Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

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/ headquarters. more than forty scouts
/ being present. The first part of the
/ evening was spent III learning now 10 Tie
/ various knots. splicing. etc, under the
/ guidance of petty officers. This was
| followed by an explanation of the vari-
/ Gus signal flags. the scouts were then
| lined up across the hall and given
| half hours practice In signaling.
AT the regular meeting of the troop
| Friday night q bicycle patrol was or
! ganized with Den Esgleston as leader
| and Kenneth Harres as assistant. \
/ number OF the scouts were detailed to
participate in a play to be given under
/ the auspices of the Sunshine Society.
Saturday the troop took hike in the
vicinity of Forest Glen, Md. returning
about O'Clock at night. An entertain
ment is being planned by the troop to
raise funds TO provide gymnasium equip
/ ment'
Lawrence Prentice. Floyd Crews and
Edward Davis of Troop No. 10 have
just returned from two-week camping
trip near North Chesapeake Beach. The
boys report they had fine time crab
bling and longing for oysters. Fishing
also was excellent.
The scouts made a raft on which Law
renee Prentice and FLOYD Crews sailed
out into the bay for more than q mile.
1NtN ldu ClHlcGllN IN get
ting ashore. Afterward they secured a
! boat from which they did their swim
ming. The scouts We're well tanned when
they returned home.
First-ad work by scouts so frequent
i involves the helping of fully grown
and very heavy people that many in
Genious ways have been devised by which
a small boy can care for a man several
times his weight. All. of course. are ia
nliiar with the freman's lift, because it
Is tp.t- ta-fth - 10
handbook.
Following is good scheme for saving
heavy man from burning building or
dragging him from place of danger to
one of safety
In a burning building the best air is
found near the floor and il is wise to
creep or crawl through smoke-filed
rooms rather than to attempt to up
right. The grip shown in these pictures
II known as the firemdn'S drag and will
not only enable a small boy to rescue a
two-hundred-pound man. but will keep
Doth rescuer and patient low enough to
escape the evil effects Of noxious smoke
and gas.
Scinus on the floor. First turn him over
/ Nat upon his back and see if there is
| sufficient strength in him for him to as
\ siSt YOU. Satisfied that he is really IN
| conscious and that he Is far too heavy
| for you TO carry eyen by means of the
/ fircman's lift resort to this fireman 6
drag
/ Raise his two hands and wrap your
! handkerchief once very lightly around
/ his wrists. making one end of the hand
/ kerchief long and the other short. Then
/ turn the long end in between the wrists
| 50 that YOU can tie the two ends tightly
/ IN q square krot around the rest of the
I handkerchief This fixes his wrists firm
I Is together.
4 With this done straddle the patient.
/ VITA %our knees on the floor duck your
head between his arms 50 that his tied
wrists come over Your neck get on all
| fnurS and bE Strengthening your arms
and stiffeninS Your neck. you can raise
/ his head and shoulders off the floor.
and 50. crawling rapidly on your hands
and Knees. YOU can drag him with sur
prising ease FOR auite Il distance
! II YOU are d very small boy such as
the one shown In the photographs, you
VIII not he able TO lift him with your
knees ~ the ground. so do as this boy
is doing. Get on your feet and hands
and proceed as described
y - really SURPRISING. what weight
a little fellow can drag in this way. No
man is too heavy for "A tweIye-year-old
/ boy TO move by this method if the scout
will but practice. and its use is likely
to save life in score of ways
| You are likely 10 see a man Wing nor
I haps intoxicated across a railroad q
street or trolley track. he is too
heavy Tor you TO lift, and if YOU go for
help some vehicle is likely to run over
| him before YOU can return
Take your handkerchief your ems
| penders, your carriers or even your shoe
| faces. tie his wrists. drag him out of
danger and then go for help
/ Try il on the heaviest man Won Enow
| ard you Will be surprised
l In New Jersey the organization of
Toy Scouts into fish and game patrols
= a new field of practical operation
with state authorities. according 10
Scouting. 1t has been given officiaI
recognition and promises to he very
beneficial, both to fish and game MO
lection and TO the scouts themselves.
Massachusetts scouts are enlisted in
a state competition which has assumed
big proportions. but started in n sim
pie manner.
\ tree census" is the strenuous task
the boys have tackled In different
towns and cities scouts are busily can
N3ssing their own localities listing the
trees and getting data concerning the
species. health and general stppearance
\ system of cards with spaces for dia
grams. statistics and other informa
ton is in use. The boys are compel
ing for prizes which will equip the
troops that win them for many months
| To come.
The state forestry association has
offered three prizes-S60, $50 and $40
The boys may have the money or the
equivalent IN trophies.
Fifty more commissions were issued
duriu" Angus; this year than in Au-
gust. 1912. according Ia Il report from
national Headquarters. AS this month is
generally the low ehb of re.i.,trat jon
inns ii particularly encouraging. fl 4
| since it shows that the steady cro,yth
does not diminish during the low sea
son.
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