The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06
ICE-C0VERED PAVES
CAUSED ANNOYANCE
WALKING WAS ATTENDED
WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY.
Many Persons Injured by Falling.
Those Who Escaped Had to Crawl
Along with the Greatest Care.
Horses Experienced Much Trouble
in Keeping Their Feet Securely
Planted on the Pavements Sever
al Were So Badly Injured That
They Had to Be Killed.


days has furnished diversion for those
who from safe vantage behind win
dows have looked out upon the wild
antics of their fellow mortals. This
city of hill and dale has it's disadvan-
tageg in times of such unparalleled
slippery pavements. While there has
been no difficulty in getting down
freuuently--such streets as Vine and
Clay avenue, the problem as 20 get
ting UP has been one offering many
amusing and vexatious features.
Prominent citizens who We're merci-
full to their beasts and would
rather walk than have their horses
out such day as Saturday
last, went creeping and crawling
along fences from morning until night,
occasionally sitting down Unexpectedly
to the infinite glee of the small boy in
the vicinity on skates. Ladies who
are never seen walking down town
were discovered picking their way with
cautious, cat-like tread along the CEN
tire of the street car track, TO the dis
tress of motoImen and also of team
sters whose zig gag course was the
only possible one to take UP q steep
grade.
The sloping sidewalk near the Col
umbus statue was the cause of more
profanity and bruises than any other
SPOT in the central city. Men deep in
the discussion of divorce or other cases
passed to and from the court house
and stepping on that particular place,
proceeded to struggle wildly in the air
or disconsolately sit down.
SHE LAUGHED TOO SOON.
To an onlooker they all seemed to
touch live wire or something cXcit-
ing as invariably they began violent
gymnastic efforts on the same spot.
One man who kicked up his heels and
waved his arms and made q general
| protest for some time before he final
| ly succumbed to the inevitable, great
| ly amused a lady who was walking be-
| hind him. She laughed and laughed
at his performance but had gone past
him but n few steps when she fell at
! full length with such resOunding
| thump that it seemed she must have
cracked her skull. Then the man at
whose misfortune she had laughed SO
| delightedly came and picked her uT
with a martyr-like gravity that lasted
until he had escorted her across the
corner.
| A young woman who. after a frantic
struggle to keep her head uppermost
finally gave it up and sat down not
| ungracefully; but in her last fel
| sWoop as 1T were. she succeeded ir
tripping up man who was hurryinc
around Columbus. She scrambled Il
her feet after nervously rescuing hel
muft from the crown of his hat and
disentangling a long gold chain sht
wore from his eve glasses and NOUS
tache, and then she remarked EN-
phatiCally, with rage in her accent
Il think you are the very rudest MAJ
| ever saw in my life!" And he re
flected aloud as he limped down tn,
street, well I'm blest! Anybody
think I'd knocked her down anC
clubhed her! and that confounded cir
has lamed me for life"
\ DARE FOR COLUMBUS.
Another man whose condition o
brain was such that he would hav,
found it difficult to walk had the pave
mcnts been unglazed with ice, crawle,
up toward the base of the monumen
after his last tumble and apostrophize,
! Columbus: Darn you and yr oil
Mother Hubbard wrapper. OF conrs
! y
/ oughter go, know 1t swell's you dc
It's all right fr you t. stand up ther
on a stone monment and keep pint
in and a p'intin'! What Ia like is t
see YOU git down ana see if you cal
stand on this blasted ice"
An old man who had also had to-
many drinks. was discovered very ear
~ Saturday morning after havin
| 81 N
street, where a little water had col
lected. He imagined himself to be i
pond and was trying to swim mos
energetiCally, vigorously embracing tn
officer who gathered him in ana OK
pressing deep gratitude for being save
from death by drowning.
But the poor horses suffered tn
most. Anyone who would take a hors
out such a day as Saturday unless un
der absolute necessity should have bee
prosecuted. The poor creatures skate
and sprawled and scrambled over tn
dreadful ice in a way that made thos
who had any sympathy in their heart
almost weep in pity. They were S
big and awkward and helpless and one
down it was almost impossible TO Ct
them up, for the animals soon gre,
discouraged and would not try to ris,
HORSES KILLED.
One magnificent team of very heav
horses i'm coming down Vine stree
with load, began 10 slip ana bot
fell, while the wagon pushed upo
them and mangled their legs. The
> We're so injured that recovery was in
possible. Another wretched horse fe
and broke his lower Jaw and had to /