Evening star., 1914-07-26

ThlngS are going along dt luli SWING
down at Camp Archibald Butt these days.
All of the tedious work in connection
with arranging a camp on new site hav-
ing been completed. the scouts are en-
joying camp life to the fullest extent.
Every day something of interest is on
the program. Hikes are taken through
the country adjacent to the camp under
the leadership of DR.. Charles Eastman,
the director. DR.. Eastman has taught
the boys how to trail in true Indian
fashion and has also explained the war
and other Indian dances. Water activities
are progressing under the direction OF
Sergt Malikna. An efficient life-sav-
ing squad has been organized and every
day drills are held.
Steam baths are now possible at the
camp. DIR. Eastman has shown the
scouts how the Indians construct prim-
tive Turkish bath establishments IN
heavy canvas has been stretched over
several poles, making a crude tent OF
the wigwam type. Within this mole
has been dug in the earth and into this
water is poured. Large rocks then are
heated and thrown into the water Two
or three scouts then get into the sweat
box. allowing their heads to PROJECT
through holes in the canvas which mt
inclosure soon is filled with steam. II
a long sweat is desired another supply Of
hot rocks is thrown into the water hole
in the center Of the tent The scouts
say the sweat bath is great medicine.
There was a fatality at the camp one
day during the past week. Zenie one of
the twenty-four pigs at the camp, when
are referred to by the scouts as the
garbage disposal plant" was drowned.
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the Enclosure where the pigs are kept
and began prowlng about the gar
bage cans in the rear of the mess hall
for something to eat. He fell into half
filled can and was drowned. The body
was discovered by one of the cooks the
following morning. An elaborate funeral
in which all of the scouts participated
was held that day. The scouts say Zenie's
death must have been the ideal demise
for pig.
Thirty-two Boy Scouts of this city will
leave tomorrow morning on. the 1l:3o
o'clock train for the camp. They are:
Raymond Brookmire. Philip Hardie,
Coon Dunlop. Kenneth w. Boyd. Roy NJ.
Belnap. A. ]. McCurdy. Gilbert Slentz.
Jack Childress. Francis II: Fant. Carl
Tyler, Edward G. Wingate, b. B. Wilson,
knut Nilsson Bertram Hackenberser,
Donald b. Brooks William B. Boswell,
Clarence Shrout, James NJ. Probey, Lee
Rov Hutchison. King Ridgeway, Jack
O'Donoghue jr.: Warren Loving. Ran
dolph Carroll. Mitchell Carroll, Paul
Grove, Guy II. Keeton. jean Veditz,
Richard Saunders. Julian Steward. Ray
,nond NJ Peake and Edward Twiss Dun
lOp.
Tom Nikirk is hard at work these days
with his wireless outfit at the camp. A
number of experiments have been con-
Quoted in an effort to receive messages
sent from a companion in this city who
has a sending set of thirty-hve miles
range, but up to the present time they
have not been entirely successful. Tom
saws the twenty-foot aerial at the camp
is not sufficient. An aerial sixty feet
high will fill the bill, he believes. He
has no difficulty in receiving the weather
forecasts and base ball scores that are
flashed from the radlo station dt AriinS-
ton, however
Merit badges have been awarded by
national headquarters to local scouts as
follows: Thomas r. Nikrk. life-saving
Iummel Fishburn, cycling. Homer f.
Greenfield. gardening: Louis NJ. Gosorn,
personal and public health: Rudolph Pal
dauf, personal and public health, and Al
fons Sanders. personal and pubic health
All scouts who intend going with Col.
Day to Luray, Va, are requested to be
at a meeting at Col. Days residence,
Tuesday July - at pm He expects
to start on his trip August 3.
s. 4. Moffat. national field scout COM
missioner visited the camp Friday. Mr.
Moffat is Oh IL tour of inspection to all
the scout camps III the eastern section of
the country. He also plans to visit the
student military camp in North Carolina
While in that state Mr.. Moffat also plans
TO assist i'll the establishment of "A school
for boys conducted along scout lines
Instead of being a military academy, this
school is to be a Boy Scout academy.
The instructors are to be regularly en-
rolled scoutmaSters.
Communications have been received
from troop scribes as follows:
Troop No. FL.
Monday morning wo broke camp
where We had spent eight of the
pleasantest days of our lives. and pre-
pared for our hike home. We had been
boating. swimming and having lessons
in camp cooking and instructions from
members of the engineers camp The
lessons in cooking were practical, as
two boys were detailed each day as
cooks, and our scoutmaster gave them
instructions how to prepare and cook
our food, and kept watch on them
all the time. The food was we'll
cooked, and there was always plenty