Evening star., 1923-07-08
BOY SCOUTS

bOI SCOUlS
The corner stone for the new Boy
Scout cabin at Camp Roosevelt, the
Washington Boy Scout camp at Cal
vert Cliffs, Md, on Chesapeake Bay,
was laid last Sunday afternoon. This
cabin is being built by the scouts and
will fill a long-feit want for reser-
walton building, especially for use in
stormy weather. DR.. Paul Bartsch,
chairman of the Washington Boy
Scout camp committee. presided. Dr..
Walter Merrill. a member of the
! camping committee, John s. Cole,
| scoutmaster of Troop 49, and Linn c.
Drake, director of Camp Roosevelt,
were the speakers. Troop 49 Drum
and Bugle Corps of Park View School
furnished the music. In the corner
| stone were placed the following arti-
cles: Copy of Washington Sunday
Star star scout, pins by Scout c. Bert
! Adelman, Troop 81. and Charles Pol
lard; frst-class patrol leaders pia
by Scout Charles Z. White of Troop
| 81; c. NJ. o. camp honor fraternit!
pin; a second-class patrol leaders pin
by Scout j. w. Leverton, Troop 4S.
| senior patrol leader pin by Scout
Council Fire. the scout paper OF
Troop 100; United States coins by
Scouts D. Plant and Lauman, Troop
20. and Edward Parke, Troop "a;
scoutmaster's pin by Thomas A. King.
Troop 40; first-class scout pin by
| Scout John Berry of Troop s; C$np
Roosevelt emblem.
| July was busy day at the Wash
/ ington Scout Camp.~starting with the
( flag raising, the usual exercise in the
| morning, and continuing with various
| scout activities, a treasure hunt and
| other games throughout the day, and
| winding up with some fine fireworks
, at night. Two events which aroused
| great interest were the CREASED pig.
| which after long race was captured
by Scout Seahorn of Troop 20, and the
| greased-pole contest, which was
| finally climbed by Scout Eddie Park
of Troop a.
| This week will be another busy
| week with over $50 scouts and Off
| among the scouts scheduled to be al
| camp: Troop William Phelan, Ben
son Pearce; Troop 4-Harry Haber.
Troop 6-Robert Ellsworth; Troop s.
| John Berry; Troop 15-William Moul-
den. p. Blackburn, Edward Roth. Tom
! Roth, w. McBroom, George Wales
Arthur Kimball. w. Kimball; Troop
| 1O-A. Hulse; Troop 16-W. Braden,
| Troop 20-H. p. Clark, d. Creig, L. J..
| Clarke. c. ]. Clarke, j. Freeman, J.
Claspell. Frank Whitney, E. Whitney,
| Troop 26-G. Shumaker; Troop 30.
! Mason: Troop 32-H. Clifford; Troop 80
us n; Smith, F. II Grimes, ". Marshall. r.
yall' c. Conner, H. Spargo, r. l..
Jameson; Troop 39-G. Lee, W. Van
| Leer, r. Abbaticchio, ]. Crosby, J.
| Goodwin. D. Kelly, F. Tompkins;
Hines. J: Bowen; Troop 47-W. Whit
ing. X. Parks; Troop 52-W. McDan-
lei, A. T. Britton, w. Brady. r. Horne,
]. Harons, F. Westbrook, X. Haywood,
! Newton Blakeslee j. H. Shelton, H.
c. Cardweii, E. waters. {. e. Waters;
Troop 63-R. Mickey, j. Wackerman,
S. Skolnik, ]. Mercer; Troop To-.
Moore; Troop 71-R. Smith; Troop g
son. Edward Parke. r. Hamilton;
Troop 17-F. Mason; Troop Sc. D.
| Finn, William Blandford, A. Tucker,
F. Saltzman. ]. Mitchell. w A. Neil,
II. Norwood, f. Carpenter; Troop s1-
Troop 1o4-W. Linfoot. j. Scott, r.
| Fornay: Troop 11O-Harris Child;
| Troop 126-J. Abrahams, w! Ale. NJ.
Bagget; NJ Berman. S. Berman, r.
son, S. Kelly, F. Parker, c. Rush, L.
Schwarman. G. Sisk, j. Strauss. S.
! Swan, +. Bode. r. Creel, NJ. Rosen-
berg. w. Mcneil.
| Troop 20 of the Fourth Presby-
| teran Church, Of which Ellis Mid
dleton is the scoutmaster has been
| holding a very successful camp, with
forty boys in attendance. for the past
ten days on the farm of Mr. Blake.
near Fairfax, Va. Scoutmaster Mid
dleton, his wife and all the boys
showed themselves to be real scouts
by stepping into the breach. caused
by the cook failing to appear. and
prepared their meals throughout their
entire camp. Colin H. Livingstone
president of the National Council,
Boy Scouts of America; Edward D.
Shaw, scout executive of Washington
and large party of friends visited
and inspected the camp a few days
ago, at which time the boys staged
4 the pageant "Custus' Last Stand"
The National Council, the govern
| Ing body of the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea, is meeting in annual session to-
day at the largest Boy Scout Camp in
Park, \. Y. The National Council
! is composed of more than 1000 rep
; resentative business and professional
men.
ceived and plans made for the future
for this great organization, which
| now numbers 612,4S0 men and boys,
which is uniformed body more than
twice the size of the entire United
/ States Army. Navy and Marine Corps
| combined. Never before has such
] a representative group of business
! and professional men met under quite
such conditions in the interest of
boys-for these men are planning TO
| sleep under canvas" at the New York
| City Boy Scout Camp. The Boy
| Scout movement has had a remark
able growth during the past year,
! having increased over $4,000 scouts,
In the thirteen years of it's existence
over 1.640.000 boys have received the
| scout training.