Sept. 6, 1888.] 



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MONTREAL, Aug. 38.— To-day was not the best day in the year 

 for trap-shooting, hut it was not the worst either, by any means, 

 and the Independent Gun Club were very successful in the way 

 they celebrated their second anniversary. From early morning 

 until dark Lopine Park resounded with the reports of the double- 

 barreled guns that meant destruction to Pcoiias and blueroeks. 

 The Independent Club is a young one. but ins members are enthu- 

 siastic shots, and the Showing they made to-day at the traps was 

 excellent. The attendance was large and the conditions, barring 

 a little cloudiness, favorable to giod seoring. Mr. Boucher is 

 president and Mr. A. Marcoux vice-president, but the hardest- 

 worked man on the Held, as usual in gun clubs, was the secretary- 

 treasurer, Mr. St. John. The meeting started off with a shoot at 

 10 birds, 18yds. rise, and the following tells tl e tale: 



J Roberts .0011001110-5 A Marcoux .. -1101000001-1 



P Larcau 1(101000101—4 Pariseau 0111111011-8 



Guv 1101111011-8 



Messrs. Pariseau and Guy divided first money. 



The club shoot was a t 13 single birds, both barrels allowed. 21yds. 

 rise. 80yds. boundary: 



Uoucher 111011011111-10 Macbeth 110101100011- 7 



Beauvan 110011001001— Marcoux 011011111110- 



St John 111100110111- 9 Lareau 111111111101-11 



Courville 111101011111-10 Guilbeault 101111111111-11 



Brouillev 1(0110001110— 7 Garoau 0111 11011111—10 



In shooting off the ties at 11 Lareau took first and Guilbeault 

 second place: Gai ea.u, Boucher and Courville third, fourth and 

 fifth. A shoot at 3 pair of birds resulted as follows: 



D Robert 11 11 01—5 Pariseau 11 11 01—5 



K Octave 00 01 11—3 Boucher 01 11 11—6 



N Lareau 11 11 11-6 Pureell 11 11 11 — 



Sicotte ! 11 10 11-6 



Shooting off ties for first, miss and out, Lareau grassed three 

 pair and took first, while Pureell took second with five birds to 

 his credit. There were a few other sweeps afterwards, with 

 which the guns amused themselves until darkness put a stop to 

 the sport. 



MEDTA, Pa., Aug. 20.— The second tournament shoot of the gun 

 clubs of Delaware county. Pa., was held on the grounds of the 

 Maple Bun Gun Club to-day. The day was pleasant; but small 

 scores were made, owing to blueroeks being used for the first 

 time. 



report. Not a race was abandoned after being started. All the 

 paddling races were contested under favorable conditions of 

 "water, and there was plenty of wind during every sailing race. It 

 has been no unusual thing at former meets to have a number of 

 races dropped from fine programme or carried over to the fifth 

 day. Had the Barney CUP race been omitted on Thursday, the 

 two races of Friday could have been worked in the four days. Of 

 the two certainly the Barney race created most interest. 



At former meets a number of men have had to do police duty 

 and judges work on the courses. Three men with the help of the 

 launch (paid for by the committee and the Commodore) did all 

 the work this year- with the help at times of two men at the 

 outer marks. Thus fewer men than ever before had work to do. 

 It is nut a mistake (as your correspondent asserts) to put racing 

 men on the committee. They arc. the only men in the A. O. A. 

 competent to run a regatta successfully. The chairman must of 

 course give up all idea of racing at that particular meet. There 

 is no pleasure in running an A. C. A. regatta. II is done at con- 

 siderable expense both of time and money, and the total loss of 

 a vacation, and if the men generally take such a narrow and 

 unwarranted view of the work as your correspondent has done 

 it certainly would be impossible for the A. G. A. to get any one to 

 serve on the committee if the members generally felt as I now 

 feel about it. The most a man can expect for the work of t hree 

 months and the sacrifice of his vacation is a kind appreciation 

 of MS endeavors, not unbridled fault finding and harsh criticism. 



0. BOWYKIt '. .WW. 



McClure Gun Club. 



