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p-- RRR ES 3 20 / WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1923 Fondest Boyhood Dreams Become Reality For Adventure Islanders "Dream Girl"' Crew Encounters Thrills Aplenty on Long Lakes Cruise and Extended Encampment The final contingent of Adventure Island camp boys came into Wilmette harbor one morning late last week aboard the cruiser Dream Girl. In spite of the brisk nor'easter which had been blowing all night the run from Sturgeon Bay canal was made in a little better than twenty-four hours. The Dream Girl, in charge of her skipper, Charles A. Kinney, first mate Dave DeLay, with Carl and Paul Holinger as second mate and bo'sun, has been cruising Cruiser "DREAM GIRL" on which fifteen north shore boys make the trip to Adventure Island camp each The "DREAM GIRL" has cruised more than 20,000 miles on Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake summer. on the east shore of Lake Michigan and up to Mackinac and Les Cheneaux islands at the head of Lake Huron during the past three weeks. In spite of con- tinuous cold and sun- less weather the boys had a fine time, with several exciting ex- periences to add to the Dream Girl's log. One of the jolliest, so far as the boys were con- cerned, was to cross Michigan from Char- levoix to Death Door bluff, a distance of about ninety miles, in a heavy sea. Barely had they reached the pro- tection of the Wiscon- sin shore when the gas- oline line clogged and Superior, North Channel, Georgian Bay and numerous smaller bodies of water. GIRL" is owned by Kinney of Winnetka. rivers In all of these cruises she has been manned by north shore boys. The "DREAM Charles A. it became necessary to disconnect the pipe to clear the obstruction. Rather than drop an anchor in such deep water the craft was al- lowed to drift with the seas. Meantime some kindly disposed person on shore, thinking the and boat was helpless and drifting rapidly back into the lake, phoned the Plum island coast guard. An hour later when the Dream Girl was securely docked in Ellison Bay and the boys were preparing their supper a power life boat manned by six husky coast guards in sou'westers ran up to.inquire if anyone had seen a cruiser drifting out into the lake. Explanations followed. Some of the boys regretted that a rescue had not been necessary. The six coast guards remained only long enough to make a report. Some of the most exciting experiences of the summer were had at camp. One especially was the fighting a forest fire which continued for several days. three nights the tent groups took turns patrolling the burned areas. During So keen did the boys become in detecting incipient blazes that the last night two of them rushed up to the "skipper's" tent with a bucket of water and spades only to find the blaze they thought they had seen came from an ordinary camp lantern. A great deal of construction work was Hone on the boys this summer, the biggest single undertaking being the '""I'ooner- ville Trolley," a tramway running down the bluff from the mess hall to the water, a distance of some 300 feet. The tram- way also supports the water system in- stalled by the boys this summer. Next summer a combination boat and car will operate over the tram so that supplies may be loaded into the boat, floated up to the tracks and run on wheels directly up to the mess hall. Erect "Tech Tent" An innovation this year was the es- tablishment by two of the councilors, David Delay and Charles Rummler, of the "technical tent." Both young men are students in the naval architecture course at the University of Michigan, and keenly interested in everything per- taining to engineering. The "tech" tent" soon became the center of interest to most of the boys. In this and the shop tent plans were drawn up and the instruments made with which the boys later surveyed the island, an undertaking which gave many of the boys their first introduction to geometry. Fired Moonshineers' Den The most unusual discovery of the year was made while a number of the boys with Mr. Kinney were attempting to capture a spotted fawn. The chase led into one of the thickest parts of the woods where one of the boys stumbled over a fallen pine and directly into the a delightful home. correspondingly large. rage attached to house. ing system obtainable. 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Upon investigation it proved to be a moonshiner's den, evidently having been deserted since the old logging days when a saw mill and many lumber camps were located on the island. The copper still, mash boilers, barrels, jugs, bottles,--all of the paraphernalia of a small dis- tillery were still 'intact. What became of the moonshiners and why they should have deserted their equipment will prob- ably always remain a mystery. Next summer the older boys plan to use the den for the initiation ceremonies of the new boys. J. A. Humphreys, former principal of Skokie school, spent part of the summer at camp where he wrote, in collaboration with Alfred Frankenstein, one of the camp boys, "Virtue Triumphant," a farce-comedy based on local characters from Fish Creek and the Chambers Island girls' camp, where the play was later produced. The play which was put on under the direction of Mr Hum- phreys, made a glorious hit. "Peanuts" Fairman as the mayor of Sturgeon Bay, shooting craps with Handsome Hermann "Sheik" Hilton, the Hero, and Dave Delay and John Jewell as the fore and aft ends of Spark Plug the horse, touched the high spots in the acting, with Billy Hughes, as Rushing "Mollie" Radford, and Gordon Reed as the 216 pound heroine, close seconds, Thirty Boys in Camp Thirty north shore boys were at camp this summer. Aside from a few minor cuts and bruises and "tummy" aches not a single boy was ill. This season marks the ninth of cruising and the third of organized camp, with never a serious accident or a boy requiring the attend- ance of a physician. The north shore boys who attended camp this summer, MEDICAL ELECTRICITY Call or Write for Free Booklet. Chronic Cases that fail to respond to other treatments especially solic- ited -- But why wait for your trouble to become chronic? 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