Evening star., 1915-01-24

| The program for the rally to be held
by the Boy Scouts of Washington at
Convention Hall the evening of
| February II was announced by scout
| headquarters yesterday as follows:
! At 7:45 o'clock troops will assemble
| and form in column. Each troop will
report it's presence by giving its yell.
The first event will be opening eNer-
| cises. beginning with the Boy Scout
yell. after which the scout oath and
law will be recited. Trooping of col
ors, flag raising and salute will follow.
| The troops will then march in review
| before the national and local officers.
| The remainder of the program will be
as follows:
Event No. 2-(a) Rope work, by fifty
tenderioots of Division No. 2: OBJ tower
| building: ten groups, with poles, slaves,
! human pyramids.
! Event No. 3-Setting-up drill, includ-
( ing sixteen scout manual exercises, by
seventy-two boys, Division No. 8.
Event No. 4-Semaphore signal drill
by seventyfive second-class scouts
| from Division No. /.
Event No. Paul Revere race, eight
boys from each troop.
Event No. 6-Relay race, staff for ba-
ton. fifty yards for each runner, eight
scouts from each troop.
Event No. Equipment dressing
; race, two scouts from each troop.
Event No. S-Elementary first aid
application of triangular bandages and
! splints, second-claSS scouts only.
Event No. 9-Advanced first aid, ap-
plication of roller bandases: (a) he'll
met, tb) reverse spiral, ascending: (c)
full gauntlet: I'D specially bandage;
trst-class scouts only.
Event No. 10-Demonstr stration of Boy
Scout Instructors Corps. first aid pa
troll; (a) stretcher drill: OBJ resuscita-
! tion and land drill. showing breaks; tc)
assisting injured.
Event No. Pa geant and finale
comprising ten troop stunts, such as
scouts on the hike, patrol wagon, VOL
unteer fire department drill. bicycle
| corps, human compass, etc.
Event No 12-"America,' taps.
Scout Wins Honors.
Samuel Hardy of Troop No. ) is now
a life and star scout under the new
requirements.
Merit Badges Awarded.
The following merit badges have
been awarded: Frank Watson. Troop
No. Al, bug2ing and masonry: Kenneth
s. Miller, Troop No. ), firemanship,
handicraft. masonry and craftsman
| ship.
News From the Troops.
Communications have been received
| from troop scribes as follows:
Troop 6.
1--WE had our regular meeting Satur
| day, January 16, at the Noel House.
We took in two new members. Earl
Anderson and William Drechsler.
| Scoutma ster Stailey taught us how to
! use our watches as a compass. After
| meeting plans were made to meet
| Scoutmaster Stailey at 14th street and
| New York avenue, Sunday, at ~
| o'clock. Nine of us were there regard
| less of rain. We went out to the zoo
and hiked through Rock Creek Park
| to Connecticut avenue, out Connectlcht
| avenue to Albemarle street. to 36th
| street, to the Winsiow bungalow, where
i we were entertained by Mr.. WinsloW.
| Boys in the neighborhood who want
I to be scouts We're there TO see us
| cook over open fire, and were very
! much interested in everything we did
| At :, o'clock we started for nome, and
| arrived there in good time. Our scout
7 master is kept busy answering ques-
. tions By boys who are studying for
! the first class when We are i'll the
! woods Last Sunday some of us f"f
the first time saw laurel oush ana
| holly tree.
Troop At.
: AT our meeting last Friday evening
| three boys were admitted on probation.
They are William Lineback, Raoul Le-
mai and Sidney johnson. The first two
named are recruits whose names were
proposed by Scouts Hardle and Brew
lington, respectively. Scout Johnson is
an old member of the troop who has
re-registered and, being unable TO at
tend the Friday. evening meetings. Is
placed on the reserve list. Scout Louis
Swingle has also become a member of
the troop by the transfer route
Troop A was very well represented
at the drill and bugle practice held
Monday night at the n. g. d. c. armory.
I Nine members of the troop reported in
addition to Scoutmaster Taylor, and,
+, last but not least, Flip and Memo.
champion drummers of.th troop.
! "All scouts who consider themselves
good cyclists are invited to report to
Scoutrnaster Taylor every Saturday at
| 80 pm. at the corner of 18th and =
streets northwest for instruction and
practice for the bicycle squad. which
will be a feature of the big rally at
lConvention Hall. Attendance in uni
form is optional If present plans con-
tinue all the chief branches of scout
activities will be shown on bicycles.
! Including first aid. signaling, fire drill
and drilling in formation. Field Ex-
ecutive S. $. Aplin has promised to try
to get US a United States Army bicycle
manual In addition to the above one
or two special stunts are being
planned.
Troop IA.
! I'VE held a meeting last Friday night
and after a short drill formed the troop
| into patrols. Since our organization
we have delayed forming patrols, al
| though we have had patrol leaders Sc
lected for some time. Patrol Leader
| Edwin Douglas, who has selected
! Bear for the name of his patrol. is
the only one who has selected a name.
| Scouts Benjamin Bailey and Glen
Jones passed their tenderfoot examina-
| tions. We have two more boys enroll
| ed who will probably take their eX-
aminations soon. They are Raymond
| Narrower and Edwin Wall We will
| then have thirty-four scouts in the
troop, including officers. After the
meeting Mr.. Kidwell came down and
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