The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-15
Santa Fe Men Have a Great
Liberty Loan Record.
They Made Their Best Record
in the Fourth Drive.
ALL, HOWEVER, WERE GOOD
Per Capita Subscriptions Were
Always Very High.
Under NJ. J. Drury
Due Much Credit.

The loyalty of the 3,4OO Santa Fe
shop and storehouse employees in To-
peka and the enthusiasm with which
they got behind the war work is evil
denced by the wonderful showing
made by all departments in the five
liberty loan drives. The fourth loan
received more money from the shop
than any other, altho the Santa Fe has
always gone "over tn top" on all the
loans without urging and usually long
before the rest of the county had real
ly gotten started.
NO definite figures showing the
amounts subscribed to the first and
second loans have been saved. 1t was
not until the third loan came along
that a perfect organization was made
and systems worked out showing the
subscriptions in all departments. Only
the records of the storehouse are COM
pIete for all five drives.
The fourth loan was the heaviest OF
all. There were 1883 men with total
subscriptions of $316,65O on the list
This is $3.50 more than twice the total
amount subscribed to the third loan
The total subscriptions of all depart
Inents of the Santa F'e in Topeka, in
Guiding the offices, to the fourth loan
aggregated 100000.
In the Fifth Loan.
In the fifth loan the shops made
1000 SUBSCRIPTIONS, lOldllnS "a soOOf
while the stations and trainmen came
in with 319 subscriptions aggregatinG
S27, $50. The records of the tralnmen
and stations in the first four loans are
not obtainable, but approximates show
the percentage to be high.
Following is the record of the
shops, including all departments. but
not including the stOrehouse and sta
ton and train men:
Third Loan.
2,42O subscribers.
$15S,25O raised.
Per capita, approximately $3.50.
Fourth Loan.
1883 subscribers.
S316,65O raised.
Per capita, approximately S1O9. IS.
Fifth Loan.
1855 subscribers.
S247.6OO rN.-ed.
Per capita, approximately $93.15.
The number of employees in the
shops during the different loan drives
varied, but it may be estimated on an
average of about 5000.
The complete record of the store
aouse employees follows:
First Loan.
So subscribers.
$4,65O raised.
Per capita. $S4.55.
Second Loan.
ISL subscribers.
$4,000 raised.
Per capita $105.30.
Third Loan.
395 employees.
39l subscribers.
$4,000 raised.
Per capita SS1.s4.
Fourth Loan.
445 employees.
439 subscribers.
$4T,6O0 raised.
Per capita s1OS.43.
Fifth Loan.
429 employees.
Ais subscribers.
$37,35O raised.
Per capita $50.
AS was the case in the shops and
offices, the storehouse did not get or
ganized until the end of the second
drive and it was not until the third
lnan came along that the system had
been worked out to obtain the utmost
efficiency. A committee composed of
representatives of the various depart
IRents was formed and H. E. Ray, gen.
eral storekeeper, was appointed as
chairman. The committee consisted
Of twenty-one persons.
? Before the third loan came along, a
similar experiment was adopted in the
shops. A committee varying from 35
j. Drury, superintendent of the shops,
and captains placed in charge of the
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