The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-06
Country Subscribing to Loan at Rate S50O,OOO
 Every Minute of Day
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(Continued from Page One) flown. Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Philippines proved that they are not financial slackers by cabling substan- tial subscriptions. Fairbanks, Alaska, the northernmost city in the western world, telegraphed S50,00o subscrip- ton, and added that the loan would be advertised in all the newspapers
 there. From every state in the union the reply was overwhelming.
 NEW YORK LEADS
 New York, the countrys financial strong ghold, sent subscriptions totaling s53,000, 900, bringing it's two-day total up to $116. S90 600. Today's New York subscription includes two of s10,000, coo each, one of $4,000,000, one of sS.-
 000, O00 two of $2 800 900 and six of s1,- 900, 000 New York lawyer took s1,- O00.000 worth and three sisters
 made joint subscription of S300,o0O.
 PHILADELPHIA FOLLOWS
 Philadelphia subscribed SIS 000 in
 cluding subscription of $30O0,O00 another of $2, 900 900 and six of $1000,000. Pittsburg sent subscriptions totalling $466S,000, in
 cluding one of $2,O00,000 and another of S1 ,000, GOO. Three subscriptions each were
 received from San Francisco, making the
 days total $5650,O00. Boston also sent
 three individual subscriptions of $1,000,000 each among the days subscriptions of $4, 115, ,0OO Cleveland sent two subscrip-
 tions of $2, GOO GOO. A Milwaukee bank sub scribed $2,O00,000 and another in Detroit subscribed $1,500,O00. Individual subscrip- tions of $l,O00,O00 each were received from Chicago, New Orleans and Toledo. SMALL PER CENT HEARD FROM Subscriptions have been tab ulated from approximately 1500 of the 27,50O banks of the country, the other 26000 not having been heard from or their replies hav- ing been received later than D. m to- day. So great was the labor involved in distributing the subscriptions geographi- cally and tabulating them that officials decided to discontinue counting for the present, at least until larger force can be obtained. Indications are that the
 present force will have it's hands full in
 simply tabulating the grand total of sub scriptions during the next few days
 GROUPED BY STATES Grouped by states, the two-day total of sub scriptions is as follows:
 Alabama, $576,0O0; Alaska, $50,OOO; Ari- zona. S20o0OO; Arkansas, $5s6, 600; Califor- mia, s7,052,o00; Colorado $1, ,S32, 900: Con- necticut, $4,6l9,000; Delaware, $615, ,00O; Dis- ltrict of Columbia, g, 2,174.0O0; Florida Si 3SS . 0o0; Georgia, s79o,00 Idaho s1e2,0 GOO; Illi- nois, 6292,000; Indiana, S9.04o, 0O0; Iowa, | $2,372 GOO; Kansas, s2,481, ,0O0; Kentucky,
 s, ,932 O00 Louisiana s5,5340OO; Maine, s1,13Ooo0; Maryland, s4429. GOO; Massac chu- setts, $l2,140O00; Michigan, $6,274,O0o; Min nesota, $1,22S, coo; Mississippi, s1, ,2O4 GOO; Missouri, $3276,000; Montana $611 GOO; Ne
 braska, s1,274o00; Nevada, $25.0O0; New Hampshire, $295 000 New Jersey, s, OPS 900; New Mexico, $19S,000; New York, S132, ,631, ,- OQo; North Carolina, $s73,ooo; North Dako- ia, sl9S,0OO; Ohio, $22.324,000; Oklahoma,
 $S27, GOO; Oregon. sSs9 900; Pennsylvania,
 s26,s96,o0o; Rhode Island. $1,610.OOO; South Carolina, $172,0O0; South Dakota, $500 OO0 Tennessee, $1,S31, GOO; Texas, $3,526, GOO;
 Utah, s50,OOO; Vermont, s427,00O; Virginia | ss,436 900; Washington. $2,31s0Oo; West vir- ginia 54o,Q00; Wisconsin, s, ,4S3,0 900; Wyom- ing, $242,000.
 CITY GROUPS
 Subscriptions received during the two days from some of the chief cities of the country were as follows:
 Atlanta, $l1000o Buffalo, s4, 760, ,000; Balti- more, s4,O34,000; Boston, s6,1650O0; Chicago, $21, ,565, O00 Cincinnati, S2,955000; Cleveland, $11 .130,000; Columbus, o. $S40000; Denver, sl125,000 Detroit, s4,650,000; Indianapolis, $4S70,0o0: Jersey City s1,250O00; Kansas City, $635. eco; Los Angeles, $400,000; Louis, vile, s1,294,000; Minneapolis. $695000; Mill waukee, $2, 10000; Newark, N. J., $S10,000; New Orleans, $3.65O,000; New York, $116,- s90.000; Philadelphia, $14. 900; Pittsburg, 5,01S,0 900; Portland, Ore, $75,000; Provi- dence $9000o0: Rochester, $,100.000; St. Louis, s12o0oo San Francisco $5,e5o,O00.
 Total, $1.63o.0OO.