Born. To William Henry Vanderbilt. president of the Rhode Island State Senate ; and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; twin daughters (7 Ib. 6 oz. and 5 Ib. 11 oz.) as forecast last month by X-ray (TIME, Feb. 16); in Manhattan's York House, socialite maternity hospital. Names: Elsie French and Edith Hyde.

Engaged, Sarah Stires Wood, debutante daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Chicago.

Engaged. August Belmont, Harvard senior, son of tha late August Belmont Jr.; and Elizabeth Lee Saltonstall, Boston socialite, daughter of John L. Saltonstall, onetime (1911-12) member of the Massachusetts Legislature.

Married. Bessie Morgan Belmont, eldest daughter of the late August Belmont Jr., great-granddaughter of the first Banker August Belmont; and Louis Felix Timmerman, Manhattan socialite, bank official; in Manhattan.

Retired, "The Most Permanent Lord Mayor of London," Sir William Jameson Soulsby, 79, for the past 56 years private secretary to a total of 55 London Lord Mayors. Sir William accepted a knighthood from his friend King Edward VII, begged and received permission to decline a baronetcy recently offered him by George V.

Died-Sylvester Baker Sadler, 54, justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court since 1921; of pneumonia; in Carlisle, Pa.

Died. Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, 57, of Danville, Va., president of Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills Inc., director of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, an organizer and director of the Cotton Textile Institute; of heart disease; in Danville. Though he was active in promoting "industrial democracy," his mills were lately the scene of a four-month strike (TIME, Jan. 12), the strain of which led to his death.

Died. Rt. Rev. Thomas James Garland,

64, bishop of the Pennsylvania Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a leading member of that church's National Council, often called its "best financial genius"; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia.

Died. Lieut.-General Edgar Jadwin,

65, onetime Chief of (Army) Engineers; of apoplexy; at Balboa, Canal Zone, where he had gone as chairman of the Interoceanic Canal Board to consider enlarging the Panama Canal (which he helped build) or building a new canal through Nicaragua.

Died. Samuel Hill, 73, railroad and highway builder, son-in-law of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill; of intestinal influenza; in Portland, Ore. Born in Deep River, N. C., he went to Harvard, practiced law in Minneapolis. He became a protege of the "Empire Builder" and in 1888 married

Daughter Mary Hill. Son-in-law Samuel's activities were protean. He bought expiring railroads, banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies--roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built a vast concrete Flemish castle ("Maryhill") overlooking the Columbia River. But the death of King Leopold II prevented the visit. In 1922 he escorted the late Marshal Joffre on a tour of the U. S. In 1926 Queen Marie of Rumania accepted his invitation to come to Maryhill" and dedicate it as a Museum of Fine Arts. Said she: "Samuel Hill is a dreamer. I, too, am a dreamer. And who shall say that dreams won't come true?" The tour which he intended to be a triumph was a disappointment; it ended in bickering among the Queen and her friend Col. John Carroll, her aide Major Stanley Washburn, San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Adolph Spreckels, and the Queen's elderly friend. Dancer Loie Fuller.

Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties.

Died. Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, 77, founder and publisher since 1883 of the Newark, N. J. Evening News, philanthropist, onetime engineer, attorney, grandfather of Dorothea Scudder who married U. S. Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett.

Died. Henry Allen Cooper, 80, U. S. Representative from the ist Wisconsin congressional district, dean of the House in age, in tenure of office; of heart disease; in Washington. Longtime leader of Insurgents against regular Republicans, he had served continuously since 1893 (except in 1919-21, following his opposition to U. S. participation in the World War).

Died. Mrs. Jane Daugherty, 95, mother of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and of former President Mai S. Daugherty of the defunct Ohio State Bank, who is on trial for alleged misuse of its funds; of influenza and heart disease; in Washington Court House, Ohio. She was a signer of her son Mal's $40,000 bond. His trial was adjourned last week when her condition became serious.

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