New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28
Coast to = Coast Canvass
Yields Flood of Gold
for War Sufferers.
ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS
IN FIELD AT DAWN
Cripple's Nickel Joins Mer'
chants Check and Fund
Grows 10 Million.

From coast 70 coast 10000 men ana
women begged aims Yesterday for the
Jewish war sufferers abroad.
The "begears" inundated factories,
stores. theatres and streets. They were
jus, as busy IN Portland, Me, "a in
Portland. Ore. The President had de-
creed Thursday. January -. as Jew
ish relief day, and il was the first time
IN the history Of the nation, or the race,
that any Executive had taken such
initiative. and the Jews Of the United
States were quick 10 recognize their op-
portuni;y.
With the returns pi'ing in from the
North. West. South and East II was I'M
possible TO tell iust how much was col
lected. Some Of the officials believed a
million dollars not too liberal an esti-
mate: Others. with a smile, declared
they were TOO conservative.
In this city the headquarters Of the
volunteers was at III East Broadway,
the orccs Of the Peoples Relief Com
mittee. At dawn the first hundreds
began TO besiege the officials for col
lection boxes BY noon the 10000 bores
had been exhausted, and 5000 more
were obtained. Long before nightfall
the contributions i'm the greater city
from this source totalled approximate
~ 100000.
The city. from the nor:hermost limits
Of The Bronx 10 the southern shore Of
Long Island. was divided into sixteen
districts. The average collection box.
j: was estimated, held ST every time
it was turned IN. Boy scouts and sol
diers helped. while the majority Of the
volunteers were recruited from shop
girls and factory workers. college
misses and operators. BY order OF
Thomas ". Churchill. Of the Board OF
Education. all boys and girls In he
high school graduating classes were
permitted 10 enroll as volunteers for
the day.
While these volunteers were az work
the Central Committee for the Relief
Of Jews through the War, with head
quarters al SO Park Row, was obtaining
contr, buttons in another way. Certln-
Gates. des gned as receipts for contri-
buttons ranging from 81 20 500, were
peddled by business men and society
women among their Jewish and Gen
tile friends. Il was estimated that
several hundred thousand dollars was
realized In this way.
The offerings Of Gentle contributors,
as announced in the Presidents procla-
nation. found & harbOr in the Wash
ington headquarters Of the American
Red Cross How much was realized
could not be learned yesterday.
Volunteers invaded the Essex Mar
ket court shortly after opening. Judge
Hoffman asked what the disturbance
in the rear Of the courtroom was, then
took q bill from his pocket and de-
posted il IN one Of the whlte-and-lght
blue collection boxes.
"Here goes came from the clerk.
Don't forget me-" came from one Of
the detectives. When the workers left
they had collected S46.66.
The highes. contribution, from Sho-
lem Goldberg. OF III East Broadway
was handed 20 Abraham Raisin, noted
Jewish poet. IL was a check for $1,000
Rebecca Cohen, Of l03 Monroe Street
got a checf for 500 from Wolf & Co.
Of 81 East Seventy-second Street. and
$50 from ls employes.f Nearly q thou
sand checks. from SIS TO $500. were re
ceived by the Peoples Relief Com
mlttee.
Boris Fingerhood. Of the committee
reported that in hundreds Of instances
the Tnen and women refused to tax,
time of for luncheon. When THEN
boN.s had been filed with contributions
they eagerly came 10 one Of the district
headquarters and anxiously waitet
until IL was emptied. Then they re,
turned totheir collections.
81 ind that the Gentiles are contrib
uting very literally" said Adele Kap
Ian, at Broadway and Forty-fourtf
Street. "a man went by me, came bacl
and put in So bill. Another emptieC