Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-07-25
HIGH NAVAL CHANGES
RETIREMENTS OF II ADMIRALS
VACANCIES CREATED
PROMOTIONS
Admiral Sperry to Command the Second
SQUADRON


Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis.
second in command under Admiral
Evans in the Atlantic neet, will be
placed on the retired list Of the navy
on August % next. when be will have
attained the age OF 81 years. lie will
be the seventh weli-knowD rear-ad
miral who has been retired this year,
and before its end five more rear-ad-
mirals will be retired, an even dozen
for 1907.
The six already retired and their
Successors are: Rear-Admiral Charles
-. Sigsbee, who commanded the old
Maine. retired January IA, succeeded
by George A. Bicknell, promoted from
captain, who will in turn retire as
rear-admiraI on May 10, 1908; Rear
Admiral william W. Mead, comman-
daBt Of the Portsmouth navy yard,
retired February s, succeeded by Seth
NJ. AcKley, promoted from captain,
who will retire October 13, 1909,
Rear-Admiral Joseph r.. Craig, com
mandant OF the League Island navy
yard, who retired February 4, sue
ceeded by John Porter Merrell. pro-
NOTED from captain; Rear-Admiral
George Cook Reiter, chairman Of the
Lighthouse Board, who retired July
5. succeeded by Eugene II. &. Leutze,
commandanf OF the Washington nav y
yard. promoted from captain; Rear
Admiral willard III. Brownson, chief
OF the Bureau of Navigation, who
retired July S,suceeeded by Uriel Sc
bree. secretary of the Lighthouse
Board, who was promoted from cap
tain. Rear-Admiral James III. Sands,
superintendent OF the Naval Academy,
who retired July ~, succeeded by
Albert X. Conden, promoted from
Admiral.
Admiral Davis commands the sec
Ond squardon OF the fleet, consisting
OF the bat.leships Alabama, Illinois,
Kearsarge, kentucky, Ohio, Indiana
and Iowa. This command will devolye
upon Admiral Sperry, who has been
the president og the Naval War Col
lege ut Newport, but is now at The
Hague as the naval representative on
the American peace mission. Admiral
Sperfy does not retire until Septem
Der 3, 1909. Davis will be succeeded
as rear-admiral by Captain Edwin
Conway Pendleton, who Is now the
ranking officer in the grade OF cap
tain. Captain PendletOn, who was
recently in command Of the battIesbip
Missouri, has been made command
ant Of the League Island navy yard,
and will remaiu at that station when
promoted 10 admiral.
The vacancy in the grade Of captain
will be filled by the promotion Of
Commander George Henry Peters, Of
the Asiatic station. This will give
opportunity for the promotion OF
Lieut.. Commander Gustav Kaemmer-
ling. ON October IL Rear-Admiral
Charles Herbert Stockton. now in
command Of the special service fleet,
consisting Of the Tennessee and Wash
ington, which is now at Brest, France,
and Rear-Admiral Seth Mitchell
Ackley will retire. Admiral Uriel
Sebree will, on the trip TO the Pacific
Coast command the squadron TO con
sist Of the four big armOred cruisers
Tennessee, Washington, California
and South Dakota.
The retirement of Admiral Stockton
will create a vacancy, which will be
filled by the promotion Of Captain Al
bert Ross, who is member OF the
Lighthouse Board and has been the
commandant OF the naval training
station on the Great Lakes. Captain
william Swift, who was In command
OF the Connecticut, was In line for
promotion to rear-admiral. lie stood
one number higher than Captain
Ross until the Connecticut went
ashorea at Culebra, when he was sus-
pended from duty and reduced six
numbers in rank. Captain Ross pro-
motion creates q vacancy, which Will
be reflled by the promotion Of Com
mander Bradley A. Fislxe, TO be- cap
tain.
Three more rear-admirals will retire
in November. They are Rear-Admi-
rails Asa Walker, the distinguished
mathematician, who Is superintendent
of the Naval Observatory, and Rear
Admiral Henry Ware Lyon, command
ant of the Mare Island navy yard,
California. and Rcar-Admiral Albert
:. snow, commandant Of the Boston
navy yard.
These fhree rctirsments will result
in promotions for two captains, two
commanders, two lieutenant-comma
ers and two lieutenants. Admiral
Lyons retirement will make way foI
tue promotion Of Captain Richard
clover to rear-admiral, and this Will
In turn result in the promotion Of
Commander Hamilton Hutcbins TO cap.
tain. Admiral SHOWS retirement Will
make room for the promotion Of Cap
tain James Madison Miller, and this
will make way for the promotion oi
Commander John Marshall Bowyer q
be a captain. Commander Bowyer h
now stationed at the Navy Department
as naval aid 10 Assistant Secretary
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