The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-16
SCHLEY AND THE SCHLEYS.
The AdmiraTs Georgia Relatives
Doing Their Best for Him.


Mr.. Hollis w. Field, of the Chicago
Tribune staff, who is in Savannah,
keeping tab on Admiral Sch1ey for the
benefit of Chicagoans who will have
the Admiral as their guest next month,
is sending some very interesting and
clever matter to his paper. one of his
letters deals with the Schley family
generally. In it he says: General w.
w. Gordon, who is the acknowledged
host of Rear Admiral Schley in SaVan-
nah; the Schley family, and the public
are making it interesting for the man
who won the battle of Santiago. Not
the least of these agencies for the Rear
Admiral's pleasure is the schley family
of Savannah and of southern Georgia.
'Schleys, said the Admiral ana
smiling in a whimsical way, why
have been meeting Schleys Whoh
have never seen, and some, indeed, OF
whom had not even heard. Down
here in Georgia they seem to be likened
unto the children of Israel. Certainly
God seems to have prospered them ana
they are proving the old axiom that
blood is thicker than water
The Rear Admiral has dined with
Schleys who are named Schley ana
has dined with Schleys who have taken
other names by marriage. He has
met little Schleys and big Schleys,
young Schleys and old Schleys, ana
no one who has looked on at these
meetings would question the mutual
pleasures that were in them.
by the city directory of Savannah
there are six heads of Schley families
in Savannah. BY the same token there
are only 29S Smiths. and some of these
are of a Schley consanguinity that
would force trouble in moment at
a remark sighting to the hero of SAN
tiago. Not only in Savannah. 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.
1.-The family root is Saxon. The fam
lily is blue of eye and yellow of hair;
marks that always have been inter
preted as belonging to fearlessness and
courage. The first Schley in America
was John Jacob. who made home for
the family in Fredericktown, Nd, in
I746. From this stock Schleys de-
scended. spreading all down the At
lantic coast. Governor William Schley
of Georgia, with his brother Judge
John Schley, uncles of the Rear Ad-
in the zoos. and to-day, in the little
son of Julian Schley of Savannah, the
Rear Admiral has remarked the blue
eyes and fiaxen hair of the founders of
the family. This little Schley was
born only three weeks after the fam
GUS fight at Santiago.
Comparing the Maryland Schleys
and the Georgia Schleys at a family
dinner the other night, the Rear Ad-
fa1iyaI s-nfet-fesd 10 the ia that the his
tory of neither criminals nor paupers
in Maryland contained the name of a
Schley.
Il will vouch for the same fact in
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 a defender
of the flag.
1--WE have been poor" continued this
representative. of the Savannah
Schleys. I'VE saw our fathers planta-
tion taken withits negroes; its houses,
barns. horses and cattle go 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 or
phans 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 welcome for him in half a
dozen cities i'm the state ii only cir
cumstances would permit.
Just now il is the Duckworths
whose bread Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Schley are breaking. and Mrs. Duck
worth is a Schley of Schleys.
"Savannah-such as is not of the
Schleys-seems to have been held to
standstill by the time limit of the Rear
Admirals visit and by the itinerary
that already has been made up past
recall. On the occasion of Admiral
Dewey's last visit here the people of
Savannah voted him a great banquet
at the De Soto Hotel and this same
voice of the people has been clamoring
for the same privilege in this enter
tanning of Rear Admiral Schley. The
city's spokesman has had to accept one
of these negatives, put in such a man.
ner as Longfellow once emulated: A
refusal which would make the persons
refused feel better than if the invita-
tion really had been accepted"