New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Crowd at Bazaar Takes Up
DO Your Bit for Belgium
and Does Ii.
RAIN FAILS TO STOP
WOMEN'S PARADE
Housed in 100 Taxis and Private
Autos They March in Tri-
umph Down Avenue.
do your bit for Belgium.
no vour btt fo,. paIo,ittpa

do your bit for Belgium.
DO your bit for Belgium.
Fight her fight and make things RICH;
For Belgium
This refrain sounded through the
allied Bazaar all day yesterday. Com
posed hastily IN the morning by Mrs
Walter 4. Mills az marching song
for the Belgian parade, IL took the
fancy Of the crowds and they hummed
1t all dag long. 1T the head Of the
stairs stood Belgium and America q
tall, protecting America in red, white
and blue, and little tsttcred Belgium
kneelng at her feet. Their handmade
ems stood around them cumming do
your bit" to the tune Of Keep the
Home Fires Burning"
$4,000 Take Up Song.
Visitors reacted 70 this appeal in
two ways. They dug deep into their
pockets and flung their money into the
cups of the handnaidens, and they inn
mediately took ~ the song and carried
its message all over the huge Grand
Central Palace By night all the fifty
thousand persons were singing, and a
large number OF volunteer girl workers
put on the Belgian national costume
and went about as sandwich girls
teaching tho word to the crowd.
Louis De Sgdclccr, cX-Ministcr OF
State for Belgium, visited the bazaar
as the repre- scRtat.yc OF the Belgian
government. Marie Louise dc Sadeleer
assisted a various booths. Mile. Alice
Verlet sang the "Brabanconne," the
Belgian national anthem.
Women Dare Rain to Parade.
II -. -
was strictly a women's affair. Like the
suifragists in Chicago. the women OF
the Allies were not TO be deferred from
their desire to parade by little thing
like rain. The men called of the pa
rade, and there were no bands, no flags
or automobiles when Mrs. Price Post
arrived at noon. Undaunted. she sum-
moned all the taxis in sight and put the
shivering women into them. Down the
avenue they dashed. singing "Do Your
Bit for Belgium" varied with Upper
ary"
At the Lafayette Hotel the crowds
Joined in the singing and cried give la
Beige" The parade came TO a climax
in front of NJ. de Sadeleer's Office at %
Madison Avenue. More than 100 auto
mobiles were in the parade. among them
the private cars of Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney. Mrs. William Aston Chanler
Mrs. c. II. Ditson, Mrs Benjamin GUM
ness, Mrs. Leroy Edgar and Mrs. Leigh
Hunt.
Mrs. Whitney remained after the pa
rade to serve in the artists booth with
Miss Janet Scudder and Miss Malvins
Hoffman. She bought the $4,000 order
for a portrait by Cecilia Beaux ant
chose to have her daughter Barbara's
portrait painted.
Managers announced that the bazaar
would be continued another week. unit
June 81. To-day will be Irish Day
There will be special programmes AT
several booths during the afternoon by
John Barrymore, Phyllis Neilson-rerry
Elsie Janis. William Courtney and Vir-
ginia Harmed.
A valuable gift was made to the
French hospital booth yesterday by an
unknown visitor. His parcel. when ex-
amined by Fifth Avenue expert. was
found to contain a Marie Antoinette
salts bottle valued at 81 900 and jew
elled lorgnette, set with canoes and
diamonds. with tiny watch in the
handle. This, too, was valued at 81 900.