Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-22
NEAR $1O,OOO,OOO
DAYS LOAN TOTAL
One Of the Biggest in the
History of Present Bond
Campaign
WOMEN SPLENDID AIDS

NOM Elm Or LElNDlD HADO
Liberty Loan committee reported n
subscription to the second Liberty
Loan from the Lancaster Trust Com
pany of Lancaster, Pa, of $1,25O, 900.
Charles c. Harrison, Jr., & Co, re-
port the receipt of subscriptions of
about $4,000 to the second Liberty
Loan from Lieutenant Charles S. Ches-
ton, of their organization, who Is at
present stationed at Camp Meade.
Nearly $4,000. 600 was subscribed to the
second Liberty Loan today making one Of
the biggest days of the campaign in this
city The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society
subscribed for SO, 900 900 OF the second issue
bonds, while about S4,0OO,O00 in large
sums was reported from other sources.
The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit
Company took S1,5OO,OOO of the second issue
Liberty Loan bonds and the Philadelphia
Trust Company followed suit by doubling its
subscription to 100000,
The Atlantic Refining Company has sub
scribed S25OOOO, and Joseph steele, of
William steele & Sons Company 100000.
A subscription Of $4,000 has been received
from the Richard A. Foley Advertising
Agency
second letter from Captain Franklin
D'OHer, a director Of the First National
Bank now serving with the quarteTmasters
CORPS in France, was received by the Lib
erty Loan committee today Captain D'Olier
says:
Every soldier here hopes the successful
subscription will make apparent at home
the final necessity for a great success of
the Liberty Loan"
In his first letter to the committee, Cap
tain D'Olier announced a $50,O0O subscrp-
ton for himself and men.
DRIVE on THEATRES
A patriotic mass-m meeting to enlist the
services OF women in making the second
Issue Of Liberty Bonds was held this after
noon in the Forrest Theatre
Major Ian Hay Beth of Ktchener's
first hundred thousand, related his ex-
periences in the war zone. and Major w.
A. Garrett, American Railways Commits
sCner. told Of Americas task in the war.
Miss Katherine Burke of New York, spoke.
The Women's Liberty Loan Committee, of
which Mrs. Barclay II. Warburton is chair
man, was instrumental In arranging the
meeting. George Wharton Pepper presided.
There are several good reasons why
you should buy bonds" Major Beth said.
at is your patriotic duty; they are a good
investment they are a necessity. They not
only serve as an inspiration to the men in
the ;renches. but they are a encouragement
TO Berlin, who is carefully watching what
you are doing"
Seventy-ffve young women. members of
prominent Philadelphia families, today be-
gan a drive on the theatres in the central
part OF the city to obtain subscriptions for
the second Liberty Loan. The canvass will
continue all week, every afternoon and
evening. the girls working in teams under
the direction of Mrs. Joseph NJ. Gazzam,
member of the womens Liberty Loan
committee.
Among those who will participate are
the Misses Lorraine Graham, Agnes
BrooEie. Hope McMichael Sidney Franklin,
Rebecca Thompson, Jane Maule, Peggy
Thayer, Gertrude Pancoast, Olivia Gazzam,
COrinne Freeman, Katherine Seeler, Emma
Dorr, Josephine Foster, Isabella Page and
Jeanne DeROusse.
Members of the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts will carry out similar canvass in
Germantown, KensingtOn, West Phladel-
phia and other sections Of the city.
The woman's Liberty Loan committee has
raised S3,7O0,0 600 to lte, 1t was announced
today
Mrs Frank F. Griswold. OF Radnor, to-
Gay addressed the pupils of the fashionable
Miss Mllss School of Mt. Airy. Miss
Helen Stanney Mills introduced the speaker
who appealed TO the children to use their
allowances for the purchase Of Liberty
Loan bonds she asked them to ask Santa
Claus to bring them bonds in place of the
usual toys and playthings on Christmas
One little boy Of six years interrupted the
speaker and said that his father h I'd al
ready purchased Sl,OO0,OO0 worth of the
bonds and was going to buy 1000, 900
worth more before the campaign closes.
Plans for the Liberty Day parade In
which the Liberty Bell is to play prom
inent part, are receiving final atte ntions,
prior to putting them to the test Wednes-
day. proclamation by the Mayor Issued
Saturday asks thRt-a full holiday be given
in all establishments and educate in
stitutions. The feature Of the parade show
ing the things which the Liberty Bonds
give to our soldiers and sailors is arousing
| much interest, while the part taken by
the Liberty Bell promises to do more than
| that.