The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-17
.SUFFRAGISTS BUSY
 WITH RELIEF WORK
Abandon Cause" Temporarily to Bring Aid to Those Dis
 tressed By War.
LADY BARCLAY DOES
 AMBULANCE CORPS DUTY
Major Ketcham Tells of Experi- ences in Distributing U. s.
 Relief Funds.

in relieving distress caused by the war.
 The -for-wornen propaganda has been abandoned completely for the present and many Of the organizations are placing all of their resources at the service of needy women. In Lon- don alone there are some 50,000 women who were earning their own living be- fore the war but who have since be- come destitute, many facing starva- ton.
 The Active Service League of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which includes in it's ranks over 500 societies which have been working for suffrage by constitutional means, has an organized relief bureau in its offices in a shop on Parliament street, and the branch offices through out the country are also filled with sllffragists working for their country. The workers distinguish Themselves by wearing a uniform consisting Of a dark green coat and skirt, green felt hats, with badges and ties of red and greerl---the Unions colors.
 The assistance Of German women and girls stranded in London is in cluded in the relief program.
 The Union has had many offers of hospitality for stranded people, and many private school nadstresses have offered free education for daughters Of officers killed in action. Several vvorErooms have been started where nngs a week of 4o hours Trade Union rate---for making garments which are given to destitute people.
 Many pathetic cases have been aid ed A British girl a. children's nurse in Paris. arrived there after a four years engagement in eChile. She left Paris when a siege was threatened, leaving her luggage behind, and be- fore the Union found her she had been living for three days in London on bread and butter and tea.
 One woman offered hospitality to Belgian for sioIe month certain, " ex- blaming that her small Income had dropped one-third and she did not know whether at the end Of one month 1t would drop altogether or not. She was anxious while she could afford it to have so great a. privilege as that of giving shelter to a Belgian.
 Another woman who was at a small inn received two Belgian children. who were taken to her by a sunragist in a motor car Suddenly the children be- gan to shout for joy, for they recog- 11ized in the hostess of the inn their mother from. whom they had been sep arated during the war.
 An English woman doctor, married to a. German doctor has suddenly had
 
 husband having to live under the re- strictions of aliens, has lost all his practice.
 A Journalist. who had been canning $8 500 a year and was discharged by his paper. enlisted, as he was penni- less. If the wife gets all his pay end her war office alloWance she will only have about S5 a, week
 At Manchester work is being found in a warehouse for 500 women and penny dinners are provided At south arnpton the Art Gallery has been turned into womens WorlrooI In Dublin the suffragists by getting an army contract for a jam factory where a lot Of girls are employed saved 1t from closing down
 In Ambulance Corps.
 Lady Beatrix Barclay. the wife of Sir George Barclay. British minister at Bucharest, is one of the principal work ers4 in the Ambulance Depart ment of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem which is the senior Red Cross organization in lEngla5nd- Lady Barclay is an American, the daugh- ter of the late Henry G. Chapman of New York, and great great-graTid- daughter of John Jay, the first Amer ican minister to England.
 Five thousand men belonging to the St. John Ambulance Brigade have been m Obi1ize0s and are SGTV1Hgs W1CQ the British army and navy as hospi- tai orderlies, and several thousand more have volunteered for the work. The society has sent out 138 highly trained nurses to tend the wounded on the field and many more are in waiting Much of the work of the ambulance bearers. and even the nurses is performed under fire.
 The Duchess of Bedford and the Earl of Plymouth are two of the most active workers in the organization. Its activities are not limited to British soldiers and sailors, but its workers are instructed to tend the wounded of all nationaIities without discrimina- ton.
 Tells of U. S. Work.
 Major D. W Ketchan. one of the American army officers sent over to London to administer the fund appro- priated by Congress as a loan to stranded tourists, relates this expert ence Illustrating the faith of g. cer-3 erosity of Uncle Sam
 One day a young woman called at the majors office and said that she wanted the $500 due her.
 Thinking that she was one of those for, whom money had been deposited by friends with the state department. the officer asked for proof He got it. The tourist produced letter written to her by her father. In this letter the father said that Congress had appropriated S3oo,000 for the Americans in England. and dividing it by the number estimated to be there, he thought her pro rata should be $500, advising her to insist upon her rights.
 The applicant admitted having suf- fcient funds, but said she considered the money a form of compensation for the nervous strain of being caught in Europe in war time. She left Ma jor Ketcham's office with the air of one who had been deprived of her dues.
 Kitchener a sphinx.
 At least two American newspaper ,,,or, have tried fn make the-Ss1lI Iail1,r