The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
SCHLEY AND THE SCHLEYS
Some Interesting Matter About
the Admiral's Georgia
Relatives.

Chicago Tribune, in a recent let
ter from Savannah, Ga, in con-
nection with The visit of Rear
Admiral Schley TO that city, deals
with the Schley family generally
as follows:
Gen. W. W. Gordon, who is
the acknowledged host of Rear
! Admiral Schley in Savannah, the
Schley family and the public are
making 1t interesting for the man
who won the battle of Santiago.
Not the least OF these agencies for
the Rear Admiral'S pleasure is the
I Schley family OF Savannah and of
Southern Georgia.
'Schleys,' said the Admiral,
and smiling i'll whimsical way,
why | have been meeting SchleyS
whom | have never before seen,
and some, indeed, of whom | had
not even heard. Down here in
Georgia they seem to be likeued
unto the children of Isreal Ger
taiuly God seems to have pros.
pered them and they are pro, ing
the old axiom that blood is
thicker than water
The Rear Admiral has dined
with Schleys who are named
Schley, and has dined with
Schleys who have taken other
names by marriage. He has met
little Schleys and big Schleys,
young SchleyS and old Schleys,
and no one who has looked on at
these meetings would question
the mutual pleasures that were
in them.
by the city directory of Saw
anuah there are six heads of
Schley families in Savannah. BY
the same token there are only 293
/ Smit lis, and some of these are of
a Schley guinity that
would force trouble in a moment
at a remark sighting to the hero
OF Santiago. Not only in Savan-
nah, but in Columbus. Augusta,
Atlanta. Macon and other cities
OF the State are SchleyS who have
been woven into the history and
progress of Georgia for more than
a hundred Years.
The family root is Saxon.
The family is blue of eye and yell
low of hair-marks that always
have been interpreted as belong
ing TO tearleSSuess and courage.
The first Schley in America was
John Jacob. who made home for
the family in Frederick. Md, in
174G From this stock SchleyS
descended, spreading all down
( the Atlantic Coast. Governor
William Schley of Georgia. with
his brother. Judge John Schley,
uncles of the Rear Admiral. link
ed the name with Georgia in the
zoos, and today in the little son
of Julian Schley. of Savannah,
the Rear. Admiral has remarked
the blue eyes and faxen hair of
the founders of the family. This
, little Schley was born only three
weeks after the famous fight at
Santiago.
"Comparing the Maryland
SchleyS and the Georgia Schleys
at a family dinner the other night
/ the Rear Admiral referred 10 the
fact that the history of neither
criminals nor pauperS in Mary
land contained the name of a
Schley.
81 will vouch for the same
fact i'll Georgia. spoke Julian
Schley. whose hair Is even whittier
than that of the Rear, Admiral
and who. like the Rear ,Admiral's
father. has given son TO the
training that is TO make defend
er of the flag.
1--WE have been poor. contin-
ued this representative OF the
Savannah Schleys. We saw our
fathers plantation taken with its
negroes, its houses, barns. horses
and cattle. so into the wreck and
ruin of war. We saw our mother.
heartbroken at this ruin and the
necessities of a great conflict. die
and leave seven children as half
orphans with a penniless father.
But We went TO work and, by the
grace of God, we have redeemed
that which was lost of fortune
These are the Schleys who
have been making such welcome
for the Rear Admiral in Savannah
and who would make such well
come for him n half dozen cities
in The State if only circumstances
would permit,
Just now it is the DuckworthS
whose bread Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Schley are breaking. and
Mrs Duckworth is a Schley of
Schleys.
"Sayannah-such as is not of
the Sehleys-Seems TO have been
held to a stsndstill by the time
limit of the he ar-Admiral's visit
and by the itinerary that has al.