Show JEW JEV IMMIGRANTS WORRY VORRY ABOUT RElA RELATIVES TIVES Hebrew f Sheltering Society Is Appealed to for Assistance EUROPEANS SUFFER Disorganized Conditions Make it Impossible to Get News Here The Tho awful suffering of oC their rela- rela Ives in in Europe Is felt keenly by the tho Immigrant Jews on this side Bide of the ocean Every vel Item of news which reaches caches America showing the many great hardships which their European Euro- Euro ean brethren are arc forced to endure brings forth renewed activity on the part of the tho Jews in this country who are ire ready to do everything within human power to assist their dear ones The war has caused In numberless I Instances separation of oC parents from children wives from husbands and sisters from irom brothers and has filled the he h hearts of ot hundreds of thousands o of foreign born Jews throughout this country with terror for among the two wo million Jews now living in the United States are found pers persons ns coming cornIng com com- ing ng from Crom every town and hamlet in Russia Austria Galicia and Poland In n which Jews dwell and these are extremely anxious to know the fate tate ot of those members of their families whom the they left behind The disorganized disorganized condition of ot the mails malls and the he fact tact that man many letters are destroyed de- de by censors in the various European European Eu- Eu countries have caused an interruption interruption in- in of communication between those hose living in Europe and their rein rein- Ives tives here Rendering Aid The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Immigrant grant rant Aid Society of America ing ng the tho necessity of systematic work to Oto o re-establish re communication between between be- be tween those who live in the United States and those who are dependent on n th them m for fol aid in Europe recently organized a bureau especially equipped for this this' purpose Judge Leon on Sanders tho the president t of the with arrangements society made similar national organizations In Russia Austria Germany German England on behalf behalf be- be be behalf locate persons and France Franc an e to half of ot whom Inquiries are received in n the office in New York and the theatter locate latter atter in turn exerts itself to those hose whose relatives In Europe re report report report re- re port to the organizations there that they bey have not heard from them About eight hundred persons hav since ince the opening of ot the bureau been placed into direct communication with their loved ones and their letters letters leters let- let ers and money have havo been forwarded to 10 o them The following typical cases are cited cited cit cited cit cit- ed to show the tho extent and scope of the he bureau burrou A resident of Denver asks Judge Sanders to locate his six married sisera sisters sisters sis- sis era and their families In Rigs Riga as all ill his law in have doubtless doubtless doubt- doubt less ess gone to the front A man whose son lost his reason while ho he s served In tho the army durIng during dur- dur Ing ng the Russo-Japanese Russo war and who has as for ten years ears been In an insane asylum at Novo near Wilna Russia writes a heart rending leter letter letter let- let ter er from Portsmouth Va In which ho he 10 asks the tho society to find out whether er the son Is still alive allyc Son Is Missing Help us find our only son writes a lonely mother from Philadelphia We Ve have shed all our tears in vain and have done all we could to obtain news from him who remained behind to serve In the armies of ot the czar Ve We are four children write a group from Boston Doston who supported our aged parents in Austria by regular regular regular reg reg- ular monthly remittances but since the he war broke out we do not hear from Tom them From Galveston Texas comes the following Please Io help me find tho the address of ot my wife and baby because lt it t is over a 11 year since I received word from them them How low happy I would would would-be be If f you could trace my dear ones You would be giving them and me a 11 new lc lease se of ot life A man living In Chicago asks the society to find his mother and younger young young- er Cr sister He writes Since the war was declared 1 I had but one ono letter from them and i in that I was vas informed that my brother was taken into the army of at tho the czar Scores of similar letters are re received received re- re daily by the society from every part of ot the United States and Cana Cana- da Hundreds of persons come como in person to the office at East gast Broadway to ask for word from those in whom they are aro Int Interested ested and every effort Is made to obtain the Information for lor which they seek seck |