French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01
LIBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS
CARRIED FAR BEYOND GOAL.
Banks eritabIy sWamped by Buyers
up to Late Closing Hour Saturday
Night Ten Million Subscribers.

Washington, October 27.-The Lib
erty loan apparently has passed the
$4,000, 100000 mark.
A last day drive of titantic propor-
tions Throughout the nation rounded up
more than $1,000, 100000, and was be-
heVed to have carried the total several
hundred million dollars beyond the
maximum sum treasury officials had
hoped for.
Federal reserve banks we're strug-
Cling tonight under an avalanche Of
last minute subscriptions to form
some idea of the grand total. Indi-
cations are that they will not complete
their tabuIations for several days.
At least 100000 persons through
out the country wrote their names on
application blanks. How many more
final count, several days hence. The
number may be as high as 10000, ,O00
Each of the II districts appeared to
have passed it's minimum, and indica-
tions were that most of them had ex-
ceeded the maximum as-Weh.
The treasury's tabulation of returns,
based upon the estimates received from
the reserve banks. showed total of
E$4, 555, 100000 This was admitted to
be an under statement of the result.
At the hour the tabulation was made,
subscribers were standing in line in
thousands of cities and towns through-
out the country and most Of the $4,000
banks were swamped with unreported
subscriptions.
The treasury's compilation by dis
tricts follows:
Boston, $5OO,Ooo,OOO; New York,
81, SOC, 100000; Philadelphia, $425, 5,000,-
600; Cleveland, $450,00O,O0O; Rich-
mond, $180,000,00O; Atlanta, $100, ,000,-
600; Chicago, $550,O0O,OO0; st, Louis,
100000, 900; Minneapolis. $130,O00,00O;
Kansas City. $160,000,000; Dallas, $685.
600, 900, and San Francisco, $275, 5,000,-
900.
subscriptions to the second Liberty
loan probably have passed $5,OO0,000,-
000,'' said a treasury statement.
From every district came the re-
port that it was almost impossible to
estimate totals, as the subscriptions
were pouring in so rapidly that it was
with the greatest difficulty they were
even being recorded.
New sales were being reported by
telephone, telegraph and messenger, it
was declared, from coast to coast. None
was SO bold as to say it would be poss1-
bic to give an accurate accounting OF
all sales before next Wednesday.
Wednesday is the day on which bank
subscriptions must have reached the
district federal reserve banks.
with its maximum safety passed at
shutdown Z the statement continued,
sstfe New York district went forging
ahead by aTtfncfaI Iigg1lt; bent en-
ming up a total OF hundreds of millions
more. An enormous volume of BUSH
ness was being conducted tonight. =
Subsequent to the issue of this
statement. officials were informed by
telephone that New York's total would
run up to 81 CSC, 100000 This would
swell the departments figures to A.
7O5, 100000
cleveland furnished one Of the
eleventh hour surprises the state
ment added "This districts total
bids fair to go high over the maximum
of $500, 900 600.
Chicago, somewhat disappointed at
it's slow start toward it's maximum of
S7OO, 100000 buekIed down hard today
to come as near that mark as possible.
Workers had not entirely lost hope to-
night of taking rank with other lead
ers but the task looked difficult
Atlanta wired they were swamp
ed with long distance telephone orders
and with telegraphic orders and that
ali the banks were staying open until
9 O'Clock. Optimistic observers thought
that the district might reach it's max
onaure7 nrota of 1926 100000
Indications tonight were that sol
diers had subscribed $75,000,000 and
sailors $4,000 ,00Q."
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