Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-07-11
CAMP DOUGLAS
Scenes and Incidents OF Camp Life.
The Annapolis Boys.

Everybody in the Maryland brigade,
encamped at Lore'ey on the Gunpowder
river, has in the past two days develop
ed ravenons appetite, and the cooks are
kept busy al day long preparing meals
for the hundgry men. The quantity OF
eaiables the brigade slows away every
day is appalling, and the mothers. wives
and sweethearts who imagine that their
soldier boys.liye on hard tack and water
or that they don't have enough to eat
should take peep into the mess tents,
or look at the cooks at work in the six
big kitchens at any time between day
break and shutdown
Including officers, men and servants,
| fully 1900 persons have to be fed three
times day. and the amount of food re-
quired is enormous. Harris and Hughes
of Baltimore. aud VIM. T. Allen, of
Cumberland, are caterers for First. Fifth
Third, Fourth and Second Battalions.
An average breakfast for the men con-
sists of beefsteak, boiled. potatoes. fried
bacon, coffee and bread and butter. Din
ner consists of roast beef, boiled pota-
toes, stewed tomatoes and stewed corn.
This is varied by substituting baked
beans and pork, cabbage and bacon or
roast mutton for beef For supper they
usually have cold meat. bread and butter
and coffee. The officers fare in the
main is the same as the men, except that
they get little delicacies, such as eggs,
breakfast bacon and deserts, for which
they pay extra.
Breakfast is served every morning at
o'clock and the cooks begin getting Il
ready at o'clock in the morning, long
before day break. Immediately after
breakfast preparations are begun for
dinner, which requires more time in the
preparation. Everybody has finished
eating by o'clock, and an hour later
work is begun on supper. About twenty
cooks, twenty helpers, thirty-fiye wait
ers and five general workers are employ
ed in preparing and serving the food.
For breakfast about 1000 pounds of
beef, 400 loaves of bread, 10 barrels of
| potatoes, 100 pounds of butter, 200 gal
Ions of coffee and 175 pounds of sugar
are needed to furnish a square meal. For
a roast beef dinner / 400 pounds of beef,
200 loaves of bread, 100 gallons of soup,
10 barrels of potatoes. $50 quarts of
stewed tomatoes ESQ quarts of stewed
corn, fifty pounds of butter would be re-
CURED. For supper about 800 pounds of
cold meat. 400 loaves of bread, seventy
five pounds of butter. 200 gallons of cot
fee. 100 pounds of sugar would be need
ed. In addition to these ton of ice,
two crates of eggs, two barrels of flour,
three barrels of corn-meal. twenty-five
pounds of salt, two pounds of pepper,
fifteen gallons of milk are used daily.
The First Regiment made an excel
lent showing in the drills tits compos
ed of detached companies from the Wes-
tern Shore of the State, which never
came together for battalion drills except
at encampments.
Among the staff officers of the First
Regiment are Dr. w. G. Claude, surgeon
with rank of major. and w. s. Marcy,
paymaster with rank of captain, both of
Annapolis.
Next Wednesday viii be Governors
day in camp, called so in honor of Gov
ernor Jackson's official visit, which will
be made on that day,
Company @, Governors Guards, An
napolis. -Captain, Louis Green, first
lieutenant, James @. Porter; second
lieutenant, Philip K. Porter; third SER
gent, Samuel Dawes; fourth sergent,
Samuel p. Owens; second corporal, Ever
EFT Hubbard, third corporal, John t.
Barber; fourth corporal. VIM. Brown,
nth corporal, Chares Ellinghausen; sixth
corporal, Daniel Medford; privates, A.
Theodore Brady, George Burlingame,
Thomas Barrow, Albert Gather, Samuel
Gates, Samuel CAN'T, Rhinehart Gates,
George Herald, John Jacobs, Harry +.
King, Walter McNew, Charles Reidt,
Frank Strohmeyer. John Tydings,
Samuel Wells, Elijah Wells; musician.