New-York tribune., 1916-07-19
Recruiting Slow Since the
Militia Went-New Plans
Almost Ready.
FIFTEENTH INFANTRY
NEAR WAR STRENGTH
Col. Jannicky's Status In Doubt
-Oen. Wood Completes Re.
port on Col. COnley.

General Leonard Wood announced
yesterday that the New York division
now at the border still lacked 2.s75
men of its full quota. Pennsylvania,
the only other state in the Eastern De-
partment with its guardsmen organ
ized as a division. still needed 1921
men TO bring its rank S up to war
strength, he explained. All other states
are organized as brigades
Plans for the new system of recruit
ing are rapidly being put into opera
tion. Officers at Governors Island said
Yesterday that recruiting, which has
been moving more slowly since the de-
parture of regiments for the border
would probably proceed more rapidiy
after the system was in full force.
The 18TH Infantry. the recently or
ganized colored regiment of National
Cuardsmen, of which Public service
Commissioner William Hayward IL
colonel, has recruited 42b men since II
was organized, two weeks and a haii
sso If the enrolment continues AZ
the present rate the regiment VIII
reach full war strength within a MONTH
Eighty Per Cent Pass Tests.
Only 20 per cent of the applicants,
according TO examining surgeons. nave
been rejected in spite Of the most rg-
orous tests. 10.
According to present plans one bat
talon of the 10Th will be recruited III
Rrooklyn. one in Harlem and another
in Manhattan and The Bronx. Recruit
ing stations have been established az
LAFAYETTE Hall, Seventh Avenue ana
1920 Street, where the organization
drills nightly, and at Dean Street ana
Rochester Avenue. Brooklyn.
Conflicting rumors are prevalent
both in the official and unofficial circles
of the National Guard, as to the status
of Colonel Ernest L. Jannicky OF the
47th Infantry. who was recently
ordered back to his armory to adjust
the organizations accounts.
While il is reported that Colonel
is TO be relieved of his COM
mand. neither he nor his friends know
definitely what is in store for him. II
seems likely that his fate will rest with
Governor Whitman.
An OlIlCcl III ClOSt lOuNh niNi
Adjutants department said yesterday
that whatever had been behind the
to relieve Colonel Jannicky
it had great force. Rumors to the
effect that politics is playing large
part in it are current.
Another rumor about the Attn
armory yesterday was that the 800
men in the home depot under Lieu
tenant Colonel Baldwin would be
formed into a field artillery regiment.
At division headquarters this was
denied emphatically. No new orgsniza-
tion Of that sort would be permitted,
it was said. until Major General
Organ and his staff returned from
the border.
Asks Matthews as Aid.
Captain Herman j. Koehler, master
of the sword at West Point, and at
present physical instructor at Platts-
burg. yesterday asked General Wood
to appoint Lieutenant Philip Matthews,
Of the regular coast artillery, now sta
toned at Fort Totten, as his assistant.
Lieutenant Matthews will divide the
Of the summer between
and Governors Island and
Will pIODdDly De lne pnySlCdl instructor
at the September camp after Captain
Koehler has returned to his duties at
the academy.
Colonel George T. Bartlett, who will
relieve Colonel Edwin F. Glenn, Cen
oral Woods chief OF staff, who has
been ordered to take command of the
18th United States Infantry. now at
Douglas, Ariz.. reported for duty yes
terday. Colonel Glenn will leave for
his new post in about week.
General Wood announced yesterday
that he had completed his report on
the rejection of Colonel Conley. of the
69th Regiment, and had forwarded it
to the War Department. The general
will start on a three days inspection
trip at Plattsburg to-day. On his re-
turn he will visit the artillery camp at
Tobyhanna, Penn. As yet he has made
no decision as 10 who he will appoint
aids to succeed Captain Gordon Johns
ton. now colonel of the 18th New York
Infantry, and Captain Doray, who will
soon receive his commission as major.