New-York tribune., 1918-12-20
First Days Enrolment Is
More Than 80, 600, Re-
ports to Date Show
Police Join Drive;
s'Hold Up Autoists
McAdoo and Smith In
vited to ''Community
Sing Tomorrow Night

New Workers. with hearts and dollars
answered the Red Cross roll call yes
terday in rush of Christmas good
will that swamped the bookkeepers.
Most of it was the leftover enthusiasm
from the Fifth Avenue block party of
the night before, when thousands of
people who came to the party with
the intention of enrolling in the Red
Cross were swept off their feet by the
crowd, lost their friends and made
their escape home without even at
tempting to hunt up Red Cross
worker.
Yesterday they made a business of
paying their party call on the "Great-
est Mother in the World" and settling
up their debt to her at the nearest
convenient booth.
$4,000 Enroll First Day
For that reason, Red Cross officials
said yesterday that they could not tell
what the result in membership and
money of the block party would be.
1t will be merged with the grand total,
which will not be announced until the
end of the roll call. Statisticians in
three banks are kept busy night and
day checking up the answers to the
roll call, just for Manhattan alone, and
as yet they have not made any report
save for the first day, when $4,000 were
turned In.
"The trouble is that the workers
don't report their days results as
promptly as they should" said one of
The Red Cross officials last night. "a
woman is tired out after her days
canvass, and maybe she has lot of
promises but can't show the money
down, so she decides to wait and turn
in her figures when she has more i'm
posing total and when her feet aren't
so tired from climbing up and down
tenement stairs"
Police Join Roll Call
The appeal for membership will be
sounded louder than ever during the
remaining days of the drive.
The police took a hand yesterday,
standing at the corners waving bun
dies of the Red Cross "service flags,
and taking dollars and signatures as
fast as the traffic would permit To-
they will repeat the "hold up" pro-
gramme they inaugurated for the Lib
erty Loans, and woe betide the speed
ers who neglect to stop at the sign
Of the Red Cross.
Henry P Dawson, head of the Amer
\ lean Red Cross, on his way to France
n Yesterday, where he is to confer with
n that the eyes of the world were watch
ing, wistfully and hopefully, the re-
sponse to this rollcall.
Art Exhibit Opoua
Christmas shoppers iocked yester-
day to the ten art galleries which dot
Fifth Avenue, in the interest of the
rollcall. A special exhibition of pict-
ures of the Nativity, by modernist
painters, was opened at 681 Fifth Ave
nue., with window display of tiny
bronze figures of the infant Christus
in the mangsr, surrounded by cattle
The largest and most striking paint
ing is in vivid futurist style by Curtis
Moffat Another popular exhibit was
the Latin Quarter, under the direction
of Mrs. John Jay Chapman, where
there is a real shaky old stove and a
kitchenette full of paint pots, such as
real Latin Quarter students eat from
and all the other trappings straight
from the old Paris studios of many
prominent New York artists. In the
gallery at 719 Fifth Avenue are motion
pictures of whippet tanks in action in
France, and aviation paintings by
Ruttan.
Roll Call Ends Monday
The roll call will end on Monday
with special programme, including a
flight by the "Christmas Bullet" the
fastest airplane in the world. Piloted
by Cuthbert Mills, who made record
of ITO miles on December 3, the air
plane will fly over Manhattan in an at
IN bo
William Gibbs McAdoo and Govern
or-elect Alfred E. Smith have been in
vited to address the Community Sing
tomorrow night at the 22d Regiment
Armory, at Fort Washington Avenue
and West 168th Street. DR.. Woods
Hutchinson and DR.. Karl Reiland will
speak. and the band of the u. S. S
Recruit will play.
Hundreds of banks and business
houses were added yesterday to the list
of 100 per cent firms.
To-day's programme includes speak
ers at many hotels, and theatres. At
the Eltinge Theatre Shelley Hull will
incorporate Red Cross work in his act
At the Longacre William Collier and
Sergeant-Major L. S. Mccormack will
appear in Red Cross sketch.
Influenza No Barrier
Influenza epidemics prevalent in some
towns near New York have failed to
deter Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
workers from enrolling members, &C
cording TO report sent yesterday to
headquarters by the Atlantic Division
of the Red Cross.
In Washington, N. j. solicitation of
aggregated houses where the malady
existed, was made through open win
dows: The law would not permit the
solicitors to enter the homes, and thew
had no desire to do this for fear they
might spread the disease.
In Niagara Falls, where similar
condition exists. another plan was
worked out. The solicitation was &C
complished in all instances where there
was influenza by use of the telephone
The solicitors 'phoned each house
where there was illness, and through
2 member of the family arranged to
enroll all eligibles. Pledges were taker
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