New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-10

are all dying in the detention camps OF
Austria, and that the villages of South
ern Austria are even more severely
stricken with typhus than those here
The belief is growing. according 10
Nine. Marionkovitch, that the air itself
Is infected, and that direct contagion
Is unnecessary 70 contract typhUs. 1ne
hot weather, she fears, will intensity
the peril.
"All our hope she writes. Lies IN
the Rockefeller commission which
came out 10 investigate conditions.
They have promised 20 recommend th't
the Rockefeller Foundation and the
American Red Cross send US sani-
tary commission composed Of bacterl-
oIogists ana Of doctors and nurses
skilled in treating tropical diseases
Nine. Marionkovitch's letter was
written TO her sister, Nile. Helene
Losanitch. who is in New York in the
interest Of Serbian relief.
II. o. Beatty, director general OF the
American Relief Clearing House IN
Paris, writes to correct belief shat
warm clothing is no longer necessary
for Frances refugees. France, he says,
has 100000 Belgian var sufferers 70
care for, and 10000 OF her own. In
prisoners IN rags at the rate OF lO,OOO
q week.
1--WE are called upon in so many
emergency cases." he says, where i'm
mediate action is necessary to save life
that we must ask you II more money
cannot be sent 70 Us. The sufferers we
have been able to relieve are, indeed,
most grateful, but the restitution is so
great that it seems we are doing moth
ing Can you rot send u more money
and clothing"
His appeal is addressed 20 the War
Relief Clearing House, at 10 Broad
Street.
Linden W. Bates. vice-chsirman Of
the Commission for Relief IN Bel
GUM. announced yesterday that DR..
John n. Finley had accepted the chair
manship Of the New York state Com
mittee and Mrs. Martin II. Glynn the
Office of vice-chairman.
! Relief for Unemployed.
The Belgian American Relief and
/ Unemploymcnt Fund will open its
weeks campaign on Monday night with
/ a dollar dinner at the Plaza Hoto-.
Among the speakers sin be Or Pcriera
/ Mendes, Dr. John Wesley Hill, DR.. c. ;.
! Sorolea. Martin ". Littlcton, Miss Rob-
inson Smith, Dr. Albert A. S0owden
: and Percy MacKaye. The fund esti-
mates New York's unemployed at o9O,-
/ 600.
The art loan exhibition at the Att
man Gallery for the benefit OF the
Secours- National, will END tomorrow
evening In the afternoon John Cowper
Powys will lecture on French Art
Vatican" Mr. Powys is to speak on
John Keats" on Friday afternoon at
the home Of Mrs. Charles b. Alexander,
West F.fty-eighth Street. The pro-
ceeds will go 10 the British American
War Relief Fund The lecture is ur-
der the patronage Of Lady Herbert,
Mrs. Alfred Goats, Miss Sands. Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Walter
Maynard, Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar,
Mrs. W. Bourke Cochran. Mrs Andre
Huntington, Miss Mary Holt Wibors
and Miss Josephine Osborn.
4 considerable sum was raised by
The war relief concert given at the
Plaza Hotel on Thursday The pro-
Cceds Will 20 20 the destitute families
Of French musicians ana o the smaller
military hospitals in the French prov
inces. Contributions 10 the Belgian
Relief Fund yesterday amounted to
Sl0144l. bringing the total up 10
fJo9lJ george &. Reynolds gave
500 Mrs Whitney Warren received
S475 for the Sccours-N National. whose
fund is now s65.276. Mrs. John Fell,
of Philadelphia. gave $3.50.
Among the gifts acknowledged By the
Serbian Agricultural Relief Committee
of America were 500 rom A =. Coffin,
$3.50 from Frances w. Emerson, $500
from Catherine 3. Baird, 500 from
GoOrpa p I4bri-kio and EI1O fpprt
"Glen Ridge" The Persian War Re
lief Fund amounts to Sl7.5S5.3l. Mrs.
Mary ". Borden gave SlO0