Bancroft and Sheffield

Next to cooks, ambassadors come and go oftener than any other kind of help. Last week, Secretary of State Hughes engaged two new ones, and President Coolidge announced their appointments. One of them, Edgar Addision Bancroft, was appointed to succeed Cyrus E. Woods as chef at Tokyo. The other, James Rockwell Sheffield, is to be maitre d'hotel succeeding Charles B. Warren at Mexico City.

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Edgar Addison Bancroft, 66, born at Galesburg, Ill., now living at Chicago, is a descendant of the New England Bancrofts, including Aaron, biographer of George Washington, and George, diplomat and historian. Educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three books: The Chicago Strike of 1894, The Moral Sentiment of the People, Destruction or Regulation of Trusts.

James Rockwell Sheffield, 60, born at Dubuque, now resident of Manhattan, was educated at Yale College and at the Harvard Law School. He became private secretary to the late William B. Allison, Senator from Iowa, but soon took up a law practice in Manhattan. He once served a term in the New York Legislature, but most of his political activities have been out of office. He has known Charles Evans Hughes intimately ever since the latter was Governor of New York.

Either these two new servants expect Mr. Coolidge to renew his lease on the White House, or they are content to take temporary jobs for six months or so. If Mr. Coolidge should not be elected, the new tenant will engage other help.