Cruise

While other schoolboys were packing up to go home last month, a group at Tabor Academy was busy painting, rigging and bending on sails on a 90-ft. auxiliary schooner, the Tabor-Boy. Tabor is on Buzzards Bay, Mass., near an old whaling town. It was reorganized in 1916 by Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch of the Boy Scouts) under the direction of Captain James P. Lewis of the Naval Reserve.

Last week, having prettied up the trim Tabor-Boy, 18 Sea Scouts (none over 16 years) manned her for an eight-week cruise to the World's Fair. With Headmaster Lillard and Captain Lewis in command, the boys were assigned regular watches, holding all posts from able seaman up through bos'n and quartermaster to first mate. They sailed the Tabor-Boy down to New York, putt-putted up the Hudson to Albany where the 85-ft. masts were unstepped to clear the bridges along the canal to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. At ports of call along the way the Sea Scouts planned to visit schoolmates and other Sea Scouts.

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