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Show VISIT TO CAMP OF BOY SCOUTS Representative of the Standard Makes the Ogden Boys Happy by Delivering Packages from Home How Camp Saratoga Is Gov- erned Youngsters Have a City All Their Owr Intruders Are Quickly Ejected Sports of a Day pood - Deportment and Good Habits. A number of Ogdenltcs visited the Boy Scout camp on Sunday. Among them were J. T. Rushmer, wife and children; Edward Blchsol, V. C. Gun-noil, Gun-noil, Fred Massa and Mayor Glasmnnn and several others. Saratoga Is an Ideal spot for a hoy scout camp. It Is located on the northwest corner of Utah Lake. The camp Itself consists of a grove of troes covering something some-thing like forty acres and is within a stone's throw of the lake Itself. In the center of the grove of trees Is a largo hath house in which is situated a large plunge bath room, the water coming from a hot spring, tho spring being known as Saratoga Hot Springs, from" which the camp takes its name There are located at the camp 170 hoys, who, with their leaders and management, number a few over 200 The Salt Lake Scout club has the largest larg-est number presont, flfty-flvc boys. Ogdcn comes noxt with forty-six, Provo with thirty-five bos, all the neighboring cities sending two and upward up-ward Garfield, Sprlngvllle, Eureka and Helper all havo their representatives representa-tives present. On the first day of the arrival of the boys from Ogtlen tho wind blew a hurricane and the bovs had a regular battle with the wind to pitch their tents, and it was so cold that some of them thought It was actually freezing. freez-ing. Tho hoys from Ogden did not walk much. They were taken by automobiles automo-biles to Lagoon and thon they rode in truck waeons and hay racks from Lagoon to Salt Lake and from Salt Lake they took the street car to Sandy and then started to walk twenty miles. Tho hoys were lined up in squads of five and six. each with a captain or leader and they' started out thirty minutes apart from Sandy and all excepting tho squad known as the Peacocks were able to get rides from Sandy to Lehi, some In automobiles, some In wagpnB and some In buggies. The Peacocks, however, had to walk all the way from Sandy to the camp. A court martial was In process on Saturday last It developed that one squad of the Ogden Scouts consisting of six were charged with deserting a part of the command. An automo bile came along ana tooK tour oi tne scouts. There was not room for more, and the four willingly took the ride and left two of the boys behind Tho scouts were called together and tho hoys were allowed to deal out the punishment and tho punishment was that the four guilty of deserting their comrades should shell peas In the kitchen on Saturday night for the Sundav dinner When It Is consldored that there are two hundred persons to feed and they give eacn person a small tin cup of pens, It can well be figured that the hoys shelled peas until un-til the small hours of the following morning. Two of the boys went in swimming without permission, or without the knowledge of any of the authorities. They were promptly arrested and placed In the guard house and when a photographer tried to take their pictures they refused to allow their faces to bo seen. Of course, we could not tell who they were unless their faces were visible. The boys stand guard day and night There are so many, that each boy has only one day and one night to stand guard". Of course, they do not stand guard twenty-four hours at a time They stand guard two hours and then they rest or go to sleep for four hours, and then they are up again for another an-other two hours There are bo many there that 10 per cent of tho entire number are on guard all the lime On Saturday evening two farmer bovs from somewhere In Utah county," coun-ty," partially intoxicated, came late at night and were going to rob tho tents The hoys on guard had a regular set-to set-to with the two intruders, who were two great big fellows. The strangers just brushed the little fellows aside until finally Rev Mr. Kelley from Provo, who has been made a deputy sheriff for Utah county, was called !' and he arrested the two intrudors. who were only too anxious to ask for for- . I I glvcncss on a promise to leave tho boys alone if they would be excused, and they wore promptly ejected from tho camp grounds Two Salt Lake boys were guilty ot 3ome offense and tho boys held another an-other court martial and promptly sentenced sen-tenced the two hoys to scrub the kitchen kit-chen The 'boys rebelled egalnst such a task and, when notice was given that a second meeting would be called on account of the boys refusing to submit sub-mit to punishment, It was Intimated that overy boy in camp would bo called on to ostracise tho two Salt Lakers. They should bo unknown and unheard Tho two young men one being a reporter of a paper later on cnllcd on the presiding officer and asked that the kitchen be made ready for scrubbing The, boys have elected a city council coun-cil and on Monday evening. July 2nd, they all vote on a candidate for mayor. There were four candidates and the boys made campaign Breeches, and all' sorts of political Influence waB being used to secure the election of the favorites. Salt Lake stole a march on Ogdcn by electing Scout Winters as city recorder. This itap-pcars itap-pcars is intended to put Scout Gowans out of the race for mayor. However, at last reports, the Ogden bos decided decid-ed to surrender the office of recorder, If by so doing they could get the mayor. may-or. This would Indicate that the boys had loarned politics somewhero before