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Died. William E. Fothergill, 61, famed gynecologist; in Manchester, Eng., suddenly. Addressing banqueters, he remarked just before he died: "I have enjoyed tonight one of the best dinners I can remember."
Died. Frederick Waeir Stevens, 61, lawyer, financier, (onetime counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co.); in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Died. Edward Cummings, 65, ministerial associate of Edward Everett Hale (author of The Man Without a Country), and father of E. E. Cummings, modernist poet;* instantaneously, at Ossipee, N. H., when struck by a train, in blinding snow. A year or so ago, three brothers named Manning, prominent residents of Manchester, N. H., were instantly killed when struck by Henry Ford's special train, not far from Ossipee, N. H., in blinding snow. Died. Annie Oakley, ("Little Sureshot"), 66, famed markswoman; at Greenville, Ohio (see P. 10).
Died. Arthur Wallace Dunn, 67, veteran newspaper correspondent, organizer of National Press Club; in Washington, of complications following a mastoid operation.
Died. William Smith, 125, oldest man in the British Empire, perhaps in the world; at Bromara, County Down, Ireland.
Born. To Jennie and Jack, New York zoo giraffes; a male offspring, Shorty, five feet, nine inches.
*Poet Cummings believes that subtle psychological effects are derived from an odd appeal to the eye. These are the first two divisions (he would not call them stanzas) of his representative poem Maison : my love is building a building around you, a frail slippery house, a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile) a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison (building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth ) </footnote>