The sun., 1919-03-25
$4,000 DOUGHNUTS
WAIT THE PARADERS
Salvation Army Will Be Right
on the Job Just Where
March Ends.
AND THE CHARGE rs NIL
As for the Wounded at Green
hut Hospital-Well, They
Voted for Pie.
AND THE CHARGE rs NIL

Are there any doughboys who do not
love doushnuts? AS one OF them said
last night at the Salvation Army
''Doughnut Hut" in Madison Square.
there are none so nutty that they don't
We'll, every one Of the 10000 dough-
boys, artillery men. engineers and what
not In the parade of the Twenty-sev-
enth to-day will find doughnuts and hot
coffee awaiting him as he swings out
of the line at 10th street. The whole
salvation Army force, captains and
majors and commanders and privates,
lassles and lads. Just turned to yester-
day and spent the day and night TOO
frying doughnuts and putting them UP
in neat little individual paper sacks with
welcome Home and the red shield
which IL the sign Of the Organizations
soldier and sailor clubs on the outside.
All in all they baked about $4,000 OF
the toothsome cakes with a hole In the
middle, and the mathematician OF the
Army Red Shield Club at 12s West
| Fourteenth street calculated tnat II those
doughnuts had a parade on Fifth ave-
nue. marching edge to edge. they would
make a line about two miles long.
In every Salvation Army headquarters
all over the city the sizzle OF the not
lard was heard. Thousands of the cakes
were baked in the V. Everit Macy house
at Fifth avenue and Seventy-fifth street,
| where the army now has club Tor
Uncle SANS boys. The Kitchen OF
, Doughnut Hut in Union Square turned
out quantities and the small csnteen
kitchenette at 12S West Fourteenth
! street produced 5000.
At least that was what Cook Mary
| Kirkpatrick said when warm and weary
but game to the last. che scraped UP the
| last bit OF dough, cut out the dough-
nuts and laid down her cutter some
! time in the wee small hours last night
She had been mixing and cutting out
doughnuts since early morning. in be-
tween her daily task OF feeding the uni
| formed lads who throng the place for
bacon and eggs and pie and so on. For
The regular canteen work had to go on
even though the greatest parade Father
| Knickerbocker ever has seen was COM
| ing.
But by the way. speaking of pie
there's another story. Besides making
5000 doughnuts the Fourteenth street
headquarters baked seventy pies-did II
after nightfall too. As Capt. Black,
hostess Of the Red Shield Club. re-
marked last evening from behind the
mountain Of doushnuts which she, with
the aid Of five husky doughboys. was
putting into the decorated envelopes. she
didn't quite know how II was to be done,
| but ~ those wounded boys from the
Greenhut Hospital wanted to bury their
| faces in good home made pie In the in
tervals Of watching the parade they
should have their wish, bless them!
They All Voted for Pie.
1t vas o'clock when a GREATNESS Of
| fiCer from the Greenhut Hospital dashed
into the Red SHED Club. knocking over
mounds OF doughnuts in his mad career.
found Cap Black. saluted hastily. and
said he had the honor to report that
| 400 wounded men from the hospital, who
would occupy the stand at Eighteenth
street, when asked what they would like
\ to be served as a bite OF lunch on the
stand had with one voice replied pie '"
Various bakeries had been asked to
! bake enough pies to satisfy those SOL
| diers, but II seems they were all halled
| up with other work and they couldn't
J SO the Greenhut Hospital authorities.
bright lexicon doesn't contain the word
! cant" decided to appeal to this un-
falling friend And Cap" Black-who
is n little bit Of a woman. hut oh, my -
she tust hustled into that canteen
kitchen and called Cook Mary, and set
some OF her boys in khaki to peeling
apples and get out the mlncemeat; and
that Greenhut Hospital officer went back
TO those four hundred wounded heroes
and told them It was all right-the Sal
walton Army was on the job.
They're Loaded on Trucks.
Meantime The doughnuts went on
sizzling And fast as they were baked
dozens OF lassies. ably assisted by soldier
boys who Just dropped In to help, put
! them In their envelopes. and they were
packed in huge boxes and loaded on
trucks To-day those trucks will stand
| in the side streets around where the
parade disbands, and near them will be
great cans OF steaming coffee and the
Salvation Army lassies will see that
each weary marching hero Is served
Baking the doughnuts and pies wasn't
allowed TO interfere with the other work
Of the Salvation Army. For instance,
they met every incoming troopship as
usual with telegraph blanks, and sent
about fifteen hundred wires for the
newly arrived soldiers. That IL little
stunt which costs the Army about 81 900
a day. A flock OF lassies under Ensign
Grace Beacroft meets every transport
and as Soon as the men are lined up after
tIiisembarkinE an1 have ansH cred IN ~
call they pass along the line and ask
each man II he'd like to telegraph to his
home,