Federal directory, 1900

Organizations Comprising the Federal Council of the Allied War Charities and Co-operating With It.

Compiled by 32 Broadway, New York

THIS book gives in brief form an outline of the many and varied activities in America having for their purpose the supplying of practical aid to both the soldiers of the Allied nations and the non-combatant populations upon whom has been visited so large a share o^ buffer- ing and distress. It is, in effect, a directory of the organizations - over seventy in number - com- prising the Federal Council of Allied War

The tabulation of these organizations is impres- sive. It is not merely the number of separate Committees, the comprehensive character of the work they have undertaken and successfully ac- complished, nor the large sums which have gone directly to the cause of relief through many

The impressive fact is that so many distinct and separate agencies are harmoniously co-op- erating with the sole object of increasing effi- ciency and economy of operation and extending the widest anti largest possible measure of relief to the War Sufferers.

The federation of these organizations into a central body constitutes strength which could not otherwise have been realized. It has created, furthermore, a feeling of confidence in each or- ganization and in the organizations taken collect- ively. This has resulted in an increased flow of contributions to the individual organizati C/j*o, anci has done much to create a basis for Effective co- operation, with the American Red Cross, which could not have been achieved had each organiza- tion acted for itself.

It is doubtful whether, in the history of the United States, so many persons of prominence have before been banded together with a common charitable object in view as are represented upon the Committees contained in this Directory. The high standing of the individuals/ the fact that they are known from one end of the country to the other, and that they have volunteered their services without other motive than to assist the unfortunate victims of the war, constitutes a glo- rious chapter in the annals of American philan-

"The War Council of the National Red Cross has approved a memorandum presented by the Committee on Co-operation of the American Red Cross, to organize some of the various War Re- lief Charities as national auxiliaries of the Red Cross. Each auxiliary will retain its name and organization and carry on its present work in the United States. This means that an auxiliary may continue to raise funds in its own name as it has heretofore. This arrangement was approved in substance at a conference of the Committee on Co-operation of the American Red Cross and the Federal Council of Allied War Charities, held on

"The conference will meet again to perfect de- tails and consider the problem of distribution abroad. In the meantime, all relief organizations will continue their work as heretofore. Pending negotiations for a closer alliance must not be per- mitted to interfere with the steady flow of relief through the accustomed channels."

THE magnitude of the activi- ties carried on by the Allied War Relief organizations de- scribed in this Directory is shown by the following figures, which approximate the relief extended. The figures are not necessarily final, but they under -estimate, rather than over-estimate, the funds raised and the value of sup- plies sent abroad:

Number of Committees : 75 Value of Supplies

Number of Branches : 5,000

Marquis of Aberdeen Liady Aberdeen & Temair Sir. Frederick H. Allen Mrs. Frederick H. Allen Mrs. Atherton vlrs. Chas. B. Alexander dr. Jules S. Bache drs. Wendell Baker Hiss Edith Bangs drs. Edmund L. Baylies Ir. James A. Blair, Jr. diss Bertha Bloom diss Rosamond Bender dr. P. C. Cartier .,ady Colebrooke « diss Mary T. Conklin dr. Rawlins Cottenet Ir. Frederic R. Coudert [iss Katharine B. Davis Irs. W. A. Delano Irs. W. C. DeLanoy [iss Marie-Louise de Sade-

liss Dorothy Donnelly liss Sophie Downer liss Caroline Duer Irs. Newbold LeRoy Edgar Irs. James B. Eustis Ir. Hamilton Fish, Jr. Irs. Chapman Fisk Irs. Kenneth Frazier Irs. Chas. D. Freeman Irs. Michael Gavin [r. William Greenough Ir. Benjamin Guinness Irs. Benjamin Guinness Ir. Norman Hapgood liss Isabelle H. Hardie Irs. J. Borden Harriman Irs. Oliver Harriman

f liss Elizabeth Hays

i liss Emily Hedden Irs. Oliver Herf ord Irs. Cooper Hewitt Irs. J. H. Holden liss Malvina Hoffman Irs. Cadwalader Jones Lugustus W. Kelley Irs. Prescott Keyes Irs. James H. Kidder ,ady Kingston rrs. Maurice Kozminski [iss May Ladenburg [rs. J. Elliot Langstaff [r. Er Lawshe !r. Lewis Cass Ledyard . [rs. George Lee ady Lister-Kaye [r. Philip M. Lydig [r. Edward B. Lyman i [iss Helen Losanitch Lev. Dr. Judah L. Magnes

Miss Elisabeth Marbury Miss Adah E. Marks Mrs. Charles H. Marshall Mr. James Marwick Mrs. Henry L. Mason Miss Elsa Maxwell Mr. Walter E. Maynard Mrs. Edward McVickar Mr. E. G. Merrill Mr. Wm. H. Millar Mr. John Moffat Miss Sophie Moore MissTeresa O'Donahue Mrs. Fairfield Osborn Mrs. Hamilton Osgood Mrs. Florence B. Pelo Mr. Ernest Peixotto Mr. Clyde A. Pratt Miss Alice Preston Dr. Morton Prince Mrs. George Quirk Mrs. Sally Williams Riegel Miss Ruth E. Roberts Mr. Karl Davis Robinson Mr. Francis B. Roche Mrs. Mildred Russell-Fow-

Mr. Charles Sabin Mrs. Ralph Sanger Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee Miss Schingleur Miss Elizabeth Scarborough Mr. George T. Scott Dr. Louis L. Seaman Mr. Henry R. Sedgwick Miss Gertrude Robinson

Mr. Valentine P. Snyder

Miss Carita Spencer

Mr. Arthur Starke

Mrs. John Wood Stewart

Mrs. Rutherford Sfuyvesant

Mrs. Thomas A. Sperry

Marquise de Turczynowicz

Mrs. Russell Tyson

Mr. Chas. V. Vickrey

Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton

Mr. Felix M. Warburg

Mrs. Fiske Warren ,

Mr. Whitney Warren

Mrs. Whitney Warren

Mr. T. Tileston Wells

Miss Maude Wetmore

Mr. H.J. Whigham

Mrs. H. J. Whigham

Mrs. H. LeRoy Whitney

Mrs. Eliot Butler Whiting

Mr. Thomas Whittemore

Mr. Louis Wiley

Mr. David Willard

Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard

Mr. Arthur Williams

ALLEN, Chairman Executive Secretary

Allied Bazaars of New York, Boston and Chicago - Alley Festa 7

American Ambulance in Russia 9

American Auxiliary df the Women's National Health Association

of Ireland (Incorporated) 9

American, British, French, Belgian Permanent Blind Relief 10

American Committee for Training in Suitable Trades the Maimed

Soldiers of France 11

American Committee of Allied Home Fund 12

American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief 12

American Committee of the American Ambulance Hospital in

American Committee of the International Reconstruction League 14

American Field Service in France 14

American Fund for the Heroes of France and Her Allies 8

American Fund for French Wounded 15

American Girls Aid 16

American Students Committee of the Ecole des Beaux Arts 16

American Women's Hospitals 17

American Committee Collecting for the War Charities of the

Queen of the Belgians 17

American Women's War Relief Fund 18

American Ice Flotilla Committee 18

Appui Aux Artistes 19

British American War Relief Fund . 19

British Section of the Belgian Official Committee of Help for

Refugees in France 19

British War Relief Association, Inc 20

Charite Maternelle de Paris 20

Chelsea War Refugees Fund, London (American Branch: Belgian

Refugees Knitting Yarn Fund) 20

Committee for Men Blinded in Battle 21

Committee of Mercy 22

Duryea War Relief - Secours Duryea 22

Edith Wharton's War Charities in France 23

Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania 23

Federal Council Delegates 23

Franco-American Committee for the Protection of the Children of

the Frontier 24

French Actors' Fund 25

French Bureau 25

French Tuberculous War Victims Fund 25

Hospital Under Three Flags 26

Hudson River War Relief Committee 27

Joint Distribution Committee of the Funds for Jewish War

Junior Patriots of America 27

Lady Helmsley's Fund 28

La Fayette Fund 28

League of the Allies 29

League of Catholic Women 29

Le Bien-Etre Du Blesse 30

Les Gens de Lettres Francais 31

Lord Charles Beresford's Fund 31

Mayfair War Relief 31

Mercy Committee of New Jersey 32

Militia of Mercy 32

Millicent Sutherland Ambulance 33

The London Motor Volunteer Corps 33

National Allied Relief Committee 33

National League for Woman's Service 35

National Special Aid Society . 36

National Surgical Dressings Committee of America 37

Needlework Guild of America 37

New England Italian War Relief Fund ls"'- {: ™

P. S. D. Fund (Physicians', Surgeons' and Dentists' Fund) 38

Polish Reconstruction League 38

Polish Victims Relief Fund 39

Refugees in Russia Fund , 39

Roumanian Relief Committee of America M

Scottish Highlanders Relief Association of Highland Societies in

Serbian Distress Fund Boston 41

Serbian Hospitals Fund......

Serbian Relief Committee of America 4^

Secours National for the Relief of French Women and Children

and Belgian Refugees.. 43

U. S. A. Section of Committee for Relief of Belgian Prisoners

in Germany 4o

Vacation War Relief Committee of the Vacation Association, Inc. 46

Venetian Fund

War Relief Clearing House for France and Her Allies 47

(Auditors, Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Company)

(Auditors, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery)

(Auditors, Arthur Young & Company)

Detailed figures may be ^obtained from John Moffat, Executive Chairman, League of the Allies, 360 Madison Avenue, New York City.

The League of the Allies, under the Executive Chair- manship of Mr. John Moffat, is to conduct the National American Allied Bazaar at the Grand Central Palace, New York, in November, 1917. The organization work for this Bazaar, which it is hoped will result in even larger profits than any of the former Allied Bazaars, is being conducted at 360 Madison Avenue, New York, where The League of the Allies has its offices.

The November Bazaar is to be under the patronage of the Right Honorable Arthur James Balfour. The Treas- urer is Frederick H. Allen. Mr. Er Lawshe is the Execu- tive Secretary, and Mr. J. E. Shay, Organizing Secretary. The Auditor is Mr. James Marwick.

It is expected to bring many exhibits from the war fronts in France, Belgium, Italy and Russia, which will, for the first time, give to the American people som» ade- quate idea of the frightfulness of the war and the tremendous suffering it is imposing upon the people.

JOHN MOFFAT, Chairman MRS. HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY, Honorary Treasurer

Management Committee

Mrs. William A. Delano Mr. Paul Chalfin Mrs. Walter E. Maynard Mr. Frank Crowninshield Mrs. Ralph Sanger

Entertainment Committee

Mrs. Charles B. Dillingham Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.

One of the most successful War Relief entertainments

which has been held, was the Alley Festa, in Macdougal it the auspices of the League of the Allies, and under the I Chairmanship of John Moffat. Mrs. Harry Payne Whit- I ney was the Honorary Treasurer.

An audit of the receipts made by Marwick, Mitchell,

' for the American Red Cross and the Allied War Charities, I which had booths. The gate receipts, swelled the amounts i taken in by the several Charities by 33 1-3 per cent., and

the expenses were approximately only ten cents on the

Added however, to the profit realized by the War Charities, was the fact that during the Festa which was continued for two days beyond the time set, Liberty Loan Bonds were sold to the amount of $540,000. With this large sum figured in, the total expenses were brought down to approximately one cent on the dollar.

The Festa attracted wide attention in the press of New York City and proved a great stimultis to all the Funds which took part.

MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR CHANLER, President JOHN MOFFAT, Chairman Executive Committee JAMES A. BLAIR, JR., Treasurer ER LAWSHE, Executive Secretary

Advisory Committee Hon. James M. Beck Hon. Theodore Roosevelt

Hon. G. Liebert Hon. Henry White

Board of Trustees

Mr. Haley Fiske

Dr. John Grier Hibben

Mr. Clarence Mackay

Hon. George von L. Meyer Mr. John G. Milburn Prof. H. Faifield Osborn

Depository: BLAIR & COMPANY, New York

The French Heroes Fund was organized for the pur- pose of aiding the wounded and mutilated soldiers, their wives, daughters and sisters and the children of invaded France. Workshops have been established where trade and occupations are taught, with the object of provid- ing employment and sustenance, with the idea of putting the destitute and disabled masses in France on a perma- nent, self-supporting basis.

The purchase of the Chateau in which was born the Marquis de La Fayette, adds to the work of the French Heroes Fund, an impressive sentimental interest for Americans, aside from the practical objects to be at-

It is expected that the activity of the French Heroes Fund in educating boy orphans between the ages of twelve and eighteen years, sending them to this coun- try to engage in occupations here, between their 18th and 21st years, at the expiration of which time they will return to France to take to that country the results of their experience in the United States, will be of perma- nent advantage in establishing a better and more inti- mate understanding between the peoples of the two countries. France will, by this method, give to America the enthusiasm and spirit of the French youth and will, in return, get the experience and spirit of business en- terprise of America. It is hoped within a few years to have several thousand of these French orphans actively engaged in learning various occupations in America.

