Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-24
FIRMS RUSH TO
QUALITY FOR 100
PER CENT PARADE
Details Completed for Big
Procession Friday Noon;
Secretary Glass to 0c-
cupy Reviewing Stand.

are hurrying their SUBSCRIPTIONS &c
get into the parade which will
march through Omaha's streets Fri
day noon.
Additions to the list of houses. al
of whose employees have subscribed
to the Victory Liberty loan. are:
Brunswick Bake Cdlender Co.
Burns-Brinker & Co., Walter G
Clarke Co., Columbia Fire Under.
writers, Conservative Savings and
Loan Co., John Deere Plow Co.
Fairbanks Morse Co., Farmers I'm.
ion of Nebraska, Henry R. Gering
Co., Guarantee Fund Life associa.
ton. The House of Menagh, Mer-
chants National bank, Palace Cloth
ing Co., H. Pelton, Shultz Brothers
Sunderland Brothers Co., Woodmen
Circle, Wood-Oswald Co., Fairmont
Creamery Co., McCord- Brady Co.
Industrial Chemical Co., Bemis
Omaha Bag Co., Mercantile Storage
& Warehouse Co., R. Bingham &
Son, Gilindy Fruit Co., Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Co., Omaha Wall Paper
Co., Simon Brothers Co.. Otis Ele-
vator Co., Observation-Disclosures
Implement Co., Peterson-Pegau
Baking Co., Parlin Orendorf Plow
Co., B. P. Avery & Sons Co., H. ].
Hughes g. Co., State Bank of Oma-
ha, Meinrath Brokerage Co.
Already reported on the first day
of the drive were Hayden Brothers
company, the Omaha National bank,
the Corn Exchange National bank,
the Commonwealth Insurance Co.,
A. Hospe Co., Nebraska Clothing
Co., Peters Trust Co., U. S. Trust
Co., Western Bridge & Construc-
ton Co., Byrne- Hammer Dry Goods
Co. and Farrell & Co.
Details Completed.
The executive committee, meeting
with representatives of the manu-
facturers, jobbers and retailers
Wednesday afternoon in the Cham
Der of Commerce, with Commission
err R. H. Marley representing the
chamber, completed details of the
parade which will be reviewed by
Secretary of the Treasury Glass. [
1t was unanimously agreed by the
men present at the meeting that a
slight modification be made in the
rules governing conditions for OBJ
tanning the honor banners given by
the Chamber of Commerce to the
business houses whose employees go
100 per cent for the loan. w.
New Rules.
The rules adopted are as follows:
Banners shall be given to any firm
employing 10 or more persons pro-
vided all of the employees purchase
Victory Liberty loan notes, with the
following exemptions, which shall
not be marked against the firm or
institution:
Employees who are out OF town
shall not be counted.
Employees who are sick shall be
exempted.
Employees getting less than $50 a
month.
Employees who have served In
army, navy or marines.
Employees who are still paying for
bonds bought in former loan CAM
paigns, and who feel they cannot
take on an additional burden,
Subscriptions of the firms them
selves shall be counted against these
exempted employees and entltie the
firm to a banner and place in the
parade.
Lineup of Parade. q.
The parade will form at Tenth and
Jackson streets, and its lineup will
be as follows:
Platoon of police.
Victory Liberty loan committee.
Officers and executive committee Cham-
Der of Commerce.
Troops from Forts Omaha and Crook:
Wounded soldiers from reconstruction
hospital. in automobiles.
Band.
Wholesalers.
Band.
Manufacturers.
Band.
Retailers.
w ]. Monaghan has been appoint
ed grand marshal for the manutae-
turers; Joe Kelley of M. E. Smith 4
Co., grand marshal for the jobbers,
and Charles E. Black, grand marshal
for the retailers.
Wholesalers will form on Jackson
street at Tenth, facing west.
Manufacturers will form on Jack
son, facing east.
Retailers will form on Harvey,
facing east.
Bank Does Big Business.
The Victory Loan bank in the
courthouse did an encouraging bust
ness Yesterday morning when it re-
ceived subscriptions for more than
$4,000.
District Judge Arthur c. 'Wakeley
made the Victory loan address at the
court house at noon yesterday. Rev.
E. H. jerks offered prayer. Frank
Dobson and his Is sirens, the
headline act at the Orpheum this
week. entertained the big crowd OF
prospective not buyers. The
Italian band played.
One of the whippet tanks made
run up Farnam street and was park
ed in front of the court house dur
ing the noon program.
c L. Gould, for the Ford Motor
in Omaha, made sub
scription yesterday of 100000 to the
Liberty loan, This is the
Ford company's Omaha proportion
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