Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-22
Artillery RANGE
| SOUGHT At MEADE
Guns Now Aimed Over Build
ings-0ther News at
Nearby Camp.

CAMP MEADE. Md. September a.
Efforts are being made to find an
artillery range i'll the area Of this
camp reservation or nearby. The
surveys SO far made have not given
much encouragement The firing that
has been done has been over the tops
Of buildings of in the direction Of
the cliffs to the southwest, near the
bend of the Patuxent river. To reach
any high point 1t is necessary to IRE
from hills on one side Of the camp
to hills on another side. Heretofore
the camp area has been expanding
gradually by the inclusion of one or
two farms at time.
If it is finally decided to have q
range for the artillery removed from
all cantonment buildings then a big
slice will have to he taken into the
county in one direction or another.
Instead of this. some slight change
in location of buildings may be made.
During previous, firing the ordnance
depot and warehouse workers Wero
ordered away from dangerous build
ings while the firing was in progreaaI
Howard r. Gunder. attorney with
the bureau of trusts. In the once on
the alien property custodian. Wa6h1
Fleet Corporation, is among tho re-
cent arrivals.
Lawrence Y. johnson Of the bureau
of standards. Washington. has come
to join the colony of federal en-
ployes, now growing larger every
day.
Another congressman Is e1pectpd
here. He is Representative Tom Con-
nally of Texas, now Capt. Connally.
Representative Royal c. Johnson OF
South Dakota, the first conner, IL now
a lieutenant with the 313th Regiment
in France.
list Infantry a D. c. Colony.
The headquarters force of the 7lst
Infantry is a Washington colony
Georgetown men and men from the
high schools who had held important
positions had just the qualifications
that brought them into this select
force. Efficient service in regfmentAl
headquarters has meant step toward
commission for many men.
In the group ar Corps. M A.
Bryan, who was in the wall paper
business: Howard Brooks. who was
agent for Wagner & Co.. wholesale
grocers; William G. Baden, a paying
teller at the Dupont Bank; william
". Payne, manager of the Royal Fire
Insurance Company. and George l.
Boswell, who was in the roofing bust
ness He works and sleeps under
roofs he sold to the government
Patrolman Thomas B. Mccormick.
now at the officers training school at
Camp Gordon, is much missed. He was
the tallest man in the regiment and
thus on the hikes could ''see over the
hill tops" and tell how far on was the
next hill to be climbed.
He was known to thousands OF Wis
itors to Washington. who passed MIN
at the Union terminal station. he
seemed to be built on massive lines
like the great building itself.
Star Piano Player.
Franklin ]. Jackson, a new arrival
from. washington, is one of the star
piano players of the camp. The camp
boasts many. The leader OF the LIB
erty Theater Orchestra is George
Gross of the Medical Corps. who was
for six years with Lyman doWe'S
travel pictures.
cross turned his favorite Steinway
over to a substitute for few days to
enable him to be the star In a roman
tic military wedding in his home
town, Reading, Pal After br1ef
honeymoon he will return to tho or
chestra.
He is the second leader to wed In
the last few weeks. Joseph Boutel3e,
his predecessor, now OF the I'D In
fantry, is a bridegroom
J. O. NJ Sergt. Ralph H Prescott. 81
Park road, Washington. has been sent
to the Quartermaster Corps omcerS
school, Camp Johnson. Jacksonville
Fla
An interesting organization in camp
is that of a group Of lawyers. now
soldiers. who are keeping up wltn
their profession by reading the taxi
of new laws and the latest decisions
at night after the days drilling.
About 1900 soldiers of this camp
representing twenty or more nation.
alities, will be naturalized here next
| week. Judge Robert Moss VIII con
duct the court and swear in those
who have been Endorsed by their
company commanders or other o.