More than a hundred of the student body, most of them boys, were on the ice that afternoon.
Some went scurrying by for all they were worth.

These were training for the races.
Others gathered in the less traveled parts of the cove, which was a large one, and practiced the "fancy" feats.

Tom Reade and Dan Dalzell put themselves in this class.

Dick and his other partners went in for speed.
Friday afternoon there was an even larger attendance.
Gaylor's Cove was about half a mile long, with an average width of a quarter of a mile.

At the middle the cove was open for a long way upon the river.
At some points on the river proper the ice was strong enough to bear.