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New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Method Of Profteering in
Patriotism Revealed by
Investigation
Want "Ads" Used to
Trap Unfortunates
Offers for Receipts Range
From 20 to SO Per Cent
Of Sum Paid In

Scalpng Liberty bonds, profteering in
patriotism-such is the latest war
industry that has sprung up in New
York City and IS doing thriving bus
mess and in defiance of Uncle Sans
dignity and solvency as debtor.
1t is a business that is all profit,
with no poss ibility of loss unless the
Germans should capture the United
States and convert it into German
colony.
For some tim, past little advertise
ments have appeared in the "Help
Wanted columns of certain New York
papers Offering spot cash for install
ment receipts on Liberty Loans. The
want "ads" are calculated to appeal to
persons who have subscribed for the
first and second loans on the install
ment plan and have for some reason
been unable to meet all their pay
ments. They are planned to catch the
eyes Of men and women whose patriot
ism is more securely established than
their financial position.
The scalDers appeal to those who have
lost their positions since subscribing
or have suffered illness or other mis-
fortune necessitating unforeseen eX-
penses. The trick is to catch any one
who needs cash in 4 hurry and pos
sesses receipts for rart payment on
loans to Uncle Sam.
Appeals Unheeded by Scalpers
At the bureau of publicity of the
Liberty Loan Committee it WAS stated
yesterday the government had no power
to prosecute spectators in war bonds.
1t was said the committee had sent
representatives to call on all scalpers
who had come to its notice to dissuade
them from continuing their business.
This means of checking the scalping
evil was said to be inadequate, as sew
eral scalpers' advertisements appeared
in the want ad section of "The World"
Sunday morning.
All these little "ads" appeared under
the general classification of "Help
Wanted-Male," indicating the specula-
tors are trying to reach those tenn
porerily in hard luck, the same class on
which the loan shark thrives.
Here are three of the "ads" which
appeared in "The World" without the
names and addresses Of the advertisers.
who are unashaned of their traffic:
eeipts cashed immediately Highest prices
paid.
MAN.--Liberty bonds or instalments turned
into cash Immediately open till Z p. m. !;
Sundays, 10-i-
MAN.--Liberty bonds turned into spot cash
without red tape. Apply Sundays, II a. m.
to 3 y. m.
The Liberty Loan Committee stated
tha. the instalment receipts were worth
prcportiouately what the bonds are
worth in the market The price of
bonds has ranged from about 96 to %
per cent OF the face value.
Demands $50 Discount
Yesterday afternoon Tribune re-
porter called on one of the advertising
bond scalpers. He told the gray
haired, sharp-visaged broker he had
subscribed for three s10O bonds of the
first Liberty Loan issue and had been
able to pay only $75.
"Eun. hundreddolar bonds" mused
the broker, scratching figures rapidly
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Nation Giving
Quick Response
To Loan S Call
Continued from page 1

Company, 100000; National Liberty
INSURANCE Company, $500,O00; the
Church Pension Fund, 100000; Lonr
Island City Savings Bank, S40o 900:
German Savings Bank Of BROOKLYN.
$250,ooo; Chemical National Bank
Sl29,oo0; Peoples Bank, New YORK.
City, 100000; Peicrls, Buhler & Co.
Sloo,o00; Paul &. Mclntirc, s1O0. 900.
New York Times, 100000; A. paul
Keith 100000; f. f. Albee, 500. 900.
Marcus Locw. $4,000; the Greenwood
Cemetery. S5o,0oo Sam Scribner, So
600; AL II. Woods, $5O.000;s Alf l[av.
man, $4,000 Maurice Meyerscldt. $40 :
900; Brooklyn Eastern District Turn
Vercin. $4,000; Nicholas M. Schenck
$4,000; Hungarian Society of New
York, $4,000.
The Liberty Loan Committee nm.
nounced last night that these com
munties were tied for the honor Of
being the first town in this state To
win the honor flags for subscribino
their full quota: Athens, Cedarhurst
College Point. Far Rockaway, Hewlett
lnterlaken. lnwood. Larchmont. Inv.
renee, Lodi, McGrnw, Marathon, New
baltimore, Pearl River, Richhcld
Springs, Spring Valley and Woodmere
BESIDES, nine towns in the New jcrscv
portion Of the Second Federal Reserve
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Ball Rolling on, But
Rain Wearies Z Uncle Sans
Loan Parade Makes Caledonia After Seventeen and Half
Hard Miles From Batavia-Coach Riding Is
Easier-Rochester To-day

