Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-21
Red Cross HIT
by German Venom
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today visited the big Industrial and
business establishments OF the city. solic-
iting the membership and moral support
Of the workmen and other employees for
tho sake OF the nations fighters on the
battlefield. In the training camp and on
the ocean. The big point the teams In
the drive emphasized was the fact that
men cannot fight unless they have the
backing OF the workers at home.
EXTEND CAMPAIGN A WEEK
SO vast Is the task Of adequately COW
ering the industrial field. II was an
nounced today at Red Cross campaign
headquarters. in the Lincoln Building,
that the Industrial section OF the cam
paign committee will extend its efforts
until New Years Day. The section.
headed by J. W. Lucas. Il going sys-
tematically into the work OF enrolling
workmen in the Red Cross.
New memberships In the campaign
that began last Monday have passed
the 330,000-mark, II was announced to-
day
Reports at headquarters this after
noon showed that the following per-
centages of workmen had enrolled as
Red Cross members: Baldwin Loco
motive Works. between eight and ten
per cent Atlantic Refining Company,
forty per cent; ]. G.. Brill Company.
forty per cent; American Ice Company,
seventy-fve per cent: Sun Shipbuild,ng
Company. fifty per cent; Sun oil Com
pany, fifty per cent; Niscose Company.
fifty per cent: John Gormlev &c Sons,
twenty per cent 4: George W. Bladen
Company, fiftey per cent? Thomas Pot
ter Sons & Company. fifty per cent ;
William Sellers & Company, eighty-fve
per cent.
Tomorrow is Red Cross button day.
The personal campaign for dollar"
members Will reach its height then.
Workers promise that 1t will he dan
gerous" for person TO he seen on the
street without Red Cross badge indl-
eating membership.
\ new motor ambulance was formally
accepted by Doctor Hart on be-
half Of the Red Cross from Mrs. Georg
III. Lorimer. chairman of the lndepend
ence Square Auxiliary No. 2I6. at 60t
Chestnut street, this afternoon. The am.
bulance which is one of the few tha'
the Red Cross has accepted. is the git.
of w. II. Robinson. 60l5 Wharton stree
who started in business as newsboy
It will be sent to France. Thirteen new
members German.Amerlcans wer,
added to the chapter through tho effort
Of William IL Schweizer, 1888 Mort
| Hollywood street. who himself con
/ tributed $40.
Final plans were made today for the
| great Red Cross Christmas carol pa
| geant tomorrow afternoon, when the
| Community Singing Association will CO.
| operate with the Red Cross in what
promises to he the most spectacular and
| impressive choral pageant ever witnessed
in Philadelphia Nearly 400 churches
have enlisted their choirs for the pro,
cession. which will roll down Broad
street in decorated motor floats.
The procession will begin at Diamond
| street and end at Pine street, stopping
momentarily in front Of Red Cross cam.
| paign headquarters, south of City Hall
! medieval times to the present day viii
be the motif, which was worked out by
I Guernsey Moore and w. W. Sparks
artists, with Sponsors "Faeric Queen
as Il base. The effects in the floats thai
have been completed are artistic.
| A mounted knight will head tn,
! pageant, accompanied by score o
| mounted men and women. Huge float;
| bearing tableauX will be followed by
! the church choirs in decorated motor
/ cars. The tableaux include Lady ant
! wounded hlllBnt, ucplcteu Dy MISE
| Margaretta Jeanes and Charles Baird
/ spirit of the Red Cross and Allied
! Nations" by Mrs. Bohlen and Mrs. Sid
/ ney Brock, Mrs. F'itzhugh Greene. Mrs
Henry II. Cartwright, Jr.. Miss Marga
retta Foltz. Miss Gladys Mueller. Mrs
! {. Bradford Fraley, Miss Lorraine
| Disston and Miss Caroline Robinson
Ambulance Company In tho Trenches,
! "Field Hospital" and "Warship." n bil
! Christmas tree float has been con
tributed by Joseph b. Mccall. Th'
choral music. in which spectators will b.
asked 10 join, will be accompanied b!
the famous Bethlehem Trombone Choir
| Five hundred of Uncle Sans land ant
sea fighters are TO be the guests of L. 7
Stotesbury, chairman of the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Chapter. at n big Christ
mas Eve theatre entertainment, 1t wa
announced today. The performance vii
be the opening bow of the New YotI
| Winter Garden "Show of Wonders" a
the Chestnut Street Opera House.
Judge John NJ. Patterson. of 'commo
Please Court No. /, is in Tennessee de
lvering speeches in behalf of the Re
Cross He Is expected TO return to thi
city on. Christmas Eve.