Evening star., 1915-03-27
FUNDS ARE NEEDED
|. FOR DISTRICT FIGHT
Data Must Be Prepared for
Submission to Congressional
Finance Probers. ,
POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION
PLAN DECIDED UPON
Various Commercial Organizations
and Citizens Federation Pro-
pose to Cooperate.


At recent meeting Of the citizens
Joint committee on tho financial Ee,a
tions between the District Of Columbia
and the national government 1t be
came apparent that considerable money
would be required to bear the expenses
of accountants. statisticiane. stenoe-
raphers, etc. in preparing such data
as, would enable the executive COM
mittee to present the side OF the Dis
trict to the joint select committee or
Congress, recently appointed by Con
gress.
This matter was referred to the
finance committee and considered by
it at a recent meeting attended by Ed
win C. Brandenburg, Corcoran Thorn,
z. r. Colladay and Z. Il. S. Embrey.
At that meeting the consensus of opin-
lon was that there should be a popular
subscription to defray these expenses.
inasmuch as every property holder
in the District of Columbia is ritally
Interested.
Contributions Desired.
The various organizations. through
to contribute, while every property
holder will be urged to contribute
small sum. The committee felt strong
Iy that a popular subscription of small
sums-say from 81 to s5-would inn
press the committee of Congress far
more favo-ably, as indicating the IN
terest of every property holder ana
citizen of the District. than II fhes"
expenses were met bv few con
tributors.
with a view to expediting this mat
ter Mr.. Brandenburg. as president or
the Board of Trade. has appointed the
membership committee OF the board a.
a speciaI committee to solicit contribu1
tions from the board members for. thas
purpose. This committee was desigha1 "
ed instead of a new committee because
1t is a very active committee ana thn thaue
ghly familiar with the situation anc
with members OF the Board Of Trade
Members Of Committee.
This committee which will have the
matter in charge has for its chairman
Edward F. Colladay and the. follow
ing members: Charles F. Crane, hrst
vice chairman; F. E. Cunningham, sec
ond vice chairman; Richard L. Conner.
secretary; Clarence R. Ahalt. Harry +
Almond. e. B. Asher, n. Ciinord ans sangs'
Stacy H. Briant, Correl e. Brooks. Ed
win R. Brooks, Walter NJ. Brown. ;Ly-
man E. Burdine. William Z. Burns.
John NJ: Cherry. Harry q Clahin: ben.
Clarence Duffey. Walter [. Elliot.
Leonard H. English. John r. Ergood.
G j. Gockeier, Eugene c; Gott,
George W. Harris. John G. Hodges.
Arthur D. Joll. Guy II. Johnson. The
odore NJ. Judd, J. Edward Lewis.
George H. Macdonald. Edward H. Malt
| by, G. II. Markward, James L. Owens.
| Charles H. Pardoe, George Pitt, e. f.
Ramey, Duncan d. Ransdell, Charles =,
| Ravenburg. William A. Rogers. Gus A.
Schuldt. Frank A. Sebring. odell 5.
Stratton, Heber L. Thornton. Alexander
r. Varela, Frank H Walker, c. J
Waters, Michael A. Weller. Fred j.
White, Louis C. Wilson, Bert V. Wolfe
and Edmund S. Wolfe.
Retailers Will Act.
The Retail Merchants Association is
to announce tonight the personnel or
its committee, to be appointed to CO
operate with the citizens joint com
mittee in raising funds with which to
defray the expenses of the investiga~
ton Absence from the city OF r. P.
Andrews, president OF. the association
has delayed the selection of this com
mittee.
The Builders and Manufacturers Ex-
change has appointed E. r. S. Enbrey.
its president, and W. T. Galliher as
special committee to represent the eN-
change In the membership of the citi-
zens' Joint committee. A finance com
mittee, which is to have charge of the
collection of funds, has also been
named, the committee consisting of G.
A. Bennett, Joseph l.. Crupper. Giles
Byer, John II. Galloway, Harry West.
w A. Thomas, Alden Smoot, George j.
Jones, William Wimsatt and John B.
Flick.
Plans to Cooperate.
The Federation OF Citizens Assoc!a-
tions is also completing plans for ac-
tive cooperation and financial assist
ance, and its committee on raising
funds is to be selected with few
days.
At a meeting to be held Monday aft
ernoon the Chamber of Commerce
committee to solicit funds Is to BE-
chosen, and plans are to be discussed
for the fullest cooperation with the
citizens joint committee.