The Washington times., 1913-12-07
SIXTY-FNE BOYS
TAKE GREAT HIKE
Supper Cooked in the Open Rel
ished by Scouts With Troop
from Takoma.

There were sixty-five scouts in the
big hike yesterday afternoon. which be-
gan and ended NJ Takoma Park, and
at meeting which followed the hike
and the supper cooked in the open,
every one of them voted it the greatest
thing of its kind set staged in Wash
ington.
Nothing is more certain than that
none of those who went from other
parts of the city will ever miss :. hike
which is in charge of Scoutmaster F.
L. Harries and Troop No. y, for they
proved themselves the very best of
hosts.
With knapsacks filled with material
for sandwiches, stews, and other camp
fare, the hikers lined up at the end OF
the Takoma Park electric line, and
sw ung into a quick pace down the ROAD
toward the Bliss Electrical School Here
they were met by President Louis ID.
Bliss, who took them through the en-
tire school plant and showed them
everything from an eight-ounce eiec-
tro-magnet that lifts ten times its own
weight to a fuIl-size street car chassis.
Halt at Station.
and scattered woods, the trail then
led to where the Takoma Park pump
ing station coughs beside the 1.-the
Sligo, where a brief halt was called
Then the hill was climbed to the Al
yentist seminary and about mile FUR
ther on camp was pitched beside the
old grist mill.
Eight camp fires were soon oealhs
back the gathering darkness and the
sound of swinging scout axes echoed
through the forest. Soon pork chops
were sizzling over one fire, sausaSes
Drowned over another, while the mem
bers of Troop No. q had a water
bucket full of stew containing hsh'
beef, corn. tomatoes. potatoes. bread
and other ingredients that always tast-
ed like more.
Scoutmaster Harries was everywhere
at once, seeing that everybody had a
good time. He thougntfully brought
three loayes of bread and several
pounds of sausage, for all who were not
provided with lunch, and this helped
a lot Troop No. Il made a big log
fire that gave the place an appearance
Of an all-night camp.
To put the cap-sheaf on fine hike.
Scoutma xer Harries suddenly produced
a five-pound box of marshmallows and
these were toasted to a golden brown
In the dying embers. In addition to
the scouts and Scoutmaster Harries
there were present Scoutmasters Tay-
lor and Bowles, Assistant Scoumaster
Fred Reed and Quartermaster Miller
Of the Naval Battalion.
Fire Put Out.
Shortly after six o'clock the fires
were doused and the mixers marched
back to the parish hall Of the Episco-
pal church in Takoma, where the boys
OF q hold their weekly meetings:
Here impromptu talks were made by all
the visiting scout officers and by First
Sergeant Anderson of Walter Reed
Hospital, who is giving the Takoma
Park boys special instruction in first
aid work.
Then the boys of q gave what was
described as "a three-ring circus one
squad going through signal practice,
another giving modifying exhibitions,
and q third doing some fine bandag1ng.
Bosn's Mate Rooney, OF the naval bat
TALON, was a late conner, and, though
he was not in time to make a speech,
he showed some new knots.
Altogether 1t was a fine afternoon
and evening and everybody agreed it
set a high mark for what mass hike
could be. -lI--.----.---.