New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-26
COLLEGE MEN SAIL
FOR SERBIA TO-DAY
Twenty-f five Columbia Stu
dents Take Aid to the
Starving Nation.
NEW HARVARD M. DIS
TO GO TO WAR ZONE
British Relief Asks Linen and
Books-Red Cross Work
Checked in Mexico.

Professor Pupin's Columbia Univer-
sity expedition TO aid Serbia will leave
Pier B, Jersey City, this afternoon at
o'clock on the Themistocles. Twenty
five college men, twenty-five American
lied Serbans as interpreters, and Miss
Mitchell, a sister-in-law OF Professor
Arson Phelps Stokes, of Yale. with her
interpreter. compose the group, OF winch
Elbridge Colby, an instructor IN Co.
lumbia University, is the leader.
Arriving at Nish, their headquarters,
on about July 8, the men will pitch
their five tents and build bodie: for the
automobiles out Of the crates in which
they were sent. Then they will begin
their two months work for the starv-
ing Serbs.
The work will consist in distributfy3
sanitation supplies, food and seeds ~
the people. When the Austrians Re
vaded Serbia last summer the natives
fed to the south, where they have re-
NAMED Although there is no danger
for them at their homes now, there
would be little use of returning, be-
cause they could raise nothing on their
ground for lack Of seed.
The Serbian Agricultural League 10
aiding the government TO remedy this
trouble. Since the oxen are in army
service, there is no means OF transpor-
tation. Subscriptions Of the Committee
of Mercy, the Agricultural League, the
Serbian-American League and Professor
Pupin have furnished $4,000 for auto
mobile transportation. With these the
college men will aid in repopulating
the northern part OF the nation and
help the people to become self-support-
ing again.
Headquarters Of the expedition will
be outside of Nish. Serbia. in five tents
prepared under the direction of Pro-
fessor Pupin and the Serbian Consul.
When the men return for college In
October it is thought the interpreters
will have become able to manage the
autos and continue the work.
Elihu Root, who is honorary presi-
dent of the Committee of Mercy, has
furnished Mr.. Colby with this letter:
81 beg TO commend to the considera-
ton and courtesy of all kind and COM
passionate persons Mr.. Elbridge Colby
and his associates, who are visiting
Serbia to take part in the relief of the
suffering caused By the present war.
The gentlemen 60 from the United
States at the expense of funds raised
by voluntary contributions under the
auspices of the organization known as
the Committee of Mercy. The primary
object of the committee is the relief OF
the women and children made destitute
by the world war; Many Of the best
known and highly respected citizens Of
the United States are members of the
committee, and | write this letter be-
cause | bear to the committee the re-
lation of honorary president"
Harvard physicians and surgeons. or
ganized for three months service in a
British army hospital, left Boston for
New York yesterday. They will sail
to-day on the Noordsm for Falmouth.
The party consists of thirty-five grad
yates of the Harvard Medical School,
who have been practising in Boston,
Newburyport and Providence, and
seventy-fve nurses. A unit from Johns
Hopkins or Columbia will probably re-
lieve them in October.
G.. w. Giddings, of the Commission
for Relief in Belgium, returned yester-
day from Indiana, where he found re-
lief work well organized. Booth Tark-
ington and George AIDE are among those
active in the work Others on the
Indiana committee are Paul Grosjean,
S. A. Fletcher, W. A. McCurdy, w. L.
Burton, the Right Rev. John Hazen
White, H. Mckay Landon and W. L.
Bryan.
The British War Relief Association.
Inc, asks for old linen and cotton and
for books and magazines to send to
hospitals in Europe. Among the gifts
acknowledged yesterday were 500 each
from Mrs. c. C. Stillman, Mrs. r. NJ.
, Thompson and Mrs. William H. Bliss.
Gifts to the New York branch Of the
Red Cross brought its fund up to $685.
1861.
Announcement was made by the Spe-
cial Relief Society, Of SGT Fifth Ave-
nue., that the scope Of its work had
been broadened to include all disasters
at home and abroad. Gifts Of 500
each were received from Frank Keech,
Mrs. Edwin Could, Miss L. Bliss and
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander. Percy Bur-
ton gave $3.50 and James Barber 500
to the Prince Of Wales National Relief
Fund. The fund Of the American Girls
Aid is s2,397.91.
The Red Cross learned yesterday
that permission was refused TO its
agent in the Monclova district. Mex
leo. by General Hernandez TO send pro-
visions bought in Mexico to starving
non-com batants in Saltillo. General
Hernandez said native corn and beans
would be purchased by Mexicans and
distributed as needed. Provisions pur-
chased in the United States, he said,
could be distributed by the Red Cross.
The fourth carload of corn is being
distributed in Monclova. The railroad
to Saltillo has been reopened, and new
reports Of starvation south OF Piedras
Nigras are coming in.