The New York Times/1918/11/11/Open Hut in Seward Park
OPEN HUT IN SEWARD PARK.
Jacob Schiff, at Exercises, Makes Plea for War Work Fund.
Several thousand persons went to Seward Park yesterday morning to attend the opening of the attractive new canteen hut for soldiers and sailors by the Jewish Welfare Board. There was speech-making and music. Former Ambassador Abram I. Elkus presided at the exercises and Jacob H. Schiff was the principal speaker.
"Now that the war is ending happily for everybody," said Mr. Schiff, "the Jewish Welfare Board, the Y.M.C.A., the K. of C. and other war work organizations will for many months need our support more than ever, our soldiers and sailors will demand more attention when the grim business of battle is over and the guns have ceased. When the boys come back we want them to feel that we did what we could for them."