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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
4
The Harpalyce, dubbed the Christmas Ship, will carry clothing food and toys from New England to needy Belgians. The 10 day campaign is near completion and a second mercy ship will be chartered to depart as soon as possible with a similar cargo for war affected civilians.
Redington Fiske led a decision to dispatch another 8400 ton cargo, HarpalYce, loaded with clothing and food to aid 1.6 million Belgian refugees as winter hits. Local committees report large donations including fish from Boothbay Harbor and bacon potatoes and flour from Springfield, with Lebon family supplying 44 cases of clothing for 1000 people. The loading of Harpalyce starts tomorrow under A C Lombard, with about 25 tons of clothing and 80 packing cases received at 426 Boylston Street.
Readable fragments indicate donations including sweaters a large case of blankets 50 suits of boys clothes from Milton Academy students and 15 barrels of mixed clothing from the Foxcroft Society of Dover Me.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal writer discusses spelling variants cata cornered or cater cornered and warns against crossing the Street in this quirk of local usage. The remark highlights how language quirks appear in everyday street references.
The steamer Dwinsk carrying five million cigarettes to Petrograd for the Russian Red Cross also carries hospital supplies including 2000 pounds of chloroform 2000 doses of tetanus antitoxin 4000 pounds of absorbent cotton and more. The American Red Cross has expanded its European relief with shipments to Belgium France Germany and Hungary joining hospital units in multiple cities. In Boston a Christmas cotton party features 300 debutantes wearing cotton gowns as decorations.
The affair showcased Mrs Slater's reputation with an original hosting style as guests wore cotton gowns and the ballroom used cotton pod branches, old French tapestries, and carved furnishings. The decor mimicked an early winter woods palette with brown branches and sporadic snow hints, while red confection apples added color. The all night dance included midnight supper and dawn breakfast with an orchestra.
Over from New York for the occasion, furnished music for the numbers. The ushers were Prescott Walcott Sumner B. Welles Henry Everett Jr Count de Fontenillat Lawrence Haughton Walter Trumbull Walter Paine Lawrence Curtis George Lewis Hayward Cutting Alexander Biddle T Jefferson Coolidge 3d T Balch H Amory C Bradlee M Rogers and Dunbar Lockwood.
President Wilson will spend Christmas with his daughters in the White House marking his first Christmas there. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre expected for a long White House visit from Williamstown. About 125 turkeys planned for White House employees as a traditional distribution.
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