Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-20
WHAT IS Being DONE
At NAVAL ACADEMY
For Good And Safety Of the Ameri-
can People.
QUIETLY AND WITHOUT A JAR
A Great Radio Station On Greenberry's
Point In Process Of Erection he
Nayy's Workshop.


happen. but We are ready at the
Naval Academy for anything that may
come along This was the brave
and optimistic manner with which
Capt Edward w. Eberle. Superintend-
ent Of the Naval Academy. an insti-
tuition that has doubled its number Of
students in his term OF Office, which
began September 20. 1915. spoke
Quietly, and without jar in the ma
chinery Of its administration, the
Naval Academy is proceeding with
three advancements in its operations
at once-temporary quarters being
erected for 500 Reserve officers, that
number of students reporting to the
Naval Academy for their studies, and
at the same time permanent wings are
being added to Bancroft Hall for the
accommodation of the large number
Of Midshipmen soon to be placed on
the roster of the school.
since September, 1917, work" said
Captain Eberle, this splendid officer
and gentleman, whose record will go
down into the annals of the Naval
Academy as most efficient Superin-
tendent, was begun on temporary
quarters for 300 Reserve officers.
These were finished on October 10th,
and on the 18th they were occupied
by the student-offlcers. Their quar-
tiers were fully equipped with light,
heat and shower baths.
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of quarters for 200 more of the Re-
serve officers. They were finished on
December 1st, and were occupied on
December 3rd.
I'VE also built a temporary mess
hall to the Midshipmen's mess, and
now we are quartering and messing
1900 Midshipmen and Reserve officers.
This work has not interfered with
the regular routine work of the Naval
Academy Only six new instructors
have been added to the educational
force of the Academy to instruct the
Reserve officers and Midshipmen, but
the sections have been doubled, and
all feel the pressure, but everything
is working smoothly
AN additional mess hall is now be-
ing built at Bancroft Hall, which.
when completed, will, with the old
hall, accommodate 1900
"In addition, there is in progress
the erection of permanent wings for
quarters to Bancroft Hail. These
wings will accommodate 1000 Mid
shipmen One wing is expected to be
completed by October 1, 1918, when
work will be advanced on the other
wing. which is expected to be finished
a few months later.
"a permanent addition is now in
course of erection to Ischar Hall, the
Department of Marine Engineering
and Naval Construction, for the in
struction of students and Midshipmen
and which will give more space for
drawing rooms, recitation halls and
machine shops.
1.-TWO hundred and four Midshipmen
of the Fourth Glass are now quarter
ed at the Marine Barracks, where they
have their own mess hall and routine
as at the Academy proper. These are
more Midshipmen than were in the
whole Academy when was here in
1881 as a Midshipman.
I'm addition to the improvements
made and in progress in the Naval
Academy, quarters for 600 are being
erected at the rife range for the ac-
commodation of 600 men as they come
down from time to time from camps
to have their rifle practice They are
shooting, living in tents, and build
ing quarters there all at the same
time.
Besides these improvements, the
radio station. on Greenberry's Farm,
is now being erected, and new stabling
for the herd at the Midshipmen's
Farm, at Gambrills, twelve miles
from Annapolis (where they have 400
mich cows, is being built"
All of these works are in progress
with an intense activity. At night the
ponderous blows of the pile driver
can be heard, for day and night the
work goes on, and at evening when
work ceases the trains of the electric
roads running to Baltimore back up
to the Academy's northwestern gate
and take on a load of workmen who
go back and forth to Baltimore, and
who will work under no other condi-
tion but that the contractors pay their
daily fare to and from the metropolis
OF MARYLAND