Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-27
SERVICE MEN LIKE
!. Entertainments OF
WAR CAMP COMMUNITY
Report Of Secretary Roland
Shows 14,405 Men Awaited
Themselves
REPORT OF TEN
WEEKS WORK
A Local War Work That Is Far
Reaching And An Agent Of
Hospitality

That the War Camp Community
Service Club at the State Armory is
popular with the Service Men is shown
by the following partial report of Sec
rotary John Richard Roland, just is
sued, and which tells of activities for
the ten weeks from July IL TO Septem-
Der %. during which time the work
has been under the supervision.of the
present administration.
There has been total of 14,405 men
who have awaited themselves OF the
various accommodations offered by the
club; S,572 letters have been written
and mailed at the club rooms; $3.50
lunches have. been served; 1882 bath
towels have been rented. A canteen
is maintained for the accommodation
of the men here, free stationery, wrap
ping paper, thread and needles, check
ing facilities. and other helps are
available; candy. cigars, cigarettes
and postcards are sold.
The club also offers other accomo-
dations which are greatly appreciat-
ed. Writing rooms. reading rooms,
gymnasium with various games, such
as basketball indoor quoits, ring
board, travelings rigns, crokonole.
dominoes and pool, are in use from s
o'clock in the morning until 1880 or
IL at night. AT almost any time during
the twelve hours of the day when the
club rooms are open, there may be
heard piano, victrola, or other must
cal instruments, which are kept for
the use Of the Service Men during
made for the organization of basket
ball league, composed of the various
groups of service men stationed at
Annapolis The gymnasium will be
open for the teams to practice at
hours not conflicting with other en-
tertainments
In addition to these features, the
club rooms. the War Camp Community
Service also provides entertainments
at which the service men may meet
with the people of the community.
One or two entertainments and dances
are given every week at the State Ar
mory in behalf of the men in uniform.
young women of Annapolis. by invi-
tation,~ from a group of chaperons,
who are careful to see that none but
the wholesome surroundings are pro-
vided for the young people.
The War Camp Community Service
also has been cooperating with other
agencies which offer hospitality and
Friendship of the community to the
service men. Its facilities have been
used in behalf of churches and other
societies in reaching the men at the
Rifle Range or on the ships. 1t has
gotten service men for homes that
wish to entertain them, for churches,
the-Bay, Friendship, Indian Landing,
and other places. In this way, some
five hundred men have been entertain
ed in homes and at weekend parties.
On trip to Bay Ridge, 125 men were
entertained. At watermelon feast
and athletic contest given on the
Campus of st. Johns College, a num-
Der OF service men were present.
Through the cooperation of the
War Camp Community Service, the
Colonial Theatre, during one week,
furnished $500 free tickets to service
men, and it has since been supplying
about 30 passes for each evening.
A great variety of calls and special
requests come to the W. c. C. S. de-
string housing facilities for visiting
relatives. Service men seeking in
formation, visitors desiring to get in
touch with their friends and relatives
among the service men who are sta
toned here. and a hundred and one
requests of diversified nature. The
w. c. c. S. has been able to meet these
requests on most occasions. II has
located service men stationed here. for
relatives. 1t has secured housing
facilities, tor about 100 people. 1t has
provided a church bulletin for tho use
of service men, giving them informa-
ton a5cut the different churches of
Annapolis, hours of service, location
of pastors, etc.
1t is felt that this work is a good
beginning for the W. c. C. S. in An
napolis, but an enlarged program is
anticipated for the work of this fall
and winter.