The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-06

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nIth street in which several of tho
! women who are opening the present one
were Interested
' ~ private OF Company f, 165th Infan-
try, called yesterday on the smoke fund
anu SAID some agreeable things which H.
cannot make up its mind to keep to
user: After telling how impossible IL
MAS MAS Ior the men TO get cigarettes around
CHRISTMAS time when the price of a pack
VI orolnary cigarettes had advanced to
francs he added:
Early on Christmas Day we vers
.ne recipients OF cigarettes sent over by
TIE sun. What could equal our 10y
Then each man received a package Of
se,ettes! Every man in the battalion
s"hed your publication for the prompt
"'u timely arrival of these cigarettes"
Card for sophie Tucker.
Sophie fuckers latest card from the
a. f. F. was dated January II. by Ser
seant a. B. Miller OF Headquarters
Troop, Thirty-f1fth Division. who SAYS:
ou are doing the right thing and the
,nins that everybody that knows you
would expect you to do. and YOU are
surely sending the right kind Of present
"hen you send US tobacco"
An old Nebraska National Guard unit.
members OF Companies A and b. 109th
u,
Newman, George Leisher and r. G. Al
oaush and Corporal NJ. A. Steuser write
70 fund donors Of the arrival at Nantes.
france. or a big supply of SUN fund
: TOBACCO. for which they return their sin
cere appreciation and thanks. The to-
oacco was distributed TO three compa-
nles on January is.
To Sallie Fisher comes this card
signed by Sergeants w w. Dugan. F.
TV,.t.
rate Grant n. McCauley: I'VE are in
Base Hospital 80 when you write ad-
dress A. T. Q. 1901 and are coming on
nne. Thank you for the tobacco"
Maurice Jackman, a marine in Base
Hospital 2o2. writes to fund donor Miss
NJ. Fairchild: You cannot realize the
Joy that the boys. including myself,
gained nom your kind gift of tobacco.
1t was a genuine comfort. We received
IL on the front line and now am in a
hospital where We also get 1t. We are
aware Of the vast help you people have
been to us. and we know that you per-
sonally have more than done your bit.
think the unselfishness of Americans,
who are never jealous OF their neighbors,
is one of the things the Europeans are
beginning to realize
I'VE cannot thank you the way we
want to because we were too glad to
Ernie Pfeffer Of Company h. Tooth In
fantry. wrote from a hospital to the
same donor
Frank c. Murphy of Company f. 353d
Infantry, who was at Prum, Germany.
when he received some SUN fund to-
bacco. wrote to a donor that It came as
a delightful surprise. I'VE boys thought
We were forgotten, but the old Sun does
not forget. Baucoup Obliged
Friend in Need.
III ever a man needed a friend am
yours" writes Bugler Ernest T. Tate
Of Company A, Eighty-first Engineers.
Il will always be for when l was so
blue that thev ought to have thought
OF burying me I received some tobacco
from THE SUN and was clipper there
after"
ASK the boys, they know what to
say about THE SuN Tobacco Fund.
says the i5eth. Band (First louisiana.
What's the use OF writing about my
tough luck" says Sergeant william r.
Shaw. who signs himself Billy" He
is in Base Hospital 81 at Anglers.
France. but he has kept his spirit. II
am at a hospital recovering from the
effects of gas. which had the mis-
fortune to be caught in In a big battle
on the Mouse River. October -. 1915.
I was burnt In several places. 1t takes
long time to get well. 1t seems TO me,
but your cigarettes arrived when I
needed them most"
To Jacob Fefbel. who lost his son
shortly before the armistiCe was signed
and who was from the initiation OF the
fund q generous supporter. comes a card
from Private Leonard Johnson. \. T. q.
~. saying: Far away as am and
! in and out of the way place I have
come in possession OF n portion o. the
tobacco you have go kindly donated ard
wish TO render my thanks to you and
to comment on the strength of your
generosity and patriotism"
Sergeant William A Wagner was in
Nantes on January is, when he came
In for his share In THE Sun distribution
OF tobacco and he wrote at once thank
ing the donor and saying that nothing
could have touched him more than this
essential gift.
From Base Hospital dO1 Sergeant W.
A. Archer wrote to Miss Louise Morgan:
Kind Lady-This is late. January 10.
to thank you for Christmas gift. but
better late than never. You cannot ap-
preciate how 1t helps us to think the
good folks at home are still willing to
60 for US"
How the Fund Stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN 10000
United Cigar Stores boxes............ 7.os7 o.
Otherwise acknowledged .............. 3lo.eI5 10
New contributions. Observation-Disclosures. 90 %
Total .,sss. Il? 81
shipped and paid for .sss7. Ssa %
Cash bal ............. 2tp4S
Schultz Cigar Stores boxes........... sssa,ss
Grand totM...;.......................s4,s , 5000
New contributions are:
Bessie g. Shepard. ................... slo m
A. N levy. iis7 Bs roadway.........,.,.' f%
The Pomander Club of HaCkensark
n. J.:,......:. -, 400
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Club Round Table deb contrib. 5000
F. o. Ayres. J. v. Barry. J. c. Brown.
G. R. Burr. J. J. Cahen, R. V. Carpenter.
J n Coolidge, J. NJ. Craig. J; d: Craig, F.
H Ecker. H. Fiske. L. X. FRANKIE. c. II.
g on. H W. George. Thaddeus HYATT j.