The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-21
RANK IN TRENAvY.

II will be OF considerable help to ~
member that military and naval rank
correspond In this way:
Admiral (when the ONCE is oreakad)'
TO general
Vice admiral (when the ofano IL
created) 10 lieutenant general
Rear admiral 70 major general.
Commodore to brigadler general. lf
Captain " colonel
Commarilet to lieutenant colonel.
Lieutenant commander 90 major.
Lieutenant to captain.
Lieutenant, junior grade, - hrst
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 admirals 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 8, 1898. 4
Joseph N. Miller, commanding Pa
cific station, retires Nov %, 1898.
Montgomery sicard. on duty In the
Office OF the Secretary OF the Navy. re-
tires Sept 30. 1898
Edmund o. Matthews, president of
the Naval Examining Board, retires
Oct "a. 1898.
Charles 8. 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 the
rank Of lieutenant commander must
retire upon their reaching the age OF
/ So Those below that rank are rel
tired for physical or mental disability
The pay OF retired naval officers Isl
three quarters OF their sea pay OF the
fank they held at the time OF their
retirement At sea a rear adaiiral
receives SO 600 year; on shore duty.
$4,000, and on leave or waiting orders,
$4,000. Commodores are paid $1,000
less In ali three lines OF employment
Retired officers OF the navy cannot
be assigned TO active duty except I'M
lime OF war. and the purpose OF tho
Administration so far has been not tn
assign retired officers in the army or
navy to field or sea duty. but to Let
these posts OF danger be held by thosd
still on tho active list. OF coursel
such work as the command OF the most
quito fleet along the coast ls expected
This has been given to Admiral Ert
en-, who was retired four or Ave yeari
lgo.
Until the second year OF the civil
war the highest naval rank was that
II captain, though generally the title
II commodore was given 10 a flag Off.
er who commanded a squadron. In
1862 the rank OF rear admiral was
created by Congress, and TO this gradS
we're appointed Farragut and three
other active captains, and about q
dozen retired captains. In 1864. fof
his capture OF Mobile and subsequenf
successes, Farragut was appointed 10
the newly created rank OF vice admirali
and later ID. u. Porter and Stephen @,
Rowan we're given the same rank. All
ter the war ended. Congress went
top further, and made the grade OF ad.
Airal, and TO this grade promoted
'arragut and Porter. There was .
pecial provision OF the laws Great,
| ng admlrals and vice admirals which
used the grades to die with the men
olding them. when Porter and Far,
tgut vacated their commissions az
zee TO accept the higher office. II left
owan the only holder OF the second
lace, and upon his death in 1890 the
nice lapsed. Farragut died In 1870,
,aving 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 this
war.