The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-01
WALDORF TOBACCO
FETE PLANS GROW
"Sun" Fund Night to Be One
Of City's Biggest Patri-
otto Events.
"FOLLIEss GIRLS TO AID
Postcards From Soldiers Show
How They Appreciate Home
Folks Gifts.

With more than ample Justification.
everybody In and near the Waldorf is
predicting that SUN Tobacco Fund night
next Saturday on the roof of that IA
nous house. will be one Of the very big gest
things in the way Of patriotic benefits
ever attempted. Lucius NJ. Boomer. the
manager, and Mrs. Hubbell the hostess
OF the roof. after scanning Their, records
last evening announced these as just a
few OF the entertainers who have volun-
teered to appear:
Nine. Blanche Duffield, Miss Georgina
MacMullen. Miss Peggy Shaw. Miss
Margaret Weaver, Godfrey c. Stein and
two singers and a dancer from the Zieg-
field Follies. The names OF several other
artists will be announced soon.
Mrs. Hazel Warner. one of the best
known and most effective of the war
speakers and a stanch friend of the
fund, will make one OF her stirring ad-
dresses for soldiers smokes. Her hus-
band and three brothers are at the
front, so she realizes as few women can
what tobacco means to fighting men.
GeOrgia's First Bale of 1918 Cotton
Mr.. Boomer is giving a number OF
attractive articles to be sold at auction
and other patriots are making valuable
donations. The W. X. jain Company.
IL Park Row. is sending a case of Gig
arettes to be disposed of to the highest
bidder. Among other things which will
help'to swell the fund are the first bale
Of cotton from this years Georgia crop,
Prussian helmet, copies of Private
Charles Divine's poems and sweater
given by Miss Venetia Taylor.
1t will be a great show and a fine op-
portunity to help the soldiers. And Just
a week later comes the big fund enter
tain at the Martinique. There. you have
= your recreation for the next two Satur-
day nights all arranged for you!
ibid you ever spend a night in the
woods. with rain dripping from the
clouds rather fitfully. and nothing over
or under you but the clothes you had
on? asks Lieut. Samuel ]. Cole Of the
Fourth Machine Gun Battalion in a
card addressed to a fund contributor.
Last night we did 1t.
up at 3 A. NJ. and on our way home
through mud and on slithery paths and
roads. At 9 A. NJ. We stopped for a
rest and these smokes. your gift, were
handed the men. who gave the usual
grpnts or growls. which in army man.
u
silver tongue orator could uncover. For
them / thank you"
The foregoing is Just one of the hun
dreds OF cards received in the latest
mails from overseas, cards in which the
American soldiers tell what the tobacco
gifts from the thoughtful home folks
mean to them. The fund wishes 1t were
possible to reproduce every single one
OF these messages of gratitude, but
\ vrtl ha
cerpts from few. characteristic express
sions OF enthusiasm which give assurance
20 fund donors that their work Is not
In vain:
H. C. Holloway. Battery F, 146th F.
A: More than glad to get the tobacco
can night the Boche with more zeal
now"
Makes q Man Feel Like Fighting.
James E. Padgett Company G, 13sth
Infantry: THANK you a million and a
half times. Good old home tobacco sure
makes man feel like fighting"
Sergeant Amos ]. Jaggers: Smokes
from the people Of the U. S. A. make us
know we are not forgotten. though far
away"
Lloyd w. Buck: MY thanks to YOU
who have made It possible for us to have
one OF the pleasures Of home over here"
B. c.: mo one knows until at the front
the comfort tobacco affords u.s."
Private William Hicks. Headquarters
Company, 140th Infantry: I'VE can kill
the blues with good smoke Thanks"
Carrie Kirchkor. dental assistant, Med
zeal Department: Little gifts such 8
this tobacco serve to let US know that
the people In the States are backing the
boys Over Here"
Sergeant Nichols: you. cannot i'm
agine how much tobacco Ia valued over
here. Tobacco from the States Is price
less"
Corporal William Langley, NJ @. Bat
talon: zone never knows the full price
Of tobacco till he smokes the weed grown
over here"
Sergeant A. NJ. Lockwood companv
d. 129th NJ. G., Battalion: Next 10
home we crave good American tobacco.
which your gift helps US to have"
f. G. Carter. Company b, 13Sth Infan
try; 1T seems as IL the boys can miss
meals without much trouble but things
don't seem to move smooth when we are
out of smokes.
Sergeant William J. Carr. Company D.
side"
Corporal NJ. Peeie. Company b, Sew
enth NJ. G. Battalion IT hope YOU
splendid people at home realize how
ness"
Corporal Earl Warner. Company X.
Ie6th Infantry: Thank you a thousand
times over for the interest you are tax
ing in our welfare"
James T.. Padgett. Company G, l3Sth
Infantry ITO an American soldier so.
-5ourning In France tobacco is the gift
or the gods. A cigarette after a watch