The Washington times., 1917-10-08
D. c. CONSCR|PTS
LIVE HIGH AFTER
KIN VISIT CAMP

CAMP MEADE. ADMIRAL, Nd. Oct.
S.-The 500 District men at Camp
Meade were gorging themselves to-
| day on roast chicken, fruit. cake, and
candy. gifts brought over by rela-
tives and friends among the $1,000
who visited camp Sunday.
Mess sergeants found the men with
| Indifferent appetites this morning,
with the remains OF lunch boxes still
! in their barracks. There was hardly
a man in camp from the District who
| did not have some box from home,
| brought over by the Sunday visiting
crowd.
There were intImations that It may
soon be necessary to exclude visitors
| from Camp Meade when the men get
down to real military work. This fear
is believed to have aided in encour-
aging yesterdays rush to camp.
The District contingent, defeated by
! New Workers. in their first football
game yesterday. are planning to get
revenge. Although the world series
is ringing the curtain on the 1917
baseball season, the District men at
Camp Meade plan to ignore the cur
few and make use OF the baseball
| Dy NlhTh
and presented to the men by Daniel
J. Donovan yesterday.
Secretary OF War Baker and Gen.
eral Bliss were among the visitors
| from home cheered by the District
men when the Sunday crowds swarm
ed into Camp Meade.
Promise Hard Grind.
A hard grind is ahead for the men
| OF the seventy-ninth division this
week. The word has gone down the
line to make every minute of the
fve hours drill count for more than
ever from now on and the program
Of training will be made all the more
severe now, in order to use to best
possible advantage the good weather
that now prevails.
What stands before the men as
constant stimulus to effort is that
message from France bearing the
| one name that carries a thrill for
every American soldier-Pershing
1t Is the one thing on the many bull
letin boards that Is as stirring as any
music played by the bands Cap
tains fnd men keen TO grasp 1t, and
! eager to carry out the advice given
by the man, who is at the front
leading the way in France as he did
in Mexico. The message is all the
more cheering, in thar It suggests a
thorough training in actual firing.
Gun Work soon.
That means we will burn up some
stuff," the men said when they came
to that part. There was a dread on
many sides that training might be
all hiking, marching, and setting up.
1t is to mean firing and that very
soon.
! The machine gunners will be al
lowed to go at the game with q
merry clatter. The others will shoot
have his chance to pull a trigger
Next to the strenuous week ahead
everybody is thinking today of the
sudden splash of romance that came
here and spared not even the man
on Tower Hill.
You May Be Gone for a Long, Long
I Time" is a tune they are whistIing
now in the model camp of Company L,
/ Tenth New York Regiment which
leaves this week for somewhere in
America or elsewhere It has a piano
and other things for sale cheap to the
national army men. The company will
leave behind the finest tent camp on
i the grounds. 1t is a combination be-
| tween lumber and tentagc. and looks
like a collection of pyramids.
Want Football Match.
Not the least bit terrified by defeat,
the 312th machine gunners, Washing
ton men, after their football game yes.
terday with the Tenth New York, are
eager for another match with some
of the national army teams being
/ formed here. The match yesterday.
which attracted such a big crowd, re-
suited in a score of % to o.
Today company l, 3l3th Regiment,
| decided to offer a formal challenge to
| the Washington men.
The Washington team includes men
who have been good players in their
| day, but some OF them have softened
up by confinement OF officers and
other work. Many OF the men have
been out of the game for several
years. They are coming back in o
hurry. and they are coming with a
vengeance.
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