Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-06
OVER 5000 ARE
ENROLLED HERE
In Spite of Serious Short
age of Supplies, Tulsa
Poll Succeeds.
PRINT BLANKS IN CITY
More Men Register Than
Ever Voted Here by
Large Majority.
PRINT BLANKS IN CITY

More than six thousand men reg
istered for CONSUMPTION in the city or
Tulsa yesterday With one of the reg
istration places still open at midnight
and none of the precinct summaries
made up, 1t was impossible last night
to arrive at an accurate estimate of
the number Basing his calculations
on the number of cards sent out, DIR.
S. DE Zell Hawley, member of the city
conscription board. stated that he be-
lieved the total would exceed seven
thousand. The largest total vote ever
cast in city election here was four
thousand.
Rural Registration 1000.
The registration in the rural pre-
cincts of the country will total four
thousand, according to Il. l.. Wallace,
county registrar, who was in direct
touch with most of the registrars thru
out the day. He originally planned on
registration of eighteen hundred to
two thousand.
If the total for the county reaches
twelve thousand, as all indications
point to, it may be a record for the
nation, population considered.
Not single untoward event in con-
nection with the registration occurred
in Tulsa or thruout the county. No
trouble of any kind.
Blanks Run Out.
A serious shortage of supplies in
the afternoon and again last night
kept the registration officials in con-
stant hot water. Four thousand cards
had been procured for the city to be
gin with, and it was thot this would
be more than enough. Early in the
afternoon 1t was apparent that the
supply was wholly inadequate. Ad
jutant General carp at Oklahoma City
was communicated with. He sent
1000 additional cards on the Frisco
train leaving there at o'clock. They
got here at o'clock, just as several
registrars were utilizing their last
cards Post office authorities were
on the job and the package was
pulled out of the mail sack almost be-
fore the train came to a stop.
Mayor John ii. Simmons, chairman
OF the city conscription board. and
DR.. S. De Zell Hawley and ID. f. Gore,
the other members, were awaiting in
cars. Within two hours. in spite OF
a drenching rain, they had distrib-
uted the extra supply among the
twenty precincts. A few were loaned
to County Registrar Wallace and
County Clerk Lewis Cline. who had
county shortage. Registrars from
jerks and other points were here in
cars and they Immediately started out
to distribute the new cards. Reports
late last night were to the effect that
every county precinct was ultimately
supplied.
More Cards Ir.ntcd.
At $3.50 o'clock the Central fire sta
ton registrar had used his last card
and several others We're getting dan
gerously near the bottom of the pile.
Miss Una Karr, health department
secretary, who had been on the job
all day answering registration queries
at the mayors office, was instructed
to have some cards printed. She
reached Walter Olds proprietor of
printing shop, over the phone. lie
was at home. Olds made an almost
superhuman effort to help save the
day. In exactly one hours time from
the moment he was called he began
delivering printed duplicates of the
official registration card to the Off
cials who quickly carried them to the
precincts whore they were most need
ed. hTe supply lasted the rest of the
night.
Heaviest In Precinct 10.
The heaviest registration was re-
corded in precinct No, 10, North side
fire station. Vernon Seaman, regis
trar announced at 11:20 o'clock that
the last man had been accommodated
and that the total for the day was
7l5. Ninety per cent of these were
negroes At o'clock fully two hun
dred were lined up in front of the fire
station, altho Seaman and four assist
ants had been working since o'clock
in the morning. The conscription
board began closing up other regis
tration places after o'clock and
sending the registrars to No. 10 to aid
Seaman. Ten men were finally on
the job.
Probably the toughest job of any
registrar fell to the lot of G.. w. Now
bray, in charge of No. /, located in n
storeroom at First and Cincinnati. A
nondescript array for the most part
presented themselves at this point.
Many of them came from the Missouri
houN and other cheap hotels. To cap
the Climax the Katy railroad brought
in one hundred Mexican section hands
in the middle of the afternoon, and
having no residence excepting the
Katy station, which is in the precinct,
they were sent to Mowbray. None of
the Mexicans could speak English.
DR. S. De Zell Hawley secured the
services of an Interpreter. He swore
in Joe Karr expert penman from a
local oil office, and by 6 o'clock Karr
had registered practically all of the
foreigners.
One Hundred Clerks Used.
All day long the municipal conscrip-
ton board commandeered the services
of men of clerical turn, getting them
out of banks, in offices and on the
streets. AS fast as they were sworn
In they Were nut to work assisting