Evening journal., 1919-10-29
AFTER S4'Q,lOO
FOR COP PENSIONS
Campaign Will Open Tonight
With Dinner at Hotel
dupont
JUDGE GRAY TO
BE THE SPEAKER

Following months Of preparation.
ihe Police Pension Fund Campaign
committee, headed by Mayor Taylor as
chairman, and John s. Rossell as treas
urer. has completed all the details for
the drive for 100000. which opens to-
night and continues until next Thurs
day night. The headquarters Of the
campaign committee on the mezzanine
floor OF the Hotel dupont was a busy
place today, and It was estimated that
the opening banquet at the hotel this
evening at $50 o'clock will be attended
by several hundred team captains and
workers.
The entire police department will be
present. from the police commissioners
down 20 the street patrolmen.
Former Judge George Gray VIII be
The principal speaker He Will speak
OF the life Of a city patrolman and ex-
plain lust what efforts have been made
by the police since 1907 to safeguard
their police pension fund. Josiah Mar
vel and John s. Rossell also VIII speak.
It was announced that in addition to
the speakers at tonights banquet n
musical program with singing had been
prepared and several surprises were TO
be given those in attendance. the nature
OF which has been withheld
The team captains and workers held
a conference in the club rooms at the
hotel last night, when final instructions
were given them and the work TO be
done outlined. IL was pointed out that
the appeal being made at this time was
OF a civic nature, so stated by Mayor
Taylor some days ago when he placed
his approval on the project. This opin-
ion Is shared by representative citizens
in general. and residents in the resi-
Dental sections of the city have al
ready Informed the patrolmen on their
districts that they could count on their
assistance In the campaign.
It is expected that the patrolmen's
team OF nine viii set the pace for the
other teams. The personnel Of the teams
so far announced follows:
Sergeant Crozier-A. Devinney. Roden-
heiser. Walker. Traynor, Wallace,
Lynch, Snyder, McKeown, Veasey Skep-
ski.
Sergeant Davis-Zebley. Manfredo, S.
Brown. Leach. Paynter, Cook.
Sergeant Donahoe-Burchinal, West,
Hawke, Laskowski, Massey, Abrahams,
De Frisco.
Sergeant Devenlsh, j. Scott. Sherwin,
+. Devlnney, Sheehy, Bowman, Jordan.
Sergeant Fox-Morrow, Bradford. Nc
Granary, Abele, Blacklston, Sullivan.
Sergeant Green-King, Benson, Riley.
Kempski, Fairchild, Mahoneys McDan-
nell.
Sergeant Lewis - Elliott, Collins,
Powell. Weatherby, Bullock, Fisher.
Sergeant McBride-Cross. Ward. Barr
Curlett, Carey, Hickman, Cats, Elderkin
Mcdaniel, Dawson.
Sergeant McDermott-McGillon, Reilly,
Dutton. Serson, Walls. Gold, Hynson,
Johnson. Burns.
The teams representing the Demo-
cratic League will be under the cap
tainshlp Of George C. Morton and con-
slsts OF the following members:
George C. Morton, captain-James
Thompson. Lewis Turner. Patrick Ma
loney, Dennis Buckley, Edward Mac
Ateer, A. B. Gillespie, Edward j. Nc
Nabb, Edward Farmar, Thomas Flan-
nigan, Timothy Blair, John J, Hagan,
John Hickey, J. Irwin Alcorn, Bernard
Schneider. Frank Mcfarland, Steward
Moystein. William McCanferty, Charles
Walls, George Woodward, Patrick Null
,ooney, Patrick Ryan.
The bankers team, which will be In
,harge Of Alpheus s. Mowbray, viii
consist Of the following bankers, rep
resenting practically every banking In
ititution In tie city:
Wilmington Trust Company tenth
treet oflloe)-C. c. Aspril, II. b.
Hearns, +. l.. Hobbs.
Equitable Trust Company-H. r.
springer, John B. Ray.
Delaware Trust Company-T. C.
Cooper. s. s. Baker.
Security Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany-C. p. Buck, T. ]. Mowbray, II.
S. Townsend, p. b. Alrichs. George w.
3ird. J.. II. Banks. John Sellers.
Farmers Bank - r.. b. Donohoe,
Charles A. Galloway, w. Macmillan.
Wilmington Trust Company Second
street oflce)--J. II. Davidson, J. A. Rus
sell, J. Wenner.
Union National Bank-C. F. Wentz,
E. F. Zebley, A. E. Jefferis.
Central National Bank-George r.
Baird, II. F. Mccall and Charles L. Me-
dill.
Water Witch Fire Company team
Paul Dougherty, captain; Charles
Brown. Robert Eakin.
Industrial team-William C. Corey,
,aptain; Henry A. White, Achille Ricard.
Edwin S Jones, Robert 5. Glover,
George w. Cornell. James NJ. Barnes.
In addition to these teams Captain
w. A. Simonton will have charge OF the
team composed OF employees in the du-
Pont Building. J. Edward McNabb will
be one Of the team captains.