. -I" EVENING LEmERPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917 . . WOMEN PAINTERS AID IN FINAL LOAN DRIVE SPENCER LEES,U.S.N.R.F. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED 20,01)0 WOMEN MARCH IN ANTI-PICKET PARADE Score of Bands Make Music at Gotham's Greatest Suffrage Demonstration TWENTY-FIVE ARE HURT IN MARYLAND COLfrSWJT -3 Philadclphian, Prominent in Tiogn Baptist Church, Shot at Cape May Trolley Motorman's Prcsenei IN FINAL DRIVE Mind Saves Many PassengfM,? ' "' ' "WBi'SITV"" " ""WW"- -- ' " " 'Vf1t!33 M -wi. 1 M mmmmum -m M Ch 5 II v- - Sp ""v-l or? fj m I 11 Nation Goes "Over the Top" to Get Five iJiilion ior Hun's Humiliation DOLLARS ARET POURING IN Golden Flood to Swamp Kaiser Will Reach High Tide at Mid-night--Buy a Bond! . WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Treasury Department officials an nounced at 1 o'clock this afternoon that the indications were subscriptions to (he second Liberty Loan would pass the $5,000,000 goal ' a Rod margin. The department is getting numerous reports from all over the country show ing tremendous last-minute enthusiasm over the loan, and unprecedented sub scriptions arc reported in the East and Middle West sections. i WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. 0er tho top with Ave billion to crush the Kaiser " This was the rallying ciy that rang throughout the land today ns the army of Liberty Loan campaigner besan their final day's drive to achieve the maximum goal. On the basis of reports early today. Treas ury officials were optimistic that the high mark would be attained nnd. possibly, passed by a Rood margin before midnight tonight At that hour the closing ot the subscription books will end the most re markable money campaign in American history From President Wilson down, offi cials were In accord that the record of this drive, when tabulated, will bo another un answerable argument against the enemies of liberty Treasury officials at the beginning of the day saw Indications In reports from vir tually ever Federal Itcserve district that the total subscriptions had reached approxi mately J4.000.000.000. They added to their night estimate $3.635.000.000 conservative figures borne out by private advices of sub scriptions now in transit to the banks, but not Included In the district returns. Hourly returns this morning Indicated . that the nation Is pouring out Its wealth In unstinted measure for Liberty Honds The drle In the New York, Boston and Cleveland districts was going ahead at a most remarkable pace. I'arly reports showed that all districts had safely passed their minimum quotas. Several districts were pushing close to their maximums, with Indications that their highest marks would bo exceeded before tho linat curtain falls. Realizing that today's returns to reach the des'red figures must overtop Liberty Day's smashing record, set up for a single day virtually eery bank In tho United States will hold open Its dorrs until mid night or ns long as bond buyers are In sight Liberty Hond committees In every community will work unceasingly up to the lifst minute to accommodate late buyers. In many localities tho campaign will be brought to- Its climax with street rallies, mass-meetings and other patriotic demon strations Reports from all sections showed that not less than 3,000.000 Liberty Bond ralesmen, Including prominent business and professional men, were putting In their hardest blows and making stirring appeals to the people. TORCH OF LIBERTY DIMS GOTHAM'S BRIGHT LIGHTS i NEW YORK. Oct. 27. The "Great White Way" will bo turned Into the "Liberty Loan Lane" tonight. New York was on the Job bright and early today, determined to obtain $225,000, 000 In Liberty Loan subscriptions, the amount needed to reach the New York dis trict's maximum quota of $1,500,000,000. The whirlwind campaign officially closes at the noon hour, but the New York com mittee, aided by Its banking Institutions, proposes to