The sun., 1919-01-25
TWO MORE PARTIES
TO AID SMOKE FUND
Victory Dance Tomorrow and
Entertainment Next Fri
day Are Latest Events.
TOBACCO FOR SIBERIA
Plea From Soldiers Fighting
Reds Brings Quick Response
From Contributors.

From Contributors.
Quick response has come to the plea
for smokes from soldiers in Siberia, con-
tained In a letter published yesterday.
Inquiries by letter and telephone have
been received by the smoke fund which
will of course take measures to supply
the needs Of those soldiers, for the funds
object is TO send smokes TO the boys away
from home whether they are In France,
Germany. Siberia or any other part OF
the world.
Good work. keep II up, cigarettes
were fine" is the message the boys OF
Battery E. 310th Field Artillery. have
sent on a Christmas card. but they add
in small characters: Send US a boat,
please. to carry us back home"
George staab Of Battery c. 3o1st Field
Artillery. Harlem boy and member
of the Bonx Kills Boat Club. acknowl-
edges the receipt OF tobacco from the
Loan star Boat Club.
Corporal John j. Kelle OF Battery r.
3l0th Field Artillery, writes: Many
thanks for your kindness. \ friend IN
need Is a friend indeed. and the ciga-
rettes Just came to hand when We were
counting the last few we had in our
pockets The rest of the fellows send
their thanks for your kindness
John L. Hockett OF the 18th Company
transportation Corps. Camp Stephen
son, sends this message: You perhaps
will wonder what we engineers are do
ing here. There are about 5000 OF US,
all railroad men. Conditions relative. are
not so different from home. We go and
come with the whistle. Our work mostly
Is repairing locomotives and cars. We
have very modern shops and many
American locomotives TO work on. A
good many OF the boys are in love with
Sunny France Not me. I've been
here over year and all I've seen so far
is rain and mud. l guess that's where
the Frenchman got the name OF frog.
Give me dear old America and I'll be
satisfied"
wounded Men Thankful.
wardmaster Otto A Michaels wrote on
New Years Day: The carton OF
cigarettes brought wonderful cheer to
wounded Yanks in this ward. L. 8. A.
Base Hospital IA"
Every smoke reminds US Of the good
work THE sun Tobacco Fund has done
all along for the American soldiers. !
was wounded on the night Of November
10 on the Metz front, and II they had
given US boys another week We should
have taken Metz. I have been In hos
pital more than month. but am getting
along fine and smoked UP with the rest
Of the boys" This Is a message from
Herman p. Hockler In Base Hospital 3.
| Chateauroux.
Private Edwin y. Guild has written
from Base Hospital 1oe to Miss X. V.
Hughes. a contributors IT am very
! thankful TO get the tobacco because I'm
casual, having been gassed in the
Argonne Forest last October. Since
then l have been here in the hospital.
but am %. X now and want to 60 back
TO the OUTFIT. hadn't received any
mail for two months and hadn't been
paid for four months, so you will under
stand couldn't buy thing and your
| cigarettes tasted all the finer. / have
been here over year and found France
an interesting place, but old United
States, with the Statue OF Liberty in The
harbor is the place for me"
To the employees OF the Cadillac Mo-
| ter Car Company Clyde b. Turner writes
from Neters, France THE American
| soldier IL much more fortunate than the
soldiers OF any other nation IN that the
kind and generous home folk keep them
in the best OF tobacco always. In the
smoke OF this tobacco that you have
sent me I can see myself with my friends
back home riding IN a Cadillac Eight"
Letter to sophie Tucker.
Sergeants Frank Maeder and John
Coniey OF Company a. 1llth Infantry.
Twenty-eighth Division. sent this note
10 Sophie Tucker: when we received
your donation OF tobacco we were To-
Gated in some woods near Metz. where
good old American tobacco was impos-
| sible to get, so II is impossible 70 make
you realize what your gift meant to US"
Jack Rose OF Company Z, l11th In
fantry. writes TO a donor: Next to the
society OF the fair sex my greatest pleas
ure is the companionship Of Lady Nico-
tine 80 you will understand how ac-
ceptable and highly appreciated your
| generous gift was to the boys and my
self especially"
Sergeant ]. X. Whistler OF the l0sth
Infantry sends word that the tobacco
| from THE SUN reached the men in "one
OF the shell battered towns you read so
much about and where & is hard to get
anything TO smoke"
| Inc victory uhrCe arranged by tne
Misses Z. Leissner and r. Bayer will be
held tomorrow at 2 80 p. NJ. In the
Leslie Rooms, Eighty-third street and
Broadway. The young women have
worked hard TO make 1t a success and
have sold many tickets. which are rs
cents each.
Next Friday evening there will be a
smoke fund party at the Pre-Catalan
restaurant In West Thirty-ninth street,
arranged by the manager. William II.
Barnes. Dinner will be from 6 30 10
3, after which there will be a musical
programme and dancing. Two orchestras
will play. No effort will be spared TO
make the benefit a great success.
How the Fund Stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING sun IS. 900 N
| United Cigar Stores boxes. "a Oe7 81
Otherwise acknowledged. ............. sli.3s5.7+
| New contributions, ...,.......,,........ lts a
Shipped and paid for. sas7 .362A
| Cash balance, ........:', l.ToH
schultz cigar stores boxes. $685. 6,
Grand total ti25. a3l Is
| New contributions are:
Mr.. Every Week No. A................ $40
| Mrs. Every Week No. @,........... 10
| ]. A. Neville. Upper Montclair..... 2n
| A. NJ. Levy, 1851 Broadway, Brook
| Ign Observation-Disclosures. 10C