The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-13

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respectively Fairbanks and Chaplin
and Washington-all stood at ease
on a granite pedestal at the sunlt
northeast corner Of Broad and Wal
streets during the noon hour yester-
day and looked out upon the upturn-
ed faces of the most tremendous
| crowd that ever had been packed into
the greatest corner Of the Creates
. financial district in the greatest city
in the goshawfulest greatest country
, in the golderned greatest world.
Mr.. Washington las old Bill Thack.
cray sarcastically used to call him)
could not speak for the third Liberty
Loan in words, being there only in
bronze. But while Charley Chaplin
led the Twenty second Infantry band
with his silly little cane and while
the affable and athletic Doug Fair
banks bounded lightly as panther
from almost the sidewalk level to a
place beside the heroic bronze legs
Of General Washington-while the
crowd estimated as low as $4,000 and
as high as 100000 listened to Doug
and Charley make speeches for the
loan-the general held a right bronze
| hand gently outward, palm down, as
| IL to beg the attention OF the appall-
| ing mass Of humanity stretching
! south In Broad street as far as the
/ eve could reach, east in Wall street
until humans merged with the noon
| haze, west in Wall street until the
| rear guard OF that wing of the crowd
was being damned into the entrances
| Of Old Trinity. far out on Broadway.
| Also the crowd spilled back into Mas
sau street so many blocks that the
northern fringe of the jam could not
so much as see the ub-treasury
| building, where George and Doug
and Charley were facing the vast
multitude.
Described in q Sentence.
A great reporter on The Sun, the
late Julian Ralph, once described in a
sentence the crowd that had packed
itself in Inter den Linden in Berlin
during the coronation ceremonies of
the present Kaiser Wilhelm. Where
other correspondents took up a
column to impress upon their readers
how great was the crowd on that oc-
casion Mr.. Ralph said it all without
stopping for breath by remarktngs
"a small German boy perched on
the low branch OF a tree fell Off and
broke his arm on somebody's head,
and it took the driver of an ambu-
lance exactly thirty-two minutes to
work his vehicle three-quarters of a
city block to the spot where the boy
had fallen"
And that was the kind Of crowd
that turned out yesterday at noon at
Broad and Wall streets to hear, and
especially to look upon. Doug Fair
banks and Charley Chaplin talking
about the glories of buying Liberty
bonds. Up
After attending to a girl stenogra-
pher who had tainted in the crush
Ambulance Surgeon Phillips OF the
Broad street hospital remarked
casually that the girl he had just
revived was the eleventh case OF the
kind to which he had given first aid
since taking up his station in front
of the entrance of the J. 2. Morgan
g. Co. offices less than three quarters
Of an hour earlier. One man got so
jammed in the crowd that his ribs
snapped One hundred and fifty
police reserves who tried to keep the
crowd in a semblance OF order were
themselves swallowed in the onrush.
And not only was the asphalt paw
ed solidly from building line to build
ing line in four directions as far as
the eye could see, but also there were
walls of humanity reaching to the
zenith as the windows Of the Bank
ers' Trust building and the other
towering buildings flew up. Clerks
and stenographers and office boys, |
yes and bosses too, leaned far out Of
the windows up near the clouds to
get a glimpse OF the tops of the |
heads of George and Charley and |
Doug.
Cheers From the Skyline.
And although George held his digni- |
fed pose, Doug and Charley found |
time amid their speeches and aero |
battles to lean far back and look |
straight up into Heaven to wave and |
shout acknowledgements of the happy 1
cheers that came down from snowy /
points far above the timber line OF
lower Manhattan.
: And when the speechmaking and /
gymnastics of the open air were I'm
ished Treasurer Martin Vogel of the \
sub treasury took Doug and Charley /
(who jointly were losing about 'steen i
hundred bucks an hour by working !,
for the Liberty loan instead of for L
themselves) into the vaults of the
sub treasury, together with John
Fairbanks. Doug's brother, and a few
friends. to impress them with the
of gold and silver coin, bank
notes and gold bars stored behind
Georges bronze back. And when
Martin had piled up before Charley
and Doug all the kale he could find
lying around loose the distressingly
movie stars, looking straight
into the features of hundreds of mill
lions of dollars, Just stood there and
laughed and laughed right in the face
Of the sub reasury's millions.
Martin Vogel, Acting Assistant
Treasurer u. s. Grant. who is a
nephew of the immortal Ulysses:
Assistants Chapman and Twitty and
other officials Of the sub treasury
tried their derndest to impress Doug
and Charley with samples Of goods
from the shelves OF the sub treasury
vaults. The longer the official force
along the money aisles worked at
pulling their stock off the shelves
that louder Doug and Charley laugh
ed at the paltry display.
Assistant Twitty. plainly peeyed.
opened a little steel door painted a 1
light battleship gray and tossed a |