Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05
Achievement Awards.

'SAOOAs Win q yohil IhSGliH6 VA eAS
troop and the parent-teacher associa-
ton of the school. Awards for achieve
ment were made after an inspection Of
the exhibits, and Scout Hart Walker
won first prize. gold medal. The
following scouts are entitled to gold
plated medals for their work: Donald
Benson, who came out second: Robert
Mcneil. third; Ernest Mcneil. fourth:
Wade Butler. fifth; Stuart johnson.
sixth, and c. Mcdowell. seventh. Be-
cause of their ranking, these scouts
are entitled to the automobile trip to
Annapolis. with a visit to the Naval
Academy and points of historic inter-
est. which was offered by Scoutmaster
John F. Robb.
Scouts who received honorable men,
ton for their work were Scouts
Rupert. Altman, Wood. Glover. H.
Johnston. R. Johnston, Stafford,
Hackenberger and Cartwright. The
following boys made an achieve
ment record in at least five of
the twenty achievement units and
wrote a complete story of their work:
Scouts Walker, Benson, Robert and
Ernest Mcneil, Butler. Rupert, Nc
Dowell and Glover. All these scouts
are eligible to attend the
banquet offered as one Of the prizes.
S. 7. Cameron, a member of the troop
announced the winners and
commented on the work. Prof. o. H.
Benson. another member Of the COM
mittee, awarded the prizes. Among
other speakers at the meeting was
Ernest l.. Thurston, superintendent of
schools.
The new Boy Scout Band of the Dis
trict has progressed to a point where
1t plays quite well, and j. Leonard Kid
Wen, the director. expects to have ii
five members in the band, but In order
to make it more representative of all
the troops in the city the membership
is to be increased to forty.
Those who contributed toward the
purchase Of the instruments were:
Colin H. Livingstone, $50: Arthur C.
Moses, $50: Edward b. Mclean, $25; s.
W. Woodward, $40; John Joy Edison
$40; Mrs. Halle d. Elkins, $40; A. Lis
ner, SO: Clarence P. King. $40; ]. H
Wei. S1.05; F. H. Bonnet, 81; Hugh
L. Taylor, 81, and ]. W. Patton, 81.
The hours of meeting now are from 6
until $50 o'clock Wednesday evening
Prof. c. F. Schlosser is instructor.
The run of the newly formed bicycle
squadron to Mount Vernon has been
postponed until Saturday. First-class
examinations are to be held in East Po-
tomac Park, near the railway embank-
ment, at 10 o'clock the same day.
The next intertroop contest is to be
held at Central Presbyterian Church
Friday evening at 7:30 O'Clock. Troops
81 and IS are to participate.
Washington now has 1862 scouts, ac-
cording to the official figures at head
quarters for October 81, and altogether
including scoutmasters and assistants
there are 1 $50 scout workers in tn
District. There now are sixty-f1ve white
troops and ten colered troops; .,,,,..
312 white seeond-class scouts and IL!
white drst-class scouts. According tt
the records, there are but 1913 colofet
scouts, and all are tenderfoot.
The Scoutmasters' Club is to meet a.
o'clock tomorrow evening in the
Board of Trade rooms in The Stai
building. DIR. William r. Buchanan is
to continue his course of instruction In
first aid work.
Examinations for patrol leaders and
for Troop 80. of which John
F. Robb is scoutmaster, are to be held
soon, according to an announcement in
the bulletin of the troop. The work
of improving the troops clubhouse
practically is finished. and now the
building is one of the best of its kind
in the city. being lighted by electricity
and possessing an adequate heating
system.
"One of the plans of Troop 81 this
fall is to trace the entire boundary OF
the District of Columbia in order to
locate the original mile stones and to
get a concrete cones ption Df what
the District comprises. We were there
fore interested to learn that Troop Sc
already has begun such survey.
Last Saturday Troop 81 Followed tne
District line from Wisconsin avenue TO
the river and finished up the hike with
a camp fire in the woods on the Vlr-
ginia side.
The Friday evening meeting was
held at the scoutma sters home and TWO
new members, Melville Lindsay and
Malcolm Stickney, were sworn IN. the
gave an illustrated lecture
on the life and work OF COWBOYS. ~
E. MeinZer, scOutmaster-
Troop 81. Fred Harries, scoutmaster.
now uses a rented building for Its head
quarters. Work of improving the build
ing has begun.
Last Sunday afternoon Scoutmaster
Davis and six members of Troop took
an extended bicycle hike. and on the
preceding day twelve Of the boys and
Assistant Scoutmaster Bell took an
eighteen-mile hike up the Potomac
river. Scouts Grove, Davis and Mock
bee passed their firSt-clasS hiking and
cooking tests. Monday evening nine
members of the troop and Assistant
Scoutmaster Bell took night hike up
the river."-Stanley W. Bell, assistant
ScoutmaSter.
Troop IL. Walter E. Marsh. scout
master, has placed an interesting
activities of the troop on exhibition at
the local headquarters.
front, now having twenty-siX boys
registered at headquarters. 1t is ex-
pected we soon will have full troop.
We are starting a first aid and signal
class and. in addition. a foot ball team
which will soon be able to challenge
other troop teams.
y w. Patton, deputy commissioner.
took charge of our meeting after our
business was over. He showed us how
to make fires in four different man.
ners and taught us how to signal in
two minutes. He also told US some
good scout stories."-Lawrence A. Gage,
scribe.
Troop l, of the Y. NJ. c. A. with F.
E. Mafthes scoutmaster, is conducting an
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