Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-07
LIBERTY LOAN
OVERSUBSCRIBED

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Bloomfield, $4,000; Newport. s21,S5o;
steelton, $4,000; Wellsville, $1,000;
Bethlehem steel Company. $190,5O0.
How the Teams Ran
To Division B. of which Andrew
E. Buchanan was manager, went the
honors of the day for high contri-
buttons, $152,550, and a big silk flag
was awarded the division and placed
upon the table where Mr.. Buchanan
sat The team captained by Francls
Jordan Hall, of this division, led all
the others with n total subscription
of $112,950, of which employees OF
the Central Iron and Steel Company
subscribed $4,000. To his table
was awarded banner, and banners
were placed also on the tables of the
teams headed by e. d. Hilleary. Will
liam H. Bennethum. JT., and David
Kaufman, each having led its division
in amounts subscribed.
The campaigners are at their work
again this afternoon and will con-
tinue until Saturday noon, when
final luncheon will be held 1t is be-
lieved that Harrisburg and surround.
ing towns will subscribe total OF
S4 100000 or more.
An army 240 strong with pockets
full of prospects and brimful OF
earnestness this morning started out
to canvass every section of the city
in the interest of the two billion
Liberty Loan.
Not all of them are regular sales
. men, in fact very few of them are,
most are very busy men who have
gladly volunteered to leave their own
work to boost the Liberty Loan, so
vital to liberty itself.
Frank A. Vanderlip arrived at
noon to-day and went immedlately
to the Board of Trade Building TO
address the assembled workers. This
evening he, in company with James
Francis Burke. of Pittsburgh, will
speak at the auditorium OF the Iech-
nical High school.
S5I,OO8 mt C. 1. and s.
The Central Iron and steel teams
who have been canVassing the em-
ployes of the company this morning
totaling $4,000. The campaign will
continue for the remainder of the
week. each team reporting daily.
D. B. Smouse is in charge OF the
following teams:
captain: r. V. Eckert, Fred Pierson,
Earl Thompson, Frank Packer, We're
Sunday, Charles Richwine, George
No. Mill Team - David Rogers,
Charles Frederick, Gatze Wolf,
Charles Becker.
Fisk. captain; Guy Rupert. w. F.
Filby, I. P. Kreps.
Open Hearth Department : Will
liam Brown, captain; Floyd johnson,
Mantz, James Porter. Joseph Cinley,
Paul Musa. Yocup Yonkovitch.
Test Room Al; 4; D; Peace, captain
tain; John sloathour, Ray Heffel-
finger. Frank Rogers.
Blast Furnace = G. L. Shook, cap
tain; H. II. Snyder.
"War Menu" at Dinner
the Harrisburg Clearing House Asso-
citation at dinner this evening at
the Harrisburg Club: A war menu"
sociation will have one representa-
tive.
illustrate Selling Points
More than $50 men gathered in the
Board of Trade hall last evening for
their final instructions before start
ing to canvass the town this morning
for Liberty Loan subscriptions.
After the lunch, Donald Mccormick,
f. Cunningham, former deputy at
torney general, who pointed out not
only the necessity of subscriptions
for the loan but showed as we'll the
'oundness of the investment as a
purely business proposition without
the attending call of patriotism,
which has been to a large extent the
power behind the loan.
E. ]: Hockenbury, manager of the
campaign, gave to the volunteer
statesmen the points TO be used in
making the sales and an outline of
the campaign in general, how it
would be conducted and the results
to be worked for. A dialog be-
| tween John p Heiner and T.. Hoyt
Weston further illustrated the diff
terent points of a sale that might
be brought up by prospective Gus
toner.