New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
Exact Amount of Over
subscription Will N o t
Be known Until May 20;
Excess Here Piling Up
Women Far BeyondQ Quota
East Siders Hold Meeting
to Mark Victory of Drive;
Workers Are Praised

Relaxation yesterday followed three
weeks of intensive campaigning in
the Victory Liberty Loan, and the
hanks of the New York Federal Re-
serve Distict made no effort to hurry
their final reports of subscriptions to
the government loan organization at
120 Broadway. Struggling reports
aggregating s47.654,95O, however,
reached headquarters during the day,
bringing the total thus far tabulated
,p to $3.50, ,520,450, or s52O,45O in ex-
Mss of the quota.
Official announcement of the precise
Nount of the great volume of last
,.ay subscriptions which carried the
district far beyond is quota will not
Re made until May 20, and the policy
X the Liberty Loan Committee will
se to abstain from making public ad
iitional incomplete totals until the
ssal figure is ready.
4 general feeling of satisfaction
,ervaded the city yesterday over the
striking success of the loan all over
Me country. On the East Side
popular celebration took place at
liberty Park, in Delaney Street. in
'e afternoon. Returned soldiers Of
Inc nth and 9th divisions and the
l65th Regiment, many of whom served
IN the drive as speakers and note
statesmen, participated in the demon
stration.
Praises United Sta>es
Joseph S. Marcus, chairman of the
East Side Liberty Loan Committee.
in delivering the principal address,
said: "We have gone over the top
we who were too old or had family re-
sponslblties that prevented US from
going over there with you boys of the
A. E. F. We have gone Ger in more
vmodest way than you did.
You went over in the cold dawn
with a rolling barrage in front of you,
with shells bursting and comrades
falling. You went over knowing not
whether you would by nightfall be en-
joying brief rest in the enemy's for
mer lines or in Gods eternal keeping
You did we'll and you have come back
to us head and shoulders erect, soldiers
every inch, and sailors, some of you
who wear blue, proud and with a right
to be proud of your work for your
country
Eve, with your assistance. have pur-
chased s25,00O,0 in Victory Loan
bonds in the section which NAV be
described briefly as lying south of
Canal Street and east of the Bowery.
1t makes me proud to be an East Slider
to stand here and make that announce
ment."
Women Make Fine Record
OF the various records made by
solicitors in the Victory Loan that Of
which Mrs. William A. Campbell is
chairman, is regarded as the most
notable at headquarters. The commit
tee, with quota Of s450,0OO, raised
more than s13,000,O00.
1T has been privilege to be chair
man OF such committee" Mrs. Camp
bell declared yesterday, ''and to know
that several thousand women. with
their various interests and activities,
could get together on short notice and
give Of themselves whole heartedly and
unreservedly for united purpose"
The Noman's Club Committee led
"'i 0eAl~l organizations IN the per-
.ssentage Of quota subscribed. The
Three Arts Club received s3,2O3,75o Of
subscriptions; the Council of Jewish
Women, New York City Branch, ST.
100000; the Ethical Culture Society,
1897 $50; the Colony Club, $500 900;
the National League for Woman's Ser
wee, Manhattan Branch, sS00,0o0, and
Brooklyn Branch, s653,150, and the
Post Parliament, s73o,300
John Wanamaker yesterday an
nounced the firm and the employees in
the New York and Philadelphia stores
subscribed s11,915,000 to the Victory
Liberty Loan, bringing their aggregate
subscriptions in the FIVE war loans up
TO s39,289,150
Individual Subscriptions
=. Late individual subscriptions filed
saturday. which were announced yes
terday, included the following:
}. P. Morgan g. Co. (additionaD.
s2.oOo.0o0; Middleton S. Burrill, ST.,
ooo,o00; Greenwich Savings Bank (ad-
ditionaD, 100000; William K. Wander
DIT, 100000; Adolfo Stahl, s250,OoO;