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the Travellers Aid Association.
Flags for Food Ships.


the Travellers Aid Association.
Flags for Food Ships.
The American Commission for re
lief in Belgium yesterday received al
vice from headquarters in London con
ccrning the flag which should be dls
played on every food ship which salls
from America TO relieve the starving
Be,gians. This flag IL twelve feet
square. OF white cloth, with these
words in red letters: Commission Bel
eian Relief. Rotterdam" All strange
craft are objects Of suspicion in the
North Sea these days. IL was said, ana
only the flying Of flag of this sort
will secure safety and prompt dock
ing for the American relief boats.
The Belgian Consul offers for sale
carload OF potatoes which were gwen
by the Rev Mr.. Nelebart, of SCOTS,
Vile. n. Y. to be sold for the relief
fund. W. N. White & Co., of 9S Park
Place, are selling agents. Bags con-
tanning 100 pounds of these potatoes
will be sold for 81 so, delivered.
The Belgian Relief Fund amounted
to $535,356 If. Among the contribu..
tors was "The Providence Journal"
sis0 SO.
The Dollar Belgian Fund, which
Henry Clews Is collecting, amounted
10 Sl5,4i2. Readers of "The Lancas.
ter Penn.) New Era" gave $21s, and
Mrs. William II. Forbes, Milton, Mass,
$50.
Mrs. Henry c. Phipps and Harold 5.
Vanderbilt each gave $1,000 to the
fund for the American Ambulance Hos
pital yesterday. The fund now amounts
TO $751; ,216 9S. Among the contribu-
tors were the Valvoline Oil Company,
$500; Elizabeth +. Migeon, $500, and
L. II. Budds, 500.
The fund for the relief of French
women and children amounted to $685.
226 Sc. The Jewish Relief Fund
amounted to S25,0l0 63.
Root Aids Mercy Fund.
Elihu Root gave $500 to the Com
mittee of Mercy Fund, which reached
a total of S42,761. The committee APP
propriated 81 900 for the relief of I'M
employed women in New York City.
This money will be administered by a
committee consisting Of August Bel
mont, Frederick II. Allen and Joseph
Price. The committee also gave $1,000
TO the French Relief Fund TO buy shoes
for the women and children of France,
in response to an appeal from Premier
HanotauX.
The Committee of Mercy will receive
the entire receipts from Sherry's res
taurant and bathrooms on December 2.
A large number of prominent women
will be patronesses.
The list includes:
Mrs e. H. Alexander. Mrs. Inslee Blair Mr.,
{. {. Cuyler Mrs. II. Fulton Cutting Mrs; James
GambrIi Mrs, Frank Graz Gri.woid Mrs j. Bor-
den Hartman. Mrs. Lydig Hoyi. Mrs. Arthur lse
i'm. Mr., Archer Huntington, MI, AI'9 YIN. GURUS l
Amos piurhot. Mrs James A Roosevelt Mrs. VIII
lam Douglas Sloane. Mrs William h. vanderbilt
Mr., French Vanderbilt. Mrs Vanderbilt and Mrs
Orme Wilson.
The Committee consists of:
J. Scarle Barclay. IT,. L. I. H. Belts 6, Z
Boi,sevsiu James A Burden. Frank CroWninshield
Ravlin, l. Coucnet Alphonso de Navarro. Jane
iienT &c q GRAY. Frank Gray Grisxoid Alnor &
Hodges Guy lowell. Philip VI Lldg. Henry h
Donald. Charles 4 Mum. Henry " MunFoe. Mon
cure Robinson. Victor Sorchou, Joseph sampson
Willard. Lloyd warren Robert y wrenn. j. Lori
mer Wordeu aud II. Rogers winthrop.
Niagara Chapter Of the lmperia
Order of the Daughters of the British
Empire gave a bridge party at the
Hotel Martinique for the benefit of The
British Red Cross yesterday. About
$500 was realized This will be spent
for surgical supplies, which will be sem
10 Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace
Three nurses will be sent with the
supplies. Sir Courtenay and Lady
Bennett were present with Lady
Hope and Lady Herbert. Mrs. Albert
]. Squier, regent Of the chapter was II
charge. assisted by Mrs. j.. Elliott
Langstaf, president Of the Imperla
Order.
The New York delegates of the Cen.
trail Association of the German Red
Cross Societies announced that more
than S576,671 II had been received
from various cities for the relief OF
wounded Germans. The New York Ger
man Relief Fund has collected 100000
Other cities collected the following
amounts:
Chicago. sA.l27: Baltimore. Sl0l 555: San
francisco. 80 900. Muscatine Iowa. Sls.lis; ~
Louis ti7 600. Boston. $1,000: Cleveland. SlOsoO
Los Angeles $4,000 Honolulu. 500 ooo 1 Si
porf Iowa S. 900. Kansas cts. No. s. ls3; Nep
urlesn, $40. Tacoma. fl.535. HobOkcn. $50
T columbus $iO2j. Charleston. 81 900: DeiToit
s. goo. Washington. S3ii9; Portland. Ne
Contributions amounting TO 81,
F 474 SO were received yesterday by
Jacob II. Schiff, treasurer of the New
/ York State Board of the American Red
I Cross, for the European War Relief
Fund. The total to date is S366,625 81
j. Horace Harding sent $1,000.