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Died. John McEntee Bowman, 56, president of Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp. (Manhattan's Biltmore, Belmont, Commodore, Murray Hill; Biltmores in Havana, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Wilmington, Santa Barbara, Dayton, Belleair, Providence); after an operation for gallstones; in Manhattan. Hotelman Bowman's first hotel job was with Gustav Baumann of Manhattan's famed old Holland House. His later avocation: horses. He was president of the United Hunts Racing Association and the National Horse Show, onetime president of the Havana-American Jockey Club.
Died, George Washington Ochs Oakes, 69, editor of 'the New York Times Co.'s monthly Current History, brother of its Publisher Adolph Ochs; of heart disease, day before his 70th birthday; in Manhattan. Predicting during the World War that the deeds of German armies and German submarines would make a German name obnoxious for years to come, he obtained court permission to add Oakes to his.
Died. James Alexander Tyng, 76, Manhattan insurance man, famed oldtime (1872-78) Harvard baseball catcher, inventor of the catcher's mask; of lobar pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Mrs. Helen Josephine ("Josie") Mansfield Reade, 78, famed actress and beauty of the last century; of complications resulting from a fall in a department store; in Paris. The protegee of James ("Jim") Fisk Jr., famed Wall Street figure of the 1870's, she transferred her affections to his onetime partner, Edward S. Stokes, crony of Boss Tweed and "handsomest man in town." In 1872 Stokes shot & killed his rival on the stairway of the old Grand Central Hotel. Backed by Boss Tweed, he got off with four years in jail. After his death in 1901, Tammany gave him a fine funeral with a 200-piece band. Josie Mansfield went to Europe, visited many a fashionable watering place, married Robert Livingston Reade, Manhattan lawyer, in 1891. He announced that she was the only person who could save him from drink. In 1897 Lawyer Reade was declared insane from excessive drink and use of chloral.
Died. Dr. Edward Christian Glass, 79, superintendent since 1879 of public schools in Lynchburg, Va., brother of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, half-brother of President Meta Glass of Sweet Briar College; of heart disease; in Lynchburg.