Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-10
&3,0OO,0OO REPORTED
BY BANK IN NEW YORK
Announcement of Secretary McAdoo
Brings Out Largest of Small
Subscriptions Yet.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June o-Subscriptions
to the liberty loan through & single
bank in this city totaling $4,000. 900
were announced tonight Many irdi-
vidual subscriptions through other
banks of upward of 81, OOO, 900 each also
were made public.
The National Bank of Commerce.
which added the largest figure, issued
a statement to the effect that the an
nouncement by Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo that the loan had not been
nearly subscribed brought about the
largest number of small subscriptions
of any day during the campaign
Among individual subscriptions
through other banks. Officially an
nounced today. were the following:
Five million dollars. Republic Iron and
Steel Company; 80 100000. Prudential
Insurance Company; So 900 900 J. b.
Duke. estate of Jay Could. Vincent As
tor. Robert Winthrop & Co, Equita BILE
Insurance Company, Samuel Untermyer
Seaboard National Bank; s1.5OO. 900
Harris. Forbes & Co.: $1,000. 900 Adolph
I.ewisohn & Son; $4,000 Savings
Bank of at;ca. \. Y; s1,1oO.oOO. w. J.
Wollman & Co: 81 .0OO. 900, international
Nickel Company, Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank, Jesse L. Liyermore.
American Manufacturing companv
Standard Oil Company of New York.
Cuban American Sugar Company, Ger
man American Insurance Company,
American Sugar Refining Company,
Bank Of Montreal account Canadian
Pacific Railway Company, F. s. Mosely
q Co. Middleton S. Burill. United States
Rubber Company. Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company, Newark. n. j.:
Blair & Co. New York Life Insurance
Company, Louisville and Nashville
railroad. Fl. p. Goldschmidt & Co.
The liberty loan committee after com
pletlng a canvass of the state of New
York called attention again to what 1t
termed the utter ignorance or indif-
terence or rural sections to the loan.
kilograms received from various cities.
however. showed great activity.
Joke Nets $1,000 for Liberty Loan.
WATERLOO. Iowa. June s-At the
grand council Of the Iowa United Com
mercial Travellers sixteen years ago. F..
w. Houck of Sheldon lost his wallet.
and his friends as a practical joke in
structed all the banks not to cash a
draft for him. He was sadly in need of
a shave. fund was raised for this
purpose. but in the meantime Houck
had succeeded in cashing his draft
The fund was turned into the treas
ury and maintained by annual con-
tr1outlons OF a penny from each mem
ber 1t has passed the $4,000 mark and
today the council voted to invest the
funds in the liberty loan.
Seek to Raise $1,000, 900.
BOSTON. June s.-A concerted effort
will be made to raise 81 900 900
during the week beginning June IS as
New England's quota of the $780,
900, 900 war fund of the American Red
Cross. working organization has
been built UP in each New England
state with subdivisions by districts, in
each of which a team composed of
prominent men and women will work
to raise the amount apportioned to that
district.
The New England committee, which
will direct the campaign, is headed by
Francis l.. Higginson, jr.. as chairman
with Maj Henry L. Higginson as
treasurer.