Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
DIPLOMATIC CHANGES
W. F. Sands of Washington
Minister to Guatemala.
HEIMKE GOES TO SALVADOR
Arthur Bailly-Blanchard First
Secretary at Paris.
J. G. BAILEY TO MEXICO CITY
]. B. Laughlin Transferred to Paris.
G. s. Wilson Second Secretary
at Rome.
HEIMKE GOES TO SALVADOR
J. G. BAILEY TO MEXICO CITY


c. s. Wilson Second Secretary
at Rome.
A big list of promotions in and ap-
pointments to the diplomatic service was
sent to the Senate yesterday by President
ministers. promotions among secretaries
OF important European posts and some
new appointees of secretaries of lega-
ton, made as a result Of the recent ex-
aminations for those positions. Alto
gether about thirty changes and new ap-
pointees are made.
w. F. Sands Washington Man.
4 William Franklin Sands, who has been
promoted from secretary of the embassy
at Mexico City to be minister to Guate-
mala, is a native OF Washington, where
he was born in 1874
He IS a graduate of the government
school at Feldkirch. Austria, and of the
Georgetown University Law School. From
1900 to 1905 he served as adviser to the
Emperor of Korea.
His first appointment in the dipio-
matte service was as second secretary at
Toxic, May q. 1895. In 1897 he was
appointed secretary at Seoul and re-
signed that post early in 1900.
In 1905 he was appointed secretary at
Panama: in 1907, secretary at Guatemala,
and in 1908, secretary OF the embassy at
Mexico City.
William Heimke's Career.
William Heimke of Leavenworth, Kan,
who has been transferred from the lega-
ton at Guatemala to the legation at
Salvador. has been in the foreign service
Of the government for eight years. His
first appointment was as vice consul at
Chihuahua, Mexico, February 9. 1887.
He was appointed consul at Chihuahua
August is. 1892. and retired from that
secretary Of the legation at Mexico City,
May 3. 1897; secretary of the legation at
Bogota, July, 1906. and envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
II Guatemala March TO- 1908
II Mr.. Heimke was born in 1S47 in France
and Is naturalized citizen of the United
States. He served in the 9th Corps,
Army Of the Potomac. from 1866 to 1869,
from 1859 to 1880. He has been con-
nected in active capacities with the Mexi-
can Central railway the Chihuahua and
Durango telephone companies and other
The following promotions and transfers
in the diplomatic service are also an
nounced:
Bailly- Blanchard Promoted.
Arthur Blanchard, second secre-
tary at Paris, to be first secretary at
II Paris
n Mr.. Bailly-Blanchard was born in New
Orleans in 1866 and served at two diff
limos fnr 20
secretary to the minister to France. He
was afterward secretary of the United
States commission to the Paris exposi-
ton and an American juror at the ex-
position; was a secretary of the Boring
II sea tribunal of arbitration; secretary of
the bimetallic mission to France; secre-
tary to John w. Foster, special ambas-
sador to Russia: attache of the American
peace commission, Paris, 1898, and q
II secretary of The Hague peace conference
In 1907.
He was appointed third secretary at
II Paris In 1900, and second secretary at
Paris in 1901.
J. G. Bailey Goes to Mexico City.
James G. Bailey, secretary at Stock
holm, to be first secretary at Mexico
City.
1 Mr.. Bailey was born in Sayersville,
4 KY, in 1863 He served in the United
States census office for two years, prac-
ticed law in Kentucky and was a mem
Der Of the Kentucky legislature.
Il He was appointed secretary to Guate-
mala and Honduras in 1901; secretary to
/ Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador in
1903, and secretary at Stockholm in 1907.
I. B. Laughlin Transferred to Paris.
Irwin B. Laughlin, secretary OF the
legation at Athens, to be second secre-
tary Of the embassy at Paris. Mr.
he was born in 1871. He is a Yale grad
uate and has travelled extensively in Eu-
rope and the orient.
Before his appointment in the diplo-
matte service he was treasurer Of the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company of
Pittsburg. He served as private secre-
tary to the minister to Japan for two
years. and was appointed second secre-
tary at Toxic in 1905; secretary and con-
sui general at Bangkok In 1906; second
secretary at Picking in 1907; second sec
rotary at st. Petersburg in 1907, and sec
rotary to Greece and Montenegro in 1905
Rome Post for c. S. Wilson.
I Charles S. Wilson of Bangor, Me-, sec
rotary Of the legation at Buenos Aires,
to be second secretary of the embassy at
Rome.
Mr.. Wilson was born in 1879, and is a
| Harvard graduate. He was appointed
secretary to Greece. Roumania and Ser
via in 1907 secretary to Greece and Mon
| teneSro in 1905: secretary at Havana
| 1906, and secretary at Buenos Aires, 1907
r. M. Winthrop at Athens.
Robert NJ. Winthrop of Boston. Mass,
second secretary at Rome. to be secretary
at Athens.
Mr.. Winthrop was born in Boston in
1873, and is graduate of Harvard. He
| was appointed secretary at Brussels in
| 1902: secretary at Madrid in 1903, and
second secretary at Rome in 1907.
Stockholm II. G. Mays Post.
Henry Coleman May of Washington,
u. c., third secretary at st. Petersburg
to be secretary at Stockholm.
Mr.. May was born in California in 1854.
and received his education at George
| town and Harvard universities.
He served as private secretary to the
minister to Panama for two years, and
was appointed secretary of legation at
| Panama in 1907 and third secretary of
embassy at st. Petersburg in 1908.
u. g. Smith Moved to Brussels.
L. Grant Smith. secretary at Santiago
to be secretary at Brussels.
Mr.. Smith is native of Washington,
Pa, where he was born in 1870. He is
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