Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-03
Preserving NlVYS
HISTORIC FLAGS
Priceless Relics Of Many Daring
Fights.
SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION.
By WOBan's Skillful NeedIework-
Mrs. Amelia Fowler.

Mrs. Fowler's work was unique
She is a woman of gentle birth and
breeding, who as a girl took up seien-
tific embroidery as a pastime and
later as profession. For a number
Of years flag embroidery and flag
preservation have kept her busy.
Perhaps her greatest work in en-
broidery was 90 on one Of the State
Gags of Massachusetts. 1t was made
Of thin silk, bet she succeeded in
ambroidering coat-of-arms and other
devices on each side Of the thin flag
without increasing the thickness of
he flag to a point that would inter
iere with its drapiDg gracefully on
the staff, Her embroidered portraits
are especially beautiful.
Perry's famous battle-hag was
among the first completed 1t was
badly moth-eaten, being in tatttrs.
This was the flag hoistsd at the
masthead of the flagship Lawrence
as signal for action by Commo-
dore Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake
Erie, September 10, 1873 The flag
is blue and bears the words in
white letters; Don't Give Up The
ship'-the las words of Capt. James
Lawrence after whom the flagship
was named and who had been mortal
" wounded in the action between the
Chesapeake and the Shannon. When
Perry shifted from the Lawrence 70
the Niagara during the engagement,
be carried the flag with him ana
noisted il upon the latter vessel.
"Another ne table flag which was
fast falling into decay was the one
carried by Commodore Matthew C.
Perry while negotiating his treaty in
1863 with Japan u open the ports
Of that country to the world It has
the distinction of being the first
American flag ever taken to Japan
TO open the ports Of that country to
the world. 1t has the distinction of
being the first American flag ever
taken to Japan.
"a Korean geenralissimo captured
June IL, 1871, by Capt. McLane Til.
ton and orporal Brown, of the Ma
riue Corps of the CO dorado, ana Pri-
vate Purvis, Marine Corps, Of the
Alaska was another of the large flags
requiring a great amodnt Of work.
The capture OF this trophy occurred
ghen Admiral John Rodgers with a
aeet Of five ships went to Korea TO
accompany the United States Minis
ter to China on his mission TO make a
treaty with the Koreans for the pro-
lection of shipwrecked sailors. "A
conflict with the Koreans ensued and
a number of guns and fage were cap
turt d. A number of embroidered
black silk flags are among the collec-
tion of Korean flags taken on the
same occasion. Three Of these are
heavily embroidered in unique de.
signs
"a Mexican flag captured at Mazat-
Ian, Mexico. during the Mexican War
shows a heavily embroidered eagle
with silver snake in its mouth.
This is Que of the handsomest of the
collection. Perhaps one of the most
interesting embltms is the Chinese
artillery flag captured by Joseph
Mitchell, guuner's mate, from the
barricade Of the Boxers It was taken
during the Siege OF the Legations at
Pekin in 1900 There is a large
number of Colonial tiags.a French en-
sign captured from the Insurgente
by the men of the Constellation on
February 9, 1873, at Port Nevis, w.
l.; Farragut's flag; the pennant of
the Chippt way; the flags from the
battle ship Maine, end a number If
Spanish flags captured during the
Spanish-American War; also a Chi
mes pirate flag captured from pi-
rate battery on the Island of Tylo near
Hong Kong in 1854, and several AL
gerian flags taken off Cape Palos in
the Mediterranean Sea by fleet IN
der Commodore Stephen Decatur.
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