Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-22

fourth and Chestnut streets. for entrain-
ment
More than one-half Of the 121 men from
the Fifth District. taking In Wards SIX
Eleven and Twelve, did not speak English,
being aliens and not subject to the dratt,
according to Government regulations
Individual lunches were given to the
seventy drafted men from District No.
by the local board. Tobacco and chocolate
were Included.
The lieutenants in charge Of the several
groups making up the unit we're William j.
McMichael. nephew of Judge McMichael
g. Fred Neeper, 1922 South Eleventh street
James A. Sheehan, Jr, 705 Walnut street,
Henig w. Sundstrom, 1912 Spruce street
and s. G. Woodbury., 21S South Sixteenth
street.
One-half of the Seventh Districts quota
of ia men awoke this morning in the
Young Mems Christian Association; the
remainder came from home to answer the
rollcau at $3.50 q. m. Breakfast was OBJ
tained for all at a neighboring restaurant.
The contingent was commanded on the
march to the station by Joseph B. Furman
and Webster J. Lack, who will turn the
party over to the commanding officer at
Camp Meade.
The Lancaster Avenue Business Mems
Association hired a band to escort the con-
tingents OF the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Local Districts. The Twentieth District party
Of 1O4 young men were also accompanied
by their draft board. Coleman Sellers, Jr.,
chairman Ross f. Williams and Dr. T. j.
d'Apery They marched from the station
house at Thirty-ninth street and Lancaster
avenue TO the Baltimore and Ohio station.
Noon marked the departure of the Nine.
teenth District party of 103 soldiers. Their
line Of march, starting at the station house
at Thirty-ninth street, led down Lancaster
avenue 20 Thirty-second street, thence down
Chestnut street to the Baltimore and Ohio
depot Stacey H. White. chairman of the
draft board Hugo F. Geyler, clerk, and DR..
w. W. Hammer headed the column.
Another large contingent left the B.
o. station at o'clock. These men repre-
sented Ward Twenty-six in District No. %.
They had luncheon at tho station house at
Fifteenth street and Snyder avenue and
assembled in time TO march to their point
of entrainment.
The Twenty-thrd District sent off eighty
one of it's young men this morning from
the station house at Thirty-secopd street
and Woodland avenue. On the march to
their train the men were led by Colonel
Sylvester Bonnaffon, a veteran of the Civil
War, former colonel of the Third Regiment
and chairman of the local draft board and
three other Civil War Veterans, State Sen
ator Edward W. Patton, John Lambert and
| Jesse Holton b. Gordon Bromley and DR..
d. Howard Johnston the other members OF
| the board.
SCENE OF BUSY DEPARTURE
The main farewell was given last night
| at the Overlook Club, when former Gov
| ernor Edwin S. Stuart W. r. Nicholson,
chairman of the local draft board No. 80 !;
| it's secretary, John P. Dwyer, and the other
member DR.. F, B. Hancock, addressed the
| men.
The largest contingent leaving any Sec
| ton today Is that including the 220 men
! from Ward Thirty-six in the Thirty-fifth
| nra gtrt1 . xHyou oil nf hn
| first TO leave the city, getting away from
the station house on Twentieth street below
Federal at o'clock.
| Souvenirs were given TO the $50
| soldier representatives of the western part
Of Ward Thrty-nine, embraced by Draft
| District No. 40 These men were
treated to a hearty luncheon in the old
| Tabernacle on the southwest corner of
| Broad and Skunk streets before they left.
| They marched up Broad to Chestnut street
| thence out Chestnut to the Baltimore and
Ohio station, where they entrained at noon
The teachers of the s. Weir Mitchell
School, at Fifty-eighth street and King
| sessing avenue, under the direction OF Mrs.
| Emma b. Tidal, served a luncheon to the
l24 men going from the Forty-first Draft
| District. This party boarded its train about
| noon.
The draft board, including Theodore
| Shenehan. chairman; Frederick Gourlay
secretary, and DR.. George johnson, acccm.
| panied the men on the march.
| Comfort bags were given to the forty men
sent away by the Forty-second District
Board a little after o'clock this morning
Grand Army men and Boy Scout band
| escorted the ninety candidates for the new
army at Camp Meade who left the head.
quarters OF local draft board for District
| No. 46 at o'clock. They presented
a rather imposing array as they marched
down Lancaster avenue TO Thirty-second
street and thence down Chestnut to the
Baltimore g. Ohio station.
| PROVIDED WITH AUTOMOBILES
The ninety-seven members OF the draft
unit from the Fifty-frst District were pro.
vided with automobiles to take them tc
their point Of entrainment at Twenty.
fourth and Chestnut streets. The ma.
chimes left Dorrance street and SNYDER
avenue in a long procession and received 4
vigorous farewell from the residents OF the
Forty-eighth Ward.
The Twenty-eighth District was scheduled
to- send It's quota today, but Il will not ge
on until tomorrow morning So many mer
asked to go with this initial detachment
that the as per cent detail Of ninety-nin,
men has been increased to 1870 They repoT
for rollcall and final instructions this after
noon at the Parish House, Collins ant
East Cumberland streets, and again al
O'Clock tomorrow.