KING FROST'S REIGN
LONDON SKATERS IMPATIENT UNDER PROHIBITION.
PROSPECTS FOR TO DAY.
Tlie keen Irwt whieh has prevailed during the past few days coutumed yesterday, and although the temperature m Ixmdou was slightly lower, was not sufficiently low make any oiable diffi renoe th prospects skating. Early yesterday morning from seven tea degrees of frost wore registered, and uoon there had been continuous frost for seventy hours. evening (hero was no indication a break the weather, and inquiries mad in different parts of London and outlying districts showed that with continuance of the frost the io, both the |-oods ooatrollnd the L.C.C. and on the pieces of water the Royal parks, will b fi.uflicicntlv thick today to permit skating'. Th Loudon County Council and the Office of ork make a coodiuosi that the 10s shall b three inches thick before ekatiug allowed. most cases yesterday was just under this limit. Th ics was ginxl everywhere, and many ventunwouio persons endeavoured some contrary to the regulations. They wen-, however, kept off by the Hackney Marshes thor was exception. There Uie had readied required all th ponds, excepting tb bathing lake. Skating cooaeqo — lly was general throughout the day and evening, many hunoreds persons taking th opportunity indulging m the invigorating exercise. Tlio official r-q>ort issued from tb offices the Parks Committee of the Loudon County Council last night with regard condition and tluc-knuabes was follows: Dulwich, two inches, skating. Btreathatn, two inches, skating. Clissold Park, from on to two and a hall in- dice, no skating. Black heath, average of one and half inches, skating. Hackney Majehes, skating all ponds exrenting on tb lake. loe ui splendid condition. Wandsworth Common, two iuohaa, skatuag. Tooting, two inches, no skatmg. Peckham Rye, from one and a hall to two in- Brock cell Park, io good, but no skating (tluokness not given). Hampstead, two and half inches. Victoria Park, two and half inohe-. The report |>oiuts out that th lake at I'lumstead has boon emptied for cleaning out purposes, that there is no prospect of tkaiing there for tome tim yet, and adds, -' If froet keeps there will m ell probability b skating to-morrow most the abov ponds." As to the Royal parks, skating took place on some of the Regent's Park pieces of water yesterday, w her tb ice was in good condition, and varuHl tluckiivss from two and half inches in some part- three and quarter in others. It anticipated that by to day ico there will thick enough in all places make skating general. With regard Hyde Park and Kensington Oardons skating lias ye- been permitted lake place tli.ir on Serpen tun, lamg Water, o- Hound Pond. At each place notices have b--ec post'd, and there a stuff officials on duty f-i Uio purpose of preventing anyone from gKtmg to tin- ioe. placsM tli- ice is about two amt luilf inch-w thick, ihnn-raliy speaking, it is in capital cvinditaon. and provided is oliange in the weather, it w expected Uwr day. '! temperature yesterday afternoon the Royal Huiiuum Bocie-y-s house Hyde Park waa bolwwti and degree- below (r.--uog point. In the district- the area controlled die I/ondon Oouniy ('ouncil. and vrliere safety r-stnotions wore not in ffoeeev large uun.bers people iodulged so mo excellesit skating. At Park, Wosnliloy Park, ami Park skating was gemraJ yeeterday. and. in anticipation a large number of visitors Wembley, the Metropolitan Railway yeeterday notices ai mom icing that they had made arrangement- for intending visitor- full facilities for reaching tle ponds f:r pntposea. the large piece of water which forms the Elslree Reservoir skating was in full swing y.-tcnJay. The ice i fairly good condition, but it has been q-oih. in part- by a recent snowfall. At most of the places wliere skating obtainable tine ice U free from enow and in splendid condition. These include the Welsh Harp. Hendon; Bu--hey Park W atets, llarkney Mamhee. Hampton Court Water. Wimbledon Park. W'emblt y Park. llai.ip-.t. sd Heath. eon Ponds, Park, and and ('laphaaa Commons. There is excel lent skating (The Hath two miles from on the Portsmouth road. The nearest railway stations are Cobbam and Hovslcy. Throughout the province- the severe frost tinues. In some parts the register has been turn ark able. Twenty two degrees of frost were rucorded during last night at Northwich, and eittu o'clock yesterday the thermometer registered 18 degrees of frost. Despite active operation-, th- River Weaver covered with ice, and fours ara entertained that navigation will soon impoaublu should the present cold weather continue. The Trent and Mersey Canal is blocked. Twenty-tw- degrees of frost were registered Worcester Thursday night, and yesterday traffic on the Severn above Worcester waa stopped, the boat having failed to keep the river open. At Newcastle th- frost baa necessitated the postponement of the Rugby match at Newcastle to-morrow of Northumberland versus Cumberland. Outside employment in Tyneside shipyards still continues standstill. and large numbers of men are out of work. Two niirht- with 2b and 22 degrees frost have coated Derwent water with ice that bears to and beyond St. Herbert Island, but the ic- not good quality owing to light sprinkling of snaw. Nevertheless, (act night, beneath moon and star- young Keswick enjoyed itself on the ioe.
THE ICE DEATH ROLL.
Three r.Uoolboy- were drowned in ft cmoai Blackbrook. near St. Helons. owing to giving way. Four lads were sliding the River Nene, Peterborough, yeaterday afternoon, when the broke, and fcll through into deep water. Tliree in extricating toemaelvea, but the fourfek disappeared beneath the ice, and was drowned. A little boy. named Frank Hardy, eight years aft- made a gallant attempt to render help, and waa himself rescued in exhausted condition. Yeeterday evening two were drowned whila crossing the ice on the Sligo River, close the town. Mr. John White, J.P., made a brave effort save them, nearly losing his life the attempt. An inquest was held Keswick yesterday the body of Wilson Dobson, farm sen-ant. who was drowned on Derwentwater Thursday night whilst skating. When the lake ia froxen a is kept open between the shore and Derwent Island, on which Mr. Marshall has mansion. waa partly frozen over, and the deceased went through the tnia ice. A verdict of accidental death waa roturned.
