The sun., 1918-08-30
SMOKE FUND AIDED
! BY MINERS IN CHILE
Braden Copper Plant Employ
ees Contribute $324.5O
, for Fighters.
TOTAL NEARING $35O,OOO
One Card Reaches Donor After
Being Carried in Battle
on Marine.

Once again is our sister republic
Chile represented in the list of con-
tributions to THE Sun Tobacco Fund.
these good old United States. are in
terested in seeing the American hghting
men kept At and cheerful. for they
too are keeniy alive to the necessity
Of making the world safe for democ-
racv.
The following letter from the Braden
Copper Company, 100 Broadway. Is
explanatory:
I'VE hand you herewith our check for
s3?450. representing the aggregate of
a contribution by the men employed at
our plant in Chile TO THE SUN Tobacco
Fund"
The fund is proud to number such
good friends in South America. Incl
dentally the offering helps to boost the
total almost within striking distance
Of the s3se,000 mark.
Smokes From His Home Town.
Almost like a message from home it.
self Is this card from Private George
Church, Company l., Seventh Infantry,
but 1t comes all the way from Some
where in France"
Received a package Of smokes and
want to thank you very much for
them. 1t certainly did make me feel
good to receive them from my home
town.
MY home is in Brooklyn, but I have
worked around Wall Street for seven
years. and many a time I was in THE
SuN Building before It moved to where
1t now is. I used to stand in the park
and watch the scoreboard every night.
Those were the happy days, but
let's hope that we will all be back
doing the same thing. Once more
want to thank you for the cigarettes"
Corporal J. NJ. Lerche, Company A.
140th Infantry. sends some excellent
advice to the home folks. After thank
ing donor "for making possible this
issue OF good old American tobacco.
which is the mainstay of US boys" he
says:
III I were to make a motto I'd have
on it Buy Liberty Bonds and Smo':es.
We are all feeling fine here. but are
longing for the U. s. A. and home.
With best regards, and again thanking
you. l am. a soldier boy in France"
One card which arrived in the latest
batch from the soldiers will surely be
preserved as relic and souvenir of
battle by the fortunate Hilltop Club,
10 which 1t Is addressed. 1t comes
from Sergeant Castle, who gives no
other personal intelligence except that
he is a medical officer. Writing on
July Z he said:
Receipt of smokes gratefully &C.
knowledged, but am sorry to state that
already the entire gift Is in ashes and
smoke The whole works burned ur
piece by piece. And they never burned
witches at the stake with greater delight
than had in burning UP these good old
coffin nails. When I received your box
cigarettes were about as scarce as chap
erons at AN old fashioned mistletoe
dance, and that is some scarce where ]
came from
Carried Card Through Battle.
On July 20 Sergeant Castle added this
note to the foregoing:
IT have carried this card through three
weeks OF hell before being able TO mai
It. Am still with the lucky ones, 80 here
it goes to you"
The appearance of the card confirms
the statement that 1t has been through
three weeks Of he'll. 1t is torn and soiled
Some OF the words, dampened by rain
are almost undecipherable. II Is genu-
Inc souvenir OF the war worn days from