Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . hebenefit of the British, French and Bel-gian permanent blind relief wa. fund. :\Ir. Kessler is a member of the fundsexecutive committee. Mrs. Kessler andiMrs. AVebster are honorary se rctariesiand Miss Turner is assistant honorarysecretary. The entertainment will take 19 at Convention hall. It willbe the most elaborate charitable affairat Saratoga this summer and will con-sist of an extensive concert and vaude-ville performance followed by movingpictures and an address by a soldierblinded tn battle. The B. F. B
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . hebenefit of the British, French and Bel-gian permanent blind relief wa. fund. :\Ir. Kessler is a member of the fundsexecutive committee. Mrs. Kessler andiMrs. AVebster are honorary se rctariesiand Miss Turner is assistant honorarysecretary. The entertainment will take 19 at Convention hall. It willbe the most elaborate charitable affairat Saratoga this summer and will con-sist of an extensive concert and vaude-ville performance followed by movingpictures and an address by a soldierblinded tn battle. The B. F. B. permanent blind reliefwar fund, the headquarters of whichIs at 590 Fifth avenue. New York, islthe most widely organized of the vari-jous allied war relief funds in the FnitedjStates. Its American organizers in-clude Vincent Asfor, August Belmont,Robert Bacon. l>yman .J. Gage, SenatorThomas P. Gore. Jlyron T, Herrick,!Otto H. Kahn, George .-\, , , Whitney Warren and Joseph \\ii;-aner. )NORARY SECRETARIES OF RELIEFFUND FOR ALLIES BUND SOLDIERS. 1 Its honorary vii e presidents incluiehundreds of notables. Its honorarytreasurers are Frank A. Vanderllp, pres-ident of the National City bank; SirEdward Holden, chairman of the Lon-don City and Midjand bank, and , governor general of theBank of France. I Its nation-wide collections will bodistributed under the patronage of theKing and Queen of England, the Kingand Queen of Belgium and the Presi- dent of Erance to support, train :ntrades not requirin-r sight and find em-ployment for the blinded soldiers ofthe Allies, who already niimber manythousands, according to reliable state-ments. As a token of appreciation of theaid which the funds .-erican sectionis giving to blinded, promi-nent government officials of France re-cently accepted places upon the com-mittee. This French committee Eugene Unoux, of the FrenchBoveninients committee for the blind;former Prr-mier Louis B
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