The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
SOLDIERS FORLORN
ON GIRLLESS NIGHT
Not One of the Promised Dane
ing Partners Appeared at
the Palace.
DAYS OF 40 RECALLED
Promoters Hope That Young
Women Will Be More
Chummy Hereafter.

Page the Irving National Bank, please,
for those girl stenographers and clerks
and 30 on who promised to hit the trail
for the Days Of 40" at Grand Central
Palace last night and dance and roller
SKATE with the soldiers and sailors and
then never showed up. Tell them that
they were sadly missed. and please not
to fail the boys tonight.
It's pretty hard when great bis
patriotic city overlooking with pretty
girls makes Its gallant defenders tread
Terpsichore's lightsome measures all by
themselves, with nary skirt, or just
enough skirts to create bitter jealousies,
but such was the case last night when
Tex Adams. otherwise Union Adams, in
the regalia OF Forty-niner Sheriff. and
Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard, chairman OF
Americas Allies Cooperative Committee,
and other patiotic citizens thew open
the fourth floor of Grand Central Palace
as place where lads In uniform can
come and have the time Of their lives.
At least such was the intention of Tex
Adams and Mrs Willard, and 1t WASN'T
their fault that the Irving National
Bank suddenly turned inslovent In the
matter of girls. Tex and Mrs Willard
| did nobly in the matter OF fixing up the
place like a California town In the days
| when gold nuggets Kicked around in the
streets there and whiskey flowed like
mountain streams.
Just Like Dead Mans Gulch.
One tall sailor lad from Dead Mans
Gulch actually burst into tears when he
stepped from the elevator and beheld
the saloons and the prairie schooners
climbing pasteboard hills and all the
rest Of the ingenious fixings-he said II
did SO remind him OF his native town. as
in the pioneer days his grandfather who
was shot by horse thieves. had de-
scribed 1t to his father, who told him
He wept still more when he followed
the trail around the corner to Hell
Morgan's Drink Emporium and found
the bottles that said Bronco Busters
| cocktails on the outside had nothing but
lemonade and ginger pop In them.
For the Days OF 40 Is wild and WOOL,
in outward appearance only. The wick
edness goes pasteboard deep. no more
Still and all. II the girls that banks anC
other institutions have promised thu
committee that's running this carniva
don't adorn the scene pretty soon there,
no telling what sort of a genuine fal
Western ARRAY may not be staged ther'
most any time.
Half-past seven was the hour To-
opening and even that early many lad
in uniform went Fastening thither. J
very few brought girls, and they wer
happy Joyously they led the drive o,
the roller skates or sought the dane
floor and started in to have an enjoyable
time.
Wall Flowers Were Men.
As time went on and the Landscape
became more and more noticeably mas
culine. groups OF wistful eyed tars an,
doughboys and SO on fingered aroun,
the elevator. their hopes rising as tn
elevator rose 10 that floor and s!nkin
again as the car continued monot onousl,
to discharge fellows and more fellow
and yet again fellows, and no skirts
The arriving ones searched the rank
of the male wall flowers with equa
anxiety, and when Il became plain tina
there were no girls there 1t is hard t
say which contingent thought the wors
of the other--the boys already there O
the ones just arriving.
Tex Adams and Mrs. Willard held
hasty conference. Tex urged Mrs. VIII
ard and the cloak room and lemonad
stand girls to throw themselves int
the breach and dance with the soldier
and sailors. Mrs. Willard declined o
the ground Of her build and abilities be
Ing moro suited to desk work for tn
surgical dressings committee, which sh
founded. than to the youthful art c
dancing. but the cloak room and lemon
ade girls were agreeable. as were ala
Ave young women in sombreros VIII
were giving local color to Mexican Pete
Rest by knitting in that halcyon retrea
just across from He'll Morgan's Drin
. Emporium.
But they weren't enough to go aroun
and II the banks and other institution
; don't do better In the way Of feminir
populations to dance with those lad
: there is danger that the Days OF 4
won't be the gay and cheerful place TIE
Adams and Mrs. Willard intended
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