The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-27
BOY SCOUTS PROVE REAL
WORTH DURING THIS WAR
Every May Suggested by Juvenile
Fiction.
PATROL COASTS FOR zEppELINs
Their Business-Likc and Military Air
* imprcssivc-idcRl Of Service
Useful tn Public still Is Supreme.
Girl Guidcs Also Active.

Correspondence OF Associated Press
LONDON September l5.--The Boy
Scouts OF Great britain are distinguish
INK themselves In almost every way
suggested by Juvenile fiction.
From the north OF Scotland down the
eastern coast to the Isle OF Wight on
the south. Sea Scouts arc patrolling the
shore. watching for tho dreaded Zcp-
rolir or for some ar'ned raider that
might have escaped the British North
Sen fleet Win view to sinking tho
army transports In the channel Rail
way bridges and reservoirs are watched
by camps of Scouts. relieving the sol
diers VINO are needed AZ the front.
orders come into the Scout district
hendquartrrs for huElers for Lord
Nitchener.s new army, for British
tuglors arr from fourteen to eighteen
years OF age, and enlist by their
parents consent y Scout Of fourteen
at Que otfcc has received the ncces-
sorN consent, and lie gives his com
rades wink OF triumph as the Scout
master signs "a letter TO the recruiting
Office. Hc Will serve in the Mlddlesex
Public school battalion.
These are some OF the military as
p"cts OF Scout life. But the Scout
ideal of service uscful to the public
still ia supreme. Those entering Lord
kitchencr's army as buEiers are IL
mere handful out of the 100000 Scouts
in Great Britain, Coast and railway
patrols are uunrmcd. and merely as
sist the military as eyes
Owing 10 the rapid recruiting In war
lime no onc--not even Sir Robert
Baden Powell the exact mum.
ber Of scouts In the United Kingdom
But in London alone there are $50 net
Ing as orderlies III the War Office. about
the same number IN the admiralty,
tending 20 telephone calls and acting as
messengers. and 700 or more who do
the GprNirp a "a cd "a
recruiting headquarters. Besides. there
are about 800 Scout cyclists. who tend
20 important errands, running between
the various stations. Scouts are to
DC found at every train. guiding reru-
gees with money to boarding houses
approved by tho British Relief Socic-
lies.
SERVICES INVALUABLE
As GUIDES IN LONDON
u any ono wants to learn about "A
certain street, he calls for a path
Nnder---a Scout who has obtained spc-
cial rating AZ a guide In London, after
passing an examination even more
severe than that required by the coun-
tY-council for taxi chauffeur's license
scouts have been loaned TO the Arneri-
opn relief committee and the American
embassy, where their services are In
valuable
As all Scouts above the rank OF ten
"crioot understand signaling their as
Ss'nuce Is often called for in this re-
spcct.
one thing that has particularly i'm
pressed Americans In London liz the
business like ana military air of the
British scout. lie has no shcepish feel
fnE about appearing In uniform. He
Is proud OF his organization, ana takes
his duties seriously.
The Scouts are volunteers in the
fullcst sense. even to paying for their
own uniforms. But publicly assisted
panteen. which serves meals at from
one To three pence. now keeps down
his cost OF living,
Ibc Gal Guides, the feminine branch
OF bHd.n-Powelis organization. are no
less busy. There are more than lo.0 600
o. these Guides In the kingdom. and
since the war Ahclr uniform has he
come quite familiar on London streets.
me girls are concerned, IN part, In
ilnit'ing muiilcrS ana stockings for the
scouts, but only In part.
To take random Instances OF their
usefulness. the Guides ut I.eeds
scrubbed down "a house that was beinr
turned into military hospital In
Hertiornshirc they aid the mcndinp
aud darning for q regiment OF Territor
iaIs at CrHWlcy they made puzzles 10
Hmuse conval"scents, ana seHcu news
papers together for extra winter blnn-
hcts. At the London refugee can,ns
10Y homeless E.lgians tho girls net n
nurses foT the children. Al Harrow
ther are raising vegetables for tho
poor.
Every RED cross hospital has its
corps OF Girl Guides, who wash tn.
dishes and do general cleaning. RIM
erranas and sometimes save steps by