The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-09-11

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at a yard he established at Millbar, as
being the most suitable locality. In
the present instance q superior kind of
granite was supplied. This was con-
veyed to a yard at Oreston, near Ply
mouth, where it is worked so as TO fit
block into block, and every portion will
be erected and tested in this yard prior
to its being conveyed out into the chan
mel to its final destination.-N. Y. World.
Recruits for the Army.
When a man Is enlisted he is liable
to be sent either into the artillery or the
infantry. Recruiting was commenced
at the Office, No. 1921 H street, Dec.
26, 1877, since which time 334 persons
have been enlisted. The term of serv-
ice is for five years, at the end of which
time a man is at liberty to re-enlist or
receive his discharge. The number of
applicants for enlistment average about
six per day, the average number ac-
cepted being about one out of every six.
No man with disease of any kind or
accepted. A man is required to be at
least five feet four inches in height. not
less than 121 pounds in weight, between
the age of twenty-one and twenty-five,
of good moral character, strictly tenn
perate in all his habits, must be able to
produce a certificate of good character,
and to read and write the English Ian
guage, must be unmarried, and must
have a chest capacity of thirty-one
inches and respiration of two inches or
more. The greater number ef persons
are rejected on account of moral unfit
ness, mental disability, impaired vision,
deafness, rupture, hemorrhoides, vari-
cose veins, imperfect knowledge of the
English language, curvature of the
spine, bad feet or lightness of weight.
The average age of the recruits for the
last three months has been about twen-
ty-three. A great many old soldiers
re-enlist at this Office. A large portion
of those out West, when they get their
discharges, come to Washington, expect
ing to get work under the Government,
but are disappointed. Being so used to
army life which is strangely fascina-
ting, they re-enter, and are again sent
to their posts of duty. The recruits at
present are of a very high order, both
physically and mentally. Out of the
twelve who were last enlisted there
were three clerks, one telegraph opera
tor, one druggist, one machinist, two
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one puddler and one soldier. Those
who have trades stand a chance of get
ting an opportunity to work at them
with additional pay of ten dollars per
month, and those well up in medicine
may become hospital stewards. The
examination of applicants for enlist
ment is held daily at IL o'clock in the
recruiting office, 1,211 H street. Col.
H. C. Corbin conducts the mental ex-
animation, while DIR. j. d. Barnes. U.
S. A., conducts the physical examina-
ton. After passing successful exam
ination the candidate is sworn in and
then uniformed. He then takes up his
quarters at the Office until a detachment
of five or six men is procured, when
they are sent to the depot on David's
Island, New York Harbor, and assigned
to regiments. During their stay at the
Office the men are taught the rudiments
of military education, and are put
through the facings and calisthenic ex-
ercises in order to timber them. up.
From the depot they are sent to differ
ent regiments, but the greater portion
go out on the frontier. Over eighty
per cent. of the recruits are Americans.
Colonel Corbin makes it a point in
every instance to acquaint the appli-
cant with the nature of the service
upon which he proposes to enter; that
while it is one of honor, his service of
five years will most likely be active and
confined to service on our Indian from
tiers; that the work is hard, even Sc
we're, and the hardships many-that the
time to contemplate these things is be-
fore and not after enlistment. This,
we are told, is done at every station.
The officers on this service find that the
care and attention given to the selec-
tion of men have already done much to
elevate the tone of the service.
While those of foreign birth are not
Disseminated against, special efforts
are being made to induce young Ameri-
cans to enter the service. These efforts
are meeting with abundant success.
The returns at the war Office show that
ments for the last year have been young
in receipt of letters daily from all parts
lima, as well as from Pennsylvania and
aspirants for military honors are fur
nished with a circular setting forth the
condition of pay, length of service,
applicants as being married shuts out
many. Very many are refused as be-
ing over or under age-the limit being
twenty -thirty-five. 1t is thought
that many good men are lost to the
service on account of putting the limit
at twenty-one-as experience demon
strated during the war that our very
best soldiers were those of eighteen,
nineteen, and twenty. This restriction
is made to save the departments end
less annoyance of parents demanding
the discharge of minors. Some trouble
is experienced in keeping the colored
regiments filed.
It is found that very few colored men
reach the age required before they are
married. There seems to be no ques-
ton that they are more given to marry
ing than white men, and that they
marry much earlier. Owing to these
facts, it has been recommended that
the age of colored recruits be fixed at
eighteen. As the law now stands,
there are but two infantry and two cav
airy regiments to which colored men
can be assigned. This fact is thought
to deter many of the more intelligent
from a desire to enter a service where
such a marked distinction is made on
"account OF color and previous condl-
tion." There is recruiting office in
each city of any note. but the only
offices for general recruiting in the East
are in New York (two), Baltimore,
Buffalo, Boston, and Harrisburg
Washington Republican.
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