Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-16
WISE OLD ADMIRAL
7oW AMERICAN SAILOR nIscom
FITTED ENGLIsHMAN.
o'sposed Of His eroe, Hvt Not in the
"snner Usually Considered Proper
incident That Shows His sterIino
sense Ct Honesty.

AZ one "i the regular SATURDAY. Dict.
meetings OF Young Mr.. Rockefeller, :
0'"ie class recently Col Church told 9
story about buff old Admiral Greg
9'< which maze the Bible class laugh
A'hhra' Gresory-Cart Gregory
-e was 'hen-was in Portsmouth
Hnsiaha, II command of a fr:cate -
Saiu Coi. church. and he was the re.
elplent OF many hos pitahle attentions
nat was back in the davs wber
naval hospitality meant srog, and the
nosC and guest drank healths till one
Ut ooth were under the table.
1hefe was at Portsmouth in com
tnahd OF the Elgin fee a seasoned ola
Aea-dog in the matter of alcoholic how.
eiases' and he soon invited Gregory TO
olhe with him, tipping the wink to his
ofncers hat he was going to fl, that
2anhee naval officer 50 full Of sroc
.hae ne wouldn't know a captain from
Delaying pin.
Gregory was a tolerab1y we'll sea
Soao1 vessel himself so he took tc
strategy. His troubles began whan
'he EDgiishman called in his officer
one by one and introdnred them IL
Gregory, this. of course. meaning an
extra drinking with each as the ofuc
ers were brought in.
In those days the naval officers
wore stocks comin& h'gh I'D unde,
Laslr chins under @t,tlv buttone ID
coats. GREGORY was ad~pit enough te
empty about 90 per CENT af the drinks
that came his way into 1he space be
tween his stock and his chin. T,e
consequence was that The more he
seemed to drink the se3crcr he po,
while the Englishman at 3as1 landed
under his own tanle. Then Gregory
went on deck, talked with The officers
looked over the strip and finally wen!
over the side into his gig and awav ;c
his own ship.
Wasn't he drunk" asked the Eng
lishman when he inquired about his
guest the next morning.
Drunk? Not bit of it sir" an
swered the officers t'He was sohe,
as Judge. But there was one thing
! never saw man sweat SO in my life
Why. the front of his coat was we
through
or all the old type of America,
naval officers there is none abon
whom more stories are told by the ol(
timers than about Admiral Francis
Hoyt Gregory. He was II years olt
when he died, here in New York ir
1856 and his service IN the United
States navy went away hack before
the war of 1912.
In the civil war he was appointef
to superintend the construction o
ironclads, with headquarters at tht
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Boodlng il
government contracts ran wild ant
one of the first things he received
after he took charge was polite let
ter from one of the big iron firm!
which had been doing good deal o
business with the government, inclos
ing a check made our to Gregory per
sonally for the sum of $4,000.
The old warrior. bristling will
wrath, expressed himself in chose1
sea language abont the 'impuGence o
the damned scoundrels Then he sa
down and wrote a letter to ttis ct
feet:
Yours inclosing a check made on
to me personally for the sum of $40
600 is at hand AS | can conceive O
no other reason for your sendins
money to me, assume it is contri
button to the conscience fund. ant
have SO disposed Of it"
And that is precisely what he did
sent it to Washington to be credited
to the account of those who had II
one way and another swindled the gov
ernment and afterward made restitu
Gon.-New York Sun.