EVENING IEDGEK-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JTOTE S, 19J1 PATRIOTIC LANDSLIDE SWEEPS PHILADELPHIA AS ITS SONS RUSH TO REGISTER FOR SERVfl 2 CAMDEN REPORTS BIG REGISTRATION Men Turning Out by Thou sands and Few Claim Ex emption From Service ALIENS ARE RESPONDING Whole Section Is Awakened Early by Bells, Whistles and Other Noise Makers Rctglstratlon proceeded swiftly and smoothly In CaniJcu and environs today exceeding the most sanguine expectation of city omicaU. Mayor CharlcH II, nills. who In chalrmin of tho Registration Hoard estimated nt 10 o'clock this morning that fully 35 per cent of the eligible had registered, mid ho expects that the work will lie entirely rfim- ?J!'.-V.I'tI.0.c.,,"i'!.,il,r.r.-,i1u"': Miuuptuiun wuu nuvo uticnuj ickuicku m itu claimed exemption . Out of thlrt voting Precincts covered by an Hveninq I,ruatii representative, only three claims for exemp tion were recorded up to 10 30 o'clock this morning. In tho second division of tho Third Ward thirty-five had registered and out of "this number only one claimed ex emption a man twenty-six jearn old who has an Invalid wife and three small chil dren.' In tho Unit precinct of the Ninth Ward two men claimed exemption, one. has a, wife In a sanitarium and the other brought a doctor's certificate, which claimed defective vlson An encouraging phaso of the Camden sit uation Is the splendid manner In which aliens are coming forvvyd Tho Seventh Ward has the largest alien population In the city In this ward, according to tho police census, there are 863 alien eligible') and up to 10 o clock thin morning loo had registered, and more than 100 moro wcro In line awaiting their turn Registration work among tho aliens Is proceeding mare lowly than In other sections because It has to be done through Interpreters There Is an Italian settlement In the third precinct of tho Third Ward Out of 12B ellglbles Blxty had registered at 10 a m According to arrangement, Mayor Hills will receive a report from tho various pre cincts at 7 o'clock tonight Lints will be Checked and then tho pollco will go after the "slackers" If thorn are any, and give them a last opportunity to do their duty by their country Those who still persist In holding back will be arrested and jailed to morrow. CUTS SHORT HIS HONHYMOON Registration work In the first division of the Ninth Ward was given a little dash of romance when It became known that Joseph Miller, one of the registrars, residing at MS Mlcklo street, had cut short his honey moon so he could bo on tho Job at tho poll ing place this morning Last night Miller married Miss Mary Peufel, of 6239 Wakefield stret, Philadel phia Tho pair went to Atlantic City Im mediately after the ceremony, but Miller boarded a train nt C a m today for Cam den, leaving his bride In Atlantic City IIo ays he will join her as oon as tho polls closo tonight Residents of Camden and environs didn't have a chance this morning to forget that It was registration da, for Prosecutor Kraft and Sheriff Haines had made arrange, ments to awaken folks thoroughly Prompt ly at 7 a m every whistle, siren and bell In Camden Joined In a carnival of noise which lasted ten minutes Tho refrain was taken up by volunteer fire department bells and whistles in Colllngswood, Hnddonflcld, Harrington, Clementon and other nearby towns. The noisy ushering In of registra tion day vvaB a complete surprise Thou sands of partially clad persons rushed from their homes and made queries concerning riots, early morning attacks nnd conflagra tions. When the men found what It was all about many of them hurrldo to polling places and registered Camden prepared for tho registration emergency when tho war started by taking a pollco census of nil men available for military service Theso figures wern card indexed by tho school children nnd tho police oftlclals know every man who will come under the registration Tho ellglbles by wards iiro as fallows. Klrst Ward 791, Second Ward. 7S3, Third ward, 620, Pourth Ward, 161. Fifth Ward. 1062, Sixth Wnnl. 791, Seventh Ward, 1146, Klghth Ward, 125J, Ninth Ward, 1264, Tenth Ward, 963, Hloventh Waid, 662, Twelfth Ward, 746; Thirteenth Ward, 1272; total ellglbles 11.JG0. Tho smallest number of ellglbles nro In the third precinct of the Sixth Ward whero torty-tliree men will register. Tho highest number of ellglbles to register will be in the sixth precinct of tho bevonth Waul where there aro SS3 ellglbles, many nf whom are Polish Fifty armed firemen arc covering tho beats of policemen who uro stationed at the various precincts In addition, every one of the 400 members of thn Public Safety Committee will bo Hubjoct to emergency calls nt tho Instance of the Mayor after I) o'clock this morning Captain of Detectives Sclneglcr and a special detail of police will bo ready at police headquarters with several automo biles to hurry to any plaio whero rioting might occur All saloons In tho city will bo closed until p. m . when the polls closo A patriotic demonstration will be hold on the Court- nouse plara about 8 o'clock tonight SURPLUS OF REGISTRARS IN SOME CITY DIVISIONS Politics played pranks with registration arrangements In somo divisions thero were as many as eight or nine nnel In ono case ten, registration clerks Some of them were