The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-06
77TH'S DOUGHBOYS
FOX TROT IN ASTOR
Mayor Tells Then to Have q
Good Time and
They Do.
JAZZ BY POLICE BAND
MajOr-Gen. Alexander Looks
In After Dinner at Mrs.
w. K. Vanderbilt's.

II there were any members Of the
Seventy-seventh Division who failed to
have the time OF their lives last eve
ming 1t must have been their own fault.
For the Mayors committee of welcome
did itself proud in the party It gave last
night in the Astor to the doughboys Of
New York's own division.
The Mayor welcomed the boys with a
speech in which he told them that the
party and the town were theirs and that
they were to pitch in and Nave the best
time ever and not to stand around walt
ing to be introduced to anybody who
looked good to them-or words to that
effect.
The party was in three sections, in
the grand ballroom on the ground floor,
in the series Of smaller bathrooms on
the eighth floor and in the Belvidere on
the roof. Sections Of the Police Band,
REINFORCED by the hotel orchestra, dis
pensed the latest jazz for the men and
their partners. The canteen division OF
the Women's Committee on National De-
fence not only supplied and served the
refreshments but also provided partners
for the dancers.
Mrs. Nelson Harvey Henry of the
womens committee officiated as chief
hostess. Mrs Henry, besides being a
member of the committee, Is head OF the
Women's Auxiliary of the 305th Infantry
in which her son. Major Frank Anderson
Sloan. commanded the covering battal-
ion which protected the 3o:d Engineers
when the brtdeed the Meuse, November
I. He was subsequently promoted to
Lieutenant-Colonei and is the younges,
officer Of the Regular Army to hold that
grade. Unfortunately Lieut.-Col. Sloan
was not among those at the party last
night He. along with a few other un-
fortunates. passed last night aboard the
L. S. S. President Grant, an ever de.
creasing number of miles east of Am
brose Channel lightship. hut just far
enough TO prevent the divisions rear.
guard from appearing in the festivities
OF yesterday and the parade to-day.
Major W. Earl Dodge was in charge
OF the arrangements for the Mayors
committee and Mrs. Henry was assisted
in receiving by Mrs. George Etheridge
Mrs William Young. Miss Amy Sloan
Mrs Ryle Strange, Mrs. Herbert Sierick
Miss Caroline Carley. Nine. Louise Ju.
! mould. Mrs. Harold Roberts, Mrs. jacob
Lowenthal. Mrs. Harry Content, Mrs
Daniel Riordan. Mrs ]. B. Lloyd and a
number OF other members OF the com.
| mittee. The canteen workers were from
! the Officers Club and the Forty-second
| street canteen.
Dickson and Hyson. dancers. who are
| appearing at the Conan Theatre, opened
the proceedings with an exhibition dance
and then danced the first fox trot among
the doughboys and their partners and
from that moment that bashfulness nat.
ural to men who Rad faced the terrort
| of the Argonne without falterinR beRar
to wear of and they discovered that q
good old home party was just as fine a.
they had dreamed 1t was when the,
snatched an hours sleep In their 70,
holes up along the Mouse
! Major-Gen. Robert Alexander, com
mander of the division. who had been at
tending a dinner atMrs w. X. Wander
bits came along late In the evening I,
! look in OH the party.