Evening star., 1897-04-06
NAMED
His Nomination Sent in as Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy.
SKETCH OF his ACTIVE PUBLIC LIFE
aptain CrowninshieId to Be Ad-
miraI Ramsay's Successor.
Z A r X A G. n E w WIN s

Tie President today sent to the Senate
the following nominations:
Treasury-Alcnzc J. Tyler of Tennessee
to be collector of internal revenue for th.
second district of Tennessee: Park Agnew
Of Virginia, to be collector of Internal rev.
enue for the sixth district of Virginia
Navy-Theodore Roosevelt of New York
TO be assistant secretary of the navy: Capt
"A. 5. Crowninshicld. United States navy to
be chief of the bureau of navigation in the
department of the Navy; Rev Wm. c.
Cassard of Maryland, to be chaplain in the
navy.
Postmaster-Wm. Barret Ridgely, at
Springfield Ill.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt came of a distin-
guished family of New York. He was
born in New York city October 27. 1SoS,
and was graduated at Harvard in 1850. AMI
the next year elected to the New
York Ssse mbly as a republican. During the
st ssion of 1882 he was the leader of the
minority and took an active interest In
reform measures. On his reelection III
1SS' he was largely instrumental in car
rying out the state civil service reform
law, and an act fer The regulation of pri,n-
ary elections. In 1881, as chairman of the
committee cities, he succeeded in abol-
iShing the fees of the county clerk and
register and in providing for their pay
ment by salaries, this act resulting
curtaiiing abuses in the sherin'S and sur
rogate'S offices.
He also secured the passage of a bill
that deprived aldermen OF the power to
confirm appointments to office, ard CEN
tered in the mayor the responsibility of adj
mristering municipal affairs. In 1881 Mr..
Roosevelt was chairman of the New York
delegation to the national republican con-
vention, and an unsuccessful candidate :cr
mayor of New York in 1856 Early in
President Harrison'S admniSt ration Nr.
Roosevelt became member of the civil
service commission, and throughout his
connection with that commission was a
nest aggressive advocate for the extension
OF C1VlI service reform. He did much to en-
large the scope of the civil service law He
resigned from the commission to become a
member of the board of police commission
ers in New York city. and here again Re
mad ample opportunity to show that ag-
gressive spirit in carrying out reforms and
In securing an enforcement of law that mad
always characterized his career. Mr..
Roosevelt has always been a most ener-
getic worker, ard while engaged in the
service of the government. has found time
10 Go a large amount of literary work AMI
10 SHOW his public-spiritedness in various
ways. lie has always been a great lover
of sport In its best sense, and owns one cf
the finest ranches of the northwest on
which he has yearly spent considerable
time. He is splendid horseman, and par
ticularly loves to hunt big game.
Mr.. Roosevelt has filed the positions of
the president of the Boone and Cor.kctt
Club Of New York, trustee of the American
Museum of Natural History has been a
member of the London Alpine Club and has
served on the board of the State Charities
Aid Association. In conjunction with his
brother, he has continued the work inau-
gurated by his father in the Newsboys'
Lodging House in New York
Mr.. Roosevelts literary work is of a hirb
standard. He has published History of
the Naval War of lsl2." Hunting Trips of
Ranchman, Life of Thomas H. Ben
ten and Life of Gouverneur Norris
also Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail"
Park Asnew.
Park AgneW, whose name was sent IN
the Senate today for collector Of internal
revenue for the sixth district of Virginia
pv president Mckinley, is a prominen,
AleXandiian and a well-known republican
Mr. Agnew has always been identified with
the best interests of the city. He is d mem
Der of the republican executive committee
OF the state of Virginia and was postmas-
ter OF the city of Alexandria under the
Harrison administration. When Mr. Ae-
Few ran for Congress against Gen. VIM
II. +. Lee, so great was his popularity
that he carried the city of Alexandria,
which Is democratic stronghold He Is
general manager Of the Land and River
Improv cement Company of New Alexandria
and was prominent factor in getting the
NdShlhston Alexandria and Mount Yer
non railway to come to Alexandria
Capt. A. 5. CrOwninshield.
Captain A. S. Crowninshield of the navy.
who succeeds Admiral Ramsay as chief of
the naval bureau of navigation, is a native
of New York and was appointed to the
Naval Academy from that state in Sep:em-
Der, 1860, graduating three years later. His
first sea service was on the steam sloop
Iiconderoga of the north Atlantic blockad-
ing squadron, and he participate ed in both
attacks on Fort Fisher. He was on the
Hartford of the East India squadron from
1865 to 1868. and became lieutenant COM
mander in the last-named year.
He was subsequently attached TO the
Richmond, on the European station: on
the Lackawanna, on the ASiatic station
and from 1873 to 1873 ne was on ordnance
duty at the Washington navy yard He
reached his present grade of captain in
July. 1894, and since September 1885. he
mas been In command of the battle ship
Maine attached to- the North Atlantic,
station. AT one time he commanded tht.
school ship St. Mary's, and he was also A
member of the naval advisory board which
had such an important share in the re-
building of the navy.
Capt. Crowninshield arrived here this
morning from Norfolk, where the Maine
arrived last night. He had an interview
with Secretary Long at the Navy Depart
ment in regard to his assignment to the
bureau Of navigation and that he made a
favorable impression Is indicated by his
subsequent nomjna finn