New Britain herald., 1917-08-07
EXEMPTION CLAIMS HEAVY
 AT SELECTIVE DRAFT HEl
Dependents and Fol Citizenship Chief Req Russians in Majorit Those Unwilling to F
s. SAGAN, 191 BROA
 FIRST MAN SELECT

Frank Bridl, 225 Main
 Holder of No. 258, Says He id
 trian Subject and Objects to ing American IArmy-Two Enemies EXcuscd-Onc Anxfd
 Fight.
 Frank Bridl of 225 South street, No. 25S in the selective
 draft and the first man to appel fore exemption board No. 1 this ; ing at S:3O o'clock, explained q
 is an alien, a subject of Austrid he wished to claim eXemption service in the American army on grounds. The honor of being th | New Britain man who was phy | fit and made no claim for exer goes to Stanley Sagan of 191 , street. Harold A. Stotts of 16N Pearl street closely followed Sat | a candidate who was physical l He made no exemption claimA morning. The first man reject
 the examining surgeons was
 Sziebert of 50 Horace street.
 E. Reeks rejected him because
 feet. Rev William A. Downey,
 at St. Mary's church, was one
 first men examined and whil
 passed the physical test he
 made claims of exemption ol
 ground that he is a duly ord 1 minister of religion. Up to nooi
 two enemy aliens, subjects of
 Wilhelm, had appeared and
 were automatically exempted.
 The work of examining the m the new American army has
 ceeded with clocklike precisio}
 day and at S:3O o'clock there fully 50 men at the Prevocal
 Grammar school awaiting their}
 to be examined. Owing to al
 avoidable delay in not securing a{
 corps of surgeons early in the E
 ing the work of passing uponI
 various mems physical fitness
 greatly hampcred The doctors
 assisted during the day were
 Reeks, Rupert, Marsh, Hart, Cy Bodley, Elcock, Purney, Mann,
 sella, Peck, Fox and Rob} Others will assist later. The clI force which worked today consist 1 Chairman A. r. Corbin, Secretary
 Watson, E. J. Stevens, Henry ! George H. Kimball, Edward F.
 nelly, J. Warren Roche, Hedlei ] Carter, w. Marshall House, P. Fl Donough, J. T. Mesllill, Willian1 Walker, s. H. Wood, c. $. Bradld w. Abbe, J. $. North, Fr{ O'Meara, J. B. Minor, Edward F. H. Goldstein, William Rowe, Porter, William sherman, Johrj DiNonno. A. B. Andrulewicz, Nurzyak, Policeman Nicholas N Policeman K. Szymanski and oth(
 Anxious For Service.
 There were few incidents Ii , the day worthy of especial noticey cept that after he had been exan} John krzyskc of 1S2 High loitered about the building and fl ! sought out Chairman Corbin taI quire If he had been accepted. explained that he was anxious t ! accepted and wanted to fight.
 was afraid the doctors had rctd him. He expressed satisfaction told that he had passed. It was noticeable that a large numb bel aliens claimed exemption on ground that they were subjeGtl Russia. It was estimated this
 ing that the percentage of &N claiming exemption for this re was greater among tho Russians { among any other class.
 While it is possible that some those who were accepted today who failed to make claims for exc tion may do so, within the next sd days. those in charge do not u that many of them will do so the reason that every man was g} ample opportunity this morningu make any claims should he see While it has been impossible to an accurate account of the vara individual cases during the ex1 day, some idea of the percentae1 e~SNOp pSSAAASOo dlAA ISJSSllOAo IOT plX cal reasons may be obtained b] glance at the Il a. m. record. that time 27 men had been found be physically fit (although third more of these hal claimed exempt because of dependents) while onlN had been rejected for phy Sical ability.
 It should be understood that men being examined at the Prevd tiOnal Grammar school are thoseI the first district, comprising the III third and fifth wards The sec{ district, the second, fourth and siI wards. hopes 10 be able to send it's call for eligibles tomorrow nil and to begin examinations the of the week.
 Those Examined Up To Noon.
 Following is the list of first disti men examined up to 12 o'clock noon:
 Frank Bridl. 225 So. Main St., Al trian alien, claims exemption.
 Stanley sagan, 191 Broad