Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-21
Loan Excess For Fourth Liberty
Bonds May Be Over One
Hundred Thousand
Dollars
CHAIRMAN PRAISES
THOSE WHO WORKED
Subscriptions Reported To Com
nittee Exceed Fondest
Hopes. Good Mary
land News

Subscriptions reported TO the Chair
man of the Limerty Loan Committee
for Anne Arundel County, Col. Harry
J. Hopkins, up to Saturday night gave
evidence that this county had equaled
its quota in the Fourth Liberty Loan,
and had subscribed the 100000 allot-
ted. At first blush, Eight Hundred
| Thousand Dollars seemed a stupen-
dous amount for Anne Arundel TO sub
scribe in bonds of the Fourth issue,
but everybody put spirit into the work
and despite flu and all other draw
backs, the quota has been oversub-
scribed.
While too busy to give out the fig
ures this morning. Col. Hopkins said
that Anne Arundel has subscribed
some $4,000 to 100000 above the
quota, and with subscriptions still
coming in it is safe to say this county
will turn in 100000, some 100000 in
excess of her quota.
The State OF Maryland, has done
nobly
Il am informed" said Ex-Governor
Phillips Lee Goldsborough, State
chairman of the Liberty Loan Com
mittee, that in a number of the sec
tions of the State subscriptions were
made in the last hours of the cam
lspaign, which have not been reported
"a good many subscriptions for con-
siderable amounts. There is no doubt
in my mind that we will show, in the
final figures, very fair addition to the
$SS,64S.750 we now have, and | shall
$90,O00,000 when everything is report
ed and recorded.
Our Maryland people have done a
wonderful work. 1t will rank with the
best financial support given our sol
diers by the people of any State in the
Union. Those of us who have not been
called to the battle lines will have, in
any event, the comfort of knowing that
we stood loyalty by the fellows who
have gone And know that the Mary
land men at the front will fight better,
if that be possible, when they hear
what the old State has done for them"
Fifteen counties were reported as
having exceeded their allotments.
They were Baltimore, Calvert Caro-
line, Carrall, Cecil, Frederick, Har-
ford, Kent. Montgomery, Quen Anne's,
ST. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomi-
co and Worcester. They not only went
beyond their allotments, but they went
so far beyond their allotments, but
they went so far beyond that they
showed oversubscriptions for the
counties, taken as a unit, of nearly
So, 900, 900. after overcoming the short
ages in Garrett, Prince Georges and
Washington. There were five counties
reported as having reached their al
lotments, Allegheny, Anne Arundel,
Charles, Dorchester and Howard.
The Liberty Loan drive on the Navy
Rifle Range at Glenburnie under the
direction of Ensign l. ID. Troost came
to glorious close Saturday night
when more than $4,000 was subscrib
ed to the issue by the $50 men stationed
there. E. A. Swiggum addressed the
boys and appealed to them for sub
scriptions.
Some of the leaders in the campaign
Saturday night had their first good
nights sleep in three or four weeks.
They had gone home early Saturday
night after it was certain that the
States quota and the States honor
were Safe, and they had hit the hay
for about IL hours solid sleep. But
even so, they were not rested.
The nervous strain of the past few
weeks had not been too great-what
with loan twice as big as two of the
preceding ones; what with a good
part of the town fat on its back with
the 'fiu," another good part nursing
those on their backs, and still another
part wondering when the epidemic
would hit them; and what with the
German peace offer taking peoples
minds miles away from fighting
thoughts. The strain of putting the
loan over under such conditions was
too great for the leaders to have rest
ed in one good nights sleep.