Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-12
A NEW JERSEY ToBoeoAN CLUB.
Lads and Lasses Taking n siide-sens..-
lions Of modified Rapture"

Lads and Lasses Taking a siide-sensa-
lions Of "Modiaed Rapture"
The toboggan slide at Orange, N. j.,
consists of two rows of posts that become
lines of red flags by day and of fire AMI
coal oil smoke by night. Between thesl
runs long trough that looks like grain
chute q mile long. This wanders downa
ong hill, across little valley, and up c
smaller hill 1t is filed half full of loose
snow. The participants in the sport.
with their toboggan, are fed in at tho
upper end, and in due process Of timo
are shot out Of the lower end, Then they
climb up to the top, and the operation id
repeated.
The toboggm resembles blackboard
without wheels, turne,l up in front.
Those of the Essex County club wero
of map.r and hickory. The Indian
article is put together with catgut; tho
American imitation with rivets. Tho
more luxurious ones have cushions. To
thoroughly enjoy tobogganing one must
be gotten up in correct toboggan costume.
/ Int ouliil VI lul tiuu Hitluutio tpiiSiStn
of knit cap with tassel, warm tunic-
like garment with big hood, knicker-
bockers, leggings and moccasins. The
costume for women is similar, with the
customary substitution of a short skirt
Cor the knickerbockers, and a greater ex.
crcise of taste in cut and color.
The mode Of procedure the other
night was as follows; The toboggan was
put into the end of the chute, which
came up to a square platform, like a
spout into a well-curb. The bow-oars.
nan-so to speak-sat cross-legged. with
his knees resting on the dashboard. He
seized the ropes and braced himself. NJ.
sat down in the same fashion. She
chtched No. | by the shoulders and
nurmured that they would die together.
No. 3 did likewise. Tir steerrman
doubled up his left leg and sat ON it,
trailing the other behind in much tho
came manner that the rud,ler is appended
30 canalboat. When the starter saw
he last party disappear over the brow Of
The hill, he said Co" and 80 they did
with rush.
When the steersman put the helm hard
c-lort he kicked upa perfect cloud of
cnow. The sharp wind and the sharper
particles of snow smute the riders in tho
face The LAMPS and people floated hy
in confused mass. Everything faded
and grew indistinct except the con-
sciousness that the riders were shout
ing through space and snow with
a gentle. undulating motion, with
out jolt or jar. When the steers
man understood his business the
toboggan kept in the middle Of the road.
When he didn't it carromed first ON one
eide of the trough and then ON the other:
but it couldn't 20 astray. neither couli
il run into a convenient lamp-post.
There was none of the rumbling and
humping that accompanies ride ON the
double runner" of New England or the
less pretentious "bob-sled" Of Pennsyl-
vania. There was no noise to tell how
fast the toboggan was going. The sensa-
tons combined all the delights of falling
down, down through unlimited space,
without the drawback of bringing up
against something hard. When the ex-
perience is ventured in any other than
The regulation suit, il is case of "modi-
fed rapture" The riders hat blows off;
he has faint sense of being out of place,
and young geyser of snow spouts up
each sleeve 10 meet and mingle some
where in the neighbrhood of the hack
bone.-New York Tribune.