The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-18
CONNECTICUTHAS DONE HER SHARE FOR J. s. FORCES
Figures Disclose State Has Contributed Largely to
 Army and Navy.

The whole state will be interested in the facts just compiled at Washington by Congressman Augustine Lonergan of the First District, as they tell in a very forcible way of the contribution Connecticut is making as her share in the great effort of the war to pre- serve the rights of the nation.
 The congressman has consulted, with the heads of the various departments at Washington, with a view to-. having figures compiled, insofar as connecti- cut is concerned, and the results tell the whole story.
 < Brig. Gen. H. P. Mccain, the Adju- tant General of the Army. states that Connecticuts total quota for the Reg ular Army is 2,228, and that the off cial figures of the War Department as of Aug. 24, show Connecticut had pro- cured her quota at that time, and that in fact 2,419 of the men who presented Themselves in Connecticut were ac- cepted for enlistment in the Regular Army from April \ to Aug. "A, 1917. The chief of the Militia bureau, Brig. Gen. William A. Mann, now com mander of the Rainbow Division of which some of the Connecticut troops are a part, stated that the official rec ords in his office as of July 31. showed there were 150 officers and 5,091 en- listed men in the Connecticut Ma tional Guard, who were taken into the federal service. In addition, Con- necticut will have soon placed under arms and in the new National Army, her quota of nearly 11,000 men, pro- cured under the selective draft
 Secretary of the Navy Josephus -t~Jr x7- IT.. r on, Aug. 23 according to official fig ures, there were in the Navy 40, 870 enlisted men, of whom Connecticut has, supplied a representative quota. Exact figures on Connecticut were not available, for. the annual roster is now being prepared. and as the ships of
 the service are so scattered, it will be about two weeks before the work is completed.
 Of the total amount subscribed for the First Liberty Loan, which reached
 more than ss,OOo. .ooO 900, and made 100000 government bondhoIders in the country where there were only 300,000 before. Connecticut, as figures
 procured from the Treasury Depart
 ment and from the office of Governor
 Aiken of- the Federal Reserve Bank Of Boston show, subscribed $2S, ,9S2, ,45o oI ~0sVOO,UUO more than It's quota of $2S, 100000. Of the states total, Hart ford county subscribed SIS, ,609. .05O and
 the city of Hartford nearly $12,ooO, coo The state also played a prominent part in the campaign of the Red Cross to procure s1o0. .0C0. 900, the total con- trfbutions from the state as of Aug E22. last, being $2,6s7. .97s.07, of which
 $690, ,S06.94 was contributed by resi- dents of Hartford county The total procured by, the Red Cross from the campaign throughout the country was $120. 929. .751 .l2. according to the report of the secretary to MT Donergan datei1 Aug. 28. In the state of Con- necticut, also, there are 89,749 mem
 bers Of the Red Cross and Hartford
 county has 20,2OO,, of these
 l The Navy League of the limited
 States. incorporated to be of every
 service possible to the men of the
 fleet, has in Connecticut $50 members
 of whom 149 members reside in Hart.
 ford, where Captain Francis B. Allen
 and others in. the Admiral B,,nce sec.
 ton are doing excellent work. A H
 Dadmun. secretary of the league, in
 forms Mr. Lonergan that in addition
 there are many thousands in the state
 in the SWoman's league, an auxiliar.
 of the organization.
 | All this shows, in a national wav the place the state has taken in tht
 great war; and besides the. State Council of Defense, the Home G,1ars7 ,. and other organizations are all werk.
 ing to show the states 'fbit,, is s,h. stantial contribution.