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Red Cross Dog Finds Basket Of Coin at End of Dream Billy's Snooze on Fifth Avenue Nets Fund Who "Had Fiance Until Last Week" Gives Engagement Ring Billy, who is going to enlist and be a Rod Croas war dog just as soon as his master, C. P. Christenscn, can get the necessary papers, qualified for the tervice yesterday by raising money by the basketful for the organization. Billy's stunt was to lie down quietly by his basket on the corner of Thirty ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, put his Paw ovcr the bills to hold them in place and gently go to sleep, trusting the'good public to stoop down and put their money in. The good, kind public did, but if Billy, asleep, could raise $25 in a few hours, how much could Billy, awake, have collected? An Englishwoman, who shall be r.arnclcss, appeared before Mrs.

Linzee Blagdon at Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue yesterday and banded her a pearl solitaire ring. is my engagement ring," she said. "Oh." came the answer. "Have you a fianc? in the war?" The woman's eyes filled. "I have," she replied, "until last week." William Fitt.

118 Madison Street, a chef in the Manhattan Hotel, after en? listing in the Canadian army early in the afternoon, passed the "Liberty Theatre" and offered the insurance of hi? wife, Ellen, whom he had buried Saturday. The insurance amounted to and he said that he wanted to give it to the Red Cross because he knew that his wife would "rather that her country got it than have a fine tombstone." A silence followed his of? fer, and then an outburst of applause. His offer was refused. On the East Side a scene typical of the spirit of that section took place at the free dispensary at Monroe, Jef? ferson and Cherry streets, when a line of charity patients, waiting for their treatment, gave gladly their ten cent pieces which would admit them to the clinic, in order to alleviate the suf? fering of others. They were waiting to be admitted into the consulting room, when they overheard Mrs.

L. Frank, wife of the superintendent of the dispensary, ask a visiting physician for a donation. "Here, Miss Red Cross Nurse, please take my dime" one lit? tle fellow said, and he was followed by most of the others. As they were about to file away, they were called back to be admitted without the cus? tomary fee. In the neighborhood of Public School 147 there was a slump in patronage of the "Penny Lunch." This was ex? plained after school, when a box con? taining $25,5,45 in pennies was turned in from Public School 147 to Mrs.

Sam? uel C. Lamport, in charge of the East Side Red Cross drive. "I learned from the children that they had gone with? out their lunch to give this money to the Red Cross," Mrs. Lamport said. A week of Red Cross driving is pretty hard work when one is at it every day.

Mrs. Joseph Lauer, of 507 West 184th Street, who hasn't been keeping union hours, went into the subway station at Thirty-third Street yesterday for a rest. "Watch the ticket box for a min? ute, will you?" asked the ticket taker. "The porter's at his uncle's funeral and I have to do his work." Mrs. Lauer immediately volunteered to hold the job all day.

She did a record business, making every one who passed match the nickel for Mr. Shonts with a last one for the Red Cross. A big lithograph in glaring colors faced ono woman worker on Broadway all week, until she came to know it by heart. So when Sidney Drew passed her on the street yesterday she recog? nized him at once as the man in the picture. Mr.

Drew couldn't resist her appeal when she told him that she al? ways went to see him in the movies and contributed $1. One mother confessed yesterday the reason for the work of the children in the Red Cross drive. just couldn't leave my little girl at home," she said, "so I decided to make her a little cos? tume and take her with me. Now she collects almost as much as I do and I have no trouble whatever taking care of her." A certain number of men in the Elks' Club has discovered a way of giving their cake to the Red Cross and eating it. too.

But this time the cake is a bi? white leghorn rooster. He was sent to the club bv a farmer in the northern part of the state and raffled off for $160 yesterday for the Red Cross War Fund. The purchaser is now planning a chicken dinner "with dumplings," as a celebration for the close of the drive. Five little girls headed by Anna Jef? fries, 233 West Sixty-eighth street, came in just under the line yesterday afternoon in the Red Cross war drive. They brought with them $10 in nickels, which they had taken in as admission fees to a play given in the basement of an apartment house.

