New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
Gives 1t for Wallace Irwin
Book, Thinking It's His
Very Own Work.
FIFTH AVENUE
CENTRE OF FUNDS
Headquarters and Shops Fill
Thoroughfare with Appeals
for Aid.


Bangs, Rupert Hughes, Ellis Parker
Butler and various other authors went
through a trying experience ST the
Hotel Plaza yesterday for the benefit
/ Of the women and children OF Belgium.
IL was sale Of autographed books
gathered from many sources, and the
men mentioned were among those who,
IN addition 10 contributing books, act
ed as auctioneers. They were not re-
| CURED to Bell their own books, but
/ they had TO stand by while some other
author labored to raise the bids on
/ their productions.
Mr.. Cobb bought a Wallace Irwin
I book for 81 90 and complained that he
had been 'stung," as he bid under the
/ characterization that il was one Of his
/ own works. Prices went all the way
! from 81 10 $50. The latter was bid for
book BY Maurice Maeterlinck, by
/ whose suggestion-cabled from France
some time ago--this sale was held.
About $1,000 was realized from the
books and autographed Christmas
cards. There was dancing in the in
/ tervals Of the auctioneering and tea
was served.
Upper Fifth av. is becoming q CEN
/ ire Of relief headquarters and shops.
/ The one that attracted the biggest
crowd yesterday was the one just
| opened by the Daddy Long-Legs
League, Just above 57th ST.. 70 sell
Daddy Long-Legs dolls for the benefit
of the children's department of the
| State Charities Aid Association. The
/ whole orphan asylum from the play Of
Daddy Long-Legs" was there, and these
/ small actors and actresses, in their
| blue Bingham, took turns al mounting
a high ladder Just inside the window
/ and reckoning people in.
$4,000 for Mercy.
II was announced yesterday that the
! Committee of Mercy Fund had passed
/ the $4,000 mark. The exact amount
/ of the total receipts TO date is $780,,
| 365 30. Among the items acknowledged
/ yesterday by August Belmont, the
/ treasurer, was a partial return Of 81
500 from Louis Sherry, gross receipts
| at his establishment on December 10,
/ and $500 from the Theodore r. Starr
/ firm of jewellers. partial return from
4 10 per cent Of their receipts the same
! day.
The fund for the American Ambu-
| lance in Paris was increased yes
/ terday by contributions amounting
/ TO $4,000 Yesterdays contributions
to the Red Cross were S1,5l7 -, which
| made the total TO date S400,930 81. The
! fund for the relief of women and chill
/ dren in France, of which Mrs. Whitney
Warren, of Is East 47th ST., is treas
urer, reached S42.354 II yesterday.
Clothing is almost as welcome as
money or food, and within the last ten
] Acxr mil % l..
organized for the special purpose of
gathering up New York City's spare
garments and sending them to the war
sufferers. Mrs. John Macarthur, of 346
West saith ST., formed the committee,
which includes Mrs. Charles S. Whit
| man and Mrs. John Purroy Mitchell.
/ Circulars are being sent TO many hum
/ dreds of homes, and within a week
wagons will call for the clothing which
/ il is hoped will be given in response.
/ Fifteen women are appointed a sub
committee TO pack and ship the cloth
| ing.
! 1t is intended TO make this clothing
committee a permanent institution, and
when the war is over needy people in
/ New York will be helped. Mrs. Frank
Mason, wife of the former Consul Cen
eral at Paris, is chairman.
Food for Belgians.
The steamship Neches, with 5000
tons OF food for the Belgians, sailed
yesterday from the Bush Terminal, in
Brooklyn. The entire cargo, which
consists chiefly of -four, sailed meats
and other food, valued at 100000, was
purchased by the Rockefeller Founda-
ton. The contributions TO the Belgian
Relief Fund amount 10 date 70 $685.
79O.
The woman's section of the Commits
sion for Relief In Belgium states that
the miners of the Couer d'Alene dis
trict. in Idaho, are sending contribu-
tions in the name of the woman's sec
ton. One town gathered $4,000 and is
still soliciting. With this money food
is purchased and shipped from Port
land, Ore, in one of the commissions
steamers.
The United States Postofice Depart
ment has come TO the aid Of the Bel
gian Commission. Postmaster General
Burleson yesterday notified Linden W.
Bates, the chairman, that an arrange
ment has been completed whereby il
will soon be possible for givers to the
Belgian fund TO send contributions OF
food by parcel post.
Tomorrow at Clarke's Art Galleries.
5 West 44th st., will be opened an ex-
hibition of he pictures and other art
objects that are TO be sold at the Hotel
Plaza on the evening Of December l9
for the relief Of the families Of French
and Belgian artists. Tea. will be
served tomorrow. The headquarters
of the artists relief fund are 10 West
3sth 81.
The "Appui aux Artistes" in Paris,
organized through the gifts Of Ameri-
cans, has forwarded a report to Miss
Malvina Hoffman, its representative in
America. The "Appui" has established
seven csnteens in the artist quarters,
where meals are served TO hungry
artists, travelling expenses are being
paid of artists from other countries
who wish to return home, and clothing
is being forwarded by Miss Hoffman.
Gifts Of money may be sent to Miss
Hoffman at 10 Broad st., to be for
warded by J. P. Morgan & Co.
The old Calumet Club, at 29th st.
and Fifth av., whose proud boast IL
was that no woman ever entered its
doors, except one who tainted In the
street one day and had to be taken in
till the ambulance came, is now over
run with women. The owner Of the
building, Henry Hollins, has given il
rent free for the use of the Home Bu-
reau, organized TO relieve conditions
caused here by the European war. Any
thing, no matter what, from an old
stove TO a dressing gown, from a doll
to a pair Of boots, sill be received.
Thomas W. Slocum is chairman, and
among the committee heads are Miss
Anne Constable. Miss Juliana Cutting
and Mrs. Oren Root. Articles out Of
repair will be fixed up by girls now on
the list Of the unemployed and sold in
salesrooms to be opened at the bureau.
The charge will be merely nominal, SO