The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-25
THE NEW NAVAL REGISTER.
interesting Facts Concerning Com
nstssioncd and Warrant Officers.

nis-ioncd and Warrant Officers.
The Naval Register and list o; com
miss!oned and warrant o1icers cf the
Marine Corps. which has just been issued
for 1900, contains some valuable and in
teTesting data.
George Dewey is the only Admiral.
There are eighteen rear admirals. F.
v McNair. ur-H recently superintendent
OF the Naval Academy and now on
wanting orders, heading the list. The cap
talhs number 10. with John ]. Read. No.
1; III commanders: 10 lieutenant COM
manders; 800 lieutenants. 11s Iieu:enauts
Junior grade). 112 ensigns. 112 naval ca
diets who are performing two years ser
vice at sea or pursuing special studies
prior to final graduation. The Medical
Corps contains 10 medical directors. 10
medical inspectors, So surgeons. 4S passed
assistant surgeons. 81 assistant surgeons
In the Pay Corps are 10 pay directors, 10
pay inspectors. 40 paymasters 80 passed
assistant paymasters, So assistant paymas-
ters- CThe number allowed by law is 4Ol.
Twenty-four chaplains are in active SER
vice. u professors of mathematics. Prof.
my, heading the list; 1 secretary. 10 naval
constructors, 20 assistant naval cOnstruc-
tors, 81 civil engineers.
Warrant Ofiicers-Chief boatswains. 10;
bcatswains. 20; chief gunners, 10; gun
ners, So; chief carpenters. IS; carpenters,
46; chief sailmakers, IL; warrant machin-
lists, 100; pharmacists %; mates. 8.
Naval Cadets-First class, 81; second,
IS; third. So; fourth, 20 (some added
since).
The MariEe Corps has one brigadier gen.
eral-Charles Haywood. who is command
ant On the general staff are ten officers
There are five colonels. five lieutenant cole
nels. ten majors thirtysix captains. forty
four first lieuteuants. sixty second lieu
tenants.
During the year lieutenant, chaplain
and nine naval cadets resigned. There
were twenty-five retirements in the Navy
and one in the Marine Corps; sixteen
deaths and one in Marine Corps. and one
dismissed Ia naval CADET.
In the order of precedence in the line.
the first ten ere as follows: Captains
John J. Read. Mortimer l.. Johnson, Edwin
u. Shepard, Robley D. Evans, Frank
Wilde. Henry Glass. Philip H. Cooper.
Henry c. Taylor George H. Wadleigh, a.
s. CrOwninshield.
Medical Director Walter X. Schofeld has
the date of precedence on the Medical
Corps; Pay Director Charles II. Eldredgs
in the Pay Corps; Chaplain Wesley o. HoE-
way, chaplain; Prof W w. Hendrickson in
mathematics; Naval Constructor, Philip
Hiehborn; civil engineer. Peter C. Asser-
son; in the Marine Corps, Major Harry K.
White.
List Of ships in the Navy include: First
rate, II; second rate. 10; third .rate. AZ;
fourth rate. IS; torpedo boats q; tugs.
10; receiving ships. 16; under construction,
g.
The pay Of an Admiral in the Navy Is
uniformly S13.5G0. whether at sea or on
shore. Rear admirals salary-First nine
receive s.. 500 at sea and 1856 or shore;
second nine. $500 at sea and 81. 675 ashore.
The pay OF a captain at sea IS 50 $50; CON-
mander. 81. Gee; lieutenant commander. 81
500; lieutenants, s1.S0e. junior grade. ST.
900: eusigus, 81 100. Second lieutenants IN
Marine Corps. chief boatswains, chief gun
ners. chief carpenters, and chief sailma!S-
ers receive the same pay.
ffhe chiefs of bureaus and brigadier gen.
erals and eommandant Of Marine Corps re-
ceive 81, 500 a year: judge advocate gener-
al and colonels Marine Corps, line and
staff, 50. see; lieutenant colonies. line and
staff. 81. Geo: major. $3.50: captains. Ma
rfne Corps line. s1,S0O; STAFF, $1,000; first
lieutenaEts and leader of band. Marins
Corps. 81, 500. Naval cadets. in other than
practice ships-At sea, $3.50; at Naval
Academy and elsewhere. $500; chaplains.
s.. 500; professor of mathematics and civil
engineers. 50, 100; naval constructors, So
200: assistant naval constructors. first four
years after date Of appointment, at sea.
$1,000.
The Secretary of the Naval ACADEMY
(Mr Daniel Jickling) is paid a sa airy of
81 SEQ. The commandments clerk ct Mare
Island Navy Yard also receives $500, as
does the paymaster's clerk at navy yard
and on receiving ship at Mare Island. 9th
er clerks are paid from $3.50 to $500. &C
cording to the Importance OF their stat Oh.
The chief master-at-arms receives $50
month chief boatswain's mates, gunne-'s
mate, gun captains, and chief quarterma5-
ters, each $50; seamen guHne!s, SIS; s-a-
men. S24: apprentice. first class, SCI; sec
ond. SIS; third, 50; chief ysomau, $50;
lsndsmen, SIC; hospital steward, $50;
tandTnasters, So. FIRST musicians, $50; mu-
sicians, first class. $50; second class, $50;
buglers. $50: hospital apprentice. go.
For the first year the pay Of private In
the Marine Corps is $f5 month; corporal,
SIS: sergeant. S1S; first sergeant, S25; gun
merry sergeant. S35; drum major, SIS; q ar
termaster sergeant, 50; sergeant major,
s34.