New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
.CALVE WILL SING
TO AID SOLDIERS
My Poor France" Writes
Diva-WiIl Appear at
Concert Here.
LAFAYETTE DANCE.
ATTRACTS ARTISTS
Nurse Sent to Front to Report
on Needs of French-Funds
Increase Daily.

Nine. Emma Calve, after several
years absence from the American stage,
is to make her first public temperance
for the benefit Of the soldiers of the
Allies. She will sing at concert in
Aeolian Hall. Thursday afternoon. Feb
ruary 1s. TO aid the work of the Lafsy-
cite Fund and the French Red Cross.
my poor France" she has written
70 the committee in charge. AFTER
having sing for my people in every
cathedral and hospital, my heart turns
to America, the land Of happiness. |
cannot conceive of more appropriate
occasion for me 10 appear again in
your country than this. TO relieve the
soldiers in the trenches
Mrs. William Aston Chanler, Mrs.
Archibald s. Alexander and Miss Jose
phine Osborn form the committee on
arrangements for the concert.
Mile. Anna Pavlows is to be the guest
of honor st the fifth Of the Lafayette
Fund dances Wednesday evening in the
Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt
Hotel by the Paul Jones Club. The
occasion will be known as Carnival
Night. and the features have been ar
ranged by Miss Janet Scudder, Miss
Mercedes de Acosts and Miss Audrey
Osborn.
Paul Leyssac, the Danish actor, and
Miss Jean Cooper, singer. will be two
of the artists who will take part. The
guests will =. dressed in fancy cos
tunes. for the most part. and novel and
grotesdue attires have been arranged
for the walters. Several orchestras
will furnish continuous music.
Novel Relief Plan Tested.
A novel form Of relief work is under
way by the Riverdale. Spuyten Duyvil
and Kingsbridge branch of the Ameri-
can Red Cross. While cooperating
Loyalty with the general board the
branch. Of which Mrs. Edward c. Della
field is president. recently sent a
trained nurse 10 France to report on
the needs created by the war at the
western end of the line of battle.
Within a short time the women OF
Riverdale expect TO be in possession Of
a chateau in Brittany to be used ex.
clusively as a retreat for mothers and
their babies. More nurses will be sent
10 the hospital as they are needed. and,
meanwhile. quantities of infants ap-
parel will be shipped 20 Belgium for
the 10000 infants that have been born
since the war began, according TO re-
ports.
Provision for the service Of nurse
at the front for one year was made by
Cleveland II. Dodge, of Riverdale.
In her official report, Mrs. Delafeld
LAYS especial stress on the need of con
tinuing the assistance that this branch
has been giving the unemployed in its
own vicinity.
Frock for War Bride.
" n hoy of clothinp received yester-
day by Mrs. Whitney Warren, Is East
Attn st.. for the Secours National Fund
for the relief Of destitute women and
children in France, was found this
note:
~ hope you will pass the little china
silk frock on for the comfort II would
give to first communion maiden or
perhaps a war bride. The remaining
articles are. think, strictly sensible"
Among the contributions received
Yesterday by J. P. Morgan & Co. for
the American Ambulance Hospital in
Paris was S1,100 from Mrs. c. c. Rum
sey for the purchase of an automobile
ambulance and the expense Of shipping
il to France. The fund now totals
s324.734s5.
The American Polish Relief Commit
tee, "a East 47th St, which is receiving
funds only for non-combs tants in Pc
land. received $500 from an anonymous
donor. Its total receipts are Sl9,3Sl.
The Belgian Relief Fund yesterday re-
ceived 81 ,509. bringing its grand total
up to S910,141.
Information received from the Rus
sian war zones through the Depart
ment Of State in Washington and made
public by the AmericanJewish Relief
Committee, reports that the general
conditions among those residing in the
zone Of military operations have been
exceptionally distressing, despite the
fact that the Hebrew population is
willingly sharing with the others with
out complaint the hardship and burden
brought about by the war; The com
mittee has arranged for the sending of
money through the Tran satlantic Trust
Company TO designated persons in Aus
Hungary. The treasurer reports
p total of S436,219 SO in contributions.
To Reach Belgisns.
The Commission for Relief in Bel
GUM, Il Broadway, announced yester-
gay that II had perfected arrangements
for 100 inland assembling depots, To-
Gated in various states, TO facilitate
the bringing together free Of cost pack
ages by parcel post, by express and By
small lots, and their consolidation and
reshipment in carload lots 70 the most
desirable seaports for transportation
to Rotterdam by chartered ships.
The following ars the assembling de-
pots and forwarding agents near New
York:
The Commission for Relief in Bel
GUM, Bush Terminal, South Brooklyn.
\. Y; Security Storage and Ware
house Company, Albany; Buffalo
Storage and Carting Company, Buffalo;
Flagg Storage Warehouse Company,
Syracuse; Walter H. Hickey, % North
State ST., Trenton, ~ j.. H. T. Smith
Express Company, Meriden. Conn; A.
Brozos & Sons, Inc. Middletown, Conn,
and Bill Brothers Company, Hartford,
Conn.
Commission facilities now include
100 state assembling depots, fourteen
terminal seaboard stations. free trans
port over land and sea, free insurance
and free service in every proper and
necessary way accorded every recog-
Iized state committee and every organ
ization or individual desiring to aid
ON TTNEN GIVES