The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-15
DAY
 AT TUXIS ISLAND New Haven People Make Inspection and Partake of
 Joys of Camp Life. CRY FOR HELP
 EXCITES GUESTS After Boy Has BeenRescued from Drowning They
 Find it Was a Joke.

Especial to the Journal and Courier)
 Madison, July 13.-visitors' day was observed at the Y. M. c. A. camp here today under ideal weather conditions and brought a large crowd of New Ha- ven people to Tuxis Island to see the boys. Beside those from New Haven, there WAS party of people from Long Island who have relatives encamped at Tuxis and who made the trip across the Sound in sail boat.
 The visitors were met at the Madison station by special delegation from the camp and taken to the shore where a reception committee made up of the sturdiest boys on the island rowed them over the quarter mile intervening stretch of water to camp wharf.
 Landing there, the visitors went on a general inspection of the camp and found everything in first class shape Tn fact, everything was so neat and clean that some of the mothers were suspicious until informed that the camp orders of the day before had been that everything should be cleaned up and that a prize would be awarded the tent squad having the neatest looking section of the camp.
 After the visitors had carefully looked over every portion of the camp and had remarked that if the boys had had to sleep on such hard hunks at home there would have been gen. eral protest and uprising, they re- turned to the wharf which had now been converted into a grandstand, and watched the boys at their swimming and rowing races, These took up the remainder of the morning and then came the welcome call to dinner.
 The long tables were set in the large dining room of the cottage on the is- | land and the visitors were assigned seats, Then in troops the boys, each carrying his individual plate and cut | lery. The campers were so hungry from the out of door exercises that they could hardly wait for grace to be invoked before they vigorously attack | ed the substantial dinner which had all the ear marks of regular camp din- ner except the inconveniences. There was sea food In abundance and land food as well. The visitors chose the first and were satisfied. The boys did not discriminate, but surrounded both /! kinds.
 Then came what the guests thought would be the tragedy of the day. The boys were engaged in athletic contests in the rear of the cottage when there came from the water 8 sudden cry for help. The campers and the visitors rushed to the wharf and anxiously gazed out upon the water. About a hundred yards from the shore a boy was seen struggling in the water. A T life saving crew was speedily launched but to the anxious onlookers 1t seem- ed as if 1t would arrive too late, when a swimmer, who was out in the har- Dor seized the sinking boy and held him till the crew arrived after record row.
 The boy appeared to be unconscious when the boat load reached shore and the modern methods of first aid to the injured, which have been taught the boys, was applied. After consider l able interval he was resusciated and
 was led off by some sympatehtic la dies who asked him how he came to be at such a length from the shore alone, and in such danger
 Then 1t was that the truth about the affair was learned, The boy told then in confidence that the whole affair was a joke to scare the guests, to cause 2 little excitement and to show the New Haven people that the boys were alive and that they understood what to do should camper actually be in danger It was only this latter reason thar saved the campers from being mobbet by the visitors, who were really very wrought up over the occurrence. Int matter was not helped out any by tn, scion of a prominent family yelling "Lemon! through the window into tht living room of the cottage, where tht ladies had gone to recover from theil fright.
 Early in the evening the visitors wen home missing the evening service which is one of the most enjoyabl, parts parts of the camp life, but afte having had a thoroughly enjoyabl
 time
 Camp closes next Friday and tn boys all hope that the directors of tn association will not succeed in selling the island until after they have en camped there another year at least.