The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-19
BEST In COUNTRY
Naval Recruits from Kansas
Are Good Ones.
EIGHT HAVE ENLISTED
In This City Out of Sixteen
Who Applied.

''The young men who have applied to
US for enlistment in the United States
navy are about the best set of men we
have found on our trip" said Lieut.. L..
c. Richardson who is in charge of the
recruiting station in the government
building. out of sixteen applications.
nine have passed the examinations aAd
eight have enlisted. a larger percentage
than any other point I have visited. This
speaks very well for the mental training
and physic of the Wichita young men.
Those whom we have enlisted are as fine
! lot Of recruits as the navy could wish
to get and they viii make fine sailors"
Last night one member OF the party
went TO Hutchinson to open a recruiting
station there for the balance of the week.
Eight have already been secured here
with several more to take the eXamina
tons and Lieut.. Richardson stated yes
terday that he expected to secure about
thirty recruits from this city and Hutch
inson during the week.
The naval recruiting parties find that
this section Of the country does not give
up as many recruits as other sections
but the quality of the young men is
better both mentally and physically
Lieut. Richardson has been on the road
since the middle Of last January and he
was exceedingly well pleased with the
bunch of men he secured during the two
days he has been at work.
SThe average Kansas boy has the best
in the country and they remember what
they have learned and can tell it in
telliggntly. They are big strapping fell
lows in the finest Of health. ana plenty
of good isard muscle. These are the
things that a sailor needs and d re-
cruiting officer looks with a discriminat-
ing eye on applicants and always picks
out the best formed men in the bunch
for it requires u strong constitution 10
stand the work on a man of war bat
the young man when he once gets into
the work he likes it,
All the recruits enlisted here will be
sent away next Sunday afternoon over
re Missouri Pacific. They go to San
Francisco navy yard for training and
viii be assigned to regular duty from
that point
The party here is known as naval re-
cruiting party 10. and they go from
this city to Joplin, No, thence to Spring
field and then to ST Louis where this
itinerary ends
Yesterday Lieut. Richardson received
the new itineraries for the five naval
PARTIES. All of the itineraries begin on
September Il and viii end on March 3,
and during that time every one OF the
parties VIII travel over a part of seven
States.
aThe new itinerary of the party now
here is as follows:
St Louis, No. from September II, 1903.
TO September 26. 1903.
Little Rock. Ark. from September %,
1858. 10 October 3, 1893.
Oklahoma City. Q. r. from October 3,
1903, to October 10. 1905.
Fort Worth. Tex. from Octoter u,
1903. to October i. 1888
Dallas, Tx. from October 70, 1903, to
October "a, 1903
San Antonio. Tex, from October 90, 1905
TO October 81. 1903.
Galveston, Tex, from November ?, 1875,
Ito November Z. 1898.
New Orleans. La. from November 9.
1893, to November q. 1893.
Birmingham, Ala. from November %,
1903, to November IS, 1893.
Atlanta, Ga. from November so, 1908,
to December .. 1913.
Cumberland. Nd, from December :,
1903. to December u. 1903
Wheeling. W. Va, from December H.
1903 to December 10, 1913.
Pittsburg Pa. from December q. 1922,
TO January 9 1904.
indianapolis. Ind, from January L. 1901
TO January 80 1901.
Terre Haute, Ind. from January .,
1901, TO January 50. 1904.
Louisville. Ky. from February l. 1901,
TO February g. 1904
Evansville Ind. from February S, 1901,
to February IS, 1904
Paducah. KY. from February Is, 1924
to February %. 1905.
Savannah. Ga. from February % 1901.
TO February p, 1905.
Charleston, s c. from February %
1904, to March s. 1904
There will be another recruiting party
here during the week beginning october
18th and ending the 24th This party is
No. and is now travelling about the
extreme west ana viii come here from
Denver. They go northeast from here.
VISITING Kansas City, Omaha. Sioux FAILS,
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