seventeen. Your correspondent co,.
ours.
What makes the avuncular cocter
tion especially worthy of note is n.
fact that this is the first time thas s
have agreed on anything. Right at ths
start of the trip each of the Sans ca,
out to demonstrate to the other thu,
he had a mind Of his own. And ths
recalls the little military tragedy q,
the Buffalo City Hall, when the Mayo,
gave the Sans the magic hockus se i
sending to His Honor of New York ord
bade them farewell.
Buffalo Guard Retreats
It was moving time after that. and
Uncle sam Houston was seized Of
notion that all turns should be to the
right. Uncle Sam Lowry favored The
left hand, as nearest the heart. They
rushed and pushed. with the result that
the ball went traight ahead. ever faster
and more formidable. In front of the
City Hall company of guardsmep
stood az parade rest. Everybody had
been adrniring their soldierly stolidity.
The ball was coming straight for them.
They waited until the last minute for
/ miracle to happen; then. without a
word of command. they beautifully
performed that quick-stepped evolution
which General Herr Hindenburg has
made famous as the strategic retreat.
The BuTalonian colonels and captains
haven't got over the shame of it yet.
This morning the Liberty Coach was
the first out Of batavia. 1t was 10
o'clock before the backsmiths got
through doing 81 worth Of repairs on
its iron tire and the Liberty Ball Got
in motion.
On their way through Stafford and
Lie Roy and into Caledonia the coach
and the ball, escorted ny Boy Scouts
and mounted state policemen, were
greeted by screaming sirens and toll
ing bells. II was the fire whistle they
blew at lie Roy, and there was mighty
scurrying Of the brave hearts Of
Chemical Hose and Excelsior Hook and
Ladder who hadn't been forewarned
to climb into their red shirts and
fireman hats.
Before that there had been a rous.
ing meeting at the open road at Stat.
ford, where Congressman A. D. San.
ders. most distinguished Of the com.
munlty's 289 inhabitants, turned on.
IN fair weather top hat TO act as
chairman of the reception committee
/ uc congressman naG Il mysterious
present for Miss Hollins an iron bar
wrapped in flag.
This he explained. as what bur
glars call a jimmy May YOU and your
party use it TO good effect WHEREVER
YOU find tiehtwad who won't come
through for the loan
It rained harder than ever in the
afternoon, and The Uncles, assisted By
flock of Scouts. ripped off the seven
miles from he Roy TO Caledonia in rec
ord time
Tomorrow Will see the first real
metropolitan appearance Of the Lib.
erty Ball and the Liberty Coach. They
are due in Rochester in the after.
noon. To celebrate their conquest Of
the seventy-iive miles between Buffalo
and Rochester there IS TO be big pa
rade.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Three Ways of Buying Liberty Bond.

Subscribe banking institution booth selling
L lied Liberty Loan Committee and
~
For 500 bond monthly plan $40 A
consecutive monthly instalments of $40 each '
the monthly plan SIS down
secutive monthly instalments of s5
For the weekly plan 81 down
weeks
$50 weekly plan pay 81 wee, .
forty
= down subscription
IL. per s cent on A.
Is of this
Pay bond an,
~.
the of New York Or subscribe
to your bond until after May 9, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Great Night Drive
Reaps Thousands
For Liberty loan

The particular division of the Lib
erty Loan forces lntrusted with the
task of taking in "sl00,ooo,o 600 off the
streets Of New York" last night made
what, in the terms Of the official COM
munique, would be known as well
directed, concerted attack on all fronts
from Chrystie Street to Harlem.
Twenty-Five thousand troops, repre-
sentng nineteen units OF the State
Guard, reinforced by a battery Of
speakers, a regiment of statesmen.
salvos Of Liberty Bells" and streams
of red fire. participated in the attack
upon the financial reserves of tho imam
III the street. AS every man, woman
and child living within the sphere OF
action seemed to be in the street. the
booty, it is officially claimed, was tre-
mendous.|
In response to a general order, is
sued by Brigadier General George r.
Dyer, commanding the lst Brigade, New
York State Guard, directing the orrahi
zatlon 70 assist in the loan campaign.
troops OF the various regiments sta
toned in the city left their respective
armories at p. m. and. with bavonets (
ilXed and bands crashing. marched to
prepared positions. from which q con-
tinuous barrage of Liberty Loan "lit-
crature" was maintained from STRAIT
c%ically situated automobiles. The
heavy fire Of oratory followed. and sue
cecded IN reaching the checkbooks of
the Riverside section, the wallets of
Harlem and the we'll worn purses of
the lower East Side
Although special forces of police
were in evidence at all of the rallvinp
points not a single case of disorder
was reported. The I'd Battalion Of
the Goth Regiment, which participated
in the proceedings on the lower East
Side, took on grim expression as it
marched with fixed bayonets through
sections which IN pro-war days had
harbored anarchy and "isms" of the
J. w. w. variety. Nothing but patriot
ism Of the noisiest variety. however.
was encountered along the length and
breadth of Second Avenue from Twen-
ty-third Street to Houston and from
Chrystie Street, to Dcancey. Side
walks, fire escapes and roofs were
crowded with cheering throngs. we'll
wishcrs at least il circumstances pre-
vented more active support.
you remember Russia, don't you"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Women in Stores
Help Bond Sales

