New-York tribune., 1919-04-24
Some Complaints Received

some NomnaintH Received
When asked preciHely what the of
fetal ethtiptics uhowod regardnp tho
progreps OF the loan drive Ia tho New
York district, Arthur NJ. Anderson, di-
rector of tho Government Loan Or
ranlsation here, aid; "'rhc official to.
tnls do not give n significant indication
OF the progress of the loan. On tho
basis of the fgurcs nt hand. one can
not say as yet whether the loan is
going we'll or not"
MIR. Anderson added that the work
ing organization is rapidly warminp
up but has not yet struck its full pncc
1t was said at loan headquarters that
the booths in the street are not
lunctloning satisfactorily yet, and com
plants were made that they were not
conspicuous enough. Changes in the
location of booths wcro made to give
'nem moro prominent positions. Com
pared with the Metropolitan Canvass
committee, which gets subscriptions
from houSe-to house canvasses, and
the Rainbow Division, which gots them
from employers and employees in the
trades and industries Of the city, the
booths are considered relatively insg-
hlhcaht and the returns from the two
great canvassing divisions of the city
have not yet gone through the machin-
Squirt Expected To-day
great squirt in the street sales is
expected to-day, when 10000 actual
Victory notes from the government
presses will be placed on sale in New
ork for cash purchasers at the booths
and In the banks. The distributing CEN
ters have already asked for 100000
notes Of various denominations, and
at loan headquarters this demand is
regarded rs a fair indication Of what
the popular demand will be- Out Of the
S2,044.90l $50 OF Liberty Bonds sold in
this district in the Fourth Liberty Loan
campaign only $250,000, 900 OF bonds
were sold for cash
Although the returns FOR the first
two days in this district are below the
daily average required to raise the
quota. there IS no pessimism at loan
headquarters, because in the previous
campaigns the day-to-day variations
/ were so great as to make conclusions
on the basis of two days return un-
/ relable Compared with the $SS $780,
600 raised in this campaign, S1O4 ,000.-
+ 600 was raised in the correspondinp
period Of the fourth campaign, $Sl31,-
100000 in the third and $4,000 600 in
the second.
New Subscriptions Announced
~ duulllOH 10 the SUBSCRIPTIONS
included in the official total, the fol
lowing new ones were unofficially an
nounced yesterday:
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, $4,000
600; Standard Oil Company of New
York. $4,000 600; Citizens Savings
Bank, S2'000.000; Union Dime Savings
Bank, S2,000,000; Greenwich Bank.
S200OO00; Liggett & Myers Tobacco
Company, S2,000,000 Citizens Savings
Bank, Sl5O0000; Fidelity Trust Com
pany, $1,000 600; r. A. Gillespie & Co.
additlonaD, sl,oO0,o0O, United Cigar
stores, s 100000; Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey, 1000 900; East
ern District Savings Bank, BROOKLYN.
SoOO,OOO Proctor G. Gamble, $500 900;
Vincent Aston, 100000 Lincoln Saw,
lngs Bank, Brooklyn, s40O 900; Minerals
Separation, North American Corpora
ton S2O0,000 Bloomingdale Brothers.
100000; Bank of Attica New York,
SiSs,ooo Worthington pump and Ma
ehinery Company, $l00,00O Hamburg
Savings Rank, brooklyn, sat 900; Paul
Moore Sbo00oi Charles Raird, sac
Fedora Adding Machine Corporation,
S25,0OO ''