The sun., 1919-05-24
4DAY BROADWAY
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Association to Conduct CAM
paign Next. Week for 49,
900 New Members.

Broadway, from the Battery to
Kingsbridge, will be ablaze with bright
thoughts for four days. beginning Mon
day. One doesn't mean to hint even
| that along this stretch Of a dozen miles
OF the best known street in the world
there Is not more or less constant
| glow of the intellectual activity, mercy
no. but for four days. starting Mon
day. every Broadway tenant. property
owner. shopkeeper and resident is asked
, to speed up his thinking machinery for
the one great purpose of devising work.
able schemes and plans to make Broad
way what Broadway ought to be.
The first step toward carrying out
the thoughts of most immediate and
practical Importance, all for the bet
terment of Broadway. will be taken
next week in the course Of a member
ship drive which will cover the whole
| length of the ancient thoroughfare. The
effort will be made to get into the
Broadway Association, which Is doing
| some hustling these days. all of the
business men and property owners. A
prospect list OF about $4,000 names has
been drawn UP.
| six Districts Designated.
The campaign for members and for
| Ideas will be conducted along military
lines. The street has been divided into
six districts, which, at the close OF the
campaign. will organize local councils
| to take care of their respective inter
ests. More than 500 bankers. business
men and professional men will be ac-
lively engaged in recruiting for the
| association. The districts are : The Bat
| terry to Chambers street, Chamber;
street 10 Eighth street, Eighth stree
TO Thirtieth street. Thirtieth street tc
Fiftieth street. Fiftieth street to Nine
| tieth street Ninetieth street to Kings
bridge.
| Heads Of the campaign in the first
district are Edward Townsend. Jr.. I'm,
porters and Traders Bank: Fred J
Brottman. Chemical National Bank
| Samuel Fl. Miller. vice-president ant
| Otis Everett, assistant cashier. Chase
National Bank Langley wiggin. vice.
president and George S. Mills, Column.
bia Trust Company; Mercer p Nose
ley. vice-president, American Exchange
National Bank: Paul II. Hudson, vice.
president. Empire Trust Company: Ell
lott l.. Bristow and jacques 5. Coher
| OF Jules S Bache & Co.. and Charlie,
w, Campbell ard Thomas March of tn,
| Equitable Building Corporation.
The chairmen and ma jors of the otheI
districts are:
| Second Observation-Disclosures. John VIII,
Jams. vice-president Irving Trust Com
pany Majors, John I. Anderson Thoma.
| II. Dinsmore Adolph A Fraser, William
| II. Haines of the Citizens National Bank
George Il. Hoyer. vice-president Eas
River National Bank Thomas Munro
Walton p Kingsley Of New York Life
Insurance Company and L. A. Cochrane
| superintendent of Woolworth Building
Third District Committee.
| Third District-Chairman. Chester AL
exander Majors. A. F. Berry. r. l.
Hatch, August Jansen, Myron Robinson
$. f. Fahnestock. a. Warrendorf. Or
| Paul II. Zagat. August Silz Mr. Herring
Preston p. Lynn and f. C. Caldwell o.
John Wanamaker. Henry A. Smith o.
Marshall Field Company and j ID. Elm
| stein.
| Fourth District-Chairman. FREDERICK
A. Wallis; Majors. w. NJ Biggs S
| Bloom. L. VI. Boomer. general manager
OF Hotels McAlpin. Waldorf and Clar
iige James Churchill, Richard A. Purdy
/ vice-president Hudson Trust Company
Louis Wiley, John David. Bernard r
Gimbel OF Gimbel Bros. j. t.. Harring
| ton Sam ". Harris T. r. Moore pres
dent Commercial Trust Company Fred
Muschenheim, Hotel Aston; James y
| Regan. Hotel Knickerbocker S. l.
Rothapfel. w. ]. Salmon and ]. b. Van
| Dever
| Fifth District-Chairman, Frank c
Carrie; Majors, Sidney b. Bowman. J
| r. Cothran. Howard Davis A. W. Ellis
Morton l.. Fouquet, II. J. Gilmore. Albert
| Hirst, $, De b, Keim, II J. Morehead. L,
s. Partridge. George Stowe, Glenn A
! Tisdale. Walter A. Woods. f. u. Newton
and NJ. II. Cross
/ Sixth District-Chairman. ReginaL
/ Pelham Bolton; Majors. John f. Cal
houn. r. r. Fogel Capt Charles 4. Du.
Bots Alexander McRae. Thomas J
| O'Reilly. W. u. Smith. Leopold Vert
| heimer and Norman Dancer.
Once the membership drive is com
pleted, the Broadway thoughts. sugges
tons for the protection. improvement
and beautifyinI OF Broadway will b,
taken Up by committees and the associa
ton will then arrange a programme o
practical effort. The promise is mad,
| that within n year or two Broadway
will he a vastly improved street.