The sun., 1919-05-09
How Victory Loan Now
Stands in This District

Total TO date. o7O.t43,4O0
| Clty's quota. ......... 1.OOo'ooI'oVO
] Total TO date. 714,eSS,Soo
Company, speyer & Co. william T. Ahnelt |
H. =. whitney, Payne whitney tadditional), !
Submarine Boat Corporation. Electric BOAT
pany, Harris. Forbes a Co. (additionail,
Home Insurance Company, c. H. spreck-
els. General Chemical Company and r. D.
$50 ooo@A. 1.slin g Co. and clients.
s5l5OOo--Bllss. Fabyan 4 Co.
Company sG%n' Edward s. Hardness, W. B.
Thompson, Electro Dynamic Company.
savage Arms Company, Federal s1 issr
dittonsD, T. A. gillespie Company taddi-
tionaD, q. II. Milliken, Paul s3aerweld.
$3.50. ooo--American Beet Sugar Company
400 ,Soo1Henry L. Doherty Company
(additionaD and Lockwood Company.
; ssS SSS .sesM 4 St Giis.ps son.
Department y; I. dp Pont de Ne s,os
Company directors, stockholders and en-
ployees), Fred H. Greenebaum. Robert
Sterling Clark Dank for Savings taddi-
.a2s. oOo-un.tos Verde Copger Company;
L. Hine, II. P. Goldschmidt A. CO. West.
Telegraph Company (additional). EQuitabl"
Life A.suranee Society;
sl25,0oo-Cullman Bros. ,
Slos.ooo-virginia Carolina Chemical
si6i, oSo-Gcorse A. HUM & Sons
800. 600 .ach--Great Western smelling
and Refining Company, Schwartz Jane:
MiIle,s, Roe Hagen. Br0 ,,Sa,t naIaii
United States Savings Bank, Mira Mary
Clark Thompson, Rogers Pyatt Shellac
J. DansiE & Co, Pelgram q Meyer. Alfred
and George Frankenthaler, A. lselin q
Co. (additionaD. Stephen Carlton clark;
American Transatlantic Company ana
Hanover Fire Insurance Company.
Brooklyn Omcially over Top.
Brooklyn went officially over the top
yesterday when total of $61.3o4,S0O
was reached. This is the first borough
of New York city to reach Its quota.
Subscriptions yesterday afternoon had
reached s5S.3o4,s when Edwin P. May
nard, chairman OF the Brooklyn COM
mlttee and president of the Brooklyn
Trust Company, announced a subscrip-
ton for his institution of 100000.
Navy Day was celebrated at Victory
| Way by officers and men from various
stations and ships. A number OF Ger
man helmets were removed from one Of
| the pyramids and auctioned Off. Some
| brought as high as $4,000.
Rear-Aomiral ]. II. Mccain spoke on
| the long distance telephone from WASH
| ington and his message was relayed by
tho loud speaking telephone receivers.
| Pretty yeomanettes. in the new sum
mer straw hats. paraded from Washing
ton Square to Victory Way The 500 or
more drew to Fifth avenue crowd
which packed sidewalks and windows.
Applause greeted the young women and
their reception went to prove that the
\ female branch of the navy is, II any
thing, more popular than the male.
Ensign J. p. O'Nel was in charge of
100 of the yeomanettes from Washing
| tor, the supply department of the Brook
Ign Navy Yard sent 200 more and the
| fleet supply base OF South Brooklyn had
An equal number.
The Womens Liberty Loan Committee
reported one of It's biggest days OF the
campaign with sales of s9.432.0 52 and
nearly 5000 new subscribers
The booth at the Hotel Commodore
made the best record of the day, selling
$102.900 worth of Victory notes. The
Hotel McAlpin came second, with sales
aggregating sS3,200, and the Commercial
| High School booth third, with $S2,400.
A message delivered from an airplane,
soaring high above the East River and
pointed westward. was heard by the
crowd at Victory Way yesterday after
noon by means OF the loud speaking tele-
phones.
womnn's Clubs Pass s1O.OOO,OOO.
The woman's Clubs Committee
passed the ten million mark yesterday
when the committees returns for Victory
| Note purchase for the morning
amounted to s1.349, $50. making its total
! STT.55z'T5O. Inc ten CUBS leading are
the Three Arts Club, s2.744,650: Ma
tional League for Women's Service
100000 Council Jewish Women. New
York Section. s767,0OO; Post Parlia-
ment, $T24.O50; Colony Club, $6ls,s5O
Big Sisters, s467600; Women's City
Club. s2o3,55O; Women's Democratic
League. s142.150 and Missouri Women
| in New York, sl36.750.
In front of SO Maiden lane at noon the
City Insurance Club held loan rally
which netted 100000 in an hour This
brings this clubs subscriptions to date
to $4,000 900
Baseball and theatrical stars yesterday
sold more than $4,000, 900 at the Sub.
Treasury steps. Men paid 81 900, 900 to
get baseballs autographed by Christy
Mathewson, Arthur Fletcher and Larry
Doyle.
John D. Rockefeller, J. p. Morgan and
J. W. Hartman, each paid 81 900 00C
for the balls. Announcement was made
by big Bill Edwards that after twenty
baseballs had been auctioned off OF
thrown into the crowd an offer of 81, 900.
600 had come from John d. Rockefeller
for one Of the autographed balls
The ball players, chaperoned by Louis
Mann. the comedian, included George
Burns, Benny Kaufr and Hal Chase. be.
sides Mathewson. Fletcher and Doyle
and all OF them were enthusiastically re.
ceived by the greatest crowd that has
been assembled at the b-Treasur,
during the present drive.
Cities in the Second Federal Reserve
district outside OF New York have en-
tered keenly into the conception 10,
captured German cannon which are be
ing offered by the Government Loan Or
ganization as prizes for oversubscriptior
to the Victory Liberty Loan.
Leaders in Race for Cannon.
The cities OF the Second Reserve dis.
trict have been graded into classes &C.
cording to size. To the leader in eact
class will be given one OF the cannon
with a brass tablet giving details of its
capture by the American Expedltionary