Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
SPORT In THE SNOW.
A Gay Crowd of ReVelers Take Pos
session of Duquesne Way.
SCHENLEY PARK AND EAST END
Also Resound With the Merry Music Of the
Sleighbells.
To BE THE COLDEsr WAVE OF THE YEAR

AS the Signal Service officials promised
warmer weather, to begin with sunrise yes
terday morning, everybody prepared for a
long siege of successive cold snaps. Big,
heavy ulsters were gotten out, and all who
are the happy possessors of horses and cut
tiers fixed them up for at least week s
sleighipg.
The alacrity with which the Signal Ser
vice people changed their prediction to
colder weather reminds one of the old story
of the man who said he had dog that
would do anything he was told. AS an il
lustration Jack" was told to leave the room.
He Immediately hung his narrative between
his legs and SUNK under the table. The
master seeing his intention, sternly ex-
claimed: $50 under the table, you brute. !"
So when the Signal Service men got up and
saw how cold it was, heard the sleigh bells
ringing merrily in the crisp morning air
and everything else pointing to frozen-up
winter, they Immediately decided that the
elements did not gee with their ideas, and
rather than have trouble with the former,
changed the latter. So yesterday they an
nounced that their plans were of different
chara cter, and that we are to have the cold
est weather Of the year to-day and to-mor-
row, and probably the sleighing will con-
tinue to be first-class for a week. The ther-
mometer began its precipitous course down
ward yesterday afternoon, and it will prob
ably reach 15o or lower, perhaps 100 above
zero.
JINGLE OF THE SLEIGH BELL
Duquesne way was the greatest place for
sleighing yesterday, and is yet as smooth
and fine as any ever Russia produced. The
city i'll carting the sEow from the streets
took it down to the river front, and, of
course, great punches of it fell off on Du-
quesne way. This gave it good bed, and
the gay revelers by dozens proceeded to
pack it down into the finest of sleighing.
For hundreds of yards it was as pretty a
picture as one could imagine, the sleighs
gliding rapidly along and the air ringing
with the tinkle of the bells and the shouts
OF the happy drivers and their partners.
Nothing can bring out such gladness as a
good old-fashioned snow storm, and luckily
there were no serious accidents to mar the
pleasure OF those who took advantage of the
occasion.
Many other streets presented as gay a
scene as that on Duquesne way. Out in
East Liberty hundreds of sleighs flew about
in every direction and there was more sound
enjoyment packed into that one day than
many weeks of such winter weather as is
usually Pittsburg's lot, could produce.
Schenley Park drives were rolled and a
great many people took advantage of drive
through that charming resort to get pic
turesque winter view, which is a great
rarity in city life.
Though only about an inch of snow fell
yesterday, it gave employment to dozens OF
old men and boys at clearing it from pave
ments and doorways. Twenty-Five cents an
hour is good pay tor the majority of those
who were thus employed.
SNOW SHOW ELERs IN THE TOLLS.
Chief j. o. Brown, of the Department of
Public Safety, is usually mild-mannered
and even-tempered man, but yesterday after
noon he was slightly disturbed. Several
citizens had called upon him to complain
about delegation of men who were shovel
ing show off the roof of the building occu-
pied by Roberts g. Sons, S. S. Marvin and
others on. the corner of Market street and
Fifth avenue. The complaint was that the
snow was being shoveled down into Market
alley with total disregard for the safety of
pedestrians.
trail station, where they registered as j. j..
Shields, John Durant and Thomas Sweeney,
the charge against them being violating a
city ordinance. The agent for the buildings
put up forfeit and the men were released.