Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-10-15
HALF WAY MARK TO
LIBERTY Bond COAL
Wilmington Has Subscribed
$6,354,400 of Amount
Apportioned County
REPORTS MADE BY
TEAM CAPTAINS

The Security Trust and Safe Deposit
Company this morning subscribed to
100000 Of Liberty bonds. This action
was taken at a meeting OF the executive
committee and is one Of the largest
subscriptions that has been made TO
the second issue of the bonds in VIII
smlngton. IL was the largest subscrIp-
ton reported today.
Rock-ribbed patriotism was the key
note Of the meeting held in the rose
room at the Hotel dupont today, when
twenty team captains, working on the
personal solicitation committee OF the
Liberty Loan Committee, met to report
/ the result Of their labors to Josiah
Marvel, who is directing the work OF
/ this committee.
10 date, according to reports made at
; the meeting, there has been S6,304, 400
subscribed to the loan in this city, out
of the $l2,OO0,OOO appoItioned to New
Castle county by the Federal Reserve
Bank officials of Philadelphia, Of which
Wilmington is a part.
Mr.. Marvel stated that he had re-
auested each bank and financial insti-
tuition in the ely to report TO the meet
ing daily the subscriptions they had ie-
ceived in the last twenty-four hours,
Ind this will make the MONDAY meet
ing of the solicitation committee a
clearing house for all subscriptions
received.
One Of the big features that It is
proposed to establish in the campaign
is in inducing corporations to pur-
chase Liberty Loan Bonds, to be dis
trlbuted as dividends to the share
holders when the dividend paying
time arrives. This is following out
plan adopted with success during
the Red Cross campaign.
One corporation said they stood
ready 10 take a half million dollars
! worth OF bonds for such a purpose,
/ but the sentiment of those asked
about It was that they did not want
to go into it, unless the other cor
/ pOrations Joined in the move.
1t is expected that most corpor-
bl+ons periodically join in the
! combination.
There were three large subscrip'
lions reported today, one of $1,000
| by Alfred /. DUPONT; another from the
Wilmington Institute Building Fund
/ for $4,000 and the Security Trust
Compay subscription.
The Sons of Columbus, an Italian
Club, today bought Liberty Bonds
amounting to 1000. There were
scores of smaller subscriptions re
ported by the various team captains
at the MONDAY meeting, but no names
were given.
, From 40 o'clock this morning unit
nearly ~ o'clock, a committee Of promi
. nent women met in the Ofilce Of Oth'
, NOwlhnd and with him and w. n. Ban
/ nard Jr., discussed ways and means 70
a systematic canvass among the w0mel
. Of the city.
n Judge George Gray, who was TO hav
a addressed the meeting at the Hotel du
= Pont today, was Unexpectedly called T.
Z Philadelphia. His place was taken b.
the Rev. DR.. Herbert F, Randolph, pas
a tor Of Grace NJ. r. Church and captalI
Z Of one Of the teams. Or. Randolph mad
a patriotic address, calling upon all o
q the men present to do their utmost 70
= the loan and citing the patriotism o
the men OF Camp Dix, who, in addition
10 Offering their lives for the war. hav
subscribed 81 100000 for Liberty Bonds