New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-15
FAMILY SACRIFICES
TO AID BELGIANS
Wife Cuts Home Fund and HuS-
band His TObaccO-MrS.
Sage Gives ST, 500.

Dollars continued to roll into the
Golfers of the Belgian Relief Fund, 10
Bridge ST., yesterday. The figures last
night shows the tide had risen from
Sl4,153 05 to $17,409 81. Of this in
crease SO 81 came with the following
letter, addressed to the Rev. j. F.
Stillemans:
From a little is given this small sum, made
W as follows:
Wife house account. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. = %
Nv tobacco account tsince ! find that
smohiug disasrecS with NE lHeEe Gaysl ~
Sryrn-y-ar-olI child's account iWhr,
after listening seriously to our dis
crssion OF the belgian orphans con
diJiOu. said: ! want 10 buy bun for
one OF them 1..,........ ...,.........-... ]
IOu may expect other small sums from this
source daring tie continuance 81 the war.
The fund mounted higher when Mrs.
Russell Sage's $1,000 contribution was
received. Other sizable gifts were
James VI. Beck's 5000, similar amount
from Alfred Tuckerman and Miss Annie
B. Jennings, $3.50 each from Parkinson
& Barr and K. +. Turnbull, and 800
from Lyman Abbott.
lie Bien Public" published in Client
on August 20, was received at the Bel
gian Bureau Yesterday. The occupation
of Journal and the levy and collection
of an indemnity were described as fol-
lows:
Imnc lately upon occupying the city. the
military autrcIitls8 demanded .OOO.yG
francs, and took as hostages the Mayor, the
Bishop AMI al. tho members of the Clty
''OInCil Payment was offered In bank notes
bur this Vas refused hy the GERMANS, who
demanded gold and silver AMI allowed only
ore hour In which to collie, the money.
AT the nad u that time they We're given
l. 7O0. 900 francs.
The Germans then allowed an extra hour
70 complete the two millions. TIE women Of
the city were forced 20 coll ct from door To
door 10 make M the contribution. Mean
while the hostages h3i been taken az ay and
were rot brought back after H. money w&H
paid.
Another paper, published in Ninove
on August 30, denounced the conduct
of the Germans who occupied and then
evacuated the place. With the alder
men, the president of the college and
twelve prominent citizens and the
Mayor as hostages. the German staff
occupied 4 splendid residence and
drank all the champagne in the house.
In the midst of the carouse, the ac-
count goes, a soldier rushed in and
said shots had been fired at the Ger
mans. Without investigation it was
decided TO execute the hostages. The
brother-in-law of the Mayor asked 70
be allowed to take his place, as he had
n wife and several children. The sacri-
fee was refused, but, as it turned out.
was unnecessary. II developed that
two drunken German soldiers had been
for the ARRAY that nearly
cost the hostages their lives.
The British Imperial Club has is
sued call for volunteers to mend and
pack clothing for the destitute in Eng
land. Such large quantities of warm
garments and stockings have been re-
ceived that the clothing committee
finds itself unequal to the task.
The Prince Of Wales fund, which is
being collected at the Office Of X. NJ
Stuart Wortley, % Broad ST., yester.
day reached total of $3l,8S2 All
the English and Scotch societies havt
been circularized in the interests Of
the fund