Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-13
OLEC|TY HEtOUP;;
POCKETS YIELD coin
Tag Day. Highwaymen Let
None Escape Dragnet.
LADY BANDITS PROSPER
Quentin Roosevelt Lays White House
Callers Under Tribute.
FAIR ROBBERS LOOT BANKS
individuals, Dwellings, Stores, Auto
mobiles, Cats, Dogs and Other
Live Stock and Personal Eff
fects Bear Playground
Emblem.
LADY BANDITS PROSPER
Quentin Roosevelt Lays White House
Callers Under Tribute.
FAIR ROBBERS LOOT BANKS
Tag day, Buy a tag,

Tag day, Buy a tag
If you have not already been tagged
and tagged several times over on your
coat. on your house on your automobile.
on your store. on your carriage, on your
delivery wagon. in the street. in your
lunchroom in your Office. i'm front of your
house. at the theater-anywbere, in fact
well. you will be before half-past ,. For
the Tag day volunteers have clinched
their teeth for the final lap and are going
TO break all records in the last few hours.
1t would require a special edition to tell
the whole story of Tag day. With the
entire public school system working the
thoroughfares hundreds of ladies ringing
door bells in house-to house canvass.
prominent business men reverting to Tho
first principles of merchandising and ped
ding tags 10 fellow merchants. nigh
school boys jumping on the running
boards Of speeding automobiles, and pref
ty girls waylaying the most opdufdte
bachelors as they sneak to their othces,
the city today, has been and Is sun ann iuti
day charity scheme Washington has ever
seen.
The school BOYS were out before break
fast and went at the work WIN vim;
Tag day. headquarters had been opened
not twenty minutes before the frst scnool
bov hank was brought in by Chester Nc
MILAN and George Smith. They turned In
$l1.3S.
Quentin Roosevelt Busy.
The second boy was Quentin Roosevelt.
who emptied his bank of 500 and then
started out on a dead run for the White
House. There he has been tagging every
one in sight. He tagged 1913 persons up
to dinner time. the French ambassador
| being among those who took a tag from
The schoolboys are bringing in amounts
| from 81 up. High-water marx up TO naii-
mast / was $s275. brought In oy hdrl
| Hartig of the Technical high School ot
| this amount s. was In the form OF q
check from a lady whom he had followed
| into the house and refused 10 leave une"
| he had sold tag.
One of the prettiest features OF the DAY
was the bevy of young girls VINO RODE 10
! the White House with complimentary
tags for the President and Mr.. Loeo. Inc
| party consisted of Miss Helen Tucker.
Miss Hendrick, Miss Blake MISS merriam
and Miss Frances B. Johnston. VINO Is
responsible for the idea Of tagging The
| White House.
Mr.. Tolman of the firm of Thomas &
Tolman furnished the automobile and
| acted as chauffeur. Mrs. Wallace Rad
| cllne chaperoned the party.
| They were met at the White House by a
/
ed around the entrance and gave the
/ young women royal reception. Not one
of them escaped, being tagged all over
| again. i'm spite of the fact that quentin
| Roosevelt had got his work in early IN the
day.
! Unfortunately neither the President nor
Mr.. Loeb could spare the time TO see the
visitors. although they acknowledged the
| big complimentary tags. Before LEAVING
the delegation fastened tag on the
| White House door.
This did not daunt the ladies. for they
proceeded to tag every one who came INTO
because they had to make visit 10 the
banks. where they were the cause OF
many lessened deposit slip.
Ladies Loot the Banks.
At the Riggs Bank they went through"
every one from the president down. and
departed with little sack of coin. The
same crowd held up the Commercial and
the Union Savings Banks. carrying away
what professional bank robber would
consider a good haul.
At the Metropolitan Club four young
women entered this morning. much to the
dismay of the house servants. and refused
to bulge They boldly approached the
club men and not only sold them tags. but
sold them the privilege Of sitting in the
chairs by the window.
volunteers and helped catch the men who
tried to escape. One man endeavored to
get away in an open carriage. The young
| women rushed him, climbed into the car
riage and brought him back in triumph.
his coat dangling with tags
In nearly forty lunch rooms tags were
sold as pentifully as pie and sandwiches.
Some of the coffee urns we're draped with
the big ribbons marked Tag Day Volun-
teer.
| The ladies' committee has met with no
difficulty at all in tagging houses. They
are making their canvass in automobiles
| and house aholders are meeting them more
than half way. The ladies working on
| Massachusetts avenue sold one tag to a
house where they had received a ten-dol-
lar bill
Tags Give Out.
One of the busiest men in the city today
is A. c. Moses. chairman of the business
mems committee. His ear has been at
the telephone constantly since O'Clock
this morning and his office has been be-
sieged by committees and subcommitt aes.
He said today that the individual tags
had given out by 10 O'Clock and 3n.n0
more had to he printed i'm hurry. He
ha no difficulty i'm finding printers wap
offered to do the job instantly and With
out pay.
Contributions are coming in from al
|
| knowledge them until after the bank
clerks, under John B. Sleman, jr make
| their final count tonight.
| Checks for personal tags wera received
by various members of the committee this
| morning from scores cf interested people.
| among them being Mrs. NJ A Me ding.
81: Louis a. Witscwski. 81; +. S. Sten-
| wagen So; Mrs. Gordon Cumming. 50:
Mrs A H. Snow. SO: Harry Fuller. $40.
| |. Goldenberg of the business mems
committee sold thirty personal tags fer
s. rpiece. Joseph /. Saks brought in
$lO6 to Tag day headquarters early to-
| day.
The Evening Star received cash con-
| tribution of 81 today for the playground
| fund. Checks have also been received
| from President Roosevelt. 50: DR.. Lee.
| S5; Mrs Fish, s.; Mrs. Samuel Spencer.
| S5; Secretary Straus. SO.
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