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ORITANI

SNOW SHOE CLUB

SOUVENIR.

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PRINTED FOR THE PRESIDENT

GEO,

M. F^AIRCHILD,

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NEW YORK, 1888.

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Printed bt

LEON BOSSUE DIT LYOXNAIS,

LA FEUILLB D'EBABLE,

357 E. 78th Street, New York.

THE OEITANI SNOW SHOE CLUB.

(From The Canadian-American Dec, 1886.)

Your representative called on the president of the
Oritani Snowshoe Club, Mr. Fairchild, who was
instrumental in introducing snow shoes in this city.
In the course of his remarks he siiid : " I was i)leased
to see so many members of the club present at the
annual meeting, as it assures me that the interest
in this pastime has not died out among us, and I
should have been surprised if it were otherwise, for
of all forms of exercise and recreation snowshoeing
is pre-eminently one of the most delightful and
exhilarating. It is true our opportunities are some-
what limited here for a considerable indulgence in
it, but this lends an additional zest when the
occasion does offer. What fragrant recollections it
recalls to many of us of our old Canadian snow-

shoeing days. I never put mine on that I am not
wafted away on the gentle wings of memory to
tramps amidst the spruces of the Laurentides.
Fierce storms might rage, and cokl winds blow,
but in our ardor of the chase we little heeded such
trifles. When at night snugly enscon(red in our
little camp beside some brawling stream, that not
even the arctic frosts of the Canadian winter
had closed, our snowshoes suspended on yon sapling
within easy reach, pipes glowing — what a delicious
sense of comfort and happiness came over us, and
how we blessed the inventor of the snow shoe, that
made all this possible. Again we are one of a
merry, laughing patty of ladies and gentlemen gaily
tramping out to our Cap Rouge rendezvous from the
^ates of old Quebec. We have all paired off by
some order of natural selection. Little opi^ortunity,
however, is given for the exchange of aught save
an occasional pressure of the hand, for song, storj'^,
and jest enliven the road, and awake many an echo
in the quiet night. In the parlor of our host
dancing and games are kept up until our ever
watchful president, heedful of the advancing hours,
admonishes us that we must again be homeward
bound.

" Being of a somewhat adventurous and inquiring^
turn of mind, I have had many opportunities given
me for exploration and research into many un-
explored fastnesses in the wilds of Jersey. While
I have received no commission from any news-
paper to record the result of my trips, they have

been none the less strange and varied. I liave
seen and found many singular things on these
expeditions denied to a common pedestrian. My
time and y(mr patience does not permit of an account
of what they have been, but I hope to introduce the
club to some of them the coming winter.

" We now have a membership of ">(). Our worthy
honorary i)resident, Mr. Wiman, takes a great
interest in our success and welfare, and I trust to
have the pleasure of conducting the club to Staten
Island some winter's evening. We organized in
1881 with a very small membership, which, how-
ever, has slowly grown to its i)reseut numbers,
which we do not care to exceed."

OK SNOWSHOES IN JEESEY.

(From the New York Worltl, Jan., 1886.)

BLANKET COATS AND LANTERNfc! IN A STL ;NG —

OVER THE WHITE FIELDS FROM HACKENSACK

— A TEMPORARY CAMP IN THE WOODS—

THE ORITANI'S NEXT JOURNEY TO

BE MADE TO STATEN ISLAND.

The rendezvous of the Oritani Snowshoe Club, of
New York, is at Hackensack, N. J., where the
President and Secretary of the chib, two enthusias-
tic devotees of this Canadian pastime, reside. The
first meet of this winter took place there last night.
As the New York members filed into the waiting-
room of the Erie Railroad ferry, on their way out,
they attracted the attention of every other passenger
present. Dressed in all the extravagance of the

suowshoer's costume — bright blanket coat, with
capuchin attached, red toque for head gear, long
gray stockings, bright yellow mocassins, and slung
over their back the singular looking snowshoes on
which their more northern brethren are wont to
skim over the deep snows, they certainly presented
an unusual appearance.

While waiting for the boat to come in some face-
tious person in the crowd suggested tliat instead of
tarrying if they were in a hurry to get across the
river they might put on their snowshoes and walk
ovei.

