The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21
TITLES AT THR CAPITAL,
Comparatively Few Foreign Dipo
mats Have Any.
From the Neec York Times.

From the Ne1c Yorh; Times.
A few days ago there was an assemblage
of foreigners and Americans in Washington
to consider a certain scientific question of
international Importance, and among the
delegates was the minister from certain
foreign power of the most aristocratic ten
denotes. In the course of the debate the
representative of the Unitad States con-
stantly alluded to the minister as Baron de
- Finally the minister rose and made
this statement:
''Gentlemen,' he said, 81 have the honor
to represent government where there are
titles and classes, and when / am there
am plain M. -, but as soon as l go TO
England 1 find the freedom-loving people
OF that island call me M. de -, and when
l go in America, where ali men are equal
and titles of nobility do not exist. find my
self called Baron de -. | have no right
to this title. 1 am plain M"
Every foreigner in Washington is given
title Immediately by certain class of
people, whether he came over with it or
not. 1t is intolerable in the eyes of these
people that an envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary should not be a
marquis, or a count or a baron; and, if by
chance he is one of those, he is generally
promoted to trif1e higher than the one he
really possesses. Thus, in print,
we sometimes see Sir Julian
Pauncefote. the British minis ter.
spoken of as Lord Pauncefote. and his pre-
decessor, Lord Sackville, was very fire.
quently called Lord West during all the
time that he was plain Mr.. West; for, as
matter of fact, he only came into his title
during the last two years of his residence
here. Similarly, some people cannot bear
that we should have only legations here,
and not embassies, and it is very
rank to be. conferred upon all
the ministers from the larger powers. 1t
| sounds much grander to speak of the ball at
the British embassy, or the dinner of the
German ambassador, or the lawn fete of the
French embassy. Yet we have no ambas-
sador. The law doesen't allow us to send
any, and diplomatic usage doesn't permit
| US to receive any. The highest diplomatic
rank we have is that of envoy extraordi-
| nary and minister plenIpotsntiarv.
The Russian minister to the United States
is M. Charles de Struve, but he generally
appears in print as Baron de Strive. The
French minister is plain NJ. Theodore Rou-
stan, yet the titles of count and marquis are
frequently bestowed upon him, and so it is
with other cases. AS matter of fact there
are only six titled ministers accredited to
this government from the western world.
Baron de Fava is the Italian representa-
tive. He is probably the handsomest man
in the diplomatic corps. Tall, straight,
with snow-white hair and wearing eye
glasses, elegant in his attire, and most for
NAL and accomplished in his manners, he is
the typical European diplomat. Cheyalier
de Tavera is the Austro-Hungariau minister,
while Germany sends us Count Ludwig Won
Arco Valley; Sir Julian Pauncefote is from
Great Britain, and Count de Sponneck is
minister resident and consul general of
Denmark Spain sends US Senior Don
Emilio de Muruaga, and Belgium where
counts are so common, sends plain M. Alfred
lie CHAT.
The Persian, the Siamese, and the Tur
kish minister have suffixes to their names,
which are in the European sense, titles. The
Siamese minister is Phya MONTH"; S1rig a
Wongse, not Mr.. Phya MONTH"; Surig. If
you should wish to address him correctly,
you would have to say the whole thing
if you could. The Persian minister is
HadJi Hossein Ghouiy Khan. Inasmuch
as Kahn is a tremendously high title,
meaning no less than hereditary prince,
about the same thing as grand
royalty itself, it would he highly inn
proper not to give him the benefit OF it. He
is accordingly generally known as Ghoojy
Khan, although some people consider this
abrupt, and insist on calling him Mr.. Khan,
which is the hight of absurdity. The Turk
ish minister has title ss high as dhooly
Kahn, for he is Mavroyeni Bey, and pretty
tough name it is to wrestle with, but it Is
pronounced precisely as 1t is spelled. The
other eastern ministers are ordinary
misters. unless it should be that the nuEner-
Gus Chungs and Paks in their names have
titular significance, which has been con-
cealed from the unlnitiated
The Spanish and Portuguese speaking
countries send us Seniors, or Seniors, or
Senior Dons, mere glorified Misters, except
Costa RIGA, which has minister who is
Senior Don and Zeledon besides, his name
being Senior Don Pedro Perez Zeledon-
whatever Zsledon may mean.
There are more titles among the secreta-
ries and attaches of legation than there are
among the ministers. Count Sala. the sec
rotary, is the only titled member OF the
French legation; the Marquis de Chambrun
and his son, Count Pierre de Chambrun. the
former a connection and the latter
direct descendant of the Marquis de
Lafayette, are not attached to the legation,
although they are often enormously accred-
tied to it. The secretary of the Turkish le-
cation, is Migirdtch Effendi Morighiap,
not so nigh title as the minister's, but
name fully as jaw-breaking. Count Victor
Folliot de Crenneville is secretary of the
Austro- Hungarian legation. and while the
! secretary of the German legation, Herr VOC