D McClure. 12 



F Harrison 15 



William Gibbs 13 



J Wood 8 



William Hall 



A McClure 12 



.1 Hollywood 8—72 



Darby Gun Club. 



G Urian » 



II Hughes ; 18 



T Knight 5 



H Urian 7 



E H .Tames 11 



WW James. 



Thornlmi y ( 1 tin Club. 



FSmedley 13 



W Yearsley 13 



R Baldwin 11 



B Green 10 



G Green 1 13 



Fergoeson 9 



Gill 6-72 



Maple Run Gun Club. 



Hodge rs 7 



J Cummins 4 



C Marshall 13 



J Baker 10 



T Allen 8 



Hall 13 



C Clark 13-68 Ingraham 13-68 



B ATA VIA GUN CLUB.— Batavia, N. Y., Aug. 30. -Scores of 

 our shoot held to-day, at blueroeks: 



Cleo Bo wen 0000001010—.-* 



C Warner 1101111010- 7 



A Wyness 1111111111-10 



HT Booth 0010] 11110— 6 



H J Patten. 0101010111- 6 



P G Heusner. 



-lohu McNish 



W C Harrison 



S T Curtiss 



A N Cowdin 



C N D wig] it 



. .1000100111- 5 

 ....OOllOUHl- 7 

 . . . llOO'JlOlll- 6 

 . . . .0110010010— 4. 

 ...1011110111- 8 



....oiODOoiioo- ; 



0WHO10001- 3 



jnnnmo- 8 



111 Hi '01 oo- o 

 0010110111- 6 

 OOUOOOOllO- 2 



inn non- o 



0110100000- 3 

 0011000101- 3 



omooooii- 5 



1000110101- 5 



Schisler 1011100110- 6 0101001101— 5 



C A Martin 0110010100- 4 1101001010- 5 



P Tompkins. 11011.01011- 7 



At 10 doubles, 18yds.: 



P Tompkins 11 11 10 11 00 11 10 10 01 01-13 



P G Heusner 10 10 01 01 11 10 10 11 01 11—13 



l ies, 6 doubles. 21yds.: 



P Tompkins 00 11 1) 00 10-5 P G Heusner 01 U 01 10 01-6 



H. T. B. 



CORBY, Pa.— The first animal tournament of the Keystone 

 Manufacturing Oo. will be held at Corry, Pa., Sept. IS, 19, 20 and 

 21. Guaranteed purses of $1,000 will be offered, and in addition 

 the following prizes: First day, a silver tankard valued at $250; 

 second day. L. C. Smith Cup; third day, Peters Cartridge Co. 

 silver pitcher; fourth day, championship diamond riug. Pro- 

 grammes and other particulars can be obtained by addressing 

 the Keystone Manufacturing Co., Corry, Pa. 



WELLINGTON, Mass.. Sept. 1.— The attendance at the Welling- 

 ton range was good to-day and the traps were kept constantly at 

 work for nearly rive hours. The winners of the various events 

 were: Six pigeons, Stanton, Chase and Adams; six blueroeks, 

 Bowker and Snow; six pigeons, Adams and Chase; six blueroeks, 

 Chase: six pigeons. Ciiase and Bowker; six blueroeks, Chase and 

 Swift; six blueroeks, Hammond; three pair pigeons. Snow; six 

 blueroeks, Stanton; six pigeons, Melcher, Swift and Stanton; six 

 pigeons, Adams and Chase; six blueroeks, Melcher and Adams; 

 six blueroeks, Swift; six pigeons, Bradstroct and Stanton; six 

 pigeons, Stanton; six blueroeks, Snow; three pair pigeons, Moore; 

 six blueroeks, Bowker; three pair pigeons, Chapin; six blueroeks. 

 Snow; six pigoons, Stanton. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officers, 1887-88. 



Commodore: H. W. Gibson '/ Aihanv w v 



Secretary-Treasurer: F. L. lux. \ **' * 



Fice-Com. Bear-Cam. Purser. 



Central Div..W. R. Huntington. E. W. Masten T. H. Stryker, 



R'jme, N. Y. 



