The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-27
PART OF MEADE men
TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE
Three Hundred Members OF 3l3.ii
Regiment Will soon are SetNic"
On Foreign Soil.

Camp Meade, Md, Feb. 26-Tnree
hundred members OF the Three hun
dred and Thirteenth Regiment Will
leave here within the near future OH
the first leg Of their journey to
France. After their departure from
Meade they will Join d regular army
organization in another camp. they
will remain there a short time ana
then will sail for overseas service.
This means tina, before autumn
has set in at least 700 former mem
bers of the regiment will be in the
trenches giving battle to the Huns.
Three hundred and thirty members
of "Baltimore's Own left the camp
several weeks ago and since that
time other men have departed III
scattered punches. No information
can be published concerning the or
ganization which these men have
Joined or will join or the time OF
their departure across the waters.
These 700, together with the boys
of the Trench Mortar Battery, will be
the first Baltimoreans and Maryland
ers to send greetings by bullets,
hand grenade and shell to the boches
Of course, the 700 will be sorry
that when they do the fighting they
will be unable to stand shoulder to
shoulder with their comrades from
the same commonwealth Still they
will know that the lads of the Three
Hundred and Thirteenth will be bat
Ting as hard as they.
Colonel Sweeney has mapped out
plans for filling the vacancy IN his
IN have the
new men sent full speed ahead so
that they may be ready when the
time comes for them to go over. 1t
is firmly believed here that the Sew
enty-ninth will be the first National
Army division to go across, and that
Maj.-Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn will head
it.
The general was the guest of non
or last night at banquet given at
the unwilling of a medallion Of Col.
Thomas R. Darrah, of the Three
Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment.
The unwilling took place in the mess
hall of that regiment. The medal
lion is made up of plaster OF paris
and is the work of Walt McDougai,
the well-known cartoonlSt. 1t IS
Colonel Darrah all over. The medal
lion hangs above the table where the
Colonel sits, and is surrounded by
the colors of the Allies. General
Kuhn told Colonel Darrah that he
was the first colonel in the United
States Army to have an antemortem
medallion erected to him. He ex-
pressed the hope that a post-mortem
medallion was a long way off. There
was music by the regimental orches-
ira and fine feast was served. Mr..
McDougal was graduated on his
work. He has been here with the
Three Hundred and Fourteenth Reg
iment making cartoons of the soldi-
ers and of camp life.
Word has been formally received
from the War Department that each
soldier will be -g&y ven racer, aHfr-
ror and shaving brush by the Gov
eminent As was said the other day,
$4,000 razors for the men of Meade
have been ordered by the Quarter
master Department at Meade. The
arrival of razors is generally looked
upon by the soldiers as an indication
that departure for overseas is near.
The communication from Washing
ton stated also that shoe brush and
a clothes brush will be allowed for
every eight men, but declined to
mention who should be the custodian
of the brushes.
The Rev. Charles T. Hewitt, form
erly pastor of the Hampden Baptist
Church, Baltimore, and now a chap
lain here with the rank of ieuten-
ant, is doing good work at the base
hospital Among other things, Lieu
tenant Hewitt finds out the religious
denomination Of the patients. If,for
instance, Catholic soldier is in dan
ger of dying, the lieutenant, if there
is no priest at the hospital at the
time calls one Of the Catholic chap
lains on the telephone and tells him
of the patients danger. This after
noon Mr. Hewitt was busy putting up
placards in various parts of the hos
pitfalls telling the soldiers the hours
of Catholic service.
The religious interests of the men