The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-24
By ". w. Price in The Observer

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By ". ". Price in The Observer.
Washington, August 19.-The last
Official gazette of the navy department
issued today shows that North Carolina
is we'll represented in the naval service
OF the United States. Besides giving
the present station of all officers in the
service, much other valuable and inter
esting information is TO be found.
There are no admirals, rear admir-
ais or captains in the service accredited
to the state, but she has three COM
manders. Commander Reginald F.
! Nicholson is attached to the bureau Of
navigation, this city; Commander
James T. Smith IS commanding the
Tacoma. and Commander James P.
Parker is ordnance officer at the Ports
mouth navy yard.
There are six ~lieutenants command
ers, as follows: Edwin A. Anderson,
commanding the second torpedo fOtil-
IA; Andrew T. Long. commanding the
Mayfower: Archibald H. Davis, on the
Illinois: Thomas Washington, attach
ed to the bureau Of navigation, this
city: Archibald H. Scales. commanding
the Severn; George Madison. who has
inspection duty with the bureau of
equipment, this city.
MANY I1EUTENANTS.
Lieutenants from North Carolina are
in the following places: Robert w. Nc
Nicely is on the new battleship Louisi-
ana. Just completed at Newport News,
Va: Walter S. Turpin is at the navy
-n,I +Iir 1i4,-- Yo~oor Z Jy~c11y0~ - on
the Wisconsin: Rufus Z. Johnston. Jr.,
IS attached to the bureau Of navigation;
Pope Washington is on the Dolphin;
Lyman A. Cotton is on the Pennsylva
MIA; Hollis T. Winston has been Or
dered to the new cruiser Charleston;
Frederick L. Oliver is on the Don Juan
de AUSTRIA; Roger Williams is On the
Maine; Percy FOote is on the cruiser
Baltimore, and John F. Green is on the
Indiana.
Ensigns from the Tar Heel state are
placed as follows; Adolphus Station is
on the Cleveland: Oscar F. Cooper is
on the Minneapolis, and David w.
Bagley is on the Concord.
Midshipmen are as follows; John N.
Ferguson is on the Pennsylvania;
Let's P. Davis is on the Kearsage;
John J. London is On the Pennsylva-
mia, Alexander S. WadswOrth, Jr.,is on
the Rainbow; George S. Bryan has duty
on the Illinois; William H. Stevenson
is on the Minneapolis, and Matthias E.
Manley is on the Kearsarge.
BUT ONE SURGEON.
There is but one surgeon accredited
to the state, and that is Victor c. B.
Means. who is now at the naval and
marine recruiting station, San Fran
cisco. Julian T. Miller is acting as
sistant surgeon, appointed for temper
airy service in 1885, He is O on the
receiving ship Franklin. North Caro-
lima has fewer members Of the medical
corps than any other state In the union.
Paymaster William T. Gray is at
tached to the naval hospital. Yokoho-
ma; Past Assistant Paymaster Emmett
c. Gudger is assistant to the general
storekeeper at the New York navy
yard, and Past Assistant Paymaster
Frederick H. Lemley is the commits
sary officer on the Hancock at the
same place.
No c~haplains are accredited to North
Carolina.
In the marine corps William B.
Lemley is assistant Quartermaster n
is located in this city; captain Herbert
J. Hirshinger is at the marine bar
racks, Annapolis, Md: First Lieuten-
ant Thomas A. Mott is at the marine
barracks, this city. and Second Lieu
tenant John H. Thompson is at the
marine barracks. Cavite, Philippine Is
land.