Evening star., 1913-03-02
SCOUTS TO GIVE AID
Valuable Service Expected to
Inaugural Crowds.
FIRST-AID KITS READY
Boys Will Be in Uniform and at
the Call of Capitals
Visitors.

Final instructions concerning the activi-
ties of Boy Scouts tomorrow and Tuesday
were issued to the scoutmasters of the
various local troops yesterday by Scout
Commissioner Martin. AS the visiting
troops arrive in the city instruction is to
be given their respective scoutmasters as
to the work to which the scouts will be
assigned.
At 8 o'clock this morning troop of
scouts under Scoutmaster j. V. Hyde is
to report to the Union station to serve as
guides through tine station and to the
various street car lines and to cooperate
with the suffragst reception committee in
any way. Another troop is to be assigned
to the suffrage headquarters at 236 Della
ware avenue for similar duty.
To Red Cross Stations.
In addition to duties at the suffrage
headquarters and at the Union station,
Boy Scouts will be assigned tomorrow to
the American Red Cross stations as fol-
lows:
of patrol leader: east of United States
Capitol at Q am.
Troop No. Zone PATROL: in command
Ol pdtTOl ledQeT, report u III
charge of emergency station, rear of
Sherman statue on 18th street at am.
Troop No. 80 Zone patroD: in command
Of patrol leader: report to surgeon in
charge of emergency station, rear of
Rochambeau statue in Lafayette Square
at o am.
All scouts not otherwise detailed to duty
are to report in full uniform with slaves
to the north side of Pennsylvania avenue,
between 1st and 7th streets northwest, at
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special duty by the police in charge.
Tuesday the local and visiting scouts
will be in three divisions-namely. first
aid. service corps and division OF line
Of march. Capt. J. Van Beuren Mitchell
will be in charge of the first-aid corps,
with I. r. Pirtle as aid. Patrols of
scouts will be assigned at fifteen first
aid stations along the line Of march.
Ready for First Aid.
The scouts assigned to the service d.
vision will sell official programs in the
various reviewing stands, and also stand
ready for first-aid emergency duty.
Scoutmaster Vernon Bailey will have
charge of them.
The division to be assigned along the
line of march WIFI be composed en-
tirely of scouts from Baltimore, who
will arrive in Washington at $3.50
" CLOCK tIe HlOTilluS VI tHc HCs
will be in charge of Scout commissioner
Fl. l.. Eddy OF Baltimore, and will be
assigned for duty on the sidewalks
along both sides of the Avenue. to as
sist in handling the crowds and to
render first-aid assistance.
Tuesday night 100 picked scouts of
this city will be on duty in the MOnu-
ment Lot while the fireworks are being
shown. They will carry their first-aid
kits, and be prepared for emergency
duty The scouts will work in pairs.
and should any one need their assist
ance one will remain and administer
nrst.aid treatment while the other sum-
mons an ambulance.
All of the scouts and scoutmasters as
signed for duty will be required to wear
their regulation uniforms. The scouts
will carry their haversacks. slaves and
canteens.
The first troop of out-of-town scouts
arrived in Washington yesterday morn
ing from Dublin, Ga There were about
twenty-five in the party. Their scout
master Is George W. Fout. The troop
has been quartered in the gymnasium
at the Rosedale playground, 18th and
kramer streets northeast.