The evening world., 1917-06-05


League.
Fifteen hundred Home Defense
guen, many OF them familiar with
foreign languages. were called from
reserve duty and wero sent AZ onos
70 the aid OF the swamped officials
20 be sworn in AZ additional regis
trarA Among than we're fifteen
Leaguers VINO are members Of the
staR Of J. p. Morgan = Co. who had
been doing patrol duty In the Union
Market precinct IN the absence Of
regular patrolmsn.
Tps extraordinary precautions tIken
10 stifie any attempt at disorder,
sporadic or, organised. we're not re-
Jared. In every station heavy re-
serves OF policemen and slate-gray-
clad Home Defense men were in
readiness for any call from the po-
llcemen and their suTiiiAries: 10000
National Guardsmsn were under
arms in their armories; Deputy
United States District Attorneys
waited with state prosecutors In all
the Magistrate Courts and thou
sands OF special deputy United stAtas
Marshals were scattered among the
registry places.
Marshal Power, In Brooklyn, In
charge Of 4 district which includes
ali cf Long island. had not only the
Borough Of Brooklyn and Queens un-
der his supervision. but through
Sheriff Seaman Of Nassau and
Sheriff Green OF suffolk County nad
an army OF nearly 5000 heavily armed
deupty sherins on duty in every pre-
cinct In the island. Sheriff Seaman
had 20 arranged matters that no
could concentrate two hundred and
nifty men In automobiles In thirty
minutes at any point in Nassau
County by merely turning TO bis
telephone.
OPPONENTS PLAN TO SHOW
THEIR HANDS TONIGHT.
From Secret Service agents and
police detectives In all parts OF the
city came reports that the real op-
Donents OF registration would not
show their hands until Just bsfors y
o'clock tonight. II was their pur-
poss, according 70 these rumors. TO
present themselves for registration In
large numbers, accompanied by Wit
nesses, and on being told they must
walt, TO declare I'VE have appeared
at . o'clock: there is no chance TO
register before 0: we will Go home.
having discharged our duty and hav-
ing failed OF registry by the fault Of
the Government"
Chairman Boyle notified all reg
istrars they must remain on duty
until every man In line at O'Clock
had an opportunity TO register, even
II they remained Ali night From Po-
lice Headquarters an order went out
that one or more policemen should
take their places at the end OF every
waiting line at a minute or two after
3 o'clock and arrest any man who at
tempted 10 leave before he was reg
istered, charging him With having
failed TO register. although acknowl-
ede1ng his eligibility by being In line.
A district closely watched by the
authorities a. a barometer OF what
conditions would be throughout tho
city was the Second Election District
OF the Second Assembly District In
Brooklyn. The population is largely
alien and IN Il are represented nearly
every nation In the world. Within
an hour or two after the registration
place, Public school No. 8. at Poplar
and Hicks Streets, was opened II wal
apparent that no trouble whatever
was likely 20 develop, either through
confusion or resistance 10 the law.
Observers had been sent TO the
upper east side where. before IN,
United States entered tho war, ag
Erssslve German sympathy had been
shown. In the Twenty ninth Assem-
. bly, District registrations weor at IN,
rate OF about one In Ave minues "a
each precinct early in tho day. but
in the Eighteenth. where there are
from sixteen TO thirty families II
: every tenement, tho registrars werS
taking thirty -nve names an hour and
hNATly hh many WtIo ItttlNtu IN tut
Sixteenth. There was no sign any.
where OF any disposition to hindel
the work.
Prophets OF evil and disloyaltS
were confounded by the chserfu
unanimity with which the reGistranti
turned out in parts OF the city u
which small groups OF agitators haC
attracted attention. In the Williams
Z burg and Brownsville districts In
Brooklyn. where the Socialist vot,
has been heavy. tho members OF thu
Socialist party turned out prompt,
With the American born ana th'
aliens and were waiting in lineI
sometimes thirty and forty men, II
length before the registrars oponeC
their doors.
In tho Bronx, about Hunts Point
where Emma Goldman and Alex
ander Berkman last night collected
nearly all the malcontents Of Man
haitian and the Bronx, there was M
evidence to-day OF any local sym
pGthy with last nights protest meet
ing" Registrations were rathe