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RECREATION 



ing shame of the Empire State, and at last 

 made camp on State land, a corner of the 

 great forest preserve, to which the State is 

 adding a trifle by purchase from year to 

 year. 



cautioned against allowing fires to originate 

 from the use of firearms, cigars and pipes, 

 and especial care is enjoined that lighted 

 matches should be extinguished before 

 being thrown down. Neglect of these rules 



Here at Young's Camp, a shack of poles during the summer, when the woods are 



and building paper 

 (the wardens will 

 not allow the erec- 

 tion of permanent 

 structures on State 

 land) that had not 

 been occupied since 

 the previous fall, we 

 were to stop for the 

 night. A camp fire 

 was soon built, and 

 Ed Young, with his 

 brother Robbie, 

 quickly had the 

 bacon in the frying 

 pan, while Johnny 

 -McBroom stowed 



the duffle and set about making beds. 

 In making and caring , for camp and cook- 

 ing fires the average Adirondack guide is 

 the zealous supporter of the warden, though 

 perhaps in not much else. But an extensive 

 forest fire means the wholesale destruction 

 of good hunt- . 

 ing ground and 

 a correspond- 

 ing injury to 

 the guide's 

 means of liveli- 

 hood. Besides, 

 in those north- 

 ern counties all 

 able-bodied 

 male inhabit- 

 ants are liable 

 to be drafted 

 out as fire fight- 

 ers every time 

 there is a big 

 forest confla- 

 gration. Occa- 

 sionally, too, in 

 the carelessly 



started forest fires, human lives are lost. 

 Posted near all camps in the North Woods 

 are copies of the statutes relative to fire 

 protection and the protection of game and 

 song birds. Hunters and smokers are 



THE WATER FLOWS OVER THE ROCKY EDGE 



A BIT OF ROUGH WATER 



like tinder, has 

 caused the, burning 

 over of thousands 

 of acres of valuable 

 timberland which 

 conserves the source 

 of the great natural 

 waterways of the 

 State. 



But there was no 

 danger of forest 

 fires spreading 

 when we made our 

 trip to Cage Lake. 

 The woods were 

 wet, the skies were 

 wet, our clothes 

 were wet, even our bedding would have 

 been a bonanza to a traveler dying of 

 thirst. But that was nothing. In the great 

 natural health resort of Northern New 

 York it is impossible to take cold, and 

 though we crawled into Wet blankets with 



our damp cloth- 

 ing sticking to 

 our bodies, we 

 slept the sleep 

 of the utterly 

 w e ary and 

 woke refreshed. 

 It rained all 

 night. How it 

 rained! The 

 OneWho Knew 

 had brought a 

 canvas boat 

 into the woods 

 with him at con- 

 siderable ex- 

 pense of muscle 

 (not his own) 

 and Sureshot 

 awakened him 

 several times to ask if he had brought his 

 nice new boat in out of the wet. Knowledge 

 retaliated with a scornful snort, and then, 

 but for the hoot of an owl or the melan- 

 choly groan of a "stake driver" out in 



