Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-14
The Boy Scouts

L AS OO.
The prospectus for the 1915 season at
Camp Archibald Butt, the Boy Scout
camp on the Chesapeake bay. has gone
to press and soon will he ready for dis
tribution. The booklet this year will
be better than ever before, it is an
nounced.
Ready for Distribution.
The tags to be sold on Boy Scout tag
day. May 20. have been received at
headquarters and the force there is
now engaged in asserting them in
readiness for distribution to the troops.
Advanced First Aid.
Assistant Scoutmaster Fred Reed
studied advanced frst-aid work at
Emergency Hospital during the past
week DIR. A. NJ. Macdonald of the hos
pital staff has delivered talks on first
aid before a number of the troops. and
other troops have made appointments
to have him visit them.
Ready to Lecture.
Announcement is made in the scout
bulletin as follows:
"AdoIph Lancken. 621 c street south
east, will attend scout meetings when
desired. if dates do not conflict. to tie
the different knots used in the United
States Navy Mr.. Lancken is chief
boatswains mate, retired.
Lieut. Robert Alfred Lavender, L. s
n. us 18th street northwest. will visit
troops desiring his. talk on 'Wirless' or
Electricity. provided invitations come
to him within ten days"
Two new troops have been added &c
the list this past week and have al
ready registered. A second troop has
been formed out at Brookland and al
ready fourteen boys have enrolled. The
first troop was formed only last Novem-
Der, but has grown so rapidly that an
other troop had to be formed. as the
number of scouts allowed to each troor
thirty-two-was reached. The last
two troops to register were the Lud
low-Taylor School Troop and the New
Peabody School Troop.
| Scouts Give Demonstration.
Headquarters Troop gave an exhibit.
| ton last Wednesday afternoon at thu
Preparedness camp at Chevy Chase be
News From the Troops.
Communications have been receive,
from troop scribes as follows:
Troop II.
| DIR. Bretz has been appointed chic
scout surgeon to our troop. Two mem
| Il ia ,lc
Mr.. Golden, who gave US short tall
at the close of the meeting. Last Fri
| day Walter Beeks was sworn in as a ten
derfoot and another application for mem
bership was presented
1.-The subject of second-class examina
| lions was discussed. with the result Of {
general examination being announced TO
| the coming Friday night. Scoutmaste
Simpson closed the meeting with an inter
esting talk on the advantage of being
boy scout in the present day. his subJec
| changing to the story of the lives of som
! of the CREATES men of our country"
Troop %.
AT our last meeting Walter Cornelius
passed his tenderfoot examinations an
was duly voted into the troop Two new
candidates were present and several o
the troop practiced their first aid for frs
| and second class examinations. The troo
took a long hike yesterday through Wiz
| GINA"
Troop 80.
THAT a scout can be run over by a
| automobile-both the front and bac
wheels passing over his chest and arms
and not be the worse for this startling ex
perience was demonstrated by one of tn
scouts of this troop this past week. Thi
happened on Friday night and mex
day he reported to take his secondcias
exams at Roslyn. Scouts certainly d,
| take a lot of hard knocks to get hurt
Three additional members of the trailing
| club are Albert Allemen, Walter Price AM
Howard Stafford. We have planned t
| give parents night Friday evening
May &c. A new scout war game wa
played last Friday night in the woods jus
south of the troophouse and all voted i
big success
Troop 81.
at is with much regret that Troop j.
announces the resignation of its scout
master. r. l.. Sartain. Assistant Scout
master Williams has been appointed [,
| fill the vacancy. track team is beini
organized and trained by Mr.. Ledger an,
| terial we may look forward to a success
| full season.
| THE overflow from Troop 81 has beer
| organized into d new troop and will b.
| known as Troop H. Plans are under way
for an overnight hike May % and so"
GIRL SCOUT NOTES.