The French Heroes Fund will also maintain a Sanita- rium near the Chateau de Chavaniac La Fayette for deli- cate children. The Chateau is eventually to be main- tained as a museum on the lines of Washington's birth- place at Mount Vernon.

Heroes Fund up to August 1st.

HAMILTON FISH, JR., Chairman PHILIP M. LYDIG, Secretary WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, Treasurer MISS ELSA MAXWELL, Assistant Secretary MISS ETHEL D. HAMILTON, Assistant Treasurer

The American Ambulance in Russia has collected up to July 1 approximately $130,000 and has 50 American ambulances in Russia doing active service directly be- hind the lines in the foothills of the Carpathian Moun-

The Committee at this time is endeavoring- to raise sufficient funds to install a complete American Ambu- lance Hospital in Russia for which $200,000 is needed, both to establish the hospital and to maintain it for one year. It is planned to have this hospital form the base for the American Ambulances which have saved and are saving thousands of lives.

Large quantities of gauze, bandages, chloroform and other hospital supplies have gone forward in addition to the actual ambulances, and Dr. Philip Newton has been sent by the Committee to Russia as chief surgeon of the ambulance units operating there. The ambulances are endeavoring to care for the wounded of an entire army corps of 55,000 men and Dr. Newton in his last report stated that every time a big battle comes, the unit is overwhelmed and \he wounded that cannot be carried in the ambulances have to be transported in carts and hay wagons.

During a recent battle, the American ambulances in Russia carried over 2,200 wounded soldiers within a period of six days.

The American Ambulance in Russia is the only Amer- ican organization working with the Russian Army.

OF IRELAND (Incorporated)

Irish Office: 9 ELY PLACE, DUBLIN

JOHN D. CRIMMINS, New York, Chairman J. C. HEYER, Federal Trust Co., Boston, Treasurer JOHN JOY EDSON, Washington Loan & Trust Company, Washington, D. C, Treasurer MISS MARIE E. KEATING, Secretary

This Association was formed in 1907 to promote health I and happiness in the homes of Ireland, and especially i to combat tuberculosis and infant mortality.

It works through a Central Council, and through about a hundred local branches, in all parts of Ireland.

On account of the war in Europe, the demands upon j its workers and resources are increased, and its treasury J is exhausted by reason of normal contributions being I diverted to war purposes. The ravages of war particu- larly affect a country which has been depleted of its jyouth for many years by excessive emigration, and it is -now of the most urgent importance for the welfare of

Ireland to prevent needless infant mortality and to sur- ' round mothers and young children with conditions which will promote vigorous health of body and mind in the rising generation.

The Association includes workers from all churches and all political parties, and carefully guards those whom it seeks to help, from any interference with their religious beliefs.

Catholic families are cared for by Catholic visitors and nurses, and Protestants by Protestants.

Cardinal Logue, Cardinal Gibbons and Cardinal Far- ley strongly commend the Association's work, and Dr. Hermann Biggs, Medical Commissioner of the State of New York, endorses it from a professional point of view (after personal inspection in Ireland), as follows:

I have never anywhere been more profoundly im- pressed by the need of such work as was being done there, and it seemed to me that more important results were being obtained with the money expended than has ever been the case in my experience elsewhere.

The child welfare activities were especially appealing, and it seems to me that it would be a real calamity if the financial emergencies arising from the war should result in their being curtailed or stopped. Emphasis should also be placed on the anti-tuberculosis work which has resulted in Ireland for the first time in a decline in the death rate continuously for a number of years.

Any further information regarding the Association will be gladly sent, on application to Lady Aberdeen, or to the Secretary, Miss Marie E. Keating, addressed to 10 East 43d Street, New York City.

For the purpose of promoting the child welfare work of the Association, the following ladies gave their names: Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mrs. James W. Wads- worth, Jr., Mrs7 William Seward Webb, Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Richard C. Cabot, Mrs. Willard D. Straight, and Messrs. J. P. Morgan, New York, kindly act as depositary.

The Association has held booths in support of its work at the Allied Bazaars at Boston and Chicago. It has also organized booths for similar work carried on by the Scottish Maternity and Child Welfare Committee of the National Union of Women Workers, the Hon. Secretary of the Committee being Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc, Ph.D., President of the National Union of Women Workers.

At the forthcoming "Hero-land" Bazaar, to be held in New York in November, 1917, booths are being organized by Lord and Lady Aberdeen for the child-saving work in Great Britain and Ireland, carried on by the two societies mentioned above, and the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, of which the King and Queen of England are patrons, the President of the English Local Government Board being President, and the Duchess of Marlborough, Treasurer.

Executive Committee Lady Arthur Paget Hon. Thomas P. Gore

Vincent Astor Hon. Myron T. Herrick

Edmund L. Baylies Otto H. Kahn

August Belmont Sir Arthur Pearson, Bt.

George Blumenthal

Sir Arthur Pearson, Whitney Warren Joseph Widener

Advisory Committee

Hon. Robert Bacon

Hon. Elihu Root

Honorary Treasurers

SIR EDWARD HOLDEN, Bt., Chairman, London City and Midland Bank M. Georges Pallain, Governor of the Bank of France Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank

Honorary Secretaries

Mrs. George A. Kessler Mrs. R. Valentine Webster

Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney Miss Nellie Turner, Assistant Honorary Secretary

The Fund was organized in England and France in The American section is under the patronage of Presi- dent Wilson; the British and Belgian sections, of the King and Queen of England and the King and Queen of Belgium, respectively; while the President of the French Republic heads the French Section. The primary object of the organization is the creation of a fund for the permanent care of the blinded soldiers of America, Great Britain, France and Belgium. There are Com- mittees in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, In- dianapolis, Memphis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington, D. C. The fund had received up to May relief, the expenses having been otherwise met. Two hundred thousand dollars has been sent to France and England, partly for immediate relief and partly for in- vestment in War Loan Bonds as foundation for a permanent fund, for which purpose $300,000 in all has been invested. The Fund needs $2,000,000 to put into effect its present and future plans. It is pledged to raise approximately $400,000 in ten years, to be sent to France in instalments of 200,000 francs yearly, and this is but a part of the sum required for the blinded Americans, French, British and Belgians.

George A. Kessler, Chairman of the Executive Com- mittee, has been in France organizing the fund on a solid foundation. Mr. Kessler's Paris residence has been recently placed at the disposal of the French Committee, to be utilized for the temporary training of the blind, and workshops are to be established in Paris.

The Fund aims, not at sporadic or temporary relief, but for a permanent foundation for the maintenance and support of the blinded soldiers.

Under the Patronage of the President of the French

MRS. EDMUND L. BAYLIES, Chairman for the United

Headquarters: ROOM 134, BILTMORE HOTEL,

Executive Committee

Mrs. Charles B. Alexander Mrs. Ogden Mills

Mrs. Wm. Douglas Sloane Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt

Hon. Myron T. Herrick Hon. J. W. Riddle

Edmund L. Baylies Moncure Robinson

More than $310,000 has been contributed to this organ- ization since its formation in March, 1916. Its purpose is to raise funds to establish and maintain trade schools in France for the thousands of maimed soldiers. The American Committee is a branch of the Union des Colonies Etrangeres en France en Faveur des Victimes de la Guerre, 11 bis rue Scribe, to which all collections made

in the United States are sent. Moro than four thousand maimed soldiers have been trained during the year in various trades and have been given employment. Schools have been opened in various parts of France. The cost of training a maimed soldier in these schools is fixed at about $100 per capita. Agricultural schools for maimed peasants are among the activities in addition to the strictly trade schools.

Executive Committee NORMAN HAPGOOD, Chairman Frederick H. Allen John Moffat

Mrs. William Astor Chanler Karl Davis Robinson Er Lawshe Thomas Randolph Turner

Miss Elsa Maxwell Mrs. H. J. Whigham

Mrs. Walter E. Maynard Louis Wiley

Depositories: Corn Exchange Bank The Allied Home Committee has for its object the re- lief of women sufferers and of war orphans. It assists in maintaining an orphanage at the Chateau de Chavaniac Lafayette in France and a home for women munition workers in London.

The receipts of this Committee aggregate more than

JAMES L. BARTON, Chairman SAMUEL T. DUTTON, Vice-Chairman CHARLES V. VICKREY, Secretary CLEVELAND H. DODGE, Treasurer Hon. William Howard Taft Hon. Charles Evans Hughes

Frederick H. Allen Arthur J. Brown Edwin M. Bulkley John B. Calvert William I. Chamberlain John D. Crimmins Charles W. Eliot William T. Ellis Fred B. Fisher James, Cardinal Gibbons Rt. Rev. David H. Greer Fred P. Haggard William. I. Haven Myron T. Herrick Hamilton Holt Arthur Curtiss James Woodbury G. Langdon Frederick Lynch Charles S. Macfarland H. Pereira Mendes Vance McCormick William B. Miller

John Moffat Henry Morgenthau John R. Mott Frank Mason North Henry V. Osborne George A. Plimpton Rt. Rev. P. Rhinelander Karl Davis Robinson William W. Rockwell Wm. Jay Schieffelin George T. Scott Isaac N. Seligman Albert A. Shaw William Sloane Edward Lincoln Smith James M. Speers Oscar S. Straus Harry A. Wheeler Stanley White Talcott Williams Ray Lyman Wilbur Stephen S. Wise

The purpose of the Committee has been to save the lives of members of the Christian races threatened with extermination through the war, in Western Asia. The Committee was formed October 4, 1915. Many base relief stations were established at various centers, from which help has been distributed through wide areas. In the Russian Caucasus, thousands of orphan children are under the care of agents of the organization.

The Committee is enlisting subscriptions to support these children at a cost of $3.00 per month per capita, and is also aiding the older people. All contributions

have gone directly for relief in Western Asia, the ad- ministration expenses having been met privately.

Many auxiliary branches have been organized through- out the United States and it is expected ultimately to or- ganize in every State in the Union.

Recently, many Liberty Bonds were purchased and donated by the buyers to this fund, and at a Billy Sun- was subscribed.

Mrs. C. B. Alexander Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Frederick O. Beach Mrs. S. R. Bertron Mrs. Henry P. Davison Mrs. William Greenough Mrs. E. H. Harriman Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn Mrs. Henry W. Munroe

BACON, Chairman

Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn Mrs. Whitelaw Reid Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee Mrs. Charles H. Sherrill Mrs. Willard D. Straight Mrs. Edward M. Townsend Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Mrs. Whitney Warren Mrs. Alexander S. Webb Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney

The work of the American Ambulance in Paris has won world-wide fame. The Relief Committee was formed during the early stages of the war, to lend sup- port to the hospitals and to create as widespread interest on the part of Americans, as possible.

The Committee now has members in various parts of the United States, and is, in fact, one of the most strongly represented War Relief organizations in

Miss Elsie Nicoll is Chairman of the Junior Committee. There are Branch Committees in Albany, Boston, Phila- delphia, Chicago, Detroit, Erie, Pa., Pittsburgh, Prince- ton, N. J., Petersburg, Va., Providence, Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Troy, N. Y.

The American Ambulance Hospital now cares for more than fifteen hundred patients daily at its main and auxiliary hospitals and the ambulance service has grown to about 250 ambulances on duty in Paris and at the front. The cost of maintaining the work h^as been borne entirely by the American public.

The Board of Governors of the Hospital in Paris is headed by Mr. Robert Bacon, President; Lawrence V. Benet, First Vice-President; Charles S. Phillips, Second Vice-President, and Shaun Kelly, Honorary Secretary.

During the year ending August 31, 1916, more than 5,000 cases of acute surgery were treated in the hospitals at NeuUly, Juilly, and in the field hospital and more than 135,000 patients were transported by the motor am- bulances in Paris and in the field, but the work has been much more comprehensive than even this implies, as great quantities of dressings, hospital supplies, clothing, etc., specially donated, have been distributed and much surgical and medical relief has been given to the civilian

Of a total of 3,107 patients received in twelve months, ending August 31, 1917, there were but 72 deaths, making a death rate of 2 and 31 per cent., or approximately one- half of the death rate during the previous year of the

Several hundred Americans have been in active ser- vice as volunteer ambulance drivers.

FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Treasurer JOHN MOFFAT, Executive Chairman THOMAS RANDOLPH TURNER, Executive Secretary Depository: Bankers' Trust Co.

This International Reconstruction League has three great purposes: Immediate relief work for the suffering war victims of Europe while the war lasts; American aid for Europe's stricken peoples when the war shall end and the gigantic task of rehabilitation begins; the education of public opinion throughout the world as to the practicability of a world-wide arrangement to insure a lasting peace, with America pledged to the support of such an arrangement.

