New Britain herald., 1918-09-12
OVER 5000 SIGN UP TOFIGHT KAISER AZ
 CALL OF PERSHING
Military Registration for Entire City Expected to Fall Below
 Previous Estimates
PROMINENT CITIZENS PUT
 NAMES ON ENROLMENT

Judges, Lawyers and Many Active in
 Political Life of City March to Dis
 trict Booths.Philip Corbin Fills Out
 Card EarIy-Fathers and Sons Ap-
 pear Ready to Answer Duty's Call. . At o'clock this afternoon approxi- mately $500 men between the ages of 18 and 21 and 31 and 46 had registered at the registration offices under the new selective service draft law. Off, cials of both the first and second draft boards expressed the opinion that the total number of registrants in this city will fall short of the various estimates, that of the government of 968S and of others at 900 and 10,5OO.
 The first, third and fifth ward men register at the state armory on Arch street and at , o'clock approximately 2,500 had appeared. The second dis .trict quota at the same hour was about $500. divided as. follows: Second ward, \ BuNitt Mission on Cherry street, 600; Fourth ward Grammar school base ment, TOO; and Sixth ward, Ukrainian hall, Erwin Place, 1,500. The regis tration offices opened this morning at ' o'clock and will remain open until 9 o'clock this evening.
 Promptly at z o'clock, when the doors were opened this morning, there1 was a, large crowd of men waiting to register and again at noon there was another large influx. The congestion woe -o1i fn !, by the action of factories in taking their employees by automobile to the offices, and then returning them to the factories, where another load was se- steured. Among the first men to regG- ter this morning was Mayor George A. Qhigley Philip Corbin, the young millionaire, was ahead of many others in registering as he filled out his card yesterday preparatOry to being out of town today. Prosecuting Attorney George w. Klett and Judge James T. Mes6ill also registered as did one of the men who appeared before them as a prisoner in police court this morning. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods, Liquor Prosecutor B. w. All Ing, Corporation Counsel J. E. Cooper and in fact all of the local lawyers, eX- rept Judge B. F. Gaffney, Judge George w. Andrew, Judge F. B. Hun , Eerford and Lawyer A. w. Upson are within the draft limits. Ex-Mayor Jo- seph M. Halloran was the only former mayor of the city who had to register today.
 Dads Occupation? Fighter.
 Tn each of the registration offices 1t was noticed that there were compar- atively few youths between the ages of Is and 21 who were registering, the presumption being that most of the youths between the ages are al ready in the service. One boy, how Ever, in putting down the occupation of his father wrote: Fighter. In qliry showed that the boys father is already in the army. There were also several instances in which father and son came to the registration place together, and there were hun tlreds- of instances where the older man being registered wore on the lapel of his coat a service pin, show tng that he already has one or more boys fighting in either the army or navy.
 There was little confusion in any of the registration offices and under the guidance of the draft board officials and the head registrars everything went along like clOckWork. There were 25 or 30 men registered who Efassed themselves as enemy aliens AHd there were a large number who were friendly aliens There were also quite q few travelling men, circus fol- lowers and others from out of town who visited the local boards today to register. During the past week, and more particularly during the past day or two, there has been quite a plumber of men visit the town clerks office to secure copies of their birth certificate to prove positively whether sr not they are included in this draft.
 The large corps of clerks in each of Inc afflces worked we'll and this noon lime they were served with luncheon, with the compliments of Mayor Quig- eg