The sun., 1918-10-30

nee regulations forbade you to send
mem tobacco. that when you purchased
some and tried to send II the package
was returned to you marked "Unmail-
A good excuse but /, does no, excuse.
The soldiers knou their ovn people
night have ,icorked through the smoke
fund.
!, And that fund would hate to have TO
listen TO the pallid excuses that those
VINO neglected II or didn't believe in II
will be forced TO put up.
IL isn't too late to change this atti-
tude, not too late 70 make a record
which will give YOU confidence to meet
tne returned soldiers with the question /:
do you get some OF the tobacco sent
throush THE Sun Tobacco Fund to the
American soldiers?"
How to Bring Happiness.
And of course he got II. and OF course
ne VIII tell you how happy It makes him
10 think you were one OF the donors
who sent over cheer to his pals.
The time for this repentance and
change OF face is now. THE Sun To-
oacco Fund is straining every nerve to
make its holiday gift to our brave and
modest soldiers as large as the demand.
II knows what an extraordinary task IL
TO no excuses from the people who ought
to help. and 1t wants help quickly 20
tnat the tobacco will reach the army in
time. Every Yank in the American Elk
peditionary Force will smoke on THE
sun fund and its donors next Christ
mas and New Years days or the fund
VIII be bitterly disappointed.
From many sources the sinews Of
holiday smokes are coming in. A splen-
DID gift OF s5.510. due to the energetic
help OF that famous fund booster Seneca
@. Lewis. Is told about In another place
In this paper. And several block parties
appear In the list OF new contributions
In TIE sun and THE EVENING SUN. An
additional check from the Chinatown
party amounting to S1s9.71 and another
from the Port Arthur restaurant for
$3.50 builds the returns from that
unique affair to 5000.
Company c. Twelfth Infantry. New
YORK Guard. has given the fund $50 to-
ward Christmas smokes for soldiers,
and sent along the following letter:
1T is with the greatest pleasure we
contribute to your most wonderful work
among the soldiers. As some of our
members have been in the service we
fully realize what 1t is for a man in the
trenches to be without a smoke, and
hove that other organizations will follow
our example and keep a steady fow OF
tobacco to our brave boys who are over
there"
The committee signing this note were
First Sergeant A. Macray, Serseants ].
Hayes. II. Wagner. A. Lutz and Cor
porals Butterfly. Bogart and Granville.
Children Lend Their Ala.
From the party held in Linden street,
brooklyn. between Irving and Knicker-
booker avenues Saturday night. the
smoke fund benefits by one-hah the pro-
ceeds. which were turned in to the treas
urer yesterday by Joseph Joel. to whose
enthusiasm the party owes much OF its
success. The other half goes to the Sal
walton Army. Each received for work
among the soldiers 5000. Three marines
| raised two flags in This block. Old Glory
and service flag with thIrty-five blue
and two silver stars. The committee,
which worked day and night, there being
but short time to get the party up
were Mrs Cover, Mrs. Patrick. Mrs.
| Namm. Mrs. Levy. Mrs. warnken, Mrs
| Graf. Mrs. Joel Mrs. Stader. Mrs
Grove, Mrs Hemingway, Miss Hoffman
Mrs. Ulrich and Miss warnken.
The children are always friends and
active boosters of the fund and their
donations for soldiers smokes must pro-
the names Of six children who COM
| posed. rehearsed and produced a play
and the $40 which they send In from II
is from their individual efforts: Har-
riet Maxwell, 10; Alice Maxwell. 9;
Grace Barnzhaf. % Margaret Boice, 8
Edward Maxwell. 4. and Albert Barnz-
| hat. 8.
The Eighth Coast Artillery are ar
| ranging an entertainment for the holi-
day soldiers smoke fund to occur No
| vember IL, at the Spooner Theatre, In
which they are promised the assistance
of several prominent members of the
Lambs Club.
Tickets for the dance In Somers Hail.
Brooklyn. by the Hancock Patriotic
League are selling well.
Owing to the illness OF Harry Veitch
manager of the Hotel St. Andrew, the
| Halloween party to have been held
| in the Yama Yama roof has been can
| celled! AS soon as he Is recovered there
will be party.
]. Essenfeld. who acted as chair
man of the block party in Fourteenth
street. between Second and Third ave.
nues. reported the financial result. tc
| the fund yesterday. The receipts were
| THE Sun Tobacco Fund. The latter
will receive $50.
Various members OF the New York
Stock Exchange send In their weekly
donation, amounting this time to IS
| From several of the contributors a
WORD or two has been received saying
| they want their money TO buy Christ,
mas smokes. In a few days now the
fund will climb to 100000. and Their
1t really will begin the drive for the
other hundred thousand. which mean:
that all the boys shall smoke on Us
all next holidays.
Small as you may think your offer.
ing is when you put in the boxes OF
the Schultz and United cigar stores
the certificates they hand you 1t helps
| to swell the fund.
How the Fund Stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN HooOl
United Cigar Stores boxes. including
special SO of gross sales day ...... S.T47e n
Otherwise acknowledged ............. Isl, osl o.
New contributions .......,............. 2+47.4 II
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s52, .Ss a;
Shipped and paid for. .sslIoE.ts
Cash balance ..:........ ". Esss
| Received through the Schultz cigar
stores .....,.... .,..,...............,.. %.B2O.
Grand total S3s7, les 81
New contributions are:
Sent by John Drennen, Department
OF Licenses, SIT West 9Th St.. $50
c.. NJ. Baldwin. loi Park sv.. Orange.
E. whit,lesey. Hotel Manhat,an..... iSS
"In Memory of 8. A. C."........... 500
Charles n. Steele. Aetna Hfe Insur-
Ance Company, Fifth Av. branch
ONCE 80 - 49,. 49, IN