A little woman in brown, walking down Broadway yesterday, decided to add a nail to the coffin which the Red Cross was preparing for the Kaiser. "She didn't look strong," said the man in charge, "but she almost knocked out the side of the coffin she hit so hard. 'I mean it, she said when she hit it. The nail? Well, no, i she missed that, but she certainly gave a good blow." Five waiters at the Hotel Vander bilt could not resist the song of a Red Cross siren who went down the street yesterday in a big motor truck, luring people to the windows with her sweet voice. Before leaving the front of the hotel the singer had extracted from the waiters the amount which each thought he would receive in tips last night.

There is one man in New York who until yesterday had not been asked to donate to the Second Red Cross War Fund and yet had been on the streets every day. "It's my clothes," he told a worker for the Red Cross, "Because I look shabby, I am seldom asked. They always go for the better dressed And then he contrib? uted the largest sum the worker had received that day. Nation Gives $144,000,000 To Red Cross from page? 1 meeting, and after bidding by William Fox and .1. P.

Morgan, was sold to Cleveland M. Dodge by Joseph P. Day for $55,000. At midnight a squad of navy boys visited the houses of Mr. Breed and Henry P.

Davison with two huge elec? tric signs, which they placed in front of their homes, while serenades were played by the Metropolitan Life band. A collection of paintings on view at the Ritz-Carlton will be sold later in the week. There were the usual rallies in City Kail Park and in front of St. Paul's Chapel and numerous other lively points throughout the city. In order that the triumph of the campaign may be known to every one in the greater city, every factory whis? tle, church bell and auto siren will screech and ring out the tidings at noon to-day and will continue for five minutes.

At the guest table at the Waldorf Astoria were William C. Breed, Henry P. Davison, Ethan Allen, Cornelius Bliss, John W. Prentiss, Seward Prosser, Supreme Court Justice Clar? ence J. Shearn, Felix Warburg, Morgan J.

O'Brien, Ivy Lee, Leon Arnstein, the Rev. Henry Coffin, Cleveland H. Dodge, Albert W. Staub, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs.

James A. Burdeh, Mrs. Will? iam K. Draper, Mrs. Davison and Miss Ruth Twombly All told there were more than 750 Red Cross workers present.

Mr. Breed, chairman of the greater New York Red Cross drive, presided at the meeting, which began immediately at the con? clusion of the dinner. Mr. Breed told the big assemblage that the campaign just ending was bound to be memorable in the history of New York, because it represented an occasion when the patriotic spirit of the people of the whole city seemed to have risen to a height which made us all proud to call ourselves New Yorkers. The chairman then said he wished to thank the entire press of New York for the way they had han? dled the Red Cross campaign.

More than two million people, he said, had contributed to the second drive, as against 43,000 in the previ? ous campaign. Davison Praise? Breed Henry P. Davison, as he rose to speak, asked every one present to drink a toast to Cornelius Bliss, jr. He then paid a tribute to Chairman Breed, who, he said, had filled his trying position so acceptably. He said he regarded Mr.

Breed's work as having been of most brilliant order. "You have demanded," said Mr. Davison. "that we go on with the fight, and we are going on. "The most insidious propaganda is being carried on by our deceit, yes, every conceivable con t-wnptible art is employed on their side.

On our side we carrying on the with implements which provide for the -welfare, the health and the moral uplift of human kind, and it expended by a hand of mercy and of justice, and so long as there is a God in Heaven we will win that fight." Proclamation Brings $55,000 Following a brief address by Seward H. Proeser, president of the bankers' Trust Company, the original Red Cross proclamation was auctioned off by Jo? seph P. Day, and was Anally knocked down for $65,000 to Mr. Dodge, at whose horn? the President had dinner when he was in New York recently. The first bid was for $600 and Inri halt minute this was run up to William K.

