The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-01-22
BOZ SCOUT FOUNDER
Will. TOUR WORL b
In the Interest Of That Organ
ization-O Other News Of
England.

I
I LONDON. Jan. General Sir
Bobert Beden-Powell, who Won fame
as the defender Of Mafeking during
the South African war, and the found
er of the Boy Scout movement to
advance which he retired from the
army, has started on a tour Of tina
world in the interest of the organ
tzatiOn:
The central idea of the tour is to
consolidate the movement throughout
the empire, to coordinate ii as a
great imperial organization and to
standardize the method Of manage
ment as far as possible AS the tour
fnecessitates Sir Robert passing
through America and other countries,
he will attend meetings in the inter-
ests of the Scouts in those countries.
Sir Robert proceeded first to the
West Indies to visit the Barbados,
Trinidad, and Colon, and while in.
Panama will visit the canal works.
New York will be reached about jan
uary 81, and thence the tour takes
him to, among other cities, Boston,
Philadelphia. Washington, Cincinnati
Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle,
From the latter port the general viii
take steamer for Japan, where, under
a promise. made to General Nogi, an
effort will be made to start the Boy
Scout movement in Japan. General
Baden-Powell has previously visited
Canada. The Scouts have made won
derful progress in England and the
Colonies. In the United Kingdom
alone there are a million members,
10000 having been enrolled last year.
The Royal Scouts Association has
Just been incorporated under Royal
Charter.
There are still few "old Masters"
left in Englands homes despite the
oft-repeated cry that American and
German collectors are depicting Eng
land of the works of art; that an
earlier genefation brought together.
The exhibition arranged by the
council of the Royal Academy bears
testimony to this. There are some
pictures, loaned from private collec-
tons, which might almost be said to
have been fe-discoyered, they have
been SO long hidden away, and a
long list Of masterpieces none of
which was seen fat the previous
shows. '1
Among those that American coll
lectors might look upon with envy
are two from the private collection
of Miss Driver, the at. Francis OF
Assist" standing with arms out
stretched, by Giovanni Belllni, and
the Descent from the Cross" by
Gareard Davis. Both pictures were
last seen at the Manchester exhibition
in 1867. and their whereabouts were
unknown until sent by Miss Driver
to the present exhibition. Others
that Americans might bid for, If there
was a suggestion that they were for
sale, are small panel by Mantegna
and group of three Rembrandts.
sent by MA. R. Boughton-Knight.
The Rembrandts represent the fam
GUS painters earliest and latest work.
Because of a misunderstood army
form, 10000 reservists were on the
point Of mobtlizing at Aldetshot re-
Gently, and a London newspaper
added to the excitement by publish
ing news item to that effeet.
The situation was due to a general
misunderstanding of Army Form
d 461, which was announced by the
military authorities some time ago as
the medium by which the reservists
who would in the natural course of
events be called on for service on the