This is a tug-of-war on the water at Healy’s Lake, Ontario, Canada. The boat is a punt used for ‘cadging’ baggage in the wilderness; the idea of a tug-of-war on the water was the suggestion of Dr. Joel M. Ingersoll, of Rochester, New York. … The left-enders ‘walked away’ with those on the right.

— T.J. Wilstach of New York, in the Strand, October 1903