Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-29
Demonstration Planned,
With Addresses by Cover
nor and Mayor
AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
Statesmen Will March-Police-
men and Others Answer APP
peal to City Employees
Toddy'S Big Subscribers
to u. S. Liberty Loan

tion on June that will eclipse anything
Of its kind in the annals of the city is the
man Of the Liberty Loan committee
Details are being worked out by the com.
r1ttee and Thursday the program will be
ready for publication.
ut will be one of the outstanding fea-
tures of the Liberty Loan campaign in this
city" was the announcement made by the
Publicity Bureau at noon.
Although few of the preliminary details
are available, it was loaTned today that
the demonstration will start with a mass
meeting at Independence Hall. Governor
Brumbaugh and Mayor Smith will repre-.
sent the state and city and in the list of
speakers will be men prominent in many
lelds Of endeavor
STOTESBURY MAY LEAD
parade from independence Hall
through the downtown section will follow
The committee will request T. T. Stotes-
bury to be marshal, and promises to fur
nsh an abundance Of music and military
atmosphere by having several military or
ganzations in line.
feature will be the section of bond
Galesmen who are making a house-to-house
canvass. More than $500 will be in line
and after the parade they will proceed to
their districts.
The campaign assumed big proportions
today, and from every section in the Phia-
delphia Reserve Bank district came reports
that sent floods of joy into the campaign
headquarters.
The Franklin National Bank, one of the
most active banking institutions in the
campaign, reported that it has obtained
subscriptions totalng more than $i,5OO.-
600 These are from individuals and do
not represent the banks individual pur-
chase.
MORE AT READING
Banks in Reading planned to make a
S1OO0.OO0 subscription, but this morning
announced that subscriptions to date
amounted to $1,SOO,OOO.
The Wells-Fargo Express Company sub
scribed for it's own account 81 900, 600, and
announced that employees will be enabled
to participate through an easy-payment sys-
Sam.
Today the subscriptions obtained at a
meeting in the Manufacturers Club last
night were tabulated and sweled the grand
total by $4,000.
George l.. Sawyer, Philadelphia manager
for the National Biscuit Company, an
nOunCed that his concern has subscribed
for 100000 through the New York district
and that a portion of that allotment would
be raised through the Philadelphia plant
SHE SELLS BY PHONE
The Retail Merchants Liberty Loan Com
mittee continued to move with genuine
pep" and ginger" and introduced some
novel features. Chief among them is the
work of Miss Gertrude Leonard, who is in
charge of the merchants headquarters in
the Library Bureau, go Chestnut street.
Miss Leonard occupies a desk in one of
the big show windows and is selling Lib
erty Bonds over the telephone. Selling
Liberty Bonds by wire is a novelty and Miss
Leonard's attempt is the first in the United
States.
City employees entered the campaign to-
day with a rush, and shortly after noon
Mayor Smith stated that before June IS a
majority of municipal officeholders would be
boldholders. Coroner Knight called his
force together and urged them to buy Lib
erty Bonds. All agreed. Similar action
was taken by members of the city's detec-
tive force when Captain James Tate made
an appeal
At 8 o'clock this morning, before many
OF the city employees opened their rOll-tOp
desks, the bluecoats got down TO business
and clinched first honors for their depart
ment. 1t is estimated that the police will
subscribe for 100000 worth of bonds
Lieutenant Dunlocker of the Park and
Lehigh avenues station, who has been
watching the progress of the Liberty Bond
sale in this city, addressed the policemen
In that station at rOllcall.
THE Government needs money" an
nounced Dunlocker and has asked me to
help. Liberty Bonds are the best invest
ment in the world. They are the safest and
pay good rate OF interest. Besides the
investment it gives every man an oppor-
tunty to do something real for the country.
How many men will buy $50 Liberty Bond
on the installment plan?" Fifty-four men,
every man in the line-announced that they
would subscribe.
Lieutenant Zinn in charge of eighty men
~ the Ridge and Mdvale avenues station,
acted the role Of a Liberty Bond salesman
and proved 100 per cent efficient, for he
SOLD a bond TO every man in the station
Lieutenant Hamilton, in charge of sixty
hve men in the BranchtOwn station, jumped
INTO the bond business and duplicated
Zlnns record At the Germantown avenue
ana Lycomtng street station, Lieutenant
Bloomer presented the Liberty Bond pro-
position to seventy-four men in the station
and reported a perfect score.