The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-20
NEARLY $4,000 IS
RAISED N CANVASS
rRachmcud Must Work Earnestly This
week to Complete Fund For
Greater Memorial
IT'LL LONG WAY FROM GOAL
Yesterdays Work Melted More Ihan
~ .o0o-ymety Thousand stiii to
Raise ana Campaign Is Scheduled
to Close Next Saturday.


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Contributions announced yesterday
Tar the Greater Memorial Hospital
Campaign Fund amounted TO VI
osa.bo. bringing the grand total up to
$iss.ssv.os.
Subscriptions given In during the
day are as follows:
In memory of Mrs. Joseph Bryan.
$4,000 additional: total. $4,000; G.
X. G.. Billings, $1,000. Rev. George
\. w. Mcdaniel. .. p, pastor OF the lrs s
Baptist Church. 800; Woman's Auxii-
Ar COMMITTED. OF which Mrs. Mar
care. Kuyk is chairman. sass SO; F.
W Hessherg, s25. Bedford Pulp and
Z paper Company, 5000: Mrs. Malvern
G. Patterson team, si20, Mr.. Laugh
ton's team. s2G6, W. C. holland 8
team. $3.50: Independent Workers,
ssg2; NJ. r. Murphy. $50, Simon sycle
and Mrs r. V. Sycle. 800: Professor
". r. Rudds team, SIS: DR.. Paul W.
Howle's team Qncluding DR.. Gren-
mans teaul. $3.50. A Friend, SIS; DIR.
A. Murat Willis team. $780, Jones
Brothers Company. $50; w. c. Cot
treits team, s2Fs.
IAexet, and Myers Employees Help.
Al the luncheon yesterday it was
announced by General Chairman
Thomas I. Moore that a letter had
been received from the Liggett and
Myers Tobacco Company saying that
subscriptions had been taken among
the employees on Saturday and that
$3.50 had been raised Another coll
lection. Il was said. Will be taken, and
the whole amount will be turned In
I on Saturday. The colored employees
I in this factory are few in number.
: yet. the letter stated. they contributed
from their weeks wages SIS.
Other tobacco factories, machine
and railroad shops and other places
! of general industry. will be solicited.
and 10 everyone an opportunity TO
give will be offered.
There is only one thing lacking,
said w T. Dabney, business manager
OF the Chamber or Commerce. We
are not soliciting all those who ought
10 give and who would deem 1t a
privilege to make donation The
fault does not lie with you. You are
working with all your vim and
strength, and | congratulate you on
your success so far. But II you know
others who may he interested In this
great movement but who are less ac-
tive because the need has not been
brought home to them, tap them on
the shoulder and suggest to them what
+ a great opportunity they have. Tell
them that YOU are meeting with sue
cess. and urge them 10 help in one
OF he greatest efforts Richmond has
ever put forth, Fear no man. Tell
everyone that you are not asking a
favor but that you are giving them
an opportunity to contribute towards
dire and vital need So will YOU
4 succeed. and | bid you God speed in
your la Dor to help those who need
your aid
The talk WAS inspirational. and he
workers gathered together afterwards
and made individual and collective
promise that their effort would be
u unceasing until the $4,000 had been
collected
ss Mrs Margaret Kuyk chairman Of
the Womens Auxiliary Committee
asks that other women volunteer &c
work in their own nctghborhoods, sc
M that none who may be willing TO give
will hsve her heart unlocked and her
I'm purse strings united. The Women's
VI Auxiliary has done and Is doing a bis
AZ work Mrs Stuart Michaux spent the
morning working on Church Hill
q where she said she was welcomed and
courteouslv received. She brought II
81 &54 80 as a result Of the morning:
work, Mrs. / n Vaughn, reportinf
NJ tor Mrs Malvern c. Patterson. an
Il nounced that Mrs Pattersons team
sss had collected $40. making tota
the auxiliary ef more than $500
49, Negroes Much Interested.
Mrs Norman V Randolph. wht
gs goes every day TO Johnsons Hall. II
West Leigh street, 10 work among
sssthe negroes, reported a collection OF
T IS from the Patterson Tobacco Com
ssa% pAny and IS from the Janitor Of the
Medical College of Virginia. Mrs
Randolph said that all the negroes
s.sAad become vastly interested In this
j movement and that they are work
~ ing heart and soul TO aid In building
- greater hospital She asked that so.
ss3icitors be sent among tho negroes II
the tobacco factories. and she was as
sured by W. T. Reed that the factor,
doors would be open. though he sug-
gested that the subscriptions be taker
Vi up by the foreman in the various de
partments.
The colored people. Mrs Randolph
announced will give a concert in the
True Reformers Hall on Thursda,
night to aid in the effort. Seats viii
be reserved for the white people. and
Mrs Randolph urged that they come
20 that the negroes might witness evi-
dencs OF the white peoples desire Il
build q hospital which would serve
10th races. The negroes are ryste-
matixing their work. and they are
calling upon their people In every par
OF the State to help. Hundreds OF
letters have been sent out One Ii
70 be addressed to Mrs Waldorf As
tor, In England, who Mrs. Randolph
n knows TO be interested In he'weifars
Of the negro race. Solicitation among
the coiored people will be carried or
ii through the summer, for they wan
TO do their part.
A note OF encouragement wae sound
"a by Coleman r. Wortham, president
81 the Chamber of Commerce. by "
r. Reed, by w. T. Dabney and by
others who have become Interested.
Every worker was urged to redoubie
his effort ana to have others Join in
the movement.
The campaign ends on Saturday
More than half the amount WAS raised
IN the first week of the whiriwind
canvassing. and the committees are