Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-15
HENRY WHITE DIES,
ENDING LONG LIFE
ASU.S. DIPLOMAT
Former Envoy to France and
Italy and Peace Delegate
Expires in Massachusetts.
RITES TO Be SATURDAY;
CREMATION is PLANNED
Ashes of Illustrious Native of Bal
timore Will Rest in Ma.
tional Cathedral.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSFIELD. Mass, July 10
Henry White, former Ambassador 10
France and Italy and American dele
gate to the Paris p conference,
died in Lenox. at $50 this morning.
Mr.. White underwent an operation
three years ago and had been in Ill
health much since then.
At Mr.. Whites bedside at his SUM
mer estate. Elmcourt, Lenox, when
he died this morning, were his wife,
a daughter, Countess Herman Scherr-
Toss, and Mrs, Whites daughter,
Mrs. John II. Hammond, and Count
Scherr-Toss. Another survivor is a
son, John Campbell White, in the
States Department at Washington.
The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at 4. in Trinity Episcopal
Church at Lenox, of which church
Mr.. White was communicate.
The body will be cremated and the
ashes will repose in the National
Cathedral at Washington, where his
first wife's body rests.
Born in Baltimore.
Thirty years or more an American
diplomat. Mr. White was once charac-
terized by Joseph Fl. Choate as the
man who "set up a, school of diplo-
macy in London from which were
graduated such notables as Phelps,
Lincoln. Bayard and Hay"
Mr.. White was born in Baltimore,
Md, on March %, 1850. and was edu-
Gated in the United States and in
T. 0II VHd Ife-
tinguished Maryland family. In 1879
he married Miss Margaret Stuyvesant
Rutherford of New York, a sister-in.
law of William X. Vanderbilt. Mrs
White died in Lenox, Mass, in 1916.
Their daughter Margaret is the
Countess Scherr-Thoss, wife of an
officer OF the Royal Prussian Cuiras-
siers, whose father was formerly as
sociated with the former Emperor of
Germany. Mr. White. in November,
1920. married Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt
Sloane, widow OF William Douglas
Sloane, New York.
Local Club Member.
In 1888 he entered the diplomatic
service as secretary of the United
States legation at Vienna, going later
to London as first secretary, retiring,
and then again assuming hte Office un-
der President Mckinley, which he
held until 1905, when he was appoint
ed Ambassador to Italy. Designated
by President Roosevelt as the repre-
sentative of the United States to the
international conference on Moroccan n
affairs at Algeciras in 1906. Ambassa-
DOR White took a leading part in that
historic parley, the result of which,
it was said, averted a European war.
Appointed Ambassador to France in
1907, Mr.. White resigned in 1909, the
first year Of President Taft's admin.
istration. Upon retirement from his
Paris post and his return to New
York, Mr.. White was the guest of
honor at a dinner rendered him by
the Society of the Pilgrims, at which
his services were eulogiZed by John
Bigelow, who represented the United
States in France at the time Of Ma
poleon III: Levi P. Morton, Ambassa.
dor from 1881 to 1885, Mr.. Choate and
others.
Mr.. White received the honorary
degree of doctor of laws from st. An
drews' University Scotland and
Johns Hopkins and Harvard. Among
his diplomatic services, besides those
already mentioned, were the follow
ing: He represented the United States
at the international conference in
London in 1887 and 1883 for the aboli-
ton of sugar bounties; the interna'
tional conference on agriculture at
Rome in 1905, which resulted in the
founding of the International Insti.
tute Of Agriculture; he was chairman
of the American delegation to the
fourth Pan-American conference in
Buenos Aires in 1910 and the same
year special Ambassador Of the
United States to the centenary OF
Chilean independence. He was a mem
Der of IL clubs in New York, London,
Paris, Washington and Baltimore.
and a trustee Of several important
scientific, geographic, philanthropic
and educational institutions.