Evening star., 1914-04-24
GUIDES ARE WANTED
FOR SUNDAY ''H|KERS'
Chief Wanderluster Doyle Sends Out
Call for Experts on
Dame Nature.
Walk This Week to Be to Burnt
Mills, a Distance Of Three
and a Half Miles.

Wanted-A1en and women who are ex-
perts in the gentle art of hiking, or
who know about birds, or flowers or
trees. or butterflies or rocks. or other
children of Dame Nature
That is the call which John BoyIe. chief
i of the wanderlusters has issued. He
wants all mon and women so qualified
and willing to lead groups Of the wander
lusters who assemble for the walk Sun
day 10 meet with him in the rooms of
the Board OF Trade. in The Star building.
this evening at o'clock. ANY persons
who are interested in the jaunt being ar
ranged for Sunday afternoon-Washng-
| tons second community hike-are invited
to attend the meeting, but Chief Wander
, iuster Boyle is particularly anxious to
meet with persons having the necessary
qualifications of leadership. He has sug-
gested Boy Scout leaders would make
ideal guides for the groups
The hike this week is to be Burnt Mills
The road leading there is one of the
prettiest to be found in the vicinity of
Washington. say experienced mixers. 1t
is q typical country road leading now
through stretches of sunny field, and now
between shading. bird-tilled trees. 1t is
a rugged country and very picturesque.
Urged to Bring Cameras Along.
Because of the beautiful vistas along
the road which cannot fail, it is said. to
appeal to lovers of the open. the leaders
of the hike have urged that all who have
cameras ard like photographs of pretty
scenes shall bring their cameras with
them. Several of those who made the
trip last Sunday were camera enthusiasts.
The fact that the hike this week is to
have specific objective point in view,
and the fact that the mixers are to be
arranged in groups according to their
walking abilities and according to
whether they are most interested in birds,
flowers or some other of natures chill
dren, will be productive in bringing out
even larger number than last Sunday,
it is believed. Plans for taking care of
a much larger number than were present
on the last excursion are to be discussed
at the meeting this evening. -..-.S
No special invitations are issued for
these walks. Chief WanderIuster Boyle
urges all to remember. He belieyes that
many were deferred from Joining the last
hike because they felt that it was, after
all. for only a few.
II want to emphasize the fact that the
invitation to hit the trail is a general
one and that We are extending it to all
lovers of walking. j.-e.-
Burnt Mills Is Historic. Il
Burnt Mills, the objective point of the
next outing, Is a historic place, although
no one has vet been found whose mem
DRY reaches back to that point in his
tory when the spot received this name
Residents in the vicinity have been able
to ..'go, back as far as 17sS. and yet the
time when the name was given Is still a
mystery. it would seem. One resident
who moved into the neighborhood in 1873
TALKED with a man who had lived near
Burnt Mills for the ninety years of his
pfe, or since 1855, This old man said
the mill had not been burned in his
lifetime, but that the story had been
handed down to him as boy that a
mill once stood above the present mill
site-where one of the few water mills
IN this part Of the country still stands
and that this early mill had been burned
down. Those who care to explore in
the woods and underbrush above the site
of the, present mill have been able to
find the ruins of an old mill and mill
race, long since. in a state Of dila pida-
ton. ff
The route to be covered next Sunday
is about three and half miles each way
1t leads past -Four Corners. Indian
Springs and the old Alton farm. Many
stories of interest abound regarding the
general vicinity here.