At 7 o'clock sharp Mr. G. M. Fairchild, jr., the
President of the club, callod the members to order,
an'' with lip'laed lanterns and snowshoes well
istrappec^ on the club trooped oft' gayly for their
long trnmp. Hackensack was astir. Such an in-
vasion of the quiet town was never known. Such
strangely accoutred figures were never before seen.
Out into the country, over lields and fences, through
lanes and swamps wended the club until finally in
the depths of the woods a halt was called at an old
Indian camp, far from the habitations of man.

Disencumbering themselves of snowshoes and
coats all set vigourously to work gathering fire-
wood. Soon a roiiring fire lighted up tlie place
and with jest and song an hour wa^ quickly whiled
away.

The amateur from New York \ras in constant
difficulties. His snowshoes were too large for his
feet, or his legs too short for his snowshoes. The

woods resounded with his frequent calls for help to
extricate him from the entangling alliance in which
he was enmeshed. The Oritanis presented a
picturesque spectacle as they gathered around their
fallen brother to catch his Scriptural quotations as
he vainly struggled to extricate himself.

The Oritanis would request that all applicants
for membership not familiar with the peculiarities of
snowshoes would do their preliminary practising in
their backyard. Many were the adventures and
casualties, but all arrived safely at the residence of

Mr. EUery tired, enthusiastic and hungry; but
under the latter gentleman's ministering care to
their wants, it was unanimously decided that snow-
shoeing was the most enjoyable of winter pastime.
The next meet of the club will be at Staten
Island, where they will be entertained by Mr.
Erastus Wiman.

!iti.

SNOWSHOEING.

(From the New York Evming Post, Dec, 1886.)

AN EFFORT TO POPULARIZE THE SPORT IN NEW

YORK — THE ORITANI CLUB — VISITORS

FROM CANADA.

An entertainment of a novel nature will be seen
by New Yorkers in the early part of January next
in the form of a visit to this city of a large number
of the members of the various Canadian snowshoe
clubs. The Oritani Snowshoe Club of New York^
of which Mr. Erastus Wiman is honorary President
and Mr. G. M. Fairchild, jr., President, both men
ardent Canadians, have invited the various snow-
shoe clubs of Montreal and Quebec to participate
in a snowshoe carnival in this city. Cordial
responses have been received from the various^
clubs, and it is expected that about 600 snowshoers^
will attend.

Among the more important clubs will be L&
Canadien Club of Montreal, which will come oik
about 250 strong, bringing their choral society,,
glee club, and a baud of forty pieces. It is the
intention of the Oritani Club to give their visitors a
grand reception at Steinway Hall on the evening of
January 5, and about 2,500 invitations will be
issued. The clubs will sing their own snowshoe and
Canadian songs, and will give an exhibition drill on

suowslioes with various o*ther evolutions. Beugough,
the editor of Grip, and great free-hand sketcher and
caricaturist, will be present and add to the enter-
tainment. After the reception a supjjer will be
given to the visitors at the Metropolitan Hotel. On
the morning of the 5th they will be shown through
the city, and application has been made to the Park
and Police Commissioners to allow them to give a
parade up Fifth Avenue and through the Central
Park. There will be reprentatives from at least ten
different Canadian clubs, and as each has a different
uniform, the bright colors will make a very interest-
ing display. Quebec will send 150 men to join in
the carnival.

The Oritani Snowshoe Club is the only (;lub
of its kind in this city, and consists of about
fifty members. Among them are Erastus Wiman,
Geo. M. Fairchild, jr., J. E. Learned, Wakeman
Holberton, Dr. Frank Ferguson, William B. Ellison,
Dr. Cummings, William P. EUery, A. H. Schoff, J.
liechenberg, W. A. Linn, F. Holmquist, Phil.
Farley, J. E. Stephens, B. J. Smith, R. B. Lawrence,
J. McAdams, J. U. Gregory, William J. Cassard,
William A. Shortt, Wm. W^ebb, Wm. E. Burt,
James Eraser, and E. E. Williams. The members
are all enthusiastic in their sport, and take ad-
vantage of any snow-fall to have a tramp. The
headquarters of the club are at the Canadian Club,
No. 12 East Twenty-ninth St. During the winter
the club will hold several meets, in each case at a
different place. The club will go to Staten Island

enstlTl "f *'^^'■'''*"« W^a", and to Hack-
ensiwk N. J., for a tramp, where they will be enter
tamed by their President, Mr. Fairehild.
h- , '' •"'"■'"•mof the Oritani Club consists of a blue-
bordered gray blanket coat and knickerbokers

