Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
RECRUITING TO
CONTINUE HERE
Regular Army Office to Be
Maintained Permanently;
Guard Awaits Call

That the regular army recruiting
office in this place will be maintained
here permanently, is the interesting
information given out this morning
by Lieutenant h. W. Lesher at the
local recruiting headquarters.
More or less uncertainty has eX-
fsteu regarding what disposition
might be made of the recruiting or
nces scattered. over the country, now
that the machinery of the draft
boards is in operation. Many persons
have been OF the opinion tnat all
candidates for the vacancies IN the
National Army as well as the Nation
al Guard would be filed by the selec-
tive process.
Positive assurance has been given
by the war Department that the re-
Cruitlng offices VIII remain OPEN
SAID Lieutenant Lesher, VINO is IN
charge or the activities OF the local
office. Not only will the recruiting
ofnces be maintained, but the work
of securing men for the army VIII
be pushed with new activity. That
there Will be plenty OF work for the
recruiting officers is evidenced by the
tact that the regular army Is to be
kept up to its full strength OF SOO,-
UUU men and the National Guard
TO its full strength of 100000 persons,
through recruiting.
teHlSy lNdllld AAOANS Ga
record in the WORK OF enlisting men.
This State has led all other States
from the very start, but New York is
a close second. To-day's reports give
Pennsylvania enlistments as 21,-
7S4. New York is credited with 2l,-
539 enlistments.
Pennsylvania not only leads the
United States, but Harrisburg leads
in the State IN recruiting. This fact
should have weight with the young
man who expects to enlist, for Har-
risDurg men promise to play prom
inent part in the world war.
EXPECT hush of Recruits
Reports received from the con-
ference held by the various eNemp-
ton boards in this city indicate that
there will be general tightening or
the rules, and there is a feeling
that young men of military age who
have not yet been called should en-
list at the army headquarters ana
select the brancn OF service desired
1his privilege is denied after man
has been actually called for exam
ination by a local examining BOARD
RAYMOND A. Miller, 11l6 North
Eighteenth stret, and Jacob l.. Nick
oil, l245 Swatara street, this city,
have been accepted at recruiting
headquarters for the Signal Corps,
and nave been assigned to the Co
lumbus, Ohio, barracks. Alfonso
Stella, 2S4 South Second street, en-
listed for the infantry and was sent
TO Gettysburg.
To Call Reserve Soon
Sergeant Howard h. Elllnger, OF
the Signal Reserve Corps, has been
notified that no date has been set
calling the field battalions OF the
Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps to
duty. Sergeant Ellinger has been ad-
yised, however, TO have his af1alrs
III such shape that the stan can leave
upon short notice, and there Is
feeling that the call may not be long
delayed.
The following enlistments in the
Signal Reserve Corps were made at
the local headquarters yesterday
Donald +. Gerbig, Chambersours;
Joseph a. Barnes. Williamstown'
and John H. Countrypan, Middle
town.
AT largest Island, the men are
anxiously awaiting the call to leave
for Camp Hancock. While 1T is be-
ieved that the orders to move may
be received at any moment, there is
nothing certain about the time OF
leaving, and it is possible that the
orders will not be received earher
than ten hours prior to the time Oh
leaving.
REPORTS received from Company
u tend to make the boys at the Is
land all the more anxious to en-
train for Georgia.
Co. Needs But Two
There are but two more vacancies
to be filled in Company l, and when
these are filled, the company Will De
at full strength. The following re-
cruits have been accepted by Com
pany l.: Isaac Rolneck, 222 Chestnut
street Fred b. Ritter. Lewistown;
Ray NJ. Keller, 1861 South Ninth
street; John NJ. Shenck, York.
George E. Sponsler, of Eberlys Mills,
has enlisted in the Supply Company.
The ball game yesterday after
noon between the Company l boys
and the Forty-seventh Infantry oI
New York, resulted in victory Tor
the Company l boys, the score being
II TO ..
An event of unusual interest is the
guard mount ceremony, which VIII
be held at the Island tomorrow
evening at $50 o'clock. Following
this. the famous Eighth Regiment
band will give a concert.
The Harrisburg Bridge Company
has announced that 500 will be add
ed to the general fund of the Eighth
Regiment. This amount represents
the tolls collected by the bridge COM
pany on the evenings when parades
and drills were held at the Island.
The company has no desire to make
money as a result of the visits of
friends and relatives to the soldiers,
and for this reason it was decided to
make a liberal donation to the gen.
eral fund.
Bombs Here Taboo
When asked if Troop c had ever
had under contemplation the use OF
bombs upon the old buildings in the
Capitol Park extension. Captain
Roberts replied that such a thing
had never been thought of for while
1t would no doubt be interesting to
give the men practical demonstra-
tions of how the explosives work,
the project would be attended by
grave danger to pedestrians and per-
sons living in that neighborhood.
The men are receiving instruction
of a most practical sort under the
direction of Captain Roberts, and
when they arrive in France, they
will be able to put their knowledge
to a practical use.
MIR. MCFARLAND MAKES ADDRESS
]. Horace Mcfarland, president of
city, delivered an address of a remis-
cent character at the tenth annual re-
union of the Society of the McAlister-
vile Soldiers Orphans School, at that
place this afternoon. Mr.. McFarland's
father the late Colonel G. F. McFar-
land. was the founder of the school.