Evening journal., 1910-10-05

Admiral Purnel F. Harrington. U
|. S. n. (retired), who made the speech
when the portraits of Commodore John
Jacob Jones, Commodore Thomas
Macdonough and Admiral Samuel
Francis DUPONT were presented to the
battleship Delaware to-day, is a ma
tive Delawarean, with long and hon
orable record in the naval service. The
portraits were painted by Clawson S.
Hammitt of this city, and the repro
ductions used herewith are from pho
tographs made by the Royal Studio.
Admiral Harrington is the second
son of Samuel Maxwell Harrington,
late chancellor of this State, and was
born at Dover, June 6. 1874. At the age
of II years he entered the United
States Naval Academy and was gradu-
ated September, 1868, third in a class
OF 80 members, having accomplished
the regular course Of four years in half
of that time
Promoted to the grade Of ensign in
the navy upon graduation, he joined
the sloop of war Monongahela of Far
ragut's squadron and commanded di-
vision of guns on board of that ship
at the battle of Mobile Bay, in her cele-
brated contest with the Confederate
ram Tennessee. Subsequently he par
ticipated in the operations against the
city OF Mobile, the capture of Fort Nor
gan. and the blockade of the Texas
coast. At the close of the war he re-
mained on the Monongahela as naviga-
tor and ordinance officer and while on
this duty was promoted to the grades
iof master and lieutenant and in March
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From 1868 TO 1870, Lieutenant Com
mander Harrington was at the Naval
Academy as assistant professor OF
mathematics and subsequently from
1873 to 1876. as instructor in astron-
omy, navigation and hydrogaphic sur
veying. In the interval between the
academic employments he served as
executive officer on board the Pensa-
cola, flagship of the South Pacific
squadron In May, 1873, he commanded
the naval battalion at Panama, during
the revolution there, and preserved
the railroad and property of foreign
residents, for which service he received
the thanks of the commander-in-chie
and of the president of the State o.
Panama In 1877 he went to Brazil il
the flagship Hartford, on which vesse
he occupied for three years the diff
cult position of executive officer, ant
for more than a year performed thu
duties of captain and chief of stan, i'm
posed upon him by the Illness AM
death of the late Captain Henry A
Adams Upon his return to the UniteI
States, in the spring of 1880, Com
q mander Harrington was employed a
head Of the department of astronomy
navigation and surveying at the Nava
Academy at Annapolis and in the com
mand of the practice ship for cadets
In May, 1881, he was commissions
commander in the navy.
Commander Harrington was in com
mand of the Juniata in East Indies an
81 China, 1885: Head of Department {
Seamanship and Naval Architectur
and Commandant of Midshipmen, Ma
val Academy, 1873; Light House Ir
spector, 1908; command of Yorl
town, 1894; President of Steel Boar
1895; promoted to captain, 1895; con
'and of Terror. 1867; command
lritan. in charge of blockade
tanzas and Cardquas, 1898; capital
he yard. Navy Yard, Portsmouth.
l899-1901; captain of the yard, Ne
ork, 1902; promoted to Rear AZ
miral 1903; Commandant Naval Sti
ton and Fifth Naval District, Norfol
Va, 1908.
He was retired under the statute Il
age and after 45 years service in 100
and was representative of the NAY
Department at the jamestown Expos
tion 1906-S. Has the medals for Sc
vice, issued under the act of Congress
for the Civil War and the War again
Spain He is commander OF the Ne
York Commandery of the Naval al
Military Order of the Spanish-Ame1
can War. and retains his citizenship
Delaware unbroken.
Admiral HarringtOn's Speech.
Admiral Harrington in his present
ton speech said
Delaware has an honorable di
tinction in the history of the Nav
The name appears in the seaservice
the first lasting occupation of o
land by English people. For. VIII
the failing remnant of the origin
settlers sailed for England, they we
met at the mouth of the James riV
by Lord Delaware, bearing a comm
sion as Governor Of Virginia, and,
June 10 1910 he re-established a
permanently fixed the Colony
jamestown.
aIn the Delaware river. abe
Christmas, 1775, there was hoisted
Isl board the Alfred. by the hands
John Paul Jones. the first ensign e'
shown by a regular American man
war. =
cat me mouth of the Delaware.
April 8, 1882, was fought that
markable action between the Hyder
ly and the British cruiser Gene
81 Monk.
"The name has always been 4
orite in the Navy. The first Delawl
81 was a sloop-of-war OF twenty-f'
& guns. built at Philadelphia under
resolution of the Continental g
sress. dated December 1S. 1775. III