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DR A WING COMMENCEDA T 9:4THIS MORNINGWILLTAKE 12HOURSWashington, July ‘20—Hie greatest lottery in history was staged inWashington today, when the drawing of* 10,oOOcapsules by blindfoldedarmv oflicers from glass jars to determine the order in which the morethan 9,(XX),000 men who who registered on June 5 will be liable for military dutv under the draft law was started.The drawingtookplaee in Hoorn 22( of the Senate Office Building,r-it-opposite the Capital.Survev.This room is that of the (Committee on (ieologiealAs it tookflie first number was draw n at 9:H() (/clockliftv-six and a half minutes to draw' 1 ,000 numbers in a dress rehearsal,it is estimated that the 10,AGO numbers cannot be draw n inthanten hours. This means that the drawing will probably not be completed before 7:‘0 o’clock tonight.In the drawing itself there are nine actors.Theareto1a blindfolded man, w ho constantly stirs the 10,A00 black capsules in thetgreat glass bow 1 in whichthey have been placed; another blindfoldedmman who draws the capsules from the bowl one at a time, and two announcers, one standing at eachof the bowl, and to whom thecapsules arcin turn as thev are drawn.!The announcers break theas thev receive»m,nthe tiny slip of paper, onwhich a number will be stamped, and call thenumber to three tally clerks.ic slip is then handed to an official infront of the bow l, w ho verifies the announcer s report, and, on hisDPrf?!. * * iverification, another man, stationed at a great blackboard, writes thenumber in its order on the* boaixIflie board will hold 1,(XX) numbers. When it is filled it will betaken out of the room, photographed, cleaned off, and returned, thedrawing being continued meanwhile w ith a second board in use.—....■si1753 Otto Schultz, MontgomeryWashington.•Provost Mar-!,*»» ■. »t t t lt;* r t S’* * -4 t I \7 *’4* tllUK (*.Oil, J U * j —!■ir.iA in^494■a a£ 1117issuedt 5** '\rf'-k* w.ftf IfSi * ft .rr. ran-iitt wol VfAll of fix t»»r*. 4 fIt i. i? I[vrestfnimf^ ands and tentativeh estimaofHoiieft treiuraifip oieds*♦ s*. 19 inBaker, the Military Commit-high officials ande Presslat from ten to157217432195Jy tV 20-Bc« E. Smith, 11 Wlckh.m Av.|9ha, ^ Croy,„e; lastHerbert McCollum, 13’ » Grant ,street [Ibis * itemencft -O'** ... . . ft . i..Advices received hv long distanceI• *the tenliabilityed.1 be required to draw, thousand numbers to the ten million men8372036337676Leslie Fi, Myers, 12 Benj. Aye.Thomas Prrcopso, Montgomery. | telephone this afternoon mdkate that Sam T. Randall, 210 West ’ in certain areas the boards, in mmi-Main street. honng registration cards, have keptLeslie Clark, Roseton, the cards segregated oy election di.s-Wm, J. Quigley, Montgomery j tricts and that -erial numbers have Jason C. Dewanap, 10 Orchard been aligned to me whole group for street. j a board while the cards were thus!Raymond Henderson, 155 Lin-, segregated. If the drawing is eon-i ductedThe draft drawing was the chiefasnd only topicwell asDuringover-oneIVd•e►rvo8ll1-: conversation in this[n the whole countrytoday. uunng the early morningT hours everyone wished to know if the drawing was really to be held or whether it had again been postponed. In fact a rumor spread that it had been postponed and the telephones in the Daily Argus office were ringing every moment People wishing to learn if the report was true.It having been slated that the drawing would art at 9:40 a. m. today the people commenced calling up shortly after that time to learn if their friends or relatives had been drafted, it was not until 11 o’clock that the first listbof numbers came in by Associated j Press and after that Die lists camerapidly.I} .\s the numbers and names wereposted on the Daily Argus bulletin 1 boards a crowd quickly collected. There were many women in the crowd Every moment or two there would be i sharp exclamation from some wat-1 eher as th“ number and name of a relative or friend was posted. In a number of cases the drafted man himself stood before the bulletin board and saw his number appear.One well known young man of this city stood before the board and had just remarked; “That fellow’s number is only a few away from mine, when hih own number appeared onthe board.J “Here we go, he remarked. “Well,I wanted to enlist anyway in Com* j pany I but my folk^ didn’t want me to. Now I’ll have to go anyway.' A young girl stopped for a moment before the board just as the name of her brother was put up, She brokelout crying and hurried away.Another well known young man stood before the board and saw the » ' numbers immediately before and ini-. I mediately following his own appear • j on the board. It's better to be born - lucky than good looking