New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02


~ has attracted more attention than the
fourth annual international Flower Show,
which opens on Wednesday of this week and
continues until April u, in the Grand Central
Palace. II is held under the auspices of the
Florists Club and the Horticultural Society,
and one-half OF each days receipts will go to
the American Red Cross and the other half
to separate cause each day.
The garden committee of the New York
Chapter Of the American Red Cross consists
Of Mrs William x. Draper, chairman; Mrs.
Belmont Tiffany vice-chairman; Mrs. Leon
ard Wood, MIS-. Newbold lie Roy Edgar, Miss
Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Bruce Clark and
Miss L. Louise Sands.
On the committee on decorations are Mrs.
Belmont Tiffany. chairman Mrs. Arthur
Scott Burden, Lawrence Grant White and
Frederic r. King.
Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar is chairman
of the committee on supplies and associated
with her are Miss Margaret Cameron and
Miss Z. Louise Sands.
Miss Bell Gurnee is chairman of the COM
mittee on Red Cross membership Miss Ruth
Draper, of the flower girls committee, and
Horticultural Society.
The opening day will be shared by the Va
cation War Relief Committee, American Fund
for French Wounded and the New York
Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mrs.
William A. Prime, jr., is chairman OF the tea
garden committee for the two first mentioned
organizations and her assistants are Miss
Anne r Morgan, Mrs Ethelbert Nevin, Mrs.
A. NJ. Dixie, the Countess de la Cree, Mrs.
Robert Lincoln Campbell and Miss Marie
Louise Emmett.
Among the debutantes who will act as
mattresses on that day are the Misses Mildred
Reeves. Maud Slater, Gladys Waterbury,
Helen R;ves, Gabrielle Warren, Marie Rode
wald, Geraldine Adee, Anne Bradley Rather
inc Crosby, Gretchen Damrosch, Georgia APP
pleton, Marie Johnson, Helen Flake, Noenn
Townsend, Katharine Price Collier and Marie
Louise Emmett. Their costumes, designed by
Miss Marjorie Curtis, are quaint being red
white and blue, the skirts striped vertically
in these ooors With these they wear little
Russian cap. poster for this day has been
designed by Miss Fannie Taylor.
feature of TIE opening day will be
Winsor McCay, with his funny moving pict-
ure made from his drawing "Gertie, the
Dinosaurs Diplodoccus.' Another feature
will DC transcontinental telephoning, this in
stallation being donated by the New York
Telephone Company. More than 200 seats,
with receiving instruments. will be arranged
in the tea garden, and visitors will be enabled
to hear the roar of the Pacific Ocean trans
mitted from a telephone located on parapet
OF the Cliff House opposite the Seal Rocks
and near the Golden Gate, California. A vic
trola selection, The Flowers That Bloom
in the Spring, Tra-la," will be transmitted
from San Francisco, and numerous other in
teresting Stunts" will be done with this trans
continental telephone.
On the second day, April g. Marjorie Ster-
rett, sponsor OF Marjories Battleship Fund,
will be a guest OF the committee, Of which
Mrs. Robert Bacon is chairman The pro-
ceeds on that day will be shared by the
American Ambulance Hospital. Mrs. Bacons
associates are Mrs William K Vanderbilt,
Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Charles B. Alex
ander, Mrs. Willard D. Straight Mrs. Charles
II. Sheriff., Mrs. William Greenough, Mrs.
William Hamilton Russell and Miss Elsie
Nicol
other days are as follows: Friday, April =
Commission for the Relief in Belgium-Mrs.
Pierre Mali, chairman; Mrs. Robert w. de
Forest, Mrs. Johnston de Forest Mrs. John
Beaver White, Mrs. Leo Backsland, Mrs.
Henry Lamarche. American Hostels for
Refugees-in Paris, and Children of Flanders
Rescue Committee - Mrs. Cadwalader Jones,
chairman; Miss Janetta Alexander, Mrs. Rich
ard Derby, Mrs. William Pierson Hamilton,
Mrs. ]. Lloyd Derby, Mrs. Walter Maynard.
Mrs. Willard D. Straight, Mrs. George
Whitney.
Saturday, April 8-Gernan Relief Commit
tee-Mrs. Hugo Reisnger, chairman; Mrs.
George Hlard Benjamin, Mrs. Joseph
Strsnslcy, Miss Lakeland, Miss Annie Lesry,
Mrs. Car Schurz, Mrs. J. P Meyer, Mrs. Al
bert dc Barry.
Sunday, April e--Womsn's Auxiliary OF the
Peoples Jewish Relief Committee-Mrs.
Philip Lcwisohn, chairman; Mrs M. Lipsit.
Mrs. Randolph Guggenheimer. Mrs. Freder-
lex Nathan, Mrs. Henry Meyers. Mrs. Sidney
Borg Mrs. Sholon Ash, Mrs. Abraham
Cahan Mrs. Henry Moskowi,z, Mrs. Halpern
Monday. April lo.-British American War
Relief Committee-Mrs. Nicholas Murray
Butler. chairman; Mrs Newbold lie Roy Ed
gar. Mrs Alfred Coats. Mrs. Ralph Sanger
Tuesday, April li.-Clothing Committee OF
the Polish Victims Relief Fund-Mrs. Linzee
Blsgden. chairman; Miss Rosina Hoyt. Mrs.
Boleslaw Lsposks. Mrs. Ernest Schellng