Show I REID SUMMONED I BY BY- GRIM DEATH AMERICAN DOR TO THE COURT OF ST. ST JAMES PASSES PASSES' AWAY ON SABBATH SABBAT DAY AY Distinguished Diplomat Who Ha Had Served His Country Coutry In Many Ways Was Still In That Service When Final Summons Came Lond London WhIt n.-WhIt laW Reid the AmerIcan Amerlean Amer Amer- Ican lean Ican to Great Great Britain since since 1905 died at his London resl resi- den denge dence e Dorchester house shortly afternoon after noon Sunday fr from m pulmonary oedema Th nd was quiet and peaceful Mrs Reid and their daughter Mrs John Hubert Ward were at ot dh the h bedside The Tue had been I clo clous cious s s since nce 9 o'clock in the morning and at intervals during the previous twenty four hours he had been bee slightly slight slight- ly delirious a as a result of the drugs administered to Indu induce sleep King George ceorge of England sent early message of condolence to President Taft Tart o the death of Reid Following the custom when diplomats diplomats diplo diplo- mats of or high rank are called by death the body of the dead will willbe willbo be bo brought to this country on a man manof manof manof of warThe war The messages exchanged between the president and Kin King George con con- ii bJ WHITELAW W REID I tam tain more than the f feeling eling ordinarily I manifested in such communications and take on a personal n note t Whitelaw Reid was in his year having hwing been born October 27 1837 in Xenia Ohio He became a newspaper writer as asa asa a young man and never brol broke e off his connection with the public press He was in editor of the New York Tribune for for- many years and aft afterward afterward after after- r- r ward became proprietor of that jour nal naI He served in ir the first campaigns campaigns campaigns cam cam- of the tho Civil war var in 1861 and then as war wax correspondent in which capacity he lie was present at many important important important im im- im- im battles At one me time he was librarian of or the house hous of o At t an another U cr t time lp he be Ie w was a cott cotton n pl planter in Louisiana Later in life he went into the diplomatic dip loma c service and went ent to Fran France P as United S' S States Se e minister nis er In 1889 1889 remaining until 1892 He lie came cune back to the United States to run as the Republican candidate for vice-president vice on he ticket et with President Harrison Some years later in 1897 he was sent as special to Great Britain to attend the celebration tIon of ot the diamond jubil jubilee e of Queen Victo Victo- ria na His next important work was as special commissioner er to the Paris conference which negotiated peace between the United States and Spain In 1902 he was again appointed I I special to Great Britain for the coronation of King Edward VII with whom he was always on the most friendly terms He was chosen in March 1905 United States ambassador to Great Britain In succession to Joseph H. H Choate Whitelaw Reid was married in 1881 1831 to Elizabeth Mills 1 daughter of the late Darius Ogden Mi Mills ls of New York His son Ogden Mills Reid is president president president dent of the Tribune association and managing editor of the Tribune His daughter Jean t Is the wife of the Honorable John Hubert Ward waiting equerry to Queen Alex Alex- andra anda |