The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19

of an American stepmother. who Is a noted organizer. Miss Chamberlain would be an asset to any movement. She holds | the position of assistant honorary secre. | tary to the organization and here she is | to be found, practically daily. working
 like the proverbial sailor. Her younger l sister, Ida, who is child of the former
 Miss Endicott of Boston, Joseph Cham berlain's third wife, is, moreover, acting
 as assistant to the secretary, Miss Evelyn Wyld, and at present in the temporary absence of the latter is carrying on her shoulders all the duties of that post. ] Then. too, we have Lady Kathleen t;aus- sen, who is in direct charge of the slip per room, where such footwear is made all day long, Lady Brackenbury. who has the needlework under her control; Lady Cece'ie Roberts, a daughter of the Coun- tess of Carlisle: the Hon. Maude Ritcnie and the Hon. Mrs West, as well as Miss 1, Vickers one of the hardest workers in the place, who belongs to the famous family that controls the equally famous ornaments firm. The president of the French wounded emergency fund. one may mention. Is the Marchioness of I.ir- lithgow, while among the vice presidents are the Countess of Crawford, the Wis countess Bryce Lady Mersey, Lady Rob ert Cecil, Lady Russell of killowen, and several other bearers of titles.
 MOTe interesting to us, however, are the American women identified with this work. whose part therein, as you may imagine. is no small one. They include Mrs. Philip Lee Warner of Boston, a cousin of Henry James, the novelist, who has just thought 1t well to become a British subject. Mrs. Lee Warner Is q. member of the executive committee and is hard at work at Lowndes square, usu ally at the business of sorting and pack ing pajamas and other garments every day. We have, too. Mrs. Benjamin La throp, whose husband is so well known in the United States, and whose mother was Miss Stevens. of Castle Point Ho- boken. Mrs. Lathrop is honorary sec retary of the American branch, and an energetic one. as l can testify person. ally Then there Is Miss Anna Vail, whose mother is Mrs. Schuyler Van Rem selaer. of New York, and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. of California, and Mrs Curtis Brown, of Buffalo. N. Y. The latter are respectively president and vice president of the Society of American Women in London, and Mrs. Curtis Brown is In charge of the workrooms branch of the Funds activities, representing several hundred outside workers in this coun- try. One must make mention, too, of Mrs. Alfred Partridge KIotz. of Balti- more, wife of the American painter, who Is one of the, organizers of the move ment. and. with her husband. one of the hardest workers among its staff of visi- tors to the French hospitals. Mrs. Casper Whitney, of New York; M.;s Daisy Polk of San Francisco, and Mrs. Romlly Fed don. the novelist, and author of '.The Sign," all of whom, besides many more are giving up all their time to this good work t
 How Work Started
 You are familiar. no doubt, with the .t0 rF thn Gtn nvk It yet you may not be- as considerin how many thousands of women in the United States are taking part in It., surprisingly little about it has been published in the newspapers at home. It was inspired by French woman with an English hus- band, Mrs. Floyd. nee de Neufillc, who is member of an old Huguenot family Mrs. Floyd spent several weeks in nurs- ing at one of the little French hospitals and thus learned for herself what the situation was. She began by interesting Mrs. Klotz and her husband whose European home is the Chateau de Roche fort, at Rochefort en Terre. and to- gether the two women came to England and laid the proposition before their friends here. with the result that tho French Wounded Emergency fund was started forthwith.
 It commenced with cash capital of $200 and since then has raised S6500O In this country alone, most of the ex- tensive American contributions having been in kind. Normandy and Brittany were chosen as the scene of the fund activities, as being the parts of France that lay nearest and o,~r 4C0 hospitals in these two provinces are now being helped The fund maintains little fleet of motor cars, each of which carries a visitor and chauffeur. Each car has T hospitals on it's list. and these can be ha nf <.t, kt.. round. that Is supposlng the representa- tives of the fund travel. as they do, in sr 'inds of 'reather. in wind and in rain
 Many of the visitors. and the .'chauf- feurs. too, are Ainer.cans of standing For example. Mrs. Caspar Whitney and