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CRICKETERS
The following persons where each find 5 for assembling together foot
Thomas Smith, 14. Tedury-street, Battersea, and Arthur Meatyard, 13, Savona-place, Stewarts-road, Battersea, were fined respectively 3s. and 4s. fur playing cricket in the public street.
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"Westminster Gazette — Monday 23 June 1902
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE. Common. Apprehensions are beginning to be expressed of a possible danger to Wandsworth Common. The Commissioners of the Royal Patriotic Fund have a little estate of forty acres or thereabouts adjoining the common — of which it once formed part — on which stands the well-known girls' school. This compact piece of property, the remainder of fifty-two acres purchased from Earl Spencer in 1857 for 3,700 (!) would realise a handsome sum if converted into "eligible building-plots," and there seems to he growing up a suspicion that the Commissioners have some such scheme in view. The value of the forty acres as an addition to the common would be considerable. The effect of covering the space with bricks and mortar would be to detract seriously from the beauty and utility of the common as it now exists. It is to be hoped that such a result will be averted.
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Dane House Garden Party. The ninth annual garden party and illuminated evening fete in aid of the' Church of the Sacred Heart, Camberwell, took place Wednesday and Thursday at Dane House. 168, Denmark Hill. The weather was ideal and the extensive grounds of Dane House enabled the organisers of the event to provide numerous attractions. . . .
A bevy of well-trained young ladies from the British College ei Physical Education. Wandsworth Common, gave an admirable and interesting gymnastic display, under the superintendence of the Misses Boden
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THE UPHOLSTERER AND THE SERVANT c MI.. Al the South Western Police Court, on Monday. bas t e Me. Rime, an upholsterer, named William South, giving an at tt, Colslen-road, Serenoaks, was charged with indecently exisiing himself on Wandsworth Common, with to insult fetnales. Margaret Norris, a servant, employed at 11, Baskerville.road, Wandsworth, said that she was looking out of her liedroom window, from which she bad a good view of Wandsworth Common. A fellow servant was with her and they observed the prigoner in the gorse Her friend left her and prisoner then came out in full view of the iindow and exposed himself. She beckoned to a constable and telling him %hat hail or curred, pointed oat the prisoner, who was by this time moving hurriedly away. _ tt7s LC.C. that in consequence of the cempltint of ths last w itnesti he chased the soner, but failed to catch him. Afterwards, however, be identified him at the police-station. P.C. lONV stated that be questioned prisoner as to his movements. He replied that he had noted on Tooting Common and that he had been was. daring about different streets. Afterward, psi. soner was placed with seven other men and ideatified by the witness Norriss and the tendon County Council constable. ! The prisoner stoutly protested his innoeence, and the case was put back for further evidence of identity. When the came came on in the afternoon, Alice Maslen, a fellow servant to the witness Merril. was called, and positively identified the ;sinner , as the man she had seen when at the window. She I went away before the offence was alleged to have taken place.. — Prisoner absolutely denied the allegation. and I said he was not on Wandsworth Common a* all. He declared that he had walked from Sevenoaks and he was sharing all his finances, which twopence, with another pedestrian, and they were drinking the King's health. Mr. Rose sent him to prison IA hard labour for throe months.
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"Lakes Herald — Friday 22 August 1902
FATAL CYCLING ACCIDENT.
At Wandsworth Town Hall, Mr. Troutbeck has held an inquiry relative to the death of Guy George Fitzmaurire Luther, ten, the only son of the Rev. Canon Luther, of Limerick, who was killed as the result et a cycling accident on Wandsworth Common on Monday. -
Canon Luther said that his son came to London to view the Coronation procession, and stayed with Mrs. Dixon, of Spencerpark, Wandsworth Common. — Henry John Brown, a labourer, said that he saw the deceased riding a bicycle. He was in the act of turning a corner into Windmill-road when he came into collision with the horses attached to a miller's van. The horses knocked him down and one wheel of the vehicle passed over his head, causing his death within half-an-hour. The van was covered, and the driver could not have seen the boy coming along.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and expressed deep sympathy with Canon and Mrs. Luther.
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THE MYSTERIOUS BADGE
Charles George (3N), legrave.street, Battersea, engineer's turner, charged on remand with causing annoyance, to the public on Wandsworth Common, contrary to the London County Council by-laws. — The anegged wax neen on the common with badge is his hat, with the letters " W.P.C." inscribed thereon. A woman Falling told a L.C.C. 'constable that the prisoner ordered her off the 'etymon. " Behar, a badge in his hat, " the woman said. "anti I thought he was a common keeper." I- When before Mr. Garrett last week, Mrs. Falkner, who lives at Z, Park-read, Batten.., told a different story. She said that the prisoner never ordered her off the common, but that he merely told her to get up as a policeman approaching. She further stated that she never saw the hedge in the man's hat. — Prisoner said he picked the badge up on the common, and innocently placed it in his hat.. — Mr. Garrett: Have you found out what the letters " W.P.C." mean ' — P.C. 2'20 L.C.C. .No; we don't know what to make of them — Mr. Garrett: I should think not. They're 'avowions to me. — The accused, who was given an excellent character, wee discharged. — An inspector of the LC.C. asked what order Mr. Garrett intended to relative to the hedge. — Mr. Garrett (smiling): Oh! I can't make any order about that; it's too serious a matter.
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