Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-28
DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS
 RECEIVED FROM cRoWDER
Thirty Per Cent. of State Quota Is to
 Be Ready For Camp Sept. 5.

1OfGTnOT MaTCuS Il. f1OlcOInD re-
 ceiyed from Provost Marshal General
 Crowder a telegram notifying him that
 30 per cent. of the net draft quota
 Of this state must be ready for mobi-
 lization September and giving furth-
 CT details of the arrangements. The
 telegram says that approximately one hfth of the 30 per cent. of the state
 quota should be entrained day by day
 until all have arrived at the resignated camps. Pullman accommodations will
 be furnished when the journey is to
 take more than twenty-five hours. In
 order to facilitate matters, each draft ed man will be tagged; for instance,
 man from this division would have
 a tag, Norwich, No. B." To the man
 will be given tag and a similar tag
 will be put on his baggage. The fel- egram follows: Washington, D. c. Governor of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut:
 You are hereby notified. as pre- Regulations, to furnish 30 per cent.
 of your net quota beginning Septem- Der 3. There have been placed in the mails addressed to you distribu- tion sheets showing the mobiliza ton camp to which each local board in your state is to furnish men. There
 are also furnished by registered mail direct to each local board in your state, transportation requests and meal tickets upon which railroad tickets and. meals can be procured as prescribed in Sections and 12 Mobilization Regulations. am in-
 of Railways that N. J. Lee. passenger
 representative of the associa ton. who has a schedule of routings for
 your state, has been ordered to get
 in touch with you at once.
 The entrainment should be so ar
 ranged that approximately. one-f1fth
 of 30 per cent. of your state quota
 will reach it's destination on each
 day until the whole 30 per cent. has
 arrived. This will require that the
 movement extend over a period of
 Ave daSts. In case of state fur
 nishing men to more than one camp
 approximately one-fifth of the pro-
 portion of the quota furnished to that camp should, reach its destina-
 tion each day. It is ordinarily not desirable to send the contingent from any one board in more than one in- stallment. This consideration will render it advisable to arrange to send full contingents from a sufficient number of boards each day to get one-f1fth of 30 per cent. of the states quota to it's destination each day The routings of the American Asso- ciation of Railways have been work ed out with this in view, but there will be a considerable amount of To- cal adjustments necessary, which can only be accomplished by cooperation between you and the passenger rep- resentative.
 Under the provisions of section of the mobilization regulations the sending to you from day to day lists on form 164 from which you may know the number of selected men available to each local board. By find that while some local boards will have much more than 30 per cent of their quota already on Sep tember some will have less. It is hH t0f Lal furnished and in order to do so you may have to call more than 30 per cent, from some boards and less from others.
 This should be done only when necessary and far possible each board should furnish approximately 30 per cent of it's net quota.
 Upon consultation with the rail- road representatives and examination of these lists you will be able to call upon each local board for a specified number of selected men to be as- sembled at convenient point of entryment IS provided in section 4. The point of entrainment will, of course. he the railroad station of the | railroad upon which the journey of the quota of the particular local | board is to he made. The various local boards will have to be informed | of the railroad upon which their | quotas are to travel in order that | they can apply at the proper place for tickets and make other neces- | sarT arrangements.
 Where the journey is to take over | twenty-five hours Pullman accommo- | dations are to be furnished and the | railroad representative will be able | to give you the details of this.
 Local boards should be given the | notice prescribed in section as early as practicable in order that the persons to he called may have the longest possible time in which to make their farewells and com
 The situation in large cities will require special handling which can only be accomplished locally on you may deem necessary to incur to send a representative to coordinate the work in large cities will of course, be allowed by the federal soyernment. This matter H,deia ia should be be the scheme for assembly of men in large cities may be made on your authority so long as they do not in terfere with essentials of the plan.
 Arrangements for feeding persons on the train will he such that par ties entraininG-after a. m, after D. m., after 6.30 D. m-, will be expected to have had their break fast lunch or dinner.
 The difficulty of handling the mass of men that will pour into the camps will be greatly if each local board is in structed to provide a tag for each man Ild a similar tag for each piece of hand baggage carried by the men of it's contingent. On this tag should be written the name of the contin- gent as "Baltimore. No. 1O.55 the number referring to the number of the local board. These tags should be put on the hand baggage and is sued 10 the man in charge, with in that, before arrival at the .Il, nF 11n Gh rasten the tag to a button of his coat , pr shirt The man in charge of each ocal. contingent should also be in to hold his men in a single group after they arrive at the mobili- cation camp and to keep this group stationary somewhere opposite the car on which they arrive, and on no account to allow the group to sep lrate or mix with other groups un- il an officer of the camp can take charge of the group and conduct it