Evening journal., 1914-11-27
NEWS OF THE BOY SCOUTS


Once more the Boy Scouts of thir
city have been asked to assist in
worthy cause. The Belgian Relief
Committee, of which Judge Marvel is
chairman, and on which are such rep
resentative men as Judge Gray, and
other well known citizens, has asked
the Scouts to distribute circulars call
ing attention to this cause. The dis
tribution will be made next Saturday
morning SO far. Troops ?, 3, ., IL, II
and IA have volunteered for this work
with several other Troops yet to be
heard from, so it Is assured that the
work will be well done. This is
certainly one of the most appealing
causes that has been presented to the
attention of the Scouts. and It is very
creditable that the response has been
SO generous, particularly in view of
the fact that the calls upon the Scouts
for service have been very frequent OF
late.
Troop 6 has been reorganized in the
matter of patrols, the Troop now con-
sisting of five instead of three, as
the outfit" tomorrow night, Scout
Master Taylor expects to announce
the names of the boys who have been
selected for the position of Senior Pa
troll Leader, Hospital Steward, and
Patrol Leader and Assistant Patron
Leader Of the Eagle Patrol The Off
GERS of the two new patrols will be
announced later. The Panther and
Black Bear Patrols will retain their
old officers.
Troop IA, under the energetic lead
ership of Scout Master Gurney will be
completely uniformed this week. This
Troop takes a "hike" regularly every
Saturday afternoon and hopes soon to
have a number of Second Class Scouts.
Troops are being organized at the
Emmanuel p Il. Church and the Cen
trail Presbyterian Church. Rev. Will
liam II. Laird. rector of the former
church, will act as Scout Master, while
Mr.. Charles Il. Eastman is taking
charge of the boys at the Central
Church. Mr.. Eastman had his new
outfit" down at Old Swedes last Tues
day evening, where Troop showed
them some of the points of Scoutcraft.
A Troop will shortly be organized
among the Italian boys of this city,
with Rev. r. l.. Wolven, vicar of Old
Swedes, as Scout Master. He viii
have as Assistant Scout Masters, First
Class Scouts McKelvey and Pickup,
who have made excellent records as
members of Troop 2, and who will be
promoted to their new positions. This
new Troop will make its headquarters
at the West End Reading Room.
Owing to the unavoidable accident
in the press room Of last Thursday
many of the Scout readers of THE
EVENING JOURNAL did not receive
their copy. For their benefit, we are
publishing this week the new dope"
on signalling, as il is very important
that all hands become acquainted with
these new conventional signs for the
sake of uniformity.
The u. S. Government has just is
sued a new signal book making some
slight changes in the conventional
signs used with both the International
Morse and SemNphore codes. The let
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remain the same. The change is In
the direction OF making the conven-
tional signs uniform for all codes. For
instance. error I'm the Int. Morse will
be signified by sending AA front and
then repeating the word. In the Sem
aphore, the sender will make AA in
terval and then repeat word. Tho
new Semaphore conventional signs
complete are as follows
To call or answer Attention" fol-
lowed by call letter of station called.
Repeat as necessary. Both stations
then make interval"
Repeat last word, &C Interval, In
/ terval
Repeat last message, CCC Interval,
Interval. Interval
Repeat after (word). &C Interval A
| fword.)
End of word. Interval.
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nal (made by extending both arms at
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