Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06
Durham White Stevens.

das. a wide lawn shaded by tropical trees.
q tennis court stables and quarters for
cook assistant cook. butler, chamber boy
coachman and valct-reQuired by the So
cial code of Baroda Mr.. Whttenack break
fasts at { and again at IL, Keeps OF
flee hours from noon until D. taxes yea d.
$50, drives or rides until 8. and dimes at
$50 Sometimes in the morning he Is
awakened at daylight by the chatter OF
monkeys Or his veranda while the gray
squirrels frequently invade his tea room
and beg for crumbs, while he is at table.
Building Model Tenements.
He is already at work upon the organiza-
ton Of banks-the first in Baroda-a cotton
weaving and cotton oil plant and dairy
farm. He is building model tenements, su-
pervising the extension Of schools and the
establishment of courses Of lectures. In
December he accompanied the maharaja-
on three weeks trip through Delhi, Agra
and Benares, proceeding thence to Calcutta.
where they attended the great Indian con-
gress and the industrial conference and e%-
hibition. The maharaja Is indeed proving
himself in many ways the most progressive
and liberal-minded prince Of India. Besides
these reforms only just commenced, he has
already constructed waterworks and sew
erage systems, and has even provided regu-
lar band concerts In his parks. ne mas sup,
piled Mr.. Whitenack with secretary to
aid him in his work and to teach him
"Gugarati," the language of the state.
But this young man Is by no means the
only American to have lately been com,
missioned Official adviser to an oriental
ruler.
Korean Kings Yankee Adviser.
The post Of diplomatic adviser" to the
King of Korea was given to Durham White
Stevens, just after the Russo-Japanese war.
This commission was conferred by the
mikado at the time that Japan took Korea
under it's suzerainty, and Mr.. Stevens had
direct charge of the delicate work of re-
establishing the Korean government. The
task was made all the more delicate by the
unwillingness of the Korean emperor to be
thus asSimilated.
Mr.. Stevens was young Washington
lawyer when sent to Japan our secretary
of legation in 1873. During this trip he
mad such good impression upon the
mikado and his ministers that in 1885 that
ruler persuaded him to resign his commits
sion under our government and enter the
japanese service at a great advance in
salary as English secretary of the imperial
legation at Washington. The next year
he was ordered back to Toxic for service
in the foreign office, and during the follow
ing winter he was sent to Korea with
Count 1nouve, an ambassador accredited
to negotiate a settlement of difficulties
arising out of an assault made upon the
then japanese minister to Korea and out
of the murder of some japanese by
Koreans. For diplomatic services rendered
on that mission Mr.. Stevens was decorated
by the mka6o with the order Of the Ris-
ing Sun" In 1885 there assembled at
Toxic to sit there for two years thereafter
conference for the revision of Japan's
treaties with the foreign powers. Mr..
Stevens was made member of the
bureau du protocole' of the conference
and thus served until its adjournment. He
then returned to the Japanese legation,
Washington, and was given the rank of
counsellor. He was the adviser of the lega-
ton at the time the present treaty between
Japan and the United States was drawn
up. and was also influential in all Of the
diplomatic negotiations between Japan and
war; For these latter services the mikado
lately decorated him with the Order of the
Sacred Treasure. Several times while at
tached to the Japanese legation in Wash
ington he was recalled to Toxic to give
advice to the foreign Office and was twice
dispatched to Hawaii to assist in settling
Japanese claims. 1t is said that his salary
as diplomatic adviser to the King of
Korea is a very handsome figure.
Yankee Adviser to Slams King.
The post of'"general adviser to the King
of Siam was lately given to Edward Henry
Strobel, Bemis professor Of international
law at Harvard. He Is a bachelor, as are
Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Whitenack, and is a
South Carolinian by birth. He practced
law in New York in the early eighties, was
our secretary of legation and charge daft
fairies at Madrid during President Cleve-
lands first administration, when he was
also sent on two missions to Morocco.
When Mr.. Cleveland assumed office the sec