Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-26
COLORED DRAFTEES
TO LEAVE MONDAY
List of hose to go to Meade An
nounced.
BIG SENDOFF IS PLANNED.
Quota Totals 102 and Many of Them
Are Residents Of Annapolis
First Call on Race.


men of the city and Anne Arundel
county. called to the colors" in the
military draft, soon will be undergo
ing intensive training at Camp Meade.
at Admiral this county.
Drawn in the selective draft. notice
has been issued to the INTO report to
the local Exemption Board on Mon
day morning to go TO the military in
struction camp. They viii comprise
the first quota of negro troopers of
| this country TO be sent to the camp
to form part of the new National
| Army, as all of the men selected un-
| der the first two drafts were white
men, Several hundred negro sol
diers from other States are already
there, however.
1t is planned to give the colored
men a send-off that will be quite as
demonstrative as that which was ac-
corded the two contingents of white
men when they departed for Camp
Meade The services of the Naval
Academy band have been asked for,
| and it is expected these musicians will
head the line of march when the col
ored troopers parade through the
principal streets of the city.
Ministers of the several colored |
churches, and others of the colored |
race, have interested themselves in
| the arrangements for the departure
of the colored draftees, and all in all. |
they will take with the mthe well |
wishes of the people of Annapolis, gen.
orally. Many of the draftees are resi- |
dents of. or near. Annapolis.
At the instance of Rev. Ernest S. |
Williams, pastor of Asbury African |
Methodist Episcopal Church, and |
Wiley H. Bates, a prominent member
of Mount Moriah A. NJ. E. Church, a
reception will be rendered to the men |
of the drafted list in Asbury Church |
on West street tonight Prior to the |
feast that has been provided for the |
soldiers, addresses will be delivered |
by the Rev. Williams and others. In |
cidentally, the house adjoining the /
church has been set apart as recre- |
alton house for the colored soldiers at |
Camp Meade on the occasion of their |
visits to the city.
Here is the list:
William Washington, Annapolis.
Robert Carter, Marley
James Edwards, Pasadena.
Edward H. Smith, Annapolis.
Victor j. Thompson, Annapolis.
Riley Jackson, Fairfield.
Alexander Offer, Churchton.
J. Harry Ray, Harwood
Wesley Turner Marley.
Norman Spriggs, Davidsonville
George Hemingway, Fairfield.
Alexander Turner, Annapolis.
John Ayers, Annapolis.
Henry Spruul, Fairfield.
Stephen T. Spriggs, Annapolis.
Ernest Kicks. Chesterfield.
Roger Parker, Eastport.
Arthur Fisher, Parole
Israel A. Gather, Laurel.
George Butler, Gambrills.
John e. Davis, Eastport
Sellman Stewart, Churchton
Herbert Tillman, Annapolis.
Clarence Jones, Eastport
John Watson. Curtis Bay
Edward Tydings, Annapolis
Robert Blue, Fairfield.
Charles II Simms. Annapolis Jet
Dawson Wiley, Fairfield.
John II. Crowner, Shady Side
Frank Hall. Patuxent
Archie Thompson, Churchton.
Charles Wilson, Drury.
William H. Patterson, Fairfield
i
Wesley Brown, Pasadena.
Howard Porter, Robinson
Philip Creek, Friendship.
Charles S. Offer. Churchtown.
William Harris, Annapolis.
George Green, Annapolis.
George Griffith, Jessups
Richard Walker, Annapolis.
Francis H. Griffith, Patapsco.
Frank L. Ware, Fairfield
James G. Mann, Annapolis.
Vernon Easton, Sudley.
James NJ. Jones, Annapolis, r. F. d.
Daniel Johnson, Shady Side.
Thomas A Howard, Marley
! Godfrey Gaskins, Annapolis
Lee Hall, MillersviIle
Joshua ireland. Annapolis
Milburn Harried, Spa Road
Frank Dorsey, Annapolis
Charles Stokes, Annapolis
John r. Johnson Annapolis.
William II. Bands. Portland
Julius A. Dennis, Shady Side
Frank Green. Annapolis
Clarence Turner. Woodwardsville
/ Howard Williams, Dayidsonville.
Richard L. Brice, Annapolis
William Gross, Eastport.
Lewis Wilmington. Drury
Albert Jackson, Fairfield
Andrew Moore, Pasadena
Vansie Hayes, Annapolis
Rufus Holmes, Brooklyn
Horace Sedgwick, Earleigh Hgts.
Walter Smith, Annapolis
Horace Colbert. Annapolis
Albert G. Gross, Galloways.
Charles Dennis. Jr, Annapolis
Anthony Butler, Hanover
Stephen Johnson, Gambrills.
Roland Edwards, Odenton.