Evening star., 1902-08-06
DIR. WHITE TO RETIRE
TO GERMANY RE-
SIGNS.
Career in the Diplomatic Corps-For
Long Time President Of Cor
nell University.

many, mailed his resignation to the United
states several days ago. 1t is to take ef-
| fect November Z. He Is now at Homburg,
| where he Is taking the waters, and where
ne probably will remain till the end Of the
| month.
There is much gossip at Berlin concerning
Df Whites successor, and one circum-
stantial story is that the President intends
| to transfer Ambassador Tower from st.
petersburg to Berlin, Minister Storer from
Spain to be amba assador to Russia and to
appoint Henry White. now secretary of
embassy at London, minister to Spain.
Mr.. Tower, who has been dissatisfied with
ST. Petersburg, expressed months ago a
wish to be transferred to some other equally
desirable post, preferably Berlin.
Will Resume Literary Work.
An Ithaca, N. Y, dispatch says: The
resignation of Ambassador White has been
expected by his friends In this city for
| many months, particularly since the death
Of his son, Frederick D. White Of Syracuse,
in July, 1901. Dr. White will be seventy
years old in November and the reason as
signed here for his withdrawal from the
honorable post which he occupied at Berlin
is that he Is ready now to devote hlmSef TO
writing. He has completed a work on his
experiences and "reminiscences as diplo-
mat at Berlin and St. Petersburg, and is
constantly engaged in literary work He
has maintained his home the campus
since he left Cornell University, and 1t is
considered probable that he will return
here to live. DR.. Whites daughter, Mrs
Clara Newberry, left for New York last
night, whence she will sail for Germany.
DR.. White will meet her at Hamburg
DR.. Whites Career.
The withdrawal of DR.. White from public
life is an event of more than ordinary in
terest. DIR. White has been emphaucally
the scholar in politics-in politics but not
part of politics. DR.. Andrew Dickson
White was born at Homer, N. Y, No
vember Z, 1892 of New England parentage,
At the age of seven he removed with ms
parents to Syracuse, where the rest or MS
boyhood was spent. He went Tor a year 10
Hobart College and afterward to Yale, where
he was graduated in the class of 1858. He
then spent two years in historical study In
Europe. For six months he was an at
tache Of the United States legation in St
Petersburg, during the exciting days OF the
Crimean war. Returning to America IN
1855, he spent another year In Yale College
and then became professor of history and
English literature in the University OF
Michigan. In 1862 he resigned on account
Of impaired health. In 1862 and 1864 he
was elected a member of the state senate
from Syracuse. In 1867 he became presi-
dent of Cornell University, in which ca
pacity he served with zeal and distinction
3.
remained a trustee of the university.
In 1871 he was appointed one of the Unit
ed States commissioners to report on the
question Of the annexation of San Do
mingo; and in the same year was chairman
of the New York state republican conven-
ton.
In 1879 he was appointed minister to Ger
many to succeed Bayard Taylor. He re-
turned to the United States in 1881, and
in 1892 was appointed minister to Russia,
succeeding Charles Emory Smith. He re-
signed in 1894.
In January 1896 he was appointed by
President Cleveland a member of the COM
mission ito investigate and report upon
the true location Of the divisional line be-
tween the territory Of the republic Of
Venezuela and that of British Guiana"
He was appointed ambassador to Ger
many in April, 1897. by President Mckinley.
and maintained in that post by President
Roosevelt, who has been for many years
his ardent admirer.
In 1899 he was appointed one of the dele
gates to represent the United States in the
international disarmament conference at
The Hague.
DR.. White has been one of CornelTs great
est benefactors, giving literally of his own
means.
Esteemed by the Germans.
DR.. White has enjoyed the marked es-
TEEN of the German people, and has thus
been in a position to smooth many of the
unpleasant controversies that are constant
ly springng up between the peoples of two
great commercial nations. When he first
went to Germany minister in 1879 he
bore with him the prestige of his educa-
tional work in the United States, and the
experience of his labors as a member of the
New York legislature. He reached a con-
genial atmosphere at once, and while at
tending to the interests of his government
refreshed his memories of student life in
German, and made the acquaintance of
many celebrities. Not only was he per-
sonally acceptable to the Germans, but his
ministry fell on time when the relations
between our land and Germany were un-
clouded.
During the Spanish War.
Nearly two decades passed away and Dr.
White returned to Berlin, this time with
the added privileges Of an ambassador. 1t
was the year before the Spanish war. The
Berlin he knew was no more; the Berlin he
found was far larger, cleaner, better paved
and more vigorously policed.
The greatest change of all was the atti-
tude of press and public toward the United
States. This had become embittered
through commercial rivalry and the war of
tariffs, and aggravated by a rising sympa-
thy between England and the United
States, SO that the slightest pretext was
enough to bring into sharp relief the under
lying irritation.
When the trouble with Spain broke out it
was in the nature of things that the potent
officer class in Germany should believe In
the people who had large standing army
and more than respectable navy; it was
expected that by land and sea the United
States would suffer at first a number of
serious disasters before she could set
enough experienced soldiers and sailors on
a war footing to finally defeat the Span
iards.
German Irritation.
The situation was one that required In
the American amba ssador the greatest ex-
perence, knowledge of the people and cool
ness. 1rritated because in many respects
our tariff works to the disadvantage Of
German exports; enraged because German
colonies remain uncolonized and emigration
to America continues, and utterly forgetful
Of proceedings on Germanys part which tes-
titled to her intention to strain the laws in
order to retaliate on the United States for
any injustice undergone, the press and pub
lie of the fatherland seized upon the Span
ish war as the occasion to ventilate its spite
and soothe its spleen.
Ambassador White had hardly been a
year in his place before he found himself
confronted by Germany intensely hostile
to America, openly predicting tho sucoecc