The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-23
L-BU|LTLOT OF men
Many Applicants for Service in
the Army.
A RIGID EXAMINATION
Butte SO Far Has Furnished High Aver
age of Acceptances-No Married
Men Taken A Two-Year
Term o. Enlistment

Applicants for service in the army
We're again plentiful yesterday at the
army recruiting office opened Friday
by Captain Detchmendy. Fully as
many men offered themselves as on the
opening day. but the recruiting officer
was engaged with office matters and
only examined few of the applicants.
They were generally a wellbuilt lot of
men, however, and there is little doubt,
had the examinations been made, the
acceptances would have equaled or
beaten Fridays average. The recruits
accepted Friday We're sent forward yes
terday, four to Fort Logan, Colorado,
and one to the Preside.
Captain Detchmendy regards the be-
ginning made as very excellent and
says that if applicants for service con-
tinue as plentiful he will be highly
pleased and will have no trouble Sc
curing as many men in Butte as it
had been expected to raise in Montana.
The number of examinations made in
the two days he regards as very good,
as it takes considerable time to make
the thorough examination of man
that required, and in view of the rigid
requirements put upon applicants, the
number of acceptanCes is considered
a very high average. AT the same rate
of progress full company of soldiers
will be raised every 20 days of Cap
tain Detchmendys stay here.
Captain Detchmendy goes about the
business of recruiting in an expedi-
tious and business-like manner. The
applicant is first put through a course
of questioning. If he convinces the
officer that he has no marriage ties
to bind him and there appears nothing
to make him obviously unfit for sol
der, he is told to retire to rear room
and strip off, and DR.. Loebinger eX-
amines him as to his physical quail
ticatiOnS. If it appears clear to cap
tain Detchmendy that an applicant
cannot meet any one of the require
ments he is promptly dismissed If
he passes the physical examination the
applicant is put through the regular
form of enlistment. OF the applicants
yesterday and the day before Captain
Detchmendy dismissed all but those
who were examined after his regular
formula of questioning. Owing to
delay in the arrival of a government
weighing machine, Captain Detchmen-
| dy was obliged yesterday and Friday
to draw on a good natured grocer for
| the privilege of weighing the candi-
| dates. Running across the street to
weigh every man consumed considera
| BILE time, and when all the supplies
| arrive the work of examining Will pro-
! gress more rapidly.
The term of enlistment of the vol
unteers is until June 80, 1901, or a lit
tie less than two years. The regulars
| go in for three years. The volunteers
will all be sent to Fort Logan, Col. for
muster and the regulars to the Pre-
| sidio.
An idea of the motive actuating
many of the applicants for service
was furnished by one of the recruits
after he had been finally accepted
well, I've got a home for two years"
he said. He was evidently an unfor-
tunate wanderer. and it came from his
| heart A number of the other appli-
cants were obviously in the same po-
sition as this one. They had turned
to the army as a refuge and sore was
their disappointment when rejected.
Others. 10 was just as obvious, sought
enlistment out of pure love of ad-
venture. There was none of the fire
of patriotism manifested which char
acteriZed the enthusiasm of the re-
cruits when volunteers We're called for
to fight Spain.
Captain Detchmendy stated last
evening that he was much pleased with
his first two days work. and said that
if he continued to do as we'll he would
send as fine a lot of men from Mon
tana as there are in the army
Captain Detchmendy received tele-
| graphic notice that Lieut.. w. Fl.
Wheaton of the 34th volunteers had
been ordered here to assist him. When
Lieutenant Wheaton arrives Helena
Anaconda and possibly Great Falls
| and Bozeman will be given an Oppor-
| tunity to offer recruits.