New-York tribune., 1918-11-20
New York Must Subscribe
$10,236,O72 To-day to
Make Pledge Good
Thirty-two States
Reported "Over Top"
Total of $13,0O0,O00 Must
Be Raised Throughout
Nation by Midnight

Nation by Midnight
The naticn to-day looks to New
York City to iaise enough money by
midnight, when the great United War
Work Campaign ends, to push the drive
over the $170,500 900 goal line
The country has done it's share, and
a good deal more Monday night with
two full days still to go, the United
States had contributed $157 ,295,0 ,06s, or
more than ninety-two per cent OF its
quota. OF this amount New York City
had given $27.763, ,928, or only seventy
nine per cent Of its allotment The
city is expected to raise S10,236,072-
, Of the s13 900, 900 to be raised
throughout the country, therefore. this
city must donate more than $7,00O,000,
or more than the deficit of the rest
of the United States AS the New
York committee pledged itself to raise
an additional $4,000 000 or a total of
S38,000,000, it means that the burden
locally has been increased one-half-
Thirty-two states mad "gone over the
top in the campaign, according to the
tabulRtions made at national head
quarters last night Three of the six
army departments in the drive had
passed their quotas.
Southern Department Leads
These honor sections of the coun-
try are: Northeastern Department
with S17,268,92S, or 116 per cent;
Southeastern, with IS 1882, or 120
per cent, and the Southern Depart
ment- carrying the banner, with S8,-
045,775, which is 157 per cent of al
lotment- The Central Army Depart
lnent has almost reached the goal, with
81 per cent
While no totals or tabulations were
made by the great army of canvassers
N this city yesterday, John D. Rookie
lelIer, lr., ioca. chairman. and DR.. John
K Mott, director general, expressed
their confidence that New York would
not fall down in its pledge to the men
who made victory possible
The nation is responding nobly. as
1t has responded to every great un-
selfish CALL said DR.. Mott yesterday.
NO great campaign has ever had so
many obstacles to contend against In
whole sections OF the country the in
huenza stlll RACES and not a single
public gathering of any kind has been
possible. The peace celebrations of a
week ago, followed by the uncertainty
created by the conflicting statements
regarding the period of demoblization.
nave been added complications"
Work Day and Night
New York was too busy giving and
gathering yesterday to make any at
tempt to report results or tabulate
them Men and women on teams and
In divisions of the canvassing ma
chinery started out early in the morn
ing to overcome the staggering handi-
cap Of the slow start Late last night
with unAagging zeal they were still
at the task of extracting the last penny
from the community purse
A number OF large subscriptions,
which had been turned in previously,
we're announced for the first time yes
terday by the committee at $50 Fifth
Avenue The biggest WAS a gift OF
S50a,000 from the Carnegie Corpora
tion of New York Its nearest COM
petitor, made public by the Industries
Division, was a donation of 5000 900
By the Anaconda Copper Company.
The Railroads Securities Corporation
contributed the next largest bit, $780,
900, while the Bankers Trust Company
Wed with two individuals, George Ehret
and Thomas F. Ryan, in giving $50, ,OOo
apiece
Other Subscriptions
Other individual subscriptions an
nounced yesterday included the follow
ing large gifts:
Botany wcrtted Mills, $4,000; Hay
den Chemical Works, $4,000; Mr. and
Mrs- H P. Whitney, $4,000; Percy
$4,000; J. Horace Harding. $4,000;
Lewis H. Lapharn, $4,000; MS. E S.
Harkness 12.500; anonymous, $4,000;
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin C. Jameson, S1O,-
COO; Adolph Lewisohn, $4,000; Fred
erick G. Bourne, $4,000; Foreign
Transport and Mercantile Corporation,
$4,000; anonymous, $4,000; W. e
Corey. $4,000; ". II Yawkey, $4,000;
Mrs Thomas F. Ryan, $4,000.
International Banking Corpora son,
$s,125; Eastern Steel Company, by Z.
l. Herndon, $4,000; Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Thorne, $4,000; Loft, Inc, $4,000;
the Bayer Company, Inc 81 800; Frank
" Storrs, $1,000: william f. Coe.
$4,000; Harris Forbes & Co, $4,000;
Mr.. and Mrs R L. Gerry, $4,000; Mr..
and Mrs W. A Hartman, $4,000;
Oliver G. Jennings, $4,000; Royal Bak-
ing Powder Company, $4,000; Charles
r Crane, $1,000 Seward Prosser
$4,000; Mrs. F. NJ Warourg addition
all, $4,000; anonymous, $1,000; Mrs NJ
Orme Wilson, s. 900; Mrs. George T.
Bliss $4,000; Mrs John Henry Ham
nond, $4,000, j. P. Morgan (addition-
al), 5000. Gilbert Colgate, $1,000;
Miller & Co. $1,000, Charles Hirch-
horn, 5000; William z Iselin, 5000;
John r Moron $1,000; Daniel Reid
$4,000; Stoehr & Soma, Inc, $4,000.
Gary Urges Squirt
Judge Ebert H. Gary, chairman ot
the Industrial division, yesterday sen'
an urgent telegram 70 the chairmen 0,
each % the 105 trades into which tn.
citg's business life has been divided.
New York must not fail" read th-
message. "Recanvass your industr,
thoroughly. Make sure that every Arm
and corporation has subscribed. l
subscriptions seem inadequate, try ant
secure additional subscriptions, eithe
IN cash or Liberty bonds / am con
'dently relying on you and your in
While great many firms and cor
porations had given az generously a.
they felt able, they answered the cat
By making additional subscriptions fl
each blue star in their service flags D.
testimonial 70 the men who were will
ing 70 make the supreme sacrifice.
The idea Of the "service star con
tributon~ was originated by a letter