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THE WILDERNESS CRUISING CONTEST. 
(Continued from page 1184.) 
year’s Wilderness Cruising Contest, that perhaps 
next year we might impose harder conditions 
(not more rules); that is, have the conditions 
even more as they would be on a real wilderness 
cruise, perhaps a much longer carry; require the 
cooking of a real meal and a demonstration of 
one’s ability to find his way about in the woods. 
Of course these are mere suggestions. There are 
all sorts of possibilities to this contest, without 
making it too strenuous. 
I call upon the cruising canoeists of the A. C. 
A. to send me any ideas that may occur to them 
during the year. Any suggestion that will tend 
to make this event more instructive and inter¬ 
esting will surely be most welcome. Get busy, 
you cruisers, and send along your ideas. 
I. 
E have two principal remarks to make. 
One is that the course that has been used 
for the event in the three years that the 
cup has been contested for is not the most difr 
ficult one on the Island. It is far too easy and 
too short. We would like to see the contestants 
come ashore at “New York Bay” and make 
the carry through the dense woods along the 
ridge that leads across to Com. Wolter’s trail, 
camp in the valley in the center of the Island 
and finally put the canoes in the water from the 
rocky shore of the cove near Com. Wolter’s 
camp. 
By camping in the center of the Island, it 
will give a setting of virgin forest and will take 
the large number of spectators into a part of 
Sugar Island that very few have ever seen. 
This long carry will test the participants and 
should show up to advantage the better methods 
of handling outfits in the forests. 
II. 
The second comment we wish to make is that 
we hardly believe that the judges are keen 
enough and hardly critical enough for such a 
contest. We doubt very much that they looked 
for waterproof match cases, for contestant’s 
means of lighting a fire in very wet weather, that 
knives and axes were sharp enough, that a circle 
of water was spilled around the camp fire to pre¬ 
vent under-creeping fires, that match sticks were 
broken in two, that fire sticks were crossed over 
the fire place, showing the fire had been entirely 
put out, that fire wood was left for the next 
traveller that happened along and put in the dri¬ 
est place, that the tent was pitched with a wind 
break behind it, that paddle-yokes were lashed 
across the bottom of the canoe to prevent their 
slipping sidewise on a long, tedious carry. 
III. 
We also doubt whether the judges examined 
the birch bark used by one of the contestants to 
start his fire. Was it the outside dry flake that 
is legitimate to take and practical to use or was it 
peeled to the “yellow,” injuring the life of the 
tree and giving only a damp shell that is far 
from practical in starting a fire? 
Finally we suggest that in the future each of 
the judges be equipped with a pad and pencil and 
make note of everything he sees and ask for 
things he cannot see and that the notes be com¬ 
pared only after the whole contest has been fin¬ 
ished.—Canoe Editor Forest and, Stream. 
A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP. 
New Mfembers Proposed. 
Atlantic Division::—Henry Roloff, Jr., 166 W. 
96th St., New York, N. Y., by Frank C. Moore; 
Ira A. Kip, 3rd, South Orange, N. J., by John 
S. Wright. 
Central Division: Louis M. Dietschler, 914 
Marine Bank Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y., by F. S. 
Thorn. 
Delaware-Chesapeake Division: Albert C. 
Lewis, 710 Dist. Nat’l. Bank, Washington, D. C., 
and Karl Knight, Riverdale, Md., both by Regi¬ 
nald Rutherford; Raymond O. Eliason, 214 4th 
St., S. E., Washington, D. C., by W. A. Rogers. 
Eastern Division: J. H. Goodspeed, Jr., 279 
Newbury St, Boston, Mass., by S. B. Burnham; 
Freeman M. Miller, 124 Summer St., Pittsfield, 
Mass., by Edward S. Dawson, Jr., and S. B. 
Burnham. 
Northern Division: J. B. Sampson, Gana- 
noque, Ont., Can., by John S. Wright; J. Edgar 
Young, 161 Spadina Rd., Toronto, Ont., Can., 
by David Wing; Thomas W. Field, Gananoque, 
Ont., Can., by John McKay. 
Western Division: Gordon Richards, 244 Lib¬ 
erty St., Dundee, Ill., by W. R. Petersen. 
Deceased. 
Western Division: 6573, Harry T. Stibb, died 
August 9, 1916. 
Central Division: 987, (Life No. 58) Thomas 
H. Stryker, died August 25, 1916. Mr. Stryker 
was a life member of the A. C. A. and was 
Secretary-Treasurer of the Association in 1896 
at the first Grindstone Island Meet. He is 
pleasantly remembered by the older members of 
the A. C. A. who will miss his greetings when 
passing through Rome, N. Y. 
A LADY ASSOCIATE MEMBER. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
In accordance with the provisions of the Con¬ 
stitution of the American Canoe Association 
will you kindly publish the proposal of the name 
of Mrs. Frank L. Dunnell, of 106 Central Park 
West, New York, for election as an associate 
member, and greatly oblige. 
I have notified the treasurer but his notice to 
you may not be received in time to be published 
with your next issue and I want to have the 
name acted upon at the October meeting. 
Robert J. Wilkin, A. C. A. 47. 
Executive Committee Meeting A. C. A., 
New York, October 28. 
It has been decided to hold the Executive Com¬ 
mittee meeting of the American Canoe Associa¬ 
tion in New York City on Saturday, October 28. 
The annual dinner will be held that night and we 
are expecting a big gathering of A. C. A. men. 
As yet, the exact place where the meeting will 
be held has not been chosen but Commodore 
Saunders will send out notices by October 1. 
Also further particulars about the dinner will 
be forwarded—but in the meantime be sure to 
reserve that date. Oscar S. Tyson, 
Vice-Commodore Elect, Atlantic Division. 