Fox, theatrical man. brought the great audience to its feet by bidding $50,000. The band then played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." A few seconds later Mr. Dodge's bid of $55,000 was accepted by the en? thusiastic auctioneer. Mr.

Dodge was visibly pleased at his success in obtaining the prized docu? ment. He said his grandchildren in the years to come, he felt certain, would value the proclamation at a million dollars. Nassau County Gives $447,924 to Red Cross HEMPSTEAD, N. May the results of to-day's canvass still to be heard from, Nassau County has gone far over the top in the Red Cross drive. The quota for the county was $300,000 and the returns up to Sunday night were $447,924.46.

with a strong chance of reaching $500,000. Colonel Roosevelt is chairman of the county committee, and at the opening of the drive, he made speeches in a number of the villages. The largest collection was made in Woodmere, where $84,593.07 was given. Westbury went three times over her quota. Miss Crosman Wins Red Cross Dollars by Story of 'Her Soldiers' It was a hot, tired crowd that Hen? rietta Crosman faced yesterday at the Little Theatre, in front of the Public Library, a crowd which had no idea of giving up any more money to the Red Cross and which was standing there merely because it was too listless to move on.

But two minutes after the actress had begun to speak pocket books flashed open, hands flew to di? out the money and coins and papei bills rained into the box that Miss Florence Nash passed through the crowd. For Miss Crosman is a war mother, and when she told in her simply eloquent voice of the two stars on her service flag at home that was enough for her audience. "This is the biggest theatre I have ever played in," said Miss Crossman, "and this is the biggest cause I ever worked for. A young chap was getting ready to go across the other day. 'You're going to I said to him.

'No, was his answer, 'Vm go? ing to We are going to Germany, not to tear down their churches and kill their nurses and children, but to teach them their much needed lesson of peace and the brother? hood of man. "Perhaps you wonder whether we women of the stage have any direct connection with the war. We have, ladies and gentlemen, because we have i sent our men there. My service flag has two Btars on it, and soon there will be three, for I have a son too young for the draft, and I can't hold on to his coattails much longer." A parade of the workers from the Stage Women's War Relief workroom preceded the afternoon programme at 1 the Little Theatre yesterday, led by Miss Frances Starr, who looked very 1 much like herself as Marie Odile, in the nunlike costume of the S. W.

W. i Miss Rachel Crothers, Mrs. Joseph i R. Grismcr, Mrs. Jacob Litt and Mrs.

Alma Clayburgh. Escorted by the Po? lice Glee Club and the police band, they marched from Columbus Circle to the little ivy-hung platform in front of the library for positively their last appearance until another patriotic campaign. The raffling of a squirming, squcal i ing little pig was one of the events of the afternoon. Edward Mordant, un I derstudy to Mrs. Grismer in managing i the show at the Little Theatre, held up the unhappy animal, Miss I Florence Deshon, of moving picture fane, cot a fancy price for him.

Mrs, I 'GREATEST MOTH ER IN THE WORLD" i i.i-ynglil G. V. Buck. Miss Aimee Smith, of Washington, was selected by the Red Cross as the most attractive young woman to pose for the now famous poster used in the second War Fund Drive. Mitchell Hall, promoter of the "Have a Little Pig in Your Home" movement, was alleged to have bought the pig through an agent, but she would not confirm the report.

Crowd Sees "Human Fly" Climb 29-Story Building Of all the stunts "pulled off" for the benefit of the Red Cross drive prob? ably the most spectacular was the climbing of the of the Park Row Building: at noon by Harry H. Gardiner, otherwise known as "the human fly." Gardiner, starting on his hair-raising feat at 12:40 p. slipped up the front of the building to the tip of the flagmast on the roof, while below, chok? ing Broadway from Murray to Fulton streets and Park Row, was a crowd es? timated at 50,000. On the stroke of 2 o'clock he completed his perilous vent? ure. Dressed in a white suit, with a vivid Red Cross emblem on his back, the climber was conspicuous at every fool of the ascent.

