Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-17

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
$4,000 additional.
Merchant & Evans. $4,000 additional.
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com
pany. s275.00o additional.
American Dredging Company, sl00,.
900 additional
Lanston Monotype Machine Company.
$4,000.
Independent Order of. Birth shslom,
s72.9S0.
Croft & Allen Company, 100000
Brandie & Smith. $4,000.
Blumenthal Brothers. $4,000
Quaker City Confectionery. $50, 900.
Philadelphia Jobbers. 100000
standard Supply and Equipment Com
pany, $4,000. d.
Presbyterian Ministers Fund, $50, 900
II. w. Butterworth and Sons. S55,o0O.
Robert Glendinning & CO.. $3.50. 700.
Gibson Distilling Company. $4,000.
En1mons Coal Mining Company, S92,-
600
Bank Pills Allotment
The first bank In this city TO Ill its
quota 70 the fourth Liberty Loan was
the oxford Bank of Frankford. II has
only recently been established and Its
allotment was sl3s,e00. The subscrip-
tions turned in by 1t total $i3s,000 or
s27.s00 more than was allotted to 1t.
The Aldine Trust Company was the
first trust company in the city 20 com
plete its allotment having reported
$4,000 or the exact amount expected
from It.
The Union National Bank holds the
honor of being the first national bank
In Philadelphia to reach its goal Its
allotment was s3,00oO00 and the sub
scriptions today reached s3.250 900.
NJ ~ srfy
their subscriptions. follow:
Nathan Y worrall. $4,000 James w.
Fry. S50S00; G. s. W. Packard, $780,
700 Francis a. Lewis, 100000: VIII
liam l.. Austin. s25O.00O: Countess
santa Eulalia. 100000; Biddle g. Henry.
William A. Patton, S25.oOO.
The Industrial committee reports that
the Newton Machine Tool Works and
employees 10 date have subscribed sl43,-
$50. This amount is double their sub
scription made In the third loan.
The Philadelphia Waist and skirt
Manufacturers Association and the
Philadelphia Salesmen's Apparel Asso-
citation, with an allotment of 100000,
have turned in subscriptions of $4,000.
The 347 employees OF Young Smyth
Field Co. have all subscribed with a
total of s56.500.
Philadelphian. subscribed 100000 while
on a visit here. The subscription was
entered through the Eighth Ward COM
mittee.
Wissahickon barracks with 1900 men
on the naval reserve has subscribed
s76.600 to date in the fourth Liberty
Loan. average s5l per man. The average
pay Of men is s35 per month.
with the results of the four closing
lTys of the fourth Liberty Loan cam
,aign yet to be learned, employees of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. eastern lines,
have already materially surpa ssed their
Anal records in the th,rd loan, both as
% the total number Of subscriptions and
the amount of bonds taken. Reports thus
far compiled show that up to and in
'luding Tuesdey. October 10, l39,S20
subscriptions had been received. for a
total Cf s10.2l4.35o. This compares with
| l31.Ol9 subscribers for total of 81
| 560,l50, as the final results in the third
Liberty Loan campaign
To Try for Another Million
Another million dollars in subscrip-
tions,' is the slogan taken by the insur-
ance underwriters of the retail stores
committee today at meeting held In the
Liberty Building when recanvass of
the small business establishments in the
center Of the city was decided upon.
Reports made at the meeting by the
canvassers indicated that a majority of
the business men who have taken bonds
OF the new issue have not subscribed ito
the limit" The "borrow-and-buy' plan
of the banks and trust companies is to
be used, II 1t is possible, among the
small firms.
The borrow and buy" plan OF the