New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-21
Few in Social
Register Called
In First Draft
Only 3 Prominent Names
in Fifth Ave. District
Are in First 1000
Movie Star Is Listed
MANY Well Known Young
Men Are Drawn Near End
of Selection
Movie Star Is Listed


three names socially prominent appear
among the first 1000 numbers drawn.
They are these of Henry Carey Nor
gan. Harvard, 1914, who lives at los
East Fifty-seventh Street; Alexander
Hamilton, jr. of % East Eleventh
Street, son of the Rev. Alexander HAM
iIton. of Rye. and Ernest A. Bigelow,
ir.. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest A.
Bigelow, Of 100 East Fifty-sixth Street
Mr.. Bigelow on January 30, 1916
married Miss Katharine Moore, daugh-
Ter Of the wife OF Commander William
E. Sayles. jr., naval attache OF the
American Embassy in Paris. Els ser'ai
number is 1855, which appeared forty
ninth in the drawing at Washington
Mr.. Hamilton's red ink number, 2,oll'
was the three hundred and ninety
ninth drawn, and Mr. Morgan's, 2,756,
nut him in four hundred and thirty
third place in the roll of honor.
Motion Picture Star Drafted
Actors and business men of note
whose serial numbers were drawn win
the first thousand are as few as those
listed in the Social Register. Irving
Cummings, the motion picture star, OF
$50 West 144th Street, whose red INK
number was 2,119, was drafted in the
second 500.
Herman Louis Heide. OF 2lo River
side Drive. treasurer Of Henry Heide,
Inc, manufacturers OF confectionery
at si3 TO 321 Hudson Street, became
member of the conscript force when
the capsule containing the number ITO
was drawn from the bowl
In the lists of those included in the
drawing, but not with the first thou
sand serial numbers, and are therefore
unlikely to be called in the first army,
were Frederick Herreshoff, whose red
ink number was 9; Derwent Hall
Game, II; Hsrold A. Content. Assistant
United States District Attorney, SO;
James NJ. Beck, jr, 1,214; James a.
Crcelman, 1868; Randolph West, son
of Dean Andrew F. West Of the Prince
ton Graduate School. 1856; George 3.
Cortclyou, jr., 2,lSs; George W. Per
kins, jr., 2,225; Frank L. Tiffany, 1851;
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 2,2S9; Tom
Powers, actor, now in the aviation
corps, 555, and william Ziegler, jr..
1855.
Others who escaped the lists from
which the first army will be selected
were Joseph F. Mulqueen, jr., 2,027;
Robert L. Ripley, the cartoonist, l,O74;
Walter Lippmann, l55; George Emlen
Roosevelt, 90; Philip Rhinelander,
1889; Oscar Hammerstein, Sd, $50;
George NJ. Sunday, son Of Billy, 1887;
Joseph Santley, actor, 1928; William
Rhinelander Stewart, jr., 1927; Harold
Phelps Stokes, 1887; James B. Rec
gan, jr,y 1929; Henry Holt, jr., III;
Pembroke Jones, jr., 274; Morgan J.
0'Brien, jr., 303; William Jay Schief-
felin, jr., 623, and Roy Belmont, 2,673.
Noted Names Appear
Names famous in the history of the
city and the nation appeared in the
lists, although often their owners were
in no way connected with the man who
had brought fame TO the family. Alex
ander Hamilton appeared several times
in the lists Of men of conservative age.
William Waldorf Asror, 258 West FIJI
ty-fifth Street, whose serial number is
1872, was 564th on the list. He is a
salesman.
The honor number, 25s. the first to
be drawn from the fateful bowl by
Secretary Baker himself, claimed 1879
men from the greater city. One of the
first to be cheered was Christie Sulli-
van, VINO holds the peanut concession
at the Polo Grounds. Sullivan de-
clared he never smoked nor drank and
was in fit condition and ready 10 20.
Peter +. Carter, another whose serial
number was 258, is the son Of Lieu
tenant Peter Carter, of the s8th
Precinct. Bronx Park. His father said
that he was glad he had been drafted
and his mother declared that the army
would make men of the boys who were
called TO join it.
Hartford Athletes Called
Among those called to the colors
from Hartford, Conn, arc James Ed
ward Breslin, former centre on the
Trinity College football team: Henry
Gavreau, staff artist of "The Hartford
Courant"; Adam Young Purves. who
recently toured Cuba as member OF
the championship high school baseball
team; Trevor Sewell Shaw, Robert Jo-
seph McNanus, Charles Whitney Page,
jr.
Prominent New Haveners who were
drafted to-day among the first three
hundred include Bernard Tommers, a
Yale baseball coach; Henry Cowles, a
detective; Ralph Read, son of leading
wholesale merchant; Manford and
Simon kleiner, sons of Corporation
Counsel kleiner, and Stiles Dennison
woodruff, son of ex-senator Woodruff.
Residents of Stamford, Conn, who
have been drafted include George Z.
Chadderton, manufacturer; Patrick
Sprovlero. Rodney Wallace Rowell,
William R. Montgomery, who is now
in the Officers Training Camp at
and Harold L. Miller, a bank clerk.
Among the first three hundred drawn
in Southampton, N. Y, are Ullman
Leroy Ravens, Thomas c. Warren,
Richard B. Reilly, Robert r. Hornell
and Ernest Churchill Mahoney.
Hasting5-on-Hudson's quota will in
clude Reginald Wand, T. J. McQuade,
George r. Whitehead, William r. Kes-
ter, Leonard d. Buckley and Elmer
Chester Brown.
Among the frst TO be drafted in
Dobbs Ferry. N. Y, were Harry Reider,
Joseph Ryan, Thomas J. Murphy and
Alexander Quick
Justice Young's Nephew Called
Russell H. Young, nephew Of Su.
preme Court Justice J. A. Young, was
one OF the first called from Mount