The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24
WAR RELIEF FUNDS
TOTAL is S674,65O
Charity Horse Show for Red
and White Crosses Will Be
Held Dee. Z to ~.
FASHION FETE on NOV. 4

ut sum W NbHfsOoVsN' NUS luhN iti
been received by the several war relief
funds. Many activities now being planned
promise to yield large returns for the aid
OF the destitute and suffering
Contracts were closed yesterday for the
rental Of the Madison Square Garden for
the week of December to December IL
inclusive, when the Charity Horse Show
will be held for the beneft OF the Red and
White Cross societies under the patron
age Of the Committee Of Mercy
Active management Of the show will be
In the hands OF G. Jason Waters and
Henry Blitz OF the American Horse Show
Association. A prize list OF $4,000 will
be issued this week for the entry OF Amer
ica's highest class stock. and a response
from horse owners throughout the country
Is expected.
The sale OF tickets will he In charge Of
the Committee OF Mercy, OF which the
officers and members include the follow
Ing Honorary president. Euhu Root :;
vicc-presidents Miss Katharine -. Davis,
Charles w. Eliot. Mrs j Borden Harri-
man. Mayor Mitchell and Norman Hap
good treasurer, August Belmont chair
man OF finance, Fred H. Allen general
committee. Vincent Aston Mrs August
Belmont. Samuel Lewiston. Prince Paul
Tfoubctskoy. Mrs Harry Payne Whitney
and others
\ jury OF seven society women has been
chosen as a committee OF experts 10 pass
upon tho original gowns and hats to be
exhibited at the Fashion Fete the pro-
ceeds of which are TO 20 to the Committee
OF Mercy and which will open at the RITZ
Carlton on the evening of November T.,
continuing two days. The Jurors are Mrs.
Arthur Scott Burden. Mrs J. Gordon
Douglas, Mrs James Il. Eustis. Mrs
Ernest Iselin. Mrs. ogden l.. Mills Mrs.
William Is Vanderbilt. Jr.. and Mrs
Harry Payne Whitney,. The exhibition
is to be entirely non-compettive. No
blue ribbons" will be awarded, and the
jury Is therefore a jury OF admission
only.
Contributions received yesterday BY the
various funds and the total subscriptions
follow
New York State Board OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross, Jacob II Schin, treasurer.
sl.G3G.3N; total, S2S2. OO6 30.
Relg'nn Relief Fund. sli,59o; total.
S203. 32i.69.
American Ambulance Hospital Fund.
Sl,99I36; total, S97,7O729.
French RELIEF Fund. collected by Mrs.
Whitney Warren, 10 East Forty-seventh
street; $25L50. ;otai. t21.950.3l.
The Prince of Wales National Relief
Fund. sl,03j.l5; total SG2.SS93s.
Fraternitc DIES Artstos, total, s6.772S7,
OF which Sl,26j was received from the
Society OF BeauX Ar.s Architects and
$500 from the Society Of Architects Diplo-
maed,
The city OF Toronto has voted $4,000
10 the 100000 fund which Nine Lalla
Nandcrvelde wife OF the Belgian Min
lister Of state, Is raising for the relief Of
BclgiaLs
An anonymous contribution OF $4,000
NJ ypp IN Ia Ia 1,
TO the Belgian Relief Fund.
1t hns been decided to open an in
| formation bureau az 66l Fifth avenue
between Ffty-secund and Fffty-third
! streets. in connection with the New York
Chapter OF the Red Cross woman's
auxiliary, with Mrs. Leonard Wood as
hartman, has been formed TO take charge
OF this branch OF the work
The Empire State Society, Sons OF the
} American Revolution, has decided TO post
pone its annual banquet, and suggests
/ that subscribers who would have pur-
chased tickets send their money 10 the Red
Cross or to any other relief fund
Keen Interest is being manifested in the
lart exhibition which VII. open In the
Pietro Studios Gao Firth avenue. OF
October 2s. for the benefit Of European
war sufferers.
Am ng the contributions to the melting
20, at the Red Cross Bazaar In the Grand
! Central Palace yesterday was al Old
! silver spoon which had been carried
! through the battle Of Waterloo by Will
lam Duff, n British soldier who was
decorated for bravery during the cam
pn,gu. The spoon was presented 10y his
daughter, SO years old
IN the art exhibit corner contributed hy
Frederick Kcppel Is proof etching Of the
Inflated Rheims Cathedral by Dewitt II
Tcssenden and the original medallion OF
Robert Louis Stevenson, 10y Saint Gaudens
Ms John Iuroy Mitchell win he
patroross Of the dancing the rest OF the
! Week. and Russell laLc and Miss Lois
Willard Will hold the floor. Mrs. Chester
Boyntoa and Mrs John Camp had charge
|, ( tho tea tables yesterday afternoon.
\ novel contribution to the cotton cor
ner OF THE EyENIHG SUN was mat
woven from cotton sent all the way from
tho Philippines.
Tickets for the benefit to be given foi
the Committee of Mercy at the Park Thea
tire November ! are selling rapidly
| Among the boxholdcrs Is Leon Schlnasi
who yesterday sent an order for 800
tickets at 81 each for his employees
Mss Mabel Rorrdmau, president OF tn
international Red Cross Society, an
nounccs that John y. Archer's operetta
THE Romany Maid" will he prescnte,
November In the Cascade ballroom
! OF the Fillmore for NE benefit OF th'
Red Cross Some Of the members OF IN,
cast are Mrs, william +. Irwin. who wa
Miss Gladys McAlpn; Mrs. Richard c
Hunt and Miss Eleanor 4. Nash.
/ Among the patrons and patronesses mr.
Mrs, Whiteaw Reid. MIR. and Mrs win
lam NJ Lcsher Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Har
r,man. VT and Mrs. Horace l.. Hotch
kiss, MIR, and Mrs, Charles Mallory, Mr.
and Mrs. Edmund A, Nash, Mr., and Mrs
| ~ NJ Carrerc Mrs George Clausen, Mr.
and Mrs Montgomery Hare Mr.. and Mrs
H. de berkeley Parsons. Mr.. and Mrs
Livingston Plat, Mr., and Mrs. John j
Ik"r and Mr. and Mrs. H. II. Hunt,
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