New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
Mistress of Every Detail
of Red Cross Ministry,
Says Ambassador.
BEDSIDE VIGIL GIVES
WOUNDED MAN SLEEP
Relief Committees Here Report
Flow Of Funds TO Help War
Zone Sufferers.

BrcoAlyn will fall into line in the
countrywide campaign Of relief for
Jewish war sufferers with a mass meet
,ng az the Academy Of Music tonight.
Mayor Mitchell will represent the City
Of New York and President Lewis II.
Pounds will speak for the Borough Of
brooklyn. The Rev. Or. 5. Parkes Cad
man Will be spokesman for the Gentiles
in the borough. and the Jews will be
represented by Jacob Il. Schif. Louis
Marshall. Benjamin II. Namm. Joseph
Barondcss. Or. SChsiya Levin, Repre-
sentative Meyer London and the Rev.
Dr. !. l. Nagnes.
please tnd inclosed s. for the Jew
ssh Relief The Jesus Of the Christian
was q Jew. ! wish ! could give more,
bat will send the little ! can spare,
SAYS letter received by Felix War
burg. treasurer, from a Christian
Woman" From such contributions as
this and many larger ones the funds IL
Mr. Warburg's care have grown 10 So.
2O3. 5335S. Among the recent contribu-
tions we're;
Utica Committee, $4,000; Philsdel-
phis Committee. $4,000; Mrs L. II
Hartman. $4,000; Indianapolis Com
munity, $1,000; Chattanooga Committee.
$1,000. East Liverpool Committee, ST.
522.71; Rhode Island A. J. +. c.. $500;
GAINESVILLE Committee, S7l6: McAlester
mittee. Sl46.5O; Chickasha Committee.
S136.36; Congregation Chaari Zedck,
S53O33; St. Joseph Committee, ST.
zoos; York Committee. S3,141.41; lola
Committee, 1926.
Contributions amounting to S2,55993
have been received by the New York
State Board Of the American Red Cross,
100 East Iwenty-secQnd Street. this
last week, making the total S626 1886
Recent gifts included the following:
Brooklyn Chapter Red Cross, $1,000;
Peerless Motor Car Company. 5000;
George W. Shurmsn, $3.50; William Col
gate, 500, and Captain I. Hecker,
S32964
On the steamship Rochambeau. which
sailed February >. the American Red
Cross shipped ffty-seven cases of hos
pital supplies 10 the American Relief
Clearing House in Paris and eight cases
10 the Belgian Red Cross depot in
Calais.
The story Of a complete transforma-
ton into q Red Cross hospital Of the
historic and richly appointed Quirinal
Palace, in Rome, the winter residence
Of the royal family, is told by Ambas-
sadOr Thomas Nelson Page in the lead
ing article in The American Red Cross
Magazine" for February. Describing a
tour Of the hospital, with Queen Elena
as guide, the ambassador writes:
In few minutes We were being
shown everything under the personal
guidance of her who. had she not been
the Queen Of Italy, might, from her
perfect knowledge Of every detail and
the simplicity with which she conducted
ne, have been imagined only cour-
ieOus and accompl ished hospital mstron,
trained all her life 10 attend 10 pre-
cisely the duties Of that position. 1t
was hard TO tell which was the more
interesting rehection-th the Queen
should be so simple, natural ana per
fectly informed As 10 every detail of
the hospital. or that this perfectly in
formed, simple. natural mistress Of
hospital was the Queen Of Italy"
zone Of the badly wounded. we heard,
mad asked the Queen the night they
came 20 sit beside him, as he thought
he could sleep and his fever would 90
down If she would stay with him. So
night when he had fallen asleep"
Donna Elsie del duchi Torlonia. for
merry Miss Mary L. Moore. who is Wis
ting her mother at II East Eighty
sixth street and buying supplies for
the Italian Red Cross, has issued an
appeal for funds and woollen garments
fcl 100000 destitute women and chill
dren in Rome. Contributions TO the
TCrlonia Relief Fund may be sent to
the Central Trust Company, madison
Avenue and Forty-Second Street
The need for shoes IN Liege," says
the Rev. DR.. c. y. Lathrop. Of the Com
mission for Relief in Belgium. "is so
great that the authorities ripped up
rugs IN the town hall and sent them 70
a factory 10 be made into foOtgear.
7 he shoes now worn by the peasants
are soled with wooden slabs and made
of carpet uppers.'
Contributions for the Belgians re-
ccived at II Broadway in January
amounted 20 S3930l, and the commits
sion is campaigning for more funds 10
meet the winter clothing emergency in
Belgium.
Gertrude Robinson Smith, chairman
o. the fotilia committee of the Vaca-
ton War Relief Fund. announces that
the benefit concert given by Nine. Calve
end other artists in Washington Janu-
any II Melted S4,82S2l, bringing the
total 90 S63.S20.21.
he American Ambulance Hospital in
Paris Fund. for which j. p. Morgan &
lo~ -3 Wall Street, arc the depositary.
received the following contributions
during Che last week: Buffalo commit
.cc. $500; Society of Colonial Danes. Of
Rhode Island, 5000; Mrs j. b.. Haggin.
$500; George Pierce Netca1f. 5000;
Jdmo s. Storrow. 5000; Francis L. Stet-
SON. 500, ". H. Beck. 500: "Yale
News S20029; through Mrs. Bacon.
$40. and from a mass meeting At Ire
mont Temple, Boston. S749g3.
b. Lespretre gave $500 to the Ameri-
can Girls Aid last week. This society
shipped l92 cases Of supplies to France
last week from its new Office, $50 Fifth
Avenue