The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-03-26
RUSH TO Join NAVY
FOLLOWS DANIELS
APPEAL FOR MEN
Recruiting Offices Here Unable
to Keep Up With Appli-
cants for Enlistment.
WOMEN BEG TO SERVE.
Middle-Aged Mother Eager to
Fight on BattleShip to Shame
Her Three Sons.

Hundreds of "younK men OF stun
and ambition" to quote Secretary
Daniels's appeal for brisker recruit
Ing, rallied to the colors to-day In
the various naval recruiting stations
throughout the city. Recruiting
Jumped like the thermometer on an
August day. A handicap TO the en-
rolling oficers. however. Is the short
age OF help. particularly In the
stenographic line.
Recruiting would 70 ahead twice
as fast II there were more enrolment
officers and stenographers," said
Lieut.. A. NJ. Cohn. In charge OF the
Naval Publicity Bureau at No. s1s
West Thirty-ninth Street. III those
familiar with stenographic work
would give. say even two OF three
hours OF their time day II would
aid greatly. We are hoping 20 OBJ
tain, through the press. a response
to this crying need.
MANY men, willing 20 be enrolled,
drop into the recruiting places at the
lunch hour and cannot wait beyond
their allotted time. A large per-
centage of them get disgusted and
don't come back. With n larger
clerical force this would be obviated. :"
The Publicity Department Is plan
ming n giant spring drive in every
city and town in the country. store
windows showing tho patriotic duty
OF enlistment will be utilized: special
lithograps are being rushed out. and
the forty-elght men who under Chief
Yoeman Donahue are toiling day and
night over the departments big
presses have ground out huge stock
of literature.
Lieut.. Commander T. II. Thayer, In
charge OF the Naval Recruiting Head
quarters at No. 81 East Twenty third
Street, said the effect of the Secre-
tary's appeal for moro men had been
marked. During the morning he en-
rolled more men than during the en-
tire previous week. The stream OF
applicants began early and swelled
In as tho day wore on. Several APP
plloants we're women. One was a
middlr-aged woman, who said she
was Mrs. Mary Horan OF No. S5S
West Fifty-third Street. She was
asked II she could do stenosraphic
work.
~ thought you wanted the women
on the bRttleships," she replied when
told that womon's work would be
confined TO the shore. i've two big
sons who won't enlist and I wanted
to show them that their old mother
isn't scared TO fight for Uncle Sam"
The men who applied at the Twen-
ty-thlrd Street office we're almost
! without exception strapplng, bright.
eyed young chaps. not one OF whom
looked 90 be over nineteen, The ma
jority were even younger. Most OF
them had Jobs. but were eager 20
serve Uncle Sam.
| The greatest activity was observable
at the recruiting headquarters OF the
Naval Defense Reserve at No. 20
Cortlandt Street. Capt. j. Patton and
his assistants toiled with stacks OF
application blanks. Three doctors
made the physical examinations.
During the morning more than 2iS
applicants had been booked, and dur
| ing the lunch hour the corridors and
rotunda OF the offices were so packed
that II was impossible TO reach the
make a pedestrian excursion over the
heads OF the enthusiastic patriots.
The crowds here were more varied
| in age. There was a plentiful sprink-
| ling OF gray heads.
II was announced that the CO.
operation OF practically every motion
picture theatre in the district em-
braced by Glass Four had promised
to run slides at every show calling
upon men TO enroll. These slides will
be ready tomorrow, II n expected
and the overworked sponsors of the
cause will rush them out at once.
Commodore Todd, in charge OF the
enrolment OF yachts and swift motor
craft suitable for patrol and coast
defense work, stated that up to date
he can rely upon 400 to 500 such
craft for work in the sector extend
ing from New London to Barnegat
Many of these are large and costly
yachts, but there are also severa
powerfully englned craft ranging
from forty to fifty feet, which are ex,
lpeCted to accomplish valuable work,