Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-13
LOCAL GUARDSMEN
WILL co TO CAMP
TOMORROW NIGHT
Company M Will Garry Full
Complement On Trip To
Camp Waters
STRENUOUS WORK is ON
THE TEN-DAY SCHEDULE
Regimental Mobilization Will
Take Place AT Fifth Regiment
Arnory. Baltimore

Bound first to the Fifth Regiment
Armory. Baltimore. where the regi
mental mobilization will occur. and
where the night will be spent before
the start of a fourteen-mila hike to
the scene of their coming ten days OF
strenuous work, members of Campany
NJ, Second Infantry, Maryland State
Guard, commanded by Captain John &.
Rippere will leave Annapolis at 10
o'clock tomorrow night The trip to
Baltimore Will be on a special train OF
the Short Line.
The local guardsmen are ordered TO
report at the Bladen Street Armory
not later than o'clock tomorrow
night. The intervening time will be
spent in getting blanket rolls, haver-
sacks and other equipment ready for
the trip.
Governor Harrington yesterday no
titled local officers of the Maryland
State Guard that the camp, which is
being constructed at Timonium, Md,
for the use of instrueting the MEM
bers of the home guard in the modern
version of warfare. would be named
Camp Waters. in honor of Gen. Fran
els E. Waters, chairman of the Mary
land Council of Defense. Notice of
this action came in the form of a tele-
gram from the chief executive of the
State yesterday.
After reaching Baltimore on Sunday
night the guardsmen will bunk in the
Fifth's big armory, where they will al
so get their first field breakfast"
Monday morning before starting on
the fourteen-mile trip to Timonium
This trip will be a hike, and il is
figured that the men can march it in
ample time to get settled down before
dinner
The daily program calls for a regi-
mental parade at in the evening and
guard will be mounted by different
companies each day. Sentinels will be
trained in their duties.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be de-
voted to squad and battalion drills,
situation will be assumed by a bat
TALON, reconnaissance made and at
tack delivered.
A sham battle will be held on Fri
day in which battalions as outposts
will be established facing each other,
and an attack will be made over a
fire-swept zone.
Inspection will be made on Satur-
day morning, and the afternoon will
be devoted to military field sports, in
cluding running matches under arms,
scaling fences and boxing
The usual daily regimental parade
will be held on Sunday evening at Z
O'Clock, and Monday night the sol
diers will camp in the open under
shelter tents.
Adjutant General Henry NJ War
field believes that there are few en-
ployers left who are refusing TO give
their men leave, because they have
been convinced that the Second Regi-
ment is not frolic organization, but
serious body of troops organized for
serious purpose Their job will be
to preserve lie ami property at home
should any disorder occur in the State
Since they are the only force, other
that the Baltimore police, available
| for such work the employer is injur-
ing himself more than anyone else
when he withdraws his support from
them. The camp is necessary to make
them an effective body capable OF
working together as a command
1t is reported that one employer
served notice on one of his men that
he must either leave the Second Regi-
ment or leave his employ. The Adju-
itant General is having the report
investigated