The League plans to remain permanently in existence and to undertake relief work instantly in any part of the world where war or disaster shall make assistance

The League was founded in February, 1916. Its

(Service Automobile Americain aux Armecs Franeaises) American Headquarters: LEE, HIGGINSON «& CO., DE- HENRY D. SLEEPER, American Representative

New York Office: WILLIAM R. HEREFORD, 14 Wall

M. M. PALMER, Executive Secretary, American Field

Chicago Office: CHAUNCEY McCORMICK, 560 Monad- nock Block

Moving Picture Committee: 432 4th Avenue, New York

The American Field Service was formed to supply am- bulances to the French Army and sections of ambulances driven by American volunteers have figured notably on the Yser, the Aisne, the Somme, in Champagne, Argonne, at Verdun, the Woevre, in Lorraine and in reconquered Alsace, and the Field Service has two ambulances with the French Armies in the Balkans. There are, at pres- ent, eighteen of these sections. Seven more ambulance sections are now in process of formation.

Since the entrance of the United States into the war, the Field Service has also formed a new Transport Branch, for the purpose of providing automobile sec- tions, to b j used for the transport of munitions at the front. Already four sections of forty-five men each, have gene to the front and other sections are being rapidly formed. The American Field Service hopes td obtain in all, 10,000 young men and the various sections they will constitute, will be organized on the same basis as me ambulance sections.

A training camp for men entering the transport work, has been organized at the front by the French Army and a school for officers of the American Field Service has likewise been organized.

Funds are now especially needed to meet the expenses of the new transport sections. It is estimated such ex- penses will amount to $10,000 a year per section. The personnel of the sections, it is hoped to retain as wholly American. At an annual expenditure of about $720,000, the American Field Service can offer the French Army the whole personnel for a munition transport reserve,

sufficient to meet the needs of a very important part of the fund.

Funds also are needed for ambulances. An ambulance can be purchased and maintained for $1,600 per year and the names of the donors of the cars are inscribed on a plate on each car. Funds are needed for the running expenses of more than seven hundred cars now in ser- vice. Funds are also required for the maintenance of the automobile repair and construction park at Billan- court, near Paris, and for the food allowances and equip- ments of the new transport sections.

The American Field Service has been in Paris for more than two years, during which time it has received 99 citations from the French Army.

It is difficult to estimate the contributions to the Fund, which have been received from all parts of the United States, together with the donors of ambulances, but the sum is a very large one. Much of the money has been sent direct to Paris and much has been sent from the Boston Headquarters. In all, about 1,000 ambulances have been donated by individuals, University graduates, and organizations.

The American Field Service has cared for more than 500,000 wounded and many of the volunteers who have served with it, have been University men.

A separate activity of the Field Service is moving pictures taken of the soldiers abroad and which are shown in America, to raise money to swell the fund to maintain the Field Ambulance Service. The activities of this Committee are directed from 432 Fourth Avenue.

MRS. ETHELBBRT NEVIN, Chairman MRS. LEWIS B. STILLWELL, Chairman Executive

MISS ANNE MORGAN, Treasurer CHARLES BUTLER, Vice-President

The American Fund for French Wounded was estab- lished in November, 1914, in London, under the name of the French Wounded Emergency Fund. The present or- ganization was formed December 15, 1915. The first work of relief was in Normandy and Brittany. There are more than 500 Branch Committees, and up to July 1 more than 15,000,000 of separate articles had been shipped abroad and a sum approximating $1,000,000 had been expended.

The Fund has closely co-operated with the Vacation War Relief Committee and operates the Paris Depot for distribution. In May, 1917, 772,000 articles were shipped, tions was received.

The organization exists in practically every State in the Union. Among the principal branches is the New England Branch in Boston, and branches in Chicago, iSan Francisco, Watertown, N. Y., and in Baltimore. Each branch has more than 25 Committees working under it and each Chairman of a Branch Committee is a mem- ber of the National Executive Committee.

The Paris Depot has 14 departments distributing its supplies. Mrs. Nevin, Mrs. Lathrop and other officers are (in active charge of the depot in Paris, Mrs. Stillwell be- jing in charge of the collections in America, with Miss ! Elizabeth Scarborough as Secretary of the Committee | la America.

Executive Office and Shop: 293 FIFTH AVE .ME,

GLADYS HOLLINGSWORTH, Chairman A. SETON POST, Jr., Treasurer

This organization has been formed for the collection of clothing for the victims of the European War in Prance, and the clothing is distributed through the War Relief Clearing House for France and Her Allies.

The organization has many branches in different parts of the United States, and in addition to supplying cloth- ing is also contributing hospital supplies, approximately 9,000 cases having been sent to Europe.

The Committee about a year ago undertook also the collection of money for the support of orphans in France, and has pledged the support of 250 orphans for various periods of time. A hospital unit has also been formed in conjunction with Dr. Lawrence M. Moody, which will take charge of a hospital of 110 beds.

WHITNEY WARREN, Honorary President HENRY R. SEDGWICK, Treasurer

This Committee was founded in Paris in December, 1914, by a number of the American students of the Ecole, in appreciation of the debt of gratitude which the stu- dents owed to the French nation and particularly to the school. The purpose is to keep in touch with the mem- bers and graduates of the school, now with the colors, to act as a medium of communication between them and their families and to assist the latter where necessary, and to provide the opportunity for American art lovers and friends of France to help the French artists in this their hour of need. Clothing, tobacco and other supplies are forwarded to those at the front, in hospitals, and prisoners in Germany. The Committee up to the present time has been able to meet the particular demands of its work, but additional money is now badly needed be- cause of increased demand. The Committee has branches in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Washing- ton and Philadelphia, with an active Chairman in charge of each. There are between 300 and 350 regular con- tributors who have given to date about $60,000.

The Paris Office of the Fund is at 17, Quai Malaquais and is conducted by seven Americans who have volun- teered for the work during the period of the war. Cyrus W. Thomas is Chairman and Treasurer of the Committee in Paris and the work in America is in charge of Henry R. Sedgwick, Treasurer. The Committee in Paris is under the supervision of the American Relief Clearing House, to which financial reports are periodical- ly made. A special fund is provided for the running ex- penses of the Committee, so that all contributions in re- sponse to appeals go entirely to the purpose for which they are made.

A workroom is conducted in Paris to provide work for the mothers, wives and sisters of the artists at the front, and various articles are made here for the wounded.

A much appreciated part of the work consists of the publication and distribution of atelier gazettes, which bring to each soldier extracts from letters, cartoons, ad- dresses and other news of his former comrades of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Another activity is the sale of postal cards, menu cards and drawings made by the students at the front, in Paris

| on leave, and in the hospitals; and these are on sale in America at the Art Gallery of M. Knoedler & Company,

I 556 Fifth Avenue. In all, three thousand men and more

1 than one hundred of their families are dependent upon

I the Committee.

Organized by the

I War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association

Headquarters: 637 MADISON AVENUE,

War Service Committee SUE RADCLIFF, M.D., Treasurer

This is an organization of the women physicians and surgeons of the United States to render international ser- i vice during the war. Plans have » been made for the establishment of services both to the Allies and to our own country, which have been approved by the Surgeon General of the Army and the Director General of the Department of Military Relief of the American Red Cross.

This work has the following divisions:

Hospitals for Civilian Relief, with associated dispen- saries; these to go especially to the devastated portion of Serbia, France, Russia and Roumania.

Service in Army Units in Europe.

Army Hospitals for Acute and Convalescent Cases in Home Zone.

Substitution Service in American Hospitals and in Pri- vate Practice, for the Doctors who go to Europe. Care of Soldiers' Dependents.

Hospital Service for Prisoners of War and Interned J<Uien Enemies, j] Sanitary Inspection.

Laboratory Research.

There is also a dental department.

IRS. CHARLES H. MARSHALL, Chairman Executive JOHN MOFFAT, Honorary Secretary FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Honorary Treasurer This Committee was formed by American sympathizers o assist Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians in her work | mong the destitute and stricken people of that most

ppressed country. M Frederick H. Allen was the organizer of this Commit- ee. . The Committee co-operates with the War Relief . Clearing House for France and Her Allies. There is also i. co-operating committee in Paris, of which Mrs. William J H. Sharp, wife of the American Ambassador, is Honorary

LADY PAGET, President MRS. JOHN ASTOR, Vice President DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, Chairman LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, Chairman Hospital

LADY LOWTHER and LADY HARCOURT, Honorary

WALTER S. M. BURNS, Honorary Treasurer Represented in America by FREDERICK H. ALLEN and JOHN MOFFAT, 360 Madison Ave., New York City

American women married to Englishmen and resident in England, organized themselves to express their sym- pathy with Great Britain and to aid their adopted coun- try immediately on the outbreak of the war. Their first work was to supply six motor ambulances for use on the front and the seventh ambulance, subscribed by "Friends in Boston, U. S. A.," has been presented to the War

The offer of the Fund to equip and maintain a Surgical Hospital of 200 beds, in South Devon, was accepted by the War Office on August 21, 1914, and this hospital, which has treated several thousands of cases, both medical and surgical, with an unusually small death rate, has been maintained ever since.

The total subscriptions to July 1 have amounted to over $600,000. It is the desire of the Committee that the American Women's War Relief Fund shall continue, as a proof of American sympathy with Great Britain and that it shall continue its beneficent work until the restoration of peace.

For the Service de Sante, French Ministry of War

MISS ANNE MORGAN, Treasurer

The first work of this Committee was the raising in 1916 of $70,000 for supplying and equipping surgical au- tomobile ambulances on the Western Front. This year, more than $100,000 has been raised for Ice Flotillas - automobiles and ice-making machines for the purpose of supplying the field hospitals with a daily supply of ice for the wounded.

The work has not only had the endorsement of the Service de Sante, and of the leading officials of the French Government, but has been endorsed by repre- sentative surgeons of the United States, who see in the adequate supply of ice the opportunity for the saving of many lives and the amelioration of the sufferings of soldiers wounded in battle, or victims of fevers and other disease incidental to service at the front.

Committees have been formed in various cities and the Ice Flotillas are distinguished at the front by the name of the city whose contribution made the individual unit

ERNEST PEIXOTTO, Secretary MISS MALVINA HOFFMAN, Treasurer MRS. EDWARD ROWLAND, Chairman Organization

This Committee is in its third year. It provides meals for workers in the arts and their families deprived of employment by the war. Its French headquarters is at Pavilion de Flore, Palais du Louvre, Paris.

Since its formation in August, 1914, it has served more than five hundred thousand meals. For the benefit of the artists and their families, five canteens are main- tained and a clothing station is also provided which has distributed more than six thousand articles of clothing. A Villa loaned for the purpose has also been maintained for artists whose health necessitated a stay in the coun-

The Executive Committee for America comprises Ed- win H. Blashfield, De Witt Parshall, Joseph H. Hunt, F. Luis Mora, Charles A. Piatt, Willard Metcalf, Jules Guerin, Ernest Peixotto, W. Howard Hart and Kenneth

The organization is the only one doing work of the kind in Paris, and the demands upon it have been stead- ily increased with the continued duration of the war.

MRS. FREDERICK W. WHITRIDGE, Acting President HENRY J. WHITEHOUSE, Treasurer JOHN G. MILBURN, Chairman Executive Committee GORDON KING, Honorary Secretaries

The purpose of this Committee has been to carry on relief work for Great Britain and her Allies. Numerous branches have been established throughout the country, those on the Pacific Coast shipping directly to the war

A total of 1,544,561 articles have been shipped since which were donated. Money received totalled $164,093.81. There also have been shipped abroad, 5,000 pounds of anaesthetics and 200 boxes of grape fruit and oranges. Several hospital cots have also been endowed and a Y. M. C. A. recreation hut provided and maintained on the firing line.

In addition to these activities, three motor ambulances were equipped and sent to France and one to Siberia.

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Miss Sara Norton, of 83 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, have, without the formation of an American Committee, sent funds to this

charity for the King Albert's Civilian Hospital Fund of Belgium. Through the Allied Bazaar of Boston, where they conducted a booth, $1,100 was realized for the British Section and other sums have been contributed and supplies sent from here.

The object of the Fund is to assist Belgian Maternity Homes and Creches. Many garments and other supplies have been forwarded for this purpose.

MRS. OLIVER HERFORD, Vice-President HENRY CLEWS, Treasurer MRS. WALTER MULLINER, Secretary

This Association was incorporated in November, 1914, for the purpose of rendering aid to the hospitals and re- lief stations in England, France and Belgium. It has collected for the purchase of hospital supplies, clothing, has handled materials donated to the estimated value July 1. The use of its offices has been donated free of charge by Joseph T. Tower.

It has no direct branches, but receives supplies from sixty groups of workers.

The active membership totals approximately one thou- sand and the number of donors has been three thousand.

MRS. RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT, Chief Administrator

The French organization of this Society is one of the 1784, to help the infants of poor women in the City of Paris. Its first President was Queen Marie Antoinette.