Atlantic- Div-tV. P. Stephens L. B. Palmer F. L. Dunnell, 



186 Jerolemon St., Brooklyn. 



Eastern Div..H. E. Elee, M. D. . . .Maxton Holmes H. D. Marsh 



Springfield. Mass. 



N'theni Oft .Robert Tyson S. S. Eotainsou Colin Eraser, Toronto. 



Applications for memowship must he made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation of an active member and the sum or: ;!;->.u0 

 for entrance fee una. dues for current year. Every member attending 

 the general A. C. A, camp shall y>ay $1.00 for camp expenses. Applioi I ;.. 

 seat to the See'v-Treas. will be forwarded by him to the proper Division. 



Persons ro>fd*iii" in any Division and wisbine to become members of 

 the A. C. A,, will be fiumshea with printed forms of applicati on by address- 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— J. R. Bartlett, Fremont, Ohio. 

 Vice-Commodore— D. H. Crane, Chicago, HI. 

 Rear-Commodore— C. J. Stedman. Cincinnati, Ohio, 



Executive Committee— C. 3. BouHtield, Bay City, Mich.; T. P. Oaddis, Day- 

 ton, O.; T. J. Kirkpatriek, Springfield, O. 



FIXTURES. 



September 



6. Mohican,Gibson Cup. Albany 15. lanthe, Newark, Annual, 

 a. Brooklyn C. C. Regatta. 15. Springfield Cup,Calla Shasta 



13. Mohican, Oliver Cup, Albany 20. Mohican, Gibson Badge,Alb'y 



October. 

 C. Springfield Cup,Calla Shasta. 



THE A. C. A. REGATTA COMMITTEE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your report of the A. C. A. meet and regatta your corres- 

 pondent takes occasion several times to severely criticise the re- 

 gatta committee for lack of promptness in starting races, and 

 general tardiness, and expresses the opinion that fault finding 

 was very general among the members who raced. As I am alone 

 responsible for this I ask space for a few words. The racing was 

 announced to begin each day at 9:30. On Lake George the weather 

 is not settled by 830 usually, and therefore it was necessary to put 

 off th rime of starting the first race, as all the races for the 

 morning had to be announced one hour before the first race 

 started." On Monday morning the launch was an hour late, but as 

 it turned out no loss of time occurred in consequence. There was 

 no wind before 10 A. M. Tuesday afternoon the committee was at 

 fault in that dinner was delayed at the hotel. At all other times 

 they were on hand to the minute. The programme was a long 

 one. Three extra events were added to it at the meet, including 

 the Barney cup trial race— no mention of the fact is made in the. 



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THE A. C. A. MEET OF 1 SS8. 



THE CAMP AND THE ASSOCIATION. 



BILE the great question of the permanency of the A. ( -. A. 

 and the success of its annual meets is settled beyond doubt, 

 there is still a wide field for development and improvement be- 

 fore the Association can properly fulfill all the functions of a 

 national body, uniting and governing the canoeists of the United 

 States and Canada. Before proceeding to our regular review of 

 the canoes and their rigs, we propose to devote a little time to 

 the considera tion of I he camp that has just broken up, and to the 

 condition and. prospects of the Association at large. First, then, 

 as to statistics. The Secretary's register shows I hat there were in 

 camp 163 paying members of the A. C. A., not counting ladies 

 and guests, these members being divided among the four divisions 

 as follows, representing 33 clubs 



Central. 

 Mohican. 

 Pittsburgh. 

 Buffalo. 

 Deowainsta. 

 Cincinnati. 

 Sr. Lawrence, 

 Newburgh, 

 Rochester. 

 Jabherwoek. 

 Amsterdam. 

 Members 47. 



Eosfem. 

 Springfield. 

 Harvard. 

 Lawrence. 

 Hartford. 

 Vesper, 

 Lakeside. 

 Sagamore. 

 Newton. 

 Puritan. 



Northern. 

 Toronto. 

 Peterboro. 

 Ottawa. 



Atlantic. 

 New York. 

