Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-01
Decoration Dax Made History

FIVE miles Of white tents, lying in the brlgh:
sunlisht along Cooper Creek near Haddonheld'
and the annual Decoration Day encampment
OF the PHILADELPHIA Boy Scouts was at an
I've three days. Saturday sunday and yes
ts1day @ spent under canyas 9S!o constituted me
masters and scouts have undergone since the
eSS WT9 SGESn 6d IN ysam hT on5yed Gy Te bs
to triumph over the wet weather and gloom
ana surday. The camp. model In in every | re- re-
speet. withStood the monotonous downnour.
NJ them had never before spent the night,
much less an entire day in camp soaked
extra qualification OF a camper.
Rain caused the postponement Of tho pro-
retary Rash. OF the Camden County Y. N.
the troops assembled at headquarters again
for massed exercises and parade. which was
the Department OF Public Safety. scout com.
missioner OF Philadelphia: and the camp stan.
Henry H. S01Gy; sipyo Gamy dbrect2r dbo DT Charles
Charles Edwin EGx. 5 ASSISTANT District A..
Iouis ~ Flesher chairman a and Saime Samuel e &,
Prtedman, Alexander NJ Wilson. Horace W.
comSittee; Field CommissIoner " E. O TrneP TP
Goodman, director OF activities: and Field
Ross and oTnGS eay Ry T
the activities department G. O.. Potts. director
YoaeT pT B. Hitchcock alJeF T. M sF Wood S
and II. T. Walker ,Jr,, OF the maintenance
SommsssFy director Field commissioneF EeHfrSl Hay
der o. Merrill T. A. RPerywe9th5er and G.
ring address TO tho assembled scouts after
At noon the flag was holsted to the ton Of
the tall pole lit front Of headquarters by Scout
Robert Wright OF Haddonfield, and after mess
the official camp lnspectlon was conducted by
Captain Frank A, Warren and Lieutenant John
JeSs Of NJ the a ReE%Sn
Of ~ the & pcpartmemnt mt Of Pnblie Health and Char
awarded the SERn SP for %S
honorable mention accorded to Troop 92 tScOut-
HitchcOcI and Troop 5scoTtmasteT Rubea
26op Harry Yeg9eri YegaS a5a m R
ter and Scouts Mccartney. Clark RslDh John
SON 2 H.. SrheSIb!lss, G Thaihslper 2. Thalhelmor
z. KreinherF;, Stone, Walters. Mellon. Brust
FocEa F%aE f9Ies ahodes h Whta RRpS Es
Smith Smith Duke Duke m. Nahm. % %Rgxton. Wentherhal
Wentzel. H. Fisher, r. Krelnberg and Judge
The prize for which all tho troops strove-
the banner preseIniteed by Louis NJ F1esher for
barely two months old, Troop o2 Cscoutmaster
Godsmith), which won honorable mention in
Inspection Honorable mention for efficiency
Troop p tscortmasteT Taylorl and Troop 100
SIS0gtm9sieT SGadweD the last named The
members present BEST besides the sGoutmasteT
Heschner aud Bucks and Scouts Barmach
Rerber, Bigar. Blumenthal, Cohen. Fhrosin
Hrsch, Hoffman, Frledberger, Cit
ron, Rothschil1, Levitt. Green, FRANKLIN
Rubin, Jacobs, KaTBler Lieberman, MARBLE,
New. NewcoTn; Reinhelmer. Schwartz, Soils,
The treasure hunt conducted Saturday and
by Commissioner Edison was a
novelty In seoutcraft the object being 10 start
at point. 20 750 feet east by SOUTH $50 feet
east TO a given point without the aid OF
compass or measure II won by Troop l6
t5coutmaster Baumgard). Scouts Ralph Hendel
and Henry Cunningham pacing off the distance
and guiding themselves by the sun. They
missed the spot by 1918 feet. Troop 81
(ScGutmaster Meryweather) was second with
I'LL feet. Troop 20 (Scoutmaster Franklin)
third, llI.4 feet; Troop 80 tSeoutmaster Hitch
cock) fourth, 1918 feet, and Troop 40 Scout
master Morgan) fifth. I2s feet. Five other
troops were less than $50 feet wide OF the