The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-31
FOOD CARDS ARE TO MEN CALLED BY U. s. Local Boards Begin Distri-
 button of Pink Meal
 Tickets l ENTITLES POSSESSOR TO RESTAURANT MEAL Special Drawing Is Held at
 Hartford for Delayed Registrants

Local examining boards for the Na- tional Army are today beginning to issue food cardeir to men called into the federal service on Tuesday next The cards, pink in color are similar in many respects to the cards familiar to lunch room patrons and entities men to be fed at public hotels and restaurants. each meal not to exceed SO cents in price.
 At a meeting of the chairmen of the sixJoca1 boards in Bridgeport held late this afternoon it was planned to decide at once upon the method of caring for the large army of men who will be sent from Bridgeport to Aver, Mass.
 It is probable that use of the big armory on Main street will be requis- toned by the government for the pur- pose of keeping together the quotas going to the encampments. Cots for the accommodation Of the men who cannot find sleeping places in their homes here will be furnished by the war department and all men kept in a body during the day until their de- parture on special trains to be fur nished by the war department con- vey them from this city.
 Though the allotment of men to be held in readiness here on Sept. and 4 will be comparatively small, the number mobilized two weeks hence will be fully 30 per cent. of the total to go and it is expected that many will have to be fed and housed at government expense during the inter- i'm of their/ departure from Bridge port
 A chairman of the local exemption boards in this city in explaining the pink card said that these cards would be furnished to all men. Those who found that they might get board and lodgings in their usual abodes would return the cards properly filled in and would be allowed to- report at head quarters daily for irstructipns. The others would be able to utilize them as they saw fit for meals and proprie- tors of places feeding the men would later be reimbursed by the govern ment.
 In the Second Division where the quota is already completed it has been decided to examine reserve group to fill the place of men who may yet be exempted tby the District Board land be rejected by army physicians and surgeons. ! E t14SS p0IROSG H 4fAAii0SA VI AkOtA- tfications are esbeing sent out today and the candidates will be required to re- lport Tuesday and Wednesday morn iing for examination. The afternoons will not be occupied in this work. In a special drawing held under the supervision. of Governor Holcomb at the Capitol yesterday to give Red Ink numbers to men who failed to register lon June 5, Arthur Gray of, this city drew number 5516 and William Gray 5516. These men are in Division l. < In Division ?, Albert Chignola, Bidgeport, 3067; Martin Olson. Bridge port, 306S;A Pasquaie Vecchiarelli Bridgeport, s065.
 Division No. 8, Bridgeport. Dot Droel David Archer, Bridgeport, 4Se3; Garabed Monoog Baghdigian, Bridge port, 4598; Louis L. Forte, Bridgeport
 40o4; Eugene Hodgins, Bridgeport
 46o5; John Litchfield, Bridgeport, 4602; John Nicholas Roos, Bridgeport, 4599;
 FTari Stark, Bridgeport 4601; samue
 L. Tafbird, Bridgeport, 4607: George
 Thompson, Bridgeport, .4606;s Manue
 Morris, Bridgeport, 46O0.