New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-20
'$l,OOO,OOOF FOR
BELGIUM, IS CRY
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. HOrna-
day Appeal to Americans
with Bank Accounts.
BELGIAN FUND TOTAL
NOW $l76,378.70
Other Collections GroW--Cardi-
nal Farley Endorses Work Of
Committee OF Mercy.

zone million dollars for Belgium"
That is the cry Of the Belgian Bureau
sounded yesterday by Mr.. and Mrs.
William 7. HornadRy. In an appeal
which is 20 be sent 70 i'r i.ouaand
citizens to-day Mr.. llornaC"y .ay:
within the next thirty days America
should send 81 100000 to the belgians.
Thus far the Belgian Bureau has re-
ceived only 100000 paltry sum for
the amount of distress we should re-
ieve. This is no time 20 say, BE ye
warmed and fed and let It 20 at that.
Every true American with bank ac-
count and roof over his head owes a
duty, at this minute, to the stricken and
furnishing people Of Antwerp and Bel
GUM generally"
Ten thousand dollars from an anony-
nous giver increased the Belgian Fund
yesterday, and an unusually large num-
Der Of small contributions brought the
total up to Sl76,37S 10. Among the
contributors were George d. May, SlOO;
Miss f.. L., 500: Landon A. Thomas.
$50; Eva Y. {. Hawkes., $40; W. NJ. X,
500; Paul Vandorveide, slOO; Mrs.
William S. Miller, $500; II. Kanter,
500; Huston Wyeth, $780, julius Lleb-
man, 500; Il. s. Halsted, $50; A. f.
Cotiier, $50; Anne T.. Stodder, 500;
Herman s. Rosenhaum, $50; Mrs. X.
Elsberg. $50; Mrs. Samuel 5. Brown,
800; Elma f. Garnsey, Slo0; Caldwell
Co., $50; NJ. T. Thompson, $50; Day
Krolik, $50; William b. Dan, $50;
George T. Stodder, 500; Sam W. Sadt-
Ter, Slo3
DR.. Henry van Dyke. Minister OF
The Hague. sent the following cable:
"Your remittance of 25,0Oe guldens re-
ceived Yesterday. Thanhs from pItia-
bic Belgian refugees"
Miss Mabel Boardman. mead OF the
American Red Cross, has invited the
New York State Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage to take charge or
the flag booth at the RED Cross Uni
versal Market, which opens Thursday
at the Grand Central Palace. Al this
booth enrollments will be taken for
membership in the American Red
Cross. Mrs. Clinton II. Backus Is
chairman of the committee, and VIII
be assisted by Mrs. George Zabriskie,
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,. Mrs.
Harold de Rasslof, Mrs. William
Haight, Mrs. Lancaster Morgan and
the Misses Grace Tabor, Margaret
Overton, Margaret Haight. Dorothy
Parker, Anne WoOdin, Alice Delama-
mar and Margaret Meyer.
Instruction in the making Of surgi-
cal dressings will be given at the
booth OF the Vacation War Relief
Committee. which will be in charge
of Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard. The
women of New York are urged TO send
to this booth all bits of old cotton and
linen cloth which they may have on
hand. Pieces of cloth twelve inches
square will make a surgical dressing.
H. S. Vanderbilt gave 5000 yesterday
TO the American Ambulance Hospital
Fund. The total receipts announced
by j. p Morgan & Co. were SS7,015 60.
Other contributors wero Charlotte
Sorchan, $3.50; Chand Ter Robbins,
800; Mrs. Robert Russell, 500; Mrs.
Charles II. Coster, 500; +. q. Radike'
$50; II. II. Benedict, $50; I'm Memory
of Mother" $50; Mrs. c. B. Weeks and
Mrs r. S. Crombie, $50.
The Prince Of Wales Fund yesterday
reached a total of s60,6T6 90. All cor
tributions to this fund should be sent
70 r. NJ. Stuart Wortley, % Broad st.
Among yesterdays contributors were
employees of the Scovlle Manufacturing
Company, Waterbury, Conn. $50;
through Miss Mary s. Broughton, Ell
mira, N. Y, S97; William Mills, 800;
James Barber, 500; through Captain
J. c. Charles, of the Msuretsnia, $50;
Charles s. French, SIS; Allentown,
Penn, S115; Professor +. B. Titchen-
er. Cornell University, S62: Miss Eva
Morris Hawkes., 500.
Contributions amounting to 1888 30
were received by Jacob II. Schlf, treas
urer OF the New York Red Cross, at $50
East 22d ST. The total receipts of the
Red Cross are now s268,047 l6. Among
the contributors were: Westchester
County Chapter Red Cross, S3,414 81;
Schenectady County Chapter, 5000 30;
Grace Church, 1851 73; Mrs. James
Douglas, $500; st. Marks Episcopal
Church, Mount Kisco, S473 IL; 80. II.
p" $500; New York Peace Society,
1859 80; Grace Church, Plainfield, n. D.,
S258 SO; Church of the Incarnation,
s217 SO; Queens Village Fund"
Sl61 30; Elmhurst Suffrage Club, SIG;
Miss Z. C. Larson. 500; New York
State Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage, 500.
Several thousand dollars collected by
Russian subjects in this city for the
Russian Red Cross were forwarded
Yesterday to the Russian Embassy at
the Red Cross headquarters at Petro-
grad through the Russian-American
Line, 81 Broadway.
The fund for the relief of French
women and children collected by Mrs.
Whitney Warren, 10 East Attn ST.,
reached total Of s20,l25 81. Mrs.
William Sloane gave 500.
Through Bourke Cochran the, Com
mittee of Mercy received the following
letter of Endorsement from Cardinal
Farley yesterday:
Dear Nh. Cochran: ave read the
documents relating to the Committee
Of Mercy. of which you spoke 20 me re-
Gently. | understand it 10 be an inter
national, neutral, non-partisan, nom
sectsrian organization in aid OF the
widows and orphans made by the world
war in Europe or America.
The need must be truly crying
oos md appeals 20 all The Commit
tee Of Mercy mas my cordial approval,
and | nrsy for its every success.