New-York tribune., 1914-11-13
YANKEE REFUGEES
STARVING in PARIS
Appeal for Immediate Aid
for Americans Re-
CeiVed Here.
WOMEN AMONG
SUFFERING HOST
Relief Funds Throughout City
Show Gains Clothes for
Belgian Infants.

Conditions among American refugees
IN Paris are heartrending. according
to Edith Wharton. the novelist. Mrs.
Wharton yesterday cabled Norman
Hapgood, of the Committee of Mercy,
an urgent appeal for help. She said
that she was organizing. "in cooper
alton with American friends, American
hotels for American refugees" The
need, she added, was immediate and
imperative. These Americans in Paris
are mainly men and women who were
employed there with American firms
or otherwise, and as their ties are
there and there is nothing for them
on this side of the water, it seems
necessary TO keep them until condi-
tions become more settled and they
can resume their occupations.
The Park Theatre vaudeville benefit
for the Committee Of Mercy last Sun
day brought 1889. OF this Sl3S went
70 the Actors Fund. the remaining
Sl,25l to the committee. This makes
the total to date $26,765. Individual
by the treasurer, August Belmont, in
cluded the sum of $1,000 sent anony
mously; 5000 sent by Mrs. Marcus
DAILY. OF Hamilton, Mont; 500 sent
by Mrs. j. Todhunter Thompson, New
York; 500 sent by Miss Jennie r.
Thompson, New York. and Sl6S 56 sent
by the Brick Presbyterian Church Of
East Orange. \. j.
Columbia University Is now organ
ling TO help the war sufferers. Bar
nard girls Will give production Of
Les Femmes Fortes" at the Brinker
hof Theatre tomorrow, the proceeds
Of which will go for general relief on
the other side.
The Vacation War Relief Committee
has found it necessary TO procure n
special workroom TO carry out an order
received at headquarters yesterday.
The order is for 81 900 worth of wear
ing apparel for men, women and chill
dren. The clothing will be sent 10 the
destitute Belgians who have been taken
in by Christ College, at Oxford.
Aid for Both Sides.
Among the checks received yester-
day by this committee was one for 500
from Mrs. Walter Damrosch for medl-
cal supplies for the German soldiers
and al anonymous one for SlOO Tor
medical supplies for the Allies.
The nurses Of the New York Hospital
are also working for the Belgians-
especially for the babies. The work
room az the Nurses Club, 8 West ga
ST., looks like a wholesale nursery be-
cause of the little coats and dresses
and skirts and slips piled up there. IL
= 41,- n
be moved to contribute some dolls.
Some baby blankets also are needed:
Mrs. BENJAMIN S. Guinness cables
from London her thanks to the Brltlsh
War Relief Association for the "splen-
did case of clothing received All the
clothing she sends on to Queen Mary
Needlework Guild. The association is
making an appeal for money to send
anasthetics. having received cable
message from DR.. Bogg that the
wounded are suffering very much for
the lack Of chloroform and ether.
Yesterdays contributions 10 the Bel
gian Relief Fund amounted to SO,
597 80. This brings the total 10 date
up to S447,948 5S.
Some of the larger contributions
yesterday were:
s5ss7 - from The Providence lomnal'' relief
fund. S519 from citizens o. Po'sdam ana t,u-
,ant. ~, po,sdam Normal School. $40 - from
children Of our school liilsoaIsh ,lo, si9o ir2m W
NJ iit,,s1s- slo0 from Or. Edwin Dorr. 500 from
Miss B Fish: 500 from Mrs. Frances " lseeIg; 9g;
Sil2 from collections taken IN \eiime: $40 rom
"a csrl nartv al a country club: $3.50 from John
D. Parsons $3.50 from Ms. John l. Parsons. 90 20
unbiicen' .: 5000 from Paul Bronnon Careth; 500
irom Miss Emma c Jones: 500 from Miss Run
I'm .dyaTd. Sl0O from Miss II. H. LOwndes. 500
non, Mrs Alexander Graham Bell, and 500 from
Mrs c n. Williams