The "inside" sales Of Liberty bonds
IN the department stores we're running
q close second TO the outside yestei-.
day. Saleswomen to whom the buying
OF bond meant going without a nes n..s
nat TINS spring stood in line viz.
women to whom .he same bond mean
merely going without the hat for s''
other week.
- ms bond is going to mean rem
hardship for me- said one eaunt, g grs;
haired saleswoman in Gim5ers. III .
the first time | have really done an ri.
thlng worth while tor the war. ua ,na
first bond l bought with money nsa
saved, and was going TO put IN W., ",
bank, any way love to knit, go 'aas
was nothing 10 be proud Of. | nag g. >
war garden, too. but l got heaps OF IVA
out Of it," ,,.
The details Of the system Of wees.s
payments have not been Announced :.
the government yet, so many OF me ", ~
partment store employees have no' ,prn psss
able to pay their first instalment aSars Ssrs
but in nearly all the stores they hs''
signed up for bonds =, q.
McCreery's, which is paying. - ,r, -
charity for every bond which Is III
chased there, announced last nlghs ta h.a
the Knights OF Columbus so lar ats ~.
obtained the largest number OF snsss Wat,
Each purchaser is allowed to des's'ssi III
the charity to which he WISHES as
dollar to be given. The order wsip Red
follows: Knights Of COLUMBUS Mans
Cross. Sun Tobacco Fund, Young Re.
Christian Association and Jewish
lief Society ..rsay
Best & Co. discovered yesss,rsSIss,.
morning that they had been en'.sat ..ss,;ast.
ing hero unawares N theli asdals,
This is Lieutenant A. ". BraeonsEn. En.
D, S. o. of the Royal Canadian N ons
gineers, who is now employed m.snant
Of the Offices of the firm; l,less;;rnisg
Braconsdale enlisted at the oes,ltA peg wltA
OF the war, and has been retilyh" yh"rsskt.
honor and leg stiff from n,ne 4 tai1
lie presided at the bond o0o's' Is
afternoon,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Bootblacks Help
Swell the 7'otaL at
City Hall to $780, 900

The Liberty bond dctachments poste d
about The Liberty Bell chat caps the
fountain in City Hall Plaza sold S1O,-
600 worth of bonds yesterday in one
hour, $4,000 in two hours and close to
$4,000 before the day ended. And the
crowd of buyers was neither an ap-
plauding crowd nor wealthy crowd.
1t was just al evcr-changing assem-
blage of everyday working folk who
paused to listen quietly a moment to
the appeals for money to beat Ger
many, and then stepped up to offer
their bits.
Bootblacks, whose stands have reap
peared with the advent of spring, under
The bridge approach, bought bonds. NJ " So
did the newsboys, young and old, and
the news women who do business on
Palk Row.
There were also girls and men and
women from the office buildings, and
conductoNettcs, even a few Bankers.
But few were The checks that passed
ever the tables established about the
Liberty Bell by the Mayors Committee
OF Women on National Defence. 1t
was not a checkbook crowd. It's pur-
chases were made with cash often
lr2yrd plils ana small change, obvious
ly taken from long boarded stocks.
The bond sellers were assisted by a
number of Canadian and English Off
GERS on furlough pending recovery from
wounds received on the Western front.
One of the principal speakers of the
day was Captain a. +. simmons, of the
United States Army. who declared the
country needed every soldier and every
dollar to accomplish its task of de-
stroying the most efficient military
machine ever organized.
Morgan J. O'Brien, formerly Justice
Of the State Supreme Court, also ex-
horted the crowds TO buy and buv
again. He declared he had four sons
in service, a fifth having died at An
napolis, and his only regret was that
he could not join them in the battle
to prevent Germany imposing upon the
world the Hohenzollern principle that
peoples were made to be governed bv
"divinc right" dvnasties.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09

