The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-04-30
Aquatic Notes.

are all engaged by strangers for use on
Sunday next
Director Of Public Safety Porter and
j. L. Davis, of the Charities Department,
Philadelphia, have shipped their canoes
from Hacks wharf to Chadford station,
on the Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
Recently the riot act was read to one
young man who frequents the yard of
Edward Hack, and the further use of his
boat house will depend upon the future
conduct of the offender, who is not the
owner of a canoe.
Edward Hack announces that at the expi-
ration of existing contracts he will raise
the price for storing canoes from So to s.
year. He claims this advance is justi
fed because of the erection of additional
buildings and other expenses which have
become necessary to accommodate his
increasing patronage.
Should the Ankokas Canoe Club find IL
impossible to erect boat house on the
upper creek, the ladies connected with
that organization will try to secure To-
cation where they can erect club house
fer their own use. They are now making
inquiries about property which might be
suitable for that purpose. This idea will
be abandoned, however, If the club puts
up building.
An inspection of the boats stored in
Edward Hacks building shows that some
owners have made mistakes In purchas-
ing canoes Some of them have no keel,
the seats are too high, making them top
heavy; the bottoms are not fiat enough
and some of the boats are twisted Mr.
Hack will give information for the asking
to any person who desires to purchase a
canoe SO that some of these defects may
be avoided.
The Tecumseh Boat Club, of Burling
ton, which recently removed its head
quarters from the Assiscunk creek to the
river front, is making arrangements to
present noticeable appearance along
the Delaware river front this season. A
number of new canoes have been pur-
chased by the members and the old boats
are being painted, The canoes of the
club are kept in the house along Delaware
avenue owned by Harry Grub.
Walter G. Sibley of Sibley 6 Co., Phil
adelphia, recently shipped combination
sailing canoe from Canada to Mount Hol.
ly. The boat, which arrived at Hacks
wharf on Saturday, is about Is pounds
lighter than any similar craft In town. 1t
weighs Al pounds, is IL feet long with a
beam of 2S3 inches. Mr.. Sibley not only
has a canoe on storage In Mount Holly,
but one each at the following places for
the convenience of members of his fam
lily: TaconY, Palmyra, Riverton, Bir-
mingham and the Schuylkill river.
In case the Ankokas Canoe Club uego
tiates a lease for the field on the upper
creek belonging to the Mount Holly Water
Company, on which it Is proposed to
erect a club house, those who attend the
carnival events to be held on July 4th,
W
the enclosed grounds at the Early Risers'
Club. This plan will be for the purpose
of defraying part of the necessary ex
penses. Bear water and lunch will be
served to guests the same as last year.
Since boating assumed its present pop
ularity on the upper creek no fatalities
have marred the sport, and in recent years
there have been only two or three mis-
haps which endangered the lives of the
participants. That no life has been lost,
especially when so many ladies frequent
the creek, furnishes the evidence tn at
carefulness has done much toward main
tanning a good record In this respect
1t is quite necessary that care should be
exercised on every future trip up this
stream, as there will be more boats on tn e
creek this season than ever before.
Fishing on the upper creek last year
was not SO encouraging to anglers as it
was in 1910, but there is hope for better
sport when the seasons open on May
90 for pike and May 80 for bass. A
fish and game warden of this state,
while in Mount Holly last week, ex-
pressed himself as follows 1.-THE laws
relating to this subject would not do
credit to an umbrella member. The idea
of there being only ten days between the
catching of pike and bass is ridiculous.
Four weeks instead of two months is long
enough for the shooting of rabbits"