The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-19
CABOT WARD With
SKATES ON, TESTS
CENTRAL PARK ICE
Commissioner Finds 1t All
Right and Opens the Lakes
to Thousands.
SPORT COSTUME FROM
SWITZERLAND DAZZLES

slogan may mean dong the banks Of the
Potomac h New Freedom On Central
Park lakes yesterday. where the red hall
went UP for the hrst tirpe shortly after
the noon hour. meant something Of
greater moment than politics or sven the
citys permission to skate on tho laker.
"uoodnuss g wdnuss. Asnusi" cried
the efri IN ths burnt orange sweater,
votcin8 tho New Freedom to Agnu.. who
was all in dazzling white. Ain II great
that before this skating erase hit the
bic skoitr p
0hucked the hobble skirt into oblivion.
but As any ono might have observed all
day yesterday while the finest Ice evsr
was ringing n twanginR 70 the scrape
Of thousands of steel st,od feet In Con-
0Al, Van Cortlandt and Prospect parks
And many a him seemed to observe
the phenomena-the New Freedom not
only has let out the seams Of the hob
be but has gone the limit and taken
81 several inches OF the lower hem.
Thus even tine great big girls were alb
e~olutely unimpeded. And 1t was a won
0rous sight everything considered.
None other han Park Commissioner
Ward himself started things OF by skat-
ing out Upon the big lake on the west
eide Of Contra, Park near the Seventy
streets. Just what kind OF Manhattan
Park ais Charlotte would make
cannot of course be stated accurately.
Bet II the Hon.. Cabot Ward ever
changed Jobs with Charlotte it's ten
to one that Charley Dillingham; and not
Manhattan Is the party that would ret
stuns by the WAC of Jobs.
Never . Fail for Ward.
In Justice TO Park Commissioner
Ward. however. II should be said that
he did more thar merely show that as
q fancy ice skater he's n great Park
Cmish. Unlike a lot Of officeholders
who might be mentioned, Cabot Ward.
despite the big crowd watching him cut
ting near pigeon wings and the battery
OF camera men swapping In his direc-
lion, never once fell down on his lob.
He started something he could finish.
And then onward rushed the skaters
big. little. oldsters, youngsters girls
with no natural padding against the pos
sibiltty OF hitting the ice with the left
ear and the right hiphipnphooray sim
u~ltaneously girls who. owing to such
natural physical characteristics as-er-
well. In a word. girls who. IL the leo
we're yanked out from under them sud-
denly. which occasionally happened.
would merely give a bit some place out
near their outskirts.
Second only to Skater Cabot Ward as
III object OF interest on the big lake in
the neighborhood of the Western Sew
snties. perhaps tying the Commissioner
In general admiration. was Frederick F..
Andrews. Any place the six feet two OF
Freddy Andrews came To a momentary
pause a human circle formed around
him that M the xveiUht insfaa aaA nj
the given spot. caused splitting sounds
like pistol shots.
For Freddy has skated at ST. Moritz
and skidded of the Alps and things
and knows how to skate. But Il wasn't
the fact that he could write his name on
the ice in fine Spencerian strokes that
caused the attention. II was the scenery
that Freddy wore. II Bill snyder had
wandered over from the menagerie and
Q got one glance at Freddy's makeup
he would have hollered "I-opards
and eagles loose - and grahb,d for his
gun.
Freddy was all leopard skin from head
to heels. even TO the close fitting cap
that covered all OF his head except his
eyes, nose and mouth. And rising high
and at rakish angle from the leopard
skin cap was an eagle feather tuft. the
feathers dyed n black spotted tawny
tone to match the Jeopardy effect Of the
rest Of Freddy's skating scenery. And
some place about his neck a silk muffier
Of "A passionate lavender hue absolutely
insisted upon showing itself between the
leopard skin cap and the leopard skin
collar.
81 saw a costume like this in Switzer-
land Freddy told the reporter. while a
new big and small boy and girl audience
gathered around until the ice began 10
groan and whimper at tina spot. $50
had me made here Ike IL fhat'g all
But heaven Is my judge, ] never thought
II was going to create all this upruar."
Costume VIII tnusr Envy.
Added to F'reddy's furs and feathers
the feathers bringing his height up
above the running high jump worlds
rccord-'t should be remembered also
that the young lady 1namc detected by
%request) who was skating with Freddy
Andrews was just one vision of simmer
ing white from hat to skating boots.
Hers wa a Swiss costume. too, which
10 the skating craze continues will send
a lot of cnviouS girls hot footing IL
toward their gown builders with verbal
plans and specifications drawn from
mental notes made on the ice as the
Young lady flashed by yesterday after
noon.
Even 4 group Of blueclad finest from
the Mounted traffic squad attached 70 the
parks sparrow cop contingent couldn't
resist the temptation to fasten skates
just below their black leather puttses
Yesterday and 90 combine pleasure with
tho policinr of the lakes.
A statement made absolutely eXclu-
sivcly ~ TIVE SIN "A few Monday morn
ings ago. however. to tho effect that
COMMISSIONS Woods couldn't organize "A
police skating squad for the simple rea-
son that even the Bethlehem Steel works