Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-05
navy STATION MAINTAINS
LIVELY RECRUITING PACE
Local Officers Send Ten Moro Men to
Training Stations
t@s Yesterday.
OFFICE FORCE IS INCREASED
Arrival OF Six Blucjackets From Bat
tleship Utah Makes Possible rs
~, Establishment OF Branches All Over
tile City.

The United states Navy recruiting
station in Richmond kept up its pace
yestcrday by sending forward TO train
ing stations ten men and enrolling sew
eral others in the Coast Defense Re-
scrvc TO be called IN case of urgent
need. Fifteen mon wcrr examined yes
terday, and a great many INQUIRIES
from prospective recruits were an
Swered.
Those sent forward yesterday to be
made into man-o'- vars men Were:
William J. Ferguson Clarence Beverly
Bennett and William Edward Myers, O;
Richmond: Harvey II. Thompson. O:
SStaunton: John HAYS. of Cleveland.
Tenn. Louis Paul Reaves. of Whining
ton. y. G.: John Donate. Of Palm
OF Crewc. and Ashhy Russell Hodges
and Clarence Ollie Brooks. of Lynch
burg. Five of them went 10 the train
ing. station at Norfolk. and five TO the
one at Newport, Il. L.
nI.UIsJACkETS FROM UTAH
tse., TO HELP GET RECRUITS
TO assist in tho recruiting campaign,
six hluejackets from the hattlcshiD
Utah arrived in Richmond Yesterday
and will stay AT least three weeks
With the increased force, the recruit
ing station TaS able to establish
branches for distributing Information
.and advertising matter in different
parts of the city. Sailors were sta
toned yesterday at Ninth and E-oad
Streets. Seventh and Broad Twenty
first and Marshall. Louisiana street and
Williamsburg Avenue and in The post
Office In South Richmond. Counting
the men from the Utah, who arrived
yesterday. tho Richmond recruiting
force now numbers thirteen. in addi-
lion TO Lieutenant Stewart and DI.
Boland. the officers in charge.
T)r Roland examined and passed
.erGay Dr.. Ernest Linwood Griffith. Of
Clifton Forge. for the Medical Corps
of the Coast Defense Reserve. DIR. Crit
fifth will he enrolled to-day. DR.. 30
land rril! sneak TO the medical society
of Petersburg and Dinwiddie County
Tonight on the subject of tho reserve
corps.
Although tho army recruiting sta
tion has not cQualed the record of the
navy. It has been unusually busy. Four
men were sent forward yesterday TO
Fort Slocum. y. y. They are Otis c.
Dixon. julius knight. Floyd 4. Robert
son and Harry L. 'rilcr. The Rich
mond station has furnished eight re-
cruits this week. and the Norfolk sta
ton. FIVE. The quota assigned by the
War Department to the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia is more than eighty
month.
GOVERNMENT DISPOSED
TO GRANT WAIVERS
OF the eight men disqualified after
examination yesterday, three are wait
ing for waivers from the department.
There is q disposition on the part or
the Adtutant- General Of tho army of
late. II is said. TO be unusually lcnient
in granting waivers in the case Of men
disqualified by only slight defects,
such as underwcight or abnormal eve
sight.
b. the terms OF a regulation put into
effect within tho last few months. men
IN the army may enter the reserve
after their nrst year OF service In
case The country is not engaged in
war The term Of enlistment is seven
years. only three of which may be
spent with the colors. The option is
granted however, of spending six in
stead of four years in the reserve
Virginia postmastcrs have been of
material assistance in securing recruits
TO the army OF late, according to MAJOR
iardeman. the head of the Eastern
District OF the State During March.
three recruits were received from NJ
j. Hardy. postmaster AT Nick emmy. 4
village having population OF 176. An
other recruit VAS received from Mrs
Lula +. Lucas the postmstrcss at
Clayville which has :. population of
twenty-five