The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-04
JERSEYS NAVAL MEN,
Representatives Of the State
From All Walks
Of Life.
TWO COMMANDERS
Many Lieutenants Of Both
Grades : Dewey's and
SIMPSONS Engineers

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List and Station of the Commissioners
| and Warrant Officers of the United States
| Navy and of the Marine Corps. on the
Active List The pamphlet covers the
first half Of the present year and conse-
quently shows the standing and station
| Of most Of the officers at the present time.
| These being war times this list is far
more interesting than It ordinarily would
be. says the Newark Sunday Call
Jersoynen in looking over the pamphlet
will feel a pardonable pride at the large
number of officers that claim this State
as the one from which they received
their appointments to the Naval Academy
and to which State they therefore owe
much of their present success. BY far
the greater part of the men claiming Jer-
| sey as the State from which they were APP
pointed are native Jerseyrnen.
New Jersey can claim no rear admirals.
| of whom there are but six on the active
list, nor has it any one in the list Of COM
modores. Although Acting Rear Admiral
Sampson is a resident of Glen Ridge. he
! received his appointment from his native
State. In the list of forty-five captains
there is one who was appointed from
New Jersey, Captain John J. Read, now
| commanding the receiving ship Richmond,
now stationed at League Island Navy
Yard. He was appointed in September.
1853. and stands fifteenth on the list Of
| captains. The fourth on the list Of the
eighty-ive commanders is Commander
Bowman McCalla. who was appointed from
New Jersey in 1861, and is now command
ing the Marblehead in Guantanamo Bay.
Commander McCalla's name was Civ
en- to the first camp Of United States
| forces ever established on Cuban soil,
when the marines from the Marblehead
were landed on the shores of Guantana-
mo Bay early in the present war, and
maintained their position against fearful
odds. finally driving the foe into the
bush. Commander McCalla is now in
charge of the port Of Guantanamo, hold
| ing a very responsible position and hay
ing but three or four hours of the TWEEN
ty-four according to latest reports)
which he may call his own. To Com
mander MeCalla's energy and fearless
ness is due to a great extent the sue
cessfui occupation of the outer bay OF
Guantanamo. and the newspaper dis
patches compliment him highly for his
zeal in pushing the flag into the enemy's
territory. If Commander McCalla does
| not become a captain at the close OF the
war it will be very strange indeed. New
Jersey has another commander, John Nc
| Gowan, who ank eighth on the list.
! He was appointed in 1852 and is now serv-t
ing as commander of the training ship
! Newport. being at the same time in COM
mand of the port of that name Still
another commander from this State IS
! Commander Norris r. Mackenzie, APP
| pointed In 1862. and now commanding the
| Mayfiower, which is doing very efficient
| service on the blockade about Havana
He is thirty-seventh or the list. The first
| on the active list of Lieutenant Com
handlers is Charles o. Allibone. appointed
to the Naval Academy in July, 1868, and
now serving as lighthouse inspector in
! the ninth Congressional district. He has
held this position only since last Deem
Der. and just before that had been on
duty at sea. His time for shore duty
| came at a most inopportune period, con-
| sidering the fact that most naval officers
have been looking for a war for years
for an opportunity for promotion as well
as a chance to show what they could do.
Among the lieutenants there are a sur
| prising number of Jerseymen. Lieutenant
| Sampel P. Comley was appointed from
| New Jersey in 1865. He is now serving on
| the battleship Indiana, the first battleship
the United States ever owned. He is sec
ond on the list of l~ieutenants, and number
| three is also a Jersey appointee, Hawley
| o. R~ittenhouse, appointed in July, '65. and
now doing duty on the double turreted
monitor Miantonemah, on the blockade.
| George w. Mentz is a lieutenant from
Jersey. with the number of t~wenty-six,
having been appointed to the laval Aead-
envy in 1866. He is at present on the COM
posite gunboat Annapolis. Then there is
a dearth of Jerseymen, but against the
number 126 appears the name OF Lieuten-
ant Richard T. Muliigan, appointed in 1871,
and now serving on the New York, Adj
miral SIMPSONS flagship. Lieutenant
John L. Purcell was appointed in 1879,
and is now commanding the tugboat
Osceola. with the North Atlantic fleet.
Three numbers further down is Lieuten-
ant Harry Phelps, appointed in 1876 and
now on the ~second-class battleship Texas,
| Captain Jack Philips boat, which has
removed the ~.shoodoo" with which she
was supposed to be possessed, since the
war began. Lieutenant Albert A. Acker-
man is now on the battleship oregon, the
wonderful vessel that made such a splen-
did record in her race against time from
the Pacific to the Atlantic. and which
showed speed equal to the fast Cristobal
Colon and nearly equal to hat OF the
Brooklyn. in the big battle of Santiago.
He was appointed in 1876 to Annapolis,
and his number is 203. Lieutenant Henry
B. Wilson, number 267, is a J~erseyman,
now serving on the gunboat Bancroft.
which, by the way, was built by Jersey
men, at Nixon's shipyard, Elizabeth. He
went to the academy in 1876.
There arc four lieutenants. Junior grade,
from Jersey. Number -four in the list Is
Lieutenant Walter O.. Hulme, now COM
manding the tug Choctaw. one of the mos
quito fleet He was appointed in 1880.
Lieutenant George W. Kline. appointed in
1881, is on the gunboat Annapolis. His
number Is seventeen. Lieutenant Philip
Andrews, number thirty-three, is on the
gunboat Bennington, now in the Pacific.
He. went to the Naval Academy in 1882.
Lieutenant Mark L. Bristol went from
! Jersey to Annapolis in 1889, and he is now
on the battleship Texas. There are three
young men serving from Jersey as en-
signs in the regular ravy. Ensign War
rem Terhune, appointed in 1885. is on the
double turreted monitor Terror. He is
seventeenth on the list. Ensign Henry H.
Ward. stationed at the Bureau of Navi-