The Washington herald., 1918-09-29
S2,5O0,OOO IN
PLEDGES MADE
ATL0AN RALLY
Capital Launches Fourth
Liberty Loan Drive
Saturday.
SEN. LEWIS SPEAKS
Many Large Subscriptions
Made by Capital Busi-
nessmen.
SEN. LEWIS SPEAKS

Subscriptions to the Fourth LIB
erty Loan at the rally held in Lib
| erty Hut last night amounted to
So, 500, ,OO0-the answer of about
! $500 citizens Of Washington to the
| declaration of the Kaiser that
] Americans would never be willing
/ to invest their money in war
against Germany.
] Senator ]. Hamilton Lewis, the
| speaker OF the evening, emphasized
the responsibility OF Washington
as the Capital City OF the nation in
| the drive. He declared that the
| people of Germany looked to Wash
! ington as the heart of the Repub-
| lic-that the city must express the
| sentiment Of the entire country.
From the heart of the City OF
| Washington" he said, must be
| sounded the answer to the call OF
liberty. Washington must certify
| to the voice of a united pcople-a
| people with one htGrt, and one
pupose."
| Wreck German Plot.
! Senator Lewis stated that the
( war had been forced upon the ma
! ton by Prussia nation whose
oppressed people we had welcomed
| into our midst. At first, he declared,
| we as a nation, had refused to be-
! lieye that Germany had planned the
, destruction Of the liberty OF the
world. and had only been convinced
of her true designs by German
| herself
France shall not be murdered
\ while America lives, is the spirit OF
the people of America" the Senator
I said, "and our boys have carried that
spirit into the battlefields Of Flah-
deTs."
! Pledge cards were passed among
the audience. ard John Poole, chair
man of the Liberty Loan Committee
| Of the District. announced some OF
the larger subscriptions from tho
platform These included the follow
/ ing: Masonic Mutual Life Insurance
| Company, 100000; s. Kann Sons G.
| Company, two subscriptions of $500CO
| each, one for their Washington and
/ the other for their Baltimore house;
NJ. Goldenberg & Sons. $4,000; Ma
tional Electric Supply Company, S5,-
/ OOG; G. A. Tomlinson, 100000; Riggs
I National Bank, 1900, 900; Hydraulic
! Pressed Brick Company. $4,000; Fire"
! stone Tire and Rubber Company, a.
! 800; Guardian Life Insurance Com
pany, 5000; Cohen & Hughes, Inc,
/ S. 600; Hood Tire Company. 5000; Ar
| mour &c Co., $4,000; Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company, S1O,-
| 900; New England Life Insurance
| Company. $4,000; New York Life In
surance Company, $4,000; Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance Company
$4,000; George A. Fuller Company,
$4,000. American Ice Company, $50
900; Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany, S100, 900; Metropolitan Life In
surance Company, $4,000; Equitable
Life Assurance Society, S100, 600; Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company of New
| York, $4,000; Buick Motor Company,
$500; Perpetual Building Associa-
ton. 10000; Evening Star, $4,000;
| National Electric Supply Company,
SIS. 600; Eli Sheetz, $4,000; Philips
born's, $1,000: W. F. Roberts & Co,
5000: Theodore w. Noyes, $4,000;
| Andrew Murray. 81, 900: D. J. Kauff-
g, 900; A. GUIDE. 5000; Charles ]. Bell.
5000. There were also hundreds of
| other subscriptions ranging from So
and 500 denominations up into the
! thousands which had not been counted
/ last night William F. GUIDE, chair
man Of the liberty loan subcommittee
of trade organizations. presided.
Campaign Is Started.
| America started her Fourth Liberty
Loan drive yesterday with a bang. No
official figures are available at the
national headquarters, but the wires
are busy bringing messages of cheer.
Alaska wins the honors of being the
first to subscribe her total quota The
Alaska Packers Association. of San
Francisco. announced early YESTERDAY y
morning 1t had subscribed the entire
loan allotment for every town, village
and fishing camp in the territory to
total of $3.50, 900. Liberty loan work
ers there are now aiming to double
their quotas,
st Adams. VT, has already over
subscribed its quota by $4,000. Irving
ton' N. T.. Secretary, McAdoo's for
mer nome went over the top. Mid
dleton, Conn; Natick, Mass: Lodi.
n. -; LaGrange, Ca; Merigold. Miss. (;
McAllen. Tex; East Chicago and
Whitley County, Ind; Catasaoua Pjr-
mingham and the Mercersburg dis
trict of Pennsylvania all reported
over subscriptions.
Reports through the navy indicate
a big subscription from the sea sery-
ice OF the country. The Navy Mobili-
zation Bureau of New York over
subscribed its quota yesterday
| The early success of st. Alban.
was due in part to the help ior the
employees of the Central of Vermont
Railroad. The Railway Admins
tratton was advised that 9s5 5Sout of
1249 employees there had alraas,,
subscribed, and had put the city
over the top at two minutes after
one this morning.
B. L Winchell. Regional Director
OF Railroads for the Souther1 dis
arlct wired that his entire district
would go 100 per cent.
Every employe of the U. S. Shin
ping Boards storage yard at south
Norwalk, Conn.,, subscribed ye4er-
day, and Chairman Hurley wffed
congratulations.
In Washington. the drive stark d