New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

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also band of Canadian bagpipcrs in addition
to the other musical entertainment.
The portion OF the receipts which goes to
the American Red Cross will be put toward
the fund for the establishment OF Red Cross
units, or base hospitals. Three of these units
of 500 beds each have been assigned TO New
York City in the plan for preparedness, TO be
used as emergencies may arise The stats of
the New York Hospital, Bellevue and Presby
terrain Hospitals have volunteered the person
sonnel to handle these units. The equipment Tor
each costs $4,000, and includes furnishings,
medicine. and accessories for 500 beds, also
operating tables, etc. One chief surgeon with
20 surgeons under him; one chief nurse with
As graduate nurses and so non-professional at
taches form staff for each unit. Already
$4,000 has been raised toward the $4,000
fund Mrs. t. II. Hartman having donated
$4,000; Mrs. Jacob A. SchiH. $4,000; and
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid, $1,000 each. This fund must be COM
pleted by May /.
An entertainment for the benefit OF the
British Women's Maternity Hospital at Pet
rograd will be given on Thursday afternoon
at the Coterie Club, 40 West Fifty-eighth
Street. The hospital was established under
the patronage OF the Empress Of Russia, the
Grand Duchess Cyril. Lady Buchanan, wife
OF the British Ambassador at Petrograd; the
Duchess OF Marlborough, the Duchess of
Beaufort and the Duchess of Sutherland.
The concert is given under the patronage
of Mrs. Charles 3. Alexander. Mrs r. Full
ton Cutting, Mrs Brayton Ives Mrs. New
bold lie Roy Edgar and Mrs. M. Orme Vii
son. Sacha Votitchenko will play the tym-
panon. At the close of the musical pro-
gramme the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell, B.
A., will describe the hospital and its work
and the flight OF the Polish refugees into
Russia. Her address will be preceded by the
singing, for the first time in America of
Chopin's "Dirge of Poland" by Nine. Lyska.
Tickets at SIS each may be obtained at 40
West Fifty-eghth Street. Moncure Robinson
is acting as treasurer.
A meeting in aid OF the Serbian women and
children rendered homeless and destitute by
the war will be held at the Biltmore Hotel on
Thursday evening under the auspices of the
Southern Red Cross Chapter, Daughters of
the British Empire. Mrs. Austin Finegan,
regent Tickets at ST may be obtained from
Miss Rhoda James, treasurer, 200 Convent
Avenue. There will be addresses by Chedo
Miyatovch, former Serbian Minister to the
Court of St. James's and by Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst. There will be also musical pro-
gramme.
The patronesses include Mrs. Give Bayley
Mrs. 6. Mercer Adam Mrs. Alfred Benjamin
Mrs. James Andrew Burns, Mrs. John L.
Essen, Mrs. Francis e. Gerard Mrs. Eugene
J. Grant, Mrs Gus {. Henning, Miss Flor
ence Guernsey, Mrs. Joseph Murray Holt
Mrs John Hubbard Parker Mrs. Henry H.
Pike, Mrs. Abigail Pool, Mrs. Henry Rowley.
Mrs. Albert James Squier, Mrs. Gustai
Stomberg, Mrs. Cora Welles Trow and Mrs.
Frederick w. Whtridge.
The opening OF the new building of the
New York Nursery and Chds Hospital at
16l West Sixty-irst Street will take place on
Tuesday. April II, and Wednesday. April IL.
The organizations first home in 1884 when il
was known as the Nursery for Children of
Poor Women, was in ST. Marks Place,
whence IT moved TO Sixth Avenue, where the
children had garden and larger play
grounds. The next buildings were at Lex
ngton Avenue and Fiity-frst Street, which
were gradually enlarged to cover the entire
block 70 Fiftieth Street These buildings
were given up in 1914 and the institution is
now at Sixty-frst Street
over $1,000 was sent TO NJ. Sant-Saens in
Pans a. result OF the benefit ncr(oruarc,