Idle. Applicants did not como In fast enough to keep all of them busy The reason for the superfluity of talent was that every man who had applied for a posi tion as a registrar for next August was notified by tho City Registration Hoard to work today An excessive number of men had applied to be registrars In August, be cause of factional ward fights Chief Clerk Thomas, of the registration board, said It would have been Impossible to differentiate between contestants for places Today, for once, the "outs" were "In," It was pointed out by observers. In one division of the Forty-sixth Ward ten registrars were In attendance. Several divisions had nlno apiece The Third Ward also was profusely dec orated with registrars There efforts are be lnff made to oust Harry J Trainer, ward leader, and put Henry J Nolte, a Vare leader. In his place. Both sides sent regis trars to work, and there were Democrats besides. Allentown Doubles Registrars ALLENTOW.V. Pa. June K.So great wai the rush to register In Allentown today that Mayor Relchenbach at 10 o'clock hur riedly doubled the registration boards In a number of districts and commandeered fifty hlt;h school students to act as clerks. The registrars say It Is noticeable that the forelm-born came out earlier than natives, the latter taking It for granted that they were counted as loyal, while the former were eater to demonstrate their loyalty. While the bars are open, there Is a no tlcoable absenoe of drinking 83 Bills Await Action of Governor ILUtRISBUna, June S Thirty-three bills are awaiting approval by Governor Brumbaugh The Governor disposed of all bills on, which time was ud last week before Sl'S'SWS r-i" wlH wobably clear his desk before lh' r,sr. '- We snt ils( many mjrt thli wli j Five Wats to Find Place Where You Must Register THE polllntr place of your election division is tho place at which yoj must register today, if you're u mnlo betwecn-tho agos of twenty-one and thirty, inclusive. Don't you know whoro to go? Try one of theso: IAsk your neighbor whero he toted last election. Q Inquire at a police sta- tion. tO Ask a policeman. 4 Call "Electrical Bureau" on cither telephone, ask for Room 030, and when ou get that connection inquire of the Regis tration Hoard. 5 If still in doubt go to any registration place in jour neighborhood. If it is not the right one, jou will be directed to it. IU WILLINGNESS TO FIGHT SHOWN BY EXEMPTIONS Willingness of young men to fight for tho United Stntes was brought out force fully In toda'n registration Question No 12 on tho registration blanks 'Do jnu claim exemption?' need not bo answered according to a Government ruling Nevertheless, many registrants vol untarily replied to it Of thoso who did on overwhelming majority said "No" ac cording to reports from throughout tho city In some Instances replies wcro mndo because registrars wero Ignorant of tho ruling mak ing nnswers unnecessary, 'it Is nn error for registrars to forco men to answer the question ' Provost Marshal General Crowder announced, but tho error Is a natural ono, bccauo they may not havo been notified " At I.ehlgh nvenuo nnd Rmery street Is the polling place for tho eleventh division of tho Twenty-fifth Ward Many foreigners wcro registered there, Inrludlng Poles, who could not speak without an Interpreter Of tho first flfty-flvo men registered thero only ono elalmed exemption Only citizens of tho United States aro to be drawn for tho nrm Tho attitude of hundreds of nllens Indicated howover, that they would be willing to servo In tho Amer ican armv If they wero wanted In lJrldesburg only ono man of tho first fifty-two riglstf roil nt Klrkbrldo and IMire mont streets asked for exemption Ho has a wlfo and two children. A thlrt- ear-old Pole, who has a wlfo and three children, mid, "No, I don't want exemption if they como for mo 1 II light ' In West Philadelphia about 10 per rent of tho men registered claimed exemption of seventy names taken nt random from tjplcal divisions of tho Twenty-third W.irel, nineteen wero thoso of men who want to bo e'xempted Pcvv of tho joung men In the section l lng east of Sixth street, between Lehigh avenue, and Poplar street, rl limed exemp tion In tho Kensington district, tho pro portion was higher Tho proportion of married registrants ran higher there than In almost any other part of Philadelphia Of the first thlrty-flvo negroes registered In Wards Seven and Right, where tho raco Uvea In greatest numbers, none asked for exemption. Many of tho men were mar ried READING 'NOT HEALTHY SERGEANT IS WARNED Recruiting Officer Receives Let ter Advising Him to Leave. Postal Inspectors In vestigating ItUADINO. Pa , Juno C Sergeant Ira Partln, In clmrgn of tho local recruiting station, received nn nnon mous letter tod ly advising lilm to leavo Reading, as It was not a ' healthy plnco" for him Thee letter was turned eiver to tho postal authorities for Investigation Tho latter bellevo they havo ,i cluo to tho writer writer Written In pen and Ink on ordlnar sta tionery tho letter boro a Reading postni irk of Monday Tho contents of tho letter wero In eino sentence "Vou had better leavo Rending, It Isn t n health pluo foi jou ' 'f nm not nlarmed by tho lettei, hald Sergeant Partln, who has been nctivo In combating tho nctlvltios of the, opponents of tho