The sun., 1918-08-25
SALESMEN'S W. s. s.
DRIVE GOES SLOWLY
Total Of First Three Days Only
Slightly More Than
100000.
WILL REDOUBLE EFFORTS
Limit Club Subscriptions Lag,
but Improvement Is
Expected.
WILL REDOUBLE EFFORT

The salesmen's drive to sell S25. 100000
worth Of War Savings Stamps before
next Thursday night suffered tempo
rary setback yesterday. The managing
committee realized before the drive
started that Saturday would be a bad
day at this time Of the year. and there
fore planned only one outdoor feature to
catch the crowds along Fifth avenue In
the afternoon. holding the rest Of their
forces in check for big effort next week.
As a consequence the stamp sales
dropped of. 1t was estimated at head
| quarters yesterday that tho sales Of the
first three days barely exceeded $1,000
| 900. leaving an average OF moro than
| $4,000. 900 a day to be sold during the
remainder Of the drive. These figures
may be changed when the ofIlcial re-
turns come In, but It was obvious that
strenuous efforts were necessary to make
sure Of reaching the quota
Managers Not Discouraged.
The managers were not discouraged,
however. pointing out that all campaigns
Of the kind were slow in getting started
| and that the end OF the week was a poor
time to find in town the people who have
the money on which they are counting to
Put them over the top. The Limit Club
subscriptions have not come through In
great numbers as yet. and the statesmen
will show tremendous increase In the
sales from this source.
Geoff NJ. Weller OF the War Savings
Committee. who Is In active command OF
all the statesmen. issued an order to his
5000 generals and captains yesterday.
instructng them to mobilize every sales
man they could lay their hands on for
grand Offensive all over the city Monday
morning. He said the reputation of the
salesmen as statesmen, was at stake. and
that II they could not sell Government
securities to the extent they had prom
Used. II would reflect on their reputation
as statesmen In their own lines.
Yesterdays feature was the climb OF
Dare Devil Steve Peterson up the front
Of the Columbia Trust Company Build
ing. 507 Fifth avenue. Although the va
cation weather sent many to the country
and thousands more gathered at the po-
lice games at Sheepshead Bay. the ave-
nue. was blocked at Thirty-fourth street
for the better part of an hour. while
Peterson toiled up the building and the
statesmen boosted the stamp sales by sew
eral thousand dollars.
Twenty wives and sisters Of the men
in the Far Western Travellers Associa-
ton, under the command OF Sam Rosep-
berg, its president, descended upon the
Polo Grounds while the game between
the Yanks and Tigers was in full swing
and charmed the fans into paying trib-
ute to their beauty to the extent OF more
than $1,000.
Travellers Help Boost Fund.
While this was going on the sales
mems booths in the down town hotels
were separating travellers who drifted
into the city for the week end from what
money they had left after the railroads
got through with them.
The Associated Commercial Travellers
reported more than s15.5oo sold ut the
Waldorf during the first twenty -four
hours OF business, and the Far Western
Travellers took in s13,600 In the same
period AT the Claridge.
The total sales made by the former or
ganization in the first two days OF the
drive amounted to $4,000 in small
sales and $4,000 in limit memberships,
total OF $4,000. according to its re-
port to headquarters yesterday. Alfred
De Vide Is president of the association.
The Garment Sa!esmens Association,
of which William H. Hoar is president,
claims the largest total Of sales up to
Friday night, with a total of $500. 900.
100000 of which Is in the form of limit
subscriptions.
Among the trade committees which re-
ported yesterday were the Chi'irens
Wear Division. with 49, 900 to the credit
of it's salesman after two days work,
and the Linen Division, which had sold
$4,000 worth Of stamps UP to yesterday.
l.. s. Goldberger is chairman of the FIRST
division and John e. Rousmaniere Of
the second.