üY. HERALD TRIBUNE
Dike Train
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Terminal with Mr. Hotchkiss, Mr.
Michalis and a host of other vol
unteers aboard, including the
train's engineer, Charles Ocain,
of 312 Main St., White Plains,
N. Y., and other trainmen.
The train was to go first to
Chatham, N. Y., making nineteen
stops along the Harlem River
Valley, and then from Chatham
back to New York via the Hudson
Valley, making another eight
stops on its way back to Gand
Central Terminal at 6:40 p. m.
Met by Local Agents
At each of its .stops the Dike
Train was met by local represent
atives of civic organizations who
during the past week have con
ducted collections for Holland
Flood Relief in their communities.
The donations were accepted by
Mr. Michalis and Albert Balink,
executive - secretary of Holland
I Flood Relief, who were introduced
over a loudspeaker system by Mr.
Hotchkiss.
After a few words of gratitude
by Mr. Michalis, who was assisted
by four girls in Dutch costumes
collecting individual contributions
from those gathered at the plat
form, the train moved on to the
next stop. After the first ten
stops, $5,047 and some clothing
had been collected.
Between stops, a volunteer crew
aboard counted the money and
handed it over to- an official of
the Railway Express Agency who
deposited it in one of five port
able safes. By then, the arain
had again entered another sta
tion, greeting the waiting donors
over the train's loudspeaker with
the first lines of the Dutch nation
al anthem:
"Wilhelmus van Nassauen ben ik
van Wuitsen bloet,
Den Vaderland getrouwe ben ik
tot in den' dood"
A Reward for Originator of Holland Relief Train
Ted Kell
Fred Hotchkiss, the New York Central conductor who thought
up the Plug-the-Dike train idea to help the Holland Flood
Relief drive, getting a kiss from Augusta Wilberding, three
and a half, at the Mt. Kisco Station yesterday. Augusta is a
descendant of the Van Cortlandt family, which came to
America from Holland in 1639 and for whom Van Cortlandt
Park in the Bronx is named
