The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-12-20
SPORTS
BEGIN AT TRUCKE[

TRUCKEE, Cal, Dec. 1.-THE
date of the opening of Truckee's
Winter Carnival has been set by the
Truckee Chamber of Commerce and
announced by Manager w. b. Gelatt
as December %, 1913.
The $4,000 ice palace has been
completed and has been awaiting for
cooler weather; the long toboggan
route has been cleared and is waiting
for an ample fall of snow. In the
huge stables, the finest horses that
could be procured for miles around
have been a standing expense for hay
while properly "zippy' weather has
delayed it's coming; also the big sup
ply of ice skates has been shelved in
the skate room adjoining the big
rink in the ice palace, waiting until
Boreas should come with his winter
breath and freeze the water to a
proper crystal hardness. Besides, a
couple of carloads of sleighs, sleds,
bob-sleds and dashing cutters have
been provided with their coats of
white and red-the fiesta IS collars
and have been housed until quantity
of snow sufficient for their best use
shall blow from over the summit. All
these things, besides Truckee's glad
dest hand, have been awaiting until
the season of real winter should set
in and justify inviting the Califor-
nian from his sunny valleys to come
and frolic in the snow.
The desired weather arrived last
night and Truckee has sent out her
invitations broadcast.
That there will be a throng in
Truckee on the opening of her fiesta
seems certain, and she is planning big
things from tobogganing, skiing, skat-
ing and sleighing to fireworks at
night.
1t is certain that no amusement
project in many years has attracted
the favorable comment from the
press and the people that Truckee Is
plan to rival Montreal has accom-
plished. It is Truckee's first effort in
a big way to provide a new play
ground for the people of this western
land, and that there will be a con-
stant and ever augmented stream
from the valleys below is already as
sured by the number of inquiries
made by prominent organizations,
fraternities and clubs of state wide
and interstate membership and i'm
portance.
There will be music in the ice
palace and a dance hall Immediately
outside, where the dulcet strains of
an Hawaiian orchestra will invite the
visitors to two STEP The pyro-
technical display ON the mountain
ridges around Truckee should add a
sensationally spectacular beauty to
the occasion; and with a search
light Illuminating the toboggan slide,
and ice arch blazoned with electric
letters of welcome, the ice palace it.
self aflame with incandescents, and
finally huge sentinel pine tree that
marks the end of the toboggan slide,
ali lit up alluringly, it is certain that
Truckee will look her most brilliant.
An element of the entertainment
ride to Donner lake that is being pro
vided by Truckee. This historic spot
should be better known and the his
tory of its martyrs more revered by
this generation, and it is part of
Truckee' plans to assist in every way
possible the efforts now being made
to erect monument to mark the
tragic spot by the shores of Donner
lake where perished the heroes of that
devoted band.
In furtherance of the Carnival
plans the Southern Pacific has offered
rates of tempting reductions and will
run weekend excursions during tbs
winter months or until the snow and
the ice begin to melt and Truckee 3
ice palace suecumbs to the sum-