Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-03-08
MORNING APPEAL
OBITUARY.

Our esteemed townsman, Mr. S. II. Day
has called our attention to the fact of the
death of his brother, Lieutenant Murray S.
Day, U. S. N. This accomplished Young off
Ger visited his brother and his uncle (ex-Sur-
veyor General Day., in Carson some years
since; and his polished manners and pleasant
bearing at once commended him to all with
whom he was brought in contact. From the
New York Herald of February 18th We have
the following brief obituary notice of Lieut..
Day:
Mail advices from Panama record the death
on the United States steamship Vandalia. at
st. Thomas, on the 9th of December, 1873,
of distinguished officer of the naval service
of the United States, Lieutenant Murray s.
Day, son of General Hannibal Day, of New
York city, and grandson of the late DR.. Syl-
vester Day. surgeon, of the United States
Army. Lieutenant Day was born at Buffalo
Barracks, April -, 1845; was appointed to
the Naval Academy from Massachusetts III
1861 graduated in 1865, and made his first
cruise in the Sacramento which was wrecked
off Bombay in 1866. He, with other officers
and number of sick, escaped on raft, and
Aoated for fifty-three hours without food
drink until rescued by an English steamer.
He next sailed in the POwhatan, of the Pa
cifc squadron was at Lima at the time of
the great earthquake and tidal wave on that
coast when he was sent to relieve the suffer
ers. In 1871 he officer of the HaSsIer,
which carried the Agassiz scientific expedition,
and in the same year was selected for his sci
entifc attainments for an appointment under
the japanese Government to make hydro
Of no SIC I,,fN
which he performed to the entire satisfaction
of that Government, making at the same time
valuable chronological researches. He was
afterward connected with the Trenton on the
European station and the Vandalia on the
West India station, and contracted at st.
Thomas a malarial poisoning which resulted
IN the attack of typhoid fever from which he
died Lieutenant Day was a man of magnif-
cent physique, talented, accomplished, faith
ful to duty, dauntless in danger, but tender
and affectionate in all domestic relations. His
wife, who survives him, is daughter of Gen
eral g. S. Greene, formerly of the United
States Army, and he leaves two children.
The circumstances attending the receipt of
She news by the family at New York
were very distressing. The long absent Lieu
tenant (who had accompanied General Grant
on MS voyage up the M6ulteffauean), was eX-
pected to arrive at home about the time that
the news of his death arrived. The sad It'd
ings were telegraphed to General Hannibal
Day at New York. When the doorbell was
rung by the telegraph boy, the arrival of the !
wanderer was fondly bethought of by his aged |
parents. The telegram, until it was opened |
and read, was lightly thought to be from him, |
at Boston, announcing his coming. The dis
appointment was overwhelming. Then came
the sad task of breaking the sorrowful news
to his wife, who was in Paris with her two
momentarily expecting a dispatch
from her absent husband Then came &" the
grief which saps the mind. -
The death of this brilliant and promising
officer is a public loss of no little moment
Such sterling men are needed in these days
when so many incapa5les get into places of
public trust, Harry Day and his family have
our heartiest sympathies under this bitter
affection.