Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-13

BITS OF INTEREST ABOUT DEWEY.
"Hit First 70 Says Dewey.
A Chapter of the vermonter's Charac-
terlstics.
From Golfers Weekly. ]

teristlcs.
From Golfers Weekly.
Dewey's school is the school of Farra-
gut. Farragups lieutenant still serves I'M
der his old master.
~ remember him saying once" the Ad-
miral relates, "that, however anxious you
might be yourself, IL was likely that the en-
envy was equally, IL not more, anxious.
Strike him first; put him on the defensive,
and you have the advantage"
Except that Farragut's theory has been
proved right in all great naval campaigns,
there is no reason why all our naval com
manders should come from the same mold !;
least of all that they should look alike
But those who know the Admiral, aud
have paused in passing to rest their eyes
for moment on st. Gaudens's statue of
Farragut in Madison Square, must have
been struck by the facial resemblance of
the two greatest heroes of our navy.
We have become so familiar with the
stereotyped photograph of the Admiral,
published on all hands Immediately after
his victory, that | fear the first impression
has left no room in our minds for the
finer and stronger looking Admiral of re-
atty. The photograph was taken in
Washington when he was poorer in health
and much poorer in flesh than he is now.
Doubtless the intentions of the man who
made it were entirely honorable. He might
have done worse. He might have posed
the Admiral looking directly into the lens,
in the manner of a doll-face actress
Then we should not have had even a sug-
gestion of the Admirars fine nose, to say
nothing of the wrinkles around the Ad-
mirals eyes, which, in this instance, have
been so carefully erased.
To the civilian these wrinkles mark his
various promotions just as surely as the
naval register marks them for the naval
officer. If the sculptor who gave us a true
Farragut will give us a true Dewey, that
Dewey will have the same eyes as Farra-
gut. Eyes accustomed to looking where
the horizon meets the sea Eyes having
that peculiar expression of keenness and
good humor which is seldom seen except
in the eyes of a sailor! Eyes which saw
the white flag over Manila before any 9th
er officer! 1t has seemed to me, indeed,
that the eyes of the Admiral represented
his care for the happiness and the comfort
of his men, while his strong nose and chin
stood watch lest they be too lenient. They
twinkled when he told his officers to bring
their wives to Manila if they wished, but
not TO count on shore leave.
'In his discipline" said one of his off.
GERS, "the Admiral has the manner of a
homeopathic, but his doses are often allo
pathic."
Sometimes a martinez on principle, he
never is OF heart. The faith of the Jack
les in him is the same as that Of the Off
GERS. 1t is absolute. They call him the
old man among themselves. Before slrang-
ers they call him the Admiral, for they
are proud beings, who have finally con.
descended to forgive the government fol-
waiting so long before putting four stars
on the Olympia's pennant. In return fol-
their love for him, they know that he con-
siders them the finest body of men in the
world, and they try little harder thar
the run of Jackies to live up to his ideal.