New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1917, Page 10

ATH RUNS I][]WN iA—dmiral Dew;ay Will Live in.NHistc;ry as | ‘i Conqueror of Spaniards at Manila Bay) ADM. DEWEY’S FLAG 0°of Manila Bay Passes on At Age ol 79 Vashington, 17.—Admiral rge Dewey, Manila and by priority of grade the rank- naval officer of the world, died at home here at 5:56 o'clock yester afternoon at the age of illness lasting six days. Mr nd his son George, who w Jan. the victor of as sum- from Chicago, were with him | n the end came. e president and Secretary were Dan and the 8 was flashed by wireless to Amer h naval v world. notified at once, els and stations all over The .message carried or- that all flags be half-masted. ecretary Daniels issued this formal ement: Up to the very last Admiral Dewey in touch with movement gress not only in our navy, but jughout the world. On Wednesday noon last, just before T left the ment, he paid meoa-call, and #d hale and hearty. I thought he ¥ be spared to us for many years. death is an irreparable loss to our Intry, but the American people will P cherish his memory. His counsel has meant more to me In words can express. since T have been secretary of the was more like that of a father to on than a high ranking navy offi- to a government official.” dmiral Dewey became ill Thursday what at first appeared to be only light cold. His condition rapidly me worse, and on Sunds the surgeons in attendance, Dr. A, M. pntleroy and Dr. Luther Sheidon, announced that he was in serious er of ‘a complete breakdown be- e of ‘advanced age. His illness was nosed as arterio-sclerosis. Since pday no hope had been held out his recovery. 3 ‘Wilson Sent Flowers. er since it became known that admiral’s life was in danger the test concern over his condition been shown. Sccretary Daniels | the ranking officers of the navy Io. kept in close touch with the of his illness, and both his hold and the navy department ‘Heen kept busy answering inquir- friends and admirers. Presi- | it Wilgon showed his sympathy by Ing flowers to the admiral’s house, every His advice to 1 ! 1 | | a recent portrait, taken last s No. 3, home in Washington; No. 4, Mrs. Dewey alighting from steam- ship; No. 5 (copyright by Clinedinst,) Dewey as he looked in 1898. degree. to which George Dew & request that he be kept in- jed of the patient’s condition. g for the funeral have not yet made, but it is understood that burial will be in Arlington Na- | Rl cemetery, probably on Saturday. use of Admiral Dew as the only full admiral of the in' the service—the mijitary fun- | I ceremonies will be of the most ; essive character. It was an- Inced last night that the arrange- its would be made by President ,” Secretary Daniels and Rear | hiral Badger. | puring his residence in Washington piral Dewey lived a very simple retired life. He went practically ‘weekday to the office of the gen- I board of the navy, of which he | president. Except on his birth- s, which naval officials insisted on jbrating with a big reception in his hor at his office, he avoided any hg which savored of display or! plicity. His favorite recreation was Ing about the parks of Washing- | behind a pair of horses, which he | pld never consent to exchange for automobile. TUsually he was ac- ppanied on his drives by Mrs. fn recent vears the admiral and . Dewey ocupied a large house at corner of Sixteenth and K streets h was the residence of General jsgell A. Alger when the latter was | petary of war in the first McKin- cabinet. Story of Manila. Bince the passing of the Civil war | oes no American has enjoved the > feel reshandFit Fyou must keep your stom- well, your liver active, he bowels regular, and your lood pure. Your physical pndition depends on the ealth of these organs. en anything goes wrong LN A st take few doses of Beecham’s Pills Ind avoid any serious illness. hey are a fine corrective and pnic for the system, and a eat help in maintaining good ealth. A single box will brove the remedial value of EECHAM'S PILLS Sale of Any Medicine in the World, jold everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25c. | suaded President sessed it in the vear following the Spanish war. When he returned to | New York in September, 1899, bring- ing with him several of the vessels which had won the battle of Manila Bay on May 1 of the previous year, he received a popular welcome of al- most unexampled enthusiasm. The rank of read admiral, to which he had been raised immediately after his vic- tory, had been replaced by that of admiral of the navy, created for Dew- ey expressly in March 1899, and giv ing him a dignity equaled previously by none but Farragut and Porter. He had been especially thanked by con- gress; he was the national hero in a sense which neither Sampson nor Schley ever approached, and his fame was expressed at the time by a mul- titude of jokes and stories about him that sprang up over the country and by the naming for him of hundreds of boy babies born in the summer of 1898. To a certain extent the tremendous acclaim that came to the victor of Manila Bay was due to the fact that the battle was the first