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
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