 Knickerbocker 

 Brooklyn. 



Lake St. Louis. Yonkers, 

 Brockville. Philadelphia. 



Keystone. 

 Trenton. 

 Arlington, 

 lauthe. 



Members to. M embers 12. Members, 51. 



The Central and Atlantic Divisions were represented by the 

 full board of Officers, the Eastern Division by all but the Rear 

 Com., while noue of the officers of the Northern Division were 

 present in person. As to the club representation, but few of the 

 clubs had a large number present, the total was made up largely 

 of two to six men from a club; and while this does not compare 

 favorably with the large club encampments seen in former years, 

 it is offset by the fact that the entire representation was well 

 distributed geographically, a very large territory being repre- 

 sented. Owing to the topography of tbc camp, the clubs suoti as 

 the Springfield and Mohicans, which have a number of men and 

 tents, made less show than in former years through the scatter- 

 ing of the tents which followed the uneven nature of the ground. 

 The club uniforms which once added so much to the appearance 

 of the camp have almost entirely disappeared, the popular ten- 

 nis suits of all colors having to a great extent superseded them. 

 While noth ing is lost in picturesque effect, the change is rather to 

 be regretted, as the effect of a club uniform was, as in the army, 

 to unite the club, to heighten the esprit ftc corps, and to induce 

 each club to make the best show that was possible. 



It is a fact that the character of the camp has changed mate- 

 rially within the last three years, and in a way which to us, as 

 well as to many more of tne chronic grumblers, is by no means 

 for the better. Thus far perhaps no harm has been done, but 

 it is none too soon to speak of a danger that might in time work 

 serious injury to the meets. This danger lies in the fact that 

 each year the camp is becoming less primitive and more civilized: 

 the cnange within even three years being very marked. It is 

 shown in many ways; the tents are double the size, a board floor 

 is considered a necessity instead of a luxury; a large Saratoga 

 has replaced the modest camp chest: ti e. tent is furnished with 

 spring cots, rugs, chairs and tables. Little or no cooking was 

 done in camp this year, but all dined at the mess shed, practi- 

 cally equivalent to a very poor hotel with all the pleasure of 

 camp life carefully extracted. There was not one clubmes3in 

 the entire camp, and only one camp kit was discovered as the re- 

 sult of a prize being offered for the best. 



It is all very well to camp as "Nessmuk" does; to go into the 

 woods with an axe, a frying-pan and one extra stocking and a 

 handkerchief; that is one extreme, and while it may suit some it 

 will not do for the average canoeist who lives under a roof and 

 sleeps between sheets for fifty weeks of the year. When he goes 

 into camp for the other two weeks he must carry with him far more 

 than the old camper; he must, have plenty of blankets, he must 

 dress better in a la rge camp than when fishing or tramping alone 

 in the woods, and he is used to a more generous bill of fare. There 

 is, however, a happy mean, and it should be the aim of every 

 canoeist to attain it, to secure the pleasures of tne free aud joy- 

 ous life in the open air without sacrificing himself to sickness 

 through unwonted exposure, or even to serious discomfort. 

 Where this mean is must he a question for each man to answer for 

 himself, but when he has to carry to camp a Saratoga trunk, 

 when he must be within reach of a Troy laundry and must have 

 a barber to shave him, he had better, for the sake of canoeing, go 

 to a fashionable hotel. It is impossible to lay down absolute laws 

 to govern this matter, to say just what is or is not allowable, but 

 every earnest canoeist will realize the difference between the real 

 and the sham camping. 