continue the work of obtaining subscriptions 'until midnight tonight. Proud ot yesterday's total subscriptions ot $200,000,000, the New York district now stands at the head of the "honor" column It has subscribed 86 per cen of Its maxi mum quota. Many of the larger business firms of the city have moved up the hour of pay today to permit their employes to make Liberty Loan Investments. One of the many novelties Introduced to day was that of "truck selling." Large motortrucks were loaded with Liberty Bonds. From the Battery to Harlem, the trucks moved slowly along Broadway, sell ing $50 and $100 bonds for the greater part as they proceeded along the curbs. Five thousand members of the Young Men's Democratic League will parade In the Interests of the loan tonight. Governor Strong, of the Federal Ileserve district, will be the speaker during the rally following the parade. EXPLOSION OF 80 BOMBS LIBERTY SALUTE IN OHIO CLBVELAND, Oct. 27. Eighty bombs, fired from the top of a local skyscraper at 9 o'clock tonight, will signal that Cleveland his reached its maxi mum of $80,000,000 for the second Liberty Loan and that the Fourth Federal Reserve District has oversubscribed Its quota. Liberty Bond salesmen were confident of this today, although they didn't slacken their efforts to. pile up an enormous over subscription. The $400,000,000 goal for the district, salesmen assured, was within trlklng distance, nighty-two of the 169 counties In the district already have passed their quotas. BUFFALO, N. T., Oct. 27. The biggest drive ever undertaken In this city Is on today to secure the $12,000,000 needed to reach Buffalo's goal of J55..000, 000 in the Liberty Loan. Sixty thousand school children are making house to house canvasses. The committees are confident Buffalo will go over the top before night. "GARRISON FINISH" IS CHICAGO'S LOAN PLAN CHICAGO, Oct. 27. Chicago and Its Federal district swept Into the stretch In the Liberty Loan handicap l?i ' ,prePared t0 make a "Garrison There was every possibility that the city would pass Its maximum quota) of $180. "0,000 at midnight. Chances for the dls jnct'to duplicate this feat admittedly were ' optimistic i (.(.n,ca"'0 officially lacked more than $44, ooo.OOO to attain Its tnallmum quota. Un Vi '"' however, tho city had passed tho 110,000,000 mark and was headed for "00,000.000. The Continental and Com mercial Bank boosted Its total subscriptions "MlS.000,000 with an additional $2,500,000 t night. In tllA rilatrlft nfflflal Sviimb whlnl, nd' 55dly were far behind the actual count. jzss.eeo.eoe of the $790,099,099 qwrta pKvww fft meutlraj ' ; 1 x :fer i$MMm . -' -" - Five women, all of whom nro nrt students who lmvo relatives in the service, today painted picture appeals for the Liberty Loan in front of the loan committee headquarters in tho Lincoln Building. The upper picture shows Mrs. Jane Allen Royer, of Riverton, N. J., who has a brother-in-law in tho service. Below is Mrs. Kntherine Dunn Pngon, of Baltimore, whose husband is in the engineer corps and brother in the flying corps. committee early today announced the sub scriptions apportioned as follows: Illinois, outside of Chicago, $12,000,000. Indlnna, $.10,000,000. Iowa, $03,000,000. Michigan, $95,000,000. Wisconsin, $58,000,000. Even with $106,000,000 unofllcially added to the district's announced total only tho most optimistic taw tho maximum quota attained. BIG DRIVES IN OTHER U. S. RESERVE DISTRICTS BOSTON, Oct 27 ThiKO mllltaiy parades were features of Boston's cffoits to put the Liberty Loan maximum of $112,000,000 over the top to day. If this can bo done It Is expected the rest of New Kngland will leach the maxi mum so that New Kngland will report that It has subscribed tho $500,000,000 maxi mum. ST LOl'IS, Oct 27 With but $55,G15,000 to collect, the Eighth Federal Reserve District today start ed on a whirlwind finish In the becond Lib erty Loan cimpalgn confident It would reach or exceed tho $200,000,000 maximum target. At the close of business last night the dis trict had subscribed approximately $144, 385,000, about $21,000,000 In excess of the minimum quota. SAN FIIANCISCO, Oct 27. With San Francisco's olllclal subscrip tions at $65,000,000 nnd tho unofficial tabu latlon nearer $70,000,000, a final big push Is being made today to exceed the city's maximum quota of $85,000,000. Tho mini mum, $51,000,000, was passed yesterday afternoon. