The sun., 1918-07-05

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not the widely known cosmopolitan or
ganixation that II really IL. II this
somebody" will read an. offer made to
us yesterday from HonEkong. China, by
Ken Chairman. a cigarette manufacturer
OF that city and Shanghai. he will adopt
the latter description Of the fund. That
gentleman. through n planter. J. o. w.
Gravely OF Rocky Mount, y. c., wants TO
present to TIE SUN Tobacco Fund one
and one-haif million cigarettes for the
American soldiers fighting In France.
MIR. Gravely left for San Francisco
yesterday to meet there Ken Chiu-man.
who will then complete arrangements
whereby this generous gift, amounting
IN money value to nearly $4,000, can be
transferred to the smoke fund. He ex-
poets to be back here by July 20, with all
arrangements completed.
The theatrical world has never been
backward In offering its services to the
smoke fund both as individuals and In
battalions so to speak. Several OF the
latter kind OF offers have been OF neces-
sity declined by the fund for a variety
OF reasons. the main one being that In
most such cases these voluntary public
onerings were likely to interfere with
| individual efforts which had long before
, been scheduled. and THE Sun does not
| not II Is apt to be disastrous. on any
gift OF service which 1t has thankfully
accepted.
| 1t Is pleasant to be able to state
therefore that a very important theatre
cal event has been accepted for the fund.
| nothing less than new play which is
! now In rehearsal in a city theatre, where
! in about four weeks, or the time It re,
! quires to be got ready, It will be pro-
duced. THE SUN will he the sole bene-
fciary Of a very gratifying percentage
OF all receipts Of this play during its
New York run. As the piece is written
around patriotic motive and in tragic
and comic incidents lends itself to the
| popular taste ii Is to be expected that
this run will be long
Yesterday afternoon two middies from
an English man-of-war now in harbor
examined with true British thorough
! ness SUN fund box In a United Cigar
store where they had gone by chance to
purchase smokes. They were trans
ported with delight when on questioning
it's use they were told that when pur-
chasers put in this box tor in the nu-
merous others of the United or SeAelte
stores) the coupons given them these
little and apparently Insignificant bits
OF paper would buy smokes for the
American soldiers.
1T would be a grand thing II the
British stores would do the like" said
they. and added This Is but one more
thing We have seen that makes us think
we would like to be Americans II we
were not Englishmen"
After the young officers had departed
the salesman remarked that there had
| not been a customer that day 1.-THE
Fourth) who had failed to deposit his
coupons In THE Sun box.
Two dollars and fifty cents comes from
a repeater, H. Haverstraw. as his regu'
lar contribution. and with the following
nice letter comes new regular just en-.
. listed: II enclose the second payment
on my first Liberty bond. l hope to b,
. able to send the interest on my bond,
for the tobacco fund as long as the boys
need IL. l wish to acknowledge TIN
card OF thanks for tobacco received o.
! w. A. Shackelford In France. - Mrs
Anna r. Brown" This contribution viii
r be found in to-day's list.
1 How the Fund stands To-day.
|, THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN. $4,000
United Cigar Stores boxes. including
, special So Of gross sales day.. e. c5s
Q Otherwise acknowledged. ............... 2c3,sN
!, New contributions Observation-Disclosures. S39
!. Total .s,s, .3e 8
e Shipped and paid for. .S3s7. 40 IS
Y Cash balance. ............. Is. 1881
a Received through the Schultz Cigar
:, stores If,Sto'V
;, Grand total $40 ISL
- New contributions are:
A Fred Schlosser, $50 West Nth St.
New York Observation-Disclosures. 3D.
Mrs. Anna R. Brown. New Providence.
II n Observation-Disclosures. AZ
: ]. u. Ray, Breton Hall. New York. g.,
a Mrs. j. Il. S......,....,......... ''
: II. HaveStraw, West Haverstraw.
q W. s. NJ Mead, 36l Clinton avenue,
y brooklyn OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. iV'
p Sara +. Mead, 3sl Clinton avenue.
> The Far Western Travellers AssOcia-
tion, Inc, Hotel Claridge. New York -