Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-02
CITY'S POOR CALL
FOR HELP IN FACE
OF HARD WINTER
Aid Committee Urges I'm
mediate Help to Relieve
Conditions of Needy and
Unemployed.

Requests for help are 1oodlng the head
quarters of the Emergency Aid Commit
tee and various receiving stations, and
unless Phiadelphians come forward now
many poor families here and in Europe
will have To spend their Christmas with
out home or food.
When the call went out for money to
stock the Thelma and orn, city and state
responded nobly and surpassed the
sounded that will strike closer home to
lberal-hearted Philadephians.
Every day the clty's list Of poor and
starving increases. and when the belated
cold weather sets in there will be untold
misery and suffering, charity workers say.
Families that last year had comfortable
little homes are walking the streets today,
ragged, hungry and homeless. The army
OF the unemployed Is receiving new re-
cruits daily and little children are crying
from dingy rooms in cold, miserable teno
ment houses for food.
Unless these cries are answered soon
there win be no need for answering them
here. There are little children walking
the streets barefooted today who last
Christmas were watching and " waiting for
the Santa Claus who they knew was
coming.
CALL FROM EUROPE.
While these calls are being sounded al
our own back doors, the cry from across
the ocean for food clothing. physicians,
medicine and bandages grows constantly.
Wounded soldiers in all of the beligerent
nations of Europe are dying by the hun
dreds because OF inadequate hospital ac-
commodations, the lack of medicine and
physicians
The endowment OF a ward In the Ameri-
can Ambulance Hospital in Paris was dis
cussed by members of the Emergency
Aid Committee yesterday. This will re-
quire the expenditure of $4,000, but the
pressing need Of such an endowment was
pointed out by Francis e. Drake, secord
Vice president of the American Chamber
of Commerce of Paris.
Money for endowIng the ward, which
will be known as the Philadelphia ward
will be raised Immediately. The $4,000
will be collected by the following commit
tee, who volunteered TO take up the work:
Mrs d. Brnden Kyle, Mrs. Charles Platt,
Jr; Miss Frances Brinley Wharton, Mrs.
Frank Il, Grlswold, Mrs. Cornelius Steven
son, Mrs William ]. Taylor, Mrs Rollln
II. Wilbur. Mrs. A. c. Munozy Mrs. John
r. Dcaver, Mrs j. William White, Mrs.
Stanley G. Flagg, Jr.. and Mrs. David
Werner Amram,
The Emergency Aid Committee has
been doing great work in relieving suf-
fering at home and abroad at the same
time. 1t has sent carload after carload
OF food TO Belgium, France, Austria and
Germany for the starving noncombatants
and clothing and medical supplies TO the
hospital corps OF all the warning nations,
and at the same time has answered the
thousands of calls nearer home-right here
in Philadelphia.
The funds and food supplies that could
e. (. .1r-D
inR'E To- GEa will be turned over TO the
Belgian relief Nund today by the News
paper Publishers Committee. over and
above the amount actually paid for the
eargoss OF the Thelma and Orn there is a
balance OF $20s95.57.
COMMITTEE ISSUES APPEAL.
The Home Relief Committee, which Is
caring for the poor or Philadelphia, has
issued an appeal for clothing In fair con-
ditlon, free from .contaglon, for distribu-
tion in this city, The committee has
been receiving many cast-ofr garments,
so badly worn or so soiled as to be worth
less. Donations of broken toys, which
have been received In abundance also,
cannot clothe the poor The Supply Com
mittee which is now located in the Lin
coin Building. is receiving hundreds OF
requests for free material.
Benefit performances being given all
over the city by persons OF all nationali-
ties are doing much toward swelling the
fund OF the committee, Three Polish So
cietles last night gave a performance of
'koseiuszko at Raclawce' at the Ma
tional Theatre for the Polish relief fund
Other societies are giving performances
on minor scale, the proceeds of which |
are being turned over to the Emergency
Aid Committee.
Gay Paree' before the war. or at least
that exclusive business centre OF frances |
WaIV at1N lw..sa
will be reproduced ON a miniature scale |
at the made In America Fete' in Horti- |
cultural Hall on December H. Is and l6, |
according to Mrs. Arturo de Hereen, |
chairman of the French booth, which will |
be big feature Of the winters charitable |
work Of the Emergency Aid Committee.
Mrs de Hereen and her committee are |
making a collection of things chic and |
dainty, which delight the Partisan |
woman's heart, and which are bound TO |
delight her American sisters. The deco /
rations of the French booth will be IN the |
tri-eolor Of red. white and blue. festooned |
and woven amid floral centrepieces and |
trailing vines.
Under Mrs. de Hereen's directions the
following committee is working hard TO
perfect the tiny la Rue de la PaiN':
Mrs, Andrew Wheeler, Mrs d. Pearson
Peace. Miss Marie Louise Wanamaker
Miss Mary Brown Warburton, Miss Kath-
. crime II. walsh Miss Edwina e. Bruner
Mrs. John shipley Dixon and Miss Kath-
Arine II. Kremer.
AThe following society women have
volunteered to serve as patronesses for
thA might In Bohemia" which the Pen
and, Pencil Club win give in the Belle
vueAstratford Hotel on Thursday, De
cemher 10, the proceeds to be given in
part 70 the Home Relief Division OF the
Emergency Aid Committee:
Mrs. A. ]. Cassatt, Mrs. E. T. stotes-
bury. Mrs, J. Willis Martin, Mrs Cor
nelius Stevenson, Mrs. John c. Groome
Mrs. Norman Jackson Mrs c. c. Har-
rlson, Mrs. William Z. Scull. Mrs. VIII
liam L. Mclean, Mrs, Edward Brown
ing. Mrs. John r. Fell Mrs. Alexander
Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. Theodore Voor-
hees. Mrs. George QuintaFd HOrwitz,
Mrs. william ]. clothier and Mrs. Bar.
clay n. Warburton.