New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-02
WAR woes Barred
IN PLEA FOR Aid
Cobb Writes of Stricken
Nations in Appeal for
Relief Funds.
IFTTER TO RED CROSS
TELLS OF SUFFERING
p,bIic Meeting TO Arouse SYM
nsthy-ReportS Show Pro-
ceeds from BENEFITS.

-, s Cobb wrote yesterday to
49, American Red Cross description
= coalitions in four Of the warning
lions of Europe which he had visited
ding with an appeal TO the America"
.ao,ls 20 increase their contributions
- .,nroach Of winter will add TO
.zor;nrs Of the soldiers in the
inches and Of the refugees.
an, ,-,nnin. airlessiy along Sind-sW
s-s - -,sis SEEING from burning Snd Gts-
fAi. ,,fl.ees / saw them s.eepins m opel L..o'
isiA'., r-i-v earth With no cover and no suci.tl
Gfon ~ ~ t,.i.i Together in the towns ana cues
j So ,osny q them ultimately ne1. eAl'''l 49,. 80
80 Knows how. saw mem ,~s ,s' % their
ttslsD' 1900 sslvNge where there was no saleaAe
hgisss;, ,5rI 1 saw them living lke the oeas's y.
", 40 4p'n such things as me beasts % "'s
f9d ssu ,s.rS ssuains IN iong lines waiting f9f
,hsir poor 'harc OF lSsss,,s,si saw heir towns
49, bsriIv one stone stood upon anoin-i' saN
49,. abandoned farm lands where lne .ai 80
..-.s IN ne furrCvs ana me iiu,l nuns -,
fg.se- .--.,ts-..i upon The tres saw thcr cues
-. f-,fs vas dead and credit Was nuns Will
~ l,,ysr existed I saw them siaeseiIHS lloi,
l.,rsss srd from weakness % hunger. saw al
49, ist.s repeated ard multiplied ininleD yes,
~ e.srjs4f t0o-hlf nos once Od ! see man
O. soniA' $500 soldiers Won the worlds adnirs-
- - -. fes stance which they made against Iis
wsrdousy overponc ring hunters we peeps iG "a I've
r,r,-th- families ~ ueir s1iAlels- shouu nay. nv
80 .ords admiration and pits for me couftse ,le
,.t,srre AID me forfifudc fhcy nave usp.@yt uu
y, ~ losa Of al affection 700 doloious ioL a,.,
le, "a 6sscr.be 100 terrible foI ANY imasmauons
20 p'eIrs .s,,s I saw pastoral land oyerrun by
L.. 81 -.-teI hy war until 30 seemed the very
s.--h rcud GU out Tor mercy. saw a counlis
V,s-sly striped % i's men in order tlal tne ..s.
,,,r.. MIR. b. flcd ] saw women hourly stIN-
- a. rf. o-fafrsI work OF their fathers. Nus
bsrds broihsrs ard sous AoufF pens st'i''
50 countless TiAass iurAei iLlo snlonl-e 49,.
TI.srsilng heaps n ruins. saw schoos lheI WI. ~.
converted into hospitals and factories ehS4s,u w.,
t,r-scks I saw the industries maj we're aneluo.ll
m 49, ,hops shat were bare o. customer ihe
ibopkeepers standing before empty sneives ioohl.
.,.srupfrg an The face. / saw the inquired ossl
- ts,,seer battle lines. where for weeks they
,dal.i1 srd where for weeks aud perhaps months
- come they would continue 70 ne. anu %" W.
800 Of countless numbers Of other dead VINO
80 - hu-rIeilv and careessy buried tlat thtlr
u-ss i- macs pr0rruded through The SOIL, poison
hs he AZ With hibiscus smells ana si'ns sS
sTx districts noted for their fecundiy on the raw
.dgs OF famine and people pro.tIolai sol ''ie'
A public meeting to arouse interest
in the Red Cross will be held at the
headquarters, 661 Fifth av., this morn
ing at II o'clock Cranston Brenton.
director Of the relief work Of the So
eiety. will make the address.
The Red Cross fund amounted yes
terday to $685. 40. Among the con-
tribUtors were:
rt-oush .-Ssr York Herald" tl2l; The E7s1ins
Record Hacksnssck. y. J. laodluonal' ~,
Tbomas Hunt. 500. calvary Baptist SUNDAY School
Nsx York City. So So MI and MIS-. r. = Slul'h-
En- tthifd c0ntrioutionl. $50.
Mrs. Nelson Herrick Henry, chair
man of the Red Cross Bazaar and Uni
versal Market, which was held at the
Grand Central Palace in October. made
the following report yesterday 70 Mrs.
William K. Draper, secretary Of the
New York County Chapter OF the
American Red Cross:
Tnv With distinct pleasure ] have 70 report tnat
A. ~ snsi r1ea-irE n the Committee n one Hun
6rsd he'd A. 'he Hotel Bitmore Il was decided That
The suu resii1eI from the Bazaar and Universal
Market A. The Grand Contra Palace shall he spent
among III merchants o. NeE York for articles 81
com'or; and clothing FOR the relief OF children
women ana men.
snd women. merchants and private mdiylduas ara
;he splendid cooperation. earnest enoft ana per-