New Britain herald., 1917-04-02
RECRUITING STOPS ON HARTFORD ORDER No More Enistments to Be Per-
 mitted in Companies E and l EXAMINATIONS ON TODAY

Rigid Tests of All Men, Especially
 Recruits, in Progress It Armpry-
 First Regiment Now Has Forty
 seven sOmcers and 1,1eO Men.
 Az the Herald goes to press this af-4 ternoon members of Company I and Company B. First Connecticut In- fantry, numbering 15O men strong. as well as twenty-five or thirty recruit applicants. were being put througi, . rigid physical examination by Major
 styles, U. s. A, retired, and Major
 Waterman. This is the last official
 step before the local boys can take she
 held Tor active service, whether it be
 Tor guard duty or actual fighting.
 The older men. those who success
 fully passed the various examinations
 at Mantle and Nogales last summer.
 were not submitted to such rigid
 examinations, but the new recruits
 and applicants were put through
 stringent tests. In each company it
 is expected that 8 numbar Of men will
 be rejected. but at rISag time the
 official report had not been com
 pleted and consequenfly the muster
 roll Of each company Was incomplete. Orders were feceived by Captaius
 A. H. Griswold and Ny Raymond IoSSyy
 yesterday to cease fprthur xecruititk. Frow now on no men cAn be enIisted in this city for either Company E or CompanyI untl further orders conne. The reason for fhis order holding up recruiting is not giver and spacnletion among ofncers and mon IT toa fts scauss is rife. Some onoers think thak the two companies Will be sent out of the city and that n thelr places depot eompanies will be reoruited- Anothsr |opinion Is that poasibly . eau for volunteers is being considered and the military authorities feel that the ranks in the army can be filled mora rapidly by . call for volunteers for an unlimited period, such as Che dura : tion of any emergency or possible war, than they can by enlisting nen in the National Guard for a three years active enlistment and three years in the reserve. Another opinion is than Uncle Sam wants naval men more than soldiers. By request of the | war department, through Captains Griswo1d and Low. the Herald re- frains from publishing a large amount of detail connected with the recruit ! ing of the men and also in connection with possible plans for the disposal of the local companies When the order came to cease recruiting 1t
 found the First Regiment with forty
 seven officers and 1106 men, making a total of 1153, which Is almost 200 l less than it had when 1t went to l Nogales. In addition to the figures given above there are, of course, the several applicants who presented their names before the order came to stop
 recruiting.
 Men Held in AImory.
 Tn view of the fact that all enlisted men were to be examined this after 1 noon the rules governing the conduct i of the men have been very strict all 1 day. No soldier was permitted to !; leave the armory without pass i signed by his commanding officer and ] counter-signed by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson, officer of the day. These passes were issued only when abso- lutely necessary.
 l Orders have been issued for the i commanding officers to read to their ! enlisted men certain articles of war. 1 These include definitions and people subject to military law. The rules 1 provide that officers are men with l (Continued on Seventh Page.)