The evening world., 1913-07-14
BOY SCOU1S SEIZE
HUNTER ISLE AND
CAMP LIKE NUNS
Play at Redskins and Pirates
Bold and Shoe Of All
lntruders.
LIVE IN 20 ARMY TENTS.
New York Lads Drill Hard, but
Find Time to Swim, Boat
and Hunt.
LIVE IN 20 ARMY TENTS.

pas their Sundays IN canoeing. hshins
and picknickinG had better steer clsas of
the Isle for Ut least three weeks.
Never has the island busssd With life
a. Il does this week. The place seems TO
have been peopled overnight with these
pirates and red skins. who ars dwarfed.
but very agile. Even the coveys Of
quail, who have hceh the sole inhAbi.
taAts Of tho island season after season.
have flown 10 other psrts. that the nSw.
corners might b Ief. severely alone The
only friendly thing visible On ths Island
from . rustic na.pols on the crest Of ths
island.
In the mornings. about breakfast time.
there 10 waited through the trees the
delightful odor OF browning buckwhsat
cakes and crisping bacon. corn mumns
and coffee. Certainly this 10 most ailur.
ins. but the minute you set foot on the
shore Of Hunter Island. out Of the
woods-you can't toll Just whsrs-a
voice Affecting sternnsss and dignity
asks: who's thsref' You push your
boat on shore and beat II for more
friendly shores. II you attempt 10 land
In spite Of the frigidity Of the voice. you
VIII b greeted BY this announcement:
by order Of the Park Commissionsrs
you are REQUESTED 70 leave this Island at
oacs."
Then. perhaps. you'n pull away. AMI
~ you are leaving look back. You'n
sss half hundred red bandanna GOV.
srsl heads dodge out from behind trees
and bushes and another nifty psinssd
redskins push their Way 70 the shore
through the thicket. Thea this motley
crowd viii stand srinnins triumphaatiy
at you until your boat 10 out q slght
voVNo PiRArGo oHglIgR0o ~
TWENTY ARMY TgNro.
Wen thee pirates Of Hunter Island
ana these Indians are not such . bad
sset after ysu have naAs tAsls -
ouaintanco. - a. BventnS Werh e.
peetsr asA phstegraSAsr. WHO stole
uDoa the islsad yesterday. AZ. Beneath
those red bandannas and he srsass
paint are to b found the sun burned
ncss Of the members OF the New Yort
CITY section Of the Boy Scouts Of Amer.
Lee. who have picked out an ideal spet
o. the island to spend three O four
weeks this summer with their scout
master. They are only pirates ana In.
diahs when they are 1t play. and there
10 plenty Of that at Camp Hisgins" q
the "diggin's'' has been called. They
have absolute control over the Island
while the camp remains. and there ISM
landing place on the island that u
net covered" by . scout sentinel
Yesterday the last OF twenty arm,
tents was pitehsA on stretch Of rolling
ground hsdgsd In and sheltered by {
grove Of hickory trssa Here ne boy
ere having the time Of their younl
lives. swimming. piratins. playing In
elan. rowing. tr4mping. scouting. Ash
ias. claiming. eating green apples and
eresner pears and yelling their head
Oh. which they couldn't do at homo.
u the centre Of the camp head
quarters tent has been pitched and frou
this Camp Master A. q. Clark. Q rudd
faced Enslishman. sees 70 Il that Ii
regimen OF scout discipline 10 follows,
out 70 the letter. Down Q path. In
sort Of cavern In the w0ods-that mixh
have been inhabited by bears and lion
ooce upon q time-is the guardhous,
and any boy who gets In there win hav
his wits jolly well scared out OF HIM
svea II he 10 . brave little scout. Flu,
ther down the path. at the beach.
tho swimmin' hole, and such 4 srsn
place with . spring board, Q hns san
beoch and ave rowboats with which /
mess around In the water. Whoeys
lah ON the camp must have ngurs
that when the boys going 70 the swin
min hole passed the dismal suardhou,
they would be more than gently rsminr
ID that unless they obeyed the bur
and quit the swimmin' hole on the d,
they would more than likely see the n
SIDE OF the camp csbOoss. Up to da
he place has not held . prisoner.
SGM. CAMP COOK, WINS Pop
LARirv PRIZE.
Nest TO the sWimmin' hole the mo
- pepular place In camp 10 the screened
mses room. and "Jsm." the camp COO
y really monarch Of all he surveys. II
camp stsws are perfectly wonderful
In boy language-and his yriddls cak
caa't be surpassed. And. what ID moi
there Y no limit to the heibin's. and tn
goes Tor the thick berry and cherry pie
-
"yNi . kids stomach and you can 10
hin into fire" 10 Jem's idea OF h
beys oan be held In check.
but playing u not the only thing tina
Gene ct Camp Higgins. 4 big sign
the bulletin board at hsadouartsrs Il
It ether things the boys must DO In
~ % kssp out OF the guardhouss. TIT
ass two hundred boys now At the csi
~ every one knows thls bulletin
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