The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-31
SHIPS 100000 FOOD
CARGO FOR BELGIUM
Vessel Will BE Hurried TO Re-
licvc Famine Stricken
Millions.
MORE GIFTS OF MERCY

Word that 1000. 900 persons, old and
young. women and children. arc starving
lin Belgium opened up the great heart
Of America yesterday AS a result $780,
600 worth Of food will start from New
York IN a special steamer within the week
.hc Belgian relief committee has CON
ributed sljo000 as It's share and the
london American committee, through
Thomas +. Ryan contributed the other
Sl'u,ooO. As q matter Of fact MIR. Ryan
and Henry ". Dr Fore vt are the com
mttcc to direct the shipment 1t will 60
through without any lost time. for the
rail- oads are going to carry all supplies
free and the Bush 7 rminal Company
is going to receive AL supplies ana MOI
charge for duckuE
Mr. Ryan Inns II. IL was announced.
contributed IA ok FOR $4,000. but some
persons hint that this sum IL only u frlc-
lion OF what hp has gwen and viii give.
lie return Il from Europe short time ago
and has an idea OF what the war means
The s3Vn,onn set aside yesterday for inn
mediate Use was only a part ~ what was
done The New York stat" board Of the
American Red cross received S2O,72i. So
which was sent to Jacob H. SchifI. treas
urer The total amount received to date
Is s3iI.S5259
The Merchants Association received
f4oO yesterday for the American Red
Cross
The fund for the relief Of the women
and children ~ France was augmented by
$50. making a total Of S22.9g3.2S.
J. T. Morgan 4 CO. received sl.6S442
for the American Ambulance Hospital In
Paris. This brings the total sum up to
sl0gS210G
The Dollar Christmas Fund. organized
few days ago with Henry Clcws as
treasurer, received $3.50 yesterday. A
cable message was received from London
that the shilling Christmas fund there
now amounts to s2j0.O00.
The mercy fund received SiOg5. The
total is now sli.l3o. August Belmont
treasurer of the fund. announced that one
az the donors yesterday was Cardinal Far
ley who sent 500. while Robert Fulton
Cutting sent $500
People who wish to know how they
may expend their energies for war relief
In cooperation with the Red Cross may
learn ut the new branch OF the soc ~
a. 66l Fifth avenue near Ffty-secoHd
street. The office. the use OF which has
been donated, Is fitted as an information
bureau and distribution centre.
\ group OF very well known y " York
women headed by Mrs T. ST. John Gan
my We OF the American Consul General
at Munich, Bavaria. will accept subscrp-
lions for an American Red Cross Hospi-
tai in the Bayarlan city Thu contrihu.
tons should be Mt direct TO Mira.
Gaffnoy.
The committee Of mercy has hn.she
all ARRANGEMENTS for the fashion fetc at
the Ritz-Carlton on the night Of Novem-
her, 4. Fifty very beautiful women are
to appear In $4,000 worth of gowns and
furs and 100000 worth OF Jewels that
night. They are going to sell some OF
the gowns for the fund There arr going
to be tabloauN ana all sorts of enter
taiuments. The mod Is are going To be
women Ike Marie Doro. Edith Wynn
Matthison. Jane Grey. Fritzl Schen and
other ornaments Of the stage.
The benefit OF Mrs. Maude Nissan.
scheduled for sunday evening at the Park
Theatre, has beer postponed one week.
They are very busy. very generous out
in New Jersey. The German Austro-
Hungarian Relief Fund OF Passaic now
amounts to Sl5.536.2l. The women OF
Bayonne will have a sewing bee which
will make the oldest inhabitant forget his
records on November - at tht First
for the needy OF Belgium. Mrs Fielder.
wife OF the Governor, is going tu m Ike
a speech that day. Several tons Of CLOTH
ing have been collected hy the Princeton
students for Belgium. They have a num-
her Of bandage clubs In full swing at the
university. Mrs. John Grier Hibbcn, wife
OF the president. has distributed winding
machines among the clubs and even the
football men are busy at work winding
bandlges.