The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-21
TELLS MEMS JOY
AT GETTING SMOKES
Lieut.. Lefferts Brown, Who
Distributed "Sun" Fund
Tobacco, Is Home.
TROOPS ARE GRATEFUL
Received Gifts as They Left
Trenches in Toul
Sector.
TROOPS ARE GRATEFUL

SECTOR.
Lieut.. Lefferts Brown, in mutt,
called on THE Sun Tobacco Fund yes
tcrday and described more wildly than
any previous visitor has done the Incl.
dents usually attending a distribution
of the smokes sent over by the fund
while the war was in progress.
During the activities in the Toul sec
tor from January to July. 1918. had
In charge the delivery of supplies to the
troops In the trenches and on the &C.
casions of changes in the pne during
that period assisted in giving out the
smoke funds tobacco many times. 1
need not tell you that each time the
men were more enthusiastic than at the
previous distribution or seemed to be
80. This was owing to their growing
gratitude to THE SUN and the donors
who have made its work possible. All
the boys who spoke of It to me recog-
nlzed It as a great work.
"Our warehouse was at Toul and
from there we ran two automobiles to
the lines. There were two men on each
car and usually / made one OF the
party. We made the run under coYer
Of darkness and timed our arrival to
meet the men as they came out of the
trenches.
Received I'm Carload Lots.
THE tobacco came to us in carload
lots and in the time I refer to eleven
carloads were shipped to Toul. AS the
men passed us we handed out as per an
structions a carton of cigarettes to one
and a package of smoking tobacco Of
equal amount to the next man and so
alternately. But sometimes the men
would fool US and come up again, the
one who had cigarettes to get some
smoking and vice versa. We always
pretended to be fooled. that is. IL we had
enough tobacco to serve this double
purpose.
But what ] really came to make a
point of was the great Joy the men felt
to get the smokes. There is no describ-
ing that. At first for l speak of the
FIRST american troops to go into he
trenches, men of the First Division.
afterward the Twenty-sixth and then
the Eighty-second, my own division,
they couldn't believe in their good for
tune. 1t was impossible for them to
get tobacco of any Kind and they were
craving Smoke the worst way. SO It Is
possible to conceive what the smokes
meant to Them
The following members OF the Boot
leggers'' sign their names to card OF
thanks for tobacco sent them through
THE SUN Tobacco Fund by the Hamil-
ton Club of Brooklyn: Private Jenny
Gemske, Floyd Bartlett Of Ohio, RED"
May of Ohio, Woburn Connolly and
Joseph L. Brown of Massachusetts. Pete
Mallany of New Jersey, slim" Bsrne of
Mississippi. John Ellis OF wyoming and
"BootIegger" Perry of Wyoming.
Mrs. w. Fl. Clark receives this card.
dated May ., from Private r. C. Hanft
of Company L, Thirty-third Engineers
Il am DESTROYS of sending adequate
thanks to the kind giver OF the cigar
cites l received to-day. They were ex-
cellent and gave me real comfort. 1t
must be fine to think that you have done
so much for the boys who are so far
away, but suppose you do not think OF
your gift in that way. We do and wish
to tell you and the other friends of the
boys how much we think of them
Private David Epstein Of Company
f. 350th Infantry. received carton OF
cigarettes April 29 from Herbert Pell
and finding card in the carton ad-
dressed to this donor wrote back
81 take great pleasure in acknowledge
ing your gift and thanking you for It.
You could not have sent me anything
that I would enjoy more BY this time
THE SUN has told the people of Amer
lea how much the soldiers like to smoke
and how needful smokes are to them
The paper will always be a favorite one
with the boys"
\ soldier of Headquarters Company
Twenty-eighth Infantry, First Division
n -
donor, from Meudt, Germany. to say
this: .
81 received your tobacco to-day and
wish to thank you many, many times
for getting It, There is one thing we
soldiers will not be able to forget when
we are all at home again and that is
the great kindness that has been shown
us ever since we have been away by
our friends at home"
Captain Paul Amidon wrote May 4 to
Charles II. Reyes, another donor:
II received the carton of cigarettes
yesterday and am taking this method OF
thanking you for the generosity you dis
play towards the A. l.. +. Personally
am deeply your debtor and 1 also wish
TO thank you very much on the part OF
the men,"
Gifts for Party Received.
On Tedulu6 lno announcement III yes
terdays paper of the party to be given
for the benefit of THE SUN Tobacco
Fund by Gaillard T. Boag and Jimmy
Thompson of The Little Club at that
interesting place in the 44th Street The
atre Building a number of Manager
Boag's purveyors instantly proposed &c
be in on 1t and offered the following do
nations to be sold for the good OF the
fund:
Pail Mall cigarettes by the Strand
Cigar Co, 10 pounds of candy by the
Palais Royale Candy Shop and made by
Rene Durant, silk shirt by Lon Freed
man. silk lamp shade by Winter and
Rau, painting by George Wilburt Colby
and two dolls by Henry Valon, These
gifts, says Mr.. BOag. are sure to be fol-
lowed by many others
The party will start at 9 o'clock OF
Sunday night and the following enter,
tanners are already arranging a new
"stunt" for their appearance at it: Eliz.
abeth Brice, Adrienne Dore, VIII Nor
rissey and Marty Culhane. The last
named has been a tower OF strength al
many previous parties given for the
smoke fund and the others have also APP.
peared for the fund before.
1t will be wise for friends of THE
Sun Tobacco Fund to reserve theiI
tables at once for Sunday night. The
Little Club is n popular institution, NOR,
no since its latest formal opening under
the management OF Mr.. Boag and 1t II
to A.,