engagement of importance in the Spanish war, the first fleet action against a foreign pow- er in which American ships had been engaged since the battle of TLake Champlain in September of 1814. Moreover the overwhelming character of Dewey’s victory came a blank sur- prise to a world which was used to battles in which the victor sustained some loss and which had not yet seen | lly onesided victory at San- ' the equa tiago. So that the po arity which Dewey won overnight from a nation which had scarcely heard of him be- fore the war broke out had in it some- thing of the accidental and it was only compensation that Dewey hardly ever got sufficient credit, except from care- ful students of world politics, for the infinitely more difficult tasks which he performed with equal success after the naval victory and before the end of the Spanish war. Small Fleet in Oricent. Commodore Dewey had been as- signed to the command of the Asiatic fleet in January of 1898. Tt was evi- dent at that time that war with Spain was approaching and Dewey eager for the appointment, but coterie at the head of the navy de- partinent had their plans laid to name another officer. At the sugges- tion of Assistant Secretary Theodore Roosevelt, who considered Dewey the best man, he got Senator Proctor of Vermont interested, and Proctor per- was the Dewey. He set to work at once to mect the problems that devolved upon the commander of the American fleet | Complications in | in Chinese waters. Eastern Asia had been fairly frequent in the previous thirty years, and it was regarded as only natural that America, like most of the European powers, should maintain a fair strong fleet on the Asiatic coast. The squadron-of which Dewey took command, gathered in the neighbor- hood of Hongkong, chnsisted of four protected cruisers and three gunboats. It wae a fleet strong in gun power for vessels of its class, and his flagship, the Olympia, was one of the most powerful types of unarmored cruisers afloat. But he was operating many 1 adoration of the whole country in the ' McKinley to name | sands of miles from a base, hort of coal for an extended aign, and he had far from an adequate supply of ammunition. Dewey solved the coal problem by purchasing a couple of British colliers and then moved his fleet out of Hongkong, where the British navy and neutrality laws made it difficult to get ready for trouble, to an ob- scure Chinese harbor, from which he started for Manila when war broke out. It is to be supposed that Dewey, no more than most. American naval officers, army officers, or politicians of that time. was contemplating the establishent of the United States as an Asiatic power. He was in com- mand of a fleet, and some 600 miles away was a fleet of the powers with which his country was at war. To he hunt down this fleet and destroy it was the.obvious duty of a mnaval of- ficer, and the fact that the fleet was supported by shore batteries, 1ying in a mined bay the entrance to which was dominated by heights certainly fortifled and potentially impregnable, meant nothing in particular to a man who had learned fighting under Far- ragut. ,Dewey steamed straight to Manila, after looking into Subig bay and making sure that the. Spaniards | had not utilized the strategic possi- bilities of that point to base their defense on it. and got past the har: bor forts in the darkness with only a few shots fired and no damage to his ships. Story Told in Few Words. The ;action that followed the next day was described’ thus in Dewey's diary. d “Sunday, May 1.—Reached Manila at daylight and immediately engaged the Spanish ships and batteries at Cavite. Destroved eight, including the Reina Christina and the Castilla, also one large steam transport. 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Vanderlip, now president of ! the National City Bank, as chairman. | The first subscription came from The § | Baltimore American, and was for $250. | The subscriptions to the fund came in rapidly, and the committee was able to collect about $50,000 and to present | the deed of the house in Washington | on October 15, 1899, | Dewey landed at New York in Sep- tember; on November 9, after a widowerhood of twentv-seven years, he married Mrs. Mildred McLean Hazen of Washington. And a few days after the marriage he deeded to her the house that had been given to him by popular subscription, There | were rumors that the gift house, in its § location and furnishings, was not al- together what the Admiral and Mrs. Dewey wanted, and that they have preferred to live in Mrs. Dewey’'s § former residence. Whatever the reason, it failed to satisfy public opinion, and the man who 1897 was uknown, was in 1898 and 1899 a national hero such as the country had hardly known since Grant, became by 1900 the object of widespread disapproval that vanishedfJ only when other popular interests had replaced those created by and con- & nected with the Spanish-American war. Admiral Dewey had been widely mentioned for the democratic presi- dential nomination for the campaign of 1900, and, although at first he had refused all consideration of the idea, had