New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Rally at Hippodrome To-
morrow Night Will Begin
Nationwide Campaign for
Membership ofsl 900, 600
City Is Well Organized
Twenty Thousand Solicitors
Under u Team Cap
tains to Make Canvass

Father Knickerbocker will have an
opportunity to become q Boy Scout
leader tomorrow evening at the big
sest mass meeting ever held at the
Hippodrome.
Scout Week, ,lproclaimed by the Pres
ident and long awaited by the Ameri-
can boy in every city, town and hamlet
in the United States, will officially open
to-morrow The real opening Of the
campaign to show the nation just what
the Scout movement means will take
place in the churches in the morning,
where sermons will be preached in
which the story of scouting WILL be told
by Catholics, Prote es1ants and Jews.
But the drive for associate. member
ships, 100000 Of which are to be OBJ
tained before next Saturday night, will
not begin until the. evening mass meet
ing. Every adult in New York will be
given an opportunity to become an as
sociate member Of the Boy Scouts of
America either on Sunday or during the
following six days. A minimum fee Of
81 is required for membership, but
many generous supporters of the move
ment have multiplied that figure to dig
nifled proportions.
Notable Men on Programme
Big Bill" Edwards, chairman Of the
Greater New York Committee, will act
as chairman. William G. McAdoo, head
of the National Citizens Committee,
will follow him on the programme, af-
ter which addresses will be delivered
by Major General ORyan, Fathe
Duffy, Dr. Joseph SiIverman and Royal
S. Copeland. Grand opera stars will
also be on the programme.
Elsie Janis will take charge of the
stage when Big Bill" Edwards con-
cludes his part of the programme. With
the aid of Ed Wynn. she will canvass
the theatre for men who are eligible
FOR associate membership in the Scouts.
The Scouts themselves will play an
important part in the programme.
They will erect tents on the stage, show
wigwagging, semaphoring, feats of
woodcraft and numerous other accom-
plishments that make them the envy
Of the unnitiated boy.
The Hippodrome meeting will be the
opening gun of the thoroughly or
ganized campaign to cover every block
of every borough of the Greater City
Monday evening team captains will
hold final banquet at the Commodore
Hotel. More than 1000 team captains
have announced their intention of be-
ing present.
City Thoroughly Organized
Manhattan is organized down to the
last apartment house, according to the
statement of officials at Scout head
quarters, 200 Fifth Avenue, yesterday
afternoon. One of the most important
branches OF the Manhattan organiza-
ton will be the Rainbow Division,
which will have the responsibility Of
holding meetings and obtaining all
available members in the city's indus
trial, market and financial centres.
Already more than 100000 mombers
have been guaranteed by the business
and professional men who have par
ticipated in the preliminary meetings
Of committees. The quota for New
York is $4,000. Many Of the can
vassers predict that that figure will
be doubled.
The organization in New York City
Is more thorough in some respects
than was that of the Liberty loan
workers, many Of whom have trans
ferred their energies to the Boy Scout
movement in recognition Of the aid
given the loan body by the boys.
Manhattan has been divided into
twenty-seven districts. In each district
there will be a team captain, under
yrhn xpi1l Ho bo- 81
in active charge of the various teams
All told, there will be upward of 20
600 solicitors.
Another committee that will be en-
braced by the parent organization will
be the house-to-house canvass com
mittee. The fremen and the police
will also aid in the work
We expect to go over the top,~ said
A 3. Leach, chairman of the canvass
committee, several days before the
campaign closes. Any man who can
not see the merit of the Boy Scout
cause CLEAR enough to feel that he car
invest at least 81 in the boyhood O.
America is the fellow we do not want
And cannot make that too clear"
Well-Known Team Captains
The team captains are: Vincent As
tor. George +. Baker, jr, Otto T. Ban
nard, August Belmont, Cornelius N
Bliss, jr, William c. Breed, William
hamIin Childs, Lewis l. Clarke, Georg
b. Cortelyou, Clarkson Cowl, Paul era
rath, S. r. Bertron, Henry p Dawson
Joseph p Day, Cleveland II. Dodge
General T. Coleman Dupont. william
I. Durant, Guy Emerson, Sigmun,
Eisher, James A Farrell, William Fox
Michael Friedsan, Harvey Gibson, Ber
nard r. Gimbel. Marcus Goodbody
- simon Guggenheim, Edward 8. Hark
ness, w. Ayerell Hartman, Pcrcival s
Hill, Ernest Iselin. Otto Fl. Kahn, Clar
ence II. Mackay, Edgar L. Marston
Emerson McMillin. Burton r. Newton
Major Herbert Parsons. George "
Perkins, Herbert l. Pratt, Frank Pres
brey, Seward Prosser. Percy Il. Pyne
> 5ohn Harsen Rhoaden, Lieutenant Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt, Allan A
Ryan. Charles D. Sabin. Mortimer 1
schif9. Charles ~ Schwab. Charles A
Stone. Percy s. Straus, Rodman Wana
maker, Morgan J. O'Brien, Harry Payn
Whitney, Francis II. sisson, C. L. Bern
beinsY. John G. Agar, Harold Wander
biit, Allsn b. Forbes, John McE. Bow
man, GcoYxe A. CASTOR. Francix /