Evening star., 1916-07-31
Weekend Adventures.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

i Of the derby racers: or do you hold down
a bit of hard plank and try to hear your
own yels above the din at ball game;
| or do you just sit on the front porch
and fan yourself and wish you had a
carr
This little inventory will approximately
| cover the weekend activities OF about
five adult American citizens out Of every
six. The sixth often owns a car and
spends his Sundays scorching around In It,
| Now all of these occupations are good
| If you really like them-if they give you
a sense of change and adventure and
| bring you back to your work with a new
punch. But most of them do not After
you have gone through your program OF
| amusement for the forty-seventh time, II
begins to become even moro OF a bore than
| staying at home, and you probably join
| the 'front.' porch brigade and spend your
time lamenting your limited opportunities
| for recreation.
| AS matter of fact the only things nee
| essary in order to have a real vacation
are an idea and the enterprise to carry
| 1t out. You can really have more ad-
ventures on foot than you can In an
automobile, and exploring country you
same elements of excitement and ad-
| venture as an expedition to the Kongo.
| 1t Is true that pedestrians, like poets,
| fishermen and pool shots, are born and
not made. If
Endless Adventures in you like to
Boads and Byways. county roads
| and byways offer you endless adventure;
but If you do not like to walk you can
never learn to enjoy 1t.
| There Is newspaper man in New
York, who. together with his wife, nnds
his greatest pleasure In exploring the
wilderness near the city. He asserts that
up the Hudson valley there is some of
the widest and most picturesque coun-
| try in America, and he continues his ex-
petitions between Cold Spring and Mat
teawan. even in winter. A camping outfit
| is carried in a couple of ruck sacks.
If you are strong walker and not
too soft to enjoy the stimulus of a little
hardship, trips with walking pack
offer endless possibilities. Two young
men in Washington, who had a pen
chant for outdoor life and fishing, found
! that an amazing sweep Of country was
opened to them by the possession of
| couple of Siwash packs. A tent. can
| three or four meals. a very light camp
cooking outfit and fishing tackle were
| strapped up in these. With the camp
ak and a stick for handle, these packs
could be carried just like a suit case in
town and on the train. When the coun-
try was reached they were shouldered
and could be carried several miles to
good camping place without too much
effort.
The web of trolley railroad and boat
lines that radiate from every big city
makes a great number Of different trips
possible; and it is amazing how many
picturesque and little-traveled sections
may be found within a radius of a hun
dred miles. From Washington you can
explore parts of three states, and enjoy
| many kinds of fishing from the black
bass of the mountain rivers to the sea
| trout and croakers of the eastern shore
of Maryland.
1t is this sense of something new that
Is the making of a vacation. To set out
for place
Seeking New Places you have
Always Brings Thrills. ,s thrill
| an event, no matter how humble the
place or how you get there. For the
person who is not strenuous and does
not care for roughing it. the trolley
lines offer means of weekend travel.
Choose the lines with good. heavy-pow-
cred open cars. that run through pic
turesque rural sections. You will find
that after they have left the city a few
miles behind there Is plenty of room.
and you go swinging and rumbling
through fields and woods by the hour.
You can plan a trip that will keep you
moving easily from Saturday to Mon
day, with good hotels at the stops and
without going over a mile of the same
a N
motoring, and far less dusty and tire
some than travelling by railroad. Also.
if you see country road that you want
to explore, you can drop off and take a
walk and catch the next car. 1t is a fine
way of getting acquainted with the bit
of earth about your own home.
Extensive trolley trips can. Of course.
be planned only in the vicinity of big
cities New England is the special field
for them. If you live in a port city.
however, another possibility is opened
to you by the numerous coastfng and
fishing boats. For example. a trip from
New York to Canada a lumber
schooner can be made in a few days,
and is fine. inexpensive vacation for
any one who likes salt water. A
cruise to some off shore fishing ground
has special charms for angler. In
order to make any of these trips. you
will have to go down among the docks
and make endless inquiry until you
find captain that is about to sail. He
will tell you that he does not carry
passengers and has no accommodations
for them. and you will thank him and
put your luggage on board. and it will
be all right.
For less adventurous sailors, the
canals offer tempting field. party
of a dozen or so can charter a canal
boat and make a trip for less than
they could stay at home. With cots
and hammocks 1t is possible to make
the craft really comfortable. and even
d dance floor was improvised in one
such converted coal barge. Canals
may also be navigated in motor boats
and canoes and rowboats. and many of
them are very picturesque. There is
a special charm about a canal because
you cannot see very far ahead, so that
the view changes oftener than upon a
wide river.
One sort of near-home vacation that
is growing in popularity is the camp
that is near
Noor uo,,,a Uo ofion enough the