Monday, Sep. 20, 1926
Engaged. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, manager of the Washington, D. C., baseball team; to Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian and onetime (1917-23) Senator Howard Sutherland.
Married. Anne Huntington Tracy, niece of the late Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan to Prince Simon Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, native of Tiflis, Georgia,* graduate of Johns Hopkins University; at Highland Falls, N. Y.
Married. Miriam Harriman, daughter of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan; to Boykin Cabell Wright of the famed Virginia "Cabells, lawyer, assistant to Herbert Hoover at the Peace Conference; in St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan.
Married. Raymond Belmont, son of the late-banker, August Belmont; to Mrs. May Muurling Maddux, at Warrenton, Va. It was Mr. Belmont's third marriage; Mrs. Maddux's second.
Married. Helen Manning Brown, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Herbert Dudley Hale of Boston, grandson of the late Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, at St. James, N. Y.
Separated. Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton in Paris. Divorce was rumored. Mr. Hamilton is a grandson of the late John Pierpont Morgan, and a great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton.
Divorced. William Ziegler Jr., owner of the Hotel Belmont, Manhattan, son of the founder of the Royal Baking Powder Co.; by Mrs. Gladys V. Watson Ziegler, in Paris.
Divorced. Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace who had brought down 83 enemy planes, who had been wounded 17 times, who had lost an arm, a leg, a chin; by Mrs. Consuelo Hatmaker Nungesser, daughter of the onetime confidential secretary to Cornelius Vanderbilt; at Paris. She charged "incompatibility."/- In 1923, romantic patriots pointed with pride to a double wedding at Dinard, France, where Miss Hatmaker, 19, married Ace Nungesser; where her mother married Capt. William Waters, U. S. A.
Died. Wang Sun Yun, great grandson of the onetime Emperor of Korea, a self-supporting student at Hastings College; at Hastings, Neb., of Banti's disease (an affliction of the liver, spleen, blood).
Died. "Little Louis" Fook, 43, merchant, prominent in the Tong councils, beloved "Mayor of Chinatown," friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith (he went to Emily Smith's wedding); in Brooklyn, of tuberculosis.
Died. Stewart Johnson, 46, U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Cairo, Egypt; at Alexandria, during an operation following an automobile accident.
Died. Dr. William Francis Campbell, 58, distinguished surgeon, cancer specialist; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, of cancer, following a nervous breakdown four months ago.
Died. Major Arthur Brooks, 66, Negro valet to Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, messenger toten Secretaries of War, veteran of the Spanish-American War; in Washington, D. C., of heart failure after more than two years' illness.
In a moment of consciousness before his death, Major* Brooks asked his family to summon some one from the White House so that he might reveal the combination to the silver vaults.
Died. Baron Tanetaro Megata, 73, first Japanese student to graduate from a U. S. university (Harvard, 1874), member of the Privy Council of Japan; in Tokyo, suddenly.
* The Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia on the Black Sea. /- He said: "I still love her devotedly. It is still a question of my work taking up all my time. I work 17 hours daily and can't very well give over 10 hours daily to pleasure." * He attained the rank of Major when in command of the First Negro Battalion of the District of Columbia National Guard. On retirement he was raised to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but Washington notables continued to call him "Major Brooks."