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commissary steward or to quality even
tually for pay clerk or for commission
as paymaster in the navy will receive
every encouragement and assistance in
this line. Suitable manuals Will be pre-
pared for this purpose under the direc-
ton of the bureau of supplies and &C
counts, and in the meantime all books
now in existence will be utilized to meet
present requirements and to establish
standards for examination of men for
ratings In the pay depar ient and conf
missary branches of the avy. The pay
officers clerks, stewards and cooks on
board ship will act as in sructors IN this
branch.
will be similarly instructed and encour-
aged to qualify and to seek promotion
in their branch. The bureau OF medicine
and surgery will utilize and provide man
uals and treatises on first aid. hygiene
and other subjects
.All medical officers and hospital stew
ards will act as instructors. assisted by
men of other ratings as may be neces-
sary.
"That the marines may not be over
looked school or scheme of instruction
similar to the foregoing has been pre-
scribed for marines ashore and afioat.
THE necessary qualifications for ordi-
nary seamen, seamen, boatswains mates
ana all other petty officers or chief petty
officers have been definitely prescribed.
and every man in those rates or who
may seek promotion to them will be re-
ouired to study and fit himself to attain
the required standard. This is a matter
of vital importance to naval and ship
efficiency.
In order to secure uniformity through
out the navy and to perfect the training
of our men, it is proposed to revise and
rearrange the Bluejacket's Manual, the
different chapters of which will treat of
the duties of the several rates in the
navy, every man being required to study
and qualify himself thoroughly on all
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over there. and whose names as given
by Jones were his brother-in-law, Thomas
II. Hardin, and Prince Georges county
man named Joseph Baden Next day,
Monday, guided by King George (Va)
county man named Boyan, they went
from Mrs. Quesenberrys to DR.. Richard
Stuart's, who would not receive the fugi-
tives in his house, but gave them shelter
and food in an clubhouse. Monday even
ing they set out in wagon, driven by a
colored man named Lucas, and that even
ing reached the Rappahannock at Port
Conway. being ferried over to Caroline
county that evening. Monday night they
found shelter in a barn on the farm OF
Richard A. Garrett.
On the tenth day after the tragedy Col.
Lafayette c. Baker. provost marshal of
the War Department. obtained a clue
which indicated that Booth had crossed
from Maryland to Virginia and had gone
toward Fredericksburg. Col. Baker talk
ed it over with Gen. Hancock, and the
latter directed Gen. Sweitzer to have
detail of twenty-five mounted men. under
a discreet officer report with three days
rations to Col Baker. The detail was
drawn from the 18th New York Cavalry
and the officer in command of 1t was
Lieut.. Edward P. Doherty. Doherty was
not only considered a proper officer Tor
this command, but 1t was said that ne
also had an acquaintance with Booth.
One of the soldiers in the detail was Bos-
ton Corbett then Sergt Boston Coroett.
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LINGAN o0rAGoN HOUSE

cousin. George Mudd, who told him that
cavalry was in Bryantown and had
brought news that Lincoln had been as
sassinated and that the murderer was
thought to have come that way. DIR. Mudd
Immediately turned toward his home and
arriving there found that the two stran-
gers had ridden off. Soon after leaving
DR.. Mudd's the fugitives became lost in
Zachiah swamp. and meeting with a
strange colored man, Oswald Swami.
were guided by him to the home of
Samuel Cox, place called Rich Hill.
Cox pointed out a quiet place in the
pines not far from his house, and sent
his adopted son Sam. over to Huckle-
berry farm for Jones. Jones came, saw
the fugitives in the pines and there
after made frequent trips to them with
food until he found an suspicious time
to send them on their way across the
river, directing them to Mrs. Quesen-
berry, who lived at the mouth of Ma
chodoc creek, on the Virginia side OPP
posite Jones place.
Booth and Herold had ridden out OF
Washington Friday night. had arrived at
DIR. Mudd's early Saturday morning. LEFT
place Saturday night and had lain In hid
ing ir Cox's pines until the following
Friday night. when Jones sent them on
their way. Booth and Herold did not get
across that night because OF their mex
perience on the river. but were carried up.
the river by the strong flood tide and
landed in Maryland near Nanjemoy. The
following night they got over the river
to Mrs Quesenberry's. They were hidden
near that place, being provided with food
by two Marylanders who happened to be
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which the plotters made their arrange
ments, it does not seem improbable that
it might have been successfully accom-
plished."
