Evening star., 1925-07-28
AMBASSADOR BANCROFT
SUCCUMBS IN JAPAN

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report in favor of his Republican
client, Gen. Philip Sidney Post, whose
plurality was only % votes.
In 1892 he went to Chicago and be-
came solicitor for Illinois of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Co. When, in June, 1894, the Pullman
strike and boycott tied up nearly all
the railroads entering Chicago, he Sc
cured the first injunction against the
strikers acting under the leadership of
DebS, and afterward participated in
the contempt proceedings which re-
suited in six months imprisonment
for Debs and his fellow officials of the
American Railway Union. Gu. S. y.
DebS, 81 Fed. Rep. 724. 73S) In 1895
he was made vice president and gen.
eral solicitor of the Chicago and West
ern Indiana Railroad Co. and the Belt
Railway Co. of Chicago. He served in
this capacity until June, 1904, when
he returned to general law practice in
Chicago, as a member of the firm of
Scott, Bancroft, Lord 6; stephens
While never seeking political office.
Mr.. Bancroft had always been inter
ested in public matters, particularly in
laws to improve the civil service of
Chicago and of Illinois. He served as
a member of the city council of Gales
burg, and was a Republican presiden-
tial elector in 1855
AS a result of his work in the Debs
case he wrote an account of the great
railroad boycott, which was read be-
fore the Illinois Bar Association in
1895, and was later privately publish
ed under the title Of The Chicago
Strike Of 1894"
Mr.. Bancroft was president of the
W..
the Chicago Law Club in 1907, and of
the Illinois Bar Association in 1909,
and was a member of the American
Bar Association. He was a member Of
the following clubs: Union League
president, 1903); Commercial, Uni
versity, Hamilton, Chicago, City, Cliff
Dwellers and Onwentsia.
Married in 1896.
He was married, April IS, 1895, TO
Margaret, daughter of Richard HealT.
of Boston, Mass.-graduate of Vassar
College-one of the organizers of Pratt
Institute, and founder of its settle
ment work, the Neighborhood Asso-
citation.
During the World War he was sc-
tive in patriotic affairs as chairman
of the executive committee Of the Chi
cago branch of the National Security
League, and speaking for the Liberty
loans, received the decoration of the
Legion of Honor from France. of st.
Sava from Jugoslavia and Of Leopold
II from Belgium. In 1928 he
and Mrs Bancroft were among
eight Americans invited by the
French government to visit Morocco
and Algeria to inspect the French CO.
lonial administration.
He was chairman of the Chicago
race commission which investigated
the Chicago race riots of 1919.
Mr.. Bancroft has written a number
of monographs, including The Chi
cago Strike of 1894, " The Moral Sen
timent of the People" and "Destruc-
ton of Regulation tof business com
binations) and Marshal Foch.
The death of Ambassador Bancroft
was unexpected at the State Depart
ment here, where the last advices re-
ceived several days ago from Toxic
said he was convalescing from the i'll.
ness which had afflicted him.
The stay of Mr.. Bancroft in Toxic
and in the diplomatic service had been
brief, his appointment having been
announced August 16, last year. He
succeeded Cyrus e. Woods.