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Show OHOATE PAYS ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO EDWARD By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK, May 7. "With sorrow, I feol at tho death of a monarch who ruled his own dominions well, and exerted ex-erted a powerful iniitionce for good throughout Europe, this comes to me as a sense of personal loss in the passing away of King Edward," said the Hon. Joseph H. Choate, former American embassador to Englnnd. "As a man, he was evon more intor osting than as a monnrch, and that is saying a great deal, for no king over was moro sincerely loved by his own subjects, or more admired by the people peo-ple of othor nations. As a man ho was intensely human, and when he put olf his royalty, as he was delighted to do, when opportunity offered, and mot tho people in an ntmosphore moro free than that of tho court, he was one of the most charming of men, though novor lacking iu that dignity which would permit none to forgot, though for, the timo permitting them to ignore ig-nore his high" rank. "His interesting personality appeals to me more at this moment than his successful, though somewhat brief, reign. It would be impossible at this time to mako any adequate comment upon itt other than to say that the name ot Edward VII. will' be one of tho brightest in England's history. In his death not only the British empire, but the civilized world has suffered an irreparable loss." |