Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-27
PLEDGES TO LOAN
NOW $15,OOO,OOO
Pennsylvania Com p any
Subscribes $5,OOO,OOO,
Penn Mutual $3,5OO,OOO
3 4 WINS $l,O0O,OOO
Philadelphia's Quota Set at
$259,l98,OOO and This Dis.
trict's $516,8OO,OOO

Three new subscriptions to the fourth
Liberty Loan In the Philadelphia dis
trict. totaling S7.00o.o00 were announced
today. They swell the total of pre-
campaign pledges to more than $751;
O00, 900
Philadelphia quota for the fourth
loan has been set at s259.10s. 900 The
quota for the entire district. including
the State of Pennsylvania. all of New
Jersey south of Trenton and all Of Del
aware, Is S516,SO0.0O0.
One of the two subscriptions an
nounced today, Of s5,0O0.0O0, Is the
largest so far made 1t came from the
Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on
Lives and Granting Annuities. The
next largest pledge received Is from the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
or $3.5OO.O0O. The Continental al-Equitable
Trust Company has subscribed $1,000
900 to the loan. The Baldwin Loco
motive Works, as a corporation. sub
scribed sl.OOO.O00. This subscription
was announced by the Industrial COM
| mittee.
The minimum amounts as fixed by the
Liberty Loan committee to be raised in
bond subscriptions by the districts out
side Of Philadelphia, comprising the
Third Federal Reserve District, are as
follows:
pennsylvania NOutSlue OF Ihllauel-
Dhia). S2O2.905.0 900; New Jersey. $685.
$4,000; Delaware, $16,012.00O.
Marines Take $4,000
a detachment of marines has been the
first to go over the top with 100 per
cent subscription to the loan in this
district.
Pledges totaling $4,000 have been
entered by 1913 marines stationed at Fort
Miffln. the majority of whom are men
from this city. Within five minutes
after the men were addressed on the
loan by Lieutenant Paul f. Howard,
their commanding officer, the pledges
were forthcoming.
Orders for bonds are coming to Lib
erty Loan headquarters from all Sec
tions and in all sizes. The foreign Ian
guage division reports subscriptions to-
falling 100000 for the Polish division.
Children of the Heston School have
asked for $500 worth. Employees of the
City Treasurer's office have subscribed
for bonds to the amount of $4,000. Be-
sides these and the subscriptions of the
large banks and trust companies and
corporations, many small ones are COM
ing in from Individuals
With this optimistic outlook, loan
wrkers are confident that an imposing
total will be rolled up for the open
ing Of the campaign tomorrow. despite
the fact that 1t will be a short business
day and they will be occupied with last
minute arrangements for the big pa
geant and for the campaign.
Await HurIey's Address
Final preliminaries to the big drive
will be completed in every section of
fhn IL,
announcements are promised by Edwin
n Hurley. chairman of the United
States shipping board, at the dinner. of
the industrial organization of the fourth
Liberty Loan drive at the Bellevue
Stratford tonight Mr.. Hurley's address
will be of direct import to the industries
Of the city.
More than 1000 field workers, who will
canvass every wholesale and manufac-
turing concern in the city for both em-
ployers and employees, will attend the
dinner. which Is set for 1880 o'clock
The dinner Is to be n keynote affair as
the organization is out to roll up much
larger total in loan subscriptions than
during the last issue, when 1t reported
SIS,500,000.
Charles NJ. Schwab. director general of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Gov
crnor Passmore, of the Federal Reserve
Bank, and David S. Ludlum, president
of the Autocar Company. who recently
returned from France, will be 'he other
speakers. Additional interest attaches
to Mr.. Hurley'S address because of the
recent rumors that he intended resigning
as head of the nations shipbuildng pro-
gram. Although denied by himself and
Government officials, the rumorS still
persis.
Six thousand school teachers will meet
this afternoon at 230 O'Clock in the
Metropolitan Opera House, where Mr..
Schwab will address them.
Virtually all the Liberty Loan adver-
tising matter is now either on display
OF is being distributed throughout the
city.
Sign Suggests subscriptions
One of the largest signs aiding the
loan here has been erected by y. Smell
| lenburg a. Company, along the Market
street side of their building. extending
! from Twelfth street more than half way
| to the other end of the structure AT
/ Eleventh street. The sign, fianked on
the ends by paintings of American SOL
diers appealing for munitions, gives the
scale announced by the Liberty Loan
committee for the purchase of bonds by
men whose incomes are from 500 way
! into the thousands
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