Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-23
Recruiting Stations

Recruiting stations will be opened
during the present week at Bangor.
Augusta. Rumford. Pennington Show
began. Waterville, Belfast, Gardiner.
Ellsworth. Houlton. Caribou. Presque
lsle Van Buren, Fort Kent, Machias,
Eastport. Calais. Bar Harbor, Oakland,
pittsfeld and Norway. The recruit
ing station at Augusta is at the State
ampground.
\ private who enlists will now re-
ceive double pay or $40 a month with
allowances for clothing and subsist-
cuce. Tho regiment needs cooks and
they receive s3s per month as well as
clothing and subsistence.
II IS believed that the Second Regi-
ment will he concentrated at some
point in the south by the first of Au-
gust.
1853 College Men
Col Hume stated Tuesday that there
are 3s3 college men in the regiment.
Some OF the young men who have
enlisted In the Second Maine have told
some OF their companions that the slo-
gan should he Enlist now and beat
tho draft"
The Drive Begun
Maine began her big drive Tuesday
- comply with the orders OF the War
Department to recruit the crack Sec
ond Maine Infantry to war strength.
Tho officers of the regiment and state
military authorities have been impa-
Identity waiting for six long weeks for
authority to increase the enlisted
strength from the maximum peace
strength Of 100 men to the company
~ the regular war strength OF 100
mcn. Tho regiment has been practl-
cauy full up since II was mustered
into the Federal service April 20: ana
,ompanv officers have watched desir-
1hle Young men of their own home
towns enlist in the regular army, navy
and tnnumerable other services VINO
INST couldn't wait for a chance to join
heir home companies.
Join with Friends
The average Maine boy naturally wishes
so ION the organization that his friends
belong to. and Colonel Hume insists that
these perfectly reasonable desires shall be
compiled with The Second Maine Infan-
try covers practically the whole state,
Consequently there are few boys who
nave not friends in some of its 10 COM
lanes
The coast artillery and Naval Reserves
Nave the fun quota allowed by law, and
the Second Maine infantry remains as
NE Que organization from this State LETT
Tor the boys who don't intend 10 wait TO
70 drafted Between now and June o.
When the machinery for the draft Will lie
s"' in motion, it is expected that not only
N' there be enlisted the 700 men required
20 a'l the ranks to war strength but also
tuu reserve battalion.
No Volunteer Organizations
me War Department and Congress
have once and for all determined that
mere shah bc no volunteer organizations
raised IN the states. While 1t is prob
th'e that some excellent organizations as
rulc are incompetcntly Differed by I'M
fained. though patriotic men. who more
Ten than not obtain their commissions
through political influence rather than
Wht7N illness 1t is believed that the
nang men in many communities have
'ed back from enlisting in the hope that
company would be organized in their
'Nn such men will be accommodated
~ ne present arrangements. by being
''a'ed as unit in one OF the companies
v ne Second Maine. II should be remem-
'r'd that these war strength companies
re as large as some of the regiments
'N fought in the Civil War. They
You'd make three companies Of the size
'a usually went TO muster five or 10
Years ago
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