The Washington herald., 1914-06-27
|NAIIONTOH HONOR
Minister R0JAS
Body Of Venezuelan Will Be
Conveyed Here Today by
State Officials.
ESCORT TO MEET TRAIN
Following Services tuesday. U. S.
Bsttleship VIII Take Diplomat to
Native Home for, Burial.
ESCORT TO MEET TRAIN

National tribute to the memory OF Dr.
PEDRO Ezequiei Rojas. Venezuelan min
ister to the United States. who died yes
terday in Atlantic City, will be paid bJ
members of the Cabinet. Justices Of th'
Supreme Court. Congressmen OF th'
House and Senate Foreign Relations
Committees. and members of the Diplo-
matte Corps, when funeral services are
held next Tuesday at St Matthews
Church in Rhode Island avenue. senoi
Rojas was seventy years old. DIR. James
@. Mckay, who was his attending ply
sician during the winter. stated that
death was due to sudden failure Of the
heart induced by coughing spell.
stedman Hanks, representing ths
State Department, and Francisco ].
Yanes. OF the Pan-American Union. have
gone TO Atlantic City to accompany the
body to Washington, according TO In
structions from Assistant Secretary OF
State Phelps and Director General Bar.
rett, OF the Pan-American Union. who
are in charge Of the funeral arrange
ments. The body will be brought from
Atlantic City today in q special car or
dered by the State Department, due here
at $40 o'clock.
Escort of Mounted Police.
Representatives from the White House,
State Department and the Pan-Ameri-
can Union will meet the train and the
body will be carried to the Venezuelan
Legation in the Avenue of the Presidents
under escort of mounted police.
Following the services Tuesday. troops
will escort the body to the Navy Yard,
where II win be placed aboard the Sylph
and taken to Hampton Rhoades. From
there Il will be carried by the battleship
Kansas to La Guayra, Venezuela, the
port OF Caracas, the capital of that
country.
On. receipt of the news of Senior Rojas'
death yesterday at the Pan-American
Union. the fag OF Venezuela was placed
at half mast to reman until after the
body has left the country. A telegram
OF coincidence was sent to Atlantic City
by the Secretary of State.
DR.. Rojas was = prominent man in his
own country, where he was known as an
authority on questions Of international
law. turist and a writer on political
and literary subjects He was born Oc-
tober l. ls44, at Cumana, Venezuela. the
youngest Of a family which has pro-
duced other prominent venezuelans. Pc
dro Jose, the eldest OF the family. was
'icad VI curing the dictator
ship Of Gen. Paez Pedro Elias, another
brother, was an army oficer. at one
time governor of Cumana, the native
state Of his family.
Was Newspaper Man.
DR.. Rojas began his career as a news
paper man and has always been active
in politics. He became representative.
later senator and finally president of the
national congress. He has represented
Venezuela in various diplomatic capaci-
ties in other countries.
For five years-1ss3 to Isss-he held the
high position of minister OF foreign af-
fairs. During his term in that ONCE.
through the good Offices Of the United
States. the British-Venezuelan boundary
dispute was submitted to arbitration,
For several years in the early part OF
his career he was exiled from his coun-
try. but was recalled later to hll a post
OF great Importance. He was sent to
this country as Minister in 1903 and has
held that position ever since.
He had a number of decorations. in
cluding the bust Of Bolivar from his own
government, the Great Cross of 81
Gregory from the Pope and the Prussian
crown Of Germany.