WWI - Excerpts from The Times Picayune - May 5 & May 10, 1917 -- Orleans Parish
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Source:  Times Picayune - May 5 & May 10, 1917
Date:  August 2003

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Excerpts from The Times Picayune                 May 5, 1917

MAJ. FRENCH STOPS LOCAL RECRUITING FOR SUMMER CAMP

Recruiting for the officers' training camp at Fort Logan H. Roots,
Ark., closed at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.  The full quota of 2500 men
needed in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana was reached Thursday and
General Pershing ordered all recruiting stopped from Southern department
headquarters at Fort Sam Houston.  The Leon Springs camp for citizens of
Texas and Oklahoma reached its full quota a week ago.

The recruits who were accepted and certified by Major French Friday
were not given dates for reporting to the training camp, but were told to
return to their positions to await a call from department headquarters.
This was also in accordance with instructions received from General
Pershing's headquarters.

The largest crowd that has appeared at the office, 901 Hibernia
Building, on any single day since the recruiting started was present Friday.
The news that the government would pay the prospective officers $100 per
month while in camp made a strong appeal.  Ninety-six were accepted during
the morning, the largest number that has been certified since the opening of
the office.

New Orleans will furnish 308 men for the camp that opens May 8 and the
ninety-six others who were certified Friday will be called into training
before the end of the summer, it is expected.

Those accepted Friday who will be called into service later on are:

Herbert H. Lester, Bogalusa, La.; H. B. Lush, 117 1-2 West Main street,
Jackson, Tenn.; L. Henry Baudean, 2170 Esplanade avenue; Sidney S.
Lapeyrouse, 718 Bellecastle; Edouard Trepagnier, 2561 LePage street; Mills
Evans, 344 Lowerline street; Percy P. White, 8531 Sycamore street; Charles
Jacob Wyler, 530 Jackson avenue; Roy A. Schroder, 549 Pacific Jackson
avenue; William Boiselle, 2334 Milan street; Jos. W. Joachim, 636 Second
street; Douglas Fleming, Barataria, La.; Sherard Brisband, 1707 Esplanade
avenue; A. Fox Deloney, Bogalusa, La.; Clifford L. Andrus, 1023 Cambronne
street; Geo. M. Andrus, 1023 Cambronne street; Geo. M.  Eckols, 515 Avenue
H, Crowley, La.; Pierre F. Choppin, 1772 Prytania street; Paul S. Stuart,
2139 Gen. Taylor; John R. Borgman, 700 Baronne street; C. F. Campbell,
Bogalusa, La.; Frank A. Abadie, 920 St. Ann; Clarence L. Black, Bogalusa,
La.; Ernest Dennis Dupont, Houma, La.; William Henderson Norman, Aurora
Plantation Station; Oswald L. Seiler, 538 Nashville avenue; Chas. Karst,
Jr., 941 Royal street; Robt. F. Reynolds, Jr., 4005 Prytania street; Raoul
Prudhomme, 4116 Prytania street; Richard T. Boll, Logansport, La.; John C.
Bush, 6911 Pitt street; Bernard Cunniffe, room 103, new courthouse building;
Walter L. Clarke, 1513 St. Charles avenue; Alfred B. Walter, Jr.,
Napoleonville, La.; Ferdinand F. Torren, Thibodaux, La.; John A. Crockett,
1553 Calhoun street; Herman L. Barnett, 1722 Louisiana avenue; Meyer Koltum,
2711 Peniston street; George E. Ferrandou, 3932 Coliseum street; David H.
Culligan, 305 L. and L. and G. building; Israel J. Korne, Thibodaux, La.;
William F. M. Meadors, Houma, La.; Claude Mauberret, 3435 Canal street;
Clarence Lester Newton, Amite, La.; B. Lysle Aschaffenburg, 4900 St. Charles
avenue; Warren C. Voelker, 2410 Bienville street; Samuel A. Blair, care New
Orleans Item; Albert Goldstein, 1472 State street; Edwin A. Sullivan, 3223
Banks street; Felix F. Tranchina, 1601 St. Charles avenue; Alfred F. Bayhi,
1420 North Robertson street; Harold Colton, 633 Piety street; William F.
Kopfler, Amite, La.; Elmer Alvin McCluskey, 331 Atlantic avenue; John James
Brown, 1816 Marengo street; Edward L. Clark, 1323 Louisiana avenue; James K.
Bagley, 4174 Iberville street; William Shiell, Jr., 7021 Jeannette street;
Edw. A. McGuinness, 1602 Carondelet street; William J. Henderson, 7915 Plum
street; Allen Cox, Baldyn, Miss.; Lawrence J. Baldwin, care A. Baldwin &
Co., Ltd.; Richard A. Dowling, 2531 Chartres street; Sidney L. Sambola, 2279
St. Claude avenue; John Sterken, 620 Soniat street; John Allen Colomb,
Donaldsonville, La.; Gustave P. Walker, 3117 Constance street; William F.
Rightor, Jr., 120 South Cortez street; Michel Provosty, 8181 Plum street;
Jules Claude Meraux, Meraux, La.; Thomas John Carey Jr., 1204 Hibernia Bank
building; Julius W. Friend, 1307 Palmer avenue; Cuthbert S. Baldwin, 1801
Valmont street; Charles Thorn Baldey, 1107 Fern street; Charles B. Williams,
7807 Elm; Harris J. Foret, Bogalusa, La.; Milton M. Salaun, 1625 Esplanade
avenue; Arthur O. Ford, Homer, La.; Paul Lawrence Ford, 3705 Canal street;
Frederic D. King, Jr. 1418 Seventh street; L. C. Shiell, 7821 Jeannette
street; Cervus T. Blakely, Coal Hill, Ark.; Carroll J. Travis, Box 179;
Michael J. Gilmore, 2623 Lapeyrouse street; John W. Veith, 2522 Napoleon
avenue; Lewis R. Graham, 413 Hennen building; Albert H. Porsch, 1101 St.
Charles avenue; Harry Bingham Jackson, Littleton, N. H.; Herbert B. Mayer,
1725 Burdette street; Ora A. Daigle, Alexandria, La.; Wallace H. Stratton,
1685 Soniat street; Sougeron C. Drouet, 2025 Chestnut street; John E.
Burgoyne, 2337 [or 2837] Marengo street; Maurice M. Goldberg, 5007 Prytania
street; William A. Freret, Jr., 1317 Octavia street; Philo Allcott, Jr., 425
Gravier street.

