The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-28

How They Enjoy the Sport at Glen summit
in Pennsylvania.


How They Enjoy the Sport at Glen summit,
in Pennsylvania.
New York World.
They are great people over in Pennsylvania
that country of William Penn, where Provi-
dence has stood the land on end, and people have
to live in an up-and-down fashion because of the
mountains They can give Canada huge points
on tobogeaning there, for they just tie the upper
end OF their slides to a mountain top and let the
rest hang down. and there you are. Whiz bang,
you go down the icy plain, like shooting star,
soaring the cartridges, the deer and the Luzerne
county bears half out of their Then
you bring up on long level. and, if you are too
lazy to walk back, why you just buy ticket for
Glen Summit. and the Lehigh Valley railroad
yanks you cheerfully up to the top of the
mountain.
When all is said and done, mountain sobog-
gan slide and Scranton girl make the loveliest
mixture that the brain of man ever conceived.
There are lovelier things, and one of them is the
aforesaid toboggan slide and about fifty Scran
ton girls, all logged out in bewtching red white
andblue riding hoods This is the sort of
Kaleidoscope frenzy which pounces down
upon Glen Summit in these elittering
days of winter and makes carnival on its to-
boggan slides. Sometimes the girls come from
New York and Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Wilkes
barre and Mauch Chunk. but they are equally
Scranton when they get to coasting 2, 900 feet
above the level of the sea. And young man
from the East, who went up into the mountains
to see them do it, is ready to swear upon the
remnants of his heart that woman's sphere to
sit cross legged, like Turk, upon long. lean
sled without rudder, while happy man be-
hind holds her tight to keep her from falling off,
while they whiz together down precipice of ice.
OF course everybody knows that Glen Summit
is the highest point on the Lehigh Valley rail
road where it crosses the mountains from the
valley Of the Lehigh to that of the Wyoming.
The railroad itself running either way from this
point Is sort of a big toboggan wheels, for
you can drop 1900 feet in less than eighteen
miles. There is q big hotel at the Summit
which keeps open house summer and winter, and
one of the great joys is to get up big toboggan
parties in the cities named above and spend a
day or two at this resort. There has been con-
siderable gayety during the past week or two,
which is now broken In upon by Christmas. but
the great week of the year for this sport is that
between Christmas and New Years, and on the
31st of December, judging from advance en-
gagements, the house will be full Three big
parties from Brooklyn and one each from New
York and Philadelphia have already written for
rooms, Philadelphia was the original patron of
Glen Summit, but society New York has found
it out and backed up by such people as DR..
William A. Hammond, DR.. Lewis A. Sayre,
Judge Barrett George W. Cottrell. Hiram r.
Dates, DR.. Bache Emmett W. j. Quinlan, jr., j.
t. Atterbury and Hugh AuchincIoss, the hem
lock perch is fast becoming familiar to New
Workers.
It was a lean and hungry reporter of the
World who took his first toboggan drop yester-
day at Glen Summit. The air was so dry aud
mild that he took Of his overcoat so as to offer as
little resistance to the air as possible Before
him lay man made glacier. About him lay the
untamed mountain bristling with pine. and fir,
and scrub oak, and clothed in snow. Over yon
der, furlong away, white deer was shot and
killed just before the ending of the season.
Flow through the snow In any direction and you
would hear the whirr of partridges before you
had gone half mile. To the northwest you
could see $50 miles of glistenng landscape.
The reporter climbed on his toboggan and
said his prayers. A gentleman in scarlet who
had promised to steer him safely down, whis-
pered word of cheer and got off behind. Some
ore gave push, and then the plain below rose
up ut the tobocgan like mother-in-la 1t was
all over in eight seconds but in that wild dash
the man from the East had lost two or three
years of his life. He pranced around ard was a
boy again, and he would not be satisfied till he
was HQ-at the top and started down again.