Evening star., 1917-01-14
CHARITY Event TO AID
Central WAR RELIEF
Bazaar for Benefit of Widows and
Orphans in Teuton and Allied Coun-
tries to Be Elaborate.

The bazaar for the benefit OF the
widows and orphans of the central
powers. to be held at Convention Hall
| the week of February 8, bids fair to
become one of the most important
charitable events of this season.
The affair will take place under the
patronage of Countess Bernstorf and
Baroness Zwiedinek. who personally
will dispense tea for the good cause;
Nine. Stephan Panaretoff, the wife Of
the Bulgarian minister. who plans to
take charge of an oriental coffee room,
and the other patronesses. Nine. Abdul
Hak Hussein-Bey, Princess Won Hatz-
feldt-Trachenberg. Mrs. Robert S. Nc
Cormick, Mrs. Richard Townsend. Nine.
Christian Hauge and Mrs. Christian
Heurich, who will divide their as
sistance between the two.
Many Features Provided.
The committee on arrangements intends
to have one end Of the big hall devoted
entirely to dancing and has engaged an
orchestra for that purpose. Booths with
all kinds of pretty things, the sale of
which shall. help widows and orphans
abroad: a theater in which local talent
plans to give a program, a big dining
room. cafe. a soda fountain and other
places of refreshment will line the main
street of the little town, into which Mar
tin Wiegand and his co-workers plan to
transform Convention Hall for the occa-
sion.
Rev. Paul A. Menzel is sending out an
appeal to all singing societies Of the
District to join big chorus. which will
give the songs of the fatherland and
will have its first rehearsal at Con-
cordia Chapel tomorrow night.
Members Of General Committee.
The following have been named as
members of the general committee:
George Auth, Mic Auth. DR.. ]. S. Allen,
Andrew Baker, Charles Baumann. Jo-
seph Berberich, F. w. Berens, F. G.
Berger, H. G. Bergling, H. H. Berg
mann. DR.. H. G. Boyer. Charles Bland.
G. Brahler. Karl Brodt, Ernst Bruncken,
Gustav Buchho1z. Henry Buscher. AL
bert Carry, Mrs. de Grain, Charles
Dietz. Charles Dismer. Rev. ]. E. A.
Doermann. Peter Dorsch. Carl A. Droop.
J. P. Drury, Julius Duehring. William
]. Eek, John A. Eckert. Cornelius Eek
hardt. Julius Egloff. Norman Engel,
Isaac Cans. Herman Gasch. Ernst Gers
tenberg, F; H; Geyer. Ernst Gichner.
.
John J. Graf. DR.. s. o. eraser. Adolph
GUIDE, William F. Guide, Harry w. Hahn,
Gustav Hartig. E. s. Hecht. Prof. DR..
F. J: Heme1t, A. G: Hermann. Charles
tian Heurich. Carl Heurich. Lewis Hop
fenmaier, NJ. Holzbeierlein. G. Huth.
Charles Jacobsen. A. F. Jorss. Simon
kann. Jacob Karr. Charles Kat
'telmann. D. J: Kaufman. Harry
John J. Kolb D. E Kleps Mrs
Gregor Kramm. John Kunlo: Henry
Kuhn, Henry Lansburgh. James Lans-
burgh. Rev. P. D. Leddin. DR.. L. ".
bach. A. Lisner. Andrew LoefIier.
Adolph LoefI J. G. Weinberg. Rev. Paul
A. Mcneil. William r. Miller. William
Muehleisen, William Neuland. L. Nick
CLAUS. Mrs. G. r. Olshausen. L. Olszew-
ski. Louis ostermayer. Anton Ostmann.
Plugge. Oskar Preil. Rev J.. r. Roth.
Cuno H. Rudolph. Mrs Charles Ruper-
tus. e. G. E. Rupert, William A. Santel-
mann. Charles Schaefer. John L. Schaf-
fert. s. scharbau. o. Schleichert. E. S.
Schmidt, Rev. Richard Schmidt. Rev. H.
Schroeder, Prof DIR. Heinrich Schulz
macher. G. Edward Schultz, Hugo
Schultze, John Schutrumpf. Claus
Schwartz, DR.. H. A. Sellhausen. G. NJ.
Siebert. o. g. Sonneck. John Scrivener.
Spier. John Steinle. Theo Stoner, Joseph
Strasburger. Leon Tobriner. Edward
A. Tripp. John Waldmann. Theo Wal
ter. Mrs. Pauline Walther. Harry
Wardman, Henry Wassmann. J. Will
liam Weber. c. H. Weiss, DR.. Conrad
son, Simon Wolf. Charles f. Worthing,
ton. Hugo Worch, J. T. Wright. Chris
tian Xander, Jacob Xander, Henry
Xander and Joseph Zegowitz.