New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
WAR SANTA HERE.
FOR RELIEF PACK
Ten-Day Campaign Gets
$4,000 for French
Hospital Motors.
RED CROSS SENDS
MORE AID TO EUROPE
King George Directs That Sick
room Supplies Go to British
Invalids on French Coast.

Contributions for war relief received
during the week ended December at
the uptown branch Of the American Red
Cross, 6el Fifth Avenue, amounted to
S351.65. OF the seven cases OF sup
plies forwarded TO Europe, the uptown
branch sent three to Serbia and one
to France, Countess Villafranca sent
one to Italy, and Mrs. Benjamin GUM
ness sent two to Serbia.
Major Louis Livingston Seaman,
president of the British War Relief
Association, Inc, 642 Fifth Avenue, an
nounces that Z. H. Sothern Is to give
benefit matinee Friday, December II,
the entire receipts TO be used for hos
pital supplies for the relief of British
wounded soldiers. Through a private
secretary, His Majesty King George Of
England has cabled to Major Seaman,
accepting these supplies and directing
that they be forwarded TO the British
Red Cross hospital, Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The following articles are needed for a
special Christmas box to be sent to
this same hospital for the nurses:
Chocolate, hsndkerchiefs, scissors and
sewing materials, combs, Shippers,
stockings and kimonos.
BY raising $4,000 in ten days, the
Vacation War Relief Committee has
cabled an order to Paris for two flo
tillas of hospital equipped motors need
ed at the front.
Accurate information was given out
that per cent of the wounded soldiers
died from wsht Of ambulance attention.
Robinson Smith offered $1,000 to start
the contributions. Mrs. Daniel Gug-
genheim responded with a check for
$4,000, and other gifts brought the
total up to $4,000. The motor cars to
be purchased in Paris are adapted for
swift travelling on narrow, rough
roads, and can be operated near the
lines.
Calve to Aid French Cause.
Nine. Emma Calve will sing at the
Vacation Flotilla benefit concert at the
Metropolitan Opera House on January
4. She will be assisted by other artists
now in New York who have offered to
sing for the French cause.
Nine. Marcella Sembrich, who recent
" retired as head of the American
Polish Relief Committee, has received
the following letter from Herbert L.
Satterlee: "At a meeting of the gen.
eral committee was authorized to
send you copy of the resolutions
which were passed with reference to
your resignation. No words can convey
to you the love and sympathy which
each and every one personally has ex-
pressed.
The committee also authorized me
TO send you this flag of the committee.
We have all worked under it with you
as our leader, and it means a great deal
to US. 1t stands for the interest and
sympathy which you have taught us TO
feel for Pol~nd. and we hope that it
will be a reminder to you of the many
hours that we have spent working to-
gether. and will also keep fresh in your
memory the loyalty and devotion which
we all feel for you personally"
The work began by Nine. Sembrich is
TO be continued by the American Polish
Relief Commission, with headquarters
at IA East Sixty-fourth Street.
Whitney Warren to Speak.
Whitney Warren, who will arrive on
the Lafayette tomorrow, had agreed by
wireless to speak at conference in the
Ritz-Carlton ballroom Thursday at 3
p. m. on "The Experiences of an Ameri-
can Citizen in Paris, 1914-1915." Con-
tributions received yesterday by Mrs
trno Of 70 a