Show F CENTURY ORE FORE PUBLIC I IN A AThLETICS p I Engler Famous asI as I Skater Before Civil War II I I KING ING I I f OF THE WORLD I I 3 I Celebrate Eighty Eighty- Birthday in I April By J Jack uch Keene S attain such renown belr fame lasts over O a a. period perlo y years ear Thor There I 1 Is one notable l Ion Ian n to the rul rule He lIo Is la cohn of oC Jersey City who reached of ot his career In when I inched tho professional fancy championship tine v ler who will celebrate hI hII his I eighth birthday on April 1 17 i ad id 4 an unusual career Ho perI per per- I B tho only ony man of time who made his hla living h by fancy eating In tho the GO he lie was wag aa u H ar a figure on the various pon ponds s ie q York and vicinity Uc lie then id d such popularity that Frank Franl FrankS S Illustrated Newspaper aw saw publish in Sit its February 0 l 1 1867 L I full tull page 6 ge wood cut of Engler oily Ily Henrietta Bedell in the tho I i k cutting fancy figures on 09 Iceon Ico Ice Ion fon on the Union pond k r I. I i L In Quakertown Pa ra on April 11 1 1 Engler came to Jerse Jersey CSt City boUt about ton ten years old He lIe was Wl a ith i t tUi th Ui b by trade trado an and for tor two years cars hIB father ather fulfil a a. contract to tolie He lie e city's lamps In tn I repair When Whenn n n- n twelve and fifteen years eari of ot th thA c circus r rj j as s a n. t tumbler bl blunt until i file tio made fan fancy C Ice skating a U Vlon Ion Dually he gained fame through tactful ability and daring Ho Jackson HRIn g the American rent nt abroad am and on th the con- con later Mater became known as tho the ot of European figure skating katin g. g I i the civil U war broke broke- out oui In Engler Joined the northern i ag 18 s first sergeant and anti color lot of of the Twenty first regiment r Terse Jersey During this service elved four tour medals for dis- dis bed bravery sharp shoot shoot- He Je received recel thre wounds one leg one In the temple and ono one thigh h. h r the war Engler married and in ln Jersey City where he ho now rith Ith his wife and a daughter Ithe he be father oC ot fourteen children J m rn eight two sons and six Lx I fers ers still are alive I DIr ng the period of tho the civil ivar ar arn n H Haines of Albany boro bore the ther f r fancy Ice Ica skating king Icing but bul Engler's higler's return h he lie quickly QUIck reS re- re S hi former laurels Old th the the- 1 programs which Engler hasI has I Mix In In a scrap book tho the fact tact p skated with Miss Carrie A A. A I gin in 1869 when George L. L Fox i the bill as 15 tho headliner Ho at the Bowery Dowel theatre I evening April i 9 t. t 1870 t Boston ton during tho same year car I p. p billed as 38 tho the King World V-World when ho skated on onhree bros feet high During hisT his T career caleer Andrew 1 J. J Dupignac is 3 his coach S tr r r has fifteen medals of solid soUd solidad ad id d silver for figure skating 1 iro ro valued at 1600 Iris Ills skating J were won at Hartford Jersey warl Buffalo Pittsburgh Dos Bos- cheter c N. N 1 Y an and Rochester i Jer fr J f ii i er r has a a. remarkably strong strong- con- con 5 p. p S. S He lie has been a a. great lover outdoor live 0 an and always alwa's has hasS S nd md of or fishing and hunting lie ho Joys these hobbles to an extent S all his life and used I moderately Temperance and ri W Uon in all things ho says Is Ig th thi keynotes of ot his success IB t B. B the peculiarity of ot eating eatinger er cr ho feels like It and often otten it t of bed in jil the tho wee sma hours morning to make tea Ho ITo has hns hasi i d attention for tor ten ut 1 makes es his own antidotes f |