New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-13
Century Opera Singers
Expect to Entertain Dis
tinguiShed Audience.
SOCIETY TO HELP
WAR RELIEF WORK
Robert Bacon Tells of Services
Performed by Americans
in Paris.

The Red Cross benefit performance
at the Century Opera House tomorrow
evening promises TO be brilliant sf-
fai-. The list of patronesses includes
Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlee, Mrs. William
Howard Taft. Mrs. John Henry Ham
mond, Mrs. Norman Whitehouse, Mrs.
Anthony j. Drexel Biddle, Mrs. Nicho-
Ia Murray Butler, Mrs. o. H. P. Bel
mont Mrs. Philip Lydig, Miss Mabel
Boardman. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,
jr, Mrs. John PuToy Mitchell, Mrs.
Charles S. Whitman, Mrs. JACOB Schiff,
Mrs. George G. Riggs, Mrs. David II.
Greer and Mrs. Frederick W. Wander
bilt.,
The Mayor and his wife, as we'll as
Borough President and Mrs. McAneny,
will occupy boxes. Mrs. Walter Irwin
will have under her direction fifteen
young women who will sell librettOs
and programmes. The ticket Committee
includes Miss Ethel barrymore, Miss
Alice Fisher, Miss Louise Drew, Miss
Billie Burke, Miss Ann Murdoch. Miss
Jane Cowl and Mrs. William Faver-
sham, and the souvenir committee, Mrs.
Joseph Bourne, Mrs. Gouverneur Con-
verse, Mrs. George Etheridge, Mrs. H.
Snowden Marshall and Mrs. Charles
Cakes.
The opera will be Romeo and Ju-
liet." Following the performance a re-
ception will be held in the library Of
the theatre. Afterward supper will be
seed. American flags and flower will
be used to decorate the great theatre.
Tuesday evening Carmen" will be
sung, also for the benefit of the Red
Cross fund. Miss Mabel Boardman will
be present at this performance. Mrs.
John King Van Rensselaer, has pre-
sented Miss Kathleen Howard with a
pack of Spanish gypsy playing cards
for the singer to use in the title role
Charles Elliott Warren, president Of
the Lincoln National Bank, has an
nOunced that in four days 1908 has
been received for the Belgian Wom-
enb Dollar Fund" One contributor
gave 81 for "a lady and her maid" and
another 50 For Ny Belgian Soldier"
Contributions amounting to 1903 81
came in yesterday to Jacob II. Schiff.
treasurer Of the New York State Board
Of the American Red Cross for the
European Relief Fund. The total con
tIlbutions to date are $ll42S6 SO. Mrs.
Edward S. Hardness has giver $1,000.
A cable message was received yes
torday from Robert Bacon, former
United States Ambassador to France.
who is in Paris, telling of the work
being done there. He said:
1.-THE American hospital is doing
splendid work. Three hundred beds
only can be maintained for about
three months on the amount Of the
present actual subscriptions. The
wounded of all nations will be welcome.
The organization is admirable at the
Lycee Pasteur. where the capacity is
1000 beds, all of which could be filed
The professional work is of the high
est order. The ambassador, Mr.. Her
rick, appeals for the support of all
Americans for this present humanl-
tartan and charitable work. which is
consistent with the stricteSt neutral
ity."
II is estimated that 100000 will be
needed. Americans in Paris have SCI
about raising S250,000, and an appeal
has been made TO Americans in this
country to contribute an equal amount.
The fund yesterday had reached total
of $4,000 J. 7. Morgan & Co., at %
Wall ST., receive subscriptions.
About $2,508 was added yesterday TO
the Belgian Relief Fund, at 10 Bridge
It., OF which J. p. Morgan g. Co. is
depository. This made the total $ll,-
l53.