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Show I! PATRIOTISM SHOWN AT RECRUITING OFFICE The mention of posslblo hostilities with Mexico has crowded the United States recruiting re-cruiting offices in the city. Men were waiting In the hall of the naval recruiting recruit-ing station In the Judge building when the office opened at S o'clock yesterday morning, and the ! vtan the busiest in thr hlt-tory of the station. Mnny of the men colled to Inquire as to wliat the service wsf. and raid they were ready to enlist ns soon as war shall iime been declared. One veteran who had served in the navy during the civil war, realizing that he was too old for nctUfl service, brought his son. "When the boy's application was accepted, the Aeteran smiled grimly and said: "He'll represent the old man. all right." At the army recruiting office like conditions con-ditions existed. Many men with families, fami-lies, who did not wish to enlist for n period of feven years, expressed their willingness to defend the flaj; the moment mo-ment war breaks out and ns long as it lasts The actions of thn Greeks, naturalized nat-uralized Amerlcanc under Caplaln Myron 15. Alexander, who wished to fight for thflr adopted country, was tho subject of special comment In the office. |