New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-03
FARLEY TOUCHED
BY BELGIAN CRY
cardinal Indorses Pathetic
" Cable Message from
Sir 6. Parker.
Ellen TERRY'S PORTIA
TO AID SWELL FUND
s.,;stv Folk, Led by Baroness
40 Never, Will Skate and
Dance at the Festival.

Cardinal Farley joined the ranks OF
var victims relief workers yester-
IrSorsing it with his hope that
y" mid help in the collecting of
,.h the Cardinal published a cable
-. ..,ze sent to him from Belgium by
:, Gilbert Parker in which the novel
Is. said;
=, word from your eminence to the
,u.,iean people will touch the hearts
"a oDen the pockets of thousands"
CARDINAL Farley was deeply touched
As patheti. appeal for aid for the
Btlgisns. .u,
vIlsn Terry, as Portis, will have the
,l,es Of honor on the Belgian Relief
s.rsst at the Strand Theatre on Tues
80 afternoon. Miss Terry so told
~. August Belmont yesterday. Ca
,,.o sill be in the audience.
NJ. Edith Wharton, the novelist,
l.. xr;tten to a friend urging Amerli-
-. Is redouble their efforts. She is
: Paris and writes;
sTss needs are so desperate | shame
l,.ly elamor for aid. -:
''I p.,oness de Meyer and Irving
p,OIsw will do fancy skating at the
:. r,rnival at the st. Nicholas Rink
Re- benefit of the Committee OF
w. on Monday morning. Others
"a will skate and dance for the war
'.ss-sfs are Mrs. Maud Barger W al
- Mrs. Irving Brokaw, Mrs. j. w.
S s"r the Misses Beatrice and Ger
~. a. de Coppet. Miss Clara Cassel,
Ms G. W. Cunningham and Mrs. Rod
20 large number Of fashionable people
,,,snded the Mercy Day at Sherry's
..s,srdav. The Russian Ambassador
80 Nine Bakhmeteff and Governor
80, Whitman and Mrs. Whitman were
s sss Of Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont at din
s,r Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish entertained
psyor Mitchell and Mrs. Mitchell. 9TH
as Gyine dinners were Mrs. Hermann
0sl1ehs, Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt,
II Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick o. Beach,
r. and Mrs. Irving Brokaw, Mrs. Cor
rslius c. Cuyler, Mrs. Samuel 7. Peters,
MS Clement c. Moore, Henry Hodges,
] Couper Lord, Mr.. and Mrs. lckel-
Lsimer' Mr.. md Mrs. Bernard NJ. Ba-
rueh. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steers, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Gray Griswold, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Edey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Blair Macdonald, Mr.. and Mrs.
". B. 0sgoci Field, Mr.. and Mrs. J..
Insley Blair, Mrs. Elmer Z. Black,
George r. Sheldon, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
r fowne, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis l..
Clarke. Mr.. and Mrs. Lorimer Worden,
M. and Mrs. Oscar Richard, Mr.. and
Ms Forsyth Wickes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
L Burton and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w.
Taft. ,
The Committee Of Mercy fund
reached a total Of S50,027 yesterday.
The Red Cross fund amounted to
E8S,5sl so.
The Belgian Relief Fund amounted
to t5s6,2OS a..
The Dollar Christmas Fund for Bel
gan Relief amounted to S22,105.
The fund for the relief of French
women and children amounted to $4O,-
$40 IS.
Funds are needed for the maintenance
Of the American Ambulance Hospital in
Paris. The money on hand will carry
On the work for only three months
more. Five hundr d dollars was re-
tsived yesterday from the Cleveland
committee, $500 from Mrs. Herbert Sat
isrlee and 5000 from Miss Virginia
Scott HOyt.
The Prince Of Wales fund amounted
10 S52,464 %.
One thousand dollars collected by the
Boston committee was received yester-
lay by the Fl ternite des Artists for
'ae relief Of the families Of French
artists.
Contributions amounting to almost
100000 were received for the relief
found Of the American Jewish Com
ni'tee prior TO the issuance by the
tonmittee Of its public appeal. Of this
'un the American Jewish Committee
contributed sl25,000 for general wori;
and 5000 for special work, and Nathan
ss'rsus and Jacob II. Schiff s12,500 each
lof relief work in Palestine.