The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-19
LIBERTY LOAN
EXCEEDS
EXPECTATIONS
Of GOVERNMENT
Estimates Of Tabulators Who Are
Swamped With Flood Of Late
Arrivals, Puts Over Subscrip-
tons Al Six Hundred Million
KANSAS CITY, MINNEAPOLIS
AND ATLANTA FALL BELOW

AND ATLANTA FALL BELOW
New York Leads List With More
Than One Million Dollars To
J Her Credit-Both German and
British Loans Are 0utdone
ASSOCIATED Press BY o. s. Naval Com
! munication service) ~
1XXI ASHlNGToN, June 16 -
" With the abulators
sWamped under the rush of
eleventh-holr subscribers to the
Liberty Loan ii became evident
last night, a few hours after the
time limit for the loan had ex-
pred, that the people of the Uni
ted States are behind the war
with their pocket books as well
as with their hearts, for they had
oyersubsoribed the loan by more
than six hundred million dollars.
The most conservative estimates
of the total amount of money con-
tributed to help defeat Germany
was in the neighborhood of ST.
862, 100000 but these figures
are merely guess work, as the
tabuIators are far behind the
work of tabuIating the returns
and it may be late today before
hey can see the bottom Of the
pile. H.''"'@''' '''.r "''
All sections of the country met
the call Of the government loyal
ty only Minneapolis, Atlanta and
Kansas City falling below the
quota of the loan assigned. 1t
Was expected that Atlanta would
lind difficulty In meeting the de-
mands made upon her just at this
time, as her people are still SUI
:ering from the recent fire that
wiped out large sections Of that
| city. : -.
| Among the other districts New
| fork naturally leads, with an esti-
mate of $l,200,0Oo,00o, Chicago
ZONES next with 1925, 100000;
Boston, $263,OOo,0o PhiIadeI-
ohia, $20o,Oo0,0oo; Cleveland,
1884, 100000; Richmond, $780,
10000; Atlanta, $50,O0O,0o0;
st. Louis, $81, 100000; Kansas
City, $9O,0Oo,O00; Minneapolis,
S63,000,0o0; Dallas, $47,000,-
300, and San Francisco, $780,
100000. va.
Secretary McAdoo issued a
statement late last night in
which he congratulated the coun-
Try on the success OF the loan,
and called upon the committees
hat have had charge of the work
If collecting the money through
out the land, to maintain their
organization intact in case an
)ther call is made upon the ma
ion for more money. He ended
his statement With the decIara-
hon that ''ln all probability there
will be no need for another loan
before next fall" f,....
The tremendous nature of the Lib
nrty Loan comes more distinctly to the
front when ii is compared with the
! loans raised by other nations in this
war, both those opposed to us and
those which are our allies Germany,
for instance, at the time Of the first
loan she raised, was on the crest of
| the wave of apparent success. Bel.
/ GUM Wpo pIVStFhlc NJ hcf IeeJ ana tnb
French and British armies were ree1ing
before her blows. She called upon her
2eOple for war loan and they sub
tcribed approximately $l,O6l 100000,
With 1,l77,235 individual subscribers.
The Liberty Loan is therefore more
han two AMI one,half times that first
bisNd by Germany.
Even England who has been forced to
play paymaster and banker for her al
les fell far short Of our figures at the
inc Of her first war loan This was
approximately $2,229,575,O 900, with but
little more than 1000, 900 subscribers.
Tremendous assistance was rendered
to the loan by the Boy Scouts, who
pitched in from the first and rendered
invaluable assistance, as their figures
of subscriptions show, the total amount.
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