New-York tribune., 1918-12-18
Red Gross Shop Has
$4,000 Profit From
Sales of First Week
Committee Expects to Keep
Fifth Avenue Experiment
to Help Troops Open
for the Next Six Months

"The Shop" came to Fifth Avenue
last week.
With the Red Cross as backer, it
swung its red and white shingle out
to the street, and, having made $4,000
clear profit in one week, has decided
that business on the Avenue is worth
while for at least six months longer.
Never in the history of Fifth Ave
nue. has there been such a shop as this
one, which was opened to raise funds
to buy fresh milk and eggs and deli
cacies for wounded American soldiers
returned to the hospitals in this
country. 1t doesn't matter who you
are or what you want-you can prob
ably get it at the Red Cross shop for
just what you want to pay for it.
Everything Is in Stock
If you are the mother of chauffeur
you may want a warm coat for your
son, or if the high price of clothes has
put the possibilities of new suit off
till next year it may be a second hand
garment for yourself that you come
seeking.
If your taste runs to jewels there
are diamonds of all prices in the jewel
shop, including an enormous case of
Cartier gems donated by an anonymous
giver. Or you may prefer the thirty
five memade paper beads which a
wounded marine sent to be sold. You
may buy a George Believes poster or a
Japanese calendar, a cup of tea Or a
trick pony, crystal vase worth $4,000
or secondhand hat, q cigarette case
with history or a homemade pin
cushion.
All these things are on sale at 5S7
| hioh bn Of
"The Shop" They have been donated
and are sold at fair prices. In order
| to assure customers of this. experts
appraise all the Tiffany, the
! jewels, Duveen. the objets dart and
Schwarz the dolls.
The shop takes up three stories Of
| the fve-story house which Louis F.
/ Haggin gave to the Red Cross for this
purpose. Downstairs there is a
/ mems clothing shop, and in the back
yard Baby Joffre, the trick pony, is on
/ floor are toy shops, antiques and mis-
I cellanies; on the second floor, new and
secondhand millinery and garments
( and the jewel room; and on the third
floor the model workroom of the Red
, Cross.
An appeal is made through Miss
Elizabeth Cunningham, vice chair
of the executive committee in charge
OF the shop, for more and more dona-
| tions. Upon these it depends for
| its stocks, since the aim of the shop
{ is to make one hundred per cent
! profit on everything.
things" says Miss Cunningham. ave
desire to have people of all classes
come here. In fact we have several
people in need come to us for advice
as to what they should purchase.
Therefore everything of use will find
a place in the shop, purchaser
eventually, and will mean sum of
money for the ! nd"
The girls who wait upon customers
are all society girls volunteering
their time.
The Advisory Board
i The advisory board includes
I Mrs. f. II. Harriman, Mrs. Will
lam D. Sloane, Mrs. J. Herbert
Johnston, Mrs. John Henry Hammond,
Mrs: William Jay Schieffelin, Mrs.
Willard d. Straight. Mrs Henry C.
Frick, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
Mrs Adrian Iselin, Mrs. Cornelius N.
Bliss, jr., Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Mr. William T. Darlington and Mrs
Robert Bacon.
The executive committee includes
Mrs. B. Tappen Fairchild, chairman
Mrs. Alfred c. Bosom, vice-chair
man; Miss Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM
vice-chairman; Miss Ouida Grant
secretary; Mrs. Ramsay c. Hoguet
treasurer; Mrs. A. Stewart Walker
Mrs Bayard Dominick, jr Mrs. ] B.
A. Fosburgh. Mrs John Claffin, Mrs.
George Blumenthal, Miss Louise Muir
ray. Mrs. Charles f. MITCHELL Mrs.
! Peter j. Hoguet, Mrs. Frank c. Nun
/ son, Mrs. George Gordon, Mrs Will
| lam I Darlington, Miss Isabel Low
den and Helen c. Frlck.