New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
WAR BABIES NEED
OUTING FLANNEL
American Girls Committee
Asks Help for Destitute
French Mothers.

War babies Of France. born in the
wake Of the German invaders, need
outing flannel. Another appeal has
been sent out by Miss Gladys Hollings-
worth, of the American Girls Aid
Committee, for contributions Of this
material.
With her hospitals and medical re-
sources taxed to the utmost to care for
the wounded, one Of the most serious
problems which France has to face this
spring is the care Of the destitute
women who are to become mothers.
81 want to thank you for the splen-
did help you have given US through
The Tribune" writes Miss Holdings
worth. 1--WE have been able 70 for
ward a good deal of material to my
sister, Mrs. Pinto, in Paris, who dis
tributes personally all the baby out
fits, but she writes me that the de-
mands come in faster than she can fill
them. Won't some Of your readers
help US by sending outing flannel or
money with which to purchase this
81 am shipping on La Tourainc 2I2
material?
cases of various kinds of supplies,
sixty-six of which contain drugs given
by Mrs. Stephen FITZGERALD, Of Boston.
All contributions are sent to the Amer
lean Relief Clearing House in Paris
for distribution, except the baby out
fits for Mrs. Pinto's work"
"My work is to make layettes for
the women and girls who are expect
ing babies by the invaders" Mrs. Pinto
has written. There are lots of them
girls of twelve TO women of forty, and
whole families, mothers and daughters,
whose children will have the same
fathers. 1t is horrible to think of, and
it is problem here to know what to
do with the children"
The Commission for Relief in Bel
gium ships by the Cambrian King,
which sails from Newport to-day, a
cargo Of supplies for relief work in
Holland. Clothing and provisions COM
prise the shipment, which includes g.
496 barrels Of -four and $4,000 bushels
of wheat. The ship is filled to her ex-
treme capacity Of $500 tons.
Miss Kate Fowler yesterday donated
1900 to the fund of the Serbian Agri-
cultural Relief Committee. The days
contributions totalled S3,l4S.
Through the cooperation Of Nine.
Marcella Sembrich, Josef Hoffman, and
Efrem Zimbalist in the second of their
concerts for the benefit of the Ameri-
can Polish Relief Committee, s5,014.45
was added to the fund.
The Special Relief Society for the
destitute convalescents abroad and the
unemployed at home shipped during the
last week cases of supplies TO Russian
Poland, Tifis, Montenegro, Serbia,
France and Austria. Contributions for
the Secours National Fund for the re-
lief of women and children in France
amounted yesterday to $40. OF this
the Groton School Dramatic Club gave
1870 and Miss Edith Scoville 5000.
No appeal has been made TO the pub
lie by the Relief Committee of the
Woman's Auxiliary OF French Hospitals
at $50 West Thirty fourth Street, yet
this society announces that it has sent
to the Secours National, in Paris, four
teen shipments of clothing and hospital
supplies. Il has also aided the French
Benevolent Society in finding work for
the destitute wives of reservists.
An appeal to the suffering people of
Montenegro, who have, so far, received
little aid from the neutral nations. was
received to-day by the Var Relief
Clearing House, 10 Broad Street, from
Captain A. Y. Seferoyitch, a Monte
negrin reservist.
Weakened by the Turkish and Bal
kan Wars, the little country was in
need of help even before the present
conflict began. Now, the captain says,
her condition is quite as bad as that
of Belgium or Servia.
"Epidemcs of typhoid, typhus and
other diseases are raging" he writes.
"The hospitals are crowded and doctors
and supplies are sadly lacking. The
population has been augmented nearly
20 per cent by one hundred thousand
women, old men and children from
Herzegovina, Bosnia and Dalmatla,
seeking safety from their Austrian
enemies.
"At this time, when the wonderful
generosity Of the American people is
being shown for the sufferers in Eu-
rope, | feel sure that If attention is
called to the terrible suffering and
need for assistance in Montenegro the
response will be adequate Can you
not secure contributions of medical
supplies TO assist in allaying the suf-
fering in our Ii = NJ ltenegro?