Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
on new structure to cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000


Members of the Potomac Boat Club were
given an unwelcome surprise last week
When the resignation of Capt. Frank
smith was handed In. Capt. Smith has
been one of the most popular members
or the Potomac club since he joined the
ranks nearly five years ago. and there
was every reason to believe that he would
be reelected this spring. His manage
ment or the crew last summer had
great deal to do with its winning the
junior event at the Middle States regatta
last summer. and now that the club is
striving to hold this big meet on the Po-
tomac this August, his absence VIII be
keenly felt.
Local canoeists with cruising records
had better look to their laurels during the
coming summer, as plans have been COM
pieted by two amateur canoeists OF this
city for a mountaineering trip In
seventeen-foot Morris
Selden Daniel and Harold King. both
inexperienced in the art of travelling de
IKE in the frailest of white mems craft
will embark on the Patuxent at Laurel
Md, where the stream is little wider than
a horse trough. and paddle to washing
ton via Chesapeake bay and the Potomac
river. The two young men have studied
charts of the entire course and are con-
fident that they will successfully accom-
plish feat that has never been attempt
ed heretofore.
The boat. of course. will be thoroughly
equipped for the cruise, and an Interesting
feature of the outfit is collapsible COM
bination canoe tent and mosquito net
cover. which will be stretched over the
craft at night on light steel hoops. fitting
into pockets in either gunwale. This will
be taken down and slowed during the
day and d sail carried to use to advan-
tage at every favoring breeze. About
DO miles will be covered.
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Eberbach by the Washington Canoe Club
Tuesday night at the New Fredonia
Hotel. Mr.. Eberbach. who has always
taken great interest in the affairs OF
the paddle navy and has been an i'm
portant factor in the Canoe Club minstrel
shows, is about to leave town and locate
permanently in the west. His fellow club
members and associates will keenly re-
greet his departure.
The. Montgomery Sycamore Island Ca
noe Club will take steps in the near flu
ture to increase its membership in order
to provide building funds.
Members will be taken in on hundred
dollar initiation fee plan, and the club
confidently expects to be in position to
erect a handsome clubhouse this season.
Sycamore Island is probably the best site
for a canoe club on the upper Potomac,
and that better home has not taken the
place of the present structure before this
bers of the club have been strongly OPP
posed to increasing the membership. A
number of the younger and more progress
sive members Of the Sycamore Island or
ganization are actively engaged in fight
ing the prejudices and. will eventually
win out. FL
The club was established on the island.
as many of the upper river clubs were
established, for the reason that it gained
exclusiveness on waters absolutely in
accessible to the vast horde of pleasure
seekers that throng the river below the
Chain bridge. The broad water Of the
Potomac at that point is as nearly perfect
for canoeing and its shores for picnicking
as could be desired. and except for the
danger of being carried over the falls,
which is reduced in many ways to min
imum, safety is assured the novice.
OF course, the time may. not be SO far
distant when, in order to gain access to
the immense blue stone deposits in the
vicinity of Little Falls. the company now
engaged in devastating the beauties of the
lower river will be forced to blast and
dredge a chain of locks along the Vir-