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Died— Leonore Cawker, 58, Milwaukee's famed dogcatcher, vice president of American Humane Society; in Milwaukee. A rich spinster, she spent her life and fortune in succoring stray animals, was appointed official dog-catcher in 1915 at $500 annual salary, next year obtained a raise to $1.200. Her best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator of his estate. As president of both Southern Pacific and Union Pacific he fought savagely against Federal segregation. When defeated in 1913, he threw in his lot with Union Pacific. His only son, Robert Abercrombie, is a partner of Manhattan's Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Died. Herbert Dickinson Ward, 71, author, onetime editor of Youth's Companion, (merged in 1929 with American Boy), onetime editor of the Boston Post; in Portsmouth, N. H.
* Oldest U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church (founded 1697), Trinity now has seven subsidiary chapels, receives a net income of nearly $1,000,000 from its total assets (largely real estate) of over Si 7.000,000, exclusive of "churches, chapels, schools and burying grounds."