The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-11

His transfer to the Lighthouse service
was construed as rebuke. 1t was not
until 1895 that he again received COM
mand of ship. Schley wears fine
gold watch. 1t was voted to him by the
Maryland legislature after his rescue Of
Greedy. More than this he values .
handsome ebony cane with Il gold head,
given him by the crew Of the Baltimore
when he was relieved of the command.
The spokesman chosen by the seamen
on this occasion touched his cap and,
with scrape of his foot, said, "You
know, sir, that when you were an off
Ger the regulations would not allow us
to give you a present, but now that you
have given up the command of the ship
you are only gentleman.
A Born Fighter.
He is born fighter. Wherever since
the war broke out there has been a
promise of trouble Schley has been pref
ty apt to be on the spot. He is resolute,
resourceful and daring, quick to decide
in an emergency and confident in him.
self 1t would always be his instinct in
battle to take the offensive, to strike
the first blow. 1t is said that when he
was appointed to the command of the
flying squadron he went to the president
and begged permission to go to meet the
Spanish fiotilla of torpedo boats and
torpedo boat destroyers which had start
ed across the ocean.
He urged that the approaching arma-
ola could not be regarded otherwise than
as serious menace. Spain in sending
it was to all intents and purposes COM
hitting an act of war. At the very least
1t ought to be stopped and made to go
back. If it would not comply with this
command, then it should be attacked.
In 1868 Commodore Schley married
Miss Mamie Franklin of Annapolis an
attractive young woman of good old
Maryland stock. She is very jolly and
popular woman, and as ready to dance
or make merry as she was quarter of
a century ago. They have three chill
dren, Thomas Franklin, Virginia and
Winfield Scott. The only daughter,
Virginia, married, in 1890, Ralph Gran
vile Montague Stewart Wortley, q
nephew of the Earl of Wharncliffe. II
he cared to stay i'll England, Wortley
would be no end of swell. Like young
Paget, w. 9. Whitney's son-in- Flaw, he
prefers to stay in this country. He is a
hustling American railroad man and
financier, with headquarters in New
York, and doesn't use all his names.
schley as a Joker.
Several anecdotes are told of Commo.
dore Schley during his younger years
which convey good idea of his sportive.
jovial character and his keen enjoyment
of joke. He was on the Niagara in
1860, when 1T conveyed the members OF
the japanese embassy to their home.
The vessel, on her way around Good
Hope, stopped on the coast of Africa,
where the japanese laid in a stock OF
monkeys. Old Captain Mexican and the
officers did not object, for it was public
policy then to crafty every wish of the
japanese. 1t was only Midshipmar
Schley and his deck scrubbers who OBJ
jected. The monkeys were allowed tc
roam about the ship as they pleased
There were all kinds of monkeys, biz
and little. Several huge ringtails would
almost live in the rigging, making fly
ing leaps from footrope TO backstay, al
ways catching firmly by their tails. Tn,
monkeys were not pleasant creature,
about the decks and were a subject OF
especial aversion to Midshipman Schley
One morning Schley had the earl,
watch, and with gang of men wa
scrubbing down. The monkeys wer,
full Of mischief and were making tn,
rigging ring with their chattering mock
cry.
| Bring me q bucket Of slush," ait
Schley to a captain Of top and to an