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Show OPtN NEWYOBK IR FUND DRIVE Over Eight Million Dollars in Pledges and Gifts Reported. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. --Nearly 1H6Q Salvation Army lufsleu, kneeling; today on the steps of 1 he public library in a , prayer of thrnkspivinu lor victory in tho. world wnr, opened Gren tor Nc w York's drive for its quota of $17o.rOti,000 to bo ral.Hcd in the United War Work campaign this week- Hfc.rc night more than SS.DOO.noO in gilts and pledges had been reported. - As th- .'-iilv.-ii ioi. Army worker?, mahjf; if them mi ovcrii'.aK uniforms, rose from their devotions, which were led l y Cnm-maiidnr Cnm-maiidnr Booth, Hie big crowd which had turned out to celebrate victory cheered the orkeru an 1 showered t hotti with contHbutlona. Among subBcrlptlons today was each from fnc American Car V Foundry comp&r.y, United States Rubber company com-pany and r lb Coppr company; Jjoo.ouft each I rum (,hino Copper crnnp:i ny andT the Am roo n I OCOTOOl i v compa ny. Individual subscript lorwj Included i Charlf s Havden. Mi s. V(H:td Straight. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Schlff. $100,000 J each; Mr.a. William ' loaborn, Mr, and Mra, George W. Perkins jmd Mrs. WiJ-i WiJ-i 11 am 1). Kioanc, 160,000 each. |