New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-13
East PrusSian Relief Fund
Planned to Restore
Ragnit.
ARMENIANS SEEK HELP
TO SAVE GIRL SLAVES
Ice Carnival at st. Nicholas Rink
to Aid Belgium Women
and Children.

one o. nc devastated towns Of East
/ Prussia with American houses and
comforts and American names for the
streets. A German architect from the
/ United States mas already been chosen
/ 30 lay out New York. Milwaukee. Gin
/ cinnati, Chicago. Cleveland and ST
Louis streets through count called
Rsgnit. in East Prussia Rebuilding
Of other towns in the district is TO
he done by the cities Of weston Ger
many which have not suffered ccstruc-
lion.
DR.. Eugen Kuehnomann. professor Of
philosophy at Fricdrich-N Wilhelm Uni
versity. Breslau. discusses the project
} in letter TO the East Prussian Re
lief Fund. i'm the whitehall Building
/ mere. which has undertaken tho recon
struction Of Ragnit. lie writes:
"a single city undertakes III" recon
| structIon Of u certain East Prus
! sian city, or Of q whole county wiki
It's villages. The Kaiser has also
! taken over the rebuilding of one OF
/ iheSe. Commandments has honestly
/ deserved the right T. join this worO
/ through her friendlincss at this gTea'
/ time. Germany can confer no greater
] honor than that in which she admits
/ US TO the recreation OF German life.
America TO Rebuild Ragnit.
"German-America shall receive for
! reconstruction that part which lies I'M.
! mediately on The Russian border. l.
! is the County Of RaGnit. with the
little town OF the same name. Mo-
} where did the fairy OF the Russian
] hordes rage more terribly than in Rae
nit; the village and the county are iH
ashes. Out of something like $4,000
inhabitants over 1000 have been taken
prisoners.
/ I'VE consider al this in the light
F of a Gerran-Ame rican nations. move
ment Of tho highest order. Let him
4 VINO can glve Us dollar Some may
wan. 20 build @ mouse entirely with
4 their own means Tire sum necessary
for that is only 5000 marks. There
shall be an inscription over the door
. bearing the name OF the donor. and
the Imagination Of the citizens Of Rag
nit will be filed with pictures Of the
friend far away
Further efforts for the relief Of
widows aud children OF the Central
Powers will be made az Madison
Square Garden on March II. Begin
ning then and continuing for thirteen
days. q charity bazaar viii be held
Similar 10 the one which melted them
S85O.O0O o. the list Regiment Armory
N December. 1914
Would Ransom Armenian Girls.
A new phase has appeared in the
work Of the American Committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief in the
reclamation and ransoming Of young
women and girls. The committee states
that there are to-day hundreds OF girls
captives Of the Turks and Kurds.
THE Turkish officers the report Of
the committee says for 50 much
money VIII give information as 70
where these young women may be
found. Further payments will cause
them 10 be brought 70 some appointed
place, and then it 5 matter OF how
much money will be paid for their re-
lease. This work ia being done b. the
American missionaries in Persia, "a
well as in Che Cruman section, who re
port that the cost OF retaining girl
varies from 800 to 500 II cites case
I'm which q release was made for $4,000
after 900 had been demanded.
Ice Carnival for Belgian Relief.
The Commission for Relief in Bel
eium has arranged for a society ice
carnival 70 be held at 81. Nicholas Rink
February % for the benefit Of women
and children in Belgium and Northern
France The overhead charges are not
IN be taken from the donations, and the
entire proceeds will he devoted TO buy
ing clothing and shoes. Among the at
fractions viii be a hockey game he
tween the teams Of the Union and
Knickerbocker clubs.
The Polish Victims Relief Fund re
ports total contributions OF s23O,575.
Among the latest gifts are 500 each
from Mrs. Mary +. T. Soper, First Bap-
fist Sunday School, in Kingston. \. Y;
Carnegie Institute OF Technology,
Pittsburgh: the Rev. T. 7. Pudlowskl, /
the Rev. Wisniewski, Mrs. May Smith
Ward. W d. Miller. Sara X. Lamb, $500
each from the Polish Catholic priests
in Toledo. Ohio, and the Polish Catho-
lie churches in st. Louis, and $1,000
from the War Relief Association Of
Virginia.
Miss Anne Morgan. as treasurer Of
the Vacation War Relief Committee,
has received during the last week
SLAP, making total of S229,32s.
Among the donors were Mrs. Chester
Monroe. 500; Children's Fund. Solo;
Miss VI. T. Moulton, S272; American
Red Cross, S2l2.
The total of the Belgian relief fund
Is now 81 .OS2 .523. of which $3.50 was
announced yesterday. including. con
tributions Of 500 from Mrs. Chester
Monroe, Rush c. Hawkins and "N.' and
$3.50 from De Witt Clinton Jones. The
fund for Cardinal MERCER. TO allow him
10 answer the personal appeals made
TO him last week, received Sl,2o3. OF
which 81 900 came from Three
Friends" and 500 from Jamer Byrne
and 800 from Mr.. and Mrs. William
Emerson The total Of the American
Fund for French Wounded is now SIS
$50.