candidate elected to active membership shall pay an admission fee of
eight dollars, and on such payment shall be exempt from the annual dues
of the current year.--The admission fee and annual dues of members under
twenty-one years of age shall be half the above rates.--Members elected
later than September of any year shall be exempt from annual dues of
the year following.--Persons elected to active membership shall pay the
admission fee within two months of their election (which payment shall
be considered to be an assent to these By-laws), otherwise the election
shall be void.
6. Any person elected to active membership may become a life member
at any time upon payment of fifty dollars, and shall thereafter be
subject to no fees or assessments. Such sum shall include payment of
the admission fee or dues for the current year. Active members who have
completed thirty years of membership, or who have completed twenty years
of membership and have reached seventy years of age, shall become life
members upon giving written notice to the Recording Secretary, or by vote
of the Council.
7. Bills for annual dues shall be sent to all members on or near January
first, and those whose dues are unpaid on April first shall have notice
of the fact sent them by the Treasurer. He shall send, on May first, to
members whose dues are still unpaid, notice referring to this article,
and those in arrears on June first shall thereupon cease to be members,
which fact, in each case, shall be certified in writing by the Treasurer
to the Recording Secretary, who shall enter it of record; but such
membership may be revived by the Council in its discretion upon payment
of past dues. The President and Treasurer are authorized to remit any fee
_sub silentio_, when they deem it advisable.
8. If the Council by four-fifths vote shall decide that the name of any
member should be dropped from the roll, due notice shall be sent to such
member, who shall within two weeks have the right to demand that the
matter be referred to an investigating committee of five active members
of the Club, two to be appointed by the Council--but not from its own
number--two to be selected by the member, and the fifth to be chosen by
these four. In the absence of such a demand, or if a majority of this
committee shall approve the decision of the Council, the name of the
member shall be dropped, and thereupon the interest of such person in
the Corporation and its property shall cease.
ARTICLE IV
ADMINISTRATION
1. The officers of the Club shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents,
Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, four
Departmental Councillors, and two Councillors-at-Large, and there may be
an Honorary Secretary. These officers shall form a governing board, to
be termed the Council, and this body shall elect new members, control
all expenditures, make rules for the use of the Club’s property, except
as hereinafter provided, and act for its interests in any way not
inconsistent with these By-laws. Five members of the Council shall form a
quorum.
2. The President shall preside at the meetings of the Club and of the
Council, and shall appoint (with the advice and consent of the Council)
the several standing committees. One of the Vice-Presidents shall act in
the absence or disability of the President.
3. The Recording Secretary shall be the Clerk of the Corporation, and
shall have charge of the muniments of title and of the corporate seal.
He shall keep a record of all the proceedings of the Club and Council,
give notice to the members of the time and place of meetings, and prepare
each year a report of the Club and Council to be presented at the annual
meeting.
4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the
Club with kindred organizations and with Honorary and Corresponding
members, keeping proper files and records of the same, and shall prepare
a report for the previous year to be presented at the annual meeting.
5. The Treasurer, under the direction of the Council, shall collect, take
charge of, and disburse all funds belonging to the Club, except such as
are in the hands of the Trustees of Special Funds or by legal restriction
are under separate control. He shall keep proper accounts, and at the
annual meeting, and at other times when required by the Club or Council,
present a report of its financial condition.
6. The four Departmental Councillors shall represent severally the
departments of Natural History, Topography and Exploration, Art, and
Improvements. It shall be their duty to conserve and foster the interests
of their several departments, and they are authorized to call special
meetings of members interested therein, at which they shall act as
chairmen, and to appoint departmental committees, subject to the control
of the Council. They shall present at the annual meeting reports of their
respective departments for the year.
7. There shall be a Board of Trustees of Real Estate, consisting of a
member of the Council, to be designated by it, and four other members of
the Club, one being elected annually by ballot to serve four years and
until his successor is chosen.--These Trustees shall elect annually from
their own number a chairman and such other officers as may be required,
and may employ such assistance as they shall find necessary. They shall
administer and manage any real estate which may be held by the Club as
a public trust; subject, however, to the general supervision of the
Council.--Any real estate other than public trust reservations to which
the Club holds title shall be managed under the direction of the Council,
but nothing herein shall be construed to mean that the management of
such property may not be delegated to the said Board of Trustees or to
a standing committee created for the purpose.--No real estate shall be
acquired or title to the same accepted except by vote of the Council upon
the recommendation of this Board.--The Trustees of Real Estate shall
make to the Club at the annual meeting a report in writing relative to
the property committed to their care, together with a statement of the
finances connected with their trust.
