Born. To the Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, nee Millicent Rogers, daughter of Henry H. Rogers of Manhattan, a son (eight pounds); in Manhattan.

Engaged. Samuel Lewis Shank, famed Mayor of Indianapolis, to Mrs. Eva Findley of Kendallville, Ind.

Engaged. The Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, and son of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat-clergyman, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven. Miss Cannon taught Sunday school, supervised Bible classes in the church of the Rev. Mr. Van Dyke.

Died. Elliott Cowdin Bacon, 36, member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.; in Manhattan, of cerebral embolism. In 1910, he was Captain of the Harvard University Crew. His father, the late Robert L. Bacon, one-time Ambassador to France, was also a Morgan partner.

Died. Howard E. Shaw, 57, Democratic nominee for Governor of Vermont; in Morrisville, Vt., of infantile paralysis.

Died. Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, 64; in Marion, Ohio, of cerebral hemorrhage. He died in his sleep, as did the late President Harding, to whom he was physician.

Died. Karl Nepattek, chief master of ceremonies to the late Habsburg Court; in Vienna. When the Habsburgs crumbled, Nepattek made a living drilling "supers" in court receptions for U. S. cinemas.

Died. Viscount Long, 70, former First Lord of the Admiralty, Chief Secretary for Ireland; at his home, Rood Ashton, England. A few months ago he published his Memories (TIME, Sept. 29, FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Prof. Allan Marquand, 70, famed archeologist; in Manhattan. To artistic scholarship he gave his person and his purse, organizing the art department of Princeton University, which department he headed for 45 years. His private art library, said to be the finest in the country, he gave to the University.

Died. Robert Jackson Gamble, 73, onetime U. S. Senator from South Dakota; at Sioux Falls. He served in the Upper House from 1901 to 1913.

Died. Charlotte Mignon ("Lotta") Crabtree, 77, famed actress (retired); in Boston. She began her career in a Nevada camp town where, after a hostile reception, she so won the hearts of the proud miners that they are said to have thrown nuggets of gold, bags of gold dust, at her feet. When she appeared in Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, admirers tossed her their watches and chains, tied up in handkerchiefs. She owned the Hotel Brewster in which she died. Her fortune, estimated at $4,000,000, was largely left to charitable organizations.

Died. Andrew W. Preston, 78, President of the United Fruit Co.; in Swampscott, Mass.

Died. Herbert L. Bridgman, 80, "Ulysses of journalists"; on board the U. S. Training Ship Newport. He was business manager of the Brooklyn Standard Union, and helped organize Peary's expedition to the Pole. To him the explorer sent the famed code cable "Sun" (meaning "We have reached the world's end"). In 1894, he led the relief expedition after Peary when he was lost in the Arctic. He found Peary, provisioned him and brought back Mrs. Peary and her infant daughter, who had been born in the Far North.

Died. Representative William SV Greene, 83; in Fall River, Mass., as a result of an accident incurred while trying to chase a dog away from his door. He was one of the oldest members of Congress, and six times Mayor of Fall River.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Bachman, 86, onetime Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S.; in Chattanooga.

Died. Mary McCadden, 93, one-time nurse to Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed governor; in Milford, Pa. Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse.