Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-18
MEADE, IS
PLAN OF ARCHITECT.
Sand Dunes to Be Transform
ed Into ParkIike Grounds
y for Training.
LEAVE OFFICERS SCHOOL

CAMP MEADE. Md. March 1s.-rhis
cantonment is soon to be transformed
from a comparatively drab waste of
sand dunes and sandy plains heavily
spfinkled with rows of barracks into
a city beautiful This magic will be
performed by Arthur +. Paul. Phil
adelpk:a landscape architect, who
reached camp today with complete
plans for making the cantonruent into
an attractive. parklike training ground
for this and future draft quotas that
are sent here from the District of Co..
lumbia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Some work toward identifying the
premises was started last fall. the
work being done largely by the SOL
diers themselves. who went into the
woods and brought out hundreds OF
young evergreen trees, which they
planted near the buildings and bar
racks
The work of s-nsplantiug trees.
which was seriously interfered with by
the hard winter. will be started anew.
Various kinds of shrubs and trees wiz
be dug up from the woodlands which
surround the building zone OF the can
Torment and transplanted wherever
they will contribute to the beautifying
Va thAS SShS'
School to Drop rs Students.
About seventy-five members of the Of
f1cers' training school will be dropped
within .the next few days. This Is
about 10 per cent of the present en-
rollment of the school, All the others
are making good progress. and II is
likely that about so per cent OF the
candidates will get commissions, all
though few will receive commands until
the next draft makes their services nfces-
sary. The school will close April 10.
Six thousand of the ten thousand en-
gineers of the 23d Regiment, the
largest unit OF road and brigade builders
in the Army marched in review yester-
day afternoon at Laurel before Mai.
Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn and the COM
mander of the regiment. Col. Z. N.
Johnson. Every unit marched with
full equipment. --,~rs
Harry Charles sGeorge sigmund. ten
day-old son of Lieut.. and Mrs. Robert
Sigmund, the first baby to be born on
the reservation. was baptized yesterday
morning in the main Knights of Co
lumbus building at 1890 o'clock. The
sacrament was administered by Father
George J. Bryant, X. of c. chaplain.
This is the first baptism to be held
mund of the Ordnance Corps, and Mrs.
Sigmund make their home near the
renount station, which is only two
miles from the center of the canton.
meAt
Stimulate Other Dances.
Company Cs dance. which was held
last night in its barracks. was such a
big success that it will stimulate the other
two companies to hold similar events in
the near future. More than 100 OF WASH
ington's prettiest girls attended the dance.
following which buffet supper was
served. The COMMITTEES which arranged the
dance consisted of Sergt- Clarence CAST
mond Bryan. Private Harry Brown and
Mess Sergt Schroth- ~
The inevitable result of warm weather
Is now being observed at Camp Meade.
Base ball, in the minds of the boys in
khaki, occupies a place second only to
Army matters. The spring sport program
Is now in full swing. &c
Seventy-five diamonds have been laid
out to accommodate the soldiers who de-
sire to participate, and 1t is safe to say
that many additional ones will have TO
be improvised before very long to meet
the demand.
Played Last Wednesday.
The first of series of elimination
games in base ball for the champion
ship of the cantonmenN was played last
Wednesday. There are four teams in
the District Battalion League. and the
winning team will have a chance to
play for the company championship of
the division. The series of elimination
contests will be completed by April s.
1t is estimated that the District boys
alone will use about 800 base balls dur
ing the season, and in the whole cam
Torment there will be about 200 teams.
so base balls to the number OF about
1 900 will be needed to supply the
needs of the cantonment.
Trophies will be awarded the win
ming teams, and in addition the menu
bers of the championship teams will be
awarded medals Wire netting for the
diamond backstops has been furnished
by the Y. NJ. C. A.
First Lieut.. Spencer Roberts, acting
been promoted to a captaincy. He is
a graduate of the first engineer train
ing camp for officers held at American
University. His home is in Phiiadel-
phia.