Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-03
"OvER THERE" FEATURES
INSPIRNGLY PATRIOTIC
Widely Educational In Scope, And IN
like Any Other Exhibit.
Focuses country's Attention.

Christian Association, Vocational
Training experts, Army and Navy.
Munitions Manufacturers, and other,
thrilling motion pictures depicting war
scenes, plenty of excellent music by
noted bands, and soloists. distinguish
ed visitors-these are just few of the
numerous striking features of over
There" the great Liberty Loan Canton
ment which opened at the Fifth Regi-
ment Armory in Baltimore on Satur-
day for a run of several weeks.
Nothing quite equal to the Canton
ment has ever been put across in
any other part of the country. So
stupendous and spectacular is this war
exposition that the attention of the
entire country has been attracted, In
Quiries from other States have been
made regarding it and plans for the
show have been sent by the Treasury
Department to every Federal Reserve
Bank in the country.
It is felt that Baltimore has achieved
something that will give impetus to the
third Liberty Loan drive, which Is to
be launched on April 6, something, in
fact, that will undoubtedly push Uncle
Sans third financial effort far along
the road to success.
The tremendous crowds which flock
ed to the Armory on Saturday, its
opening day, witnessed a spectacle that
thrilled them through and through.
The INSTALLATION of the war was not
an easy task, but so eXcellently and
realistically has this been done that
many visitors to the great show upon
entering the Armory stood spell bound
at the marvellous reproduction of
"Over There" where stretched before
them The minute person leaves the
lucent stub of HIS Accent ticket in the
hands of the door-keeper 1t is just like
actually being transported overseas.
To the right lies the battlefield with
It's front line trenches. Through the
trenches Canadian soldiers, but recent
ly returned from France, guide visi-
tors who otherwise would be lost in
them. AS visitors are taken through
the trenches, the Canadians explain
the various guns which are placed IN
the same positions they occupy in the
front line trenches in France and show
how they are fred into the enemy's
lines which sometimes are but few
yards distant. They also show the
communicating trenches, the dug
outs" banked with sand bags, into
which the "boys" crawl when the bonn
bardment is particularly heavy, the
gun pits, sentry boxes, listening posts,
parapets, fire step, all phases or
trench warfare, in fact, are realistical-
iy depicted and made all the more real
by the explanations of the battle-scar-
red Canadian soldiers who talk with
knowledge gained at first hand. Di-
rectly in back OF the battlefield is a
huge painting of No Mans Land which
the Canadians declare to be so actual
In it's likeness to that blood-stained
place that they instinctively shuddered
when they first saw it. The trenches
at the Armory measure 127 by 81 feet.
To the left Of the entrance lies the
base section. Here one finds the Red
Cross field dressing station, where the
wounded soldiers receive their first
aid treatments before they are taken
TO the base hospital. Near this inter
esting section there is the Young Mems
Christian Association "dug-out" where
the boys" "Over There" find their
! only recreation and periods of rest. In
this part Of the cantonment also one
finds the Navy Panorama, which at
tracted worldwide attention when 1t
was exhibited at the Panama-Pacihc
Exposition at San Francisco. This
panorama shows the Navy from the
time of its inception to the present
types of battleships and golfers. The
panorama is 35 feet in diameter and is
kept in motion on turn tables, operated
by an electric motor. Models of ships
| are seen in action on a cleverly paint
| ed ocean which with the aid of certain
| lighting device gives an illusion of the
United States feet passing in review.
! Even the cloud effects are noted and
| these add much to the general arts
ticness and interest of this exhibit
At the Young Woman's Christian AS
ISOLATION Hostess House. which is an
exact replica of those now established
/ at the Regular Army Cantonments,
even TO the dainty curtains in the win
dows and the blooming window boxes,
hundreds of soldiers from Camp
/ Meade, through previous arrangement,
met their wives, mothers, sisters and
sweethearts and with them they en-
joyed the numerous exhibits and fea-
lures of the cantonment.
The idea of having some place TO
meet ones friends or relatives at the
cantonment has also been very care
fully and thoughtfully worked out by
the Publicity Committee of the Liberty
Loan Committee for Maryland in the
establishment at the Armory OF a
county headquarters where visitors
from the county can go upon their ar
rival at the cantonment and meet their
friends or relatives. A sign over the
entrance of the Armory viii direct
county visitors to their headquarters
which will be in charge of represen-
tatives from each county All one
will have to do viii be to tell which
county he halls" from and nine
chances out Of ten he VIII find some.
one there whom he knows well enough
to call by first name.