Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12

Bellevue last spring, have cOnhpleteu
sort Of circle of travels across the conti-
nent and are now back east in Atlantic
City. They are to be shown in the Rose
Room of the Traymore, and the exhibition
J will be opened on Saturday night with
large reception. The proceeds Will be
siven to the fund for the aid OF the or
phans Of French aviators
The exhibition has the Endorsement OF
! the French High Commission and the
: Aero Club of America. Among the wash
invton patronesses are Mrs. Wilson and
( Mrs. Marshall as we'll as Nine. Jusserand
the wife of the French ambassador. NJ
Z Andre Tardieu, French High Commits
sioner, and Ambassador Jusserand are
among the patrons.
The reception will be an invitation af.
fair and after that the exhibition, which
will be open for three weeks, will be for
the public.
Several Philadelphians are included
among the patronesses among them being
Mrs. Alexander Brinton Coke, Mrs. Edward
T. Stotesbury, Mrs. James Francis Sulli-
van, Mrs. w. Barklie Henry, Mrs j.
Enott Caldwell, Miss Mary Gummey, Mrs.
Z Charles NJ Niles and Mrs. John w. Will
liams
VEsTERDAY morning in the quiet
i little country church at Holmesburg
a requiem mass was said for Lieutenant
Richard Stockton Bultt who died in ac-
ton in France in the latter part OF July.
There were no soldiers present, but the
: catafalque arranged in the center OF the
y aisle, was covered with an American nag
and in the cemetery close by, at the side OF
his mothers grave, was silken nag sur
rounded with green wreath and lilies.
It was Just simple and plain, but very
solemn Only last Friday was his death
finally confirmed, you know, through let
ters received from various boys who knew
I him.
Ia Dick was a member of the First city
Troop and after 1t was disbanded he en-
tered the officers camp at Hancock ana
was one of the eighty men to receive com
missions, being made second lieutenant
He was only twenty-five in July.
It was impossible to get any news from
The Government, and from the day the
cable came announcing the death on he
10th and followed by three letters from
Dick himself, dated 10, 20 and %, the fam
lily had no word of explanation at all. And
people, whose sons and husbands had
written telling of Dicks death about July
rs. copied out that part of the letter and
sent IL to- Mr. Bulltt or Jean, and finally
well-rounded.out story Cf all the circum-
) stances and about where his grave is has
been evolved from the letters. And when
heard Il at it seemed such beauthui
:, thing for .people to do. Anu | just hope
any one who hears of it VIII do the same
thing about any news they may get in
futurg through any of the boys about
any U the men who are killed or wounded.
It's such comfort to hear!
The most wonderful thing is the way
those boys care for each other. Why,
every letter told how each individual boy
had visited the grave. Some of them had
walked mile to 1t and others two and a
half miles after having been told where
+ 1t was, and Dai Rooms, Eliston Morris,
Jr., and Bill Hopkins each wrote the
latter to the Bull':ts and the others o
their fathers), and all said that the boys
of the old troop had made arrangeme $
5 FOR q more permanent crosssto mark the
grave and had got some French people 20
look after it. Which is great consoli-
tion, for after the war his body can be
brought home and laid where the flag now
flies.
Young Sam Calhoun, who knew Dick
very we'll, wrote to his mother and told
how the men were advancing in the face
Of fire from whole nests of machine guns.
Finally all were quiet but one, and Dick,
ordering his men to lie on their faces, ad'
= vanced alone to take the gun and try to
save them But as he crossed the field
4 gun on the side that had slowed up be-
fore opened fire and he was caught with
= bullet through his head. He was not
mutilated and was buried where he fell hv
members of his platoon, and by a remark.
able coincidence, Father Joseph Wolfe. of
(. st. Patrick's, where the Bullitts attended
church, when living in the city, was among
those who discovered the body and he per-
formed the last ceremonies at the grave
Father Wolfe is chaplain in the Twenty
n eighth Division.
IT'S got now that the only surprise
you feel is when an airplane or price
sails little lower than usual So it didn't
surprise a young bride in the least the
other day when her dark washlady" for
got to iron the only pair of white ducks
that young husband, who is a lieutenant
In the ordnance. owns at present, his ward
robe being entirely O. d. There was moth
ing for her TO do but sail in and iron the
things, because Husband was going to play
tennis that afternoon with nothing less
than captain and it wouldn't do to dis
appoint him. incidentally, she and the
4. captains wife were going to meet them
q at the club after the game for dinner.
N She hustled through the general house
work that all our latest and most modern
brides an. so efficient in, got all dressed
up in georgette crepe and met the rest OF
them on the clubhouse porch. A howl