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Show ADVERTISING FUND STEADILURBfl Commercial Club Workers Are Gratified Over the Responses Re-sponses Coming In. An outhusiastic meoting of tho workers work-ers in tho Commercial club publicity bureau campaign for a joint advertising advertis-ing fund was held in" the club last night. Reports from tho solicitors in tho Held wore encouraging, the greatest difficulty diffi-culty being tho opportunity to seo the business meu or' tho city to got subscriptions. subscrip-tions. Tho solicitors aro all men with business affairs of their own, nnd can only devote a portion of thoir timo to securing subscriptions. In this way it frequontJy happens that they have considerable con-siderable difficulty iu meeting tho men for whom they are looking. The fact that almost ovory business man who has pledged a monthly contribution con-tribution to the fuud has given more than ho was scheduled for "on tho bureau bu-reau 's original estimates loads the directors di-rectors of tho campaign to believe that ultimately a largo fund will be raised. At tho present rato of subscriptions the fund will go well over tho low mark set by the committee, which is $10;000. in "addressing tho workers last night, Chairman Charles Tyng of the bureau said there were now more thau SOI) cards out in tho hands of tbn volunteer solicitors, and that pledges were being reported daily that exceeded tho estimates esti-mates of the committoo. Others who made enthusiastic addresses ad-dresses in favor of the campaign were Georgo Mueller, president of tho Royal Baking company nnd a liberal supporter of the campaign, and W. C. Stark, sec-rctary-clect of tbc Commercial club. |