The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
GREATEST HONOR IS BEING PAID TO
 MEMORY OF DEWEY
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(COntfnued from Page One) i for the funeral President Wilson was 1 among those who called to tender their personal sympathy.
 The funeral plans as far as they had been completed tonight provide for private service at the residence, at tended only by members of the imme- diate family before the body is taken to the capitol In, the cortege that will fol- low it up Pennsylvania avenue before | the public services and then from 1 the capitol to it's resting place at Airing ton will be practically the entire corps | of high officials, the midshipmen from Annapolis, sailors and marines from the Norfolk naval station and the Washing ton navy yard and various other army and navy units.
 | Chaplain J. B. Frazier, who was chaplain of the flagship Olympia when Dewey won his place in history at Manila bay, will be in charge or the 1 services at the capitol. At the residence the Rev. pr. Roland Cotton Smith, pas tor of St Johns Episcopal church here, the admiral's place of worship, will I officiate Rear Admiral J. l.. Glennon, | lcommandant of the Washington navy ! yard, will have general charge Of arr Arrangements for the military features.
 ENGAGEMENT CANCELLED High government officials today can celled all but the most pressing en- jgagements and announced that until after the admirars funeral they woulc make no appointments. Secretary Ba- ker, who had planned to entertain President Wilson at a cabinet dinner 1 tonight, postponed the function, and Secretary Daniels cancelled an en- gagement to speak in Philadelphia to- morrow
 Naval officers said tonight that prob ably never before had such signal hon l or been paid dead hero as that pro- jviJed for Admiral Dewey in Secretary Daniels order broadcasted by the Arlington wireless station to American vessels and shore stations everywhere. "It is with feelings of genuine grief, l the order said, that the Secretary of Navy announces the death at 5:46 yes- lterday afternoon, at his residence in Washington, of the admiral of the navy.
 .'The career of George Dewey ran in. | full current to the end Vermont was This mother state, and there was always in his character something of the granite of his native hills. Dewey was under fire with Farragut in the Mis- sissippi river and bore himself isal- ilaEtly throughout the war between the states.
 "The battle in Manila bay on May Ii, 1898, made him the foremost naval officer since Farragut, and victor of l the first American sea fight with a lfcreign foe since the war of 1912. "GentIemen, higher power than we has won this battle today the com moGere said to his captains at the con | clusion of the battle when 1t had been I learned that the victory, one Of the most decisive in our history, had been won without the loss of single Amer lican seaman. In peace. in war. i1 sick mess. in health, in victory and in com | flics, and in every relation of life, Ad- miral Dewey invariably exhibited the l virtues of the patriot and the Chris l tian.
 FULL OF ACHIEVEMENT 1 His whole life, 62 years of which were spent in the navy, was full of honorable achievement and his service in peace has hardly been less distinguished than his ! laurels in war. As president of the gen 1 eral board of the navy since its incep- ! ton, he has played a leading part in making the nation ready for war on the | seas The same statesman-like qualities which he exhibited in handling the in | ternational situation at Manila after the battle of May l, 1898, he has shown as the head of this board Of naval eX- perts.
 "In recognition of his victory in Ma ] nila bay the then commodore was ad- l vanced one grade to that of rear admiral and in addition received the thanks of Congress. Later, by special act of Con gress, he was promoted to be the admiral | of the navy, a rank never held by an American naval officer previously, all | though two Potter and F'arragut, were rewarded with the rank of full admiral He Was placed by Congress on the &C., tive list until such tl6te as he might see | fit to apply for retirement. But his ac- tive spirit could not rest He never folded | his hands. He chose to die on the bridge,
 even until the pilot came aboard his life craft who should take him across the
 bar He died one of the foremost figures of modern times
 "On the day of the funeral the flag will be displayed at half mast at all navy l yards and stations and on board all ships
 in commission and 19 minute guns will be fired at noon from each navy yard and | from every ship at present afioat. 1 '"The navy department will be draped iand all officers of the navy and marine
 corps will wear the badge of mourning with the uniform for 30 days.
 '"rhe navy department. by executive or 1 der will be closed on Saturday, January
 20, 1917''
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED The resolution adopted by the Senate IdHu rouse, ufdWli py otHdtOr lliILstii
 and Representative Padgett, chairmen of the naval committees, was as follows:
 Resolved, That the Senate has learned
 with profound grief of the death of Ad- iniral of the Navy George Dewey, who has served his country brilliantly for I more than 62 years.
 1 Resolved. That the president of the Senate is directed to transmit to his be- | reaved family a copy of these resolu- tions; and an assurance of the sympathy l of the Senate in the loss they have sus- l tained.
 Resolved, That the president of the