Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-28
BIG RUSH IS ON
AT CAMP MEADE
Secretary Baker Pays A Visit To
The Site
BUILDINGS GOING UP FAST
Major General Kuhn Hard at Work
BUILDINGS GOING UP FAST
Major General Kubn Hard at Work
experimenting The Men At The
Cantonment.

NanlCnmeDt.
The vast clouds of dust that hung
over Camp Meade yesterday proved
that the great rush of thousands OF
men engaged in building the future
city of soldiers was on. Almost 5000
men are working at present, and sew
eral hundred more are expected today.
Secretary Baker on Sunday visited
the cantonment site and was great
~ impressed by the amount of work
that has been done there in short
time
Capt Peter +. Meade, of the Quar-
termaster Officers Reserve Corps,
has been ordered to Camp Meade for
duty as quartermaster of the Auxil-
iary Remount Depot to be established
there, and TO take charge of the es-
tablishment of the horseshoers', team
sters' and packers schools at the Aux
iliary Remount Depot of the Eastern
Department
Gen kuhn A Busy Man.
Major General John E. Kuhn was
hard at work all day and scarcely
left his office at all. In the afternoon.
however, he made a tour of part of
the camp to look over the progress
OF the work. Brigadier General
Nicholson and Colonel Rose, chief of
stan, were not in the camp in the
afternoon being away on business.
Brigadier General e. f. Hatch, who
has been slightly under the weather
for the last two days, is better now
and is able to be about again. Gen.
Andrew Hero and Walter H. Gordon
are expected to arrive at the camp
very soon.
A large number of the officers of
the Three Hundred and Fourth Regi-
ment of Engineers, including the COM
mander, Col James p Jervey, arrived
during the day. They will look over
the camp and get acquainted with the
details, after which they viii be
trained along the lines which they
will, in turn, teach the future engin-
GERS of the seventy Division
Although there was a rumor to the
effect thatNall the new officers of hte
Seventy-ninth Division would be the
graduates from Fort Niagara. ~ Y, it
is highly improbable, and many Off
GERS who received their commissions
at Fort Myer, Va, are almost certain
to be stationed at Camp Meade.
Many Officers In Camp.
About LOO young officers are now
in the camp and at present are at
tending classes, the purpose of which
is to further the military education
received at their training camps On
the fifth of September one per cent
of the 10000 men expected from the
1S1 draft boards of the States OF
Maryland, Pennsylvania and District
of Columbia will arrive at the camp
Each day after this. for five successive
days, one per cent more will con
10000 will come in groups at later
dates. the whole number to be on
hand by October 18th.
AS they are brought to their quar-
ters they will receive the necessary
field equipment. including uniforms
and other accoutrements, and as they
proceed with their training they will
| receive rifles and guns according to
the advance in their efficiency. The
immense barracks which, but a week
ago were but skeletons of framework
are no being walled up and made
! ready for the roofs, while some are
completed To ward off the cold win
ter winds a coat of taxpayer is put
on just inside the walls, and after
this comes a covering of boards
which make an additional protection
and pleasing interior These bar
| racks will be heated by large stoves
and in sufficient number to insure
comfort The officers quarters will
be kept warm by steam heat. how
ever.
Training OF The Men.
The training of the men will con
sist FIRST. of the elementary duties Of
the soldier, and no other training viii
be attempted Immediately. After they
have mastered the practical work OF
their new life then viii commence q
series of lessons in modern warfare
Those of the infantry regiments vii
be taught trench-digging. bomb
throwing and all the new ideas which
the great war has brought out IL
the artillery division big guns vii
be used. the size of which are equa
or greater than those employed in th'
European countries.
Work on the water supply is pro
crossing nicely and. although it is no
finished. the camp will soon boast o
an established water supply Th'
large pipes Of the sewer system ar
being laid as fast as they arrive
Today a flag is expected to be raises
/ from the top Of the observatory nea
General Kuhn's headquarters.
All those who wish to have tn
freedom of the camp must have passe
or they viii be stopped and escorte'
to main headquarters by members o
the Tenth Infantry. who are told t
| Be very strict in enforcing this order
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