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Carnivals, hockey, skating, and the famed\u2014but feared\u2014toboggan slide were highlights of the Hill\u2019s chilly season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that Beebe Lake\u2014long a favorite locale for activities on and around the water\u2014used to be its own campus playground in the wintertime?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a century ago, the lake was a veritable hub of below-freezing recreation\u2014hosting ice carnivals, public skating, hockey games, and a toboggan slide that was popular even with Cornell\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A typical winter day in the early 20th century. The Johnny Parson Club is at left; North Campus and Balch Hall are in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First, a quick history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s 17-acre Beebe Lake was once a forested swampland along Fall Creek, which meandered westward toward Triphammer Falls. In 1838, Ezra Cornell himself built the first dam above those falls to source hydropower for the plaster and flour mills belonging to Jeremiah Beebe, transforming the swamp into more of a pond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second, higher dam was built in 1898, creating a 53-million-gallon reservoir\u2014the lake\u2014to supply water to the growing campus and power for a hydroelectric plant in the gorge below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A (terrifying) toboggan slide<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first slide, made of wood and assembled with bolts, was 200 feet long with a double track and a 30% grade. Opened in 1903, it sent riders speeding out onto the south shore of Beebe at thrillingly high speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cChief among the features of the toboggan was the bump at the bottom,\u201d the Daily Sun<\/em> reported two decades later, looking back at the slide\u2019s inception, \u201cbut even its violence failed to dampen the enthusiasm of ardent toboggan fans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Riders descend in the early 1900s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A new steel slide opened in 1913, with a 250-foot base and a (slightly tamer) 25% grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional improvements included concrete pilings and adjustable supports, so the slide could be raised and lowered to accommodate the varying ice levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, the first ride of the season was reserved for President Jacob Gould Schurman, an experienced skater and winter sports enthusiast. He was often joined on the inaugural run by Arts & Sciences Dean \u201cTee Fee\u201d Crane (of \u201cGive My Regards to Davy\u201d fame).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During its heyday, the slide drew a long queue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Injuries were common from the start, noted Morris Bishop 1913, PhD 1926, in A History of Cornell<\/em>: \u201cWhat with the weather\u2019s caprices, the varying water level in the lake, and the frequent accidents, the toboggan slide caused the administration winter-long worries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, when riders amassed 21 injuries (seven of them fractured vertebrae) in the winter of 1939\u201340 alone, the structure was closed down and \u201cquietly abandoned,\u201d Bishop reported. Meanwhile, competition from a wider variety of winter activities, like cross-country skiing, were becoming more accessible and popular for Cornellians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 1949 Daily Sun<\/em> editorial looked back wistfully: \u201cThe disappearance of the toboggan slide over Beebe Lake, practical though it may be, will sadden many who used to feel chills run down their spines just from looking at the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A chilly photo album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Public skating in 1949\u201350. (Rare and Manuscript Collections\/Courtesy of Marc Friedenberg)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A jolly group (plus dog!) following a toboggan run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An early-season view (before ice was added) down the infamous slide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slide riders speed out onto the south end of the lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wipeout! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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President Jacob Gould Schurman following a 1908 toboggan run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The slide, skaters, and Risley Hall in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Preparing to take to the ice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A horse-drawn advertisement for an early ice carnival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The men\u2019s hockey team, with head coach at right.
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The Toboggan Lodge, with the slide\u2019s staircase at left. The building is now home to Arts & Sciences\u2019 Institute for Comparative Modernities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
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Hockey\u2014before Lynah<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first rink was laid out on Beebe in 1900, and by 1907, the nascent Big Red hockey team marked its first home victory there (a whopping 7-0) that February against the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the next decade, the team played there inconsistently\u2014\u201cowing,\u201d Bishop noted, \u201cto Beebe Lake\u2019s habit of melting before a scheduled contest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An early hockey game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In Good Sports: A History of Cornell Athletics<\/em>, R. Davis \u201cDave\u201d Cutting \u201948 recalled playing on the lake: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were ten-inch-wide wooden sideboards around the perimeter of the rink. We piled snow closely outside to cushion the falls when we were body-checked along the boards. There were usually wide cracks in the ice surface. Thaws melted the ice every so often, and the boards would float away and we would have to retrieve them and nail them back together to await the next freeze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following several unseasonably warm winters that rendered Beebe unsuitable even for practice\u2014not to mention a winless 1947\u201348 season\u2014the team was disbanded for a decade. Lynah Rink was completed in 1957, in time to revive hockey for the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carnival on ice!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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An annual ice carnival flourished on Beebe in 1905\u201309, and again from 1936 through the mid-40s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Junior Week (as the January break between semesters was once called), a midway was built on the frozen lake, complete with lights and a bandstand.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Daily<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The annual celebration featured skating, ice sculptures, a parade of floats, games, sideshows, and a bonfire. As a 1905 ad in the Daily Sun<\/em> proclaimed: \u201cIllumination, music, all kinds of stunt races, and ice sports \/ Toboggan slide to be uniquely decorated \/ Grand parade of floats and toboggans \/ Everybody to be in fancy costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds would attend the carnivals to skate, hear bands, and enjoy refreshments in the warming sheds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preparations for an early carnival, including a horse-drawn \u201cZamboni.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But weather challenges\u2014which often delayed or canceled the festivities, due to either too-warm or too-harsh conditions\u2014ultimately ended the tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officially sanctioned skating on Beebe continued into the 1960s\u2014but the seasons kept getting shorter, and the lake froze less and less reliably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIP, Johnny Parson Club <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Parson, an engineering instructor on the Hill for four decades, was one of the earliest advocates for Beebe as a winter theme park for both Cornellians and the local community. A vigorous proponent of winter sports, he secured the funds, machinery, and staff to clear snow from the lake, arranged for public skating, and proposed building the toboggan slide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A warming house and eatery for skaters, named in his honor, opened in January 1923. The Tudor-style building eventually became Japes Lodge, which housed the Outing Club until 2012, when the then-dilapidated structure was declared unsafe. It was demolished in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor’s note: For more about the lake and its natural surroundings, watch \u201cBeebe Lake: Past, Present, and Future<\/a>,\u201d hosted by Corey Earle \u201907 and Todd Bittner, director of natural areas for the Botanic Gardens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Top video and all photos by Rare and Manuscript Collections.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published February 21, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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