The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-31
AUSTRIANS RAISE
MUCH FOR CHARITY
Much Of the $4s,ooo,ooo Reported to
Have Been Collected Has Already
Been Spent--Money Was
Raised in Many
Manners.

Vienna, Dec. 3l--Enormous sums OF
money have been collected in AUSTRIA
Hungary for charitable purposes during
the war. No reliable figures on the to-
tai obtained are yet available, but es-
Inmates place it as high as 240p0o,o0o
crowns approximately $4,000, 900 !
Much OF this money has been applied
already, but large sums are still avail
able for the needs of those for whom
it was collected.
The money has been raised in every
manner the fertile brains of social lead
ers and newspaper editors could devise.
Charity teas and suppers, the sale OF
needlework done by society people; ben
| eft performances at the theatres; the
public sale of art objects which people
were willing to donate; and hundred
similar enterprises have given keen
competition to the plain subscription
and collection campaigns waged by the
newspapers. At present an art exhlbl-
ton sale is in grogress, from which
both the admission fees and entire pro-
ceeds of sale will 60 to the fund for
painters OF the country have contrib
uted to the collection, and while many
of the pictures are by unknown men
and women, there is not one in the lot
that does not have merit of high or
der Going ON at the same time are
several series of lectures on the war by
the Austro- Hungarian and German war
correspondents, inyalided officers and
statesmen.
All social classes take an interest in
the work, and remarkable feature OF
it is that year Of collections s lett
the ardor of organizers and OF the pub
lie almost undiminished. Constantly
new schemes are being worked out,
many of the recent ones assuming the
character of self-imposed taxation in
small amounts OF these a ten-heller
1.-TWO cents tax on all bills is probably
the most successful
OF newspaper collections that of the
Vienna Nue. Freie Presse has been the
most remarkable 1t has included the
raising Of large sums for blind veterans,
for prisoners of war, for Christmas pres
ents for soldiers, for the supply OF arti-
fetal limbs, for the Bulgarian and Aus
trian Red Cross, for the tubereular sol
der, for widows and orphans, for as
sistance to needy artists, for fugitlNes
from the southern theatre of the war,
for increasing the submarine fleet, and
numerous other specific purposes.
A prominent Budapest newspaper, AZ
Est. for instance, collected nearly p
900. 600 crowns TO help the people in the
Carpathians and northern Hungary 70
rebuild their villages which had been
destroyed during occupation by the Rus
SLAMS. clever scheme was devised Tor
this collection. IL is customary in Hun
gary 10 make presents TO a woman on
day carrying her name in the cal
endar. For instance on 81. Mary's day
an Marys in Hungary are remembered
by their friends Az Est suggested that
the money TO be spent in this way be
turned over to the village building fund.
Much Of the money that Is being col
lected Is the fruit OF little self-denials,
single days list showing such entries
as the following:
Instead Of buying new dress, 2uo
crowns: ii place 81 birthday presents
10 give satisfaction In an affair Of honor
asANW NAWN ~ ANA AAt NhAAh ~ ~ ---ff
200 crowns"
There i no doubt that Austria-liun-
gary's population. without distinction to
class has come loyalty ~ the support
Of those in the field and their families,
and those whom the war has deprived
temporarily of means Of livelihood
While the exchange Of Red Cross and
similar funds between Austria Hungary
and Germany has been solely matter
81 courtesy between allies. Austria Hun
gary has already spent the greater part
Of million crowns in Red Cross work
II Bulgaria. ID has sent military e4ulp.
meuf and supplies worth over million
crowns e. Turkey and even in Poland
Austro Hungarian charity work has been
felt A. -oon Is conditions in Serbia
make 10 possible, i is understood that
money and supplies WI r. sent there
also.