New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
City, Won by Her Smile,
Gives $1,000 Check for
America Fund.
MARJORIE CHEERED
AT CIVIC FETE
Crowds Eager to See Sturdy
Little American Who Started
a National Plan.

Middletown, y. Y, April Marjorie
Sterrett ruled in MiddletOwn tonight
The Mayor. the Chief Of Police, state
senator and the oldest veteran Of the
Grand Army post smilingly took second
place in the festivities. They began
when the first bright-eyed Boy Scout
spiod Marjorie on the train and gave
the signal which started the crowd
about the station 20 such cheers ana
waving of flags and jumping on trucks
and holding of babies up on fathers
shoulders to get a glimpse Of the here
ne as no one but the circus ever IN
spired here before. They ended al 10
o'clock at the armory, when niue
Agnes Roop, the battleship girl OF MID
iletown. presented Marjorie with
check for 81 900 10 help the battieshlp
America.
Put Marjorie up on chair 50 we
AN all see her." cried some one. Mayor
Thompson and Senator J. d. Stivers,
,ditor of "Thc Times-Press,' helped the
little girl up. When Middletown saw
aer, flushed and smiling, with her
familiar curls and MILDLY blouse. Just
IS they have been seeing her picture IN
nc papers. they let loose cheer that
would carry the America 10 victory 10
morrow If noise and enthusiasm were
nc stuff battleships are made Of.
Fourteen little girls IN MILDLY blouses
and RED ribbons were maids OF honor
Cor the battleship girl. They rode with
Ter in decorated automobiles 10 the
,otel. sat with her at the banquet al
the Mitchell Inn. which was attended
~ all the important personages OF the
aeighborhoOd. and stuck 10 her even
through the crowd which blocked their
entrance TO the armory.
Many hundreds Of people were turned
,wav from the battieshIp mass meeting,
out they made up for 1t by waiting at
he doors until the meeting was over
n the hope of catching a glimpse OF
he little girl whose first letter 10 Inc
Tribune started the movement when
mas swept MiddletOwn off its feet.
No other city of its size in the cOun-
~ has ANYTHING like the number OF
lines Middletown has collected, and
,nlv one-Boston has equalled II IN
ictual dollars. II was March l when
Agnes Room walked into The Times
--Tess" Offices and handed a dime 10 the
managing editor. ". J. lyon. saying
he thought il would be nice If Mid
iletown children would help Marjorie
mild a battleshlp. One month from
hat dav Agnes had the pleasure OF
cling Marjorie herself that there was
UI45.95 for her fund in Middleto"n.
The check made at the celebration
was for only $1,000. and the rest Will
Do used as a start on the second thou-
land. The girls on the reception COM
nittee are al school children, who
rave worked hard 10 help collect the
20, thousand dimes. They are Agnes
{. Roop, Gertrude Cooney. Eleanor Nc
Soach. Pearl Wallace. Marion Halcott,
Haze, Malloy, Marie Gordon. Anna Ca
aill. Madeleine Passineau' Marion cor
nan Marv Stivers. Florence Marie
Powers, Marion Ballman and Barbara
Radzinsky.
Speakers at the mass meeting were
senator John D. Stlvers, Mayor I. y;
Thompson. the Rev. X. o. Kirkwood and
Professor James +. Tuthill. Members OF
company !. lst Infantry. y. 6. \. Y,
,cted as ushers. and the oath Regiment
Band furnished the music for the sing
NO Of America. Love You" by a
,horus of three hundred school chill
iren.