The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-07
RANK IN TIE NAVY.

II will be OF considerable help TO re-
member that military and naval rank
correspond in this way:
Admiral when the Office is craatsd)
to general
Vice admiral (when the oflna is
created) to lieutenant general
Rear admiral to major general.
Commodore to brlgadier general.
Captain 70 colonel
Commaf9ler to lieutenant colonel.
LieutenaNt commander to major.
Lieutenant to captain.
Lieutenant. junior grade. ~ frst
lieutenant
Ensign to second lieutenant.
Considering only the two highest
grades now actually held, the number.
OF officers In each since 1882 has been
six rear admlrals and ten commodores.
The present rear admirals In order
of seniority are;
William A. Kirkland, commandant
of the Mare Island Navy Yard San
Francisco, retires July 3, 1898.
Joseph ~ Miller, commanding Pa
cific station, retires Nov. %, 1898.
Montgomery Sicard. on duty In the
Office OF the Secretary OF the Navy, re
tires Sept so. 1898.
Edmund o. Matthews, president o.
the Naval Examining Board. retireS
Oct "a. 1898
Charles s. Norton, commanding
Washington Navy Yard, retires this
year.
Francis NJ Bunce commanding
Brooklyn Navy Yard, retires this year
Officers OF the navy may be retired
on their own application after forty
years service, and those above tn,
rank of lieutenant commander mus
retire upon their reaching the age
62. Those below that rank are re
tired for physical or mental disability
The pay os retired naval officers h
three-quarters of their sea pay of th'
rank they held at the time OF thei
retirement. At sea a rear admire
receives $4,000 a year; on shore duty
S5 700, and on leave or waiting orders,
- 1000 Commodores are paid $1,000
less in all three lines OF employment
Retired officers of the navy cannot
be assigned to active duty except In
lime OF war, and the purpose OF the
Administration so far has been not to
assign retired officers In the army on
navy TO field or sea duty, but TO let
| these posts Of danger be held by thosd
| still on the active list. OF coursel
such work as the command of the most
quito fleet along the coast is expected
This has been given to Admiral Erl
ben, who was retired four or five years.
Ego. (
Until the second year OF tho civil
var the highest naval rank was that
Il captain, though generally the title
q commodore was given TO flag Off
er who commanded squadron. In
1862 the rank OF rear ADMIRAL wag
created by Congress, and 90 this grady
we're appointed Farragut and threS
other active captains. and about
iozen retired captains. In 1864. fof
ais capture OF Mobile and subsequent
successes. Farragut was appointed TO
The newly created rank OF vice admiral
and later ID. ID. Porter and Stephen G
| Rowan were given the same rank AT.
| Ter the war ended. Congress went
tep further and made the grade OF ad.
liral, and TO this grade promoted
arragut and Porter. There was
pecial provision OF the laws Great.
* admirals and vice admlrals which
fused the grades to die with the men
)ldlng them. When Porter and Far.
gut vacated their commissions az
ce to accept the higher Office. II left
owan the only holder OF the second
ace. and upon his death In 1890 thS
lice lapsed Farragut died In 1870,
,avlng Porter sole possessor OF the
commission of full admiral, and upon
his death in 1891 both grades were
vacated until Congress shall revive
them, perhaps. for the heroes Of thil
war.