Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-22
RECREATION CAMP COLUMBIA.
CHAPLAIN RICE ENTERTAINS
OFFICERS AND MEN.
Religious Services Well Attended Good
Health of Soldiers Deaths 0c-
cur Among Officers And Men.
BODIES BROUGHT To STATES
FOR INTERMENT.

/ men at Camp Columbia. The pavilion
in the central part of the parade
| ground is used for entertainments of
/ various kinds. Besides periodical
| dances the men have here for their
/ friends, there are lectures, illustrated
| with handsome stereopticon views.
| These lectures are given chiefly by
| Chaplain Rice, who has thousands of
/ beautiful slides of views he has taken
| all over the world. Chaplain Rice is
| a man of strong personality and is be-
| loved by the officers and men through
| out the camp. He was a victim of
/ misfortune during our visit. While
| making some clerical and ministerial
| calls, and while doing charity work,
| for which he is noted, fire broke
| out near Chaplain Rice's quarters at
| Camp Colubmia and destroyed about
| a thousand of his slides, the collection
| of which represented the work of
| lifetime.
The entertainments given by Chap
| lain Rice are highly interesting and
| instructive, as we'll as entertaining.
| At least once a week Chaplain Rice
entertains and instructs the men in
some way. Chapalin Waring, priest
of the Roman Catholic Church, has
organized a Holy Name Society that
| is doing good work among the men
at the Camp. He is also training a
choir for singing at the mass and
church services. ON Sunday several
services are held at the pavilion
throughout the day and evening, and
are attended with marked regularity
by officers and men. The spiritual
welfare of the men is looked after. The
first service is the mass, celebrated by
Chaplain Waring. The altar is cared
| for by two Sisters of the Church, who
come out from Havana and arrange
the hangings and vestments. The SER
vice is very solemn and impressive.
After the mass there is a united SER
vica of Chaplain Charles G. Pierce, ID.
D., of the Episcopal Church, and
Chaplain Rice, of the Congregational
Church. This is largely a song ser
vice, and is followed by an address or
short sermon by either Chaplain Rice
or Chaplain Pierce. These services
are attended by both officers, their
families and guests and by the men.
| After this service there usually follows
| the celebration of the Holy Commu.
nion by the Episcopal chaplain, and
| there are large number of communi-
cants.
DR.. Pierce has many friends in
Annapolis. We are always being re-
minded how very small the world is.
When Dr. Pierce found we were from
Annapolis, he began to tell us Of
his friends here. He received his
degree from st. Johns College, and
| is a personal friend of President
Fell. More than this he said DIR.
| Fell had invited him to deliver one
of the course of University Extension
! lectures the past winter, not know
! ing Chaplain Pierce was so far away
| lin Cuba.
| Each branch of the service has its
| Chaplain and Chaplain Charles G.
/ Pierce, d. D., is Chaplain of the
| Corps of Engineers. Each department.
| Of the service also has its physician
/ and surgeon, and one of the most pop
| ular at Camp Columbia is Capt. Doug
| lass Duvall, U. :. a. Captain Duvall
is an Annapolis man and also st.
Johns man. He enjoys the esteem
| of a large circle of friends socially as
| well as professionally.
There is little sickness at Camp
| Colum bia, indeed there is scarcely any
sickness on the Island of Cuba. 1t
is what most doctors, looking for fees
| would call a distressingly healthy
Island. We are told by several Army
| surgeons that there was less sick
ness and fewer deaths at the Cuban
| Army posts than at any in their ex-
| perience of Army life anywhere in the
States. Very few deaths among the
| men have occurred since the American
Army of Cuban Pacification has been
stationed on the Island, and the few
have been usually from accident.
Shortly after our visit Private b. III.
Brown, of the Eleventh Cavalry, was
killed by being thrown from his
horse. He was buried near Camp Co
lumbia with military honors, although
eventually this body, with any other
American soldiers who may die in
Cuba, will be brought to the States for
interment.
General Barry, commanding the
Army of Cuban Pacification, has direct
ed that the bodies of all soldiers who
die in Cuba shall be eventually y
brought to the United States for final
interment.
I'm view,'' says General Barry,
..of the temporary character of the SER
vices of TIE United States toops in
Cuba, the requirements of paragraph
497 A. r., which prescribe that at each
post there shall be set apart plot OF
| ground to be devoted to cemetery pur-
poses, will not be observed at the sta
tions at present occupied. In dispo-
| sal of the dead of their commands,
commanding officers should observe
las we'll as enjoIn upon their subor-
dinates-a strict regards for the re-
quirements of the Cuban health regu-
lations.
s.ArticIe $50 of these regulations
| prescribes that no body snail be in
TERED in ground not specifically au-
thorized by law with the approval OF
the health authorities. This prohi-
bition renders it necessary that tht
| commanding officer of each station
confer with the health authorities OF
the immediate neighborhood, and, in
concert with these authorities, selecl
for his command a site within ar
approved cemetery, set apart from th'
common burial ground as far as may
be practicable, for the purpose of in
terring therein the remains, which
will ultimately be disinterred for re
moval to the United States In in
terring remains every means Shout.
be en- :.isyed 10 aid in their ready
Identification by disinterring parties.
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