Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
OF
IS TO 45 CLASS
Is VERY HEAVY
Draft Boards Working Hard
ON Huge Task of Max
ing Reports

The estimated $500 men expected
to register in Harrisburg at the
great enrolment of military man
ceeded. final reports show.
is in the Second district.
The three boards, reported a total
of 9,751 names.
The PaXtang board announced a
registration of $3.50. The Eliza
bethville board registered 2,S7S. The
Steelton board at noon announced
total of 4,132 men. The total for
city and county is 1891 men.
With the totals all reported to the
State Draft Headquarters, the city
and county registration of men for
military service will exceed 10000.
Practically one thousand cards are
expected from residents of Harris
burg and Dauphin county who are
temporarily living in other cities,
and who registered there with in
structions to mail their cards to
their home boards here. These cards
are arriving by every mall
Working OH Reports
Officials and clerks of the local
boardrs are busy compiling the lists
of the men registered. The total
lists Will be turned into the State
Draft Headquarters as soon as pos
sible. Reports show that the Third
city board was the first to finish its
report. Its number of registrants,
enumerated as to aliens, nationality,
and so forth, was turned into the
state headquarters last evening. The
EliZabethville board was the first
county board to complete it's report.
The registration here went off
without a hitch. There were no
troubles or irregularities reported by
any of the boards or precinct regis
trars. Many of the clerks and reg
istrars worked until and o'clock
this morning, then they were at
work again, completing the work of
tabulating their cards for reports to
the state department.
To Mail Questionnaires
Registrants have nothing further
to do until they receive their ques-
tionnaires. Local draft officials re-
ported that they have received no
orders to mail questionnaires, and
have no information as to the meth
cd of mailing them. 1t is felt, how
ever, that the registration cards will
be filed and the lists made up ac-
cording to the age of the registrants.
and missionaries mailed out ac-
cording to classes in the order they
Will be called. Information received
from Washington has it that the
men of the 19, 20 and 32 to 36-year
classes will be called first, likely
beginning in October.
The largest number of registrants
in the city were enrolled at Board
No. 2. Its total was 4,007, with one
precinct not reported.
City Board No. was next with
S,4O4 men enrolled. City Board
No. l reported 2.340 men.
Many at Stcelton
The Steelton board will likely be
high among the county boards. At
this board much of the foreign ele-
ment of the vicinity was registered
Every nationality at war with the
Allies, against them, and neither for
or against them, is on the registra-
tion list of this board, and on the
rollrof the manhood which is at the
call of the United States War De-
partment to aid in strafing the Hun.
Interpreters or foreigners who could
speak English found ready welcome
at the precinct enrolment offices as
interlocutors between the foreigners
and registrars.
City Board No. 1 reported twelve,
City Board No. 2 registered six and
lily BOARD NO. b. q ike NUMBER OF
men who had registered who were
between the age limits of the first
registration, 21 to 81 years. Nu-
merous excuses were given for their
failure to register. Several of the
men reported they had been in Jail,
one was a Mexican who had come
to this country since June 5, 1917.
one had been in a sanatorium at that
time, and several had been in mill
tary service at the time of the first
registration. These names will be
listed and submitted to the state
headquarters along with the others,
and it is likely that Investigations of
each individual case will be made
to determine if there are any cases
of draft evasion.