Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-02

Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, L. S.
the Naval Hospital in this city from
heart disease after having been in fee
bic health for several months.
Funeral services will be held at ST.
Thomas Episcopal Church at o'clock
tonight, the rector. Rev. DIR. c. Ernest
Smith, officiating. The services will be
simple in character. There will be no
naval ceremonies and no honorary pail
bearers Following the services the
body will be accompanied by members
OF the family to Quogue, Long Island,
for interment Thursday morning
Rear Admiral Mahan was acclaimed
in naval circles as the greatest mod
ern writer on naval strategy" He had
greatly overtaxed his strength in his
study Of the European conflict. and it
is thought his close observation of the
naval movements of the belligerents
was responsible for the ultimate break
Gown which fastened his end.
Close Study of Conflict.
In the early stages of the present Eu-
ropean struggle Admiral Mahan had
discussed for the newspapers the sig
nificance of the various naval move
n,ents, but he ceased these activities
when President Wilson issued a procla-
nation exhorting navy as well as army
officers to desist from anything resem-
ding partisan discussion of the con-
ftct. in order that the position of the
United States might be one of strict
neutrality He, however, did not relax
his close observation of all that went
on in Europe.
Admiral Mahan came to Washington
from his home in Quogue, Long Island,
in early autumn, and had planned to
spend the winter in Washington Sur
vtving are his widow and two daughters,
Misses Helen and Ellen Mahan. and one
SON, L. E. Mahan. Commodore Dennis
H. Mahan. U. s. N. retired, now at the
naval station, Tutuila, Samoa, is a
brother.
Secretary Daniels Tribute.
Immediately upon hearing of the
death of Admiral Mahan, Secretary
Daniels addressed a letter of con-
ooience to Mrs. Mahan, in which he
said:
admiral Mahan was not only a fine
type of naval officer, but possessed a
lovable character that endeared him to
all with whom he came in contact
his attalnments, which gave him a
WoIid-wloe renown. were of immeas-
urable value to the country he loved
ana served, and though he is gone, bis
works happily remain as a guide and
inspiration not only for this genera
ton but for all that are to come
What he so ably and conyincinplv
wrote was accepted at home and
abroad as authority, and there are no
enlightened peoples who are not ia
m1liar with his name
In your distress you must feel a
solemn pride that throughout the
world today his passing will be learned
OF with deep regret, not only because
OF the high esteem in which his name
is held, but because he leaves In the
world of achievement a place that can
not be filled.
Your grief is shared not only nv tho
service he loved and long and nohIy
worked for, but by the nation
An Official Appreciation.
A statement issued from the NAVY Do
partment contained this appreciation
OF the late writer on naval strategy
Admiral Mahan became lannon's DC
An author and historian In the earl.
nineties. when his books on Tho II
fuence of Sea Power Upon Histor,,
and The Influence of Sea Power ~,
the French Revolution were nnh1;shped
THESE were followed by a Life NJ NJ
SON. These books We're classics IN 81
line and were widely read tbro1IgSn,,,
the world In England and Can
IN particular, they received the bigb'