The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-09-06
OFFICERS EXlLEO BY THEIR WIVES.
When They Prove Refractory They Are
Ordered to Distant Lands.

Inc wives OF army and naval officers
| Stationed III " ashington have it in their
power to bring their better halves to
terms in manner that their less for
tunately located sisters upon the plains
| and in out-Of-the-way ports cannot
| avail themselves of. A well-known
naval officer, whose record shows him
to have had a very large apportion-
ment OF sea duty, is blissfully unaware
to this day that ne owes that fact to his
wife, to whom, by the way, when at
home, he was not inclined to be indul-
gent. The little woman, being of a
hospitable temperament was devoted
to the giving OF charming little inter-
tainments.
For some time the husband frowned
upon entertaining to such degree that
while he was on shore duty il was al
most impossible for the wife to crafty
her hospitable prociivities even to the
most limited degree. She was an in
f1uentlal little body, who endured things
as long as was possible for any one
short OF an angel. Finally, however, the
lnyarlable outcome Of the husbands OBJ
stinate refusal to allow her to give some
entertainment upon which she had set
her heart was followed by his imme-
diately thereafter receiving orders de-
failing him to sea duty.
Instances in which wives have had
their husbands ordered to sea or out-of-
the-way places at posts where it was al
most impossible for their families to be
accommodated when prolonged sprees
have followed upon their being station
ed III Washington are too numerous to
be accounted in any way remarkable.
There are many reasons other than
official ones why officers have been or
dered away from Washington within
the last half dozen years Not the least
interesting Of these was the case of two
naval officers who elected to pay at
tentlon to the same handsome YOUNG
matron. The rivalry finally reached
such u point that the senior officer. un
able longer to endure the presence of
the attractive young Lieutenant. hit up-
on the plan OF having him ordered to
sea. In the assignment of duty the ut
most care was taken to insure a lone
absence from the city, and as one of the
vessels for the relief of some Arctic ex-
plorers was just about setting out the
Lieutenant was given the opportunity
to cool down his ardor in VOYAGE in
polar waters.
Another interesting case is that of a
well-known member of the medical
corps who, after considering himself
comfortably fixed with his family in
Washington, was considerably chagrined
to received orders detailing him 70
duty on the Pacific coast. There is con-
siderable inside history to this latter
case, in which the qualification of a per-
sonal pique was the real reason for the
change. During the latter part of the
last administration one of the physicians
stationed in the West, who from long
residence IN Washington had acquired
longing 10 return, began to move the
heaven and earth of his influence to
have himself stationed here.
This he was unable to effect in spite
O. everything he could do. Finally. his
wife packed up her belongings and
journeyed across the continent for the
purpose of adding her efforts to those of
her husband. Nothing, however avail
ed The opposition was too strong.
The feminine perception soon discover
ed that the opposition emanated from
an officer who IN some manner unwarily
let fall certain hints that She was not
slow to pick up. Imagining himself
sure OF his detail in Washingto the Of
ticer gave little attention, if any. to the
fact that the doctors wife was aware of
his opposition. The affair occupied con-
siderable attention in the papers at the
time, though it was not then known
what was the hidden history of the case.
No sooner had the present admins
tration been fully installed than the
wished-for orders assigning the physi-
clad to duty here were dispatched to his
Western post. Almost simultaneously.
like thunder clap. came the orders as
signing the officer who had opposed
him To duty on the Pacific coast. - u ash.
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