Evening journal., 1915-09-01
WAR RELIEF WORKERS
Have NEW Quarters
Crosby & Hill Donate Third
Floor of Their Market
Street Property
SHIPPING CONCERNS
SEND SUPPLIES FREE

The Wilmington War Relief Com
mittee has found a homel
Through the kindness Of the Cros-
by & Hill Company. the third floor Of
its property at COS TO 609 Market
street, is to provide the necessary
space for continuing the worthy work
OF aiding the wounded and the sick
/ in Europe irrespective of national
| ity or creed.
In offering a headquarters to the
War Relief Committee. Crosby & Hill,
in a letter addressed to Mrs. Joseph
Bancroft vice-president Of that body,
says:
aCrosby & Hill Company take
pleasure in Offering the large room
on the third floor Of the Crosby &
Hill Company building for the use Of
the War Relief Committee of the
Delaware Chapter American Red
Cross and will furnish elevator SER
vice and heat free OF cost. There is
some plumbing work required that
can be done at a small cost. This
will be the only expense as the rent
of the room will be donated to your
committee.
This offer is for a period Of six OF
seven months from September /,
1915. excepting the month of Decem-
ber, 1915, (when the room VIII be
needed for our own use) but we viii
provided another floor during said
month"
Gift Of Gas Fixtures.
AS further evidence Of the regard
in which the War Relief Committee
is held and in testimony to the charit-
able enterprise In which il is engaged
the Delaware Electric and Supply
Company has given fixtures fol
the new headquarters and a local
plumber, who, through modesty. re.
fuses to permit his name to be men.
toned has offered to install them.
The Bird Transfer Company has
, gratuitously moved the Furnishings
of the committee TO its new rooms.
, The Bush line of Wilmington hal
! volunteered its services TO transpor
cases Of goods to New York free o
! charge.
In reply to the kindly offer Of th'
, headquarters by the Crosby and Hi
! Company, the following letter has
been sent by Mrs. Bancroft in behal
of the War Relief Committee:
THE War Relief Committee Of tn
Delaware Chapter of the American
Red Cross acknowledges the recelp
Of your kind letter of the 23d inst. of
fering them the large room on III
third floor of the Crosby and Hill
Company building for the use Of tn
4 committee. for period OF six o
seven months.
"They appreciate and accept you
,nl generous offer 10 aid them in thei
work and trust they will be able
ge accomplish much for the benefit {
the sick and wounded in these ne
e. quarters"
More Boxes Shipped.
IN That the activities of the commi
ns tee has not been in the least halte
PA by its deprivation of headquarter
Se through the remodeling of the Cla!
il. ton House is attested 10 by the shiI
he ment within the past two weeks {
four boxes laden with necessities {
a war These boxes we're sent to DR..
AS Marin, al the military hospital a
g. Fontainoleau: Warren Holman Blacl
H. who has distributed the contents q
n the Fifteenth Military Hospitale, an
,d TO Or. Depage. the Belgian physician
,e whose wife was lost with the sinkin
s. of the Lusitania. while she was e
II. route from this country TO aid in th
war relief work.
= Receipt Of two cases is acknowledl
u ed by James r. Barcout, in beha
of I Hospital de St Maurice. Switzei
!, land. and have been forwarded
- him to the front
- Miss Eleanor Johnson, who has bee
y IN charge of the packing and shiI
ping during the absence of Miss Col
! nelia S. Draper. chairman Of that con
mittee has reported that eightee
large cases were packed and sent dul
- ing July and August.
- Mrs. Willard Hall Porter, chairma
:, of the receiving committee, has pui
= chased many gross Of underwea
I. shirts. blankets, sheets and pillo'
I, cases at specially low prices from Il
cal merchants who have donated the
profits to the cause.