Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-26
COUNTY WELL Up ON
THE LIBERTY LOAN
Residents Have Subscribed Over
Two-thirds OF Minimum.
TOMORROW ENDS "DRIVE. 4"
State Has Responded NObly With
Funds To Help Crush Germany
Big Rally In Baltimore.

Residents of Anne Arundel County
have subscribed to more than two
thirds of the minimum allotted
amount of the second Liberty Loan,
according TO the figures compiled last
night The minimum expected of this
county was placed at S265, 600, and the
total subscriptions TO date at 100000
at one bank alone. The maximum
amount desired of the county was fix
ed at S442, 900
Tomorrow is the last day OF the
big drive for the second loan. and
the occasion will be marked by bon
fire, the same as in all cities, towns
and hamlets throughout the country
The Boy Scouts of the city are today
busily engaged in collecting all re-
fuse in sight for the bonfire which
will be started at the Market Square.
Mrs. Emerson c. Harrington, wife of
the Governor, will apply the torch to
the fire. This torch will be a piece
of wood of the old brig Peggy Stew
art burned in Annapolis harbor be-
cause of her hated cargo of tea, pre-
sented by the League of Government
Employees at the Naval Academy,
through Mr. Joseph M. Armstrong,
who is President of the League The
League has sent a piece of the wood
to Washington to be used in starting
the bonfire there.
With but two more days before her,
Maryland is at last responding with
the Herculean effort necessary to sub
scribe her maximum to the Liberty
Loan. Yesterday she did more than
she has done on any day since the big
Sousa meeting at the Fifth Regiment
Armory, Baltimore. And by the stride
she made it is now practically certain
that her minimum, and little more,
has already been subscribed
On Wednesday night the subscrip-
tions- actually reported into the Fed
eral Reserve Bank. together with
those that were practically certain,
though not formally reported in,
amounted to a little more than $780,
100000. From the best available es-
Inmates. the subscriptions yesterday
were more than $7,000,00O, which
brings the total up to $43,00O,O00.
The greatest impetus given the
loan was at a meeting of the leading
bankers, financiers and business men
of the State, held on the roof of the
Emerson Hotel, Baltimore, yesterday
afternoon. The meeting was adj
dressed by Frank A. Vanderlip,
President of the National City Bank,
of New York, and at the end, when
subscriptions we're called for S6022,
200 was subscribed in less than half
an hour
The large room was almost jam
med For nearly half an hour the
elevators were worked to full capac-
ity carrying up the crowd, and when
the meeting was finally opened over
GOO were present.
Edwin G. Baetjer presided. Before
introducing Mr.. Vanderlip he review
ed briefly the causes that led the
United States into the war and just
exactly what we are fighting for
Concerning the subject of the loan,
Mr.. Baetjer gave his hearers an idea
of the magnitude of the task ahead
when he recalled the fact that the
estimated cost of the war to July /,
1918, would be $4,000. 100000, or an
amount equal to the entire capitaliza-
tion of the railroads of this country.
I'VE have, therefore, a task before
us" said Mr. Baetier, that nobody
can possibly perform for us; task
that cannot be finished by the action
of few rich men; but a task in
which all of US must do our share,
and as large a share as we possibly
can"