Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-04
WHO Is WHO AT
CAMP MCCLELLAN
He Halls From Annapolis Crabtown
Gets A Boom AT Admission,
Alabama.

me faceLl0uS writer OF the AIMS
ton Evening Star and Hot Blast has
the following of local interest:
Grabs, Hard. fried and debbiledi
Crab fakes. Ker-ra-a-a-bs. Here
comes der crab mani"
Have you ever been to Annapolis
in the good old summertime? If you
have had the pleasure, the call of the
crab man, with which this sketch
starts. will be recalled. Annapolis,
the ancient city on the Severn, Is
Crabtown. OF course. it gets some
reputation by having the United States
Naval Academy; by being the capital
of Maryland; by rivalling Boston IN
culture and by reason of its many
homes of pure Colonial architecture.
But its greatest reputation comes
from the crabs. When an Annapolis
man is away from home. you can
make his mouth water just by mem
tioning crabs
Captain Ennals Waggaman is OF An
napolis. He is detailed for service
with the construction quartermaster
at Camp Mcclellan and has charge or
housing the employees who are
building the camp. He is busy man,
but once in awhile you will see
dreamy look come into his eyes, along
about dinner time, and then you will
know he is thinking of his handsome
Annapolis home. and the crab flakes
he would like to have.
Captain Waggaman has his hands
full at Camp Mcclellan looking after
the comfort of the workmen First
of all, he believes in cleanliness and
insists upon the quarters being scru-
pulously clean. The result is that
the workmen have good beds, which
are aired frequently; the floors are
swept and scrubbed and the sleeping
rooms are made so sanitary that they
would be excellent models for any
other workmen's camp in the United
States.
Before coming to Camp Mcclellan,
Captain Waggaman had military train
ing on the State staff in the Mary
land militia. In order to get into the
service. he tried to enlist as pri-
vate, but was turned down on account
OF defective vision. Then he tried for
a commission and got it. at the same
time the government got a mighty
good business man in the army. Cap
tain Waggaman was general freight
and passenger agent on the Annapo-
lis Short Line Railroad and was in line
for promotion when his patriotism
prompted him to sacrifice his civil
pursuits and get into the army.
He is Princeton man and a mem
Der of half dozen clubs, among
which are the Annapolitan Club, of his
home city; the Baltimore Country
Club, the Princeton Club. of New
York, and the Admission Country Club.
While Captain Waggaman would not
make any reference to his ambitions
in civil life, friends from his section
of the country say there is little
doubt that il he had remained at An
napolis he would have been sent to
the next State Legislature, as he was
active in his opposition to Baltimore's
attempt to annex a portion of Anne
Arundel County Captain Waggamanf
was prominently identified for years
with the civic progress of Annapolis,
having been a member and official of
the Annapolis Chamber of Commerce
He has brother who is in the ord
nance department of the army. Mrs.
Waggaman, and the two interesting
children of Captain and Mrs. Wagga-
man, are now living in Admission, at
HOS Christine avenue, and are daily
adding to their list of friends.
1t is too bad that space will not
permit a story of the wonderful, old
Waggaman home at Annapolis. A
massive structure, built over a CEN
fury and a quarter ago, and furnish
ed with such pieces of Chippendale
and Sheraton handiwork that make
antique dealers in furniture green
with envy. And then the great fire
places-one in each of the immense
rooms-and the verandas, the two
foot wallis 1t is one of the handsom-
est of the many handsome old homes
in ancient Annapolis, and one of the
most hospitable.
And Captain Waggaman. along
about dinner time thinks of the crab
flakes he has eaten in the big wains-
coated dining-room.