New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
DIR. Mcfarland Returns
from Tour in Aid of Fed
eral Councils Campaign.
FINDS RELIGIOUS FOLK
ARE BEST GIVERS
Irish Plan to Send Funds and
Committee to Aid Distress
in Ireland.

Plans for war relief in Europe are
being pushed more theoretically than
ever by the authorities of the Federal
Council Of the Churches Of Christ in
America.
DR.. Charles " Mcfarland, general
secretary of the council, has just re-
turned from an extensive tour, on
which he devoted himself to organizing
churches OF various denominations in
the campaign which began formally
last Sunday, May 28.
Next week conference Of a number
Of war relief organizations will be held
70 decide how to carry out the aims Of
the Federal Council One of the pur-
poses Of the movement is 70 enroll IN
the lists of war philanthropists names
which ordinarily are not Identified with
religious organizations.
Church Folk Best Giyers.
Ninety per cent Of the names found
in the list OF those who have given
time and money to the management Of
relief organizations said DR.. McFar-
land yesterday, "sre names Of Christian
men and women and Jewish men and
women who have long been active in
religious, relief and all uplift work.
rise to inquire why it is that terrible
suffering in Europe does not appeal to
men and women outside Of the
churches"
Madison Square Garden will enter
tain probably the largest crowd in its
history on Irish relief day, June 10,
according to managers Of the local
campaign.
John d. Moore, national secretary OF
the Irish Relief Committee. announced
Yesterday that Cardinals Farley, Glib
bons and O'Connell have Endorsed the
work of the committee and have con-
scented to become honorary presidents.
Letters recently struggled through
tell of docks idle, mills closed and
business houses shut down IN Ireland.
THE work of relieving these people
said Mr.. Moore, sis more than the local
authorities can cope with. America,
which needed the call of Belgium,
Poland and Serbia so generously, is
now called upon by Ireland. The fund
will be taken 10 Ireland by an Ameri-
: can committee, which will supervise
its distribution in cooperation with
: Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, who has
, csbled that he will gladly give that
, aid.
Red Cross Fund Growing.
Contributions to the American Red
Cross continue 70 pour in. Last week
more than $4,000 was received. the
Brooklyn Chapter alone sending s5.050.
, Shipments OF hospital supplies valued
at s6,l56 we're made 10 San Francisco
.. last week. The consignment is destined
eventually for Siberia.
The American Ouvroir Fund, an or
ganization now being established in the
United States 10 cooperate with French
societies in war relief, is receiving con-
siderable attention. The object, as
officially outlined, is TO ENABLE Amerl-
cans to contribute 10 any special form
of French war relief, get a personal
statement Of the use made of their
gift, realize the good their money is
doing through letters of thanks re-
coived from those helped. and help ere
ate lasting bonds of sympathy between
France and the United States by writ
ing encouraging letters to those whose
wants they are relieving"
Among the large contributions re-
ceived by the fund recently were $1,000
from Professor Edwin f.. Hail. 81 900
! from A. Lawrence Lowell, president of
Harvard; $500 from Mrs. Ector Nun
sell, 5000 from Miss Martha Goldman,
$500 from Mrs. Lindsay Fairfax and
1926 from Miss Eleanor Holmes.
Mrs. Morgan Helps British.
The Polish Victims Relief Fund,
with offices in Aeolian Hall, was in
: creased last week to 1922, 100.47.
Mrs. J. p. Morgan contributed 5000
to the BritishAmerican War Relief
= Fund last week.
The Vacation War Relief Committee,
: of which Miss Anne Morgan is chair
man, reports satisfactory progress.
Nearly 100000 has already been col
lected.
Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, chairman Of
. the American Fund for French Wound
ed, announces that the organization
= shipped to the Paris depot last week
425 bales OF hospital supplies and
clothing. The Paris depot has asked
for a large consignment of surgical
I rubber gloves at once.
Wards Open Rose Garden.
{ Admiral and Mrs Aaron Ward have
announced that they will throw open
, to the public on June 8 their rose gar
| dens at Willowmere, Roslyn, Long ISL
; and
The affair will be under the patron
age of Mrs. Robert Bacon. Mrs. Au-
gust Belmont, Mrs. George b. Brewster,
Mrs. H. p. Dawson, Mrs. J. d. Morgan,
Mrs. Harold Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs
Theodore A. Havemeyer. Mrs. William
Greenough, Mrs. c. Oliver Iselin. Mrs.
f. d. Morgan, Mrs. Harold Pratt, Mrs.
Herbert Pratt, Mrs. Frederick r. New
,, bold, Mrs. F. Gray Griswold. Mrs.
, .Whitelaw Reid, Miss Louise Shelton
,, Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Mrs. Charles
Steele, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney,
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Willard d.
Straight and Admiral and Mrs. Ward.
A subcommittee OF the American
, Relief Committee in Berlin was formed
last week. Present members are j. j
, Arnold, Charles c. Dawes, John \,
Miller, Colonel Gordon Strong Fred
I erick ". Uphsm and Charles l.. Hutch
, inson. Checks are payable TO John ID
= Crimmins, treasurer, the American Re.
lief Committee, 80 East Fortysecond
Street, New York City.
The treasurer OF the American jew
. ism Relief Committee announces that
up 10 June total funds received were
/. s4,o6l 1890