The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-04-21
MARYLAND GETS 800
RECRUITS IN CAMPAIGN
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| tagging. 1t was the cooperation
that impressed me. Teamwork die
| it. And indeed, I'm proud to be a
Marylander."
1T has been one of the most in
| spring campaigns in which l was
ever engaged" said A. S. Goldsbor-
| ough, the executive secretary of the
| Maryland Recruiting Committee last
| night. inspiring because of the
! Willingness of all classes and condi-
tons of people to work, because of
| the vigor and ceaseless energy with
| which they have worked, and be-
cause of the resource and ingenuity
they have shown in the way they
have gone about the matter.
'One other matter may be of in
terest. For three weeks a hundred
business and professional men have
been giving of their time and labor
and paying for all the various COM
mittees expenses. l have seen the
best-known and most conservative
business men in Baltimore stand up
in automobiles on street corners and
make personal appeals to crowds
which would assemble, who had nev-
er made a speech in public before in
all their lives. Maryland lived up
to her noblest traditions, and has
not failed the government in this
time of need
Lieutenant Wilson was possibly
the happiest man in Baltimore last
night. In fact, he was so overjoyed
at the success of the campaign he
found it difficult to adequately ex-
press his thanks to those who had
labored with him so faithfully. Space
forbids the publication of the long
list of names of those to whom he
felt specially indebted. The success
of the campaign" he said, .fis due to
the combined efforts of the Citizens
Recruiting Committee, of the news
papers, and of other patriotic orga-
nizations and individuals of Mary
land. The unfailing loyalty of my
office force has been source Of
much qualification. My heartfelt
thanks are due the citizens who vol
unteered their services and material,
and to the people who got into the
spirit of the campaign and were will
ing to give their sons and relatives
to the great cause of enlisting in the
first line of defense"
A more dramatic ending could
hardly be imagined than marked the
conclusion of the terrific drive for
the 500. When the patriotic open
air military concert by the Naval
Academy Band was started on the
Court House Plaza last night several
thousand persons had gathered
Lieutenant Wilson announced that at
8 o'clock Maryland's quota was As
short and that the number must be
gotten within the next four hours.
Responding to appeals made by j.
Barry Mahool, Charles R. Schirm
and A. S. Goldsborough, SO young
men responded, and preceded by the
military band, marched to the re-
cruiting station followed by the ma
jority of the crowd.
At least two thousand spectators
were gathered outside the recruiting
office watching the result of the cam
paign at 10 o'clock, when it was
found "a were needed. Orators from
the windows of the building, from
the steps and among the crowd eX-
horted, stormed, threatened, begged,
pleaded for the missing two dozen.
There were many women who adj
ded their voices and petitions to the
young men to save Maryland from
an eleventh-hour failure. AS one af
ter another answered and marched
the doors which led to the
recruiting Office great cheers were
given by the excited crowd. Finally
the number was reduced to an even
dozen, then to six. The orators held