The Washington herald., 1918-04-16
$691,611,SOO
SUBSCRIBED TN
LOAN TO DATE
Bond Drive. Progresses in
District as Meetings
Are Held. L.
"BUY.A-BOND" SLOGAN
Largest Local Subscription
Of Day $4,000 by
One Man.

A total of s6s1. gil, 500 in subscrip-
tions to the Third Liberty Loan was
announced last night by the Treasury
Department. It represents reports
from banks and trust companies in
eleven of the Federal reserve dis
tricts up to the close OF business
Saturday night. and Is an increase of
SllS S160, 200 over the total up to April L..
City Boosts Loan.
"Buy-a-bond" messages were de-
livered throughput all sections OF the
city yesterday by the more than 2,00O
volunteer men and women workers
who began the second week Of the
big drive to double the District
quota to the third liberty loan.
Mass meetings, attended by capac-
lty audiences. We're addressed by dis
tinguished speakers in the First Con.
gregationa1 Church, the Billy Sum
day Tabernacle. the Central High
School auditorium and in the PEN
sion ONCE. Thousands of others, NOT
at the above places, were reached
by orators who made five-minute ad-
dresses IN the theaters and motion
picture houses last night.
Enthusiasm marked the progress of
the workers wherever they went,
thousands Of subscriptions from men
and women coming in as substantial
evidence that Washington Is out to
win the coveted honor flag" which
goes to the cities over-subscribing
their allotment,
Reports from the various govern
ment departments. in each OF which
there fs a large coH,mistee of bond
statesmen. indicate that excellent prog
ress is being made. several of the
larger departments having already ex-
ceeded the amount subscribed in the
Second Liberty Loan.
Navy Yard Speeds.
Notable among the departments is
the navy yard, which already has
passed the $4,000 mark with more
than 5000 OF the 5000 EN-. .'oyes on the
roll of honor" Sixteen Of the forty
six shops and divisions of the yard
have reported subscriptions of 100 per
cent, with per capita averages ranging
from $jO.62 to 1904.
The Liberty Loan Committee yes
terday announced that the British
tank Britannia, which has seen serv.
ice in France, is to be brought to
Washington this week and will be
used to stimulate bond subscriptions,
The tank was offered to the commit
tee by Kilbourn Gordon, in behalf
of the British and Canadian Recruit
ing Mission.
10000 Subscription.
As a result of the lihartv Ioar
rally at B. F. Keith's last night
pledges were taken which brought
the total amount subscribed through
the theater up to $955,5O0. The lar
gest single subscription last nigh,
was for $4,000 from Louis simons.
Central High Meeting.
Lieut.. Arthur Fremont and Sergt
Marshall. two Washington BOYS re-
Gently returned from the French
front addressed an audience of $50
in the auditorium OF the new Cen
trail High School Building last
night.
You know the boys over there
are doing their best to stop the
Hum" said young Marshall, land
they are going over the top with
out a thought in the world of any.
thing except an ultimate victory for
the allies because they know that
the United States is backing them
with its last loddar.
1T means a lot to the BOYS in
the trenches to know that while
they are giving their lives over
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