The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-09
COMMODORE DEWEY.
Brave, Handsome, Distinguished and in
General All Right.

Brave, Handsome Distinguished and in
General All Right.
Commodore George Dewey was on
duty continuously in Washington from
1883 until he went out to China about
four months ago to take command of
the fleet there in preference to the Eu-
ropean station, which had been offered
to him. His personal popularity in
Washington was second to that of no
officer in the United Services, and few,
indeed, were so widely known in the
national capital. In personal appear
ance he was distinguished, always
faultlessly attired, and invariably in
evidence at the best social entertain
ments. He was considered unusually
handsome, and, being a widower, was
looked upon most desirable parti by
the wealthy mamas of daughters who
had passed their teens. An entertain
ing converser upon any topic, a scien-
fist of unusual attachments and man
at home the world over, with never an
unkind word for anybody, Dewey had
not an enemy among the men, and was
| women. On the day after next Christ
mas he will be sixty years old, but he
does not look it, and but for his whit
ened hair he would be taken for fifty.
He is first-rate all-round athlete and
a huntsman of repute.
His naval accomplishments have
marked him as one of the leading
strategists in the service, and his Civil
War record demonstrated his fighting
ability His firm belief in discipline
| especially aboard his own ship, has
caused his subordinates to admire him
rather than be fond of him; but no
| complaint has ever been recorded that
| reflected upon his strict impartiality
and justice to officers and men alike.
| A story is told in the Washington
| clubs by friends of Commodore Dewey
about a previous but entirely different
! sort of encounter he had once with
\ Spain, in which he came out second
| best. Dewey's devotion to Miss Vir-
| ginia Lowery, the handsome daughter
| of Archibald Lowery one of the most
prominent and wealthy of the ''residen-
| tial set in Washington, is well known
| here. Miss Lowery was beautiful and
| d woman oL ueuulle views dS TO Wndt
would make UP her happiness. When
very young she became engaged to a
dashing, impecunious secretary of the
| Spanish Legation, Count Jack
| BRUNETTE. Her father refused to sane
! ton the affair, but, declining all other
| Offers even that of the present hero OF
the hour, Miss Lowery kept during
| twenty years her plighted troth. Three
seasons ago, with the consent of hel
| father, she became the wife of the
Duke d'Arcos, her devoted and loyal
admirer, who not only inherited a title
and estate, but represented his coun-
try as Minister to Mexico.
| Vermont is the native state of Com
modore Dewey, who is the son of g
| well-to-do country doctor. He entered
the Naval Academy in September, 1854
and, graduating four years later, was
attached to the frigate Wabash, of the
| Mediterranean squadron. He remain.
| ed one year, being then transferred tt
| the Mississippi of the West Gulf squad.
ron. From 1861 to 1863 he served there
his experience covering the capture o.
| New Orleans.
While attempting to run the batteries