The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
CHICAGO OPENS IN BEDLAM.
Thirty Thousand People Await Mid
night '.Zero'' Hour on Lake.

Chicago, April 21.@Nn a bedlam of
wild noise and enthusiasm, Chicago
early today opened the victory loan,
campaign. Thirty thousand persons1
waited at the new victory altar bull.
on the lake shore until 1901 a. m.
when naval guns, locomotive whistles
and bells announced the birth of the.
revel.
While the big crowd, with barred
heads. sang 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner" a band played underneath the
jeweled altar of victory.
Within the first sixty seconds of the
drive $1,000 worth of bonds were sold
to eight buyers. This was followed
almost Immediately by pledges Of
nearly s12, 100000, including one
worth of bonds for the Marshall Field
estate and store. The city's quota is.
$3.50, 200.
Three army searchlights of more
than two hundred million candle pow
er lighted up the victory forum erected
in the park.
Michigan avenue for a mile was
brilliantly lighted and festooned with
red, white and blue for the occasion.
and the shops and picture theaters
along the broad thorofare were crowd
ed until nearly daylight.
Midnight Revel in n. Y.
New York, April 21.-The victory
midnight with popular subscriptions
totalling more than 100000 gained
impetus as the day advanced and
crowds thronged the many patriotic.
celebrations. Governor Smith opened
the campaign to meet New York s
quota in the fifth and last loan Of
fered by the government to meet its
war expenses. Governor Smith pur-5
chased the first note of the issue sold
in the city and William G. McAdoo,
the second and then other thousands
began to roll in. The midnight cele-s
bration was preliminary to the actual
opening of the campaign thruout the
city today at speech making centers
at the end of parade routes. Chief
among the performers trday were the
one hundred odd members of General
Pershing's own band that were sent
! home especially to aid in the fifth
| loan. The band made its first appear
in Wall street and later marched up
town to christen Victory way, the
| broad plaza in Park avenue and Forty
fifth street, where the loan activities
will center during the campaign.
| Sixty thousand volunteer workers
ushered in the opening of. Chicago's
| victory loan campaign today and be-
fore noon it was reported that sub
scriptions aggregating fifteen million
| dollars had been obtained.
| Inc campaign began with an ac-
| compartment of music, parades and
i cheering throflgs which filled the
| downtown streets. Among the large
| subscriptions received early in the day
were:
Estate of Marshall Field. ........ So 000, 600
| MARSHALL Field & CO.............. LOCO, 900
Julius RoZenwald ............. 1000 600
Montgomery Ward & Co. ......... 1.25O 900
Sears Roebuck & Co. 1000, 900
! Elgin Watch Co.. 100000
| VICTOR +; lawson ...--.--.-...... 10000
Arthur Brisbane ...-............., 100000
Hornblower & Weeks. ............. 10000
Brunswick, Bake, Calender Co.. 100000
Seven Hoosier Counties Over.
| Indianapolis, Ind, April 21-Seven
Hoosier counties had gone over the
top" officially in the victory loan early
today and unofficial reports from
Brown county said it had subscribed
| its full quota.
A telegram sent by w. H Wade,
director of sales for Indiana, to Lewis
| B. Franklin, director of the war loan
organization, claimed that Indiana is
| the first state to have a county. go
| over.
| Oklahoma Counties Over.
Oklahoma City, April 21.-Cleve-
land was the first Oklahoma county
officially to report going cover the
top" in today's liberty loan drive
Five other counties-Garfield, Alfalfa
Noble, Grant and Kingfisher were re-
ported unofficially over. Sulphur
Murray county. was the first city of
ficially reported over, tho every city
/ IN cleveland county passed its quota
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