Evening journal., 1912-12-16
LONDON Is
SHOCKED BY
REID'S DEATH
American Ambassador to Lon
don Passes Away While
Condition is Favorable
ENGLAND MAY SEND BODY
HOME ON BATTLESHIP
by The nited Press.

by 4 ne Onlleu Iiesh.
LONDON, Dec l6.-Funeral plans
Tor the late Whitelaw Reid. L. ).
Ambassador to the Court OF st. James
who died at ten minutes past noon
Sunday, were not announced today at
Dorchester House, pending advices
from Ogden Mills Reid, son of the
ambassador, Who is somewhere az
sea on the liner Kronprinzessin Ce-
ellie. hurrying TO his fathers bier.
Definite arrangements, it was said,
would not be made until the time of
the sons arrival.
lt was said that the tentative offer
boy King George of the Chapel Royal
in ST. James palace for the funeral
services probably would be declined
because of the chapels smallness 1t
was believed that only a small part
OF the London friends OF the ambas-
sador could obtain admission to the
Chapel Royal, to say nothing OF the
host OF officials, diplomats and dig
nllarics who would attend.
II had been decided to take the
body OF the ambassador to the United
States for burial and it was probable
that interment would be in Sleepy
Hollow cemetery near New York. II
was assumed that the body would be
conveyed to the United States on a
British warshio The United States
accorded that courtesy on the death
OF Lord Pauncefote, British ambas-
sador to Washington and on the death
of his successor, Sir Michael Herbert.
both Of whom died in the United
States
The end came to Ambassador Reid
very suddenly few minutes after
noon sunday and il was a surprise to
Mrs Reid and the specialists at the
bedside. Sir Thomas Barlow, physi-
clan TO the king. DR. w. Hale White,
Dr. Richard Rowlands and Sir Will
liam Oslcr
The ambassador passed away al
most Immediately on the recent %.
this wireless message from bis sof
at sea.
Glad 10 hear such good reports
from Father. Give him my love
The message was 10 the mother
sent after Ogden Mills Reid had re-
ceived by wireless the hopeful bull
lctin issued by the physicians early
Sunday morning.
II was announced by the specialists
that Ambassador Reid's detsh was
due directly TO pulmonary Oedemo, re-
sulting from bronchial attacks. which
at the advanced age of Is, the diplo.
mat was unable successfully to com.
bat
Grave fears We're entertained fol
Ambassador Reid Saturday, hut he
rallied we'll Saturday night and wher
the specialists called for consulta
ton. early Sunday. they were pro
fessedly much encouraged by his vi
tality He showed signs OF rapiC
sinking only two hours before he
died
All London was deeply distresse,
by the death OF the diplomat Con
dolences came TO Mrs Reid from Kin.
George and Queen Mary The Kin.
cabled a personal message to Presi
dent Taft in Washington. conyeyin'
TO the United States the first on
cial notice OF Ambassador Reid
death. Sir Edward Grey, Secretarl
Of State for Foreign Affairs, called a
Dorchester House in Park Lane &
convey the official sympathy Of th
British Government and other cabine
ministers followed him. Diplomats o
othcR nations called or sent messages
and the embassy was fairly delugel
WIFI DIOhllMtuA AhAtA ANdHH liA lAihUNl
as we'll as British men and women @
note.
The London newspapers withou
exception. paid the highest ed.toria
tributes TO the dead Ambassador
/ Life of Nr. Reid.
Whitelaw Reid was born Oct 81
1891 in Nenia, q He became
newspaper writer as a young man an
never broke off his connection wit
the public press.
lie was editor-in-chief of the Me-
York Tribune for many wears and al
terward became proprietor of tina
journal
In the meantime. however. hi
Il career has been a varied one. Fl
n served in the first campaigns Of tn
Il Civil War In 1861, and then as wa
Il CORRESPONDENT. in which capacity h
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