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A VISIT TO CAMP DELMONTA year or more ago, some interested en secured White’s Island for a Sum-ler * amp for the Boy Scouts of Delate and Montgomery counties.An appropriate name for this campas '' lggested by a Scout, that of “Del-nont, the first syllable of each of the antes of the two counties.^' hite s Island is in the Delaware riverbout a mile above Yardley.b is most beautifully located andl,nis to be especially adapted for theurpose for which it is now being used.1 rom the Pennsylvania side the campreached by means of a cable ferry.If some of the boys do not happen to11’be visitor on the shore all he has to° is to rap once or twice on an iron ring-°ng and the clear tones are immedi-’t'ly heard on the island, and promptly,1 half dozen scouts are piling into the’erryboat and paddling to the shore, whence comes the signal.^ ou land on the island in a few min-utes- Passing up the embankment, from the landing, and through a short haded pathway, you step into an open pace where you first see the Hag pole w*th Old Glory waving from the top-niast. Opposite this, at the farther end f the ground, is Commissioner Aplin’s tent. On both sides of the open spacebetween these two points, are twentymore tents, accommodating fron
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Swarthmore News
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Aug 08, 1914
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