Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-26

3, 1893. Right here it S approora4 &
to note that there are three genera.
J ton OF United States naval fighters
in the Badger family, for the Rear
Admlrals some is Ensign Oscar c.
Badger, one OF the young Officers of
the service.
The future rear admiral was an
pointed to the Naval Academy nv
President Grant in 1869 and was
graduated as midshipman in 1879.
| : Jew months after leaving the
Naval Academy Midshipman Badger
started on an adventurous tri,I. He
was one OF the Narragansett party.
winch surveyed the Gulf of California
Ihen he was transferred to shore
duty at the Washington Navy Yard
winch was followed by half year
oetall to the torpedo boat Alarm. In
september 1876 he started for three
years service at the Asatic station.
lhen came another detail ashore
thls time at the Bureau of Navigation
IN Washington. He was a year aboard
the coast survey steamers Endeavor
and the A. d. Bache.
In September, 1881, he was detailed
aboard the Pantic, which qualified
MIN IS one of the members of tne
celebrated Greedy relief expedition
organized three years later. Badger
was assigned 10 the Bos on Navy
Yard when friends in the United
States began to fear for the safety of
the Greedy Arctic explorers. The
spring OF 1884 came without a word
OF the Lieutenant Then the relief ex
petition was formed, under the la.e
Winfield Scott Schley, at that time
commander.
Lieutenant Badger was executive Of !
flcer of the Alert, which steamed from
New York May 10, 1884, in command
OF Commander George w. Coffin.
On their return to the United |
States Commander Schley and the
other officers of the rescue expedition |
We're received with great enthusiasm.
The State Of Maryland, which counted |
several of the officers as natives.
commended them for their bravery
and young Lieutenant Badger was
among those mentioned in ire reso-
lutions adopted unanimously by the
Maryland Legislature.
In the Spanish war he was attach
Ed to the Cincinnati and served with
credit, If fate gave him no chance of
great distinction. On March 8, 1899. I
he was promoted to the rank of lieu
tenant commander. Eight years later
ne attained the rank of captain and
Tor two years after this promotion
ne was superintendent at the Anna
polls Academy. Then he took COM
nand of~the battleship Arkansas and
IN March 8 1911 he became a rear
and received the command of
ne second division of the Atlantic
leet.
Frank Friday Fletcher.
Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fetch
n is slightly better known than his
for. he has invented several
important ordinance devices which
lave brought him before the public.
Among these inventions are the
amous Fletcher breech closing
mechanism, a gun mount, which is an
arrangement of trunacted cones on
! roller path so reducing friction that
| weapon weighing several tones can
re trained literally with one finger
md clamped instantly to fix up upon
he target, and revolutionary i'm
in torpedoes.
Fletcher graduated from Annapo-
is in 1875, and was assigned to the
'uscarora, which surveyed a subma-
inc route for a traas-Pacific cable.
1ere he developed his scientific bent.
lie was later aboard the Ticondero-
"a, which made an important voyage
o Corea. He was assigned to the ex-
edition which determined the long-
ude of certain South American points
nd then he labored in yellow fever
pidemic in the city of Panama.
While he was in command of diff
erent vessels, he spent his spare mo-
nents on his inventions. Though the
spanish war he was assistant chief Of