 visited the curling matches
In Brooklyn the lake IN Prospect Park and the WASH.
lngon Park skating Rink were crowded with skaters al
day and far into the evening band OF music played
at the RINK The there Is In splendid condition. WINE
the system TOR lightlng at night Is excellent skating
carnival viii be held at Washington Park on Ihursdayi
Under the auspices OF the recently organized
sEsTiug club Of Brooklyn The ice az
Prospect Park rough places but II Is thick enough 10
bear regiment OF soldiers. ,,
Ocean parkway is st In good condition for sleghng.
by; the weather has been cold. and the duheuty IN
reaching the park great that few seghing parties nave
been out during the past week.