Milestones
Engaged. Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace, who brought down 83 German aeroplanes, to Miss Consuelo Hatmaker. (See page 10.)
Married. Edith Day, star of Wildflower (musical comedy now playing in Manhattan), to Pat Somerset, English actor, in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Brigadier General Florenz Ziegfeld, 82, U. S. A., retired, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founder and President Emeritus of the Chicago Musical College, father of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., theatrical producer, in Chicago. Dr. Ziegfeld, as a young music student, knew Wagner, Liszt, Rubenstein. Born in Germany, he came to the United States just before the Civil War, in which he served as Lieutenant Colonel of an Illinois regiment.
Died. Orville Taylor Waring, 84, a colleague of John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Co. and one of its original incorporators, of cancer, at Plainfield, N. J. He is survived by his second wife and eight children.
Died. Juan Altamarino, 115, citizen of Cuba, leaving 72 sons and daughters, 41 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, 32 great-grand-grandchildren.
Died. Major Thomas Scott Baldwin, 69, pioneer in aviation and the inventor of the parachute. (See page 23.
Died. George J. Gould, 59, capitalist and son of Jay Gould, the railroad magnate, of pneumonia, at Mentone, France.
Died. Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, 60, eminent physicist at Clark University, suicide because of despondency over the lack of recognition, financial and public, which his work received, at Worcester, Mass.
Died. Mrs. Ethel Kissam Train, wife of Arthur C. Train, the novelist, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan.
Died. Captain Horatio McKay, 86, retired Commodore of the Cunard fleet, in London. At various times he commanded 17 Cunard ships and was for ten years commander of the fleet.
Died. Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, widow of the late Senator from Georgia, at Thompson, Ga. She was the first woman ever offered an appointment in the Senate.
Died. Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, 94, former Premier of France, in Paris. (See page 10.)