The sun., 1919-05-24
PROMOTION IS NEAR
FOR SERGEANT YORK
Second Elder Hears at Ban
quet That Baker Will APP
peal to Congress.
PUTS IN A BUSY DAY
Despite Toothache and Four
Wallets He Holds Out Till
Buddy Joins Him.

Sergeant Alvin c. York tasted tho
fruits Of greatness yesterday and was
panied. After passing night at the
Waldorf-Astoria. in which his dreams
were untroubied by the phantoms of the
phenomenal number Of Germans he sent
west at Hill 22s October 8, he woke up
wit ha thunder of n toothache. He told
three of his four Wallets about II while
he was getting into his army clothes
and wondered how the deuce-the hero
used the very word-he was going to
get through his social engagements.
There was a Hurried conference Of
the Wallets upon whom the tremendous
| importance of guarding we'll the great
| est single performer of the war had
been impressed with the result that
when Capt James J. King president
OF the Tennessee Society of New York.
arrived at $40 with his committee and
was admitted to the waiting room Of
the Tennessee mountaineer hero he was
Informed that pain had stricken the
giant low and might gum up the pro-
ceedings for the day.
They promptly summoned Dr. Albert
Warren Gates. q Tennessee dentist, now
resident here. and Sergeant York's ache
was repaired. After the new filling had
l been set Sergeant York took up the
schedule where 1t was interrupted. He
| was motored under convoy of half a
dozen committeeman to the Stock Elk
change. where ne was expected to watch
the throbbing pulse of the financial
market from the visitors gallery.
| Second Elder on Change.
| He. had no sooner appeared, however.
than he was sighted from the floor. and
the business Of the exchange came to a
sudden halt.
Sergeant York. Ray-ay-ay! Come
down here" yelled trumpet lunged
broker.
There was nothing for Sergeant York to
| do but to come down, and when he came
| onto the floor the place was turned into
turmoil, the whole trading system being
Temporarily deranged while the brokers
| crowded about to shake his hand The
thing might have continued indefinitely.
with Sergeant York constantly paralyz-
ing the stock market, II he hadn't tired
| of the thing and asked TO be taken away.
After that he was carried up to the
tower in the Woolworth Building and
into the suite. rarely entered. OF the late
| Frank woolworth. Then the automobile
started uptown, with some other stops
and finally stopped at the hotel. 1t was
o'clock then. and Sergeant York went
up to his suite for a cat nap. Before he
dozed of he said that he had enjoyed
everything SO far fne. but he wished he
could have his buddy with him TO share
in 1t with him. Capt. King learned that
the buddy was Sergeant ID. T. Eastburn,
now at Camp Merritt. and despatched a
number OF aides directly after him. When
Sergeant York woke up there was
Buddy Eastburn to greet him. and from
| then on he said he would stand for any
thing the committee had left to hand
him.
Then Came the Dinner.
At o'clock he was brought by the
| committee into the reception room and
for an hour did nothing but shake hands
| Then came the dinner. Sergeant York
| was on even footing at the speakers
| table with a number of other Tennes-
scans. His divisional commander.
MaJor-Gen. George b. Duncan was
right at his elbow. Vice-Admiral Albert
Gleaves, who Is a native Tennessean.
fianked him on the other side. and there
| were also Representative Cordell Hull
| OF the Eighth Tennessee district Major
Francis NJ. Bass, Judge advocate general
at Governors Island, Capt. King. Mira
| William G. Spencer vice-president gen.
eral of the Daughters of the American
| Revolution and a number of other
notables.
The greatest individual hero of the
! war listened to the recounting of his
exploits, heard himself toasted, heard q
| telegram from the Secretary of War
read expressing regret that he could not
be there but praising Sergeant York full
somely, and then was asked to stand up
and make q speech.
Sergeant York was on the floor ex-
| actly four minutes. He thanked every
one all around. said he couldn't begin to
express what he felt, hadn't ina gined
that he had done 10 much but he was
glad II they liked It, thanked everybody
all around again. paused. and was start
ing in on his third round OF thanks when
| he decided he had said enough. and sat
down. wiping the moisture from his
brow. The cheers apparently did not
relieve his feelings
Commission Il In sight.
In the praise that was heaped upon
the sergeant during the dinner one of
the most conspicuous things that stood
! out was the statement by Chairman
King that he had talked with Secretary
| Baker about having the sergeant ad-
vanced In rank. and that II was prac-
ticaily certain something would be done
about it by Congressional action. Be-
fore the dinner ended Sergeant York was
elected to honorary life membership in
the Tennessee Society.
Before 1t was quite all over the hero
guest was led away to his suite and
with the committee standing over him
was made to pack his bags for Wash
| ington. Capt. King said there was a big
demand for Sergeant York at the capt.
tai and he intended to take him there.
Sergeant York offered only one objec-
| ton
Don't forget I've only got Ave
days furlough."
Then he was bundled out. and to-day
and tonight the nations business will
suspend for a second elder OF a Ten
nessee church who fought against his
convictions and did II so well that he
put an entire German battalion out OF
an attack and took one German Major
three LieutenaEts and 1928 privates and
non commissioned officers into camp.
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