The Washington times., 1923-07-12
GIRL SCOUTS TO
HAVE CAMP
|ND.C.
Unknown Donor Presents
Ideal Site on Potomac for
Summer Activities.

Girl Scouts of Washington-70O
of them-are all agog.
They are to-, have a summer
camp of their own. 1t will be
located on the Potomac river in
the vicinity of Great Falls. In
making available what is described
as one of the ideal camp sites of
the East an unknown donor has
acted the part Of a Princess
Bountiful. Who is she? That is
what the Girl Scouts are anxious
to find out.
Location Still Secret.
At present 1t is difficult to learn
the exact location of the future
camp, even though one of the rep
resentatives of the Department Of
Agriculture, George E. Farrell, has
gone over the site and examined
the water supply. Mrs. Randolph
Hopkins, of 2OO7 Klingle road, it
has been learned, is the personal
representative of the donor and is
attending to the details relative to
the development of the camp.
1t is described as being heavily
wooded, stretching along the bank
of the Potomac river, with a pitch
Of the land insuriIg perfect drainage.
The site is both beautiful and
practical for all the educational uses
the organization encourages.
Clearing of the land, it is under
stood, will be done by the Boy
Scouts. Work would have been
started some time ago, but arrange
ments made, for some reason, went
awry. This. although a corps of the
youngsters had been promised motor
truck transportation to the location
and series Of ice cream spreads"
while the work was underway.
With the establishment of the new
camp District of Columbia girls be-
longing to the Girl Scouts will not
have to make the long trip to Camp
Bradley, near Baltimore, just be-
yond Magnolia, Nd
Bradley of Finest.
Camp Bradley Is one of the dis.
tinctive camps operated by the
Girl Scouts in the East 1t is To-
Gated on a government reservation
and provides facilities for all activi-
ties. The only objection to it is its
distance from the National Capital
and the expense entailed in reach
ing it.
The Washington girls at Camp
Bradley are having the time Of
their. lives to judge from the en-
thusiastic way in which they are
entering into the joys and novel
experiences Of living out of doors.
Sleeping in. tents, eating a whole
some, well balanced diet; attending
classes covering courses in domestic
science as well as in woodcraft:
swimming. hiking, playing tennis
and basket ball; competing in foot
races and other field meet features.
they are absorbing a vast amount
of energy to carry them safely
through the coming school year.
Girls between the ages of 10 and
Is years are admitted to the camp.
An Older group is made up of girls
attending the council, they range in
ayes between sixteen and twenty
years, and are destined to become
the lieutenants and captains in the
organization.
Miss Bertha Howell in Charge.
Miss Bertha Howell, head of the
Baltimore >Girl Scouts, Is in charge
of the camp with Miss Ruth White.
head of the District of Columbia
Girl Scouts, as business director.
Visitors are admitted to the camp
Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Among the regulations in force
is one limiting the amount of money
a girl may spend while in camp
to fifty cents a week. The girls
are also prohibited from receiving
food sent from home Paid life
guards are in attendance at the
bathing beaches. They instruct the
girls in life saving and first aid in
the near-drowned.
While the camp Is under dis
cipline at all hours much of the
time the girls are practically free
to follow the bent Of their own
inclinatiOns. The spirit of the camp
Is thoroughly democratic, no girl
need be lonesome a minute unless
she elects to be So
The chief novelty of the carn
Internationally lies in the comnlete
change in living required of the
But two permanent huiId.
ings feature the camp. the mess
hall, also used for indoor entertain
ments and the cook house. The
latter is presided over by an expert
camp chef directed in turn bv
trained dietician Other than these
two buildings the camp is a village
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