The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-04
TWO LARGE LEGION
POSTS TO ORGANIZE
Harlem Service Men Will Meet
Tonight in Board Of Com
merce Rooms.
PLAN NEW CLUBHOUSE
Gatherings Announced for Old
First Artillery Armory
and at City Club.

Organisation OF two important posts
OF the American Legion will be effected
at meetings this evening and at the same
time announcement has been made that
a charter has been issued to the City
Club Post OF the City Club Of New York.
the frst club to organize its service
men under the legion's rules.
The largest Of the organization meet
ings will be that for the Harlem Post,
to be held at the rooms Of the Harlem
Board of Commerce at geo Lenox
avenue. An auxiliary committee has
been organised with the cooperation OF
the board, and the movement to raise
funds for the Harlem 'veterans club
house will be started tonight. The post
will also hold its first election Of officers
and adopt constitution and rules. All
service men OF Harlem are therefore
urged to be present. All veterans Of
the world war, OF whatever service. are
eligible for membership in the Harlem
Post. which promises to be one Of the
largest in the city.
Major Philip ]. McCook, a stan officer
OF the Fifth Division, who was seriously
wounded and cited for bravery. will be
one Of the speakers. Alexander Holt
son OF windels & Holtzoff. ~ Pine
| street. is temporary secretary OF the
Harlem Post.
The other organisation meeting win
be held ut the old First Artillery Armory.
at Broadway and Sixty-sixth street
While this post. to be known as Theo-
dore r. Mead Post, Is primarily for the
| men who served In the First Field Artil-
lery any service men of the neighbor-
hood in which the armory is located are
invited to join. James Bannon of 49,
West Sixty-seventh street Is temporary
I,Nn IL. N.rEN
| of the 30Gth Infantry will be one of the
speakers at to-night's meeting.
| OmciaIs Highly Pleased.
The organization of the City Club Post
was particularly welcome to the officials
of the legion because OF the extensive
work which the club itself has already
done both in and out of the service. Be-
| fore the United States entered the war
the club sent to France a complete am
| bulapce unit Of twenty-three men and
| twenty-eight cars. which spont thirty-two
days In front line sectors, evacuated more
than 10000 wounded. was twice deco
rated as an organization by the French
Government and received forty-two indi-
bvidual decorations among its members.
Most of these men Joined the American
army when the United States entered
| the war and are eligible for membership
Il
| IN the new post.
The City Club was also active in all
of the civic work connected with the war
In New York. It made a record for en-
rolment In the Twenty-seventh Assem-
bly, district for the State military CEN
sus. registering 100000 persons. With
other organizations It made the Tenth
| Assembly district the banner district in
the house to house campaigns of the Red
Cross and United War Work drives.
At the suggestion of President Wilson
tho club undertook the relief of Russian
officers stranded in New York at the
time of the revolution. Many of these
men were crippled. A committee of the
club to aid the fatherless children of
France has contributed a thousand dol
lars a week to that organization for a
year and a half. The club furnished
| members to serve on draft boards at
| Gen. Growder's request. assisted the
| Shipping Board through members who
were housing experts, permitted tho
clubhouse to be used as the headquar-
| tiers OF visiting foreign Journalists and
| was the principal rendezvous for the
members Of the Belgian Mission in this
| country.
staten Islanders busy.
The Richmond county committee has
! appointed Thursday as the day for a