The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
Home Guard Companies
Will Do Police Duty at
Registration Places AL
though No Untoward In
cidents Are Looked For
Government Orders Nav
al Reserves and Militia to
Prepare for Duty Call.


Bridgebrt is ready for the 4
registration tomorrow, of all
males between the ages of 81
and 81, both inclusive, liable to
military service under the Sc
lective conscriptive act of Con-
gress. The registration board
at a meeting at the High school
last night put the finishing
touches on the arrangements
for taking care of the work to-
morrow.
Indications at the city clerks
office today were that some
men will find themselves liable
to the penalty for failure to reg
lister June 5, because they did
not start soon enough to file the
information required by the
government.
Plans of the war department. to
draft from 900, 400 to 4,5O0. 900 men
of the 10, 900 900 who, it is estimated
will register tomorrOw for the new
army, were disclosed in Washington
today by Provost General Crowder to
the senate military committee. Ex-
emptions, he said, probably would re-
suit in reducing the number to 625,-
900 men for immediate service.
Government officials have ordered
the United States Naval Coast De-
fense Reserves of this section as Weh
as the state militia to hold themselves
in readiness tomorrow for any emer-
gency which may arise.
The city clerks office today again
was stormed by eleventh-hour apple
cants for cards to mail to their hou1e
voting places. Some of the applicanD
must forward the cards to places az
far west as Ohio ana it is doubtful If
many will reach their destination in
tinfe tomorrow, the only day set by
the Presidents proclamation for ac-
tual registration. ss---e
To practically every person today
applying for a card to send out OF
town, the advice given at the city
clerks office was to register in
| Bridgeport and be sure. There were
many persons expecting to be out Of
1 my
allowed to register today. All were
lrefused, but were permitted to file
their signed cards and stamped en-
velopes until tomorrow when the city
Eclerk will forward the registration GER
ttificates.
The work of answering all of the
questions concerning registration at
the city clerks office, today fell upon
| the assistants. City Clerk j. Alex
H. Robinson is in Hartford procuring
/ equipment for the Home Guard com
panies of this city and other places
| in the county, so that the members
will be prepared for duty tomorrow.
The executive officer of each of the
six registration boards has been en-
powered to appoint the chief registrar
| for each district and most of the ap-
| pointments were announced today.
j The duties of the chief registrar viii
be practically the same as those of an
Lelection moderator and the chief reg
| istrar will be in attendance from the
| opening until the closing of, the regis
| tration quarters. The chief regis
trars named follow:
| First district-Attorney Frank M.
Canfield.
Second district-Henry P. Lyons.
Third district-Charles w Barring
ton.
! Fourth District-E. W. Fairchild.
Fifth District-Mercer D. Blondel.
Sixth District. T. Buckingham.
| Seventh District-Attorney He--ry
E. Shannon.
Eighth Edward Mora
/ Ninth district-Arthur M. Comley.
Tenth district. B. Hartley
Eleventh district Charles Blackhan
Twelfth district-John Y Caldwell,
for the first precinct; Arthur F. Con-
nor, for the second precinct.
Each chief registrar is making his
own provisions for clerks and inter-
/ prefers and all of these officials will be
classed as registrars themselves.
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