New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-11
Assures Committee She'll
Respect Neutrality OF
Mercy Ship.
ACTION OF OTHER
POWERS AWAITED
Art Sale Adds to Belgian Funds
Paris Hospital Needs
More Ambulances.

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to the State Department It's Willingness
that an expedition be sent 10 the relei
Of the people Of Jerusalem. The Amer
lean Jewish Relief Committee, of which
Louis Marshall is president, announced
Yesterday that the reply 10 their
queries TO the Turkish government hsd
been satisfactory, and that the COM
mittee was now awaiting guarantees
from England. France and Germany
that the neutrality Of rehet snip
would be respected. 49,,
Jnasmuch as the Turkish government
has given assurances That the ltrhSIi
authorities will not requlsltion any oil
tho suprlies. Mr.. Marshall said there
seemed to be no reason why faVora,
bic answer should not be received
from the other nations IN rev days
when all .he plans OF the committee
will be perfected. ,ooooo
There are approximately lVV,uVO
Jews in Palestine who are IN dire ne
cessity." said Mr.. Marshall. our
plans, however, are still only tentative,
Our committee has not yet decided
whether it would be more feasible 70
send a relief ship to Palestine from
the United States or from some point
in Italy. Also. the committee has not
I vet dSCeTtdlntQ NOW 6lNNN q fN"A'N'NF
I Of supplies can be furnished
Two important benefits for the Com
mittee of Mercy took place yesterday
One was the opening OF Castle House
The other was the auction OF art treas
ures at the studio of Mrs. Harry Payne
whitney, s West 9Th st. More than
$4,000 is believed to have been realized
from the fifteen paintings given by
American artists.
The Head of a Spanish Peasant, by
Mrs. Whitney herself, was captured oy
Miss McCready, of Exmore, Va. How
ard Cushing's painting of flowers went
to Mrs. J. Searle Barclay; Robert Chan
ler's "Cockatoo" 20 Mrs. Gordon DOW
elias. John Alexander's Alice 70 T.
/. Foster. j. Alden Weir-s painting 10
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst hrhes,
Iawson's Landscape" 20 Mrs. Herbert
Scbef.ell / +. Fraser's bronze "Awak-
ching" TO Miss Resale Bloodgood, and
Robert Henri's ia Montera' 70 MISS
AI;ce Andrews. The remainder OF the
canvases will be sold tomorrow after
noon. -.
If tho sale. Among those present were
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, MIS-. stan
ford White. Miss Wiborg, Miss Janet
Scuddor- Miss Angelica Brown, MISS
Harriet Post, Prince and Princess
Troubetskoy. Mrs. William Woodward,
Mrs Calvert Brown, Mrs. Samuel Well
don, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and }. Alden
Weir. oc,.-- es... .1.r
for the American Ambulance Hospital
in Paris and for the artists giving their
works will be held at Mrs. whitney
studio under the management OF MIS-
Payne Whitney.
Fifty more ambulances are needed az
once by the American Ambulance nos
nitaI in Paris. Two messages TO this
effect were received by the New I oIh
committee. one from DR.. Walton Mary
in of St. LuSe's Hospital, who went
over with Mrs. Harry Payne whitney
RECENTLY. and the other from Charles
Carroll. a member of the governing
hoard of the Ambulance Hospital.
Eleven hundred dollars will send an
ambulance to Paris and maintain II Tor
six months. Old or unused cars VIII
be welcomed by the committee, pro-
vided they are capable OF held service
= Mrs. Burke Roche yesterday contrib
uted $500 TO the hospital. o.,,
The Belgian Fund received Sl2,bO6 "a
Yesterday. making the total Of the fund
$s47. 5s4 Is. The dollar Christmas fund
for Belgians now amounts 10 $4,000.
Buy q 1O-cent Christmas card and
, save a Belgian baby from starvation.
i One million such cards Will save a
good many Belgians, and 1t IS for this
purpose that committee working IN
cooperation with the Belgian Relief
Fund has placed these cards on sale at
the Belgian bureau, 10 Bridge ST., and
al TYSON e. Co.'s Offices IN the hotels.
Richard Wellington is chairman OF the
committee Seven cents out OF every
ten will 90 TO the Belgian fund. Volun-
teers TO sell these cards are wanted.
The Belgian Consul, Pierre Mali, and
Linden Bates, chairman OF the Ameri-
can Commission for Relief in Belgium
attended the flag raising which pre-
ceded the sailing of the MaSklnonge
from the Erie grain elevators IN Jer-
sew CITY Yesterday morning. Mr. Bates
urged Captain D. B. Griffiths to make
his trip with all possible speed, becausl
the Belgian people were starving.
The Committee of Mercy also APP
propriated $1,000 for the American
Women's War Relief Committee IN
London. 81, 900 so for the purchase Of
shoes for the peasant women OF
France who are filling the fields, and
81 500 for the work Of the Vacation
7 War Rellef committee aH'OHS tHS 80
employed girls of New York City. The
Prince Of Wales Fund now amounts
20 sol 400 03. Total gifts 10 the Red
Cross amount TO 1896, 1858 %.
A benefit performance OF Pandora :
poIp will be held this afternoon al
10 Fourteenth Street Theatre. Marie
Tempest will give some recitations al
ter the performance, and May Schei-
der ~ the Royal Opera House al
Karlsruhe, and Violet Ronmer VIII
sing. .L...ao. ..
the Netherlands, Joined the committee
~ charge of the book sale for Belgian
relief which is to be held at the Plaza
to.morrow afternoon. Books will be
auctioned off between dances by james
Montgomery Flagg, Irwin ;. COBB
percy Mackaye. Wallace Irwin. John
Kendrick Bangs. Ellis Parker Butter
: and Owen Johnson.
A wireless message TO the halser
. was sent last night from the German
Bazaar al the list Regiment Armory
TIE message announced that half a
million marks had already been raised
and expressed the hopes OF German
Americans for the Kaiser's speedy re-
. eovery. Tonight the Liederkron7
will be in charge OF the bazaar
and tomorrow the HungaTians' com
mittee. Ambassador Dumba and Con
: sul General Won Huben will speak
I Sunday will be Austrian day