The'coTo'f the ":«; ""', ""«"* y*""- ™— •
#^ ,oM? r*^*' """"*"^ ^owshoes, is abont

members of the", T "" '•'"*"^'"« «P«^'- ^e
members ot the club are anxious to popularise
snowshoeing in New York. l'"I)"iaiize

WELCOME THE SNOWSHOERS.

(From the New York World, Jan. 7, 1886.)

NEW YORKERS DAZZLED BY THE GAUDY RAIMENT

OF THE CANADIANS.

Soon after sunrise yesterday President Geo. M.
Fairchild, jr., of the Oritani Snowshoe Club, and Mr.
Arnold J. Gates, of the Canadian Club, hurried
into the Grand Central Depot and began the pleasing^
duty of waiting for the Montreal express train. A
hundred or more French Canadian gentlemen who
live in this town happened along and began to help
them wait. What they were all watching for was
the appearance of three hundred and fifty Canadian
snowshoers who were pottering along somewhere
on the Vermont Central Railroad. They should
have arrived at 7 o'clock, but they tarried at Troy
and indulged in the mysterious ceremony of '^ blow-
ing off " a score of brother snowshoers; so it was
after 9 o'clock when their train pulled into the
Grand Central. By that time there were some three
hundred men waiting to welcome the sons of the
North. As the long string of cars came rolling in,,
burly men wrapped in blanket suits began popping
out on the platform '' like gigantic peas from a
gigantic pod.

There was much handshaking and a few bearlike
hugs here and there by French Canadians, who

hailed friends they had not seen for years. Presi-
dent Fairchild walked out on Forty-second street
and assembled with himself in front of the station.
He looked about seven feet high in his shaggy
blanket suit of blue with slashes of gray and red

here and there to set it off. Right behind him
came L. N. Moreau, the giant standard-bearer of
the Club Raquette le Canadien, which, by the way,
in plain English, is the Canadian Snowshoe Club.
The banner is a broad tricolor with the club's
monogram in the white centre bar. Around it in
gold letters is the club motto " Soyons distinguSs et
soyons unis,^^ which everybody knows is only an-
other way of saying " Let's be distinguished and

united." One hundred and seventy-five men fell in
behind standard-bearer Moreau, but between them
«.nd him was a wall of solid harmony in red and
brass. It is commonly known as the City Band of
Montreal, and any one who hears them quickly
pronounces them the best set of musicians north of
the United States. They belong in the C. B. L. C,
and cover it with melodious glory.

The readers of The World have been learning
from day to day that a few huudred Canadians were
coming here to be entertained, but nobody knew
just w ho they were. Here is the list of the clubs :

Montreal. — Montreal, St. George, Emerald, liO Trappeur,
Argyle, Crescent, Gordon, St. Charles, (Harrison Artillery,
Prince of Wales, Royal Scots, Hawlhorae, Koyal, Holly,
Lachine, Lilac, Etoile, Le Cliasseur, Le Canadien of St. Henri,
and Landsdowne Toboggan clubs.

QUEnEC. — Quebec, Aurora, WaA'erley, Emerald, Le Cana-
dien, Levis, Voltigeurs, Union Commerciale, Montagnais,
Huron, Jacques Cartier, Frontenac.

And the clubs " Le Canadien," of Sorel ; "Iroquois," of
Troy, N. Y.; " Le Trappeur" and '" Lo Canadien," of St.
Hyacinthe; '*Le Canadien" and "Frontenac," of Ottawa ;
^*St. Jean Baptiste" and "St. Maurice," of Trois Riviferes;
also of Valley tteld, Beauharnois, L'Assomption and Sherbrooke.

