Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14
ALL REPORTS ARE NOT IN
Committee Expects to Receive Thou
sand Dollars More.
VOLUNTEERS KEPT VERY BUSY
Activity the Rule From Early Morn
ing Until Late Last Night.
Brunt of Battle.


at 1890 o'clock last night S5.Oo5.3O had
been counted and locked in the vault al
the Union Savings Bank as the result of
the canvass yesterday of the city for the
benefit of the Fairgrounds Association.
This amount was received as follows:
From the ladies' committee. $l,559. SO; busi-
ness men. $763.46: school children.
$2.641.41. and from sales at headquar-
ters. 81.
These figures show merely the money
counted until closing time last night.
Money will be coming in for the next two
days. and it is confidently expected the
total will reach $1,000.
Tagged From Head to Foot.
Washington was tagged from head to
foot by $50 o clock yesterday afternoon.
Early in the morning the volunteers
thronged the streets and sought pur-
chasers everywhere. By noon the spirit
Of holiday was i'm the air, and by night
it was a rare sight to see man or
woman untagged; a house, an automo-
bile, a store or carriage which did not
bear the mark.
The spirit with which the city took hold
of the scheme was remarkable. One week
ago not single specific plan had been
adopted. but yesterday morning the white
ribboned cohorts had taken possession
of the city and suburbs with the precision
and effectiveness of a trained and dis
ciplined army.
Hardly a single person refused to he
tagged. 1t is true. few individuals
showed their hands in their pockets and
pleasant: BUY a tag" But it was much
| safer to come up with a coin than TO be
pursued all day long-and finally the ma
jority of the doubling Thomases' ca
putulated.
The general impression is that most of
the personal tags were sold in the MORN
| ing. the ladies who stationed them
selves at the lunchroOms at noon found
nearly every one who entered had been
| tagged.
Volunteer Bank Clerks.
All day long the force of volunteer
| bank clerks. under the supervision OF
John 3. Sleman. jr., was counting the
| money which the volunteers brought in
1t was necessarily slow process, but the
! admirable system Of the improvised bank
| ing house was equal to the task.
Assisting Mr.. Sleman were Messrs Hol-
comb G. Johnson, Orville B. Drown. L.
f. Schreiner. II. Z. Warner. w. a. Whit
aker. j. w. Calvert. Charles w. Hanna
| Cuno II. Rudolph. Otto Luebkert, Miles
NJ. Shand and James l.. West.
The old cages of the National Metro
politan Bank served admirably in divid-
ing the force into sections.
The ladies' committee. business men :
committee and the school committee each
had separate cage into which to pass
the money. Each little metal bank had
to be unlocked. the great number of coins
poured out and counted. 4 separate slip
was made out for each bank and the slips
were afterWard totaled by squads or
divisions. Mr.. Sleman periodically gath
cred the slips and got them totaled on an
adding machine.
Interest in the result manifested itself
| in many ways. School teachers were call
| ing at Tag day headquarters all evening
and the temporary telephone rang con-
! stantly with requests as to the amount
received
The ladies' committee and business
| mems committee results were the first OBJ
| tanned. The school committee results
| were much more difficult TO get, owing
| to the large number of individuals con-
cerned.
MI. Clark Bestows Praise.
Supervising Principal c. s. Clark, in
charge of the schoolboy work was al
headquarters all day and up to a late
hour last night. In his shirt sleeves he
| stoo;, in the cage and counted coins with
the auroitnesS of trained bank clerk.
Mr.. Clark is very much pleased with The
work of his committee.
'~The keynote of our success lies in the
| loyalty of the teachers" he said. Their
| superiors called on them for Il big effort
| and they responded nobly.''
No one can doubt that the spirit of the
SchoOlboyS is responsible for large
measure Of the success of Tag day. The
boys were up early yesterday and hun
dreds of them fiocked 10 Headquarters
| several times during the day TO have
| their banks emptied and to get a new
supply of tags. They worked hard and
made good. One of the committee said
of them:
''These boys know whole lot. and
their knowledge cannot always be ac-
curately ascertained when We measure
| them by the multiplication table and the
school books. I have not heard of a
single boy who has not played the part
of good man in this days work
1t was the SchOolboys on the street
who bore the brunt of the battle as they
had the hardest work to do
The Star acknowledges receipt of s14
for the Fairgrounds fund-slO from Re
becca Lodge, Daughters of Israel, and
| cash 81.