New-York tribune., 1912-04-18
Four Committees Named.

IL ieHItt' MIS-. Sluney Union Hlpley, MIS-
Charles Francis Roe and Mrs Wilbur Z.
Fisk
Four Committees Named.
At the meeting held yesterday Mrs Henry
was acclaimed chairman OF the committee.
and Mrs. Abram s. Hewitt, the hostess, a
woman ninety years active" was made
honorary chairman. Four committees were
appointed. Mrs. Henry is chairman Of the
finance committee with Mrs. James Her
man Aldrich, of No. 80 West 59th street.
as assistant treasurer. to whom all checks
should be sent. Twenty-seven hundred dol
lars has already been subscribed, and more
comes TO the treasurer by every mall. Mrs
Russell Sage gave $500 Mrs. Aldrich $50
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock 800, Mrs Ripley
500, Mrs. Hewitt 800, Miss Hewitt 800, Mrs
Wilbur Fisk $3.50 and so on through the
lists
Mrs. Edward r. Hewitt was appointed
chairman of the housing committee, Mrs.
Henry of the entertainment committee and
Mrs. Paul Dana OF clothing.
The plans are not yet complete. of course,
but the following is the general programme
to be followed by the woman's relief COM
mttee: Fifty women will be on the dock
to meet the steerage women on the Car
pathia. among them being the officers, ten
trained nurses chosen from forty or more
who have volunteered their services, ten
deaconesses and ten Little Sisters OF the
Poor. A supply OF emergency clothing,
long cloaks. skirts shoes and hats, will be
on the dock for the destitute passengers,
1, nd t.vfth
only the clothes they had on their backs
when the crash came
Many Of them will still be practically
destitute" Mrs. Henry explained to report
ers yesterday afternoon at her home, No.
SO West 9Th street. "lt Is extremely doubt
full IL the people on board the Carpathia
would be able 10 relieve the steerage women
TO any extent Their first services would
be TO the first and second cabin passen-
gers. Mrs. Astor Is reported TO have been
found in a nightgown and macintosh, and
probably her fellow travellers were In the
same plight There would be first cabin
passengers on the Carpathia who would be
able to spare things for them. but prob
ably there are few steerage passengers on
her. the number going TO Europe does not
here so doubtless the steerage women will
need coats and shoes on the dock
Places OF Shelter Ready.
No We shall not have any physicians
with us. The Board Of Health will look
out for that part of the work. as, of course,
the regular immigration officers at Ellis
Island cannot make the usual examinations.
The steerage women. like the others, will
be brought Immediately to the dock i'm
migration as well as Custom House for
malities being dispensed with. The nurses
with US will be able to care for those who
are nervousy exhausted, and medical as
sistanCe will be secured as soon as possible
after the people are taken TO their desu-
nations The same is true of religious SER
vices There will be no clergymen In our
little company. but the deaconesses VIII
offer what spiritual help they can.
I'VE shall have carriages waiting to take
the survivors to places where they can be
sheltered AS much as is possible they
will be kept together. The young girls and
unmarried women will be taken to the
Junior League House. in East 18th street,
where preparations are being made Tor
about seventy. Two hundred married wom-
en- and their children are to be cared for
at the Working Girls Home OF the New
York Association of Working Girls Societies,
NJ which Miss Virginia Potter is president,
while babies and their mothers will be
taken in at the various day nurseries.
I'VE shall try before everything else not
IN separate families-they'v had separa-
tions enough already. And the reason we
are sending them to institutions instead OF
into nrivate homes or hotels, where only
single families could be accommodated Is 90
that they may have the companionship OF
those who have been with them through all
these terrible days. Also. they VIII be In
the hands Of trained nurses, physicians and
social workers, who will give them ali the
nhvsical comforts they can and human
svmnatby through all the hours OF the day
and night.
..That Is what we want this committee
a. stand for more than anything else
human sympathy 1t may be expressed IN
oiotbirp and medicines; ii may be in tears
>, rit,, which stream down our cheeks
,horrb We cannot tell our sympathy In
words these foreign sisters can understand
h,, We want all Europe 10 know and to
feel that American women are their friends
and that when sorrow and disaster come
We omen our hearts 70 them
Eve need a great deal of money. you
sao because we have promised the federal
antborities to be responsible Cor these peo-
rIe not only In the immediate present out
"ntr every one Of them has been settled ss
comfortably as possible, They Will ail need
Letting of all kinds. and to get that We
ask for money and for old garments. espe-
tally underwear, cloaks and suits. Or
course we don't know how many women
thera are. or how many children. or what
tbev need most. That is why we prefer
s,fts Of money. though probably all sensi-
6Ia serviceable clothing could be used.
1--WE shall appoint some central receiving
.Hce nossibly an armory building. where
oIothing may be sent At present 1t should
no sent to Mrs. Paul Dana, No. IA F1fth
avenue. chairman of the clothing commit
roo We shall call. too, for volunteer work
ors who will come TO the srmory. sort the
c,otb,ng. and carry it to the needy ones.