Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-01
BOY SCOUT FUND
LEAPS TO $12,667
DURING FIRST HOUR
Team Captains Reports of
General Contributions in
$4,000 Campaign Cause
Enthusiasm Among Work
ers.
ers.

Enthusiasm precalled in the Boy Scout
Campaign Headquarters in the Curtis
! Building at noon, when the teams that
today began the work Of collecting sub
scrlptions for the $4,000 found, reported
they had obtained sl265725 during little
more than an hours work this morning.
Leaders In the movement expressed
their belief the fund would now grow
more rapidly, and that amount desired
would be forthcoming long before the
hour set for the closing of the campaign
on Thursday night.
The largest amount reported by a single
! team was $4,000. 1t was obtained by the
| team headed by DR.. Charles NJ Hart,
executive chairman. The next largest
was reported by Ellis Glmbel who eliclted
| applause when he made brief address
| and said his men had not been turned
| down a single time during their rounds
and that they could report collections OF
| $3.50
| one prominent man, who Is a director
| of the Chlldren's Aid Society, contributed
through the team captalned by Charles
| Thompson $1,000 for the expenses OF en-
listing boys Of that society. Mr.. Thomson
reported total of sl575 for his team the
third largest amount reported by any
single team.
Many prominent men attended the
luncheon at noon when the reports were
received. Besides Mr.. Gmbel. there were
present Joseph SnelcnbeFg and Jacob ID.
Lit, both of whom are taking much in
terest In the Boy Scout movement.
Boy Scouts, stenographers and the
leaders are all busy bringing in the dollars
from all parts of the city. There were
12j Scouts present during the day, and
these were sent out with letters by work.
ers to their friends asking for contribu-
tions. Many were the dollars reported
through this method.
a little brown tent, looking oddly out of
place amid its surroundings of skyscrap-
ers. theatres and cafes, is standing today
on tho plaza at Broad and Arch streets
The strange sight of an army camp right
In the heart of Philadelphia has halted |
traffic and swayed hundreds OF pedes-
trians from their path to the plaza for |
closer view.
There is nothing lacking to make the |
miniature camp real one. In front OF |
the tent is camp fire. men dressed in |
khaki uniforms loll on cots inside, and |
every hour the roar of traffic in the city's |
centre is pierced by the shorp notes of |
bugle. From the front pole of the tent |
flies the stars and stripes and just be-
meath the fagstaff is the following sign: |
UNLESS you boost the Boy Scout Fund |
Campaign, December TO g. you have lost |
your best opportunity to boost Phlladel-
phia."
The camp" Is one of the receiving |
stations for the Scout campaign fund. |
The camp is a genuine reproduction OF |
the life of a Boy Scout. A squad of |
scouts will live there during the three
days Of the campaign, in charge OF Scout |
Master Nelson c, Ogden, OF Troop 1870.
TENT WELL GUARDED.
The boys take the.r turns at guard and
patrol back and forth In front Of the
tent, where is located a glass bowl to
receive contributions from passing
pedestrians. Hardly person passes who
is not attracted by the odd sight of n
camp in the centre OF big city and
hardly person who stops continues on
without dropping something in the bowl
The scouts on duty there are ]. L.
Owens. Of Troop 81; ]. A. Napier. OF So
and Arthur Nydlck, of 22
More than 800 Boy Scouts are at
work throughout this city today in
the campaign to raise $4,000 by Thurs
day night to extend the scope of the
scout movement In this city. and by
night the lads expect TO have a third or
more of the necessary sum.
COMPARE NOTES AT LUNCHEON.
At noon each day of the campaign the
workers will gather in the ninth floor of
the Curtis Building for luncheon, and will
campare notes and map out plans for the
work in the afternoon. The campaign
was inaugurated last night at banquet
in the big publishing house. attended by
more than $50 scout masters and execu-
tives representing virtually every branch
of business and professional life.
Dr. Charles ID. Hart, chairman of the
Executive Scout Council, presided The
speakers included Director Porter, Of the
Department of Public Safety, and Charles
Edwin Fox, Assistant District Attorney
in the Juvenile Court. Letters OF regret
were received from Connie Mack. who is
III at his home; GoverHnr-elect hrum-
baugh, who is IN the South. and several
other prominent Philadelphians.
DOCTOR BRUMBAUaH INTERESTED.
Doctor Brumbaugh, In his letter, said;
II am interested in the Boy Scout move
ment because whoever helps the Boy
Scouts today makes a better and greater
tomorrow. for the Boy
Scouts become good citizens. and good
citizens make a good city"
Captains OF the 50 teams present at the
banquet were:
Francis b. Biddle. George l. Bodine, w.
W. Bodine, j. Radcliffe Cheston, George
j. Cooke, Orlando Grease. j. ". Daniels
II. c, prayton, John W. Drayton. Z. s.
w. H. Emhardt. Clarence W.
Fisher. Louis w. Fleisher, William Innes
Forbes. Robert p. Frazier, Ellis Gimbel,
Alfred Granger, Charles r. Grlhith Harry
M Hart, the Rev. o. v, Hawes, c. Wal
Or. Edward Martin. Or, E. p Hitchcock.
Edgar b Howard Robert Mason. George
Gordon Meade. j. L. Montgomery, j.
Cheston Norris. Dr. Hublsy r. owen,
George d. Porter, +, Wilson Pritchett.
Frank sartori and Alexander Wilson