The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-25
Work of Preparing Roster of Men to Be Examined Is Well Under Way in Many Cities Bridgeport Offi= cials Expect to Begin Task Before Night,
Master List Provides Offi-. cial Record on Which List. of Men Liable Under Se-, lective Draft Will Be Pre- pared in the Order of Their Liability.

Though impatient to start ! the work of examining the : men selected under the draft . law and earn the honor of bel ing one of the first cities in the : state to. fill it's quota, the local exemption boards up to noon had not received their masterl list from Washington. In sew eral states the work of examin-l ing selected army candidates is ! already under way.
 As soon as they are deliver-i ed-probably before night-:s. work will start on applying the I master list to those in the local l offices to determine the order in which men will be called for service. The notices will be in the mail. here by Friday and the list of men then liable for service in the first contingent will be posted.
 After these lists are posted enlist ments will be accepted in any branch of service, but until the lists are post ed any man may elect to join the na- tional guard or regular army. Be- cause of the large number of appli- cations on hand and the nearness of the navy's quota to being filed no more fenlistmentsL are accepted for that branch from those between 21 and 31 years of age.
 UvI1n anrlli paf fir aT- listment in some branch of the army yet open, are not acted upon when the list is posted containing notice of their acceptance for the national army, will not be permitted to join the regular service.
 This was announced ty Provost Marshal General Crowder today and will concern many Bridgeport men have applications on file with the local. regular army recruiting in Fairfield avenue or whose papers to join the National Guard had not been finally approved when the city hall recruit ing station for the Second Connect-. cut Regiment moved from town to-. day.
 It appears probable that the accept ed men, when the mobilization order for the new army is given, will be first assembled in their selection board headquarters Their distributions among the Is camps, Gen. Crowder- said today, would be governed by two ruIes-first, the section of the law re-. quiring that they be assigned, as far as practicable, to duty with troops from their own state; and second, the location of the nearest camp. to re- duce the transportation problem as much as possible.
 c-.., I,oeS 1,n6 | Crowder indicating that there will be any need to summon second draft during the present year.
 Estimates to cover expenses of a second increment have been submit ted. it was pointed out, because all these expenditures must be made in advance of a call to have equipment and quarters ready, or the funds must be actually on hand when the call is made.
 With physical examinations actually in progress, thes record of the draft during the Civil war becomes interest," ing At that time 257 per cent of the men called were rejected for physical defects There is no reason to expect, it is said, any material increase in that figure.
 Exemptions for industrial or sim- liar reason, as we'll as exemptions be- cause of dependent relatives, enter an unexplored field. Until a ratio for this is worked out in practice in several typical communities and worked up into an average figure, no definite forecast of the probable num- Der of men who will pass through the draft machinery to obtain 6S7, 1000 soldiers can be given.
 Master lists of the army conscrip- ton drawing were in the hands of number of local exemption boards to- day, and were on their way to other boards more distant sfrom Washing ton.
 Each local board, on receipt of the lists, is required to summon for ex- animation twice as many men as the actual quota for the district.
 Examination of the master list showed only few errors in the un- official list compiled by the press during the rush hours of thed rawing and telegraphed over the country.
 War Department mployes who en- ter the military establishmnt> with the approval of their immediate chiefs will be reinstated in their civic positions when their military service ends. A previous war de- partment regulation requiring em- ployes who entered training camps to rsign their civil posts is rescinded. Approval of department chiefs will be required hereafter before employs of any executive department of the governmnt will be accepted in any army organization.
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