Engagement Broken. Between Henry Breckinridge, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War and Miss Bessie McKeldin, stepdaughter of Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer.

Divorced. The onetime Miss Dorothy Benjamin of Manhattan, widow of Enrico Caruso, famed tenor, from former Captain Ernest Ingram; at Paris.

Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies.

Died. Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, 82, author of "The Face upon the (Barroom) Floor," in Manhattan, of chronic bronchitis.

Died. J. Randolph Coolidge, 97, last of the great-grandsons of Thomas Jefferson, in Boston. He was the oldest Harvard alumnus, a Law School classmate ('54) of the late Joseph H. Choate. He prepared himself for a civil engineer, but undermined his health by work on some of the earliest railroads of Virginia. After studying law, he was unable to practice on account of deafness. His later days were spent in the study of international affairs. His surviving sons are Archibald Gary Coolidge, famed Harvard Professor and Editor of Foreign Affairs; J. Randolph Coolidge Jr., able architect; John Gardner Coolidge, distinguished diplomat; and H. Jefferson Coolidge.