The Washington herald., 1922-06-25
NIMRODS' JOURNEY
TO HALLOW LAKE
FULL OF THRILLS"
How IL Washingtonians
Spent Last Year in
Canada.
GROW FULL Boards
Comments on Hirsute Appen-
dages Were Many and
Humorous.
GROW FULL Boards
By D. G. PFEIFFER.


afternoon. July 81, for it's old
camping ground on Hollow Lake.
Upper Ontario. Canada; the per-
sonel being H T. Offterdinger, c.
F. Sudwarth, B. F. Bridget, DIT.
John Sharp, Charlie Crane. Charlie
Rossiter, Lew Thayer and the
writer. with two tenderfeet-Dr.
darcy Magee and Howard Will
kins- Nothing of special moment
occurred during the trip north.
unless perhaps it was just as our
train started to leave Union Sta
tion. when Sudwarth's extravagant,
douole-forte sobbing shouts OF
"good-by. good-by" attracted the
attention of some strangers, a
woman among them who was
heard to remsrk-''isn't IT sad and
pathetic: / believe those men are
taking a lunatic to the asylum"
Plans Go Awry.
This year. with a minimum of
wisdom and a maximum of forget
fu' u'Ness we planned to purchase
many little articles in the way
of fishing tackle in Toronto in
stead of carrying II all over the
line, and we arranged our sched-
ule with that in mind; allowing a
stop-over OF one day. What we
overlooked was that good old
canada has a habit of having
frequent holidays and of course
we struck a holiday in Toronto.
In fact ore would have a hard
time avoiding holidays there. Now
holidays are fine things. They are
usually based on some patriotic
circumstance of the past and they
bring out the patriotic ardor of
81 i
believe me, the Canadians know
how to celebrate their HOLIDAYS.
They go about II whole-heartedIy
and with one accord they forego
everything else and bend their
energies entirely upon celebrating
event at hand II you happen
a.OnS at one OF these occasions
and want anything at all-unless
II be in the line of celebrating
you are going to get left, that's
All. All stores were closed: every
body was away and everybody
there belonged somewhere else. 1
never saw people who celebrate
so hard and so often and with such
vengeance as these Canadians
do. Before next summer l am
going to get somebody up there
TO send me a calendar with the
marked in red so we NAV dodge
as many holidays as we can. Not
that We are patriotic and SYM
pathetic but as we were strangers
In a strange land, not knowing
what IL was all about and in real
need OF certain articles, with
Toronto as our last chance to buy
them. We wandered aimlessly until
we got sort of peeved.
Leave Railroad.
The next morning early we left
the railroad at Huntsville and
embarked on one of the lake
steamers -t the Algonquin which
took US through Fairy and
Peninsula lakes. connected by a
canaD to North Portage where
passengers, baggage and freight
were transported via the Hot
Tamale Express a dummy en-
gine and couple old Troy
On. " street cars. up to the Lake
OF Bays. One mile and IO4 feet
elevation. Here the Iroquois (twin
boat OF the one We IefD takes us
through this beautiful lake. stop
ping at many attractive landings:
splendid hotels and cottages until
We reach Dorset the end of the
route and the end of our Journey,
Here at Dorset we met our
guides. saw that Speers. the outfit
ting store. had started our supplies
on the road to camp. changed our
clothes and struck out for Hollow
Lake, hve miles up the hills and
away from civilizati then ten
miles up Hollow Lake and we were
at camp.
When completed our camp made
quite a village-nine tents in all
Including two sleeping tents. a
convention hall, dining tent.
Kitchen. supply tent. guides tents
and pup tent for prison sem
fences. Two streets-Ray avenue
fnd Ofte boulevard-athletic field
for baseball. football and quot
playing and on the lake front an
amusement pier of stone and tim
bers built under the supervision of
Charlie Crane.
sudwarth Cleaning Director.
Sudwarth. as self-constituted di-
rector of street cleaning, made
himself generally disliked by con-
inually bawling out everybody
who even whitfield a stick on Raw
avenue. When that didn't suffice
be assumed the role Of police to
hrrest the offender: then trial
Judge. prosecutor and TALLER. each
n its turn. Sudwarth was too darn
flean anyhow. Not content with
folling out at a. m. every day to
ump into the lake. he insisted on
he other fellows getting up and
Dining him. This finally got on
he nerves OF the others and they
banished Sudwarth TO the pup tent.
You readers of the Sportsman
rho have followed the doings of
he Washington party from year TO
Tear will recall Bridget Of our
Farty. A few years ago Bridget
vas a novice. Il was he who re-
used to play" his fish; retorting
hat he would play with him"
Fhen he got him in the boat. Well.
his same Bridget has become an
Npert at fishing. Not content with
atching hsh in the ordinary way.
now goes out and catches them
y "the installment plan" He
rings in the eye OF a trout one
ay and then goes out and brings
the same trout. minus that eye,
he next. He lassoes a fish one
ay. loses part OF his line and then
rings in the nsh with the lost
zee of line the next day. What
alters II the eye and the hole
ere OF different sizes. or IL the
ece Of line recovered with tn.
sh next day was a differen+ color?
ouldn't II change color over night
the water? Sure Il could. and N
d-maybe-