Evening star., 1914-11-01

| The first fall meeting of the Scout
| masters Club of Washington Is sched-
| uled to be held at the Raleigh Hotel
tomorrow evening. The program in
cludes talks by Scoutmaster H. L
| Bowles and Scout Commissioner E. s.
Martin. Mr.. Bowles will tell OF the Boy
Scout trail-building expedition in the
White mountains last summer. Mr.
Bowles was in charge of the expedition
and ten scouts from Washington were
| included in the party.
Mr.. Martin is to tell of the joint sum-
mer camp of the Washington and Bal
timore councils at Camp Archibald
Butt on Chesapeake bay. His talk
will be of the nature of report on
the activities of the scouts at the camp
during the past summer.
The annual election of officers of the
club will also be a feature of the meet
ing and program of activities for the
winter months will be discussed.
be given Friday evening, at 1880
o'clock, at Business High School
Merit badge examination in civics
will be given at Business High School
of Thursday, as announced by head
quarters last week.
A new troop is being organized at
Hyattsville, Md.
Steady and substantial progress has
marked the work of the Boy Scouts of
America throughout the country during
the past four months, according to the
report of Chief Scout Executive James
f. West. prepared for recent meet
ing of the executive board of the ma
tional council. Enrollments of scouts
have been pouring in by thousands
every month, while hundreds of new
scoutmasters have applied for commits
sionS.
September was one of the biggest
! months in the history of the move
ment, practically every department of
the work showing an increase over the
same month of the preceding year.
Communications have been received
from troop scribes, as follows:
Troop No. AZ.
Last Saturday members of our troop
went on an all-day hike, during the
course of which they visited Camp
Coffin, the regular camping place of
the troop when on overnight hikes. The
camp is situated on a bluff about a
mile below Chain bridge by the trail.
and overlooks the river. After lunch
had been cooked and eaten the boys
began work on a shack in which 1t is
planned to store the cooking utensils
tools. etc, of the troop while the camp
is not occupied.
Our troop meets every Friday even
ing at 1880 at 1922 Willard street north
west. The first Friday of the month is
devoted to practice and instruction in
first aid, the second to purely business
matters of the troop, the third Friday
is devoted to signaling and the fourth
to a brief military drill to keep the
boys in practice. This keeps the boys
proficient in the two biggest assets of
scoutcraft. A hike is held every Satur-
day and camping trips are planned for
the holidays.
Boys desiring to join the troop are
invited to attend the weekly meetings
and for further information should ap-
ply to either Acting Scoutmaster John
Stockard or Senior Patrol Leader f.
H. Livermore.
LAT our last meeting Roland Simons.
erstwhile first class scout in Troop 30.
by the troops officers. Joined the troop
and was assigned to the second patrol.
Go thou and do likewise
Among our boys are now included
class, the remainder of the roster being
composed of tenderfoots."
Troop No. 5.
"Our troop is busy preparing for our
first anniversary, which is to be held
some time next month.
I'VE have three new members in the
troop, namely, William Johnston of 9 4th
street northeast; Haddox Wright of
Washington Grove, Md, and Thomas
Cullen, a first-class scout, who comes to
our troop by transfer.
! saturday we went to our camp in
Randall Highlands, where we practiced
signaling, drilling. tracking and foot ball
Bugler Samuel Hardy gave a demonstra-
ton in bugling. while Hugh Turner and
ing.
-FOUR troop went to the Y. NJ c. A.
Wednesday night. and while there Phil