The needs created by the strain of the war have in- creased daily. The objects of the Society are: The adop- tion of children of the poor at birth and during the first year of their infancy, together with direct supervision of their care in the homes of the poor.

In America, there is being raised through Mrs. Stuyve- sant, a "One Dollar Fund," the purpose being to have every person to whom an appeal is made, respond. The Fund has now reached a total in America, of more than

American Branch

Belgian Refugees Knitting Yarn Fund

MRS. FISKE WARREN, Secretary and Treasurer

The first appeals for yarn to be sent abroad for the employment and support of Belgian men and women refugees were made in December, 1914. Six small cases of yarn was the first shipment to be distributed. The work has since steadily grown and has been aided by

lectures by Mrs. Hamilton Osgood, and through war poster sales conducted throughout the country. At pres- ent about three thousand pounds of yarn are used per month and the British War Office has contracted for every pair of socks that the Belgians can knit. In fact, the need for socks at the present time is so great that a much larger amount could be used. The profits go to maintain a work room for over fourteen hundred Bel- at some time in the future for repatriation and for the maintenance of the knitting industry in Belgium itself. For many crippled and half blinded men, this will form the only employment to which they can look forward for

Total receipts from the United States have reached more than $70,000, all of which has been expended for yarn and machines unless otherwise designated. There have also been many gifts of yarn, totalling about seventy-seven thousand pounds in all.

American Headquarters: LIGHTHOUSE NO. 1, Erench Headquarters: Executive Committee in America President, JOSEPH H. CHOATE* Acting President and Chairman, JOHN H. FINLEY Vice-Presidents, MISS WINIFRED HOLT, WILLIAM

Honorary Chairman, THE BISHOP OF NEW YORK Secretary, MRS. PETER COOPER HEWITT Treasurer, WILLIAM FORBES MORGAN Executive Committee in France President, MISS WINIFRED HOLT Vice-President, MRS. PETER COOPER HEWITT Treasurer, MONSIEUR ERNEST MALLET, Regent of the Bank of France Secretary J. RIDGELY CARTER

The Committee for Men Blinded in Battle was the out- come of the New York Association for the Blind, or- ganized in 1906. Its headquarters are at Lighthouse No. 1 in New York. The building was officially opened by the President of the United States and the work was conducted from there under the Presidency of the Honorable Joseph H. Choate.

The Committee for Men Blinded in Battle was the first organization to be formed to aid the war blind. It has assisted, in various ways 3,000 men including some of eight different nationalities and has taught over 300. It has given away over 8,000 gifts to the war blind and taught and aided them in over 50 hospitals. A number of these pupils have already taken their places in the sighted world as competent wage earners.

Among the professions taught in the Lighthouse are merce, music, modeling, etc. The Committee succors and relieves the blind whenever possible and gives re-educa- ; tion to such as are fitted to profit by its teaching. The I organization of the work and teaching in France have been under the volunteer direction of its President

The French Lighthouse, maintained by the Committee, was officially opened by the President of the French Re- public and the American Ambassador on August 8, 1916. It is under the patronage of the French Republic, the Ministry of War, Marine, Public Instruction, etc., etc.

The Committee has helped in the work and in the re- organization and establishment of the Lighthouse for the Blind in Bordeaux. The offer of the services of the Committee for Men Blinded in Battle and of the New York Association for the Blind have been accepted by the United States Government for its soldiers and sailors.

ELIHU ROOT, Honorary President Vice-Presidents Ex-President CHARLES W. ELIOT of Harvard University

JOHN PURROY MITCHEL, Mayor of New York MISS KATHARINE B. DAVIS, Chairman Parole Commis- sion, New York AUGUST BELMONT, Treasurer > Executive Officers

MISS KATHARINE B. DAVIS, Chairman of Executive

JOSEPH M. PRICE, Vice-Chairman NORMAN HAPGOOD, Chairman of State Committee JOHN MOFFAT, Chairman of Publicity Committee WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, Secretary FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Chairman Finance Committee KARL DAVIS ROBINSON, Executive Secretary THOMAS RANDOLPH TURNER, Assistant Executive

The Committee of Mercy was established in October, 1914, with the approval of President Wilson, to succor the women and children and other noncombatants made destitute by the war. Associated in the Committee's for- mation were Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Miss Katharine B. Davis, Norman Hapgood, John Moffat, T. C. Glen-Coats.

Up to July 1st, the total receipts of the Committee of ministered through reliable agencies in France, Russia, Armenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Poland, considerable sums have been raised for other relief committees - among them, the American Girls' Aid, and the Children of the Frontier Fund.

The Committee of Mercy maintains specific funds, for various objects of relief in the countries of the Entente Allies. Contributions designated for specific purposes are administered, through thoroughly reliable agencies, without any deductions for operating expenses. A Gen- eral Fund is maintained, from which operating expenses are deducted.

Accredited by the French Government

New York Office, 259 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY

MRS. NINA LARREY DURYEA, President MRS. SETH BARTON FRENCH, Vice-President MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN, Vice-President MRS. CHARLES H. DITSON, Secretary MR. CHARLES ELLIOT WARREN, President, Lincoln National Bank, Treasurer MRS. FRANCES SEAVER, Assistant Treasurer DAVID WILLARD, Chairman Executive Committee

The Duryea War Relief was organized September 4, 1914, by Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea, at Dinard, France, on the arrival of the first refugees. Since that time, more than 62,000 persons have been assisted. The Committee appeals for both donations of money and clothing and other supplies, the latter to be sent to the Duryea War Relief, care,, of the War Relief Clearing House, 133 Charl- ton Street, *New York City. Supplies are sent to the stricken and destitute in the villages behind the firing line and many thousands of cases of supplies have been distributed. Approximately $70,000 has been collected in the United States to June 1, 1917, together with clothing

American Hostels for Refugees in Paris and Children of Flanders Rescue Committee

New York Committee: 21 EAST 11TH STREET

MRS. CADWALADER JONES. Chairman HENRY W. MUNROE, Treasurer MISS PAULINE RIGGS, Secretary

Mrs. Wharton established Hostels for refugees in October, 1914, and the Children of Flanders Rescue Com- mittee was started a month later. Edith Wharton's War Charities in France, in addition to the New York Com- mittee, have a Committee in Boston and one at Mont- clair, New Jersey. About $50,000 has been collected in New York to date and transmitted direct to Mrs. Whar- ton, together with some five thousand garments for refugees, sent to France through the War Relief Clear- ing House.

There have been several hundred contributors to the New York Committee.

Headquarters : 1428 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, MRS. ALEXANDER J. CASSATT, Chairman

Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Edward Browning Mrs. J. Willis Martin

Mrs. John C. Groome Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson

Mrs. George Q. Horwitz Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury

Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton MRS. THOMAS ROBINS, Secretary MRS. EDWARD K. ROWLAND, Corresponding Secretary MRS. J. NORMAN JACKSON. Treasurer

Constituent Committees Allied Arts - Mrs. Edward K. Rowland, Chairman American - Mrs. Arthur H. Lea, Vice-Chairman American Ambulance - Mrs. George W. Pepper, Chairman Anaesthetics - Mrs. Norman MacLeod, Chairman Armenian - Mrs. George H. Lorrimer, Chairman Belgian - Mrs. Bayard Henry, Chairman British - Mrs. E. Burd Grubb, Chairman

British American - Mrs. Robert E. Strawbridge, Chairman Entertainment - Mrs. Harold E. Yarnall, Chairman Fatherless Children of France - Mrs. John Markoe, Chair-

Food Economy - Mrs. Charles M. Lea, Chairman Foreign Relief Committee of SE Pennsylvania Chapter, American Red Cross - Mrs. Reed A. Morgan, Chairman French - Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Chairman Home Relief - Mrs. John C. Groome, Chairman House - Mrs. W. Howard Pancoast, Chairman Italian - Mrs. Benjamin Miller, Chairman Montenegrin - Mrs. John C. Groome, Chairman Motor Messenger - Mrs. Thomas Elwyn, Captain

Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs - Mrs. Ron- ald P. Gleason, Chairman

Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs, Eastern District - Mrs. H. S. Prentiss Nichols, Chairman

Philadelphia Chapter Women's Division for National Pre- paredness - Mrs. Henry B. Coxe, Chairman

Polish - Mrs. Robert von Moschzisker, Chairman

Russian - Mrs. William Ellis Scull, Chairman

Serbia - Miss Nina Lea, Chairman

Surgical Dressings - Mrs. Rodman E. Griscom, Chairman Ways and Means - Mrs. George Q. Horiwitz, Chairman Mrs. William J. Clothier

One of the most far-reaching organizations for war relief in the United States is the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, which, with 59 associate organizations and branches, 33 of which have been formed since March 1, 1917, comprises more than four thousand members. The central committee, of which Mrs. A. J. Cassatt is the Chairman, has 26 separate committees, the work of each of which is distinct and which results in the carry- ing of relief to virtually all the Allied countries, meeting many and diverse needs and covering practically the en- tire gamut of war relief enterprise. The Emergency Aid is also engaged in valuable domestic activities. In all, a total of nearly $2,000,000 had been received up to the present time. This money has been distributed among the various principal committees as follows:

Committee Total

American (Clubhouse in France) 3,300.00

MRS. PETER COOPER HEWITT, Honorary President AUGUST F. JACCACI, President and Secretary MRS. ROBERT W. BLISS, Vice-President FREDERIC R. COUDERT, Treasurer

To aid the destitute children of France, Belgium, and of the reconquered villages of France, this Committee was organized. It has collected money and supplies of clothing for the children. Mr. Jaccaci, President and Secretary of the Committee, has devoted his entire time to the work. A number of homes and sanitariums have been established and the work of the Committee has been carried on at a cost of fifteen to twenty cents per day for each child assisted. Every dollar contributed has gone to the support of the helpless children.

L'Aide aux Artistes et Employes de Theatre

of 1, Rue Rossini, Paris

MRS. JAMES H. KIDDER, President MURRAY H. COGGESHALL, Treasurer T. TILESTON WELLS, Litt.D., Secretary

The closing of many theatres in Paris, incident to the war, has left many lesser employees of the playhouses in a deplorable condition. Many of the men have gone to the front and left destitute wives and children behind them. Many actors and actresses likewise have to be assisted and the French Actors' Fund was formed here to do this work.

The public who have enjoyed the theatre in France and who are lovers of the drama, together with the theatrical profession, are asked to aid their fellow craftsmen of the French theatre. The Association des Directurs de Theatre de Paris, will distribute the funds. The artist, Rodin, has designed a medal, being struck off at the French Mint and to be offered for sale for the benefit of the Fund.

MADAME CHARLES LE VERRIER, President New Y"orIt Advisory Board Mrs. William Adams Delano Mrs. William Astor Chanler Mrs. Edith Parsons Morgan Mrs. William Greenough Miss Gertrude Watson

Mrs.Victor Morawetz Mrs. Maurice Kozminski

The French Bureau has for its object the sale of toys and novelties made in France in seven workrooms main- tained there by wounded and maimed soldiers. These toys and novelties, it is believed, will ultimately replace upon the American market the toys of German manu- facture sold here prior to the war, thus creating a per- manent industry for a large part of the French people incapacitated for other work. The proceeds from the sales go to aid both the makers of the toys and the des- titute women and children of France.

Mile. Valentine Thomson, Madame Charles Le Verrier, Mrs. John Ridgeley Carter, and Mrs. Lorillard Ronalds, constitute an Advisory Board in Paris.

The shop at which these articles are sold is at 406 Madison Avenue, New York, and during the past year something more than $27,000 has been received.

Working in Connection with the French Ministry of War

WALTER E. MAYNARD, President JOHN MOFFAT, Executive Chairman ER LAWSHE, Executive Secretary MRS. F. GRAY GRISWOLD, Honorary Secretary CHARLES H. SABIN, Treasurer with the Honorable W. G. Sharp, American Ambassador

to France, as an Honorary President, together with many well-known French and American men and women. A nation-wide appeal for the purpose of saving France from the ravages of tuberculosis, which has been so widespread in that country, was made by Walter E. May- nard, President of the American Committee.

The French Committee has opened a Receiving Hos- pital at Auteuil, where 25 patients are received at a time and who are later sent to the sanatorium maintained by the fund in Switzerland. Arrangements for the care of a much larger number of patients are being made. The tuberculous soldiers will be sent to the Chateau de la Fontaine at Yerres and three other sanatoria are ex- pected to be ready in the early Fall. Discharged soldiers are sent to Mardor, women and children to Saussy and boys to La Xhaumette, where a school of agriculture is being organized.

The medical .work is being done chiefly by American physicians specialists in tuberculosis. Dr. "William Charles White, Associate Professor of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh, and Medical Director of the Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh and Director of the Executive Com- mittee of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, is in France and in general charge of the

Executive Committee

HERBERT L. SATTERLEE, Chairman Horace E. Andrews Lewis A. Conner, M.D.

