The sun., 1918-08-25
Soldier Misses His Smokes Al
most as Much as Straw.
berry Dainty. ,
NOVEL BENEFIT PLANNED
Question Club Will Shoot to
Aid Fund-Sunken Garden
Fete Big Success.

gadness upon receiving nve PACKS Of
them while at the front not long ago.
Many thanks TO you for your kind.
ress and my assurance that sour
tbough.fulness was greatly appreciated
The foregoing card. addressed to q
Sun Tobacco Fund contributor by Pri-
ya,e L. @. Robinson of Company C
Second Field Battalion. is typical of the
hundreds which are rolling in from our
soldiers at the front-soldiefs who are
made happy not so much by the physical
enjoyment of smoking as by the con-
,ciousness that the home folks are back
Ink them to the limit.
Entertainments devised to increase the
funds total since the launching Of this
project more than a year ago have been
Of many kinds. SO many. indeed. that II
would seem almost impossible to devise
anything new. But there Is a brand new
class Of benefit to announce this morn
lng
On Saturday next and the following
Monday, September 2, the Question Club
Is to hold a grand smoke fund handicap,
| D shooting contest at 100 insnimate tar
gets, at the Du Pont Trapshooting
school, Young's Million Dollar Pier, At
lantic City. All the money received be-
yond the actual cost OF shells and targets
has been promised for soldiers tobacco.
The Question Club is a social organiza-
ton. formed eighteen years ago. 1t
brings together at stated intervals men
who have been friends for a long time.
Most OF them are connected with the au-
tomcbile industry and in the number are
many OF the most important figures In
this and allied lines
Patriotic Spirit Acts.
THE SUN Tobacco Fund owes this
benefit in part to the fact that many
members Of the Question Club have sons
in Gen. Pershing's forces. now fighting
10 calamity In France. but principally
10 the PATRIOTS spirit manifested by
Seneca G. Lewis of, Jeanette, Pa, an
influential member and a tireless and
famous booster for the fund.
Among the prizes which will be COM
peted for are three automobile tires do
mated by the Pennsylvania Rubber Com
pany, Of which Mr.. Lewis Is the general
manager, and ten sterling silver spoons
onsred by the Du Point school. AS the
privileges of the school. the prizes and
The programme and other printed mat
ter have been donated to the club. large
returns are assured. The entrance fee
is SIS and nearly fifty shots have de-
cared their intention to be in the con-
test
Meanwhile Mr.. Lewis and his helpers
ere continuing their success sful campaign
IN the sale Of Mr.. Lewis's latest popular
song. Georgia Land" the profits from
which are sent to the fund. The sales di-
.ectors of the Pennsylvania Rubber Com
pany, G. C. Mccullough, w. 8. Doty,
1anaS n -1
managing the drive In their respective
districts, and the work Is being carried
on energetically.
THE SUN Tobacco Fund party given
by the Park Avenue Hotel in it's sunken
garden Friday night turned out pleas
anuy. thanks to the many volunteers
from more than one branch Of the the
arical profession, who came gladly to
60 their bit for the smokes for soldiers
abroad. Miss Amelia Bingham and
Mrs. Hazel Warner made impassioned
addresses on war subjects and expert
tnees, and the singers were Miss Grace
nelson. Miss Caro- Roma and Miss Geor-
gina MacMullen. Miss MacMullen was
ssreeably accompanied on the piano by
Gordon Hampson and the two others
sang TO orchestra
harold Stern brought the band of the
Eighth Artillery, and It walked the
echoes OF the neighborhood with stirring
patriotic numbers. Miss Peggy Shaw
canced and Joe Sanity. Jimmy Flynn
ana solly Cohen added a lighter air to
me programme. Godfrey c. Stein. as
announcer and auctioneer. was success
'u IN both capacities.
Dancing Contest Held.
There was a contest dance. and the
winning couple won handsome gifts
.u.cn George c. Brown, managing di-
.eelor OF the hotel. had donated. The
r.onahs prize was a gold mesh bag and
,I e ulAns fne cane. Mr.. and Mrs
na.old l. Acton and Mrs. Acton's COM
r.t ee OF young women helpers contrib
''sa notably to the evenings success.
Ms' Ida V. Enders, the popular con-
uaIo' has completed the programme for
Se recital Of Cheerful Songs which she
giving In the butcher Opera House,
swing Duchess county, Wednesday
evening. half the receipts Of which she
-. - offered to the tobacco fund. IA on
r.. occasion OF her fund concert In
rTSper Union few months ago. Mrs.
- n,, VIII have the capable assistance
william Kroll. violinist, and Mrs.
follows: LUG programme
PARTI
vloi Inc v Star spansred Banner"
ssGSEntrslto SOIL Aroh
3" NJ through the Night. ..... Welsh
Rly.,DD own Upon the suwannee
Zsrs ast Caro- Bene". .,......... Secchi
Mrs. Ida v. Enders.
y. PART II.
con;. SOLO ...................M Mr. Knoll
-T The k kady Picking Muiberrie;;; kelley
-RR :.S.D:y so%s Mamimy. Song hen .%sna
iiss,oth June" with violin OBJ
The Fairy Pipers! i sIswsn
Norm Old Fashioned TOWN.. Squire
s.,o A,'sady with violin obi! hsn''H''
NJ. Mrs, Ida v. Endcr.. "o0o"an
Ne Emile Rhode at the piano
,,,,anes representing the Food Admins |
mi VI and the Wheat Export Company
ov., pay game Of baseball at Wildwood |
r,sa. Avenue and East Twenty-sixth
booe brooklyn. next Saturday after |
!. a. An admission fee OF rs cents will |
Y n ~ goa and the proceeds are to come |
dr,rss iuhd' Other sources also win be |
hyyan upon to make the donation as |
po'ss as possible Both teams are COM |
sn, a OF well known players and a crack |
Lis Is promised. The game starts at |
e,,s. oclock. Tickets may be pro-
ry.s, from Jack Clifford, 81 Beaver
W., or James Rick. AZ Broadway.
ki,. another Brooklyn block party is |
arranged for the soldiers' smokes