Show y U C 1 WU is A FINE DIPLOMAT Washington This Chinaman for Hie HI His Honestly by It for tor HEI He Was J In This Le One of the Finest in 10 the Capital u u 0 nr Special Correspondence Washington July fWu Ting Pang the Chinese minister In the United States ha been one of oC the tb most Inter eating of oC all the diplomatic representatives tives here ever ver since line ho he took look up his abode In Washington the begin beginning ning or of the trouble In Tien Peking and the neighborhood of those thOR Mongo Mongolian lion lian cities he ha has In a way to the level leel of first Importance This le Is It Is Ie generally bellev believed ed that If he be would he could Im Impart rt a alot alot lot ot of highly important inter eating Information just at this time information for which th the people of e eV cry civilized cl nation under the sun aun are hungering and or of course he has haB been more sought after by b the newspaper men since the df C the Boxer treble then ever before betor but also alao ot of course Wu Ting Fang has h nightly little to spy lie te professes to have haP no information be that is II cabled here from China to the it and onlY when requested by Ill his government to uk ask that the thea a ot of troops to China b by the United State be stopped ha has he sated a word to an any on one now Doms DOHS WU INOW Now Jl ft ma may be that Mr Wu knows not Mt a whit more than Iban he says he be does cloe Indeed say ay seine among the diplomat Ic corps It would be strange for the authorities to communicate with him In any wa way except when it II was wal desired that hl he should prefer Irete 1 a request t to the government of the United tot At the same time It II hard I ly credited that he can kno know ab absolute ly Iy nothIng ot of the situation beyond the knowledge that Is 18 possessed poa ea by human It ity at large That he should be reticent le II considered con hi his right In fact In the c circumstances It Is generally acknowledged edged that h he would make a t mI mItake this take Were he to Indulge In much talk and his hll standing as aB a diplomat mat is going booing up steadily here at the present time because maule or of his hll reticence It II i not too much to ay that Wu Ting rII Fang Is I altogether the most mOlt site I representative ever sent lent hina to America He is II In feet fact the only nl one une who has ha ever ver been n able to n ter sufficiently Into the life lite of Ih the 1 peo people here to make a real his HIli achievements In title line llIe have been due clue to the circumstance that he under understands stands tandl the language langua as well all as most malt students thereof either of English or American birth and it la II not stretch st Ing a point to claim a better knowledge of the tongue for him that is II possessed ed b by many among tho those e who hold high places In the tho government Wu comes comy A A JUI U U U b by hll hie I because he be bew w was sent nt here from China when a youngster wu was educated Amen Amerl can schools to 10 serve his government diplomatically among Ip speaking People Ir Wu I is tall measured by the stat stature u ure ot of most of his countrymen Were he a Caucasian h he would be counted ot of medium height HI Iii face tace is II plainly but of pleasing and he has bal the faculty ot of making friends In degree Ifs 1111 know knowl Idle edge of English ii Ie so 10 intimate that he can both bath understand and make use of oC slang Ue Ile keep IIII himself thoroughly with Ith regard recard to th the latest cant w tr ids Io d phrases end and rarely makes misuse malIe or off them More than once this hu has stood ton him In excellent stead and It helped him more I fn acquiring 1 a reputation as an after afler dinner speaker than has bu any other Lion Uon TUg L Mr Wua re residence known as the Chin Chinese legation U II 00 one of the handsomest houses In the capital It was bunt bolt for Cor T po F Schneider When It was erected Mr Schneider expected to live In It permanently with his Itla tern tam lIy Ily and In tact did occupy It II as a reel dence for tor several years While bile the house boUle was waa In process of oC erection It wee was seen leen that It would be one ot of the show showplaces places of oC the ca capital pit II on completion And Mr Wu at attention was turn turned to toward toward ward It immediately after atter he assumed hi his diplomatic place here Some year yara before that time the hi bl nese had been located on Du Dupont pout pont cirri circle In the west end but Mr WUI predecessor had removed It to the northern end or of town ton Wu how however ever dl decided to move back to the part of the city Ity most affected by br tile the diplo matt mata ud and the present lep oa u It with withIn In a few tew doors of the old one ODe It may maybe maybe be mentioned In that nearly sit all the legations are are loco located the compass compu of halt half a mile liliie It was under understood stood when the bou house 41 taken that IU its owner Insisted n Oil on the of a aVel avon von Vel stiff rental but Mr lr Wu u mind that and the tbt I lease under which the house houe Ia 1 held ld Is II for art as lon long term The bou house was an aa exceptionally large one to begin with but Mr lr Wu wanted It made bigger and offered to Inc menu e ehll his hll rental It if additions addition were made Mr lr Schneider had It enlarged therefore and noW all the legation attaches some IOme fort forty odd In number not counting airy anti rats dwell under the one root WUI predecessor ellOr Yan Tang Yu came here herlO In 1883 1813 He 11 was pr preceded br TIUI Kwo Ko 1111 who was tec recalled In disgrace to China because he himself to become mixed up In the Ilona a schemes heme of a certain count who bo m md ed d to cove the biases Maple with anet a net of railroads p I IA A r pr I |