Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-16

| i~'i Wv Pui'y at WTtst park WHICH nt
mad invited to meet the Prince and
Prncess of Teck last weekend.
even In the last week several small
luncheons. which the ambassador and
MRS. Reid were accustomed TO give IL
| American visitors, had been arranged
| Just before his condition became Sc
Nous. These were cancelled when h,
was attacked with asthma Wednesday
On Thursday the attacks became
| more severe and Sir Thomas Barlow
was summoned in consultation and
DR.. r. y. Rowland was installed In
the house to be in constant attend
ancc. The attack became worse SRI
day, and for time 1t was believed he
ambassador could not survive the
| night lie was greatly exhausted but
the physicians got the paroxysms un-
der control, and later held out hope
for h recovery. Mr.. Reid, however,
did not regain his strength, and on
Sunday morning ii was seen that he
was sinking.
Mrs. Reid and Mrs. Ward, who had
been in constant attendance since MS
condition became serious, We're sum-
moned. lie soon lapscd into uncon-
sciousness and lay quietly until the
end came.
Whitelaw Reid, who came to Eng
y
here The diplomatic duties are not
SO heavy in London as at some posts,
but socially the American ambassador
is much in demapd and more fire.
quently called upon to deliver speeches
and addresses than the other ambas-
sadors
Mr.. Reid gave much time to his
addresses, particularly those delivered
at the university. and was at his work
long before other men in his position
would be astjr. He dictated to his
secretary or wrote for several hours
before going to the embassy, where
he was regular in attendance until ILL
ness overlook him, and there spent
another three hours receiving visitors
and attending to official correspond
ence.
There We're invariably engagements.
official and unofficial, for the after
noon and entertainments for the
evening. which made his day full. He
was d member of several big clubs.
These he seldom visited, although "a
regular attendant at the meetings OF
the Roxborough, a club of book low
ers, and the Titmarch, a Thackeras
club.
Until the last he was active in lit
erary pursuits. One of the reasons
ship and return home was that he
might be enabled to write his
memoirs, for which he had mass of
and to which his friends
asked him to- give his
time.
one OF the ambassadors last let
ters was written December 9th to
Robert Donald editor of the Daily
Chronicle and member of the com
mittee of the. Anglo American peace
centenary 1t began:
II am finding once more this week
that there is never convenient mo-
troubled me so much since the break
down three or four weeks ago. that
followed lny overwork in the autumn
and early winter, as to learn that the
will not consent to my at
tending the public meeting at thel
house to help naugurate
your movement for celebrating the one
anniversary of peace be-
tween our two countries. | especallyI
wish to be present. because [ regard
this as an event of enormous inpor-
lance and | think that failure to give
it such celebration as should chal |
enge the attention of the whole world !
would be d crime
After congratulating Mr.. Donald on
his work and writings In behalf of the
celebration, the letter continued:
IF l dared to promise to be present
1T the lord mayors meeting, | would,
md if by the time it comes | can cs-
ape so far from the thralldom of the !
physicians, / surely shall be.
"In the meantime ! hope that the
work is in as forward and promising
, state in my own country as here.
In h, nj,
rot have come at Il moment more
helpful for the peace of the world"
Whitelaw Reid, diplomat, was born
october 81, 1897, at Xenia. Ohio. He
was graduated from Miami university
n 1856, and began his journalistic
'arecr as editor of the Nenia News,
which paper he was connected with
rom 1858 to 1863. In 1860 lie be-
anne reporter for the Cincinnati
iazette. and IN 1861 and 1862 was
var correspondent and later the
correspondent for the
anne paper. The briliancy and ac
uracy of his war reports attracted
considerable attention among newspa
'er men at the time. He was aide
e- camp on the staffs Of General Nor
is and General Rosecrans in West
Tirginia. From 1868 to 1865 he was
ibrarian of the house of representa-
ives. and after the civil war spent
ONE time on a cotton plantation in
parish. louisiana In 1868
e joined the editorial staff of the
tew York Tribune, and in S69 be-
anne managing editor of that paper
Iaving proved his worth to the pa
er, he soon became editor in chief,
nd later chief proprietor, personally /
Erecting the destnies of the paper ,
uilding movement in New York City i
y the erection of the new Tribune
in 1878, and introduced the {
notype and organized the first limo
vpe company. He declined appoint-
lents as United States minister to I
in 1877 and 1881. lie was u :
member of the board of regents of the
University of New York in 1878. vice ;
hancellor in 1902 and chancellor in I
904. He was United States minister s
, France from 1889 to 1892 and the q
cpublican nominee for vice president |
! 1892. He was special am bassador {
rom the United States to Queen Vic i
Dria's jubilee in 1897. and member
the peace commission which met ;
I Paris in 1898 70 settle the Spanish {
merican war. He was special am I
assador To the coronation of King I
.dward VII. in 1902. Since 1905 he 2
ad served as ambassador to Eng :
md. As an author. Mr. Reid was i
-idely known. He wrote After the '
Var. \ Southern Tour Ohio in the l
Var. Newspaper Tendencies. Town y