Evening star., 1918-06-03
MACHINE GUNNERS
TO TRAIN ABROAD
Camp Meade Units to Learn
to Work BroWnings at
Grantham School.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CAMP MEADE, Md. June 3.-OM-
GERS and men Of the District Machine
Gun Battalion and other units Of this
branch of the service attached to the
18th Division. will probably receive
postgraduate training in handling
and maneuvering heavy type Brown
ings at the great British machine gun
training center at Grantham, just out
side Of London.
Camp Hancock, Ga, designated a
training center for machine gun units
in the United States, will soon be the
mecca for many battalions of heavy
gunners in training in various camps
throughout the country. Nearly 10O.-
900 machine gunners will get their
advanced training there. According
to high ranking officers Of the Army
1t is not likely that Meade machine
gun units will be sent south before
being ordered on overseas duty.
The Hancock training center has
been modelled closely after the lines
of the British camp. Grantham Is
ness of training methods in a branch
of the service which demands the
same professional proficiency and ac-
curacy as the artillery. with which it
must often cooperate in putting down
barrageS.
Dedication Exercises.
The dedication Of the Epiphany Chapel
and clergy house will be attended by four
bishops of the Episcopal Church. Brig.
Gen. Nicholson, acting camp commander,
and other distinguished members of the
clergy and laity. The main exercises
will be held this afternoon. Communion
service was held this morning at II
o'clock. The building is located at Oden-
ton. just of the reservation, for officers
and soldiers Of the Episcopal faith in
training at this cantonment.
Bishops Rhinelander and Garland Of
Pennsylvania. Bishop Harding Of Wash
will take part in the exercises.
Rev. George ]. Bryant. chaplain of
the Knights of Columbus here, is COM
pleting arrangements for the military
mass to be held on Liberty field here
next Sunday morning. Cardinal Gibbons
has accepted an invitation to attend
The ceremonies will mark the establish
ment Of a branch OF the Holy Name
Society among soldiers Of the 10th Di-
vision.
The mass will be celebrated at $50
o'clock and fully 1000 soldiers will
receive holy communion. It is ex-
pected that twenty-five or more dis
ttnguished Catholic cergymen will be
present. Father Bryant has invited
all officers and men of the camp re-
gardless of religious faith.
Librarian Bowerman Leaves.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, in charge
of the work of the American Library
Association in this camp. has re-
1inquished the post, which he has
held for the past two months, and
gone back to his duties as librarian
of the District of Columbia Public
Library at Washington.
DIR. Bowerman received a leave Of
absence from his work at Washing
ton to organize the library work at
Meade. During his incumbency as
camp librarian the institution has
greatly broadened in it's usefulness.
He leaves behind a well organized
library system for his successor, con-
sisting of 10000 volumes. seventeen
outpost libraries and sixty distrib-
uting stations.
DR.. Bowerman was tremendously
impressed with the interest in read
ing shown by the men and the taste
displayed by them in selection of
subject matter. In their choice of
books they showed up far better than
the people outside. At Washington,
for instance. DR.. Bowerman found
that from go to 80 peg cent of the
readers wanted fiction. Here only 45
per cent wanted such works, others
preferring educational and kindred