Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-03
DISAPPOINTMENT
OFF TOMORROW
Last Big Quota of First Call
Leaves for Camp Meade
Sunday
NEARLY $500 WILL GO
on 20 the training grounds and trenches
To rally meath the Tag of freedomi
on TO meet the Kaiser's BOches
And down the Prusslan vandalism.

on TO the training grounds and trenches,
To rally meath the Tag OF freedomi
on 20 meet the Kaiser's Boches
And down the Prusslan vandalism.
on tomorrow morning for Camp Meade
the last large contingent Of selected men TO
answer the first call from this city leaves
the Baltimore and Ohio Terminal and the
North Philadelphia Station of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on special trains with
the farewells. the kisses and tears Inter
mingled Of family and friends bidding god
speed branded on their memories forever.
Close TO $500 selected men from the
ffty-one local draft districts In this city
are TO entrain, the schedule times Of de-
parture stretching from in the moring to
in the afternoon. The various details
are being called together for the prelimi-
nary rolcal and final instructions.
Some persons are waxing wealthy on the
business Of hunting these foreigners and
Americans, and one man has bill for
$500 at $50 per head, awaiting settlement
by the Government. Mr.. Swift maintains
that the usual floating population of that
section should have been taken into con-
slderation when the quota was made up.
he now has a list of $50 missing men,
which is almost many the quota calls
for.
Local draft district No. /. embracing the
First Ward. sends nlnety-two men, with
Kit containing cigars, cigarettes and spe-
cial souvenir presented to each by Frank
Lapidus and Samuel Greenburg, members
OF the board, who Will accompany the men
TO the cantonment. They will parade to
the station escorted by two bands.
The Third District. taking in Ward Three,
ply. The Thirty-nlnth and FoTteth Dis
tricts, including the east and west por-
tions. are represented by 100 and 15O COM
manded by Albert Heymann and Samuel
Buck, respectively. and escorted by the
police band Of the Seventeenth District, and
the Twenty-second draf; district. with had
quarters at Fifteenth street and Snyder ave-
nue., is surrendering ll2 draftees, led by w.
E. Barcus.
NONE FROM TwENTY-SIXTH BOARD
The Second District sends eighty candi-
dates, guided by Henry = Rohlfng from
the station house at Seventh and Carpenter
streets. The Twenty-sixth District board
is not reporting any men, it says it did
not receive its list of certified men In time
TO call them cut
A Boy Scout band Is to accompany the
forty-eight and fifty draftees from the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Districts |
respectively, embracing the east and west !
be two other bands in line and many cti- |
Gems.
The Manayunk Business Mems Associa- |
tton Is presenting each of the boys from |
the Fourteenth District with a safety razor |
trench mirror and a box Of lunch. On the |
parade to the station they will be escorted |
by band members Of the draft board. the |
home defense reserve and squad of police |
under Lieutenant Taylor.
The men from District No. 49, Branch |
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Rock Oak Lane and Branchtown leave for |
Logan Station. accompanied by two bands |
members Of the Logan Improvement Asso- |
citation and home defense reserves, Boy |
Scouts and squad Of police under Lieu
tenant Hamilton of the Thrty-fifth Police |
District One hundred and eleven men will |
leave this section TO fight the Huns.
Automobiles will take the ninety-seven |
recruits from the Thirty-third District |
headquarters, 6047 Market street. to the |
Baltimore ana Ohio station, Twenty-fourth |
and Chestnut streets. A band concert will !
be given in their honor tonight at their
Headquarters and ]. L. Travis. chairman
or the Exemption Board will make an
address. Members of the Sixtieth and |
Market Streets Business Mems Association
will accompany them to the train.
The eighty-five men from the Forty-first
District will leave the S. Weir Mitchell
Public School at s o'clock tomorrow morn
Ing and stop for a chicken breakfast at
an - -SSNoilu anu chestnut streets before
entraining at the Baltimore and Ohio sta
ton The Rev Lord Gimberson and Sam.
uel Crothers members of the Forty-second
District Board, will address the fftv
draftees from that section at the rollcail
tonight. The los recruits from the Eort,-
sixth District will meet this afternoon IN
the Franklin Theatre and be addressed bv
Joseph S. MacLaughlin, Director of tho
Department OF Supplies, and j. j. Bradley
Chairman Of the board.
The Lancaster Avenue Business Mems As
ISOLATION Is giving a dinner tonight IN ito |
detail of twenty-five men, Two Rrit,sb
soldiers, now in this city 10 aid Britt
recruiting, will tell the men what TO ,xnsrt
In Europe. The men will be presented with
trench mirrors and tobacco. They aisn
headquarters of the Twentieth District TO
Thirty-ninth and 1caster avenue to the |
station. Fifteen men from the Nineteenth
District will accompany them
The parties from Tacony, Bridesburg
Frankford. Chestnut Hill and Germantown
take trains from their local stations for
North Philadelphia. where they Join the
other draftees for Camp Meade They IN
clude sixty-nine men from the Thirty-foursh
District, lO3 from the Fcrty-seventh Din-
trlct. ninety-four from the Eighteenth Dis
trict. forty from the Fifteenth District |
Seventy-four from the Sixteenth District
and nifty from the Seventeenth District,
respectively the last two being from Ger
mantown
The fifteen men from the Sixth District
will be led by Edward Sllverstein They
will march from their headquarters, at
Twelfth and Pine streets, TO the Baltimore
and Ohio terminal.
Fifteen footballs are included in the lug
gage Of the ninety men from District No. 4. |
being presented, by the Fourth Ward Re |
publican Club, When they leave their head
quarters, at Third and De Lancey streets. |
tomorrow morning TO entrain at Broad |
Street Station of the Pennsylvania Rail- |
road they VIII be headed by Albert Leldlein |
and Samuel Levin.
JIIRY OF VIEW AWARDC