New Britain herald., 1917-07-05
CITY LEADS COUNTY
 FOR REGULAR ARMY
New Britain Makes Excellent Record in Recruiting Soldiers
SENDS TEN INTO RANKS

SENDS TEN INTO RANKS Company E Has Al Enlisted Men and
 Ten "Attached'-Many Applications
 For Admission Today-state ss9
 Short of It's Quota.
 That New Britain leads Hartford county in the number of enlistments for the regular army during the week of June 23 to July ?, was included in statement received this morning by Mayor G. A. Quigley from Arthur L. Sh1pman of the state council of de- fense, In his letter MT. Shipma an states that: Midnight, July 5, is the last day that we can expect to per- suade the government to count enlist .ments against the draft quota, so get your applicants registered before mid night on July B."
 MT. Ship1nan states: "New Britain, so far as the regular army is con- cerned, is beating the rest of the county. She put ten actually enlisted men in on Monday and six on Tues day. She is only 20 behind her quota." In addition to the men en- listed, there were more than three times as many applicants, many of whom were rejected for various phy- sical ailments.
 Yesterday Corporal Clifford J. Boauduin in charge of the army re- cruiting station in central park, re- ceived applications from four more local men who wish to enlist in the regulars. They are Stuart Hellberg, 13O Lincoln street, medical corps; Bruno Ragatis, 27 Star street, med1- cal corps; Joseph Grasso. 95 Arch street, infantry; and Carl W. Laur- ence, 59 Walnut street, signal corps. Corporal Boudouin has received in structions to enlist no more men for the field artillery, as that branch of the service is now filled. The only available branches are the infantry, signal corps and medical corps.
 Company E Nearly Complete.
 Today Company E, First Infantry, has well over 150 men, although due to military technicalities, the num- Der of recruits to bring the company up to war strength have not been off cially 'assigned'. At the present time Company E has Al enlisted men and ten more who are rated as ''at- tached." These men are John Sam sell c. Okula. Frank G1andy, Joseph Demerski, Adam Strakowski kon stanti Wyssokminski, Ignatz Skorop- ski, Stanislaw Jendezick, Jack Binger and Peter Tizasko.
 This morning Lieutenant Griffin drilled the non-commissioned officers in Walnut Hill park while Sergeant Kelly drilled the company. Later the command was broken into detach ments while the mon coms' took charge of the drills. This afternoon the entire company was drawn up in front of the camp in the park and was photographed.
 Through the generosity of Mayor G. A. Quigley,' Company E has been sup piled with 13 additional cots for the soldiers and w. H.. Caldwell has also furnished an additional cot. Even with these donations there are still 30 soldiers who have to sleep on the ground.
 It is expected that within a few days at least two members of Com pany E will be discharged for physi- cal disability and already these rec concentrations have been forwarded to the regimental surgeon. Two ad- ditional sergeants and seven corporals are also about to be appointed.
 Among the applicants for enlist ment today, and there were more than a dozen, was William Kelly, a younger brother of Sergeant Kelly , State 889 Men Short.
 New Haven, July sfFigures issued today by the regulaf army recruiting headuuarters showed that 1889 men have been enlisted solar elaving ss9 men still to be secured to fill out the states quota of 2,22s
 Most of the recruits it is stated are now coming from New London, Litchfield, Poland, Windham and Middlesex counties, the response from the other counties not being so rapid
 More for the Regulars.
 At o'clock this afternoon tie army recruiting officer. Corporal Bou- douin. had secured five more appli- cants for enlistment in addition to the four recruits mentioned prev iously. The latest applicants are all for the infantry. They are John Boyle, 131 Main street; Joseph Tvs sko. Bristol; Ralph l.. Schofield. 489 Main street; John Korzensky, 64 Booth street; and John Budz1nskl, Kensington.