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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 12

A camp site of 11,000 acres has been bought by the Boy Scout foundation of America for a price understood to be about oOO.COOrio]. At an estimated ccst of I.COO.OGOdoI the site is to be developed until it becomes the largest and most comp'etely equipped camp site there is. It is intended, when completed, that camping space should be found for some 10.0 CO boys. In the beginning it will be divided into 30 units, each of which will accommodate 100 boys. This enormous camp site, which should prove so invaluable to the Boy Scouts of America for inculcating Sir Robert Baden Powell's system of character training, is situate on the Delaware River, about 20 miles west of Monticello. New York, and adjoining the huntins preserves of the Liberty Hunting Club and the Iroquis Club. The site should prove an inestimable boon to the boys of American cities, just as the boys' camping fields of Gilhvell Park, the Scouts' Centre" near Chi'ngford. in Essex, provide tremendous health-giving delights for a small portion of the Scouts from the slum .areas'of London.