Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
COURT or HONOR
NEAR COMPLETION
Atmosphere Of Entire City Is
Charged With Spirit Of VIC
tory Loan Drive
UNVEIL STATUE TOMORROW

Thousands of pedestrians paused
today on their way across Broad street
ut Chestnut street or South Penn square
TO watch the throng Of workmcn put
ting the finishing touches on the Court
of Honor.
Above the noise of traffic sounded
the hum of hammers and saws as ar
tisans built The new speakers bal
cony on the south side Of the Victory
statue booth and fashioned the great
shield above it. Already this booth
has been the center of activity in two
successful loans.
The statue of Victory, which is re-
placing the Goddess of Liberty, is al
most completed. One shapely arm
bearing aloft the laurel wreath and the
palm branch can be seen high above
the canvas and scaffolding which pro-
tects the artists as they work on the
statue. From the south side, where
the canvas is torn. pedestrians may
glimpse the strong serene face of Vic
tory as slfe looks down on Broad street.
The elaborate plaster of paris bases
for the flag poles along the Court of
Honor are being put in place today and
the poles themselves are receiving their
last touches of paint and varnish. As
workmen puttied up the cracks and
fitted together the gargoylcs that guard
the flag pole bases. men, women and
children gathered to watch the pro
cCedings.
The national colors are already
frightening many of the business houses
along the Court of Honor.
Liberty Loan booths are finding their
places along the main business streets.
They are all freshly painted and dcrkcd
with the insignia of the fifth Liberty
Loan. Posters and slogans are on stree.
light poles and buildings all over the
city.
Drive Begins Tomorrow
Under the leadership of Mrs. Il. +.
Richardson. loan workers of West Phil
adelphia will start the drive with a
parade. They will assemble at | ~
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon at Sixticth
and Arch streets. Several thousand
uniformed women. school children, SOL
diers, sailors and marines will be in tho
procession. There will be n number of
women on horseback. and bands will
play victory airs. The parade will move
down Sixtieth street to Cedar avenue,
east to Fifty second street. to Chestnut
street, where exercises will be held in
trout of the West Philadelphia women $
Liberty Loan committee headquarters.
! the Victory Statue there will be un-
yeiled tomorrow evening.
More than 1900 mummcrs from Phila :
I, delphia and Camden are expected to
march in the parade in South PhladeI =
phia tomorrow afternoon under the di
rection Of Mrs. Walter J. Freeman
head of the womcn's Liberty Loan com
mittee in that district.
Mrs. Frank b. Stocklcy is chairman
of the speakers and meetings COM
mittee. Other members of the commit
tee besides Mrs. Freeman and Mrs.
Stocbley are Mrs. Owen J. Roberts.
Mrs. Frank W. Buhler. Mrs. Thomas
=. Boyle, Mrs. j. Hector McNeal. Mrs.
Andrew Lippi, Mrs. Charles. Henry
Fox.
Officials of the Liberty Loan com
mittees and of the city will review the
parade from stand erected in front OF
!. the Third Regiment armory, at Broad
and Wharton streets.
A Fourteen separate parades will be
/ held in North Philadelphia tomorrow
evening. Mrs. Chccsman Herrick is
again chairman in that district. More
: than 1000 men and women are cx =
pected to take part.