Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-14
'TOFRANCE BY JULY A."
SLOGAN ATTRACTS MEN
City's Engineer Regiment Ranks
\, Fill Fast-Organize Pioneer
Unit Also
RECRUITING BOOM TODAY

To France ny tine four'h Oh 1u'S
This slogan OF the Ph"adelphia engineer
reserve regiment is swelling the ranks oi
this organization. which approacheu uie
z00-mark today In enlistments More M Mtnan
twenty-five men were accepted IN tne tta'e
Building where the recruiting office VIII ne
open at night. TWO new examining sur
geons First Lieutenants Charles .. - ~
anagh and samuel Brister' arIiNeu io, ~,
washington today to help speed up ,'opIi'
fxation OF the unit IL was announces nc
probably the tommerclai Niuseu,lI ~ y : :
and grounds would be used as p"r'a'Ns ''''
driii ground.
Another Philadelphia unit-a regiment Oh
pioneer engineers-began recruiting TO-DAY
under Major j. G. Oakes. L. ;. A.. IN tne
Witherspoon Building This unit VIII pe
used In construction work, whereas 'ne en-
gineer regiments duties VIII CONSIST OF lur :
nishing motive power Tor crippled lines Vi
communication III hortnerh frahee'
The pioneer regiment, according to plans
will follow the engineer regiment which IL
20 be recruited to a strength OF lO6s men
by June l.
Today was brisk day for every branch
Of the service, the week opening with re-
cruting boom. Eighty-six husky recruits
for the army were sent to Fort slocum this
afternoon. Applicants swarmed into the
eeTps ns snn ro % defense s 'T% Sser%c
with the Kaiser's u-boa,s and sea-raiders,
stood Army w @ us ,' new M men M navy, % 10; ma
sine CORPS 10 naval coos. ..,, defense & ressrye ny
90, Among rl the army recruits was ray "
GsrSnston nf Pa S SSa john % WITT
in his pD foundry on 'G Arch p street % sm of the
tinen,al. Congress, Harris. who is a clerk.
yana an GTry TO Ine uard to msx
mum peace strength a new recruiting sta
League. Unti this morning ia recruits
Were Were, needed to MI out the ranks of the the
sesS" Sers needed nsi NSS"' ""s" almost -'' '"'"
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sisted by Private Herman Farber, ,, who
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