New-York tribune., 1914-12-24
VANDERBILT GIVES
$4,000 TO FUND
Big Contribution Goes to
Aid American Ambulance
Service in France.
SHIPS SAIL WITH
FOOD FOR BELGIANS
Relief Collections Receive New
Impetus by Appeal to Holi-
DAY GiverS Here.

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one Of the largest individual gifts
.,st the war misery has evoked was
.--ouneed yesterday BY the committee
,5i,5 is raising funds for the Ameri-
can Ambulance Hospital in Paris. 1t
vas q check for $4,000 from William
K Vanderbilt.
Large gifts and small are badly
needed. the committee declares. With
;r the last two weeks there have been
snDeals from Paris calling for 100
automobiles 10 augment the ambu-
lsrcss which are used TO convey the
uognded 10 hospitals. Contributions
for This special purpose have pur-
chased ten automobiles, and ten more
will be bought this week.
Four volunteer workers sailed from
No. York Saturday aboard La lou
rsi-e-A. Piatt Andrew, former AS
s-s-art Secretary OF the treasury
CHARLES Appleton and Lawrence Rum
sey Harvard graduates, and Oardher
ri.-srdsor, Of Yale. They Will De
f.'lFed hv other volunteers shortly
10 total contributions 20 the Amer
Ambulance Hospital Fund 10 date
cunt 90 S24s.slV ,,-r
rba Britsh-American War RelleI
rrr6 sent abroad this wetk twenty
.brss cases containing snesthetlcs'
tosnitsl supplies OF all kinds, and IN
Ssrwesr. nuffiers, blankets and various
comforts. This society has Just been
reorganized with the Following men
and women as patrons ana patron
esses: -. A. L u
Wh..ridge Mrs. Il. }. Nhlgnan, NJ NJ
J. Elliot Langstat, Mrs A. ,, burGeIi' C5h
T,t,s BARLOW. Mrs. Charles Dana CID
Ms shaw Safe, Elliot Gregory
49, Huntington. Mrs. Oliver lselln,
G Ceorve Vanderbilt, John &. Hill
- Professor II. Fairfield Osborn,
49, TAYLOR Pvne. Mrs. Alfred Coats
Nj smart Nortley, +. ". WHIT
- Colonel r. +. Thompson, Mrs.
I.ys'' ~. Vsgee Richard Harding DAVIS,
-. ~ Dixon. Mrs. Walter l.. May
80 Mas NJ a.. Wiborg, Mrs. J. H.
ssu, es.u Norrie Seller, Mrs. J. 7. Nor
r LADY Herbert, Mrs. ksIpn
go ard Henry Whitehouse.
r. starving Belgians will soon re
-. tqo large shiploads OF food, ior
-. {. Kentlgern, sailing from Ne"
VI and the Ferona, sailing from
pSis5eirbia. left yesterday. The value a6H
- .tej- combined cargo IS SooO,OUO'
ro-sists mostly of wheat.
ar,esl written by John GaIs-
,-.r,,v and forwarded by him from
IorsoD vas made public yesteFoa!
- +So commission. He quotes from
-. mayors OF various Belgian towns
- o-ber official sources appalnng
sv--es concerning the lack OF employ
-.srt. the lack Of food, the famine anu
Anon yesterdays contributors 10
80 Psig;a1 Relief Fund was 50 from
.5s bCvs Of the Irondequoit Colony AZ
he state Agricultural and lndustTlal
ScLooi ar Industry, y. Y. The PONY
anna PLAYERS. blind girls OF the BROOK
I,-r Brreau OF Charities, sent So'' re-
1rss-irg that IL be used in buying con-
8ense8 milk for the Belgian babies
Cortributions received yesterday
amounted 10 s9,14s, making the to'o
70 date S725,327.
The fund Of the American Red Cross
FOR European war relief now amouNjS -
10 S418 0sq o. Contributions ackno%l-
edged Yesterday by Jacob Scnln, the
treasurer. totalled S3,l4O 80.
The Red Cross receives many leVteIs
telling OF the excellent work done oy
the 1872 surgeons and nurses sent 10 tne
war zone by this organization.
The Committee OF Mercy, through
August Belmont, Yesterday acknoWl-
edged contributions amounting 70
1855. This makes the total OF thelr
receipts S3e,422. 49, D.u..
Christmas Fund for Homeless Belglans'
send out a call for $3.50 before
Christmas morning. He is anxious. 10
complete the sum Of $4,000 by that
time. and as they have now 4o,4oV,
the sum asked would do IT, The fund
co-operstes with the London Shilhng
Fund which has collected s40O,OOO.
The American Jewish Relief Com
mittee. Of which Felix Warburs .is
treasurer, announced yesterday that Us
total receipts % date were S237,88l 80.
The work Of packing 2,400 comtortt
kits, 20 be sent 20 French soldiers: VIII
be started a. the storehouse OF the
Lafayette Fund, l3 East 33d St, to-day.
Each XII will contain a suit OF warm
underwear. two pairs Of socks, a pair
of woO..en gloves, a muller, hand
kerChief and a cake Of soap.
Mrs John Hays Hammond, chairman
CO The War Children Christmas Fund,
which collected in this country Christ
mas presents for the children Of the
beil.gerert nations o. Europe, yester-
day announced that appreciative ac-
eep-ances had been received from the
German, Austro-Hungarisn, French
and Russian amoassa adOrs 20 the United
States