1t was to reach that boat in Port To-
bacco creek that Booth and Herold
headed down through PRINCE Georges
and Charles counties after the murder
of Lincoln. After passing over the Navy
Yard bridge unchallenged and passing
Good Hope, Silver Hill and Reds Corner
they reached the Surratt tavern, ten
miles southeast from Anacostia- When
Mrs Surratt moved to Washington to
open a boarding house she rented the
tavern to man named Lloyd. and while
Lloyd was in occupation of the place
arms were stored there for the use of
the abductors of the President. Pausing
at the tavern Lloyd handed out arms to
the two riders.
They were. of course, hours ahead of
the news of the assassination. From
Surrattsville they continued along the
road over Birche's swamp to the ham
let of T. B., and finally drew up at the
home of DIR. Samuel A. Mudd, near the
village of Bryantown, in Charles county
Booths fractured ankle was treated and
dressed Booth telling DIR. Mudd that his
horse had thrown him. The murder was
committed Friday night. The fugitives
remained at DR.. Mudds until late Satur-
day afternoon.
1t is related that DIR. Mudd started out
to visit some patients and while riding
in the direction of Bryantown met his
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Booth was laid upon the porch OF the
Garrett house he said. Tell my mother
| died for my country and what l
thought was best for it,
Corbett had fired without orders, which
was a serious offense, more serious from
the fact that it was desired to take
Booth alive. But the fact that Booth
was believed to be about to fire on
Doherty was circumstance which IA
vored Corbett. But from that time Cor
belts mental condition seemed to grow
weaker He seemed to he overcome with
the fear of avengers of Booth"
Jones said in his narrative that at the
time Booth and Herold crossed the Rap
were three other passengers-Capt. Jet.
Lieut.. Ruggles and Lieut.. cambridge.
Jones does not tell whether these Off
GERS We're ex-Confederates or Federals.
but the presumption is that they were
or had been officers in the southern
army. The Rambler has always heard
from people with whom he has talked
in King George and Westmoreland coun-
ties. Va, and in Charles and st. Marys
counties, Md. that the man who be
trayed' Booth was named Jet. Whether
1t was the Capt. Jet whom Jones names
as one of the ferry passengers with
Booth the Rambler does not know.
In the intense excitement following
the murder of Lincoln q number OF states
and cities had offered rewards for the
.~ftsAN - ehS aSSaoSabs- NoI6IcSS VI
fered a reward of $4,000 Corbett
thought these rewards should be his. All
offers Of rewards. for one reason or an
other, were withdrawn. except that au-
thorized by Congress-. and this was di.
vtded among the men OF Doherty's de-
tachment and the two civilian detectives
There were two sergeapts in the detail
and each received $2.545. That was ali
the money paid to Corbett. and very
soon after receiving 1t he was robbed OF
it. The loss of the money. fancied pur-
suit by avengers" ingratitude Of those
who had offered rewards to which he
thought he was entitled and which hi
did not get preyed on his unbalanced
mind. He went to Camden, n. j., and
again took up his trade of halter.
The government allowed him a pen
sion and he engaged in religious work
and exhortation In the streets. Then
he moved to Cloud county, Kan. and
engaged in farming. In the eighties he
was appointed as assistant doorkeeper
of the House Of Representatives of the
Kansas legislature and during a session
of the legislature in 1887 entered the
Capitol with drawn pistol, stampeded
many people. but was captured and dis
armed. He was sent to the insane
asylum and the next year 1883. es-
capped, was heard of at Neodesha, Kan
and, as already said was reported by
a. man who knew him as being headed
for Mexico, which he hoped to reach
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Lingan's 0ctagon House.

CTROLLING through the country north
~ Of the Conduit road and west of the
Foxhall road some time ago, the Rambler
came upon a curious octagon house
which he was told had been in the long
ago the home of Gen. James McCubbin
Lingan, an officer in the American revo-
lutionary army, and whose bones were
few years ago removed from an obscure
grave beside the Foxhall road and re-
inferred at Arlington with military pomp.
