New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
AMERICA SAVED
BELGIUM, He SAYS
Brussels Relief Head
Praises Methods as
Well as Generosity.
PLAGUE EXPERTS GO
TO AID OF SERBIA
SecOurs-NatiOnal Art Exhibit at
Altman Home Draws Hun.
dredS Daily.

Belgium's bread line will number
100000 before the next harvest, ac-
cording 70 Emil Francqui, president Of
the National Relief Commission OF
Brussels. His estimate was given dur
ing conference in London with officers
of the American Commission for Relief
in Belgium.
Mr.. Francau said il was largely due
20 American generosity and methods
that Belgium had not been visited by
famine. He expressed conviction that
the same methods would meet the in
creased want. Many were dependent,
but none starving, he said.
Apart from philanthropy" said Mr..
Francqui. Belgium has been saved
from intermittent starvation by the
bold and unhesitating financial policy
Of the American commissions directors,
who sometimes pledged personal credit
foI as much rs Sl0,O00000
Contracts for 100000 pounds Of
bacon and other preserved meats have
been placed by the commission. A like
amount will be bought in May. Hereto
fore wheat and flour have made up 80
per cent Of the shipments.
Doctors Sail for Serbia.
Several Of the commission OF Ameri-
can physicians sent to Serbia to check
typhus started yesterday on the Duca
d'Aosta. Of the Royal Italian Mail
Line Their sailing was delayed sew
Cral hours by the storm. In the expe-
dton. under the American Red Cross
and the Rockefeller Foundation, which
contributed $4,000. are DR.. Thomas
Wright Jackson, who suppressed the
bubonic plague in Manila; DR.. b. W.
Caldwell. who was in the Canal Zone
for ten years; DR.. Hans Zinsser. Of
the College of Physicians and Sur
geons. Of this city; Drs. Andrew W.
Sellards, George {. Shattuck and +.
b. Grnnell. Of Harvard, and ". s.
Standifer and Luis de la Pena, who
fought disease carrying insects in the
Canal Zone for ten years under
Colonel Gorgas. Hobart d. Brink,
storekeeper for the expedition, also
sailed.
DR.. Richard p. Strong. director Of
the force, sailed a week ago, and will
meet the others at Salonica.
The art lean exhibit in the Altman
home, at Fiftieth Street and Fifth
Avenue, has drawn hundreds. The pro-
ceeds will 20 TO the Secours- National
fund for widows and orphans in
France. The exhibit is open daily, in
Guiding Sunday, from 10 TO 6.
For the benefit Of the Lafayette fund
the "Children's Revolution" will be
presented again April - at the Park
Theatre.
Relief Funds Grow.
Contributions TO the Belgian Relief
/.
ing the total TO S1,0l2 ,50S.15. l.. A.
Ault gave $1,000, Mrs. f. c. T. Miller
$500 and NJ Squier 500. The fund
for the American Ambulance Hospital
in Paris received 1924. II is now
1888 .3Oi02. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Lynde Stetson sent a monthly con-
tributiOn Of 500. Among gifts ae-
knowledged by the Serbian Agricul-
tural Relief Committee is 500 from
A. A. Fowler.
Gifts to the American Womens War
Relief Fund amounted to 1881. W. Cd.
McVitie gave $3.50. The Secours Ma
tional fund is now $64.422 90. The
Committee Of Mercy's fund reached
$40. 1916. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Lynde Stetson gave 5000; Ambrose
Mondell, 5000, and J. Dives, Of Reading,
Penn, 500.
The American Polish Relief Commit
tee of New York has received 1885,,
1895. It sends funds and clothing
through the Swiss committee, Of which
Jan Paderewski and Henry Sienkie-
wicz arc the heads, and through Ambas-
sador Peufeld, at Vienna.
The Special Relief Society, Of 597
Fifth Avenue. Of which Mrs. william
Alexander is president. appeals for new
clothing and money. The society works
through established organizations for
convalcsccnt soldiers and the unem-
Moved at home.