conscription law In Reading Accom panied by two hecret .Service operatives Sergeant Partln uttended tho meeting or thu League Opposed to Conscription feun dij night, on tho league h Invitation NEW YORKERS RESPOND AT RATE OF 1,5,000 AN HOUR TO DUTY'S CALL ,e...t . ,NnW YOIlK'' Jun vMthout a semblance of confusion tho work of enrolling on tho national honor roll New York's 600 000 oung men between the ages of twenty-ono nnd thlrty-ono got under via todav night thousand registration officers wero on tho Job to handle the early morning rush The registration proceeded, accord ing to early reportu, at tho averago rate of 45 000 an hour Although no general holiday has been decreed In New York, tho holiday spirit prevnlleel Thousands of Institutions nnd faetorles granted half hblldas to their men Patriotism everywhere was at a. high tide PligH mado their nppenrance on thousands of homes, and virtually ull of tho polling places wtro flying the Stars and Stripes Patriotic cxerclsees wero held In the principal city parks, beginning at noon Although no serious trouble was expected to follow the antl-conscrlptlon rioting In the : Hronx last night, no precaution was lacking to meet every emergency At overy registration placo was stationed a uni formed policeman and a uniformed mem ber of tho Home Defense League Re servos of regular patrolmen and defense leaguers were In readiness at strategic points, while 10.000 National Guardsmen were mobilized In their armories ready for riot calls. Shouting "to hell with the military," the Bronx crowd of 2P.00O last night battled for several blocks with policemen, soldiers, sailors nnd marines The meeting which provoked tho trouble was held under the auspices of the No-Conscrlptlpn League, of which Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk man are the leaders During their meeting they were careful not to advise their audi, ence not to register BLAME CRIME ON POVERTY Man and His Son Caught Stealing Tires, Police Allego Poverty causeej, jlenjamln Blckey, fifty, seven years old, and his son' Harold four teen years old of 1417 South Fourth 'street Camden, to steal several tires from the hor of Louts Katz, of Fourth street and Atlantic avenue according to the police Blckey It Is said, put his son In through a cellar window and the fcoy passed the 2j.!Ki&3S&X& tor court by Recorder Btackhouse. ujr viitpuiaH uuuu( . nceia m fegp baj REGISTRATION DAY TEST. OF NATION, PRESIDENT AND AIDS TELL PEOPLE PRESIDENT WILSON "Registration day is nothing less than the dav upon which tho mnnhood of the country shall step forward in one solid rank In defense of tho ideals to which this nntion is consecrated." Secretary of Wnr Bnker "The test facing America is one upon which tho future of democracy itself depends. Registration day nlTords n glorious opportunity for tho young men of this country. Complete victory is neces sary, and tho energy of every one in this country is required to accomplish Secretary of Interior Lane "It is the duty of all, their legal, as well as patriotic duty, to register if within the class colled." 60,000 REGISTER FOR IN FIRST Continued from rare One Mojamenslng Prison, llolmeshurg Prison, the Philadelphia Hospital for tho Insane, Hjberry Homo nnd other Institutions registration was started early. Officials in these places deputized clerks who enrolled all males of army draft age, In tho samo manner followed throughout the Stato and tho nation. Swarthmoro made plans for making tho day n notable, occasion Tonight the com munity will dedicate nn honor roll tablet bearing the namo of every resident who has already enlisted In the army or the navy, and which will bear the names of all who Inter will be called Registration bo ird officials. In Clt Hall, were swamped with telephone, calls from registrars who had to get Information during tho day hhortagi: or ni.n: cards Shortly nfter noon the board was put In a serious quandary whin fianllr messages from West Philadelphia told them that the supplv of blue receipts cards In n number ot divisions had been exhausted In tho Twenty-second nnd rm l -sixth Wards several divisions wcro entirely out of tho receipts Men of registration ago wero afralel to no away without receipts because of tho possl blllt of having tiouhla with tho police If thev tried to leave tho city At Mnyor Smith order telegrams were dispatched to tho district registration REGISTRATION UNDER WAY SLOWLY IN EARLY HOURS THROUGHOUT CITY Registration got under way Mowlv to day, but within nn hour tho work was pro grossing at a steady gilt mimelcnt, nppir ontly, to bring It to successful completion without congestion Applicants wero slow In nrrlvlnp nt poll ing places, and tho rcKlsttars wcro slow beriuso they wero tin iieustomed to the work and nfralil of miking mistakes In Te lulerlnln ellvlleins of the reiurtcriitli Wnnl Hie time pci in in win from ten tei fir tcen minutes Registrars (.topped work often In refer 1 ilinrlnusl) to their printed Instructions In tvplr.il divisions of thu w.uel nn average of six men each were en rolleel In tho nrht hour iming men weio ncconipinleel to the polls bv older men, who filletl the loin of cl, lporoncK l'lrst to register in the fourteenth ellvl slon of tho Thlrtv -seventh Ward was Joseph A Greenwood, a chauffeur residing nt 1355 