New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-03
DaviSon'S $4,000 Gift Com
pIeteS Half of Fund
Red Cross Seeks.
DOCTORS AND CORPS
FOR UNITS RECRUITED
Committee Completing Plans
for Allied Bazaar-SlO0.OOO
Sought for Jewish Relief.

Through gifts OF citizens. ending
with the check for $4,000 from Henry
p. Dawson. Of J. ?. Morgan & Co. two
Of the four base hospitals which the
American Rcd Cross wishes to provide
.r New York are assured
such was the announcement made
Yesterday by the metropolitan commit
,,c Of tho Rcd Cross, Of which Mayor
Mitchell Is honorary chairman and
Seward Prosser. president Of the Bank
crs' Trust Company, the active head.
This committee hopes between now
and Memorial Day to add TO the Red
Cross 100000 new members.
Rush orders 20 equip the two war
hospitals have been placed, and sup
Plies are being gathered and stored,
.ebiec. 70 the call Of the government
s-i ready for instant use. Stats for
the hospitals are complete, and that
Of third Red Cross unit has been
oreari7ed. At the head OF the units
are DR.. George Z. Brewer. Of the Pres
by,erian Hospital; Dr.. George David
Stewart, Of Bellevue, and DR.. Charles
l. Gibson.
All Ready for Call
Under these chiefs are twenty doe
tors. fo-ty-six nurses and 125 nurses
aids and orderlies for each unit.
Orderies and nurses arc recruited
largely from classes in first aid. which
have been conducted by the Red Cross,
and serve without pay unless called
during war times.
fertilization plans by which these
Red Cross units will be put into ser
vice are complete Whether a call
comes 20 care for civilians along the
frontier or soldiers in battle, each man
Will know. ~ is said, where he IS sup
posed 10 be az a certain time and what
his duties are.
Among those who have contributed
LARGELY 70 the establishment Of the
HOSPITALS are Mrs Whitelaw Reid,
5000: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, $4,000;
Mrs. Z. II. Hartman, $4,000; Jacob II.
Schif. $4,000; c. X. 6. Billings, 81
500. and Mrs. Charles Fl. Chaplin $1,000.
At a luncheon given yesterday II the
board room OF the Bankers Trust Com
panv by Seward Prosser several prom
irent men expressed their willingness
10 work with the committee.
Among these were Henry P. DAWSON,
Newconb Carleton. president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company;
Herbert B. Pratt, Of the Standard Oil
Company; Percy R. Hill, president OF
the American Tobacco Company. and
II. B. Thayer, president Of the West
eln Electric Company.
Allied Bazaar Plans Laid.
The first meeting Of the prepared
ness Committee" OF the Allied Bazaar.
70 be held June s 10 June u at Grand
Central Palace. was held at the Bilt-
more Yesterday. On the committee are
Mrs. William Aston Chanler. Mrs. John
A. Leishman. Mrs. Jay Gould, Miss
Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Mrs. Leonard NJ.
Thomas. Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar,
Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt,
Mrs. Allen Gouverneur Wellman, Mrs.
Charles Greenough, Mrs. Bourke Cock
IAN and Mrs. Oliver Hartman.
This committee will meet daily at the
P'twore 10 arrange all details OF the
bazaar. Mrs. Gould has speclal ch6rGe
Of tho lace display, valued at several
hundred thousand dollars; Mrs. Edgar
is 20 look after the exhibition Of Jew
els. and Mrs. Chanler is arranging a
collection Of relics from France.
The committee in charge Of the Sis
Ter Beatrice Fund in New York an
rounced Yesterday that il had ready for
shipment 10 the hospitals IN France
500 cases OF supplies. Il has collected
S2.q02.s5 and has spent TO date for
hospital supplies S2,145.32.
Under the auspices Of the American
Jewish Relief Committee, the Central
Relief Committee and the Peoples Re
lief Committee a mass meeting will be
held tomorrow evening IN the Spooner
Theatre, Southern Boulevard and 1880
Street. Il is hoped 100000 will be
raised at the meeting. Speakers will be
Jacob II. SchifT and Douglas Mathew
son.
Contributions Yesterday TO The Sc
cours National Fund, of which Mrs.
Whitney Warren is treasurer, were
$3.50. making a total Of S174,S77.S3.