Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17
MILLION BOND BUYERS
IN NEW YORK DISTRICT
Railroad Workers Subscribe Freely.
Chicago Totals Soar-Richmond
Still Counting.
By the Associated Press.

ny the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, June 1S.-The liberty
loan committee for the New York fed
eral reserve district announced To-
night that it would make no further
statements of the subscriptions re-
! ceived from this district before MONDAY
morning. The last report made was
at i o'clock today. when the total had
reached sl,05O, 100000.
Tabulators were still at work tonight
and several OF the small places in the
district had not yet reported. 1t was
estimated that there were more than
900 900 individual subscribers.
A special committee of railroad men.
headed by President A. II. Smith 'of
more than 100000 individual railroad
workers had subscribed for bonds. The
total tonight was 1855 subscribers
with purchases amounting to s11,255,-
$50. and several systems were still to
be heard from. The New York Central
system leads thus far with $500 sub
scribers for s2.116,1Oo in bonds. The
railroads Of the country themselves
subscribed more than $50,000.o0o.
The largest loan purchase by an
active railroad worker was $4,000,
paid in cash by a Boston and Albany
conductor. car repairer paid $1,000 in
cash and there were numerous cash
| subscriptions by porters. baggage
| office boys.
Chicago's Total Still Grows.
CHICAGO, June 1s.-Gov. James B.
McDougal said that final figures for
the Chicago reserve district probably
would add thousands to the s345,000.0
previously announced. The official
amount will not be totaled until Mon
| day.
| Liberty bonds, when issued" were
sold on the Chicago Stock Exchange
for the first time today at 100 $50.
ST. LOUIS, June 16.-Rolla Wells, gov
ernor of the eighth federal reserve dis
trict. announced that previous esti-'
| mates of sso.0000o0 in liberty loan
subscriptions in the district We're ap-
proximately correct. but that the COM
plete tabulation might not be finished
district was $S0.000.000 and sS2,500.0OO
had been tabulated at o'clock tonight.
st. Louis subscribed s42.0oo.oo0.
Richmond Still Tabulating.
RICHMOND, Va. June 16.-Oficial
figures on subscriptions to the liberty
loan in the fifth federal reserve district
were not available tonight, the work Of
| tabulating the returns being incom-
plete. Clerks working in the reserve
bank day and night have tabulated sub
scriptions exceeding s1o0.0o0.oOO. the
and it will be fully forty-eight hours
yet before an official report can be
made. The estimate OF Richmonds sub
scriptions, totaling s13.40O.000. was
| made by individual banks and remains
the same.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 16-The
allotment of the tenth fKansas City)
federal reserve district Of $780, 900 900
to the liberty loan was declared to
have been exceeded in a statement by
reserve officials late tonight Tabula-
| tions still are in progress.
The last previous figure given out
by officials was that this district had
| raised $50, 000, 900.
| BOSTON, June 16.-With great piles
of subscriptions still to be counted
estimates tonight placed the amount
Liberty loan pan, oe e13n oa taken Ged in New
100000. with prospect that the total
would be nearer the larger figure. Fed
eral reserve bank authorities said that
it was not likely that the total would
( be known before Monday or Tuesday