Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-18
cH 4l' COMING HOME
CONTINUED from poge two. J

he was engaged. One thing, however,
may be positively stated; 1t is that,
] despite many statements published in
| various parts of the world, the jana.
nese did not have any submarines in
the Battle of the Japan Sea.
1t appears that when MIR. Chace was
studying he spent some time in Paris.
and became we'll acquainted with a
Japanese, through whom he was IN.
troduced to Mr.. Matsugata, president
OF the Kawasaki works. This gentle.
man Was in America a couple of years
ago. when Mr.. Chace was president
of the Crescent Shipyard Company,
and selected him when an American
adviser on special subject was
wanted at Kobe
although but 80 years old. Mr..
Chace has had a vast amount of en-
perieDce in his chosen line. He was
born in New York city on March. 18th,
1873, coming from Huguenot parentage
on his mothers side. and Quaker stock
/ u.
| cd private schools up to the second
| High school year, when he entered Bos-
| ton English High school, from which
he graduated. He received his degree
as mechanical engineer from the
institute of Technology in 1894. after
having made brilliant record in
mathematics.
In the summer months of the Tech.
nology period he worked as shipyard
apprentice at the Bath Iron Works.
Immediately uron his graduation in
technology he was appointed to the
French Government school of naval
construction (Ecole d'Application du
Genie Maritime, Parisl through the
interest CT Mr.. Long. former Secre.
tary of the U. S. Navy, and spent two
years abroad taking n post graduate
| course in shipbuilding, and in studying
foreign shipbuilding methods The
work of this school differs from all
| others on the continent. in that the
students, no matter what their ma
tionality, are allowed to obtain a prac-
teal knowledge of shipbuilding in the
French yards. whereas England and
other countries. although they accept
foreign students-Admiral Togo, for
instance, got his early training 1T
Greenwich-they insist on the foreig.
ers obtaining their practical know
ledge in their home yards.
Mr.. Chace ranked highest in his
class on graduation. At Newport
News he was made assistant to Naval
Constructor j. J. Woodward. U. S.
NJ, having charge of the yard inspec.
ton of the bat.leships "Kearsarge,"
Kentucky" and illinois, then under
construction. He remained at New.
port News until the completion of the
| 'kearsarge' and Kentucky" during
the summer of 1900, when he received
leave of absence OF four months, a
vacation which enabled him to deliver
a paper on the shiIyards of the world
| before a technical body at the Paris
Exhibition, While abroad Mr.. Chace
has visited all the government and
| private works in England. France,
Italy and Germany
Shortly after returning to Newport
News to resume his duties, he resigned
from the Government service to accept
| the position of superintendent at the
Crescent shipyard, Elizabeth, N. j.. 4
property of Lewis Nixon. When the
Crescent shipyard was incorporated
into the Crescent Shipyard Company,
Mr.. Chace was made vice.president.
Shortly after Mr.. Nixon was chosen
| president of the United States Shin.
building Trust. and Mr.. Chace was
chosen to succeed him as executive
head of the Crescent company.
ut will thus be seen that the adviser
| to the Kawasaki Backyard, who has
now, we understand. completed the
special work on which he was cngag-
ed. had very wide and varied expert.
ence previous to coming to Japan"