Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-25


stage at the main "Y' Friday fell
low was heard to say in the doorway:
"Well they ordered us here to hear
this man but we'll make it so hot
for him that he will never come
back"
Within thirty seconds after he had
begun to talk Mr.. Freeman had the
crowd yelling about his story of the
with the National Army" said Brig.
calcitrant subsidized.
In the course of the speech Mr..
Freeman asked If there were any
fellows here from Minnesota. In that
wonderful assemblage of $500 men
only two hands went up in answer to
the question.
Mr.. Freeman declared that as long
as a man wore the khaki he was good
enough for him.
His son, he said. had enlisted as
private, because he wanted to get
the real feeling of a soldier. The boy
learned for the first time the thrill
of being a red-blooded American.
mo army in the world compares
with the National Army" said Orig.
Gen. CASTOR, who presided at the
meeting. And he did not minimize
the merits of the Regulars, with
whom he had been associating many
years
Capt. Morrit Mullen, Judge advo-
cate. at division headquarters, said
the other day that he was starting
out for horseback ride as means
of stretching his legs. The captain.
as a matter of fact, Is one OF the
best riders about Baltimore and a
very popular lawyer.
The boys around the Utilities De-
tachment, n BLOC, are smiling on
DERRICK, the pastry cook. OF course.
as DERRICK was married about week
ago, he is smiling, too. 1t was
thought that he might grow thin in
the Army, but. as he has taken
wife, that is out of the question now.
Corp Melan of the Utilities says
this summer work is pie compared
to what it was last winter, when
the carpenters in the detachment had
to carry their lumber and everything
on their backs through the ice and
snow.
Practically all the waste paper con-
tainers seem to be down at the lower
end of camp. When they are needed
in the vicinity of Liberty Field or the
Hostess House it is hard to find them
Who has noticed the newspapers on
the grassy slopes the morning after
a visiting day?
A soldier was asked the other day
to come inside Y hut to meeting.
II can't" he said, "as I am teaching
my brother here Masonry"
He stopped the work long enough,
however, to come inside the building
to help provide an audience for a
speaker who had come in without
much announcement. The Masonic
instruction was then resumed.
Miss Kraus, who comes to Meade
each week in the interest of the
Baltimore Camp Community Service,
believes the soldiers appreciate the
comforts offered them at the Com
munity Hotel, Lexington and Holli-
day streets, opposite the city hall
The rates are low.
Edmonson, who served at divisional
headquarters during the Gen. Kuhn
regime, has been put in charge OF the
work Of investigating claims for dis
charge and the like.
McCann, Battery A, 311th Field
Artillery, met with an unfortunate
accident last week when he lost sew
eral toes as the result of having
butcher knife or ak fell on his foot.
Capt. Toland Of the 312th Field
Artillery was asked to give his dis
carded campaign hat to poor
man.
SORRY, old fellow" he said. but I
just gave it to my wife who intends
to use it as a crib for the baby. It's
just the right size."
Speaking of campaign hats, Lieut..
Wilton Snowden of Company M. 315th
Infantry, was of the oponion that an
Army officer should wear a hat that
looked like it had seen service. Well,
his was surely rough-the toughest
in the division.
Capt. Atkinson, the Quartermaster
officer in charge of transportation,
was congratulated upon the manner
in which he managed the troops
movement. Every train went away
on schedule time and the captain had
the work mapped out weeks ahead.
He even had the train crews picked
in advance, and the arrangements so
complete that he could get train
here on two hours notice.
Mrs. Anthony, business secretary OF
the Hostess House, who has been
known to handle more money on Sun
days and holidays than even the en-
tire force in the busiest canteens, -
on a short furlough, which she will
spend at her home, in New York.
Rev. DR.. Allen Montgomery, of the
Odenton Chapel, is credited by the
English scholars with being the
greatest living authority on Semitic
languages. This acknowledgment was
made at a recent meeting of college
men in Great Britain.
Those who heard the Depot Brigade
h. Marvland at