New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
J,lf Dozen City Exemp-
ton Boards Forced to
Summon More Men
Nos. 139, 142 and l54
Have Posted Notices
More Liberal Tests May
Bring Registrars Before
Physicians Again

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notas untitled after all or nearly all
4 b. men included in the first call have
q zen I'd for examination, will begin
4 ne second week Of the draft to-day
nth notices posted calling upon groups
u fresh registrants further down the
4 available lists" to appear before them.
One Of the boards which has issued
he second call is No. 1879, Of which
bronson Winthrop is chairman and
George Gordon Battle is clerk. A
Ouple Of days after No. 1s9 began ex-
tminations it appeared almost certain
Mr.. Battle that the quota could be
,asily supplied out of the earlier con-
5pcent. lie is still hopeful that the
lew group of No. $50, which it has
t, ,een necessary to call, will be the last
Boards 49, and 1874, which began
their official examinations Wednes.
day. in advance of all but one Of the
rest of the districts, have also issued
the second call. One hundred and
twelve more men will be examined IN
iS4's headquarters, 80 West Thirteenth
Street, beginning on Wednesday.
Board 1928 quota Of 1911. after the
examination Of $50 registrants, is net
vet half filled, and the examiners VIII
20 over an additional 1913 on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ana
Saturday. Board No. %, Of Brooklyn,
is another issuing the second call.
Good News Shortlived
The news that one metropolitan dis
trict had filed its quota and finished
It's job started yesterday at noon with
loud cheering in the headquarters of
Local Board Isl. at 1886 Lexington
Avenue, and spread rapidly around the
draft circuit. But the report proved
to be considerably exaggerated.
What really had been Completed was
he examination of the last of 342 men,
who made the 214th accepted. The dis
trict's quota is PA, right enough, but
the question of exemptions hasn't yet
been considered by the board. So high
a percentage of the qualified ones had
indicated their intention of filing claims
within a short time after the cheering
ceased that before night the board had
posted notices calling the next two
hundred men on its list to come IN and
be examined.
The 3l2 men had been examined in
two days and a half, and the board is
out TO beat its own record.
Down 10 Brass Tack Stage
Corscription is close to the brass
tack stage as it slips into the second
week. Washington has at last said
the word that makes New York's miss
ing district board a going concern,
and the boards which have completed
their first examinations will probably
within a day or two know where and
to whom 70 send the lists of men al
ready certified and ready to go into
uniform. camp and training when
Uncle Sam says the word.
Before the end of the week the work
Of the boards will have become more
or less standardized, especially in so far
as concerns qualifications and rejec-
tons on physical examination.
The tip which caused some medical
examiners 10 loosen up on their tests
has reached all the bosrds in Official
form, and may move some physicians
10 call back for determination men
who, by more liberal Interpretation
Of government requirements would be
considered soldier material.
by direction of the War Depart
ment," said Adjutant General Stotes-
bury in a telegram that went 70 all the
boards, you are advised that the de-
psrtment statistics indicate your dis
trict should turnout approximately 70
per cent of its men physically fit. II
you are rejecting greater number
than 30 per cent il is probably caused
BY very exacting physical examina-
ton
Board 124 May Lead List
Board 1914, at 361 Amsterdam Avenue,
bids fair TO be the first in the city TO
Ill its quota. Up TO last night 129 of
the 270 men physically qualified for
service had not presented exemption
claims. Since the board was one of
those which posted its notices last
Saturday night, the time limit for filing
claims had expired, and the men who
have not filed are certified as ready and
waiting the governments next call.
The total quota of the district is only
l72, and Joseph VI. Proskauer, chair
man Of the board, is satisfied the forty
three men needed can be certified with
GU, the posting Of another notice when
the l4l exemption claims come to be
weighed.
Several Of the boards on the lower
East Side. in The Bronx and in Browns
VIE were closed yesterday on account
81 the Jewish Sabbath. These will be
open to-day, together with half dozen
others where examinations will be
started. BY tomorrow all but a scat
tered handful Of the greater city's
boards will be conducting examinations.
Conkling Defines CONSUMPTION
Roscoe S. Conkling. the Deputy State
Attorney General, who has been the
eojutant generals representative here
and as such the moving spirit which
set the draft wheels going round, be-
lieyes there are still many registrants
IN New York who feel a stigma at
taehes 20 CONSUMPTION which the vol
unteer escapes.
1T is time the words 'couscripted'
ard drafted be given their proper sig
rihesnee." he said. ITO be drafted or
eonscripted is 20 be selected 10 render
the noblest and most patriotic service
ie the nation. Americans are accus-
toned % the general call 20 arms. the
formal call for volunteers; but modern
warfare and modern industrial condi-
tons have changed the old order OF
things, and the President and Congress
have wisely determined that the old
system be supplanted BY the seieetiVe