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 27. From tabulations compiled today, a total Liberty Loan subscription amounting to $115,112,610 Is shown for the Tenth Fed eral rteservo district. Late reports aro missing from 129 counties, nnd no reports have been received at all from nineteen of the 382 counties In the district. DENVER, Colo.. Oct 27. With large staffs of extra clerks working at top speed, Denver banks planned to re main ouen until late tonight to handle the great flow of democratic dollars expected to pour In fir purchase of Liberty"" Bonds. Over $12,000,000 has already been reported and It Is expected the local allotment of $16,000,000 will be oversubscribed. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 27. Spurred oh by the city's remarkable showing, Michigan today began the final drive to reach Its quota of $124,000,000 In the Llbe.-ty Loan campaign. It was an nounced this morning that $93,931,510 had been subscribed, of which amount approxi mately $54,000,000, or $12,000,000 more than Its minimum figure, had been raised In Detroit, Philadelphia on Final Loan Spurt Continued from Tnie One nubile schools has reached $6,145,700. Of this amount $4,921,200 was subscribed through elementary schools, $1,224,000 through the high schools and $500 through other departments. This total exceeds the auota of $1000 per teacher. The 20,000 men at Camp Dlx, Wrights town, have taken. $1,350,000 -of the loan. Many of the men have pledged half their monthly pay. The 310th Regiment Is lead lne the others, with a total of $176,400 Bub scribed by 1903 of their 2300 men. Com pany B, of this regiment, leads all others VA Bample of how some of the big busi ness enterprises aro contributing la shown bv the following! Itemlngton Amis Company employes to date, ilw.vw. . Aerl-lfcowpany employ 126,00b. . Commercial Trust Company. $0,500,000 I'nlted States Mct.ililo i-ncklng Company, 540.000. American Bridge Company, $200,000. American Bridge Company omplojes. $132,000. E. (i. Budd Manufacturing ( otnp.iny, $80,000. Employes of same company, $38.C00. Hoopes, Tovv iiscml Company employes, $34.700. Employes of tho Link Bolt Company, $58,000. Pnttstovvn Iron Company, $70 000. Craft & Sons. $173,100. Commercial Exchange. $50,000, Robert Mmrls Trust fmipany, to date, $200,000. Two directors of the Wllll.im II. Nixon Taper Companv, $1,000,000. Philadelphia Paper Company, $6S.ono. Breweries of Philadelphia and employes, $.100,000. The Philadelphia Paper Company, In ad dition to tho $3.10, nno nlieady reported, subscribed $08,000 additional. The Rltter Manufacturing Company, through the Coin Exchange National Bank, subscribed $26,000. The emp'oyes of the J-'rankford Arsenal, so far. have subscribed $228,000. Their total last night was $175,000. Cramp Shipbuilding Company employes, more than $'.'50,000. Frelhofcr Baking Company employes $31,550. J. B .Stetbon Company an additional $300,000. David Lupton's Sons Company employes, $J6.000. N. AY. Ayer & Co. employes, through George W. Edwards & Co., $100,000. Harper & Turner, total subscriptions to date, $227,000. O Irani National Bank to date, $16, 000.000. National Security Bank to date, $700,000. Parrlsh & Co, $73,000. OVERBROOK SEMINARIANS BUY The' Right Rev. Consignor II. F. Drum goole. rector of St. Chirles's Seminary. Over brook, announces that friends and students of the Institution have subscribed $17,750. The General Electric Company has sub scribed $162,700, through group 9 of the Industrial. and commercial