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Died. Setsuko Koizumi, 69, relict of Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn); of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo. In 1891 Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to write articles for Harper's Magazine. Quarrelsome, he broke his contract because the illustrator was to get more money than he, was stranded until friends got him a job teaching school in Matsue. There he married Setsuko Koizumi, was adopted into her family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly, teaches school. Kiyoshi, 32, is a musician. All married Japanese women. Daughter Susuko, an invalid, is unmarried at 28.
Died. Edgar Speyer, 69, banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1927.
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia.
Died. Benjamin Newhall Johnson, 75, lawyer, banker, President General of the Sons of the American Revolution; after a long illness; in Lynn, Mass.
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton.