The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-05
LEGION AGAIN ASKED,
FOR mitchell POST
Friends Of Late Mayor Back.
ing Second Application to
Form Unit.

The second application made to the
American Legion State headquarters, al
I4o Nassau street. yesterday FOR the
establishment Of . John Purroy Mitchell
post bore the names Of half dozen
men who were close personal friends OF
the late Mayor. A few weeks ago thu
nrst post named after Mayor Mitchell
was formed BY = number OF Americans
Of italian extraction In the Bronx.
Among the charter members OF the pro-
posed second post are Lawrence W.
Miller. who was active IN the tentativs
plans OF the legion at Paris: Coursey
Fales, who served on the stan OF Ad-
miral Gleaves Of the transport force
Harry C. Cushing. third assistant chief
Of star Of the Second Army corps
David NJ. Osborne OF the Army Balloon
Corpss John Adams Dix. who served
with the artillery Of the Seventy-ninth
Division. and a son OF q former rector
OF Trinity Church; Sidney w. Fish, son
Of stuyvesaht Fish; Rowland 8. Davis
adjutant OF the seventy-seventh Divi-
Eon: Harold 8. Content. q Captain with
the Twenty-ninth Division; Frederic r
Coudert, Jr.. and Harry C. Raymond
former WAGNER Of the Twenty-ninth
Division.
It Ia planned to have the nav pos,
embrace the territory Of the Lenox Hill
district. roughly bounded by Fffuetf
and Seventy-second street, with Sixth
avenue the west boundary line and
Third avenue on the east Harry G.
Gushing 3D. Of Hayden, Stone & Co. a5
Broad street. Is temporary secretary OF
the new post and applications for mem
bership from all service men In the
Lenox Hill district should be addressed
to him.
An organization meeting Of the Theo-
dore r. Mead post was held last nigh,
at the First Field Artillery Arrnory
Sixty-sixth street and Broadway. II
from the batteries Of the First Field
who saw hard service abroad. James
Bannon Of 1872 West sixty-sevsnth
street 10 acting chairman OF the post
Harlem Post. No. 133. Of the American
Legion held q lively meeting last night
In the rooms of the, Harlem Board OF
Commerce. $50 Lenox avenue. at which
II was decided that the whole section
should be enrolled in the post. The
membership was limited to 10000. and
dues were fixed at SO per year. Abou,
100 ex-service men and women attended
the meeting. Sidney NJ. Louis. a lawyer
VI VI ShdHlooTs street, was maze pres
ident and Milton Emery treasurer. The
meeting was attended by Capt A. l.
Boyce of "Boyce's Tigers" Major Philip
J. McCook and Capt. John Liilisnthsa 81
the State Guard. Major Mccook told
his auditors that there was time when
he had memories Of the ills wrought BY
so-called patriotic societies. From the
work Of the legion in Paris and during
It's present development" he said. 4
want to say the American Legion haA
disabused my mind Of the theory" A
drive for members was arranged for and
the post expects to have all the ex. ter
vice men and women by the fall.
Borough President Van Name OF
Richmond issued n proclamation last
night designating next Thursday Cam
paign Day" Mass meetings OF the eight
Staten Island posts win be followed BY
parades through the business district.
Before the campaign ends II is believed
the 1000 ex-servics men and women WIN
be enrolled in the American Legion. All
of the clergymen will aid In the drive
and four minute speakers will talk At
the moving picture houses and aniuse-
ment parks