The mass of color displayed in the ranks of the
snow-shoe men as they drew up in double file
behind the band would have joyed the heart of an
impressionist painter. The men of Le Canadien
Club wore suits of white wool, fashioned as you
see them in the pi(}tures in this column. The cufts
were striped with broad bands of red and blue, and
the long, conical caps w^ere of white, tipped and

tasselled with red. Their stockings Avere bhie. The-

Emerald men wore drab prettily edged and slashed.

with green, and the Montagnais men fairly blazed

in blue and scarlet. Two young men in black suits

smote everybody's eyes with the glaring yellow

linings of the cowls that flapped on their shoulders.
White prevailed everywhere among the uniforms,

and next to it in popularity came red, blue and

gray in the order named. Drum-Mtror La Chapelle

waved his silver-headed baton of ebony, and away

went the athletes to Fifth avenue, down which they

marched to Madison Square, then into Broadw ay

and to the Metropolitan Hotel.

In the front ranks of Le Canadien Club were
Alex. Eaby, the champion long-distance snow-
shoer, with thirty-two gold and silver medals on
his broad chest, and Olivier St. Denis, the champion
snowshoe sprinter, who had only twenty-seven
medals on.

When all these athktes marched into the Metro-
politan Hotel they found a breakfast waiting for
them that soon knocked the edge oft' the appetites
they had picked up during their long travel. After
finishing that they formed in double file on Broad-
way and marched down to Chambers street. There
they swung around into Centre street and so into
the park, where they halted in front of the City
Hall. Mayor Hewitt was laid up in bed with
rheumatism, so he was not on hand to welcome
the visitors, but President Beekman of the Board
of Aldermen met them on the plaza with the city's

banner at his right hand. ?fr. Erastus Winiaii
dimbed beside liim and said :

" Gentlemen, I take great pleasure in introducing
the Mayor of New York. Three cheers for him."
The Canachans swelled out their blanketted breasts,
swung their caps and shouted three hurrahs and a
tiger-r-r ! Then Mr. Beekman welcomed the burly
men to our i)leasant little town, and apologized for
the small amount of snow we had to otter. Then
Acting Mayor Prefontaine, of Montreal, thanked
Mr. Beekman for the warm reception the clubs
had met everywhere.

"In the name of the Board of Aldel-men of
Montreal," he added, <' I would be glad to receive
any representatives of this city who shall come to
our city, and make their visit a pleasant one."

They had their pictures taken and then the line
formed again and, with the band doing its prettiest
in the van, bore down the slushy channel of Broad-
way for the Stock Exchange. There the big fellows
climbed up into the gallery and looked down upon
the bulls and bears in all their glory. A yell that
could be heard for miles greeted them when the
blue and red and white tuques showed over the rail.
The ,brokers sent up a committee, who escorted
these gentlemen to the floor of the Exchange.

The clubs had a jollier time at the Produce
Exchange. Mr. Wiman made a speech that was
almost inaudible owing to the tumult of bidding
and offering at the pit. Eight muscular snowshoers
grabbed Mr. Wiman when he stopped speaking and

"bounced" him. This playlul way the suowwhrn^rs
have of signifying their appreciation of a wortliy
man consistH in tossing him bodily Ave or six times
from their extended arms and hands above their
heads. One of the brokers, who made a great deal
of noise, was seized and " bounced " vigorously, to
the great merriment of his friends. Alderman Pre-
fontaine, Mr. Fairchild and Mr. pjllery came in for a
" bounce " before the snowshoers left the Exchange.

Then the merry men marched down to the Cotton
Exchange, wliere the brokers yelled and shouted
more cheers than would blow an ice-yacht a mile.

]^ow, any ordinary body of men w^ould be tired
after all this fun an<l sight-seeing. But Canadian
snowshoers are made of sterner stuff. They climbed
up into the Hanover Square station of the L road
and tilled a Third avenue train. Pretty girls ran
to the windows as the carloads of meteoric costumes,
with brawny youths inside of them, tiashed by. At
Seventy-sixth street the boys climbed downstairs
and nuirched over to the French-Canadian church,
near Lexington avenue. There they found a house-
full of fellow-countrymen waiting for them in the
lecture-room. The Kev. Father Frederic F. Tetreau
made a rousing speech of welcome and at its close
pointed with pride to eighteen little fellows in bright
costume who trotted to the front of the stage and
sang a song of welcome in French. They wore
badges inscribed '< Bienvenue " across their little
breasts and welcome shone in every feature of their
young faces. Here everybody made a speech,

If ill '■

either of welcome or of thanks and next to Father
Tetreau's that of President Fairchild, of the
Oritania, was best liked.

