New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-10
MONEY POURS IN
FOR WAR RELIEF
Women Raise $4,000 for
Paris HoSpital-English
Here Plan Concert.
ACTRESSES TO SELL
TICKETS IN WALL ST.
Red Gross Benefit at Century
Next Week-Silk Men Get
Many Subscriptions.

Although started only ten days ago
the fund which is being raised in this
country by a committee of women for
the American Ambulance Hospital in
Paris passed the $4,000 mark yesteT-
day, when 1887 poured into the Of
! fees of j. p. Morgan g. Co., 23 Wall st.
The committee in charge of the work
/ has set for itself the task of raising
S250,000. Contributions, which are re-
ceivcd by the Morgan firm, are daily re-
mitted by cable TO Paris.
The fund is to enable the American
Hospital in Paris, which was described
in an exclusive dispatch to The Tribune
yesterday, to meet the great demands
upon il during the war by the estab-
lishmcnt of an annex.
Not only the wounded Of all nation
alities, but refugees, irrespective of
country, will receive medical care at
the American Hospital. Plans for the
| accommodation of 1000 patients in the
annex are under way. The entire work,
including that Of the ambulance corps
on the field of battle, is in charge of
American physicians and nurses.
Among the larger contributions re-
celyed yesterday were:
Collected by Mr. L. D. Braudcgcc. N.GS3;
Mrs. William Y. Peters. $1,000: Mr.. Vincent
AStur 500: Henry :. Sharp" 500. Miss Anne
y. Jennings 500; Mrs. J. S. Goodwin, 500;
James J. Goodwin. 500: Mr.. and Mr.. }. 7.
Coolidge. $3.50: j. $: stevens. 500 Herbert
d. Robbins. 500: Mrs. Dean sage, 800; }.
a. Mitchell 800: Mrs. Fannie e. Barlow.
800; Evangaline ". Bashheld. 500. Char
lotte Il. Wibour. 500; l.. y. ThHyer. 500;
=, b. Hoffman. SOo; II; z, Small; agent
Florence Russell. 800.
The committee consists of the fol-
lowing.
Mrs. {. r. Alexander. Mrs Robert Bacon,
Mrs. August Belmont. Mrs. Edward Brande-
gee. Mrs. Lloyd Bryce. Mrs. Nicholas Muir
raw Butler MIS-. = 3. Bcrtron. Mrs. +. l..
ChuDin. Mrs. William GreenOugh. Mrs. T..
II. Hartman. Mrs A. Barton Hepburn Mrs
Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlee. Mrs. +. A. Sayles,
Mrs. !. Montgomery Sears Mr.. willard T..
Straight. Mrs. WhGelaw Reid. Sirs. Bayard
| Thaygr. Mrs. Richard Townsend, Mrs. Bar
rctt Wendell. Miss Maudc Wctmore and Mrs
Harry Payne Nhituey.
English Plan Concert.
Two hundred English men and wom-
en- met at the British Imperial Club
yesterday afternoon at the summons Of
Mrs. John +. Muir. founder of the club,
to organize the relief work which she
has initiated. Four committees were
formed, the first to collect money for
the Prince of Wales National Relief
Fund, the second 10 pack and ship gifts
of clothing, the third to organize a
mems field ambulance corps and the
fourth to equip and send out volunteer
nurses.
A concert October "a, at the Impe-
rial Club, at which Randall Hargraycs
is to sing, is expected to swell the
available funds. Tickets will be on sale
Saturday at Mrs. Hargrsves 100 Clare
/ mont av. The first or second week in
/ November an entertainment viii be
held at the Lyceum Theatre for the
same purpose. Those who wish @
send checks for relief work should
make them out to Lady Bennett, care
of the British Imperial Club, l0S East
Both ST.
Contributions for the relief q
wounded British soldiers and their
families are being accepted by two Or
CARNATIONS in New York City. The
Prince of Wales National Relief Fund
started by the Prince of Wales. is re-
. ceiving contributions at the Offices OF
! J. p. Morgan & Co. and of the secretary
Of the fund, r. NJ. Stuart Wortley, L;
% Broad st.
The Imperial Order, Daughters Of
the British Empire in the United
States, is collecting a British relief
fund. Checks are to be made payable
to Mrs. F. S. Woodcock, and contribu-
tions other than cash are to be for
warded to Mrs. George Quirk, at 100
Chambers ST., where the order has eS-
tablished temporary headquarters. The
British Embassy at Washington IS
supervising the distribution Of this
fund.
Forty prominent actresses will in
wade Wall ST. this morning in behalf
Of the Red Cross benefit at the Cen
fury Opera House Monday and Tues
day. Each will wear a Red Crosse
badge and will offer for sale Red Cross
packets containing tickets for the ben
eft.
The actresses will start from tie
home Of Mrs. Elmer Black, 6l2 Fifth
av, in ten decorated automobiles, in
command Of Miss Ethel Barrymore,
Miss Julie Opp. Miss Alice Fisher, Miss
Louise Drew, Miss Billie Burke, Miss
Molie Mcintyre, Miss Jane Cowl, Miss
Ann Murdoch, Miss Madgc Kennedy
and Miss Ruth Shipey.
NJ. w. Dippel, chairman of the spe-
cial relief committee, acting in behalf
Of the executive committee of the Silk
Association of America, announced yes.
terday that the following firms have
already contributed to the fund:
Morimura, Arh & Co. 500: National RIB
Ion Co. 500; United ri-re Dye Works 500;
\ +. Villa " Rrus., SlcO; J. I'ouruis & Co
sloO; !. H. q {. Is. Eagle. siQo; liadden =
90. 800; Hess. Goldsmith & CO.. 500: Silk
Finishing co. Of America, 500, Henry =.
Won Claim. 800; Read q Loyatt Manufac,-
urlug Co., $500 the New York Emmercn-
Dulsnu Co. $50. Paterson, Reed L Co. so,
Phalauu SILK Mil. so; Raw SIX Trading
90. So David Valentine. SO: the Pom En-
merlch- DOlson Co. $40. and the National
SILK Dyeng Co, 500.
More than $1,000 was added yester-
DAY to the relief fund for Belgian nom
combatsnts, of which Henry W. De
Forest & Co., % Wall ST., is depostary.
The fund now totals Ss,47S.
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