New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-13
PRESIDENTS GIFT
ABALE OF COTTON
Contribution TO Red Cross
To Be Sold by Auction
at Bazaar Here.
FARM PRODUCE
ALSO TO BE ON SALE
Salvation Army May Distribute
100000 to Relieve Wars
Distress.

President Wilson has made gift OF
his own bale of cotton TO the Red
Cross Bazaar and Universal Market. TO
be held NJ the Grand Central Palace
October % TO 81 This cotton, which
Mr.. Wilson bought few days ago TO
helm the South, will do double duty now
1 in helping the wounded in Europe. II
will be auctioned off on the last day of
the bazaar.
Secretary McAdoo has contributed
/ his bale of cotton also, and severa!
Washington bellies have given their
cotton frocks. Mrs. Nelson Herrick
Henry, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the bazaar, announced last
night that souvenir medals OF the ba-
Zaar would be aold at 10 cents apiece.
/ On one side will be President wilson 8
profile. and on the other the name and
date of the bazaar.
The vacation war relief committee
will have an exhibit at the bazaar.
In this booth will be girls at work on
1 Red Cross shirts and hospital supplies,
orders for which can be given by the
J public. Mrs. Martin II. Glynn has
agreed TO give her portion of Red
! Cross sewing TO the unemployed vaca-
| tion girls.
Among the contributions promised
are a carload Of farm products from
Mrs. Phoebe Wilets and friends OF
Cold Spring Harbor. and box of
flowers and fruit from Mrs. Fritz
Achels. of Seabright.
The next meeting of the women =
committee of one hundred will be held
! tomorrow morning ut the Hotel Bit
more.
One hundred thousand dollars will
be given to the Salvation Army for its
relief work in the war stricken coun-
tries Of Europe. provided certain condi-
tons are fulfilled. What these condl-
tons are was not revealed.
Commander Eva Booth announced
also that special preparations were
being made for the relief work in Hol-
/ land, where thousands of Belgian Tefu-
/ gees are in need. The plan has been
sent to Washington for the approval OF
/ the State Department, that there may
be no violation of neutrality.
Among the private houses which
have been turned over 20 the authorl-
ties of Great Britain for hospitals is
the London home Of Miss Fannie Ward
the actress. Miss Ward received a let
ter Yesterday from Winston Churchill
First Lord of the Admiralty, thanking
her for her generosity.
President Marshall, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge and Senator Hoke
Smith were among those who sent let
tiers of approval TO the Committee oi
Mercy yesterday.
The contributions to the American
Red Cross yesterday amounted ia
1870 40. bringing the total up "a
1921 .447 81. Among the contributors
were the Westchester County Red
Cross, S677 05; Christ Church. Oyster
Bay, S453 II; entertainment, Port
Henry, y. Y, sl43 81; st. Paups Prot
estant Episcopal Church. Duluth, Mimi.
S6s 81; First Presbyterian Church, Glen
Cove, 500 80, and concert, Skaneateles
y. V, 500.
The fund for the. relief of French
lected by Mrs. Whitney Warren, yes-
terday reached total of SIS. l62 81
Among the contributors were Ogden VI
Reid, $50; Miss Emily o. Butler, $50;
Mary Augusta Duer. $50; the Belgian
French Relief Committee. through Mrs
J. B. O'Donnell. 500; textile workers
in jamestown, y. Y, S138, and John W
Trinkle, 500.
Will II. Low. the artist, who lives at
Bronxvlle. yesterday sent out an APP
peal for help for the children of French
soldier artists The American Artists
Committee is collecting funds for these
children. The treasurer Of the fund is
William Bailey Faxon. 215 West 9th st
Rudolph CAM, the Swiss pianist. will
give a concert on Sunday. October 1S
at Carnegie Hall, for the benefit of the
Swiss Relief Fund.