Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-10
FiEd It Easy to Enroll Two
Hundred and One New Men,
bers Before Eleven O'Clock.
Out for -Four Hundred and
One - .
BIG THERMOMETER GIVES
. UP IN GREAT DISGUST
. Blues Lead in the Campaign,
but Their Red Rivals in the
Good Cause Press Them Very
Hard-Fine Work All Down
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Beginning at nine o'clock this
, morning the mercury In the big ther-
mometer outside the headquarters Of
the big Young Mems Christian Asso
citation campaign. on Fort street. rose
rapidly at the rate of one degree q
minute. and at eleven O'Clock had
reached the two hundred and one
mark, showing that the "201 members
on january l0'' had been secured Just
two hours after the campaign start
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Imbued with the spirit OF the occa-
sion, the members OF the Red and
Blue teams were on hand at an early
hour ready to begin the campaign,
and promptly at one minute before
nine O'Clock Chairman ToEse, of the
fnembershfp committee. aupounced
that twenty fiye OF the twenty-six,
teams were at work. and It that mo
ment Al. l.. c. Atkinson came in, and
he, with E. A.S& Mott-Smith, formed,
the twentysixth team. Everybody at
Headquarters was - busy. Captains
Augus aud Berndt took their stations
1T the Telephones oyeir which the fi9e..
minute rS6ofts we're coming In, while
A. &. Larimer. A. Ebersole and
Jay Urice furnished information and
took charge Of posting the returns
on the bulletins. Ed. Toyse and,
Charles r Frazier had charge Of the
solicitors and entered the new n1en1-
hers Crowds quickly gathered in
front of the big bulletin boards, one
OF which was located at headquarters
and the other IN HE window OF the
ONCE Supply Company.
Reports Slow ~ First. ~
At eleven minutes past nine o'clock
reports began to come in clowly a.
first, and then at such rate that one
OF the secretaries was continually posi-
ing the little red and blue men on the
bulletin board The mercury in the
thermometer leaped up and at nine.
fifteen O'Clock the Reds were credited
with three new members and the Blues
with twelve, making q total of fifteen
= 1t was at this point that the Blue
contingency took the lead and kept 1t
throughout the morning. When nine
thirty came around, things looked still
better and fourteen was the score Of
the Reds and twenty-one for the Blues.
making a total OF forty-one for both
teams. Every five minutes the telc
phone bells ring and the captains reg
istered an increasing number of new
members. At nipe-fifty the Reds re-
ported twenty and the Blues thirty
TWO. and in five minutes this number
was raised to an even sixty, the Reds
having overweight and the Blues
thirty-two. -:
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The full reports Of both teams came
into headquarters at ten o'clock, tie
Aseds having q total Of twenty-nine
and the Blues having jumped up tC
'forty-niIlet making q total of seventy,
eight i'm one hour, or more than one
a minute.
Things took big jump at this tima.
anu the headquarters took on an az
pearance OF an excited stock exchange
rather than an unassuming business
office. Many of the reports, as they
came in, were received with cheers by
the supporters OF the two parties who
we're doing the work, and excitement
ran riot for some length of time. At
ten forty-five o'clock the Reds hao
come to the front with eighty-seveE
new members to their credit, and the
Blues with eighty-five, making total
of one hundred and seventy-two. WheE
the standing of the individual teams
was figured up. 1t was found that team
No. Six of the Blue aggregation held
the lead.
Thermometer "6usts."
1t was one minute of eleven that
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