As he passed each story round after round of cheers went up from the multitude below. And while he climbed several hun? dred Red Cross girls, together with soldiers and sailors bearing everj form of receptacle, made collections for the fund. The canvassers said more than a barrelful of money was collected as a result of Gardiner's feat The Park Row Building is twenty nine stories high, with a sixty-foo' flagpole atop. Starting from thi ground floor, Gardiner scaled smooth wall by the aid of a sign, reach ing the corner block of the secon? floor. Thereafter Gardiner went non chalantly up the rest of the front, now and then waving to the throng be? low and sending a thrill over the watchers with some antic of his feet or hands.

As soon as he reached the street Gardiner was escorted to the Red Cross stand, south of the Postoffice, where he auctioned off his coat for $25, his trousers for $25, his hat for $15 and his shoes for $10. He then addressed the huge assemblage in be? half of the mercy fund. Marshal McCarthy At Auction Smashes Kaiser's Gold Cap More than 6.000 persons who had crowded into the Metropolitan Opera House last night for the Red Cross concert conducted by the Allied The? atrical and Motion Picture Team jumped to their feet when United States Marshal Thomas McCarthy doubled his first and struck from its pedestal a shiny, glittering gold cup, offered as a prize in 1905 by the Kaiser. As the thing fell to the floor of the stage with a crash, one arm of the figure of a woman which adorned the cup was broken off and rolled to the footlights. The incident came at the end of more than half an hour of enthusiastic auctioning.

"How many will?" asked the big marshal. In an instant every person in the huge auditorium was on his or her feet. But the suggestion of the woman was not followed out. The marshal de? clared the cup would do more good on the auction block, and then, in acknowl (Un. for loso rio safety at sea are strongly comunniended to the notice of those about to emibark for war service in Europe, inasmuch as the "Oneve" Waistcoat is conceded to be the most practical and effective saving device yet invented, amid is mow in general use among army and navy men? It is made on the same lines as an ordinary waistcoat, its simple but ingenious mechanism is readily available for immediate use.

B. Afltman Co? are the authorized distributors of the "Qieve" Waistcoats in the United States. (Men's Wear Department, First Floor) Jftfti? Atmu? 34tlj anb edgment of the spirit of the audience, he knocked it to the floor. Before the marshal took un the role of auctioneer Jamos W. Gerard auc? tioned a gold master plate of General Pcrshing's voice.

It was purchased by George M. Cohan for o.i condi? tion that one record might be made from it and that it would then be pre? sente-I to President Wilson for pres? ervation. The original Red Cross poster, drawn by Harrison Fisher, was sold to Sam Harris for $1,500, and programmes nnd souvenirs were sold for lesser sums. The committee in charge of the af? fair estimated that when the final re? turns were in more than $100,000 would have been added to the Red Cross total. Among those who contributed their services were Enrico Caruso, Adamo Didur, Andreas de Pasquale Amato.

Anna Fitziu. Sophie Braslau, Antonio Scotti, Fiances Alda and sev? eral others. Brooklyn Exceeds Red Cross Quota By Over $300,000 Brooklyn has gone far beyond its quota of $2.000,000 in the Red Cross drive, according to figures issued late last night by Darwin R. James, chair? man of the Brooklyn Red Cross Com? mittee. Tho total so far is $2,364, 260.75.

Late subscriptions will swell this substantially. Late last night, in the Imperial res? taurant, heads of the various campaign committees gathered and announced the total of the subscriptions they had gathered. Captain W. E. Taylor, of the industrial division, reported the highest, total.

and his associates collected $1,200,000, moro than $500,000 of which was subscribed yesterday. The. corporations division came next with $437,677.81. The women's divi? sion reported $151.424.01, and the the ntrical division, $77,585.20. "We're going over, said Chairman last night, "and much of the credit due the men and women who work in the factories, stores, drydock yards and industrial plants of Brook? lyn.