West beltzer stieet Greenwood Is thlrtv ears old and married Rut ho did not elilm exemption because of wedlock 'I should worrj " he h.ild nte he left tho polling placo on Somerset street below Uroad If tho nation needs me I nm ready to go " Tho second man to register was J Wil liam . Shaw 1320 West Sliver btrect hh ivv is twentj-slx icarn old and ho did not claim exemption When the registration placo opened at 7 o'cloek nlno wcro In lino It required nn averngo of twtlvo minutes for each man to register Tho eleventh division of the Thlrt -seventh Ward had leglstereel fifteen men at 7 50 o'clock this morning The leglstrn tlon placo In this illvlMon Is lne Keel nt Twelfth nnel Somenset streets At 8 oelock. Ill tho first division of tho Thlrtv -eighth Ward, tvventj-ninc li id rcglstereel, tweut- PHILADELPHIA DOES ITSELF PROUD IN REGISTRATION, SAYS GARBARINO ' Philadelphia ban done Itself proud "' This was tho fealurn of a statement Is sued this afternoon hv Prank 1. flnrbarlno. head of tho Philadelphia branch of tho niircnu of Investigation of tho Department of Tustlie in i ounce lion with tho work of registration for the armv draft (iarbarlno was e ntliusl istli mcr tho le sults In tho Cridlo of I.lbeity Ho said that nnno of thn (lovernmcnt agents hid nindo any nrrestn nor had it been neies. sar In nn partH of tho rllv to givo anv warnings and no one li id been put out of polling plae-s Mr Oath nlno slid ho li id dlviileel bis squadron which Included lint regular e;ov eminent agents us well as volunteers, n part of wliieh his been sent to iiiako Investigations in nlno tenuities In New Jersey which como umlei tho Juris die Hon of (I.irbailnn Theso counties sue Mcrtcr, Oetan. Burlington, Camden (Slou- HOSPITAL PATIENTS SHOW ZEAL IN REGISTERING FOR DRAFT Many young men In hospitals, subject to cunscilptlon, wcro registered In most cases internes, who hid ben deputized, ncteel ns registrars Patients seemed to enter Into tho sphlt of tho registration with tho 8.HH0 spirit ns tho oung Intqrnes who sit ut their bidsldes with Ink pens and blanks Tho Frnnkford Hospital was tho first re ported as having been completed Dr Charles J Watson and Dr L D Unglerth, both Internes, registered ten vounir men undergoing treatment there "None of tho ten claimed exemption In each caso tho Internes too tho names of tho patients as though they had never seen them beforo nnd nsked them each qucs tlon The only ono considered at all serious wns ono who underwent nn operation for a leg Injury soon after he had completed the registration Tho Federal Board of Registration at City Hall this afternoon sent representatives to all of the hospitals In the city to register patients who aro able to make, reply to queries In the central section of tho city there aro 125 bedridden patients in the following hospitals Hahnemann, Jefferson Roose velt nnd Medico Chlrurglcal Hahnemann SOCIALISTS REGISTER, EXEMPTION FOR The Socialists of Philadelphia every mau of them who Is between the ages of twenty one and thirty-one went to the polling places today and registered They held a meeting behind closed doors last night at Labor Ljceuni Hall, on North Sixth street, nnd decided to "obey the law," as they put It today Every Socialist who registered, however, claimed exemption Most of them gave as their reason that they were "conscientious objectors and opposed to war" Others claimed to have "weak hearts," and one, who registered In the thirteenth division of the Thirteenth Ward, the strongest So cialist division In the city, claimed exemp tion on the grounds that he Is a vegetarian. He explained to the registrars that he never eats meat, and wents to keep from going to war because meat Is the "piece de re sistance" In the army menu The only Socialist registrar In the city sat at the polling place In this division Whenever he saw one of his fellow be liever standing outsd of the barber shop, m ma loumwest corner, DRAFT FIVE HOURS IN CITY boards, sitting In pollco stations ordering them to get receipts from places whero there wns a. surplus and deliver them to other divisions fp to 2 o clock 050 men from out of town had re glstered nt tho City Hall, where of fices were maintained in the Maor's re ception room Only- nonresidents were registered there Hundreds of registration cards from Phil ailelplil ins at proi-ont out of town were re ceived by a staff of clerks In Room 630, Cltv Hall The Registration Hoard said that the ma chinery was working smoothly nnd to Its satlsfartlon In nil nartH of tho ctly. The registration In tho downtown wards was twlvc as heavy ns wns anticipated and tho registrars were kept bus sending for extra registration cards The) rcgistritlon In the heeond Division of the Plfth Ward Is a glittering illuMritlon of tho way the men of selective nge are compiling with the law s requirements Hero It w,ih expected that thlrt men would register, but at noon seventv-flvo had registered and thero were more in sight In tho Second Ward 1000 cards wcro given tho registrars on Prlelav night, nnd at noon today It wan found necessarj to distribute- jnoo more In almost every division downtown, and the samo Is said tl be true all over tho cits, the reglbtrors wero com pelled to sond to tho pollco stations for ad ditional catds hK In person nnd thrco (City