Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-20

tricts. There are Hfty.one. Many Of
them probably will be exempt.
One isan arsenal employe. Some are
married. One quit his job yesterday. |
one, bank bookkeeper, was pleased
10 learn he was called and expected to
serve. One of the Camden County men
has not claimed exemption, though he
is married.
Here is the information obtainable
about the men who had number 25s, |
and are Philadelphia's first draft army
men.
Edward II. Ketcham, as9 Harvey street,
| District No. II, broke into a broad grin
| wnen notified that he had teen selected
ketcham is bookkeeper and is employed
| In the banking firm of e. w Clark, 321
Chestnut street. All smiles, he posed for
| photographers and appeared to be one of
| the lucky ones" IT'S a bit Of an honor
| even though II does come through luck" he
| said, when asked how he felt He is
| twenty-three years old.
| Edward Albert InEham. 274s North Sec
ond street, District 81. is a weaver en-
ployed by the John Bromley mills. which
| Is devoting the greater part of its ener-
| giese at present 1t was stated to manu-
| featuring special netting used to cover
| the bodies Of dead soldiers to keep in
sects away until an opportunity is had to
| bury them.
Ingham lives In the Second Division Of
| the Third Ward In an interview today he
| sal he would ask for exemption on the
ground that he is woy king on material valu-
| able to the Cover iment. but he said he
| would not object seriously IL the first board
| refused to grant his exemption plea. He
| said he would probably not appeal to the
higher board. He will be twenty mine years
John a. Doody, 1910 Moore street, Dis
| trict OIL, Is timekeeper at the navy yard
| but his mother thought today that he was
| working for contracting firm instead Of
| the Government. She had not heard him
| say whether he would claim exemption be-
cause of being employed on Government
| work HIS Is twenty-five years old single
| and lives with his parents
l. Harold levin, Of 1248 North Burns street,
District so. Is about twenty-eight years
old. He is plumber employed by a
contractor at North Burns and Brown
streets and today was working in West
| Philadelphia. His sister, who answered the
| door at his home, was not sure of his
age. She said he was single. but she did
not know whether he viii make a plea
| for exemption.
Hamilton NJ. Wilson, sae2 Ridge avenue
| District e5. the man who is twenty-nne
| years old. He Is married. He said his
wife had been Ill for several months and
he might claim exemption on her account
but he was not certain yet whether he
| would claim exemption she might find
1t possible to let him 60 His wife is at
present In Ocean City for her health. Will
son is an estimator for the Otis Elevator
| Company
| Charles Arye, 500 Pine street. District 9,
Is out OF town on business. He is a halter
at Third and Arch streets. His friends
say he is over thirty-one, but registered
anyhow.
Claude @. Stevenson, of 223 sIocum street,
District ISIS q p. r. +. conductor on the
Chestnut Hill Line and was married last
November sto Anna Gravenstine. His wife
said he will claim exemption because he is
married and because one Of his legs is lame
He has to wear an elastic stocking.
Louis Katz. 1920 South Second street,
District I, Is twenty-six years old He could
not be found today. His father Jacob
Katz, refused to say where his son was
and said he did not want him to know he
had been drawn until the official notifica-
tion was sent him. Katz is of Russian de-
scent His father said he did not think
he would be fit for military service on ac-
count Of trouble he has had with his ankle.
He is unmarried.
Henry Brown, a negro, Of sac Sloan street
District 20, Is twenty-five years old and is
employed as a truck driver for the Bald
win Locomotive Works, at Eddystone. He
Is at the plant at work today and could
not be seen. His home Is in the Twentieth
Division of the Twenty-seventh Ward.
Jacob Bennett, Of 1873 Pemberton street
District 4, said he would claim exemption
on the ground that his business would be
ruined II he should be called away to war
Bennett Is unmarried and lives with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Bennett
He owns the American Feather Boa Com
pany which, he says, has a stock worth
$4,000, and employs thirty-five or forty
persons He could not sell the stock out
right except at large sacrifice, he says.'
| william Cahill, OF 9O3 Vine street, Dis
trict 8, formerly an organist in the Chris
| tian Volunteers Church, cannot be found
at the address given. There it was said ht
had not been there for weeks and noobdy
knew what had become Of him. His mum
ber was 258.
George II. Ware. 1871 South Fifteenth,
street, District Twenty-seven, is employed
! in the Schuylkill Arsenal. and will be almost
certainly exempt. Ware is twenty-nine
years old.
Raymond Longstreet, 2022 North Elev-
enth street, District 30, disappeared three
weeks ago and neither his wife nor his
friends who were seen have any idea Of his
whereabouts. He is twenty-s years old
, and was employed as a milk wagon driver
up to the time he left. His wife and child
are being cared for by a charitable insti
tuition while a search is being made for him