NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 19 
MANCHESTER...BOY sSCOUTS. 
Account oF THEIR ANNUAL, OUTING. 
3y Rev. A. G. WARNER. 
The closing of the camp of the 
Manchester Boy Scouts at Province 
Lake, N. H., on Friday morning, 
Aug. 29, marked the ending of two 
weeks’ of both healthful and helpful 
camplife for the boys who made the 
trip. 
On August 14 at 12.30 o’clock the 
party of 24 under the direction of 
Scout Master A. G, Warner reached 
Burleyville, seven miles from _ the 
camp. When it was found that the 
teams to take the baggage would not 
atrive until 3 o'clock, the older boys 
“hiked” ‘to camp and got the cabins 
in order. for sleeping quarters that 
night. ‘Fents arrived too late to be 
set up that night. A supper of fried 
ham, bread and butter, cocoa and 
bananas was served, the boys sitting 
on the grass in true camp style. The 
cabin was made comfortable; beds 
were arranged there for those who 
preferred: it, while several boys chose 
the open field with the stars for a 
blanket. At 10 o’clock the camp was 
quiet. 
The routine of camp life began the 
next day. Tents were pitched, the 
cook’s fireplace built and tables and 
seats arranged in the “mess tent.” 
Inability to secure certain provisions 
in the locality made it necessary for 
four days to make changes in the bill 
of fare. The heat was excessive for 
the first four days in camp. The 
temperature during the day did nat 
fall below 99 degrees and went as 
high as 110. This made work on the 
cabin impossible and the boys were 
allowed to do what they wished. Dur- 
ing the first week it was impossible to 
have the campfire at night; the sea- 
son had been unusually dry. Recent- 
ly a forest fire had raged for a week 
in the vicinity. 
For eight days smoke of four dis- 
tinct forest fires was seen. Under 
these circumstances it was deemed 
unsafe to have the camp fire at night. 
During the last four days of camp the 
conditions changed and we were able 
to have four spectacular bonfires 
about which we sang songs, told stor- 
ies and listened to talks from the 
scout master, closing with evening 
prayers. 
The activities of the camp life in- 
cluded hikes to neighboring moun- 
tains and through beautiful woodland, 
fishing, baseball and bathing. Six of 
the older boys took a_ two-days’ 
tramp to Green Mountain, spending 
one night on the mountain. They 
explored the famous Ice Cave on the 
northern side of the mountain. Six 
of the younger boys spent a day climb- 
ing Green Mountain and exploring its 
southern slope. ‘Two interesting and 
successful baseball games were 
played with the town team in which 
the scouts, under the efficient leader- 
ship and skillful pitching of Gordon 
Crafts, and by excellent team-work 
were winners. Swimming lessons 
were given by Frank Knight, Irving 
Baker and Frank Amaral. Kenneth 
Tyler was high man for the largest 
fish caught, a bass, weighing three and 
three-quarter pounds. Grafton Owen 
caught the largest number of bass and 
pickerel and captured the largest pick- 
erel. Gordon Baker caught the great- 
est number of perch. On Aug. 27th 
the scouts gave an exhibition drill of 
marching movements and first aid. 
The troop was drilled by Frank 
Knight and Irving Baker had charge 
of the first aid drill. ‘The scouts re- 
ceived many hearty commendations 
for their work by the visitors pres- 
eng: 
Sundays the little chapel in the 
community was opened and a service 
was held, conducted by Rev. A. G. 
Warner. The scouts attended. 
Many were the unsolicited testi- 
~onials. to the manly bearing and 
good behavior ofthe boys, as they 
went about the countryside on their 
hikes, and their conduct of themselves 
in their games and in their general 
life in the community. ‘The time pas- 
sed in good fellowship, strong com- 
radeship in the bonds of earnest 
friendship and healthful recreations, 
until the hour arrived when the boys 
should set their faces toward Man- 
chester, 
On Thursday, Aug. 27th, tents were 
taken down, baggage packed and the 
cabin closed. The night was spent in 
an old farmhouse near the lake. At 
3-30. o'clock Friday morning the 
Scouts were aroused from their slum- 
bers to partake of a hasty lunch of 
bread and milk. At 5 o’clock a four- 
horse hay rack arrived to take all to 
Burleyville where a hearty breakfast 
awaited the party at the Colonial 
House. Rain soon began to fall and 
the seven miles were made in a heavy 
downpour. Every indivdual was 
thoroughly wet, a condition for which 
there was no remedy for the scouts 
until they reached Manchester at 
noon and for the scout master until he 
reached Islesboro, Me., at 6.30 o’clock 
that night. But the true scout spirit 
was manitest in everyone and _ all 
were grateful to the kind friends who 
had made the camp possible and had 
given added incentive to the scouts to 
keep themselves physically strong, 
rentally alert and morally straight. 
The scout master wishes to record 
his great appreciation for the hearty 
cooperation on the part of every boy 
for the success of the camp. The 
splendid spirit manifested made the 
labor necessary on his part a work of 
pleasure and joy and his fellowship 
with the scouts an inspiration for his 
own life. 
ALBERT G. WARNER. 
Empire THEATRE, SALEM. 
Paul Armstrong, who has many 
successes to his credit, among them 
being “The Deep Purple’ and “Alias 
Jimmy Valentine,” has written noth- 
ing better than “The Heir to the 
Hoorah,” which the Empire Stock 
Company will present at the Empire 
theatre, Salem, week commencing 
Monday, Sept. 15th. 
Joe Lacy, owner of the Hoorah 
mine, has married a society girl from 
the east, and is confronted with new 
ideas in the shape of a supercilious 
wife and a disagreeable mother-in- 
law when the play opens. His friends 
are of the rough diamond type, who 
regard a dress suit as a disgrace, and 
he is free and easy-to the point that 
he is fairly exasperating to the proud 
avira and her subject daughter. 
Things finally become so intolerable 
to the well-meaning and devoted hus- 
band that he leaves home, determined 
to acquire some of the polish of the 
world. 
He succeeds. Upon his return he is 
received by his old ranch friends and 
is made to feel that he is everything 
to them. Then comes the news that 
a son has been born to him, and he 
is wild with excitement. At the 
christening all have a wild and merry 
time, all except the wife, who has 
come to love her husband, and who 
longs to be with him at this time, but 
is restrained by the manner which her 
former conduct has engendered. 
The reconciliation comes, however. 
Standing by a huge cradle, hewn out 
of a giant redwood tree by the 
father’s friends, husband and wife 
see into each other’s souls, and are 
~ade one again. 
The radical changes. the buzz 
wagon is making is very well exem- 
plified by the decision of the B. & M. 
to remove the Bass Rocks station on 
the Gloucester branch. This station 
has become unnecessary .on account 
of automobile owners taking a quick 
cut from Bass Rocks through East 
Main street to Prospect street for the 
Gloucester depot. In other words, 
the Bass Rocks station has slid on 
the rocks, and is going to be moved 
up into New Hampshire, where it 
will probably be monarch of all it 
surveys. 