BOY HELD HERE FOR DEATH OF RECRUIT

On complaint of the mother of Louis Elmer Gravois, the 17-year-old
Washington Artillery recruit who was killed by a bullet from a 22-caliber
revolver in his home Wednesday morning, Louis Negueloua, 14, who was in the
room at the time of the shooting, was arrested Friday.  Prior to the
arrest, the shooting was said to have been done accidentally by Gravois
himself.

Mrs. Gravois told the police she and others at Louis Gravois' funeral
heard young Negueloua say he was responsible for the shooting.  The boy was
arrested at his home, 1033 Louisa street, by Police Sergeant J. J. Cearns.
He was charged in the Juvenile Court with shooting and killing his friend.
He was released subsequently on $500 bond signed by Captain Dunn of the fire
department, his uncle.

When brought before Judge Andrew Wilson the boy denied having made the
statement attributed to him by Mrs. Gravois.  He stuck to the story, told
immediately after the shooting, that Louis Gravois shot himself accidentally
while demonstrating how a soldier is taught to shoot.

According to a verdict reached by Coroner O'Hara Friday, after
examining Negueloua, the Gravois boy was a victim of a bullet fired by his
own hand accidentally.

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Excerpts from The Times Picayune                 May 10, 1917

FIRST DETAIL GOES TO TRAINING CAMP FOR ARMY OFFICERS

Bound for Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark., to undergo the strenuous
experience of being made into United States army officers, 140 men of New
Orleans -- the first detail from this city to go to the training camp --
left here over the Texas and Pacific railway Wednesday afternoon.  The men
who filled the six pullman coaches include members of many prominent New
Orleans families enrolled here with Major Charles G. French to serve as
officer material.

