The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-01
BLIND RELIEF FUND WORKERS
 ARE BUSY HERE
Will Seek Bridgeport Funds to Give Succor to Sight
 less Victims of War.

Mrs. George A. Kessler, Mrs. R. val- entine Webster and other women of social prominence in the United States and Europe are planning an elaborate focal campaign for the benefit of the many thousands blinded soldiers and sailors of Britain. France and Bel gtum.
 The campaign will be conducted under the auspices of the B. F. B. Permanent Blind Relief War Fund, the headquarters of which are at 69O Fifth avenue. Miss Georgina Edson, . representative of the fund, is visit- ing in Bridgeport this week in the in- terests of the fund.
 A local B. F. B. Fund headquarters will be arranged for, as we'll as volun- Eteer workers, the distribution of con- trfbutfon boxes, literature, etc. Off, ficials of all local public welfare or- ganizations. city government depart ments. etc, will be consulted.
 Entertainments, garden parties, theatricals. etc, will be organized later. Among persons of prominence who will be patrons and patronesses are: Mrs o. H. F. Belmont. Mrs. William Astor Chanler, Mrs. Hobart Chatfield Taylor, Mrs. Charles Green ough. Mrs. Samuel Insult, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs. Ralph Sanger, Mrs. Preston F. Sattefwhite, Mrs. J. Stew art Barney. Mrs Henry Clews, Mrs. Cornelius Cuyler. Mrs. Alexander D. B. Pratt, Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, Mrs Fl W. Whitridge; Messrs. George F.
 Baker, Henry c. Prick, George J. Gould, Charles H. Sabin, Mortimer L. Schif, William K. Vanderbilt, Elias M, Ammons. Joshua T. Reynolds, Otto H. Kahn and the Hon. Elihu Root. The B. F. B. Permanent Blind Re- lief War Fund has been organized by leading American bankers, philan- thropists and business men to support train in trades not requiring sight and find paying employment for the blind. ed soldiers of the Allies. pr. valude
 head of the Quinze vingts hospital ir Paris recently officially stated to d B. F. B. Fund correspondent thai there were many thousand battle blinded in France alone.
 Among the American organizers O.
 the fund are the Hon. Elihu Root Vincent Astor, August Belmont, the Hon. Lyman J. Gage, U. s. Senator Thomas P. Gore, the Hon. Myron T Herrick, the Hon. Robert Bacon, Otto
 Fl. Kahn. Whitney Warren, Joseph
 Widener and George Alexander Kess- Ter.
 The honorary members are Frank
 A. vanderlip. president of the Nation
 al City. Bank. Sir Edward Holden
 chairman of the London City and
 Midland Bank. and M. Georges Pal
 lain, governor general of the Bank oi
 France. The patronage of the King
 and Queen of England, the King and
 Queen of Belgium and the President
 of France has been obtained for the
 distribution of the fund in their re- spectiye countries.
 Among the useful trades which the blinded Allied soldiers will be taught through the funds activities are car pentry. boot repairing, mat-making l chair caning. typewriting, massage telephony, poultry farming and mar
 ket gardening. The American vice
 presidents of the fund now include
 more than 200 public men, bankers
 college presidents and notables throughout the United States. Tn case of war with Mexico, the name ol the fund is to be changed to the American, British, French, Belgian Permanent Blind Relief War Fund.-