Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-21
GOVERNOR HOME
TELLS OF TRIP
Arrives From The South Praises
Conditions AT Admission
TROOPS SPLENDIDLY TRAINED
Mrs. Harrington And Children To Re-
main South For Some Weeks Urges
Need OF Sweaters

Upon his return late yesterday
afternoon from Admission, Ala, Gov
ernor Harrington, who has been
spending a week there to visit his
son, Lieut.. Emerson c. Harrington,
Jr, at Camp Mcclellan, had a great
deal to talk about.
Adjutant General Henry NJ War
field, who accompanied the Governor,
also returned. Mrs. Harrington, Miss
Mary Harrington and Master Billy
Harrington will remain in Admission
for some weeks.
The Governor was enthusiastic over
conditions at the camp. He found the
soldiers a splendidly trained body of
men and the moral conditions sur
rounding the camp most excellent
Not all Of the Maryland boys have
sweaters, the Governor said. and the
cold weather which will hit the camp
soon makes il necessary that there be
no relaxation in the work of knitting
and sending sweaters to them
The following statement was given
out by the Governor:
My visit to Admission was not an
official one. went to accompany
Mrs. Harrington, who is visiting my
son Emerson. I asked General War
field to accompany me because |
wanted to find out all l could about
our Maryland boys and about condi-
tions surrounding Camp Mcclellan.
General Gather, who had been adj
yised of our coming, with General
Rafferty,, who, in the absence of Gen
eral Morton, is the commanding gem
eral, met us at the depot, and GEN
eral Warfeld while at Admission was
General Gathers guest.
General Rafferty, Changed Plans.
"On learning that my visit would
be of short duration, General Rafferty,
changed his plans so that on Thurs
day last he would have his first Di-
visional Review in our honor On
Wednesday General Warfield and I
lunched with General Gather at his
headquarters, and on Thursday after
the review was the guest Of honor
at a luncheon at General Rafferty's
headquarters.
The Divisional Review on Thurs
day was magnificent, Camp Mcclellan
is beautiful camp, and the grounds
for the review were spectacular in the
extreme. Within one hour and "a
minutes after we had taken our posi-
tions on the reviewing stand the last
OF the troops had passed. There was
not the slightest hitch or the least
confusion. 1t was the grandest mill
tary sight / have ever seen. A finer
body of men with finer spirit can
not imagine to exist, and the Mary
land boys fully held their own. Cen
eral Gather upon his beautiful steed
fully deserved the applause which was
given him.
Busiest Woman III Admission.
"On Sunday Mrs. Harrington and ]
were guests of Colonel and Mrs. Lit
tie at an old fashioned Maryland
country dinner at Colonel Little's
headquarters, and | must pause here
to say that Mrs Little is the busiest
woman at Admission. She is untiring
in her work for the Maryland boys.
There is quite colony of Maryland
women at Admission and Mrs. Little
has them all at work for our boys,
and ! want to call attention to the
fact that not all of the boys have
sweaters yet and very soon they will
need them badly. The climate is fine
now, but it win soon turn cold, and
hope the women of Maryland will not
relax work in this respect.
"Of one thing our people can feel
assured, and that is that the moral
influences surrounding Camp McClel-
Ian are of the very highest order
Alabama has real prohibition, and if
there is any division of sentiment,
failed to find it, and violators are pun
nished by sentence to work in the
mines. l saw not the slightest signs
OF intoxicants or intoxication while I
was at Admission. The moral infu-
ences surrounding the camp in other
respects are equally gratifying as
well as surprising. ] am confident
that our boys parents will be graft
fed to know the excellent conditions