The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-27
TABLET B IN HONOR
OF N MAUR'Y
Residence of Great Geograplacr.
Is F'i.t5tinIfg.lily
Marked.
JUDGE Y G ! !. DUKE } U ',l MAKES ADDRESS.
Tells s8t o iisl1 Services to Science,
to Nation and to Con-
federacy.

Impressive exercises were held yes.
sterday morning incident to the I'M
yelling OF tablet marking the war
residence, at 1105 East Clay Street. OF
Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury.
The tablet is OF granite. and bears +hia
inscription:
In This House
Matthew FOntnine NTnury,
LII. D., U. 3. NJ G. 81. M.
Invented the Submarine Electrical TOR
pedo, 1851 -,O2. # & r. AZ
This Stone IL Placed by the Confed-
erntc Memorial Literary Society.
A. ID. 1910. aS fsf
Governor William Hodges Mann pre-
sided at the ceremonies, and intro
d 1mS 20 the Z speaker x,1 Of the occasion.
Vile. Children from the public schools
sang hymns, thus honorine the mem
DRY OF the great virginian, among
whose achievements was the prepara-
Il ton !, o. the geograpty which for 50
ard Miss Amy McRae werth. grand
daughter Of Commodore Maury. I'm
sv.iled the tablet Other relatives
We're also present.
Judge Dukes Address.
Prayer by Rev. ames Power Smith,
speaker BY aovernor s Mann IN @ eh are
acterisMc manner Judge Duke deliv-
cred an impressive2ad ADDRESS, in which
ne eulogized the Pathfinder Of the
Seas. the Goliath among American
tlarly to the experiments conducted
within the historic house which was
being designated with the tablet. from
which resulted the agent which has
.revolutionizedi warfare. With a minute
Commodore Maury made the expert
nents from which has come the mod
ern submarine torpedo.
Commodore Maury's residence in Rich
mond began with the first year Of the
ton In the United States Navy, he Of
fered his services to the Confederacy,
and was appointed chief OF the river,
harbor and coast defenses OF the South.
As such he lived in Richmond in n n the
afterward being sent to England to
purchase cruisers for the navy of the
South. Els stay abroad was prolonged
until the close OF the war. and on
Of many honors. not the least of which
was the offer by Napoleon OF the super-
5intendency OF the Imperial Laboratory
at Paris The commodore declined
preferring to accept the chair OF phy-
which he held until his death, in 1873.
Great achievements.
Prominent among the achievements
of the scientist was the lnvehtloh or
laying Of the trans Atlartic cable. the
preparation Of Maury's geography. and
the mapping out of the great ocean
currents. which latter accompiis hment
robbed navigation OF many OF It's
While 'Dixie'' was being sung, at
the close of Judge Dukes address,
Miss werth unveiled the TIA blot. In
addition to the school, children many
representatives OF historical and ht-
erary organizations attended the cere-
mony DR.. Smith closed the exercises
with the benediction.
The relatives Of Commodore Maury
present were Mr.. and Mrs. lanes R.
! werth r. werth and Miss Werth, OF
this city; Mrs. NJ. L. Van Doren, J! Mr..
and Mrs Maury Van Doren and Miss
Wan EDoren. of A1bemarle
This was the first Of series OF y, u y,
MARRYING historic sites in Richmond
which is being carried on by the Con-
| federate Memorial Literary So ciety:
Other dwellings will follow In rapid
4 order.