John Moffat Gifford Pinchot

Mrs. Arthur Woods THOMAS COCHRAN, Treasurer MRS. ARTHUR WOODS, Secretary MRS. H. R. BECKWITH, Executive Secretary

The Hospital Under Three Flags is at Ris-Orangis, near Paris, in the Versailles region. It was founded in the Spring of 1915 by Lady Johnstone, formerly Miss An- toinette Pinchot, of New York, the wife of Sir Alan Johnstone, late British Ambassador at The Hague, and by Mr. Harold Reckitt, an English manufacturer.

This work was developed by Dr. Joseph Blake who was called in April to take charge of one of the largest mili- tary hospitals in France. He was succeeded as chief surgeon at Ris-Orangis by Major William L. Keller, M.D., of the United States Army, one of our best known and most skillful military surgeons, who had charge of a large base hospital on the Texas border. He is assisted by Captain George M. Edwards, M.D., and Captain Daniel P. Card, M.D., both of the United States Army, and all of whom have been given leave of absence by the War Department to fill their respective important posts.

Since its founding in the Spring of 1915, one thousand and twenty cases have been treated in the hospital. There have been 513 cases of compound fracture, the greater number of which have been fractures of the leg, thigh, arm. and forearm. There have been about 50 cases of wounds of the head, about 75 of wounds of the thorax and about 25 of wounds of the abdomen. Not- withstanding the severity of the cases treated, there have been only 21 deaths, a mortality rate of about 2 per cent. About half of these deaths were from causes other than surgical condition, such as tuberculosis and apoplexy. Of the 1,020 cases it has been necessary to amputate in only 8. This is considerably less than 1 per cent, of the men treated.

MRS. H. FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Chairman and Treasurer Mrs. Cornelius R. Agnew Miss Mary H. Haldane Mrs. Vincent Astor Miss Irene M. Hedges

Miss Grace Bigelow Miss Gertrude L. Hoyt

Miss Catherine S. Burton Mrs. Robert P. Huntington Mrs. Charles DeRham Mrs. Ogden Mills

Miss Madeline I. Dinsmore Mrs. Archibald Rogers Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge Mrs. James Roosevelt Mrs. Martin H. Glynn Mrs. Samuel Sloan

Mrs. Levi P. Morton Mrs. Clarence Page Townsley

Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt

This Committee was organized in August, 1914, Im- mediately on the declaration of war, by Mrs. Osborn, and sub-committees and sewing and knitting circles were established in the small towns and villages along the Hudson River.

were received, of which $4,000 has been paid to the American Red Cross, $600 to the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, and the balance expended for arti- ber of shipments have been made to both France and

FELIX M. WARBURG, Chairman ARTHUR LEHMAN, Treasurer PAUL BAERWALD, Associate Treasurer ALBERT LUCAS, Secretary

This Committee, comprised of the three Jewish Com- mittees collecting money for Jewish War Relief - the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Com- mittee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War, and the People's Committee - has disbursed in Europe and in Palestine more than $8,000,000 for the relief of Jewish War Sufferers, both in the Allied countries and in those countries dominated by the armies of the Cen-

The Committees are now engaged in raising $10,000,000 additional during the present year, approximately one- half of which has already been contributed. The Jewish Relief Committees have raised and have disbursed through the Joint Distribution Committee a larger sum than any other individual relief agencies, having had the support of the entire American Jewry.

HAMILTON FISH, JR., President MRS. OLIVER HARRIMAN, Vice-President MRS. HENRY W. BULL, Treasurer MISS ELSA MAXWELL, Executive Secretary

This organization has recently been incorporated for the purpose of establishing camps to provide military training for boys. The activities of the organization next year, it is planned, will be upon a much larger scale than has thus far been possible.

f-ADY COLEBROOKE, 416 Madison Avenue, New York City, Chairman, American Fund

This charity, organized by Lady Helmsley, is in aid of artists of the musical and dramatic professions, suffering through the war. There are three main objects. One is to provide paid engagements for dramatic and musical artists in straitened circumstances, the second, to en- courage British music, and the third, to provide high- class free concerts for wounded soldiers and sailors in hospitals in and near London.

Since the formation of the Committee November 10, 1914, more than five hundred and fifty concerts have been given, resulting in four thousand engagements and payments Xo artists of more tha n $22,500.

FRANCIS ROCHE, Secretary a*nd Treasurer

Executive Committee

Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies Hon. James M. Beck

Mrs. William Astor Chanler William Astor Chanter

Mrs. John Jay Chapman Frederic R. Coudert

Mrs. William K. Dick Rawlins Cottonet

Mrs. .Tames B. Duke Archer M. Huntington

Mrs. Newbold Le Roy Edgar Maurice Leon

Mrs. Archer M. Huntington Philip M. Livermore

Mrs. P. Cooper Hewitt Philip M. Lydig

Baronne de La Grange John G. Milburn

Mrs. Philip M. Lydig W. Forbes Morgan

Miss Janet Scudder Gouverneur Morris

Mrs. Lee Thomas Ralph J. Preston

Miss Jane B. Wallach Moncure Robinson

Mrs. M. Orme Wilson "William Beverly Rogers

Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop Charles S. Scribner, Jr.

Robert L. Bacon Whitney Warren

Charles D. Wetmore

Gratitude for the assistance of France to the American Colonies in Revolutionary days, resulted in the formation of the La Fayette Fund in December, 1914. The idea was conceived by Mrs. William Astor Chanler and Miss Emily Sloane, now Baronne de La Grange. The purpose of the La Fayette Fund is to send Comfort Kits to ameliorate the hardships of the French soldiers in the trenches, and to date more than one hundred thousanil Kits, of a value of $2.00 each, have been sent. The total 234.05. Postal cards addressed to the contributors are enclosed with each Kit, enabling the soldier who receives

the Kit to communicate his appreciation to the donor.

founder of the Fund; $100, a sustainer; $20, a subscriber,

and $2 or more a contributor.

The Executive Committee of the Fund has guaranteed

all expenses of administration, so that the whole of each

contribution goes for the purpose for which it is

JOHN MOFFAT, Executive Chairman ER LAWSHE, Executive Secretary J. E. SHAY, Organizing Secretary FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Treasurer BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, Depository

Mrs. Charles B. Alexander

Frederick H. Allen

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton

George Gordon Battle

Mrs. H. R. Beckwith

Ian Hay Beith

Nicholas Murray Butler

Mrs. Wm. Astor Chanler

Lady Colebrooke

Frederick R. Coudert

Mrs. Wm. H. Crocker

Mrs. C. C. Cuyler

Louis de Sadeleer

Miss M. L. de Sadeleer

Mrs. C. H. Ditson

Mrs. Newbold LeRoy Edgar

Mrs. Jeanne L. Etty

Mrs. Wm. Faversham

Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr.

Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson

Benjamin Guinness

Mrs. Benjamin Guinness

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman

John Grier Hibben

Mrs. Ernest Iselin

Otto H. Kahn

Lady Lister Kaye

Louis Wi

Mrs. Maurice Kozminski Er Lawshe

Mrs. Charles H. Marshall Miss Elsa Maxwell Mrs. Walter E. Maynard Miss Margaret Mayo George von L. Meyer John G. Milburn John Purroy Mitchel John Moffat H. Fairfield Osborn Mrs. Potter Palmer Mrs. Gifford Pinchot Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer George Haven Putnam Mrs. James Lowell Putnam Karl Davis Robinson Mrs. Ralph Sanger Isaac N. Seligman Mrs. Wm. Payne Thompson Thomas Randolph Turner Walter F. Wanger Mrs. H. J. Whigham Charles S. Whitman Mrs. Harry Payne Whitnev

The League of the Allies has for its object relief for the sufferers in all the countries affiliated with the En- tente in the prosecution of the war against the Central

The National American Allied Bazaar, to be held in November at the Grand Central Palace, under the auspices of the League of the Allies, is expected to earn more money for the War Sufferers than the Allied Bazaar

MISS TERESA R. O'DONOHUE, President

Vice-Presidents

Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady Miss Elizabeth Marbury

Mrs. Alfred C. Chapin Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman

MRS. MICHAEL GAVIN, Secretary MRS. ANDREW W. DOUGHERTY, Treasurer

The League has between ten and fifteen thousand members, and is a New York State organization. It has branches in Brooklyn, Poughkeepsie, the Rockaways, Ossining, Great Neck, Forest Hills and Peekskill, to- gether with various units connected with Catholic Churches and other institutions.

The League of Catholic Women was organized five years ago with the intention of co-operating with other civic bodies in New York City, but all other work it has undertaken has been set aside in face of the present war.

At a meeting held at the residence of Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue on February 19, 1917, one hundred and fifty

women passed the resolution to co-operate with the Na- tional League for Woman's Service.

Influenced by the patriotic enthusiasm shown at this meeting, Mrs. P. j. Gallagher offered her residence, 154 East 38th Street, as the Headquarters for the League of Catholic Women so long as the war lasts.

Workrooms have been opened at the Headquarters, and those desiring to volunteer their services for two or three hours are welcome at any time from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. Regulation hospital supplies, garments for women and children and baby kits are made in the workrooms according to Red Cross and French standards. All of the output is to be sent to France, for our own soldiers and sailors as well as for those of the Allies.

The League co-operates with other Catholic organiza- tions such as Settlements, Sodalities and Sewing Circles. Classes in Surgical Dressings, Canteen Cooking and Social and Welfare work are being held at Headquarters.

GERTRUDE ATHERTON, President American Central JOHN MOFFAT, Executive Chairman JOHN MONROE & COMPANY, Treasurer MISS ELSA MAXWELL, Honorary Secretary MRS. H. R. BECKWITH, Executive Secretary MRS. WILLIAM K. "VANDERBILT, Honorary President

Honorary Vice-Presidents Mrs. Charles B. Alexander Mrs. E. H. Harriman Mrs. Robert Bacon Mrs. Oliver Harriman

This organization was founded in May, 1916, at the request of the French Government. Its purpose is to provide the wounded in the hospitals in the war zones, cut off from, relatives and friends, with food and delicacies necessary to their more speedy recovery. The lives of thousands of men have been saved by providing them with food from the Le Bien-Etre Kitchens, which the hospitals themselves could not supply. The American Central Committee, as a minimum, seeks to maintain contributions of $5,000 a month. Five dollars ]ier soldier is estimated as the entire cost of giving the wounded what is required during his stay in the war zone hospital. Some of these things are condensed milk, soups, beef tea and coffee, etc. Thousands of tons of these supplies have been shipped to France, but not one ounce has been

The organization is a French, not an American, one. Monthly shipments have been contributed by Mrs. Ives Goddard, of Providence, and Mrs. Hamilton Fish Web- ster, of Newport, and the Boston Committee has con- francs in money and foodstuffs has been sent to France for the kitchens, chiefly through the labors of Mrs. Ather- ton and Mr. Moffat.

The cost of running a hospital of five hundred beds is 1,000 francs per month, and anyone who will assume this responsibility may have the hospital bear his name and may communicate directly with the Marquise d' Andigne, 7 Rue Tronchet, Paris. Other donations should be addressed to the Treasurers, Messrs. John Monroe & Company, 360 Madison Avenue, New York City.

MRS. NEWBOLD LEROT EDGAR, Chairman

BENJAMIN GUINNESS, American Chairman and

This Committee is known in America as Lord Charles Beresford's Fund, and has nearly 800 branches. Its pur- pose is to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to the fleets of the Allies, and to the Naval Hospitals. Over 20,000,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables have already been distributed in this manner. It also distributes to Army Camps and Depots.

The Committee has the recognition and support of the British Admiralty and the British War Office.

The Fund is also distributing fruits and vegetables to the American Fleet, co-operating with the British and French. Many American firms have given large con- tributions of these supplies and there have been con- siderable contributions of money also, a large part of which has been sent to the English Treasurer, Mr. Drum- mond, of Drummond's Bank, London, England. The Eng- lish Treasurers are Messrs. Jackson, Pixley & Company, 58 Coleman Street, London, E. C, England.

MRS. J. H. HOLDEN, Chairman MRS. WILLIAM C. DE LANCY, Secretary MRS. GEORGE W. SELIGMAN, Treasurer MISS CLARA S. DASHIELL, Executive Secretary

Workrooms: 135 East 56th Street, New York City

The Mayfair War Relief was organized at the very outbreak of the war, with the primary object of supply- ing relief to the Belgian refugees, but its activities have since been expanded to supply the demands for hospital and surgical dressings not met by the Red Cross or other organizations. During the past two years this has been a very important part of the work, and, in all, several hundred thousand articles have been sent abroad. There are 42 sustaining members who support a guaranteed fund which covers current expenses, but this membership is to be doubled with the idea of meeting the greatly increased demands upon the organization and to pro- vide for the necessary expansion.

There are a number of sub-committees established throughout the country.

