New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-29
10000 MORE join
THE RED CROSS
Big Drive in New York Brings
Satisfactory Results

New York, Dec. 29-From manager
to scrubwoman, from maitre d'hotel
to bellboy, every man and woman on
the staffs of the st. Regis, Vanderbilt,
Ritz-Carlton and Belleclaire hotels
became a member of the American
| Red Cross, thus qualifying those es-
| Establishments for place on the hon
| or roll of the One Hundred Per Cent
Club. Earlier in the day the home
office of the New York Life Insurance
Company announced the enrolment OF
every employe from manager to office
boy. This added l, 400 to the Red Cross
membership in a single block, which
is the largest individual Increment yet
reported in the One Hundred Per
Cent. Club. E
From the Battery to the Bronx,
Tammany men began their house to
house canvass. Each OF the 837 cleo
ton districts of Manhattan had it's
quota of forces at work, and in all
nearly ten thousand men were covering
the borough in the most systematic
way. AS the men selected for the
work by the district leaders were
those having the widest acquaintance
in their respective neighborhoods, the
canvass had the strongest possible
peronal appeal.
- E. H. Connolly, the Tammany lead
or in direct charge Of the canvass, re-
ported that the workers were meet
ing with q ready response, particular
ly in the tenement and middle class
sections. In districts where Tammany
is strongest virtually none of those
failed to enroll. Many of the can
vassers were prepared to present
their plea in foreign languages, so
that foreign born elements of the pop
ulation were by no means overlooked.
$4,000 Enrolled in Day.
Although no figures resulting from
the Tammany drive are likely to be
made public until the end of the eff
fort on Saturday night. it was esti-
mated at Red Cross campaign head
quarters that $4,000 new names had
been listed yesterday, bringing Up the
Manhattan total to about 100, O0C and
leaving 100000 to be won today and
tomorrow to realize the promised
100000 members. The accounting
department announced the total cash
received from the borough UP to yes
terday morning as $223,oO1.56.
In addition to the New York Life
and the hotels named other enlist
ments in the One Hundred Per Cent
club are \. c. Relden & Co., NJ. J..
Dempsey, the Central Trust Company.
Park & Tilford, candy department.
24S Columbus avenue; Long Island
Knitting Nils, Elder & Wells Ice
Company, ]. Wise Company, Inc;
American Fashion Company, Tucker
Agency. c. E. Ruckschul, Inc; Ma
tional Aniline and Chemical Company.
Electrical Consumers Adjustment
Corporation, Wells Fargo & Co., ONCE
force. 81 Broadway; Guaranty Securi-
ties Corporation, George A Lewth-
waite Company and Cohen, Goldman
& Co.
An important conference will be
held this morning concerning the de-
velopment of the work of the NAVY
Auxiliary of the Red Cross, at the
residence of Mrs. Henry Morgenthau.
80 West Seventy-second street Com
modore Wadhams. who recently was
appointed head Of the Navy Auxil-
iaries of the Red Cross, In Washing
ton, will be present, and among those
attending will be Mrs. e. r. Stotes-
bury. Mrs. French Vanderbilt, Mrs.
James Roosevelt. Mrs. e. H. Harri-