The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-21
OPENS
LOAN CAMPAIGN
Train of War Relics Draws
Big Crowd to Station
This Morning
NOW ON JOURNEY
UP WEST RIVER
Rally to Be Held in South Londonderry
This Evening ng-Approximately $780,
900 in Subscriptions Expected at End
of First Days Campaign Locally

From $500 to 5000 persons assembled
in the local railroad yard this morning
to see the exhibits on the war relic
train, which arrived about o'clock as
the opening feature of the campaign for
the Fifth Liberty loan Subscriptions
TO the loan for the opening day Were
expected to reach from $4,000 to $780,
600. One subscription for $4,000 came
through the local office of the Travellers
Insurance Co.
At 7.l5 clock three rounds of the
fire alarm from box five were sounded
and at T.30 din of church and school
bells and factory and locomotive whis
! ties set in and was continuous for five
minutes About 7.45 the Brattleboro
military band, with Capt w. II. Haigh
as drum major, started from the town
! hall building and St Michael = cadets.
carrying large American flag and
bearing rifles. and the Boy Scouts, dis
playing the Scout flag, fell into line
and marched to the station, where the
band PLAYED numerous selections dur
ing the early part of the train stay.
Shortly afterwards the high school
drum corps and students. bearing Amer
lean flags, and the girls carrying the
school 5 service flag, went through the
street.
Shortly after the train stopped it
was opened for inspection and those
who had assembled were allowed TO &c
through before the speaking began
thus giving an opportunity for Others
who came later, and the crowds went
and came until IL o'clock, when the
train left for its trip over the West
River branch to South Londonderry
where a rally will be held at s o 'cloch
i this evening.
. The train consisted of three fiat ears
! box ear and tourist ear, and wa:
, manned by Is men, including military
guards and speakers. Among them were
SergeantsS. J. Limits of Boston of the
: l0lst regiment, Goth division; Privat,
first class Sidney Craig Perham
Chelmsford. Mass, base hospital No
7, A. +. F.; Private John +. Hines o.
Boston, Company L, 5Sth infantry, Al
division; and Capt Julian p. Brown o
Boston, United States Marine corps, al
of whom spoke here.
The three fiat cars were loaded witt
machine guns, caissons, the famou
ffencn 10 :, cdptlleu HERMAN guns
French field guns, German howitzer
trench. heaters, aerial bombs, German
+ u nm. guns, trench mortars, Frenel
r ammunition carriage, depth bombs
: French 220 nm. shells and other small
:. Ter pieces, while the box car containe,
l. the smaller equipment, such as rifles
), swords, helmets, armors, ammunition
n belts, stretehers, hand grenades, an,
e numberless other small implements o
l. war.
d Before the train left for the West Ri
yer valley the equipment car and tour
! ist sleeper were left in the local var
r and a day coach was attached, as it wa
J. thought the longer cars could not b
+ taken around the curves in safety. Fou
e men went with the train from here o
c the up-river trip. They We're Count
o. Chairman John f. Piddock of Saxton
River, Capt Ernest w Gibson, who
is to be one of the speakers at the rail-
u tonight, Clarence L. Stiekney and Wa
is ter A Gilbert The party planned I
have dinner i'll Newfane.