Monday, Jan. 18, 1926

Milestones

Married. Bartlett H. S. Travis (son of famed golfer Walter J. Travis, U. S. amateur champion 1900, 1901, 1903, British amateur champion in 1904), twice decorated for bravery while serving as a Lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, to Miss Elise Stanton Hayes; at Manhattan.

Married. Arthur Cheney Train, famed novelist (His Children's Children, The Needle's Eye, etc.), to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard; at Suffern, N. Y.

Married. Miss Eleanor Bumstead, daughter of the late Professor Henry A. Bumstead and Mrs. Bumstead of Yale, to William Edward Stevenson, member 1924 U. S. Olympic team; in Battell chapel, Yale University, New Haven.

Married. William A. Brady Jr., son of the famed producer, to Actress Katherine Alexander; in Manhattan.

Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house."

Died. Andrew Latham Smith, 43, famed football coach at the University of California; at Philadelphia, of pulmonary ulcers. From 1920 to 1924 inclusive his "Golden Bears" lost no games. In 1904 he was All-American fullback (University of Pennsylvania).

Died. Dr. Charles Edgar Welch, 73, famed President of several concerns forming the so-called "Welch's Grape Juice pool"; at St. Petersburg, Fla., of acute indigestion. He was a lifelong total abstainer, an ardent exponent of prohibition, co-discoverer with his father of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice," trustee of the Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua N. Y., six times President of Westfield, N. Y., "dry" candidate for Governor of N. Y. in 1916, one-time dentist.