The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-21
NEWSBOY BAND
To CAMP At
QUANT|CO
80 Times-HeraId Musicians to
Get Full Week of Real
Marine Life

Thirty happy Washington young
sters, members OF The Times-Her-
aid Newsboys Band, will lay aside
the cares and worries Of city life
Monday, August 81, and embark on
the u. S. S. Swan for week of
real camp life at Quantico, the big
marine encampmcnt on the Poto-
mac, forty miles below Washing
ton.
During this seven days stay
in Camp Cole, the boys camp at
Quantico, named in honor of Major
General Eli Cole, commandant Of
the marine base. to whom, with
Major General Eommandant John
A. Lejeune, is due the credit for
the establishment of the boys
camp, the newsboy musicians will
get a real taste OF the life lived
by Uncle Sans devil dogs"
From the minute they are sum-
moned from beneath their regulation
''seven-by-nine" wall tents by the
$50 "reveilIe," until taps at 10
o'clock sounds the end Of the days
activities, the boys WILL have every
minute of the fifteen and one-half
hours crowded with instruction and
fun.
Varied Activities
Ball games on the camp diamond.
swimming at one of the best
beaches in Virginia. under the
watchful eyes of vigilant guards;
thirty-seven millimeter gun drill on
a thousand-yard range: first-aid in
struction at the field hospital by a.
famous football star known to all
of them; moving pictures in the
evening at the camp movie" house,
and the nightly campfire at which
stories and talks by the officers
will be a feature and at which the
boys will be allowed to ask as
many questions as they wish, will
be a few of the things listed on the
program.
Camp Cole, known as the Marine
Corps Boys Camp, situated apart
from the main encampment on the
border of the aviation field, is COM
posed of twenty-five tents set up
in two parallel rows, forming a
well-ordered street" Each tent
accommodates two boys. Cots, mat
tresses, sheets. blankets. mess pans
in fact everything used ny the
boys with the exception of knives,
forks and spoons, is supplied for
them at the camp. Their food,
cooked in their own camp py expert
marine cooks, is served them in the
mess" tent at one end of the
street"
"And how they do eat" say the
officers who nave had charge of
similar details of youngsters ut the
camp.
Cost So Little
The boys will be under the direct
supervision of Captain J. ]. Staley,
who deserves much of the credit,
along with Generals Leieune and
Cole for the creation of such a
camp. where boys who are unable
TO afford the expenses of a summer
at regulation of a boys camp C3n
learn at almost no expense what
camp life really means" The cost
for the maintenance of each boy is
so cents a day. the bare cost of the
food served them.
l.. u. Phillips. former marine,
and at one time leader of the post
band at Quantico, is now bandnas.
ter of the Times Herald NewsbOys'
Band, and will accompany the boys
on Their visit to his old camping
ground" Under his capable leader.
ship the boys have developed into
a high-cIass musical organization
and an the result of their splendid
showing in the Defense Day parade,
last September, received the con.
gratulations of President Coolidge.
The boys will meet at the marine
wharf at Seventh and o streets, at
o. m. on the designated day and
viii disembark at the wharf the
following Monday at IL Q. m.