New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-06
Canvass by Business Men
Adds 1S6 Members TO
Association
FITTING ADORNMENT
OF WHITE WAY IS AIM
War Fund Increased 4,boO
in First Day OF
Recruiting

come. nov. gentlemen said Z Ross
Aprleton. president OF the Security
Rank a New York. director Of the
Chatham and Phoenix National and
other institutions. come, now, '"e
mice Is trifnc. the benefits enormous.
s passab.e, picturesque sreeJ. sIee'
,vslts eubvave. etc. all for S25. NO
samples. no discount, certified cne'"s
you can't lose" declared samuel
Wsllach. OF Wallsch Brothers. nink
Of being able 70 walls on Broadway
without twisting your ankles. lha'
night. S25. Sign here, please
such appeals as these ADDRESSED yes
tsrdav 20 business men q Broacway oy
no prom .nent merchants, manufaeiur-
efs. bankers and professional men
along the thoroughiare resulted IN
adding iS6 new members 70 the Broad
WAY Association and S4,65o 10 the
association treasury.
This SQUAD o. Broadway boosters
yrobably the wcalthiest statesmen that
over followed a prospect, LETT tne
headouarters Of the association IN the
Hotel Martinique on the first day OF
recruiting. with the avowed purpose OF
",yheedrng. urging, Kidnapping or 9TH
oruise obtaining" cwo thousand Jew
members for the organization, so that
hv force Of numbers they might 'get
broadway out Of the trenches not
"bv Christmas" but as soon as pos
siblc.
Against Belgian Blocks
With that section Of the new subway
attending from Nesey Street to Thirty,
fourth Street e5 per cent completed
and with the new Forty-second street
and Broadway station practically nm,
isbed. Inc association recently decided
1ron vigorous action to prevent the
rcroyitrc Of the Great White Way with
Belgian blocks, as is provided by he
.,rms OF the dual subway contract.
Some smooth, durable, slightly ana
uciSe-redCcing pavement which VIII cN-
tend unbrokenly from the Battery 70
Vonkers is required, together with SUIT
sbl, lighting in the dim downtown sec
ton and .reeS and gfars plots along
the far reaches OF the thoroughiare 10
the north.
To impress this need upon their fell
low Broadway business men and induce
them TO ioin the association and work
for a rejuvenated thoroughfare, nifty
committees. each consisting of three
prominent members of the organiza-
zion. will canvass the famous street
from end 10 end before Saturday next.
With its membership reinforced the
association will appear before the Board
OF Estimate and Apportionment and ask
that sufficient sum be appropriated TO
provide Broadway with the prophecies
rssential TO any self-resp ecting thor
outhfare. and doubly necessary TO the
reputation OF the worlds most famous
ereet
DR.. Zagat Lands Thirty-nine
Following their morning Of canvass
.ng the sales squad" reported TO the
Martinique yesterday for luncheon, COM
n6ndation or consolation.
Or. Paul II. Zagat turned in thirty
nine new memberships. Commisera-
ION rewarded Daniel Frohman, who eX-
nlained that theatrical folk were late
risers and were sverse TO being inter-
viewed in bed. How Marc Klaw could
leave The Big Show" at the Hippo
drome and return before nightfali with
seven new memberships was mystery,
n. s. Duncan, proprietor of the Hotel
Continental, lost his fellow boosters be-
tween Churchills' and the park, but en-
rolled eleven new members during his
wanderings Frank D. Waterman emp
led one Of his famous fountain pens
eigning up new members. others IN
the recruiting squad were:
q. J. GUIDE, who literally paints"
Broadway with signs; August Jennson,
of the Hofbrau House; J. b. Vandeyer.
president of the Rotary Club; P. W.
Meade, whose motor buses, it is hoped,
will soon run on Broadway as well as
Fifth Avenue; c. A. B. Pratt, of the Nc
Alpin; F. A. Muschenheim, Of the As
tor; Wesley NJ. Oler, Of the Knicker::
booker Ice Company; John David and
William H. r rowning, Of Browning,
King g. Co.