8. There shall also be a Board of Trustees of Special Funds, consisting
of three members of the Club, one being chosen by ballot annually to
serve for three years and until his successor is elected. They shall
choose their own chairman. The Treasurer of the Club shall not be
eligible to election upon this Board.--All permanent endowments and funds
of a permanent or special nature (unless otherwise legally restricted),
as well as the Reserve Fund hereinafter provided, shall be entrusted
to these Trustees, and they shall have power to make, change, and sell
investments.--All moneys received for life membership, and such other
sums as may be received or appropriated for this special purpose, shall
be known and invested separately as the Permanent Fund, of which the
income only shall be expended.--There shall also be a Reserve Fund to and
from which appropriations may be made by not less than five affirmative
votes at each of two meetings of the Council, notice of the proposed
action having been given on the call for the second meeting.--At each
annual meeting, and at such other times as the Club or Council may
request, the Trustees of Special Funds shall make a written statement of
the condition of each of the funds in their hands.
9. The fiscal year of the Club shall end on December 31. The Council
shall at the close of each year employ an expert accountant to audit the
books and accounts of the Treasurer and of the Boards of Trustees, and
shall present at the annual meeting the written report of his findings;
it may also cause to be audited in the same manner the accounts of other
agents and committees of the Club.
10. The following Standing Committees shall be appointed: on
Publications; on Field Meetings and Excursions; on Legislation; on
Active Membership; and on Honorary and Corresponding Membership. These
Committees shall consist of not less than five members each, and members
of the Council shall be eligible to appointment thereon. They shall be
vested with such powers as the Council sees fit to delegate to them,
and nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting that body from
appointing such other committees as may be required.
ARTICLE V
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
1. The Officers and Trustees shall be chosen by ballot at the annual
meeting, and may be voted for on one ballot They shall hold their offices
until the next succeeding annual meeting, or until their successors are
chosen in their stead; but any vacancy may be filled by the Council,
subject to confirmation by the Club at its next regular meeting.--The
President and Vice-Presidents shall not be eligible for more than two
consecutive terms of one year each, nor the Councillors for more than
three consecutive years; the Honorary Secretary may be elected for life.
2. A Nominating Committee of at least five active members shall be
appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Council.
No elective officers of the Club shall be eligible to serve on this
committee. The names of said committee and a list of the offices to be
filled shall be announced in the call for the October meeting, with a
request for suggestions for nominations from members of the Club. The
list of candidates nominated by the Committee shall be posted in the Club
Room and published with the notice for the December meeting.--Twenty-five
or more active members desiring to have a candidate or candidates of
their own selection placed upon the official ballot may at any time
prior to December 20 send their nominations, duly signed by them, to
the Recording Secretary, and the names of such candidates, in addition
to those presented by the Nominating Committee, shall be printed on
the call for the annual meeting and upon the ballots. No person shall
be eligible to office unless nominated in accordance with the foregoing
provisions.
ARTICLE VI
MEETINGS
The Council, or the officers to whom it may delegate this power, shall
call a regular meeting of the Club in Boston in each month except between
June and September inclusive, and special and field meetings at such
times and places as may seem advisable. The January meeting shall be the
annual meeting, and shall be held on the second Wednesday of that month.
Fifty members shall form a quorum.
ARTICLE VII
AMENDMENTS
These By-laws may be amended by a vote to that effect of at least
three-fourths of the members present and voting at two consecutive
regular meetings of the Club, notice of the proposed change having been
sent to all active members.
JUVENILE CLUBS
What has been said of the conduct of clubs generally will, so far as it
is worth the saying, afford sufficient suggestion to school teachers,
secretaries of young men’s and young women’s Christian associations,
and other welfare workers. Organization is not the important thing. The
important thing is to direct the minds and activities of young people
into wholesome and educative channels.
In dealing with boys and girls the educational factor in pedestrianism
becomes more important. Lessons in biology, geology, astronomy, and
history are more adequately taught and more thoroughly learned, when
teacher and pupil come face to face with the actual physical objects to
which study is directed. And the way opens wide here, not for natural
and social science, merely, but for seemingly more remote subjects:
surveying, for instance, and cartography; appreciation of architecture
and of other fine arts; sketching and English composition. Incidentally,
powers of observation, memory, thought are quickened, and physical
well-being promoted.
Even in such minor matters as clothing and shoes, a good deal of folly
among boys and girls may be dissipated, to the substantial benefit of
these same girls and boys when older grown.
The handbook of the Boy Scouts will be found particularly suggestive and
helpful to those in charge of walking for young people.
Much wider use is made in Europe than in this country of excursions as a
feature of school life; here as well as over there, excursions afoot may
be encouraged. But teachers must themselves become pedestrians, before
such advantages and enjoyment as walking affords will become available to
school children generally.
THE LEAGUE OF WALKERS
The plans for the League, as thus far developed, are:
To encourage the organization of walking clubs, and to cooperate with
such organizations, aiding them in making their proposals inviting.
To maintain a Bureau of Information, where specific advice about
particular walks and particular regions will be preserved and made
available to all applicants. Particular attention will be given to
collecting data concerning scenery, geology, history, and, generally,
matters of interest on particular walks.
To publish a “blue book” or guidebook for pedestrians.
To give advice regarding clothing, equipment, training, etc.
To promote inter-Association and other inter-club walking tours.
Certificates will be given to walking clubs which enroll in the League.
The cost of enrolment is $1.00, simply to pay for the cost of the
certificate.
Members of constituent walking clubs may wear bronze buttons or pins
bearing the emblem of the League. These may be procured at a nominal cost
at 347 Madison Avenue, New York.
A bronze medallion, to be worn as a watch fob, will be awarded to any
one, a member of a constituent walking club, who walks 30 miles in
twenty-four hours, or 150 miles in two weeks, or who makes a mountain
climb of 3,000 feet in a day. An applicant for a medallion will furnish
with his application two letters, in addition to his own, from those best
advised, stating the facts as they know them. The secretary of the club
of which the applicant is a member (it may be of a Y. M. C. A.) should
also write, and his may be one of the two letters required, as just said.
If possible, the letters should be written by persons present, one at the
start and the other at the finish of the feat. The applicants will pay
the cost of the medallion.
A silver medallion will be awarded, at the expense of the League, one
each year, (1) to the person who sends to the Bureau the best original
essay on walking, based upon actual experience; (2) to the person who
sends to the Bureau the best epitome of a walking tour; and (3) to the
person who sends to the Bureau the best photograph taken on a walk.
A silver medallion may be awarded to one who performs some notable feat
in walking, or who renders some valuable service in the interest of
walking.
Special recognition will be given each year to that walking organization
which has rendered the best service to the walking movement.
The emblem of the League is pictured in the design appearing in the
frontispiece. The design was modeled by Mr. Royal B. Farnum, Specialist
in Industrial Arts in the New York Department of Education, at the
instance of Dr. John H. Finley, President of the University of the State
of New York.
The desire of the League is to inspire and incite people to get out of
doors, to walk regularly and systematically, to cultivate a love for the
open, and to develop health and vigor and the joy of well-being.
All organizations interested are requested, for the common good, to
communicate with the New York Bureau all data respecting regions under
cultivation, and respecting particular walks and tours.
Communications should be addressed to the League of Walkers, 347, Madison
Avenue, New York City.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
William Butler Yeats.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ON WALKING
_William Hazlitt_--On Going a Journey.
_Robert Louis Stevenson_--Walking Tours.
_Henry David Thoreau_--Walking. Journal for Jan. 7, 1857.
_Ralph Waldo Emerson_--Country Life. Concord Walks.
_Bradford Torrey_--An Old Road.
_John Burroughs_--The Exhilarations of the Road.
--Footpaths.
