New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-03
Rockefeller Foundation
Makes New Years Gift
TO Relief Fund.
REFUGEE TELLS
OF POLES PLIGHT
Thousands Dying in LODI from
Starvation and Exposure,
He Says.

As New Years gift 20 the destitute
in Belgium and Northern France, the
committee recently named by President
Wilson TO cooperate with the Commits
sion for Relief in Belgium yesterday
announced it had received S2OO.OOO
from the Rockefeller Foundation. The
donation, it was stated, was made only
after a thorough search into the needs
Of more than 100000 persons in the
war-stricken countries.
Announcement was made also that
greater New York committee Of the re-
lief commission had been formed on
Saturday. Samuel ". Fairchild, OF
Fairchild Bros. & Foster, chemical man
ufacturers, is the chairman. Mr.. Fair
child yesterday said:
81 have accepted the craftsmanship OF
this committee because | am convinced
Of the appalling need for shoes and
clothes by 100000 human beings N
BELGIUM and Northern France. These
unfortunates have become wholly de-
pendent upon the United States
Louis Berlinsky, one Of fifty Polish
refugees who arrived on the Ryndam,
described yesterday the ruins ne left
in his native land. Berlinsky, his wife
and their two children were at the He
brew sheltering and Immigrant Aid So
ciety, 229 East Broadway. The five
vear-old son was the family's passport
back to America, for 1t was only be-
cause he had been born in the United
States that Ambassador Gerard hsi
been able to gain their release from
the shell-shattered city OF LODI, 70
land. .:..;os
"Wundreds Of Hebrew aid societies
were opened by the wealthy after war
swopt the city of LODI" Berlinsky SAID
"and for a year they did all WITHIN
their power, but early this winter IN y
had to close their doors because OF lack
of funds. Rich men c9ptinued 20 pay
former employees 10 per cent or thelI
regular wages, but this became pie
ously insignificant when the prices Of
bread and potatoes increased teniolc;
Then the sale Of bread was limited ana
its quality became poor, resulting IN d
form OF typhus that is sinking amloSD
the miserable homes. Gas service has
been discontinued, and in darkness
poisoned By stale bread, the hail nahou
people are dying by thousands from
starvation and exposure
One hundred thousand Jewish BABIES
can be fed for twenty-five days anu
their fathers and mothers can be sup
piled with 6e5.000 loaves Of bread as
the result of zeal of the tag girls VINO
stood in the storm all last W ednesday
10 collect funds for Jewish war SUI
ferers. The Peoples Relief Committee
announced Yesterday that the money
collected on tag day amounted to ST.
S65s7.
An exhibition of nearly one hundred
paintings and sketches by French
artists. shown for the first time any
where. was opened last evening IN the
ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton. The pro-
ceeds are for the benefit of the fam
lies of French soldier-artists. The eN-
bibition will continue two weeks.
Miss MAY Taylor Moulton. of / East
Sixty-first Street. has offered TO ior-
ward free of charge TO the hospitals fC r
wounded soldiers of the Allies ola
monograph records of which inc
donors have become tired. She IS also
receiving all manner of discarded ana
now talking machines, and the records
arc being carefully sorted to accom-
uany the right machine.
Miss Noulton requests that all pack
ages be carefully marked care Of Naca-
ton Relief. SO West Thirty-nlnth
Street