Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-23
APPEARS THAT TOTAL
WILL FALL FAR SHORT
Richmond District Subscriptions
$53,o72,OOO, 26.8 Per Cent of
Allotted Share.
RURAL INVESTORS BACKWARD
100000 Men, Women and Chill
dren Working to Make Great
Loan q Success.

uTy oIncialS announced. Tonight that
reports reaching the department OF
Liberty loan subscriptions throughout
the nation to-day were not of char
actcr to warrant confidence that the
$4,000. 100000 maximum quota desired
will be achieved"
Virtually on the eve OF the cam
patgn's finish. 1t appears that the total
will fall short of the huge sum set
as the country's call. Only an ava
lanche OF dollar, can bring the lists up
to the full maximum quota.
Liberty Day. officials assert. will do
much toward bringing the goal nearer.
but Liberty Day will not do IL all. The
remaining three and one-half days,
they assert, must be days OF the most
strenuous endeavor and big results IL
the total runs to So, 200 100000
indications from Increases shown
by the latest official report OF sales and
such scattering unofficial estimates on
to-day's business t.icklcd into the
Treasury Department are that the
$4,000. 100000 mark has been we'll
passed" said the Treasury's announce
ment tonight, "and that possibly
S2,25o. 100000 has been subscribed"
A total OF unofficial estimates was
not available from the twelve reserve
banks. Officials delayed the issuance
of the statemen, tonight beyond the
usual hour. waiting for reports but
few came In.
OPTIMISM EXPRESSED
OVER LIBERTY DAY
Optimism Is being expressed" the
announcement continued, ''in the belief
that Liberty Day and eleventh hour
! sales Will carry the total ross the
maximum quota mark. II Is considered
unlikely by careful observers. however.
that these two elements alone VIII re-
suit In the larger total.
"Oficial totals. showing sales report
cd to the Federal reserve banks up to
/ the close of business October 20. and
the percentage o. various districts
based on their assigned shares OF the
ST. .0oO. .00o.0 900 maximum quota attained
thus far include: New York, subscrip-
tions. s56s.43s.ooo. percentage. 37.9;
Boston. subscriptions Sl69. 500. 600. per-
centage. 33.S; Riclm md. subscriptions.
$53.672,oo0. percentage. EOS: Chicago,
subscriptions, s.61,S39.co0. percentage.
23.l; Atlanta. subscriptions, s1l,717.o00.
percentage. %; Philadelphia. subscrip-
tions, s3T.3li,00o. percentage, 90.
New York repo! ted tonight that its
total unofficial sal"s were s7l5,ooo.00o.
tonight. s5T6.171,950.
| Complaints about the backwardness
OF rural investors came again to-day
from the Chicago and Atlanta districts.
with the latter making the more dis
appointing report.
bad weather continues to retard
progress in the Minnesota district. but
the district already has subscribed
more than GO per cent OF It's minimum
quota. according to unofficial figures
and promises further good results.
CAPRONI AIRPLANE
TO DOMB NEW YORK
THE Caproni airplare which flew
to-day from Newport News. Va. TO
Mineola, y. Y, will bomb New York
City tomorrow with Liberty loan lit
erature."
Two million men. women nd chill
dren are working throughout the ma
tion. the Treasury Department an
nounccd. In great endeavor to bring
the Liberty loan to n close next Sat
urday with s5.ooo,Ooo.O0O is subscrip-
tions.
The mems sales forces alone, IT Is
estimated, totals 100000 The Bo,
Scouts. engaged in a vigorous five-dey
campaign. number 100000 At least
100000 others are women workers. The
second million is composed Of Speakers.
clergymen. writer's and school children.
1t Is an army Of all ages and national
tiles.
II the activities of each bond soldier
results in the sale Of two $50 bonds
every day OF the six remaining dxvs or
:he campaign, the subscriptions can be-
,rr above S4,0cS 900. 900