Show city boys have fun in country fash fashion youngsters in new york enjoy the sport of ft 11 coasting down the hills in central park every variety ol 01 0 sled Is pressed into use that auntry boya boys have not a monopoly of the delights of the winter sea se a eon son at least to 10 far as the joya joys of coasting are concerned Is proved by the following article from the new york sun since the first enow snow of the year covered central park boya boys havo have been enow snow men of heroic size and naming them for park commissioner wilcox if it he had freed ireland be he ca coulden couldn ulan t be more popular with the boy with a sled in other years the children of 1 side west bide and flar harlem lern have looked envious eyes on the forbidden hills of the parks when they took their alda there the police pollee chased k the start them away aay before usage had made a fair slide on the hillsides it waa was feared that the practice would destroy the bed of grass that the sled runners reached in time aa as the carpet of snow wore away but commissioner willcox decided that the injury th t might bo be dono done was insignificant corn com pared with the enjoyment that coast ing would give to thousands of chil dren so he opened central park to them some of the hills were kept for boys and some for girls and some were left tor for the mutual enjoyment of oua ous players ile hadn haan t been on a sled in twenty years but this hill was just high enough and steep enough to wake the desires of in him I 1 wish I 1 had a sled he said aloud quite to himself I 1 wish you hal hai too said a girl who was looking also quite to her self I 1 d borrow it from you for five minutes aon on t you take mine miss asked a boy of qt 10 leading up a gall gaily tinted ono one with big cast iron base just the kind tr t live lve it an impetus she hesitated and the boy added I 1 II 11 ride too it a big enough for both and I 1 can steer when the young man moved on tho the big girl had made the journey fully ten times and was climbing the hill again her ifer cheeks were rosy and her eye showed ed her exhilaration in travel ng down donkey hill if it the sl edsman takes his car to the right he can go up and over a smaller hill which brings him out on the little arm of the lake this discovery was mado made by a youth who rolled off his aled sled when he be got to the lake not caring to make an investigation there the aled sled shot out on the ice tee thoughtlessly the boy rushed out where be he had feared to lri j on the sled the ice gave way and be he feind him self to his waist in the water A policeman pulled him out and ran him hini across the fields toward his home at a good pace so that he might not ba chilled by his bath after that tho the police decreed that the hill should bo used by girls only as they were not likely to be so darina and add a plunge to their downward trip at each of the openings into the park there Is a fall of ground and it seemed impossible for a stroller in the park to count the hillsides that are used by the cotters cot the styles of sleds were numerous too the children of the rich brought heavy an aristocrat joth girls and boys the result has aten that on every fair day the park baa has been crowded with the little people and every bill hill has had its following the children of the upper tipper end picked out th it blights of park as adapted for coasting froia from columbus avenue to manhattan avenue in street la is a fine incline the walks on both side of the street little used by pedestrians were turned into fast coursed with the first fall of snow the elide slide on the south side of street necessarily ends with the curb at manhattan hut but skillful pilots of the sled who can turn a cune curie found that by using the walk on the north side they could wheel into manhattan avenue and strike an incline carrying them two full blocks northward tola this pleasure place has been used so steadily that pedestrians are practically excluded the special providence which looks after child coasters has been well occupied at this scene hundreds of people watching here have held their breath when a youth coming down the street hill with particular peed speed on a low built heavy sled crashed over the curb and escaped from the wheels of an approaching trolley car or was shot into the street by the jolt of striking the curb all the slopes of at central park quick ly took tool on the glaze of dally usage according to natural apportionment the very wee children took the small hills and the bigger ones the steeper inclines the larger boys took to engineering gin gi problems and surveyed for hills that bad an angle which should carry them part way up leaser lesser inclines from which he be sled might be launched again on the return trip and carry the passengers part way up the higher one thus saving saying the walk near fifth avenue opposite sixty elgarh street Is a very high hill met apart for both boys and girls its only difficulty Is that a heavily weight ed sled Is 1 likely to carry right up against the iron rait rail which guards the path leati tzg to the entrance for the protection of the children a R policeman has been placed at this point to fend tend them off at this hill are to be seen probably pro babIr more children than at any other some of toe girls who come with the smaller children and are tempted into the sports are rather urge large for child amusements they go to the park with no 1 of joining in the sport but some chivalrous youngster youn giter offer offers the hospitality of his sled and they cant can t A man of 30 stood wal chag the joy long bodied low sleds particularly made for coasting and shiny with var nish over many hues of paint children not rich enough to have a choice brought the old fashioned sleds with the bowed runners of wood shod with sith iron hoops it was the very poor children who bad had some of the fastest carriers carrl cra one boy biorn fi the east side built himself a slad which would carry four it if pressed it had two sets of runners nin nere connected with a board which had enough to give it to serve as a spring the forward runners could be moved in steering this sled weighted with four healthy boys gained a quick impetus which told in the distance trav tray VU I 1 the th finith aled after the sled struck lever or uphill |