committee Burlington County, N. J., with an allot ment ot $2,000,000, has piled up a total to date of $2,110,000. Tho Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Com- The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society until further notice will continue to receive applications for Liberty Loan 4 Bonds Apply at the Office of Society, 700 Walnut Sf.''X! p.inv I'u teased Us sulisirlptlim tod.i to $500 000 Mnet per cent of their cinplii.W'S have bought bonds II. C Aberle A: i ' firm field cin plo.ves HiiliM'ilbed for $8ono Tho Victor Talking Machine fmnin has Mibi-crihFil a total of J I mm. ooo i thf second Liberty Lj.mi and $.'50,000 additional for Its eifiplo.ves Group 2. or industrial and Ciniimeivl.il Committee, leports an additional t-ubsrrlp-tlon of $300,noo for the .lnliii II. Strt-on Company and their employes, mailing a. total subscription of $500,000. Sixteen hundred nnd slxty-ulne cmplovts or the tninp.iny subscribed to the lit Ht loan, and more than 2000 have subscribed to the second loin Merchant & Evans have subscrliirn m nil additional $5n.onn. Tho Philadelphia National Bank icports subscilptlons to date for self and clients of $25,000,000. NAVY IlECUriTERS Sl'BSCIlIBE Officers and enlisted men of the Nav.v Recruiting Station, 151.1 An-h rtieel. of which Commander .1 II Held Is i en lilting olllcer, subscribed $9450 Tho Philadelphia oUlce of A. B Leach & Co. subscribed $100.1)00, bringing the firm's subscription up to $l,non,noo l'p In the Scranton district, where a vlg oious campaign has been nmdm-ted, the subscriptions i etched $13,15n.mm The dis trict's allotment wns $12.(100.0011 The city of Scranton rtpoits subscriptions amount ing to $10,108,000. "FLYING SQt'ADRON" TO WORK As a last-minute effort to raise sub scriptions for the second Issue of Liberty Bonds the members of the executive com mittee of the Liberty Loan will form them selves Into 1 "flying squadion" nnd make a tout of the city In ten automobiles In un effoit to get last minute subscrlbciH There will be also 11 demonstration In front of tho Llbei ty Lon)i headquarters Lincoln Building, to Interest after-theatre crowds 'Die cmploeH of the American Express Company have taken $30,000 Libeity Bonds. Of the ..!." persons connected with the company In this city, 511 have t-ulisci Ibetl to the loan. The company also announced subscriptions In the Philadelphia district of $30,000. Subscriptions have nlso been placed In all tho twelve Federal icserve districts for the company. The West Philadelphia High School for Girls reports subscriptions of $135,150 up to date. BOY SCOCT TOTALS The Boy Scout total In the Philadelphia dl-tllct Is $1,578,600 to date Troup 162, of Overbrook. at the beginning of the cam paign started out to ral-c $10,000 a day for twenty-six days. Karly today their to tal amount of subscriptions was $263,600. The leading scout of the troop Is Geoige Clothier, who has $169,600 worth of sub scriptions. 1 The Philadelphia scouts received the fol lowing telegram from James E. West, scout executive of the I'nlted States Please make sure scouts understand we are to continue our efforts up tT last minute. Saturday night prospects good, but live billion not yet certain Subscrip tions reported tonight over thlrty-.s r mil lion. Retums Incomplete In some dis tricts. Certain to reach fifty millions and possibly hundred million Pleato report Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Thanks for vour splendid co-operation llo Scout's of America again prove thut organized bn.vg-iod through scouting Is a distinct national asset. Assistant Secieinry of the Treasury Crosbv. In a telegram to Governor Charles J. Rlioads, of Jhe Federal Reserve Bank here, lecelved today, Instructed that while no second Liberty Loan subscriptions should be received by Incorporated banks or trust companies after the close of business today the tlriie of closing can be left to the Indi vidual discretion of the llnanclil