New Britain herald., 1919-09-08
Chairman Humphrey Favors Factory Canvass-Denies InsinuatiOn of Graft in Celebration Contract.

Nearly $500 has been collected by the campaign workers for the Well come Home celebration. Today's re- ports read at the luncheon in the Elks' club showed a total of $5943O collect ed during the day.
 Report of Teams
 The reports of the team captains follow:
 Team No. ,, Howard Breummer, $11; team No. ?, Malcolm Farmer, captain, $43.30; team Mo- s, II. C. Blakesley captain $S2.75 team Mo- 9, E. A. krause captain. $SO.25: team No. 10, Edward Starr captain, $62; Team No. II, K. $. Kyle captain, $20.25; team No. 12, l.. H. Taylor captain, $43.50 team No. IA, F. M Beecher captain SIS; team No. 6, A. w. tpson captain, S2S; team No. Is, E. w. Papc captain, $22 75; team No. 19 r.. w. PeltOn captain, $65; team No. 21, l.. P. Shade captain, S45: team No. p, Sturman Dyson captain, S3G; team No. 23, J.. J. Witking captain, $30.50.
 Rev. Sutciinc Speaks
 r.. \. Humphrey, chairman of the drive, acted as chairman and intro- C, St. Marks Episcopal church, who talked on the drive and urged support Rc urged the team captains and their workers to increase efforts to put the drive over stuart Hellbers announce ed that much opposition was being met by the CanVasSers Of the factory and asked for recomm endations from those present as to the best way of overcoming this opposition. Marshall c. Cook of he New Britain Boys club recommended that boxes be placed in the various departments of each fac tory Tor the employees to make contri- butions in small amounts. This meth cd was approved by the chair and the plan will probably be adopted during the coming week.
 Hints at Big Wages.
 Mr. Rowe of the NcW Britain Ma chine company brought up the uues- tion of contributions from those en. gagged in work on old Home Week plans, such as the men stringing Slec- triC lights and building the arch of welcome and court of honor in Walnut Hill park 1nasmuCh as these men have been receiving double pay for their time, MT Rowe felt that they should be asked for a larger contri- butloil ll'tl any OtneES. Tie recOnl- mcnded that each man be approached Individually. Chairman Humphrey eX- plained that the contractors were do- ing the work at cost in some instances and because of this fact he felt they should not be approached for addi- tional subscriptions: In many cases the contractors have let their regular line of business run along while they employed their entire forces on tho work for old Home Week. He said 1t was the unworthy people who were always looking for the person that re- CeiNCd the graft there was no graft in this occasion. He spoke of the hard work the committee in charge had done and mentioned several of the prominent Dnsin ess men who had giV- en much of their time. Mr. Humphrey expressed surprise that any one in New Britain should be under the inn prCSSiCn that fuvors were being shown contractors.
 Humphrey Boosts Drive.
 Following the reading of reports Chairman Humphrey arose and deliv- cred an impressive address on the inn portance of the drive and the neceS- sity of putting the campaign over He urged the captains and their workers to exert every effort to see that every one was approached and given an Op- portunity to make d donation. Tho Chairman announced that he will at tend the meeting of the business men Of the city tomorrow noon and will cndeaNor to secure the support of that organization for the campaign. As a last resort an effort will be made to secure the consent of the factory otf- ClalS to make d factory canvass. As the drive closes Wednesday, of this week and but small portion of the funds have been raised, it will be nec- essary to make use of every possible source for securing money
 Mrs. Arthur kimball's team has se-
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