New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
10000 Districts
Won Honor Flags
In Loan Campaign
Remarkable Success Of
Women in Liberty Bond
Selling Shown by Reports
GoodWork in Shanghai
Hartford Leads All Cities in
Exceeding Its Subscrip-
ton Quota

WASHINGTON. May s.More than
10000 communities won Liberty Loan
honor flags by subscribing or oversub~
scribing their quotas. Reports to-day
to the Treasury show that the Chicago
district won 4,965 flags, Minneapolis
3,041, Cleveland 1899, Boston 1893, At
lanta S91, Philadelphia 752. and st.
Louis, which gave flags only to full
counties, 1906 Other districts have not
reported finally on their honor rolls.
Banks and trust companies will re
por. tomorrow to Federal Reserve
Banks the Liberty Loan subscriptions
filed with them, and Reserve banks
have been instructed to complete their
tabulations and report to the Treasury
by next Monday.
The success OF women in bond selling
is emphasized in reports now reaching
headquarters here. In Delaware, which
. is the only state to double its quota,
women sold 120 per cent Of the states
quota. Incomplete returns to Mrs.
Antoinette Funk, vice-chairman of the
National Women's Liberty Loan Com
mittee, indicated that the women of
Arizona gathered II per cent Of the
states quota, while those of Missouri,
West Virginia and Kentucky got nearly
go per cent.
The women of Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Montana, North Carolina and Virginia
were credited with selling one-third or
more of the states quotas, working
through the mems organizations. In
and South Carolina women reported
having sold one-quartcr of the states
quotas. Women of most other states
did not segregate their sales.
Work of Women in Cities.
In Philadelphia women reported
$520o0,0O0 subscriptions, Chicago $25,-
100000, St. Louis s10.ooo,000, Pitts
burgh s35,000,OO0 Cincinnati S4,132,-
600. Richmond, Va, S3,382 900. Wash
ington $4,000,000, and Kansas City
$3,2S7 900.
A message from Shanghai, China, to-
day said $606,950 in subscriptions had
been taken there, and the Treasury
probably will send an honor flag to the
American loan committee.
Cities making the highest subscrip-
tion percentages of their Liberty Loan
quotas in their respective population
classes were announced to-day by the
Treasury as follows:
Above 100000 population: Boston,
165 per cent; between 100000 and 500.-
600 population: Washington, 1877 per
cent: between 100000 and 25000O:
Birmingham, 1876 per cent; between
$4,000 and 100000: Hartford, Conn,
PSI per cent; between $4,000 and 5O,-
600: Topeka, Kan. 202 per cent.
Hartford is the percentage leader of
cities in all classes.
The 1910 census was taken as the
basis for classifying the cities. In some
cities final results are not known and
some cities may be added to the honor
lists
Many Claimants for Honors.
There were so many claimants for
first honors among cities of less than
$4,000 that the Treasury has not been
able to determine which should stand
first.
The list of honor flag cities is as
follows:
Above 100000 population-Boston,
165 per cent; Baltimore, 115; Chicago,
us; New York and St. Louis above
100 (exact percentages not de-
termined).
Between 25o,OOo and 100000 popula-
tion-W ashington, D. c., 1877 per cent;
Cincinnati, 160; Los Angeles, 15O;
Detroit, 148; Milwaukee, 1871; Min
neapolis, 1876; San Francisco, 109; New
Orleans, 1O8.
Between 10000 and 250,OOO popula-
tion - Birmingham, 1856 per cent;
louisville. 1870; Nashville, 1852; Omaha
151; Kansas City, Mo-, 141; Fall River,
1873; Lowell, 1877; Providence, 1873;
Seattle, 1873; Portland, Ore, 1876;
Worcester. Mass. 1872; Indianapolis,
121; Atlanta, 118; New Haven, 116;
Oakland. Cal. 104 Denver. 100;
Memphis, 100.
Hartford in the Lead.
Between 10000 and 100000 popula-
tion-Hartford, 251 per cent; Port
173; Jacksonville. III; Kansas City,
Kan, 1853; st. Joseph, Mo-, 1854; New
Bedford, 149; Des Mones, 145; okla
homa City. 1874: Evansville. Ind.
1870; Tacoma, Wash, 1870; Man
chester, N. H., 129 Duluth, 1875;
Holyoke, 100; San Antonio, III;
Springfield, Mass, 116; Houston,
Tex, ia; Fort Worth, 113; Salt Lake
City, 112; Dallas. III; Savannah, 1902
Between $4,000 and $4,000 popula-
tion-Topeka, Kan, 202 per cent;
Quincy. H., IT'S: Sioux City, 150;
Lincoln, Neb., 149; Knoxville, Tenn,
142; Macon, Ga, 141; Pueblo, 1885;
Little Rock. 1876; Chattanooga, 1874;
Galveston, 124: Shreveport, 1922;
Augusta, Ga. 119; Austin, Tex, 11S;
Montgomery, III; Tampa, 115.
Treasury Department officials stated
that the percentages announced might
be less than they should be, since com
plete reports have not been received d
from many cities