Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
LOAN GOAL PASSED
BY STATE AND CITY
Richmond More Than $4,000 900
Above Quota-Virginia
First to Go Over.
DISTRICT LOOKS TO BE SAFE
Early Reports Indicate That All
Of Five Units Have Taken
Allotment.
DISTRICT LOOKS TO BE SAFE

Richmond sailed under The wire a.
the close Of the fourth Liberty loan
campaign last night, with bond sales
amounting to $2I.003.G00. recording an
oversubscription Of more than 80 be,
cent, Of sI,lG6.sQo above the required
allotment OF sI9.S3G,sO0.
More than 100000, not included jr
the official figures. was reported late
iast night by workers, and indications
arc ihat R!chmond's subscription Will
reach at least *27.50O.0oo
Virginia was the first State in tn.
Fifth District 20 report over the TOP
chairman r.. L. Beiniss sending a mes
sage 10 George j. Scay. Of the Fedora,
RESERVE Bank. ~ o'clock YESTERDAY
afternoon that, with scores OF banks
ana places yet to be heard from thu
SJC. N'0'V'''-
This Is an excess OF s4,o25,s5o over
cations are that this subscription will
ee increased to between $4,000, 600 and
sds.oyy,oYe when complete reports are
incomplete reports from state chair
men and banks received at Fifth Dis
iSr,ct neadauarters Up until 10 o'clock
West. Virginia ana North Carolina be
ING the only States not oyersubscr,bed
Ihese reports show the district 10 bc
.s.I2G 800. u 9-'''''o'oeo by
With many banks yet 10 be heard
Vir,l, 1E1in and the fact that neither West
r.p, n,pslmia nor the District OF Columbia
reported their Saturday sales makes
uistric, officials confident that when
Nomp!ete returns are filed the quota
VII Ii,d.a nave been literally oversubscribed.
CHAIRMAN of the Fifth District, sent
tne Following telegram to ali State
cna'rmen last night:
sEAi CONGRATCLATES WORKERS
THROUGHOUT FIFTH DISTRICT
MY very warmest congratulations
upon your magnificent work. IL now
appears that the district will go we'll
over the quota"
Earlier in the day he had sent q re-
guest % every State chairman asking
that each State ovcrsubscribe bv ne
isast 10 per cent IN order 10 make til g
s300.000.0o0 eaS
The returns received at distric. head
quarters last night showed the follow
ssssiIhH ssessy ys5e ssess5'ss'sR 800
6st Columbia sSsSs.SSSS sSsSSS ssss.sSSSssS SsSS
West 4irslnia::: 53.sso.566 ssSS.GGggSSSSSSSS sS.GggSSSS
s:sO.o oooooo ,a7l.s;a.7oo
Chairman Goldsborough. OF Mary
iand, sent in the second report Of over
subscription yesterday evening. His
wire read as follows:
Baltimore city officially in hand
sso.t0o.ho0 and still going. Counties
OF state Will show Al least S22 900, 600.
,naE,nS 10 fdI,s, State ssS."oo,ooo plus and more
hands OF banks"
Another wire received from Chair
Ta,m man J9hn t2 Poole, OF the District of
Twenty nine raillion five hundred
tnonsanI officially through the 18th
Itridayl. Total expected, s37 1000. o0o
Good prospects of going over $40, 900, :
Chairman Robertson, OF South Caro-
ma, reported that States ovtrsub-
reading:
Al $50 this evening reports reach
ing this office total s33.2l2, go"
NORTH CAROLINA WITHIN
si,10O,OO0 Or ITS GOAL
Chairman j. g. Brown. OF North
approximately $1,000 200 OF it's goal.
His wire TO district headquarters fol-
lows:
REPORTS until o'clock this even
official and safe unofficial"
Norfolk has exceeded its quota, ac
cording TO "a wire received last nigh,
from Chairman Kerr. The allotment
for Norfolk is ss,4l5.200. and Chairman
Kerr reported Il total OF Sll.lS9lae He
pointed out that the committee had
hot Hau the advantage OF large sub
scriptions from corporations and that
no bank in Norfolk had subscribed one
dollar To the loan.
Chairman Heath. OF DinWiddic Coun-
~. telephoncd yesterday afternoon that
the combined quota for Petersburg and
Dinwiddie County. amounting to s.
S2S.50o. had been .oversubscribeti by
100000, not including Saturdays sales.
Richland County and the city of
Columbia. in South Carolina. hav e
oversubscribed. as has Grcenrille
County. y partial list OF figures of
Virginia counties having passed their
quotas Follows:
County. Ouo;a Suscri ption