New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Intensive Effort Will Be
Made to Complete 2,000,-
600 Pledges Tonight
Crisis Believed Past
With 1O,315 Thrift Societies
Organized, New York Has
Passed Its Quota

Between New York City and patli
otic observance of National War Saw
ings Day, celebrated to-day, stand
424,500 unsigned pledges TO contribute
regularly to the nations war treasury.
Campaigners conducting the drive are
confident that the two million object
i've will be attained by midnight to-
night. The report that 1876 war saw
ings societies have been formed, pass
ing the quota of 10000, is taken by the
leaders asa favorable omen and a
true test of the power of the driving
machine.
The crisis of the drive is believed
to have been passed yesterday. Before
then wall of public lethargy seemed
to be holding The campaigners from
their quota. But the formation of
3,462 societies in single day, many
Of them with membership Of we'll
placed the goal within reach.
Individual pledges to the number OF
Il 900 were obtained yesterday after
noon. 1t is from the societies organ
lied, however, that the largest divi-
sions for the saving army have been
recruited.
Making Personal Appeals
Automobiles are being commandeered
everywhere for final, intensive can
vass for pledges through residential
sections of the city. From uptown
headquarters, 1882 Broadway, volunteer
workers will be dispatched on numer-
Gus assignments. Busy street corners
throughout the five boroughs will be
the settings for appeals far into the
night.
Bands, trumpeters and automobiles
loaded with theatrical stars will tour the
streets all day. Raymond Hitchcock
and the Dolly sisters will be among
those coaxing promises to support the
government via the stamp route.
Five hundred firms represented in
the New York Rotary Club will make a
special effort to turn in 100 per cent
enrolment to war savings societies to-
night IL. addition to enlisting as many
independent savers as possible among
the friends of the employees.
Justice John j. Freschi, of the Court
OF Special Sessions, leader in Italian
affairs in the city, appealed to all Amer
leans to become signers or active cam
paigners Justice Leonard A. Giegrich,
OF the Supreme Court, urged all Ameri-
cans of German extraction to demon
strate their loyalty to America and re-
pudiation Of the land of their ancestry
by purchasing stamps regularly.
Banks to Participate
The city's banks, through the forma.
tion of societies and the canvassing OF
clients, will participate in the final
days drive. They have evolved a
notable history already in the pres
ent campaign, almost all Of the larger
institutions reporting 100 per cent or
CARNATIONS.
Customs officials will push the
pledge campaign to the utmost to-day
Each department and division in the
Collectors. United States Naval Off.
GERS and Surveyors Bureau in the Gus
tom House has organized war savings
societies.
Members of the Stock Exchange and
the Produce Exchange will mix war
| savings stamps with the regular busi-
ness of the day. The latter institution
issued a resolution yesterday calling
on all it's members to pledge them,
selves to buy stamps to painful limit
A wax savings stamp booth for the
Limit Club has been inaugurated or
the floor Of the Exchange. Almost every
floor member yesterday pledged. him.
self to purchase $1,000 in stamps.