New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
TT Broadway, bet. 9th & 10th SITS.
TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY.
CANDIDATES FOR WEST POINT AND AN
NAPcLIS IN THE XIvTH DISTRICT.
RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATION INSTITUTED BY
CONGRESSMAN QrIGG THE SUCCESSFUL
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CONGRESSMAN QrIGG-71IE SUCCESSFUL
YOUNG MEN
| A con,,et I'm the result Of which forty ambitious
! Youths were deeply interested came % end yes
! ferday when the committee appointed by l."mue. +
/ Ouigg Member Of Congress from the XVIII Dis
trlcf reported the result Of their work and recon
/ ,ocuded candidates for cadetships AZ West Point
| and Ann,p,lls OF the nine who summoned
| bv the committee to hear the report five looked
rather DEF ctcd but the happiness Of the successful
boys Wa soon reelected by their almost successful
competitors. and. with the conviction that II WAS
case OF the survival OF the fttest all went away
happy.
It was youths day; the man OF twenty-five was
Old: he Of forty was a patriarch In the school
room where the boys waited four hours for the YER
dict. and no one seeing the JOY with which these
possible Grants and Farraguts received their per
mlts q 20 and Try their powers, who noted the
bubbllng Of their American youth. could but wish
himself boy with them. \ finer lot Of boys could
not be found In days walk they were 5000
specimens Of the coming man from whose class the
EGisons and the Darwns of the next century VIII
spring, and had any Of them secured the prize no
mistake would have been made. Mr. Qulgg seemed
to think so too. for before dismlaslng them be told
them not 10 be discouraged. but 10 try again. Who
knows but of the turned down" boys may yet.
when to-day's affairs ancient history. as adj
miral general tell Of the time when first he tried.
long ago, when MI tluigg was Only a COn6rcSsHldi'
when ships were run by steam and when people
thought five days Europe fast time.
-Four weeks ago notices appeared In all the papers
to the effect that a competitive examination would
be held 10 determine whom Mr.. Quigg would rec
ommend for the cadctships. The same notice
also the various public and parochial
schools, and nfty-eght candidates presented them
selves OF these. seven were rejected because OF
physical unntness, and Of the others, forty APP
pearcd at Grammar School No. 81. Amsterdam
and Seventy -seventh-st, on April Il. Tor eN-
animation The committee conducting the eN-
aminations consisted OF John L. y. Hunt. Brother
Baldwin. OF Manhattan College. James GOODWIN
Dr. James Lee and Henry w. Jameson The exam
ination thorough and a searching one last
ing from 10 n. till =. m, ana the result was
highly crcditabe to the competitors.
The committee met yesterday In Grammar School
No. ST. and after four hours deliberations Mr.. Hunt
read the following letter In lieu Of report:
The Hon. Lemuel T.. Quigg, NJ. C., Washington.
Dear Sir: The undersigned the Board of Ex-
aminerS appointed for the purpose or conducting
the examinations OF applicants for cadetshps to
vast Point and Naval Academy respectfully re-
pSt that April y. 1885, the examinations were
held in the city Of New-York, In the XVIII Con-
gressional District, forty applicants presenting
J. bradford Briggs. No - West sxtieth-st
passed first in the examinations ana we uhan-
mously recommend that you nominate MN 10 the
Honorable. the Secretary of the Navy Tor appoint
mcnt Il cadet at Annapolis.
Walter Seeley No. A7 West Sixty-ninth-st
tha' you nominate him to the Honorable, the Sec
rotary Of War for appointment as a cadet al west
Point. We unanimously recommend That you name
Wallis Chairman for appointment as alternate ior
the cadetshp at West Point x,,
We unanimously recommend that you name JULIUS
T. Falk for appointment alternate Tor the c1uSt-
ship at Annapolis. Respectfully, ~
BROTHER BALDWIN,