Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-14

TT is with real regret thai ! record the
death in France of Benjamin Franklin
Pepper. He was a major, you know, and
went over with the Baltimore drafted men
from Camp Meade. lie was son OF the
late DR.. William Pepper. and his mother
who was Miss Frances Perry died a few
months ago. His wife was Rebecca Will
ing and with their children they lived most
Of their married life in Chestnut hill Mrs
Pepper is a remarkably beautiful woman.
They had three children think, Franklin
Jr Willing and Anne. Major Pepper was
brother Of DR.. William Pepper whose
wife. the former Mary Godfrey, died after
a long slness just about two weeks ago.
Both William Pepper and second orother
Oliver H. p. Pepper are majors In the
medical corps. They ere Frankiin's
brothers. oliver is in Paris at present, he
married Lalite Wilcox some years ago,
you remember; DR.. William Pepper is in
Chattanooga on detached service awaiting
orders.
Ben had been two years at Plattsburg,
before our entrance into the war, and when
he went to Niagara for the first training
camp in the summer of 1917, he was one
Of two Philadelphia men to attain the rank
Of major. He was a lawyer a member Of
the same firm in which his cousin George
Wharton Pepper is senior. He died very
bravely leading his battalion In the st.
Mihiel sector on Sept 26.
My sympathy certainly goes out to the
young wife, who has SO bravely carried
on" in her husbands absence and who
have no doubt will continue to carry on
for his sake as we'll as for the sake Of
their three lovely children.
OLLIE YARROw, who has recently re-
- ceived liomotion (he is a lieutenant,
you know was home last week on leave
from Camp Jackson. He and his wife
spent the early part OF the week In New
York, for Mrs. Yarrow was working there
on the Liberty Loan drive under Miss Rob-
inson-Smith. Billie has been put in charge
Of large .camoufage school at Camp
Jackson and was obliged to return to camp
yesterday. He looks awfu'ly we'll and
seems to be enjoying his soldiers life ex-
tremely.
L about is it not? When you hear one
thing it's so apt to be added to before you
hear 1t the second time. THIS was evil
IDENTIFY the case in the report about Captain
Victor Charles Mather, the husband of
Catherine Earle. You remember when we
y first heard of Edith Earle Lees death and
then of Frances Beggs' illness. news
flashed around that Victor Mather had
been injured in motor accdert. Well,
It's not true. have that fat, from Mr..
Mather Victor's father. lie was in
motor, running at night without lights
and his car crushed between two trucks.
but he escaped injury. So that is one bit
of news that is heartening. after all the
disasters ard sorrows In the Earle family.
r HEAR that Mrs. George Fales Baker
who was expected home this week from
the Adrondacks. has chosen the bett. t.r
part of valor and decided to stay safely
up there until this epidemic is over. And
speaking of the epidemic I know you will
be as sorry as I was to he.r Of the death
of Mr.. Randolph Barksdale Hayward in
Buffalo. Of pneumonia following influenza
He was the husband of Matilda Sartori
you know, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Sartori of Germantown. Anna Sartori is a
member of the junior service corps, and is
working awfully hard all the time at vari.
Gus kinds of war work.
TT CERTAINLY is hard to get used to
1 getting up early enough in the morn
ing to straighten up your room before you
take the train into town to work all day
at the Red Cross or Emergency Aid or
some other kind of war work. I know Of
a wonderful worker who has been going
into town every day since last year to
spend the whole day at 1t, and she never
can get used to catching that early train
The other morning she was "fooling
around" after breakfast. and suddenly de-
cided that it was time to start for the
station,--she doesn't live far away. So she
went downstairs quietly. reached the porch
and heard the train. She omitted the
steps down to the street taking the bank
at one leap and started up a short cut
through field.
The train snorted with delight at the JOY
Of racing with her, and reached the edge
Of the platform, just she made an
extra effort and fell fiat. knocking off her
carefully placed hat and otherwise dis
arranging herself. She got up, undaunted,
and proceeded on her way to find a smil-
ing brakeman waiting with his watch in
his hand. She was so fused that instead
Of dropping down in the first seat she
came to. she marched the whole length of
the train. I ooking down at her skirt she
found It pulled all out of shape and stuck
tight together with burrs. and she started
to pick them off.
AS the train reached Broad street, she
happened to glance across the aisle and
there was a neighbor engaged in the
same industry. he also having taken the
short cut. They laughed together about
1t. and hearing an echoing chuckle from
behind them. turned round and discovered
still another commuter from the same
street industriouslY freeing his oYercoat