The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-21
100000 PATRIOTS
SUBSCRIBE FOR
LIBERTY BONDS
One-F ourth Population
Of Richmond Helps In
Practical Way.
TO SUPPRESS HUNS
Total Sum Of Fifth Dis
trict's Efforts to Be An
nounced by Federal
Bank on Thursday.
TO SUPPRESS HUNS

Persons who purchased liberty
day must apply to these institutions
not later than Wednesday to make
their initial payment and arrange
terms on which the bonds are to Be
bought 1t In necessary that all Rich
nond banks have the subscription and
initial payment Of every purchaser In
ortfer that they can report TO the Fed
eral Reserve Bank OF Richmond their
total subscription on Thursday.
Final reports must be made to the
Federal Reserve bank on that date.
Until these reports are made IT will
rot be known what The total sub
ecrfptfon OF Richmond. Virginia, OF
M FIFTH district II is believed that
tho ovcrsubscriptiou win materially
increase between the close of tho
drive Saturday night and Thursday.
because many banks which have not
reported must file final statements
by that time.
In. Richmond there is great interest
in the woman's campaign and the
winners OF the several prizes offered
Mrs. w NJ. Hab'istoB, chairman OF
the committee. was unable to deter
mine the winners OF the prizes inn
medisteiy after the close of the drive
because there were many reports
which had not been fled. They prob
ably will he announced today.
Prize to he Awarded.
Three prizes 10 The leading wornen's
organizations will be given by the
1Eeishcrger cor, naHv---thA nr5t. for
1850. the second s15o and 2ths third
ssao---to those setting the greatest
amount Of bonds. J. u, Moshy's COM
nanv will give prize Of $3.50 TO the
organization making the greatest
number Of individual Gales
Between $4,000 ard $50, 900 worth
Of bonds were sold on BROAD street
Saturday night at the booth and street
demonstration staged by A. j. Crafts.
The subscriptions had not been tabu-
lated yesterday the exact total OF the
sales was not known. The demon
stration. which was held at Sixth
street. continued until midnight, talks
known speakers Three prizes aggre-
eating $500. were awarded and given
away.
Members OF the Richmond Grain
exchange subscribed total OF S312.-
600 TO the fourth llbc rty loan, II was
announced yesterday.
One Of the most striking features in
connection with Richmond's subscrip-
tion is the fact that the ovcrsubserip-
tton is great enough to offset bonds
bought by local banks. the citys en-
tire quota Of sle,S3.So0 being taken
by the subscription Of individuals. n
WAS estimated Yesterday that there
were about 10000 subscribers to the
fourth loan in Richmond. as com
pared with 1000 in the third loan.
Individual Subscriptions.
Heavy sales OF bonds were made on
Saturday by members OF the Rich
mond Police department which were
not reported to loan headquarters be-
fore the close OF the drive on Satur-
day night In addition to the largo
number Of coupon books that were
sold by the oflcers on the finAi day,
many cash subscriptions also were
obtained. II WAS reported yesterday,
and complete report will be made
TO headquarters today.
Members OF the Richmond COM
mittee declared yesterday that the
police officers had done remarkably
good work In the loan drive, and be-
lieved that the total sales by them
would have been Substantially greater
had their services been enlisted
earlier in tn campaign. The officers
did not begin soliciting the sale Of
bonds until the drive was about one
half over.
Another organization which did ex-
cellent work was the Boy Scouts OF
Richmond. Early in the drive. before
influenza forced the abandonment of
public meetings. their services were
invaluable, but their greatest work
was in selling bonds. While Anal
figures were not available yesterday
ut headquarters, II Ii known that the
scouts sales were heavy