The age-herald., 1899-04-07
DELEGATES TO THE
 CHARS CONGRESS Have Been Announced By the Secretary
 of State. ALL MEMBERS PROMINENT Commission egard0d as Exceptionally
 StrOlg Body,
ANDREW D. WHITE THE BEST KNOWN
Others Are Newell, Lowe, orozier and Mahan-Holls, of New York, Will Be the Secretary of the
 Delegation.

Washington, April 6,-The secretary of state has announced the constitution of the United States delegation to the disarma- ment congress, which will meet at The Hague in the latter part of May
 The delegation consists of Andrew White, United States minister to the Netherlands.
 President Seth Lowe, of the Columbia university, New York.
 Captain Crozier, of the ordnance depart- ment United States army.
 Captain A. T. Nahan, United States navy, retired
 Frederick Hons, of New York, will be secretary of the delegation.
 The American commission as a whole is regarded as an exceptionally strong body, being made up of men well known not only in public and political life, but in the world of letters and international affairs. They are all men of scholarship, fine lingusts and those attachments helpful in a congress representing the nations of the world con ducted under the diplomatic usage which makes French the accepted language.
 MT White is best known in the fields of education and diplomacy. After graduating at Yale, class of '53, he went to Europe for several years of historical study, mainly at Berlin and Paris, after travelling foot through Europe. For a time he was an attache of the United States legation at St. Petersburg. Returning to this country ne began his university career as professor ot English literature at the University of Michigan. Later he became the first presi- dent of Cornell, his service continuing from lo6' to 1885, when he retired, through ill health.
 Minister to Germany
 He was United States commissioner to Sandomlngo In 1871. From 1873 to 1881 he was minister to Germany again taking this important post under President Me kinley. During the administration of Mr. Cleveland MT. White was chosen as one of the Venezuelan commissioners at the time when the affair was at it's most critical stage He was also minister to Russia in 1892.
 Seth Low is also known as an educator as well as a man of public affairs Ho was graduated from Columbia university and later gave S1 GOO for university build ings. He was mayor of Brooklyn in 1881 and 1883, his service being marked by nu- merous reforms including the introduce tion of a civil service system in municipal affairs. In 1897 he was unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Greater New York. Stanford Newell was appointed minister to tho Netherlands from Minnesota. His selection as one of the delegates is pre- dicted because he was minister resident at lie Hague, where the congress IS 10 De held. MT. Newell is a lawyer of repute and has long practiced in St. Paul, where he was more of a counsellor than trial lawyer. Although he has been active in politics, he never held office until he was appointed minister to the Netherlands by President Mckinley.
 Captain William Crozier
 Capt. William Crozier is one of the most highly accomplished of the officers of the
 
 ized as containing the very highest grade of talent in the United States army, the personnel being made up of the most ad- vanced graduates from West Point. He was born in Ohio, and appointed to | the military academy from Kansas. His l father was the late Judge Crozier, at one | time an United States senator from Kan | sas. In conjunction with General Buffng- | ton the newly appointed chief of the ord nance department, he invented the disap bearing gun carriage, which has been | adopted by the United States government 1 as the highest type of coast defense weapon. General Burlington and Captain CroZier generously bestowed upon the | United States government all of the patent | rights they had acquired in this powerful weapon of warfare, and perhaps it was the spirit of disinterested patriotism thus ex- | hibted that led to the president naming | General Burlington as chief of ordnance, as well as to select Captain Crozer as a member of this distinguished delegation | No name is better known to students of naval strategy than that of Captain Alfred T, Mahan, sailor, StrategiSt and author. Captain Mahan was born in New York and | appointed an active midshipman in the | United States navy in September, 1885. He | reached the grade of lieutenant at the | outbreak of the civil war in 1S61 become | lieutenant in 1865, a commander in 1872 and a captain in September, 1885. He retired on | November ', 1S96 His last command was l that of the Chicago, then on the European | station, and he retired on his own applica- | tion in order to pursue the literary work | which had made him famous.
 His Contribution to Literature
 His most important contribution to lit | erature is 1.-The Influence of Sea Power | Upon History
 | When it was realized that war with Spain vas inevitable, Secretary Long cabled | promptly to Captain Mahan, then in Rome summonng him to Washington. Here he | took his place as member of the famous | naval war board, known during existence as the strategy board which planned the | programme of campaigns. Secretary Long declared when the existence of the board ceased at the termination of hostilit.es that
 he could not find that the board had been
 guilty of a single mistake of judgment
 throughout the war, a most remarkable
 statement. Since he was retired from duty
 upon the war board Captain Mahan has
 been living quietly at his home tn New | York state
 Frederick William Holls, appointed to act as secretary and counsel to the delegation
 is the senior member of the law firm of FIolls, Wagner x Burghard, of New York
 He was born in Butler county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1851, the son of Dr. George .,.
 Holls, an eminent German Lutheran edc- oator clergyman and pnianthroplst. Tn 1878 he was graduated at Columbia college. He then entered the Columbia law school and was admitted to the bar at Porgkeep- | sic in 1SSO Since then he has been m con