The sun., 1918-10-19
GREAT BOND RALLY
SHAKES TERMINAL
Railroad Mems Meeting in
Grand Central Raises $780,
600 and the Roof.
EVERY ONE RALLIES HARD
Chaureey Depew Sends SIS, 900
When His Wife Keeps
Him at Home.

A glad and noisy shindig. which was
chiefly Liberty Loan. but also service
nar unwilling and partly expectancy OF
a speech from Our Chauncey Depew all
rolled into one. marked the racket which
ratified the rnfters and plate glass OF the
Grand Central Terminal concourse
throughout the last half OF yesterday
afternoon.
incidentally the event was a celebra-
ton OF the starting out from the Grand
Central OF the first through train to
Berlin. X. Eeathsrlung Bartlett OF the
staff of r. E. Crowley, Federal manager
al the New York Central Offices. grabbed
m a train announoer's megaphone and
beloved the news to the biggest crowd
the concourse and It's balconies ever had
held that '"Theeeee Tuh-wentieth Gen.
tury Limited forrrrrrr BERLIN will now
start on 1Nsh-rack Numbcrrrrr Tub
wsnty-tha-reeeeee =
~ .
Buyers Do scrpentine March.
whereupon. with big placard labelled
goth Century Limited for Berlin In
the lead and the brass band composed
Of employees Of the Centrals shops at
Avis cracking its ioudest. thousands Of
men and women employees Of tho New
York Central and the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. bond
buyers ALL fell into line and did n SER
pentine march through the yelling as
senblage.
One humble subscriber who preferred
70 stand in the crowd rather than take
q chair among the notabies on the flag
dfaped stage" was w, X. Vanderbilt,
Jr. The lad named Bill Vanderbilt hap
PENS to be president OF the whole gosh
derned New York Contra. ramwny,
nevertheless Bill stuck with the crowd,
increased his subscriptions by signing
up for $4,000 more during the turmoil
and lost a Is cent shine-one dime for
the shine and Ut tip to the bootblack-
by having his feet trampled on.
More than S2se. 900 was subscribed on
the concourse. :6o,7oo OF which was
clipped in by the little group on the
stage and the rest by the. men and
women. boys and girls employed at the
terminal or on the railroads running
into II.
Between speeches by John Kendriclx
Bangs. Marcus A. Dow, who presided
kite Pat Mccoy and others and songs
by two great artists---Ieou Rothier,
basso. who is on the payroll OF the Met
ropolItan Opera Company. and Tony
Francis. who drives n locomotive for
the New York Central and wore his over
ais while singing-between all this ex-
element the crowd wanted Our Chaun-
cey and said go fervently.
And what did Mrs Depew do but up
and pretty nearly spoil the whole darn
party Il seems that earlier in the week
Our Chauncey had been making many
speeches in Brooklyn for the loan and
generally overexerting himself. as a lad
Of high spirits will on patriotic occa-
SONS. consequently Mrs. Depew. iust
when Our Chauncey was trying to sneak
HIS hat of the hall rack yesterday and
tiptoe down to the Grand Central en-
pioyees shind,g, happened to come out
In the hall at thef,Sorst possible moment.
Puts the Kibosh on Chauncey.
wow, now. now! None OF your She
nsnigans, sir! As you werei" COM
handed Mrs. Depew Or words to that
eject Hang up your hat again"
But the crowd at the Grand Central
heard from Our Chauncey. even IL they
couldn't hear kim owing to tho slight
,ndispoeition which Rad led Mrs Depew
TO insist upon his staying at home, In
proud tones Chairman Dow told the
crowd on the concourse that although
Our Chauncey couldn't be on hand TO
speak he had done the next best thing by
sending his check for $4,000 worth OF
bonds--a contribution to the meeting
which was OF less vafle than DepeW
sreech, but was nevertheless received
gladly.
Henry Russell, vice president OF The
Michigan Central Railroad. whose son
was killed when flying in France a few
days ago. happened into town and visited
the terminal while the meeting was going
m. Chairman Dow insisted upon bring
tg Mr.. Russell onto the platform. where
upon the Michigan Central Railroad Of
fcisi covered the Depew check with
$4,000 contribution of his own.
Then u contribution OF another $4,000
from Regional Director Smith was re-
.eived, MIR. Smith being out OF town. A.
T. Hardin and A. II. Harris came across
With $1,000 checks apiece for the fund
hsinz raised on the speakers stand and
simultaneously Federal Manager Pat
Crowley and ira Place kicked in to the
extent OF $1,000 each.