New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-30
MANY HELP HOMES
STRICKEN BY WAR
Aid for Women and Chill
dren Exceeds Red
Cross Fund Gifts.
RELIEF AMOUNTS
GROW STEADILY
Doctors and Nurses Will Sail for
Paris with Belgian COM
mission To-day.

Contributions for the relief of desti-
tute women and children Of the warning
nations yesterday exceeded the sums
given for the relief Of wounded SOL
dicrs. The relief societies reached a
combined total of Sls3, 1854 25, while the
American Red Cross had only $751;
800 10. This figure includes S3.0Sl col
lccted for the Red Cross by tho Mer-
chants Association. Thee total an
nounced by the Red Cross alone is
$l7S,S75 81.
Among the contributors 10 the Red
Cross yesterday were:
Through Tho New York Hcruld" 81, 90;
Hudson River Chapter. 500; through John
Wansmak,r, S33 i7; Essex 1clls, y. j.,
SO so; Tho llackensack Evening Record"
sSiS; Duchess County Red Cross. 500; DR.. u.
'bcrnburg, 81: 'Stuats- Zctung," SIS 10; II.
\. Moody, SO.
The New York Merchants Associa-
ton received $462, bringing the total
amount Of their collection up to SO ,O8l
! OF this, Holbrook Brothers contributed
$50. and the Chlds Company 5000.
The Belgian Relief Fund yesterday
reached = total Of $72,76O. among the
contributors were w. j. Curtis, 500;
J. II. Post, 500; T.. +. ALDER, 800; Mrs
William r. Bonbright, 500; Miss G.. r.
Lowell, 500; Mrs. c. Y. Streat, $50;
Mrs. +. S. Hardness, $500; George w.
Dewey, $50; Lamson l.. Melish, 800;
RebecCa h. Cole, 500; Newburgh, New
York, $105, and Miss Shurman, 500.
The Prince of Wales Fund for the
relief of the English sufferers. now
amounts to $45,735 20. Among the gifts
announced yesterday by r, NJ. Stuart
Wortley, treasurer, 20 Broad st., we're: IL.
G. Grimley, Mobile, $3.50; r. La Mon
tagne Sons, 500; Thomas Nichol, Glen
Jean, w. Va, 500; Texas branch of
the fund, $500; Robert McBratney,
500; Horace &. Young, 800, and T..
b. Totchener, sos.
Mrs. Whitney Warren, organizer of
the French relief fund, Yesterday an
nounced contributions amounting TO
S6,5O3 81. Among the contributors were
Moreau Delano, $50; Robert $. Brew
Ster, $3.50; Mrs. Thomas Crimmins,
500; Mrs. Robert Bacon, 800; Mrs.
William Fahnestock, 500; j. Sanford
Saltus, $50; Philip l.. Goodwin, $50;
Edward J. Bcrwind, $500; Clarence
Mackay, 500; Francis Lyndc StetsOn,
800, and William du Pont, 500.
Frederick Peasants contributed $500
to tho Committee Of Mercy ycstc rdsy,
90 be applied to the relief of Belgian
women and children. A committee
meeting will be held this morning at
the headquarters, in the Fifth Avenue
Building.
A lecture for the benefit of the Rcd
Cross will be given this evening by
Professor Eugene Kuehnemann, of the
University of Breslsu, before the
Deut8cher Vercin, of Montclair, n. j.
The professors subject will be the
moral problems of modern Germany.
The Belgian commission which came
to this country fortnight ago to pro-
test to the President against German
atrocities will sail this morning on the
Adriatic. With them will go three doc
tors and four nurses, who are to join
Or. Joseph A. Blake, of this city, in Red
Cross work in Paris The physicians
to sail are Sumner Birmingham, Law
renee A. Bartlett and Archibald s.
Strong.