The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
BAY STATE BOYS To
BE WELCOMED HERE
Clubhouse Is Established in
Which the First Rule Is
"NO Beans"
PIE MAKERS ARE SOUGHT
Walter J. Fahy Leading Spirit
in Movement to Entertain
Fighters.

Daughters of massachusetts, who have
been able to live in New York and
still remember how to make pies. cakes
and doughnuts are implored to look in
at 20 East Forty-eighth street There
clubrooms have been established for
Massachusetts, soldiers. sailors and ma
rines disembarking at this port. In the
plotting OF menu colossal self control
was exercised
Now as to eats" said Walter j.
Fahy, n broker who is devoting himself
to making the club chubby u n dele
CATION OF soldiers sitting as jury. "of
course you'll want Boston baked beans.
What else shall We
A clatter Of dashes and asterlsks In
terrupted him. Begging Mr.. Fahy's par
don for the phrasing OF their preamble
the soldiers intimated that 1t was just
possible that veteran OF this mans
army could, II heaven so willed II get
along for days and even months and
years without eating, seeing or seeming
another bean.
In fact they suggested that the sub
!ect OF beans had little interest for them.
except provocative that tho national
delicacy OF New England had lost its
and II this be treason make tho most
OF IL
Veteran Explains.
Fearing that Mr.. Fahy might yet Be
unaware OF the drift OF their remarks
one OF the visitors confided:
You'll find that we're kinda fed up
on beans in the army"
Say no more" begged Walter J.
Fahy. Have an apple. There will al
ways be barrel of apples from Massa-
chusetts on tap here. There will be
cakes 1T FOR a wedding. There will be
pics like those that grow In the kitchens
OF Pocumtuck. There will be dough-
nuts such as cured Cotton Mather Of
his dyspepsia. and coffee that you
haven't tasted since the day the old
Fitchburg division carried you of to
war. But beans. none. BY the scalp
lock OF Massasoit and the beads OF Aga
wan l swear IT,"
You're good guy" said the spokes-
man OF the soldiers Wen get the
word around"
The clubhouse is the result OF sober
second thought on the part OF the COM
mlttee appointed by Gov. Mccall to well
come home the Bay States soldiers,
sailors and marines. AT first the COM
mittee supposed the returning host
would land in Boston. When the fact
da wned that a very large part OF II
would return TO America by way OF
New York sl0,0 900 was set aside for ade
Quate reception here. The new Governor.
Calvin Coolidge, sent the chairman Of
the committee, Louis y. Coolidge, to
New York to make the preparations.
He appointed subcommittee. of which
the Rev. Or. Percy Stickney Grant is
chairman.
For the lie of them Mr.. Coolidge and
his subcommittee couldn't think how
they were going to round up the Mas
sachusets veterans in this haystack of
a city unless they established rendez-
vous. Hence the clubrooms Two
stores have been thrown together TO
make them. Two officers trained at
Camp Devens. Capt Henry Chambers
and Lieut.. Robert Osborn, are in charge,
but II Is not an officers club, ia just
club where any boy in unifovl or
with discharge papers can 20 and by
saying he's from Massachusetts can
have the best the house affords, which
is considerable. and not cent of charge
anywhere.