The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-20
CATHOLICS TO OPEN
PURSES FOR POLAND
Collections Will Be Taken Up
To-day in Churches for
War Sufferers.
CARDINAL SENDS $1,000

BY direction Of Cardinal Farley q coll
lection will be taken W in the Catholic
churches to-day for the Polish victims
Of the war and pastors will exhort
their people TO renewed fervor In their
prayers for peace that God In His mercy
may restore prosperity to devastated Po-
land"
A letter from the Cardinal 10 the pas
tors will be road ], says in part
Several months ago. in esponse 20
Q bitter cry Of distress from the Euro
pean war sufferers. ! asked the charitable
aid OF the faithful. ana they contributed
with their wonted iiberality. Again I
am urged TO appeal for help. this time
for Poland. the nation most afflicted
by the scourse of this terrible conflict.
such is the misery Of It's people that
the Holy Father himself has called upon
the Catholic world to assist In relieving
H. His letter echoes the heart rending
cries of the sta rving millions OF a Cath
Ole nation. More than Two hundred
towns have been reduced to ruins, 1900
villages wiped out. and l.i00 churches
n chs pels have been burned or other
! wise destroyed. A whole nation Is In
danger Of extinction from sta rvation Ind
disease"
A letter from Cardinal Gasparri,
the world on the subject of Poland's
dire need. Is embodied in the Cardinals
letter.
Cardinal Farley sent $1,000 yesterday
&c the National American Committee OF
the Polish Victims Relief Fund. The
receipts for the day amounted to
s2,l23.e and the fund now totals
S3<.s75.5s. exclusive OF $50. 900 which is
being sent BY Nine. Melbs from Aus
tralia.
A dance and vaudeville performance
for the benefit OF the Polish Relief will
be given at the Gedney Farms Hotel.
White Plains, on Friday afternoon under
the auspices Of tina Scarsdale Auxiliary
OF the relief committee. The committee
in charge will include Mrs. J. Nelson
shreve. Mrs Francis f.. Aspinwall. Mrs.
Thomas r. Fisher. Mrs. Herbert Shonk.
Mrs. Francis O. Ayres and Mrs. Charles
X. Carpenter. Girls in Polish costume
will sell programmes. flags. flowers and
confectionery. Tickets may be obtained
At the rooms of the relief committee, s
East Forty-sevent street, and OF Mrs.
Carpenter at the Gedney Farms Hotel.
White Plains.
MISS Wlnifred Holt, keeper Of the
Lighthouse, sailed yesterday for France
on the Rochambeau. TO represent the
Comittee for Men Blinded in Battle.
Miss Holt vii! devote her energies to
developing in France the American sys.
tenn Of helping the blind TO do work to
support themselves.
|, The work of the new committee is
under the patronage Of the American
Red Cross and the French Government.
The committee includes Joseph r..
choate. president Bishop Greer. hon
orary chairman: John II. Finley. chair
man. Mrs Peter Cooper Hewitt. secre-
tary William Forbes Morgan, treas
urer Miss Emily II. Bourne. Miss Wini-
fred Holt. Senator Gore. Herbert l..
satterlee. William II. Taft and Arthur
Williams.
Wa relief funds report as follows:
eecours National. received yesterday.
ST. total. Ss2.35ss9. Persian. s53s {.
total, s36,s3si7 Committee Of Mercy.
S~i.ss7.s7: total. s220,l925l. American
Ambulance. total s3ea.s57Ti Red
Cross, s3s3.os total, S5O2,+4s.56.