Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-14
May Mornings
J. eAMtrEL sCoVILLE, JR.

font waste this one LIE III peu IL Sou
~. n some other month. This month
4 The great holiday of the year The
Las are coming back, the flowers are
.,,v nm. the butterflies are coming
,rd YOU should not waste a single
es', sN, moment Get out every afternoon
~, ~ sii dav on Saturday and especially
wy Wy. an hours walk before breakfast
-, can't fail to have some adventure
Sang the wild-folk on May morning
rhIs morning, May II, l walked across
i,,ie field back of my house where
marc is an ice pond. / have passed 1t
s,,ndred times and seen nothing espe-
In, interesting. Today Il gray-green
Ssr5 6opped up from the side with a
Sns,ss satiawk, dangling a pair OF long
,sinw legs. 1t was the little green her
,cn the first l have ever seen on my
I,cs Yesterday. May IL, my two boys
WI started 10 break our before-break-
s.st record of 81. We just made 32
Lin a black-pol warbler, which has
h,ark head and white cheeks and says
,,l.il.tir i'm a tiny voice so high that
,anS people cant hear 1t at all, any more
ran they can hear the squeak of the
bst which is the top of the scale OF the
animals
yent,ire. shiver to think how near
rame TO losing ii by staying In bed for
an extrs hour The first thing that hap
n.nsd was when | saw a bird with a
lang black neck and head flying over
t~ad and recognized my frat brant of the
YEAR one of the lesser geese. The big
canadian geese fly high in V, and
Nave not been lucky enough to see them
thls year The next happening was when
was crossing the pasture where two
marrow -hawks live. On an old willow
af ,,y hn In natanpd a
Ian which says, mo shooting here
An intelligent flicker decided that this
vas the correct place for a nest and ac-
eordlngly dug n deep hole in the soft
wood Just under the sign and exploded
o,it of the same as ] passed by Then
came the adventure. 1t may never hap
men again and I never would have seen
and heard 1t IL l had stayed in bed. In
dip in the old road by Sandpiper Pool,
where we always see the first solitary
sandpiper tipping his way along the
muddy shore stands n black locust tree
and white-ash tree Just as | came TO
them there was a sharp "chip-chip' and
from a tangle of wild honeysuckle pair
of cardinal grosbeaks 6arted out. This
seemed suspicious and l looked through
The tangle closely and, sure enough, there
was a loose nest in the vines, with
couple of gaping g-mouthed little cardinals
IN II. The cardinal is the crested bird
who whistles so loud and clear like a
boy. observation-disclosures
and is the color of the ?ivid shade of red
which bears his name.
Just as | was watching him, suddenly
from the top of the black locust tree
filtered down a rich warbling song that
only hear two or three times a year.
II was something like that of a robin,
but softer and sweeter and with more of
warble. | searched the branches with
my hed-glasses and In a minute saw the
vivid black head and white breast with
agreat splotch of rose on the upper part.
II was the rose-breasted grosbeak carol
Ing his way north. 1 had no more than
located him than from the white-ash tree
not 10 feet below him came the slow, fiat,
labored song of the scarlet tanaGer and
there he stood glowing against the green
leaves like q flaming coal Back and
forth the two sang, while at the foot of
the tree the cardinal moved restlessly in
his bush. Three of the most beautiful
birds in the world that dress in red were
before me side by side and two of them
were singing duet to the dawn Wasn't
itworth while getting up to see and hear?
On Sunday | was off the whole morning
for record of 6S-but that's another
story.
The Norwood Troop baseball team de-
feated the Sharon Hill Troop to 6. The
Norwood lineup was: Hill. catcher; r.
Vollmer, left field; Mundell. right field;
Ford, first base: ]. Vollmer, third base;
Mcclellan, shortstop; Sparks, second
vase; Bagey, centre field; Dutton, first
ease, and Hayes pitcher.
Troop S3 (ScOutmaster GibsOn)
one-year-old Troop SO reorganlzed May
with Walter Gibson, scoutmaster; John
y Davis, assistant scoutmaster: John
Fleetwood senior patrol leader; william
Howarth, patrol leader; Raymond c.
Smith. scribe; George NJ. Jensen, quar-
eFmaster and bugler and Harry OFT,
HDrarlan. Commissioner Goodman spoke.
a baseball team has been formed. Harry
ott presented 20 books to the library
Scouts George Boysen and Raymond
Smith have Penn Audubon badges
Troop 81 (ScOutmaster Christine)
meeting of parents and scouts will
pe held this evening at the office of the
teoutmaster, DIR. Gordon NJ. Christine,
"S North 18th street, to secure the par
more completely under the control of the
teoumaster and his assistants. Uni
sns cooperation in putting the scouts
tgined troops are invited to attend
nlAe 10 an Industrial plant tomorrow. Sc
Stel Instructions will be given to Paul w.
nhauf, newly appointed troop leader, at
we scoutmaster's office, at 1880 a. m, to
~ ssAe the scouts to a certain place where
sne scoutmaster will meet them and con-
puel them TO the plant to be visited. Ray
mona w. Moore has been appointed drill
Fs1s.er and bugle instructor. William l..
Ncner' OF the Commercial Museum,
ssyutmaster of Troop 30, will give free
1wreoptieon talk on Trees, Plants and
pwers Seen on a Hike" at the chapel
me Park Avenue Methodist Church,
ts.A tlA avenue and Norris street, Monday
~, at s:l5 p. m. 1t Will be especially
NJ 1aesiesting for second-class scouts.
FISCHER will be introduced by Com
missioner Goodman.
StetsOn Scouts Challenge
ne stetson Boy Scouts (Troop 192-3-4-6)
sepsll team challenges all 4-to-1s-year-
BOY Scout teams. The manager is
q. nlplont on Bechtel Scoutmaster of Troop
~ Ss6 Turner street.
Troop Z (ScOutmaster CampbelD
Mnat the scouts thought was a body
ee9auhg In Taeony Creek, near Lawndale,
afaay, proved to be a scout tent when
rescue party brought 1t to shore. In a
minutes Troop 81 (Seoutmaster Hob
Vs which was also on a hike passed