Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-02
GEN. A. R. CHAFFEE
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
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y Chief of Staff of U. S. Army
Rose from the Ranks-45
Years a Soldier.

los. ANGELES. Cal. Nov. Lieu
nant-G General Adna r. ChafIee, Tor
3sr chief of staff of the United States
sI-4v. died at his home he-e SesteF-
oas ~ typhoid pneumonia. HIS poos
Will .,e taken to Washington, leaVllls
tnnaorr9w. fer interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
syfe, his retirement from the army.
General Chaffee was aPpoillse , ~
~ The Los Angeles water boaiu.
,ater he accepted the presidency o.
an Insurance company, but retlreo
from business affairs a few mohlhs
AIRS. Chaffee and her daughter, Mrs.
John Hastings Howard VIE OF an
army officer. were AT the beds. de Wheh
The end came Mrs Howard had peeil
summoned hastily from her husea1u
nost at Douglas. Afiz., rev DAYS ISL
The two other children, Mrs. Geoi -
French Hamilton, wife of an army
CAPTAIN, and Lieutenant Adna H.
chaffee. ir.. are in the Philippines.
When General Chalfee became lieu
tenant general Of the army OF the
Tinted States and tcak his post on
January .. 1904, as chief Of staff the
highest position TO which an enlisted
man can attain, he wrote, briefy' re-
plying to request cor an Outline OF
his policy.
q am lust a plain officer striving to
do nv duty as each day reveals II.
There is nothing sensational about me
or NV methods nothing yellow. as
the newspapers term it.
Hundreds of officers can be mag
ined as making this same statement
none other. perhaps. could make II
with equal truth, for from the time
he enlisted as a private in Troop Il,
sixth Cavalry July %, 1861, until he
was retired at his own request on Feb
riary l. 1906. General Chaffee won
each step Of his promotion. Favorit-
ism never once advanced him in his
rating.
Enlisted for Civil War Service.
General Chaffee was born In Orwell.
Ohio. on April IA, 1912, and all the
Hcllooling Of a regular sort which he
ever got was in the public schools.
Vet he was later regarded as one OF
the most highly educated men in the
army and even took a law course
which won him the degree OF LID.
rom Tufts College in 1905. He never
had spare minute. for when he
wasn't busy at his trade OF soldering
Was engaged as tutor, with himself
as pupil
He was little more than boy when
he began his service in the Civil War
and promotion came slow to him 1t
was two years before he even got his
fco4 On the bottom rung Of the ladder
With a second lfeutenancy in the Sixth
Cavalry on March L. 1863. At the end
Il the war he was only q first lieu
tenant. and il was not until 1867 that
.ie became a captain And then he
waited tWenty-one years before his |
uniform was adorned with the epaul- |
Sttes OF major
Meantime-in 1s75-ae married An
ME Frances Rockwell, OF Junction
CITY. KAN and begun the rearing OF |
The family which survives him, Adra |
II. Chaffee. 1rs an army man. and |
two daughters
General Clraffee's family got every |
bit of attention he could give it but |
be wss pretty busy with the Indians |
and stu promotion came sl0M II |
was NOT until June /. 1897, thai ne
became a neutenant-colon$a in the
Third cavalry and then the Spanish
waa' brought him his C,scncs
lie was serlS 10 Chickamausa. where
hs received his first commission as
a general Office, being naa1e br1ga- |
dier-general I'm May, 1893, but IL was |
5D4y with the volunteers. He went |
20 Cuba in command If one OF Shat |
renss brigatles, and led the assault on |
tho stone fort at Ell Caney It's cap
eur0 was one % the most important |
moves IN the war and for il ChAffee /
was made u major general of Yo1uA~
teerx. lie served as chief Of staff to
General Brooke, the military COVER |
nor OF Cuba and for coupls of years
Under General Wood.
Commanded Americans IN China.
Then. TO General Chaffes's I'M
doubted relief. trouble arose in China
and he got the job of commanding this
American troops there. Il was he
and his men who captured the gate
~ Picking when the attempt OF the
combined armies of several foreign
nations was made TO raise the Siege
% the legations. Others reached the
compounds before Chaffee and his
rnei} but they had to admit that they
had entered through the gate Which
fciiaffse had taken, and that only the
treachelv % guide had prevented
rha American from taking this extra
honar to himself.
General Chaffee. having now fought
Indians, SpaniaFds ana Cinnamon,
vas made military governor Of tbs
'tlnpaGitisd portions cG the Philip
mines in 1901 aad proceeded to "clean
them fTf with his accustomed v1goi:.
He captured 1Jukban and Malvar, two
notorious brigaAds, and Il. the two
blows completely "pacided" Samar
and buzon. In less thaa eighteen
months he had the Philippines SO
qlries tllas the authorities at Wash
in8toa felt safe la recalling him to
take command of the department OF
the East, which post he held until
SHORTY before his final promotion to
tlaa highest office the army possesses.
II had taken Chaffee fOrty-three
Years 10 bridge the chasrn between
private and CHIEF Of STAFF in the army
% The United States. the widest space
and tho most difficult task Which an
ssrTffs Hlah can attempt, and in two
ysaas he was ready 10 retire He was
sixtg.-GSeir years old, and for~tY-fivs
o. iEi5 years had been spent in uni