Evening journal., 1917-06-05


representative OF THE EVENING /
JOURNAL telephone call came
After talking to a registrar al the
other end Of the wire. Dr. Howell /
remarked Now there Is an instance
of the many complications we have
TO meet In the district OF the regis
trar ] was just talking to there is a
man OF CONSUMPTION age IN at his !
home with diphtheria. The registrar I
went TO the window Of the house, ask. Z
ed the necessary questions through a
member of the family and then sign /
ed the mans name and his own (the /
registrars namel to the card"
A surgeon connected with one OF I
the recruiting outfits who was I'm the I
ROOM volunteered to go personally to /
the room Of the patient and register
him should any more similar cases be |
found
No man in the city or State Of con- |
scription age, unless already In the
Federal military service or an inmate
Of the Insane Hospital Is being over
looked in TAX ng the registration to-
day. Some means Is found 10 register
every man between 81 and 81 years OF
age who Is IN either at his home or
in a hospital.
At the County Workhouso Warden
Cross and his clerk arc registering
the men there. Early this afternoon
| this work had not been completed
and Warden Cross did not know how
many men were in the institution OF
CONSUMPTION age.
In Wilmington. as far as could be-
! learned every registration place was
opened on. time. One registrar called Dr..
/ Howell at o'clock this morning COM
planning that he was the only registrar
in his district who had put in appear.
ance. He was told to notify headquar-
tors If the others did not get there by
| o'clock
Many Register Early.
There was a heavy early registration.
many young men registering on their
way TO work Hundreds of men, how
ever. who had to be at their work by 7
O'Clock, could not do this and will have
TO register later in the day, or after work
this evening. Practically every manu-
factmer and business men in this city
has volunteered TO help the registration
by letting men of conscription age on
az intervals 10 avoid a great rush after
working hours
In the Sixteenth district Of the
Ninth ward half OF tho men Of con-
scription age in the district had reg
istered by II o'clock and in the Fiji
teenth district Of the same ward 35
had registered by IL o'clock.
General T. Coleman DUPONT. who
lives at Eighth and Broome streets.
was the first person except the regis
trars to enter the registration place
at Eighth and Franklin n'reets at
o'clock this morning. General du-
Pont iocularly wanted 10 know II he
could register. and when told That
his age would probably bar him he
asked the registrars II there was any
thing he could do. He remained and
chatted with the officers for a few
minutes.
b j. Pnling Wright. chairman OF the
s rural New Castle County Registration
p for Consumption who was at head
quarters en- Newark at noon stated
that no trouble whatever had beer
S reported throughout the county. Mr.
2 Wright said he would make a per
e sonal visit TO every registration place
@ in the rural county in his machine
o this afternoon TO see that everything
l. Is moving smoothly He said that thu
; reports he had received from variou
districts indicated a heavy early reg
d istration.
Enroll Hospital Patients.
S p. Robinson and Harry Mock
representing the CONSUMPTION board
o registered twenty-one young men al
the Delaware Hospital this morning
Thomas r. Wilson. Jr., Delaware Col
lege student who has been patient
az the hospital for a year with an In.
iured spine, was registered on sun.
day. "Tom," Notwithstanding his in
Jury. had made request TO be regis
tered and special. arrangements were
made 10 register him.
!, At the Homeopathic Hospital tire
/. young men were registered by MI
:. joyce representing the board. Their
. wwere no young men at the Physician
- and Surgeons Hospital Of conscriptiol
q age.
: Homer c. Simmons. clerk OF Couu
= ell. who has charge Of the registerin
= OF men now in Wilmington who coul
y not get TO their homes, registered AZ
p Yesterday. He is busy registering
3 large number today. Many railroa
s. men were registered yesterday. a
they expected TO be away on thei
"a runs today
le stopped BY Policeman.
al Shortly before noon an excited ma
L called at the Office Of Clerk Of Cour
81 ell Homer c. Simmons. and informe
~ him that he had been stopped by
Is notice oficeg. who, seeing a handba
en- the man carried. demanded TO kno'
n n he was going out OF town withot
T registering He said he informed IN
G. officer that he had registered over
as week ago and had sent his card 70 IN
OF MAYOR of his home city, Boston. an
so nroduced the receipt given him at IN
OF pogtofice for registered letter to n
~ mavor OF that place -,
" He said the officer Informed nj
IS that such a receipt would not go, an
'lr N ne did not have an official receil
w from tho registration officers OF h
home city by tomorrow. he would
e. arrested as a registration dodge
ms THE man asked for something fro
r. clerk Simmons TO prove his registr
e, ton but this was impossible to issu
Gu because no record has been kept
OF The names OF persons reglsteriI
Sc through that Office. Inquiry at q
Is notice department was met with Il
ne statement that no such orders h'
"a been issued to policemen.
on MANY REGISTER DOWN-STAIE
ov special 10 THE EVENING JOURNA
.re DOVER. Del. June b.-The regl
no tration for military conscripuc
a. onened this morning with a possibl
in ity Of a full quota, as compared W.