New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-31
Emergency Committee Is
Appointed to Rush Sup
plies to Rotterdam.
SALVATION ARMY
"BANDAGE BEES
Il. Schiff Suggests Giving Re-
Gef Funds Instead of Christ
mas Gifts.

United an emergency FOOD committee
arrange for the immediate shipment
= tood supplies TO Rotterdam. Thomas
= RYAN. the American member Of the
,on5on American Committee. and
us,rv ". de Forest. of the Belgian
Relief Committee, are made executive
heads OF the committee.
Conditions M Belgium are ap-
,roaebinc acute starvation" said Mr..
pvan Yesterday. Further food sup
.res are urobtainablc I'm England. and
,bs greater part Of whatever Is done
toward provisioning the destitute
rsiII;ors .n Belgium will have to be
nrovided for % this country. Arrange
1cnts have been made with AmbasSa-
dor ". 'H. Page. IN London, and with
Gmbassado~ Henry van Dyke. IN Hol-
land. by which distribution VIII be as
efficient as 'Ss'ole.'
The Belgian Bureau placed $4,000
n the hands Of the food supply com
mittee for the purchase and shipment
az foodstuTs, and the London commit
tee cabled S150QG0 for the same pur-
nose The las; remittance Of $4,000 of
the Belgian bureau mas oten Iv'uI i:eI
by Ambassador rage as tooG SupPI.'es
eauno; be pu''haN'o 'n rHEI"uu' ne
American LONDON UohlI'''.Se mas az
ready p-ft'ar'N. al III ouu"E y, ""'i
4 million ootaIS' Ah" .aS ".N1' uu''"
IN Belgium ...'q IONS OF loouS ,ul' ;.
The he.t'.. "i'-" anu 'nr ~
gency comm. gee " Al. !VS'e' ia.
that IT'S once '"'i'', Is VIZ d, NV u
posal o. az! one WHO "'NIeN 10 NOu
tribute 90 ..t 'e-Ie' Oh pVlI' IN
Wheat. rice. Ft.h, ana peas are .nc
things ~ ls' needed according 10 Am
ba Sad'. rage. 'Nt comm zee nus l.
ready ece.Fed h"IloSI on oueIS y,
'ooi>tlIS u. "-'o'S' a." VIZ ..''' 'I..,S
WITHIN .e" Gay tIS per 10
such shipments Sh'L'u re maui. W
supplies s''"io ot Sn.ppeu -' ~
without comm 1h'ca,lo'" win '"e D''-
g'aH hI't.-' I' nI.oLt 81
II Is oeItF'a Oy 'Hc bureau IhS' ''o
news reports oil ''ho''IouN III hTiEIu'h
are extremely CohNerN"'lFS' ana th@I
the need is 'jch greater IMAM Is gen
orally Unoer> 1000. An oasSAdor rage
cabled yesterday: Need IN heigl I'm
cannot be exaggerated OWING TO snort
age o; food mere and IN Holland y
rom the United states Immediately.
Ambassador van DYKE sent the toll
loving message: Have just visited
Belgian refugee camps on Dutch Dor
der and ruined cities in Belgium. Sit
uatio1 ritab.c. Med here still great.
Many thousands OF homes plotted out.
Repatriation OF al refugees for pres
ent lmFo>- pie. wore money would De
U00r
Of refugees. rive thousand dollars
was cao.ed Do answer 70 this request.
The SUN OF Ss.o-N 81 was received
'y tho Belgian Bureau Yesterday MAX
INK tho total OF the fund S225,326 o..
Among .ro Contributions were $1,000
ron a. A. Notebaert Of Rochester,
ana $1,000 from Henry IIeide.
%, If' CHRISTMAS tund Tor
nom "..E.an- received 500 from
~ .'' forbes Robertson yester-
oN ,r'ouNons brought the
"'o' .' >.' utnry 'lc"S, treasurer
'i -. ..i-t dcd second appeal
.'a'.'t ''a. me entire proceeds VIII
oe used ~ apply the necessities Of life
70 ''c Belgian people a. Christmas
Or,.
wa inca For one million soldiers
IS No ..ot"' o. the oanGaaee campaign
"'ch commander Eva Booth opened
Yesterday ~ ne salvation Army mead
4la,'e's. '-' west I4ln 81 one nun
greg ana ~ men and women clad IN
>Po.e>- "'.'c. whose hands had been
washed .' a'NscpNcS, worked at white
a,'tS az me headquarters, cutting,
tVi. .hc .nl racing bandagcs and surg
.'a. pads. Waterfall for ten thousand
oahdsge, "t- .' md, mostly new ma
w III Ce'. .'t''' by ine large stores.
Next Friday the SaivatlonIsts Will be-
gln on me boxes of old linen and cot