Hall em Pi' ves) by card Registration of negroes In tho Seventh nnd Klghth Wards wan accomplished Kleiwly and with considerable confusion Twelvo to fifteen minutes was tho aver ngo tlmo consumed In filling out ono card and Its corresponding receipt. In tho Twent -eighth, Thlrt -second, Iwenlv ninth nnel Port -seventh Wardi In th section of the cltj lying mirthwest ft inn llronrl and Poplar Ktreets the divisions leglstereel nn average of ten eaih In the first horn Iho 200 ellvlslons thus account ed for 2000 peessllili conserlpls Light icglstiatlon w is reported In tho lentil anil Pourtccntli Wards Thero was no trouble reported nt onv of the1 225 registration divisions In Avcst Philadelphia during the flrt hour of regis tration Tho average number of riglstri tions during tint period was ten at each division Tho average length of tlmo taken for each was estimated nt thiee minutes Pew men cl limed exemption In South Philadelphia tho eligible went to the polljng pi ices early, nnd In the l'lrst Second Thlid, fourth, Plfth anil Tliirt nlnth Wards which Imluile tho section east of llroad street and south of Market, more than 50 per cent registered during the first hour and a half Thero Is a large foreign population in theso wards, nnd the authorities were on their guard for possible trouble The reg stratlon official however, reported no trouble at nil The foreign born eliclbles cimo to tho polling pieces of their own Volition thev mid nnel registered Most of tho lirgo Industrial plints In South Phlls dclphii i-ic their imploves who were eiiginic nn Hour or two off in order to per. mil tlietu to register eestei Atlantle Cape Ma, Salem nud Cumberland The stilement which was Issued b Gar barlno at rovrlng tho work of the (iovein niPiit agents, both tho legulirs and volun teers, was The reports received at in oillee- from iiiv ngents nrnl volunteer workers who urn mattered In clIITerent parts of tho e It show that not n single cere or slacker or agitator was visible I am more than pleased over tho result, Reports from ijoveinmcnt lnvillgatni state tint en thusiasm prev illeel at thn different poll lug plnees and that no nttemptH to .ml. tan against leglstratlon were visible Phlladelphli h id elono Itself prouel Gnrhnrliiii sild that ho had received wold from Rending wheio the Soclillsts hid been Pionilnont In pre.iegsii,,tim anii,alB that cvcrt!ilng was peaceful there has twenty patients, .and earels weio filled In fni all but one. of these who Ih unoon ? IT., ',"" "t ,n """"t f -loilli This re glstered One "of tho first to bo ' g stored at Jefferson was Dr James W Keath known ns '.Smiling Jim" KmIi. .,..'. K-e.nll, ,l,i ...,-.. "" succor .,",. "'" "" iwo cars Inn had both legs amputated, but ho has lost none of his grit and ho smiled ono of his rare hi "worn W"e" ",0 reel6tr"rs e'" N that I can't go to tho front and do my bit If I went I guess I would havo to crawl, though I d hope, however, that the Government will find .1 little niche for mo somewhero I can do a wholo lot If they glvo me a chance" There are fifty bedridden patients at the Medlco-Chlrurglcal Hospital! and all but five were able to register Tberc are twelve patients nt the Roosevelt Hospital, and all registered BUT CLAIM VARIOUS REASONS rlsh streets, where the registration officers were comlucltng the enrollment, he went putslde and brought him In The division boasts of 103 Socialist votes at the e ect on la1s.l,jeaJ' 0nly thirteen of these come within the conscription age limit. howevTr! and they were all registered before noon Thero are about H00 Socialists In the city and approximately ,00 of these registered today .v.s.4 Tho registrar Is Harry Tltleman He sat with Herbert Jaspan. a newspaper man who Is the other registrar in .h. '......T.""' I Tltleman explained tho attitude ot the So- v...,o ,u j-iiuiiucipaia in the following manner: . ".We, h-e.ld me"nr behind dosed doors last night, and after a vote decided that since the registration law exists, and s nee here Is no chance of testing Its constltu tlonallty. we would obey It. We Instructed every Socialist who came within the regis tration law to gq to tho polls today and register . ' "We also VnnMxit that . 1.. . , V, - lu-xcrr winner, ill as Redely" Morn,, who a ,.,t n ,he ,p,,d , ,yft fni"", ' Nl."lh an" f,',r,n men st eel last iilBlit In tho Jefferson Hospital thero urn thlrt -eight nailer,, ll ,. ..,..' V'" principles, but nt the same time we would not disobey the laws of the country In which wo live" Tltleinan said that tho Socialists at last night's meeting decided to fight the draft law Proceedings will not bo started In HOTEL RESIDENTS GO TO POLLS IN THRONGS AS DETECTIVES WATCH Permanent hotel residents nnd the re spectable floating population of Philadel phia that dwells In hotels were surveyed today by detectives, who scanned the re ceipts and registers of hotels In the cen tral section of the city to discover possible registration "slackers " Hotel residents wero warned or notified to register In every case the reply to detectives was that they Intended to reg ister Registration in the central section boomed nfter 8 o clock as the late risers finished their breakfasts Hefore that time the stream of men answering the call was Intermittent Hy S o clock It had grown to large proportions