New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-05
SING SING JAIL GUARDS
AID FLOOD SUFFERERS
State Prisons 127 Employees
Send Collections to
the Red Cross.
FUND GAINS $4,000 MORE
Much of the Money Telegraphed
Direct to the Stricken
Districts in the
West.

Among the contributors 10 the Red
Cross fund for the relief of flood victims
yesterday were the wardens and guards
OF Sing Sing prison. One hundred ana
twenty-seven of them gave amounts vary
ing from so cents to s.. and sent total
of sl75 TO Governor Sulzer. The latter
sent the money to Jacob H. Schiff. treas
urer of the Red Cross. in this cry.
where IL was received late in the AFTER
noon. Warden John :. Kennedy had
charge of the fund.
The Merchants Association swelled the
Red Cross fund by $4,000. making total
of $500 turned over TO them IN the last
few days. Among the other amounts re-
ceived directly by the Red 'ross' OF
turned over to it by outside sources
were 81. coo from the American Brake Shoe
and Foundry Company. the Otis Elevator
Company, S2.Cc0; readers Of The Brook
lvn Eagle" S7i9 20; the Chamber OF COM
merce. 500: citizens of Trenton, y. j.
- 90: readers of The Lancaster Penn.)
Intelligencer." sos u. Charles b. Knox
Johnston. y. Y. $500.
\. Schrader's Sons. $50: Scott & BOVINE
$50: the village of Falconer. y. Y, s25' 10
the Thomas Hunter Association OF Gram
mar School 49, S2c; the Joint board oil
the Cloak and skirt Makers Union. $2W'
through the Corn Exchange Bank. slsi %
employees OF the Ramapo Iron Norhs'
SOL -: the Jewellers Board Of Trade
$3.50: the Oneida County Branch Of the
Red cross, s2osos. the West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company. N.Op' May
Irwin. from a benefit performance AT the
George NJ Cohan Theatre. So.
An additional 5000 was forwarded to
the Washington Office of the Red cross
yesterday. making S55.0o htt las
been sent to date. The total cortfI-
buttons to the Red Cross in New YORK
are now over $4,000 other funds which
were telegraphed direct to Ohio for in
slant use total IN the neishbornood Il
$500
The total amount collected yesterday
was In the neighborhood Of $1,000. III
that amount nearly N.pJ was raised by
the Citizeuq Committee. George J. "ou'd
contributing 80. the Knickerbocker lee
Company 600 Leonard NJ Thomas ana
Judge David Leyeniritt. 500 each.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. chairman oil
the National Red Cross relief board, VINO
has Just returned from Ohio. said IN a
letter to Mrs W *. Draper. secretary OF
the New York State Red Cross. yesterday
that the loss OF life would not be a. great
as AT first indicated. but that the prop
erty loss was tremendous. and the mum
tuItgtHuulg nave
been made dependent and are "a want
was appalling.
Reports from other sources, Mrs.
Draper said. indicated that the rchahiii-
taiion II the vast section Of the country
would be- the greatest work ever at
tempted by the American Red Cross. II
IS expected that IL will cover period OF
AT least a year. and that a vast amount
OF funds in addition to the large amount
already collected and forwarded To the
sufferers by the Red Cross. Will be
needed
The work will be done by experienced
workers" Mrs. Draper said, sent To the
districts by the Red Cross. as well as by
the institutional members of the society,
consisting OF charity organizations on
the ground The workers are all sustained
by the Red Cross. which under It's char-
ter is permitted 10 cxpcnd per cent OF
the funds for administration purposes.
Mrs. Draper added. however. that the
society mad never spent this allowance
In the relief Of the Titanic SURVIVORS
nothing was expended for administration
purposes. she said. and very little was
used that way I'm the work done by the
society In the Italian earthquake, the
San Francisco earthquake or other dis
asfere.