The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-07-12
AT CAMP
BABCOCK
Named in Memory Of Pastor of
Brick Presbyterian Church.
Generosity of Late D. H. McAIpin
Affords Boys in Tenement Dis
trict, Club Home with Elevating
lnfIuences-Camp on DIR. D. Hun
ter McAlpin's Littleton Farm.

; Influences on DIR. D. Hun
ter McAIpin's LittIeton Farm.
The arrival of the Lincoln Cadets, re.
inforced by a number of boys from
the Club House, No. 224 West 35th
street. has made Camp Babcock on the
estate of Dr. d. Hunter McAlpin at
Littleton, a scene of considerable aAivi-
ty 1he boys arrived on the 9th instant
and at once began to put up their tents.
five in number, after which military
discipline prevailed in camp.
The cadets were first organized as a
boys club in 1885, the work being con
nected with department of the Brick
Presbyterian Church of Fifth Avenue,
New York City, and under the charge of
Miss Kinnie, a we'll known mission
worker connected with Christ Church,
who is at Stag Cottage. In 1899 the club
was converted into the present organi-
zation being modelled on lines, upon
which similar organizations had been
successfully conducted by DIR. Drum
mond in Scotland. The Lincoln cadets
was the second organization of its kind
to be formed in New York and its re-
cruits are boys taken from the congested
tenement districts of New York. They
first took an outing as military body
: at Inwood, on the Hudson river, two
years ago.
The Brick Presbyterian Church, whose
pastor Rev Maltby Babcock,ssD. d.,
died in Naples recently, oc cupies an en-
viable position in church work in New
York city and is justly famed for its
liberality both to the foreign and home
missionary work.
For many years the late D. H. Nc
Alpin was connected with this church
in an official capacity and his bene-
licences in connection with it were large
and of an exceedingly practical nature.
Mr. McAlpin's attention many years
ago was directed to the importance of
the work in the tenement districts of
New York and for the purpose of know
ing of it personally, he purchased tene-
ment property at 224 West 35th street,
which has been devoted to practical and
phiIanthropic work for some years past
r and which was Established as a memo
!, rial of his son. the late Randolph Nc.
t Alpin.
e The original cost of the building was
t $50 900, which probably has been doub-
g led by improvements and additions made,
4 which include rooms for the boys club
: library, reading room, game room,
t manual training school and gymnasium.
0 "A portion is occupied by the Lincoln
: Cadets who have regular drill nights.
' The membership is recruited from boys
who work every day and who, in most
cases, were it not for the restraining
, and elevating influence of the club,
q would doubtless be found on the streets.
, Those who are closely in touch with
the work consider it of so much import
6 ance that plans are well under way for
9 the erection of building to cost half a
, million dollars and which will be up-to
@ date in every particular. The late DR..
Babcock was personally interested in
this work and was frequent speaker at
. the gatherings in the evening Had he
o lived to return, his purpose was to be-
: come more intimately connected with it
than formerly, as he deemed it to be of
, immense practical good,
, "Stag Cottage" one of the farm
houses on the estate of DIR. McAlpin at
Littleton, will be used for summer
home for members of the club and will
be under the immediate direction of
Miss Kinnie.
The cadets and their associates are
pleasantly located in camp; the tents
have board floors and each youthful
soldier has blankets and the usual camp
outfit. One of the tents is used as a
commissary department, while another
bears the honored badge of the Red
Cross and is in charge of a surgeon and
assistant surgeon. The boys maintain a
we'll kept fife and drum corp and have
lots of music, and good music too.
The large barn in tn rear of the
camp has been thoroughly renovated,
all sanitary arrangement cared for, and
fitted with single iron cots and suitable
bedding, and will be occupied by the
boys of the club who will come from
New York Saturday upon the return
of the cadets. On the pond adjoining
the barn, boats and RATS have been
placed and all enjoy boating and swim
ming to their hearts content
The fare is excellent, comprising only
that which is wholesome and uourish
ing, and the bronzed faces and happy
expressions of all in camp show that the
fortnight's outing has been of great
benefit. During the summer it is prob
able nearly the entire membership of the
- boys club, which is four hundred and
: fifty, will have an opportunity of spend
6 ing some time at this place.
o The officers of the club are: Ernest ID
9 Haas. president; II. F. Sanville, vice
president; G. w Curtis. secretary; q.
II. Milliken, treasurer, who so arrange
n their time as to spend several evenings
{ each week at the club, giving their efforts
J. for the good of the cause. The superin-
udent, l.. W. Brown, is a salaried
' officer, and he is on duty every night,
: The officers of the cadets are: Maj NJ
y u Wanpavor. captain GuStuva RiAhl.