New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-15
OUR BIG SISTER CITY.
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
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Uomans Claim o a off Large Estate
Items Of General Interest.

chaplans. the orders to Chaplain Hcnsey determined
in itself that the Lancaster Is to be nag snip. but
Immediately following this order secretary Tracy sent
communication to Captain Bartlett j. Cromwell, com
handing the flag ship Omaha that a. soon aS nus
the Mare Island Navy Yard, where she IS to be put ont
Of commission and the discharged. The Omaha
l. ON the way from Yokohama 10 Panama, where shc
ordered 10 receive a detail of officers and crew
and then to return 10 the Asiatic station. The change
Of orders 70 the Omaha is due 10 two conditions the
that under the natural order of things her Old crew
Of 30 men VIII rccnst and thus provide Tor the ne"
vessels about 10 be pat into commission.
The Lancaster had dock trial of her engines on
Of her officers, including Passed Assistant surgeon;
IIiao W. Kite VINO Wa detached from the Daval
mouth to join the ship The LancaStcr's last cruise
was completed after eight years Of foreign service,
when she arrived at New York August :, 1889, and
was put out Of commission just month later she
wa, fitted out at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1881,
and left New York in October of that year as flag
shig OF Rear ADMIRAL J. W. \. Nicholson. who had
been ordered TO the command Of the European squad
ron She was the vessel which. in June following, was
present at the bombatmcnt Of Alexandria. Egypt. by
She English feet. and while the fight in progress
steamed around the British flag ship while her band
played tod save the Queen" II will be recalled
That this official act Of Rcar-tdmlral Nicholson wa
-eGCu~ly criticised by both American and foreign news
paper After The CITY wa, captured Admiral Nicholson
cent q strong marine 1lar9 on shore To protect the
property and live, Of the American residents.
he ] H%P "aS GvrG nv on Hear idmroi
tdn'r, Earl Fmgli.i r"evcd Admilai BALDWIN. But
ADMIRAL English was sent to the command OF the
south Atlantic squadron in very short time. The IN
expected change being caused 10y the datory manner
in which Admiral English obcyed the orders Of the
secretary Of the Navy to sail with the Lancaster for
the Congo River. that the United Statca might be repre-
~enicd At the official ceremony Of the establishment OF
the Congo Free state. When Mr.. Whitney became
secretary If the Navy effort was made by the ADM
rails friends have the order 0 change revoked. but
the secretary refused. upon The ground that It would
establish bad precedent
The Lancaster remained In the South Atlantic for
nearly three year, and then returned 70 Europe as me
hac~hip II Rcaf ADMIRAL lanes \. Greer. During her
,yhi vcar~ Of foreign service she sailed more IMAM
100000 miles. and visited cvcry port Of note IN
Er1p" the cpa,' ~ Africa and the east coast OF
south America. Among m" notable visitors to the
Lin NAV BE- mentioned Dom Pedro. the cX- Emperor
- Brazil: ilr King and Queen Of Greece the late
Emperor Wilhelm Prince Bismarck. King oscar Of
sweden and NORWAY. Prince Napoleon, the Prince OF
Wales and the sultan o. Turkey.