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LEFT WADE 263 WADSWOBTH 1843; entered the Union army as 1st lieutenant in the cavalry in 1861 ; sei-ved with distinction throughout the Civil War; was brevetted colonel and Brigadier-General of volunteers in 1865; commissioned major of the 9th Cavalry, U. S. A., in 1866; promoted colonel in 1891, and Brigadier-General in 1897; and in May, 1898, was appointed a Major- General of volunteers. After the war with Spain, in which he took an active part, he was placed at the head of the American Cuban Evacuation Commis- sion; in January, 1899, became military governor of Cuba. He was made major- general in 1903; served in the Philip- pines, 1901-1904; from 1904 to 1907 com- manded the Atlantic Division. He was retired in the latter year. WADE, SIR THOMAS FRANCIS, an English dipomatist; born in 1818; en- tered the army in 1838, and served in China and other parts of the East. He was appointed interpreter to the gar- rison at Hong Kong (1843), assistant Chinese secretary (1847), vice-consul at Shanghai (1852), and Chinese secretary at Hong Kong (1855). His intimate knowledge of the Chinese character and lang-uage led to his being attached to Lord Elgin's mission to China (1857- 1859), and as Chinese secretary he ac- companied his lordship to Peking on his special mission (I860). In 1862 he be- came Chinese secretary and translator to the British legation in China; acted as charge d'affaires at Peking (1864-1865 and 1869-1871), and in the last of these years was appointed envoy extraordin- ary, minister plenipotentiary, and chief superintendent of British trade in China. In November, 1875, he was made a K. C. B. for his success in diplomacy and in furthering the interests of British com- merce. He was the author of "Tziii-Erk Chi" (1867), a progressive manual of the Chinese tongue. He died at Cam-, bridge, July 31, 1895. WADHAM COLLEGE, a college con- nected with Oxford University, England; founded in 1610 by Dorothy, widow of Nicholas Wadham, of Mayfield, Somer- setshire, England, for a warden, 15 fel- lows, 15 scholars, 2 chaplains, and 2 clerks. There are now 8 fellows, 18 scholars, and some 100 under-graduates. Wadham College, whose library is rich in rare Spanish books, presents to 10 livings. WADI (Arabian, "ravine"), in Pales- tine and Arabia, either a river or river valley, or the basin of a torrent. Rehan thinks this word was adopted by the Greeks and corrupted into oasis. It has passed into the Spanish guad, with which many of the Spanish river names begin; thus Wadi-1-Kebir (Arab, "great river") appears as Guadalquivir, Wadi-1-hajarah ("river of stones") as Guadalaxara. The ravines of Malta commonly go by the name of vyed or wied, a corrupted form of wadi. WADLIN, HORACE GREELY, an American statistician; bom in Wake- field, Mass., Oct. 2, 1851 ; was educated at public and private schools, and studied architecture in Salem and Boston, Mass.; was an architect in the latter city in 1875-1879. He then became special agent for the Massachusetts Bureau of Statis- tics of Labor, and in 1888 was made its chief. He held a seat in the Mas- sachusetts Legislature in 1884-1888; was supervisor of the United States census in 1890 and 1900, and of the State census in 1895. His publications include: "Re- ports on the. Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts" (12 vols. 1888-1901) ; Annual Statistics of Manufactures of Massachusetts (14 vols. 1886-1901) : "The Decennial Census of Massachusetts" (7 vols. 1895) ; "Carroll, Davidson Wright, a Memorial" (1911). WADSWORTH, ELIOT, an American public official, bom in Boston, in 1876. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. He was a member of the firm of Stone & Webster, electrical engineers, from 1907 to 1916. In the latter year he resigned to become vice-president of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, and served in this capacity until 1919. He directed the work of the Red Cross in the United States and in France dur- ing the World War, and received decora- tions for his services from several foreign governments, as well as the Dis- tinguished Service Medal of the United States Government. WADSWORTH, JAMES SAMUEL, an American military officer; born in Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1807; was educated at Harvard and Yale; studied law with Daniel Webster, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1833. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Union army early in 1861; was appointed a Brigadier- General in August; and became military governor of the District of Columbia in March, 1862. He was engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness as the commander of a division, and was killed in the last named battle, May 6, 1864. WADSWORTH, JAMES WOLCOTT, JR., a United States Senator from New York. He was bom at Geneseo, N. Y., in 1877, and graduated from Yale in 1898. He engaged in stock raising and