New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-09
LE|SHMAN SUCCEEDS
HILL IN BERLIN POST
Important Shift in Diplomatic
Corps Affects Three
Ambassadors.
FIVE MINISTERS NAMED
Larz Anderson Goes to Belgium
and Lloyd Bryce to The
Hague, Other Changes
Being Promotions.

Reorganization of the diplomatic corps in
volved in appointing successors to DR..
David jayne Hill as Ambassador to Ger
many and To Charles II. Sheriff. as Min
lister TO Argentina, both OF whom resigned,
was announced to-day when the nomina-
tons Ct three ambassadors and five min
listers were sent TO the Senate. They are
as follows
JOHN G. A LEISBMAN. Of Pittsburg. now
Ambassador to Italy. transferred as Ambassador
TO Germany.
THOMAS J. o'BRIEN. Of Grand Rapids. Mich
al present Amba ssador 20 Japan. transferred as
Ambassador 10 Italy.
CHARLES PAGE BRYAN, OF Chicago. now
Minister to Belgium. promoted to he Ambassador
10 Japan
LARz ANDERSON. of the District Of Colum-
..Tvioe. appointed Minister to Beeun,.
JOHN RIDGELY CARTER. of Baltimore
! Minister 10 the Balkan states. transferred as
Minister to the Argentine Republic.
4 JOHN 3 JACKSON. OF Newark y. J.. Min
lister 70 Cuba. succeeds Mr.. Carter as Minister
10 the Balkan states.
ARTHUR NJ. BEAUPRE. OF Aurora, IL. Mir
lister TO the Netherlands. becomes Minister &c
Cuha
LLOYD BRYCE Of New York. the only one OF
the nominees who is not now or has not beer
81 the diplomatic service. appointed Minister &c
the Netherlands.
ton Of Charles H. Sheriff. as Minister to
the Argentine Republic after to-day's Cab
met meeting. Mr.. Sheriff. was asked by
President Taft TO remain in the service
and it IS said an embassy was offered 10
him. He declined on the ground that he
Lad been in the service a long time and
wished TO retire, with the idea Of going
into business.
This IS one Of the most important diplo-
matte shifts in recent years. The resigna-
tion Of Or. Hin as Ambassador 10 Germany
was announced April IA with somewhat
startling suddenness. as there had been nc
previous intimation to the public that the
Ambassador contemplated retiring. The
President Immediately began a search OF
the foreign service for well equipped
diplomat to succeed Dr. Hill. His choice
fell on Mr.. Leishman and this involved
numerous changes, as il was desired 10
fill all vacancies possible by promotions
within the service. The task was further
Increased recently by Charles II. Sheriff.
retiring from his post in the Argentine
Republic.
1t is pointed out that all the nominees,
save two Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Bryce
are already in the diplomatic service. This
indicates, il is added. that the policy of
the government has extended the principle
OF the civil service TO the entire diplomatic
corps.
John q. A. Leishman is an experienced
diplomat having entered the foreign SER
vice in 1897 as Minister TO Switzerland. He
was transferred to Turkey in 1900 and, in
1906. the post was raised to an ambas-
NJ nieh.
man was transferred to Rome.
Mr.. Leishman born in Pittsburg
Penn. on March Is. 1857. He engaged in
steel making and at the time he entered
the diplomatic service he was president OF
the Carnegie Steel Company. He married,
in 1880 Miss Julia Crawford, Of Pittsburg.
N They have three children.
Thomas J. O'Brien is a lawyer Of Grand
VRapids. Mich. He is sixty-eight years old
and was graduated from the law depart
rnent Of the University of Michigan in 1860.
For more than thirty years he was con-
nected with the Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railway. He succeeded Lauritz s. Swensor
at Copenhagen in 1905, and in 1891 succeeded
Luke r. Wright as Ambassador 10 Japan.
Charles Page Bryan has been Minister TO
Belgium since December p. 1909 For six
years before that he served as United
States Minister to Portugal He entered
the diplomatic service in 1897 as United
States Minister to China, and he has also
served in a similar capacity in Brazil and
Switzerland
John Ridgely Garter was born in Balti-
more. in 1864 He is a graduate of Trinity
College, Connecticut. and later studied in
Leipsc and the Harvard Law School He
was admitted 10 the bar in 1889. He was sec-
rotary to the American Ambassador at Lon
don from 1894 TO 1896. and second secre-
tary TO that embassy from 1886 TO 1905.
He has been stationed in the Balkan
States since 1909.
John b. Jackson. of New Jersey is &
graduate Of the Naval Academy and served
several years as a lieutenant in the navy
lie entered the diplomatic service as second
secretary 10 the legation at Berlin, and be-
fore il was raised to an embassy he was
promoted 10 first secretary. In 1902 he was
appointed minister TO Greece, his duties be-
ing later extended TO include Servia, Bull
garia and Rumania. In 1907 Mr.. jackson
was made envoy and minister TO Persia
In 1909 he was sent 10 Cuba.
Arthur NJ Beaupre is d native of Os-
Waeo H., born in 1853. He studied law
N 1885 he became clerk of Kane County,
ILL.,. serving till 1894. In 1897 he became
consul general and secretary Of the legation
at Guatemala. Two years later he was
transferred 10 Colombia in the same ca
pacity. He became minister to Colombia
;n 1903, and served there during the pend
ency of the Panama Canal treaty. lie
was minister 10 Argentina from 1903 II
1908, when he was transferred TO the Meth
erlands.
I Lloyd Bryce was born in Flushing, n. Y,
in 1851. He was educated at the Jesuit
3 College. in Georgetown. ID. c.. and in OK
ford He studied law in Columbia. He
was a member OF the 50th Congress. elect
ed on the Democratic ticket In 1889 ne
: received as a bequest from his friend. Al
( len Thorndyke Rice. a controlling interest
+ in THE North American Review" He con-
Quoted that magazine ill 1895, when he
E retired. He IS the author Of several books.
Boston. Aug s-The appointment of Larz
Anderson as Minister TO Belgium is of par
tjcular interest 10 residents Of Boston,
where Doth Mr.. and Mrs Anderson are
{ widely known. The Anderson estate in
Z Rrookline IS one Of the most beautiful In
the suburbs Of Boston. They also own
a handsome summer horne in Webster.
IN IL. on the estate formerly owned by
Mrs. Anderson's father, who was Commo-
core George H. Perkins, Of the navy. Be
sides being prominent In Boston and
Prooknne society Mrs. Anderson is known
as author.