Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary j
of State, anil Mrs. Hughes, who haver
| been In Bermuda for several weeks, re- i
turned yesterday by- the Furnesa-Ber- j
>muda liner Fort Hamilton. They were'
met at the pier by .Charles K. Banner- j
irn, sptifial agent of the Department of
State, and went to Washington by an
afternoon train of the Pennsylvania
road. Mr. Hughes t,aid he had enjoyed I
his vacation thoroughly and that he and j
Mrs. Hughes were in the best of health. '
Other passengers were Mies Ethel J. i
Elkus, daughter of Abram I. Elkus, '
former American Ambassador to Turkey, |
who said her father's health was 1m
' proving and that he probably would re
1 main in Bermuda another month,
Mrs. Jay Gould ana her two children,
and Mrs. Darragh A. Park,
Also on board was a party of New
York bankers who opened tile new golf
course on the north shore of the Island.
Among them were Joseph P. Knapp,
MARIO LAURENT I OF
THE OPERA DYING
Barytone in Hospital With
Spinal Meningitis.
Mario I.aurenti, Metropo!itan Opera
barytone and one of the most artistic
and accomplished singers of the com
pany, is dying in the New York Eye anrl
Ear Hospital from spina! meningitis.
He caught cold a few days ago in .Syra
cuse. >hcre he went to sing in conrer!.
An ear absecss developed into spinal
meningitis, and he was taken to the
hospital yesterday.
