Source:Boy-scouts-camp
"Boy Scouts camp at Wissahickon: Many contests enliven days for boys and their many visitors." Pittsburg Press, June 14, 1914, classified section, p. 9. Newspapers.com 143661032.
From 5 o'clock Friday afternoon until 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon 130 Boy Scouts, under the leadership of Scoutmaster H. M. Ryder, were encampted in Wissahickon hollow, Riverview park. They got their own supper Friday evening, pitched their tents and slept there Friday night. Yesterday morning they got their breakfast and then held a meeting to decide as to what was to be done during the day. A horse and rider tourney, in which the boys mounted each other's backs and then "bucked" each other off, was won by Wilkinsburg Troop 2.
A water boiling contest was won by Pittsburg Troop 6, which calls itself the Perrysville troop. A pyramid building contest was entered only by Pittsburg Troop 47 and splendid workmanship was shown. After lunch another meeting was held. In the afternoon a tent-pitching contest came to a draw between Wilkinsburg Troop 2 and Pittsburg Troop 4. A climbing contest in which the boys clambered over the roof of a shelter house, was won by Pittsburg Troop 9. A cavalry melee in which the "horses" again were the bigger boys, was won by Pittsburg Troop 42.
Saturday morning the 10 campfire girls of the Northside, who call themselves the Wissahickon girls, visited the camp and stayed the greater part of the day. In the late afternoon Pittsburg Troop 6 gave an Indian snake dance. Pittsburg Troop 4 gave a demonstration in first aid to the injured. Examinations held to determine which boys would be classed as first class scouts, closed the camp.
