Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-15
ADMISSION, ALABAMA,
WHAT IT is LIKE
Sketch Of Town Of 10000 Where
Annapolis Soldiers Will Be Sent
LARGE CONSTRUCTION WORKS
Where 20 600 Men and Officers VIII
Encamp To Prepare For War
For Democracy.

Admission, Alabama, near which the
National Guard from Maryland Della
ware, New Jersey, District of Column
bia and Virginia will train, is
charming Southern town of 10000,
nestled in circle of hills. with an
elevation of about 1900 feet, is situ-
ated on the Southern Railway and
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. 100
miles west of Atlanta and 60 miles
east if Birmingham
One would not look to Alabama to
furnish a summer resort yet during
the intense heat of the end of July
with the many deaths and prostra-
tions reported from Washington, Bal
timore and New York, Admission, or
rather Camp Mcclellan, with more
than 1000 men working at high speed,
there was not single case of illness
from the heat. 1t was hot, but dry
heat without humidity. The nights
are cool and refreshing.
There is very prettily situated
golf club, with nine well-kept holes,
where one can find enough natural
hazards to make the game interesting
to those who find time to follow the
ball. Improvements to the athletic
club, when completed, will furnish
very comfortable rendezvous for the
officers after strenuous day
The town is well planned and lay
ed out, with its residential streets
shaded by beautiful overhanging
trees, good streets and clear, soft
water, piped from high up in the hills,
which water will be used at the camp
Camp Mcclellan is very pleasant
ly located amongst the hills on 1000
acres of government-owned land,
stretching from 2 to miles from An
niston along a splendid but entirely
too narrow road
The ground drains freely and drys
rapidly. There are no swamps,
stagnant pools or ponds, and no mos
quitoes, and what flies there are, do
not bite or sting. There are, however,
in the woods the red bugs or chiggers.
The construction of the camp is un-,
der the direction of Major c. l.. Dulin,
VI lllG NdtlOlldl Vi NliSctociDUl,
and his corps of assistants are Ma
tional Guard Quartermasters and the
work accomplished to date spaks well
for the efficiency OF National Guard
officers AS report has ii, that this
camp, with continual rains and un-
usually difficult hilly-rolling ground
TO contend with, is we'll ahead of other
camps started at the same time
Much credit must be given to the
American Railway Association and its
associated railroads for the splendid
cooperation shown.
There will be machine gun, rifle and
artillery ranges, There has been over
205 carloads of lumber unloaded,
hauled, sawed and set up and more
than 20 miles of 10-inch water mains
layed One of the reasons which has
greatly contributed to the rapid pro-
gress of the work has been the rigid
enforcement of the prohibition law
in and around Admission. Without it,
with the great numbers of the ire
sponsible element employed as labor
ers the work could not have gone so
smoothly. The only cases of drunk
enness seen in three weeks were men
brought in from outside States who
were intoxicated when they arrived
While this is in no way intended as
an article advocating prohibition,
those assigned to duty here in charge
! of construction see and know its
great advantage on large construction
work
1t will be boon. too. in the train
ing OF the 10000 or more men and Off
GERS who will soon be encamped here
for preparation to aid in waging the
world war for democracy.