The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-03
VICTORY
Continued From Page Oue.)

reserve districts except Kansas City.
which has rot started taking SuhScrlp-
ti"nS. showed slll.l4H.05D pledges aciu-
ally received and accompanied BY pay
lncnt 81 the zen percent initial INSTALL
1nrnt. This covers receipts up TO last
night. but does not include millions Of
dollars in subscriptions on which the in
itiaI payments have not been made. or
has been made but not yet rcpnrtcd off
cially by hanks. The total tomorrow
night is expected to b. several hundred
millioa dollars greater.
In order to raise six billions il would
ne necessary 10 get Il daily average or
1915. 600. 300 ana at this required rate.
approximately u billion dollars should
have been subscribed by this time.
Reported sales by districts were as
follows:
Boston $67,15s.15o.
New York. 9.4lS.500
Philadelphia, s23.O77.9ro.
Cleveland. S16.2l3.l0o.
Richmond. sli.15S.15o.
Atlanta s1.674.S00.
Chicago. s2T.O52.75n.
St. Louis. SGJ.9T0.95e.
Minneapolis. s1S.44S.750.
Dallas. S4.Sl2.i30.
San Francisco. s3I.S55.950.
In connection with the efforts 20 PR
vent Il claSkerinE OF campaign morale.
lit was cited today by treasury othciaiS
that practically all Of the six Dillon
dollars 10 be raised will have h"-,n spent
BY tho time il is received at the treas
urv. The government already Is paying
ont money at the daily rate of 330.OVo'
On0., Nearly s4.5o0.0uo.0nn has been re-
ccived in thu last two months from sale
of certificates Of Indebtedness. but these
securities arr only temporary cXpcdlcntS.
to be paid out Of receipts from Liberty
RondS Consequently the government Ia
already spending its Fourth Liberty
Loan money.
In September Il was shown by 4 treos-
ury report today. the government paid
out Sl,55T.o54.000. or S2iS.00U.00Q less
than the Sl.SO5 900. 900 record Of August.
OF this amount. Sl.274. sos. 200 was in or
binary war EXPENSES, and 2N2.la0.OoO IN
foreign loans. Only s15l.190.OQo came
into the treasury from taxes, customs
and other ordinary revenue sources.
Sales Of War Savings and Thrift Stamps
fell to $9T.614.0 00 from tn" Sl29.O44.OoO
Of August, and the "1l.4lI:000 Of July.
The total cost OF eighteen months OF
war to October |. Was shown ~ DC 3lS'-
S96. 945 900. or three times rs much as
VIII raised by the i curtin r VI
this nations war activity. SIC. 900
was spent and for loans TO allies. So
90. 914 900. Taxes have brought in SIS
1S3 26S 900. and Liberty Leans OF Ger
tihcates Of indcbt cdnrSs. about $4,000
100000. The harvest from War Savings
and Thrift Stamps has been s745. coo.
These figures will be placed at the
disposal OF public speakers for tho loan
as Il means of showing the tremendous
sums of money needed for a great war
Iowa stood alone tonight as the only
state to report officially that il was
over its quota. The st. Louis district.
which was the first federal reserve dis
trct 20 80 over the top during the Third
Liberty Loan campaign. is making an
other effort to duplicate this record. Re
ports from the Pacific coast showed nm
unusual number of individual subscrip-
tions. about $4,000 being recorded al
ready.
An unofficial report from Boston to-
night said that Indications were that
subscriptions In that district had ap-
proximated s1o0.o0o.oo0. while the Rich
mond district reported that Crozet, Hot
Springs and Milford. Va. and Ashcville
and Buncomhc. ". c. had over-sub-
scribed their quotas.