Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-07
Total Enrolment, 97,760, Of
Which Number 1883 Are on
Officers Roll.
ANNUAL REPORT MADE
BY ADJT. GEN. ANDREWS
Review of Office Work-Lack of
Storage Space for Accumulated
Records Cited.

According to the annual report Oh
80, c.orqe Andrews as adjutant gem
eral of the army. the actual streie'h Vi
the entire military establishment d.
present is s7.760. of which nuHoer
4SS3 are officers. leaving $3.50 va
.ancies in the authorized ehiiS'e"
strength. 1t is stated that the NUMBER
of officers absent from their commands
on detached service is slightly oelo"
that of the previous year. being 6-ss lot
general and staff officers and l6-eo LOT
officers OF the line. OF the commas
stoned officers on the active list, Col.
John l.. Glen. Quarterinaster CORPS is
the only one who served during the
civil war otherwise than as a cadet. VI
the 1892 officers on the retired INST
$50 saw service in the civil war
During the past year certificates were
issued TO sc persons who were FOUND
qualified to hold commissions in the
volunteer army. OF that number " are
citizens of the District of Columbia
Desertions Total $3.50.
There were 3,SS2 assertions from the
army during the past year, being Blu
per cent of the enlisted force. de-
crease of $50 compared with the year
1913, and an increase of All compared
with 1912.
The regiments that had the lowest
percentages of assertions during the
year were the 10th Cavalry, 9Th Cav
airy and the It'll Infantry The regl-
,nents with the highest percentage OF
desertions were the 5th Field Artillery,
18th Cavalry and 18th Infantry OF the
white troops. 1928 per cent and OF the
color troops. 0.64 per cent were report
ed as deserterS, as compared with Blu
per cent for the whole army. There
was a decrease in the percentage of
assertions among colored troops, as
compared with the preceding year. OF
o.59 per cent, and a decrease among
white troops of Ito per cent.
1t appears from the returns that alto
gether- 1,004 enlisted men of the regu-
lar army we're discharged on surgeons
certificate of disability during the year.
That number was slightly less than the
number discharged during the proceed
ing fiscal year. Enlistments and re-
enlistments for the army within the
fiscal year 1914 numbered 43,431, IN
GLIDING 39,245 for the line Of the army,
sS5 for the Hospital Corps, 763 for the
Quartermaster Corps. SIS for other
staff departments and $3.50 for the
Philippine Scouts
Number Accepted.
Only "a per cent of those who applied
for enlistment at recruiting stations
were accepted, while less than IL per
cent of the accepted applicants were
subsequently rejected at depots. Gen.
Andrews deems it worthy of notice that
slightly over "a per cent of the original
enlistments of white soldiers were ma
tives OF the United States. During the
three years last preceding those per-
centages were 81, IS and 81, respec-
lively.
Cen Andrews the current work of the
Office was kept virtually up-to-date. 81
per cent of all cases received having
been disposed of within twenty-four
hours from the time of receipt. The
Mexican situation, he said, brought in
a great number of offers of service
in case of hostilities-so great num-
Der, in fact, that 1t was Impossible TO
acknowledge the receipt of the ma
jority of them. even by Il printed state
ment The offers, however. were re-
corded for immediate use and had oc-
casion required.
according to the report the limit of
possibilities has been reached in the
consolidation of records. which are
filed in the most compact shape and
with the utmost economy of space At
tention is again called to the large &C
cumulation of records received in the
adjutant generals office in recent years
from various discontinued commands
and posts, both in this country and in
the Philippines.
No Room for Records.
1T has been impracticabl BILE, says Gen.
Andrews, for lack of space, to unpack
many of these records, and they are
still in the boxes in which they were
received. 1t is estimated that approx
mately $500 cubic feet of these records
are now stored IN rooms in the sub
basement of the State, War and Navy
building and in the basement of the
one building still rented and occu-
pied be- the office. A recent shipment of
approximately five tons of such records
has exhausted the storage space re-
ferred to. and the question of caring
for future receipts of similar records