New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-09
Disabilities Estimated at
One-third, Conkling Tele-
graphs to Crowder
1000 Added in l Day
Thirty-three Per Cent Of Able.
Bodied Men Being Ac-
cepted for Service

Returns from seventy-six OF the
city's lse local draft boards last night
indicated that the work of the day had
brought New York nearer a full quota
by two thousand men.
OF 1851 examined, zoos registrants
claimed neither exemption nor dis
charge. Twenty-Five hundred and nine
ty-four men were rejected by the med
ical examiners. Exemption claims
were filed by 3,75l.
Roscoe S. Conkling, director Of the
city draft, last night sent the follow
ing telegram to Provost Marshal Cen
eral Crowder and Adjutant General
Stotesbury:
up to 9 o'clock tonight 10 boards
have called 67,766 men.
Zone hundred boards have examined
34,66S men.
Eighty boards have physically quail
fed 1854 men.
Boards Rave Passed 4,H7
Seventy boards have accepted out
right without question OF exemption
or discharge pending 4,747 men.
ESTIMATED physical disabilities
amount to 33 per cent.
Estimated SO per cent of able bodied
men without any question of exemp-
ton or discharge are being accepted
for service"
Charges of irregularity in the
boards procedure continrc - fy. Such
tips as have come TO Mr.. Conkling
have been turned over TO the Depart
ment Of Justice. One case is so well
defined that it is expected to lead
speedily to an Indictment
Members of the district board for
the city met in the Federal Building
in the forenoon and organized, electing
Charles E. Hughes as chairman and
George B. Agnew, Meier Steinbrink and
William !. Washburn were elected a
committee to select permanent quar-
tiers for the board These must be
found Immediately, for the local boards
have been put under orders to start
at once sending daily reports to the
higher board.
In addition TO the daily report, which
is TO include the names Of all regis
trants examined and not exempted dis
charged or rejected, the local boards
must certify at the end Of the tenth
day after the posting Of notices the
names of all men called who have not
appeared.
Two other committees were appoint
ed by the new district board. One, on
rules, has as members former Justice
George L. Ingraham, former Judge E.
~ Cullen and Louis Marshall. The
third committee is made up Of William
II. Dykeman, Edwin L. Gsrvin and Ed
ward o. Wood. Its duty is TO deter
mine the number of employees needed
by the board and the best way of OBJ
tanning them.
The next meeting is to be held in
Room S23 Of the Federal Building,
where the board organized, at 1880
o'clock tomorrow morning.
May Conflict with Charter
A number of the district exemptors
had not taken the oath of Office up to
the time of the meeting and it was
pointed out that some Of them may be
affected by the clause In the city
charter which prohibit, any city off,
cial from holding Office under the
Federal government.
There are TO be thirty exemptors on
the higher board-ten from Manhattan.
ten from Brooklyn. FIVE from The
Bronx. two from Queens and three
from Richmond.
1t will be the duty Of the board
which has original jurisdiction over in
dustrial exemption claims, to hear all
cases appealed from the decision OF