Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-06
ANOTHER SNOW FALL
REVIEWS THE SPORT OF C0ASTINs Ard
SLElGHnsG.
Host 81 the Cutters in Town out Last Evening
Hundreds Of Young Folks and Some Eotso
Young Coasiing On Fourteenth Street

Yesterdays SnOW"ldtl uTOughI OuS
the cutters and bob-sleds again, in
full furce, and last evening the music OF
the bells was to be heord in every quar-
ter of the city and along the pixies east
and west Of town, while certain OF the
streets, affording good coasting, re-
echoed to the merry laughter aud shouts
of young people, many hundreds OF
whom engag ed in coasting.
There is very general satisfaction
that the police DO not interfere with
this sort Of sport, so long as it is con-
Quoted within reasonable ana safe
bounds, and this policy Of the aothori-
ties will probably be maintained until
the end of the winter season.
During yesterday quite number OF
seighs and cutters were out, but last
evening the number multiplied many
times, and there were few vehicles pro-
yided with runners which were not
called into use between six o'clock and
midnight. Out of the city the hard
frozen ground made sleighing good,
but it was best in The city, upon the
brick streets, where even half an inch
of snow allows the runners to glide
along with as much ease as though the
beautiful was foot deep. On the
principal bricked streets one often
could see six or eight sleigbs or cutters
within the space of square, some con-
tanning the only really satisfactory num-
Der of ceupants-two-bn many carry
ing two and even three sirls, with g sol
itary man perched up among them and
handbag the relns. This latter form
of sleighing is by no means the BEST
and may be explained upon two hypoth-
esis-frst, that there were not enough
cutters to supply the demand; or, there
were not enough young men With ready
money to take out all the girls who de-
sired ride by moonlight over the snow.
But however this may be, the girls had
fair time OF it, and made the best OF
the very apparent disadvantages, for a
girl naturally prefers no one in the
sleigh but her best young man.
But it was coasting which attracted
the most attention, and afforded the
most sport. and Fourteenth street was
the locality whereon the greatest num-
Der of young people conferred. 1t was
hardly dusk before the bob-sleds, with
a capacity of from six to twenty, began
to make their appearance, and by eight
o'clock five hundred young folks we're
enjoying themselves by speeding down
the smooth surface OF the street and
resting themselves while they walked
up again, and there was no diminution
in tue number until after ten, while as
late as midnight some o. the
most enthusiastic youths were
still at It. 1t was q very
democratic assemblage, for scores Of
young ladies and young men well known
in the inner circles OF society mingled
with their less fortunate brothers and
sisters, while the sidewalks from Chap
line street to Wood were lined with la
dies and gentlemen who had almost as
much fun looking on as did those actu-
ally engaged in the sport. There must
have been fifty sleds with capacity OF
dozen or more, upon the track, to say
nothing of those of smaller Size, and
they streamed down the street inces-
sanity, those on board making
the locality ring with shouts and
laughter. One sled would dash
by steered by scion Of some
well-known family and bear
ing ladies wrapped in furs and
sealskins, and would be followed
by another, ma ragged by workingman,
and bearing ladies' whose wraps were
shawls and cloaks which passed out OF
style some years ago. Immediately
after It another on which men
and women wonld he mixed up In
discriminatory, they being often stran-
gers to each other, but all bent on haV-
ing a good time. Husbands were there
with,their wives and sometimes with
their children. lovers fitted by on sleds
Just big enough for two, with some
''scrouging," and the inevitable small
boy, with his still smaller sled, ran In
and out among the big "bobs," often at
the imminent risk of his life or limb.
During the evening accidents were OF
frequent occurrence, but fortunately
none were OF serious nature, bruise
or two being the most serious casualty.
About once every ten minutes big sled,
crowded with youths Of both sexes,
would become manageable and turn
side-wise, and another would crash into
il, head on, as a sailor would say, but
experience Taught the coasters to roll
off on the right side, hold up their feet,
or Jump bodily at the right moment,
and few wrecked sleds was the extent
OF the damage.
If the snow lasts this evening, there
will be lots OF fun on Fourteenth street