The Washington herald., 1918-05-04
WOMEN WILL
MAKE LIBERTY
BELL FEATURE
/. rs, -itF - - ; - re a. ras
Committee viii Use It as
Base Of Big Loan Oper-
ations Tonight.

A grand rally round the Liberty
Bell will be held tonight In front of
the Benjamin Franklin statue, at
Tenth street and Penensyivania ave-
nue.. The hostesses are the members
OF the Woman,s. Liberty Loan Com
mittee. and theyp cordiaity inyite the
public to be prssent end TO help the
COMMITTEES 20 .yoveri thS tops ; with
big last-iiinute ieap in bonds.
There will be speaking, music and
other interesting features.
Bonds Will be sold from the base
OF the bell by Miss Mary Leet, bond
saleswoman of the Treasury Depart
ment Among the allied officers who
viii tell OF life on the battle fronts
will be Col Perrone and Maj. Fergu-
son, Of the British army; Col. Beck
EFT, Of Canada. and Lieut.. Cartier,
Of the Belgian army. Mrs. William
H. King, wife OF the Senator from
Utah, will drive the Liberty Bell
on its hnal night as q bond-selier in
Washington.
sIeSyOO0 Yesterday.
Mrs. Charles s. Hamlin, chairman
OF the woman's committee, announc-
ed that $195. 200 had been added to
Yesterdays amount, making the total
up to this date subscribed through
the woman's committee S,5I5, 600.
Eight committees are still to be
heard from.
At meeting held yesterday af-
ternoon, Mrs. Abram Simon reported
the total Of her pledges to be $40, 600.
MIS- Nicholas Longworth, chairman
OF hotels committee, reported her to-
tai as $4,000 to date Mrs. Wesley
Martin Stone, chairman of headquar-
ters committee. reported $50, $50 to
have been taken over the headouar-
ters table. This afternoon Mrs. Julius
Kahn, wife Of the Senator from Cal
ifornia, will sell bonds at the womI
ems headquarters, 1924 + street
Mrs. Louis BrownIow reported
$4,000 as the total taken in from
railroad travellers at her booth in
the Union station. Mrs. Stephen G.
Porter and Mrs. Goldwaite Higgin-
son Dorr. joint chairmen of the
lnouse-to-house canyassing commit.
tee. reported $los,9OO in subscrip-
tions taken to date by the women
who have volunteered to go from
house to house and speak individ-
ually for 3 the loan and receive
pledges. As all chairmen of sec
tions had not been heard from yes
terday total OF half a million
dollars Is expected from this source.
one interesting item in yesterdays
subscriptions reported the house to
mouse canvassing committee was an
increase to $4,000 Of the pledges
brought in by the children of the
Immaculate Conception Church.
School Girls Take 100000
Mrs. w. Gwynn Gardiner, in
charge of bullet booths. reported
$4,000 as having been taken in by
the girls of the various schools
throughout town who volunteered
| to serve as street salesmen. Yes
terday afternoons bond sellers were
recruited from Cleveland Park, and
this afternoon the Holton Arms
girls will close the school girl
campaign in Bullet Booth Alley. -
Mrs. Lowe reported for the Thsen-
tieth Century Club a total of 5s46,-
400 in bond pledges to date. and
Mrs. Ira M Hough turned in! sub
scriptions for s17.S50 worth from
the League Of American Penwomen
Miss Rebekah Z. Stanley, chairman
Of committee on Public schools
stated that a total of 5000 sub
script!ons had been received from
the teachers and pupils OF the pub
lie schools.