New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-06
Rush to Register
Overwheln1s.City
Election Forces
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20 insist on finishing the work before
morning. As a result definite hgureS
we're not available, but il was said tnat
New York's estimated quota OF t2i,iOO
already had been at least met. II VIII
probably he late to-day before the
totals are known.
at would be unreasonable TO expect
the volunteers who have served so
faithfully and so well TO stay up "a
good pai~ of the night when they are
already tired out" said Mr. Boyle.
Correct classification and accuracy
might suffer through zeal to complete
the figures tonight at any cost. Ac-
curacy in this undertaking is OF the
first Importance.
THE experience to-day has been
something New York may feel proud OF
as indicating a spirit that should serve
&c emphasize the unqualified, country
wide APPROVAL of the principles under
lying the Federal registration plan, ana
a determination 10 sow that the cltl-
zenry of New York and its official rep
resentatives are solidly behind the
President and Congress-
From 7 o'clock in the morning un-
til 7:15 whistles screamed and peils
changed a deafening call TO the colors.
But long before the call was heard and
the business of registration began,
thousands of prospective soldiers were
in line at the polling places. d.
OF confusion there was plenty; OF
actual, intentional disorder, none. AS
sstant Federal attorneys who had been
stationed in magistrates courts
throughout the city to prosecute
trouble-makers were needed no more
than the Guardsmen. The same might
be said OF the Home Defence Leaguerss,
whom Commissioner Woods had posted,
one or two at each registration place,
to reinforce the men of the regular
police force. The 10000 apprentice
policemen proved their service most
useful when the volunteer registrars
began to discover the lines before their
tables were growing faster at the lar
end than they could be Whitfield down
at the near.
This discovery the registration staff
made early. Particularly in districts
where the English Of the bulk OF the
RESPONDENTS was as Indifferent as the
Polish and Yiddish and Italian OF the
registrars-and in some of these no IN
terpreters had been provlded-the
business of getting adequate answers
to the questions Uncle Sam Is asking
was a slow one.
Amateurs Delay Work.
Then again the fact that so many OF
the clerks were green" at their JOBS
made for delays. Often men ready 10
register were shunted around to nan
dozen registration places not covering
their home districts before the rignt
one was found. Some of them, OIL
Gals believe, gave UP in despair. IL is
expected the authorities will discover
when they begin their elaborate cheek
ing up to-day that most OF those OIL
conscription age who failed to register
were Of this literally misguided class
But even including these, II is pre-
dicted there will be surprisingly rev
New Workers between the ages Oh
twenty-one and thirty-one VINO VIII nov
be able 20 show to investigators the
blue cards which certify they nave
honorably performed their first war
time duty.
rad not been oversangulne that Ihe
day would pass as quietly as II old'
In certain districts they had been al
most certain that trouble IN some FORM
would develop--on the lower East Slde'
in Williamsburg and in Brownsville,
where agitators have been melting the
foreigners to resist consumption; IN
the student-pacifist region around 90
lumbia University, out OF when mas
come so much literature bordering, on
the seditious; in the big German colon
les of Harlem and The Bronx.
But even more quietly than she
goes forth TO vote, New YORK went
forth 10 do her part in making the
world safe for democracy.
Barring those routine acts OF VIC
lence which 90 hand in hand with the
Americans exercise of the suffrage,