The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-28
COY. WHITMAN BUYS
FIRST BOND IN DRIVE
Big Crowd in Times Square
Upsets Arrangements for
Police Control.

Gov. Whitman az midnight Ia II night
opened the fourth Liberty bond drive
here when he purchased the arst ono
sold over the counter. The sale took
place before cheering thousands who
filled Times Square and for a while
overturned all police arrangements
made for handling the throng. Tho
booth erected near the Times Building.
which will serve as raiying point
for speakers during the campaign.
Upon the stage Of the booth was n
German machine gun. the first weapon
captured by Americans, and was taken
50 the Governor said. by members OF
tho old seventy-arst New York. now
attached TO the Twenty-seventh Division
in France. 1t reached the city yester-
day.
st cost millions of dollars to cap
ture this gun and to bring It to New
York" said the Governor. The war
will cost US millions more before IL Ia
won. But remember. 1t will cost moro
to face defeat than TO win the VIC
tory. The boys In the army know no
political color. They are not Repub-
Leans and they are not Democrats.
hut they are there to win and we are
with them TO the last man and the last
dollar
Just before the Governor appeared
an elderly woman edged her way
through the crowd toward a vantage
point. When 1t was learned that she
had three sons In the service abroad
men and women made a passage for
her, cheering. She was Mrs Bridget
bradbury. 22+ West 18th street. One
of her boys is Lieutenant of Infantry.
another machine gunner. and the
third private in Company y OF the
Fighting Sixty-ninth." now the l65th
Infantry.
The Governor bought a $1,000 bond.
as did big Bill Edwards. Collector
of Internal Revenue Theodore l.. Bur-
ton. former Senator from Ohio, now
president of the Merchants National
Bank. and Supreme Court Justice OF
finger. who were with him. Mrs. Whit
man and members of the Governor s
military stan were also In the party
After tho Governor had finished speak
ing Mr. Edwards said:
VII any one asks IL We are to have
peace without victory, let him read an
account Of President Wilson's speech
and then he will find the answer
What we wait is teamwork We must
any one who Is not in full accord with
the President and people OF the United
States we should run him down to the
river and drown him.
Money must be sent to France. The
Liberty Loan is mile post TO Berlin.
II is up to us to keep the great big
American dollars rolling over there and
by the help Of God We will do It. This
n not a rich mans war. 1t 10 rich
and a poor mans war and we will have
10 foot the bill right here. SO go to
your beds tonight and say a prayer
for yourself and ask What am doing
to help win the war?' II every one does
that Berlin will hear the crash
long line OF people stood In front of
the Liberty Loan headquarters In The
Bronx. 1853 East 149th street, when the
drive opened there at midnight. Henry
Bruckner, Borough President. bought the
first bond $1,000 one. At an early
hour to-day the sales there had already
amounted to 100000. Douglas Mathew
son, Borough President under the
Mitchell administration. Is president of
the Bronx Liberty Loan Committee and
Irving Crane the executive secretary.