Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18

SUCCESSFUL LIBERTY
LOAN MEETING
Parade Precedes Observation-Disclosures
Speakers and Singers Take Part
Over Ten Thousand Raised
81 Special CoryeSrouden.

Over Ten Thousand Raised
~ Special Correspondent:
TOTTENVILLE, Oct. 1s:-An en-
tnusiastic meeting for the Fourth
Liberty Loan was held last night at
the Tottenville school following a
parade through several Of the streets
IN town. The parade, which started
ut the Tottenville National Rank.
went out Elliott avenue to Bentley
street to Arthur Kill road, Fisher
avenue and~Amboy road, where the
line led to the school. 1t was led by
police Of the Sixtieth precinct station
Followed by q large auto truck on
which was loaded a number Of war
trophies captured by the American
soldiers and brought Owe to this
country.
There were machine guns, trench
mortars. shell holders and rifles of
different kinds.
The Police Reserves, both men and
women. Company E, 18th Regiment
Infantry Corps, Ellis Island marine
band and school children carrying
banners made UP the rest of the pa
rade, followed by the Huguenot En-
CINE Company, Amicitia Hook q Lad
der Company, Citizen Engine Com
pany and Rossville Hook G. Ladder
Company with their motor apparatus.
Following the disarmament of the
parade tbs meeting began at the
school at Sis o'clock. The auditori-
UNI was crowded to the doors and the
meeting one of the most enthusiastic
ever held for a loan campaign. Ma
than ]. Lowe. principal of the school,
acted as chairman of the meeting and
introduced the speakers of the even
ing.
The meeting was opened with thu
singing of patriotic songs by the Girls
Community Service Chorus under the
direction OF Andrew NJ. Sprague.
Ralph Monnell, director of the Rich-
mond County Liberty Loan campaign,
was the first speaker. He made q
strong appeal to the people of this
section of the island for the loan.
Mr.. Monnell said that Staten Island
had not as yet reached its quota out
he predicted hat 1t would, the same
as last time, when II went over the
top three times the amount OF the
quota.
DIR. David Hughes, q chaplain In
the British army, who was the next
speaker, made one of the most STIR
ring addresses eve heard in the
school during a loan campaign.
DIR. Hughes is O Welshman by birth
but at the time of the outbreak of
tho war was q Presbyterian minister
at Buffalo and an American citizen.
He did not hesitate to condemn the
warfare of the hun and the atrocities
carried on by them during the war.
He iayed the readers of German
newspapers and the speaking of the
German language in this or any other
country. and he remarked that ths
sooner all German aliens. no matter
who they were, were interned the
better this country would be off. He
said hat the recent forest fires in the
west were due to German propaganda
and that the sinking of an American
ship at It's pier was due to the same
cause. He told Of fourteen male
members OF his family in the war.
and that there were only himself and
a paralyzed father left.
In speaking of the peace talk now
going on he said that no peace should
be considered until Germany received
a taste of war on her W soil.
Lieutenant Robert j. Bagues, of
the 144th Machine Gun Company and
"a member of the French high COM
mission now in this country, was the
next speaker. Lieutayant Bagues. who
has seer service at the front for the
past three years, told of his member
ship in the Suicide Club" meaning
the ach gun CORPS, and said ne
had come to this country not only as
a member of the commission but to
help win the war by boosting the
Liberty Loan.
Walter w. Price, of Emmerson Hill,
also made a brief address for the loan
as did Corporal Jay Wallens, station
ed at the T. A. Gillespie plant at Nor
gan. Corporal Wallens with
privates afterward went through the
audience and sold bonds. The sum OF
s10,16o was subscribed which amount
went to the credit of the two paid IRE
companies OF the New York Fire De-
partment stationed at Tottenville Tor
their interest in arranging the parade.
Lieutenant Joseph Griffin, Of 10 Hook
& Ladder, was at the head OF the pa
.rade committee.
Between the speechmaking Miss
Maude Morgan, a celebrated harpist,
played selections and Made d'Arbalay
sang the Marsellaise accompanied py
Miss Morgan on the harp.
d'Arbalay, who has ben singing .The
Star Spangled Banner" in Manhattan
for the Liberty Loan campaign COM
mittee for $500 a song. last nignt
made the same offer. 1t was accept
ed at once and the S10,160 subscribed