Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
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Commander Martin E. Trench. detail
officer in the bureau of navigation. has
Just recovered from an attack of scar
let fever, which kept him in the Naval
Medical Hospital for the past six
weeks, and has resumed his duties
at the Navy Department.
Lieut.. Commander Leigh c. Palmer.
former aid to Secretary Daniels and
President Wilson. now on the DESTROYER
McDougal. commanding the seventh di-
vision of the torpedo fiotilla of the At
lantic fleet, called on Mr. Daniels and
other friends at the Navy Department
last week.
Edward Henkel. chief of the enlisted
personnel division of the bureau of
navigation. was absent during the
week assisting at the dog show. His
wife's big ST. Bernard, "Stronyheart."
was one of the features of the show
and carried off several prizes
Secretary Daniels has received a mes
sage from President Moore of the Pan
ANA Pacific exposition expressing his
appreciation of the service done by the
collier Jason in bringing exhibits from
european countries to San Francisco.
The JasonS mission. said Mr.. Moore,
constituted solution of problem
perhaps otherwise unsolvable. II has
enabled SIX great nations to add their
exhibits to those of twenty-four other
hotiohS Oil cduy mere IL mas brought
the technically universal character of
the exposition practically to perfec-
ton"
The Jason originally made the trip
across the Atlantic to carry presents
from the children of the United States
10 the war orphans of European coun-
tries. Returning. she brought to San
Francisco exhibits from France, Bel
gum. Austria, Great Britain, Spain
and Greece.
Capt X. Boy-Ed, naval attache at the
German embassy. has sent a letter to
Secretary Daniels expressing his deep
regret over the accident to submarine
F'-4. in which he says:
ASSUMING that the last hope that
anybody is still alive in the Inflated
submarine F-4. must now be aban-
doned. l beg to express the deepest
sympathy of the imperial German navy
and myself for the deplorable loss of
so many brave officers and men They
died in loyal fulfillment of their pa
triotic duty.
secretary Daniels has invited Mrs
John Sloane. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas A. Edison of West Orange, ~
j., 10 christen the LIS. submarine be-
ing built at Portsmouth, n. H, the first
to carry the Edison storage battery.
Mrs. Sloane accepted the invitation.
The dangerous generation of hydro
gen gas is one of the serious problems
spent several years experimenting with
the batteries and testing them. He
thinks he has eliminated the danger
The Navy Department is arranging to
have the remains of the late Lieut..
Commander William +. Bricker, who
was drowned at Constantinople March
20, while in command of the L. s. =
Scorpion stationed at that port, sent
home on board the L. S. S. Vulcan The
Vulcan is now in the eastern Mediter-
ranean with coal and supplies for the
armored cruisers Tennessee and North
Carolina, which are in those waters
and she will return to the United
States in the course of a few weeks
Owing to activities in the Dardanelles
and at Constantinople il is not = 'acti-
cable to send a vessel to 1ti-
nople for the remains nor
Scorpion away from Go :,
with them, but this diffic
overcome by sending the Il,
| land from. Constantinoplr -
catch, a Bulgarian port II -
tance to the westward of the -.
to the Dardaneiles. and have III. Nui-
/; can call for 1t at that port when she is
in readiness to return to the United
States.