The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-03
100000 GIVEN
TO Aid The JEWS
Great Fund Raised at Meeting
Held In New York.
500, 900 EACH FROM FOUR
Women Tear Jewels From Their Fin
Their Costly Furs-Huse Audience
Moved to Tears by Touching Plea OF
: Speaker.

Moved to Tears by Touching Plea OF
Speaker.
Que of the most intensely dramatic
scenes ever enacted In New lorA On.
CURED Ut i meeting of the American
Jewish relief committee at Carnegie
han
Within the short space of half an
hour the sum of about Si.pUoO0o was
collected to alleviate the suffering OF
war stricken Jews. HystericaI women
anu weepli. men. after contributing
their last cent. threw their jewelry on
the stage.
-Four anonymous donations OF $780,
600 each were announced from among
the audience. Two others of $4,000
were announced and scores OF lesser
donations poured in.
Four huge piles OF envelopes filed
with checks and bills occupied the
front of the stage. There were two
large wicker baskets filled to the top
with rings. watches. fobs and other
jewelry.
Four Give 100000 Each.
The Guggenheim family. Jacob II.
Schiff. Nathan Straus and julius Ros-
enwald. it was rumored among the au-
dience. gave the four checks for $780,.
600 each. The donors were announced
simply as anonymous from the stage.
The remarkable contribution came
after an appeal made by DR.. ]. l.
Magnes- He is connected with the
treasurer's office Of the relief commit
tee. He spoke for half an hour. There
were $500 persons In the hall. An
other 5000 clamored for admission on
| the outside.
Pictures Sufferinos Of Jews.
Dr.. Magnes drew a vivid picture Of
| the suffering among the Jews In the
war theaters Of Europe. With remark
able feeling and sympathy he trans
| ported the audience to another land
until every person actually visualized
the terrible specter which follows In
the wake OF the war god.
/ Women began to sob. Men stood up
and cried out In anguish. For a time
the noise Of weeping was so loud that
the voice OF the speaker was drowned.
And then. in eloquent words, Dr.
Magnes told Of the wonderful charity
which similar appeals had brought
forth in other cities. There was a
catch In his voice as he asked his audi
ence to come forth and show similar
spirit
Before the ushers could pass up the
aisles with baskets men, women and
children surged toward the stage.
Some dropped on their knees facing
the huge rostrum
Richly clad women knelt shoulder to
shoulder with pushcart peddlers. Caste
and distinction were forgotten. The
stoutest hearts were moved
Men fought to reach the stage so
that they could empty their pockets,
Yellow backed currency, silver and
copper money covered the stage within
q few minutes to the depth Of three
inches
And amid it all DR.. Magnes CON
tinued his appeal He did not lose the
grip which he had on his audience for
one second. He worked them up into
a veritable frenzy.
Woman Gives Lavai!iere.
Il A woman staggered toward the stage
, Her hair had fallen over her shoulders
and tears were coursing down her
cheeks.
She wore a Fifth avenue modiste's
gown and expensive furs. But she was
practically unnoticed In the dramatic
scene which was being enacted Push
! ing aside women who were on thei,
knees. she tore a diamond lavanierS
from her neck and passed it TO DR.
! Magnes.
{ Other women threw their furs on the
. stage. Still others tore their rings
from their fingers and their Jewel.
from their ears.
III clad working girls gave up trim
ketS which probably represented week:
of saving. And even then they criet
because they could not give more.
( One man pushed his way through tn,
mob and passed up coin TO one of tn,
men on the stage. DR.. Magnes late
announced that this man had givel
!. him 10 cents. This, he said, repre-
scented his car fare-au the money b
= had
Still another man-dirty and bedrag
c gled-pasSed up what was later said c
be a five ruble note. He had just com
| from province Of Kovno.
Five weeks ago he witnessed inde
scribable massacres among the Jews
The printing on the five ruble note b
passed up was almost ohliterated wit
blood He escaped from the massacr
unscathed.
After announcing the four donation
DR.. Magnes said that one OF $500
had just been received from Brit
Abraham. through Judge Leon Sand
ers- Then came one OF $4,000 fror
Jacob Wertheim- These donations wer
Followed In rapid succession by two @
$1,000 each, from Samuel Untermye
and Louis Marshall.
Justice Irving Lehman gave $500