New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
|4,030 Drafted Men
Leave Amid Cheers
For Training Camp
Before the Week is Over
7,343 From New York
Will Be in Khaki

With smiles and cheers New York
City bade heartening farewell
Yesterday to 4,oSo of it's physically
favored sons as they departed on the
preliminary leg of the Pershing tour
to Berlin. 1t was the city's record
contribution of a single day to the
National Army. And yet of the thous-
ands OF women, the mothers, wives,
sisters and sweethcarts of the tenta-
tive fighters, who bade them god
speed, there were fewer shaken by
sobs than ever before. The police
at Liberty and Cortlandt streets fer
rles and the Carlton Avenue railroad
yards found their work of maintain
ing order very simple. 1t was qucs-
ton Of curbing enthusiasm rather than
OF soothing hysteria.
OF the entraining men, 2,453 left for
worth. Spartanburg, S. c. Before the
week is over 7,343 will have left the
city for the Great Adventure. To-day
l,O33 men will entrain for Spartan
burg, no additional recruits departing
tor Camp Upton. Contingents of 984
and 995 will go to Wadsworth to-mor-
row and Thursday. respectively.
The heavy drain on the Glass IA men
vii leave scarcely 10000 in New York
City for the next call to cantonments
me classifying of the new registrants,
total by at least 100000
Slightly over two thousand of the
new Soldiers Of Freedom from Brook
lyn and Queens entrained at the Carl
ton Avenue yards of the Long Island
Railroad. They were placed under mil
ltary supervision sooner than any of
the preceding increments which have
departed armyward by this route. be-
cause they were registered and checked
up by detachment of lieutenants from
Camp Upton. This work had been pre-
yiously in the hands of the local
boards.
from the long-haired Baron" Won
;Schonick, to whose music thousands
have danced at Stauch's, Coney Island
TO the battling Johnny Selzberr. to
whose hefty right fist scores of aspir-
ing bantamweights have sIumbered
the khaki-shirted, old suited con,
tlngent was typical of the ingredients
which the National Army melting not
chine. ""A '"@"
patrolmen of the 10Th Precinct
the ratings for their departinr con, cos''
rade, Vincent Giardano, to arrest the
Kaiser for 'impersonatinr Nano,eon
without any license. A fire engine
brought Fireman Jacob Fuhrmans Of
Engine Company 219. to the yards. :
Through an atmosphere filled wJAh
sunshine and shouted goodbys the two
trains, of twelve cars each. pulled ont
OF the station. At Jamaica the 237 man nan
from Manhattan boards Nos. 110 ia
ana l29, and 432 mon from boards in
!ne neiShborhood of Long Island Citv
joined the Upton bound party of smoE.
ing and munchin9 soon to-be soldiers
Inc men men from the Manhattan board,
ns rad ie1t from the East Thirty-fourth
S.reet Terry, arriving there in omni-
buses and other automobiles. Through
arrangements by Director of the Draft
tonDoy, relatives accompanied the men
10 5ne traln sheds in Long Island City.
ing route, the 488 men from the var;o".
boards i'll The Bronx who entra;ued ;ned
Tor Spartanburg were modified for
procession through the borough's nrin-
cipal streets. The borough was proud
OF every man in general and Bernard
Erody, Of 759 Melrose Avenue. in n.r-
ticular. For Erody had refused -
claim exemption, though his local
BOARD considered the presence Of MS
Erody and Bernard, jr., as suf;eisnt
grounds: He is Belgian and sneaI.
OF certain unsquared accounts with ths
Huns. Wv" '"e
The Democratic Club of The No.
Manus's district, where Board 11s % :.
situated, celebrated as if cheering an
election victory. Thomas J. McMsnns
LED the parade, and he took it throuoh
those streets which he knew were an.
Duscaded by package throwing hun