Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-28
Detail of Thirty Conscrpts March To Martial Music Prior
To Entrainng While Citizens Cheer All Along
The Line--City And County Officials
In Pageant
TO GET KAISER BILL, MAN SAYS
Tagged" For Camp Meade Men Are Off To Undergo In
tensve Military Training Comfy Kits" and
Other Things Presented BY Pa
triotic Women

were pretty well satisfied by pack
ages of tempting sandwiches that
were handed out by the several ladies,
together with packages of milk
chocolate to MUNICH on during their
journey to the camp Actively engag-
ed in this work was Mrs. r. b. Dash
iell and other ladies'
Although the battalion of cadets of
St Johns College did not participate
in the parade, chiefly because of the
large number of new students en-
rolled and the fact that they are not
yet uniformed. the youngsters. about
200 strong, assembled at the West
street terminal and gave the college
yell fer the First Thirty" A SINH
lar cheer was given by the Boy
Scouts. IL is hoped. and. in fact,
plans are already being mapped ont
for a demonstration on a much larger
scale when the next detail of Anne
Arundel men leave for Camp Meade,
1t is expected that by that time the
cadet corps will be entirely uniform
ed, and their auxiliary band organ
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the United States Army (retired), the
new Commandant of Cadtes at the
college, was in charge of the corps
in connection with the ceremony az
the railway station, and was diligent
in looking after the needs of the men
about to leave.
When the word was passed for the
draftees to entrain, the hundreds of
people who gathered about the term
inal station pressed in closely TO get
last glance at the citizen-soldiers
One by one the names of the men
were called by Dr. Walton H. Hop
kins, of the Exemption Board, and
they responded promptly and board
ed the car that had been assigned to
transport them to the camp. Cheers
rent the air as each of the men
mounted the steps of the car
Among the men of this first con-
tingent of draftees is minister He
is George NJ Hawkins, youngster
who is a resident of Brooklyn, and
who belongs to the undenominationa
religious sect.
The demonstration accorded the de-
parting men was very creditable
one, in spite of the fact that ar
rangements were made rather hur-
riedly. Nevertheless, it was i'm
pressed upon the men that they have
the admiration and love of the citi-
zens generally.
With the departure of the men, in
cidentally, it was formally announced
that another detail of As will be sent
TO the training camp on October 3.
This information was contained in a
telegram received late yesterday after
noon by the County Exemption
Board, and the detail will be expected
to leave under the same arrange
ments as governed the leave-taking
of the men today.
1t has been reported that colored
men. subject to the draft, will be
among the next to get their instruc-
tions This, however, has not been
definitely determined.
Fifth District Sents 3.
OF the first 30 men, Brooklyn and
Curtis Bay, in the upper part of the
Fifth District, sent 8.
The ceunty's quota, which is 200,
has not been, filled yet, although more
than $50 have already appeared before
the medical examining board In the
first call 400 men were summoned,
and since then two additional calls OF
200 and $50 men each have been
made.
Those who went from Brooklyn
and Curtis Bay are: James F. Babic-
ky, Charles H. Grimes. Samuel Kay,
Robert NJ Hawkins. Charles Gowa-
ski, Clarence Leister. Ludwig Orda-
kowski, William J. Steponucke and
Joseph Siftor.