Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-23
WAR BONDS ON
SALE AT NIGHT
Trust Companies Will Re-
ceive Subscriptions After
Regular Hours
APPEAL TO P. r. r. MEN
TelegraM Sent by Management
to All Stations of
Railroad

! close OF the Liberty Loan campaign 70 ac-
| commodate those unable to place their sub
! scriptions during the day and as an added
! Incentive to the crowds that pass during the
| evening.
The Commercial Trust Company Girard
| Trust Company and Fidelity Trust Com
! pany have notified the Liberty Loan COM
| mittee that they will follow the suggestion
OF the committee and remain open the last
| day, not closing until 10 o'clock The Logan
Trust Company is keeping open until 8
o'clock starting tonight, Wednesday and
Friday evenings, and until o'clock Satur-
day evening
The Union National Bank took 81 900, 900
Of the second Liberty Loan
Among the larger subscriptions announced
today was second subscription Of $50, 900
by the Broad street Bank and one for
$4,000 by F. r. Phillips & Sons Company
OTHER LARGE SUBSCRIPTIONS
The Philadelphia Electric Company has
subscribed for $3.50. 900 worth of bonds in
Philadelphia, and for $4,000 worth at
Chester. The employees club of the Young
Smyth Field Company for s$9050, and at
the Schuyllsll Arsenal $S1 $50 has been
subscribed. Other large subscriptions re.
cetved included A. j. Reach Company,
S2S,000 Merchant & Evans Company,
$77,500 Glrard Trust Company, S256,650,
the Western Savings Fund Of Philadelphia
| for 100000 worth Of Liberty Bonds. Quak-
III.
Bromley, 100000; Henry A. Hitner,
100000; Casatt & Co., 100000 additional :;
Insurance Company Of North America and
General Asphalt Company. 100000.
Employees of the Hotel Majestic have pur-
chased ninety-two bonds, amounting to
$6350.
The total subscriptions of all the clubs
Of the city to date amount to S3.225.OO
| The Acorn Club has a total OF $4,000, the
University Club S1sO,ooO and the Meridian
Club Se2 1000.
HOME GUARDS EFFECTIVE WORK
Subscriptions to the second issue of the
Liberty Loan bonds amounting to s1O24 45O
have been secured by sixteen members of
the Mount Airy Reserve of the Philadel-
| phia Home Defense Reserves, who pledged
themselves to secure 100000 according to
report made by the teams at the close
of a ten-night canvass They have decided
to continue their nightly canvass until the
close Of the campaign in an effort to reach
$l5O,OOO They acknowledge the work of
Mrs. W. Nelson Mayhem, who captained ten
small boys and secured S10.50O.
Results of the public school campaign
for subscriptions show a total of $2,l44, 800
from the elementary schools and 1854 800
from the high schools, a total of $2,709, 200.
A final appeal was made today to the
employees OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company by Assistant General Manager
" L. ~ lJOuHSl through IeleRTAfnS TO all
stations and assembly points and through
copies placed in the hands Of individual
workers to buy Liberty Loan bonds and to
exchange the first az per cent issue for
the present per cent.
Six million dollars worth Of Liberty
Bonds is the goal of the women's committee
of the Liberty Loan. of which Mrs Barclay
H. Warburton is chairman. This sum was
decided upon today at a special meeting
held in the Ritz-Carlton. The women's
branch Of the Liberty Loan committee up
to date reports 81, roc, 900 worth Of subscrip-
tions, leaving $2.3OO.OoO to be subscriber
by Saturday, when the campaign Closes
There Is keen competition among the women
In charge of hotel booths as to which one
will have the largest amount subscribed Miss
virginia Roberts is In charge of the booth
at the Ritz-Carlton, while Mrs. Henry Diss-
ton is in charge of the one at the Bellevue
Stratford. The booth In front of the Union
League is in Charge of Mrs. Norman Nc
Leod, and Miss Agnes Brockie Is taking sub
scriptions at the booth in the Commercial
Trust Building. The booth at the Navy
League headquarters on Chestnut street is
In charge Of Mrs. Ernest Law.
Other booths of the women's committee
are located at Eleventh and Market streets,
in charge of Mrs Howard Pancoast; Fourth
and Market streets in charge of Mrs James
windsor. and the one in Kensngton at the
Light House is in charge of Mrs r. H. p
Bradford. The two booths in West Phila-
delphia, located at FIfty-second and Market
streets and at Forty-hrst street and Ian.
caster avenue, are under the direction of |
Mrs. Howard Weatherly.
BOOTHS LITERALLY PATRoNIzED
One of the most interesting features that |
has yet been introduced into the Liberty |
Loan campaign in this city was the erec-
tion by number Of young women, at the |
four corners of Broad and Chestnut streets, |
OF StOD gates similar thOaa MGAd at
road crossings, together with stop signals |
designed to attract the attention OF pedes- |
trians. Once the attention or the passer- |
by is attracted all of the perfectly good |
reasons why he should invest in Liberty |
Bonds are advanced and everything pos
sble is done to make him perform his
patriotic duty.
The women in charge OF the stop gates
are Miss Margaret Foltz, Miss Marion But
ton, Miss Anna Louis and Miss Mary Norris
Cerboni. They are being ably assisted by /
Boy Scouts and messengers, and oratory
is furnished by well-known speakers, from
automobiles, in the immediate vicinity.
Group No. of the Industrial and Com
mercial committee Of the Liberty Loan
today turned in subscriptions
totallng $40. 900, bringing the grand total
Of this committee up to S1,S13,000. William
Lucas is chairman Of this committee.
So pressing is the emergency deemed that
tomorrow, in the stirring Liberty Loan Day
parade, the Liberty Bell for the first time
In more than two years will be taken from
ts resting place in Independence Hall and
carried through the streets OF the city In
which 1t first proclaimed liberty to all the
nations of the world. In silence II will
,all tomorrow for subscriptions, from mill
ions of dollars to $50 blocks at 81 a week
Montgomery & Co. today offered to buy
,n or before October 27 the Sk per cent
Liberty Bonds of the first issue at par and
accrued interest up to a total Of $4,000, 900
'or persons who will subscribe through that
Arm for an equal amount Of the new 4 per