The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-07-23
10000 Expected to Undergo
Physical Tests for Army
This Week.
PREPARED FOR RUSH
Physicians Ready to Begin
LabOrs on Word From
Washington.
PLAN TO TRAP FAKERS
Claims for Exemptions Will
Be Filed After Appearance
Before Surgeons.

Two things hold back the next and
third step in the national draft sched-
ule-the arrival of the official serial
lists from Washington and the receipt
OF orders from Albany apportioning
the exact quota each board district Is
to raise. Probably by tomorrow night
these two matters will be taken care
of and then Immediately the Notices
to Call and to Appear for Physical
Examination" will be sent out by the
different boards, and within another
twenty-fou hours the steady streams
of designated registrants will start
flowing through the examining rooms
in this city. The end OF the week may
see the physical examination of ap-
proximately $4,000 young men COM
pleted, half Of whom will be chosen to
serve with the colors.
StiIl Call for Numbers.
Yesterday showed little abatement in
the clamor for the important red ink
number" The greater majority of the
boards throughout the city were open
for at least a part of the day, and many.
like Board lis. at Stuyvesant High
School, put in a good eight hours OF
sweltering with their labors little appre-
ciated
Some OF the boards had yet to complete
their alphabetical lists of names with
the serial numbers opposite, and as a
consequence thousands of young men
were kept standing in long lines, while
fustered. overworked clerks and board
members ran down single names at a
time. Other boards simply posted nu-
merical lists of the serial numbers and
left 1t to the patience and superpatriot-
ism of the anxious registrants to find
their own names in the haystack OF pa
pers. Board 100, holding forth in Public
School 2, at Grove and Hudson streets,
Rraciously permitted certain sturdy
voiced enthusiasts to read aloud to the
waiting crowds the numerical lists. In
some cases hours were spent in a futile
endeavor to discover numbers.
Word received from the Governor at
Albany last night indicated that IL
might be another day, and possibly two
more, before the final proportionate call
oulations will have been completed and
the quotas assigned to each board.
Twice the number OF men demanded will
be called for examination to allow gen.
tions and for those who are exempted
on account of dependents or for other
reasons.
Finishing Apportionment.
Roscoe s. Conkling. who has been
practically in charge OF the local ex.
emption arrangements, left for Albany
late Saturday night and spent all day
yesterday laboring with a great force
IsNfN ala N,,,In
| finishing up the gigantic task of accu-
rately apportioning the States quota.
Each county and each of the eighteen
| cities of the State which were recog-
nized by the Federal Government as
, having approximately $4,000 inha bitants
will be credited with the number of men
which they had in the National Guard
on April l. with their subsequent con-
| tribution of men to the army and the
! National Guard from April TO June 80
For all Its complicated setting and
mysterious atmosphere the third step,
or the actual examination and accep-
tance OF registrants, is basically a simple
proposition. AS soon as the official
serial lists are received from the War
| Department and the quota secured from
| Albany each board will mail its pre-
scribed number of calls for examination
being, as previously stated, twice the
| actual quota required. This blank form
contains the direction to appear and
| the day and hour for the examination.
The lists are supposed to be divided in
three parts and each sent out on a
| different day.
When the registrant appears at the
board headquarters on the prescribed
time he is first subjected to a strict and
| exacting physical examination. II one
| physician fails to pass him he is imme-
| diately reexamined by a second physi-
clan, and II he, too, turns the registrant
Gown his troubles are over forthwith.
II, however, the second physician passes
him the army gets the benefit OF the
doubt and the young man is accepted.
The registrant of course has the right
to appear later before higher examin-
ing board.
Physicians PerfectInE Plans.
With the applicant passed, he imme-
| diately states whether he wishes to
| claim exemption and IL so on what
grounds If he claims no exemption he
is marked accepted" but claiming ex-
emptlon the proper blanks and aiiidavits
are given him and he is ordered 10 re-
turn them to the board on or before
seven days have elapsed.
No oral examination is held at this
subsequent board sitting, but only the
papers and affidavlts in each case care
fully gone over. Within three days the
registrant Is informed whether his .ex-
emption claims have been accepted. II
they are turned down he has recourse
to the district boards, four or five OF
which will sit in Greater New York.
Yesterday the physician members of
the exemption boards throughout the
city were busy perfecting plans to meet
the rush of registrants when the exami-
nation calls ate finally sent out, Gov
ernment calculations apparently greatly
overestimated the speed of the New
York physicians, as the estimates ars
apparently made on the basis Of forty
examinations a day Most of the eX-
aminers feel that twenty minutes is the
quickest possible time that candidate
could be thoroughly examined, while
many others hold to the opinion OF DR..