_A. H. Sidgwick_--Walking Essays.
ART OF WALKING
_C. P. Fordyce_--Touring Afoot.
_Arnold Haultain_--Of Walks and Walking Tours; an attempt to
find a philosophy and a creed.
MOUNTAINEERING JOURNALS
_Alpine Journal_, published by the Alpine Club, of London.
_Appalachia_, published by the Appalachian Mountain Club,
of Boston.
_Sierra Club Bulletin_, published by the Sierra Club of San
Francisco.
_Mazama_, published by the Mazamas, of Portland, Oregon.
_Canadian Alpine Journal_, published by the Canadian Alpine
Club.
CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT
The Boy Scout Handbook.
_G. W. Sears_--Woodcraft.
_Charles S. Hanks_--Camp Kits and Camp Life.
MOUNTAINEERING
Scribner’s Out-of-Door Library--Mountain Climbing.
_C. T. Dent_ and others--“Mountaineering” (Badminton Library
of Sports).
_Frederick H. Chapin_--Mountaineering in Colorado.
_J. S. C. Russell_--Mountaineering in Alaska. (Bulletins of the
Amer. Geog. Soc.).
_Hudson Stuck, D.D._--The Ascent of Denali (Mt. McKinley).
_Belmore Browne_--The Conquest of Mount McKinley.
_Filippo de Filippi_, Duke of the Abruzzi--The Ascent of Mont St.
Elias (translated by Signora Linda Villari).
_A. O. Wheeler_ and _Elizabeth A. Parker_--In the Selkirk
Mountains.
_E. A. Fitz Gerald_--The Highest Andes.
_Edward Whymper_--Scrambles amongst the Alps.
_Leslie Stephen_--The Playground of Europe.
_Professor F. Umlauft_--The Alps.
_A. F. Mummery_--My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus.
_Charles Edward Mathews_--The Annals of Mont Blanc.
_Guido Rey_--Peaks and Precipices: Scrambles in the Dolomites
and Savoy.
_Leone Sinigaglia_--Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites
(translated by Mary Alice Vials).
_Harold Spender_--Through the High Pyrenees.
_Fanny Bullock Workman_ and _William Hunter Workman_--Peaks and
Glaciers of Nun Kun.
_William Martin Conway_--Climbing and Exploration in the
Karakoram-Himalayas.
_E. A. Fitz Gerald_--Climbs in the New Zealand Alps.
ACROSS CONTINENTS
_Harry A. Franck_--A Vagabond Journey Around the World.
_Charles F. Lummis_--A Tramp across the Continent (America).
_John Muir_--A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf.
NEW ENGLAND
_Henry D. Thoreau_--The Maine Woods.
--Cape Cod.
--Excursions.
In “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” under _Tuesday_,
is an account of Climbing Saddleback Mountain (Greylock) in
Massachusetts.
_Frank Bolles_--Land of the Lingering Snow. At the North of
Bearcamp Water.
_Bradford Torrey_--Footing It in Franconia.
--Nature’s Invitation.
--The Foot-Path Way.
--A Rambler’s Lease.
_Allen Chamberlain_--Vacation Tramps in New England Highlands.
_Thomas Bailey Aldrich_--An Old Town by the Sea.
Guide to Paths and Camps in the White Mountains and Adjacent
Regions (published by the Appalachian Mountain Club).
Walks and Rides about Boston (published by the Appalachian
Mountain Club).
NORTH ATLANTIC STATES
_Joel T. Headley_--The Adirondacks.
_John Burroughs_--Locusts and Wild Honey (Chap. “A Bed of Boughs”).
_T. Morris Longstreth_--The Catskills.
--The Adirondacks.
For walks in the vicinity of New York city, see “Little Trips
Near-by,” by Albert Handy, a series of eight articles which
appeared in the New York _Evening Post_, Saturday Supplement,
for Nov. 15, Dec. 6, 20, 1913, and Jan. 10, April 18, May 30,
July 25, and Aug. 8, 1914.
_John Burroughs_--Winter Sunshine (Washington, D. C.)
_E. P. Weston_--The Pedestrian. (Being a correct journal of
incidents on a walk from the State House, Boston, Mass., to
the U. S. Capitol, at Washington, D. C., performed in ten
consecutive days), 1862.
