The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-07
CAMPBELL WILL NOT BE
CONSUL AT WARSAW
Request for His EXequatur
Withdrawn.
State Department Looking for Ameri-
can Citizen Eligible for Position.
Rawicz viii Not Be Appointed

The State Department has withdrawn
its request that the Russian government
grant an exequatur to Angus Campbell,
Of Massachusetts. who was appointed
United States consul at Warsaw by
President Roosevelt last December.
This vitiates the appointment and the
State Department is now looking for a
suitable man, american citizen pre-
ferred, to fill the place.
The withdrawal Of the request for an
exequatur was the outcome Of an inter
esting controversy with comic opera
phases Joseph Rawicz. Polish banker
of wealth and social position, had been
the United States consul at Warsaw
from 1875 until last year, when he died
His nephew, who succeeded him in the
banking business, applied for the va
cancy and was recommended by the
United States consul general at St.
Petersburg
Position Unremunerative
The place was desired for the honor
and not for the remuneration. It is a
fee office, and last year the emoIuments
amounted to less than $500. On account
Of its small earnings. the State Depart
ment had never succeeded in getting an
American citizen to take the consuIship
until after the death Of the elder Raw
icz, when Angus Campbell, then in Lon
don, sent in an application indorsed by
the late William Mckinley Osborne.
United States consul general at the
British capital.
The State Department was only too
glad to get an American to serve, and
on its recommendation President Roose-
welt appointed Campbell
The interest of Campbell in Warsaw
was of a romantic character. He was d
dentist who had been a wauderer over
Europe. and resided for some time IN
the Polish city. There he met al heir
ess. young and beautiful, and they
ran away together; that Is. Campbell
says she eIOped with him voluntarily.
while people in Warsaw charge that he
abducted her forcibly and made her
marry him.
Reports Reach State Department.
When the news that Campbell was to
succeed Rawicz got to Warsaw some
people became busy spreading seanda-
Ious stories about his affair with the
heiress. Pretty soon anonymous letters
bearing the Warsaw postmark reached
the State Department and most OF them
were TO the effect that Campbell had
forced the heiress te run away with him
and that he was nos Campbell at all. but
a native of Lemburg. Austria, named
FinkeIstein
The State Department did not pay any
attention TO these anonymous communi- |
cations 1t did not believe that Camp |
bell was Finkelstein. Papers submitted |
by him 70 the department appeared to /
show that he had been born in Montreal, |
was educated at the high school there. |
at the Chicago University of Medicine /
and at the Paris University. and had |
been naturalized in Boston In 1898
Boieslaw Horodynski. the United |
States vice consul at Warsaw. who was /
no friend Of Campbell, and wanted the /
younger Rawicz appointed wrote to the /
State Department a couple OF months /
ago that Campbell had dropped IN casu-
ally at the consulate on two occasions 1
and on the second had remarked that he |
was going TO Washington to personally /
present his resignation TO President /
But Campbell did not shSy
up.
The department then made an inquiry
into the statements mentioned and
found that there was so much prejudice
against him in Warsaw that he would
be OF no service there. So the request
Tor the exequatuT was Withdrawn.
Incidentally it may be said that
Rawicz the younger will not get the
eonsulship. and that the State Depart
ment is not pleased with Harodynski's
activity Il the Campbell case.