Lingan was several times wounded dur
ing the war of the American colonies.
suffered long Imprisonment in the British
prison ship Jersey, and was killed by a
mob in Baltimore in the course OF an
anti-federalist outbreak in 1872
AS the Rambler had it from a man in
the neighborhood who had evidently in.
formed himself as to Gen. Lingan. that
distinguished man was born In hartford
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each division will encourage and assist
any men who wish to take up algebra
higher mathematics and other academic
branches not included in the elementary
school, utilizing preferably text books
both academic and technical, which may
be in use at the Naval Academy.
Academic instruction will be limited
to three-fourths Of an hour each day.
and the remainder of the study period
will he, devoted to technical and naval
subjects. Men who do not need the
academic course will devote the whole
period to other branches
IAN officer on board each ship will be
assigned to supervise and assist in the
work of all enlisted men who by reason
of their initiative and ambition may have
taken up correspondence courses with
outside Institutions. 1t is not the inten-
ton to interfere with the freedom OF
action of individuals in such matters. but
rather to encourage and advise them
This, then. will be considered distinct
department and will be assigned sepa-
rate and suitable part of the ship during
the school period.
"All warrant officers who may be
eligible and wish to prepare for exami-
nation for commission in the navy Will
be encouraged by the commanding officer.
who will afford them all possible facili-
ties for study and will assign compe-
tent officer to superintend their instruc-
ton.
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subjects contained in the chapters de-
voted to his particular rate In this
manner 1t is believed that habits of study
and application may be bred in our men
which will make them much more effi-
cient and more ambitious, and conduce
to a general uplifting. which will be
reflected in better discipline and in an
improved morale throughout the ships
In this connection 1t must be noted
that certain amount of instruction
along peculiarly naval and warship lines
will be given all men of whatever rate
on board ship-barbers. bandmen. mess
attendants and others, for instance.
who ordinarily receive no instruction
whatever outside their daily routine
duties.
The Bluejacket's Manual will outline
this general instruction for all hands
and it may also be possible to impart
much information of a general char
acter as well as instruction on various
interesting subjects in short lectures TO
be given by officers of the ship during
the periods assigned to moving picture
shows.
THE difference in the proficiency Of
the men will be recognized by placing
them in different sections. and the most
proficient will be relieved from the
more elementary subjects as soon as
they have reached the required stand
ard.
Promotion will depend upon know
edge, as well as upon practical en-
tleiCy oi dtth. NJ iiidli VIII NC oe
yanced in rating until after he has
passed All examination before board
of officers 10 determine his fitness Tor
promotion.
! y
"Niasj5nnen Of the graduating elias.
-. .,,,,So,t IN, - o. ;,s,-,c,sa rs
a. -'hiia pms WIZ We ~ i's
iuHE 10 reaize tndt next 70 tnei1 MoiN
on Geek ata al Tie suns ti.e'l mos, ~.
portaht auties rom Tue ll.!e ile! isa -
tne aeadeth. VIII ne ~ eouIiectloi VI.
the INSTRUCTION Oh rsetuns ahu eiiiste"
men IN 'tcaoeii.c anu teeAil4ed sut jJ
NOT only Wa tilis 4scl oe otousnt hu'i'.
TO the nlldshii,ileh auInis t'teiT last 80
az Anhapolis, put IL "4il ~ ~ uu,H 60
1unclioh Q! me heais VI go .'iii otpaI =
menus at the acaoshiF aAe l4leH HistlEci-
ors to ASST The Navy Department ~ t'.s
work OF systematic education - prellal
ing or REVISING certain teAl ooohS ths'
may be needed by the iaei on beard shl.'-
Elementary frea Use "a navigation en-.
Siheeflns. rac-oe.fciI3rttS. ordnance ana
academic a:anehes '.i. D. l1iepafei- a, a.
