Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-08-05
BOY SCOUTS BACK FROM
THEIR CAMPING TRIP
Spent Ten Days in Mountains and
Wilds of Sussex County


The Boy Scouts intended to take
their camping trip in the Stokes State
Forest, but on arrival there found that
the lake had dried up into a swamp, so
they went on to Culver Lake, which is
two miles from B~ranchville, Sussex
County. N. j. They left by automobile
on July 18th. Senator Bright and
Frank L. King loaned their cars, and
there was a Ford truck loaned from
Anglesea. A big truck was hired.
The trip took two days, the distance
being about $50 miles. Forty-four
Boy Scouts went on the expedition,
accompanied by Frank l.. King, ex-
ecutive officer; CORTLAND Steelman,
scoutmaster; E. Laurence Chalmers,
assistant s-coutmaster; Rev. VanDyke
Conover, scoutmaster of the Anglesea
Troop, which also went on the trip;
Senator William H. Bright, who do
mated $50 to the Scouts, and advanced
them $25 more when they reached
their destination; Warren Yenney and
Robert Mccullough.
Culver Lake is right in the midst
of the Kittatinny mountains, which
contain some of the highest peaks in
the state. The boys made several
hiking trips up the mountains and
one to Lake Owassa. They had re-
markable luck in the trip, The only
rain they encountered being the first
and last nights of the trip. They
played quoits, boxed, fished and went
| swimming. What particularly pleased
the saltwater lads was a diving board,
which is an unknown quantity in the
surf bathing of Wildwood. They also
had a raft loaned them while they
were there which was anchored in the
lake and used for swimming purposes.
They also hired two canoes and three
rowboats for the time they were there.
The equipment included eight dog
tents and seven big tents. Each boy
had a plate, cup, knife, fork and spoon.
At mess they would line up and re-
ceiye their food in army fashion. Re-
veille was at half past five, then set
ting up exercises, breakfast, a rails
ing, and inspection of tents and drill
ing. Church services were held on
| Sunday by the Rev. Conover. Messrs.
| Chalmers and Yenney were the COM
missary officers.
No illness or serious accidents oc-
Cured. but they were well prepared
with first aid equipment in case OF
necessity. Horace Reeves ran a hsh
hook into his finger and Doctors
Court" Steelman, Larry Chalmers
and Bud" Yenney held a consultation
and decided to operate and remove the
| offending fish hook, which they did.
The patient recovered very nicely.
The people of the vicinity treated
the Scouts royalty and expressed the
hope that they would return next year.
Twenty-Five quarts of fresh milk a day
were consumed by the hungry CAMP
ers. During their stay they killed a
black snake and a milk snake.
Senator Bright was unanimously
voted a "reg'lar guy He played
uuoits, got his bald spot ~sunburned,
took a trip in a canoe for the hrst
| time. and lined up for meals with the
rest of the fellows in a highly ap-
proved manner.
The Scouts distributed Wildwood
booklets which the Board of Trade
| supplied them with, all along the
route.
The only auto trouble they had
going up was a burned out bearing
| and a blowout on Mr.. Bright's Paige.
| The same two accidents occurred on
the same car coming home. A new
clutch band had to be purchased for
the Ford truck on the way home also.
Frank L. King started home a day
earlier than the others, bringing with
him a carload of boys who had jobs
in town to look after and had to get
back. The rest of the crowd, very
reluctantly broke camp the next
! morning, July 2Sth, and started home
at a quarter past five. Larry h
mers' car arrived in Wildwood at half
| past nine the same evening. Court
Steelman's wasn't in until half past
| three the next morning, and McCul-
Tough got in at half past five the next
morning, just a day and a half after
| otarfinC