and the officials were kept busy speeding up tho cards PATRIOTIC ITALIANS ARE PROMPT TO REGISTER FOR SERVICE IN WAR A health spirit of patriotism pervades tho Italian district. Crowds were around tho polls before they opened nnd there was a Htcady flow of willing patriots up to noon Thero was nn abundance of In terpreters on hand who helped to expedite matters nnd tho work went along without delay In most of the divisions In the Italian district tho question of exemption wns not even rais,cd Thero seemed to be an eager ness among all the Italians that they would bo accepted for service. A large number of Miose who thronged tho polls wero not REGISTRATION DAY MADE A HOLIDAY BY MANY EMPLOYERS OF LABOR Registration day Is a holiday In many parts of tho city. Tho Ford Motor Company closed Its Broad street and Lehigh avonuo plant so com pletely that a couple of watchmen were tho only emp!oes left Women ns well as men emploes of the Stand ud Roller Rearing Company, Fiftieth street and Lancaster avenue, wcro given a day off Men of registration ago wero permitted by the Hell Telephone Company to leave their work as long ns necensary to enroll HERE'S A REGISTRATION DAY WHEN THERE'S NO REPEATING BY GANGS 1 his registration day Is unique In the cltys hlstor Instead of registering to pile up a big voto for some favorite political bos Phlladelphlans are registering to give tho greatest voto In history to Undo Sam who has been nominated to run against William of Hohenrollern ullas the Kaiser It Is the one day on which there will be no repeating Those who champion munlcl pil reform can therefore rest easily In recent jears It was a popular habit among many of tho faithful who followed the Organization to register as often as possible In fact, where gang registrars were Installed, it was nn easy matter for the daring gangster of the pui-hindle typo to ehange his hat nnd coat fiequently nnd register often In the samo division J7HOUSAND MEN HELP U. S. AGENTS WATCH FOR AGITATORS AT POLLS A thousand men in fl Ing motorcar squad rons began their silent clty-wlde work under tho direction of Prank I Garbarlno, special agent of tho Department of Justice, when tho registration stations opened at 7 o clock this morning Tholr duty was to oil tho machinery of registration and re move, If necessar tho dirt and grit In tho fchapo of nntl-reglstratlon agitators All waH quiet up to noon, according to reports received by Garbarlno In his office In the Federal Building, from tho depart ment operatives throughout tho ell No ai rests had been made and no disturbances of nn kind iccordcd PUZZLING PROBLEMS PRESENT TRIBULATIONS AND TANGLES Many questions, illfllcult for registrars to nnswer. camo up during the military regis tration toda After wrestling with numer ous problems on which they could find no light tho registrars flnnlly restorted to tho plan of Instructing nil doubters to registrar and then file claims for exemption later on when there will be moro time to glvo every idso Inellvlduil attention The greatest nniount .if difficulty occur red in tho third distrlet. which covers tho !' '. '. Waru There aro many Jewish and I ollsh Immigrants from Russia In this sec tion Many of them did not report to tho polling phtes. but went direct to the registrars at tho police station at Fourth and Do Lancey streets One young man reported thut his name in Russia was Alexandre itzsky Ho con sidered this too difficult for the American to wrestle with, so ho bad adopted the name Friedman, owing to the fact that ho eonsldered himself freed by having como to the United States Th registrars ad vised him to register under the name Fried man since ho is known hero under that name Two cousins reported with the protest that they are not yet twenty-one years old under tho Julian calendar, under which thev were born In Russia Under this calendar they will not be twenty-one years old until June 21, but under the laws of the United States and the modern calendar the were twenty-one on May 25 They were advised to register and protest later. One man reported that he was thirty-five ELIGIBLE MEN IN COUNTY PRISONS AND PENITENTIARY ARE REGISTERED There Is one class of men In Philadelphia today who are not required to come to the. polling places to register, out who neverthe less will be recorded on Uncle Sam's roster In regular form before nightfall These are tho men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one who ore at present Incar cerated In the Eastern Penitentiary, In the Philadelphia County prison, known as Moyamenslng, or In the branch at Holmes burg More than 1200 of these men. who so far as age Is concerned are available for mill tary service, are being listed and classified on the registration blanks today. Taken all together there would be enough In the three prisons to form a full regiment. The Federal authorities have not. made any ruling whether or not convicts will bo called Into service, even should their sentences expire between today and the date ot the first draft. At the Eastern Penitentiary Warden Robert J McKenty has been appointed registrar by Governor Brumbaugh. To as-. slst him In collecting the data necessary the Warden delegated ten clerks and nf. Jlcers as deputies. Promptly at 7 o'clock this morning thev began making tho