New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-24
Lady Williams Taylor
Speaks at Needlework
Guild Branch.
AID FOR STARVING
IN RUSSIA ASKED
Petrograd Committee Writes OF
Efforts to Relieve Frontier
Suffering.

Of Queen Mary and president OF the
Canadian branch Of Queen Msry's
Needlework Guild, was the guest OF
the United States branch yesterday at
the Hotel Breslin. She thanked those
present In the name of the Queen and
said she was glad TO be able to report
that other relief work did not suffer
because Of the activity Of the Guild.
1.-THE Queen" said Lady Williams
Taylor, "on hearing recently OF the
formation OF the United States branch
Of the Guild, expressed her earnest
desire that no society bearing her
name should, in any way, In q country
that has done so much, interfere with
the work of the various societies al
ready in existence"
She declared that the success at
tanned by the Guild had already iust-
fed its existence. Canadian relief
workers were glad to have a cordial
and equally busy neighbOr to the SOUTH
she said.
Among those present were Mrs. Henry
Lloyd Aspinwall, Mrs. August Belmont
Charles NJ. Billings, Mrs. Alfred du
Pont, Mrs. E. Tiffany Dyer, Henry E.
Fanshawe, Countess Ella Festetics,
Mrs. Philip A. S. Franklin, Mrs. Eugene
Fuller, Mrs. Robert Holmes Greene,
Comtesse L. de Hemptinne, Mrs. Archer
NJ. Huntington, W. G. Lane, Mrs. r. T.
Lounsbery, Miss c. Welland Merritt,
George T. Mortimer, Mrs. John u. NC
Cullough, Lawrence F. Peck, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. W. Price, Mrs. William 5.
Rainsford, Mrs Thomas N. Rhine
lander, Mrs. George R. Sharp, Mrs.
Walker B. Smith, Miss Theodosia NJ.
Spring-Rice, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Allen
Swanson, of New Orleans; Mrs. Thomas
F. Taylor, Mrs. Robert Taylor Varnum'
Lady williams Taylor and Mrs. Angus
tine J. Wilson.
Asks Aid for Russia
August Belmont, treasurer OF the
Committee of Mercy, has received an
appeal from the Imperial Free
Economic Society, Of Petrograd. Her
bert Parsons, Miss Lillian D. VALID
James B. Reynolds and others vouch
for the responsibility Of the society
and the Committee Of Mercy will ac-
cent funds for the work indicated In
the letter. The letter is, In part. as
follows:
1.-THE war has caused immense suf-
fering to the population Of the dis
tricts adjacent to the frontiers OF our
country. Hundreds Of thousands OF
families Of Poles. Jews, Lithuanisns.
Ukranians, White Russians, Armenians
and Georgians, having lost all their
worldly possessions, are flying. home
less. for their lives from the horrors
of the war.
"Women and children, old and young,
sick and weak, they are asking for help,
and very often find none.
Hundreds of committees are work
ing in the rear in order to feed, to
shelter and to warm them. Consider
able funds are being raised In their
aid by means of public collections
throughout the country. and still all
the proceeds are far short Of the i'm
mense need. An immediate and liberal
help is urgently required from those
who found q new home in the free New
World, and who still feel sympathy
with suffering friends and relations
left in the Old Country, but do not
know how to help them"
Children Prepare Play.
Two hundred children rehearse daily
at the Vanderbilt and Plaza hotels the
parts they are to play in the children's
entertainment at the Century Theatre
on March for the benefit of the La
fayette Fund. Ashley Chanler, hve
wears old, will recite an epAogue writ
ten by Richard Harding Davis.
The cast of the play Washington
and Lafayette" will be: Washington,
Teddy Chanler; Hamilton. Chanler
Chapman; orderly, Francis Murray;
Lafayette, Willie Chanler; captain
Douglas Robinson, and muse, Miss Cow
ard. Among children Of we'll known
New York families who will take part
IN the entertainment are Finley Dunno,
philip Dunno, Elliott Schieffelin, Aus
tin Flint, Gloria Gould, Archie Alex
ander. Francis Chisholm, Diana Dali
ziel, Margaret Kahn, Chanler Chapman,
Theodore Chanler, Francis Murray,
Douglas Robinson, the Brokaw chill
dren. Franklin Bernhard Hewlett and
Frederick Potts.
The Tuesday Knitting Society, whose
work goes to the Lafayette Fund, will
have a bridge party and dance In the
Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt
Hotel on March Is to raise funds TO
carry on its work. Among the pa
tronesses will be Mrs. C. G. Wattles.
Mrs. c. D. Baldwin, Mrs. David l..
Luke. Mrs. Russell Law. Mrs. S. Marsh
Young, Mrs. Ralph Beach. Mrs. P. V.
Sanford, Mrs. II. ". Hampstead, Mrs.
Charlotte Eldridge, Mrs. F. NJ. Hall,
Mrs. Walton H. Marshall and Mrs. A.
B. Kingsbury.
Belgium Needs Food.
Supplies OF clothing sufficient to last
for months have been accumulated by