New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
FLOWERS WILL Aid
SOLDIERS RELIEF
Many Organizations Join
i'm Tea Garden at Show
This Week.
PROCEEDS WILL GO
TO VERY OUTPOSTS
Bazaar to Help Destitute in Rus
sian Districts Planned for
April II to II.

Flowers are TO have their part in pro-
yiding comforts and necessities for SOL
diers on European battlefelds. In order
that the proceeds from the Red Cross
tea garden at the Flower Show may go
to the very outposts, as well as to the
field and base hospitals, the Red cross
has enlisted the aid of other relief or
uanizations. The Flower Show opens
Wednesday in the Grand Central raj
ace and the Red Cross tea garden is al
ready practically complete
The IDEA OF the tea garden was con-
ceiyed by Mrs. William Kinnicutt ORA
per. Mrs. Belmont Tiffany and W. H.
Newbold. Organizations other than the
Rcd Cross which have since become IN
terestod are the Committee OF Mercy
of which ex-senator Root is honorary
president; Charles w. Eliot, Mrs. }.
borden Hartman, Mayor John Purroy
Mitchell and Commissioner katnarlhe
b. Davis, Independents, and Mrs. wal
ter MAYNARD, chairman of the tea gar
dem committee; the Belgian Relief Com
mittee of which Mrs. Pierre Mall IL
chairman. will be assisted by Mrs
Johnston de Forest, Miss Anne Morgan
Mrs. Robert Thorn, Mrs. Lindon Bates
and Mrs. August Belmont; the vacation
War Relief Committee, Mrs. KoolnSon
Smith. chairman; the British War Re-
iief Committee, of which Lady Herbert
is president and which has among It's
active workers Mrs. Arthur Scott bur
den. Mrs. Ralph Sanger, Mrs; Charles
u ma Gibson, Mrs. F. W. Whitrldge,
Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar and oth-
ers: the German Relief Commute, MIS-
Justus Ruperti and numerous aids;
the American Committee of the Secours
Nationale, Mrs. Whitney Warren, cnalr-
man; Mrs. F. Gray Griswold, mrs
Ogden Mills, Mrs. w. Bayard cutting
and others; American Polish Keilei
Committee, Nine. Marcella Semorich
president; Mrs. Ernest Schelllng' Mrs
/. zee Blagdon and larJe committeei
American Hostels for Refugees 10
Paris, Mrs. Richard Derby, Chairman
and the Serbian Relief committee
Nine. Mabel Grouitsch, chairman
A the dansant will be gwen at the
flower show in the Red Cross Yea gar
den on Monday, March p, by me brlt'
ish War Relief Fund, of 200 Flftn ave
nue.. Among the patronesses are LADY
Herbert, Mrs. Henry Martyr hieNan'
der. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. George
Gordon Battle, Mrs. James A. Burden
Mrs Arthur Scott Burden. Mrs. Aitreo
NJ Coats. Mrs. W. Bourke Cochran
Miss Martha McCook. Mrs. Howard u
Cushing, Mrs. Drexel, Mrs, Newnolo
Edgar. Mrs. w. r. Farquhar. MIS-
Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Norman
Uapeood. Mrs. william B. Leeds, mrs
Pendleton. Mrs. Walter Maynard Mrs
John G.. Milburn, Mrs. Junius spencer
Morgan, Mrs. II. Fairfield Osborn, MISS
Sands. Mrs. Ralph Sanger, Mrs. her
bert Satterlee, Mrs. J. II. Sears, Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Samuel A
weldon. Mrs. F. W. Whitridge, Mrs
n. ], Whigham, Mrs. r. NJ. Stuart
Wortley and Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg
The following will act as tea girls
and will be dressed in crinoline
dresses. pantalettes and sailor hats
Mr. Herman Kinnicutt, Mrs. Carl Pot'
,er Miss Harriet Post, Miss Mary Hoy'
Wiborg. Miss Sarah Wiborg, Miss Olga
Wiborg, Miss Mary Pine, Miss Laura
Canfeid. Miss Carol Hartman, MISS
Rsatrice Claflin, Mrs. Henry Ives CooD
Mrs. Samuel Weldon, Miss Josepnlnie
Osborn, Mrs. Robert Gerry, MISS Eisl'
Nicoll and Miss Helen Frlck.
Rooths. kiosks and villas reminiscent
Of Russia will characterize bazaar tc
be held at the list Regiment armorI
Anril ~ to II. 1t will be under tn'
ausnices of the Russian-Amerlcan W al
Relief Society, Inc. Proceeds VIII oe
Jevoted 10 the aid of the destitute II
Russian Poland and other stricken dls
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt and Nine
Rokbmetef. wife Of the Russian Am
bassador. will preside over a bootn
Mrs Vanderbilt has offered the decora
tions from the Opera Boris. Dr. Z. -
Young will give his lecture, THE Irutf
About Russia. 1900.
preliminary list of those engaged
:, the organization of the bazaar l.
cIudes Nine. Bakhmeteff, Consul gen
crsI Oustinof. Consul Pierre Routsky
Raron Korf. Mrs. william X. Wander
b;it F. II. Kluge, V. +. Gsrtz, Il; "
StaIter W. b. Crane, Julian Steven VI
man. Serge Rupert, Max Strauss, "a
hriei Dobroff, Miss Romanosky, mrs
Toukevitch. Mrs. Kohanik, Mrs. roster
Miss Oustinof, Mrs. Elsie Pekschen
Mrs Vera Johnston, Mrs. Hitler, MISS
is % bel Hapgood, Mrs. Boynston anc
Mme I," OLGA de Moraysky Kluge. The
Laadouariers Of the society are at 90
Wet Thirty-fourth Street.
Tbs Relgian Relief Fund yesterday
rone;ved H 81 ,392.64, making the totai
Sg76.l95.75. Anthony j. bario" Tno Tno
Helena Reid gave siO0 eacn. III ne
ceived sll6 and eight cases Of sup
plies from Buffalo.