Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-12
SOUSA'S NAVAL BAND
HERE TOMORROW TO
AID LIBERTY LOAN
Will Give Two Concerts at High
School at and
y. m.
PARADE CALLED OFF

PARADE CALLED OFF
Wilmington and the Liberty Loan
Committee will he the hosts tomorrow
afternoon and evening TO Sousa Great
Lakes Band of sixty musicians The
band will give two concerts, one at 8 =, m
and the other AT : y. m at the High
School The band which is a naval band
comes to this city free Of charge Tor the
sole purpose of stimulating subscriptions
TO the loan. If an avalanche of subscrip-
tons arc not obtained by loan workers
during the concert, II will be sore DIS
appointment TO the bandsmen-
Attired in the uniform Of the navy, and
led by their Apollo drlm-InaIor Kllcy
Morgan, the band will march 10 the High
School from French street station on the
arrival of the tram due in tins city from
Philadelphia at , 0S 0 clock.
A tentative program that has been
arranged for the concert follows;
l. Star Spanglcd Banner.
, Stars and stripes fOrevcr-So,sa.
3. What Are You Going to Do 20 Help
the Bows sung by band and audience TO
sing chorus.
I. Liberty Loan Addresses.
; Piano solo a lassical selection.
10 Popular numbers Vincent kaspcrskl
6 Quartet. Liberty Bell Shall Ring
again. Mcssrs Johnson, Rogers, Scitz,
Valentine Audience to sing chorus.
: Popular Medley
). Colors
PERSONNEL or BtSD
The detachment that Will play in this
city, comprises one OF four UNITS ni the
72O-piccc Great Lakes Naval Band,
organized and drilled for nine months by
Lieutenant John Phillip Sousa. THIS
detachment Will be under the direction ot
Leader William Brown II IS a high
pitch organization because most Of the
men brought with them their own lnstrl-
mcnts lts musical personnel consists OF
IL clArinct~ plccoloS, II corrctS, }
trornboncs. Il altos bantones, saxo-
phones. E-hat hasses double r bass.
| bass drum. snare drums, , cNmbals and
drIm-major and leader
The members come from many classes
of society There are lawyers. doctors,
dentists. SIX men who have been band
leaders. 4 professor Of English at the
niversitv Of Michigan railroad men,
business men, college students, photo
graphers, but the majority OF the mon are
young. tho average age Of the band beng
- years
One Of the members i Lewis Yantes
son Of Congressman Yantes Of Texas,
the man who made that State dry
Gordon Johnson, . baritone singer OF note
and an alto PLAYER viii lead the singing OF
the popular war time melodies and IN
which the audience viii be asked 10 join.
A parade and q meeting on the old
Court House square had been planned Tor
tomorrow. bus tile weather made tins
impossible.
BUY BONDS THROUGH local BANKS
Chairman John :. Rossell. Of the
Liberty Loan Committee today sounded
q note cf warning 70 purchasers Of bonds,
urging them 10 see - it that the bonds
they bought passed through some one %
the " ilmingtUn banks II thi, i not done.
then Wilmington and Delaware Will not
receive any credit for the sale
In the last Liberty Loan campaign
New Castle county was ASSESSED SII0OO,-
600 as her quota Of thus amount she real
X raised s. .405 80 Not the S56 900 .00G
that wa published and which people
generally believed.
The reason the State was not four times
oversubscribed Is because while some
very large subscriptions were reported as
being made ID Delaware. the financial
transaction that j. the real purchase oi
the bonds, did not take place through
Wilmington banks or trust companies
Consequently, Delaware instead Of being
credited with oyersubscrlblng 10 the
second Loan four times. was really g
delinquent in the eyes Of the Treasury
Department.
that's the danger that Chairman Ros
sell wants the people % realize If tho
bonds are not bought through Delaware
own institutions. then the credit viii not
come to this State Mr. Rossrll hopes that
Delaware can redeem itself b. subscribing
to the maximum Of this loan, sl2, ,796, 500
Very encouraging reports were made al
a meeting Of the workers at the Liberty
Bank last night Indications were thai
the number Of individual subscribers TIN
time would reach 10000 about double o
those al the time Of the second Loan.
III to noon today reports from twent,
uf the two hundred teams had been tabul
;.ted for the first four days work Thes
twenty teams reported 1876 subscriptions
totalllng $753,O0O
As an inducemcnt 10 their employees &
subscribe 10 the Liberty Loan Robeicl
and Company have promised To pa,
twenty per cent Of all Of the subscription
taken by their employee.
Crusaders Castle No !. X G i
which is represented by eighteen member
IN the service. has subscribed 10 81 90
ID the Third Liberty Loan
This amount viii be taken from IN
funds Of the castle and will be supplement
I'd BY individual subscriptions from .
many Of their $50 members as thei
Liberty Loan local manager Harry "
Roberts, is able 70 see during the presen
drive. 1t was reported on Thursday nigh
that bonds subscribed to the amount O
S4450
Crusaders Castle, No ), subscribed /
the previous Liberty Loan and is now pay
ing the ues of their eighteen member
IN the service, amounting 10 81 40 yearly
Recently they nfurlcd service fla
I with due ccrcmonIcs IN the Castlc room