Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-06
CAMP MEADE UNIT
STARTS FOR FRANCE
But it Returns After it Has Pro
ceeded Only Few
Miles.

Camp Meade, July 6.-Thc 304tf
| Sanitary Train started TO France shortly
after IL O'Clock Thursday night II went
as far as Annapolis Junction on the Batl'
| more & Ohio Railroad and then came
| back to camp. So the men of this unit
| know how il feels 10 be gliding over the
! rails TO join the second million m
| France and they also know how IT feels
| To be homeward bound. The combined
sensations made the men Of the unit feel
that they were victims OF joking on a
large scale They went of gayly and
| they came back just AS gayly.
One man was jolller than oil the rest.
He won $500 in little game on the
train 1t seemed like some strange
dream to everybody and the winner
| seemed TO be almost dazed when he
found that the trip was only for practice,
but the money was real Through care
lcssness he lost some of the money he
won through skill and luck. sanitary
train is an important organization. II
Includes four field hospitals and four
ambulance companies Men OF the base
hospit al sanitary detachment have been
transferred to the train SO they can see
France.
"All men Of this command will treat
Il
tarv Academy. now temporarily assigned
TO this regiment, as a second lieutenant,
according him all the courfesies due that
position" read an order in the 3l1th
Field Artillery Yesterday II seemed
strange to see the gray uniform Of the West
Pointer among the olive drah OF the
field uniform of the army, bat this cadet
soon will wear the bars OF an officer
He is cousin Of Justice McRevnolds, OF
the Supreme Court, and was appointed
from Montana
I}rigadier-Genera Andrew Hero, Jr.,
put his feet under the board table nj
the dinner given by the Headquarters
Company, 3l1th Field Artillery, Thurs
day night. just as if he had been used to IT
all his life The general left his pipe at
home. but he enjoyed q fine Cigar fur
nished by Manager Morgan, OF the can
teen.
Lieutenant Coleman Brown. 3l5th In
fantrv. has been made captain in charge
of the personnel work and his Phila-
dclphia friends Will be pleased 10 know
of his advancement In the same repi-
ment I.ieutenants Fred Met lintoCk and
Frank s. Nanhorn have been promoted
to captaincics and Ralph Miller and Da-
ND Wallace TO first lieutenants. Others
were: Corporal Brooks, Of headquarters,
10 sergeant, and Privates Brown, Sherl-
dan, Barnes, Ward. Goldwater, Mcneil
lis, Greenfield, SamuelS, Martin and MIC
Cam to corporal.
Conscientious directors may be fur
! Laughed and set TO farming, according 10
a report from Washington that Will APP
ply 10 the colony of gun dodgers here.
The food administration Is ANXIOUS to
have these men at work with plow and
hoe If they are not to do a bit with a
gun The furloughs would extend only
10 August Is, and after that date the
cases would be handled again The
greater number of the directors probably
will be sent 10 Fort Leavenworth.
Weddings have enlisted the camp
chaplains and y. NJ c. A. secretaries
who are ministers In some eases there
have been no passes allowed, and thus no
h0nevmoons BY 3 special dIspensatlon
in one case s flve-hOur pass was gwen
the soldier who wanted TO he married by
the Episcopallan camp pastor, Rev ;
Tagart Steele. at Odenton. From the
chapel there the couple went to the Sal
walton Army hosplce, and the Salvation
Army officers gave over their rooms to
the honeyrnooners At the close of the
allotted period the bridegroom returned
TO camp and reported TO his command
ing officer
Blanche Dacosts, the soloist of the
Russian symphony, Is singing IN \. NJ.
G A. buildings this week and receiving
hearty applause from large audiences.
G. Herbert Schall Is her accompanIst
Two new chaplains arrived, Lleuten-
ant c. z Staples for 3l2th Field Ar
tiiierv and Lieutenant Hal kerns for
Z he 2loth Machine Gun Battalion