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Show DRAFT LOTTERY IS HELD ATGAPITAL PRESIDENT WILSON DRAWS THE FIRST NUMBER FROM CLASS LOTTERY EOWL. Firbt Number Drawn, 322, Was Low Enojgh to Touch the List of Nearly Every Local Draft board in the Country. Washington.-- 'I'lii draw jug of order iiiiiiiIm-is I'm- i lit- lii.ixiu.OOU draft registrants regis-trants enrolled S i -j I -1 1 1 1 i -1- l' was 1 ri .-l Monday. September 'M, liy I'l esjilclit W ilson. J ' I i 1 1 1 1 I I -a 1. tin- president groped lull the great glass lot r i-ry bow I and drew out DIM of 17,0H) capsules. It contained ii slip numbered :JL''J, thus gilng hi iiifii holding (hat serial number num-ber first place in iliclr respective classes afier registrants already class-, class-, Hied 1 1 IX If r previous registrations. 'I'll- number was low enough to touch tin- list of eory local draft lioaril in tin country except one or two of tin-cry tin-cry smallest. Nice President .Marshal drew the second uunthcr, tiuil was followed by sixteen other notables who hail been Invited lii parlicipale. Officers and enlisted en-listed men of Ihe army, assisted hy a corps of tellers, then settled down to the task of emptying t Ik' how I. The iJOOII numbers had been drawn anil recorded re-corded before 4 o'clock. The drawing continued almost without interruption through the night. Only Ihe lirst 100 numbers were Hashed to Ihe country by telegraph, because of the I mpriict ieabi li I y of telegraphing all of Ihe 17.000. Ihe press hail been asked to refrain from sending more than UK) numbers. The complete master lists were to In' mailed as soon as Ihe drawing was over to district draft boards throughout through-out I Ik- country to be intuit- public by them There was an interested crowd to witness the opening ceremony, hut tin-interest tin-interest was rather in the participation participa-tion than in the drawing itself, for I lie cliissiflcal ion system which determines deter-mines Ihe stains of Ihe registrants has made Ihe order numbers relatively unimportant. un-important. The presidenl. with .Mrs. Wilson, reached Ihe caucus room just before noon. All was in readiness for Undrawing, Un-drawing, including a buttery of cameras cam-eras thai reached across the room directly di-rectly before the bowl. This bowl, the one used in the original draft lottery, lot-tery, Inid been brought from its place lit Independence hall, Philadelphia, for the occasion. Hefore milking his explanatory statement. Provost Marshal tleneral Crowdcr whispered Id' the president that In his ease the blind, always worn' by those dm wing numbers, would be dispensed with. Mr. Wilson said lie thought it would be better to make no 'exception in his case, so the blindfold made from u slip of cloth that oovared li chair used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence was adjusted ad-justed as the president approached the bowl. The crowd applauded as No. 3--was announced, and the president returned re-turned to his sent to watch the remainder remain-der of the ceremony. After the lirst number had been drawn and recorded the next fifteen numbers were drawn, in order, by Vice President Marshal, Senator Saulsbury, president pro tempore of the senate: Speaker Clark, Secretary Daniels, Acting Act-ing Secretary Crowell of the war department. de-partment. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon anil Representative Pent of Alabama, chairman of the senate and bouse military committees: Represon-lative Represon-lative Kabn of California, the ranking liepublican of the house committee : l Jem-rnl March, chief (d' staff of the army : Admiral Benson, chief of operations oper-ations of the navy; Lieutenant Gen-eral Gen-eral Young, retired ; Provost Marshal (ieneral Crowder and Colonels Warren. Wigniore and Keefer of- General Yowder's staff. |
