Saturday, Mar. 31, 1923
Engaged: Gerald F. Warburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg of New York, to Miss Marion Bab. Miss Bab is a resident of Vienna, where Mr. Warburg has been studying music. [Felix Warburg, member of the banking company of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., is president of the Federation of Jewish Charities.]
Married: Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, daughter of the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, to her former husband, William F. R. Hitt, from whom she was divorced in 1921.
Sued for Divorce: Edgar Lee Masters, poet, the author of Spoon River Anthology, by Helen Jenkins Masters. They had previously separated, and had later resumed living together.
Divorced: Carl Akeley, hunter, explorer, naturalist, and Curator of the American Museum of Natural History, by Mrs. Delia G. Akeley. She charged desertion and cruelty.
Died: Milo D. Campbell, 71, of cerebral hemorrhage, while playing golf at Washington, D. C. He was recently appointed to the Federal Reserve Board as the " dirt farmer " member. He had been President of the National Milk Producers' Association and had held many state offices in Michigan.
Died: Samuel D. Nicholson, junior United States senator from Colorado, of cancer of the liver, at Denver. (See Page 2).
Died: Leonard R. Steel, 45, of Buffalo, of cerebral hemorrhage, while on a train near Toledo. He was the founder of the L. R. Steel corpora- tions which went into the hands of the receiver on March 8.
Died: Henry Edward Krehbiel, 69, dean of New York music critics. He came to New York in 1879 as music critic of The New York Tribune and remained with that paper until his death. He was the author of more than 28 volumes, including his translation of Thayer's Life of Beethoven.
Died: Washington Bissell, 102, "oldest college graduate in the United States," at Great Barrington, Mass. He graduated from Union College in 1846, and would have been 103 on April 16.
Died: Sarah Bernhardt, 78, of an infection of the kidneys, at Paris. (See page 16.)