The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-16
DISTINGUISHED SERVICES.
Captain Chadwick an Officer of
Great Note.
Brief sketch OF His Busy Life Where
He has lseen and What He has been
Doing Operations on santiago.

der OF the cruiser. New York, Rear Adj
miral SIMPSONS flagship. during the
Spanish war, was born in
Morgantown, West Virginia, Febru-
airy %, 1874. His forbears on his
fathers side came TO the state through
New Jersey and Pennsylvania; on his
mothers side he is descendant of
Col. John Evans, who was county lieu
| tenant under the colonial governors
and who migrated from Fairfax coun-
| ty, Virginia, to Monongalia county,
in 1853. He is related on his moth
er's side to the Strothers, Slaughters,
Taylors, General Zachary, Pendle-
ton, and otherwell known families
of that state. He received a
classical education at the Monon-
gala Academy in 1861 being APP
pointed by William. G. Brown, NJ.
c., a politician and lawyer of much
prominence. He was made one OF an
advance class of thirty chosen out of a
large number Of over two hundred
and sixty who entered that year, and
was graduated in November, 1864.
After some service on our own coast
in the Susquehanna, flagship OF Adj
mral Gordon, in squadron to look
up the confederate ram Stonewall
| 0ound in Havana, and whose delivery
was demanded) he went In the same
ship to the Brazil station where he
served two years; ia the meantime be-
ing transferred to the Juniata, ia
| which he returned home in 1867.
After service in the Sabine, Tuscarora
! Gin the South Pacific Station, in the
Guerrero european station), naval
academy as an instructor in mathe-
matics, in the Powhatan (on the North
| Atlantic station) and on light home
| duty, he was sent abroad to collect in
formation regarding light house, saw
| ing and other kindred administrations.
He was shortly appointed naval at
tache to our London embassy with
orders to go elsewhere when necessary
and remained on this duty nearly
seven years. Secretary Tracy, In his
report of 1889, said: 1.-THE depart
ment took steps to supply its want of
experience by the systematic acqulsi-
| tion of information as TO naval
| DlOSItSS HUH dDfOdti duu ~ 10
proper to refer especially to the untir-
| ing and successful efforts of Comman-
der +. e. Chadwick, the first naval
attache sent out, whose extraordinary
ability and judgement during six years
of difficult service in England and on
the continent have had a lasting in
fuence upon naval development in
| this country
On leaving London he took COM
mand Of the Yorktown, serving in the
Mediterranean and Gulf Of Mexico as
one of the "White Squadron, under
| Admiral Walker. When detached
from this command he spent some
time as member of the board on or
ganization of Labor at the navy yard,
was appointed chief intelligence officer
in 1892, and on July 2, 1898, succeed
ed Commodore (now Admiral Dewey
as chief Of the bureau of equipment.
He left this duty in September, 1897,
and after serving as member on
board to report upon the number and
character of docks needed, was order.
ed in November to the command of
the New York. When Admiral Samp-
son was assigned the command of the
North Atlantic station, Captain Chad
wick was appointed chief of staff in
addition to his duties as commanding
officer, and has so served to this date.
Captain Chadwick has given to the
writer the following interesting par
ticulars of his splendid vessel during
the war, together with some side Incl
dents, hitherto unpublished, of the
naval operations off the Cuban coast:
The New York was in all the more
important actions in the Caribbean.
On the 3rd of July, having started to
enable the Admiral to arrange some
concerted action with General Shafter,
she was, when the Spanish ships came
out, four miles on her way to Siboney,
which was six miles east Of the flag
ships usual position. She was thus
only able to get within gunshot of the
| torpedo boats before the most of the
| Spanish ships were driven ashore and
then joined in the chase of the Colon.
She was going a good four knots fast
er than the Colon when she turned in
and hauled down her colors, so that
with such. speed there was no chance
for her to escape. The New York
pushed the Colon into shoal water be-
fore she sank, so that she might not
sink in water SO deep as to render any
attempt at raising her hopeless. Her
| captain, Moreu, who was taken on
board the New York, said next day at
luncheon 'fThis ends the war;" and
so it did: with her only good ships
destroyed, Spain recognized the hope
lessness Of continuing the contest.
The New York, though practically
at sea six months during the war
without entering port, was never in
need of repairs; she never even had to
slow down on account of any hitch in
her machinery. She not only kept
herself in good order, but was gen.
eral repair shop and source of supply
for all the torpedo boats and small
vessels. The three months of actual
war were trying chiefly from the
watchfulness necessary and the dark
enning of the ship at night. No
lights could be shown, and the men
had to move in the gloom They
slept at the guns with the ammuni-
tion beside them. The ship could
have gone into action in thirty sec
onds.
1t was well that the enemy did not
come out during the landing of the
army. A large number of the men
were away in the boats sent to land
our troops, and the ships would have
been seriously handicapped by their
absence. But it was an absence
which could not be helped, as our
soldiers had to be landed as rapidly
as possible, and the boats and men of
the squadron were the only available
means. Aud the service was admir-
ably done. Gen. Shafter telegraphed
the War Department that otherwise
he could not have landed in ten days,
if at all. The whole 5000 were put
ashore in three days on a coast on
which there was no protected beach.
The men of the fleet had an experience
in boating during this whole three
months Of an admirable but trying
character. The little steam launches
were used as picket boats off Santiago
from evening dark to morning light,
and were nightly exposed to fire at
close range, but no one one was struck.
One cadet of the New Orleans in
charge of launch thought he would
like a swim and landed Immediately
under the MORO and had great difficult