The daily banner., 1919-05-23
GOVERNOR CREETS THE
RETURNED MARYLANDERS
Gives Hearty Welcome to Men at
Camp Stuart, Who Have Just Re.
turned And IS in Turn Given Great
Ovation.

Camp Stuart, Va, May 22-The
Governor of Maryland came to Camp
Stuart this afternoon to officially
welcome home some of the Maryland
men who went to France and fought
Ito make the world a decent place
to live in
The men the Governor welcomed
today were members of the Twenty
ninth Division, VINO reached this
camp yesterday afternoon, debarking
from the transports OriZaba and
Powhatan at Newport News.
Governor Harrington reached the
camp about $50 o'clock, having mo-
tored from Old Point Comfort, where
he arrived this morning with Mrs.
Harrington.
The Governor came down here to
take part in the welcome to all of
the men-troops that are expected
to arrive at Newport News within
the next 10 days or SO. He IS expec-
ted to stay at Old Point till after the
Three Hundred and Thirteenth In
fantry and other Maryland units OF
the Seventy-ninth Division get home.
The Governor announced soon after
he arrived that the State had obtain
ed a boat that would accommodate
200 persons, and he told Mrs. G.
Baker Clotworthy, who is in charge
of the delegation of Maryland wo-
men who are conducting The Mary
land Home Kitchen here, that he
wanted every Marylander in the dele
CATION to get aboard that boat and
go down the bay.
And we're going to have band
aboard that boat, too," said the Gov
ernor, "and we're going to 'whoop
it up so that every Maryland fight
ing man aboard the transports will
never have any doubt about how
glad we are that he is home"
The Governor was enthusiastic
about the reception. He told Mrs.
Clotworthy what fine work she and
her 3S workers in the camp were do
ing,s and within a few minutes after
he was in camp he got ample proof
from the boys themselves that they
fully appreciated the women's efforts
When the Governors automobile
pulled up beside the Maryland Home
Kitchen, somebody in the crowd-it
doesn't make any difference who
said, There's the Governor" III
less time than it takes to tell every
body was on toes to welcome him to
the camp. The Maryland boys cheer
ed him, and for 10 minutes or more
he was busy shaking hands with the
workers, the relatives and friends OF
the Maryland men who came here to
see their boys before they get back,
to Baltimore and the State.
1t had been expected that the Gov
ernor would be accompanied from
Old Point by General Morton, COM
of the Twenty-ninth Divi-
sion, but the officer was unable to
come. The Governors party includ-
ed, besides Mrs. Harrington. Secre-
tary of State Thomas w. Simmons,
Mrs. Milton A. Reckord, wife of the
Colonel of the One Hundred and
Fifteenth Infantry, which will reach
Newport News, according to the lat
est information obtainabie here,
aboard the transport Artemis on
Saturday, and Judge and Mrs. Glenn
H. Worthington, of Frederick, whose
son Richard is one of the men in the
One Hundred and Fifteenth expec-
ted home Saturday.
Secretary Simmo ons has been down
here for several days helping to well
come the Maryland troops. He met
the Governor and his party at Old
Point. The Exc cutive posed several
times for newspaper photographers,
and then was invited by Mrs. Clot-
worthy to come into the Maryland
Home Kitchen and get one of the
meals we're giving the boys"
The Governor didn't hesitate an
instant. He and his party were es-
corted into the kitchen, and within
a few minutes each of them was
holding in his or her hands a small
plate piled with real food.
What the Governor had on his
plate-delicious crab cakes, rolls, la
yer cake that "tasted like more"
some candy and block of excellent
ice cream-is what every Maryland
man in the camp got today if he
took the trouble to 60 to the kit
chen. And it's a safe bet that every
one of them did.
The Governor stepped OUTSIDE the
door of the kitchen for a minute and
a photographer snapped him as he
was just about to take another bite
of cake. Caught in the act" he
said, smiling, and went back into the
kitchen.
While the Governor was trying
out" the Kitchens food the Mary
land men were getting ready to
march down from their barracks to
the road in the camp that skirts the
waterfront.