A Death

Writer, editor, authority on the Far East, Eleanor Franklin Egan died last week in Manhattan. She began writing at 18 as a correspondent for 'Leslie's Weekly during the Russo-Japanese War. In Japan, she was married to Martin Egan who then represented the Associated Press. Later, they edited together the Manila Times. During the War, Mrs. Egan wrote many articles from the Mesopotamia front. She was one of four women on the American delegation at the Limitation of Armaments Conference. Of late, she has contributed a series of articles on the Orient to The Saturday Evening Post. She was an expert in her field.

Her pallbearers were to include General James G. Harbord, Herbert Hoover, George Horace Lorimer (famed editor of The Saturday Evening Post), Wallace Irwin.