Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-07
REGISTRATION IN STATE
MAY TOTAL $4,000 men
Early Official Reports Indicate War
Departments Estimate
Is Excessive.
ALL RETURNS NOT YET IN
Fourteen Cities and Forty Counties
Have Forwarded Figures to Gov
ernor's Office-End OF Week Be-
fore Work Is Complete.
. RETURNS NOT YET IN

First indications that Virginia's war
registration would exceed government
estimates is not borne out by the off,
cial figures received by Governor Henry
c. Stuart. EARLY reports from the
large centers OF population led to the
belief that the enrolment would be
! fnr in excess of 100000; But it is doubt
full If more than $4,000 men OF mill
tary age have registered
Fourteen of the nineteen cities and
forty of the 100 counties have made
their official reports to Governor
Stuart. These cities and counties
which had 92,9.0 males between the
ages OF twenty-one and thirty .one ac-
cording to government estimates. only
have total enrolment of Go55S
While Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke
have not reported officially, the unoffi-
cial returns show registration of 3O,-
300. against the government estimate
OF 1920 for the three cities Newport
News also has not reported.
Government estimates for Virginia
placed the number of males of the
prescribed ages at o1l,333 On this
basis the nineteen cities and forty
counties have registered approximately
loo,430 men. against an estimated num-
Der of 126.l0o. The remaining coun-
ties. sixty in number. have an esti-
mated population of S5.I93 men OF con-
scription age. In event every one was
registered. the total enrolment for the
State would be approximately lS5.750.
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY
FALLS BELOW ESTIMATE
Many OF the cities and counties have
exceeded the estimate made by the
government experts. Richmond. with
its l6,50o registrants and approxi-
mately 1000 men now In the military
and naval service and not subject to
registration. reached the total esti-
mated by the Census Bureau sharps
The biG slip. however. came in Prince
George County. where the registration
was only 4.S33. while it's estimated en-
rollment was $4,000. Hopewell the
guncotton city. is in Prince George.
but thousands Of the men employed
| there still claim other places as their
home.
The total enrolment for Virginia
may not be known before the end OF
the week. AS it takes three days for
reports to reach Richmond from some
of the remote sections. the malls being
| quicker than telegraph. The majority
of the sixty counties and the three
| tardy cities will have their reports in
before tonight. il Is expected
Winchester had the distinction OF
being the first city in Virginia to re-
port to Governor Stuart the telegram
| reaching him at II o'clock on Tuesday
Eisf.
Forge and Danviile in order
The counties were slower in report-
ing, due to the trouble in collecting
the data from the scattered precincts.
Prince George was the first to report.
Next came Isle of Wight, Middlesex and
Greene. in order.
WAR DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATE:
NOT BORNE OuT IN STATE;
The cities OF Suffolk. Hopewell and
Harrisonburg were included in the
Counties of Nansemond. Prince George
and Rockingham, as these were not I'm
existence when the census of 1910 was
taken. The cities of Hampton and Will
liamsburg were Included in Elizabeth
City and lanes City Counties on ac-
count of their peculiar form OF gov
ernment.
The War Department estimate that
10 per cent Of the total population
would consist OF males between the
ages OF twcnty-one and thirty-one
years does not seem TO be borne out
in Virginia. but the results from all
over the country will show it's cor.
rectness. The large variations are ac-
counted for In part by the fact that
young men In Industrial centers have
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