The sun., 1918-09-17
FUND READY TO GO
OYER $576,OOO TOP
SONY Thing Yank Wants to
Smoke Is American To-
bacco," One Writes.
SOLDIERS CHORUS THANKS
"Kindness Greatly Appreciated
by Boys in France" Says
Card From Front.

Tn another thousand dollars yester-
day! II the fond fund fans do not watch
carefully the fund will have passed tho
$4,000 mark without their realizing the
step forward. 1t Is SO near that mark
that the devoted boosters have fixed their
eyes beyond. on the 100000 peak.
The steps forward that THE Sun To-
bscco Fund took last week. and is am
bilious TO keep on taking this week, are
as IL made by the seven league boots
These long strides have been made posi-
bic by the several big parties like those
at the dorf-Astoria and the Mar
Unique hotels and by the numerous block
parties held Throughout, Greater New
York. And by the many individual
donors, too, for these never must be for
gotten.
And while We have mentioned the
block parties II is as we'll TO say here
that while many have been given for the
fund and accepted by It, many have been
refused. THE SUN Tobacco Fund early
in the epidemic of block parties made
rule that it would not accept the offer Of
one unless the majority OF the residents
OF any block making the offer wanted
the AFFAIR. 1t insisted on these persons
writing in their wishes. Thus II seemed
ss II the idea. OF voluntary contributions,
the meat on which the tobacco fund has
FED and grown 80 great, would be con-
served
In The Bronx section a very wise pro-
vision recently has gone into effect; 1t is
that requests for permission to hold q
block party be brought before a commit
eco ~ fr,a At,tA
President and passed or rejected by
them. The fund would like to see such
precautionary provision adopted by all
boroughs.
Thanks From Battle Line.
From the American soldiers now night
ing in the Lorraine sector are beginning
TO come post cards thanking THE SUN
donors for the great relief of tobacco.
IL is wonderful how closely the fund IL
kept in touch with the marching events.
But every soldier writes as soon as he
can TO THE Sun or to one Of the friends
and supporters OF the tobacco fund SO
that we are rarely more than three weeks
from war activity.
"A Sammie" writes from ION the Lor-
Paine Front" under an August date:
Dear SUN: Received the tobacco that
you were so kind to contribute to the
boys on the front. and must say there Is
nothing that soldier wants and enjoys
more than a good smoke after a real
hard day Of entertaining the Hun and
most all soldiers smoke. Hoping you
are going to continue the good work"
On August 10 Lieut.. Roy W. Butte OF
Machine Gun Battalion 129 wrote to
Post & McCord: Received your to-
hacco this date. and It is going up TO the
boys in the line tonight"
During the lull in the noise as we'll IS
81 the din, writes William ]. Kugan to
Miss May Elder. a SUN donor: ITO
bacco is solace to the fighting man"
He adds; We're all happy and feeling
fine, thanks to you and our friends back
home"
About every Yank smokes now,
whether he did or not before the war.
and the only thing Yank wants to
smoke Is American tobacco II Il were
not for THE SUN we would rot have any
o. that It's some scarce" William c.
Con. who may be a private or a General
for all the information he gives about
himself. writes this to donor Arthur
Miller:
THE Sun Tobacco Fund il a great
thing and all us fellows over here wish
Il will be a great success" from Private
Albert Titus Second Lieut. Ehrhart
'''N'S a "oTu VI lHOOfSeiucHt VI ILLS
sentiment on the card
Miss Margaret Keyes, the famous
oontralto singer. ha1 a card from Private
W IL Haskell Of Eighty-fourth Com
rany. 'xth Regiment. "U. s. Maine
boys" who says: Tobacco is sure q
soldiers friend and always finds a home
here. l am Maine boy, and no doubt
YOU have read how we chased the
Boche," Miss Keyes was one OF the
principals at the big Hippodrome benefit
Tor the fund last season.
Smokes Arrived in Time.
you should have seen the boys cheer
up when somebody said: The Bulls
here SAshave been out of smokes for
four da?pJ~cA were shooting snipes
when we were not shooting Huns. Let
ne thank you for the whole bunch
Private Duck Bowlin OF Company ii. |
Seventh Infantry (regular), has some
thoughtful generalities to utter. and he
does so as follows:
The kindness of the American people |
IS greatly appreciated by the American
soldier in France. You, my friend |