Show ADMIRAL DEWEYS FRIENDS They Are Sending flint All Sorts of Gifts and Souvenirs Chicago Record Admiral Deweys cabin is beginning to look like a museum or a curiosity shop Every mail brings bulky packages pack-ages and little souvenirs front hIs enthusiastic en-thusiastic admirers at home and two typewriter operators are kept busy acknowledging the receipt of presents There are hats caps canes medallions medal-lions handkerchiefs paper weights Cigar holders flags newspaper clippings clip-pings and albums and nearly everything every-thing else that will go by mail A brau tifuily bound and illuminated album came some time ago from a prominent club in Milwaukee and is treasured as one of the star features of the admiral admir-al a collection Each page Is decorated with an appropriate painting the subjects sub-jects bearing on something associated with the admiral or the battle of Ma nilrt bay On the last page Is a picture of the Olympia jackies hoisting or breaking out at the main truck of the flagship the twostarred flag of the rear admiral The final bit of text Itt the book expresses the hope that sometime some-time the admiral will be in Milwaukee and that he may take breakfast there A picture of a very pretty girl is a constant ornament of his desk She is a Decatur Iii girl and sent It in a letter with the Ingenious inscription in-scription Our Dear dmiral and it won the admirals heart Ia ackaowl edging the receipt of the picture he wrote a long and very cordial letter which Is a tip to other pretty girls who have charming photographs Another conspicaous ornament of his cabin is a painting of the battle of Ma nun bay It was made by a Chinese artist In Hongkong after a drawing which appeared in Harpers Weekly and was presented to the admiral by the junior officers of the Olympia The artist is now working night and day making more reproductions as two or three dozen orders have been sent him by officers of the fleet Admiral Deweys shoemaker In Washington Wash-ington sent him a fine pair of white shoes with a modest request that the admiral give him the pair he wore dur lng the battle of Manila bay on May 1 The eSact identity of the shoes In question ques-tion being uncertain the admiral corn promised by writing a letter of thanks A steel watch made of steel taken from the Maine Is one Interesting souvenir sou-venir Some of the most beautiful things ht has are presents from Aguinaldo Thp dictator has the greatest admiratloft 1 and respect for Dewey and has the singular sin-gular habit of making an elaborate gift to the admiral whenever the latter calls him down That accounts large by for the number of Aguinaldos presents pres-ents that adorn the cabin In all the dealings Admiral Dewey has had with Aguinaldo he has treated him with the greatest courtesy when courtesy was called for and the greatest severity when firmness was the thing But in spite of the rebuffs Agutnaldos notes accompanying the presents Invariably refer to the admiral as My honorable and illustri ntend On the c Agulnaidos first visit to the 0 was accorded the greatest et that could be bestowed on a maa bigs rank The admiral In person met him at the gangway gang-way and marines were all drawn up at attention and everything except the firing of a salute was tendered It is to be assumed that he was sufficiently dazed and flattered for he has never ceased to be very frIendly and anxious to act in compliance with the admirals wishes Not long ago General Andersoa wanted want-ed to take a pleasure trip up the River Pasig but was stopped at the insurgent insur-gent lines and compelled to turn back A day or two afterward the admiral sat on the quarter deck and he saw art irthurgent launch steaming gayly akmg near his ship with the insurgent flag flying Then an Idea of reciprocity cc curred to him and he decided to seize all the Insurgent launches This was at once done and eight beautiful craft were tied up In Cavite When Aguina do heard of the calamity he sent bl private secretary Eseamtlbo to see thb admiral and to find out what had been done to offend him The admiral was very nice and he gave Escamillo a hearttoheart talk He spoke of the insurgents refusal to allow American army officers to go through theirlines and he thought that he would not allow the insurgent launches to go through his lines So for that reason he had taken themnot confiscated them just detained them The next day Agui naldo gave orders permitting American officers to go through the insargents lines and up the river and doubtless In a day or two he ivill send a beautiful beauti-ful present to his Illustrious friend |