Benefit: Fourth Liberty Loan
type: Event
description: benefit performance
location: http://data.carnegiehall.org/venues/5
organizer: http://data.carnegiehall.org/names/7
start date: 1918-09-30T20:00:00
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comment: Entered from articles in the New-York Tribune, Evening World, and New York Times. According to the Times article, $4,302,000 was raised, "$2,000,000 more than was ever raised at a similar meeting in any other Liberty Loan drive. The largest single subscription was for $500,000, from the Victor Talking Machine Company, given through C.G. Child, one of the officers of the company and Chairman of the committee which arranged the musical program for last night's meeting." New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 01 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Link to article The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.), 01 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Link to article (column 4) "$4,302,000 RAISED AT BIG LOAN CONCERT: CARUSO, GALLI-CURCI, AND MCCORMACK HELPED TO BREAKLIBERTY RECORDS.CARNEGIE HALL CROWDED "$10,000 PROGRAM," ARRANGED TOHELP THE CAMPAIGN, ROUSED GREAT ENTHUSIASM." New York Times (1857-1922), Oct 01 1918, p. 11. ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2019.