Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-10
ANNAPOLIS SOLDIERS GIVEN
A ROUSINC SENDOFF TODAY
Boys OF Company M And Machine Gun Company En-
trained For Army Camp at Admission, Ala. Shortly
After Noon Amid Cheers Of Their
Loving Friends
PARADE BEFORE DEPARTURE
Mayor Strange And Members OF City Council March At
Head Of Pageant, As Naval Academy Band Plays
Martial Airs Sorrow, Mingled With Pahos
Marked LeaveTakng of Fighting Men.

Tramp. Tramp, Tramp. the boys are
marching!
Never before in the history of the
city was this famous military slogan
brought home more strongly and i'm
pressively to the people of Annapolis
as it was today when the members of
Company NJ and the Machine Gun
, Company, city units of the First
Maryland Regiment of infantry, now
in the Federal service. paraded
through the principal streets of the
city prior to their entrainment for the
long juant to the army training cam
tonment at Admission, Ala, and which
may eventually lead them to the
trenches on the fighting front in
France.
All Annapolis was up and astir
early, eager to give the soldier boys
rousing send off, and a rip-roaring
send off il was. Mayor Strange and
members of the City Council, other
officials of the city and county. not
to mention the hundreds of private
residents assembled to give the boys
in khaki" loving farewell. Cheer
after cheer rent the air as the troop
ers paraded, and a good deal of pathos
was mingled with the other elements
of the demonstration. Tears were
noted in the eyes of many of those
who witnessed the pageant-women
especially, many of whom were the
wives or other fond relatives of the
departing soldiers.
The two companies, with an aggre-
gate membership of nearly 200 left
the city on a special train from the
West street terminal of the Washing
ton. Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railways at il o'clock They are
travelling over the Pennsylvania Rail-
| road system, and their itinerary will
carry them through Hagerstown and
other sections of Western Maryland.
In Hagerstown, it is understood, there
will be a brief stay, during which the
Annapolis companies will be Joined
by the other units of the Regiment,
and the whole party will make the
trip to Admission in three special sec
tions of trains.
Major Hugh r. Riley, who COM
mands the Third Battalion of the Regi-
ment, of which the local companies
are part, was in direct command.
The respective company commanders
are: First Lieutenant Oscar Dawes,
acting Captain of Company NJ in the
absence of Captain Daniel ] Murphy,
who has been at Admission for the last
several weeks helping to arrange a
number of details of the camp prior
to the arrival of the Maryland con-
tingent; and Captain Carey c. Jar
man, of the Machine Gun Company.
Jarman is recent graduate of st.
Johns College of this city, who
has reputation as a prominent ath-
lete as we'll as being a very efficient
military man.
The soldiers had completed every
minor arrangement long before the
hour fixed for their departure so that
nothing was left undone that would
cause a hitch All hands, in their
heavy marching regalia, answered TO
the muster call at 7.45 o'clock. The
parade began to move from the Bla-
den street armory at 1918. The line
of march was headed by the Naval
Academy band, Prof Adolf Torovsky.
bandmaster, the services of the musi-
clans having been promptly granted
by Captain Edward w. Eberle, Su-
perintendent of the Academy, in re-
sponse to request of Mayor James
F. Strange, of the city Patriotic airs
were played by the band all along the
line. the American. British and French
national airs featuring. Business in
the city was practically at a stand
still during the three quarters of an
hour that the parade was in progress
Many of the merchants closed their
stores for an hour
All along the line of march the
streets were crowded with residents
CT the city and persons of neighbor-
| ing places, in many instances the con-
course ranging in rows from to 10
persons deep, and the cheers for the
| boys, resolute in the purpose to fight
| for their country's color and the
preservation of democracy, were al
most continuous.
The parade, small as 1t was, yet
cvershadowed by the patriotic feeling
shown in connection Herewith, form
ed in front of the Bladen street arm
J ory. and the route trayersed was
| down College avenue to Prince
George street to Randall street,
around the Market Space, up Main
street, around the north side of
Church Circle to West street. to the
terminal of the washington, Balti-
mare and Annapolis Electric Rail-
ways.
Unfortunately there was delay Of
more than an hour in connection with
the troopers entraining The special