New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-31
ACCOUNTS OF THE LOST OFFICERS

THEIR RECORDS IN THE NAVY AND SOMETHING
OF THEIR PRIVATE LIFE.
ns following Is an account Of the lives Of the officers
af the yandAlia Who are reported 10 DO lost:
Cautaln @ NJ snhoonmaker was born IN tais state
ON February q 1880 and reooiyed his appointment 70
the Navy on September %, 1854 He was at mo
Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1854 10 1900, ana
was attached 10 the steam tngate Minnesota IN iooo-
81 He was commissioned rs lieutenant on August
81. 1851. In Is9l-'62 no was on tho steam gunooat
sagamore in the East Gulf Squadron. aud In tho later
mart OF 1862 was on the oc,orAra Of tho West India
Squadron He remained on the octorara in lso3'e4
when she was transferred 1.-THE West Gulf SQUADRON
and took part In the battle q Mobile Bay and IN tho
cauturo OF Fort Morgan. During part Of 1865 DO
serykd on tho steamer Auguita, and on December "a
of that year was commissioned as beutenantoom-
mandsr From the latter pat Of 1855 TO 1857 he was
on tho, steamer Jundata, Of To South Amooan squad
ron and the pext two years spent tho Pscataqua
Of tho Asaaac Squadron
On February ID, 1885, hl YVES promoted 10 COM
nander and On October T. 1856. recoieyd captains
commission He was tho Npsic during her European
cruise that ended In octObes 1881, Captain Ramsay
being In command Of the Tnnton. Captain sohoon-
maker commanded the Frdio when she was the
flagship of the squadron Of vce-Admiral Rowan and
when she was sent to 81 Johns in 1879 to get Cap
tain Tyson and his party. Of the wrecked Polaris.
He brought tho Boston here from Roach's shipyard
nc Chester Penn, In 1855. AT tho court
martial Of Emory II. Tauns Captain Schoonmaker
presided. He was ordered 70 the command Of the
yandaiia on April 8, 1888. He lived ut Kingston,
n T. and had wife and three children. His vito
recoIyes her slotments from tho Navy pay ONCE in
this CITY, and the check for this month was sent TO
her at No. 13I North peahsL, Albany. Judge
schoonmaker, Of the Interstate Commerce comm&-
don, Is the Captains brotler., .,.,...,o- oao.,
nj the brooklyn Navy Ysrd from september, 1873, 70
tie following October and went 70 No~o scans ~
ReGs%ter year ago he WIS cEcrea 70 the command
Of The Vandaia at San francisco 70 SAL for the Sand
wsa JsaS6s, out e tie Samoan eGly hs was
ordered there with tho vandalla, arriving az Apia
re0rpas sSs SSo when Srs schoonnaker oame East
after her husband had sailed COR Samoa she remained
H. Children Kate ago fsen; Lillian, thirteen, and
Virgins ten, arc new at school In mat CITY; , mS
schoonar ecsVed shs HsTs ~ h't 70 Wsshnon 70
see IL che report was true She was answered. IN
The Affirmative
Iieutenant Of Marines Francis r. Sutton was
about twenty-eight years old and unmarried. he
WAS appointed from Now-York, entering the service
al n cadet and mIdshipman on june IL, 1871 no
Was a naval cadet at the Annapolis Academy IN 100
and was transferred TO the service on July 1, 1858
on March Q, 1888, be was commissioners I 81,
,enapt and was stationed at Marc Island until ordered
- tbs yandalla Just before she sailed He was ono
20 ana a,et graduates of Annapolis 10 enter the marine
900 re stood sixth in a class OF nnety's1, ana
~ the Navy Department was regarded as one OF the
h.,st.4t and most intelligent officers IN the Marine
Sorrs his father lives at Rome, N. Y.
~, ,ssvmaa,er Frank H. Arms, OF the Vandalia' en-
,.,.d tbe Navy IN 1864. HIS homo is at Newton
Snn comm. He Is married and has family CON-
s,.tine OF one sop and two dausn'er~
Tt,s wife and daughters live at too
o.oep.r House, New-London, Tho son, who Is grown
- iyss IN Yew.York Tho eldest girl Is about four
sann wears old, and the other one several yea1
,onneer. HIS father is the Rev. wyman Arms, OF
ro,r,u ZION. Conn. well-nown minister Theodore
" Arms. farmer, Of Mertck, L. J., Is prother
,a.master Arms was ordered 10 no Venasha on
As.y ia 1887 He did service IN tho Navy during he
49, "a the Rebellion, and appointed from Con
r.cteut In July, 1885, he was mado assistant pay
rnartar ana was promoted 10 full phymaster on DC
sa,.or IL. 1911 His last cruise previous 70 his APP
noIntsnent to the vandalia expired IN May,
1s7a He then became storekeeper inc
Naval Academy at Annapolis and remained tnere un.h
80 toned the vandAlia previous 70 her going On INC
,,.eiae station Paymastsr Arms Is wen knoWn
so,ne a tho officers now at. the Brooklyn navy iau
ma All speak Of him IN the highest terms
paymasters Clerk John Roaehe was apponsss Lroi
r,,on. H. " his home Is IN Chicago, no uio uAv
u ia various receiving ships and was ioF snort une
al ths vermont 1T ths BhookIyn Navy xera, no Va
many years In the ssrysoa Mr. ko@enes n'A''s'