Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-04
$4,000 FROM ONE pERSON

The $4,000 collected by Team ~. d
came from II single contributor. whose
name was withheld. OF the amount col.
lected yesterday by Team 40. 6. one
gift Of $1,000 came from Chandler
Brothers and one Of $500 from Henry
r. Hatfield. Included in the amount re-
ported by Team No. II was s25 from
the golf caddy boys Of the Philmont
Country club, an announcements which
brought cheers
! The boy Scout cabaret was opened
with the army bugle call of Assembly
blown By Roy Scout Louis Satini. a
| diminutivc lad from the Glen Mills
School Boy Scout troop. who also blew
F'mess CALI when the teams sat down
to luncheon, and attention" when the
meeting was called to order.
/ Signals I'm the army code weta wig.
wagged' from one end Of the banquet
room 20 the other. over the heads Of the
men at the tables by four Boy Scouts
with signal hagS in their hands. who
stood on towers decorated with bunting
| The four boys in the signal corps were
Ben Schlein. : Seideraan y. Grossnan
and II. Sokoloff, all of Troop lol
on another platform four other boys
/ gave an exhibition of first aid" work
| They bandaged heads, arms and legs
with "A deXterity and swiftnesS which
would have done credit to Red cross
| ambulance men, and even improvse
stretcher by slipping the sleeves or
two Boy Scout khaki Jackets over two
| long poles, on which they carried an
injured" Boy Scout around the room
! This SlIIAn tnnnnn.p1 .f
fecker. Troop lG; Ben Schleiu, Troop
| l0l. james Land. Troop t79. and Her
man shore Troop l70.
BLIND BOYS SHOW SKILL.
Then two blind Boy Scouts took Il
/ hand at the first aid demonstrat ton,
and, performing feats Of bandaging
/ with as much skill as the others drew
! even louder applause. \ third blind
Boy Scout played a piano solo.
ON the speakers table stood four
beautiful models Of racing yachts each
about three feet long and fully equipped
with spars, sails and rigging. Applause
was given when Doctor Hart announced
that they We're the work of Boy Scout
who are studying naval architecture and
navigation I'm one of the Boy Scout
classes. Eight graduates Of the class
have Joined the naval reserves. two are
at Annapolis ana three intend to become
naval architects. The model yachts are
offered for sale at about $50 each.
More applause came when Louis Loeb.
a Boy Scout about knee-high to a grass.
| hopper in height. was introduced AS
having obtained subscriptions totalug
s2ti.jo0 70 the second Liberty Loan
issue, The local Boy Scouts obtained
about S2.000,000 in subscriptions to the
Liberty Rnnng al
aloud u telegram Of congratulation from
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoO.
a telegram from Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, also testifying 10 the
good work done by the Boy Scouts. was
also read aloud.
BIG CASH EEGlST Il
y cash register thrty-four fee, high
forty.four wide and weighing 1000
/ pounds has been put in place to record
/ the contributions TO the fund.
/ Al 10 o'clock this morning 4 group OF
we'll known Phiiadelphians rang up
the first amount on the giant cash regis
ter, which stands on the Vi Irllet sire ct sidc
of the Gimbel store at Ninth street. III
the group were Dr. charles u. Hart.
chairman of the Philadelphia Council Of
the Boy Scouts of America; Ellis \
Gimbel, Assistant District .tttorney
Inarles EuWln FOX. liAifE l'a'lS, tor-
mer captain Of the Athletic baseball
team; George l. Bodine. Charles W.
Churchman, r. TruNtun Hare, the IA
nous University Of Pennsylvania foot
ball star. and Dr. T. Samuel Stout
With them. dressed in his G.. A. Il.
uniform vas John Brown. u Civil
War veteran. of 1903 West Somerset
street, who yesterday gave the ticsl dol
/ lar 10 the Boy scout fund, saying that
the organization represented the princi-
/ ple.' for which he had fought When the
/ key OF the huge cash register s. pushed.
I a big gong will sound instead Of a bell
1 announcing the advance ia the cam
paign.