Evening star., 1922-11-13

former ambassador had been in i'll
health for the past year.
In Paris Three Years.
Mr.. Storer's wife. Maria Longworth
Storer. also a former Cincinnatian.
and an aunt of Representative Nicho-
las Longworth, was with him at the
time of, his death. The Storers had
been making their home in Paris
since their last visit to the United
States about three years ago.
The seat occupied by Mr.. Storer in
Congress in 1891. is now occupied by
his nephew. Nicholas Longworth.
1t was while Mr.. Storer was am
bassador to Austri-Hungary that the
incident relating to the exchange of
letters between President Theodore
Roosevelt and Mrs. Storer. which came
to be known as the Dear Maria" let
ters, occurred. They concerned a
breach between Roosevelt and the
S,orers over an interest in the pro-
posec elevation of the late Archbishop
Ireland to cardinalate.
Also Wns Minister.
NEW YORK, November 13.-Bel-
lamy Storer who died in Paris. yester-
day, was American ambassador to
Austria Hungary in 1902-06 and be-
fore that had been minister to Bel
gium and Spain. He represented the
first Ohio district in the fifty-second
and fifty-third Congresses.
He was born in Cincinnati. August
%, 1847 and was graduated from Har-
ward College in 1867. He entered the
law two years later and was appoint
ed an assistant United States attorney
Of the southern district Of Ohio.
.My Dear Maria" Letters.
Mr.. Storer's death recalls the dip
lomatic sensation of a decade and
half ago when he was summar1ly re-
moved as ambassador at Vienna by
the then President Roosevelt.
1t was Mr.. storer's wire. VINO was was
whom revolved the strife incidental
to the dismissal. She was the my
Dear Maria" in the remarkable series
of letters written by the late Presi-
dent and published by Mrs. Storer In
husband's removal had been an in
It was she, too. who was charged
by the President with responsibility
for the complications which caused
her husbands removal Mr.. Roosevelt
Storer with having delved too deeply
into affairs of state and with seriously
involving the United States with the
Vatican in Rome and with the gov
ernments of France, Spain and
Austria Hungary.
The Storers and the Roosevelts had
been intimate friends for many years.
Mrs, Storer, aunt Of Nicholas Long
worth, Mr.. Roosevelt's son-in-law,
was godmother to Kermit Roosevelt.
and Mr.. Storer had served in. Con-
eress when Mr. Roosevelt was a MEM
Der of the Civil Service Commission.
Dismissal q Surprise.
It was March 20, 1906, that Presi-
dent Roosevelt unexpectedly, an
nounced the dismissal of Ambassador
storer. Secretary of State Elihu Root
followed with formal note to the
Vienna government announcing that
the removal had been accomplished
by cable and without the usual pro-
cedure attendant upon such formali-
ties
of the actual cause Of the dismissal
Ambassador and Mrs. Storer at the
time were absent in Egypt. On their
return to Vienna in April with the
continental capitals seething with
conjectures, the storm broke.
Letter Was Feature.
The forerunner was the publication
nv Mrs Storer Of q letter which she
ssid Roosevelt, as Governor Of New
York. had written her in 1900, to be
shown by her to Cardinal Rampolla.
in order to convince the Vatican Of
the friendly attitude Of prominent
Americans toward Archbishop Ire
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