The sun., 1918-10-17
FARRAR NOTES TURN
INTO LIBERTY BONDS
subscriptions for $1,000, 900
Open Prima DOnna's
Loan Rally.
MANNEQUINS JOIN DRIVE
Commissioner Enright and
Marshal Mccarthy Help in
Call for Coin.
MANNEQUINS JOIN DRIVE

Having been invited to speak at Miss
Geraldine Farrar's one woman Liberty
Loan rally at Sherry's last night
Police Commissioner Enright entered
the we'll known portals at 10 o'clock and
was about to lay his hat and coat on
a pink brocade sofa when it moved
In the life of a truly great Commits
sioner of Police there is no such emotion
rs surprise. so Mr.. Enright merely Or
dered the captains. lieutenants and sec
retaries of police who formed his per-
sonal stan to close in until the sofa
should explain itself. This il did
promptly. 1t explained that II was not
a sofa at all, but only a mannequin from
costume making establishment and
that II (she) proposed to sell Mr.. En-
right bond or two.
The Commissioner passed on into the
crowded main dining room OF the place,
where he found Miss Farrar selling
bonds and entirely surrounded by other
mannequins from Henri Benders, who
were also selling bonds. There was one
who had costume having its motif or
genesis In the parlor portieres instead Of
the parlor sofa, who had sold 100000
worth OF bonds in two minutes. Another,
done in simple black. simple from the
shoulders down and from thence upward
simpler and simpler, had sold 100000
worth.
Still another. bedight as bed quilt is,
had just maced J. =. Morgan OF the well
known banking firm of that name for
another 100000 worth. And so It went
United States Marshal. Tom Mccarthy.
who had the speakers floor at this mo-
ment, was saying that William BJyce
Thompson of Montana and Yonkers
had just subscribed 100000, and
would go another 100000 worth II
the rest of the house individually, in
pairs. families or en- masse would please
make an intermediate $4,000 sure
thing and condition precedent Miss
Farrar. standing beside him, had an
nounced that she was in shockingly
poor voice. but would sing the Mar
sellaise' II the second 100000 was
raised.
Money Pours In.
Ultimately 1t was raised. Among the
small money turned in 100000 came
from Hayden & Stone, $25o,O00 from e.
$. Rothschild. $780, 900 from the pa
rents. parents-in-law and husband Of
Miss Farrar. $4,000 from Miss Farrar,
$4,000 from William Rosenblum and
$4,000 from the walters and captains
OF Sherry's. Henri Bendel of the man
nequns came through in due course
for $780, 900.
And even after the 100000 was
raised Miss Farrar still kept on SELL
ing bonds and then after Tom McCar-
thy had concluded and the Sheriff of
this county had made a speech and
Thomas W. Lamont of the Morgan
firm had made speech, and Boris
Bakhmeteff. the Russian Ambassador
had made a speech. Commissioner En-
right made a speech.
The commissioner said in part.
When in the course of human events
II becomes necessary to show the world
that the time has now arrived for every
body in this great city to show that they
are behind the boys in the trenches by
buying bonds then the time has arrived
for everybody to buy bonds. Do you
want the Hun to think that there are
people in this great city of which
have the honor to he commissioner of
police who are backward when in the
course of human events II becomes
necessary to show that the time has
now arrived for everybody to buy bonds.
No. and a thousand times no."
And more in the same happy vein.
Then Miss Farrar Sang.
Whereupon Miss Farrar sang the
"Marsellaise" as per promise and the an
nouncement was made that the SO 000.
600 mark had been passed.
Whereupon Miss Farrar took the
speakers stand again and announced
that she would keep on. selling bonds
until II came time for lights out
Whereupon all the speakers present
cleared their throats and said that they
would again assume the speakers stand
at any moment Miss Farrar should
choose to relinquish it and would repeat
everything they had said with interest.
Commissioner Enright went home at
midnight, Just after II had been an
nounced that the entire total OF the
bond sale could not be compiled before
noon to-day and that the preliminary
5000 600 was only an opener.
And as he went out Commissioner
Enright laughed sapiently when it was
suggested to him that his hat and coat
lay ready for him on pink sofa hard
by. Whereupon the mannequin of whom
previous mention has been made cooed
TO him from behind his right ear and In
formed him that now he must buy a
last $50 going away bond since the pink
sofa containing his hat and greatcoat
was an actual or de facto pink sofa and
not the sprightly mannequin sofa that
n