As the train proceeds by way of Alexandria, Monroe and Pine Bluff,
other cars will be picked up and it is expected upon it arrival at the camp
more than 200 men will be aboard.  The special will reach camp early
Thursday morning.

The men, accompanied by parents, wives or sweethearts, who went to see
them leave, began to arrive at the station at Thalia and Annunciation
streets at noon.  By the time the train was ready to go the entire detail
had reported.

On arrival at the camp, the "rookies" will receive clothing and
equipment and will be assigned to quarters, if the custom at other
officers' camps be followed, a rigid physical examination will be made of
each man and there may be some rejections.  After that, clothing and
equipment will be issued and quarters assigned.  Gymnasium work and class
instruction will be the first duties.

Arrangements for the special train were made by O. B. Webb, district
passenger agent of the Texas and Pacific, who also will have charge of the
arrangements for the men leaving Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  Mr. Webb
announced the following assignment to cars in Wednesday's train:

J. R. Dalgran, Foster Olroyd, Jr., J. L. Kelly, W. L. Kattman, W. W.
Montague, J. C. Kraemer, M. Garsaud, L. D. Spotswood, P. J. Treleaven, C. E.
Joubert, W. W. Maddox, A. J. Taylor, R. H. Hiller, E. Hotard, Ivan Picard,
J. Harrison Duncan, H. Stern, David Ewing, L. Conner, T. J. McGhee, W. S.
Behrman.

J. N. Jackson, C. P. Huggins, B. W. Miller, W. C. Jones, A. A.
Provosty, P. L. Godchaux, R. A. Shape, W. M. Matthews, Jr., H. H. Potts, Val
Westerhaus, J. P. Longmire, L. Provosty, H. Kernan, W. E. Urquhart, T. J.
Feibleman, C. E. Gillis, Harry Falwell, M. A. West, Jr., L. P. Hickey, F.
Kernan, E. R. Weeks.

Guy Fenner, G. F. Wharton, Jr., L. Stone, Charles G. Battalora, Jr.,
Charles S. Rhodes, L. Saxon, M. de Reyna, G. B. Achorn, C. Jones, J. D.
Mallon, W. A. Dixon, H. M. Hayne, C. R. Howard, N. V. Bertel, J. Green, A.
G. Reese, H. E. Shamberg, E. G. Sabine, D. D. Watters, D. M. Wright, J. E.
Douglass, J. H. Friend, A. A. Marx, Jr., G. Marshall, A. Chapman, W. K.
Smardon, C. W. Osenach, E. C. Rowan.

J. G. Campbell, W. Ferguson, O. Gomez, L. Rash, W. B. Monroe, A.
Kauffman, J. Weckerling, William Bruce Harp, K. S.  Bartzer, Kerwin, A. M.
West, Jr., D. N. Parker, J. B. Hammond, T. J. Gruenwald, A. M. Coe, Abbott,
E. T. Morriss.

J. O'Brien, W. S. J. Savage, E. N. Kirkpartrick, E. Wellington, L. W.
Carter, H. F. Bott, J. C. Brent, S. E. Levy, M. C. Callender, Milton
Shaeffer, R. L. Smart, G. H. Maginnis, M. Heard, Sumter Cousin, Egbert
Savage, F. J. Long, R. J. Valle, W. L. M. Austin, L. M. Saucier, A. W. Kidd,
J. C. Casserly, G. J. Cousin, F. R. Perrin, B. D. Raines.

H. J. Boyle, H. E. Darton, W. J. McGurie, W. A. Ponder, M. DePass, P.
J. Donnes, G. A. Villere, Jr., Wilson Williams Jr., C. J. Plaisance, W. F.
Tebbetts, C. C. McClure, B. L. Lewis, Jules Fontana, P. M. Vernon,
Magnatziky, J. A. Stouse, M. James Levy, L. Schwabacher, N. Y. Kemper, Jr.,
H. C. True, R. H. Richard, J. B. Kaplan, G. J. Young, F. W. Kopfler, H. H.
Hargrove, N. H. Hebert, Jr., Tom Grayson, D. P. Fouridaux, C. Naylor