New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06
RACING MEN TO AID
WAR-HURT HORSES
Blue Cross VIII Benefit by
Belmont Park Track
Opening.
GERMAN WILL SING
FOR FRENCH WOMEN
Albert Relss Joins Star Scar
men" Cast for Paris
Girls.

Tho westchester Racing Association
will give a percentage Of the opening
receipts Of the Belmont Park track on
May 20 TO the Blue Cross Society, the
Committee Of Mercy and the La Fayette
Fund.
This Is the FIRST time a benefit has
been arranged for the Blue Cross So
ciety. While the Red Cross has been
relieving the suffering Of wounded
men, the members Of the Blue Cross
organization have been caring for the
horses shot down.
Only in cases where the horse Is
beyond help Is Il permitted TO die on
the field. As soon as the doctors and
nurses Of the Red Cross reach the
wounded, the big ambulances Of the
Blue Cross Society are driven to the
field and the animals with . chance for
recovery are taken to hospitals.
The chance TO increase the La Fayette
and the Committee Of Mercy funds
promises to make the Belmont Park
opening a social event Those who
have already subscribed to boxes in
clude Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Au-
gust Belmont, Harry Payne whitney,
Mrs. P. Cooper Hewitt Oliver Harri-
man, Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, W. K. Van
derbilt, jr., c. X. G. Billings, Payne
Whitney, Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs.
Newbold Leroy Edgar, Henry W.
Marsh, Barron Andre, John Magee, Gift
| ford A. Cochran, Schuyler L. Parsons,
James Butler, R. T. Wilson. Captain E..
B. Cassatt, Allan Pinkerton, Walter
Maynard, Mrs. Ralph Ellis, W. G. Loew,
Oliver G. Jennings, Francis Roche, E.
R. Bacon, Henry Case, Mrs. W. P.
Thompson, Victor Morawetz, Mrs. Henry
Alexander, J. Sergeant Cram, Herbert
Hartman, Spencer Eddy, J. n. McCul-
! Tough, Pembroke Jones, Miss Barbara
Rutherfurd, Miss L. Scott, Mrs. E. L.
Tinker, J. S. Bache, Mrs. o. Smith,
Amory Carhart, Preston Satterwhite,
Walter Gurnee, Hamilton Cary, George
Rose, Mrs. Ogden Mills and Clarence
! W. Mackay.
The Committee in America for the
Sewing Girls of Paris Fund, which
next Thursday night will give q bene-
fit performance Of Carmen" at the
Metropolitan Opera House, has now
completed the cast. The committee
found the Metropolitan company was
disbanded and many Of the stars ar
ranging for trips abroad, but Condo
Mast, the chairman, found many Of
them willing to change their plans In
order to offer their services. The chief
difficulty was In filling the role OF
Remendado, which Albert Reiss, the
tenor, finally agreed to sing, although
| he Is new to the part.
Reiss's action brought especial COM
mendation from the committee, as he
| is German, and the benefit is for
French women, but, in agreeing TO sing
the part, the tenor said that he re-
garded the women Of France as limo
cent victims Of the great war, and
worthy of as much pity as German
women.
Bizet's opera will be sung in French,
with the following cast: Geraldine
/ Farrar, Garment; Frances Aida, Mi
caela Leonore Sparks, Frasquita;
Sophie Braslau, Mercedes; Giovanni
Martinelli, Don Jose; Pasqusle Amato,
Escamillo Robert Leonhsrdt, Dam
caire; Albert Reiss, Remendadoi An
dreas de Segurols, Zuniga, and Desire
Defrere, Morales, with Giorgio Polscco,
conductor.
The Belgian Relief Fund amounts
now to 81 ,033, 1911, the Committee OF
Mercy Fund to s154,o81.26, the Persian
War Relief Fund TO S27,549.46. and the
Serbian Agricultural Relief Fund to
! $40 b238l