The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-22
PROOFS OF PATRIOTISM.
substantial Loyalty of the Ameri
can Business Men.

substantial Loyalty oil the A"er
can Business Men.
New York, April 22-New York mer-
chants and corporations have begun to
give the soundest kind of proof of their
loyalty to the United States.
Week before last the New York Life
Insurance Company5 Through its direct
ors, offered to the President of the United
States loan of SIC, 900, 900 on the Govern
ment's own terms. ~
Similar action was taken by other in
surance companies in and out of the city.
| The Aetna. of Hartford, was conspicuous
among them. Then Wall Street was
heard from. Several who make their liv-
] ing in that part of town have offered
! private yachts to the Government at the
! Governments own price, or at no price
/ at all, some of them merely asking that
! their yachts be returned when the Navy
! has no further need for them in as good
/ condition when they were turned over
Washington +. Common and some of his
! friends suggested Wall Street regi-
/ ment. The original idea was to equip a
1 regiment and support ii in the field. The
/ movement quickly outgrew any such lin
]
/ gifts of money. The voices of many bank
I ers and brokers who wanted to see fight
/ ing for themselves were heard. Their
! employees wanted to go, too. Many OF
/ them were already connected with mil
! itia organizations. These young men al!
| wanted to know whether If they went to
/ fight they would find any place waiting
/ for them when they came back. The
/ answer of the employers was quick and
decisive.
Bell & Company and Holmes & Com
pany led off.
/ GO as soon as you are called they
said, land stay az long as you are need
! ed. When you come back your places will
I be waiting for you
The executive committee of the Ameri-
can Surety Company met on Thursday
! and passed resolutions providing that any
of its men who were members of the Ma
/ tional Guard were authorized 20 go out
I with their regiments with leave OF alb
I sence and the fullest confidence that their
places would be held open for them.
1t has become known that practically
all the national banks in the city have
treasured their employees in a similar way.
Among the first to take this step were
the Gallatin, the Chase. the City, the
Bank of North America and the Hanover.
! The Chemical Bank made its policy
I known almost two weeks ago. 1t promised
| not only leave of absence and "a place
I when the soldier returned, but to pay
his family his fun salary while he was
gone.
/ The American Express Company told
1 H. -,
I families or authorized representatives
half their salaries for as long as they
were absent from their employment be-
I cause the country needed them.
No stronger evidence of the unanimity
I of the patriotic impulse throughout the
city could be offered than that fur
I nished by the Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company. British cor
. poration which has notified its clerks
that any of them who wants to go to the
| front is free to do SO. without feeling
/ that he will endanger the permanency
Of his situation.
John Wanamaker set the merchants
. of the country an example on April J.
(, He announced that all OF his men who
4 were National Guardsmen would con-
/ tinue in his employ on fun pay while
| they were in the Government service,
and that he would insure their lives
against the perils of battle in the sum
of 81. 900 each. He added that he did not
+ believe I'm encouraging his employees in
anything he would not do himself and
/ that il was his purpose to equip regi-
ment and lead IL in person.
Other merchants have taken UP the
idea with enthusiasm.
Sweetser Pembroke e. Co, wholesale
I drygoods merchants, gave a written no.
1 tice like Mr.. Wanamaker's to their Ma
I tional Guard employees today. except that
/ they did not repeat his insurance offer.
/ Ehrichs & Co. have announced that fight
/ ing employees will retain their places. The
( big drygoods houses in Newark and Pat
. erson have done the same.
over in Brooklyn Abraham & Strauss.
the Fulton Street dry goods merchants.
( did not stop at telling their National
J Guard employees that they might go. but
( practically ordered them to go in a cir
I Cular which promised them reinstate-
ment on their return and full pay during
their absence.
New York has not a monopoly of pa
{ trioiism The Prudential Insurance Com
pany, o, Newark. has taken the trouble
/ to notify its policy holders that it will
waive any technical right it may have
! to dispute claims due to death in battle.
! 1t has also followed the example of the
New York corporations with regard 10
/ leave of absence.
Big Paterson dry goods houses have
joined i'm the movement.
dispatch from Chicago says that the
authorities Of the Michigan Central Rail-
road have notified all the company's en-
/ ployes that those who go to the war will
retain their situations. The roads with
which the Michigan Central is allied. SO
! ii is said. have agreed to issue similar
manifestoes