Monday, Sep. 07, 1925
Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria.
Married. Lewis Lacy, famed international poloist, to Miss Nora Frend, at Buenos Aires. H. R. H. Edward of Wales was present.
Married. Miss Jeanne Eagles, 27, famed actress ("Sadie Thompson" in Rain to Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, 37, perhaps the most successful backfield football player who ever represented Yale; in Stamford, Conn. In 1909 as Captain of his team he was credited with defeating Harvard and Princeton almost singlehanded. *Last January he was divorced in Paris by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrim Coy, daughter of a onetime President of the American Bar Association.
Died, Thomas L. Hisgen, 67, unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1908 (Independence League), bitter opponent of the Standard Oil interest; at Springfield, Mass. In 1880 he pawned a treasured violin to get capital for a projected axle grease factory. By 1898 he and his three brothers owned the largest grease factory in the world.
Died. Field Marshal Baron Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf, 73, Chief of the Imperial Austrian Staff in the War in Wurttemberg, or anaemia (see AUSTRIA, Page 15).
Died. Geraldine Mary (Mrs. Alfred) Harmsworth, 86, mother of the late Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper genius; in Hall Totteridge, near London.
Died. Charles F. Chandler, 88, winner of the Perkin Medal (gift of organized U. S. Chemistry) in 1920 "for such valuable contributions to Chemistry (especially sugar refining gas manufacture, petroleum refining, photography, dyeing), that he has placed the whole world in his debt," holder of certain honorary degrees never previously conferred on anyone but Edward VII, President of the Health Department of New York City under Mayors Havemeyer and Ely, originator of free vaccination, educator, professor, distinguished and beloved lecturer; from nephritis, at Hartford, Conn.
*His classmate, Meade Minnigerode, wrote a novel around this, (The Big Year) made Coy (under another name) the hero. Said Coy in the novel to his quarterback: "Never mind the signals! Give me the ball!" Critics consider Minnigerode to be no student of football.