After moistening their songful throats with a few
score qusirts of ch.impagne, tlie Canadians niarclied
over to Central Park. They didn't And nnich snow
there, but they did meet tlie biggest crowd tliat had

greeted them yet as they entered by the Seventy -
second street gate and tramped towards the Mall,
with the band playing inspiring music at their head.
The Park looked like fairyland. The snow was
softly draped on the black and twisted bianches of
the trees and lay in broad and unbroken stretches
on the gently sloping lawns. As the files of gayly
clad men swung across the fields of purest white

the beauty oi' their coHtiunes 8howe<l at its best.
Then the New Yorkers coiiUl see what an altoj^ether
delightful thing a snowshoer's suit is. Sh>wly the
athletes filed across the Mall and broke ranks under
the spreading branches of the leafless elms. For a
minute there was quiet, as half a hundred of them
tied the buckskins thongs of their sno^vshoes. Then
there was a blast of a cornet, and away they rushed
in a quarter of a mile race on the lawn. The snow
was Kcant and powdery, but the experts flew over
it swiftly. Back to the starting point they came,
with red-cheeked, black-eyed Alex. Eaby in the
van, his gold and silver medals glittering with every
turn of his brawny body. He finished first, with
the rest at his heels, and the crowd cheered wildly.
It was a sight to make any one's pulse go faster.
A hundred sleighs drew up on the road near-by
and their owners watched the sport. They made a
dark, rich background for the masses of gleaming
color among the trees. The snow was too light,
though, for much work, and after a little while the
ranks re-formed and the visitors marched off to
Fifty-ninth street, where they took the L road down
to the Metropolitan Hotel for dinner.

After dinner the snowshoers were heartily wel-
comed by a crowd that fairly packed Stein way Hall,
where a reception in their honor was held.

At eleven o'clock the snowshoers marched down
Broadway to the Metropolitan Hotel, where a supper
was given in their honor by the Oritani Snowshoe
Club.

FA 1 11 MAIlY OF GOTHAM WHO AUIC EX-

PEllTS ON SNOWSHOES.

(From the Xow York Mail and Express, Jan. U, 188«.)

To be ail expert on Hnowshoes is the craze this
winter among the women of this city who have
the time and wealth to iudulf^e in out door S])ort.
Owing to the ett'orts of the Oritani Snowshoe Club,
snowshoeing began to be popular a year ago, when
at the club's carnival here some 250 blanketed and
equipped Canadian snowshoers were its guests.
This winter the club has made notable additions to
its membership, among the new members being a
number of well-known women of society. The
president of the club is Mr. G. M. Fairchild, jr. He
is an enthusiast on the subject of the sport, and
after the very first fall of snow he and Major
Wakeman Holberton, the club's secretary, always
take a tramp over the fields and in the woods of
New Jersey on their snowshoes.

"Do women like snowshoeing I" was asked of
President Fairchild.

'' Do they f" was the reply. *' My boy, evidently
you have never been out with a party of snowshoers.
Yes, women like snowshoeing. They are as enthu-
siastic over the sport as men are. Many of them,
too, are as expert in the management of snow-
shoes as the men, and they are good runners and

jumpers. Eight here in this city you will find many
women of society who understand how to w^ear
snowshoes and who love the sport. This winter it
is more popular here thati ever before. It is a fallacy
to think, as many persons do, that you must have
several feet of snow in order to enjoy snowshoeing.
A fall of snow of not more than six inches is suflB-
cient for a first-rate snowshoe tramp.-'

" Do women ever take long tramps ?"
. " A six to eight miles' walk is nothing to a woman
who is accustomed to wearing snowshoes, and I
have known them to take tramps on snowshoes of
fifteen to eighteen miles and even of twenty-five
miles. Why, in Canada thousands of women are

expert snowshoers, and it is not at all unusual
for them to accompany their husbands on caribou
and moose hunting;; expeditions. On these hunts
they are as eager for the game and as full of
excitement over the sport as their husbands. I have
been with ladies on hunting trips of this sort into
the deepest recesses of wild forests, and they have
stood the tramp wonderfully well."

