New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Serial Numbers Already
Being Issued to Thurs
days Registrants
ID Million Men
Enrolled Thursday
Induction of 1000 Now
Available Here Will
Begin Immediately

generous proportion of the pro
spective soldiers who will entrain next
month as part of New York City's
regular contribution to the National
Army Will be composed Of ThulsIay's
draft rcglstrants of the preferred age,
nineteen and twenty and thirty-two to
thlrty-sX, inclusive. Captain David
Asch, who was in charge of the Office
Of the Director OF the Draft yesterday
IN the temporary absence of Martin
Conboy. made this statement. At the
same time word was received from
Washington that fourteen million men
had enrolled for the draf.
The work of compiling and forward
ing the returns on the registration was
accomplished so speedily that the as
signing Of serial numbers by The draft
boards was under way, in some in
stances, scarcely an hour after the
polls closed. Serial numbers we're
gwen to the regstrants of June s..
l9l|, but in the two subsequent reg
lstratlons of men turned twentv-ono
the order in which man registered
was the numeral which represented him
in the lottery. This draft will be
characterized by return to the serial
number system
Draft Drawing Next Week
'"ith the serial numbers assigned"
Captain Asch declared yesterday. "the
drawing at Washington will follow i'm
mediately. This should take place,
from present indications, on next
Tuesday or Wednesday, Question
nares will be mailed to registrants of
the preferred classes as soon there.
after as possible'
The classifying Of all new regis
trants must not necessarily be com
pleted before any Of the men can be
inductcd into service, Captain Asch de-
clared.
"As soon as a man either valves ex-
emption or is found to be without
adequate claim" he said, che will be
listed as ready for call to cxamina-
tion. Classification is subject to con-
stant change, and for this reason we
can go ahead with inductions without
waiting for the complete grouping"
100000 Draftees Here
There are 100000 men on the draft
rolls Of New York City, including men
of all registrations, who have not been
inducted into service, according to fig
ures given out at Mr.. Conboy's office
Il was announced in June that the
Glass l A men Of the June, 1917 reg
istration had practically all been in
ductcd into the service. Since then
Slightly more than $4,000 men, newly
attained twenty one, registered; $1,000
in June, 1918, and 1900 on August
"a last.
majority of the men of the second
two registrations who were physically
fit and without dependents, have been
sped campward. The departures from
the city have been quietly, but stead
lily, proceeding, made up largely Of
youths twentyone years old.
1t is estimated that there will be
$4,000 men of ninetecn-twenty and
from thirty two -thirty-six in New York
City. About 26 per cent of these will,
1t is believed, be placed in Class l.
Under this proportion 81 900 men will
be available for immediate induction.
This number was unexpectedly in
creased by the registration of a large
number of men who should have en-
rolled for the first draft. Practically
Lone of these were wilful delinQuents
but had failed to register because Of
misunderstanding of the age limits.
They willingly enrolled and there were
few arrests.
Draft officials were astonished at the
comparatively small number of aliens
who registered. There were approx
matcly $4,000 in the entire city, in
elusive of all classes, declarants, nom
ueclarants not enemies, and enemy
aliens. Manhattan. with its registra-
tion of 343.39S men. showed the small
total of aliens of 10000 of which only
5000 were enemy aliens.
Brooklyn led in number of aliens
registered. with 10000, 10000 of whom
are enemy aliens
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