The Washington herald., 1917-11-12
10000 VISITORS
BRING PLEASURE
TO CAMP MEADE
Many Hampers Of Good
Things to Eat Carried
by Washingtonians.
ny ANDREW r. KELLEY.

Camp Meade, Admiral, Nd. Nov.
u-when darkness settled over the
cantonment tonight and the immense
army Of visitors wended its way to-
ward the exits, II was estimated that
5000 relatives and friends had OBJ
tained a closeup view OF the boys in
olive drab. OF these visitors at least
1900 came from Washington.
From early morning there was con-
slant stream OF automobiles, while
pilgrims by hundreds tramped through
the camp on the lookout for kin and
friends. Hampers OF good things to
eat were brought; in fact, many more
Of these welcoming gifts were in evil
dence than on any previous visiting
day.
The immense crowd seemed to re-
veal that the folks at home are get
ting closer to their boys here and are
ministering to their creature COM
forts better than they did at the start
Mohawk Eleven Disappointed.
There was one fly in the ointment OF
today's pleasures. The fast Mohawk
football team from the District, anna
teur champions OF Washington. ar
rived to match their skill against that
OF the team of the 312th Machine Gun
Battalion. Through an oversight, the
District officers had failed to get per-
mission to use one Of the football
fields. and when the delegation from
Southeast Washington arrived, ac-
companied by hundreds of rooters.
they found no field was available for
the game.
Lieut.. Jordan, coach of the 312th
Machine Gun Battalion, decided It
W0lld a 20 ha nfY
rather than risk life and limb on I'M
certain ground in other parts of the
cantonment, and, accordingly, the
visitors had to be content to watch the
Sxty-fourth Engineers administer a
drubbing to the 314th Infantry team.
Reports from the offices of the con-
tractors are to the effect that il
present conditions are maintained,
final work on the cantonment will be
completed by next Saturday. After
that the young engineers will take a
whack at road building. and will con-
struct number Of hard-foored high
ways within the cantonment.
Looking For Action.
1t now seems certain that some time
In February or March the entire
Seventy-ninth Division will be ready
course Of intensive training will have
been completed and the only thing
necessary to polish the men Off for
actual warfare will be the one month
Of training "over there"
Under the plan OF instruction which
begins tomorrow the lads will be
taught all there is to know about gas
bombs. liquid fire and other fiendish
contrivances introduced by Germany,
a gas station is being constructed and
gas masks are on hand for distribu-
tion when the methods of defense and
attack with the deadly fumes are
taught
liegt. c. f. Miller, OF the 312th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, has been placed
IN charge OF the regimental canteen.
About Broken Dishes,
He declares the real character in
this camp has been overlooked.
His name is Moses Radkins. but
everybody knows him in WASHINGTON
and down here as Broken Dishes He
mas worked in every hotel in the city
and he Is a star. He is the only man
ever saw who could turn an egg with
one hand while he rolled dice with
the other.
They took him away from us and
mad him tending the fires in the Off
GERS quarters. The other day Mai.
Zingg, the battalion commander, went
10 Badkins where he was at work and
iounu 1auIt with everything that
Dishes was doing.
Dishes didn't know Mai. Zingg and
proceeded to tell the officer where he
got of and to mind. his own business.
If you know more about running
these fires than I do, why don't you
do it? he demanded. The major pro-
ceeded TO tell Badkins just where he
got of and. after he had finished.
walked away. Dishes scratched his
head for time and said: That man
IS altogether too rough for me to
speak to again."
\. VI. G. A. Campaign Watched.
Every soldier in camp is watch
ing with interest the growth of the
funds of the Y. NJ. c. A. for war
service work. The Y. NJ. c. A. has
already spent more than $780, 900
at Camp Meade and it is a safe bet
to assert that there is not a soldier
in the Seyenty-Ninth Division who
has not shared some of the COM
forts and conveniences which this
money has provided. They want the
"OIA u continue ana lot tnat rea-
son substantial part of the s35,-
100000 which the association plans
to raise will come from the pocket
books OF the soldiers themselves.
In the same degree do they desire
success for the 100000 goal which
the knights of Columbus are trying
TO reach for training camp ac-
tivities.
There were more than a dozen
services in which the spiritual wants
of every denomination were served
in the Y. NJ. c. A. huts and in the
X of c. Building today The He
brewS hold their services Friday
evening and arrangements are now
being made to have some of the
most distinguished rabbis in the
country visit Camp Meade and hold
services for the IaWish snldiarz