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valuable cup to be sailed for by yachts of all 
classes on full time allowance. W. C. Thorne 
offered a cup for any class the regatta commit¬ 
tee might select. Vice-Commodore Gilcer and 
Charles E. Fox offered trophies for cruising 
power boats, and other members announced 
that they would offer prizes for next year’s 
sport. 
The report of the retiring secretary showed a 
healthy increase in membership, while the re¬ 
port of Treasurer MacLeod showed the organi¬ 
zation to be on a sound financial basis. Fifteen 
hundred dollars worth of bonds were retired, 
the paper being a portion of the club’s out¬ 
standing issue. The bonds retired were de¬ 
termined by numbers drawn from a hat. It 
was voted to hold the annual elections in Sep¬ 
tember of each year in the future. 
Canoeing. 
Down the Flambeau. 
There is a trip in North Central Wisconsin 
which, at least at one particular season of the 
year, may be counted upon as worth while to 
the man who enjoys unblemished natural forest 
beauty, the exhilaration of snappy, clear atmos¬ 
phere, remoteness from all civilized touch, and 
total absence of the mosquito. A week or so 
after the first heavy autumnal frosts, is the 
period to be selected. At such a time and place 
there may be presented to the voyageur a pano¬ 
rama of shore-line and sky-line beauty, chang¬ 
ing from hour to hour and day to day, the joy¬ 
ful recollection of which will long remain—it 
will be a delightful memory asset. 
The Flambeau River—perhaps named by the 
early French explorers because of the bright 
flaming-red colors of the heavy border foliage 
°[ j* u t ur pn-—is one of the northeastern reaches 
of Mississippi water, draining almost number- 
r SS ™ S - ma ^ ^ a ^ es ' n the upper eastern counties 
of Wisconsin. It is a restless, dashing, clear 
and cold stream, and for the greater part of 
its course boulder-lined and bedded. Short 
stretches of rapids and ten- to twenty-foot falls 
are encountered in almost every day’s course, 
and it is mainly the fdrmer which make it quite 
necessary to have a strongly-built, flat-bottom 
boat for conveyance, rather than a canoe. 
There is more than one story known to the 
guides of valorous entry upon the Flambeau 
course by canoeists—followed sooner or later 
by a disastrous ending. 
The Flambeau may be entered at Mercer 
Mamtowish, Park Falls. Fifield, Phillips or a 
number of other convenient railroad points and 
pursued ad libitum. A good riverman is re¬ 
quired, one who well understands poling a 
loaded and “light” boat, who can intelligently 
negotiate rapids, make safe and quick portages 
and also be reasonably handy in the matter of 
camping and out-of-door interests in the woods. 
Oct. 1. 1909, a temperamentally and physically 
well-balanced.party left the early morning train 
at Phillips and stepped into a waiting 
ng. A drive of twelve miles brought them 
ready for a steaming, bountiful breakfast, to the 
embarking point on the south fork of the Flam¬ 
beau. The day promised to be glorious. It did 
not take.long to change clothing and make such 
preparations as had been perforce left until the 
last . moment. The four guides had been 
previously secured, and the boats placed in good 
order. Our worthy hostess had baked fifteen 
loaves of bread, and carefully supplied and 
packed various other food elements. The pack- 
boat was loaded with a good-sized tent 
blankets, cooking utensils, provender etc and 
then, two men to a boat, along with the guide, 
either at the oars or pole, we made a gallant 
.art upon a journey new to us all and destined 
■o cover the stretch down the south fork and 
ip the north to a series of lakes reputed full of 
'Huskies. 
It might be well here to intimate that this 
mronicle. adhering to the truth, will, of such 
leeessity. be quite devoid of thrilling experi- 
‘nces and hair-breadth escapes. At no point 
or time was there the least danger either from 
the furiousness of the waters or from the den¬ 
izens of the encompassing forest. The river 
is shallow throughout almost its entire course, 
allowing and necessitating poling of a boat 
quite without interruption, although at times 
oars may be used with evident advantage. 
There was, however, by way of diversion, a 
spill. for one boat shortly after the start. 
Passing through rapids the craft found a large 
boulder in its course possessing a superior 
amount of resistance, which, with the vis a tergo 
very quickly produced a “gunwale leakage.” 
there was a hasty scrimmage into knee-deep, 
toaming waters so as to prevent wetting our 
selves and our duffle (the former being accom 
pushed but not the latter). Then it was dis- 
covered that the big doctor’s boots leaked after 
he had been standing in two feet of water for 
fifteen minutes trying to save guns, camera, 
fishing tackle, etc., from the boulder-strewn 
river bed or from disappearing in the direction 
of the Gulf of Mexico. But aside from the 
cataract flow over the tops of those boots it 
was clearely apparent that they had given way 
at various points lower down, doubtless from 
too close proximity to the fire after some 
previous wetting. This caused a little delay, as 
a guide had to be dispatched back to the home 
camp after an extra pair of foot covers. 
While this was the only real overturn, there 
were numerous close calls and many times water 
was taken over the boat side while shooting 
rapids or becoming rock-bound. Upon com¬ 
pleting the trip we all felt that, considering the 
stage of the water, Fortune had abundantly 
smiled upon . us by allowing dry clothing 
throughout, with the one exception mentioned 
above. 
Camp for the night was made near this point, 
and the wet duffle belonging to the unfortunate 
boat was spread out on lines and poles before 
the large pine fire to dry out and be restored— 
the latter term being especially applicable to 
JJ s box of fine Havana cigars. By the way 
did you ever smoke a cigar that had been 
soaked in river water and then dried out on top 
of an old piece of iron beside a northern camp¬ 
fire on a frosty autumn evening? If not try it 
sometime. It makes a delicious change. 
The guide who was sent back after the extra 
pair of shoes could not return, we knew, until 
long after dark, and as he was a new man to 
this part of the river, and as the camping place 
was aside from the stream and surrounded by 
a thick growth of scrub, it was hit upon to 
put a lighted candle upon a convenient rock 
beside the stream. The night was still and the 
scheme . therefore worked admirably. Along 
about eight o’clock the guide returned with the 
new boots, and said that he certainly would 
have missed the camp entirely had it not been 
for the signal candle. 
However, with these slight events, the first 
day closed cheerfully, enticingly. A hot camo- 
fire supper of good essentials to the full satis- 
faction of honest appetite; the new moon high 
m the still heavens; delightful companions: 
healthy badinage and good stories; along with 
the forest surroundings, the piney odor, the 
music of the rapids, the crackling fire, the frostv 
atmosphere, all made for a calm sense of satis- 
faction that must be realized to be fullv ap¬ 
preciated, and that seems to defy words of ade¬ 
quate description. 
. course, with such conditions and surround¬ 
ings the day closed “cheerfully, enticingly.” 
How could it well be otherwise? Those who 
count life’s sense comforts and natural attune- 
nients worth while must allow a good reckon¬ 
ing to full-health nights and days “in the open.” 
Several days thus passed, no one of which 
stood out as strikingly different from another 
All were filled with sunshine, the sparkle and 
foam of hurrying water, but more intensely 
noteworthy at all times and all about was the 
exquisite coloring of the forest foliage. 
There, has been no purpose in writing this 
description beyond that of indicating the 
beauties of the autumn leaves of a northern 
Wisconsin forest, at the same time it is fully 
realized that this pen of mine is utterly in- 
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