" What is the proper costume for a woman snow-
shoer to wear H"

" A blanket dress of bright colors, reaching to
the ankles, zouaves trousers and a jacket, both of
the same goods as the dress, and a tuque to match.
The most picturesque suits are those made of white
blankets Mith red and blue borders."

"Doesn't the size of snowshoes vary consider-
ably r '

" The size of the shoe varies according to the uses
to which it is put. For the hunters in the bush the
shoe measure used to be from four to six feet in
length and about twenty or twenty-four inches
broad. But for the race meetings the size has been
considerably reduced in width, although there is no
limit to the length. Ten inches is the regulation
measurement of the club-racing shoe, but for a long
tramp through the woods over soft snow this shoe
would be found almost useless. Most of the i^rivate
snowshoe clubs of Canada are composed of ladies
and gentlemen, it being an article in the unwritten
by-laws of many of the clubs that no gentlemen can
become a member and participate in the weekly or

fortnightly tramps of the chib unless he is accom-
panied by a lady — wife, sister, lady-love or friend,
as the case may be. On tramp night these clubs
usually rendezvous at the home of one of the
members. The party, numbering perhaps twenty
couples, is most picturesque. Very few of such
clubs have distinctive costumes, each individual
member being allowed to choose the dress most
pleasing to his or her taste. The men usually
appear in ordinary blanket costume, some white
with red or blue strij^es, the majority wearing tuques
to match. Some of the ladies' dresses are marvels
of beauty, and set off to perfection the graceful
figures of the wearers.

STARTING ON THE TEAM

Partners having been selected the tramp begins,
the line being led by an experienced snowshoer and
his partner. The procession moves along in a merry
mood, jokes being cracked at the expense of the
novices in the art of snowshoeing, and friendly
advice offered as to how to lift one shoe over the
other. The beginners have many falls. They stretch
out their arms to save themselves and only make
matters worse, for the arms sink their full length in
the soft snow, and the novice i)resents a ludicrous
figure, his legs flying in the air and his snowshoes
being elevated many degrees from the beaten track
while his head is buried in the sno w. Their march
is often made to stirring songs, the best singers
rendering the solo and all joining in the choruses.
One of the favorites begins like this :

" Chilliest of skies above,

Coldest of fields below,
Bound to the shore we lov^,

Ever and oh we go ;
Far as the eye can peer,

Where the goal of the mountain shines,
Our forward course we steer

Up to the feathered pines ;
Tramp, tramp, tramp,
Vive la Tuque Blue !"

AN EARLY CLUB.

The oldest snowshoe club iu the country, it was
learned from Mr. i^aircliild, is the Montreal Club.
They are known as the " Tuques Bleues." It was
organized in 1840. Many songs have been dedicated
to the Montreal Club, but one called "The Snow-
shoe Call " is the favorite. Here it is :

" Here's to the slim snowshoe,
Its glory we renew,
\'-:^tii'>r. ;; Its fame will live and pleasure give

To manly hearts and true.
May its graceful dipping
The fair and brave enthral.
And with it live the echoes of
'Miy Our mountain snowshoe call,

Tull-lul-lul-li-it-too !"

CHORUS.

^' Hear the wild shout of the snowshoers,

Tull-lul-lul-li-it-too !
Ringing o'er mountain and valley,

Tull-lul-lul-li-it-too I
Dying away in the valley.

:t::

" Here's to the rousing song
We sing as \re tramp along,
Over the hills it bounds and trills
In echoes clear and strong.
If the strength and glory
Of youth you would recall.
Then exercise your lungs and limbs
On snowshoes with our call,
Tull-lul-lul-li-it-too !

'• Here's to our Queen's command !
By England's throne we'll stand.
When time and strength will make at length
A nation of our land,
Never may her standard
Beneath another fall.
And ever loyal live the men
Who shout the snowshoe call,
Tul-lul-lul-li-it-too!"