Used Or sGsSestea p, IT. o.mes:s - ts,-
1efeht departments - tilr Naval -Aea'
envy Tor use III .ie inaii}.S1oh ~ tiie hlF4i
ana III preparing frank o1ieFiS iof IN
motion 70 co,hni1S,s.u.iea iahE'
Futtapie Ftp lsF tAe euuca iio!;di 4
record q each flan II me navy WI. De
attacned 70 lls ems. rent recofu. epon
uahsiei rom .i.c = a.i-iis s.atoi. u. ltE
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ardship. bookkeeping, stenography or
any Of the other occupations for which
the navy is prepared to fit him. When
he has made his choice he will be as
signed to a regular course and given
instruction in the kind of work that
he has selected. I wish to emphasize
the fact that I intend to see that. first
Of all. every young man Is given his
receives the kind of instruction which
he elects. The rest must depend upon
the young man himself.
The instruction in the academic de-
partment will be compulsory for all en-
listed men who are not well grounded
in the common school branches. as de-
termined at the training stations, or
upon first enlistment, or by an exami-
nation of all men who have not yet
completed two years service in the
navy. The subjects embraced in this
department will be reading. writing.
arithmetic, spelling, geography and
history, and the instruction in each Of
these branches will be continued for
each man until he reaches a satisfac-
tory standard.
"a certain number of text books on
these subjects will be furnished by the
Navy Department and kept in the crew S
library. and all books in the library will
be utilized as far as possible. Text books
of the kind authorized may be kept in
the ships canteen for sale to such men
as may wish to keep their own books.
The scope of the work in each branch
of study will be decided by circumstances.
The men will be instructed in the geoog-
raphy of the whole world to certain
extent, and the history of our own coun-
try and of the United States navy and
Of our naval campaigns and battles will
be strongly emphasized.
"ofacers who serve as instructors in
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tages they have had We will attract
the very best of our youth to the navy.
And that is what we want. young men
who will enlist in the navy for the
very love of the career, combined with
whatever other practical advantages
and opportunities there may be that
will protect them in a financial way IN
case of detachment from the service by
giving them the qualifications to take
up a definite line of work.
The plan of instruction on board ship
which has just become effective with
view to supplying deficiencies in aca-
demic education and to providing sys-
tematic means by which all enlisted
men and warrant officers who need II
may receive assistance and instruction
in technical branches to fit them FOR
promotion in the navy. or better, pre-,
pare them for civil trades at the end
Of their period of service afioat. is
classified under two heads. academic
ION each ship the school of instruc-
ton is under the general direction of
the commanding officer. the executive
officer having immediate charge, and he
in turn being assisted by all commits
stoned officers and by such warrant and
petty officers as may be necessary.
ct has become the duty of division
officers carefully to examine all men
under their supervision, noting the de-
ficiencies Of each man, the amount of
instruction he may have received at the
training station, the branches in which
further instruction is most needed. the
fitness Of each man for promotion, the
branch for which he is best suited and
the personal preferences and ambitions
of each individual in order that classes
may be formed to secure progress and
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HE Secretary Of the
Navy has rung the
school bell for the
bluejackets, a n d
there is plenty to
learn in the navy.
The activities on
board a modern
battleship call for
men who are skill
ed In many civic
occupations as well
as seamanship.
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HE r A NJ & l. b X
has recently re-
y'ivei many mem
cries of Abraham
Lincoln. appropri-
ate to the one hun
bred and fifth an
niversary of his
birth, and not long
ago he resurrected
a great number
Of facts relating to
the Surratt family
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meal training of men in every orancn
of the navy service.
The routine ON board ship will be SO
arranged that the school CALI will
Sundays and holidays, at which time
tables and mess gear will have been
cleaned and compartments ready for
the classes under instruction. No work
will be required during the instruction
period, which will last until 2:30 o'clock,
except in cases OF emergency or neces-
sity. this period being solely devoted
to the self-improvement of every man
in the ship and to the instruction of
those who are ambitious for immediate
or ultimate promotion. 1t w n
all hands period of study and instruc-
ton.
Whenever the weather or the cir.
cumstances of service Of any particular
ship or ships are such that additional
time during the day may be given to
instruction commanding officers have
instruction and to encourage night
classes when practicable
I'm case climatic or other conditions
demand a change in the routine or a
different hour for instruction. the COM
manding officer may depart from the
routine as prescribed above, keeping
in mind. however, the object to be at
tanned and the progress that must be
assured
Every young man from this time
forward who enlists in the navy will
be given at the outset an opportunity
to choose for himself what line of
training he wishes to pursue, whether
it be electricity. photography. carpen-
try, machinery, plumbing, painting.
ship fitting, coppersmithing, black
smithing, boilermaking. gun pointing.
hospital stewardship. commissary stew
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''All chief petty officers and others who
may aspire to warrant rank will be form
ed into a class for instruction and an in
structor will be detailed to assist them
in preparing for the examination.