Institutions themselves. Stato :aws ns to banking hours, Mr. Crosby said, will not be applicable In this Instance. the Treasurer of the Street, Philadelphia. Spencer M. Lees, of 3501 North Twenty, second street, n member of the naval re pcrve force of Wlranlilekon. Barracks. ni accidentally shut and Instantly killed last night nt Cape Mny. wheio he has been stn tloncd for n month The drtnlts of the ue clilent arc not liimun. The body win lie brought hero today. TJic young man. wlm wan tveutv-sl years old, enlisted In the naval reserve th day war was declared, but ns not ralleil Into active service until .'t Timber 25. Both of his parents are dead and be wns making his homo wftli his grandmother, Mrs. Mar garet Thomas. At the lime lie enlisted he was n sales man for Tunncll Co. glue nnd fertlllrei. uiamifarttirris. lie wns a member and mi active worker In the Tioga Baptist Churcti. where he wns recently elected nni of th . trustees, the juiingest person to servo on tb's body In the lilstoiy of the church BIMMMl! COLD WAVE DUE NEXT WEEK, SAYS BUREAU Weather Sharps Predict Low Temper- nturcs, With Snow on Great Lakes WASHINGTON. Oct. 27 , cold vvnvn ulll sweep the country nct week, the Weather Iliueau fotec:ist. todaj. Snow In the Great l.nkcs region. Plains States upper Mississippi val'ey and Rocky Maun, tain plateau legion vtaa predicted. Generally fnlr weather will prevail on the Atlantic senbonid until Wc-lnesdav, but lower temperatures will mine during the Inst half of the week. The cold will re 111 Monday around the Great Lakes, with Hiinw about Wednesday and again nt th. weeU-eml Found Guilty til" Sending K.plosivea YdltK, p., net 27. -Cnhln Delllnger was found gulltv b n Jury on the charge of sending explosives In a cigar nj ln the home of Wade McClune. a Democratic politician, causing the InJurv of s-evvral peisnus A nvilliiii fm i,cw ral wnl( made nnd sentence wns deferred ? WHY Two thousand looms in Philadelphia producing sadly needed material for fifty thousand uniforms weekly for "Our Boys" have been idle for over three weeks. borne of the struck mills arc manufacturing material for the Government only and paying the rate asked, but are not permitted to work by Strikers. One mill employing Eight Hundred contented besieged for a week in a fruitless endeavor to force The striking Weavers, to bolster Up a justification ior cessation of work through the I. W. W. strike leaders, have tried to create the utterly false impression that the weekly wage for the average weaver was less than Fifteen Dollars a week. The truth regarding Wage Scafe, sworn to before a Notary Public: Average weekly wage for ten weavers for a period of four weeks just preceding the strike in thirty of the representative milta in Philadelphia: MillNo. I $18.26 Mill No. II $23.57 MillNo. 2 $:.I0 Mill No. 12 $22.63 MillNo. 3 $23.76 Mill No. I 3 $21.20 MillNo. A $20.95 Mill No. M $22.00 MillNo. 5 $22.79 Mill No. I 5 $20.98 MillNo. 6 $19.37 MillNo. 16 $20.89 MillNo. 7 $22.44 MillNo. 17 $21.09 MillNo. 8 $17.47 MillNo. 18 $20.07 MillNo. 9 $21.80 MillNo. 19 $21.65 Mill No. 1 0$ 1 8.04 Mill No. 20 $24. 1 3 Sworn beforrmme nt Philadelphia, in tho State of Pennsylvania, 1-hin day of October iili, 1917. iScal) (Signed) JOHN HODGERS. My Commission Expires Jan. 10, I'JVJ. An increase of 10 per cent over the fisurco quoted was given the Weavers voluntarily before they struck. Add this 10 per cent and the result is the wae they would receive under new schedule. A large percentage of the Weavers are girls. What other occupation so easy to learn offers such inducements? The manufacturers are anxious and willing to assist tho Government during this crisis. Where is the much-vaunted and oft-expressed Patriotism of the workers? What spirit actuates the strikers in intimidating those at work und refusing to permit mills acceding to every demand, to resume? Extract from Kirby's letter . "Jack, it breaks my heart to see in the papers that you