The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-03-29
NAVY'S RECRUITING
STATIONS ORDERED
open DAY ANDN|GHT
Everybody to Have Oppor-
tunity to Enlist-Auto Tours
TO Aid the Work.
AVlATORS IN DEMAND.
Eighteen Women Enrolled by
Miss McGuckin To-Day
Brooklyn Lists Swell.

That no opportunity for obtaining
men for the navy shall be lost. an
order was issued to-day that here
after all recruiting stations shall be
kept open all tho tlme--all day and
all night and throughout Sundays.
II is expected that, by this means,
many night workers who leave their
places OF employment before the rest
OF tho city has awakened for the
day will have n chance to enlist.
The Navy Department has decided
that nothing shall be left undone TO
stimulate enlistment and appeals for
men are TO be made through automo-
bile tours throughout the city and
brief street corner addresses by those
whose experience qualities them to
toll OF tho advantages OF naval ser
vice.
There has not been as yet a very
hearty response to tho navy's need
OF aviAtors. Tho flying branch OF
the service requires men between
the ages OF twenty-one and thirty Of
sound body, level head. and pos
sessed OF knowledge of gasoline
motors. Tho applicant need know
nothing OF air machines or air cur
rents. lie will be sent TO Pensacola,
II accepted. and there will be taught
tho art OF flying.
New York led to-day in the offlcial
reports which were received at the
navy's recruiting headquarters In
West Thirty-ninth Street giving the
number of recruits accepted IN seven
| OF the large cities of the East. New
York's tally was so. with Boston 70;
Newark. IS; Baltimore. IS; Scranton,
10: Buffalo. s2. and Philadelphia, IL.
Within a day or two this city will
be ''papered" with new naval recruit
ing posters similar to those which
have been put up broadcast IN New
ark and Pittsburgh. on a background
of blue and red diagonal stripes are
the words. In white:
Tho President Needs Americans
For the Navyi"
| Rear Admiral Usher OF tho Brook
lyn Navy Yard to-day approved a
plan for the enlistment OF 1000 picked
young men In the Naval Reserve for
special instruction as ginners for the
neot of small boats that will patrol
the harbor approaches.
Navy gunners with guns will be
stationed In stores in the financial
district. near Times Square and In
Harlem and at these points the Naval
Reserve recruiting stations will be
established.
At the principal street crossings In
Brooklyn to-day appeared an auto
mobile with Chief Gunner's Mate J.
C, Shields and a blueJacket with a
large American nag aboard TO dis
tribute booklets and posters about
the Navy. Further to stimulate en-
llstment. the automobile bore two
largo canvas signs reading; THE
country urgently needs $4,000 men
for tho Navy"
Wherever the machine stopped
Shields made short speech to those
who quickly surrounded the car and
profTered enlistment blanks to all
who wished TO line up with Uncle
Sans seamen.
Miss Viola d. McGuclin, the young
girl who opened tho recruiting office
for women in Post Office Sub Station
w. at No. go Broadway. in tho East
ern District, had eighteen applicants
before noon to-day.
II expect 10 double that number
before nighttail." she said.
Letters offering the services OF wo-
men continued to-day TO reach the
| Flatbush Avenue headquarters. Mrs.
II, Yagarus OF No. 500 East Second
! Street, Flatbush, offered herself
either as cook or nurse and ended
! her letter by saying: '1f the Gov
ernnent wants my house for any pur-
pose I'd be glad 20 turn II over. too"
Mrs. Alfred Wilson OF No. 1894 East
Forty-htth Street, Brooklyn, wrote
that she was twenty-five years old
and had both a husband and n broth
er In the navy and wanted to go In
herself II the service wanted u skilled
stenographer.
| An eighteen year boy in n faded
suit over his worn red sweater
which was fastened in the back with
Il safety-pin, presented himself to-
day for enlistment In tho navy al
Room In BrOoklyn's Borough Hail
lie said he was Wiltred j Dougherty
that he had no home and that he hat
walked most OF the way from STAN
ford to enroll In the naval service
i've seen Il number of tho boyi
who have gone into the navy, nnC
they've improved 50 that | want tn,
same chance" he told the recruiting
officer.
The appeal Of the Navy for womer
recruits as wireless and telegraph
operators bore fruit 70 day IN fftl
letters from as many applicants wh'
offered their services gratis TO IN,
Government Most of them state,
that they were already employed, bu
were willing 60 give IA part OF ever!
day TO the Nays needs,
A naval recruiting station 10 to b
established In the Hotel Ansonia