The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-10
RANK in TRE NAVY.

II will be OF considerable help 20 re-
member that military and naval rank
correspond in this way:
Admiral (when the office Is eraasedJ
to general.
Vice admiral (when the ofloA is
created) TO lieutenant general
Rear admiral to major general
Commodore to brigadier general
Captain so colonel.
Commar2ler to lieutenant colonel.
LeutenaAt commander to major.
Lieutenant to captain.
Lieutenant. junior grade, g. hrst
lieutenant.
Ensign TO second lieutenant.
Considering only the two highest
grades now actually held. the numbe,,
OF officers I'm 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 3, 1898
Joseph N. Miller, commanding Pa
ciilc station, retlres Nov. %. 1898.
Montgomery Sicard. on duty In the
Office of the Secretary Of the Navy. re-
tires Sept 80, 1898
Edmund o. Matthews, president OF
the Naval Examining Board, retires
Oct. "a 1898
Charles S. 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 o.
| ". Those below that rank arc re
| tired fDr physical or mental disability.
The pay of retired naval officers Is
| three-quarters OF their sea pay Of the
| fang they held at the time OF thei
| retirement. At sea a rear admira
receives $4,000 a year; on shore duty
| $4,000. and on leave or waiting orders.
| $4,000. Commodores are paid $1,000
Less in all three lines of employment
Retired officers of the navy cannot
| be assigned to active duty except In
| dine of war. and the purpose OF the
| Administration so far has been not TO
assign retired officers in the army or
navy to field or sea duty, but TO let
| these posts Of danger be held by thosd
| 5till on the active list. or cOurseI
such work as the command OF the most
quito feet along the coast is expected
| This has been given to Admiral Err
! ben, who was retired four or five yearJ
Ego. (
| Until the second year of the civil
war the highest naval rank was that
II captain, though generally the titlQ
( commodore was given to a flag Off
er who commanded a squadron. In
1862 the rank OF rear admiral wa3
| created by Congress- and TO this grad}
were appointed Farragut and three
other active captains. and about a
| loZen retired captains. In 1864. foi
his capture of Mobile and subsequenI
successes. FarTagut was appointed to
The newly created rank of vice admiral,
and later ID. ID. iorter and Stephen c
! Rowan were given the same rank AZ.
| Ter the war ended, Congress went
.tep 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 admiTals and vice admirals which
aused the grades to die with the men
| olding them When Porter and Far.
lgut vacated their commissions az
ice TO accept the higher Office, It left
| 'owan the only holder OF the second
lace. and upon his death in 1890 th9
flee lapsed Farragut died in 1870,
eaying Porter sole possessor OF tho
commission OF full admiral. and upon
his death in 1891 both grades were
| vacated until Congress shall revive
Them. perhaps, for the heroes of thi4
| war.