New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
100000 Volunteer Workers
Help Drive; Every Day
To Be Thrift Day
Department Stores Aid
Hundreds in Park Row Tent
Drive Nails Into "kai-
ser's" Coffin

The War Savings Stamp sale in New
York City shot past the s12,00o,o0o
mark yesterday, in the campaign that
opened last December.
News that the city was fighting up
toward its quota of $1OO,O00,000 came
last night. The Secretary of the Treas
ury had decreed that Monday was to
be the big Thrift Stamp Day. If he
had been in New York yesterday he
would have thought his order had been
misunderstood.
For there was no let up in the Thrift
drive here. New York City has come
t. like. this business Of stalking its
quarters on the success of the Allied
arms. And with the city's enthusiasm
for thrift without limit, the War Saw
ings Committee announced that every
day is going to be thrift day in this
town from now on. Special celebra-
tions will be held this week.
The two big thrift days have given
the war savings drive here consider
able impetus. No w. S. S. official was
willing to estimate just what sales
the two days had brought. But they
did say that reports show that $916,103
worth Of thrift stamps had been dis
posed of here since May !.
Volunteer Workers Busy
Most of the 100000 volunteer work.
ers who took part in Mondays drive
were on the streets yesterday shouting
thrift.
Down in Park Row, at Frankfort and
Nassau streets, the kettle drums rolled
cymbals crashed and the heavy brass
blared as the band played 'Chopin's
Funeral March outside the big black
said, the Kaiser lay in his coffin.
Thousands here traded their quar-
ters for thrift stamps and the priv
ilege of crowding into the tent. At
tendants drew back the covering from
the headpiece and there, sure enough
you could see a helmeted head that
turned to luminous skull if you
stared long enough. A dollar thrift
stamp purchase entitled you to drive a
nail in the long, narrow, black box in
side. Kaiser Bill. Died of w. S. s..
1915" read the silver name plate.
Department stores kept up their
drive: Thousands of shoppers re-
sponded to the appeal of salesgirls to
take your change in thrift stamps
Automatic thrift banks, which work
much like the regular postage stamp
slot machines, were in most of the
stores. Armed United States marines
stood guard over them. No guard was
necessary, of course, but the fine ma
rlnes IN bright, snappy uniforms helped
fill in the picture.
Leading department stores have ar
ranged smashing window DISPLAYS for
this week At McCreery's is a
school teacher, in a real schoolroom
giving a lesson in arithmetical ele-
mentals to all who pause. There you
can learn how war stamps, once they're
acquired make money for you.
At Macy's, from the street you can
see mother and youngster, clinging
to each other and anxiously watching
the progress of a great battle in the
distance. Keep your quarters, if you
can, after you've read the posters
urging you to back up thousands of
boys from homes like this, who are
fighting Americas battles in France
to-day.
Prizes for Best Exhibit
The windows entered in the depart
ment store display contest will be
judged to-day by committee, on
which are A. c. Penn, w. Ward Smith
Edward Mitchell and B. j. Cohen. The
judges will leave Eighteenth Street
and Sixth Avenue at 10 a. m. in au-
tomobiles and tour the department
store districts of Manhattan, Brooklyn
and The Bronx, on the lookout for
windows that make the strongest
human thrift appeal. Eleven hundred
dollars in prizes will be awarded.
The drive in the cabarets got under
way yesterday. At Churchills, late in
the afternoon, diners bought more than
$4,000 worth Of stamps after "fying
squadron" of thrift orators had told
the tea drinkers what Uncle Sam ex-
pected of them. Then Frisco, the jazz
dancer, jazzed for them. That was
their reward. Harry Fox and Harry
Carroll entertained at the Moulin
Rouge after the crowds there had pur-
chased $4,000 worth of the green
BILLY" Gibson has charge of this
cabaret and restaurant drive. It will
go on all week. Al Jolson, Fred Stone
Irving Berlin, Will Rogers and Eddie
Cantor will accompany the speakers
But they will not entertain until the
house has come through for stamps.
The various booths reported bic
sales, as did the Browning machine
gun exhibit, maintained by the Mayors
Committee of Women on National De-
fence. at the Public Library, Forty.
second. Street and Fifth Avenue. Here
Indian joe" scout, did war dance
at noon. Joe" was with Pershing TO,
time. He goes back overseas soon.
Big Festival Planned
Plans for the big thrift musical fes.
tlval at the Polo Grounds on June 2
are being made. Leon Rothier and
Frances Aida, it was announced, have
been added to the operatic stars who
will take part.
Big sales were recorded, too. in
Madison Square Garden, where the
management Of the Dare Devils Con.
gress, in session there all this week
opened the Garden 20 thrift workers
Speedy" the famous driver, anc
Schreyer, who defies the laws Of gray.
ity on bicycle, do stunts outside te
help boom thrift.
Reception to ''Blue Devils