Show recruiting FOR BOER RED CROSS hi OF AMERICANS GOING TO THE WAR new jan 5 recruiting for he boer red cross service goes on daily in new york gustav simon who is directing the movement and whose headquarters are a cigar stand in a saloan at mulberry and houston streets said that when he advertised for nurses a week ago to enter the boer service he received about five hundred applications in one day and that applications were coming in on an average ol 01 fifty a day altogether about a thousand men and women had been enlisted the majority of the men he said had gone from new york recently to south africa A number came from other slates mr simon said that all who went wore willing to go for red cross work and about 75 had paid their own expenses they received the special rate given to the red cross and would be able to reach pretoria at an expense of a piece it was stated by mr simon that he had now about applications in hand and that as soon as he references of an applicant had been arrangements were made to raise the amount necessary to pay expenses among the applicants he said were a number ot specially trained nurses who were well recommended and about men recently selected would go to south africa in the next three weeks some of the money for transportation cx he said had been raised among wealthy men in new boik a number 0 whom were members of the south african american club which has branches in south africa and new york and which has contributed needed transportation money which could not be raised by subscription among new yorkers mr simon added that as the number ot applications now averaged 50 a day he not advertise again at present but probably would in about three weeks he remarked that he did not to violate the neutrality laws and he did not desired to say anything about the possibility ot abo red cross re joining the boer military service as he bad nothing to do with that |