Perhaps the most delightful camp that the A. C. A. has ever 

 held was that of 1881, the first year at Grindstone. There were 

 over a dozen encampments of the leading clubs, the Mohicans, 

 New York, Knickerbocker, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Toronto, 

 Brockville, Kingston. Deseronto, Rondout, Newburgh, and many 

 smaller camps. The mess shed was patronized by some, chiefly 

 those who were busy with the racing, but nearly all the clubs had 

 their own messes. Deseronto had a very good mess, presided 

 over by a cook from a logging camp; the New York C. C. did its 

 own cooking behind the club camp. Newburgh had a good mess, 

 run bv the members, while the venerable Sergeant Billings did 

 the honors for Kingston. Men visited about, now dining with a 

 friend and then inviting him in turn. Near each tent wasa camp- 

 fire of some sort, with camp kits and camp stoves in abundance. All 

 this life and sociability was very poorly replaced at the present 

 meet by the meals at the mess shed, which all attended. The 

 mess shed is a necessary evil, the men who are actively engaged 

 in racing or committee work have no time to cook; there are 

 always some who stay for so short a time that it does not pay to 

 bring an outfit; and for all such some provision must be made by 

 the committee of arrangements: but when the fact that there is 

 a mess shed leads to the entire abandonment of camp cookery 

 and the neglect of all cruising appliances, the evil becomes a seri- 

 ous one. One trouble this year came from the fact that the "Camp 

 store," a very good one bv the way, was over half a mile from 

 camp, near the main dock, so that many who would have pre- 

 pared a part of their meals were unable to do so without a long 

 walk for bread, butter and meat and such articles. It is likely 

 that the experience of this year will send many back to the old 

 wav bv next season, and there will be more cooking in camp and 

 less dependence on the skill and efficiency of the caterer, always 

 an unknown quantity. • 



There is no reason whv every club should not have a mess of its 

 own, or at least two or three small clubs might go in together. 

 With a party of less than half a dozen the labor of cooking is not 

 so great, if properly managed, and most, canoeists know enough 

 about camp cookery to run a small mess. Though each must take 

 his turn at the cooking and dish washing, it is best to appoint one 

 member as steward, who shall purchase all supplies, look after 

 the camp outfit, and be responsible for having everything requis- 

 ite at camp in good season. The subsequent labor will be divided 

 as equally as possible among the members of the mess. Two may- 

 take charge each day, dividing the cooking and cleaning between 

 them. A good plan is to have one make t he fire, get water, peel 

 potatoes ana do similar work, while the other attends to the actual 

 cooking and preparation of the meal, thus being responsible for 

 its quality. When the meal is over, one washes the dishes and 

 the other wipes them and completes the cleaning up. Two cooks 

 working independently over the same fire are certain to prepare a 

 much poorer meal than where oue does all the cooking and the 

 other acts as assistant. , ',„ . . 



The outfit for such a mess is not specially elaborate or expensive. 



A camp chest of suitable size should contain the cooking utensils 

 —frying pari, gridiron, patent broiler, French coffee pot. pails of 

 from one to eight quarts capacity, steam cooker, butcher knife, 

 large fork and spoon, carving knife and fork, table cutlery and 

 poous, plates and dishes of tin or china (the latter difficult to 

 pack for transportation but much clea.ncr to oat from; wooden 

 plates, Japanese paper napkins, cans of sugar, coffee, tea; also 

 salt and pepper cruets and small articles. A part of the chest 

 may be lined with zinc, so as to be used as a refrigerator, or to 

 keep bread and similar articles dry. As to the stores themselves, 

 a list may be made up in any of the large cities, where fresher 

 aud cheaper goods can be had than in the country, all being 

 packed in a box or barrel and shipped by freight to camp in good 

 season, so that it. will be ready on arrival. The leading articles 

 needed are tea, coffee (ground) cocoa or broma, sweet chocolate, 

 cut loaf and granulated sugar, syrup or molasses, prepared flour, 

 corn meal, oatmeal, any other of the prepared cereals, rice, 

 ex tract of beef, a pail, of lard, a large pineapple or Edam cheese, 

 dried beef, ham, bacon, salt pork, potted ham or tongue (nice for 

 sandwiches) sardines, canned salmon, baking powder, dried beans, 

 Worcester sauce, olives, marmalade, canned fruit and. vegetables, 

 condensed milk, bag of salt, fancy crackers, plenty of good hard 

 tack, chow chow and mixed pickles, canned plum pudding and 

 sauce, canned soups. Now do not spoil all by forgetting the poor 

 dishwasher, but in addition to the chain dishcloth, the patent 

 swab for washing dishes, and a good supply of dish rags and pot 

 cloths in the chest, lay in plenty of soap, of Pearlinc and of 

 Sapolio. 



