The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-06
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and the first Is checking up the work
of the three last days of last week
while awaiting the answer of 1,200
men to a call that is going out today
and tomorrow.
Members of the fire board will claim
exemptions for 81 men of the depart
ment who are Of draft age. Several
of these are in the first quota drawn
for the several divisions. A few are
married and probably will be exempt
on the ground of dependents. but the
others, if found physically fit, will
have to serve.
The fifth division will start exam
nations at the Franklin school in
Nichols street Wednesday morning of
this week. This is the last city board
to start, the others being well under
way today The work Of the third,
fourth and sixth boards which COM
menced this morning went along
smoothly. Out of 1913 men examined
in the third division, eight men were
accepted Others who passed the ply
steal examination claimed exemption.
The work of the first division board
! is held up now until the second 1900
men called appear. The records of
1856 men who were called last week
WEI q OSAtIS ChOShGQ up IOQdy, DuL III
|. tie data was available, aside from the
fact that more than 200 will today
be certified to the higher board. This
division quota is $50 and already so
per cent. of the registrs- nts have been
called for examination, this being
necessary because of the many aliens.
The second division board contin-
ued examinations at the Elias Howe
Jr., school. in Clinton avenue. The
summons for today was for 200 men
and 275 will appear tomorrow. As
the examinations proceeded it was
apparent that the percentage of those
fit and claiming exemptions would run
close to that established last week
| when 6S were accepted out Of 1873
| passed physically.
| In the third division today 1874
| men were on hand. OF this number
SO were not examined because they
! were aliens. OF the remaining
j number 10 were found fit and four
were declared unfit for service and of
| the 10 passed physically, 81 filed
claims for exemptions, leaving only
eight to be accepted ir mediately for
! service. -
The work in the fourth and sixth
| divisions went on today without any
Observation-Disclosures u 'liOIO oCvOlOPkAi6- -
! will take about three days to com
plete the physical examinations.
The f1remen for whom the fire
| board claims exemption are the fol-
| lowing:
! Joseph J.. Brady, IA Hough avenue;
! Thomas F. Flynn, Jr., 9S6 Norman
| street; John j. Hines, ~ Prospect
| street.
Engine Co. No. ELMER v. Fitz-
| gerald, 1915 Park avenue; Charles T.
Bell. 81 Drew Place.
| Engine Co. No. 2-Lieut. Thomas ].
! O'Leary, 1851 Central avenue; Sidney
L. Bray, 122 Ogden street.
Engine Co. No. 3-John Fl. Flynn
9S6 Norman street; Edward ]. Nor
rison, 1917 State street
| Engine Co. No. s-William Biebel
40 HOLSTER avenue.
Engine Co. No.. 10-George R
Bray, 6S6 William street.
| Truck Co. No. John j. Nc
Carthy, 6S3 Iranistan avenue; Mich
ael w. Whalen. Park terrace; John c.
Crovetz, 319 Hancock avenue.
| Truck Co. No. 2-Christopher A.
IaCroix, TIP Arctic street; William
| E. Wilson, 1880 Park avenue; John
j. Flynn, 404 Atlantic street.
Truck Co. No. 3-George Gott-
| schalk, 673 Barnum avenue; John j.
| Murphy, $40 East Main street.
/ Chemical No. John P. May, 81
Capitol avenue: John F. Martin, 81
| Calhoun avenue.
| Chemical No. flames L. Grace,
1892 Kossuth street; Archibald Me-
| Mullen, 727 Iranistan avenue; Philip
j. Thompson, AZ Arson street: James
R. Neary, 55 Sanford avenue.
Engine Co. No. 7-Edward Barry,
| 1888 Fairfield avenue; William Null
ligan, $50 Colorado avenue; Antony
| Seaman, 2s2 Spruce street; John T
Mccarthy, $50 Brewster street.
Engine Co. No. Frank Ludford.
lbs Capitol avenue.
In addition to these men of the fire
department, there are about SO po-
licemen A ruling Of the provost
marshal generals office sent to boards
last Thursday. answering the particu
lar question as to the right Of fire
men and policemen to claim exemp.