Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-26
FINAL WASTE PAPER
COLLECTION ON TODAY
Results Expected to Exceed 10
Ton Gifts of Last Saturday.
Volunteers Aid

COLLECTED SATURDAY. May i@-
Three tons Of paperi six trucks and two
pleasure automobiles used. At least ten
trucks and ten pleasure cars were needed
COLLECTED SATURDAY., May 10
Ten tons Of paper; ten trucks and two
pleasure ears used. Twenty-Five trucks and
nftccn pleasure cars would have doubled the
collection. Your truck or pleasure car is
needed for the cause.
Today marks the third and final collec-
ton Of waste paper for the Red Cross. The
city-wldc papcr-saving campaign has been
| a big success, The indications are that the
collection today will pass ten tons, the high
| mark Of last saturday.
| II is to be regretted that the campaign
| must be stopped now. The drop in the price
| Of paper has simply forced the abandon
! mcnt Of the plan. 1t has killed the profit
| of the proposition even for an organization
| where the work is all volunteer work.
When the campaign opened, paper was
| selling al about $40 "A ton. BY the time the
first collection was made the price had
dropped TO about Sli and last Saturday
when the ten tons were collected. the price
was down to $40 "A ton. Investigation this
week has showed that paper dealers have
virtually no market for the paper they
buv and the price for todays paper prob
ably will be less than $40 Many paper
dealers predict the price will drop to 50
ton or less in the near future.
The prices make II useless to attempt to
keep the collections going. II was planned
10 store the paDer until fall when the
campaign can be started over again If the
prices rise once more. But the storage plan
was discarded, owing to the high rate Of
insurance on buildings used for the stor-
ogp Of paper and because suitable buildings
could not be found. This plan, therefore,
had o. he discarded. and after "A conference
with officials Of tho Red Cross it was de-
cidod 10 put of further collections until
fall.
Tho Red Cross and the EVENING LEDGER
arc both indebted to the individuals who
have saved their paper SO industrOusly and
10 all Of those who have attempted 10 organ
ne communities i'm connection with the
rampaign Every one is advised not to ex-
uect another collection Of paper to he made.
The success Of today's collection has been
made possible by the following truck-selling
agencies and business firms in Philadelphia
one by the Autocar Company Twenty
third and Market streets
one by tlhc Rcpubli2 Truck Agency, 1856
irving street
one by the Ward Truck Company, 2O33
Market street.
Two by Edwin A. Smith & Co. 1917
Trankford avenue. dealers in building mate
rals
Two by Walls owen & Stambach. Ridge
avenue and Eleventh street, plumbers
steamhttcrs and Easiitters' supplies
one by the United Gas Improvement Com
pauy.
one by John & Jamca Dobson wcavers
Of carpets blankets, etc.
one by the Texas Company. oils, gaso-
line, etc.
one by the Atlantic Refining Company
oils, gasoline. etc.
one by the Gulf Refining Company. oils,
gasoline. etc.
one by \. EnSohn, Chew street and Chel-
ten avenue, dealer in fruits vegetables, etc
pleasure car by w. \. Taylor. 523S
Walnut street
The following boys assisted the drivers
i'm making the collections:
Edmund Wcstcopp. $3.50 Thompson street.
Norman Wcstcopp $500 Thompson street
Adolph Nichols. 2iO Pine street; William
GoIdspinncr, 2iO Pine street Francis Da-
wilson, 1927 Trinity place; Charles Nc |
Ginley. 1929 South Alden street; James |
Russell. 1926 South Fifty-sevcnth street |
Newton Russell, 1926 South Fifty.scvcnth !
street; Isaac Moore, 1924 Wcstmoreland |
street; Griffin Chambers. l7l2 South Thir- |
tocnth street. Charles Phillips. 2627 South |
seventeenth street. and sixteen BOYS volun-
tc"ring from the North Philadelphia, West
Kcnsington and Central
branches of tho Y. NJ c. A.