A good selection from the above list, making in all a barrelful, 

 will be enough for a party of six during the ten days or less of 

 camp, of course with the addition of eggs, butter, fresh bread, 

 meat ami vegetables, alwavs to be bad in camp. If the steward 

 understands his business, the cooking will not be such hard work 

 as most people think it. Breakfast should have a few good 

 staples— meat, eggs, potatoes— easily and simply prepared, but 

 with the addition of canned goods or pickles, olives, etc., from the 

 stores a very good meal may be had. Dinner, say about 2 P. M., 

 should be the main meal of the day; while a good supper may bt- 

 mudc with little or no cooking, merely coffee and a. can of soup 

 warmed up, with the aid of cold meats, potato salad, canned lob- 

 ster or salmon, etc. In the evening the cheese and crackers will 

 fit very nicely. 



Now a word as to cooking. To become a good pastry cook, to 

 make pics, biscuit and any elaborate dishes is one thing; to be a 

 very good camp cook is another. To the latter end (the only one 

 we are concerned in) it is necessary, first, to know how to manage 

 a fire, to keep a maximum of hot coals with a minimum of smoke, 

 to handle hot vessels without, burning the hands, and to manage 

 so that all the dishes are ready to serve, at once. We have seen a 

 run a who could make a very fine omelette— prided himself on it, in 

 fact— but after he had served the omelette oue had to wait half an 

 hour while he boiled some potatoes for the second course, then a 

 while longer until the coffee was ready. When the fire is under 

 way the first thing to do is to put on a big pail of water 

 for general use, and perhaps a smaller pad, which must 

 be made to boil violently for the coffee. Now come 

 the potatoes; peel and prepare and set them on, then the 

 meat, to be neatly trimmed and freed from bone, or the fish to 

 he cleaned; then the side shows, canned goods to open, coffee pot to 

 fill, until all the raw material is ready at baud. A very little 

 experience will tell how long each will take to cook, and each 

 must be put on the fire in turn so that all will be ready at the 

 same moment Some care will be necessary to avoid covering the 

 lire with a few vessels to the exclusion of others, the big water- 

 pail may come off for a time while the steak or chops are cooking, 

 but it must go on again as soon as possible. The great secret of 

 keeping things clean is not to let them get dirty; the fresh, hot 

 urease in a vessel is not yet dirt, but leave it until it is cool, or 

 worse vet. over night, and then try to clean it. As soon as the 

 meat is taken fiom the frying-pan pour in a little hot water, scrub 

 with a piece of brown paper, fill with water again and set on the 

 fire until the meal is done. Be sure before you sit down that 

 there is a good supply of boiling water ready for the dishes; the 

 >>ad cook eats first and then makes a new fire and heats the dish- 

 water. Put a little water in each vessel used and leave them to 

 keep hot until the time comes to wash them. We do not propose 

 to go further in this direction: of couise all of our reader are 

 familiar with "Canoe and Camp Cookery," by Seneca, who is a 

 better cook than we ever expect to be; but we wish to impress on 

 all amateur camp cooks the main points, that great skill in cook- 

 ery is not necessary to the preparation of the plain and simple 

 meals best suited to camp life, and that with a good selection 

 such as we have indicated, and witti a tittle care and thought in 

 the cooking of the ordinary meats and vegetables, one can live 

 well at a nominal cost. 



Where men do not care to cook in this way the best plan is to 

 hire a camp cook who will run the mess for them, a good number 

 being about ten or t weive to the mess. In Cauada it is an easy mat- 

 ter to secure good cooks, in the large cities it is mere difficult, but 

 still they can be had. A stove and provisions are sent to camp 

 ia charge of the cook, and he has tbc entire management ot the 

 mess. For next year Mr. Edwards has offered to try and find 

 some cooks near the camp site who can be engaged by the clubs 

 from the States, which will be a convenience to many. We have 

 tried the mess teuts of nearly all the A. C. A. meets, as well as 

 cooking for ourselves at times, and as a result we would advise 

 all who propose to stay more than a few days in camp to go pre- 

 pared to take care of thorasclves, as far as eating is concerned. 

