The sun., 1918-07-23
FIRST OF DRAFTED,
FIRST TO Be SLAIN
Vilotto, Who Drew No. 258,
Said He Would Lead in
Going Over Top.
BROOKLYN WOMAN BRAVE
Sorry Rest Of Children Aren't
Boys, Her Comment on
Son Being Wounded.


marked Private Joseph vilotto. Jr.. on
that day months ago when Secretary OF
War Baker dipped his hand into a big
glass bowl In Washington and withdrew
celluioid pellet containing small bit
Of paper upon which was written the
serial number .5s Mr.. Bakers action
meant that every young American who
received that number from his draft
board would be the first in his district
to be marshalled into Uncle Sans then
untried National Army
Private Vilotto kept his word. for the
War Department notified his father. Jo-
seph vilotto Of 70 Mozart street. East
Rutherford. n. J.. yesterday that his son
had died OF wounds received In action. ard
so far as any OF the draft officials could
recall young Vilotto's Is the first death
in action Of any of the men who received
the honor OF being the first to be called
in the selective draft. One or two Of the
men who held that number have been
wounded, It was said, and at least one
died of disease.
Vilotto marched at the head Of the
when 1t started Off for training at Camp
Dix last September. He got to France
five months ago. Although he was
wounded in action on June the official
notification that came to his parents was
the announcement they received OF his
death yesterday. He was % years old
Mother Proves Heroine.
A messenger boy stood ringing the
bell to her apartment yesterday when
Mrs. Mary Tomargo reached her home
at 40 Buffalo avenue. Brooklyn. during
the worst OF the afternoons heat She
had oome from ST. Mary's Hospital.
where she spends three afternoons each
week reading and otherwise making
easy the burden Of soldiers and sailors
confined there and had no word of re-
gret when she found that the telegram
announced that her son, Corporal Ray
mond A. Tomargo. had been wounded
severely in action In France.
Il am only sorry my other children are
not boys instead Of girls" Said Mrs. To-
margo. Then they could do SO much
more. I do not feel badly about this
news, and even II I have to give him
tect me and his young sisters"
Mrs. Tomargo's two daughters spend
most of their time aiding the Twenty
third Assembly District Red Cross Aux
Hilary in the making OF bandages and
garments for the soldiers.
Invitations to a birthday party at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. William Schwartz.
at 1853 East 122d street. were recalled
yesterday. and the jollification that was
to have taken place there last night did
not materialize. For earlier in the day
the proud parents received word that
the absent son in whose honor the party
was TO have been given had died on
June 20 in hospital in England. He
was Private David Schwartz and would
have been 81 years old yesterday. He
was a member Of the 63Sth Aero Squad
ron and next to the eldest OF eight chill
dren.
Three Of the, nineteen years that en-
compass the life OF Private Frank J.
Nanderhoven have been spent in main
tanning the perfectly good record as
fighters that has been achieved by the
United States Marine Corps. Word
came yesterday to his aunt. Mrs Ida
Nanderhoven at 265 Twelfth avenue.
Paterson. n. j., that he had been Sc
verely wounded in action in France, but
the War Departments message really
was not needed. for just before 1t came
Mrs. Nanderhoven received a1etter from
the young fighter telling her that he had
been knocked OUT by a shrapnel she'll
which. when it burst. killed two marines
who were standing beside him.
Marine wounded BEFORE.
Being wounded is no new experience
for Private Vanderhoven. In his three
. n I'll ha hos fra
auently In the stormy republics Of Cen
trail America and the West Indies. and
received his first wound in a fight in
which he participated during the last
revolution in Haiti. His letters to his
aunt showed he had been in the thick
OF the fighting in France for the last
six months, and that he had gone over
the top and come back to his trenches
a Z ain Ave times before the shrapnel shell
put him out Of action on June 2S. His
letter home said he was recovering and
soon would be back on the firing line.
Private William NJ. Kaplan. 20. Of 81
East llsth street. was reported yester-
day as having been missing since June
| 81, when he went into action. presum-
ably for the first time. He was drafted
three days before Christmas and after
training at Camp Upton started for
France early in April. He is one of flve
children and has brother. Monte kap-
Ian, also in the army somewhere in
France. Tho report that Private Kap-
! Ian was missing in action shows that
the Seventy seventh or Metropolitan
division. known as New York's own"
still Is In action. for Kaplan went to
| France as a member OF the So7th In
| faLtry.
Lieut.. r. D. Grout, reported missing
In action, was a graduate of the Platts-
burg training camp. and lived with his
mother at 200 West Eighty sixth street.
He went to France in December. where
his brother, Lieut.. John Circuit, also a
graduate OF the Plattsburg camp. like
wise Is in service.