New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-14
Plan to Make Their Latin
American Brothers Feel
at Home.
GET CABLE MESSAGE
FROM LONDON RALLY
300 Gather in Central Park TO
Hear Presidents Address
on Peace.

Thirteen hundred boys, who took part
Yesterday In the third annual i"n| u
the New York city Council OF BOY ocou''
of AFRICA. held in Central Park prom
ised to learn to speak Spanish so INA
when i'm future years the BOY SCOUTS I, U,,'
Mexico and other Latin American couh-
tries come here the American boys WIN
be able TO make the Spanish speaking
scouts feel At home.
Just before the Boy Scouts broke camp
Colin n. Livingstone, OF Washlhe'o"'
president OF the National Boy scouts
organization. addressed the boys sltuhs
In campfire style about the reviewing
stand i'm the centre of the shoop common
He pictured a Pan-American peace III
which he said the Boy Scout movement IN
all the Americas would figure.
How many Of the thirteen hundred
scouts before me will promise 10 STUDY
Spanish, so that when these boys meet
us here, as they surely VIII In some
future rally, you can talk to them III
their own language? he asked. Every
hand went up, and there was Wiid
cheer.
That means" said Mr. Livingstone,
that war will disappear on this CONT
nent. that from Hudson Bay to cape
Horn there will be real brotherhood
and the Boy Scouts of all the Americas
will bring IL about" Then the boys
cheered again.
President Livingstone caused more
cheers when he read cable message
from ten thousand Boy Scouts OF Great
Britain attending the Queen AleXanurd
rally in London yesterday. I'VE send our
greetings to our American brothers, the
message read. The Central Park scouts
cabled a reply
Yesterdays thirteen hundred were most
" members of the New York City council
but there were visiting scouts from New
Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania
with one or two upstate delegations the
visiting scouts were entertained in the TN
Regiment Armory, which was made the
headquarters Of the rally.
Start was made for Central Park from
the armory at o'clock. The scouts
marched in fours in four divisions
through the 66th st. transverse road to
Eighth av Fifty policemen kept the ten
thousand sightseers outside the inclosure
i'm the sheep common. On the reviewing
stand were Cabot Ward, Park Commits
soner; Samuel "a. Moffat, national field
commissioner; Lorillard Spencer and
President Livingstone. On the field, in
charge of the exercises, were the following
adult scouts: Charles L. Pollard, execu-
tive deputy scout commissioner; Pirie
Macdonald, scout commander, of Norfolk,
Conn, and Deputy Commissioners a. G..
Charles Jules Dierck, Arthur 7. New
man. David NJ. Bull and Samuel r. Stew
art.
All sorts of near military activities
were engaged in, including an antelope
race rescue race, dressing race.
Paul Revere race and wall scaling. Much
interest was shown in complete wire
less outfit, which was put in operation by
Troops 155 and III, Of Brooklyn. The
scouts quickly erected aerials and sig
nailed across the neld. a conspicuous
feature of the rally was a troop of negro
scouts from the Carleton Young Mems
Christian Association, of Brooklyn.
Scout Master P. Snoras. who was in the
picturesque figure, leading a newly
formed troop composed of boys who at
tend the Greek Catholic churches in New
York.
After the scout spiral was performed
the 1900 demonstrated how quickly field
may be cleared of litter by organized eff
fort. AS the strains of America died
away Scout Commissioner Spencer shout
ed: Every speck of paper and every
piece OF wood must be picked up aud
put in a pile. The Park Commissioner
has been good to US, and we must leave
the common spotless.'
To-day the boys will attend services
the Protestants at the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, the Catholics at St Pat
rick's Cathedral