Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-04-28
$4,000 IS THE
GOAL SET FOR
TODAY'S FUND
Mr.. McCarter, of Executive
Committee, Enthusiastic Over
Collections.
URGES NO LET-DOWN
IN AMOUNTS ASSESSED
Want Women to Give, Too, An
nouncing Mrs. McCarter's
Subscription.

With at least $4,000 as their goal
today, the business men acting sas
collectors for Newark's 250th anniver-
sary celebration fund started out this
morning with high spirits for the sec
ond days canvass. They were cheered
by the fact that they obtained the
pledges for $780, .459 yesterday as their
initial effort.
That at least $50, 900 will be SUBJ
scribed today looked more certain
when Uzal H. McCarter, chairman of
the executive committee. announced
that he had secured a voluntary
pledge of $1,000 over the telephone be-
fore leaving his office for the meeting
this morning.
When the meeting of collectors was
called Mr.. McCarter addressed them
and said that the result of yester-
days collections had been exceedingly
gratifying, in view of the fact that
the teams were new at the work and
had not yet had time to get into their
stride. A resolution was passed
thanking the newspapers of Newark
for the assistance they had given in
aiding the campaign and Mr. McCar-
ter declared the support had been
magnificent.
Considerable enthusiasm was
aroused when Mr.. McCarter reported
a subscription of s100 from his wife,
He urged other members of the COM
mittee to give subscriptions for their
wives, as he said the moral support
of the women would thus be enlisted
and other women would be encour-
aged to make subscriptions.
In commenting upon the manner in
which the collectors were received
Mr.. McCarter said:
Members of the committee were
received in a most open-hearted man
ner, except in one case. / want to
say right here that we would rather
have the whole thing fail than to
have any of our members rebuffed
or insulted. 1t is not necessary that
they should be, as they are doing a
service not for themselves, but for
the city.
yesterday a young lawyer in one
of the big office buildings was called
upon by q member of the committee.
The committeeman entered the office
and asked for the lawyer, whom we
will call Mr.. A. He was informed
that the lawyer was out and might
never return. A short time later the
committeeman had occasion to go
into the same office to see man
whom we win call Mr.. B. After talk
ing to Mr.. B. he asked for Mr.. A.
iletl 10 llC, oetd Eflt d. POAiiLliiG
to the man who had declared a short
time before that Mr.. A. Was out and
might never return. 1t was just a
case where the young lawyer lied
to save himself from being asked for
subscription"
Mr.. McCarter announced that the
committee did not desire any of the
collectors to take less from a given
citizen than the amount which had
been put down opposite his name on
the prepared lists. Yesterday Mr..
Carter said that if collector could
not get SIS from a man he might
take SIS. Now he says that he has
been converted and thinks that If
the collectors allow themselves to be
paid off with smaller amounts it will
be made easier for the others to stand
off the collectors.
The committeeman have been in
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