The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-27
TREMENDOUSRUSH
TO HEAR PRESIDENT
Only $500 Seats, but $4,000
Liberty Loan Workers Seek
Tickets.
TWO PARADES TOMORROW
Sirens and Whistles to Usher
In Fourth Campaign at
1855 This Evening.

%nen President Wilson formally opens
the fourth Liberty Loan campaign TO-
night in the Metropolitan Opera House
with an address to the Liberty Loan
workers Of the second Federal Reserve
district that building will be crowded
to overfiowing An unprecedented de-
mand for tickets became evident yes
terday.
So overwhelming we're the requests by
telephone, telegraph and mail Tor tno
privilege to listen to the President, VINO
may reply to Won Hertling. the German
Imperial Chancellor, that the WorK OF
the Liberty Loan committee at 12o
Broadway was practically brought TO q
standstrl. The telephone exchange at
the committees headquarters was de-
voted almost entirely to receiving incom-
ing calls seeking information and max
ing requests for tickets. For Some rea-
son il was generally believed that any
body could obtain admission. whereas
the President will address only the lad
erty Loan workers and admission can DO
obtained only by ticket
Thousands Disappointed.
Owing to the limited seating capacity
of the Metropolitan Opera House only
small portion even of the army OF LIB
erty Loan workers will have the priv
ilege OF listening to the President. Inc
Metropolitan Opera House can seat ap-
proximateIy $500. whereas there are
80. 600 Liberty Loan committeeman. OF
whom approximately 5000 came to this
city yesterday from out OF town In eI-
pectation of seeing and hearing Presi-
dent Wilson.
The doors Of the Metropolitan Opera
House will be opened promptly at Z :8o
?. NJ. and the meeting will begin with
the singing OF America"
Benjamin Strong, president of the
Federal Reserve Bank OF New York, ano
chairman OF the Liberty Loan Commit
tee, will then address the meeting He
will be followed by john Mccormack
who will sing THE Star Spangied Ban
ner" and for an encore will sing when
Pershing's Boys Go Marching Into
Picardy." Mr.. Mccormack will conclude
with George II. Cohan's new patriotic
song when You Come Back" President
Wilson then will make his address.
Hardly will the doors OF the Metro
politan Opera House have been thrown
open when at :55 =. NJ. the ten huge
sirens set UP by the Police Department
to warn the people of air raids viii
sound the opening note OF the Liberty
Loan bond selling campaign. They viii
shrek for five minutes. at the end OF
which all the factory and steamboat
whistles will blow and the church bells
ring for fifteen minutes. There will be a
cessation OF the noise from Sis to ::C
and then the large sirens will roar fol
five minutes. notifying the population oil
the beginning OF the most gigantic blow
ever delivered to the Kaiser.
While the President is speaking the
police reserves and volunteer worker:
known as town criers" will distribute
as rapidly as possible one and hall
million copies of a surprise newspaper
edition.
whitman to Buy bond at Midnight
When the crowds are returning &c
their homes from the Metropolitan Opera
House Gov. Whitman will open the
fourth Liberty Loan campaign IN this
city at midnigh. tonight by purchasing
the first bond at Liberty Hall. Times
Square. He will then appeal to the peo
pie of New York State TO subscribe until
| 1t hurts Other speakers will be Major
Gen. ". A. White. head OF the British
Recruiting Mission that has just com
pleted its work here: ex-senator Theo
dore NJ. Burton. president OF the Mer'
1
Justice Ottnger. Big Bill" Edwards
formerly Street Cleaning Commissioner
Willie Collier, the comedian. and Lore
Roberts. the Smallest actor on Broad
way" Miss Anna Fitziu OF the Chicago
Grand Opera Company will sing "Th'
Star Spangled Banner" Lord Roberts
also will sing and quartet will give
For Your Boy and My Boy" TIL,
Times Square Mecca Band will suppl,
! the music. Fairly in the evening Gov
! Whitman will address the East Sidi
Liberty Loan Committee in the Bank o
the United States, ~ Delaney street.
Stragglers from the Liberty Hal
meeting will have been home only 1
short time when Mayor Hylan at
O'Clock tomorrow morning will unfur
the Liberty Loan flag at City Hall ant
| the flags OF the allied nations will b,
fung to the breeze on Fifth avenue. A
that time the Liberty Loan parade vii
start southwark from Thirtyfourtl
street, while another parade will begir
moving northward at 9:i5 A. NJ. from
| Bowling Green.
The Liberty Loan Committee yester
| day announced the Fourth Liberty Loar
quotas for Greater New York and eaci
of It's boroughs, as well as for each o
the counties and sub-distrlcts under it,
| jurisdiction. New York city is expected
to subscribe at least s1,334.OS2 400 GU
of the $500. 100000 quota for tn,
Second Federal Reserve District. TIL,
twelve northern counties OF New Jerse,
have a quota OF s143.s6O.oOO. Fairfiel,
county, Connecticut is asked for SIS.
| 22O,1O0.
New York Boroughs' Quotas.
The quotas for the Ave boroughs o
| New York follow:
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