Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06
REAR-ADMIRAL DEWEY.


Manila bay, rings today throughout
the civilized world, is Vermonter, a
taciUurn man on board ship, square
shouldered, and with big forehead
and eyes that look straight ahead.
In the navy department. he has been
looked upon as long headed thinker
Ola naval officers knew that Dewey
would fight, and they laughed at the
naval strategy board when it gave
out that alarm was felt for his safety
in Asiatic waters. They RENE mbered
that this Rear-Admiral Dewey was the
were shot away by a cannon ball and
! who, on learning this, said:
"D-n it, don't mind the shot, but
they've ruined the coat"
1t is safe to believe that a man of
that cool intrepidity would fight his
squadron for all it was worth.
Another instance of Rear Admiral
Dewey's GOODNESS was displayed at the
naval fight before Port Hudson in the
civil war, when he was lieutenant on
going into action he gave orders that
the vessels decks should be white
| washed, which enabled the guns
crews to see the running gear of guns
for no lights We're allowed on board the
vessel that night.
ear-Admiral Dewey had many
friends in this city, land it's for this rea
son that SO many persons know of
him as man of singularly gentle
disposition, modest manner, unas-
Stunning, undem onstrative. Embassa-
dor Hays expresses the thought Of
many who have met Rear Admiral
Dewey that it is almost inconceivable
to associate with the daring strategy
and maneuvering as we'll as cyclonic
fighting which characterized the bat
tie Sunday, with the gentle, quiet man
which Commodore Dewey is, says th e
Philadelphia Press.
81 was with Rear Admiral Dewey
when he was the executive officer of
the Colorado said man who served
with him 'and 1 remember one in
cident which shows the manner of
man he is. We had a fine crew, some
of them as powerful men as 1 ever
saw. Four or five of them went ashore
one day and came back fighting
drunk.
''Three Of them were men who
would singly have been more than a
match in strength for John L. Sulli =
van. The order was given to put
them in irons, and il was found i'm
possible to carry out the order, for
| the men were dangerous. Dewey was
notified of the situation. He was writ
ing letter in his room at the time
He went to the place where these
giants were, and be told them to come
| out and submit to the irons. They
did not stir. Then Dewey said quietly
to an orderly, "Bring ma my revolvers
and when he had his pistols he again
called upon the men come out, and
they did not move. Then he said: am
going to count three. If you are not
out here with your hands up on the
third count, you won't come out of
that place alive.
HE counted one, then he cooked
the revolvers and counted two. we
all expected to hear the report, for
we knew that Dewey m cant what he
said. The men knew it too. They
stepped out just in time to save their
lives and held up their. hands, and
they had been partially sobered by
their fright and the moral effect Of
Dewey's glance.
zone of them said afterward that
when he saw Dewey's eyes he knew
| that he would either be dead Jaclxy
in moment or he would have to
yield, and when the irons were put
upon him he was as sober as he ever
was in his life. Dewey went back TO
his room and finished the letter he
was writing"