The evening times., 1899-05-24
final EXERCISES At
THE NAVAL ACADEMY
Preparations for the Annual
Examinations.
Formal Reception Of the Board Of
Visitors.
Cadets of the Class of 1897 Who VIII
Cadets of the Class of 1897 Who VIII
Now Receive Commissions
as Ensigns.

The official programme of exercises to be
observed during the annual examination at
the United States Naval Academy, at An
napolis, which begins Monday. has been
announced. The board of visitors will be
formally received at 10:45. In the after
noon at $50 the visiting board will wit
ness ssamanship drill on the Monongahela,
which will be one of the Vessels on which
the cadets will make cruise this sum
mer. At the dress parade. p. m. pre-
sentation of colors for general excellence"
during the year will be made.
Tuesdays exercises include: $50 a. m.
fleet tactics on Standish, torpedo boats,
steam launches: $3.50 p. m, boats Sailing
and pulling; $50, dress parade: $50.
gymnastics.
Wednesday-9:S0 a. m. battalion Of in
fantry: p. m, target practice on Glou-
cester; $50, dress parade.
Thursday-9:45 a. m, battalion OF ar
tiilery: 3 p. m, machine shop drill; p. m.
setting up drill, fencing in armory. At
night Admiral and Mrs. McNair will hold
a reception.
The Naval Academy Band Prof Charles
A. Zimmerman, leader, will furnish music
at all these functions. In addition the
band will give a musical concert for the
board of visitors from 7:3O to p. m. ON
Monday. two concerts on Tuesday at the
bandstand, an afternoon concert and
promenade concert Wednesday night from
s to 10 O'Clock.
Diplomas are being made out for forty
three cadets who have passed their final
examination and will now receive COM
missions as ensigns. Several cases for
physical trouble have been held up. but it
is believed the entire class will pass. Two
cadets failed to take the examination on
account of sickness.
The two members OF the class VINO grad
uated first and second. namely, W. G. Du
Bose. OF Georgia, and E. F. Eggert, OF
Michigan, went into the construction corps.
The entire class of 1897. who now become
ensigns, are as follows. with their relative
standing at the graduation in 1897:
William Gunnell Du Bose. Georgia: Err
nest Frederick Eggert, Michigan; Harry
Erwin farnell, Iowa: Harlan Page Perrill.
Indiana; Arthur Japy Hepburn. Pennsyl-
vana: David Elias Theleen Wisconsin;
Alfred Warren Pressey. Nebraska: Need
ham Lee Jones, Mississippi; William Her
bert Reynolds. Georgia: Luther Martin
Overstreet, Nebraska: Thomas Charles
Hart, Michigan; Orin Gould Murfin. ,'hio: !:
Leonard Rund!ett Sargent. Minnesota; Cy-
Chase. Virginia. William Russell White.
Arizona; Joseph Wright Graeme, Pennsyl-
vania; Victor Stuart Houston, South Da-
| kota: Walter Roswell Sexton. illinois. Ea-
| vid French Boyd. jr.. Alabama: Frederic
Ralph Holman. Iowa: Walter Maxwell ral-
! coner. Ohio; Albert Henry Mccarthy.
| Iowa: Hilary Williams. Indiana: Willis
| Mcdowell. Pennsylvania: Oscar Dibble
] Duncan. Alabama; Arthur st. Clair Smith,
! jr.. Iowa: Robert William Henderson.
| Ohio: Austin Kautz. Washington; Charles
| Truesdale Owens. Pennsylvania: William
| Pinkney Giles. Texas: William Christian
Asserson, New York: Alfred Crosby Owen.
| District of Columbia: Samuel George Ma
| gill, jr., North Dakota; Irwin Franklin
Landis. Kansas: Clarence Selby Kempf.
| California.
Engineer Division-Daniel Sullivan Ma
money. Michigan; Henry Lafayette Collins,
| Pennsylvania; Louis Clark Richardson.
South Carolina; Andrew Thomas Graham.
/ Illinois: Henry Norman Jenson, Wiscon-
sin: Peter Lloyd Pratt, Illinois: William
Daniel Leahy, Wisconsin; George Weber.
Arkansas; Ernest Clinton Keenan. New
York: George Van Orden. Michigan.