Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-16
The Boy Scouts

A Iife-saving corps has been formed
within the local Boy Scout organlZa-
ton with ten charter members, all of
whom took their examinations before
Commodore w. f. Longfellow of the
American Red Cross Society. 1t is to
be known as the Scout Life-savinS
Corps of the American National Red
Cross. Following is the list of charter
members Eihu II. Ropes, Edwin l..
Maschmeyer. Hugh L. Taylor. Walter
E. Marsh, Walter r. JeX, William d.
Lynch, Theodore Forbes, Ramon ID.
France, Fred C. Reed w. Terrll Hen
derson and Cleon f. Throckmorton.
Three Troops Register.
Three new troops have been register
ed at headquarters during the past
week They are SO. SO and Ga. There
are several others waiting to be or
6 anized.
Tag Day Plans Discussed.
Plans for Tag day. May 90. were dis
cussed at a meeting of the scoutmas-
tiers Thursday night. The tags are to
be distributed May 10. There will be
two denominations of street tags and
possibly an automobile tag in the form
of a felt pennant.
Has Weekly Newspaper.
Troop SO is issuing a weekly news
paper called The Trail. The frontis-
page is illustrated. A feature is
column entitled Notes Birds.
| Merit Badges Awarded.
Scout Roland Simonds of Troop 80 re-
| ceived his merit badges last week for
hremanship and scholarship. Renwick
Mckeever of Troop 1 has passed in
interpreting.
The following merit badges were
granted during the past week: Ed
| Chaplin, Troop g. first aid; Abner Roe,
Troop As, tremansnip: Guy keeton,
Troop Al, first aid and Workmanship;
w. f.. Lewis. Troop L.; firemanship: W.
Kelley. Troop "a interpreting, and the
following to Troop /. Renwick Mckiver,
signaling and Interpreting: lie Roy Gil
lette automobiling; w. Hanna, swimming:
Alexander Dalton. signaling and crafts
| manship; william Hoeke. business and
physical development.
News From the Troops.
Communications have been received
from troop scribes as follows:
Troop IS.
Last Friday evening special troop
demonstration was given in honor of
Deputy Scout Commissioner Taylor.
who was present to formally enroll the
troop. The boys gave the following
program: Scout Horsman signaled
| welcome. while the whole troop gave
La l.
lowed by the new troop yell. The
scout oath and scout law We're then
given and the tenderfoot pins were
presented by Mr.. Taylor. Several of
the troop expected to take some OF
their second class examinations last
Saturday. but the bad weather pre-
vented. so they went to the nome OF
the scoutmaster. where lessons in sew
eral of the tests We're given.
Troop rs.
Troop % held its regular meeting
| at the whitney Avenue Church last
| Friday and admitted one new member,
Leon Bondaf Two others took their
| tenderfoot exams. Two former mem
bers Of the troop. John Mclaughlin and
Lindsay Greene were readmitted to the
troop Games during the base ball sea-
! son are wanted with other troops"
Troop II.
.The lecture given by Deputy Com
| missioner Patton for the benefit of
Troop II was a great success. The
troop gave many good stunts. and one
| of the pleasant features of the evening
was the giving of bird boxes made by
the boys of the troop to the audience.
| We voted to donate to headquarters 81
per month toWarad the expenses of
headquarters. Scout Allan Virts of
Troop 81 gave lightning demonstra-
| ton of signaling.
Troop 80.
"The special competitive drill by the
different patrols of this troop, which
| was to have been given this coming
Saturday, has been postponed till April
| 81. The patrol making the highest
| mark will be the representative of this
| troop at the competitive drill for the
Daniels cup, which will he held on
April 80
Troop AZ
| AT a patrol leaders meeting held re-
| Gently the following new patrol lead
ers were elected: Senior patrol leader,
| j. Fred Stickel; Eagle Patrol. b. b.
| Wilson. patrol leader. and w. J. Line
back. assistant; Wolf Patrol, Robert
Esher. patrol leader. and Guy Keetou,
assistant: Moose Patrol, Granville Tai
| iferro. patrol leader. and Charles Sum-
neral, assistant. Siber Fox Patrol,
Louis Swingle, patrol leader. and Sid
ney Johnston, assistant.
THE troop has now four full patrols
During the past few weeks our troop
has been taking up a plan to raise
funds for the summer camp. We have
| q base ball team aud would be glad to
hear from other troops who desire to
arrange for games. During the Easter
holidays we are planning to go on a
| three or four day camping trip and