The special package department has become of large importance to the friends and relatives of French and Belgian soldiers, their neglected families, and the refu- gees from evacuated regions. These packages are re- ceived and personally distributed by our representatives in France.

The Boy Comrade Service handles correspondence from more than eighteen hundred American boys with French, Belgian and British soldiers.

MRS. CHARLES D. FREEMAN, Iselin, N. J., President MRS. FRED H. ALBEE, First Vice-President MRS. J. KIRTLAND MYERS, Vice-President MRS. JABEZ GILBERT, Vice-President MRS. CHAPMAN FISK, Secretary, 112 W. 7th Street,

This Committee was formed about two years ago and has sent abroad approximately 70,000 garments and more than $10,000. It has branches in Gladstone, West- field, New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Cranford, Iselin, Rail- way and Plainfield, with members in many more towns and Junior Branches in several.

The Junior Branches have also made bandages and have sent a large number to Europe through the Red Cross Surgical Dressings Committee.

The Committee's work is now largely devoted to the equipment and reconstruction of the military hospital "Reconstruction Hospital No. 3," located at Iselin.

MRS. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, President MRS. JAMES R. McKEE, Treasurer MRS. A. MITCHELL HALL, 2d, Assistant Treasurer MRS. WILLIAM K. HARCOURT, Recording Secretary MRS. CLAUDE C. PINNEY, Corresponding Secretary MRS. NELSON H. HENRY, Chairman of Emergency Com. Chairman of Comforts Committee, U. S. Navy League, Militia of Mercy Unit MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, Chairman Infantile Paralysis Relief Committee

The Militia of Mercy was organized in the Summer of 1916. Its name implies the character of the work it performs in several directions. Its first task was to provide necessaries and comforts for the American sol- diers called to the Mexican border in 1916 and to assist their families. In the Fall of that year, when the ravages of Infantile Paralysis were severely felt in New York City, it organized the first Infantile Paralysis Ambulance Service and conveyed more than 5,000 little cripples from their homes to the clinics for the vitally necessary after-treatment. These ambulances covered more than 13,000 miles in New York City.

The charitable work of the Militia of Mercy is done without regard to class or creed distinction. It is the belief of the organizers that there should be a levelling of classes as a result of the sufferings incident to the

The organization acting under the authorization of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Commodore R. P. Forshew, commanding the Naval Militia of the State of New York, is caring for the needy families of the Naval Militiamen, our first line of civilian defense, and has a plan which provides in the maximum for the care of more than 4,000 of these families. This is known as "The Militia of Mercy's Plan of Automobile Visiting Units." There are at present more than 70 automobiles listed for use in this service.

MRS. BENJAMIN GUINNESS, Chair/man

Approximately $150,000 has been raised in the United -States for the support of the hospital established by the Duchess of Sutherland during the early part of the in- vasion of Belgium, later taken over by the Red Cross with the Duchess of Sutherland in charge.

This Committee has for its purpose the assistance of soldiers arriving in London on their return from the trenches and protects them from being preyed upon by the unscrupulous. The London Motor Volunteer Corps and soldiers, who are taken to their destinations in motor transports or to shelters provided by the Y. M. C. A., the Church of England, and the Catholic Church, where they are cared for during the night.

The same work is to be done for American soldiers, and it is hoped to raise funds for as many busses as pos- sible, each costing $1,700, to be grouped in units of six, each unit to be marked, "The American Squadron."

The Honorary President is John Lister-K&ye, Bart. Patron-in-Chief is Field Marshal Viscount French.

Telephone 4980 Vanderbilt

CHARLES W. ELIOT, Honorary President NORMAN HAPGOOD, President

Vice-Presidents Mrs. William Alexander Frederick H. Allen

August Belmont Howard Elliott

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman Gifford Pinchot Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer Mrs. Fiske Warren Mrs. Barrett Wendell

Executive Committee EDWIN G. MERRILL, Chairman JOHN MOFFAT, Vice-Chairman JAMES A. BLAIR, JR., of Blair & Co., Treasurer JAMES MARWICK, of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & Co.,

AUGUSTUS W. KELLEY, Secretary H. R. BECKWITH, Assistant Secretary

Frederick H. Allen William W. killer

Boylston A. Beal Professor M. I. Pupin

I. Tucker Burr Karl Davis Robinson

Mrs. William Astor Chanler Finley J. Shepard

Lawrence K. Frank Miss Ida M. Tarbell

T. C. Glen-Coats A. Kinnaird Tod

Norman Hapgood Francis M. Weld

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman Hervey E. Wetzel Henry James Whigham

Depositories; Lee, Higginson & Co., Boston; Union Trust Co. of New York

National Committee

Edwin A. Alderman Mrs. James H. Kidder

William Alexander Sen. James Hamilton Lewis

George Gordon Battle Sen. George P. McLean

August Belmont George von L. Meyer

Governor M. G. Brumbaugh William Fellowes Morgan

Governor G. W. Clark Gilford Pinchot

Ralph Adams Cram Dr. Morton Prince

Mrs. William H. Crocker Mrs. Whitelaw Reid

Mrs. Charles H. Ditson Isaac N. Seligman

Charles W. Eliot Sen. Lawrence Y. Sherman

Howard Elliott Mrs. Manson Smith

Mrs. Wm. Corcoran Eustis Senator William J. Stone

Gov. Woodbridge N. Ferris Williard Straight

Sen. Duncan U. Fletcher Oscar S. Straus

James Cardinal Gibbons Rev. Wm. H. van Allen

Charles Gibson Mrs. Schuyler van Senator Henry F. Hollis Rensselaer

Samuel Insull Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton

Will Irwin Mrs. Fiske Warren

Mrs. H. H. Jenkins Henry Watterson

Otto H. Kahn Mrs. Barrett Wendell

Governor John B. Kendrick Gov. Charles S. Whitman

Sen. William S. Kenyon Louis Wiley Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

Cooperating Committees

American Ambulance in Paris

American Committee Collecting for American Women's War Relief Fund

American Committee for Training in Suitable Trades the Maimed Soldiers of France

American Committee of French Tuberculous War Vic- tims' Fund

American Fund for French Wounded

American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief

British War Relief Association, Inc.

British American War Relief Fund

Committee of Mercy

Committee for Men Blinded in Battle

Duryea War Relief

U. S. A. Section of the Committee for Relief of Belgian

Prisoners in Germany Committee for Relief of Belgian Refugees in Holland Chelsea War Refugees Fund

American Committee Collecting for the Charities of the Queen of the Belgians

Committee on American Hostels for Refugees and Chil- dren of Flanders Rescue Committee

Fatherless Children of France

Friends of Poland

French Heroes Fund

Franco-American Committee for the Protection of the

Children of the Frontier Hospital Anglo Francais The Hospital Under Three Flags International Reconstruction League King Albert's Civilian Hospital Fund La Fayette Fund Le Bien-Etre du-Blesse

Maryland Section of the Surgical Dressings Committee

New England Italian War Relief Fund

New England Section of Surgical Dressings Committee

A. B. F. B. Permanent Blind Relief War Fund

Roumanian Relief Committee of America

Russian War Relief Committee

Secours National

Serbian Relief Committee

War Babies Cradle

War Relief Clearing House

Woman's Auxiliary of the Technical Committee of France

The total receipts of the National Allied Relief Com- the Committees operating with it have raised more than $10,000,000 in cash for the prosecution of War Relief in the countries of the Entente Allies, and this is exclu- sive of very large contributions of goods and money forwarded through their efforts, by the War Relief Clear- ing House.

The National Allied Relief Committee, which has jumped into the forefront of War Relief organizations in the matter of both influence and effectiveness, was organized in July, 1915, with the objects of making known to the people of America the needs of the suffer-

ers in the Allied countries, and to raise money for their relief, as well as to co-ordinate the activities of various Committees appealing for funds and to co-operate with

The success the Committee has had is eloquently evidenced by the steadily increasing number of im- portant organizations which have affiliated themselves with it for co-operation. There are now more than forty of these organizations. The National Allied Relief Com- mittee has furthermore co-operated with the War Relief Clearing House for France and Her Allies, and the larger part of the money raised has been expended through the Clearing House, as designated by the Com- mittee, for purposes approved by the Clearing House.

The Great Allied Bazaar held in June, 1916, was under the auspices of the National Allied Relief Committee, and the Bazaars in Boston and Chicago were indirect results of the success of the New York Bazaar.

Total expenses of the Committee have been about 11 per cent, of the money raised - a proportion which com- pares most favorably with the proportion of expense to collections of permanent local charities.

The Committee was originally organized by John Moffat, Frederick H. Allen, T. C. Glen-Coats, Norman Hapgood and Karl Davis Robinson. Its Honorary Presi- dent is Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, and as President, Norman Hapgood. The officers of its Executive Committee which actively directs its affairs are: Edwin G. Merrill, President of the Union Trust Company of N. Y., Chairman; James A. Blair, Jr., of Blair & Company, Treasurer; A. W. Kelley, for many years Vice-President of the Union Trust Company of N. Y., Secretary; and James Marwick, of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & Company, Auditor, while John Moffat, who had been chiefly instrumental in the organization of the Committee, acts as Vice-Chairman. The Hon. Moore- field Storey is acting as Honorary President of the Mass- achusetts Committee, while the Executive Committee in ' Boston consists of I. Tucker Burr, Chairman; Edward M. Pickman, Secretary; Boylston A. Beal, Ralph Adams Cram, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham, Mrs. Barrett Wen- dell and Hervey E. Wetzel.

National Headquarters

Organization Committee

Miss Maude Wetmore, Rhode Island, Chairman

Miss Anne Morgan, New York, Treasurer

Miss Grace Parker, New York, National Commandant

Mrs. Rogers H. Bacon, New York

Mrs. Charles F. Edson, California

Mrs. Goelet Gallatin, Wyoming

Mrs. F. V. Hammar, Missouri

Mrs. E. R. Hewitt, New Jersey

Mrs. George Hoadley, Ohio

Mrs. J. Willis Martin, Pennsylvania

Miss Marie Obenauer, Pennsylvania

Mrs. Thomas B. Owen, Alabama

Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, North Carolina

Mrs. William W. Sale, Virginia

Mrs. C. A. Severance, Minnesota

Mrs. Hugh L. Scott, Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Lewis B. Stillwell, New Jersey

Mrs. William Cummings Story, New York

Mrs. Coffin "Van Rensselaer, New York

Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Massachusetts

The National League for Woman's Service was or- ganized at the Congress for Constructive Patriotism, held in Washington in January, 1917, and which was en- dorsed by the Congress of the United States. A Woman's Session was held, at which over 500 women from all sections of the United States were present.

The objects of the League are stated as follows: "To standardize the work of Women of America along lines of Constructive Patriotism; to develop the resources, and to promote the efficiency of women in meeting their every-day responsibilities to Home, to State, to Nation and to Humanity; to provide organized, trained groups in every community prepared to co-operate with the Red Cross and other agencies dealing with any calamity - fire, flood, famine, economic disorder, etc., and in time of war, to supplement the work of the Red Cross, the Army and Navy, and to deal with the questions of 'Woman's Work and Woman's Welfare.' The slogan of the organization is: 'For God, For Country,

The League has enlisted the services and co-operation of approximately a million and a half women, represent- ing every section of the country. Inasmuch as five days after the League came into existence the Nation was confronted with the possibility of early war with Ger- many, an Emergency Program was developed under which the League is now in operation through organized Committees in 38 states.

Many of the larger national organizations of women have become affiliated with the League.

MRS. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, President MRS. HENRY A. WISE WOOD, Secretary GEORGE F. SWEENEY, Executive Secretary LEROY W. BALDWIN, Treasurer WARREN A. MAYOU, Assistant Treasurer

This organization, which has 2,000 members in New York and 30,000 in the nation, was organized January, 1915. It has for its purpose the enrolling of women to volunteer for service to the nation in the event of emergency and has Chapters in various cities. It has presented six automobiles to the Navy and Marine Corps, has built and furnished a hospital at Bay Shore for the Naval Militia, has sent several aviators abroad; has presented ambulance to Marine Corps and provided funds for its upkeep for one year; has endowed three beds in the American Hospital in Paris; acts as Clearing House fcr the National Union of Women Workers of England; has given three motor trucks to National Guard Regi- ment; provides free French lessons for nurses going to France, and also supplies surgical dressings and hospital supplies for the Red Cross, clothing for the French children, and books and supplies for the Naval Militia and the Aviation Schools.

It is affiliated with the Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense.

Headquarters: 290 FIFTH AVlflNUJS, N13W YORK CITY

MRS. MARY HATCH WILLARD, Chairman MISS CARITA SPENCER, Vice-Chairman FREDERICK L. ELDRIDGE, Treasurer, Empire Trust Co.

