100 years ago in The Record

Sunday, June 30, 1918

Carrie Van Duesen King tells the Sunday Budget this weekend that she now plans to welcome soldiers from the entire Capital District area to her planned rest house in Paris.

King, a Paris-based journalist currently staying in New York, plans to return to France next month. The Budget has reported extensively on her idea to convert her apartment into a kind of visitors’ center for Trojan soldiers on furlough in the French capital.

Opening the rest house to troops from a wider area may be a way to secure funding from sources outside Troy. King visited the Collar City recently to raise money for the project, but was rebuffed by the local chapter of the Woman’s National League for War Service.

King calculates that it will cost $2,000 a year to provide food, reading, writing and smoking materials for the soldiers.

“Unless there is a home backing to the movement it cannot be carried out in full, as Mrs. King hoped for,” the Budget reports, “It is, therefore, very much to be hoped that some individual or organization will come forward while there is yet time and volunteer to finance the project through public subscription.”

King herself intends to carry out her plan regardless of financing. “While I could not promise anything to eat or drink, I still have hopes that He who fed Elijah might enable me to feed the men who are risking everything for us,” she writes.

Mayor Cornelius F. Burns called the Budget office yesterday for more information about the rest house project. “Though the executive was noncommittal as to what action might be taken, he nevertheless showed that he was looking into the matter, and it is possible that he may be heard from this week,” a reporter writes.

“Mayor Burns has done much for the Troy soldiers at many different times, and the men appreciate his work, and if he gets his hand into the Paris project it is almost a certainty that he will see it through to a successful finish.”

Local Baseball

A picked team of Troy police and firemen beat their counterparts from Albany for the third weekend in a row, claiming a 5-1 victory at Center Island Park. Clutch pitching and fielding save the day for Troy as the team twice gets out of jams when Albany has the bases loaded with no one out.

In other intercity amateur action, the All-Troys crush the Albany Garnets, 18-2, at the Tenth Street Diamond. Pitcher Guy Milliman strikes out eight and scatters four hits, dominating the Garnets after they take a 1- 0 first inning lead.

-- Kevin Gilbert