round of the cells. There are 730 prisoners between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-ons In (he pewip Pennsylvania, however In many other mate", he said, the constitutional ty of the draft act Is being tested In the courts The Pennslvanla Socialists vvll pay their share of the expends If an appeal to the .Supreme Court of tho United States Is taken Many of the human derelicts of the Tenderloin-crippled mendicants, one-eyed men. shattered "dope" fiends, whisky-soaked wrecks-clamored for the PrMtso ot an swerlng tho twelfth question and claiming exemption None of the registrars, how ever would record their answers Inceptions to the clty-wlde scarcity of women about the registration stations w ere found In the districts VtoptAbytoTefntn Many of these believed that the call for registration meat mobilization Into the army In the Kleventh Ward scores of women of the Polish settlement there fol lowed their sons, husbands and ?)" to the polling places In order to b d 1 them good-by on their supposed departure fcr the war front naturalized, nnd they expressed the hope that they could get their papers soon In order to help In the big struggle ahead In many Instances more than half of a division was registered before noon In the nineteenth division of the Second Ward 110 men were registered by noon Slmllai records were made In other divisions In the negro section also there was . general attitude of co-operation More that, fifty men were registered In the eighth dlvlson of tho Fourth Ward before noon There aro only 100 ellglbles In the entire division. In Kensington, several of the largest fac tories sent motor truckvs, filled with cm ploes, to the registration polls They were keen, alert oung men, who went light heartedly on their way to conscription Claims for exemption wero high, however Some registrars asserted It was running to an average of 80 per cent of the men enrolled A largo majority of the men aro married The Municipal Courts, civil and criminal branches alike, were closed today. The Municipal Court's civil and criminal branches alike were closed today. Today the registrars are tabulating tltl 7cns who will vote unanimously on one ticket Judging from the way anti-war ad. herents objected there Is little likelihood of any one registering twice In fact It de veloped In several localities that many of our open-air soap-box patriots had to be scolded to record their names just once When ou wero a kid no doubt our fa vorite uncle told ou to stand up and lick any boy who tried to do the same to ou well, thats Just what our Undo Sammj is telling you now In this case the bad gang Is the Kaiser Von Hlndenburg, Von Ilethmann-IIollweg, Zlmmermann et al so go after them and lick them all, Uncle Sam Is In back of you But register first Tho United States agents roamed tho city In tho automobiles, leaving no section unvlslted Hvcry division registration placo by 9 o'cloek had received at least ono visit from tho men In plain clothes The force of men hunting for agitators and thoso who may have attempted to per suade others from registering Is made up of Department of Justice ngents nnel vol untecr workers merchants salesmen brok crs and mechanics men who offered to take a day awa from theli business to help assure a complete registration The motor cars were donated h citizen" cars old but wanted to trglstei to make suro that he would not get Into trouble and also in order to elenr the point or his en trance Into this country under borrowed papers IIo said he used the papers of a man who would not be thirty-one ears old now and that he was registered at Hills Island under tho name nnd ut the age less than thlrt -one Ho was advised to regis ter and In caso he Is called, said ho thought he would servo without protest owing to tho fact that he wants to corve his adopted land There see mto bo hundreds of oung men around tho conscription age who do not know whether they are over or under the age owing to the fact that their parents In Russia wero careless In keeping the dates o fthelr birth, or because the nro now away from homo and have forgotten or never know how old they were Thoy will be assisted, as far as possible. In establish ing their ages but In order to protect them from prosecution they wero advised to register All who are In doubt can tako their protests up with the board later . Man, L.unif men who came t0 'his coun try in 1907 declared their Intention of be coming citizens and , In order to escape the examinations sworo that they were under twenty-one ears of age Many of them a "huT aC,UaLly Pa8t th'rt-ono years of age, but they have sworn differently All such cases have been advised to register and. f they care to face possible prosec" Ihelrldce0'' l Prte5t later ttnd '" assigned each to cerUln, K3 tj on' difference." Mr Mc Kenty said, 'between our method r r. isterlng men and that used at the nonfn; prisoners as he would wlth7. drawn from the average citizen, fifi11 regular walks of life. cltl"ns in the The men assisting the warden in m out the blanks, are " ctarenS Krai. "t'C Te'ef WlS5S Superintendent Fred A Cook, u . ai.WiSl,'iTT.T?..w?"n yester- NEW JERSEY MEN REGISTER EAM General and Cheerful CorJ i"1"", "1LU aw Noted Throughout State .1 BLOCK QUITTERS' pLA Polling Places to Be Kent n Aft,, o .r.i.