later taken a less uncompromising attitude. But this movement waned away after the stir caused by the transfer of the house, and the Admiral never became a political figure. In March, 1900, he was made head in of the masterpieces of American di- fnncc to dispatch some of Sampson's ' of the General Board of the Navy, and plomacy. H He could have taken Manila. of course, with ease; but, aside from' the fact that this must have involved | some bombardment of the city, ho: had not the men with which to hold ! it against the Spanish army. i short of ammuniti erati { an improvised hase, without land | supports; he had to reckon with a Jarge Spanish army in Luzon, and he | had also increasingly delicate inter- | national problems to encounter. Pending the arrival of troops and naval reinforcements from California, | Dewey hleckaded Manila. Meanwhile the Filipino’insurgents under Aguin- aldo were stirred into redoubled ac- tivity, and bcgan to lend more or less unwelcome aid to the American fleet. The sudden gollapse of Spanish na- val power in the Orient, and the pat- ent fact that Spanish dominion in the Philippines was presently to pass into stronger hands, aroused the natural interest of the nations which had commercial interest; in the islands and territorial ambitions in the east- ern seas. In the wide roadstead of Manila Ray there presently gathered squadrons of British, French, German and Japanese warships, The German flect was the most numerous, eventu- ally attaining the number of five ships including at least one unit, the Kai- serin Augusta, which was a match for the Olympia, and the behavior of its officers speedily began to trans- gress the punctilious rules of block- ade then in force. Admiral von Diede- richs, the German commander, main- tained an attitude which the Amer- icans regarded as distinctly ominous. On two occasions German war ves- sels, failing to report to the blockad- ing squadron when they entered the bay or to stop when signaled to give information as to their identity, had to be halted by shots across the bow. The German cruiser Prinzessin Irene was sent to co-operate with the Spanish troops in Sublg Bay against the Filipino insurgents, who by this time were acting with the Americans, but Dewey's prompt dispatch of two of his ships to the danger post re- sulted in the Irene’s precipitate with- | drawal. | Matters, however, grew worse; the German admiral went so far at one ! time as to ask Sir Edward Chichester, the British commander, what his atti- tude would be if things came to a clash between the German and Amer- jecan squadrons. Chichester respond ed that that attitude was known only to himself and Admiral Dewey, and eventually moved his ships to an an- ! chorage between the Germans and | Americans. Dewey’s situation at this time most critical. The German fleet practically the equal of his; the Spanish army made any attempt to, hold an extended base on shore out'! of the question, and, worst of all, Admiral Camara, with a fleet includ- ing practically all the rest of the Spanish Navy, headed by several armored ships, had started east through the Mediterranean to at- tempt to regain the mastery of the ! seas about Manila. Two coast de-! fense monitors, the Monadnock and | Monterey, were on their way to | Dewey’s assistance, but they were very | slow, and if Camara could arrive be- | fore them and master Dewey’s in- ferior fleet the American transports | bringing expeditionary forces across | the Pacific would be at the Spaniards’ mercy: s But the Germans were the most im- mediate problem and the German : problem was settled by Dewey when ‘Admiral von Diederichs sent one of his aids to protest against the American practice of challenging warships en- tering the harbor, and other incidents | of the blockade. In conversation with this junior officer Dewey used the word “war” more than once in dis- cussing' a hypothetical set of cir- cumstances, and though the German versions represent the officer as leav- ing at once when this breach of the properties was committed, it was no- ticed that the behavior of the Ger- man fleet became much less objec- tionable at once. Plan to Reinforce Dewey. Other factors contributed to the re- laxation of the tension. With the de- struction of Cervera's fleet at San- tiago on July 3, the bulk of the American naval forces was released for other work, and while Cuba and Porto Rico continued to be the center of the fighting, it was realized by that time. that the real point of interest from the angle of world politics was where Dewey lay in a blockade off Manila. Preparations were made at was was | Spain, battleships to the Far East, and a cov- ering squad, under Commodore Wat- son, was made up to see them safely through the Suez Canal. This strategic plan was however, by a great deal of inspired talk about a naval attack on the coast of Spain; and though naval experts in Spain; and though naval experts in as well as those in America, must have realized the absurdity of this publiz opinion in both countries was fired by the possibility of Amer- can ships fighting in European wa- ters. Camara’s