Evening star., 1917-09-25
.SH|F INDICATION
FOR D. c. DRAF TED
Block 49," Near the Eastern
Border of Camp Meade,
Is Assigned.
READY FOR MEN TOMORROW
,,om . STAFF Correspondent.

From stan SoEfespouoeAt
CAMP MEADE, Md. September 20
According to q revised schedule issued
this morning. men in the Nstrlct s
ouota from local boards one and seven
are to be quartered in block s. which
In at the east side of the camp. This
change was announced shsortly before
noon.
About 700 men, from Maryland and
the District, are scheduled to arrive
here tomorrow. The District men and
the quotas from Baltimore city and
county will be here in time for dinner.
Other arrivals during the afternoon will
be from Worcester, Wicomico. Talbot'
Somerset, Caroline, Queene Anne and
Kent counties. The Districts first quota
is to be assigned to the 31oth Machine
Gun Battalion.
Col. Mays Is Called.
Lieut.. Col Mays. law officer Of the
camp and information official. was de-
tailed to Washington this morning for
temporary duty in the ONCE Of the
Judge advocate general In his absence
Lieut.. Baldi is to be the Intelligence
Meade by the committee of training
camp activities, is to be here tonight
to give the selected men tneir Hrst
singing lesson.
The organization to be instructed first
is the 314th Infantry. which has the first
band organized in the camp. The band
is to accompany the singing. and the
men are to be taught the songs ap-
proved by the committee. Col. Tenny
Ross this morning made tour of the
camp to select site for the theater
that is to be built in the immediate fu-
ture. 1t is understood that the theater
| is to have a seaing capacity of more
than 1000.
Men Feel Effects Of Work.
The second day of the regular sched-
ule of drills found many of the men of
the new Army stiff and sore. but eager
to go ahead with the work. All over
camp companies and squads of selected
men were out bright and early this
morning, going through the setting
up exercises. learning foot movements
and getting the rudiments of soldier
| ing through their heads. AS the camp
has yet nothing even remotely resem-
bling a parade ground, the drills were
| all held on any open space available.
| Remember that two months ago this
ground was being farmed and you
|
is, furrows only partly oblite:ated.
tangles of weeds, vines and briars,
brush and every once in while two
or three strands of barbed wire, re-
mains of fence that has been tram
pied down and covered with debris.
Drill Over Rough Ground.
| This is the kind Of ground over which
the men are drilling today and over
/ drill MT
somebody gets time to smooth of the
ridges, fill up the hollows and clear
away the tangled. withered growths
that at present camoufage many Il pit
| for the feet of the unwary.
| Men of the selective quotas. who
have showed unusual adaptibility and
Iuuickness to learn, or who have had
previous military experience, are being
| selected from the various companies
1 for drill and instruction as possible
non commissioned officers.
| Several groups of these promisine G
rockies were given their first instruc-
tions this morning by officers specially
| detailed for the job. AS soon as they
| will be made corporals or sergeants.
Developed From Ranks.
Company non-coms are to be dsvel.
oped from the ranks. of course, and Il
is the desire Of regimental, brigade ani
division officers that this be done al
rapidly as possible. So the boys from
the District who have been putting IL
much time drilling and learning to bs
soldiers are likely to be rewarded yer.
quickly for the work they have done.
Sanitary officers are delighted at tn.
good health of the men. 1t was rather
expected that many of the new men
living under strange conditions, would
develop more or less serious sicknesses
Almost the exact contrary has beer
- a
dozen men out of more than 1E.0Ol
selected men already In camp havs
been on sick report any day sipos ar
rival Of the AFst eonttnGspN here.