to work down here about ten years
ago
Are you folks good Americans ?"
lANsWers: you bet your life," and the
like.)
Have you bought Liberty bonds ?"
NoiceS from the surging mob: "We
have.'D
Folks Fairbanks continued. "I'm
so hoarsc from urging people to buy
Liberty bonds that can hardly speak
But that doesn't bother me BIT, and
m going to keep right on telling YOU
to buy until there's not a bond left >"
1t was difficult for the Law ear to
dctcrmine whether Chaplin or Fair
banks got the more enthusiastic recep-
tion. But there was one feature that
got more than either That was the
combination of Chaplin and Fairbanks.
The latter carried the former around
on his shoulders. and the 2O,OOO-odd
howled with delight
Charlie dressed better than usual
perhaps because it was his premiere as
pond salesman. He wore wasp
waist, blue suit, light top shoes and a
black derby. Douglas looked non
riussed enough in his serge suit and
his blue sport shirt.
Women Faint in Crush
Inspector Meyers and forty police
men suffered as result of the popu-
larity Of the two film actors, and thew
seemed fairly helpless in the seething.
pushing throng. A hurry call brought
the reserves from three police stations
and ambulances from the Broad Street
and Volunteer hospitals. Several
women tainted in the crush outside the
Offices of j. P. Morgan e. Co., though
only one needed the attention of a
physician.
The people heard long before noon
that Chaplin and Fairbanks were com
ing, and early arrivals hugged the
great pillars of the ub-Treasury stems
and refused to yield their places at
the suggestion Of the police. The Now
York Stock Exchange, the Morgan Office
and every building in the ncighborhood
that marks the financial centre Of the
world were black with people. Thov
waited eagerly while the 22d Regiment
Band played popular selections and
later while Captain Robert f. Watson
Of the Goth Machine Gun Corps. smoke
lieutenant Joseph c. Stehlin. of ,ha
Lafayette Escadrille, who is goinr 70
begin a flight across the state Thurs-
day in behalf of the loan, also smoke
And Harvey Hindemeyer sang "Ovar
There" with Fairbanks leadinc the
crowd. which Joined in the chorus.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Julia Arthur Presides at
Liberty Theatre, Where
Goal Is Set for 81, 900, 900

The Liberty Theatre, which opened
yesterday on the steps of the Public
Library in the cause of the Liberty
Loan drive, would look like small
Grecian temple were it not for the flags
with which it is draped. For the next
four weeks it will be Headquarters of
speakers gathered by the Stage
Women's War Relief. Stage stars, Off
GERS on leave, statesmen and writer's
Will come each day, from noon to 5
o'clock, speaking from the white por-
tails until a million dollars worth Of
bonds have been sold.
The ceremonies yesterday were pre-
sided over by Julia Arthur. The ma
tional anthem was sung by Marcella
Craft and the Marine Corps from the
Brooklyn navy yard fired three salutes
over the heads of the crowd. Then the
sale of bonds began in earnest, while
Sergeant Empey, Jessie Busley, Ray
Cox. Shelley Hull and Charles Mitchell.
president of the National City Bank,
addressed the crowds that iammed side
walk and steps so tightly special police
were needed to preserve thorough
fare.
The beautiful white structure was
designed by Thomas Hastings. The
Stage Women's War Relief has another
travelling theatre, designed by the
Ackerman Studios. which will be used
in different sections of the city. At
both theatres the new song, "What Are
You Going to Do to Help the War;"
will be sung at frequent intervals.
Twelve-yea ar-old Pauline Hankel, who
sold $4,000 worth of bonds of the sec
ond issue and was made colonel by
the Boy Scouts for her work. was on
hand at an carly hour, although she
was not to speak until late in the after
noon.
Dr. Frank Crane. Admiral Usher
Viola Allen, Eleanora de Cisneros
Majo Stevens, chief Of aeronautics at
Washington, and the drum corps from
Garden City are among the attractions
scheduled for to-day
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09

