Arizona republican., 1917-10-28
ARIZONA GOES WAY OVER TOP FOR LIBERTY LOAN
EIGHT MILLION AMERICANS
 SUBSCRIBE TO LIBERTY LOAN
 AND SEND IT ABOVE MAXIMUM
[Republican A. p. Leased wireI

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The Lib crty loan apparently has passed the $9,U00, 00U, ,0tO mark.
 X last day drive of titanic propor- tions throughout the nation rounded up more than $1000,000. 600 and was believed to have carried the total several hundred million dollars be- Nond tie maximum sum the treasury officials had hoped for.
 federal reserve banks were strug- giing tonight under an avalanche of last minute subscriptions to form some idea of the grand total. Indi- cations are that they will not com plete their tabulations for several days.
 At least S,OOO,OOO persons through out the country wrote their names Dn application blanks. How many lJOTe dId so will not be known until the final count several days hence ne num)er may go as high as ten million.
 1-acn of the twelve districts ap- peared to have passed it's minimum and indications were that most Of them had exceeded the maximum as well
 The treasury in early tabulation of returns, based upon estimates received from the reserve banks. showed . total of $4,555, ,O00, 900. This was ad- lnitted to be an under estimate of he result. At the hour the tabula- lions was made subscribers were sanding in line m thousands of cities and towns throughout the country and most of the 26,0G0 banks were swamped with the unreported sub scriptions.
 Today's compilation by districts:
 Boston S500 900 900: New York. $l. 500,000,000; Philadelphia, S425, ,000, 900 Cleveland, S450,000. 900: Richmond, SlS0,000,O00; Atlanta. $100,000, coo; ; chicago $550. 900, COG; St Louis, S2O0.- 100000; Minneapolis. $130.0OO 900 t; Kansas City. s160, ,00O, 900; Dallas. SS5,O00.O00; San Francisco, $275, ,00U,- 900.
 Subscriptions to the second Lib erty loan probably has passed $5- 000,000,0 000." said a treasury statement. From every district came the report that it was almost impossible to esti- mate totals, as the subscriptions were pouring so rapidly that it was with Ihe greatest difficulty they were even being recorded.
 New sales were being reported by telephone, telegraph and messenger
  Ncne were so bold as to say it would he possible to give an accurate ac- counting of all sales before next "Wednesday"
 Wednesday is the day on which bank subscriptions must have reached the federal reserve banks.
 Boston was one of the first dis tricts to throw up it's hands," the statement continues. With eager purchasers crowding every bank and buying booth in the district at ? D. m. a telegram received here an nounced it would be utterly impos Sihle to provide more estimates be- fore Monday.
 With it's maximum safely passed, at sundown, the New York district went forging ahead by artificial light, bent on running up total of hundreds of millions more. An enormous volume of business was being conducted to- right."
 Subsequent to the issue of this state ment officials were informed by tele- phone that New York's total would run up to $1,65O, 100000. This would swell the departments figures to $4, 705, ,000, 900.
 Cleveland furnished one of the eleventh hour surprises" the statement added. From official figures made public early in the day it became evi- dent that many sections had been slow in reporting and that the real strength of the district was just beginning tc show. County after county, and city after city came through with vast in- creases over their maximum quotas greatly swelling the district total
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