New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
Kansas Responding with
$4,000 Barrels and
More to Go.
EACH WAR VICTIM
NEEDS 10 OF. A DAY
Cardinal Farley Orders Collec-
tion To-day Throughout Dio-
cese for War Relief.

Of -four and such root vegetables as
remain In the country the Belgians can
keep body and soul together.
Kansas is getting together q reply
20 this request in the shape Of 10000
barrels Of -four. which will be shipped
TO the Belgian non-combatants about
December /. w. +. Stubbs, former
Governor of Kansas, appointed by Gov
ernor Hodges TO take charge of the re-
lief work in Kansas, says his commit
tee hopes 10 have n second 10000 bar
rels Of flour ready to send shortly after
the first.
II was an inquiry from Mr.. Stubbs,
sent 20 American Minister Whitlock, as
to what the Belgians most needed from
America, that elected the cable asking
for -four.
Receipts Of the Belgian Relief Fund
are now well beyond the half-million-
dollar mark. 10 was announced yester-
day that the total to date was $685. ,359.
OF this S6,2s4 was contributed yester-
day. Some of the largest receipts were
81 500 from the Belgian Relief Fund
Of Utica, n. Y; the members Of the
North Presbyterian Church az Geneva,
n. Y, s400; Marie NJ. Benedict, $500;
additional contribution from "The
Waterbury Republican" 1891 go; Buff
falo Chapter Of the Society Danes,
5000; Charles T. Perry, 500; Francis
+ Robins, 500; Alexander Luchars,
500: {. l.. Gallatin, $500; tenth con-
tribution Of THE Providence Journal
1887; tea given BY the Catholic ladies
of the st. Catherine Aid Society, OF
Bisbee, sl59; Irving b. Kingsford,
500: additional contribution from
Francis d. Poilak, 500; "Good Sa-
maritan.' $3.50; Nathaniel Teadway,
SlO0; Mrs. r 3. Pratt, $500.
Dernburg Sends Sl.500.
Contributions came in steadily TO
the American Red Cross yesterday.
Jacob II. Schif announced that the
total was now 1892, ,9ll II. The receipts
Yesterday were S2,3S7 So, OF which
81 800 came through DR.. B. Dernberg
and 1869 from lecture by Frank Al
vah Parsons in Ethical Culture Hall.
The Red Cross sent Off another
group of nurses and surgeons yester-
day. There were two units, each con
sisting of three surgeons and six
nurses, and they went by the Red Star
Line steamship Finland, their ultimate
destination being Servia. Mrs. William
Kinnicut Draper, of the New York
County branch OF the Red Cross, said
last night that more nurses and sur
geons would be sent as soon as the
warring nations asked for them.
large consignment of medical and sur
cical supplies went also by the Fin
land.
Twenty thousand pairs OF woollen
blankets, supplied by the Eastern
Manufacturing Company and designed
especially for little, shiverng children
in Europe, were included in the Fin
land cargo. IL was said at the Red
Cross Headquarters that so much had
been done for the Prown-ups that ~
was time to do something particularly
for the boys and girls who suffer from
the war.
The little pickaninnies who live on
San Juan Hin are likely, II is said, TO
feel the dark effects of the war. The
Christmas tree which they have had
for the last few years, through the
combined efforts Of Miss Rosalie Jonas,
the poet. and the Rev. G.. II. Sims,
pastor of the Union Baptist Church,
ON West 63d ST., won't have many
presents on il unless some New YORK
people remember that the youngsters
aren't very much better of IN the
tenements of "Helis Kitchen than
are the children in Europe's war zone.
The little darkies have an added anX-
iety now, according to the following:
Ev'gwhere they havIn, wars;
Maybe he'll get shotted TOO.
I.m mos scared 10 de- because
Bad mems might hih santa Cisu'
Ogrcs nowadays can fy,
Spo.s they catch him passin' b.
With them BE gum girls an bo'
Christmas t0Sst
I'm So scared bout SANITY. nv
Seems as n I'd gotter cry.
All The chimlsys knocked away
All the chiUlu los or stray!
An it SaLy was 20 come
oh would ANYBODY. say. n-,
Blow up Sauty. Christmas Day.
Contributions for the Pickaninny
Christmas tree. either money or cast
off toys or clothing. may be sent to
Miss Jonas, at 50 East 56th ST., or to
the Rev. Mr.. Sims, az 2lO West SD 81.
The Committee OF Mercy Fund for
the relief of destitution among women
and children in Europe and those IN
the United States made destitute by
the absence Of the husbands and faith
ers al the front reached S41 ,249 yes
terday. Among yesterdays contribu-
tions were s192 realized from the sale
of Bauman Fashion Fete photographs
by the International News Service;
SlOO from "A Friend" 500 from
another Friend" 500 from William
VI. Mauren, Providence, and s267 from
Mrs. James II. Taylor, chairman Of the
committee in Clinton, y. Y.
Various entertainments are being
planned for the war relief funds. The
Niagara chapter Of the Imperial Order
of the Daughters Of the Empire will
give bridge party and dance at the
Hotel Martinique Tuesday evening.
The proceeds are to be used in sending
a graduate nurse and hospital supplies
TO England the first week in December
The patronesses are Lady Bennett,
wife Of the British Consul General;
Lady Hope. Mrs. j. Elliott Langstaff,
Mrs. James Holt and Mrs. Albert J.
Squier. regent of the chapter.
A Red Cross fete and tea dance was
given at Chiros, 8 East 46th St, yester-
day afternoon. Miss Joan Sawyer was
among those who danced.
At the direction Of Cardinal Farley,
the collections taken up IN the Catholic
churches of this diocese to-day will be
used TO help the war victims. A letter
from the Cardinal making a special ap-
neal for what he calls "the most urgent
and crying necessity ever known viii
be read by the various pastors at mass
to-day.