The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-27
RECRUITING OFFICE
WILL BIB REMOVED
Captain Wolfe Believes the Army
Has Secured About All the Men
Available in This Region
at Present.

1t has now been decided to remove
from the city the United States army
recruiting station, which has been do
ing business on Wyoming avenue since
April l, and to transfer it 10 Phla-
delphia. While a large number of
young men enlisted at the Office dur
ing the earlier part of the recruiting
officers sojourn here, of late there has
been a paucity Of applicants, ana as a
result by october 1, Captain Wolfe and
his staff of soldier boys will have left
the city.
Captain Wolfe, in discussing the
matter with a Tribune man yesterday
afternoon, said: "On the whole we
have done very respectfully in this dis
trict Since the opening of our station
here we have enlisted one hundred and
ten men in Scranton alone. Then we
had branch offices at Honesdale, Sus-
quehanna, Shenandoah, Towanda, Dan
vile, Bloomsbury and Wilkes Barre,
and derived favorable results from all
these.
From our arrival here. however, 1t
was understood that we were to make
but temporary stay and that no per-
manent station was to be established.
Last month we were very we'll salts
fed. indeed. with the work we did, as
between thirty and forty recruits were
secured. During the first months of
our stay here we also did a splendid
business, and augured from this larger
results than we actually achieved. This
month has been practically the worst
we have undergone, so far. Very few
men have enlisted, and we are begin
ming to think that we have already
secured about all the available timber
there is in the valley.
81 will admit. however. that we ex-
pected to do an increased business on
account of the strike, and that we are
very much surprised by the scarcity of
applicants who are examiners. We have
had some of them at the office, but
have had the same experience with
them that the examiners at the marine
station had as in most cases they are
unable to pass the examinations.
"In fact, there has been an unusually
large number of men who have failed
in their examinations at our offices in
this recruiting district. Many men who
were able to fill the mental REQUIRE
ments broke down when submitted to
ceedingly large percentage of poorly
proportioned men, both those who were
understood and young fellows too light
for their height.
THE examinations, however, are very
rigid, and a man has to be in splendid
condition to be admitted to the SER
vice. l suppose the reason that we
didn't have more applicants from the
mines is due to the fact that the ma ajor-
ity of the strikers are merely resting
for awhile TO see what turn future
events will give the situation. If we
We're to stay in the city and the strike
continued for any length of time,
feel confident that we would obtain a
large number Of desirable recruits.
However, we have about exhausted
this district now, and as the quarterly
period Of our service win close Sep
tember 80, we are busy now fixing up
our books and clearing accounts, and
will leave the city at the end of the
month. We are to be transferred to
Philadelphia, which presents an ever
open field for our work"
The majority of the Scranton boys
who entered the service, and We're
sworn in by Captain Wolfe, were sent
to the Philippines. a number have en-
tered the signal and hospital corps, and
several have been attached to the ar
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