Evening star., 1914-12-20

Troop Sc. Thursday he called on
PRESIDENT Wilson at the White House
TO urge the designation of October -
as national holiday to be known as
Indian day.
Will Instruct Scouts.
Reginald w. Geare. the merit badge
examiner in architecture. has written
10 local headquarters that h. *
anxious to stimulate interest in archi-
lecture among the scouts and Will Of
fer prizes to the first ten boys who
succeed in qualifying for this meri,
badge Mr. tieare's offices are i'm th..
Woodward building. and he states THAI
he is willing to consult scouts who
are preparing to take the test and
give them instructions.
Bugling and Leatherworking.
Capt. Duncan Elliot of the 5th Cav
airy. stationed AT Fort Myer. Va, has
consented to take over the me1st badg..
eXaminership in leatherworking and
bugling. lie will give personal super
vision of the work, while the tests viii
be given by some of the -commis-
stoned officers under him. The leather
working examination will he given by
man in the field artillery and
graduate of the Leatherwor5inr and
Harness School of the Rock Island
arsenal. The bugling tests will be con-
Quoted by the chief trumpeter.
Seamanship Examiner.
Capt. Norton Wood. L. S. y, retired.
called at the local Office Thursday 10
talk over the matter of seamanship
for the scouts of the District of co
lumbia. He is much interested in this
branch of the work, and will take it up
actively after the first of the year. He
has also consented to be the instructor
of the seamanship patrol of the in
structor corps.
Engineer Corps Instructor.
Lieut.. Col f. E. winslow of the En-
gineer Corps has written to the scout
authorities that he will detail an eX-
perienced on-commissioned officer to
instruct the engineer patrol of the in
structors' corps every "Wednesday att
ernoon, at Washington barracks, dur
ing the winter
Communications have been received
from troop scribes. as follows
Troop 5.
AT our meeting last Saturday nlAht
a resolution was passed to encourag"
patrol rivalry. The plan is that after
a period of two months the patrol With
the highest percentage will receiV"
treat from the other two patrols. The
expense will be fixed at an averag"
amount. so that no patrol will give or
receive any more than another patrol.
The percentage is based on attendanc..
grade. conduct and dues We expect
to abolish our present demerit system
and use this system in its place.
Next Saturday we expect to go TO
our old camp in Randle Highlands and
prepare camp for the winter. II is un-
decided as to the building of log
cabin, as it is doubtful if there is
enough wood in that vicinity. How
ever. the grounds Will be cleared and
cleaned and necessary repairs will be
made. New leantos Will be built by
each patrol. Signal towers will be
placed in the large trees about the
camp. so as to Increase the speed ana
accuracy in signaling at different dis
tances.
Last Wednesday night the boys went
to Y. NJ. c. A. for a swim. William
Johnson passed his tenderfoot exam
ination with grade of s4 per cent
Scout Edward King passed his second
class examination December L..
Troop 81.
I'VE held our regular meeting at the
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
last Saturday at pm. After the meet
ing We had a short basket ball prac-
tice.
1--WE have decided to award to the
following members troop emblems. for
efficiency in foot ball this past fall:
Edward S. Pardoe, Adam King, Rob-
ert N. Young and Thomas Sommerville.
! jr. Owing to snow. there was no hike
last Sunday.
-Our troop would like to arrange
| with any other troops of this city of
our average some basket ball games.
We average in weight 115 pounds:
, height. feet , inches. age. fifteen
To arrange games, write Adam King.
| 1476 Monroe street northwest
Troop FL.
| "At our meeting last Saturday night
| we had as visitors Scout EXecutiN
Martin, Field Executive Aplin, nepul.
| Field Executive Grogan and Mr.. Scriv'
ner of our troop committee. AS t.
visitors entered our hall the bugl-
corps sounded assembly. The '"oop
then marched into the hail to .. Iici-
pate in the ceremony of 'trooping th.
colors.' while the bugles sounded 10
| the colors.' followed by Officers cali
and 'adjutant's call
Our scoutmaster then introduced the
visitors, all of whom made short ad
dresses. Scoutmaster Harries then an
nounced the following appointments.
George Davis, assistant scoutmaster.
Robert Cruit, color sergeant: Howard
Galley, patrol leader; Steve Williams.
assistant patrol leader of bugle patrol
William Kroll and Wilfried Pryor, as
s;stant patrol leaders.
rPatrol Leader Kenneth Harres was
detailed as instructor of tenderfoot
scouts. The following service stripes
were then presented:
Red stripes fer three years service
TO Patrol Leaders Kenneth Harries and
Clinton Allard.
Green stripes for one years service
to Scouts Wilfried Pryor. William
Kroll, Steve Williams. Donald Stuart.
George Davis, Ira Ewers and Howard
Galley.
"First-class. second-class and tender
foot pins then were presented, after
which Mr.. Martin presented the mem
bership cards for the year. He also
presented merit badge for business
to Patrol Leader Howard Galley.
IAN exhibition in signaling then was
given by the signal patrol under the
direction of Quartermaster C. L. Miller
of the District naval militia, after
which scout activities were demon
strated Mr.. Apiin and Mr.. Grogan
gave an exhibition in fitting.
while this was in progress our COM
missary committee. consisting of
Scouts Allard and Cruit. had prepared
a big lot of hot dog sandwiches, which
were passed around.
among the visiting scouts at the
Ware Assistant Scautpoo Star,