New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-29
Bazaar Volunteers to Pa
rade in Autos Bearing
COlOrs of Nine Allies.
CHAMPAGNE KISS
RED CROSS NOVELTY
Famous $4,000 Tapestry Made
in 1896 Will Be on Exhi-
bition June /.

The latest gift TO the Allied Bazaar,
opening at the Grand Central Palace
June /, is the famous s25, 1000 Nine. de
Maintenon tapestry, which has been
selected by Jansen, Of SO Rue Royale,
Paris, and 25 West Fifty-fourth Street,
New York, from his remarkable seven
teenth and eighteenth century collec-
tions.
This tapestry, which represents lie
Roi Soleil, sitting on an eagle, holding
in his right hand the thunderbolts of
Jupiter and on his left arm a shield
bearing the head of Medusa. was made
for Nine. de Maintenon in the Convent
of st. Cyr about 1895.
More than 100000 tickets to the
bazaar are expected to be sold on June
I, the opening day. For this occasion
ticket. will be cut to one-half their
actual price, so cents. Arrangements
for their sale have been made on a
scale hitherto uninterrupted Every ave.
nue. Of travel, every railroad terminal
theatre and Office building Will be
picketed by an army of 1900 volunteer
workers.
Actresses to Sell Tickets.
One of the features of Allied Bazaar
Ticket Day will be furnished by some
of the highest salaried of the film &C
tresses. They will parade the streets
/ IN automobiles covered with the colors
4 ~ h n Al
each seat besides the actress will be a
soldier of the country she represents.
/ A Champagne Kiss Fountain will
grace the bazaar. OF the success OF
/ this novelty the women in charge have
no doubt. Comparatively with this
| Charles B. Dillingham; has organized a
/ battalion of Dillingham; Girls, who viii
4 try to sell at least 10000 tickets in the
| theatre zone.
Marquis de Polignac is in charge oi
| the official exhibit lent by the French
government. He has just brought over
/ from France 1T large cases full OF wal
materials. lie will show Americans
/ some of the terrible devices used BY
/ the belligorents. Machine guns. guns
/ of every description, various kinds OF
| 81 ellis, including the world famed 400
and APO centimerte shells, flying ap'
paratus and an American automobile
\ ambulance which was pierced by many
proiectiles.
The committee, which includes som,
! Of the best known men and women II
New York, has charge Of all the de
/ tails of the bazaar.
More than $1,000 was received il
contributions last week by the New
/ York State Board of the American Re-
| Cross for the European War Relic
Fund. The Red Cross Society shippe'
on May % and "a hospital material
| 70 the British Red Cross and the Italian
Red Cross.
Films of United States Soldiers.
An interesting feature of the Rec
] Cross work has been the taking o
motion pictures Of American soldiers
on duty in Hayti. Mrs. Seward Hooker
l6l Madison Avenue. was one of the
mothers recently made happy by see
/ ing her boy in a Red Cross Haytlar
| film.
The British American War Relief
Fund Yesterday received nearly 5000 IN
contributions. The treasurer of the
American Jewish Relief Fund acknowl
edges total contributions to date OF
$4,O55, 56512. =.
Funds for the Polish Victims Relief
totalled at the close of last week S32l,-
417.54. The Philadelphia committee Of
the Serbian Relief has sent $1,000 as a
contribution. Totals for the American
Fund for French Wounded now amount
to S3.243.15. The largest contribution
last week was $1,000 from Edward S.
Hardness.