-ep.: Necessary , ... TflUNTO.V. j. . i i-,iriy registration thrn,i-l: State Is reported to be veiy hSKh'S rlous disturbances are recorded .? seems to be a general cheer? J? en with the selective draft law- com"1l ine united states Marshals, men scattered through the st,,, Ci report at once any dlstufbance?.'.1 measures to quell t Governor wj u" been pledged by the Gnvernmem ,?" ' .V" ,l n,lua,'n arises such qulro them ""en "ton. Chief United States Deputy m..,. Woodbury n Snow den I, nuar La marshals ofllce hero getting -,n-t.c" nuently ns to the pregtes, of uTnL tlon Marshal Bollschwellcr Is at n In chaiRo of the northern rnd o'thJaS To overcome nn alleged plan of Z. , conscrlptlonlsls to evado registration if."1 seating themselves In groups at ,'K tonight, tho dosing hour 0'f that ' febj Adjutant General's oirice has sent m pram, in ..el., .! .. . V1 l UW .......... .., ..., .,,,,, vuueii omcia 3 d'rM,,.B that all who ate present .,..Ml'i closing time shall be registered even if & registration goes beond 9 o'clock The registration in Trenton hasbtt ceptionally heav.v It Is expected it reach fully 10 000, out of which 551 lriJ bo drafted " ' PACIFISTS SUSPECT ARif RULE FOR REGISTM Fear Prospective Conscripts Will Be Subject to Courts Martial Socialists and pacifists In this city u endeavoring to obtain from the r u, partment n ruling on the point of vhetlnr or not persons who register today will in. tonntlcally bo transferred to the Jurislt tlon of the mllltnrj authorities or rcmu under control of civil olllclals until drjtrt into the arm Thev regard this point u Important In Its bcailng em their axlutla for the repeal of the conscription U Miss Fanny Wltherspoon head et tti Bureau of Legal Flist Aid of the America Union Against Militarism addressed n l qulry on this point to Brigadier Genenl Enoch H Crowder, Judge Advocate Cc eral, at Washington, and received the fol- lutwiiK rep, After regh tration the name of th per son registered becomes liable to selectlm by lot for military service 1 ach per on registered will h? subject to examlu tlon In order to itctumlnc whether be should be exempted excused discharged or taken by selection In advance of the publication of the President's nrndam. tlon concerning selection nothing raon definite can bo said The following comment on this reply t day wns made by Miss Wltherspoon: "As I feared. General Crowder doej t clear up a most Important pojnt, and Btila that he cannot do (,o until the publication d the President's proclamation corcerolti election, which will, natural! not be rank until nfter registration is completed S Fccms difficult to understand wh the Got eminent entering upon the Institution rf eonseriptiou should not havo nonsuited lu Its legal advisers and come to a poltln decision upon this vital point (lenenl Crowder's to.egram to be mho is not clew but It Is nn opinion that the tnfeience me easllv made Is Hint men after reglsterlnf will ImmedlUel be under military lawttl subject to thn dlrtatcs nf ii cntirt-marttil This opinion Is shared 1 Roger II BIJ. win Assotlato Dlrecto, of the Americas Union Against Militarism 'The Inference I draw from Oenenl Crowder a replv is that ten million men, of as man ns will register will be under mtlk tarv control nfter toda nnd ma be sub ject to severe punishment in attempting D exeiclsp their constitutional right to fr Flieeeh, public assembly and petitioning the ovcrnment for a redress of grievances." 1GTII WARD MAN IS FIRST IN CITY TO IE REGISTERED I'llH Out Blank Befoip 7 o'clock anil May Lead Whole Unitcel States Joseph A Case, twent. five ears old. el 1 .South Sixtieth btrcet, was first to r Istei in the twenty, third division of tin I'ort -sixth Ward, nt 40 .South .Slitleu street He. also may have been the fM to register In tho entire city and the entln country, as his name went on the card be fore 7 o'clock, the ofllclnl tlmo set for tit opening of the registration j .. iCr!, was In tho polling place at C o'clod this morning, was tho first In line " waited for neurlv nn hnur fm. n. re lstrars to plart the day's grind of turoW out "ellglbles for the colors ' He Is CM of seven brothers, four of whom are of mllltar ncro fin uu .in.ne n the University of Pennslvanla for two ein. iui recently dropped out to assist V uroiner in nis business ALLEGED FORGER NABBED NHW YORK, June 6 Arrested in Bilti. more nfter a. six months' chase John f. O'Donnell, thlrtv venrs. nm wn limutSl back to this city today to face a charge of forgery Involving aonroxiniateiv i in. ooo O'Donnell was emnloved hv ih Amerkl Express Company In Brooklyn nnd, accor-, mis io omcers, was a victim of the n" book evil losing every cent of his pecul. tlons His arrest came through a let" ae eem DacK to his sweetheart uifjrriittxiA.g3 ONE-DAY OUTINGS From Market Street Wharf SI 00 Atlantle City, Wild ?.!'V. weod,tpMy,Oen City, Sm 1. 1, city, Ston. Harbor Avalen, AngleteM Dill; Jut I te Seitiaitr II dtl.01.:!! d.".11" 11IUI on Sun iiV""Uty7 30A.M.i VV114 ooa llrwca t ts A.M. SI. 25 S'nSt Pl". Osy Heed, Point pilat, Manaeequan SI. SO bu'y Psrk, Ocmii B.i Pro1!l Lon Braneh. B.lm.r, s,, ajrt SprnB Uh, teldsn Mm Btlai . fcj. . . T.20W1 PeimiylvamUR.R. I jH as It taks frota om t t i.i- i !
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