New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
| Out Of 4Here
Is Ready and
Fit to Fight
Figures Show 73 Per Cent
Are Physically Quail
fed for War
F Forty-one Of Each 100
To Claim Exemption
Postal Service as a Class Will
Not Be Rated as
Exempt

Workers between the ages Of twenty
one and thirty-one is At and ready to
be a soldier in the national draft army.
High though the percentage may
seem,- in view Of early prophecies that
only one soldier could be picked from
each ten registrants, this estimate
based on figures reported from a large
percentage of the city's local boards
last night-will probably prove an un-
reinstatement rather than an exaggera-
ton.
73 Per Cent Pass Test
The second big draft examination
day, which was yesterday, saw q fur-
ther boost in the percentages OF men
physically qualified for service and men
waiving exemption. Thursdays figures
showed than only 67 per cent Of regis
trants were passing the medical tests.
The proportion passing yesterday was
so high that, bulking the totals Tor
both DAYS, the qualified" percentage
was carried up to 70.
By War Department expectancies
New York should assay seventy souno
men TO the hundred civilians--thts in
accordance with a table based on the
draft Of 1868. As the city now stands,
Il is 3 per cent over instead OF 8 per
cent under. -,
Thnrsday forty-fve filed exemption
claims or indicated their intention OF
so doing. When yesterdays figures
bed been added in the exemption per-
rentaee had been reduced to Al.
Ouite q number Of these exemption
claims are certain to be disalloWed'
Not only is the government arranging
"a subject the circumstances OF each
cIaimant-particularly in dependency
cases-to the closest scrutiny, but the
local boards are now asked to take 2
hand to bring about the withdrawal OF
certain "breadwinner" claims.
Postal Service Not Exempted
The problem of how to deal with the
n.nv exemption claims which have
! been filed by carriers and clerks in the
Nav York Postoffice has been solved
for the boards by Washington. Inc
ruling is that carriers, clerks an
iaborers in the postal service are not
tn be considered, in strict sense,
within the exemption class described
N III. regulations as persons employed
bv the United States in the transmls-
sion OF mails" Only those holding I'M
nortant executive positions into whicn
Substitutes could not we'll be placed
these and railway mail clerks. VINO are
rated as specialists-are to be reileVeu
of military service.
In a telephone canvass, The Tribune
found less than half Of the city's loS
exemption boards at work between :
o'clock and yesterday afternoon "
these, ffty-four were examining regis
trants. Fourteen, having sent out thelr
notices Monday, were prepared TO oegin
examinations to-day. A half dozen, IN
a rush to catch up and willing 70 sac,
rifce their Sunday at home, had cameo
the first third of the first batch 10
appear tomorrow.
While not a single one Of the boards
retained hope Of meeting the quota out
! of the first call-barring, perhaps, NO:
| SO, with headquarters in Pubic Scnool
| l27, Seventh Avenue and Seventy-nlntn
Street, Brooklyn-none was hying as
tress signals. The No. 43 exemptors.
weren't worrying, for with quota OF
about 200 they had called in 900 for
examination. Three hundred will be
gone over to-day, 800 tomorrow and
800 Monday.
The exemptors for this district took
their tip after inspecting the first
eighty-fve registration cards turned
over to them when they organized. All
| but eleven of the registrants had sig
| nifed their intention Of claiming ex-
emption or discharge.
Brooklyn Board Late
Local Board 81, at Fourth Avenue
and Twenty-ninth Street, Brooklyn, has
not vet sent out its notices, and Will
| he one of the latest divisions in the
c;tv 10 finish. The delay was due to
| the illness of the chairman, who got
| hack on the fob yesterday and prom
ised 10 post his notices to-day.
BOARD SO. Hoyt and President Streets,
| prooklvn. will start on Monday to eX-
| anime the 500 men called TO cover
quota Of 221. Board AZ, Sixth Avenue
/ End Seventy-hrst Street, Brooklyn, has
| called triple its quota and will ex-
anime the first third-23l men-to-
| morrow. This is waterfront district,
! and about half the registrants, 1t Is
| estimated, are aliens.
Board "a has probably the best or
ganization in Brooklyn, IL not in the
entire city. II has Frank Harvey Field
former member Of the Board of Educa'
ton. as its chairman; DR.. William
] Francis Campbell. the noted surgeon, as
/ It's medical member, and William NJ
/ Patterson as executive member.
Pass 200 In Three Hours
Fifteen business and professional
non living in the jurisdiction are serv'
! ing as volunteer clerks and a dozen
| medical specialists are available. The
result is that the board finds itself able
10 pass upon the physical qualifications
! Of the two hundred men called for each
| day in three hours. Where the ex-
emptors originally planned to conduct
examinations from 8 o'clock in the
morning until noon, from ! o'clock in
the afternoon until and from o'clock
| in the evening until IL, they now are
| doing the work between and IL in the
| morning.
Il came 10 light in the course Of the
canvass that Local Board 40, of Brook
| lvn, has been running TO 4 schedule
/ far in advance Of the field. Nothing
was said about what No. 30 was doing
! when, on Thursday morning OF last week,
/ the newspapers announced that Local
Boards li2 and i54, in Manhattan. had
| stolen n march on the rest and begun
official examinations on Wednesday.
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