The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-06-23
Liberty Bond Subscriptions
81 Per Cent Above the
Amount Authorized
q PERSONS TAKE
FIVE MILLION EACH
More Than 100000 People Bought
Bonds Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo Announces How the Allot-
ments Will Be Made.

WASHINGTON, June 23--Liberty loan
subscriptions totalled S3,035 ,226sjO. an
oversuhscription of nearly - per cent
The final tabuhtion was officially an
than 4,ooooo0 persons bought bonds Nine
ty-three per cent of subscriptions, or
those Of 1860 900 persons were Tor sums
varying from $50 to $4,000, while p sub
scribers applied for aIIotments of 5000
600 each OF more.
The New York federal reserve district
! led the list with subscriptions totalling
! 81, lSd. ISS. loo. on more than three times the
amount subscribed in tae next distriy..
Chicago. S557 ,l95, $50. The other districts
sent subscriptions as follows:
BOSTON. S}32, i47.6o0; Cleveland. S2SG. l4S,,
/ 700; Philadelphia, S232 300 250: san Fran
cisco Sl74.633 800; Richmond. 500, 49,, 100:
Kansas City. los $50: -. Louis. $50.
| l3l,5Uo: Minneapolis. $50 - 100: Atlanta
~ SIS. 55o and Dallas. %4',9iS,35o
These subscriptions include those sent
direct to the treasury and apportoned
among the various reserve districts.
AHotments viii be made. Secretary Me
Adoo announced as tollows:-
On subscriptions up To and including
lSlo0oO full amounts These subscriptions
totalIcd 81 .296 ,6S4 $50.
More than $4,000 mp to and including
S2j0,0o0. - per cent OF the amount sub
scrihed, hut not les, than $4,000 in am
instance. These subscriptions totalled
S560, l030j0, allotmcnts to subscribers IN
this group win aggregate S336,o6l $50.
More than Sl00,00o up To and including
S2jooo0 - per cent OF tn eamount sub
s,rbcd. but not less than 100000 in any
instance. Subscriptions in this group to-
stalled 500 $4,000 and allotments viii az
Igcgatc 500 100000.
More than S25oG00 up To and including
- ,tUo0oo. 80 pen cent. but not less than
Sll2,juo IN any instance. The total sub
scriptions in thi, group were SG0l,5l4,
9oo, allotmcnts will aggregate SlS ,3sl
$40 ...a s...a
More than S2,0oo0oo, mp to and inemd
i1g sG00o.Go0 each. - per cent but no
less than >Gooooo in any one instance
subscriptions in this group totaled 1924,
, 544.3uo allotmcnts VIII total S5s,t6l $50.
More than S6GGo,U0o mp 10 and includ
ing slumo.ooo caeh p per cent. Nubscrp
tions iu this group totalled S46,d74.l $50: al
lotmcuts will aggregate S9.S0l 600.
Two subscriptions of S2j,600Oo0 eaei
were received The allotment- to these sub
Il ,crptions viii be at the rate Of 20.22 PEI
/ cent and they viii receive bonds OF tn,
value OF Sj.Oj5o00 each. One SUBSCRIBE
l to S25.25o. 0O0-the largest viii be giver
/ poll per cent or 1908, $50.
| The pairing down process thus will apph
1 chiefly to the large subscribers In case
\ where larger subscriptions have been re
ported 10 the federal reserve banks as con
l ssting Of a number of small subscription
i provision has been made for allotmen
Il IN accordance with the several amounts q
the smaller subscriptions
The figures as to the number ot sub
scriutions are estimates, Mr. McAdoo OK
1 planned" because the returns from tn
federal reserve banks in this respect an
incomplete but when finally reported the
= will exceed the number stated 1900. GEO
- ''Onc OF the chef purposes OF the can
paign was to distribute the Liberty bond
widely throughout the country and pac
them as far as possible in the hands of IN
people This was important because til
strength OF government finance, like til
strength Of government policies, rests upo
the support of the people. The large nun
O. Der of subscribers especially the larg
number Of small subscribers, is most gra
c flying and indicates that the interest OF III
= people was aroused as never before in a
issue OF bonds
The first instament Of Is per cent
subscriptions or $4,000 600 is due ne,
Thursday, June %, the initial , per cer
having been forwarded with subscription