"Brooklyn should not have been asked to raise more than $1,300,000. The quota should have been based up? on the borough's financial resources rather than its population. It wasn't fair, because a lnrge number of busi? ness men who live in Brooklyn make their contributions in Manhattan." Members of the Brooklyn executive committee said several wealthy resi? dents of Brooklyn had refused to con? tribute in the borough because they had made large donations in Manhat? tan. At noon the executive commit? tee apparently faced failure. Chair? man James marshaled an army of workers and sent them into the field.

Flower girls, canteen collectors, collie dogs with saddle bags, soldiers and sailors were used in the last lap of the drive. Newark Exceeds Red Cross Quota by Half a Million The people of Newark have oversub? scribed their Red Cross quota by al? most half a million dollars. Before final returns are tabulated the con For the Red Cross Total for New York City 533,434,730 Totnl for country out? side of New 110,018,891 Grand total. $143,453,621 New York's contribution by bor? oughs: Richmond $225,237 Bronx 325,000 Queens 373,360 Brooklvn 2,364,200 Manhattan 30,146,933 mitteo expects the quota of $750,000 will be more than doubled. The local committee announced yes? terday afternoon that had been contributed.

Industrial pledges $200,000 were reported late in the dny. The firemen of the city brought their campaign to a close with a "funeral" procession. Headed by their bun 1, which played a funeral march, 100 members of the department, paraded i the streets carrying a casket contain? ing an effigy of the "Beast of Berlin." While the cortege was moving toward the canal, where the "kaiser" was buried with enough stones to keep him I on the bottom, the firemen collected 81.101 in small coins. I On Last Day of Drive; Total Is $144,000,000 WASHINGTON, May Ameri can people answered Germany's re newal of the offensive on the Western front to-day with an outpouring of i more than thirty-two million mercy dol? lars, swelling the American Red Cross recoud war fund to 5144,000.000. Re ports still were coming in from some I districts at midnight, and the final total 1 of the drive will not be known until I to-morrow.

The oversubscription was much larger than to the first $100,000,000 fund, and was believed by officials to have reflected the determination of the people that the Red Cross work, not alone among the Americans troops but among the civilians of France, should be extended. Every Red Cross division except the central and every state in the Union except Illinois went over its quota. The central division lacked $300,000 of reaching its $13,800,000. Oversub? scriptions in Iowa, Nebraska, Wiscon? sin and Michigan could not offset the $2,800,000 by which Illinois failed to achieve its $8,000,000 goal. Subscriptions by states and divisions as announced at headquarters here late to-night follow: Atlantic Division, including greater New York York State, $8,943, 462 greater New York, $27,000,000 Con? necticut, $3,311,604: New Jersey, $5,496,030.

New England ($8,003,000 Massachusetts, $6,026,000: Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, New $278.000. Central ($13,500,000) Iowa, Nebraska, Wis? consin. $2.000,000 Michigan, $3,500.000. Gulf Louisiana, Mississippi, $593,266. Lake ($11,903,755) indiana, Suits (With Long Trousers) The Usual $30 to $35 Grades These suits came from one of the best makers in the country.

They are useful for all outing and vacation for general summer wear as well. Suits like these are not being made today, because clothing manu? facturers have had to discontinue the pleated back coats. That's why the man who likes a Xorfolk suit? a suit that is easy to find this an oppor? tunity that may not come again in many moons. The fabrics are fine rough tweed effects, and you can choose from eight different colors in sizes 34 to 42. Suits of this quality could not be sold under regular conditions for less than $30.

The opportunity is yours to profit by. Broadway Corner Store, at Eighth Street Ohio, Kentucky, $1,222,664. Mountain $199, 014: Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Northern Minnesota. North Dakota, $500, 000; South Dakota, $340,000. Northwestern $1,848,950: Oregon, Idaho, $364, Alaska, $51,138.

Pacifie "4.497,. 707 Nevada, $88,524 Arizona, $49.527. Pennsylvania Delaware. $2.000,000. it Shoulder to shoulder we fight Life's battles.

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