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
_Horace Kephart_--Our Southern Highlanders.
_Bradford Torrey_--Spring Notes from Tennessee.
--A World of Green Hills.
_Margaret W. Morley_--The Carolina Mountains.
FLORIDA
_Bradford Torrey_--A Florida Sketch-Book.
COLORADO
_Enos A. Mills_--The Spell of the Rockies.
--The Rocky Mountain Wonderland.
--Wild Life on the Rockies.
--Your National Parks.
(See “Mountaineering.”)
WYOMING
_John Muir_--Our National Parks.
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
_Hiram Martin Chittenden_--The Yellowstone National Park.
MONTANA
_Mathilde Edith Holtz_ and _Katharine Isabel Bemis_--Glacier
National Park.
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
_Walter McClintock_--The Old North Trail.
ARIZONA
_George Wharton James_--In and around the Grand Canyon.
_John Muir_--Steep Trails.
_Bradford Torrey_--Field Days in California (Chap. “A Bird-gazer
at the Canyon”).
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
WASHINGTON AND OREGON
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
CALIFORNIA
_John Muir_--Steep Trails.
--My First Summer in the Sierras.
--The Mountains of California.
--Our National Parks.
--The Yosemite.
_J. Smeaton Chase_--California Coast Trails.
--Yosemite Trails.
_Bradford Torrey_--Field Days in California.
_Dallas Lore Sharp_--Where Rolls the Oregon.
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
ALASKA
_John Muir_--Travels in Alaska.
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
(See “Mountaineering.”)
CANADA
_Lawrence J. Burpee_, Among the Canadian Alps.
_Enos A. Mills_, Your National Parks.
(See “Mountaineering.”)
MEXICO
_Harry A. Franck_--Tramping through Mexico, Guatemala and
Honduras.
_William T. Hornaday_--Camp Fires on Desert and Lava.
HAWAII
_Enos A. Mills_--Your National Parks.
SOUTH AMERICA
(See “Mountaineering.”)
EUROPE
_Robert Louis Stevenson_--Travels with a Donkey.
Baedeker’s Guidebooks.
(See “Mountaineering.”)
FRANCE
_H. H. Bashford_--Vagabonds in Perigord.
_William Morris Davis_--Excursions Around Aix-les-Bains
(published for Y. M. C. A. Natl. War Work Council by
the Appalachian Mountain Club).
THE ALPS
_John Tyndall_--Hours of Exercise in the Alps.
_F. Wolcott Stoddard_--Tramps through Tyrol.
(See “Mountaineering.”)
SPAIN
_Harry A. Franck_--Four Months Afoot in Spain.
GREECE
_Denton J. Snider_--A Walk in Hellas.
RUSSIA
_Stephen Graham_--A Tramp’s Sketches.
--A Vagabond in the Caucasus.
ASIA MINOR
_Stephen Graham_--With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem.
_W. J. Childs_--Across Asia Minor on Foot.
TURKESTAN
_Stephen Graham_--Through Russian Central Asia.
PALESTINE
_John Finley_--A Pilgrim in Palestine.
BURMA, SIAM, COCHIN CHINA
_Edmund Candler_--A Vagabond in Asia.
JAPAN
_Lucian Swift Kirtland_--Samurai Trails.
NEW ZEALAND
(See “Mountaineering.”)
NEW SOUTH WALES
_H. J. Tompkins_--With Swag and Billy (issued by the Government
Tourist Bureau, Sidney).
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FOOTNOTES
[1] The _Youth’s Companion_, Aug. 31, 1911.
[2] From “Poems and Ballads,” by Robert Louis Stevenson; copyright 1895,
1913, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
[3] Issue of April 25, 1917.
[4] Nathaniel L. Goodrich, “The Attractions of Trail Making,” in
_Appalachia_, Vol. XIV, No. 3, page 247.
[5] Nathaniel L. Goodrich, _ubi supra_.
[6] “Wild Life on the Rockies,” page 209.
[7] New York _Evening Post_, July 25, 1914.
[8] Leslie Stephen, “The Playground of Europe.”