Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-06


ONE N EVERY SIX RoTGHT
This distribution of the Third Liberty
Loan indicates that one ouf OF every SIX
persons in the 'nitcd states may have
participated in this loan II IS estimated
that 0,0O0 900 subscribers would have
been required TO have attained one sub
scrlption 10 each family in the land
The total OF l. 0O000O purchasers OK
ceedS the number of BUYERS in the see
ond loan BY 1000. 600 and is 300 600
more than in he first
IN announcing last night that the final
figures on subs 'riptl0ns would not come
for Al least eight days. the Treasury
Department explained that Incorporated
banks and trust companies would mai he
their final reports 10 the Federal Re
serve banks on Nav 9, and four days
later the Federal Reserve Banks would
report to the Treasury Department.
Loan committees and bankers who
have been activel~ engaged in the great
drive which closed Sat,rdav night rest
cd TODAY. and as a result very .ew addi-
tional sales reports filtered in to the
Treasury Department. Totals now on
hand showed S'Ibs 'ri9tlons Of S3,3I6 CPS
$50 in the hands OF incorporated banks
and trust companies They represented
only sales in the Boston and PhIladel-
phia districts up 10 l. O'Clock Sal Irdav
morning, in the New York district up
TO 4 O'Clock Saturday afternoon. and
in the remaining districts I'D TO 8 q clio K
Saturday afternoon. Final returns
doubtless Will greatly increase the total
now available.
New York will lead all States il the
num6er Of individual subscribers. with
4 total OF nearly 4,000,000 Pcnnsyl.
wanna probablr viii he Second. init the
figures are not in. Illinois viii l.roha
blv rank third with nearly million
and a quarter ONO i expected h be
one OF the hammer States WITH total
O. nearly one million lndivId Ial sab
ssriDers. and Iowa will have total Of
$4,000 subscribers out OF population
slightly over 100000 Indiana in
dividIal subscribers VIII approximate
100000 Mlcnigan's. So 900, and WIS
consin :, $50 600
DISTRIBUTION BY STATES.
\ report of the distribution ov state,
in the poDulolS New England district
;as not vet been compiled Far west
ern States report numbers Of : Ihscrib.
ers as follows California, 524 462
Washington. 150.312; Oregon, 95,695;
Idaho. 56, 500 Utah. %, 500; Arizona
I9,09S; Nevada, ,2.371. Managers OF
the campaign In the San Francisco dis
trict wired the treasury that SUITS rip
tons there would exceed $3.50, 000, 900
and that every State district and vIrtu-
allv every county had res he'd it, quota.
The Atlanta district which had been
al the bottom OF the percentage table
during most OF the campaign made the
most sensational finish OF any district IN
the United States Every ono OF the 427
counties IN the district oversubscribcd
The town of Thompson, Ga, the centre
Of anti-draft activity early III tho war.
not only oversubscribed us quota bur on
the closing day OF the campaign or
ganized President Club with q
membership OF 100 men who matched
the President Tor an extra $50 bond
In the Cleveland Federal Reserve Dis
trict unofficial figures compiled ~ 80
Saturday night totaled S377 ,33S 67O
Every section Of the distinct showed
oyersubscriptlons.
ALL LXCEEDKD QUOTAS
The st LouIs district reported thai ali
OF the 362 counties exceeded their quotas
The grand total for the district al } D us
Saturday va, SI76.6l7 600 At that
time the district had raised I35 per cent
Of its quota, and had sold bonds 70 806 ~
persons
Minneapolis estimated that IT would
show a 70 per cent distribution The
city Of Minneapolis returned 92.597 sub-
scribers, 81 Paul OF, $50 and Duluth
g, S97 with respective money totals 81
$50, 922 ,6l4. Sl4,3 81 800 and Sc, 82S $50.
From Kansas CITY came the report
that the Tenth district showed an oii-
cial total Of subscriptions on Saturday
afternoon Of $40, 221 $50, which amount
ed To l3l per cent Of the quota Out Of
$50 counties in the district 3Z4 were
oversubscribcd
Washington, May G-The Treasury
Department has given out figures SHOW
ing the relative she Of the greatest var
loans Of the various bclIigercnt countries
to date
British Victory Loan early in 1917 )
per cent-Total Subscriptions, s., Og6, I
254, 320-
United States Second Liberty Loan
4 per cent-Total subscriptions S4,6I6,-
100000
Eighth German War Loan 49, and 5
per cent-Total subscriptions, $500
100000
French War Loan d 1915 ) De cent
Total subscriptions, 81. POI ,8G4 400
Austrian Seventh War loan ) per
cent-Total subscriptions, 81 $50, 900 900
Italian Fourth War Loan ) per cent
Total subscriptions, 81 900, 100000
Hungary Seventh War Loan i Der
cent-1otal subscriptions $500 900 900
Canadian Victory Loan. November