The sun., 1919-03-15
FUND FETE RECORD
MADE AT MURRAY'S
Entertainment Covers Four
Hours Brimful of Spark
ling Fun.
MANY GIFTS AUCTIONED
Guests Hear Soldier Thanks
First Hand From Cards
Praising Smokes.
MANY GIFTS AUCTIONED

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The party given last night in MUIR
rays Roman Gardens for THE SUN
| Tobacco Fund for American soldiers
n the army Of occupation held up the
| record for success which has attended
numerous like affairs as we'll as the
record which Murrays has for pre-
vious performances. 1t was joyous
occasion for all that went TO the cele-
brated restaurant in the interest of the
boys who are still over there.
The entertainment covered more than
| four hours of pleasant time and never
Jagged. II was furnished by Sophie
| Tucker. who appeared with her jazzites
| early in the evening, Oakland Sisters.
Verba Tilley, Miss Leland. Louise
Dresser and her partner Jack Gardner,
dancers presented by Lea Herrick Ser
geant Stewart L, Evans and Private l..
Collard, wounded men recently returned
| from the 'front.' Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Yer
| neaux, society dancers. and a number OF
singers by courtesy OF Leo Feist. who
we're applauded for the rendition of the
following popular songs: salvation
Lassle of Nine "Jadda." "Johnnie's in
Town." and THE Navy VIII Bring
Them Back"
Among the gifts TO the fund for SOL
dlers' smokes which were sold at auc-
ton were the following: Old rose bou-
DOR cushion, from b Altman & Co. de
luxe stationery, from William Allen a
Co., 49i Broadway; 3 boxes orange
pekoe tea, from Gertrude II. Ford Tea
company, 245 West i25th street Vir-
GINA hams, from NJ. Appel & Co, 20s
Washington street: carving set, from
o Beirne Bros. & Lyons, Ire, 317 West
Forty-second street; palms and ferns
from Bobbtnk 4 Atkins, Rutherford. "
j.: box table apples, from Seaman, Lich-
tenstein & Co.. 105 Barclay street: bag
potatoes. Henry Kelly & Son. 4l3 West
Fourteenth street: box table apples
from Henry Lustig. SO Ninth avenue :;
striped bass and shad roe. from Patrick
Simons, Jr., Blackford's; two salmon,
Fulton Market. mallard ducks. from
Nathan Schweitzer Company Inc, 4o7
west Fourteenth street. Other donors
were George NJ. Fish, 40 West Four
teenth street, Dulany. Tul n Splitter
Inc West Washington Market, and S.
b. jackson, 40 West Forty-second
street.
Cards Receive Applause.
Close attention was paid by the guests
OF the party to the reading of few post
cards and letters sent over by the boys
ia Gernany and in French frontier
towns expressing what THE Sun To-
oacco Fund was doing for them in the
way Of morale and returning thanks to
the fund and its donors.
These cards now bear dates as late as
Fepruary %. One which the fund re-
ceived in the mail yesterday was written
by l.. J. Grooswirth of Company u,
SOoth Infantry. He said: kindly ac-
cept thanks from one of the boys for
your very kind donation Of tobacco
which reached us to-day Same arrived
al most welcome time, as we have Just
got settled in our new area"
Sergeant Frank Lotz Of the same conf
pany returns thanks to fund donor
Thomas Oaks and adds that as the bows
are making up their minds to a some
what prolonged stay in the vicinity OF
the German border they are exceedingly
glad to think the home folks keep them
in mind still.
Private Charles ]. Royals Of Head
quarters Company 3O6th Infantry. a SOL
der who signs himself "One who saw
action in the Argonne Forest" is CRATE
full to Molly Geraghty for cigarettes she
sent TO him through the smoke fund.
They were most welcome. as you can
we'll imagine because I had not had a
smoke for a long time. Soldiers keep
thinking about tobacco day and night
when they are without It."
Here is a card written by Sergeant
II u. Tucker of Headquarters Company,
106th Infantry at Camp Mills. Long
Island, after his return from France
Just a line to say how the smokes were
appreciated. They were given to us In
the train en- route to Brest, France. for
aFoNt arl-a trT A lou
time. ! should say, for their dlstrlbu-
ton"
The above is the first card the fund
has had from a returned soldier. but II
has had many callers from the boys go
ing to camp from the transports who
came to tell the fund Of the pleasure and
comfort 1t had given them during trying
times in France.
Sergeant James c. McGraw sends over
a line of thanks to a fund donor as the
way that the boys of the Army Reserve
of the Motor Truck Corps, their present
address being \. p o. IA, think Of the
fund: IF the good wishes % the boys
will help any YOU surely will benefit"
Real JOY OF Giving.
II. B. Cahill of Company d, 504th
Engineers, was convalescing in a camp
hospital when he wrote this: To-day
we received your donation OF cigarettes.
| am convalescing nicely from the 'ilu'
and wish to thank YOU in behalf of the
other fellows in this room who also
received allotments. These smokes came
in a good time, as we were out of ciga-
rettes and also out of francs. We are
all feeling good and expect to be dis
charged soon Our first snow has re-
Gently covered the ground. We hope to
greet the Statue of Liberty before many
Weeks" --sG
Herbert Kory, 4 sergeant OF Head
quarters Company, 307th Infantry, sends
line dated February 90 to this effect
The boys all appreciate the interest
YOU have taken in them throughout the
war and after The tobacco just re-
ceived comes at a time when tobacco and
cigarettes are as scarce as transports"
From Hospital Centre, A. =. o. 9la,
comes this from Sergeant Stuart ].
Colvin: Your gift of one carton of
Piedmont cigarettes was received by me
this day february 22) and wish to
thank you for them. Smokes are the
things We appreciate most over here"
Private Otto Haumann of Sixteenth
Company. Fifth Regiment Marine C,rps.
says Il am very grateful for this gift,
which is sbig help"
From poet Of the 166th, Aero Squad
ron at Trier Germany. comes this plea
half and half' poetry and prose. In
the latter he thanks donor Mrs Gregory