members secured an option and after finding the Club 
members unanimous for purchase they took over the pro¬ 
perty pending a workable plan for Club ownership. 
How should this thing be done? Our income had been 
but little more than our expenses and while we could, as 
a Club, put by a little each year, we could not undertake 
an obligation of such size. 
Like other similar Clubs we have members of means to 
whom the purchase of the camp would be but a trifle and 
an appeal to these men would undoubtedly bring more than 
enough in gifts to do the whole thing, but this camp must 
be for all of us equally. We could divide the cost between 
the members and declare an assessment but this might 
work a hardship on some of us not as well off as others, so 
this is what we did:— 
We wrote a letter to each member and told him of the 
plan to buy the camp and asked him to loan to the Club for 
ten years any sum large or small that he could afford to 
lose. In other words, to loan with the full knowledge that 
he might never be repaid. By this scheme it was hoped 
that every member would participate to some extent and as 
the list of loans was to be known only to the Treasurer, 
every member of the Club would feel that the Camp was 
his Camp and his responsibility. And so it worked out* 
we secured the necessary funds and it is our plan to pay 
off each year from our Club income some part of the total: 
meanwhile we have “A Camp.” 
The entire administration of the camp lays with a Camp 
Committee which has never held a formal meeting. It 
makes many and stringent rules of conduct which are never 
posted. It discusses with much loud and argumentative 
talk various and several schemes of improvement, and does 
little. When the windows need to be screened, someone 
screens them, when wood is to be cut someone cuts it, when 
the roof leaks someone fixes it, and so it goes. 
At first a little crew of men with lenient families were 
most regular in attendance, but as time goes on the list 
grows and grows. Every member has his key and a locker 
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