New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-08
BELGIAN BLIND NEED
PHYSICIANS HELP
Medical Profession Asked
to Aid 5000 Destitute
Victims of War.

Physicians of the United States are
asked to help the 5000 homeless blind
of Belgium. IN making the appeal Dr..
+. +. Simpson, treasurer of the Com
mittee of American Physicians for the
Aid of the Belgian Profession, quotes
estimates made by Miss Winfred Holt
after her return from Europe. Miss
Holt is secretary Of the New York
Association for the Blind
She places the number of sightlnSs
Belgians at 5000. In the whole country
there were thirteen institutions hous-
ing them. When war broke OUT The
homes for the blind were wrecked. She
obtained no information as TO tne fate
of the inmates. and it IS thought that
they are in the national bread line
To-day" writes DR.. Simpson, there
is cry from Belgium Send US food or
we perish This is just az much the
voice of God as the voice that reached
st. Paul, and the response is even more
necessitous."
Already the physicians committee
has sent nearly $4,000 worth of food to
the families of Belgian physicians. The
provisions were seRt through the Com
mission for Rel eff in Belgium.
Thirteen Chinese boys in Mount Yer
non sent $3.50 and letter to the Bel
gian Relief Fund as their contribution
toward the Argosy laden with money
and letters which the fund is sending
in the name of Princess Marie Jose.
The letter is written In Chinese ard
will doubtless prove a puzzle to the
little Belgian Princess. With the thou
sands of other missives received il will
~ of hn tot ~
Belgium. The money will buy food for
the small subjects Of the nine year-old
princess. The boys are members of the
Chinese Sunday school of Mount Yer
mon.
Contributions received yesterday by
the Belgian Relief Fund amounted TO
s1,193.66. The total is $1,016,345.7S.
F. A. Quail gave 500 and a similar
amount came from &C. C. IT, The fund
for the American Ambulance Hospital
in Paris is S384,974S4, of which ST.
514S2 was received yesterday. From
II. Account, Boston, came gift cf
5000; from +. Person Becker, $500,
and from Grant Walker, 500.
Among the gifts acknowledged by the
American Polish Relief Committee was
$500 from Miss Bliss. and 500 from
A. b. B." The American Jewish Re
lief Committee acknowledged contrbu-
tons amounting to Sl2,S66.27, bring
ing its fund up to s6ll ,S09.53. Will
lam Fischman gave 1925.
Contributions received by the Serbian
Agricultural Relief Committee of
America included 500 from Harris
Fahnestock, $500 from c. l.. Coffin, and
500 from III. G. B." Gifts to the
Committee of Mercy amounted to
$lS5.lO. Its fund is now $l4l,292.45.
Mrs. +. F. Allen, of New Rochelle, gave
500.
A concert will be given this afternoon
at the Plaza Hotel for the benefit Of
destitute families Of Partisan mu-
sicians, and small military hospitals in
the French provinces.
II is under the patronage of Nine.
GATH Casazza, Mrs. Paul Crsvath, Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Charles II. Dit
son. Mrs. f. Tiffany Dyer. Mrs. John
HAYS HAMMOND, Mrs. William Ar
buckle jameson Mrs. Paul Morton. Miss
Florence Murphy, Mrs. Ethclbert Nevln,
Nine. Sembrich. Mrs. Lewis Buckley
Stillwell and Mrs. William Truesdale.
The entertainers will be Pablo
Casals, 'cellist; Vernon d'Arnelle and
Ruth Kingsbury Townsend, vocalists,
and Ruth Deyo, pianist. Mrs. Edwin
Lapham will be the accompanist