The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-05-20
Prize Money for Dewey,s Fleet.

Prize Money for Dewey's Fleet.
Rear Admiral Dewey and his men
will not have been fully rewarded for
their victory at Manila when they re.
ceive the thanks of the Congress and
the medals ordered to be struck for
them. Under the law they have be.
come entitled to a rich bounty. Unless
The numerical Importance of the fleet Of
Admired Montejo has been overestima,
ted, its losses overstated, the officers
and men of the Asiatic squadron will
be entitled 10 share among them, when
the time arrives for a distribution,
something like S1S5, 600 bounty money.
Section 1855 of the revised statutes
of the United States, which is Just as
good as it was the day it was made law
iu 1864, provides: A bounty shall be
paid by the United States for each per-
son on board any ship or vessel of war
belonging TO an enemy at the com
mencement of an engagement which is
sunk or otherwise destroyed in such en-
sag ment by any ship or vessel belong
ing to the United States, or which it
may be necessary TO destroy in conse-
quence of injuries sustained in action,
of 500, if the enemy's vessel was of
inferior force, and of 5000 il Of equal
or superior force, to be divided among
the officers and crew in the same man
ner as prize money; and when the act
ual number of men on board any such
vessel cannot be satisfactorily ascertain
ed, it shall be estimated according to
the complement allowed TO vessels OF
its class in the navy of the United
States; and there shall be paid as boun
to the captors of any vessel of war car,
tured from an enemy, which they may
be instructed to destroyed for the pub,
lie interest, but not in in consequence
of iniuries received in action, $50 for
every person who shall be on board at
the time of such capture"
According to the reports from Ma
Mia, the Spanish feet consisted Of 10 or
II cruisers, gunboats and torpedo boats,
with crews amounting in all TO not less
than 1900 men. Admiral Montejo was
unconsciously increasing the bounty
fund with every vessel he sank, and
Spain undoubtedly will have TO pay
for those losses in making up the in.
demnity at the close of the war. AT
800 for each man of the Spanish ma
val force the amount to be divided a
mong the American sailors will BIZ
S1S7, 200. The vessels OF the United
States were, if anything, undetermined.
The numbars will be under rather thar
over the following figures: Cruiser
| Olympia, officers and men, 415; cruise.
Baltimore, officers and men, 1856; cruis
er Boston, officers and men, 2S5; cruis
er Raleigh, officers and men, 222; gun
boat Concord, officers and men, 1913
gunboat Petrol, officers and men, 1872
gunboat McCulloch, officers and men
100. Total 1888.
The S1S7, 200 will be distributed tt
the fleet under section 1881 of the re
vised statutes relating to prize money
Amiral Dewey under the statute viii
get one-twentieth of the whole amour
of bounty awarded to his command
That will give him $4,000. If he ba
fleet captain, or what passes for one
he will have share of something hk
$500, There will be left to be dis
tributed TO the vessels of the fleet &C
cording TO til if pay rolls, about S175.
600. This will go to seven ships an,
in about the following shares; Olympia
$40, 900; Baltimore, $4,000; Boston
s25, 1000; Raleigh, $4,000; Concord
$40, 900; Petrol, $4,000 McCullocf
| $4,000.
To the commander of each singl,
vessel there will go one-tenth of the a
mount assigned to be distributed /
that vessel! The commanders of tn
ships will get amounts, respectively
as follows: Capt. E. V. Grdley, Q
| lympia, $4,000; Capt. N. M. Dyer
Baltimore, $4,000; Capt. Frank Wildes
Boston, $500; Capt. j. B. Cughlan
Raleigh, $4,000; Commander As
Walker Concord, 1000; Commando
E. P. Wood, Petrol, 1900; Capt. .
E. Hodgsdon McCulloch, 900. Tn
amount to each seaman will not b
great. 1t is believed that it will be i
tho naiub horhood of 40