The sun., 1919-04-05
GREAT HOTEL EAGER
TO do BIT FOR FUND
Manager Of Atlantic City Hos
telry Plans Card Party for
Smoke Cause.
NEWARK DANCE PLANNED
II Received Your Dandy To-
baccO," Come Thanks
From Overseas.

A letter was received yesterday from
the manager of one of the great hotels
in Atlantic City proffering card party
to be held there at Easter time TOR the
benefit OF the smoke fund. He says:
This was in our minds last season. but
at that time II did not seem that we
could make a euccess OF Il. owing to the
anxiety felt about the outcome OF the
war; now as our best clients are coming
back TO us the time seems propitious.
We trust THE Sun Tobacco Fund will
agree on the date
Naturally THE Sun Tobacco Fund says
godspeed to all such f1attering offers.
The hotels have proved all along their
interest in the smoke FUND, both in and
out of the city, but this as 1t happens.
will he tho first fund party to be given
in the famous resort Of the Atlantic
coast. The dinner dance to be given at
the Robert Treat Hotel In Newark by
the management. under the direction OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Verneaux. will be on
the saturday after Easter.
Private Richard G. Croker who merely
says he is of the United States Army and
Is "over here" writes to a fund donor as
follows: IT received your dandy to-
bacco to-day: THE SuN brought 1t over
TO US, and we boys over here surely do
appreciate all you at home are doing
for us. Well, we all hope to march down
Fifth avenue before long. Thank you
and thank THE SuN and all its contrib
utors who still remember us."
J. T. Morgan will get card from Don
aid Hlldreth Of Company G, 307th In
fantry. Seventy-seventh Division, ex-
pressing in a youthful way the gratif-
cation he and he mates obtained from
tobacco sent over by the SMOKE fund for
which Mr. Morgan's money paid. This
young soldier also Is counting on the day
when he will parade with his regiment
on Fifth avenue.
The boys of Company K, through Pri-
vate Charles q. Brass t305th Infantry,
say II has been impossible to get any
American tobacco where they have been
bllleted since the armistice. They were
In Souvigne. ffty-four kilometers from
lie Mans, when he wrote on March IL:
ION behalf OF our platoon we wish to
thank THE Sun for the kind donation OF
tobacco sent to US. Keep up the good
work"
Soldier Singer Is Grateful.
First class Private Gus Mittenhuber
| CT headquarters company. S06th lnfan-
| try, was in the quartet formed In this
regiment while at Camp Upton. and be-
fore the 306th went to France he sang
with It at several entertainments given
! for the benefit of the smoke fund. He
, writes from Grez-en- Bouere on March
| s to thank a donor for tobacco Issued to
| that company. and says: I'VE have been
| over here eleven months and were at
every fighting front in the great war.
| am a despatch rider and have been
cited twice. once at Chateau Thierry on
September and again at Argonne
| Woods, on October %. There | was
slightly wounded my horse was shot
| three times by Inachine guns. My d.
vision, the Seventy seventh. known as
New York's own. will sail on April 10.
I hope you will answer this letter"
With the last two soldiers mall de-
liveries to the fund have come great
| many letters from the members of this
| company, the headquarters OF the 3o6th,
| and in these letters even more than in
, all the mail of their comrades II Is
possible to trace the broadening effects
| of their sojourn abroad on the soldiers
These soldiers have learned more IN that
| eleven months than an ordinary tourist
| would in several years. for the ordinary
tourist would not come in contact with
the French people as the soldiers have
| done. This experience has been broad
| ening one. and its etrects are sure TO be
| far reaching. New York's own" as
| these boys call themselves and as they
are affectionately termed by New York
| ers. had little experience OF life before
| they sailed, and many of them had as
narrow and provincial view of things
as can he imagined would exist In a
| small town. This has passed, II the
letters are to be taken Ms proof, and the
good effects of foreign life, it's broadening
OF view and deepening of charity are
! not likely to wear away quickly. The
| boys feel they have had a kind of sup.
Elementary education, and almost all OF
them in writing back say they would
| not have missed this experience for any.
thing IN the world.
3O7th Sends Many Letters.
One of the last reunions of the head
quarters company of the 306th and THE
SUN Tobacco Fund took place at the
Hotel Ansorta on Thanksgiving eve
1917. where the company gave ball. d.
| viding the receipts between tho smoke
fund and n fund for the assistance Of
relatives Of the soldiers.
The 307th Infantry also has appeared
very frequently OF late as letter writer:
to donors to the fund, Sergeant II
Schlachter of Company C writes TO ]
p. Morgan: IT wish 10 thank you for
the tobacco you have donated to the
A. e r. for us, Such donations have
Frightened the lives of the fighting mer
OF America. 1t made us feel as II the
United States, our country, was behint
us more than anything else could have
done. A united America could not bt
beaten. therefore the Kaiser IL where
he Is to-day. Wishing you health snC
happiness"
From Company F, same regiment. this
comes written by Corporal Robert n
Remackle: II have received the tobacco
from THE SUN Tobacco Fund, to which
you most kindly contributed. I wish t.
thank you and THE SUN aud to say that
the whole A. +, r. appreciates the great
work THE Sun Tobacco Fund has done
This comes 10 donor Mrs. L. Wilson
from Private John Flanagan. same com
pany and regiment as the preceding: 90,
am very sorry that | cannot thanl
you In person for donating to THE SuN
Tobacco Fund. for you very likely Dc
not realize the joy we get out o.
a good smoke either after meals ant
during a long hike ! sincerely thnnl
you for all the happiness you have giver
me and my comrades and hope you will
be rewarded for your kind thought an,
generosity"
"BIERNE, France. March II. 1919
Mrs. A. O. Randell. Dear Mdddm: o.
behalf of the boys of the Second Platoon
Company Il. 307th Infantry, I wish Il
thank you for your kind donation whicl
We received through the great smok
fund. 1t was most welcome. nothinI
could he more so, and VIC are glad 4
know that the folks at home remembe
us in n substantial way, although tn
exciting part OF the war is over. Civ
my regards and best wishes TO THE ST. \