Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

White have been invited several times to
dine at the palace, which has given them
the highest rank to be had in England and
one rarely extended to any diplomat other
than an ambassador, and rarely to him.
It's said that no foreigner in London has
more intimate acquaintance with the
ms and outs of English affairs or knows
better how to deal with the high function
aries who control the British empire.
He Will have to entertain on a gorgeous
scale in Rome in order to maintain the So
cial standard set by Gen. Draper. who
chartered the most magnificent palace in
the eternal city, or by Ambassador Meyer
who is also occupying a palace at the Ital-
ian capital. While Mr. Reds official sal
airy will be $1,000 year, that of Mr.. White
will be but $4,000. the Rome mission being
the only one raised to an embassy not pay
ing the full ambassadorial salary.
New Men for st. Petersburg and Paris.
1t will be quite a climatic change for
Ambassador Meyer when he is transferred
from Rome to ST. Petersburg about June l.,
but the change will be in the nature of a
promotion. Besides paying $500 more lter
year than the Rome embassy, that at the
Russian capital is, especially now, a much
more responsible post. Mr.. Meyer was
born in Boston forty-Seven years ago. He
is Harvard man and very wealthy mer-
chant and financier. He is regarded as one
of the leading business men of MaSsachu-
sets. and was Endorsed for the Rome mis-
sion by his states entire delegation in
Congress. He and Mrs. Meyer. who was
Miss Alice Appleton, are society leaders OF
the Back Bay and Hamilton sets, besides
owning a cottage at Newport. He rowed
in his class crew at Harvard. and was a
prominent athlete at the university. He is
one of the few society men IN Boston pol
tiles He has been a member of the COM
mon council and board of aldermen of the
hub and has been speaker of the Massa-
chuSettS house of representatives. He IS
member of the swell riding, hunting, fish
inc lie ard COL cil he of a
but is not d society man of the pink tea
brand. When he arrives at St. Petersburg
he will succeed Ambassador Robert S. Nc
Cormick who will be transferred to Paris
in succession of Amba ssador Horace Por-
ter who wishes to retire from diplomatic
life and attend 20 neglected private bust
ness.
Paris is the gayest and in many respects
the most attractive European post, but is
likewise the most Observation-Disclosures, per-
haps. of London. The transfer will be
happy one for Ambassador and MRS. NC
Cormick as st. Petersburg is rather, even
normally, somber city, and recent events
have not added to it's gaiety- The ampas-
sador iS-a son of the millionaire reaper
manufacturer of Chicago, although he was
born in Virginia fifty-tive years ago. After
being graduated at the University of tir-
ginia he married Miss Katherine Van Eta
MediIl daughter of Joseph Medill. the
noted wartime editor of Chicago and bosom
friend of Lincoln. Mr.. Mccormick was
secretary of legation in London, under
Harrison, while Mr.. White was at the same
post He was our first ambassador to
uStria-Hungary.
The Mexican Mission.
The mission to Mexico will be given to
Minister Conger, who has been serving US
industriously at Picking for more than seven
years. Gen. Powell Clayton, who has been
ambassador to President Diaz's capital for
eight years desires to return to the United
States. MI Conger certainly deserves his
promotion to the ambasSadorial rank. He
has accomplished great things in China
while living in the one-Story bungalow
which upholds the dignity of the American
republic at Picking, but which, happily. viii!
soon be replaced by a modern building Be-
sides Drawing the perious siege of Picking,
when his life was daily threatened, and
when he kept cool head on his shoulders.
he and his wife formerly Miss Sarah Pike
able influence upon the imperial court. They
were the first foreigners allowed to enter
tain the imperial Chinese princeSSes. MIR.
Conger, moreover, has successfully used his
influence to have the diplomats at Picking
received by the court as representatives of
sovereigns equal in rank to the Chinese
emperor-a goal almost undreamed of five
years ago. Our minister. Furthermore. Is
the dean of the diplomatic body at Picking
and the virtual foreign advisor of the
court. Mrs. Conger has performed the
miracle of gaining intimacy with the en-
press dowager. She is a frequent and well
come visitor at the palace, and it Is even
gossiped about that she has converted to
Christianity the hitherto infiexible old lady
who governs the celestial empire.