Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-03
ADMIRAL, WONDER CITY
is TAKING SHAPE
u. 5. Camp Meade a Hive Of In
dustry
WORKERS SUCCUMB TO HEAT
Dynamite Booms and Men Hurry Here
And There, Like Day on French
Front

nc CHltSu States lamp MeduS, Ut
Admiral. this county,is taking shape,
and seems to grow in a night like
Jacks bean stalk from a veritable
wonder city
An agony of death defying bumps
over miles of parched dirt roads, a
glimpse of tents on a distant hillside
alive with men in khaki gangs of
engineers toiling across acres of tree
less stubble, an outpost of pine
shacks half revealed through clouds
of dust, sudden turn in the road
and just ahead the million dollar
military city in embyro lay swelter-
ing under yesterdays sun at Admi-
raj
About 1O7 degrees in the shadei
There was breathless atmosphere,
loaded from long lines of freight cars
in the middle distance the braying of
donkey engines, the shrieks of steel
rails protesting against being laid
into tracks, the painting of cores of
motors in giant trucks crawling over
the roads as far as the eye could
reach Under it all was the steady
fall of hammer on nail in unceasing
accompaniment
Dynamite Planted Everywhere.
Five hundred yards ahead, where
the road runs abruptly into a shallow
stream a shout went up from gang
of laborers. There was much waving
of white flags, sudden scurrying of
motors to the far bank of the stream
for safety, and with report like the
boom of six inch howitzers, two
charges of dynamite exploded.
Great showers of dirt spurted into
the air,tortured stumps of thees were
flung aside and before the shower of
earth had subsidized the train of mo-
tors was ploughing its way across the
desert space once more before other
dynamite plants should go off
In one of the cars that toiled by sat
ID. Henry r. Carter, the Government
yellow fever and malaria expert, who
arrived on the scene in the morning.
The dean of all authorities on tropical
diseases will take up his residence at
Camp Admiral and with his two as
sistants from the United States Public
Health Service will personally direct
the work of ridding the camp of ma
larial infection Here and there the
road passes through grateful bit OF
woods where flames ate through the
brush piles and licked high up the
tree trunks.
Like A Camp In France.
Across each stretch of open ground
surveyors sighted with their instru-
ments and strung their lines. There
were gangs of sweating negroes close
at their heels with pick and shovel,
digging trenches for the sewer pipes
Trench diggers the Intermittent
boom boom of dynamite sentinels of
the Fifth Regiment marching gun on
shoulder at every turn of the road,
Khaki clad figures of mounted officers,
men prostrated by the heat lying like
wounded along the road-all height
ened the illusion of some army camp
back of the firing lines of France,
rather than one of Uncle Sans can
tonments in the process of construc-
ton on this side of the Atlantic.
At the top of barren foothill the
road terminated in the most nearly
completed section of the camp,which
is laid out on the unit system. Five
barracks or company halls to house
200 men each are nearing completion
there. 1t is literally possible in 10
minutes to see them grow. board by
board. Each long wooden build
ing is two stories high, the caves OF
the roof overreaching to protect the
upper windows from sun and rain,
the lower windows each boasting a
tiny shed of its own for the same
protection Thin wooden partitions
divide the halls into kitchen. mess
room and sleeping quarters.