East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-05-02

Rear Admiral Frank Edmund Beat !
ty. commanding first division, Atlan,-
ie fleet.
Rear Admiral Clifford Joseph
Boush, commanding second division,
Atlantic fleet.
Rear Admiral Thomas Benton How.
ard. commanding squadron in Pacific
Coast fleet.
Yet all OF the foregoing command
ers were in the Spanish war and
many of them rendered distinguished
service. They are all veterans OF the
sea. A report on our rear admirals
gives the information that all the
twenty-five rear admirals of the navy
we're born in the fifties Indeed, one
can go further and state that the eld-
est was born in 1852 and the young
est in 1856. This makes their ages
range from about fifty eight to sixty
two years. Only two of the twenty
five were born south of Virginia and
none was born west of Wisconsin.
Rear Admiral Charles ]. Badger ran
his blue flag to the masthead of his
| flagship in place of the pennant of
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhous at
Hampton Roads, January 4. 1913. and
thereby assumed command of the At
lantic fleet.
He had then been almost exactly
forty years in the much varied, some
tunes exciting, but oftener humdrum
duties of United States naval officer.
In September. 1881, he was detailed
aboard the Yantic. which qualified
him as one of the members of the cell
ebrated Greedy relief expedition or
ganized three years later.
In the Spanish war he was attached
to the Cincinnati and served with
credit, il fate gave him no chance OF
, great distinction On March 3, 1899
he was promoted to the rank of lieu
tenant commander. Eight years later
he attained the rank of captain and
, for two years after this promotion he
was superintendent at the Annapolis
Academy. Then he took command ol
the battleship Arkansas and on March
s, 1911, he became rear admiral and
} received the command of the second
division of the Atlantic fleet.
Rear Admiral Frank Friday Flet
cher is slightly better known than hi
superior, for he has invented severa
important ordinance devices which
have brought him before the public
Rear Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo
whose demand for a twenty-one-guI
salute in reparation for the insult t.
the Stars and Stripes at Tampico pre-
cipitated the crisis, is the youngest o
the twenty-five rear admirals. HI
was appointed to the Naval Academ,
, when fifteen years old.
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The anti-fly campaign has bear
ing on pasturage prices in France
strange as the statement may seem
The attention of a tourist in North
ern France was attracted to the fol
lowing notice: Pasture your horse
here. short tailed horses, Is cents
day: long tailed horses, 20 cents
day." on inquiring about the differ
ence of price. the farmer remarked
that anyone ought to know that an
explained that a short-tailed hors
had TO chase the flies with his head
and while he did so he could not ea'
while long tailed one, not being thu
handicapped, naturally eats a grea
deal more.
II John Rockefeller Jr., want
d bloodshed in Colorado he should b
o willing to provide his share. Thus ia
u his name has not appeared among tn
: list Of the dead or injured.
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e The administration is willing
mediate yet at the same time is goin
to keep the country's fighting arm
shape to strike.
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n That error in reading the Siberia
It call certainly caused stir for while