Show Called it the Foote Washington April Secretary Long for the first time today exercised his right of christening a naval vessel when he bestowed upon torpedo boat No3 now floating at the Union Ironworks Iron-works the name of Foote This is to perpetuate the memory of one of the fighting naval commanders of the fghtng commander civil war Admiral Foote was the father of total abstinence of liquor in the navy and of him the sailors sung He raised our pay ten cents a day and stop dour d-our grog forever = |