Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-04 | Page 8 | Clothing is Sent to the Belgians

CLOTHING IS SENT TO THE BELGIANS Salt Lake, Dec. 4 After several days' delay, nine packing cases of clothing and hospital supplies for the Belgians were forwarded to New York yesterday by the Salt Lake chapter chap-ter of the Red Cross society Three of the eases contained old clothing and the other six were filled with new clothing and hospital bandages. The remittance of a check for 526.25 from Corinne. disclosed still another method of raising funds for the relief of the war sufferers. Accompanying Ac-companying the check was a letter explaining that the money had been obtained through the sale of delicatessen delicat-essen lunches by the women of Co-rlune. Co-rlune. Another "self-denial" donation that loomed up large to the little 8 -year-old tot that handed lt In aud made quite an impression on the Red Cross workers amounted to SO cents The little girl explained tnat she had saved the nionev that she had beet spending to attend the "movies'' and said that she expected to save at least that much more in the same manner to go toward the relief" of tbe Belgians. Active steps are being taken to ob tain contributions of nonperishable food for the destitute in Kurope Soni donations of flour and Canned qoods have been received and it la hoped that a shipment can be made in th--near future The problem of getting the- supplies to New York vvas sojved j yesterday when the New York Cen- tral lines, through their agent here, I W L Greiner. notified the commit- j tee that they would handle the ship-mentis ship-mentis free. Similar action has been taken by the I nion Pacific and the Chicago & lton, which furnishes a through line to the coast.