New-York tribune., 1886-01-10
NOT ENOUGH SNOW FOR GOOD SEIGHING.
AT LEAST IT WAS NOT WELL DISTRBUTED-MANY
SLEIGHS OUT, HOWEVER.


AT LEAsr IT WAS NOT WELL DISTRIBUTED-MANY
sLEIGHs OUT, HOWEVER.
There was q look Of meditation and longing
on Gale" Cases face Friday morning he scanned
the horizon ftom the piazza OF his jerome ave. hostoy
lie said 1t looked like but he had often said that
before this and JOe the fat boy, who happened TO
be awake. not having had opportunity Of going to
sleep since breakfast mutteTed that the wish father
to the thought "Gabe is weatherwse, ana affects the
style dress OF ancient mariner OF course he las
often made predictions that trGe. but this
time there positive ring ia his voice. The reason
of the assurance was little ter explained when
he took the fat boy side and told him that he had
read in THE TRIBUNE that northwest blizzard was on
its way here The blizzard rather slow in coming
and "Gabc " wahei OF more flesh than he
claimed he has lost by malaria in walking
back and forth from the bar to the barometer.
Durug the day his jaw began to drop; the
blizzard did not arrive. He took ii out the Fat boy
however by taking him over aud keeping
him awake f1ly Dfteen minutes by explaining how the
best judges OF tie weather might be mistaken some.
tines "GGhe" was restless all day aad did not retire
unii late He had gwen NJ the BLIZZARD but at II p M
he thought he would take one more look The blizzard
Was coming down over the Wystehester hills ia hurry;
aud 50 much SHOW win IL lha even nc cOid Not nhd
fault lie but0ned his pea-Iacket about him, saying
that he guessed he didn't have nuc malaria after all.
There lots OF snow on the ground when Gahe
awoke yesterday morning but the blizzard hadn't dis
0pted exactly TO Ills fancy Too much OF 1t mad been
carried to sides OF the ROAD There was enouSh,
however in the middle to guarantee run OF seishing
the lasted ali day there only few family
seghs bat there were enough to awaken the echoes
o. Central Park and the )uge OF bells kept up until
well MO the night. The drivers who M the road in
all weathers were out ruDuCrs ~ they
assured they would be able TO get back tue same
day. For years Gabe Case has made IL practice to
give mnce pie and large bottle OF champagne to the
first who reaches his place in sleigh after tue first
snow storm that seishiuC, another to the
frst one from below Fifty uiuth-s John j. Quinn. OF
one hundred and twenty ifth-st, the Hercules Oi The
road, had captured bottle two running. There
those who said that shouldn't do ii this Year
William Dean of these ana Charley john
tue Washington Market butcher, another Johnson
said he would bet the best side OF beef In his establish
ment that il would be his teeth that closed the
mince- pie He slept too late, however and wasn't In
the race Quinn and Dean started for tfe pie about the
tliae both from one hundred al twenty lth st.
The former drove chestnut geldng and the latter the
brown geding Fleet. The sle Ching poor but each
doing his utmost to reach the goal first. Dean
had little the best Of II until his horse threw his hind
shoe. The hit Dean in the face and cut II badly,
and knocked" his chances out. Quinn got the pie
on Seventh. the snow had blown oil the roadway
to great extent in places and the gravel Which has
been there mixed with what left making the sleigh
ing poor. IL will be much better to- day, however,
Yesterdays storm having improved 1t. Among those
who were out Colonel Lawrence Kip. driving the
bay mare Birdie; C. NegOold Morris, behind the bay
gelding CartIn Colonel Parsons OF Rochester pulling
ribbons the chestnut gcding Can. Lewis A. a.
Bonner. with the black Myra David Bonner with
tile brown gelding by General Knox; Matthew Riley,
driving Leander, and Colonel Mooney, with the bay
gclding Billy