New Britain herald., 1917-03-28
SECOND CONN. REGIMENT
 IS ORDERED TO MOBILI IZE
CAPT. GRISWOLD GIVES TALK
 ON DUTIES OF ROBUST YOUTH
Tells Them They Should En-
 list in Militia, Not Home Guard - Recruiting More
 Satisfactory.

Satisfactory.
 Recruiting of both Company I and | Company E, First Connecticut Infan- | try. has been more satisfactory to the commanding officers during the past | twenfy-four hours. and salthough each | company is still far from the man strength on which the commanders have set their eyes, the personnel of the latest recruits is encouraging. Drilling continues unabated at the ar mory and the new men are being sup piled with guns and uniforms as fast as they arrive. The spirit of the men. is excellent and tlis favorable atmos- phere Is doing much to enhance the work of the men. Captain A, H. Gris- wold of Company reviewed the men of the New Britain Home Guard at the state armory last night and at this time took occasion to give certain members some straight talk Captain Griswold did not mince y1kds. He talked in generalities rath than in dividualities and brought W4e in the most forcible manner the condition Of the National Guard, struggling man. fully against great odds to make 8 hrst l class showing and the absolute lack of cooperation that many young men of military age and calibre give. ] Among other things Captain Griswold saad that many of the strong, robust, single young men who have joined the Home Guard should be ashamed of themselves when they look at similar young men in the National Guard units and feel that they have volunteered to serve their country, while they them- selves have gone into the Home Guard, | in many instances, just to cover their ! faces and relieve their consciences. He also said that some members of the i Home Guard ought to blush when. aA 8 member of an organization which was formed primarily for mon either to old or otherwise disqualified for ac- tive army duty: they ask pSfrnission to come down to the regular sArmory to drill. Captain Griswold was not of fensive in his talk, yet he called a spade spade and did not hesitate to- term certain classes of Home Guard recruits candidates for ranks which in England and Canada are called 'slackers.''
 148 soldiers i'm City,
 So we'll had recruiting assisted in filling the ranks of the two military companies that at 10 o'clock this morning there were 146 regularly en- listed men in the city, as we'll as four commissioned officers. At this hour Company D had attained a total of 1 fifty eight enlisted men, and two off, cers, the last recruit up to that time having been Ross Rhoades. Tn Conl- pany there were eighty eight enlisted men and two commissioned officers. The latest recruits in this command were J. R. Linton. c. Carlson, R., E. Post, T. B. Carey, Silas J. Lynch, Gerald P. Cream and William Hopkins.
 The men of Company claim the right to laurels for recruiting the most number of men since the call came on Sunday night. This command. at 10 a. m. today, had enlisted twenty seven new recruits since Sunday night Official figures from other companies in the First regiment were not ob- tainable this morning. but figures re- ceived from the Manchester company, Company o, indicate that at present that command is the largest single unit in the regiment. When the call came Sunday night there were eighty nine regularly enlisted men. Tester day eighteen were sworn in and this morning there were twelve more ap- plicants who had not yet taken the oath. At present there is considerable rivalry between the various units comprising the First regiment and the two New Britain con1panies are determined to make showing as good as any in the state.
 Fl ROsfes. nf (1nvny,a.,v
 The complete roster of Company [. not including Captain A. H. Griswold and First Lieutenant Raymond R. Rand, was given out this noon as fol- lows:
 Cedric Powers, Dewey M. Norton. John F. Corners, Alben w. Ezekiel, Joseph Sokovich, R. w. Chamberlain, Edward Ogren. sergeants: Garfield J. Mercy. Harlan W. Burgess, Arthur Benson, Frank Kowal. Earl w. Made ley. James Livingston, LeRoy Ems minger. corporals; Merwin Fl. Futile. John Erdon. cooks; Earl J. Martin, mechanic; Carl l.. Johnson, James Jiantonio buglers; Charles A. Bjork- lund, Edward M. Boyd, Clarence J..
 Callahan. M. c. Kokoszka. Howard
 Orcutt, Mathew Rebzuski, Leon R.
 Roberts. Antonio Roulard, Joseph Szribert. w. H. Turner. - Reimer, first class privates; William Ander-
 son, Francis Barnes. E.. A. Bloom
 quist, Paul Berk, Lyman c. Beckitt,
 Dwight c. Capen, N. V. Carenza, Har-
 rison Connor, Stanley J. Douglass. F. w. Fletchhaerer, Alexander Grabosky, !, Attilio Jiantonio, John kerin. Bert J. . Lindsay, Silas J. Lynch. Fred Sockery,