The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-06-14
Tie Naval Academy.

ANNAPOLIS, MD, u ullc ~, 1853.
Editors IntelIgencer: The Naval
Academy has its interesting char
acters. The incoming fourth class
will have Bagley, the brother of
the first officer Killed in the war, and
Deignah, one of the Merrimac heroes.
The present roster Of Cadets has sew
eral Interesting people. These young
Cadets, very often in the earliest days
of their naval careers, give promise OF
their future abilities.
A gentleman of this city, high III
official life, well remembers the char
acter1stics of Admiral Dewey when a
Cadet. Though from the frigid hills
Of Vermont, Cadet Midshipman Dewey
had the temper Of a Southern cater.
This gentleman who knew him well,
early indications Of character, he is
great abilities. With the hero of Ma;
nilla it was an insult by the giver and
a blow by Dewey. He took no offence
at the general term Yankee" as ap-
piled all the citizens OF the Republic;
but he resented, at once, the appella-
tion it applied to him as u discrdetable
title belonging to citizens of New Eng
! land. .
Of this plucky spirit is that "honor''
man of the Naval Academy, Cadet
William McEntee, of Minn., First Class.
He did not take first rank at once. He
stood eight in his first year, three in
second and first at the late June exami-
nation. He is a brave fellow and when
the haEer attempted to run him when
he was ON the eve of stepping up to the
third class, resisted to fsticuffs. He
was pretty we'll battered but declined,
though he had to 60 to the hospital on
account Of the fight, to tell any tales.
He was found physically deficient at
the late examination, and it nearly
broke his proud spirit. Admiral Nc
Nair let him go to Washington and the
young Cadet succeeded in having his
slight infirmity waived. Cadet McEn-
tee carries very wonderfully shaped
head that bulges backward out Of all
symmetry, but, perhaps, there is where
he carries his splendid mathematical
powers.
Ensign Louis Clark Richardson, OF
South Carolina, is one of the six year
Cadets, who recently passed here their
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half back of the rafting navy team of
1896, and was the mostprominent char
acter on it. He came suddenly into
academic fame on the sridiron. No
body except Cadet Williams seemed to
know anything Of his athletic powers.
and he persuaded him to come out and
practice, and singular to say Richard
son took Williams place. The latter
took the exchange in manly spirit.
Richardson was a quick starter and ran
like mad when he had the bali. He
never failed to make the point required
of him. His bald head was bound to
come through the opening made for
him. He took the 100-dash in 1898.
When he came back from sea, at the
last examination. though coming from
the engineer to the line, under the per
sonelle bill, he took good rate In his
class, and stood No. / in the practical
seamanship work Of the class for two
years. Ensign Richardson is the son OF
Col. NJ. B. Richardson, of South Caro-
lima, and one of the promising signs
that the young officer will keep up his
good reputation in his career is the fact
that he is absolutely as unostentatious,
in his manner open, and as friendly to
all his old acquaintances as when he
entered the Navy Sept. 6, 1893.
f. S. r.