und your comrades are now wasting time to scntp about wages, hours and such child-play. I didn't blame you before the war. I was then a labor union man myself. I will not blame vou for doing so after the war. If I livo we'll then be union men together. But for God's sake, Jack, forget such things now. Remember that we follows nro suffering, starving and dying over here, largely for want of more ships. "Why, Jack, if I could only change places with you, I would work all day and nil night, and bo happy to live on bread and water. Jack, tho very worst conditions which you ever saw are Heaven to what us bovs over here nre going through. What's money or hours or anything else compared with getting ships built to save us from Hell? I say, Jack, for God's fake do more for us! "I henr you don't believe in war, Jack. Well, I guess none of us fellows like war much Dottcr than you do. But let me tell you that the only way to make this the last war is to give us your very best now. Please, please help us. And say, Jack, please post this letter where the other boys will see it. Can't write any more. I'm too weak. Reader, today this wer it? we answer Arc ships more Subitantial proof furnUhcd weaverf reiumin;. John Bromley & Sons Brighton Worsted Co. Windsor Mfg. Co. Saxonia Dress Goods Milts Prudential Worsted Co. Cambridge Worsted Mills Louis Walther Mfg. Co., Inc. The Ardross Worsted Co, Shelbourne Mills Girard Worsted Co. NHW YORK, Oct. 27. ' lorc than 20.000 women formed In line nt Washington Square today nnd marched up Fifth avenue In the grentcst woman suffiage demonstration ever witnessed here. Fully n score of bands were In line. Tin cats from the National Woman's party to .singe n separate parade here, carrjlng banners used by White House trinket, were received at hcndtiunrtcrs of the Stato roininlllet today. The police were Immediately notified by Mrs. William llnje. parade chairman. An order was Issued to ariest nn woman who attempted to illsplnj such banners. The pnrailers. however, were allowed In iarry lliclr nnti-pickct banners and more limn 100 of them were In line, J.-OLDWELL8f. Interesting Examples of CHINESE ART Antique and Modern Vases Cartfings Lumps Ginger Jars WHY ? Why Why (Signed) The applies to us at it applied to 'tho English essential than Clothing? Our that something more sinister than MILLS Benjamin W. Greer F. A. Bochmann & Co., ftic. Thomas H. Wilson, Inc. Myer Jolesch Co. Childs & Towntend Joseph Greer Lincoln Worsted Wm. Wood & Co. Shackamaxon Mills Andrew' Mill Co. num oenous injuries " BALTIMOItE, Md.. Oct if. ? . Twenty-five passengers. Including; s ' ployes of the Qovernment Printing Otpik ' nnd the Navy Yard at Washlngtp, wr Injured thin morning when an express cVala on the Wn-'lngton, Baltlmire nnd Anni oils electric railway crashed Into a local Lloyd's Station, about four miles rnuthnf, the Naval Academy Junction, ' Motorman Miller, who was riding as ' passenger, wns sitting In a front sent vrhi the express rounded n curve near LIoysYl V- Stntl'on, and seeing the local standi ahead, turned and yelled to the passenitMSiy to rush for the rear of the car. t'very did as he urged nnd as a consequence noft wns serlouslv Inlured, although a numbf wer nnlnfully cut by ttylng glass WHY? hands was practically them to quit. MillNo. 21 Mill No. 22 Mill No. 23 Mill No. 24 Mill No. 25 Mifl No. 26 MillNo. 27 Mil! No. 28 Mill No. 29 Mill No. 30- -$22.51 -$21.42 -$24.90 -$19.38 -$21.45 -$18.70 -$23.18 -$21.74 -$21.64 -$23.62 HENRY MORGAN, Sec'y. Cloth Hfrs'. Ass'n of Phila. workers a year ag o. How shall Boys MUST be clad! question of wages prevents Osfk Worsted Mill " Franklin Worsted Co. Wright Textile Co. Folwetl Bro. & Co., Inc. Germania Worsted Mills The Oxford Plush Mills Fern Rock Wooln Mills Sydney Worsted Mills Salford Mills W&-S&7m Alf J?u ft 'jA1VU, S ,' i ! C Wf - Wn SOl ifi WIWgBk ,v -Ar ty v- .Slj; -v , V Av - Susgtli'.
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