The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-16
SPLENDID WORK SELLING STAMPS.
 BY POLICEMEN
With the Bremen They De. vote Large Part of Sun
 day to Thrift Campaign.

Never did any governmental cam paign take such entire possession of the city as the policemens and fire mems contest on the sale of War Sav- ings Stamps. Starting out at S:30 Saturday night at the conclusion of the mayors address, the two bands of city service went into their cam 9afgn with great enthusiasm. While scores of them worked on Main street and in the congested business and theatrical districts, holding up every automo obile and foot passenger, others immediately went into the outlying corners of the city and met with as- tonishing success One group of police men went around to Hallett street and Steuben street and the East Side and took the Thrift Stamps into the saloons. The Saturday night crowds were there, and after they got the sale startedS the patrons took hold with so much enthusiasm that three of the policemen sold out their whole stock immediately and started on a wild hunt for new supply.
 All day Sunday the policemen and f1remen were lined up around the headquarters turning in the reports of l their sales and using the cash they had taken from their patrons to secure new supply of stamps. Two police men canvassed the whole of the park | district, skipping not 8 single house. They reported a grand day for finding people at home, on account of the gas 1 less Sunday.
 Patrolmen T. McNamara and H.. | Sherwood rendered a service which particularly pleased the War Savings | Committee, because they went down on Water street and entered the lodg- ing houses and sold to a great many small buyers soc and -$1 worth of stamps, where probably no stamps would have been purchased without such solicitation. It is this picking up of absolutely new business which counts far more than the obtaining of orders from some large buyers who would have bought the stamps in any event without the solicitation.
 Patrolman s. Kelly of the motor cycle squad was busy all day long in bringing Superintendent of Finance Meyer from his home to the post office so that new supplies of stamps might be available, and in taking stamps out to policemen who telephoned in for them from different quarters. A further advance of $500 in stamps was made to each department. The Fire Department did not report quite as active a campaign yesterday as the police for the reason that they were on a A hour duty and could not get far away from their fire houses They lcanvassed the districts of the fire houses very thoroughly, however.
 The whole town is extremely in- terested in this contest, and it will furnish fine finish for the 1000 for 1 campaign The drawing of the $1,O0O prize will be made by the Mayor Saturday night, and everyone must remember that all of the cou- pon stubs must be in the ballot boxes before that time. The ballot boxes will be collected from their various locations around town on Saturday night, the 20th, and after that the , only method of depositing ballots vii be in the master box at the City Hall Square.
 A great many inquiries have beer received whether it will be necessary for the winner of the prize to actually be present in person at the drawing
 The War Savings committee em phatically states that 1t will not bt
 necessary, although it is highly desir
 able that the holder of every coupor
 should, if possible, be present at the
 drawing. The lucky number will be
 published in all of the newspaper:
 and given publicity,