Show LOTTERY IS HELD AT wm PRESIDENT WILSON DRAWS THE FIRST NUMBER FROM GLASS LOTTERY BOWL first number drawn was low 1 enough to touch the list of nearly every local draft board in the country s Washington the drawing of order for uio the di draft registrants enrolled september 12 was started monday september 30 by president wilson blindfolded the pi president os Ident sloped groped into the iho great glass glana lottery bowl und and wout wont ono one of capsules it a slip sill numbered thus giving to inen inan holding that serial aerial 9 tor her first arst lilace in ili their respective classes after registrants already loss ditled under previous the rhe number was wan low lov enough ellough to touch tile the 11 list it bic d every local draft board in tile country wept one cue or 01 two of 0 tile very ny kunal lost vied via president marshal drew tile second numbers nuin beri find was MW followed by other notable 8 willi hu had and been I 1 invited to participate officers and on en li alsted ahil of tile firmy by it corps of tellers then settled bottled down to tile the task of tho the bowl boll tile tho numbers biad been drawn find recorded before 4 tho the drawing continued utmost almost without interruption through the lie light anly tile the first numbers were ailed I 1 ad to lio lie country ly by telegraph J ccaude of tho ilia impracticability of telegraphing sill nil of tile tho the erss lind had baon asked to refrain from froin y V ellif illg more than alian bors the complete muster master lists were oro to be mantled led its is soon na its the drawing was over toi to district arntt boards throughout tile country to bo be made public by them thiera was lit in interested crowd to witness tile opening ceremony but tho the wait wad rather lit in tile tho participation than llian in III tile the drawing itself for at 1161 iagal fleat loll 1011 system which deter mines aliu beatus of ef ilia redl has made the order numbers relative relatively IY ill unimportant the rile president with mrs mis wilson reached fetich cd lio lie calic caucus room just before noon all wom wan lit readiness for ilia draw drawing hij including 11 battery of coin eras crux that reached across tile the root dooin dt dl jestly erectly before the bowl this bowl aft the one used lit in tho the original draft lot wt w I 1 lind been brought from its ott I 1 tit nt independence liall for occasion before making ills explanatory statement provost marshal general crowder whispered whisp orcil to the pros president ident that in hi ills case the blind always worn woin by those drawing numbers would bo ba dispensed with mr wilson lio lie thought it would be better belter to make no exception ined in his s case so BO tho blindfold from it sl slip I 1 11 of cloth that covered cohered ft a chair used in tie I 1 signing of the ilia of was ad austed oatho president approached ilia bowl the crowd applauded as no and the president returned to alts se sent it to jo watch tile re litIn der ortho of atho ceremony afler aate r the first number biall biad been drawn tind recorded the next fifteen numbers eare drawn in order by vice president Se senator saulsbury Bauls bury president pro tempore of tho soi senate tato speaker dark clark secretary daniels Dan lela acting secretary ecret ary crowell of the war do apartment part ment senator chamberlain Chamberl of oregon 1 und representative dent of Alaba alabama iia clial chal of jhb benato and house military representative kohn kahu ol 01 california tile ranking of tho the lionso house generl marceli ahlet alle of staff of 0 tile aranyi admiral ilenson li lef of operations of the navy 1 lieutenant oen left erdl 61 retired provost general and colonels Col onela NV carien arren klimova find of beneral le crowders stud |