Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
EXPLORERS CAMP
IS IN FULL BLAST
22 at Pine Grove Furnace For Full
Term; Kill Big
Rather
By Special corrsspoHdsnes

Pine Grove Furnace, Pa, Aug. A.
The Explorers camp is in full blast
and there are twenty-five men who
are all here for the full term. On
July 21 Colonel B. NJ. Mead, C. w.
Fisher and C. C. Schriver arrived on
the noon train as the advance guard
and at once proceeded to start the
work of erecting the tents. They had
two men helpers that afternoon and on
Thursday. Friday and Saturday had
four assistants. On Friday Colonel
Shank, from Chambersburg, arrived
with DR.. Mausteller. of Harrisburg.
bringing with them Mrs. Maggie Phil
lips and Hattie Richards, who look
after the eating end. and they GER
tainly know how.
BY Saturday evening all the tents
were up and ready for the bunch who
came Monday, the 26th. On Saturday
Walter Dietrich arrived. making six
campers. We all attended Sunday
school and had pleasant day. In the
evening the cooks sent in riot call,
for snake was discovered near the
kitchen. We all went to the rescue,
when DR.. Mausteller and G. W. Fisher
killed a rattlesnake which measured
feet inches long, the largest seen
in this section for a long while. 1t had
eleven rattles and was q beauty as
snakes go. On Monday. July 26, ar
rived Colonels George A. Gorgas, H.
p. Miller. Edw. Mauser, George n.
Barnes, ALT. Hoerner, ]. NJ. Hemper-
ley, II. d. Sollenberger C. NJ. Froeh-
Itch, Herman Miller. IJr., Ivan Miller
and Philip Rodgers assistant in the
r1rnG6nN L NfoIy
sham arrived with his wife, who
boards at the Barbour Hotel. Colonel
Rhoads, our commissary, arrived on
Tuesday and we were very glad to see
him. L. Fl. Kinnard and c. F. Hoover
came Friday by train and Colonel Ira
Ebersole and the Rev. Mr.. Lutz ar
rived by parcel post or at least in
mail wagon. from Chambersburg. I'm
der the direction of Colonel Kinnard
a golf links has been erected of
eighteen holes, some of which are very
hard to make. One of the holes has n
record of twenty-three strokes to make
1t. Some very brilliant scores have
oeen made when YOU consider that
croquet mallets and balls were the
tools. It would not be fair to give
the averages, as all did their best
Quoits and dominoes are very pop
ular and cannot be replaced.
The weather has been very fair,
our uSual thunderstorm occurred, but
did no damage, owing to the able
manner in which the advance guard
erected the tents.
Some of the tents are lighted by
electricity and the entire grounds by
gasoline incandescent lamps.
The men kept good hours. Dietrich
blows taps at 10, 1890 or later each
evening and most of the men turn
out about $50 a. m. or later.
The grub has been very good and
was prepared in Maggie's usual happy
style.
The two days previous to the ar
rival of the cooks c. w. Fisher was
the chef. and he knows a lot. He
has record of making an onelet
with one egg. Colonel Nead's speciality
is shrimp salad and channel mackerel
sandwiches.
This morning the golf players called
for drinking water and a bucket was
brought. into which couple ounces
of snake bite" was added. It was
remarkable how dry, they were: one
of them could not wait his turn, but
attempted to drink out of the bucket
Camp breaks Friday, August 6, and
THIS promises to be one of the best
ever.
Have had no sickness except from
overeating. s.