The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1886-01-10
SKATING ON rHE HRAyos.
How the sport Was Enjoyed by waco.
ties Yesterday.

Standing on the suspension bridge
yesterday aflcrno III at 1 o'clock. one
could behold sight never before
witnessed IN Waco. Ioukirg up and
down the Rio BRACES. ~ far As the eye
could reach, was ascruc OF grandeur.
The river was frozen over and the
Ice crystals glistcncd In the sunlight
until II seemed ~, ii the frost king had
covered everything with diamond
dust. Between TWO hundred md iiity
aud three hundred people we're sport
over the CLASSY surface Many
hnd skates, while Others Sided and
jumped along over the ice, aud look
ers on were numerous The small
boy was out in iull force. NJ my ol
them had never before seen lee ON
which they could skate; they were
sOrely ticklrd--and man, OF them are
s'rc yet. While many ladies' stood On
he bridge and others ON both bau X,
of the river, some vcnturcd out on
the Ice. aud enjoyed the novelty
OF attempting TO "catch on
with their toes through
thin Shots, while they slipped
along on the smooth surface \ num-
Der of stuh,ut, from one of the col
lcgc- went down to the river near the
railroad hridg s,Ald walked across o.
the ice. They we're very care u, though
aud while the ENAMINtR r,purte,
was preset none of them went down
hat he saw. The small boy did not
care, aud after nriuu Il that thc lee
was thick enough to hold him up he
started out with u slide, then yell
aud then the lower cnd Of his spine
anne IN contact with the ice, and he
stid--wcll, some aid one thing aud
another said something else. The
small boy raised in Waco is we.
,ctsed III the phrnseolOgy that is
used in expressing thoughts when
one comes suddenly In contact witt
son ethng tia ,t,ttlcs him-runnli
o. % nm open gate, tot instance. when
u man is hurrying home these cold
nights with his head tied up in nu.
'n aud he cannot see more than tw'
feet ahead OF himself some of ia
boys had slcd-, which they pushed
aud pulled over III" ice. One young
man had his bicycle out, and tn
boys had tots of fun when he al
tempted 10 stOy aud the wheels would
fly from under and leave hun
dangling in the mir until he struck
he ice all in n lump. Men who had
not put on pair of skates in wear
before. after looking ON the iroz" n
river for n few minutes, had that ole
feeling to come Over
them, and they were not satisfied I'M.
III n pair of skates wcro buckG lcd on
their feet aud they went skippinl
way over the ice. a great many
old citizens who had been her. Tor
wears. aud never seen the Old RAJ"
f T. BET re walked. yer n ak. on
the ice, ju.t to ruy they had ~, u.
plishcd tins feat. II was so funny
that some of them went over on the
ice and then paid toll coming back on
the suspension bridge Several wag-
ons crossed at the lower ford, but j.
is said that in the evening one team
broke through the ice, but rs the wa
ter was not deep they came out al
right
The Brazos has been frozen over al
Waco before, but it was years ago
aud the people did not take the inter
est in skating that they do now Late
in the afternoon there were many
cracks reaching nearly all the way
across the river, and unless thu
" Gather continues cold to day. tn
ico will all he broken up this morn.
ing.