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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
7
City officials push a draft recruitment drive aiming to add 2,000 New York City men by June to meet a 10,800 quota. The Mayor's Committee on National Defense promotes enlistment, detailing pay, uniforms, and training timelines, with recruitment stations listed across Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Jersey City, Hoboken, and surrounding areas.
The President calls for 70,000 volunteers in one week to join the Regular Army. Men aged 18 to 40 who are unmarried and in good health are eligible. citizenship not required. Enlistment lasts for the war with pay from $30 monthly and full expenses. Applications invited at the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and at Army recruiting stations. Sunday hours noted.
Colonel Percy Guthrie Captain Bleck and Sergeant Major McGrean of the McLean Highlanders lead the 296th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in a New York recruitment push after a Boston drive that enlisted 1,123 men between June 3 and 21. The British-Canadian effort aims to expand enlistments among military-age residents.
A census of New York State industrial resources will be conducted under the State Census Bureau in the Adjutant General's office. The mobilization bureau will oversee the effort with expert staff coordinating with state agencies to map assets and future industry needs.
Thursday saw only 918 men join the army, with New York contributing 164 recruits. The daily tally reported by a General noted weak intake across the country, marking another poor recruitment day.
The Canteen for soldiers opens this evening at the Old Speyer residence 257 Madison Avenue under the National Women’s Service. Mrs Pauline Knight of Stage Women’s War Relief will oversee the entertainment featuring pipes tobacco and pie for recruits.
The field artillery unit will remain at Plattsburg instead of being moved to Syracuse. The First Regiment of Field Artillery, New National Guard, has been ordered to Platteburg. New York artillery men will train at Plattsburg and Field Artillery candidates can train across six batteries of the National Guard. The program includes experience from the Mexican border and adds 1,300 to the camp, with horses and equipment arriving for the training cadre.
Estelle Thebaud Amelia Emmerville Elsie Riser Bernice Parker and the Gotham Singers quartet join Cora Sylvia Emilie Allen Juston and Ethel Huston for a wartime musical evening. Admission requires only an army or navy uniform as Mrs Don Barber and Eleanor Gates promote the drive to produce 2,000 surgical dressings in under 24 hours.
A court of inquiry at 261 Broadway will examine more than 300 census noncompliers. Subpoenas served on eleven men. warrants possible for those who refuse to answer or sign forms. Registration nears 2,090,000 with two days left. effort to identify medical professionals and potential enlistees intensifies.
At Madison Barracks in May many reserve candidates asked for discharge due to work or family strain. Now they seek entrance in the second August series in southern cities. Of the 100 plus relieved, most quit voluntarily but many will try again, with a War Department preference favoring older applicants. The YMC A and Y M H A plan entertainments and lectures for Jewish residents, while noted figures like Charles M Alexander will lead events and a Yale Club forms among barracks residents.
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