The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-07
j. s. SHOULD BECOME
SECOND NAVAL POWER
Rear Admiral Sebree Arrives
to Deliver Speech at Bonnie
vile Club Banquet.

The United States should make every
effort to become second in the naNai
mowers of the world and 20 keep not
lower than second among the naFai
powers, is the opinion of Rear Admirai
uriel Sebrcc. United States navy, re-
tired who is in Salt Lake 10 address
the Bonneville club tomorrow evening a'
the second dinner of that club at the
Hotel Utah
Bronzcd with the suns OF many seas
straight rs mast, despite his oo years
that arc evidenced only by his whiteheo
locks. the admiral presents picturesque
and sturdy personification of lie on the
wave
Admiral Sebree, accompanied by his
brothcr-iu-Iaw and sister, Mr., ana MIS-;
J, harrington OF Fayettc. Mo-, arriNcu
in Salt Lake Yesterday afternoon from
his home, Sea Breeze, Coronado beacn'
Cal. The admiral was the guest OF inc
members of the Bonneville club on an
automobile tour of the city and last
| night attended the theatcr.
The subject OF the admiral address,
tomorrow evening will bc The Navy,
| He will tell the members of the DINNER
club OF some OF the problems the navy
! is facing and how they arc being met,
| He will also urge the necessity oil
! large navy to uphold the American Dig
nifty and TO protect the American coasts
| The United States, the admiral points
out. has now fallen below Germany,
/ though heretofore il has been second
only to England in the size and e1ti'
cheney Of its navy. Inc American nay
is very good, he declares, but 1t IS not
large enough.
Admiral Sebrcc has been on the re,
tired list for the past four years and
during that time hc has been actively
interested in the work of the Navy
| league, an organization OF citizens and
retired naval Officers for the education
of the public in the work Of the Amerl
can government IL was through the
Navy league that the club secured Ad
miral Sebree TO speak III salt Lake.
As q naval officer. Admiral Sebret
had a distinguished career. He was ap
pointed from Missouri to the nava
academy at Annapolis, from which h'
was graduated in 1867. Most of tho
time for nearly half a century has beer
spent on the seas He has been nearly
frozen in the arctic seas not far from
the north pole and many times he ha
roasted on the equatorial seas
In 1878 Admiral Sebree-then a mid
hlpman-WGDt on InG llpTeSs on an al V
tic expedition under Commander Greer
He was a member OF the Greedy relic
expedition IN 1884 under Admira
Schley. then commander. Admira
Schley was the captain of the Balti
more from 1889 to 1892 and Admiral Sc
bree served as an officer under him.
From 1855 10 1889 Admiral Scbre
was lighthouse inspector at Portland
Ore. In 1897 and 1898 the admiral wa
in command of the gunboat. Wheeling il
the Bering sea. He was then mad
lighthouse inspector al San Francisc
and later commander Of the naval sta
tion in the Samoan islands, where h
remained until 1902, when he becam
commander of the battleship Wisconsin
He was relieved from this comman
in 1904 and made naval secretary o
the lighthouse board. In 1907 he wa
promoted TO rear admiral and give
command of the Second division of til
Pacific fleet, which command he re
tanned until retired IN 1910.
Judge William II. King will be tn
toastmaster at tonight's banquet, whic
will begin at 6:30 o clock at the Hotc
Utah Admiral Sebrce is a forcefu
speaker and an authority on the navy
His address will doubtless prove grea
treat,