1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKLR 
401 
The Family on a Bobsled. 
There lias been snow enough through¬ 
out the northern part of this country for 
the past Winter to satisfy anyone who 
likes snow. In Canada the sleighing has 
been long and continued, and from pres¬ 
ent appearances will continue far into 
April. The younger people are fond of 
snow, and there are times when the en¬ 
tire family turns out to enjoy it. The 
picture here given shows a Canadian 
family mounted on a bobsled all ready 
for a mile-a-minute spin down a steep, 
icy hill. This scene could be duplicated 
off and a track was dug through the 
center of the street, so that after the 
storm was over there were two great 
drifts or piles, such as is shown in the 
picture. In the country, of course, the 
snow is left to take care of itself. When 
the weather permits, it melts and runs 
away, but in this great city, all the snow 
in the streets must be scraped up and 
taken away. When we consider the size 
of New York City, we can imagine what 
it means to carry away all the snow 
which piles upon this big island. At one 
time during the storm 15,000 men and 
something like 3,000 wagons and trucks 
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TIIE WHOLE CANADIAN FAMILY AT PLAY. 
on thousands of farms visited by The 
It. N.-Y T . each week. We have readers in 
every country on the globe. This paper 
will be read by families in Cuba, Porto 
Itico, Egypt and in countries close to the 
Equator. The majority of these older 
people were raised in the northern part 
of America and will well remember the 
bobsled coasting of 30 or more years ago. 
They will hardly be able, however, to 
make their children and grand-children of 
the South understand this picture, for 
it is one of the wildest stretches of im¬ 
agination for the inhabitants of a hot 
country to realize that Winter hardens 
water to such an extent that one could 
walk on it. These older folks would glad¬ 
ly take another spin down hill, and it 
would do their descendants a world of 
were at work clearing away for traffic. 
Some of our farm boys think they are 
greatly abused when they are called upon 
to dig a path from the house to the 
barn or to the road. What would they 
think of tackling the job of cleaning this J 
great island of such drifts as are shown 
in the picture? 
Eggs for Tickets. 
A new way to help out the egg market 
was recently started at a town in Ar¬ 
kansas. A moving picture house hung 
out the following sign* 
“Admission for minors one egg; for 
adults two eggs.” 
This meant an increased patronage and 
a good supply of fresh eggs. As there 
A SNOWDRIFT FROM 
good to endure the biting cold for a few 
seasons. 
The picture here shows one of the 
drifts which accumulated in one of the 
narrow New York streets. Some of the 
streets were worse than others, owing 
to the fact that the wind whirled the 
snow through some open place and piled 
it in front of the higher houses. Then 
the snow upon the sidewalk was thrown 
NEW YORK’S BLIZZARD. 
was ready sale for the hen fruit, it may 
well be seen that this turned out to be a 
very fruitful scheme. It is probable, 
however, that regular performers on the 
stage would have been shy about their 
appearance if this plan of admission had 
been adapted, for there are few perform¬ 
ers on the stage who are not made nerv¬ 
ous when they see a basket of eggs in 
front. 
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