CANOEING. 



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Chorus : 



Fal-dal-de-al dal-de-al dal-de-ay, 

 Musha-faldal-de-al-dal-de-al-dal-de-ay, 

 Fal-dal-de-al dal-de-al, dal-de-ay, 

 Arrah-fal-dal-de-al-dal-de-al-dal-de-ay. 



His teeth are like pearls strung out in two rows, 

 'Tween luscious ripe cherries right under his nose ; 

 They form a nate fence, round such nice private grounds 

 Where a sharp tasing tongue never stays within bounds. 



His complexion, indade, has an exquisite tint, 



So rich and so rare, by the angels was lint; 



Oh ! nought could compare with his blushes so red-<r 



When he walked in the garden, the roses dropped dead. 



His neck and his shoulders, each arm and each hand, 

 With freckles and sunburn are frescoed and tanned ; 

 Like brown-speckled beauties right out of the brook, 

 The ladies are pining for one killing look. 



«• What it is, is it ? " and " Where am I at ? " 

 " Ask me the question the answer is, what ? " 

 There's one thing he does, 'tis the joy of his life, 

 And that is to write to his far-away wife. 



There's Upham and Dater, and Dunnie and Hale, 

 And Wilkin, whose gay jokes they never grow stale ; 

 And Unfortunate " Pink," who has had a bad sprain 

 " Hogan's alley " for " rare bits " that ne'er give a pain. 



I would I could describe one of the mid- 

 night swims, when some restless mortal 

 would start through the camp and invite 

 all to swim " in the altogether," from the 

 main dock. It is needless to say there was 

 sound sleep after that, till the sun would al- 

 most burn holes in the tents. Then there 

 was the official swim, under command of 

 Ex-Commodore Huntington, when the 

 face of the waterscape was changed by the 

 removal of all the reeds, by 3 dozen sturdy 

 pullers. 



Then there was the formation of the 

 Sailors' Union, followed by a general strike; 

 and the mass meeting on the hill, where the 

 Union decided to boycott the races until 

 the breezes blew more gently. 



The hop, in the big mess tent, was one 

 of the events of the encampment. Invita- 

 tions were issued to the several summer 

 hotels, near camp, and the Pastime was 

 sent to convey the invited guests, who 

 found the camp ablaze with camp fires, and 

 with red, white and blue lanterns, by the 

 hundreds, all along shore, with a plentiful 

 supply of Chinese lanterns to add to the 

 beauty of the scene. 



The visitors declared this the most pictur- 

 esque function they had ever attended, and 

 hoped they might have the pleasure of be- 

 ing invited to other and similar partys. 



Can I ever forget the " Tearing of the 

 Shirt," when, on a calm Sabbath evening a 

 well-known Philadelphia paddler appeared 

 at the mess tent, late for supper, in a most 

 gorgeous, blazing, red-hot tartan shirt? 

 Or the groans, the howls, the cat calls that 

 greeted its appearance? Or the invitations 

 to remove it; the attempts to light ciga- 

 rettes from its blazing folds? Or its ap- 

 pearance at the top of the highest flagstaff 

 within 3 minutes of its first dazzling the 

 eyes of the canoeists? In less time than it 

 takes to tell this, every man, woman and 



child in camp was wearing that shirt — 

 some as hatbands, some as neckties and 

 some as badges. Some men then slipped 

 quietly away to their tents and placed under 

 lock and key, at the farthest corner of their 

 trunks, certain articles of wearing apparel 

 in order that the vulgar gaze of their fel- 

 lows might not be offended thereby. 



As to the business done at the meet the 

 official records will show that Frank L. 

 Dunnell, of New York, was elected Commo- 

 dore; C. V. Schuyler, of the same place, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, and that a recommen- 

 dation was received from the Atlantic di- 

 vision, that the St. Lawrence be the scene 

 of the '98 meet. 



The making of Recreation the official 

 organ of the A. C. A., and providing for 

 the sending of this magazine to every mem- 

 ber, marks an important stage in the life 61 

 the A. C. A.; and those who shared in ob- 

 taining this favor feel that they have given 

 the American Canoe Association a great 

 impetus toward a still more extended in- 

 fluence and power. 



If the canoeists, and more particularly 

 the cruisers, do their duty by the official 

 organ, no issue will be published, here- 

 after, without one or more accounts of 

 cruises, which accounts will be read with 

 pleasure by hundreds of members whose 

 time and circumstances do not permit of 

 their sharing in this best of all forms of 

 canoeing. 



This latest move will answer the oft re- 

 peated question, " What do I get for my 

 dollar." Hereafter each member gets a full 

 dollar's worth of clean, attractive and varied 

 reading matter, in addition to the latest 

 news from the canoeing world. 



The retiring officers were assured, by 

 many of the members, that the meet of 

 August 6th-20th was one of the most en- 

 joyable ever held by the American Canoe 

 Association. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 

 Officers for 1898. 



Commodore: Frank L. Dunnell, 35 Wall 

 Street, New York; Secretary-Treasurer: 

 C. V. Schuyler, 309 Sixth Avenue, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. ; Librarian Custodian: W. P. 

 Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. 



BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 



President: Robt. J. Wilkin, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y.: Paul Butler, Lowell, Mass. Re- 

 corder: C. V. Winne, Albany, N. Y.; J. N. 

 McKendrick, Gait, Ontario, Can. 



DIVISION OFFICERS. 

 Atlantic Division. 



Vice-Commodore: Thomas Hale. Jr., 

 Yonkers, N. Y. : Rear Commodore: F. M. 

 Pinkney, in Broadway, New York; Pur- 



