New Britain herald., 1915-04-06
0UIfD OOOOOT1OO I0
 PNEUMONIA ATTACKS
Former Massachusetts Governor and
 EX-AmbaSSadOr to Russia.

Boston, April 6.-CurtiS Guild, for mer governor and former ambassador to Russia, died at 2:,3O a. m.
 The end was peaceful. MT. Guilds illness began in a cold contracted af- ter trip to Salem April 1, and which rapidly developed into pneumonia.
 Second Attack of Pneumonia.
 It was his second attack from the remarkable recovery in 1908 after the physicians had almost abandoned hope. Later in that year he under went an operation for appendicitis.
 Mr. Guild was unconscious for half an hour before his death. At his bed- side wtre Mrs. Guild, pr. William B. Robbins, who had attended him throughout his illness, and a nurse.
 Taft Among Callers.
 Among his callers after he was stricken was former President Taft, an intimate friend of long standing, who appointed MT. Guild special am bassador to Mexico on the occasion of the centennial celebration of that re- public in 1910. and a year later sent him as ambassador to Russia.
 MT. Guild was born in Boston Feb ruary 2, 1860. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1906 to 1909.
 Preliminary arrangements were made for holding the funeral in the Arlington Street Unitar:an church at noon on Friday. Other details of the funeral will be arranged at a meeting of MT. Guilds friends tomorrow.
 Noted Public Speaker.
 He attained unusual distinction as 8 public speaker though his ability to address an audience with ease in any one of several languages. His vigor and influency as an orator in , English, displayed in many republican party campaigns, led Col. Roosevelt to select him as a speaking compan- ion in his stumping tour of the west in 1900 1909, at the invitation of the Swiss government and Geneva uni- versity, he delivered an address in French at the 350th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. He repre- sented the American Unitarian asso- citation on this occasion and the cniver- sity awarded him the degree of Doc tor of Sacred Theology. He had string of degrees from other universi- ties.
 President Taft, in 1910, designated MT Guild as special ambassador to represent the United States at the centennial celebration of the inde- pendence of Mexico, and at one of the functions in Mexico City he gave an address in Spanish. While he was governor he surprised some Japanese visitors to Massachusetts by saying a few word to them in their own tongue. and with a brief speech in Italian he welcomed the Duke of the Abruzzi.
 Student at Harvard.
 MT. Guilds work as a writer began while he was at Harvard college, where for time he was an editor of the Crimson and in his senior year edited the Lampoon. On leaving col lege he entered the office of the Bos- ton Commercial Bulletin, weekly trade paper founded by his father, and his editorial connection with the pa per, of which he later became sole owner, continued throughout his life
 In the war with Spain, MT. Guild, who at the time was Brigadier Gen eral in the Massach usetts militia, served on the staff of General Fitz- hugh Lee, with the rank of lieuten- ant colonel, and as inspector general of the Seventh Army Corps.
 Was Lieutenant Governor.
 MT. Guild, who was born in Boston in 1860, served three terms as lieu tenant governor before he was first chosen governor in 1906. At the re- publican national convention in 1908 he received seventy-five votes for the vice-presidential nomination.
 An incident of Mr. Guilds first term as governor was the presentation Of a petition, signed by 116,00O persons, for the pardon of Charles l.. Tucker under sentence of death for the mur- der of Miss Mabel Page at Weston. The trial of Tucker had been one Of the most notable in Massachusetts criminal history and he had been con- victed on circumstantial evidence. Governor Guild made a thorough in- vestigation of the case, granting hear ings to the petitioners and visiting the scene of the murder. He refused to grant the petition and Tucker was executed.