New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-27
$114,OOO,0O0 Raised
For Red Cross Fun
To Be Used First for America, Then for Allies
rs Per Cent Goes to Local Chapters-Expet
Will Be Sent to Russia to Study Country's Need

Washington. June 26.-The nations
contributions TO the Red Cross in re-
sponse to the call for Sl00,0OO,OOo
war fund were estimated at Slli,OOO,OOO
tonight by Henry P. Dawson, chair
man of the Red Cross War Council.
This figure assumes" said Mr.
Dawson, that stockholders in COM
panies which have declared special
dividends amounting 10 some $4,000
600 will turn their dividends over TO
the Red Cross"
The policy of the Red Cross in eX-
pending this big sum, Mr.. Dawson said
in statement thanking the millions
of contributors. will be 10 conduct all
cur work with the utmost publicity, and
to take the public as completely as pos
slble into our confidence"
Fund Primarily for Americans
Primarily, the fund will be devoted
TO needs of American soldiers and sail
ors, and secondarily to relief worl:
among the Allies.
DR.. Frank Billings. of Chicago, will
head the Red Cross commission OF
more than twenty experts 20 be sent
to Russia to study needs there, Mr..
Dawson announced. His statement fol-
lows:
"The local chapters of the Red Cross
are entitled 10 retain for their own
work 25 per cent of the total amount
collected, but it is very evident that
the National Red Cross will have a
generous fund with which to begin ITS
tremendous tasks.
"The result which has been achieved
is indeed gratifying. Never before IN
the history of the world was such a
fund for the relief of human suffering
raised by voluntary subscription IN so
brief a period
Red Cross Plans
"No time will be lost by the Red
Cross in its efforts TO accomplish re-
! suits with the large resources with
which it has now been supplied. Some
! of the plans which are being devel-
oped and which we hope promptly 70
1 carry into execution are the following:
First and foremost. we shall pro-
vide. as we may be called upon by the
army and navy. for the care and safety
of our soldiers and sailors wherever
, they may be.
1--WE shall provide funds whereby the
/ American Red Cross Commission may
/ take over the administration OF Amerl-
/ can relief work in France. Major Gray
/ son II. ?. Murphy, head Of the French
commission, has been appointed by
! General Pershing a member Of his stan,
and the Red Cross has appropriated. az
T Major Murphy's cabled request 81 ;VoV'-
/ 600 10 take care of immediate needs.
ave have cabled each OF the Allied
/ governments, seeking authority 70 IN
stall an American Red Cross dispensary
/ in each of their important seaport clties
"a measure of relief urgently needed
To Send Experts TO Russia
1--WE shall send TO Russia a commits
sion of some twenty experts, under the
leadership of DR.. Frank Billings, OF
Chicago, 70 study the needs and the
lest means of aiding the Russian
people. -, .;a
THE commission will be equipped
with materials. Instruments anu
ties for extending immediate reileI IN
urgent cases and the Red Cross VIII
meanwhile organize TO render large
and effective aid along the battlellne
and elsewhere in Russia where there
is acute distress. We shall send
similar commission to make survey
and likewise equipped with supplies
and instruments to extend Immediate
relief to the people Of Rumania.'
s2O,OOO,OOO on Last Day
Neutrality-suspicious. of the 100000,
600 originally sought was accomplished
largely in the final roundup yesterday,
when nearly S2O,00O,000 in new sub.
scriptions was obtained. A score OF
cities. including Baltimore and Atlanta,
will extend the campaign period
through the week.
More than one thousand of the larg-
err cities raised more than their allot-
ments. Among the states which eX-
ceeded their quotas were Delaware,
Massachusetts,. Michigan. Minnesota,
New York (outside OF New York city,,
Ohio. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Con-
necticut. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Maine, New