New Britain herald., 1917-09-20

short wait The crowd stood mo- l mentarily silent. Bandmaster William | H. Bishop waved his wand. the band
 struck up the Star Spangled Ban l ner," the conductor gave the word
 and the big locomotive wheels be-
 gan to revolve slowly. Instantly the
 din became terrific. Factory whistles
 blew, bells chimed, the bands played
 and the crowd left behind cheered | Justify, at the same time wiping away
 it's tears unabashed for they were not l tears of the weakling, but tears of the
 strong who realize that which con-
 fronts them. As the long train slow
 ly gathered headway. hundreds Of ] faces again gazed on the surround ] ingS that are so dear to them. One man, who had fingered long with his relatives broke through the throng and clamored onto the back plat l form and moment later the last
 coach rounded the bend across Elm
 street; the men gathered on the rear ! platform waved one last good-pye.
 The crowd stood silently a moment
 as if stunned. Then each person
 looked at the other, tried to smile,
 and slowly dispersed. New Britains
 boys, the youth of the city, had gone, started on the first lap of the long
 journey which may ultimately take
 them to France.
 Many Heart Rending Scenes
 There were many heart rendlng l scenes. In the parade, cling1ng aHec- | tionately to one stalWart young man l of foreign descent marched his ageu
 mother. Her slender frame was bent
 as with years of hard work and her 1 threadbare garments testified mutely
 to her financial condition, but she
 still clung desperately to her boy as
 paroxyms of grief shook her frame. | At the station one little woman, who 1 had hitherto bore up bravely sud- denly collapsed and in a fit of hys-
 terics shrieked that sne wanted her
 boys back She had watched three of
 her sons, her only boys, march away. 1 Her husband, scarcely less grief
 stricken, tried pathetically to comfort
 her. There were other numerous pa l thetic incidents and there were large
 number of women and girls who l fainted They were taken into the
 office of the Western Ur>on Telegraph l Co. for treatment and at one time
 there were nine patients being at tended to by the clerks and operators
 so that Manager Croft had to suspend | temporarily his business. His office | force of five young ladies acted as l emergency nurses.
 | The Roll of Honor.
 Owing to the fact that a few of the 1 soldiers did not arrive at the armory l in time for the roll call, or went 1 directly to the station it was impossi- 1 be for the exemption boards this
 
 every man was accounted for, but it was thought that a few, possibly a 1 half dozen. might have lost their train. l Members of either board do not think | however, that there are any cases of | wilfull assertion and for that reason | did not give the names of the several | absentees which were given to the | police for verification. In the confu- sion of the departure it is thought 1 that these men may have boarded the train unnoticed.
 At press time the two local exemp- tion boards had not yet completed it's official list of those who were actually sent away today but the following list of names is thought to be substantial ly correct: James Christopher Sheenan, John ShimOn, Benjamin Serguis, Edward J. Leonard, Joseph Rodzwicus, John F. i hellGnlr, CdDTlel F. ITaCeShl, ATVlQ E. 1 Anderson, Charles c. Mccarthy, James R. Flood, Earl Healey, Battista Del | fino, Harold w. Dagle, Thomas F. l McCue, Jr., Ernest G. H. Gustafason, l Adolph Witkin, Nick Papa Tausania, 1 Charles A. Deming, Paul A. Kardy, l Louis H. Hartman, Axel Leden, John Edward Orlowsky, Gregory B. Hadigi- | an, Daniel J. McNamara, Adolf SiXt,
 Arthur l.. Akerstrom, Gennario Ba- | villa, Charles w. Bickerton, Philip M. 1 Hannon, Thos B. Fay, Daniel H. 1 O'Keefe, Emil F. Schaal Philip D.
 Bloom, Matthew Mooradian Nicholas l Tkaczk, Winifred L. Anderson, An thony Szezephanik, Wladystodu God
 ornsky, Reginald T. Robinson, Adolph | o. Burckhardt, Joseph Williams, John l Antonia Serra, Joseph Dobasynskas. | Thomas Coyle, Arvid N. Sandstrom, 1 Edward W. Peterson, Edward J. 1 Cronin, Bernard P. Nimro, Fred D. Anderson, Fred H. Riley, William M. 1 Crandall. Tony Gumpa, Ralph Jos. 1 son, William Gerald Gray, Arthur J. Nyborg, Charles Steponovico, Paul Bachmann, Wm. B. Quinlivan, Henry 1 Koplowitz, Felix Leszezynski, James l Joseph Guilty, Daniel O'Dea, Howard Wm Smith, Charles Geo. Davey, How ard Wm. Blinn, Harry Brown, How ard H. Slate, John Lindgren, Louis Horwitz, Edward Wm. Nyqust.
 John Logan, Gustave Nordgren, l Thomas J. McAvay, Peter Skowronek,
 Frank Kubilius, John Czol<ep, ka
 zemienas Leonas, Francis P. McDon-