Catoctin clarion., 1917-10-04
Local Boys Off To Camp.
Big Crowd Gathers At w. NJ.
Depot To Say Farewell.

Big Crowd GatnefS Al W. M
Depot To Say Farewell.
Last Thursday afternoon some minutes
before 2 o'clock, three H. & F. passen'
ger cars loaded to the limit with the l34
selected men from the county came roll
ing into Thurmont on their way to Camp
Meade.
A score or more of automobiles and a
like number of conveyances brought
friends and relatives to the depot, while
hundreds walked there to see and say the
last farewels to loved ones.
Soon after arriving at the depot the
boys were ordered aboard three coaches
standing on side track the train COM
ing from Hagerstown being scheduled to
arrive at 2.03. This train was more than
an huur late, and made tiresome wait
and caused many persons to return to
their homes or to their work.
1t is stated by those who remained un-
| til the train came, that it carried the
noiseiest crowd passing this way in many
years. The three cars were quickly at
tached and the train was off for camp.
At Hagerstown great crowds gathered
at the Western Maryland depot. The
boys were given a good meal at that
place before starting on the last lap of
their journey. 1t is said the train left
Frostburg about a m.
Of the arrival at camp the Baltimore
Sun correspondent says:
Five hundred of Western Maryland's
finest-looking lads came into Camp Meade
at 5. 40 o'clock this afternoon. 1t was
just at the twilight hour, when every
thing is supposed to be peaceful and quiet
and serene. But there was nothing like
that around this burg. Tradition was
smashed to smithereens, and the boys
from Allegany and Washington, Freder-
ick and Carroll counties went marching
through the camp to the most rip-roaring
welcome that any selects have received.
1.-THE greeting was not especially meant
for them. but was rather psychological,
rs far as the time was concerned. The
Three Hundred and Fourteenth Regi
ment band was playing and more than
3, 600 soldier boys were singing death and
worse to Kaiser Bill at the top of their
voices. These 5000 were being led by
Kenneth S. Clark, the new song conduct
or at the camp. The concert was the
first held in conjunction with a band.
Mr.. Clark told the boys that he wanted
them to put vim into their songs, just as
though they were over in France going
over after Mr.. Hohenzollern. They put
the vim into it, all right.
"As the Western Marylanders went
marching through the dust to their quar-
ters the Pennsylvanians sang the follow
ing to the tune of "Goodby, Girls, I'm
Through:
.Goodby, Bill you're through
You'd better start to fret;
Well tie can to you
Without the least regret.
Our army's mobiizing,
1t sure looks terrorizing,
We will keep this aim in view:
Well get you, wei get you,
Goodby, Bill, you re through.
"a look at those mountaineers made
one feel that the Pennsylvanians were
right. They couldn't have timed their
song better. If these hefty lads from
the rugged peaks around Cumberland
and Frostburg and Oakland and Midland,
and the rolling farmlands around Hag
erstown and Frederick and Westminster
don't get Kaiser Bill they will be sorely
disappointed. They received the right
inspiration.
"The men from Charles and St. Marys
counties who got here this morning, and
those from Howard county who arrived
this evening were of the same stuff as
the other Marylanders who came in to-
day, which means that, though they hate
to pick fight, they are perfectly willing
to accommodate anyone who starts one.
They certainly will make Maryland feel
proud of them.
Tonight all sections of the State are
represented, from the towering ranges
of the Aleganies to the broad waters of
the Chesapeake. The home of fried
chicken par excellence and biscuits in
comparable has sent it's sons to boast of
the glories that forever shall be South
ern Maryland's.