New-York tribune., 1919-09-15
$6,75O,500 in
Pledges Starts
Charity Drive
81 Jewish Organizations
Unite to Raise $lO,OOO,-
600 for Building Recon-
struction and Erection

More than 67 per cent Of the $10,-
ooo,o0O sought for the reconstruction
and erection Of Jewish charitable in
stitutions in New York was pledged by
business men at banquet held at the
Commodore Hotel last night at the
opening of the weeks drive. The total
of pledges, as announced by Louis j..
Robertson, chairman Of the campaign
committee, was $6.75O 800.
The total amount will be apportioned
among the thirty-one organizations
that make up the membership Of the
Federated Jewish Institutions.
The diners arose and shouted their
applause when Aaron Schloss, ward
of the Hebrew Orphans Asylum, laid
the cornerstone of a miniature brick
building that typifed the work about to
be accomplished among the city's He
brew homes. He placed the stone in
it's proper position under the guidance
of Michael Bowman, representing the
Bricklayers' Union, who also furnished
him with union card in order to
make the ceremony technically correct
The banquet was officially known as
the Brick Dinner Of the Ten Million
Dollar United Building Fund Commit
tee. The invitations went out on minia-
turc building bricks and the place
cards were bricks. Miniature bricks
entered into the construction of the
house to which young SchlOss added
the cornerstone.
A committee for virtually every trade
in the city has been organized for the
drive. 1t was on the reports Of these
committees that the records of pledges
made last night were based.
Although the drive was to continue
4 Al
books would not be closed until the
the cash to cover the quota assigned
to them. Felix M. Warburg, president
of the Federated Jewish Institutions,
who acted as chairman Of the meet
ing. suggested this.
Many of our most prominent bust
ness men now are away from the city,"
he said. "They are willing to give
generously | propose that we keep
the books open until every man named
here has had an opportunity to give as
much as he cares to-
Louis Marshall and Lieutenant Colo
mel Gibson. of Base Hospital No. /,
told OF the requirements Of the nstitu-
tlons that will benefit by the cor
trlbutions. photographs exhibited
Throughout the banquet hall and the
adjoining rooms further showed how
the buildings are in urgent need of re-
pairs and reconstruction
In launching the drive Mr.. Robert
son and other speakers emphasized the
needs Of the institutions.
Division chairmen representing the
1900 men and women who are to cam
vass the general public made reports.
Besides Mrs. Henry Moskowitx, Of the
reconstruction comm Lssion, the women
who are speeding the work of the
drive are Miss Harriet B. Lowenstein,
Miss Hcdwig Reichcr, Mrs. Cyrus I.
Sulzbcrger. Mrs. Sidney c. Borg, Max
u: Brill, Mrs. Alfred A. Cook, Mrs.
William Einstein, Mrs. Benjamin Gug-
genheim, Mrs. S. R. Guggenhcim, Mrs.
Alfred A. Hess, Mrs. Arthur Lehman
Mrs. Mortimer Menken, Mrs. Ben
jamin Stern, Mrs. Macmillan Toch,
Mrs. Israel Unterberg, Mrs. Bernard
Whitlock, Mrs. Louis j. Robertson, Mrs.
Henry F. Samstag, Mrs. H. A. Guinz-
burg Mrs. William Goldman, Mrs
Aaron f. Nushbaum, Mrs Jacob Vert
helm and Mrs. Herman Lissner
The campaign has the distinction of
being the shortest one for such g
large amount to be devoted to chari-
table nurnOSeS