Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-04-30
THE ROLLER CRAZE.
HcENES AND INCIDEXT3 AT
THE OPEEA HOUSE

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| THE OPERA HOUSE.
Carson Fairly Gone Daft Over
| the sport.
! The success of the skating rink
uader the management of MIR.
Richard has been assured from the
first. The fever has set in and get.
ting more pronounced every day
It would astonish one to see the
number and class Of people that
the skating craze sweeps into its
maelstorm. The way flies stick to
a molasses barrel is nothing COM
pared to it. From eight o clock I'M
til midnight the spectators sit
about the edge of the hall packed
solid, two rows deep, and the stage
and boxes are also filed. The
floor is mass Of wh;rling people,
sweeping around in the opposite
! direction to the hand OF watch.
They range from six-year old misses
to people who are on the blind side
of forty.
| A STEADY WHIRR
OF rolling lockwood wheels fills the
air, one everlasting grind like a
grist mill at work, and hard pushed
to I'll a cash contract Some OF the
people slam by at pace that one
finds it hard to recognize them.
You wonder that somebody don't
get run over and cut in two, but
they don't seem to all the same.
NOTABLE SKATERS.
Miss Ollie Pixley, Miss Stella
Gates and Miss Jennie Elstner
are the recognized leaders of the
lady skaters of the rink. The re-
porter has made careful inquiries
among the regular patrons of the
rink as to the merits of these three
skaters and can get no definite
idea.
"Call her skater ? just wait
until you see Miss Pixley.
ooh, of course, she's good but
wait till Miss Gates gets out. "
While others say: Nobody
can skate like Miss Elstner. 3"
With the spectators the honors
seem to be about divided. All of
these young ladies are extraordi-
nary skaters, sweeping about the
rink with a long swinging stroke,
that gives the highest possible
speed, with apparently the least
possible exertlon. Their speed
looks to a casual observer as about
mile mute.
Mrs. Thorpe is also reckoned as an
expert. She skates with strong
quick stroke, wheels like a flash
and goes backwards as we'll as for
wards. There are dozens OF other
ladies who have only skated few
times, but take to it like duck to
water, and will prove very efficient
in a week or 50.
NOTABLE MALE SKATERS.
1t would paralyze you to see
Hume Yerington and that tall
drummer from Sacramento, (who is
a couple of heads taller than Hume)
eyrate about the hall. They look
like two telegraph poles wrestling
in high wind. Harry DeAhna
is a very graceful skater, but the
ladies say that he swings his right
foot out too far, and will break
somebody's leg some evening.
Frank Curtis of the APPEAL office,
the typographical terror Of the
city, is a short dumpy young man,
who makes a sensation every time
| he skates. He reminds one OF a
cinnamon bear trying to turn somer-
saults to amuse the children. The
manager of the rink gives him two
dollars a night to appear in his
grand hammer-the-foor act. lie
lights out about eight o'clock and
after getting his legs distributed
comes back and runs off the AP-
PEAL. You may have noticed 1t
some mornings Wells Drury and
George Bryson, candidate for City
Trustee, are the only RIVALS of Cur
tbs. They both ought to travel
over the grade to Glenbrook.
! SMALL FRY SKATERS.
| Tbo Aoor ;s occasionally filled