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Show MAJOR WILLARD D. STEAIGIIT, American Boldior, dipioiuat, fiuaucier and highly ciil-j ciil-j tured man, who died in Paris yestcr- i . : r ' . -- IS s i ' if'"" f?h& ii I - ' ' ' " i 1 UOfl STRAIGHT DIES J PARiS Noted Soldier and Diplo-mat Diplo-mat Was Member of House's Mission. PAR I si, Doo. 1. Major AViliiard D. Straight, financier and diplomat of New York, v.ho several days agowas stricken with pneumonia, died during, the night. Major Straight had been detailed at tho request of Colonel E- M. llotiso to take up d titles with the House mission as soon as hostilities ceased. The major had commenced work several days before lie fell ill. Son of an American missionary lo Japan, Ja-pan, "Wlllard J). Straight's career was one of tho most interesting and remarkable of any young American of this generation. Typically American, brilliant in initiative, initia-tive, a natural diplomat, he arose to an important position as a financier when llt-tlo llt-tlo move than 30 years of gc. A master of Chinese and Japanese politics and culture,, cul-ture,, .he becamo the right hand man of great American bankers and was their representative In the far cast In 11)03 when, with British, French and other European financiers, they undertook to syndicate a loan of S27.S00.000 to China. This loan, so far us American bankers were concerned, subsequently fell through by the withdrawal with-drawal of support by the Washington government. gov-ernment. WiM.ird D. Straight was born in Oswego, X. Y., January 31, lsso. Two years after his graduation from Cornell in ll'Ol ho went t'o China and entered the service of tho Chinese imperial maritimo customs. cus-toms. In 100-1, when the Russo-Japanese war started, Mr. Straight resigned his post, and, with the view of broadening his knowledge of eastern affairs, went to Manchuria as correspondent of the Associated As-sociated IVcsa. Ilarly in 1?0."), as a result re-sult of illness, he was ordered home. After recovering his health, Mr. Straight was appointed vico consul general at Seoul, Korea, and tho next year received his credentials cre-dentials as American consul general at Mukden, where lie remained until ltm.S. In 1011 Mr. Straight tyarricd Miss Dorothy Dor-othy Payne Whitney, daughter of the late William Whitney, secretary of the navy In the cabinet of 1 'resident Cleveland, and one of America's wealthiest young women. Mr. Straiizht became in timo vice president presi-dent of the International corporation and a director in a do;:- n or more enterprises. He was a fellow of tho Itoal Geographical Society of .London, a trustee of Cornell university and a mcmbcT of numerous clubs in Xcw York and London. |