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

ceived overtures from a leading ST. Louis
journal, Offering the management. Hear
ing of this, the proprietors of the Gazette
offered him a handsome interest In their
property at meager price. He accepted
and his share of the profits Melted him
IS % per cent on his investment the first
year.
This was the basis of his fortune. His
excellent Washington letters attracted the
attention of Horace Greeley, who COM
menced to make him tempting overtures.
These offers finally reached a mark where
Reid saw that he would profit by accept
ance. and he went to New York as Mr..
GreeIeys leading editorial writer, with
salary second to that of the great editor
year later he became managing editor
Of the Tribune. During Greeleys presi-
Dental campaign Reid acted as his editor
in-chief. and when the editor-candldate dled
soon after his memorable political struggle,
Mr.. Reid had sufficient capital placed at
his disposal to purchase the Tribune. Nine
years later he married Elizabeth. daughter
of D. Ogden Mills, the veteran New York
financier. Their children are Miss Jean
Templeton Reid q debutante of a few years
back, and Mr.. Ogden Mills Reid of Harvard
C04).
Tried Diplomat and Generous Host.
Diplomacy holds mysteries for Mr..
Reid. Hayes and Garfield both offered him
the mission to Germany. which he refused,
but Harrison induced him to become min
lister to France. He has furthermore been
our special ambassador to England twice
at the queens jubilee. in 1897, and at the
kings coronation. in 1902
London will find him generous spender-
While minister to Paris he hired palatlal
establishment for which, it is said. he PAID
$2I 900 year. His magnificent dinners and
fetes must have cost him even more While
attending the diamond jubilee in London he
hired the Earl of LOnSdaleS mansion, on
the aristocratic Carlton Gardens. This was
the same house which the British govern
ment hired for Ii Hung Chang, when that
Croesus visited London. While at the corO-
ma ton he leased establishment even
more palatial.
Mr. Reid will be addressed in London as
your excelIency" With his fellow am
bassadors he will rank next below the
Prince of Wales in social precedence lie
will receive the first call from the British
secretary of state for foreign affairs ian
honor not conferred upon ministers). He
will be regarded the personal represen-
ia tive of President Roosevelt and will have
direct access TO King Edward al all times,
on matters of Importance. He and Mrs.
Reid will be frequent guests of the king
and queen who will dine at the American
embassy several times during the ambassa-
doris term. But at court functions Mr..
Reid and his secretaries will be the only
guests in plain evening dress. All others
will wear court costume. forbidden by our
laws. Even unofficial Americans presented
at court by Mr. Reid will be required b.
the lord chamberlain to don knickerbock'
ers. frills. buckles and silk stockings. The
last American diplomat. by the way, to de-
part from the strict rule of evening dress
at court was James Buchanan. In addi-
ton to his dress suit he wore black
dress sword" and the costume is said to
have given the lord chamberlain a twinge
when he first caught sight of it.
Mrs. Reid. on the other hand. must wear
court costume when she attends the royal
functions. and the last detail of her dress
I..J Atyn In lt1r
bodice cannot be cut a quarter of an inch
higher in the neck than this etiquette pre-
scrbes. unless she present doctors GER
tificate to the lord chamberlain. She will
be known in London as the ambaSSa dress
and by virtue of her diplomatic rank she
cannot be sued for debt by the British
shopkeepers.
Promotion of Henry White.
The same rules will apply in a general
way to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White shortly
to be our ambassador and ambassadresS
at Rome. Mr.. White is one of the most
skillful diplomatists in our service. He is
a man of great wealth and his wife, who
was Miss Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford
of New York. is n descendant of one of
the oldest Knickerbocker families. They,
like the Reds. have a son and a daughter
both unmarried. the former. John C. White,
being now at Harvard and the latter, Miss
Muriel. being just at the age when she
court. Many daughters of our uitra-smart
set will doubtless covet the social status
Of Miss Reid and Miss White more than
that of Miss Roosevelt herself.
Henry White was born in Baltimore fifty
five years ago. and was educated partly
here and partly in France. He was secre-
tary of our legation in Vienna during the
latter part of Arthur's administration, and
was transferred TO the second secretary
ship at London soon after Mr.. Cleveland
became President. He was promoted to
first secretary two years later and remained
in that rank throughout the Harrison
term, but was recalled when Mr.. Clcve
land returned to the White House. Mr.. Nc
KinIey offered him the mission to Spain,
but London life had many attractions
for him that he preferred the paltry salary
of 81 625 which the secretaryship there paid
to the $4,000 which the rank of minister to
Madrid guaranteed. But money was no OBJ
iect to MIR. White-neither is it today. 1t
is estimated that life at the court of ST.
James has cost him about twenty times
his official pay, about $4,000 year.
Besides maintaining his town house In
whitehall Gardens he occupies fine es-
tate near Windsor during the winter sea-
son, when London's smart set betakes itself
to its country residences. He and Mrs.