The evening times., 1899-08-28

BALTIMORE. Aug. 2S.-Charies hor-
neyy a veteran of the United States Navy
il resting among relatives and friends In
East Baltimore after thirty eight years of
active service aiioat. During most OF that
period Mr. Horney was carpenters mate
of the first class and recently he went on
the retired list with that rating, for which
he draws three-fourths OF active duty pay.
Mr.. Horney was the sixth enlisted man
of the navy to become beneficiary on the
retired list provided in the new Navy
Personnel bill for the enlisted force OF
that branch of the Government service.
Hitherto the retired list had existed ex-
clusiyely for officers, pension only being
provided for the men behind the guns
when they became SO old or crippled In
the line of duty us TO place them in the
category of .incompetents. AS memen-
tcs of his long service Mr.. Horney has hve
good-conduct badges, on which a.e IN
scribed fidelity, zeal. obedience, whlie
sixth cne is due him and which he Will
shortly receive from the Navy Depart
ment Those six badges represent eighteen
years of consecutive duty
Mr. Horney WAS born and reared TO
manhood on Feli's Point. He is now
sixty-two years old yet still strong and
vigorous. He enlisted October ~, 1891, IN
the navy as a landsman aboard the odd
man-of-war Allegheny, which was sta
toned in the harbor of Baltimore as re-
ceiying ship FOR recruits AT this same
time a number of other BaltlmoreAnS
joined the service with Mr.. Horney. They
were all ship carpenters, and decided 10
enlist because OF extreme dullness in the
shipyards of Baltimore The party did not
remain long on the Allegheny, and on No
yember 20 Mr.. Aorneg found hlmself
transferred to the Pennsylvania, receiving
ship at Norfolk, whence he was soon
drafted To the steam frigate Colorado AMI
rated carpenters mate. The Colorado
soon afterward went to Nicaragua and
brought TO the United States survivors of
the Walker filibustering expedition, land
ing them at Boston. The Colorado's crew
was then, on March IL, 1858, transferred
10 the steam frigate Roanoke. which went
10 Aspinwall and brought to the United
States the Japanese Embassy, LANDING 3
them at Hampton Roads, whence the par
~ went to Washington.
June 7, 1860, Carpenters Mate Horney
was honorably discharged One year later
! he was back in the navy again, and was
j detailed TO the frigate ST. Lawrence as car
penter's mate. She was then at Philadel-
| phia and was soon ordered as flagship OF a
| blockading squadron TO Key West under
Admiral Bailey. She was on duty twenty
four months. and in that period yellow fe-
! yer broke out aboard and nearly 200 OIL
cres and men died Carpenters Mate Hor-
ney did not get the dread disease, Dut he
| was kept busy night and day for six months
making cofins and burying the dead Il
| never got the disease because i was given
! plenty of whisky and knew how 10 drink
it," said Mi. Horney in telling of that ex-
! perience.
In July. 1863, Mr. Horney was carpen-
| ter's mate aboard the steamer Aries. doing
! blockade duty. January Z, 1864. he was
| taken prisoner during an attack on the
| Confederate steamer Dare, on the mouth
of Little River, North Carolina. The Con-
| federate boat had been beached and Mr..
Horney was in a landing party from the
steamer Aries which attempted TO take
possession of the vessel. party of SOL
| diers made the capture of the Yankee blue
Jackets Mr.. Horney was in Anderson
! vile and Libby prisons until exchanged, in
about nine months. He was honorably
discharged from the navy November 2.
1864, but re-enlisted January 8, 1865, MAX
| ing a cruise to the China Station in the
! steam sloop of war Wyoming. Among the
/ junior officers of that ship was Ensign
| Sgsbee, who became prominent as COM
! manding officer Of the battieship Maine
when she was blown up in Havana harbor.
! During that cruise the Wyoming had a
1 fight with the pirates on the Island of For
1 mOsa-
Mr.. Horney made second cruise to Chi
ma on the Colorado, which was flagship of
the squadron under Rear Admiral John
Rodgers when the feet under his command
had fight with the Korean forts, in 1871,
! to avenge the murder of the crew of a
merchant vessel. Returning to the United
4 States. Mr.. Horney was discharged in
| March, 1873. but back aboard ship
again in 1874. serving on the steamer
Brooklyn, ON the South Atlantic Station.
| In 1876 Mr. Horney returned TO the United
States. and since that time has performed
| duty on the receiving ships Minnesota, Col
orado. and Vermont at the New York navy
| yard, and ON vessels of the training fleet at
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