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FOREST AND STREAM 
Play Days for Big Game Hunters and Outdoor Experts 
Camp Fire Club of America Seeks the Woods and Waters of Greenwood Lake on its Annual Pilgrimage 
Some Noted Big Game Hunters of the World May Be Found in the Above Group. 
T HE Camp Fire Club of America, made up 
of five hundred big game hunters, natu¬ 
ralists, artists and explorers, enjoys a 
unique position in club life and takes an active 
part in game protection and legislation for the 
best interest of the largest number of sportsmen 
of to-day and seeks to protect the game for gen¬ 
erations to come throughout the United States, 
extending its influence indeed to Canada and 
Mexico. 
After the winter’s active work, it has been 
the custom of this club to hie itself to some wild 
tract not too far from Manhattan Island and 
spend three or four days under canvas at night 
-—under the green canopy of the woods by day, 
and under the magic influence around the camp 
fire during the evening interval between. 
In order that our unfortunate fellow sports¬ 
men who are not numbered among the member¬ 
ship of this “great club” may yet enjoy somewhat 
the pleasures of this outing, I have been asked to 
relate my own experiences during the early June 
days this year while in camp at Pine Island, 
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, about forty miles 
from New York. All eastern fishermen are fa¬ 
miliar with Greenwood Lake, and know how 
rugged, wild and picturesque Pine Island is, 
yet only one-half mile in extent. David T. Aber¬ 
crombie, chairman of the Outing Committee, 
leases the island and enjoys his very complete 
camp at the northern extremity. 
The members of the Camp Fire Club arriving 
by train or auto were conveyed by canoe with 
their heterogenous collection of duffle and camp 
equipment to a dock at the southern end. The 
By Howard S. Hadden. 
office tent stood out prominently on the trail in¬ 
land and signs compelled each arrival to regis¬ 
ter, invest in coupon books and make his desires 
known to the committee in charge. Camp sites 
were selected on either side of the trail beyond 
and soon canvas coverings of every design, shade 
and color began to spring up—A tents and wall 
tents, camp fire tents and freaks, large Indian 
tepees decorated with highly colored designs and 
animals of the chase were to be found in this 
canvas village. 
Guy ropes extended in every direction and 
camp fires and cooking ovens of stone appeared 
in an incredibly short space of time. Within ar. 
hour some one hundred city toilers were smok¬ 
ing their pipes within and without their abodes, 
arrayed in hunting costumes as varied as were 
the tents, taking note of some attractive feature 
nearby to be added to their own camp to insure 
the maximum of comfort and completeness. 
At the further end of this camping site “the 
Prairie Dog” offered its hospitality to all in need 
Oi liquid refreshment, while the commissary de¬ 
partment occupied last position geographically, al¬ 
though first in activity and importance, at least 
three times a day. 
It was my pleasure or misfortune to be domi¬ 
ciled in the Red Lodge tepee with several other 
congenial camp firers. This tepee, 20 feet in 
diameter, afforded ample room for the eight 
sleeping bags and still left a large central space 
for general living room activities such as rough¬ 
housing, pow-wows, fish stories and a four or 
six-handed game after taps had been artistically 
rendered by Bert Tilt. This tepee, belonging to 
William F. Patterson, was indeed complete, and 
its interior presented a most attractive picture 
with its thirteen tepee poles, each hung with a 
rare skin of some big game animal whose hab¬ 
itant extended from within the Arctic circle of 
the grand Canadian northwest to the slopes of 
Kenia on the equator in British East Africa. 
Now that you are entirely at home with us in 
camp I will attempt to describe some of the 
varied activities which made up the three days’ 
program or events. 
The printed booklet gave the schedule of events 
for every hour of the day from 6 a. m., when Tilt 
and his bugle made themselves heard in joyous 
notes even above the base strangulations issuing 
from every canvas covering, till 10 p. m., when 
again that bugle would put to sleep any wakeful 
eye in blissful content and thankfulness that dull 
care was far away. It explained in detail the 
exact conditions for guidance in each of the fea¬ 
tures listed. 
Special Prizes. 
John S. Dickerson offered a trophy to be 
awarded the cne gaining the highest number of 
points in rifle shooting, trap shooting, revolver 
shooting, fly casting, and bait casting, provided 
the contestant had entered all four events of both 
rifle and trap events, all three in revolver and all 
four in bait and fly events, and scored in one 
gun and one fishing. W. S. Bogart offered a 
second prize, same contestants and conditions. 
The first prize was awarded to John W. Hes¬ 
sian. 
Second—Eugene Du Pont. 
Third—Howard S. Hadden. 