The first expedition in which white people were^
known to have taken part on snowshoes was in the
year 1690, when an armed force, consisting of some
200 French soldiers and their Indian allies, marched
from Montreal and descended with such rapidity
on a Dutch settlement at Schenectady that the
people were taken completely by surprise. Thfr
long and perilous tramps made by the officers and
employes of the Northwest and Hudson Bay com-
panies in the performance of their duties in Rupert's
Land are part of the history ot that extensive
region, and a forty mile march in a day was only
looked upon by these men as a fair day's travel.

OFFICERS FOR 1887-88

HONORARY PRESIDENT

EBASTUS WIMAN

PRESIDENT

GEO. M. FAIRCHILD, Jr

VICE PRESIDENT

J. E. LEARNED

CAPTAIN

WM. P. ELLERY

VICE CAPTAIN

W. A. SHOBTT

SECRETARY AND TREASURER

WAKEMAN HOLBERTON

WHIPPERS-IN

W. J. WELDON and JAS. ERASER

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

mm mjlB.

ARTICLE I.

This Club shall be called the ORITAKI SNOW
SHOU CLUB.

ARTICLE II.
The officers of this Club shall consist of an
Honorary President, a President, a Vice-President,
a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Captain, a Vice-Captain!
and two Whippers-in.

ARTICLE III.

The officers shall be elected by ballot, at the an-
nual meeting to be held the last week in N-ovember
and shall hold office for one year or until their suc-
cessors are elected.

ARTICLE IV.
Persons becoming members of this Club shall
pay an initiation fee of five doUars, and one dollar

auiuial dues, payable in advance. The fiscal year
to date from the date of the annual meeting in No-
vember.

ARTICLE V.

Section 1. — Persons wishing to join this Club
must be proposed by a member, and seconded by
another member thereof, both of whom must be
personally acquainted with the proposed member ;
one of whom, at least, must vouch for his standing
and character as a gentleman ; and such proposi-
tion must be in writing, giving the name, residence
and occupation of the person proposed. The elec-
tion to membership shall be by ballot, and if not
more than three votes are cast against the person
proposed, he shall be declared elected ; but, if more
than three appear against him, he shall be declared
rejected.

Section 2. — The number of active members shall
be limited to fifty.

ARTICLE YI.

Section 1. — Persons may be proposed as honorary
members of the Club, and elected in the same
manner as prescribed in the last article j and
honorary members so elected shall not be entitled
to vote or fill any office in the Club.

Section 2. — ^Wives, daughters and sisters of mem-
bers of this Club shall be eligible to honorary mem-
bership of this Club.

V ,!,

ARTICLE VII.

In case a member shall neglect to pay his dues
for a period of six months after notice gi?en by the
Secretary, he sh.all, ipsofavto^ cease to be a member
of this Club.

ARTICLE VIII.

Any member may be expelled from this Club by
a two-thirds vote of the members present at a meet-
ing called for that purpose, at 'which meeting the
accused member may be heard in his own defence.

ARTICLE IX.
Section 1. — Meetings may be called by the Presi-
dent or Vice-President, whenever he shall deem it
necessary, or at the request of five members through
the Secretary.

Section 2. — At any meeting of this Club, five ac-
tive members shall constitute a quorum to transact
any business brought before them.

ARTICLE X.

. This Constitution or part thereof, can only be
altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present, at a meeting held after the one
to which such alteration was proposed. In calling
said meeting, the secretary must notify the mem-
bers of the specific object thereof.

ARTICLE XI.
On all snow shoe tramps, the Captain of the
Club shall have full charge and control of the mem-
bers present.

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ARTICLE XII.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

1. Reading the minutes of the previous meeting.

2. Reading communications.

3. Reports of Committees.

4. Rejjorts of officers.

6. Proposals for membership.
0. Election of members.

7. Miscellaneous business.

ACTIVE MRMBEUS.
RALCH H. fl., ItONasHau St., City.
lilNGLKY W. J., 3;->l West IJth .St., City.
HITRCIIAUD K. n., 24 West 40th St., City.
J3UKT H. I)., 10 and 88 Franklin St., City.

CALLISKN ADOLJ'H W., .hi., 131 West 43.1 St., City.

CASSAKI) WM. J., 139 West 70th St., City.

