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Greater New York opens its drive. News Bulletin, Mar 1919.
Location
New York, United States
Year
1919
Item Detail
Greater New York opened its drive on 3 March with $1,112,786 already pledged, launched by a dinner at the Hotel Commodore before a thousand clergymen and carried door to door by twenty thousand canvassers, Mrs. Oliver Harriman directing the work in Manhattan. The national total had by then passed $18,000,000. Mrs. Hoskins wrote from Beirut, after forty years in Syria, of famine and cannibalism at Damour, where 4,000 of the 5,000 inhabitants had died. Barton cabled from Constantinople on 12 March that thousands of Armenian women and children held by Turks were being set adrift, with 120 American workers on the ground.
Context
The News Bulletin was the monthly publication of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, formed in New York in 1915 and renamed the American Committee for Relief in the Near East during 1918. It was published at One Madison Avenue.
The Bulletin kept contributors and campaign workers informed. Issues carry cablegrams relayed through the Department of State from relief stations across the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus and Persia, with campaign news, donor rolls, field photographs and accounts by survivors of the Armenian and Greek genocides.
The four 1919 issues cover the thirty-million-dollar campaign, the sailing of the Barton Relief Commission on the Mauretania and of the relief ships Mercurius, West Cape and Pensacola, and the turn from emergency feeding to the industrial orphan homes opened at Marash, Aintab, Adana, Tarsus, Mersina, Hadjin and Aleppo as Christian women and children were released from captivity.
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Holding Institution
Columbia University Library
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Columbia University Libraries, digitized for HathiTrust
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Notes
Masthead: ACASR wording; 'No. 10—Total Number 22.' Interior staff box misprints the date as 'February, 1919' against the masthead's MARCH.
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Document Contents
Cover photograph of the Arizona campaign poster. Lead editorial 'The League of States' quoting Wilson's Boston speech of 24 February. 'What Have You Done Today?' reports over $18,000,000 raised. 'A Good "Send-Off"' on Greater New York's drive opening 3 March with $1,112,786 pledged in advance, launched by a dinner at the Hotel Commodore hosted by Henry Morgenthau, Cleveland Dodge, Alexander J. Hemphill and James M. Speers before a thousand clergymen, and carried by a twenty-thousand-worker house-to-house canvass under Mrs. Oliver Harriman in Manhattan with Mrs. S. D. Whipkey, Mrs. E. O. Gorman Stanton in the Bronx, Mrs. William G. Willcox in Richmond and John B. Creighton in Brooklyn and Queens, with Bracker's cartoon 'They shall not perish' heading the daily press bulletin; the advance gifts are itemised. 'Message From the Secretary of War' prints Newton D. Baker's letter of 20 February. '"He Led Them Safely On"' on the Leviathan party met at Brest by hospital train, taken to Marseilles and shipped for Constantinople on 26 February under George E. White. 'Fifty Thousand Dollars Raised at Hippodrome' on the meeting of 10 March addressed by Taft, James Gerard, Abram Elkus and Henry Morgenthau. 'From The American Red Cross' prints Cornelius N. Bliss Jr.'s letter and itemizes the Red Cross contribution to the relief cargoes. 'To the Rescue in Syria' on a sixth contingent sailing 24 February on the Trafford Hall for Port Said and Beirut, five of them sent by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and five by this Committee, among them the eye specialist Merton E. Brownell. 'The Pensacola Arrives' with forty relief workers, six of them missionaries: C. D. Ussher, survivor of the siege of Van, Ernest Partridge, E. E. Count, T. H. Kingsbury, T. W. Beach and T. T. Holway. 'Beyond the Limit of Endurance,' from Mrs. Hoskins, forty years resident in Syria, writing from Beirut on famine and cannibalism at Damour, where 4,000 of 5,000 inhabitants died, and at Beisour, Sidon and Tripoli. 'Supplies Needed for Hospitals in Turkey' lists garments and hospital linen wanted for fifteen centers. State Department cablegrams: Arroll from Tiflis on British expectations that the Committee handle all Caucasus relief; Barton from Constantinople on 12 March that thousands of Armenian women and children forcibly held by Turks are being set adrift, with 120 American workers on the ground; Vanneman from Tabriz; Barton on Moore's expedition to Konia, Caesarea, Sivas, Malatia and Harpoot with Riggs and Irwin, on Washburn going overland to Beirut to consult Finley, and on Main arranging the Caucasus expedition. 'Extracts from Letters' from Stephen R. Trowbridge at Port Said on 586 Armenian widows and orphans sent from Bagdad, and from Bertha Morley, newly in charge of the Antura orphanage at Beirut and its 650 children.