Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-19
State TAGS BEHIND IN
Trace FOR NAVAL RECRUITS
Daily Average Is Only Fifteen, De.
spite Efforts OF Patriotic
Bodies.
Yesterdays CROP, THIRTEEN
Army Station Signs Up Eighteen, OF
q Whom Five Are White and Thir-
teen Colored-Marinc Crops Gets
II Three.

Other States are SURPRISING Nirgini
30 far In the race against time 10 get
sphicient recruits to man the battle
ships for the defense of the United
States that the patriotic citizen can
only hang his head I'm shame, according
TO Lieutenant l.. :. Stewart, the officer
In charge of the Richmond recruiting
atation
sa"Our daily average is less than NJ
teen for the entire state Of Virginia"
said Lieutenant Stewart last night.
sWhcn we got sixteen men the other
day, II was put in all the papers as :,
Record, and some people fell mighty
proud of it, Instead of patting them
eslves on their backs at the fine show
dRg, VirginianS ought to wish TO keep
such figures from getting abroad for
the world to read have no doub, but
that the men cf this state VIII fight.
but the troubl" is in getting them
tctarted into training, SO that they
may fight efficiently.
gS"The Governors committee and the
Mayors committee, and all the civic
and patriotic organizations OF Rich
mond have done their part. The meet
Pngs on the streets are putting the
matter OF enlistment squarcly up TO
the young men. But ths young men
are not responding. and the ships of
the navy are going with half-crews.
Dther States have needed the call for
nen. and sent in their full quotas. Nir-
Rinia has sent in less IMAM one-fourth
tAe expected number.
RICHMOND DOING LESS
THAN REST OF STATE
rRichmond Itself Is doing even less
than tho rest OF the State" continued
+ieutenant Stewart only three OF
the thirteen men enlisted to-day were
fFom Richmond. All three OF them
had consulted the office about recruit
Ing Several weeks ago and hecu pre-
vented for some reason or another
The three men who enlisted in the
navy from Richmond yesterday We're
walter Burfoot Butler. Leslie Morris
Parker and Walter Thomas Pugh. The
other recruits. sent up from substa-
.tions. were Patrick Raymond Kelley
and Edward Gayle Lee, OF Crewc: Lion
Moorman White, OF Roanoke. Carl
3Everett Lane. of Rye Cobe; Fitz Lee
chandler, of Petersburg; Thomas Gym
and Thomas Charles Dodd, Of Lynch e.
burg; Elmer Price Milton. of Covinr-
ton, and Laird Geater Burdette, Of
Point Pleasant. w. Va.
The army station had one tf its best
days yesterday. with a total OF eighteen
from the district, OF whom five were
white and thirteen colored, Norfolk
4sent forward eight men, OF whom all
but one were colorcd. The ten who
unlisted in Richmond were Robert H.
Herndon. Ir., Charles NJ Baker and
wesley $. Christian. of Richmond. and
tWilliam L. Pickhardt OF Chester. white
men. and LA wrcncc Richardson. Charles
Berkeley, Harris II. Coleman, Jr, Percy
White. Jr.. Charles Shepherdson and Ell .
wood Tinsley, colored.
nov OF sINTEEN
JOINS REGULAR ARMY
( Wesley s. Christian. one OF the army
recruits sent forward yesterday. Was
only sixteen years Old and had gained
his parents consent only after several
weeks OF pleading. lie was "a Roy
|Scout and entered the cavalry. He
barely measured up to army require
ments. being only five feet two and
IoRe-half inches high. and Weighing only
laos pounds. Tie War Department
waived several dis0ualifications arts :
| lug from his youth and small size. and
he was sent away last night 10 made
into Il fighting man.
n Three men, all Sent forward from
Ibubstations, constituted yesterdays
| crop in the Marine Corps recruiting
distrtct or Virginia and North Caro-
lima. The recruits were Raymond :.
IClowers. of Roanoke. and Lamar T.
McRae and William l.. Connolly, OF
charlotte, y. c.
1
mond marine recruiting station was
|Rdded yesterday six men, four for
Temporary duty and two permanently.
1Those assigned TO Richmond only for
emergency du'y ARE GWnnery Sergeant
~. N. Thomass4N. Sergeant David Bates
iCornoral q. r. Fnnesan and Sergcan,
~. Mays, of the Marine BARRACKS, Nor
FOLK. The others are Sergeant willard
lW. Stberi, OF Cleveland, Ohio, and Fri
4Sate Roy \. Tomlnson. OF Philadei-
Iphia.
Oren-air meetings were held last
might at Sixth and Broad Streets and
at Eighth and BROAD in the interest
OF navy recruiting. y meeting will he
.held at o'clock this evening in font
lof the courthouse, South Rirhm,nd.
at which State Senator James r.. Cam
non and Rev. William T. THOMPSON.
| %. D.. Will urge young men TO .n!is,
in the navy
IfEfnYN annTsrrD vvy-