The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-05-07
Gets Three Times as Many
Volunteers as Government
Has Recruited.
TWO DIVISIONS READY
T. r. Offers His Services as
Brigadier. Ninth in
Corps Rank.
CAMP SITE Is SELECTED
Financing of Force Arranged
Without Expense to
Uncle Sam.

Without drumbeat. trumpet flourish
q fagwaving. Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
through sheer force Of patriotism. pres
tge and personality. has recruited 49,
900 men who are eager to follow him to
France to fight against <the Germans
The rosters at the headquarters Of the
Roosevelt Division" at 753 Fifth ave-
nue, contain the names of rather more
than three times as many volunteers as
the United States Government has been
able to get up to date
Since February ., when the Colonel
and his aids definitely took up the task
Of enlisting American citizens who desire
not only 10 set into The fight quickly
bu; to get In under Roosevelt, responses
have poured in from every State in the
Union. The plain figures indicate that.
the eX-President could have at last 300
eQ0 fighting men If he wanted SO many.
He doesn't The big problem of tho
quiet. almost secretive. enlistment for
the Roosevelt division has been % sft
and select from an overwhelming flood
Of applications just the type and charac-
Ter oi volunteer requiTeu Wy 'he ePeS'"'
anu peculiar necessities OF 'he pan
futt'ns ~ geheraiI!' 'he 'oiohe' mas
accepted only such men as are above the
conscription age and whose means are
such that dependents would be well
cared for without public assistance in
case of the death or permanent dlsabil-
1ty Oh the 'oiut'eefs' MS 'esioia r.es
IaSo So'Ae" '"'o.oS 'a"ee 80,
S3.eoo year 10 soo'"oo q year ine.
nave sis"eu up III eNeis SAT- az ~
c"i OF reCrul.hs oii!eers, WIN
treiheiy oiIleen. III se'ee.Ie ~! IT,
ciass "ie" ''en.a.s anu p"! s,s!
"orh oi o'ea'"na',o.'' ~" |."'.e'o u"
most 10 'he ias' oe'a''' mas oee'' e"'
NOUS
r., or. r,x. n,xi.,o,.
THE sun. for the hrst Time Is "nlf 70
present authortatively and accurately
the scope or Col. Roosevetts plan ana 10
Sc; forth the details and results OF MS
remarkable personal enlistment cam
paign. Broadly stated, the colonel is
row In the position to Offer to the war
Department two completely equipped di-
visions. including infantry. cavalry, field
artillery. engineers, signal CORPS motor
cycle machine gun commands, motor
transport. commissary and subsistence,
aviation corps, hospital corps and quar-
ternasters corps
lie has men enough already pledged To
Constitute three divisions. but his desire
and ambition Is to mobilize an army
corps of two divisions with himself as
Junior officer merely brigade com
wander and ranking ninth a1ter the reg
n.. divisions and FIVE of the six brI-
Goes c.,
ln' hhanciai prepaTa.'o,' io' NV
Hlah ~ such 'hat 'hese NV ~
tYd!o oe hooihzeo. eau'ppeu ""u So ~
france "ithout IL peihR ,lecesssrs' az a.
nhaplilty' 10 can on .nc'c S".n ~
co'!ar or expense. Inc oi'ers o' 'lla''e
assistance from weaithy volunteers anu
rom wealthy cItizens VINO ca'lhot ~
themselves. but who are mighty ANXIOUS
- have the Colonel go. have been aston
i,h.ug in number and size
II is not possible to diVulSe the names
o' contributors, real or potential pu' II
may be said that In one Southern cits
alone sl,oOO,OOO has been pledgeu. ~
another city seventy-fve men nave signed
their checks for $1,000 each. There are
offers Of s50,OOO, s25.000. $4,000 and
5000 and the number OF smaller prof
fers Is almost beyond count. These Of
tArs come from everywhere in the count
try--North East, South and West. The
estimate has been made that the magic
o' the ColoneIs name can mobilize S1o,'
ono 900 in voluntary offerings the in
slant that he receive permission from
The President to take his men TO cam
Tor a short training period preliminary
N boarding troopships for France oi
England.
Rapidity of Mobilization.
r,a or,, ., r.o-,,,,;,v and nrenara.
,,,, 80 ao tharn,ui, tconducted a.
!, as w., nxnsr,enced miIItar,
oaa ah,n .,,,i,ansI that tho corn,
cor,s ~ ,Inh1,,,sd ard nlaced in cam,
.,,,hi, s,,' ,ron,,s ,ron, ,ha dav tho cal
.. 80. "IN ,.a,'aa shsn,rtsI,
sv.r, .U III, nharac,sr b,s hoe,
"e.a'. y. ~ ,ha rao,,,s,,ions 10,