The sun., 1918-10-20
DRIVE GOES
OVER $1O,OOO,OOO MARK
Victory Clinched by Title Company
Subscription Quota for Fourth
S. Loan Doubled

:, The Real Estate Division won its "red
feather" handsomely in the Fourth Lib
erty Loan drive, with a total OF Sl0.060.-
$50. 1t not only doubled the Third. but
sc doubled the quota assigned to it for
the Fourth and then did some more. The
figures given are those tabulated up to
Closing time at Real Estate Headquar-
ters yesterday. There Is no doubt but
that the amount will be considerably in
creased by subscriptions not yet re-
corded.
> It will be many a day before real es-
tate men will have another such thrill as
they had yesterday. when at about /
o'clock it was announced definitely that
the $4,000. 900. for which the division
was striving. had been subscribed From
Aarly morning. when the executive force
arrived, eager TO record the last million
dollars necessary to reach the goal, there
was a steady avalanche Of subscriptions.
Telephone bells rang ceaselessly; sub
ecrlbers came IN In great numbers mes
senger boys. postmen and team workers
bombarded the committee with subscrip-
end. When finally total was to be had
1t was found that the division still lacked
something less than q quarter of a mill
lion dollars. and this. after every source
apparently had been pumped dry. .
1t was about at this Time that the an
nouncement was made that Clarence II.
Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company. was on the wire, and
when he said, Il have new subscrip-
~ N
orus chairman for a moment changed
from a working patriot into cheering
patriot, and scenes Of the greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed In the usually quiet
room of the Real Estate Board. ........
!, "The victory is won! Handsomely.
calamity won't We have no slackers
here" declared the chairman when he
could make himself heard. 1T Is an
amazing Accomplishment. and shows
that our real estate friends are indeed
sound at heart" "--
While 1t was the title companys sub
scription that finally clinched the vic
tory. there were a good many other con-
tributions to the real estate division
that helped to make up the Anal million
dollars. The North River Savings Bank
added $4,000 to its former subscrlp-
tion. and Michael Friedsam gave S25, 900
for b. Altman & Co. The Manhattan
Life Insurance Company subscribed
$4,000 more. Benjamin Mordecai did
the unusual thing OF subscribing a sec
ond time for all OF his properties and
sent In new subscription of $780,
Tiffany & Co. covered their building
with honor by a $4,000 subscription.
and another $4,000 was added to the
total In behalf of the Woolworth Build
ing. The South Ferry Realty Company
took an honor nag with Q $4,000 SUBJ
scription. Some OF the other subscribers
yesterday were: Mortimer NJ. Singer.
$4,000: Garden City Company, &c.
900; Sherburn NJ. Becker, $4,000; the
Guardian Holding Company, $4,000,
and $4,000 subscriptions from the Gem
eral Synod of the Reformed Church in
America, through Frank Van Nest
Park Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street
Corporation. Guide Realty Company,
George l.. Slawson, Mandelbaum & Lee
vine, Jacob Rosenthal and the Man
haitian Savings, Bank. b..
Ten thousand subscriptions were re-
ceiyed from Elias Kempner, Irons &
Todd. Joseph NJ. Lichtenauer and A. @.
IL. NJ Hall. Minturn Post Collins
subscribed for $16.b00 worth OF bonds,
and julius Kayser for SIS, 900 The es-
tate OF A. a. Rosenbapm took $50, 600
worth OF bonds through the real estate
DIVISION and the estate OF J. B, Bloom
Hfsda'e subscribed for $4,000,
ono OF the most pleasing ylibscrintIon,
- Ag Aarlins was that OF Clarence w