Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06

| With Scoutmaster Junkin in charge
and Engineer FultZ at the engine the
! motorboat Sea Scout left here yesterday
morning for the Boy Scout camp on the
| Chesapeake bay, where load OF camp
| equipment will be taken aboard and
| brought back to this city. The equip
ment will include tentage, kitchen uten-
! sils. tools and other articles, which Will
| be brought here for safekeeping during
| the winter.
! Scout Commissioner Martin reports that
| the twenty-five pigs that formed a part
of the camp stock farm during the past
summer now average 100 pounds In
! weight They are to be sold and the
money applied to the scout treasury.
The money received from the sale of the
pigs will be almost all profit, as they were
less than month old when purchased in
June During the summer they have
been fattening on the refuse from the
camp Kitchen
The four milk COWS at the camp also
are to be sold. During the summer. they
furnished about $50 worth of milk for
the camp. The camps chickens already
have been sold.
When the sap in the trees which cover
the tifty-Six acres incluGed III Tue camp
site has gone down" sufficiently a force
OF worlimeu is to ne sent to the camp
TO cut timber. This wor: Will he done
under the supervision of al expert from
the bureau of forestry.
The timber is to lie sawed into boards
to be used in building Il wharf about
300 or 800 feet out int" the bay next
spring Poles also will be cut for Il tele-
phone line which it is proposed to string
from Chesapeake Beach to the camp.
The scow which has been used at fhe
camp during the summer as a diving
boat is to be sod, as it Will not De heeded
when a wharf is built On the end OF
the wharf diving boards are to be pro-
vided
Mr.. Martin considers that the raising OF
piss at the camp was "a very successful
experiment. OF the twenty-four shoats
bought last spring only two We're lost
during the summer. one went blind and
later died, and another fell into gar
bage can one night and was drowned.
S.yeutv-four boys from this city
were at the camp the last week of the
season. They declare it was the ban
iner week of the year. Everybody APP
peared to have mad a fine time.
Twenty-four OF the boys returned TO
this city on the Sea Scout: They left
the camp about s o'clock last Sunday
morning and reached Colonial Beach
about S O'Clock that evening. After
STAY at the beach of about four hours
they set sail again and arrived IN
WASHINGTON the following morning.
, By reason of the great amount of
work necessary to get things in readi-
ness for the fall and winter seasons,
luo examinations will be held during
this month. The merit badge faculty
is to be reoreanized and several new
examiners added to the llst
Communications have been received
from trOOp ScribeS as follows.
Troop No. As:
Last Saturday, through the courtesy
of Messrs. Edgar Murphy, LeRoy stone
and Robert KoontZ, Troop AZ left
Washington about o'clock for Fort
Foote on the motor boat Wynona of the
Eastern Power Boat Club. While Sun
in the Eastern branch we We're caught
in a storm, so we had to bring all of
our things inside. BY the time we got
to Alexandria we We're able to put
them inside again, and therefore make
! it {: little more comforta BILE
| al about I o'clock we arrived at
Fort Foote. and by eight our tents
were up. Although all the wood was
wet when we arrived. we soon had
! big campfire and were burning wood
at least eight inches in diameter. In
about a half hour after retiring some
one came out of his tent complaining
of the mosquitoes, and a little later
| second one did the same, and a third,
until the whole camp was sitting
around the fire, and this they did all
!
night.
| "Some boys went on a short walk to
see if they could find daylight, but they
soon returned and said they would walt
! for it About 80 o'clock Saturday
night a few walked about three miles to
the nearest store, but when they reached
it it was closed. But when they told the
owner that they would spend about dol
! lar he willingly reopened. so they went
in and bought enough cakes and things
| for the camp.
| while going back they got some corn
from farm house. After they came back
! to camp the corn was roasted, and we had
a midnight feast. When morning came
the fires were started and breakfast was
cooked.
| After breakfast several went in SWIM
ming, while others were looking around
| the grounds. At 10 o'clock Sunday
school was taught by our scoutmaster,
| who had three new attendants. horse
| and two pack mules, which were so tame
! that they could not be driven away. After