Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-13
BOY SCOUTS OUTING
Movement to Be Inaugurated
in Rock Creek Park.
GAMES FOR Y. N. C. A. CLASS
Opposing Bands to Struggle for
Supremacy.
SCOUT STEW" FOR LUNCHEON
Organization of Corps in Washing
ton Planned by Scout Master
Albert NJ. Chesley.
SCOUT STEW" FOR LUNCHEON

The boy scout movement is to be in
augurated in Washington at an outing
of between 100 and 200 members of the
boys department of the Y. NJ c. A.
next Saturday at Pierce's mill, in Rock
Creek Park.
From early in the morning until just
before sunset the boys will live and
busy themselves as the cowboys and
trappers of the frontier plains did when
Texas and Wyoming and the Dakotas
were young. There will be the send
ing of messages through lines of .ene-
mics: there will be trials at lighting
brushwood fires with matches made
precious by their limited supply and the
difficulty of obtaining more, and there
will be roundups of opposing bands
all under the direction of Albert NJ.
Chesley. secretary of V nj. c. A. boys
work, who holds a commission as first
class scout master.
Half Holiday Opportunity.
Saturday being a holiday from school,
large number of the Y. NJ. c. A boys
have announced their intention to join
the squad that is going to spend the day
in the glens and woods of Rock Creek
Park. Mr.. Chesley has planned that the
outing shall be the most unique WHICH
boys of Washington have ever attended.
The band will get an early start from
the boys building. at 1892 G street, and
will take possession of that section OF
the park around Pierce's mill. During
the morning there will be several scout
games to be worked out
One band of boys will be stationed
around protected spot. A representa-
tive Of another band will be sent to de-
liver message inside the lines.
At noon will come one of the treats of
the day-a scout stew. All details Of this
frontiersman's mess are not announced.
but 1t is promised that ii will be so like
the meal that the cowboy prepares over
his brushwood fire on the plans that 1t
would make a real cowboy feel perfectly
at home to aid in its disappearance.
Scout Corps to Be Explained.
their strenuous morning games and the
scout stew Mr.. Chesley will tell them
about the boy scout movement, its or
ganization. its aims and its possibilities.
He will tell the boys what q "tenderfoot'
must know before he Is eligible to join
the boy scouts: that he must know the
composition of the national flag and how
to ny It: must know how to tie four of
the different kinds of knots, either the
reef, sheet bend, Glove. hitch, bowline,
middleman's. fisherman's or sheepshank.
and must have learned the scouts laws
of honor and signs and salute
After service as tenderfOOt for q
month the boys will find they are eligible
for second-claSs OF frst-class scout, ac-
cOrding to their prowess In observations.
which will aid in determining directions,
signaling, swimming, rowing, giving first
to iv,}Y cd
telling trees and generally helping them
selves or others by their own resources
Then will follow the organization of
boy scout patrols. Each of the patrols
will include seven boys. with an older
boy as a leader. 1t is expected that a
dozen or more patrols will be organized
at that time.
Arrangements for regular gatherings OF
the patrols will be talked over. Inspira-
ton win be given the boys to so improve
their scouting prOwess that they will
become first-class or second-class scouts
Aims of Organization.
The movement aims to make boys re-
sourceful under the most trying circum-
stances. obedient to orders OF parents
or superiors courageous in the face Of
danger to save life from fire or accident,
resourceful with head and hands to sur
mount difficulties and helpful to friends
I'm need.
1t is designed to make boys as capable
of taking care of themselves as the pio-
neers of civilization in central Africa. the
ranchmen. cowboys and trappers of the
west, the drovers and bushmen of Aus
tralia. the explorers of the arctic and
Asiatic regions, the missionaries in all
parts of the world, and the constabularies
of the Canadian northwest-men whom
the founder Of the movement, Gen. r.
$. $. Baden-PoweT. has designated as
peace scouts.
The afternoon will be taken up with
a scout war game The band will be d.
vided into two parties-one to defend
and the other to attack
nent with chalk is equivalent to a fatal
bullet shot. The chalk-marked scout
must retire as dead" Where this game
has been tried II is found that two care
full bands will wage war" for hours be-
fore there is decisive outcome.
Mr.. Chesley is enthusiastic regarding the
outlook for a strong boy scout organize.
| time during the summer at the camp OF
Ernest Thompson Seton. in the Silver
| bay region of New York state and at.
| tended a recent meeting Of the nationa
| committee in charge of the movement
| in the United States. He believes the
4 BOYS here Commissioned as a first-clas.
| scout master. he has offered to assis
! pastors of churches and heads of boys
clubs and other organizations in form
/ ing and instructing boy scout patrols
4 An invitation has been issued to min
/ listers and others interested in the move
| ment to attend the outing next Saturday
bother financial considerations involved