Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-01-05
WAS SANTIAGO HERO
Rear Admiral Wainwright Put on
the Retired List.
IS KEPT ON ACTIVE DUTY
Lieutenant Grebie. Member Of an Army
Family, 10 Made Junior Aide to
the resIdent-veteran Of
Merrlmac Dead.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

~ 1G0n1E CEtNI ON.
Neutrality-suspicious. Admiral Richard
Wainwright. aide for operation at the
navy department, has Just been placed
on the retired list by reason Of his
age The admiral ia sixty-two years
old. but like many another old sailor
he does not look it. Wainwright's rec
ord OF service has been such that Sec
rotary of the Navy Meyer has decided
to retain him on active duty in this
city, to hold membership in the gen
eral board of the navy of which Ad-
miral Dewey Is chairman.
Rear Admiral Wainwright, having
been continued on active duty al
though transferred to the retired list,
VIII receive the full pay of his grade.
Wainwright himself was rather averse
to remaining on active duty because
ne thinks 1t is not altogether a good
precedent to establish. He thinks with
General Sherman that when an officer
Is retired he ought to be retired &C
tually as well as In name 1t was
Richard Wainwright, 1t will be remem-
bered. who took command of John
Pterpont Morgan's yacht Coraair- when
1t was turned over to the United
States government for service In the
Spanish-American war.
When this little yacht had been
armed and Wainwright had been put
In command 1t was to serve as a sup
posedly minor part Of the feet in
front Of Santiago harbor. When Ger
vera's ships came out Of Santiago two
torpedo boat destroyers made straight
for Wainwright's yacht. which was un-
armored. although. Of course, not un-
armed. Wainwright used his six
Founders and three-pounders with
such good effect that he sank one of
the formidable Spanish craft in less
than half an hour and drove the other
on the beach disabled.
Grebles an Army Family.
Lieutenant E. St John Greble. Jr.,
OF the field artillery. formerly sta
toned at Fort Riley. Kan. has been
detailed as junior aide to the presi-
dent at the White House, succeeding
Capt. Lyon Johnson. who has been
ordered to Manila. Lieutenant Greble
is son Of Col. e. St John Greble OF
the artillery. who is now on special
duty with the general stan in Wash
ington.
Here is an army family. Lieutenant
Greble's grandfather, Colonel Greble's
father, was a graduate Of West Point
and the close friend OF Gen. o. o.
Howard. The senior Greble was killed
at the battle Of Balls Bluff, Va. and
he was the first officer OF the regulars
to die In defense of the Union.
Served on the Merrlmac.
The death of Hardie B. LittIepage
In Washington day or two ago
removed another member OF the
small band of survivors OF the en-.
gagement between the Monitor and
the Merrimac near Hampton Roads in
the war between the states. Littlepage
served on the Merrimac as a midship.
man. He was cadet at the United
States naval academy when the war
broke out and he resigned at once to
enter the Confederate service.
Mr.. Littlepage at the time of his
death was employed by the United
States government as an agent to
gather data for the publication of the
naval records of the Civil war, a post
which, 1t was specifically provided in
creating the position. should be filled
by veteran OF the Confederate navy.
He had been at this work since the
year 1889 and had nearly completed
what was much more arduous task
than at first 1t was supposed 1t would
be.
Here was a Confederate veteran
holding position under Uncle Sans
government Most people think per
haps that such thing is unique. but
1t is not. There are many Confedar-
ate veterans employed In various ca
pacities In the Federal service and the
TACT that they once fought against the
Union in no wise was made a matter ,,
Of objection to their preferment.
Takes Fairbanks House.
The Russian ambassador. Mr.. George |
Is the last addition to |
the ambassadorial representation in
Mr.. Bakhmetieff report
ed for duty only few days ago, and |
he takes place. because he is the
last ambassador appointed. at the foot
Of the ambassadors list. standing
next below the representative from
Mexico. Senior Crespo MIR. Bakhme-
tieff is a master of the imperial court
1t St Petersburg With him to Amer.
lea came his wife. Nine. Bekhmetieff,
and their first task was house hunt
ing. They have rented the former
Fairbanks home.
Ever since former vice-President
Fairbanks left the capital the great
house on Rarragut square which be !