The National Surgical Dressings Committee of Amer- ica was organized in October, 1914, to supply surgical dressings to the hospitals of the Allies and has since been organized in 26 states, each having a State Chair- man and a number of local committees, of which there are now nearly one thousand. There are Distributing Bureaus in Paris for France and Belgium; at Bordeaux, for Southern France;, at London, for England, Russia, Serbia and Salonika, and in Rome, for Italy, while a Dis- tributing Bureau is also being organized for Russia.

In addition to surgical dressings, many other useful articles for the care of the sick and wounded are pro- vided and special dressings to suit special needs are prepared. Many French women, made destitute by the war, are employed in Paris, together with two hundred volunteer workers, to prepare these dressings.

The various State and local Committees finance their own work. There are no executive salaries, and office and shipping space has been contributed free by donors, as have heat, light, telephone, office equipment, stationery, packing cases, trucking and most of the printing for the organization. The output of the Committee is shipped through the War Relief Clearing House to France and Italy, and also without charge, by the International Mer- cantile Marine, to England.

dressings distributed among the following countries: France, England, Serbia, Montenengro, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Roumania, Switzerland, Africa, Malta, Syria and Greece. There have also been shipped large quantities of other supplies. A total of about $50,000 in cash has been received since the formation of the Committee. The Committee from now on will prepare^ dressings for the American Army as well as for the soldiers of the Allies and ten million additional dressings is the goal immediately sought.

The Committee co-operates with the Red Cross, the Women's Department of the National Civic Federation, and the National League for Women's Service, and both foreign and domestic war relief are included within its

Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard, the President, was the founder of the Society in America, having engaged in the undertaking following a visit to France in the early days of the war.

National Office, 1203 Widencr Building, Philadelphia, Pa. War Relief Department, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City

MRS. TRUMAN NEWBERRY, President MRS. JOSEPH GUEDY, Secretary, War Relief

MRS. JOHN WOOD STEWART, Chairman, War Relief Department, Glen Ridge, N. J.

Affiliated with American Red Cross The Needle Work Guild of America was organized thirty-two years ago to provide garments for out-going patients from hospitals and other institutions and to serve as an emergency body in time of local or national

disaster. Prior to the outbreak of the European War, a branch had been established in Lyons, France, which immediately upon the declaration of hostilities took up War Relief work. Its first assistance was the clothing of Belgian refugees, and as the result of an appeal to the members in the United States, $20,000 was sent to France in December, 1914, with which workrooms were opened in Lyons. More than three hundred women were given employment and twenty-five thousand garments were distributed to the Lyons hospitals for the wounded.

Since that date no money contributions have been asked by the Guild itself, but each branch doing War Relief work has collected its own funds with which ma- terials have been purchased.

Nearly one million garments and surgical dressings have been distributed in France and sent to her Allies by one hundred and seventy-three branches of the Needle Work Guild in the United States.

WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, President MRS. HENRY L. MASON, Secretary MRS. GEORGE LEE, Chairman

This Committee, formed in June, 1915, has for its ob- ject the relieving of the distress of non-combatant Italians. A workshop has been maintained at 39 Bennett Street, Boston, where wives of reservists have been em- ployed in making socks and clothing for the Italian hospitals at the front, and are paid for the work they do. A stock of supplies of wool, anaesthetics, etc., has been sent direct to Italy, and several hundred women and children have been provided for during the winter

From the organization of the Fund in July, 1915, to July 1, there have been about nine hundred subscribers, and the money raised has approximated $45,000. More than nineteen thousand articles have been completed and forwarded to Italy.

(Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists)

Executive Committee C. N. B. Camac, Chairman Foster Kennedy, M.D. Whitney Warren

Captain Cleveland Coxe Lansing

The purpose of this organization is the raising of funds for the purchase of instruments and supplies, by the Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists of the United States.

There have been received in subscriptions $12,818.18. Of this amount, $8,500 has been forwarded to the Amer- ican Relief Clearing House in Paris for the purpose of purchasing medical, surgical and dental instruments and supplies. Supplies of the same character have been pur- chased in the United States and forwarded to Paris, costing $3,871.21, in addition to which a large number of instruments and supplies have been donated here and forwarded to France.

IGNACE J. PADEREWSKI, Founder HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT, Honorary President FRANK A. VANDERLIP, Honorary Treasurer W. O. GORSKI, Honorary Executive Secretary

The Polish Victims' Relief Fund had collected to July country have been cabled, in part to the General Polish Relief Committee of Switzerland, and in part to Polish refugees in Russia and Siberia. Funds have also gone for the relief of the Polish population in Polish terri- tories still held by the Russian Government, and funds have also been sent to Miss Marie Mickiewicz, for the relief of Polish refugees in France and England.

The Polish Victims' Relief Fund has received written endorsement from the American Department of State, particularly as regards the organization maintained in

The Fund maintains two branches: one, the Clothing and Hospital Supply Committee, at 411 Fifth Avenue, New York City, the Chairman of which is Miss Eleanor Blodgett, and the Universal Grants Committee, of which the Chairman is Mrs. Jane Arctowska, of Hastings, N. Y.

The Clothing and Hospital Supply Committee is co- operating with the Red Cross, devoting one-half of its time to work of the Navy League.

Mr. and Mrs. Paderewski have made many tours of the country for the purpose of raising funds for the aid of the Polish War Victims and these tours have resulted in very large contributions.

Executive Committee Charles R. Crane Arthur Curtiss James

William H. Crocker George T. Mayre

Charles W. Eliot Henry Morgenthau

Henry L. Higginson Charles H. Sabin-

Depository: Chase National Bank

This Committee was formed to succor the millions of children and aged, homeless in Russia, forced to flee before the invading armies.

The disbursements of money collected in the United States are supervised by a Committee in Petrograd and by Thomas Whittimore, who represents the Committee in the field in Russia.

There are branches in New York and Boston, the Bos- ton Branch being particularly active. Colonel Lee Hig- ginson is Treasurer of this branch and Mr. R. I. Barr, Treasurer of the New York Branch.

(Under the Patronage of Her Majesty, Queen Marie of

BRECK TROWBRIDGE, Sc.D., M.A., Chairman T. TILESTON WELLS, Litt.D., Chairman of Executive HENRY CLEWS, Treasurer CONSTANTIN ORGHIDIAN, Honorary Secretaries

This Committee, recently formed to aid people of Rou- mania overwhelmed by the German military forces, has before it a heavy task. About two-thirds of the King- dom of Roumania has been occupied by the enemy; towns and villages have been burned, the women vio- lated, and old men, women and children murdered. Ger- man Armies have seized the food supplies of that part of Roumania within their jurisdiction and little can be done to help the unfortunates there, but many thou- sands fled to what is left of free Roumania, with barely clothes on their back and are without shelter and with- out food.

The funds raised in America are to go to the relief of both the refugees and the wounded and the sick soldiers, and will be expended in purchasing food, clothing and medical supplies, which the Roumanian Government will forward free of cost. Supplies will be distributed under the direct authority of the Queen of Roumania, to whom all goods will be consigned.

The Committee, in the few weeks since its organiza- tion, has received $5,000 in cash, exclusive of pledges of considerable sums by sub-committees throughout the

CHARLES R. CRANE, Honorary President JOHN MOFFAT, President MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR CHANLER, Chairman Execu- tive Committee KARL DAVIS ROBINSON, Vice-Chairman ER LAWSHE, Executive Secretarv FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Treasurer

Starvation upon a scale more widespread than in any other country, because of the immensity of its popula- tion, is existent in Russia. With the realization of the new democracy in that country, this Committee was formed for the purpose of evidencing the long existing friendship %t Americans for Russia. Five million men, women and children, driven from Poland and Galicia into the provinces of Russia, are without food, clothing and shelter. There is also a dangerous dearth of hos- pital supplies and equipment, and it is to aid in reliev- ing these needs, that the Russian War Relief Committee has been formed to support the Wynne-Bevan Ambulance

G. J. MAC KINNON, President FRED T. MACLEOD, Honorary Secretary JOHN MAC DOUGALL, Honorary Treasurer

Contributions should be sent care of the National Al- lied Relief Committee, and will be remitted intact to the Committee in Edinburgh.

This Fund has been formed for providing comforts for the men of the Highland Scottish Regiments, for train- ing disabled soldiers of these regiments, to fit them for agricultural and other pursuits. The Association has

already helped to establish a farm colony in the North of Scotland, where disabled men of the Highland Regi- ments, returning from the front, are provided, not only with a home, but with necessary instructions to enable them later to become self-supporting.

Contributions are also used to provide comforts for the men of the Highland Regiments at the front and the Association seeks ultimately to relieve distress among the families of the soldiers.

The organization has the hearty support of the Saint Andrew's Society of New York and its officials.

MORTON PRINCE, Chairman, 54 Devonshire Street EVERETT MORSS, Secretary, 101 Devonshire Street JOHN F. MOORS, Treasurer, 111 Devonshire Street

Warerooms for Supplies: 588 Boylston Street

The object of the Fund is to relieve distress amongst civilians in Serbia and elsewhere, refugees, Serbian military and civilian prisoners interned in camps in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and to aid Serbian hospitals with supplies of all kinds.

It has been actively engaged in this work since the early part of the war. Money, food, clothing and medical supplies have been forwarded as the exigencies have demanded. Owing to the peculiar difficulties pertaining to Serbian relief due to the occupation of nearly the whole of Serbia by the enemy, the Committee has co- operated with the British, French and Serbian Relief Committees and the American Red Cross contributing money or supplies, according as the difficulties of the situation could be best overcome, and relief most effec- tively and quickly provided. The guiding principle has been the relief of the most urgent distress by the most responsible and efficient agencies available. It has thus actively cooperated with the New York Serbian Relief Committees with which it is in close relations.

MADAME SLAVKO GROUITCH, Director OTTO T. BANNARD, Treasurer MARY T. CONKLIN, Secretary

The work of this Fund which has been to provide sup- plies to the Serbian Hospitals and to assist stricken and bereaved families, has been largely conducted by Mad- ame Grouitch, who, since her return to the United States has had the co-operation of men and women in Wash- ington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Haven, Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and other cities.

Comfort Kits for convalescing Serbian soldiers, equip- ment for a five hundred bed hospital, forwarding of mo- tor trucks, ambulances, tents, and rubber blankets, etc., have been part of the activities of the organization, many hundreds of cases of supplies in all having been

Most of the distribution has been made through Colonel Karanovitch, Chief of the Medical Service, of the Ser- bian Ministry of War. Small regular pensions are paid to needy Serbian students and to destitute Serbian

families of the educated classes in Greece, France and Switzerland, and relief sent to prisoners of war.

No deduction from contributions has been made for the expenses of the administration, these having been met by interest on deposits and private gifts. The con- tributions have been divided into three classifications, Serbian Hospitals, Serbian Prisoners of War, and for re- lief of Serbians, including maintenance, care and educa-

Executive Committee

BRECK TROWBRIDGE, Sc.D., M.A., Chairman T. TILESTON WELLS, Litt.D., Executive Chairman MURRAY H. COGGESHALL, Treasurer MISS F. HASTINGS, Secretary MESSRS. J. P. MORGAN & CO., Bankers

T.Tileston Wells, Litt.D. Willard D. Straight

Breck Trowbridge, Sc.D., Michael Idvorsky Pupin,

Murray H. Coggeshall Mrs. R. S. Pierrepont

Miss Annie B. Jennings Francis Markoe

Mrs. Richard T. Wainwright James Wheatland Smith

George A. Plimpton, LL.D. Gordon Knox Bell

Mrs. L. Hamilton McCormick Charles Moran

T. L. Van Norden Dr. Morton Prince

George S. Dearborn Richard T. Wainwright Miss Helen Losanitch

The Serbian Relief Committee of America was founded February 6, 1915, under the name of the "Serbian Agri- cultural Relief Committee." It sent to Serbia, seed and tools for the re-planting of farms devastated by the Aus- trian invasion. It next contributed money for the relief of the Typhus epidemic and then organized itself into a General Relief Committee, dropping the word "Agricul- tural." A special fund was raised for the Typhus or- phans and $11,000 was expended in transporting refugees from Serbia to Italy.

Through the efforts of Miss Kathleen Burke and Mrs. Charles H. Farnum, $30,000 was raised for the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Serbia. Co-operating with the American Red Cross, $59,000 worth of food was distrib- uted among the starving Serbians in Belgrade, after the German occupation and though for a time temporarily discontinued, has now been re-opened with the co-opera- tion of the Government of Switzerland. The Committee at present is also aiding Serbian prisoners in Austria and Germany to whom it transports food and Serbian refugees in Macedonia. The total fund of the Committee rtow amounts to more than $342,000. Total expenditures for relief are $238,975.48, which sum was chiefly raised by Miss Helen Losanitch.

MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN, JR., Chairman DAVID WILLARD, Secretary DEWEES W. DILWORTH, 5 Nassau Street, Treasurer

This Franco-Belgian charity for refugees and the homeless, and soldiers of the invaded districts on leave, was founded in August, 1914. It provides shelter in the

form of a Seminary at Saint Sulpice, with 650 rooms, of which 520 are occupied hy families of from 4 to 8 mem- ing. An average of 4,000 meals are served daily. Clothes are also given to the needy and work is provided for the refugees. The charity is subsidized by the Ministers of War and Finance and by the City of Paris.

The collections have been about $10,000, in addition to large collections of clothing and food.

New York Committee

Mrs. Frederick H. Allen Mrs. Robert Bacon Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting -Mrs. William Greenough Mrs. F. Gray Griswold Mrs. Walter Maynard Mrs. Ogden Mills Mrs. Francis K. Pendleton Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer Mrs. Edward M. Townsend Mrs. Harry P. Whitney Mrs. Whitney Warren,

Mr. Charles B. Alexander Mr. Frederick H. Allen Mr. Charles Dana Gibson Mr. Donald Harper Mr. McDougall Hawkes Hon. Myron T. Herrick Mr. Frederick A. Juilliard Gen. Horace Porter Mr. Lloyd Warren Mr. T. Tileston Wells

Contributions and other receipts totaling $315,163.09, mittee of the Secours National, which is the principal or- ganization in France for the relief of non-combatant tion to this, three hundred and nine cases of clothing and food stuffs, contributed, and valued at $30,900, were also sent to France.

The Secours National provides immediate relief for the inhabitants of places destroyed by the enemy and pro- vides funds for the reconstruction of their homes. It maintains workshops for the unemployed, supports shel- ters and restaurants for French and Belgian Refugees, makes provision for the care of orphaned or lost chil- dren and of the aged, and assists in the relief of civilians made prisoners by the Germans and later sent back to France through Switzerland, usually in a destitute and pitiful condition.

The Committee co-operates with the American Relief Clearing House of France and acts without charge as a Purchasing and Forwarding Agent for organizations and individuals wishing to contribute funds or supplies.

There is no deduction from contributions for operating expenses, which are met privately.

COUNTESS OF KINGSTON, President MISS MARY DOUGHERTY, Secretary

The purpose of the Shamrock Fund is to provide for the disabled Irish soldiers and sailors of all religions, who have been permanently disabled on the battle front and who, like the soldiers of France and Belgium, must be rehabilitated and, on recovery from their wounds, taught new trades and occupations, by which to earn a

A home has been donated In Stillorgan County, Dublin, to the Committee of the Soldiers and Sailors Help So- ciety Employment Bureau, 35 Dawson Street, Dublin, ac- commodating 150 men, with workshops and schools at-

As each man completes his training, he is sent »« that part of Ireland from which he comes, to ply his trade.

Funds are needed to equip the workshops and pro- vide for the maintenance of the Home. Five hundred dollars a year is required for the training and support of the occupants of each bed in the Home; while men who are so badly injured that they cannot benefit by the training can be cared for in their own homes for $2

Board of Directors

RACHEL CROTHERS, President ELIZABETH TYREE METCALF, Hon. Vice-President LOUISE CLOSSER HALE, First Vice-President DOROTHY DONNELLY, Second Vice-President MARY H. KIRKPATRICK, Secretary LOUISE DREW, Treasurer MRS. J. STUART BLACKTON, Chairman Moving Picture

Jessie Bonstelle Alice Kauser

May Buckley Margaret Mayo

Eleanor Gates Frances Starr

Mrs. Henry B. Harris Laurette Taylor

Advisory Board Margaret Anglin Minnie Maddern Fiske

Ethel Barrymore Grace George

Julia Marlowe

This organization has about eight hundred members. It conducts seven departments, a workroom for surgical dressings, knitting and sewing with branches at the Pro- fessional Women's League and the Three Arts Club, for making hospital garments and baby clothes, a book and magazine department, which collects books and mag- azines for shipments, a department of stock and travel- ing companies, which does knitting and sewing, collects old clothes, and raises money by benefits, a moving pic- ture division, contributing money, a jam depot at the Twelfth Night Club, which sends sweets to the French soldiers and a jam kitchen for the canning and preserv- ing of fruits for this purpose.

In connection with the activities of the Stage Women's War Relief, the children of the stage are learning to knit and sew for Belgian children and are also to make Petits Flambeaux for the soldiers in the trenches.*

MRS. MARY HATCH WILLARD, Chairman MRS. FRANK W. GARVIN, Vice-Chairman MRS. FREDERICK H. ALLEN, Second Vice-Chairman FREDERICK L. ELDRIDGE, Treasurer

Like the National Surgical Dressings Committee of America, of which Mrs. Willard is also Chairman, the formation of the Trench Comfort Packets for TJ. S. and the Allies, was the outcome of one of Mrs. Willard's visits to France, where she saw how greatly the men at the Military Depot en route for the trenches appreciated warm clothing, a little comfort and necessities, which every soldier needs.

The scope of the Committee's work originally was to supply Comfort Packets for the armies of the Entente Allies, but this has now been broadened to include pack- ets for the American troops which are to fight in France. Twenty-five thousand packets have thus far been shipped, containing that number of new warm garments and two hundred and twenty-five thousand other articles, such as soap, paper and pencil, candles, chocolate, towels, handkerchiefs, etc., etc., etc., and these have been sent to England, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia and Africa.

The Committee has approximately one hundred com- munities at work and is organizing in the different States, a Chairman for California and Connecticut hav- ing already been appointed.

HIS EXCELLENCY E. DE CARTIER, Belgian Minister to the U. S. A., Honorary President LADY LOWTHER, President JOHN MOFFAT, Chairman RICHARD SHIPPEN, Secretary JAMES A. BLAIR, JR., Honorary Treasurer

Mrs. William Astor Chanler Mrs. W. Payne Thompson

Mrs. W. Corcoran Eustis Mrs. Fiske Warren

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman Mrs. H. Fish Webster

General Leclercq Miss Maude K. Wetmore

Mrs. Pierre Mali Mrs. E. Wharton

Mrs. Walter E. Maynard Frederick H. Allen

Hon. Louis de Sadeleer Hon. J. Gustavus Whiteley Mrs.W. Douglas Sloane

Entirely upon the activities of this organization depend the lives of more than forty thousand Belgian prisoners of war, who are in danger of starving and freezing to death. They cannot receive either messages or food or clothing from their families or homes and these must be supplied through the Committee, the headquarters of which are at Havre, Villa Suzanne Avenue, desire Dehors, and a London Office at 4 London Wall Avenue. The Com- mittee upon request will supply any contributor with the name of a prisoner and on behalf of that person will send parcels regularly to the prisoner undertaking to see that he receives the parcel safely. The name of a prisoner for adoption will be furnished upon application. The cost of a single parcel is $1.25, but it is desired that a lump sum be contributed for as many parcels in ad- vance as may be possible, with instructions as to wheth- er the parcels are to be sent monthly or fortnightly. Each of the parcels contains tobacco, biscuits, butter, cheese, condensed milk, cafe au lait, oxo, jam, ointment or soap, and a piece of warm underclothing.

Mr. John Moffat represents the Committee in this country. Additional funds are sorely needed to provide the direct necessities for the thousands of Belgian pris- oners, whose condition is so deplorable.

Up to June, 1917, receipts for the Belgian Prisoners amounted to two and a half million francs. But we now have to send six hundred and fifty thousand francs

worth of food and clothes every month.

MISS ANNE MORGAN, Chairman MISS EMILY CHAUNCEY, Executive Secretary MISS MARY PARSONS, Vice-Chairman MRS. KENNETH FRAZIER, Secretary

This Committee has no branches. It has shipped on an average of $30,000 worth of hospital supplies and clothing per month, to France. These are made in the Committee's own workroom, together with socks and ma- chine-knitted garments, which has kept a large number of persons employed. Considerable supplies of food- stuffs have also been shipped through the Committee.

The Committee also acts as a Shipping Depot for smaller societies which send contributions for the War Sufferers in France.

MRS. J. FRANCIS A. CLARKE, Honorary President GEORGE GORDON BATTLE, Honorary Vice-President MRS. JULES S. BACHE, Honorary Treasurer

The purpose of the War Babies Cradle is to care for the mothers and children in distress in Northern France and Belgium who lack food, clothing, fuel, and medical attention. The help afforded is done through an agency at Calais, under the superintendence of Comptesse Marie du Hemptinne, a Belgian Lady who visits the families in the stricken districts and so far as possible supplies their needs. Necessities only are purchased with the contributions. The Cradle cares for the mothers for ten days and then exerts its efforts largely for the assistance of the new born children, whose plight under the terrify- ing and dreadful conditions of their birth is most deplor- able. The Committee works in conjunction with the French, Belgian, and British Military Charities.

Mrs. Jules S. Bache, through her individual efforts, has raised more than $10,000 for the children; and a new Committee for the War Babies Cradle has recently been formed, consisting of Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. Edmund C. Baylies, Mrs. Herman Oelrich, Mrs. Orme Wilson, Mrs. Charles Ditson, Lady Colebrook, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs. Lawrence Gillespie, in addition to the gentlemen men- tioned as being upon the Executive Committee.

Executive Committee

J. Horace Harding,

George Gordon Battle Karl Davis Robinson Mortimer L. Schiff Valentine P. Snyder

Hon. Peter T. Barlow Jules S. Bache

For France and Her Allies

Executive Offices: 40 WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY Warehouses: 133 Charlton Street, New York City

Honorary Vice-Presidents Hon. Robert Bacon, Former Ambassador to France, Former Secretary of State Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Former Ambassador to France Mr. William F. McCombs

Mr. A. Barton Hepburn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chase National Bank

Vice-Presidents

Mr. S. R. Bertron, of Bertron, Griscom & Co., Bankers Mr. Fred. I Kent, Vice-President, Bankers Trust Co.

Mr. Lloyd Warren, Architect

Mr. W. Forbes Morgan, of Morgan, Livermore & Co.,

Mr. R. L. Bacon, of Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co., Bankers

Executive Committee Mr. Horace E. Andrews, President, New York State Rail- ways Co.

Mr. Charles R. Bangs, of American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

Mr. Edmund L. Baylies, of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn Mr. C. A. Coffin, Chairman, Board of Directors of the

General Electric Co. Mr. William Greenough, of Patterson, Eagle, Greenough Mr. Ralph J. Preston Mr. Francis Louis Slade Mr. Henry W. Taft, of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Mr. Whitney Warren

Secretary of Executive Committee Mr. Walbridge S. Taft, of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Chairman of Finance Committee

Mr. Horace E. Andrews, President, New York State Rail- ways Co.

Chairman of Committee on Foreign Relations

Chairman of Transportation Committee

Mr. B. D. Caldwell, President, Wells Fargo & Co. Express

Chairman of Purchasing Committee

Mr. Frederick A. Juilliard, of A. D. Juilliard & Co.

Chairman of Auditing Committee Mr. James Marwick, of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & Co.

Executive Secretary Mr. Clyde A. Pratt

Assistant Secretary Mr. Yale W. Burtch

The War Relief Clearing House for France and Her Allies is one of the largest of the American organizations formed to distribute relief for the destitute in the Allied countries. It was organized early in 1915, and on May 1st of that year established its warehouse for the re- ceiving and forwarding of shipments of relief supplies.

000 cases of hospital supplies, clothing, food products,

The, Clearing House co-operates with and acts for more than 5,000 individual relief organizations, societies, churches, clubs and groups of individuals, situated in the United States, Canada, Hawaiian Islands, Cuba, Bermuda, etc. It is affiliated with the corresponding organization in Paris, The American Relief Clearing House, which is officially recognized by the French Government as one of the chief organizations for the distribution of Amer- ican relief in France, and is also affiliated with a corre- sponding organization in Rome, Italy, The American Relief Clearing House of Rome, which is officially recog- nized by the Italian Government. The Clearing House also works closely with the National Allied Relief Com- mittee of New York.

1. It gives its services and information free to all con-

2. It co-operates with the American Relief Clearing House of France and its Committees, representing the various Allied Countries. Such Committees operate un- der the patronage of the Heads of the respective Govern-

3. It is kept reliably informed as to what form of re- lief is most needed and where, and disseminates such in- formation to affiliated organizations in America.

4. It acts as a purchasing and forwarding agent for organizations and individuals wishing to contribute funds or supplies, thereby giving contributors the benefit of its exceptional prices.

5. It obtains free shipment, with few exceptions, for contributions from New York to the designated destina- tion in Europe.

6. It enters contributions of supplies into ports of the Allied countries, free of Customs duties.

7. It is given free transportation for supplies over the French and Italian railways.

8. It delivers supplies where they are most needed by the quickest and surest route.

9. It does away with the former confusion, delay and

10. It makes no charge for its services, and all con- tributions for relief are delivered intact, without deduc- tion for operating expenses.

11. It solicits inquiries regarding relief work.

All communications relating to the work of the War Relief Clearing House should be addressed to Clyde A. Pratt, Executive Secretary, 40 Wall Street, New York