Bazaar for Allies is Opened Today

More Than 500,000 Tickets Already Sold for Grand Central Palace Event. With the ambitious Intention of raising $1,000,000 in twelve days, the Allied Bazaar opens to-day in Grand Central Palace, and on the eve of its opening gives every promise of reaching, perhaps exceeding the mark set.

Advance sale of tickets yesterday reached the 500,000 mark — the greatest advance sale for any event ever held in New York, it is asserted Goods valued at $600,000 have been donated and several new attractions have been announced. Among them is the Booth of the Nine Allies, heralded as the bazaar's crowning feature.

The lighting of it is to be pretentious. Nikola Tesla, the inventor, has this matter in charge. Edna May, Marie Tempest, Elsie Janis and Jane Cowl will be the Reception Committee the first evening. Lady Colebrook, in the garb in which she worked in a munitions plant in England, will turrf out shells at a lathe similar to those used abroad.

Margaret Mayo's booth will have an interesting exhibit in the pass issued by the Germans to Irvin Cobb in Brussels three days after the fall of Louvain. The booth has been painted to represent a ruined cathedral "somewhere in France."

Warslav Nijinsky, the Russian dancer, has been added to the list of artists who will appear at the bazaar. He will appear on Russian day, Friday next. The opening entertainment will be on Italian day, to-morrow, with Percy Grainger as the star. Mrs. Langtry has been added to the list for Monday, British day. Pasquale Amato will sing on Belgium day.

An interesting exhibit will be that of the "B. F. B.," Permanent Blind Relief War Fund. This will consist of basketry made by soldiers of Great Britain, France and Belgium who were blinded in battle.

Another will be that of the Vacation War Relief Committee and American Fund for French Wounded. This will be in the form of an eighteenth century French garden.

The American Hospital in Paris will be represented by a reproduction of a French street designed by Thomas Harding.

More than 120,000 tickets were sold yesterday, the second day of the campaign. The biggest sale was recorded by A. H. Johnson, 60,000, marketed in the Bankers' Trust building. No. 14 Wall street. C. A. Coffln, chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Electric Company, bought 75,000 tickets. J. P. Morgan, Frank A. Vanderlip and Goodman & Sacks bought blocks of 5,000 each.

The following cablegram was received yesterday from Queen Alexandra of England:

"London, June 2, 1916.
"Allied Bazaar, Grand Central Palace:
"Queen Alexandra hears with sympathetic interest of bazaar organized by Allied Relief Committee of New York in aid of hospitals of allies, and Her Majesty wishes movement every success."

The calendar for the period of the bazaar is as follows: Saturday, June 3, Opening Day, New York Day; Sunday, June 4, Italian Day; Monday, June 5. British Empire and Canadian Day: Tuesday, June 6, French Derg Wednesday, June 7, Serbian and Montenegro Day: Thursday, June Japanese Day: Friday, June 9, Russian Day: Saturday, June 10, afternoon. Children's Day; evening, Belgian Day: Sunday, June 11 and Monday, June 12, Preparedness Dayss Tuesday, June 13, Women's Day Wednesday, June 14, Closing Day.