Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-30

|IhUSIASTIc MEETINGS
START LOAN DRIVE HERE
Speakers Ten Of Battle
Line and Need For Funds at Tot
fenville and Plains.

feuFflte and Plains.
By Spcoful Correspondent.
WORTHWHILE, Sept. s0-Staten
island campaign for the Fourth LIB
erty Loan was oficiallv opened Sat
E1rdag night with q mass meeting In
bach OF the eight districts OF the Dor
hugh Of Richmond.
Prominent speakers were heard by
hundreds OF people in all parts of the
j Island b turned out to hear what
they had to say about the loan and
the stories from the front as told by
some Of the speakers who have re-
Gently come to this country from tee
fighting line. There were two meet
I1gs on this end of the island, at the
Toftenviile school and at Amicitia
hall. Pleasant Plains.
There was a larfe and enthusiastic
audience al ach of the meetings. At
y the Tottenville school e. A. Joline. one
Of The Four Minute speakers, opened
kzeeting with an j for the
was followed by Major
head lof the Boy Scouts on
Hand. whc& introduced Lieu
ohm Quinnle. OF the Second
Division, who wears two
Etripes and three other stripes
Il many years in the trenches.
enant Quinnfe paid a great trib-
the American boys who saved
He exhibited a piece of
eeph. which he found
cao<nfral hat had
Germans. He
~perpetrated
klgians.
Ected when the
be done and the
Ether around the
Sam and John
head ant France,
md the other allies
Cd to state their case
would be under the
his sentence.
n O.. Wilcox, prominent
8 and Red Cross work on
ID began by telling of the
army n navy turning the
thegretaD bugtaaiTfrontkfm
the great struggle and that
iced the support Of those at
20 keep them going and all must
- bonds. Staten Island she said
subscribed over two million last time
n would go over the top again his
time in the campaign she predicted.
She tcfd Of the meeting In Manhat-
zan Friday where President Wilson
spoke n OF the democratic way the
meeting was carried on.
Mrs. Wilcox said 1t was the great
est meeting that she had eve at
Paris Russell, a Manhattan law
yer, who was the next speaker, made
g strong appeal to back the boys up
In France by buying Liberty Bonds.
He was followed by former District
Attorney George NJ. Pfnney, of Dom
gan Hills, who took for his subject
from the book of Daniel which men
toned the feast OF B~elshazzar and
which the speaker ukened to what
the Kaiser Is seeing now at the pres
emit time the hand writing on the wall.
Mr. Pinney paid a tribute to Presi-
AV4# nv l.
OF ali In the o campag1n. He
cut
A marine band from one Of he
ships lying Off Tompkinsvtiie, FURNISH
ed the music for the meeting and two
OF the sailors sang and played the pi-
n between the speeches.
N. ]. Lowe. nrir~s-es ~ the school
presided at the meeting and made a
brief address, mentioning the work
Of Ira J.. Horton, cashier Of the Tot
tenville National bank. who is chair
man OF the district, Harry Robinson,
the assistant cashier and Miss Inez
Corcelius. the chairman Of the we
mems committee. The stage was deo-
Grated with the flags of the allies and
ne front was arranged with flowers
At>e Pleasant Plains meeting.
LleutenaNt Quinnie and Mrs. Wilcox
GRE&lAC5 ana were
well received by the audience. who
gathered within the hall. Rev. ]. III.
sheppard, of Port Richmond and Mrs.
Van AIMEE, of Manhattan, prominent
N h Relief Association of the nth
Division Of the army also spoke. Mrs.
van AIMEE. who Is an excellent talker
made a n impression. She told OF
much OF the work that the association
was doing among the relatives Of the
boys In the 77th division and con-
corning the Liberty Loan drive.
Former c. A. Shea presided at the
meeting and introduced the speakers.
a band that was to have arrived from
Manhattan. failed TO put in an an
pearance. Albert II. Mcclellan Is
chairman OF the latter district.
DIR. H. v. Mccormick. who spoke at
the Palace theatre for the Four
Minune Men also spoke Of
the Tottenvilie meeting. The meeting
was closed with the singing OF .My
Country 'Ts OF Thee accompanied
bye Miss Helen Whitehurst on the
piano. No subscriptions were asked
for at either meeting. The captains
and workers have started out to cam
yass the towns here.
Ritz Speaks at Harbor.