asked Gustav Hartman. who rose from
q Newsboy to the Municipal Court
bench and is known as the East Side
Side judge ''ltll be worse than Rus
sia here if the Kaiser gets away with
it The question was directed TO a
swaying throng at Chrystie and De-
lancey Streets
We'll come through shouted a
man IN the crowd, "give us the blanks. >
A flying wedge Of statesmen did the
rest and more than $4,000 in bonds was
subscribed N few minutes.
At Houston Street and Second Ave
nue. the scramble to subscribe de-
veloped into a melee which the police
had to stralghten out. But it was a
good -natured mob and mob with an
idea of its duty" as eX-Judge Hartman
declared.
No less enthusiasm was engendered
ny the lst, or Baby" Battalion. 22d
New York Engineers. under Major ].
II. Mahon, and its fanking corps of
speakers and statesmen which forayed
the upper W est Side. Headed by the
reglmental band the naraders marched
from the armory at l6Sth Street and
broadway. to 145th Street, then east
TO Amsterdam Avenue and north to
lolst Street and st. Nicholas Avenue.
/, Hiit'sI eteran Speaks
:, Two hundred American Junior Naval
Scouts distributed leaflets and the
talking was done by Alvin r. Hodge, a
brltlsh army veteran from Passchen-
daele; Albert II. Cohen, Max II. Cohen
and Miss Louise GeTstcn.
Chief Man a-Booza, Redskin of the
Mohawk tribe, scowled beneath his
Warpaint and told 5000 negroes gath
cred at LenoX Avenue and l45th Stree.
what would happen to them if they
ialled III their bond buying obligation
TO the government
The response, according TO Assistant
District Attorney Fred p. Morton, who
helped elicit it. was "enormous." To
back him up Chief Mama Booza had
four companies of the 18th Regiment
State Guard lnegro), a company of the
men OF Squadron A and some of the
medlcal corps unit from General Hos
pltal No. /, in Gun Hill Road, The
Bronx
Geenwieh Village surrendered $4,000
IN bond pledges to speakers cooperat-
ing Wlth battalion of the 9th Coast
Artillery. which also dcployed in and
around Abingdon Square.
John Mulroy, q six-year- old Uncle
sam. led four companies of the Tlst
hegiment from the armory at Thirty
fourth Street and Park Avenue on ii
launt down Second Avenue TO Union
Square, where the largest crowd of the
evening was encountered and tine most
impressive total Of bond subscriptions
achieved. How great the total was
will not be known until officials figures
arc given out by the Liberty Loan
Committee.
More than 5000 in pledges were
recorded by workers operating IN CON
Jurction With Companies and ii and
the hospital corps OF the 7th Regiment
in series of meetings held at Seventy
second Street and First Avenue, Fifty
ninth Street and Third Avenue and
Forty-second Street and Lexington
Avenue. Tho route to be taken bv
theee troops was changed just before
the parade and disappointed crowds
waited in Fifth Avenue In vain.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
3l9,746 Boy Scouts
Are Aiding Loan Drive

Complying with President Wilson's
0at lher "a the cleaners after
the reapers,' the Boy Scouts Of Amer
lea, uuI!Ag the first twenty days Of the
thlfd Liberty Loan campaign. sre CIV
Ing the adult workers valuable assist
ance. Every day after school and on
Saturdays the 319,746 scouts in the
United States arc serving a messen-
gers, buglers and poster pastors.
One million Boy Scout Liberty Loan
posters. designed by Leyenlecker
have been pasted over the country
nearly 100000 Of them about New
York City by its 1900 Boy Scouts.
1t was announced at Scouts ,atlonal
headquarters, POO Fifth Avenue, yes,
terday that the boys viii be allowed
to accept only small subscriptions
A war service emblem will be
awarded to each scout who obtains
ten individual applications Boy Scout;
during The second Liberty loan sold
more than Sl.o00,00 worth of bonds
New-York tribune., 1918-04-09
Du Pont Co. Subscribes
SIS, ,O00,0 900 to Loan
VIII Duplicate Delaware's 8 Lib
erty Bond Purchase Up to
$17,00O,OOO
fSpecinf Corycspoa<lcuce1

WILMINGTON, Del, April 8.-The
finance committee of The du Pont
company this afternoon authoriz-
ed subscriptions TO the Liberty
Loan which viii total probably
$z3,ooo,ooo, the exact figure being de-
pendent On the amount of Dclnware's
eubscript'on from other sourccs.
The company viii place 81 900 .00o
outside of the Delownrc district and
has authorized additional suiscri ptionq
10 duplicate Whatever Delaware NAV
subseribe np to $l7,00o,oD0 this sun
being the maximum quota which Dela.
ware is called upon to give.