The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-16
BOYS FOR UNCLE SAM
SAVANNAH LEADS THE SOUTH IN
NAVAL RECRUITS.
WILL ENLIST THIRTY-FIVE.
ALL But ONE WILL GO NORTH TO-
DAY.

Oscar Cole, Landsmnn, Taken III
After His Enlistment and Sent to
HospitnI-The Enlisted Recruits
viii He Taken to Norfolk, New
York and NewpOrt-Enlisting OFF,
GERS VIII Go to Macon Tomorrow.
When the United States Naval Re-
cruiting Station closes its offices here
tributed more recruits to the navy
than all Southern cities combined.
The recruiting officers have thus far
visited Lynchburg, Raleigh, Charlotte.
Columbia and Charleston. In these
cities they have succeeded in enlisting
thirty-three juvenile blue-jackets. In
Savannah twenty-five have already
been enlisted, and Ensign Hanrahan
said yesterday that when the office
closes he confidently expects to
have added at least ten to this list.
Oscar Cole, one of the young men
who had enlisted as a landsman for
training, was taken seriously i'll yes
terday afternoon and 1t became neces-
sary to take him to the hospital.
There a diagnosis of his case by the
physician in charge and the naval ex-
aiming officer showed that the pa
tient had the symptoms of typhoid fe-
yer.
III mt Government Expense.
The young man will not be able
to leave to-day with the other recruits,
but will be left at the hospital until
he is entirely well. Having already
enlisted in the navy, the expenses in
cident to his illness will, of course, be
borne by the Navy Department. The
department was notified at once.
Dr. ]. C. Page, the examining physi-
clan, said that when the man was ex-
anined on Monday he was as sound
as a dollar For the past three days
he had complained to the officers that
he did not feel we'll, and when he
walked into the Office yesterday after
noon shortly before 3 o'clock his APP
pearance was so unnatural rs to elicit
an inquiry from the physician. A few
moments later he was taken ill and
became too faint to stand. He was
taken to the hospital by DR.. Page.
Yesterdays List.
A number of applicants were exam
ed during the day. OF these quite
a number passed the examination, and
five were enlisted. Their names, to-
gether with the class in which they
enlisted, follow:
W. c.. Krenson, apprentice; ]. N.
Egense, apprentice: Charles j. Sheets.
landsman for yeoman; Julian Arthur
Grover, landsman for yeoman, and
John Myer, hospital apprentice. Sew
eral others have signified their inten-
lions of enlisting to-day, the last day.
When the Office closes at
o'clock the young men who have en-
listed will be sent North Immediately,
most of them on the steamship Berk-
shire, which sails for Philadelphia this
afternoon. From that point the APP
prentice boys will be sent to Newport,
and the landsmen and yeoman for
training to New York. The hospital
apprentices, of which there are three.
will be sent direct to Norfolk, where
they will be entered in the government
hospital for training.
EnIistments in Five Cities.
The officers are very much pleased
over the work accomplished in Sa-
vannah. In Charleston they enlisted
II recruits, in Charlotte g. in Column
bia s, in Lynchburg 3. and in Raleigh,
after strenuous efforts they were for
tunate enough to enlist one. This sim
gle volunteer never reappeared after
his enlistment.
From this statement it can be seen
that Savannah has furnished as many
as all of the other cities together. The
recruiters leave tomorrow for Macon,
where they will remain for a week. So
pleased was Ensign Hanrahan with
the number of recruits which he sue
ceeded in obtaining here, that he con-
sidered for some time the feasibility
of remaining here for another week.
However. as the Office had been sched-
uled to open in Macon on the 18th, he
thought better to open the station
there at that time, and If any more
Sayannahians are DESTROYS of enlist
ing they can come to Macon during the
next week.