The sun., 1917-08-01
FIRST REAL DRAFT
/ WTLLBEGTN TO-DAY
Two Manhattan Boards to Call
9, UR Registrants for Physi-
cal Examination.
SLOW. PROGRESS LIKELY
Federal Authorities Learn Of
Physician Offering for Fee
to Drug Candidates.

4 ~ e 'tr a.. -. ss.i 80. 80
.sv FfVs days having elapsed since the
speedlest exemption boards Of New York
+, . city posted the names OF draft candi-
dates called for physical examination,
the procession Of young men before the
board physicians really will start to-day.
:. BY bulletining their call lists on last
- vFriday night Boards 1I2 and 154 were
s'able 10 set to-day, tomorrow and FRI
day as the time for the appearance Of
/. all the men summoned for health in
spection. Board 142 sits in Public
School 1T. Eighty-nfth street and First
avenue; Board 154 IN the Julia Rich
man High School. 60 West Thirteenth
street In each case the first third Of
the number called must present them
selves to-day at the specified hour.
In at least three other districts ex-
aminations have been going on for two
days, but the comparatively few men
who visited the medical examiners did
80 voluntarily before the time for which
their presence was actually demanded
A guess as to how many men will have
t-of 1886 cannot fairly be predicted on
:. the proportion OF reflections in these
early cases. Many Of the men examined
IN the past two days said that they were
sure Of being found unit for military
service and wanted TO save themselves
physical hardship by being rejected be-
fore the crush starts.
Taken in Order of Drawing.
From to-day's results in Districts 142
and 154 one should be able to obtain a
cross section view of what may be ex-
pected in those districts. for the men
will be examined in the exact order Of
their drawing. and not by the hit or
miss method necessarily followed by the
boards that began examination before
the expiration of the five day period.
..ttAn canvasses indicate, however, that
the number of men who must be tested
to complete the city quota will be far
larger than the War Department es-
timated when IL figured that each dis
trict. by calling twice the quota, proba-
bly, would get the required total Boards
all over the city are sending notices to
more and more candidates.
Before the draft is finished Il looks
ass II at least 200,0 900 men will have
been talled-or one man in every three
of those registered. How long the
process will take no one can predict.
Few boards have any idea that they
can complete the physical examinations
of those called in the three days allotted
by the rules, or even in the three more
days allowed for belated candidates who
were out of the district or Ill when they
should have been examined. II II ex-
tremely doubtful II the surgeons will
have ended their part of the task by the
end OF next week
~ Average 25 Minutes q Man.
The exaotIng tests required are taking
more time than was expected. One OF
the physicians Of Board 145, at the City
College, said yesterday that the best he
could do was twenty-five minutes a man.
An army surgeon has said that Il In
easy to pass or reject q candidate in
an average time of twelve minutes, but
the board examiners, many of them
skilled In this work, challenge him to
prove that It can be done. IL a single
q examination takes twenty-five minutes,
the Job cannot possibly be done with
anything like the speed expected by
Washington. With additional men be-
ing called to fill the quotas, the field OF
the draft appears to have a vanishing
horizon.
Dlscouraging reports were received
yesterday from the boards that have
been1 examining the early birds in the
past two days OF seventeen men
examined at Wadleigh High School,
headquarters Of Board 169, all but FIVE
S'Bre rejected and as those five said they
had dependent relatives the fruit of the
days effort seemed TO be nil. A
physician said he thought that not more
than. one man in ten OF the district
eligibies could be actually drafted, and
that weeks would pass before the
examinations could be ended. This dis
trict, by the way, supplies the hrst con-
seientious objector. He is z. w. Meal
pin, a reporter for the CaH
A high rate or physical and probably
other exemptions was also disclosed in