The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
VICTORY LOAN
OPENS TONIGHT
TN NEW YORK
Gov. Smith Will Buy First
Note After Stroke of
Twelve.
CITY TO BE STIRRED
Bcwildering Number of Meet
ings and Special Events
Are Scheduled.
CITY TO BE STIRRED

With the sale soon after midnight to-
night OF the first Victory note to Gov.
Alfred T.. Smith. the campaign for New
York's quota Of $1,000. 5s1.eoo, being the
cty's share Of the final price Of victory,
will be fairly under way Gov. Smith
will purchase the first note of the new
issue offered for sale at the Argonne
Forest. at Broadway and Forty-third
street. a replica OF a portion Of tho
terrible woods whose clearing was the
task assigned to the American Army in
the last great offensive of the war. New
York's Seventy-seventh Division distin-
guished itself in the Argonne, which had
been held by the Germans for four years.
Other features which will inaugurate
the great loan drive tomorrow are tho
sounding OF reveille by a whole platoon
OF buglers In Victory Way at 8 o'clock
in the morning. the conservation Of the
thoroughfare at noon by Archbishop
Hayes, Bishop Greer and Rabbi Silver
man: delivery OF the opening address
by Mayor Hylan at $50, concert by
Pershing's Own Band at +. N. and the
delivery by Rear Admiral Nathaniel r.
Usher, L. s. N. (retired), of a message
received by radio telephone from a dirt-
gible balloon.
At 7:15 p. NJ. retreat" will be
sounded. and the customary formality in
taking down the colors win be observed.
Al Z 80 p. NJ. another band concert will
be given. 1t is expected one Of the for
eisn language groups of the city will be
represented by several speakers at the
forum during the evening At 10 T. NJ.
buglers stationed Mt intervals of a block
apart will sound taps, after a bugler at
the south end of the thoroughfare has
played the call.
Tank Parade on Fifth Avenue.
Other features of the opening day to-
morrow will be n parade in Fifth avenue
OF the four American tanks which have
been assigned 10 this city for the entire
campaign, the opening day meeting at
the Sub-Treasury Wall and Nassau
streets. where the Rev. William T. Man
ming. rector of Trinity; Brig Gen. Will
lam c. Cole OF the Yankee division,
Lieut. Carl H. Blanchard of Texas and
DR.. L. S. Rowe will speak
At noon before the Altar of Liberty
in Madison Square DR. Manning, Charles
=. Whitman and Paul d. Cravath will
speak under the auspices of the National
League for Womens Service. with Mrs.
Coffin Van Rensselaer, presiding. Other
meetings will be held at Times Square
by the Motor Corps OF America. in front
Of the Public Library by the War Camp
Community Service and at the City Hall.
Tonight the ceremonies at the Ar
gonne Forest. Broadway and Forty-third
street, will begin with a motion picture,
The Price OF Peace" taken by the
United States Army Signal Corps fol-
lowed by The recital by Miss Julia Arthur
Of The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
and speeches by Brig Gen. Cole, Big
Bill Edwards and Benny Leonard, light
weight champion of the world, after
which the first Victory note sold In New
York will be purchased by Gov. Smith.
Scheduled to-day are the two Loan
rallies in Hamilton Fish and Seward
Parks, on the East Side. Nathan Straus
will preside at Hamilton Fish Park and
Il, Is. Marcus. executive member Of the
metropolitan Canvass Committee at
Seward Park. Both meetings will begin
at 2 80 T. NJ