Show RECRUITS ARE WEARY NonArrival of Officers Has Bad Effect on Work HAVE TIRED OF WAITING Noticeable Falling Off in Number Num-ber of Applicants I 1 Only Two Accepted Yesterday Origin of TroubleWork Done May Not Bo Accepted I The naval recruiting business Is In a rather demoralized condition on account of the failure of the officer In charge and the surgeon to arrive as scheduled The applicants are becoming discouraged discour-aged by this delay and there is a noticeable no-ticeable falling off In the number of candidates and the enthusiasm of those who already have made application TWO BOYS ACCEPTED Yesterday Dr LaMottc examined six new men and accepted two One other was told to come again Those accepted were Thomas Manson Buck aged 15 years apprentice I Henry Frederick Tielzen Iii years apprentice ap-prentice Late in the afternoon failing to hear < from the expected officers Chief Master atArms Jackson again telegraphed to headquarters at Washington notifying them of the delay CAUSE OF TROUBLE It Is certainly unfortunate that the matter has been allowed to go In such slipshod fashion said Dr LaMotte The trouble Is I think that Admiral Taylor who has charge of the recruit ing works Is off on holiday leave and is with Admiral Dewey During his absence ab-sence it seems there Is no one in control who knows the details of arrangement and everything is going wrong in consequence con-sequence The department telegraphed to Lieut Porters home In Kansas City ordering him to report here as soon as possible forgetting that they had previously pre-viously ordered him to the battleship Wyoming in San Francisco bay where he now Is In the same way Dr Curl the examining surgeon was expected to arrive here and he is lying sick with smallpox In the hospital at Mare Island Isl-and MAY REJECT ALL Seeing the predicament of the men here I offered my services to the department de-partment t and was Informed from Washington that the head of the examining exam-ining department was away temporarily temporari-ly and nothing could be done until he returned Notwithstanding this I have gone In anyway to help out all I can Of course I have no authority from official of-ficial sources to do this and the examining exam-ining surgeon who is sent here is under un-der nail obligations to accept my work However In case J get the authority or In case the examining surgeon is satisfied satis-fied to indorse what I have done a good deal of time will have been saved HAS HURT WORK I am confident that if those officers had been here at the very start they would have had 150 recruits to examine by this time Interest ran high the first few days but when the men and boys found they could not get enlisted and were told day after day to come again their enthusiasm began to wane Why the first day I was over there fully fifty were waiting to be examined I could not get through with them all and the next morning scarcely a dozen all told showed up for examination |