CUM MINGS I)H. R. B., Ciinadiau Club, City.

ELLEKY WM. P., Ilackcnsack, N. J.

ELLISON WM. B., 229 Broadway, City.

FAIKCHILD, J«., GEO. M., Hackeiisack, N. J.

FAIKCIIILp, Sii., G. M., 503 Broadway, City.

FAULEE G. R., 127 West 45th St., City.

FARLEE R. D., 7 Nassau St., City.

FARLEY PHILIP, 41 Worth St., City.

FERGUSON Dh. FRANK, 35 East 23d St., City.

ERASER JAMES, 115 Worth St., City.

GILDERSLEEVE Judge H. A., 32 Chamber St., City.

GILL CHAS. E., 229 Broadway, City.

GRIFFITH W. H., Canadian Club, City.
HOLBERTON WAKEMAN, Hackensack, N. J.
HOLMQUIST F. L., 41 Worth St., City.
LAWRENCE ROBT. B., Flushing, L. I.
LEARNED J. E., 121 West 7l8t St., City.
LINN WM. A., Hackensack, N. J.,
Mc ADAMS JOHN, 51 Elm St., City.
PRYOR JAMES W., 58 William St., City.
RECHENBERG C. J. S., 261 Pearl St., City.

REYNOLDS CITA8. «., 31) Park Itow, City.

SCHOFF A. H., 41 Worth St., City.

SHOUT WM. A., 128 West 63d St., City.

WALLACE JACKSON, 102 Broadway, City.

WEBB WM. E., 340 Broadway, City.

WELDON WM. J., 160 Broadway, City. ' '

WELLING R. W. G., 2 Wall St., City.

WELLS Pkof. J. S. C, Hackeusack, N. J.

WILFORD WALTER H., care Tittany & Co., Uuiou Sci., CUy

WILLIA^IS E. E., 313 West 83d St., City.

LADY MEMBERS.

Mh8. fJKO. M. FAIIiCHII.D. .hi.
Mus. WAKEMAN HOLBKKTON.
Mhs. V. H. LEAKNEI).
MiHs II. L. WILLIAMS.
M18H M. B. WILLIAMS.

IIONOKARY MKMIiEKS.

KRASTUS WIMAN, Statcn I«Ia,»l, N. Y.

J. U. GKEGORY, Quebec, Canada.

JOHN VAN BUSWKK, Itouse's P»»int, N. Y.

NOKMAN K. NEILSON, Three Rivers, Canada.

A. DORION, Le Vanadieu Snow 8hoe Club, Montreal, Canada,

S. KEAUDIN, Le GuModio,, S. S. Club, Montreal, Canada.

C. V. LAPIERRE, U Camdien S. S. Club, Montreal, Canada,

All officers of Le Canadien Snow Slioe Club, Montreal, Canada

Hon. H. BEAUGRAND, e?c-Mayor, Montreal, Canada.

Hon. F. R. THIBAUDEAU, Montreal, Caaiada.

L. O. DAVID, Montreal, Canada.

F. M. FORTIER, Montreal, Canada.

A. NOEL, Montreal, Canada.

All officers of Le Trappeur Snow Shoe Club, Montreal, Canada.

All officers of Aurma Snow Shoe Club, Quebec, Canada.

ip'

on IT AM SNOW SHOE SOXG.
WoKPH BY G. M. Faikciiilu, Jr.

Clickety flick our snow-shoes say, , ,

And over the hills and f ir away

"W'e leave dull care for another day,

And quickly and joyously take our way. ^ \,

Through the woods with their mantle cVeep, .

Th'ough the swnnijjs in their winter's sleep,
In single file, with cheeks aglow,
We le!i%'e our trail in the sparkling snow.

Chorus — Clickety click our snow-shoes ^a-y

Our rendez-vons no wayside inn,
At our camp-fire our yarns we spin ;
Amidst its glow take our small sup.
Put on our shoes, our time is up

CiiouuH — Clickety click our suow-shoes say

Tramp ended, each puts out his light
Vntil next meet. We hid you a good night.
Kind fate we hope will soon grant our desire.
Again to meet beside the bright camp-tire.

CnORCS — Clickety click our suow-shoes say.

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