Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-25
RED CROSS FUND
NOW over million

is no telling how far they will go
and 1 am afraid l could not get a
second to another amendment
A second telegram from General du-
Pont also dated New York was read
by Chairman Scott as follows:
Congratulations 70 your entire
committee Delawa4e has shown
the whole world that its people
are human beings of the right
sort and ready to double any
other States bet for Liberty,
! Freedom, Democracy and the
needs Of the efficiency of the Red
Cross. My hat of to the Della
ware Chapter. Mrs. Currier and
p. S. DUPONT. Sorry / could not
be with you today
At 6 O'Clock all employees of the
City Club will go to the first floor in
a body to make their contribution to
the Red Cross cash registers.
All team members Will hustle this
afternoon to make good reports at
the final meeting.
DR.. Herbert F. Randolph made the
address following the luncheon.
! That Delaware's contribution to the
Red Cross fund will exceed that per
capita OF any other State in the Union
is now the belief of leaders Of the
local Red Cross campaign.
That Wilmington will lead every
city in the country Of anywhere near
It's size in its contributions also is
now evident. With the contributions
from rural New Castle county and
Kent and Sussex counties eliminated.
it Is believed that Wilmington's con
tributions per capita will be far in
excess of the contributions per capita
Of any other city in the land.
Delaware's popul alton. according to
the last census, was 100000. The
per capita contribution in Delaware is
SIS I'm round figures. with Kent and
Sussex counties. yet to be heard from
More than 100000 of Delaware's
fund was gotten by Wilmington
teams This makes Wilmington's per
capita between IS and 49, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, with S4.21 per cap
ita. is next to Wilmington thus far.
"Hurrah Dinner" as WinduS.
Red Cross workers VIII have Il
"hurrah dinner" tonight when the
final wind-up of subscriptions will be
announced and the grand total will
be made public. All Of the workers
who have been meeting daily for a
week will gather at the Hotel dupont
at $50 o'clock ready for the jollihca-
ton which will mark the end of one
OF the most remarkable campaigns
Delaware has ever seen.
Immediately after the actual dining
the room viii be cleared Of tables and
chairs will be brought in and as
many guests will be seated as can
be accommodated in the room. Then
the speech max ng will begin.
There will be music. both vocal and
instrumental. patriotic songs. whioh
have been kept in the background
while the workers were actually en-
gagged in the canvass, will figure
largely in the program.
Each CAPTAIN will be called upon
to tell how he or she and the team
workers accomplished tho wonderful
results which the figures show.
Should Designate Contributions.
Red Cross campaign accountants
are seriously handicapped by the
failure of subscribers to deiignate
whether Red Cross dividend checks
sent in by them are 10 be credited to
the account Of subscriptions already
pledged.
Each dividend check donor is asked
TO be specific in his OF her instruc-
tons as to the disposition of such
checks.
At one OF the luncheOns Thomas +.
Bayard made an explanation in which
he said that II was expected that these
Red Cross dividends would be turned
in as contributions entirely distinct
from personal contributions. He en-
phasized the fact that the giving Ct
these checks entailed no sacrifice. rs
the dividends were declared by the
companies for Red Cross purposes
and would not otherwise have gone
nto the hands OF the individual stock
holders
Team Workers in Parade
Wilmingtonians on Saturday night
had an opportunity TO view, in the re-
markable Red Cross parade. some of the
captains Of industry and financiers who
are giving their time, energy and money
to assure SUCCESS of the million from
Delaware" campaign of the Red Cross
The route Of the unique demonstra-
ton was from Tenth and Market
streets TO Front street and counter
march on Market to Ninth street to
Orange street TO Eleventh street 10 the
Hotel DUPONT. where the marchers were
dismissed
The line of parade was backed by one
solid mass Of humanity, the police ropes
which had been stretched holding the
thousands of spectators back from the
.f ~.
p. S. dupont, Mrs. f. r. Currier, direc-
toress, of the campaign, Thomas f. Bay
ard and Colonel Edmund Mitchell, chief
marshal Of the parade. The only sem
blance of a military nature in the pa
rade was the appearance of the uniform
ed traffic patrolmen under Sergeant John
Devenish and the First Infantry Band
which headed the procession and several
hundred boy scouts who carried red fire.
The parade while not a long one, caus-
ed all traffic ON Market street to be
tied up for a while, a long string Of
trolley cars being delayed ON their
schedule. 1t was 10 avoid the conges-
tion which resulted from this delay,
at Tenth and Market streets, that the
parade moved west on Ninth street to
Orange and then to Eleventh street and
the Hotel dupont. the headquarters of
the Campaign Committee.
What the parade lacked in size, was
more than made up for in the hearty
applause that greeted the workers for
the Red Cross cause, and as the must
clans played the Star Spangled Banner
along the route, the spectators along the
curbstones doffed their hats.
Directly behind the executive commit
tee in charge of the campaign, were
three heralds riding horses. thew heing