Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-17
$lOO,OOO,OOO CITY'S
WAR LOAN SALES
Official Estim ate Shows
Philadelphia Third in Lib
erty Bond Subscription
SAMMEES BUY $4,000

S AM M EES BUY $4,000
One hundred million dollars has been
subscribed up to date to-the second LIB
erty Loan in this. the Third Federal Re-
serve District, according TO an estimate
given out today by the Liberty Loan ex-
ecutive committee, Of which Walter C. jan
ney is chairman.
This is the first total announced officially
and Is made public because statements
emanating from Washington in regard to
total subscriptiors are felt to be misleading.
The Washington totals probably include, in
the case of installment payments, only
the first payments made at the time of
subscribing for the bonds and this may
account for the apparent discrepancy. lt
was also said that a great many subscrip-
tions announced have not been formally
reported TO the Federal Reserve Bank
The quota for this district TO the loan Is
s415.O0O 900, with $315,000,000 to be sub
scribed by october %, when the campaign
closes This means that S31,50O,OOO must
be subscril ed daily from now until the
end of the campaign.
Committees are working night and day,
and It is predicted that history VIII re-
peat itself and the loan will be away over
subscribed.
Philadelphia stands third among Amer
ican cities in the amount 1t has subscribed
TO the second issue Of Liberty Bonds, ac-
cording to unofficial figures received mere
from Washington today. New York is lead
ing. with subscriptions totaling S4l3,OOO.-
600 Chicago comes second. with estimated
subscriptions of 5000, 100000. Philadel-
phia according to the unoff cal reports, has
taken 500 100000 of the bonds.
HANDSOME SUBSCRIPTIONS
The following subscriptions were an
nounced today by the Liberty Loan COM
mittee:
strawbridge & clothier 81, 600. 900; PPhiIa-
.dephia bag Company. $50 900; emgioyes Phia, l
9elPha Bag oS6SSmpSny siSH29 Hot Io9n
$4,000; employees Hotel Rittsnhogse, $1,000 en-
g@Dytess si9o 96e 900; F w. wooiworth CO. s25-
600. Cengressman william s. yaEe ana rSI,n; Sen;
conpaaS' mrW .i75. .oSS PhadeipSa URdeTwriters
AssacIs5lo6s. 100000. and Joshua L. Bailey q
In the Liberty Loan club contests, the
Union League is leading in amount sub
scribed To date $1,31S,0OO has been turned
in. by this club. The Meridian Club, with
I50 members leads in per capita amount Of
subscription, They have subscribed $4,000
10 date.
-.News received in a Gable from the war
zone that the men in General Pershing' $
command--the Yankee boys now preparing
in France for the life-and. death work or
the trenches-have subscribed from their
scant pay as soldiers a total Of $4,000
for the Liberty Loan has come as an in
epiration 10 the men and women WORKING
for the success of the bonds, and has added
a spur to their activities that leaves no
doubt Of the complete success Of their
efforts
A telegram received by the Liberty Loan
committee from the War Department today
announced that American soldiers have, IN
this country and abroad to date subscribed
70 second loan. and SUD-
scriptions are still rapidly coming in. The
telegram stated that this should be an in
centlve TO the civil population of the coun-
try to do their bit" by buying bonds.
The subscription was forwarded through
Captain Franklin DOlier, director of the
First National Bank OF Philadelphia and
senior member of the firm of Franklin
D,Ouier G. Co. who was commissioned ar
officer last may
SECRETARY LANE, TO SPEAK
Franklin X Lane. Secretary of the In.
teiior will make a special appeal for sub
scriprons to industrial and commercial
Philadelphia TOMORROW at Liberty Loar
luncheon, to be given by the Philadelphia
CHI mber of Commerce in the Bellevue
Stratford. Secretary Lane will be intro
dIced by rnest T. Trigg president of the
Chamber of Commerce, w. A. Garrett, o.
the Council of National Defense who re
Gently returned from France. will also speal
It is expected that the luncheon will be tn
largest one given since the opening Of th'
Liberty Loan campaign.
The Navy League today opened bootf
in front OF the Liberty Building to receive
subscriptions to the Liberty Loan TINS
Is under the direction of Mrs. j. kearsley
Mitchell and Mrs Charles Henry Fox Of
the Executive Committee. In the hrst Two
hours after opening this booth they hac
rolled up a total of $4,000
I ayftr
Naval Home, Twenty-fourth street anc
Grays Ferry avenue, on Friday evening a
9 o'clock The members in this institution
subscribed $1,000 to the first loan. They
viii be urged to double this amount on the
second loan.
An appeal for subscriptions to the second
Liberty Loan will be made by every Cath
olic clergyman in the archdiocese of Phila'
delpha in their churches on Sunday, Oc'
tober 21.
This became known today when an
nouncement was made that a letter had
been sent TO the rector of every Catholic
church in Philadelphia signed by BishoI
John ]. McCort and the Rev. f. j. Fitz
maurice, members OF a clerical committee
appointed by Archbishop Prendergast The
COMMITTEES was appointed at the suggestion
Of John J. Henderson, chairman Of the re-
ligious committee of the Liberty Loan Com
mittee.
The members and friends of the Business
Mems and Taxpayers Association Of Frank
ford will be urged to aid in the success O
the Liberty Loan at the regular MONTH!
meeting of the association to be held tongh
ct the Marshall Public School.
BOY SCOUTS IN EAGER RACE
TEDDY" Davis, the fourteen-year-old sol
Of Captain Harry Davis, Of the Athletics
American League baseball club, is in tn,
race for the banner President Wilson ha
offered for the Boy Scout securing tn
greatest number of subscriptions to tn
second Liberty Loan.
Young Davis, who at one time was th
mascot of the Athletics. went before tn
Westmoreland Building Association yester
dav made a speech in which he describe,