Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-27
ALLIED BANKS BUY
$l,269,000 OF LOAN
Are First to Announce Magnificent
Subscription in Della
ware.

To the Allied Banks of Wilmington,
eoes the credit for arranging LOT one
Of the largest subscriptions TO the four'h
Liberty Loan campaign, that ~ Is eN-
prcted will be announced during the
drive. that begins tomorrow.
Tho subscription is for 81 l,269, 900,
and closely following this, is one for
9I0, 600. With such contributions to
epen the campaign, Chairman Henry
p. Scott was In an optimistic mood
TODAY, over the ultimate success OF the
effort. II the remainder, OF the COM
munity. viii do corrcpondingly as well,
than the Loan officials believe all is well
In commenting on the pig subscrip-
ton, Mr.. Scott said:
"The banks and trust companies of
Wilmington may always be depended
mon to support the nation and this
community. Their action in the fol-
lowing resolution will give magniti-
cent start to the Liberty Loan cam
paign.
held at the Equitable Trust Co, the
following resolution was unanimously
sdopted
'Resolved, that the members of the
alhed banks of Wilmington subscribe
- 3l,269,O0O Of the Fourth Liberty
lean Bonds as a preliminary subscrip-
ton toward bonds to be sold on the
partial payment plan as conducted
by the allied banks.
''The hope Of your committee IL that
the whole community will respond a.
promptly Later the Continental Life
Insurance Co, through Philip Burnett,
president. gave us subscription for
500, 600"
NOISY WELCOME FOR LOAN.
Between and $40 o'clock, tomorrow
morning, Wilmington, IL Is expected will
give the noisest welcome to the opening
Of the Fourth Loan of any ever witnessed
In this city before. For ten minutes, every
steam whistle, frehouse bell and church
bell-anything that can make q noise
has been solicited in order to open Della
wares campaign with big noise.
Then it will be up to the workers
All citizens are asked to do something
in the way of decorating homes III honor
Of the occasion tomorrow. IL they do not
have an American flag, they are asked to
put out some red, white and blue bunting
Just to show their patriotism, and TO
lot the others know that they arc back
Of Chairman Scott, and the other workers
for the loan. The request is: do not It
your neighbor do it. Do it yourself. and
salty your conscience.
Yesterday was a big day with the
Gt-rature department at headquarters.
The arrival of many kinds of beautiful
and gaily-colored posters drew groups of
workers to headquarters. and the wants
of all who applied for posters were supplied
More are coming, but of course the
'early bird will obtain the best assort-
inert.
Subscription blanks, enough TO supply
ali the workers are expected down from
Philadelphia today. Teams should arrange
70 call at headquarters as early as possible
today and get enough for the first days
start.
Better telephone-7500-hrst and as
certain if the blanks af here, and thus
sxwe the annoyance, perhape of a second
journey to headquarters.
One of the first of the city's financial
institutions TO advertise the loan was the
Security Trust Company, Sixth and
Market streets. A half dozen large signs
calling the attention of passersby TO the
loan, adorn the sides of the brownstone
bank. on both the Sixth and Market
street sides. Then across the street is