The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-04
IN DEWEY'S FLEET.
Lieutenant w. L. Howard, Whose Family
 is In This City.

is In This City.
 An able young officer of Acting Rear Admiral Dewey's fleet in the battle at Manila in whom New Haven takes es- pecial interest and pride is Lieutenant
 William l.. Howard of the United
 States cruiser Boston. Lieutenant Howard comes from Norwich and mar
 ried the daughter of the late Dexter
 Alden, a prominent resident of this
 city. Mrs. Howard is now living in
 this city with her mother on Temple
 street. Mrs. William T. Fields, wife of President William T. Fields of the Ma tional Tradesmen's bank, is a half sis ter of Mrs. Howard. The family and friends of Lieutenant Howard are anxiously waiting for fuller accounts of the battle in which he was engaged. The last letter received from him was written before war had been declared.
 In it he expressed the belief that he
 would be assigned to home duty as
 soon as the trouble with Spain was
 over, as his three years of sea duty had been completed last November, and, in
 accordance with the rules in the navy, ilG WOulu De dSSlSIlEu u IHlGS ySeilS shore duty.
 Lieutenant Howard has been on the Boston ever since the cruiser was sent to the Asiatic station in November, 1895. A few days ago he was confirmed
 by congress as a full lieutenant, he having previously been a lieutenant of the junior grade.
 Although only thirty eight years of | age Lieutenant Howard has performed
 much valuable service for the country
 as a naval officer, for which he has been frequently commended by the | navy department. He was born in
 Norwich and received his appointment | to Annapolis from that city. Since his | graduation he has been assigned to | several positions demanding both the | highest knowledge and courage. For | three years he was government inspec- | tor of armor plate at the Carnegie | Steel works at Munnhall, Pa.
 | While an ensign he was sent on one | of the Greedy relief expeditions to | Alaska and wrote a report of the ex- i petition for the government. Later he | was sent on an exploring expedition by | the department to Alaska. To him be- longs the honor of being the first white I man to make the first trip from the
 mouth of the Yukon across country to | Point Barrows He made the trip with | two Indian companions and met with
 many dangerous experiences. He wrote an interesting account of the | journey for one of the New York mag
 azines He had intended to reach l Point Barrow at the season when the | whaling fleets were there and return home on one of these, but was de- | layed, so that on leaving there he found l the whalers had all departed. He de- | termined to make his way on foot to | the mouth of the Yukon, following l along the coast and trusting to game | and fish for his food supply. He was | so fortunate as to be picked up by a
 vessel after two or three days journey. l The vast distance which he would have 1 had to traverse in reaching the Yukon made his undertaking a most daring l one. For his services on this expedi- tion he was highly commended by the
 navy department. He was also assign l ed to duty at San Francisco for some l time.
 He is chief intelligence officer on the
 Boston, it being his duty at whatever place the boat stops to collect all in-
 formation in regard to it's harbor, for
 tifications erected, and report to Wash | ington.
 1 Another officer of the fleet well known l to Thomas Trowbridge of this city is
 Lieutenant Commander G. P. Colvocor-
 eses of the gunboat Concord He is a
 native of Litchfeld.