Washington Post Newspaper clipping "2,000 See Girls' Camp" - 1917

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WASHINGTON POST: 1917 2,000 SEE GIRLS' CAMP High officers of Army and Navy Inspect Service School. Sentry Halts Gen. Wood Blushingly Apologizes and Is Complimented When His Identity Is Revealed - Chicken and Ice Cream Included in Sunday Rations - Services at Auditorium by Dr. Wood. More than two thousand visitors, many of prominence in official and civil life, helped to brighten the first Sabbath day for the young women encamped at the Service School, Conduit and New Cut roads, yesterday. Among those who were escorted around camp during the day were Maj. Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett, Mrs. George Dewey, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward H. Gheen, Justice Wallace Nesbit, of the supreme court of Canada; Col. and Mrs. Robert N. Thompson, Mrs. Julian James and Col. Landon, president of Bordentown Military Academy. Services in Auditorium. Routine work was the order during the morning. Some of the girls attended nearby churches. Special services were held in the auditorium in the afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, delivering the sermon. A choir of twenty girls was conducted by Miss Sarah Hickling, of this city. A welcome surprise came at dinner time in the form of chicken and ice cream. White table cloths were used and the tables were profusely decorated with wild flowers gathered from nearby points. Gen. Wood had a rather amusing experience when he was help up by a sentry, when he endeavored to gain entrance to a part of the field for which passes are required. Gen. Wood, as a member of the advisory board, was entitled to admission without a pass, but was not recognized and was detained until some one intervened and divulged his identity. The sentry blushingly apologized, but was complimented by Gen. Wood for "strict attention to orders." Col. Nesbit and President Landon, of Bordentown, were loud in their praise of the manner in which the girls went about their work. Col. Nesbit suggested that the idea would be an excellent one to be followed in Canada and intimated that he would recommend something of the kind.