New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
ORANGE EAGERLY
AWAITS MARJORIE
Battleship Girl To BE
Guest at Monster Dance
of Edison Workers.
TWO DIMES ARRIVE
FROM AUSTRALIA
Nevada Youngsters Swell Fund
and East Side Is Being Sue
cessfully Combed.

cessfully Combed.
All Orange is awaiting the visit OF
Marjorie Sterret tomorrow. The bat
tleship girl is 70 invade the domain OF
the great inventor. Thomas 4. Edison,
whose employees. belonging 20 the Ava
Club, have arranged monster Battle
shin Dance 81 the Orange Armory TO-
morrow evening.
Marjorie and her party will reach
Orange in the afternoon and Will be
met by Miss Florence +. Day. chair
man Of the dance committee, and es-
corted 20 the afternoon entertainment
arranged by Mrs Edison especially for
children. Instead Of having movies.
real Indian. Oskenonton, viii entertain
the youthful lieutcnants in the battle
ship campaign.
At the dance in the big armory Mar
jorie and her party will occupy the box
next 10 Mr.. Edison. Every member Of
the Alva Club has been hard at work
selling tickets. and Miss Day predicted
last evening that the event would be
great success.
East New York is another locality
that has caught the battlesnip fever.
The efforts OF the bows selling buttons
at the Norwood Theatre melted them
sl1.2O on Saturday night and more
than $40 on Sunday night and Albert
Hopkins reported yesterday that they
were still gcing fast.
Albert 70 Invade New York.
on Friday night Albert is to take his
loving-cup 20 meeting OF the last
New York Republican Club, where
warm reception has been promised Tor
Marjorie's little lieutenant, and other
organizations are about 70 arrange dates.
Marjorie received a letter with two
dimes from Sydney. Australia, yester-
dav. the first indication that the news
of her fund had penetrated 10 that far
distant continent. The following letter
also arrived from Nevada, forwarded
bv The Reno New Evening Gazette:
Enclosed please ind dollar IN dimes
for the Marjorie Sterrett battleshlp
America fund from some native sons
and a daughter a dime each from my
cousins. Vernon Leavitt and Gordon
Burner. Of Yerington; a dime each
from NY little cousins, Dwight, Char
lie and Rand Leavitt, OF Virginia CITY,
a dime each from my brothers, Gran
Vile and Joseph, and from myself. Inc
other dimes are to help.
Il am eleven and the others younger.
In February little nine-year-old Alma
Mckenzie, Of Yerington, sent the very
first dime from our good old state, Ne
vada. Two others, one at Gardnerville
and one in Yerington, sent dimes early
in March.
sent 10 "The Evening Gazette" but
these will be a starter for the fund IN
a Nevada apeT. Yours truly,
mildred EDNA LEANlTT."
Yerington, New.
Letters to Marjorie.
Among the many interesting letters
received are the following;
Norwalk. Conn.
Dear Sir:
have a paper route OF my own. And
I want and my sister want 10 be one OF
the contributors OF Mariorie's battle
ship fund. ] have q grandfather who
was captain Of the 18th {. Y. Of Conn.,,
also an uncle who was IN the Civil War,
too. am only ten years old and my
sister is only nine years old. And If
live long enough ] viii be soldier,
too. Enclose ten cents for each Of US.
Yours truly
WIN. K. CHAMBERLAIN.
paddock. Nova Scotia.
Editor OF The New York Tribune.
Sir: Inclosed two dimes for the
Marjorie Sterrett battleship fund from
two little Yankees, eight and twelve
years old, now living in Canada We
have contributed 20 Patriotic and
Machine Gun Funds" here, but arc now
glad 10 "do our bit" for Preparedness"
in the good old u. S. A.
WARREN MALCOLM GILMAN.
ISABELLA MARY GILMAN.
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We arc true Americans here
end think Miss Marjorie Sterrett's plan
for American boys and girls TO build
big fine battleship. TO protect our dear
country, grand one.
| will soon be ten years DID, and
when ! am a man, will fight for dear
"Old Glory like my grandpa did. My
grandpa wishes ! had nine brothers
like mysclF. ] was saving money 10 put
in the bank, but what good are banks
when you have no country. so ] send /
you a dime for myself and a dime for
each Of the nine brothers | have not I
got yet. Yours truly.
LESTER LANING.
Elizabeth, y. j.
Ny Dear Marjorie:
! come from patriotic family, too. |
One of my fathers ancestors was on
General Washingtons staff, and the
house in which my mother was born
WAS used as a hospital, az Gettysburg, 4
during the Civil War My grand /
mother stayed right there and baked |
for the wounded soldiers.
Don't you LEI the Pscifsts frighten
you, yours will indeed be peace ship /
IL the other nations behave themselves, ]
and il they don't you and Columbia /
will have 70 spank them, and how can /
you do il II you are not prepared. |
wish Uncle Sam would name the very |
first battleship he builds Marjorie |
Sterrett" ! think he should, just 20
show his appreciation Of true red. |
white and blue. | 90 TO a private
school, and ! am going TO get the girls
to help with your fund. ". 7. l..
Ridgeheld Park. ~ J.
Dear Marjorie:
am eight years old and am sending
you Q dime 20 help build your battle
ship. My great-grsndfather fought as
a soldier and my grandfather fought
as q sailor in the Civil War.
PORFPT Mi SON HORTON