Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-13
OPTION OBTAINED
ON SECOND VESSEL !
FOR BELGIAN CAUSE
Thanksgiving Ship Sched-
uled to Depart Week After
Next With Food for Starv-
ing Thousands.
Second Relief Fund Under Way
Lacks $4,000 of Amount
Necessary to Provide Second
Relief Cargo.

Some time during the week preceding
Thanksgiving a second relief ship, laden
with bounty, the result Of Philndelphiafs
generosity, will set sail for Rotterdam to
relieve the distress of the hungry women
and children OF Belgium.
After a meeting held in John wana-
! makers Office today of the subcommittee
of newspaper publishers who are spon.
soring The campaign, It was announced
an option had been taken by MIR. wana-
maker IN steamship due TO arrive in
this port on November 10, and II flna are
rangemcnts are made to charter her the
! work of provisioning her will be carried
on with as much dispatch as possible.
The name of the vessel was not an.
nounced. It will be known as the
| Thanksgiving Ship.
Meanwhile many generous offers are
beihG made to give fresh impetus to
the campaign for the second cargo. SO
that the same remarkable generosity
which characterized the sending ofaths
Thelma will mark the going out OF the
Thanksgiving Ship
BENEFITS FOR sUFFERiNG.
George w. Bennethum OF % North
9th street. an owner of Is moving pic
ture parlors, has promised to turn over
to the fund 50 per cent. of the procee(A
| which he takes in at this aft, ,noon,s and
this evenings performances at all of his
| houses. Also a benefit performances, for
! which no date has yet been set. wilI
be held at the Academy of Music the
proceeds of which will go to help toward
swelling the fund.
The Thanksgiving Ship will be OF prac.
tically the same capacity as the Thelma,
| which means that just as much carso1
| 1900 tons of foodstufs-will have to BE
dopated to hll her hold.
y man walked into the headquarters
Of the Relief Fund in the basement Of
the Lincoln Building this morning. and
| with these words drew out dollar fron4
the innermost recesses of his vest pocket
| and placed it down on the table.
Name, please?" said the clerk in
| charge.
NO name" he said modestly. Just
mark it. cash.
you know" he went on after his con-
tribution had been put down anonymously
in the book. philadelphia did a mighty
fine thing i'm sending 1900 tons of food to
the starving children and women of Bell
gium, but If we talk so much about IL ws
are going TO be mighty apt to think that
we've done enough. The thing 10 do is to
stiffen up. stop patting ourselves on the
back and forget what we have DONE
That's the only way to get the second
ship off in good time"
He wasn't a particularly affluent man.
Moreover, one of the clerks recognized
him as having contributed toward tho
fund for the Thelma in the first days OF
the campaign, but his. In the opinion %
the workers up at the station, was the
proper spirit
COMMITTEE REVIEWS EFFORTS.
Forget the Thelma and bend all Of
your energies toward stocking out the
Thanksgiving Ship. That is the spirit
which the committee in charge OF the
relief work is doing its best to incui-
cate
Yesterday. despite the fact 1t might
have been expected that all of the
people with any interest in the starving
.,omen and children Of Belgium would
have found their way down to the dock
t. see the Thelma depart, yet quite
number went TO the basement of the Lin
coin Building and left donations.
Less than $4,000 however, marked the
days contributions. This makes about
$4,000 in hand as a starter for the
second ship. A tidy little sum, It ia
true. but II took SlOi.000 TO stock out the
Thelma, and since Mr.. Wanamaker has
announced that the second ship he Will
charter shall be OF an near the same size
as can be obtained then Ii is easy to
see that IL the Thanksgiving ship Is 20
sail as quickly as humanity demands that
she should sail, then the citizens OF Phlla-
delphia will have to put their hands deep
into their pockets and bring up all that
they can atford.
The receiving station will be kept open
indefinitely. from s in the morning until
$3.50 In the evening. All who haven't con-
tFibuted their share are invited nag urged
10 come in and pay visit, and those
who have given are asked 10 come
again."
One little girl who said her name vas
Sarah peeped In this morning on her way
TO school and announced she was walk
ing back and forth from the class rooms
in order 10 save her earfare for the httis
Belgians,
AT the end OF the week IN have 50
cents for some hungry little girl sns
said proudly, and then went her way
CoNVICTs MOVED BY PLEA.
Even the inmates OF the Eastern Penis
tentiary have felt the call Of the Bel<
gians. Yesterday letter from Warden
McKenty came to the station. announcing
a collection had been taken up and
enough money had been collected 70 eon-
tribute IS barrels Of -four toverd the
stocking Of the second ship a barrel q
-four represents Sc. 40, thsrefors the money
value Of this gift vas sisa-f
Add 70 this donation of $. which esms
from Wong John. a West PhHadslahls
Chinese, and his family. and the nees
check from the Union League and ah-
other 5000 one from the Thomas Roberts
COMPANY, viii see how the sppsal *
thsse Innocent war victims has reaehea
an classes. regardless of caste. nalionziitY
Or station Ia life.
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vel. giu reach Rotterdam "a HoFeUaaH
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states Minister q tae ketlarlaadsi HHz
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