Monday, Aug. 24, 1925
Engaged. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, sister of Muriel Vanderbilt (who recently married Frederic C. Church) great-great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Earl E. T. Smith, Yale student.
Engagement Broken. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian.
Married. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 63, onetime (1913-14) Lord Mayor of London, now Member of Parliament for the city of London, and Mrs. Coysgarn Sim; in London. His first wife died last year.
Divorced. "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, from his wife Latife Hanoum; at Angora. (See Page 10.)
Divorced. Laurel Louisa Fletcher Connely, authoress, onetime wife of Author Booth Tarkington, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker, from Willard Connely, Harvard professor; in Boston. In 1911, when she was suing Tarkington for a divorce, she wrote and published a poem which began: "I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again."
Died. Joseph Fogarty, 40, coach of the Yale University basketball team; in Williamsport, Pa., of pneumonia.
Died. John Rodgers,, who is said to have saved the life of William H. Taft when he was Governor General of the Philippines by shooting and killing a native who was about to fire on Mr. Taft; at Harrisburg, Pa., by drowning in the Susquehanna River.
Died. Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan, (Jane Norton Grew), wife of the famed financier, at Glencove, L. I., of a sudden cardiac collapse following a two months' siege of encephalitis lethargicae (a variety of sleeping sickness).
Died. O. J. Gude, 63, Manhattan advertising man, chairman of the O. J. Gude Co., outdoor advertisers, famed as "the creator of the Great White Way" because he was responsible, some 25 years ago, for the erection of the first electric advertising sign; in Bad-Nauheim, Germany, of heart disease.
Died. Mrs. Frances J. Holmes Copeland, 81, mother of Royal S. Copeland, junior U. S. Senator from New York; in Dexter, Mich.