Denver labor bulletin., 1918-05-25
COLORADO HAS EXCEEDED ITS

COLORADO HAS EXCEEDED ITS
quota of a million dollars for the Red
Cross war fund second campaign and
is still going strong. The drive closes
next Monday night and by that time
there should not be single Stacker in
helping this great mission of mercy.
Here in Denver the spirit of giving
has been exemplified by largeness
men and women have donated one or
more days pay, and the number of
contributors will probably double that
of the first drive last June. Thurs
day noon, after three and one-half
days campaigning, the Denver quota
of 100000 was exceeded, the dona-
tons reported at that time being
S557 1925. The peg was then set for
$750,000, and the 500 volunteer work
ers started out from the monday
luncheon at the Albany with, if posi-
BILE, more vigor and pep than ever
Denver was the first large city in the
country to make its quota. An or
ganized labor team, of which ]. H.
Mitchell is chairman, has been doing
yeomen service. This team is made
up of labor men who are not only CIV
ing weeks service, but are giving
Cross parade last Saturday, in which
$4,000 participated, was one of the
best and largest street pageants ever
seen in the West, and started the CAM
paign off with snap that carried the
drive over the top in such a short
period. Monday night the campaign
of the volunteer workers will close
with dinner and patriotic jubilation
in the Cathedral room of the Albany
hotel.
THIS SATURDAY. AFTER
noon is to be a holiday for all city
departments. Picked teams from the
police and fire departments will play
a baseball championship game at
Broadway park, all proceeds going to
the Red Cross war fund. In addition
to the ball game there will be a pro-
gram of entertainment made up of
volunteer performers from the Or
pheum and Tabor Grand vaudeville
bills. The Fort Logan band and the
Denver Drum Corps are to be present
and liven things up between acts. Po-
lice Chief Armstrong and Fire Chief
Healy are to be on the side lines as
rooters for their respective teams.
Movie pictures will be made of the
principal events and shown later in
the Curtis street theaters. Mayor
Mills is to act as general ringmaster
of this gigantic amusement event, and
expects every patriot in Denver to
come along at the price of so cents
per head.
WENT OUT TO THE DENVER &
Rio Grande shops at Burnham one day
this week to hold a Red Cross meet
ing, with Lieutenant C. w. Heming
of the 123d Canadian battalion. The
lieutenant was on the active fighting
front for eighteen months, and par
ticipated in the charge of Vimy Ridge
when the Canadian troops gained i'm
perishable honor. While riding to and
from the meeting Lieutenant Heming
recited a few of his war experiences,
and told some of them in his brief
talk to three hundred men in overalls
at the shops. He is former railroad
man in the passenger service of the
Canadian Pacific, living at Hamilton,
Ontario. Says Canadians are partic-
ularly proud of the princess Pat"
regiment, which has been decimated
and recruited three times, but never
has member of the regiment been
taken prisoner by the Huns. The
lieutenant gave his version of how
Paris was saved from the Germans
when the first great drive had ad-
vanced to within fourteen miles of
the city and the way was open. 1t