Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-01
LOANS Big BOOST
BY UNION LEAGUE
1000 Members to Take $1,000
Apiece and Swell Total
S1,000,000
OTHER BIG SUBSCRIBERS
Aggregate Reaches $104,000.00O
Small Investors Show
Patriotic Zeal

The Union League has responded to
Uncle Sans appeal for money and as
boost to the Liberty Loan is organizing a
Liberty Loan club Of 1000 members. Each
member will subscribe for a $1,000 bond,
making the total subscription SlOOO.0O0
This was but one Of scores Of Liberty
Loan clubs organized today. but stands out
more prominently because Of the bigness
OF the promised subscription
] Late this afternoon the Philadelphia
| Liberty Loan Fund reached tlO4 coo. 900.
| This leaves balance Of Sl4G0O0.000 to he
| raised in twelve more working days. The
largest subscription TO be recorded today
was received from the Kingston Coal COM
| pany. Of Kingston, Pa. This concern sub
scribed for Sl,O0OOOO and the Cumberland
Valley Railroad Company came in for
100000 The Bristol Lumber Company
and Penn Chemical Works entered a sub
scription for 500 900 each, and banks from
Lehigh County reported subscriptions total
ling S56S,575
Subscriptions from the Manufacturers
club were tabulated today and amounted
to sI30,0 900.
SMALL INVESTORS IN LINE
Reports from the school teachers meet
ings held yesterday afternoon disclose a
lively interest in the fund among teachers |
district in West Philadelphia. Subscriptions
amounted to $17,1OO.
The Retail Merchants Liberty Bond COM
mittee held a meeting at the Hotel AdelphIa |
at noon and reported that subscriptions are |
being taken over the counters in more than |
2OOO Philadelphia stores and that more |
than 10000 men and women are acting as !
bond statesmen
Representatives OF business and improve |
ment leagues were present and reported sue |
cess in the organization Of bOnd-selling |
teams. Not a home will escape from the |
buy-a- bond appeal" said Edward A. Noppel |
chairman OF the committee. Every section |
of the city is now linked up with the cam
paign and will remain so until the cam
paign ends We intend to put the bond sub
sCriptions over the counters In more than
5000 stores and reach every man and |
woman in the city"
As evidence of the work being done by
the committee emphasis is placed on the
work of Miss Gertrude Leonard in charge of
the merchants headquarters. 80 Chestnut
street. Working on the telephone she has
organized seventeen bond-buying clubs, and
actually sold sixty $50 bonds
The Haddngto9 Improvement Associa-
tion Is cO-operatlnA with the HaddingtOn
Title and Trust Company, and induced that
institution to raise its subscription from
$4,000 to 100000.
Boy Scouts. according to an official an
nouncement, have taken subscriptions for
100000.
LIBERTY LOAN DAY
Tuesday next has been designated Of
1cially as Liberty Loan Day. This day
originally set for Wednesday, was changed
TO make 1t correspond with registration day
for the military draft. A big denOnstra-
ton will take place at Independence Hall
at o'clock, in which 1900 men will start
their days work, The entire assemblage
will unite I'm singing THE Star Spangled
Banner" after which they viii march up
Fifth street to Market, thence west to City
Hall, down Broad street to Spruce and
countermarch to the Bellevue-Stratford,
where a meeting will be held
The procession will be composed Of six
companies, headed by military or marine
company, and followed by automobiles with
members of the general Liberty Loan COM
mittee, officials of banks, trust companies
and members of the Philadelphia Stock Ex-
change Next will be the Police Band, fol-
lowed by the volunteer statesmen; life in
surance division OF 800, ed by Il. J. Fans
Ter; Boy Scouts and their own band.
Thaddeus Rich, concertmaster of the Phil
adelphia Orchestra, took charge of the de-
partment store booths yesterday Mr. Rich
visited Gimbels', Snellenburg's, Strawbridge
& Clcthier's, Lits and Wanamaker's Straw
bridge & Clothier reported more than 1900
subscriptions up to last night
Subscriptions at the Franklin National
Bank reached S4,500,000, not including the
banks own subscription. The II. X. Milford
company TOOK SbU,UOU' lne FRANKLIN Sugar |
Refinery 1000 for its employees, and the
Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Com.
pany 100000.
In commemoraton of a like service per.
formed 40 years ago, the Presbyterian Min.
listers Fund took 500, 900. In l777, accord-
ing to the president Of the fund, the man
agement Of the corporation voted one-half
its assets 20 the Colonies to aid in the
prosecution Of the Revolution.
The Corporation for Relief Of Widows nd |
Children came forward with $4,000 and
the Lester Piano Company with $40 600
Subscriptions Of the Victor Talking Machine
Company, previously announced as $3.50 0OO |
have climbed to $7l2,OOO.
ADOPT INSTALLMENT PLAN
Among the firms to announce the accent
ance Of the installment plan for their EN-.
poyes were the Atlantic Refining Companv
Thomas Leedom Company. Bristol; Dol
fingers Standard Diaries, the Jacob Miller
Sons Company and the Customs House |
Collector Berry has signed 800 employees
to the fund, To the list of installment FIRMS |
was added the Eddystone Manufacturing
Company and the United States Metallic
Packing Company. The Lggett & Myers !
Tobacco Company is appropriations $4,000
among its employees.