Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — FOREIGNERS BUY LOAN BONOS [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS BUY LOAN BONOS

Total of More Than $3,400,000 Bought by Employees of Pennsylvania Railroad Lines. To ascertain the extent to which railroad employees of foreign birth subscribed to the first Liberty loan, a special Investigation has been completed on the directly operated lines of the Pennsylvania railroad on its lines east of Pittsburgh. The result shows that out of 160,127" employees 25,827 were foreign born. There were among all the employees, both native and foreign born, 52,782 subscriptions, totaling more than $3,400,000. .Nearly one-third of all the foreign-born employees were purchasers.