New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-07-25
CHIMES ring while
CITY SAYS GOODBYE
To new SOLDIERS
27O National Army Men Start for
Berlin, Germany, Via Camp
D0VeDS, Today
CLERGYMEN MARCH
AT HEAD OF PARADE

AL HEAD UF PARADE
Largest Quota Of Fighting Men New
Britain Has Ever Sent Away at One
Time-State and City Guard Acts as
Honorary Escort While Bands Play
Patriotic Airs
"Of for a round trip throu yh Eu-
rope and back TO New Britain, Via
Berlin, Germany" was the WatchWord
of 270 stalWart New Britain boys who
left this city shortly after 12:15
o'clock this afternoon for Camp De-
vens This is the final quota Of the
original 1917 resistrants and was the
largest that has ever been sent out Of
New Britain at single time, number
ing many moro than did the first
quota that left last September and is
now thought to be somewhere in
France. TOday'S quota was even
larger than WAS the original quota of
Company L and | boys who marched
out more than year ago and who are
now fighting so bravely on the fields
of France.
The men selected to go in today's
quota met yesterday with their re-
Bpective draft boards and received
their Instructions and induction papers
and this morning the entire contingent
began to assemble at the State ArmorN
on Arch street at 10 o'clock. At about
that time the South church chimes be-
gan playing Keep the Homo Fires
to play these war time melodies and
national anthems until the boys had
left the city. Organst Joseph Clair
Beebe rendered My Country 'Tis Of
Thee" and The Star Spangled Ban
ner" as the soldiers marched past the
church.
Soldiers Given Cigarettes.
New Britain has entered heart and
soul into the spirit of war and war
to a finish and the men who marched
away today were as jolly and happy a
lot as could be collected anywhere.
yet they did not for a moment forget
the significance of this new step in
their lives and their determined faces
as they marched down the main
street of the city and climbed aboard
the troop train BODIES i'll for the kaiser
InOSG
went today, as were those who went
before, were all men, ready and will
ling to do q mans work in a mans
war which has been made more fiend-
lsh by that Machiavelian monster. the
leader of Potsdam There was little
confusion at the arnory and when all
the men had been checked up, and
cigarettes had been distributed
through the War Bureau, the order
was given and the National Army mon
filed out.
Escorted to the Station.
The procession was headed by a.
platoon of police, in charge OF CHIEF
William J. Rawlings and Sergeant
Theodore Johnson Music was fur
nished for the march to the depot by
the y. NJ. T. \. &, r. Drum corps and
= the New Britain City band, while
companies from the New Britain
State Guard and the New Britain City
Guard acted as an honorary escort.
The soldiers from both the first and
second districts were headed by their
draft board members: A. +. COrbin,
j. J. Watson, Dr. Henry T. Bray, and
Judge J. e. Cooper in the first and
. John w. Allen, stephen Robb, DIR. y.
". O'ConnelI and Judge Is. F. Gaff-
ney in the second. Mayor George A.
Quigley also walked with the soldiers
rs did the following clergymen: Rev
Warren f. Cook, pastor of the Metho-
dist church; Rev. Patrick DAILY, pas
tor Of st. JOscphs church; Rev. John
7. Winters, pastor Of st. Marys
church; Rev. G. e. Phil pastor of the
BWedish Bethany church; Rev DR.. S.
= &. Gilman, pastor of the Swedish
Lutheran church; Rev. \. Vanynsh
pastor of the Russian OrthodoX
church; Rev +. V. Grllis, pastor OF
st. Andrews church; Rev. \. &.
Theodore Steege, pastor Of st. Mat
IheWs German Lutheran church; and
Rabbis Segal and Rosenberg, pastors
af the local Jewish Synagogues, Rep
-esentatives Of the war bureau and
he Red Cross also marched.
b No Hystcria Evident Today.
The spirit of determination, on not