The World's Benefit for Red Cross Society

Clara Barton Cables from Key West Her Cordial Official Indorsement.

THE MUSICAL PROGRAMME.

One of the Novelties Will Be an Ambulance Corps in Field Operations.

DEWEY'S SON TO BE IN A BOX.

Interest in the Entertainment Is Growing So Rapidly that Its Success Is Assured.

Interest in the Red Cross benefit tomorrow night at the Grand Central Palace, under the auspices of The World, grows deeper and wider each day. It is bound to be a very great occasion.

The story of the dead and wounded brought into Key West yesterday, after the affair at Cardenas, brings home the work of the angels of mercy of the battlefield. When one reads of the faces whose death pallor is blackened by gunpowder and those unfortunates whose dreadful wounds speak of the horrors of war, it would seem that the heart of the nation would throb with sympathy and money would flow to the splendid society whose members devote themselves to the victims of battle.

Clara Barton is in Key West now directing the work of the devoted women under her. Yesterday she sent this cable message:

"KEY WEST, Fla., May 12, via Jacksonville, Fla.. May 12.-Mary. F. Wadley, Manager International Health Exposition, Grand Central Palace. New York, N. Y. — Your offer to arrange a Red Cross night at the exposition and remit the proceeds to me, to be devoted to Red Cross work, has been received and gratefully accepted with thanks to the Exposition and the New York World. If there is anything further for me to do wire instructions. "CLARA BARTON,

"President American National Red Cross Society."

Coupled with this should be the words of Stephen Barton, her nephew, who is her personal representative in New York, and thanks all who are arranging the benefit and The World in particular.

You have read that Chauncey M. Depew will preside and deliver an oration, that Nikola Tesla and Thomas A. Edison will present papers, and that distinguished prelates, clergymen and physicians will give talks. Miss Wooley will also give an address. You have read that there will be a chorus of 200 to sing patriotic song, but you did not know that it will be supplemented by 200 trained nurses in uniform, who will march about the hall if there is room. It is to be hoped there will not be. The musical programme was compiled by Bent Brothers yesterday. You will notice that there are three numbers composed especially for the occasion — a march, dedicated to The World; a descriptive fantasia, "Victory of Dewey at Manila," and a "Review of the Troops at Camp Black." Here is the programme:

1. The World March, Composed for and dedicated to the N. Y. World Bent
2. Overture, Morning Noon and Night Suppe
3. Selection, Tone Pictures of the North and South Bendix Introducing the following melodies: "Keller's American Hymn," "Maryland. My Maryland." "Old Zip Coon" "Tenting Tonight," "Dixey," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." "Highland Hornpipe," "Massa's In the Cold, Cold Ground," "The Gem of the Ocean."
4. Romance and Shadow Dance from Dinorah Meyerbaer
5. Cornet, Werners's Parting Song Nessler

(From the Trumpeter of Saekkingen) Thos. C. Bent.
INTERMISSION.

6. Grand Descriptive Fantasia, Victory of Dewey at Manila Bent
7. Characteristic Lance, Frolic of the Coons Gourney
8. Potpourri, Here, There and Everywhere, Meeshom
9. Review of the Troops at Camp Black Bent
10. The March Hit of '98, Love Is King F. N. Innes

Arthur Classen, leader of the Brooklyn Arions, which is composed of 200 voices, and which took the first prize last June at the National Saengerfest ite Philadelphia, will direct that chorus in patriotic and national songs.

Director Wingate, of the Health Exposition, who is co-operating with The World in arranging the benefit, yesterday received letters from John De Witt Warner, John P. Peters, the great Oriental traveller, and the Rev. Dr. Frank Mason North, head of the city Methodist missions, accepting invitations to be present and take part. Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, the rector of St. Bartholomew's, writes: "I beg to express my hearty appreciation and approval of the object of the meeting and, if my engagements permit, will be present."

The exhibition of the Red Cross Ambulance Corps will be a remarkably interesting one. Men will fall as if wounded on the battlefield. Members of the corps will reach him quickly and administer first relief for the injured with liquids, bandages and splints. Then the wounded will be borne from the field on litters and in some cases on the back of a single member of the corps. All commands will be made by bugle calls.

George Dewey, Jr., with a party of friends will occupy a box. Next to seeing the hero of Manila himself is to look upon his son who is worthy of his great father. Campos Salles, President-elect of the republic of Brazil, will also be there with a party of Brazilians. It was not so long ago that they had a war in their country, and they appreciate the work of field nurses.

The Count of Turin, that scion of Italian royalty who won international fame for himself by defeating Prince Henri of Orleans in a duel, has been invited.

There will be a box occupied by Chinamen in their national garb, so it will be seen that it will be a very cosmopolitan gathering. This 's in keeping with the Red Cross work, that knows neither creed nor nationality.

You want to subscribe for boxes at once. Every penny from the boxes goes to the Red Cross Society. Mrs. George F. Shrady took two boxes yesterday. You can write or telegraph or telephone to the Red Cross editor of The World at any time. It is wiser to do so early. You cannot invest money in a better cause and the entertainment itself is worth all it can cost you to take part in it.