he remark-i —sd to a friend2751185564;asThis will result in draftin21661913lt;ns£•26201267den avenue.L^ou Wheeler, Walden.Thomas W. Virnoy, 9 Albert St.Elmer Earton, Campbell Hall.Leland J, Hildredth, 24 Broad street.Geo. E. Harden, 85 Mountainavenue.Alanson Schoonmaker, Walden, drawn from Daniel E. Owen, Roseton.Geo, H. Simpson, 313 East Main street.Richard 0. Ciemson, 16 Cantrell street.MuhaH Halamucker, CampbellHall.originally planned. In groups!f 1,000, the result will be that con-considerableproportions or certain election districts will be brought upi examination together.2143536149521535481261679Samuel Cohen, 8 Highland Ave. Wm. F. Costello, 40 Broad St,Agostmo Oliveri, Maybrook. Percy E. Larkin, State Hospital Sol. J. Ellerin, 51 Horton Ave. Geo. Nolda, 331, North St.Cersi Albert, Montgomery Henry M. Roe, Jr. CampbellHall.r-taeet76417327551071546I.Wm. Ostrander, Ealmville.Walter M. Kelley, Montgomery. Wm. P. Chidgey, Newburgh. Albert W. Murray, 8 Smith St, John L. Heater, 14 West Conklin Avenue.1563Raioh D. Leggett, 53 Mulberry street.personsfrcm one locality within the jurisdic-tion of a board before any person i:another locality within Ithe same jurisdiction. {For th:s reason it has been decided to abandon the drawing by thousands and to draw 10,500 numbers, which is Jin excess of the highest number of iwcards under the jurisdiction of any j hoardT. e only change in the plan will bethat there will be one drawing instead of two. IThe advantage will be greaterpile J ty. The disadvantage winthat the drawing will requirehours to complete.How Number Holders Were Drafted:The drawing in Wa hincton, according to despatches received last n ght, is to be done by three blindfolded men, acting in turn. One of the three, at the signal, will approach the glars containing 10,500 numbers, each in a gelatine capsule. He willdraw out one capsule. The number j therein contained will be at the headini-beten* *208913692691Wm. McVey, Waiden.Norton Frost Shaw, Walden. Michael J. McDonnell, 213 Highland avenue.of the list in each of the 4,557 exemption districts in the country. ;Then the second man will approach i and the number he draws will be I61637316761266I13912684Chas G. Althisar, 40 Linden avenue.Diusepte Georgrone, 9 Rowanstreet.Alineno Veicri, Maybrook.Desos Hernandez, CampbellHall.Earl C. Folard, Walden.placed second on each list. The third M man will follow, and the number hedraws ftx ill be third oil the list. Then the first man w.U take his turn again,and so on.If No. 457 is tha first drawn, theman having that number. In each ofj ‘he 4,177 districts in the country, will48679 Mont-692Henry T. Moore, avenue.Ralph J. Salvetti, gomery street.Geo, W. Livingston, 135 Lindenavenue.123 Highland j b-» the first man called for examma-j tion by his local board. If No. 1,760 I 1» :6001986810 9■erf?* 5*5ir252226241!:1095 258 1436 654 1394 1878 2022 1465 i 783 * 1813 i j1358 • i £389Harry York, 15 Olive street. Lawrence Conklin, 131 Highland avenue.Matthew Jones, 3 Forest Ave.Grover Shelden, Waiden.Edmund Dalton, Maybrook. John J. Dillon, Roseton.Geo. S. Gillespie, Walden. Clarence E. Benedict, Walden. Wallace Green Montgomery. Walter J. Kait, Maybrook. Gustave D. Oberg, Newburgh. Ed. Hughes, Walden.Chan. S. D. Sutherland, Walden. Wm. M. Burke, 219 West Maistreet-25491fi82507Frank V. Tierney, 27 Broad St.Elmer B. Bush, Newburgh.J. Harold Bennett, Middlehope.Royal E. Gonsoles, 35 Fulton St.Harry L. Masten, Newburgh. James W. Alsdorf, Montgomery.Antonio Di Tringer, 17 Schoolstreet.lt; CI*309437Guiseope Barberi, 31*. -» Prince— —ft,street.Albert Marasco, 66 Montgomery street.is drawn next, then the man in each exemption district who .has numbei .760 will be the second man called foraexamination, and so on. 1 ’Vet there will many blanks for New York City; nearly half the numbers drawn will be blanks, in fact.To date the highest rajKirted total of registered men in any New York ; 1 City district is 4,696. Unless late re ■ 1 ♦urns break this record the numbers ! * drawn in Washington which are fcighiier than 4,696 will not apply to th s city.Thus if the three men, in turn, ‘ draw No. 8,001 and No. .5,666, thest '1334C04East4321811763Clt;arence Hyatt, Walden.Jesse Van Duzer, 265Main stret.Fred L. Dailey, 17 Eldred St. Cornelius W. Macardell, 15 Highland avenue.Guiseppe Becchio, Montgomery.numbers will not call” any Now York City man, for the reason no man in this city has been given a number so high. Each number below 4.697. however, will call” 189 New Yorkmen, one from eachtricL!City exemption di.s*t]tIha(Continued on Page 6.)(Continued on I'aga Six.)e
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Jul 20, 1917
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