Evening journal., 1915-06-25
MORE SUPPLIES CO
TO MEN At front
War Relief Ships Hospital
Appurtenances TO Suffer-
ing French
PARIS SHOCKED
BY SEA TRAGEDY

The work of the war relief COM
mittee continues with unabated in
,erest. A box containing six dozen
surgical night shirts. 100 pneumonia
jackets. towels, bed side bags band
ares. magazines, etc will be sent to-
morrow to Miss Jcannette Duncan,
former superintendent OF nurses AT
the Delaware Hospital but now In
France al the battlefront The box
Was sent today. The boxes sent to
the maternity hospital AZ Chalons aux
Marne have been received and ac-
knowledged by Dr. Dilda Clark.
The following articles have been
received by the committee through
the knitting committees
Miss Edith Bowman, one pair stock
ings: Miss NJ. S. Jones, two pair
socks; Miss Ruth anc Eleanor, one
pair socks: Mrs. Meller, two chll-
dren's dresses, one child's sacque, one
hoy's flannel shirt and one woman s
waist: Joseph Bancroft a Sons Co..
six packing cases. water proof pa
per; Miss Anna Lee, 81; Mrs. II. =.
Scott IS: Mrs. James c. Hart, $40;
Mrs william f. Sellers, 50; Mrs.
Preston Lea, S..
The committee desires 20 make pub
tic the following letter which has
been received:
May 81, 1915.
rs Avenue De Breteun. Paris.
Ny Dear Mrs. Porter; Your de-
ughtful letter with the enclosures has
iust come to me today. and has been
read with pleasure and great interest
] think my letter 10 you, IN which
referred TO the three cases received
and OF which ] sent you list OF the
articles, must have crossed yours
somewhere en- route. The three cases
which came to me did not have tho
label Of which you sent a sample
tackled on any one of them, hut there
was an envelope tackled on hearin.
my name. in writing which ! though
rosembled your writing You viii o
course know as soon as you rcccivl
my letter. with the list. whether thi
cases I have received came from vii
mington and the workers there o.
not AS the American Relief clear
ing house Of Paris" No 8 rue Fran
cois Ter takes charge OF oveiythin
that comes from America and for
wards all TO me wherever ] am u
Is informed OF my whereabouts an
address) the cases pass through thel
hands no matter what marking the
may have as TO town or city thus
receive all eventually | will write
Prompt Seco1.s" Dinard at once al
ascertain 'fanythine has arrived tnet
during this visit of mine 20 n
trenches. II the cases I have recoi
ed here at my residence IN Par
are not yours then ! will find you
etesurely in Dinard as soon as ! rotul
10 my work there. which I am TO
as soon as u is ascertained whethl
7 am TO be sent up again 10 the frol
before going hack TO Brittany.
cannot believe that your cases ha'
been lost. and they will ceitainl
turn up il not already in my hand
] have sent much of these cases ii
10 my soldiers whom ] know in n
trenches and TO the hospitals. a
needing so much all the time. I wi
never have too much for the d
mand. as long as the war goes o
italy having come into the conflict.
avn hoping this will Shorten the lene
Of the struggle, but the feeling gro,
here that the war will extend In
next winter, and from the reports. ,
are feeling on this side that Ameri
u also going 10 be drawn into the III
moi. Europe is rather laughing
us Tor the present moment. for ha
ing made such boasts of what
would DO n life Of an Americ