Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-14

city and elsewhere Tuesday of last
week he was obliged to give up. his
work at the Navy Department and take
to his bed for treatment. He was APP
parently on the mend until yesterday
morning. when blood poisoning super
vened, and he sank rapidly until the
end came last night. His wife was at
his bedside when he passed away. She
was Miss Rebecca G. Dodge. and they
were married in 1890.
Funeral services will be held at All
Souls Church tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock. and it is the plan of the family
to have the burial in the Nava! cemetery
at Annapolis. but it is probable that the
body will be temporarily deposited in a
vault of a local cemetery. The usual mill
tary honors will be paid to the memory
Of the deceased officer Invitations to act
as honorary pallbearers have been issued
to Mr.. Newberry, acting secretary of the
navy: Gen. Oliver. acting secretary Of
war: Rear Admiral w. s. Cowles. chief
of the naval bureau Of equipment; Rear
Admiral w. l.. Caps. chief of the naval
bureau of construction and repair; Pay
master General Albert S. Kenny. U.SN.
retired and Capt. Albert F. Dixon, assist
ant to the chief of steam engineering.
Enters Volunteer Navy.
Rear Admiral Rae was born at Hart
ford. Conn, June 80. 1S47. and was edu-
Gated lat the Champlain Academy, at
Champlain, N. Y: the Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute. at Troy. n. Y. and the
united States Naval Academy.
He was the first graduate Of the Naval
Academy to hold the position of chief or
the bureau of steam engineering, and was
also one of the youngest officers or the
navy to reach the distinction of bureau
chiefshp He entered the volunteer navy
as an acting assistant engineer October
hy-
motion reached the grade Of chief engt-
neer February q. 1898. More than four
teen years of Admiral Rae's service was
passed at sea in various parts. OF the
world. In 1870 he had charge of the line
of levels across the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec. and was also connected with the
Nicaragua canal survey expedition In the
same year. While attached to the bu-
reau of steam engineering he was identi-
fed with the designing of much of the
machinery of the new navy. He was
head of the department of instruction in
machinery at the Naval Academy from
1893 to 1897.
During the Spanish American war he
was chief engineer of the battleship Iowa.
and took part in various operations in
the West Indies. being advanced three
numbers in grade for eminent and con-
SpicuouS conduct in the battle of San
tiago bay. He also received a medal for
distinguished service in the Cuban cam
pdlSN. AIleF the war ne served at the
naval training station at San Francisco.
and was then ordered to this city as a
member of the naval examining board.
Appointed Bureau Chief.
August g. 1903. President Roosevelt ap-
pointed Admiral Rae. who then held the
rank of captain, to be chief of the bureau
of steam engineering for term of four
years. and at the expiration OF that
term reappointed him for similar
period. At the time of his death he had
filled the office for about five years with
distinguished credit to himself. and with
great benefit to the naval service
He was formerly member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers, member and passed president of
the American Society of Naval Engineers.
member and vice president Of the Ameri-
can Society OF Naval Architects and Ma
rine Engineers. member and passed presi-
dent of Washington Society of Engineers.
and member of the National Geographic
Society.