Evening star., 1914-05-03

First and second class examinations
are to be held Saturday morning at
10 o'clock at the Boy Scout rendez-
vous at Rosslyn, Va. on the old WASH
ington Golf Club grounds. Scouts who
wish to take these examinations should
file their applications at the Boy Scout
office not later than Wednesday. An
nouncement has been made that be-
ginning next Saturday first and sec
ond class examinations will be held at
Rosslyn the second Saturday of each
| month.
scoutmaster Junkin and Scouts Ed
Starkman of Troop No. 43 and Walter
Jacks of Troop No. % will leave this
| morning for the Boy Scout camp at
Chesapeake Beach. Tomorrow morning
they will board the motor boat Boy
Scout, and navigate it to this city. The
scow which recently was towed to the
camp with a load of building material
aboard will be brought back to this
city to receive a second load. While
here the scow will be given a coat of
copper paint. The headquarters offi-
cials have found that it is cheaper to
tow building materials to the camp
than to have them shipped by rail.
The monthly meeting of the Scoutmas-
ters' Club was held Monday evening. In
masters went on hike to some woods in
Wesley Heights where supper was cooked
and eaten around the camp fire. Eleven
scoutmasters and four scouts were pres
| ent.
A new troop has been organized at
Mount Rainier and will be known as
| Troop No. 3. Sixteen boys have been en-
rolled in this troop to date The scout
master is Charles III. Pryor.
Lectures on first aid will be given Mon
day and Saturday afternoons at O'Clock
at the Y. NJ. c. A. Scoutmasters. assist
ant Scoutmasters, patrol leaders and as
sistant patrol leaders are invited to at
tend these lectures.
The following merit badges have been
awarded this week: Charles Rynes.
handicraft; Arthur Blakeslee. poultry
farming: Lloyd Harrison, astronomy;
Homer Greenfield. camping: Francis w.
Watson, craftsmanship; Raymond Baur,
iiremanship.
Communications from scout scribes
have been received as follows:
Troop No. 21.
At our meeting Saturday night merit
badges were given to the following boys:
Robert Cruit, fremanship. swimming,
first aid. handicraft; James d. ESsleston,
Harrison. craftsmanship. leather work
ing; William kroll, pathfindns. fireman.
ship; Homer Greenfield. leather WORKING.
After which bandaging, ropework and
scout games were indulged in. Monday
night we met at our hall as fire patrols
and had a fire drill with two of the
hose reels. We made runs to imaginary
fires, coupled up to the fire plugs, and
each patrol took it's fire apparatus and
gave it good cleaning and greasfng.
We want to get permission to paint
it, as it isn't red enough for US. 1t
hasn't been painted SINCE 1t was bought
some years ago. and looks rather rusty
at present. We expect to have some
great races between the fire patrols,
as each believes they can beat the
others.
Thursday night we had our patrol
leaders meeting and our scoutmaster
announced the following appointments:
First Class Scout Howard Gatefy ap-
pointed corporal of First Patrol. and
First Glass Scout Beverly Galloway
corporal of Second Patrol Arrange
ments were made for the talk Friday
night, and for a firedrill for Saturday
afternoon.
sistant secretary of the Department of
Agriculture, gave US a talk on his TRIP
around the world. starting from Seattle
and taking us with him through Japan
and China Later he plans to tell us
of the remainder of his trip.
At our next meeting Prof. Bliss of the
Bliss Electrical School will give us
talk on ELECTRICITY"
Troop No. IS.
."The troop met at 10th Street bridge
at Z o'clock Friday evening and had a
treasure hunt around in the woods. The
beaver patrol found the treasure and got
almost to the base when attacked by
the stag patrol.
The treasure white cloth, was torn
in two. AS the beaver patrol got the
most of 1t they won and got the prize,
two boxes of candy made by Mrs Wood
ward.
This was the second time that the
beavers won in treasure hunt. They
have never been beaten