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Show RED CROSS SUM ! ISjWELLING WASHINGTON. May 24. Red Cross subscriptions today took the second war fund $22,000,000 closer to its goal tabulated at national headquarters to night was $86,689,000. Reports told how a wave of indignation, indig-nation, sweeping across the nation with the news of latest hospital bomb- ing exploits of the Germans in France (had played a great part in making the day the most successful of the campaign cam-paign and officials count even more confidently now upon an immense over-subscription to the fund. Greater New York, with $23,392,723 pledged, came close to its quota of i $25,000,000. Western cities reported totals far in excess of their quotas, and in the northwest St. Paul had raised $660,000 against a quota uf . $440,000. Spokane gave $200,000, its quota being $9",00(V Portland, Ore.. ! exceeded its $250,000 mark by $80.-000, $80.-000, and Tacoma. with a quota of (110,000 had raised $125,000. Kansas City had $881,000 on a quota of $800,-000. $800,-000. The Rockefeller Foundation was the larcst individual giver of the day with a check for $3,000,000, while the General Electric company gave $500.-000. $500.-000. the American Car Foundry com pany $150,000, P. W. Vanderbilt and wifo $100,000 and William RoekefH-i RoekefH-i ler $100,000. From national banks 420 I subscriptions weie reported and th-I th-I total tabulated bv 350 institutions -w.ns j $703,946. Subscriptions by divisions tonight were: Atlantic. Including Greater ; New York. $35, 111-907; Central. $S.-JSOO.OOm; $S.-JSOO.OOm; Gilf $1,836,409: Lake $7,256.-!075; $7,256.-!075; Mountain $1,599,669; New England Eng-land M.001.000; Northern $2,362,000; I Northwestorn $2.15,647; Pacific $3.-OS9.426; $3.-OS9.426; I'ennsylvanla $5,500,000; Potomac Po-tomac $2,005,030; Southern $3,001,951; Southwestern $9,030,510. An |