Evening star., 1917-10-21
SPURT MARKS FINAL
LIBERTY LOAN WEEK

eIDInI I0HN VGIN
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Arizona. the hills of Iowa, will flash
signals telling the story of the part
the liberty loan is taking to bring the
war to a speedy and successful ter
mination.
Bonfire Near Monument.
The huge bonfire in Washington will
be in the form of a fifty-foot tree with
branches twenty-five feet across. 1t
will be located north of the Washing
ton Monument Boy and Girl Scouts and
other school children are now gather
ing twigs and dry leaves for the pur-
pose.
The tree will be an old telephone
pole wound about with straw and fod-
der, saturated with oil and topped
with a young spruce tree. Roman
candles VIII be placed at intervals with
other. sparkIers and explosives OF
pyrotechnic display. Circling above 1t
will fly an aeroplane which will throw
down liberty bond bombs. A beautiful
decorative scheme will be carried out
with the flags of the allied nations and
America. This viii be in charge of Fred
D. Owen. The general committee on ar
rangements for the liberty eve bon
man; NJ c. Hazen. A. P: Clark. Thom-
as. Bones. Theodore. H. Judd, Fred D.
Owen and Col. c. s. Ridley.
The Standard OIL and Texas Oil com
panies haze contributed TO the bonfire
and others who have donated services
| and material for the event are W. T.
Galliher, w A. H Church, w. A. Pierce.
Washington Woodworking Company.
George Z. Walker, G. Hugueley. Reagan
& Taylor. George NJ. Barker. Harry
wv pHt q -
Telephone Company, D. ]. Kaufman,
Saks Co, Kings Palace and julius
Lansburgh.
Committee in Charge.
The committee in charge of the lib
| erty fires is Mrs. McAdoo. Mrs. Antoin-
cite Funk and Miss Mary Synon. Mrs.
Funk's desk in the Treasury building
is piled up with letters from women
from all parts of the country offering
| to cooperate in the liberty fires" plan.
| The governors of the various states
win light the bonflres.
Here the event will begin with music
! by the Marine Band at 1:45 o'clock,
! and at $3.50 o'clock the cannon will be
| fired at Fort Myer. There will be a
grandstand for the wives of the cabinet
officers and Mrs: Woodrow Wilson, who
| the event.
Into the fire will be thrown pieces
| of wood contributed by various states
and having historic significance.
Big Community Rally.
A big community rally has been ar
ranged by the North Capitol and Eek
InTton Citizens Association for the citi-
zens of that section of the city to be
| held liberty day. at 1890 o'clock, in
! front Of the Emery School. Pupils and
Teachers Of the lexington. Emery and
! n fnlS nj lCn "a ff
| Calvin Brown of the United States
Chamber of Commerce will be the
principal speaker. He will be introduced
by District Commissioner Louis Brown
low One OF the United States govern
ment military bands will provide the
music There also will be patriotic sing
| ing by the assembly led by Mrs. William
S. Torbert. teacher of music in the pup
| lie schools.
The addresses will be made from the
west side of the Emery School build
i ing The square in front of Lincoln
avenue will be roped off to accommo-
date the crowd during the exercises
| The executive committee has ap-
pointed the following liberty loan
| Committee to represent the associa-
| tion: A Coulter Wells. chairman: H.
| ". Belnap. c. \. Bowman. 4. S; Cay
| wood. Selden NJ Ely. Edward Foulke.
W. j. Frizzell. william G. Henderson.
| T. Homer Hall. Irwin 3. Linton. T. w.
| stanton. y. r. Serven, George Trues-
| dell and John r. Weyrich. The eN-
| ecutive committee of the association
! composed of Edward Fouike. Herman
E Blau, William @. Henderson. {. y.
! Bowman. President Ely. and Secretary
! Wells. will serve as reception com
| mittee The general program is in
| charge of Selden NJ. Ely. acting presi-
| dent of the North Capitol and Ecking-
ton Citizens Association. and super
| vising principal of the fifth division,
| public schools.
| Another liberty day meeting. under
| the direction of the Columbia Heights
| Cit,zens' Association, will he held at
! & o'clock pm. in the auditorium of the
| Powell school. Hiatt place. between
| Irving street and Park road. 18th and
| 18th streets. A program has been ar
4 ranged including selections by the Ma
| rine Band, solos by Miss Estelle Mur-
| raw and Mrs Frederick ]. Rice. and ad-
| dresses by Carter b. Keene and John
E Laskey, United States district at
| torney.
1 A dispatch from Camp Mcclellan at
Admission, Ala, last night announced
that the liberty loan subscriptions there
| amounted to sT97,400. The 5Ith Infan-
try Brigade has subscribed s26l.350. The
| 5sth Infantry Brigade. composed OF
| Maryland and Virginia troops, has
| raised $136.350.
| From the nth naval district at Nor
l folk Va. came word that S50,000 had
been subscribed. The goal which the
liberty loan campaigners have set
| themselves there is 100000.
Kaiser Joke Stirs New York.
| NEW YORK October 2O-Subscrip-
tions to the liberty loan in the New York
federal reserve district today brought the
official estimated total up to $3.50. .00O. 900
a gain OF S45. .000. 900 over yesterday Hope
quarters that the mark of $500, 600, 900
set by the committee would be reached