squadron, which was composed, in fact, of “lame duck and had never made very satisfactory progress toward Manila, was recalled, and Dewey was left in the certainty tht his forces were sufficient to cope with any situation. About this time, too, the protected cruiser Charleston reinforced him, convoving the first installment of the army from Cali- fornia; and when the two monitors, slow, but heavily armed and armored and of great value in a possible fight in the land-locked bay, came in soon afterward the Germans gave no fur- ther trouble. Meanwhile General Merritt's army was slowly gathering at Cavite, but not in a position to attack Ma- nila until early in August. At Dewey's insistence the assault was put off un- til it was certain that the army could take the city without relying on the assistance of the Filipinos; but mean- while the negotiations which led ta the peace protocol were in progress, and it began to appear likely that the war might end with Manila still in Spanish hands, Dewey had cut the cable that connected the island capi- tal with Spain after his defeat of the Spanish squadron, and in those days before the wireless was in use there was left plenty of time to proceed with military operations before dis- turbing infcrmation could arrive. So, when Merritt was ready he attacked and Manila was captured the day the peace protocol was signed. That the United States not only wiped out the Spanish fleet, but had taken the capital of the archipelago and held clear title to it, was almost wholly the work of Dewey. Present¢ed With House, The New York Times in an editorial an May 13, 1899, entitled: “What Shall We Do for Dewey?" suggested the raising of a fund by the newspapers of this country for the erection of a residence for the Admiral. The project was enthusiastically ap- proved by Secretary Long and naval officers at Washington, and it was not long before a committee was formed masked, from that time was the ranking officer anad at least titular head of the active naval forces. In later years he en- | joyed much of the honor and renawn, if not the cnthusiastic popularity, of the time immediately following the Spanish-American war. Though lon; past the age of retirement for naval officers, he was continued on the active list, and lived in something of the &t- mosphere of general deference thatfis accorded to ex-presidents. He becarie a ‘“sage,” and was the more success- ful in the role because he confined his expressions of opinion to naval mat- ters. ki Champion of Schley. members of the court unstintedly coms | | In 1901 he presided over the Scm‘fi Y | court of inquiry. While his fellows' & demned Admiral Schley in their re port, Dewey as president dissented and placed on record his verdict that fo Schley was due the credit of the Saf- | tiago victory. v | As president of the General Boaid he had much to do with planning e | development of the navy, and many | times befare the present war began he | brought the subject into the fore: " ground of public interest, telling the people that the navy was not large { enough and was being allowed to fall | penind those qf other nations. He al- | ways insisted, however, that, man for | man and ship for ship, the Americsg | navy was as gaod as could be fm:!d | anywhere. Soon after the Europesin | war broke out he called attention to | American naval needs, and in 1915 ! clared that the navy should be built up until it was second to none. | general, however, the admiral's atti- | tude in regard to naval affairs wi conservative, and his critique of ; battle of Jutland, published last sum mer, laid emphasis on the illustrati given of the advantages of heavily armed and armored, if relatively slo battleships, such as those which mak up the bulk of the American Navy. George Dewey was born in Mon| pelier, Vt. December 26, 1837, an was the son of Dr. Julius Y. Dew His father's family in this sprang from Thomas Dewey, count a DI senter who came from Kent to Ne . England in 1630. The future Admir: | studied in the schools of Montpelie became a cadet at Norwich Unjversit: and was appointed to Annapolis i 1854 by Senator Solomon Foote. H would have preferred West Point, buf there happened to be no military academy vacancy from Vermont at the time when he sought appointment, | Deweyv was graduated from Annaps is ,in 1858 and saw his first service on p’l | steam frigate Wabash, then flagshm’o the Mediterranean squadron. b St In many a heme the keystone of the family’s health is a daily ration of the splendid whole wheat and barley food— Grape-= Nuts E ) The reason lies in the fact that this food con- tains an abundance of those elements—the mineral salts—so necessary for well-balanced bodies, brains and nerves. triment of the grains, in ¢ Grape-Nuts also includes the entire nu- oncentrated, easily digest- ible form, ready-to-eat from the package. Grape-Nuts is usually eaten with cream or milk, and the flavor is wonderfully delicious. It also com- bines in numerous attractive, special dishes. Better digestion, better health, better accom- plishment, with Grape-Nuts as a daily food. “There’s a Reason” | | { S |