The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
NINE. VANDERVELDE
HERE TO AID BELGIUM
Wife Of Minister Of State Tells
of Suffering in Her
Stricken Land.
HOPES TO RAISE S1,OOO,OOO
DECEPTION Held in Her Honor in
APARTMENTS Of Mrs.
Elmer Black.
HOPES TO RAISE S1,OOO,OOO

NJ L,lt Vandervclde the young wife
NJ On. ,-.tn Minister of state, came to
~.a v.ta Yesterday morning on the
W., Star .Mcr Cretc to continue the
work ... hos been doing in England since
ne outbreak ~ the notwithstanding those
aho can help financially to subscribe TO a
fund which vii he used TO start again In
he ,te ue,cIan families whose homes,
.orses AMI farm Implements were de-
.roysI during tho German invasion.
MY friends have said TO me-" Nine.
Nanier,,.Ie remarked with a smile yes
,erda,. that she thinks she will get
$1,000. GOO for the poor Belgians In
America Wei, | shall not leave for
HON, until I do get $1,000, 0O0--at least
/ tha,l try To- do SO before ! leave; and
hope can get back 10 our suffering
people very soon
When the Crctic slowed down at Quar-
sntire Yesterday morning not only was
me Belgian Cousul-General. Pierre Mali.
aboard the customs tug. ready to climb
.he ladder 10 greet Nine Nandervelde, but
also the hrst woman who has climbed
rom a revenue service tug to a liners
deck since Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long,
worth performed the feat some years ago.
she was Miss Mae Martin. organizer Of
the reception held In honor OF Nine.
Vanderyede In the apartments OF Mrs.
Elmer Black at tho Hotel Renaissance,
Fifth avenue and Forty-third street, later
IN the day.
with my own eyes | have seen" began
Nine Nandervelde. as the reporters
gathered about her on the way up the
bay, men and boys whose hands and
feet we're cut off by German soldiers.
and have seen, too. the blackened corpse
OF our once lovely Louvain."
Al this poln, Consul-General Mali whis-
pered vita Nine. Nandervelde, and next
he suggested that the reporters walt until
to-day to talk TO Madame about her war
experiences II was announced then that
Nine Vanderyelde will rece We the news
PAPER men to-day at the home OF Miss
Wnfr,d Holt. ~ East Seventy-elshth
street where She is staying.
Mrs Rose Pastor stokes and Mrs. Fred
er.ck g. Howe, wife OF the Commissioner
Z Immigration. headed a group OF Amer
lean Uureu who met Nine Vandervelde
~ the White star pier and accompanied
her TO VI s. Hollis residence. Later In the
day Mrs stokes and Cousul-Generai Nal!
accompanied Nine Ndrdervelde to Mrs.
Blacks apartments. where in rooms
crowded with men ard women Nine. VAN
teryede was pursuaded to speak briefly.
Nine. Nardervelde told In a sentence OF
having been IN Antwerp when bombs were
dropped from airships upon the city, kill
lur many women and children" She
touched upou the destruction of Louvain,
made ID short plea for financial aid for
her stricken country and finally told OF
Ger graf ncdtiOu when in London, Just
before sailing tor New York, nifty or sixty
American women crowded about her after
she had spoken and not only offered her
money but ~ some cases insisted upon
cabling here to have their houses made
ready for her. She Is staying at Miss
Hollis she said, as the result Of one Of
these offers.
Mrs Black had been asked by a COM
W,tt,e Of New York women, headed by
Miss Martin to place her apartments AT
Their disposal for the reception Of Nine
Eanderye'de. Among the many who met
Nine. NauderVcld- at the reception which
lasted from I until o'clock in the after
noon. were.
Mrs Fred.rick G Howe. Miss Rather.
ne Lerkr, Miss Ii,mmett Rodman, Miss
Rose Young Mrs. Henry Willard, Mrs
Clarence Burns. president of the Little
Mothers Nid Association; Mrs. George
Howe president ~ the Mary Arder
Shakespeare club Miss Annie Kenney
N" militant working girl from England
Miss Mic" Carpenter, Miss Belle da
Costa 'r"rn", Nine carlo POlifeme, pres
dent ~ Lr Lycrum, a French organiza
iou oi tni- city Miss Mabel Macomber
president ~ the Playground League
Mrs. Helen lIoy Grr-l'y Mrs. John Nc
Lean, Mr.. Anita Block, Mrs Il, Demo
ST knabe, Miss Elizabeth Freeman
Nrs. ". l.. Hurron, Mrs y. u. Nar
sArgerlnnd, president of the Nationa
N"iierm M League" Mrs. Anna Sterling
Mrs Horatlo Wiuslow, Mrs. W. \
Ptrnes, Mrs Arthur V. Rose. Mrs. d.
wit Clinton SNYDER. Mrs. r. r. Seal an,
Mrs Johnston Wood