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REPORT THIRD LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF BUFFALO
Department, and to Mr. McNulty, Director of Distribution, and to Canvassing Committee
directors. Progress reports of the precinct captains were examined daily by the secretary,
and he also planned the work of the office force.
Avery C. Wolfe was not only active in his work as vice-chairman of the Canvassing Committee,
but had special charge of the operation of the Moving Bank or Liberty Vanguard,
which has been previously described. This moving picture outfit, mounted on trucks, with
speakers and bond salesmen, toured the city and added a novel feature to the campaign,
bringing to outlying districts a direct street sales appeal.
The city was blocked out in sections by Messrs. F. A. G. Merrill and S. V. R. Spaulding
for the house to house canvass during the closing week. Mr. Spaulding, James Neilson, Jr.,
Woodward Sears and George Rogers were constant in their assistance of the work of the
Canvassing Committee and handled important details of the work through the campaign.
The final report of the Treasurer shows the Canvassing Committee turned in twelve thousand
two hundred thirty-nine pledges amounting to $1,368,750. The quota given the Committee
was $1,000,000.
Co-operat-
SALES ing with the
BOOTH Women's
COMMITTEE Committee
which handled
actual sales of bonds
at booths, was the men's
committee on Sales Booths
and Selling Agencies, of
which Proctor Carr was
chairman. Mr. Carr's
committee located the SALES BOOTH COMMITTEE
booths, erected and decorated
them, supplied the booths with literature and Liberty Loan supplies, making daily
collections from the women's sales force of the subscriptions and down payments and reporting
and delivering same to the Subscription Department. There were forty-eight booths
located by the committee and, in addition, thirty-nine selling agencies. The booths were
located in hotels, theaters, office buildings, department stores, railway stations and in the
public markets and public libraries. The additional selling agencies were in the smaller
retail stores. Mr. Carr associated with himself A. E. Smith as vice-chairman and twelve
active associates who reported to headquarters twice a day to requisition and deliver supplies
needed at the various booths. Another group of fifteen active workers took charge of
making the collections, which were performed in relays. The men of this group were all
employed during the day in the Buffalo banks. Their sales booth collecting was at the close
of a work day at the bank and kept them occupied until nearly midnight whenever assigned
to duty. Mr. D. J. Savage attended to all the collections from booths located in moving
picture houses. A triplicate receipt form adopted by the Committee showing the name of
each purchaser, the amount of bonds purchased and the down payment, added materially
to the accuracy of the accounting—one receipt being held by the women in charge of the
booth, one retained by the collector and the third copy delivered to the Subscription
Department with the listed cash and subscription blanks.
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