Enlisted men in the commissary
branch. pay department or other dtvi-
sions on board ship who may wish to
prepare themselves for promotion to
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lessen the expense as much as possible
/ would compose the fleet of frigates
instead of ships of the line, on board OF
each of which l would have little acad-
envy where the officers should be taught
the principles of mathematics and me-
chanics when off duty.
Jones thought was, after all, the teach
ing of midShipmen, for whom there ex-
listed then no naval training school
Matthew Fontaine Maury also favored
the school aboard ship, and he said on
that subject, I would set apart one of
the idle ships of the navy for school
ship and he goes on to outline a pro-
posed course of study. His plans, how
ever, were not pressed because President
Polk soon after established the Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
He and Jones and others, however.
have bequeathed most useful idea and
plan to us, which We may utilize for the
benefit of the $1,000 enlisted men on our
fleets, as they would have adapted it to
the crying need of their day, the training
of officers and men. For the officers. il
goes without saying, ample instruction
is literally provided today. the govern
ment spending about $500 on the educa-
ton of every lad who takes the course at
Annapolis.
But there is conspicuous lack of sys-
tematic instruction for the young men
who respond to our calls to enlist In
order to man our ships and especially to
get behind our twelye-inch and sixteen
full complement of young men of char.
acter and capacity whom We need, even
through recruiting stations and expensive
advertising.
BY inspiring the confidence that they
will really have the double opportunity
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.ud the tragedy of lStiJ, which in those
DAYS was generally spoken and written
of as .the great assassination plot and
'the great assassination conspiracy.
All this has suggested few "reminiscences
OF Boston Corbett. the soldier VINO, nrlns
without orders, killed John Wilkes Booth
On the Garrett farm. a few miles from
bowling Green, the county seat of Caro-
line county, Virginia.
II is not known whether or not Boston
Corbett lives. II he is still in the flesh
ne is about eightyfour or eighty-sfx years
old The last seen or heard of this man
by any man who knew him as Boston
Corbett was in 1855. when. having es-
capped from the Kansas Insane Asylum.
lie was reported by man who knew him
and his history having set out from
Neodosha. in the southern part of KAN
sas. toward Mexico. and 1t Is reasonable
20 believe that he entered that country.
, Corbett. during his service In the Union
army, was considered by his comrades
and his officers as queer, and from
1865 to the time of his disappearance
from this country he was haunted with
the fear that avengers OF Boom were
seeking his life
Corbett was an Englishman who had
become naturalized American. He was
q halter by trade. 1t is not known what
baptismal name was given him by his
facts about this man prior to MS enlist
ment in the Union army. The story is
told, and it is plausible one, that Cor
bett became Converted at religious
revival meeting In Boston and that on
experiencing his Change of heart he
adopted as his Christian name the name
of the city in which he was made new
man Hence he enlisted as Boston Cor
bett, and the name Boston does not ap-
pear in quotation marks. In his regiment
the 10th New York Cavalry-he was
considerable of an exhr rter on religion.
He is described as having been of medl-
rrn stature, rather light In build, and he
wore his hair long and parted it in the
middle.
For ten days after the shooting of Pres
dent Lincoln the whereabouts Of Booth
was a. mystery. Maryland and Virginia
were searched almost house by house.
Clues by the multitude were picked up.
traced and found false. Booth. in spite of
his fractured ankle. caused by his fall
sn jumping from the Presidents box to
the stage of Ford's Theater. and which
fall was due to one of his spurs catching
dents box, seemed to have made his
escape.
little depression might add interest to
this story Thomas A Jones of Charles
county, Md. was the man who supplied
Booth and Herold with food while they
las hidden for several days and nights in
q pine thicket on the farm of Samuel Cox,
few hundred yards south OF what is
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Ny plan for forming proper corps
Of sea officers is by teaching them the
naval tactics in a feet evolution. To