The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-10-16
ARCO VALLEY DEAD.
The German Minister Succumbs
to an Operation at Berlin.
HIs POPULARITY AT WASHINGTON.

The Counts Career as n Diplomat.
Represented Germany at Various
Stations for Twenty-four Years.
Minister to the United States Since
1888.
BERLIN, Oct. 18.-Count Ludwig Won
Arco Valley, the German minister to
the United States, died yesterday. The
count had come home from the United
States only few weeks ago in feeble
health, having been in August granted
three months leave. Professor Berg
mann performed an operation on the
count on Monday last, his stomach hav-
ing for some time past refused to retain
food. The operation was not successful.
The brother and sister of the late minis
ter were present at his bedside when he
died.
A Popular Figure at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-No member
of the diplomatic corps at Washington
was so well known as Count Arco Val
ley. He was q frequent visitor in New
York and was familiar figure in clubs,
hotel lobbies and society drawing rooms.
very fond of society and a pronounced
favorite with women. He was the
most striking figure in Washington dip
lomatic circles, where his sister, Count
ess Won Arco, beautiful patrician, dis
pensed lavish hospitality at the Ger
man legation.
He had been German ambassador to
the United States since 1888.
Both the count and his sister were
social leaders at Newport, and their
entertainments were classed among the
most distinguished in that aristocratic
resort.
His name is somewhat familiar in this
country as the husband of the well
known Viennese actress, Mime. Janish,
whom he married at Vienna shortly
after leaving Washington in 1879. He
was, however, legally separated from her
q few years ago.
His Diplomatic, Career.
Count Arco Valley was born in the
Kingdom of Bavaria, April IA, 1845.
He came from one of the Oldest titled
families in Germany, the Arco Valleys
being counts of the empire over 800
years ago.
The count had varied experience in
diplomacy for one SO young. He was
one of the first to accept the state of
affairs tnat began with Prussia's as
tendency after the victorious battle Of
Sadowa.
From 1867 to 1870 he was attached to
the Bavarian embassy at the Holy See.
In 1870 he entered the service of the
Prussian state, and in 1901 was dele
gate at the national convention at Or
leans.
In 1912 he was secretary of the Ger
man legation at Washington, under
Herr Won Schloezgr, who is now German
minister in Rome. In 1872 he was trans
ferred as secretary of legation to Vienna,
where he served under General Won
Schweidnitz, now German ambassador
in St Petersburg.
In Madrid he served as secretary of
legation under Graf Solms- -Sonnenwalde.
who was afterwards at Rome; in Paris
under Prince Hohenlohe, in London
under Count Munster and in Brussels
under Count Wesdehlen.
He was subsequ emily charge d'affaires
at The Hague, for four years councillor
to the legation at Rome under Herr
Won Keudel and for year and half
consul general in Egypt, when he re-
ceived the appointment as minister
plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary
to the United States.
Count co-Valley's commission was
the first one signed by the lamented
Frederick III, and is the only official
paper in the United States bearing the
late emperor's signature.