AMERICA’S NEW AMBASSADOR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13980, 13 May 1913, Page 7

AMERICA’S NEW AMBASSADOR.

XOT A WEALTHY MAX. SAX FRANCISCO, April 11. la appointing Mr Walter H. Vngt Amto Great Britain, President Wilton carried on the tradition of having the Vnited State* repie-entcd at the Court Ok St. Jan*** l*y nu-a prominent in this • wnatry'i* literary and jocritalbtic life, a-> nrnpiihd in the ca*es o( James Rus-*-•11 Lowell, White la* Reid, and others. Mr Pay is an editor, author, and publisher: fee i> one of the founders of the New York publishing firm of Uoiibleday, I'age, and l‘»,, and edits "The Worlds Work.” a serious monthly periodical, established on lines laid down by Mr Cage, furioft-ly enough, like Lowell, ko was wore editor of "The Atlantic Monthly,” Boston's well-known literary magazine. Another monthly magazine hr has edited is "The Forum.” As 3 lecturer on polities and economics, Mr Page has given ro'irse* at some of the most influential universities. Among his other accomplishments U readiness and power in public speaking. The new Ambassador is 5>5 years old, and a native of the State of south Carolina. Mr Page* was one of the first to see the coming of the Woodrow Wilson movement. He *a> a pioneer of the little group who threw their private fortunes into the campaign to procure the rumination of Mr Wilson fey the Democratic Party last year. As to wealth. Mr Page is in the class known to America as "well fixed”—that is, comforlal'y well off. lie has not command of an immense fortune such as that owned by his immediate- predecessor, the late Mr Whitelaw Reid. When asked if W intended to keep up the record mode hr Mr Reid in public entertaining, ho replied: **l shall not, for two all-powerful reasons. In the first place. I have not the money: in the second place. 1 should rot know how to accomplish the s|>eciul triumph* Mr Reid attained though I were bfinned with as great a fortune as his.”