The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-29
RECRUITS FOR UNCLE SAN.
LOCAL aECnUfTIxG OFFICE EX-
AMISEs MANY MEN.
Most Of the New Soldiers to Go 20
Manila to Fni sD neginests-sew
Age Liait ter the Recruits

The recruiting office recently re-estao-
lished ia Seattle In the Pioneer building.
II charge OF Capt. ONeii. has been tsry
basy for the pas; few days. recruiting new
soldiers for Uncse Sans army. Eaps
ONefl Is IN charge Of TIE Offices AZ Port
land and Seattle. He il compelled 20 man
age both. ewing 20 the fact that tse gov
eminent has placed SO many OF the oni-
GERS In active service. Nearly all Inc onl-
ces on the Coast we're closed when the var
broke out, ard since that they nave been
opened only a Seattle and Portland nortn
OF San Francisco. The offices In tue east
err part 81 the state nave not yet Dssn
Fe0penel, thus making Seattle and Port
land the recruiting heaaauaftsrs Tor
Washing Lon, Idaho AMI Oregon.
The object of the government seems TO
be, Aecordsag 10 Capt.. o'Seil. TO do away
with the volunteer force. and 70 recruit
the regular army up 70 ~ na snen. during
the war IL was recruited up To aiTnost 10
90. TIE enrolment is going on very East.
AMI in some Eastern cities as high as
l.tsa men have been recruited IN = single
city. The volunteers now in The army, OF
course, have me preference In The enlist
mrfat.
OF the forty applicants examined at the
Seattle office in the lasE four days. TWEEN
ty-eigAt were accepted. Tass average II
very high. and speaks well for Washing
ton men, Capt oSeii says that the per
censase - ~ nigh as ne ever knew IN
most cases, olt OF four applicants only
one ID found who comes up 10 the neees-
sary requirements, When man ex-
presses u desire 10 &E2alS% Lt1 Application
Is placed on ME and his record Is looked
up. 10 this il satisfactory. he undergoes
4 medical examination 1aiea Is very COM
plete AMI exceedingly severe III he passes
this ae III placed upon probation Ter some
time. during which he Is carefully watch
ed, vita sieE 10 ascerialning what MS
moral character Is. When solder ap-
plies he is given choice as 10 what part
OF the country he is 10 he sent Of The
new soldiers received the majority will
ga TO the presldio, at San Francisco, for
9<.- .f.Sezs ~.
out the Fourteenth. Eighteenth and Tween
ty-sccDnd infantry Five others will be
sent to the National Park at Yellow stone.
These men so under the command Of
pointed lance corporal. Two men enlisted
In the cavalry Will go 10 Boise barracks.
Idaho One artiileryman VIII be stationed
Columbia river. Another man, at his own
request, is ordered TO Fort Parker, 10 join
the band Of the Thir'eenth infantry. Capt
ability OF some Of his new soldiers that ne
has recommended them to their future
romfuanders as worthy OF commissions
Following Is q list of the men accepted
by the recruiting officer and sworn In as
priyates in the regular army
n. Anderson. Harry baxter Thorn
sor ha ar,sl r Drown JACOB eosrie. Mi h4
Patrick Walker Patrick Iinihan. Al
fred Robert. L. Lewis, George Hammond
ana r brown, who are destined for sery-
kellogg Gearge Posneroy A. Elliott, Leo
Daft. W. Twink William cryder. J. Pope
and John Sebenius
An army officer, commenting yesterday
on the enlistment OF recruits into The
arm. said that this is most oppcrtunS
time for ambitious young men 10 ensen
the army. Il know of two men who have
enlisted fran Seattle lately" said he.
and they are seeking commissions. In
ordinary times, TO get a commission In the
army a civilian must have A big pull. but
inns aff Il a+..H
recruit has only himself 10 blame IL ha
does NOT rise from the ranks
In regard 10 the applicants new lnstruc-
tons were issued by the war department
on March g. 1895. These are much the
same as those which formerly governed
the enlistment of recruits except that
the age limit, which was formerly from Al
90 IS. has been changed and Is now from
Is to IS.