Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-27
ANXIOUS
T0HELPBUYb BONDS
NickeIs Pour Into Liberty Bell
for Benefit of Fatherless
of France.
FUND EXCEEDS $4,000

Thousands of Washington children
swarmed about the Liberty Bell booth
today, eager to drop their nickels into
the replica of the Liberty Bell at Mad
ison place and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest Promptly at $3.50 o'clock
the first gun in the campaign to buy q
liberty bond for the fatherless children
of France from funds contributed by
the children of the capital OF the
United States was fired when Ralph
Mckee. the eight-year-old son of the
proprietor Of the Metropolitan Hotel.
dropped his nickel into the slot in the
bell.
Today is children's day at the booth
and the children arrived in eager-faced
swarms to help relieve the children Of
France Under the guidance of Mrs
Ernest Thompson Seton, chairman of
the District women's liberty loan COM
mittee. and ushered to the bell by Mrs.
Ellis Logan and Miss Harriet Patter-
son Winslow. Miss Ellen McAdoo
daughter of the Secretary of the
Treasury: Helen and Lawrence Hous-
ton, children of the Secretary Of
Agriculture, and Peggie Baker and
Newton Baker, Sd, children OF the
Secretary of War. dropped their con-
tributions into tho slot.
Receipts Exceed $3.50
More than s25.ooo was taken in up to
noon at the booth. OF which approx
mately $4,000 was contributed by the
children. So great was the weight of
silver dropped by the children that
charge of the booth were forced to
requisition the services Of a carpenter
to bolster up the bell, which seemed in
danger of collapsing with the weight.
The children of DR.. Sawtelle, Eliza
beth and Trimble. were attired as
George and Martha Washington and
stood on each side of the bell directing
their little friends to the liberty bell
slot
Washington schools and institutions
to the bell as organizations
and gave their contributions. One OF
the most impressive appearing bodies
sters from the Junior Defense League
of the Service School. who. led by
bugler and carrying flags with the
names of prominent American naval
commanders on them. mounted the
steps and contributed their bit
Other organizations of children which
dropped their nickels In the slot were
from the National Service School. the
school children Of Petworth. the children
of the Jewish Foster Home under the
supervision Of Mrs. Abram Simon and the
Children OF the American Revolution,
who marched to the booth in three di-
visions.
John Marshall. Sd, great-grandson of
the man who cracked the original Lib
this morning.
Leads Children to Booth.
Mrs. Georgia June Pratt of Chicago
led delegation of fifty children to
the booth. Mrs. Pratt rounded up her
small army at 18th and K streets and
marched them through Lafayette Park
to the bell. where they were met by
Mrs. Seton. Among the children in the
army led by Mrs. Pratt were Hunty
Thorn. son of Corcoraa Thorn; Edward
Lull. son of Maj. Lull; Frederick vittor
and Francis Curtin.
At 2:S0 o'clock this afternoon Capt
Radcliffe Dugmore of the Yorkshire
at Arras and the Somme in the interest
of the loan.
The money raised by the children of
Washington today will go to the pur-
chase of a liberty bond. the dividends
from which will be given to the father
less children of France, through the
treasurer of the Washington branch of
French War Orphans. Miss Harriet P
Winslow