The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-02-15
BOYS CAMP AT
LAKE TAHOE
NEW BUILDINGS TO BE
ERECTED AT ZEPHYR
COVE IN SPRING

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Ernest W. Bentley, director of the
Montezuma Mountain School of Los
Gatos, California, was Carson visitor
yesterday, and while in the city dis
cussed features of the "Skyland Camp
for Boys" he will establish at Zephyr
Cove. Lake Tahoe, this year.
The camp at Tahoe will be the out
growth OF Mr.. Bentley.s experience OF
fifteen years with boys, twelve years
with New England camps. and the
last three years as director of the
Yosemite Boys Camp at Merced Lake
in Yosemite National Park.
The equipment for the new camp
will consist of the Lodge, furnished as
an assembly room provided with
writing and game tables and the camp
library A stage will be built for
evening entertainments, and a large
| fireplace will add comfort, says the
News
The dining room and kitchen will
be. near the Lodge but In separate
buildings. The equipment will be
complete for handling supplies in
sanitary and efficient manner, and the
kitchen will be handy to the store
room and cold storage plant.
According to the plans the Lodge,
dining room and kitchen buildings
VIII be constructed of logs. On the
porch between the Lodge and the
dining room will be the camp store
and postoffice. Still another building
will contain the laundry, wash and
shower rooms and heating system.
One of the buildings to be built
at the camp will be a shop equipped
( with wood working tools and benches.
Convinced that cabins are more
sanitary. better ventilated and more
easily kept orderly, cabins will be
used as living quarters for the boys.
Each cabin will be occupied by a
councillor and his group of seven boys.
The building will be raised above the
ground, 24x1S feet in size, with screen
ed windows on three sides and over
hanging roofs. Furnishings will con-
sist OF iron cots and suitable mat
tresses. The boys will be permitted
to add bookcases, benches, stools or
table made by themselves in the camp
shop.
II is planned to so arrange the camp
! buildings as to form a village COM
munity, with sections for the younger
boys somewhat apart though not
wholly isolated from the main camp.
The infirmary will be in building
removed from the camp center, and
will be equipped with cots, heating
system, bath room, dispensary ant
dressing station.
A wharf and boat landing will BIZ
built. A swimming float will be an.
chored in the cove, and a fleet con
sisting of motor boat, row boats and
canoes will be available for use un
der strict supervision and regulations
A horse corrall will be located al
some distance from camp.
Water will be piped from the near.
by mountains.
For organized athletics will be pro.
vided two concrete tennins courts
basketball court, volley ball and hand
ball courts, and a four-acre baseball
ground also to be used for field
hockey and archery
An athletic coach will have general
direction of swimming, baseball, ten
mis-. basketball and field sports.
A woodcraft councillor will oversee
generally the camping trips and for.
estry, nature work, finishing, campcraft
and camp commissary.
A camp fire councillor will be in
charge of the evening camp fires, mu-
sic. entertainments, and camp ''jollys.'
manual training councillor will
have direction of the shop work and
use of the photographic dark room.
Special attention will be given such
water sports as swimming, rowing,
canoeing and motor boating. Trail
trips on horseback will be encouraged
The boys day in camp will begin
with reyeille at seven o'clock, follow
ed by setting up exercises. Next the
showers or plunge in the lake.
Breakfast at $780, short chapel exer-
else, reading of previous days camp
log, and announcement Of the day $
program will come in order. The
group winning the cabin inspection
gets the camp banner for the day.
After a program of sports the boys
will take their morning swim at 1850
o'clock. The noon meal will be eaten
at 1890. A rest period of an hour
with the boys in the cabins with their
councillors follows. The afternoon
will be full, with more sports, fishing,
shop work, etc. Supper at $50 p. m,
followed by parade and colors. Games
will be played in the early evening
and the camp fire will be lighted.
Bed time lunch at $3.50; tattoo at S:4o
and taps at nine o'clock.
Mr.. Bentley went to Minden Satur-
day afternoon for conferences re-
garding building arrangements. While
in Carson applications for position OF
councillor were considered.
About one hundred boys will be at
the camp during the first season, be-
ginning June thirtieth and ending
August twenty-fifth, Mr.. Bentley ex-
poets. The capacity of the camp VIII
be increased as needed.