The Washington herald., 1922-07-22
|LARCEATTENDANCE
MARKS OPENING OF
BOY SCOUT CAMP.
Camp Roosevelt Under
Personal Direction of
Linn C. Drake.

camp OF Washington Boy Scouts,
has opened with the largest en-
rollment in Its history. A party
of scout ofncials headed by Huston
Thompson. President of the Dis
trict of Columbia Council Of the
Boy Scouts. and Edward d. Shaw
over the weekend. and expressed
themselves as very much pleased
with the set up of the camp and
It's prospects for this season. One
hundred fifty scouts and officials
will be in attendance during the
coming week.
The camp Is conducted under the
personal direction of Linn c. Drake.
who has been its directors for the
past four seasons. Mr.. Drake il
assisted by H. A. Matsinger, who is
in charge of activities: James d.
Hall. who Is the quartermaster, and
in charge of the commissary; Capt.
Warren Hazard. who has spent his
life on the Chesapeake Bay Is again
handling the boat; r. X. Hall Is
director of swimming and water
sports. George r. Anderson IL chief
carpenter, and Fred Stuart is as
sistant to the director of activities
A physician Is in attendance at all
times, to look out for the health
of the scouts. and oversee the sani-
tary conditions. Two army cooks
provide wholesome food.
The camp Is the result of the
recent baseball benefit game AT
American League Park, has been
supplied with much needed equip
ment. which includes eleven large
new tents; sixty new wire spring
cots with mattresses: a new kitchen
range. a hydraulic ram to force
water from the artesian well to the
reservoir. and some new row boats.
The following scouts have spent
a week at the camp: Stribling
Marshall. r.. C. d. Hunt. r. e.
Marshall. Sd. Henry Gichner. John
Barry. Robert Burton. Raymond
Kelly. Richard Thorne. Odell Senart.
Frank Kelly. Sam Reichman, Albert
Hall, Irving Gray, Ivan Krauth.
William Thompson. Joseph Gold
berger. w. D. Sterrett. Arthur Va.
rela. Tom H. Roth. Edward ]. Roth.
Arthur Kimball. Wheeler Braden.
George Harreil. Alfred Small. Julian
Stuerm. Ralph Van Allen, DR.. Wal
ter H. Merrill. Robert Yeabower,
Frank Freeman, Scott Pollock. DAN
iel Geary. J. c. Franzoni. Donald
Plant, Charles Laman, Harry Null
len. Gordon Parker. Jack Mason.
Francis White. Walter Staley,
Nathan Hughes. Milton Rice, Albert
b. Willis. Robert Norman, Warren
Nigh. Francis Nigh. Raymond Abb
baticchie, Francis Tompkins.
Charles B. Martell. Wayne Van
Leer. Warren C. Mitchell. l.. d.
Scisco. James G. Green, Gerald Mum
son. John Boyd. Calvert Hines. Jack
Sargent, William Hutton. Arthur
Cole. Wilbur S. Myers. Raymond
Miller, Robert Rice, G. w. Buchhols,
c. Adelman. Louis Solomon, Philip
Turner. Thomas Shuli, william Bur-
ton. F. T. Skull. James Forbes. J.
Winterbottom, Henry Flood. J. Fox,
E. Passeno. Howard Peterson,
Andrew Randol. Z. Rodman. J. D.
Wackerman. Jack Murphy. Shire,
Elvin Walters, Robert Micky. John
Salter. James Mercer. Clarence
Scott. James Frazier. Russell Rod
man. James K. Sweet. Albert Nc
Pherson. Paul Hedapp. Edward l..
Park. John Kaister. h. Mcpherson.
James Conaidine, w. Francis Russ.
Richard Johnson. Donald A. Charles,
Richard Coffman. Lamar Munroe,
Thomas Bacon. Daniel j. Tyrrell,
Robert Smith, Jesse Ward. Frank
Sherwood, Homer Thomas. Marvin
Bray. Ernest Brust. Irving Ellis,
Edward Finnaran Graham Foun.
tain. Holmes Foutain. Horace Foun-
tain, Bruce Fowler. Douglass Gill
bert, John Hillyer. Caldwell Ken
drick. Leon Smith, Elvin Meyer,
Henry Burner, Walter Sealock, Ed
win Sherwood, William Tilden. John
West, John White. Adrian Gilbert.