Evening star., 1924-10-26
BY MARGARET II. DOWNING.

EadOr accredited Dy ms country u
This capital, and he has already 10
Years to his credit, the exact length
of time that the French Ambassador
= had served here before he succeeded
Baron Won Hengelmuller in the SUI
preme position of dean of the foreign
contingent Senor Riano had been
four years Minister when he was
elevated to the higher rank, having
been sent to Washington in 1910, on
the resignation of the Marquis de
Nillalobar, whose health had failed
lie had previous to this been first
secretary of the Spanish legation on
the staff of the Duke of ARGOS, VINO
came to take up the broken thread
of diplomatic relations caused by the
war over Cuban independence. AS
the ducal envoy rather chafed under
the role assigned, Senior Riano, ire
auently was the charge daHares
while the Minister was in Madrid.
Few enyoys have had such pro-
1onged and varied experience in one
country as the dean-elect or the
Washington corps, the combined
length of his various assignments
lerc totaIinE IS years Naturally. ne
speaks English perfectly, and under
stands the traditions which underlie
the American national life. 1t was
in 1905 and while Senior Riano was
acting as charge daffaires OF SPAN
during the absence of the Minister,
then Senior Emilio ojeda, that he
married, after a. prolonged conrtshlp'
Miss Alice s. Ward of this city. Thus
the new dean. like the retiring one,
will bring to his exalted role an
American wife.
Though Spain established diplo-
matte relations with the new republic
just as soon as President Washing
ton had been inaugurated, IN New
n n n
elevation to the post of dean Will
mark the first occasion that honor
has come to the Spanish envoy. King
Carlos " sent Senior Ignacio di War
as the first charge d'affaires and he
remained for seven years, and was
succeeded in 1895 by Senior Carlos de
lrjos. President jefferson had some
trouble with the Spanish court in
1908 and for six years there was no
representative of Spain in the small
diplomatic corps at Washington.
Ferdinand VII sent the first fully
accredited Minister in 1Sl3-Senor
Luis de Onio-and he remained for
10 years. Since the Spanish Ameri-
can war II different envoys have
come from Madrid, and until the ap-
pointment of Senior Riano in 1910
some of Their terms rarely exceeded
II OF 70 months. Among these were
two llneal descendants Of the great
historic navigators to whom the new
world owes such a heavy debt. Luis
Polo de Earuabe, a. remote deScen-
dant of Polo, and Emilio de oJeda,
who was from the same family as
that renowned Conqui. .tadore and
discoverer. Alfonso de Ojeda, who,
after marvellous achievements, died
on the island of Santo Domingo in
the opening of the sixteenth century.
,,,f4 4g.t
felt in Washington in the phenome-
nally large number OF new diplo-
matists who Will make part of the
official world just as the results or
the November elections are known, IS
cantered on the handsome embassy
and legation buildings, some like
the Italian, well on to completion
and some about to be erected. 1t
has been known for months that Sir
Esrne Howard would saan begin
another British embassy and his
choice of Sixteenth street, announced
recently in an index pointing toward
ihe greater development of this nota-
BILE thoroughfarc. 1t begins as
continued street at Lafayette Park
end runs due north, thus making sure
that the vast slice OF ~ mics
square, which compose the Federai
city. will, in it's northeast section,
bassador will dispose of the hne
property at Connecticut avenue ana
\ street. in a nominal way, for the
erecting of such an establishment as
ne coutemplates will require the
preater part of two years, ana ne
will continue in the present sltua-
lion in the interim. The new frencn
Ambassador will have the TASK VI
building the embassy, which Is TO
nlDt SiXtGenIn dHu
1,uc,id streets adjoining the studlo
home of Mai George Totten ana -eA-
+onding back to Fifteenth street.
>vhere the chancellery will pe punt.
The French government Will come
into possession of its first nome "hei
rhis embassy is complete. frehch
legations and embassies have occu-
MED some of the historic resloehces
of Washington during the ia years
sine ethe Minister sent by the Dlrec-
tory, NJ Pierre Adet, removed with
the government from Phliadelphia
md went into chambers in the SIX
brick buildings on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Twenty-second street
The German Amba ssador and Frau
1yiedfeldt. who have enjoyed their
first protracted vacation away from
washington since they came to TINS
country three years ago, nave spent
most of their sojourn near Key west
FLA and have made lelsureiS motoi
1rips up and down the east and west
coasts of the country of Ponce de Leon.
They are expected at the embassy very
shortly and will find their domestic
affairs on n more substantial basis
than when they left The Ambassador
having resigned from the corps ana
expecting to be relieved on september
Is, Frau Wiedfeldt sent her capable
staff of German household retalners
he Fat
gather them when the home at Essen
was again re-established. She had
also packed and shipped all her per-
sonal possessions when the request
came to DR.. Weidfeldt to continue In
his present position until after the
reparations policy of Gen. Dawes mad
been placed in sactive operation. so
the servants are sailing BACK, ana
will be in Washington in time to get
the house in readiness against 'the
arrival Of the Ambassador and Frau
Wiadfeldt While the ambassadors
stay is uncertain, 1T seems dehnltely
decided to extend 1t over the next
year at least since the awkwardness
of having a new and inexperienced
envoy in Washington at such critl-
cal time has been acknowledged potn
by this Government and Germany,
Herman Wiedfeldt, who accompanied
his parents to Key West to look over
the tobacco situation, arrived at his
farm, near Hamburg, about three
weeks ago.
Quite the smartest place Tor the
Gothamite of the inner circle to take
a visiting friend to luncheon or tea
IS the quiet, elegant headquarters of
the English Speaking Union, at 345
Madison avenue. Until he became the
standard bearer of the Democratic