New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-06
ROSES TO BLOOM
FOR MARJORIE
Battleship Girl Tea Guest
To-day at Hospitals
Flower Show Garden.
WILL RECEIVE BOX
WITH 200 DIMES
Founder Of Fund Invited by
Committee of American Am
bulance in United States.

bulanCe in United STATES.
General JofTrc.' ono Of the season
newest roses, will awaken carly to-df'
10 be in full bloom at the Flower SHOW
BIZ this afternoon. when Marjorie Ster
rett. the battleship girl, Will be the
guest at tea Of the American Amou'
lance Hospital Of Paris. The institu'
ton that is accomplishing such notable
results IN France has taken this oppor-
tunity to recognize the little school
girl whose ideal of raising a warshlp
by dimes has already developed into
nationwide campaign.
As soon as the plans were completed
by the American Committee, headed D.
Mrs. Robert Bacon, for the American
Ambulance 20 share to-days receipts
OF the tea garden Of the Flower snow
with the American Red Cross. Marjorie
was invited TO be present. The tnir-
;een-year-old girl accepted, and Will
reach Grand Central Palace at O'Clock
this afternoon.
Mrs. c. b. Alexander will make the
presentation speech TO the patriotic
child and hand her strongbox deco
rated with the national colors and con
tanning two hundred shining dimes as
nest egg from the committee Then
tea will be served by the junior COM
mittee. whose members include Miss
Elsie Nicoll, chairman; Miss Harriet
Alexander. Mrs. Robert L. Bacon, Mrs.
Joseph II. Choate, jr., Miss Civilise
Alexandra, Mrs. Lewis g. Morris, Miss
Edith Morton. Miss Pamilla Morgan.
Mrs. Joseph Earl Stevens. Mrs. Sydney
Fish, Miss Belle Gurnee, Miss Carol A.
Hartman, Miss Edith Mortimer, Mrs.
Theodore B. Robinson, Miss Beatrice
Pratt, Mrs. George Whitney, Miss Ga
brielle Warren, Miss Cornelia Landon,
Miss Maude Kahn and Mrs. Snowden
A. Fahnestock.
Nine. Cerutti 10 Dance.
Nine. Terese Cerutti Will entertain
during the afternoon with four inter-
pretive dances, and there will be gen
eral dancing between 3 and $50. Nine.
Cerutti. premiere danseuse Of the Opera
Comique, Paris, is the only person who
ever danced in the Musee de Louvre,
Paris, where she performed in the
Egyptian Room under tho direction OF
the Archaeological Society Of France.
She has danced also in the Boston
Opera House and Museum Of Fine Arts,
In the evening Marie Dressler will
sing, and roller skating will be another
attraction. The members OF the junior
committee will celebrate the patriotic
occasion By wearing gowns of red, white
and blue, specially designed by F. L. V.
Hoppin. the architect. Among the
striking flowers on exhibition at the
Palace are Preparedness a new car
nation, and Cattelya named Queen
Of the Belglans."
The ambulances Of the American Am
bulance Hospital al Paris have trans
ported about 10000 wounded. The
monthly average is about 10000. Sec
tions Of from ten to twenty-tour cars
are stationed at various places az inc
front. and in Paris, and at JULY. There
are about 100 cars in the total service,
of which about 10 are ambulances, the
others being staff cars, supply cars and
trucks Most OF these cars have besn
given BY Americans. II costs about
Sc .OOC a month TO maintain this service.
A IL .r-Nrr "a. 90 . N
four or five exceptions. arc Americans.
Most of them arc college men. They
have been mentioned individually. and
by sections. in the Official dispatches,
for their courage, devotion and chi
cheney. and nineteen OF them have re-
ceived the croix dc guerrc. for carry
ing wounded under heavy shell fire.
Americans Save Many Lives.
At the time Of the prolonged battles
in the vicinity Of Ypres 'sst May, Gen
crsl Putt wrote that the American sec
ton had. by working five days and
nights without interruption. assured the
evacuation Of the hospitals IN Elver-
dinche. though under continual shell
fire, which covered all OF the roads in
the neighborhood, and even the hos
pitfalls themselves. BY tins means 1000
wounded men were taken out OF danger
and removed 20 other hospitals. the
Americans saving even the equipment.
al cannot praise too highly General
Putt wrote 20 the inspector. "the
courage and devotion Of which the men
in your section have given evidence,
and ask you 20 transmit 10 them my
congratulations and my thanks for the
great physical effort which they have
20 generously made. and the signal ser
vices which they have rendered
The members OF the American Com
mittee Of the Ambulance, who are en-
PERTAINING Marjorie this afternoon. in
clude Mrs. Robert Bacon, chairman;
Mrs. William Grccnough. secretary;
Mrs. Z. y. Alexander New York; Mrs.
August Belmont, New York; Mrs. I'd
ward Brandegec. Boston; Mrs. Lloyd
Bryce. New YORK: Mrs. s. T. Bertron,
New York; MIR George a. Castlcman,
81. Louis: Mrs. +. J.. Chaplin, Eric.
Penn: Mrs. Henry T. DAWSON. New
York; Mrs. p. n. Hartman, New York;
Mrs. 4 Barton Hepburn. New York;
Mrs. Myson T. lcrrick, Cleveland; Mrs
Parmely ~. Hcrrick, Cleveland; Mrs
Bryan Lsthrop. Chicago: Mrs. Junius
S. Morgan. Princeton. *. j.; MIR. Henry
". MunTOc. Tuxedo pars, ". y. Mr..
II. Fairfield Osborn. New York: Mrs.
George ". Pepper. Philadelphia; Mr.
Whitclaw Reid. New York; Mrs VIII
lam Hamilton Russell. NcN York; Mr..
Herbert J.. Sattcrlec, Sow York; Mrs.
Charles ". Sheriff.. New York: Mrs.
y. A. Ssylcs, Providence. X. J.; Mrs.
j. Montgomery Sears. Boston: Mrs.
stanley Stoner. 81. LOUIS; Mrs. Willard
j. Straight. New York; Mrs. Bayard
Thayer Boston; Mrs. Richard Towns
end, Warrington: Mrs. Russell Tyson.
Chicago: Mrs. ". X. Vanderbilt. Now
York; Mrs.. Bayard van Rensselaer, Al.