 The expense of a mess will run from 75 cents per day when men ' 

 cook for themselves, up to $'i where a cook is hired, a very good 

 table being provided for the latter sum. 



As regards tents and furniture, each man is at liberty to gratify 

 his own taste, but to the novice we would say, take as small a 

 tent and as little gear as you possibly can. Some of the tents 

 this year were very nicely fitted out, spring cots, neatly made up, 

 folding tables and chairs, conveniences of all kinds to excite the. 

 eavy of the plain and simple camper, but he had his revenge 

 whtin the time came to pack, and his own compact kit was safely 

 aboard the steamer, while the man of many conveniences strug- 

 gled desperately with bundles of tents, poles, beds and other gear, 

 in the endeavor to get them on the right steamer aud to keep 

 them oi? the wrong one. If you are going for rest and pleasure, 

 do not spoil, it all by the attempt to take to and from camp a gen- 

 eral cargo of merchandise in many packages; rather put up with 

 the loss of a few luxuries during your stay in camp. A supply of 

 planed lumber is always provided, and this year four carpenters 

 were engaged as well, so that a floor, if required, can easily be 

 had. With the matched boards, Gin. wide, costing but little, a 

 plain table and seats are quickly improvised, also such shelves as 

 are needed in the. tent. One small tent this year was furnished 

 with a hand v writing desk built around the center pole, being put 

 together in a few minutes and thrown away when the meet was 

 over. Where several are camping in company, a good plan is to 

 pitch two tents of about the same size facing each other and 8 or 

 10ft. apart, a tent fly being pitched over the space between them. 

 Under the fly a table of planed boards is built, with a bench on 

 each side. Another plan is to pitch one tent just back of another, 

 using the front one for parlor and dining room and the rear one 

 for sleeping. 



It is an undeniable fact that the presence of the many hotels 

 this year detracted somewhat from the pleasure of the camp as 

 far as a large number were concerned. The hops that were given 

 every evening at some hotel within a mile of camp took off many 

 of the canoeists aud lessened the number who took part in the 

 ordinary evening amusements and informal camp-fires that make 

 every night iu camp so pleasant. Further than this, the invasion 

 of the camp at all hours by well-dressed people from the hotels, 

 who have nothing in common with canoeing or camp life, and 

 look into the tents much as they wotdd into a cage at a menagerie, 

 was a feature that could as well as not have been dispensed with. 



It is a very difficult matter to combine in one place the two ad- 

 vantages of accessibility and seclusion, to be able to get to and 

 from camp quickly and cheaply and at the same time to be free 

 from outsiders, especially of the summer tourist stamp. Last- 

 year the latter difficulty was avoided entirely, but on the other 

 hand the camp was almost inaccessible. This year the camp was 

 easily reached, at least the main dock was, but the many hotels 

 around all contributed liberally in the way of visitors. Grind- 

 stone was undoubtedly the best camp ever chosen iu this respect; 

 the A. C. A. launch carried passengers from Clayton in less than 

 an hour, making three trips a day, and the Association was able 

 to prevent any other vesse's landing on the island, the only 

 trouble being in the first year, when sjme excursionists invaded 

 the camp before their object was fairly understood. 



While it is not a pleasant task to criticise any honest and vol- 

 untary work, the selection of a camp site is such an important 

 factor in the success of a meet that we venture to point out again 

 what is needed and what is not, for the guide of future commit- 

 tees. The situation should be as far distant as possible from 

 summer resorts and hotels, a place where men can camp in com- 

 parative seclusion aud privacy. At the same time some means of 

 transit between the nearest railway station must he arranged, 

 preferably a launch chartered by the Association, as has several 

 times been done. It is also a convenience if a large steamer can 

 be induced to call at camp on the last day, when the men leave 

 ertwiflSBS. The damp dock should be centrally located; this year 

 it was a serious matter to get any duffle from the landing to the 



