Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-17
DESTROYfRS ID BEAR NAMES OF
 NAVAL HEROES
New Fleet to Constitute a Sort of Floating Ameri-
 can Hall of Fame.

| 24 new destroyers now buildins ing for the United States navy vii constitute a sort of floating Hall O Fame commemorating the services O. men who have distinguished them selves in American naval history. If pursuance of the policy adopted by tht navy department some years ago eacl of the destroyers will bear the name of the past and their principal claims to distinction may be summarized as l follows:
 George Little, a native of Massa chusetts, served in the Revolution captured and held prisoner in Eng land, later escaping to France. Sub sequently commanded the frigate Bos- tOn, with which he captured several French privateers.
 Thomas H. Stevens, native of Con- necticut, led the boat attack on Fort Sumter in 1863, and commanded the Wannebago during Farragut's en- trance in Mobile bay.
 John w. Philip, a native of New York city, began his naval career in the civil war and commanded the bat tleship Texas in the battle of Santi- ago during the war with Sapin.
 Henry H. Bell, a native of North Carolina, commanded the Western Gulf blockading squadron during two years of the Civil war; drowned, in 1868, while pursuing :. piratical craft up in the Osaka river in Japan. Cornelius K. Stribuling, a native of South Carolina, whose naval career covered over half century and in- cluded service in the War of 1912, the Mexican war and civil war.
 Lewis A. K Kimberly, a native of New York, who was executive officer of Farragut's flagship Hartford; com manded. the landing party that captur- ed the Korean forts in 1871, and was in the great hurricane at Apia, Samoa, in 1889, when his flagship was wreck ed.
 Lewis w. Robinson, a native of New Jersey, who took part in the capture of New Orleans and the attack on Vicksburg, and continued in the navy until 1901. .t
 Alexander Murray, native of Maryland, whose active career cover ed the entire period of the Revolution and also the war with the Barbary pirates in 1920; retained his commits sion longer than any other American naval officer in the Revolution.
 Cadwalader Ringgoid, a native of Maryland, took part in the Wilkes ex- ploring expedition which discovered the Antarctic continent in 1S3S-42, and commanded the frigate Sabine in DuPont's expedition to Port Royal at the commencement of the civil war.
 Melanchton T. Woolsey, native of New York city, distinguished himself in the War of 1912, particularly in the naval operations on Lake Ontario.
 Francis H. Gregory, native of Con- necticut, attached to Commodore Chauncay's fleet on Lake Ontario in the War of 1872; taken prisoner by the British and carriedto England, where he was detained nearly two years.
 Robley D. ("Fighting Bob'') Evans, native of Virginia, commanded the battleship Iowa during the war with Spain and particularly distinguished himself in the destruction of Ger vera's fleet
 Edmund R. Calhoun, native of Pennsylvania, entered the navy as mid shipman in 1889, saw active fighting in the war with Mexico, and took a prominent part in the attack on Fort Fisher and other notable naval op- erations of the civil war.
 Sllas II. Stringham, native of Mid dletown, N. Y., saw active service in the second war with Great Britain and in the war with Algiers, took part in the bombardment of Vera Cruz dur ing the war with Mexico, and com manded the North Atlantic blockad- ing squadron in the civil war.
 Charles V. 7Gridley, native of h. diana, who first distinguished him. self in the battle of Mobile bay, and more than 30 years later commanded Dewey's flagship Olympia in the bat tie of Manila bay.
 Nehemiah M. Dyer, a native of Massachusetts, who began his naval career in the civil war, but is best re- membered as the commander of the Baltimore in the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Hanila bay in 1898.
 William w. McKean, a native of Pennsylvania, who conveyed the Jap anese embassy to Japan in 1860, and commanded the Western Gulf block ading squadron in 1861.
 Donald M. Fairfax, a native of Vir- ginia, who, under orders from Com mander Wilkes. took Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the Confederate commits sioners, from the Trent.
 
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