they arrived at Camp Saratoga The boys elected to the city council from Ogdcn aro: William Drysdale, Stanley Blchsel, W. R. Smurthwalto, Gillette Long and Clarence Preshaw. Each of the other cities have members mem-bers of the city council In proportion to the number of scouts presont. After the mayor Is elected, laws will bo on-acted on-acted for the government of the city and proper punishment provided for offenses. The Lehl baseball team has challenged chal-lenged the boy scouts for a baseball game on July 4, and the boy scouts will fix up a team to whip the Le- Villan 1 Viot nan TKi trrftTT-n mnn or officers in charge, have a hard task in hand There is not one minute of the day that some boy does not want permission to do this and to do that and It is hard to refuse and at the same time it is hard to keop track of all the boys. Mr. Welsh of tho Deseret grymnasi-um grymnasi-um of Salt Lake Is the swimming master and It is Indeed a great sight to seo him out with the Httlo fellows giving the first Instructions in swimming swim-ming It Is safe to say that the boys will all swim by the time they got back. Fishing Is good. In front of one of the tents we found a wash tub full of fish carp, chubs, suckers and catfish. One little fellow not over 11 years old had a string of between twenty and thirty fish on a willow and arrived In camp as happy as a king, but considerably sunburnt His smiles ran from car to ear as he held them up for Inspection and said, "Pretty good for an hour, isn't It?" There is not a half hour of the day that tho boys are free from 6omc duty io perform. Mr GInglch of Salt Lake and several other members of the Young Men's Christian association of Sale Lake whose names we have forgotten for-gotten are there to make things pleasant pleas-ant for the boys. All sorts of athletics athlet-ics aro practiced. The Rev. F. O. Kelley of Provo is the business manager. He made a contract that each boy was to be fed on 40 cents por day, 13 1-3 cents per meal, and there are six ladles In tho kitchen who perform the duties of cooks, and it is Indeed a sight to witness wit-ness the scene when tho bugle calls for meals. Every boy has his place at the tables and one youngster from each squad acts as waiter and there aro something like forty waiters standing stand-ing with a tray in their hands With three, four and five plates in tho tray they rush up to the kitchen window, where tho six ladies In charge slice tho meat, place tho potatoes In tho dish, pour the gravy over tho pota- toes and oach lndy does a part of this " work as thoy move on In front of the window. Bnttor Is placed upon tho table, three big slices of bread and a tin cup Is filled with peas. A half gallon pitcher of fresh milk Is placed upon each table, at which aro seated from 1 to 6 hoys. ' The program that the boys go through has already been published In this papor and need not bo repeated. repeat-ed. Divine services wcro hold on Sunday Sun-day at which Col. Flshor again bo-ci.moa bo-ci.moa preacher. In the afternoon assembly as-sembly was held and a half dozen of tho visitors were invited to speak to tho youngsters nnd tho youngsters applauded ap-plauded most vigorously. C. A Wyman, state boys' secretary, 1 a whole-souled fellow and his ab-I ab-I sonce would be missed greatly Ho Is postmaster, banker and chairman of several other useful and appreciated appreci-ated stunts. The boys aro furnished with a check book and they chock their monoy out of the bank. No ono Is allowed to spend over 20 cents per day. Simply as a matter of test yostcr-diy. yostcr-diy. the bovs were requested to hand In their religious beliefs It dcvolopcd that thoro were Episcopalians, Methodists, Metho-dists, Baptists. Catholics, Presbyterians Presby-terians and Mormons. The Methodists Metho-dists and Mormons had the largest number and wero equally divided. Th others had from two upward. There was one voungster who had no religion relig-ion and did not remember whether his parents had any. but he was a mighty good bov Just tho same The Ogden hoys greatly appreclato the ten copies or tho Evening Standard Stand-ard sent down every day. and It would make a pretty picture to see three and four boys get together on their stomachs, reading the same paper. The scout boys, nicknamed the IHounds," will receive tho medal for speed. Thoy came fiom Lagoon to Camp Saratoga In one day and wero the first to arrive there, but tho writer was advised that It was not their legs that carried them; that tho kind farmers and automobile people who were going that wav picked pick-ed them up and pushed them through. Threo cheers woro given tho Ogden Mayor when ho arrived with 150 pounds of packages principally of cake, from the boys' parents and as ono boy said, "Cake, tho kind mother makes, Is scarce in this camp." The food appears wholesome and plenty of It, though some of tho smaller small-er boys who wero in the habit of going go-ing to their mother's pantry three or four times botween meals, claim they get hungry waiting so long. Col. Fisher yesterday discovered four hoys nlcoly seated behind a tent playing cards The Colonel confiscated con-fiscated the deck The young people said they played cards -at home, but Col. Fisher said, "that wa6 alright, hut no cards can be played In the camp." The youngsters said that they were ready to obey orders. NTot once did the writer hear a bad word of any kind. He did not see a cigarette or cigar smoked. Ho did not see a person chowlng tobacco, and the Saratoga .Camp situated on the lake, away from every other farm house or village, makes an Ideaf spot for the government of the youngsters. |