Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-12 | Page 11 | Old Mail Coach is Garing Money for Refugees

OlD MAil COACH IS GATHER NG MONEY MOMEY FUR FOR REFUGEES TIlE THE HAGUE Netherlands Nov 12 The tally ho of a coach horn blown by au an 01 American calls out the people Of or the villages in the vicinity of The Hague two or three times a wee week just lust now as a well equipped in hand swings swIng's along the roads the team tram also tooled by an Ameri Ameri- can It is the war war ar which is iR responsible in ble for this unaccustomed sight Holland The entire proceeds of the coaching trips are handed over r to various various- societies for the relief of r refugees from Belgium fum and other non comma non tents of ot all nationalities rendered n necessitous by the thc l hostilities ties in progress In the nei neighboring countries The coach itself is ap appropriately appropriately ap- ap ly nam named d Relief The Idea was worked out by Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall Langhorn secretary of the American n legation and some col col- col- col leagues gues lIe He one day to found nd a mall mail coach relapsing into decadence in a livery stable The sight of it took his mind back to the old coaching days In Virginia ia and as he soon afterwards afterwards aft at t met Aurel tire the American whip who has just come through from reli relief f work in Belgium the idea of ot coaching in aid of relief work worl and at the same time combining ing with it an element of sport was born instantly A in hand team te was was got to together together to- to gether gethel after much search and was wasso so soon n worked Into shape and the trips began first began first to s summer resorts In th the near vicinity and then extending to Leyden and Haarlem Iem and other far far- off Relay Belay teams were sought And fo found nd available at convenient stages arid now the coach runs rutis regularly regularly regularly regu regu- with either Mr Langhorn Langhorne or Mr holding the reins al all the receipts from passengers going to the relief of noncombatants while the parents of the Idea themselves defray the expenses and In return get riot not only their sport but the knowledge of doin doing a good turn tarn to deserving people