Engaged. Miss Harriet Winthrop McKim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop McKim of Tuxedo Park, to Augustus B. Field Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Field, of Manhattan. Both are direct descendants of Thomas Buchanan, 18th Century merchant, whose great landholdings in New York founded many a proud fortune.
Married. Miss Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter Damrosch, famed conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, to Robert Littell, one of the editors of The New Republic; in Manhattan, on her 21st birthday. Granddaughter of James G. Elaine (of Maine), she is niece of Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago.
Married. Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer, granddaughter of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme.
Married. Mrs. Lowell Lloyd, of Boston, to Randal Thomas Mowbray Raw don Berkeley, eighth Earl of Berkeley, in London.
Married. Mrs. Gertrude T. Douglas Peabody to Peter A. B. Widener II, son of Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia, financier and art collector. Mrs. Peabody last month obtained her divorce from Frederick G. Peabody, gents' collar manufacturer of Troy, N. Y.
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Mathilda Townsend Gerry, from her husband, Peter Goelet Gerry, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island; in Paris. Mrs. Gerry, prominent hostess in Washington, D. C., last January bought a string of dark pearls from Felix Yusupov, Russian princeling, allegedly valued at $400,000.
Sued for Alienation. Mrs. Beatrice W. Flagler, widow of John H. Flagler, Standard Oil Magnate, by Mrs. Max Goldreich, New Zitta, Germany, whose husband ("Professor Armand Sullivan") conducted a physical culture parlor in Manhattan. As possible assuagement for charges not made public, $100,000 was named. In the pages of metropolitan dailies was revealed the face of a marcelled Brobdingnagian, beetle-browed, curly-lipped.
Died. Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, née Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement IX.
Died. Lady Mary Booth, 42, wife of Sir Alfred Booth, former Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Line; at Stamford, Conn,, after a short illness.
Died. Dr. Bergonie, röntgenologist of Bordeaux, France; in Paris. (See MEDICINE.)
Died. Dr. William Tillinghast Bull, 56, once famed football player, long member of the Yale University coaching staff; in Asheville, N. C., of tuberculosis. His titanic drop-kicks, as a member of the Yale teams of 1887-88, are now legendary.
Died. Reginald Ronalds, onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider; in Mexico, when he was climbing a mountain to inspect gold and silver mines of which he was part owner. His daughter by his first marriage was known as 'the frappeed baby" from cold storage methods used to cure a childish illness. His mother, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, was a favorite of Queen Victoria.