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Show Mew Naval Leaders Are I Corning Into Prominence BE'acar Admiral Henry Thomaa Mayo, commanding Fourth division of the Atlantic fleet (at left) ; Bear Admiral Krlca Johnston Badger, commanding Atlantic fleet (at right), and (Mow), Bear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, ans of Spanish-Ameri-". War Now Dead or Re-irffi Re-irffi iieved From Service. 5? to The Tribune, ifi iASIirNGTON, April 25. When h President Wilson ordered a I t2 I Iarg.i part of the naval force mil I of tins United States to the ; 0 qf Mexico twelve days ago, be illft it' lo (bo fore six rear admirnls 5 iife fct I'ncle Sam's big guns. Tho rki C figures of tho Spauish-Anicri-ltiai ar, Uewev, Kvans, Sampson, hit fand the rest, are either dead or lt h Their places have been taken 7 y iuger men who served t hrough ami &KK,e of IS9S, but in humbler gung is, The men are: dtl Admiral Charles Johnston Bnd- nniandinr Atlantic fleet. 10 r?B Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, 3 "'JHa'dine Fourth division, Atlatilic rfiiJAdmiral Prank I'Viday Fletcher, IUUbI Third division, Atlantic pitirfBAdmiral Frank Edmund Beatty, rjiKding First division, Atlantic ft Admiral Clifford Joseph Boush, , Aiding Second division, Atlantic Uy HjKAdmiral Thomas Benton Hqw-)reJmmandinK Hqw-)reJmmandinK squadron in Pacific ivjli.1 j"et. to W 8, curious fact that all tho twen-wal twen-wal rear admirals of the navy were 3 sUl. .the uOs. Indeed, one can go iroojj.i Jam! state that tho eldest wore i nflf 11852 and tho youngest iu JS5G. tkes their agon range from about a Ms B years, Only ono of the twen-,jeJ twen-,jeJ is! Spas born south of Virginia and ir ibi as bora west of Wisconsin. t ttet r s Veteran. efri1 'Admiral Charles J. Badger ran jntyllj i flag to tho mast head of his sn l& in j)laco of tho pennant of oIm9 Imiral Hugo Ostorhaus at Hamp- o; tfoj As. January 1, J913. and there- f sb4 inod command of tho Atlantic iprt le had then teen almost exactly S tflit1 ears in the much varied, some- liinfr ixciting. but oftener humdrum v&t ti a United States naval oflicer. iers essentially a man of the sea, ZT ad spent moro than twenty-four ;otnl number of years iu Undo KnjL ' iavy on duty aboard a craft of ' ir. i t or other. He had been as-i as-i J"' to the South Atlantic, to the fiM 15 Ifieiflc, to Asiatic waters, to the &atzL fanean and even to the Arctic vum r's fatur, Commodoro Oscar 9t a1 badger, was born in Old Wind-"ifil Wind-"ifil 'nn- ad marriod Mies Margaret craw on 0f Jlockville, Md., which is inS.y, miles from Washington ana lollies called tho capital's Gretna sr TjEear Admiral Bndpjr was born Jkvillc. August 13, IdoB. Kight r'8 PiiBs' appropriate to noto that there ifPW generations of United States naval lighters in the Badger family, for the rear admiral's sou is Ensign Oscar C. Badger, ouc of the young olliccrs of the service. A fow months after leaving the naval academy Midshipman Badger started on an adventurous trip. Ho was ono of tho Narragansett party which surveyed the Gulf of California! Then he was transferred trans-ferred to shore duty at tho Washington navy yard, which was followed by a I halt vcar detail to tho torpedo boat Alarm. In September, 187G. he started for three years' service at tho Asiatic station. Then came another detail ashore, this timo at the bureau of navigation navi-gation at Washington. He was a year aboard the coast survev steamers Endeavor En-deavor and tho A. D. Bneho. In September, 1SS1, he was detailed aboard the Yantic, which qualified him as one of the members of the celebrated Grecly relief expedition organized threo j-cars later. Badger was assigned to tho Boston navy yard whon friends in tho United States began to fear for tho snfety of tho Grecly Arctic explorers, explor-ers, The'spring of JSS-l came without a word of the lieutenant. Then the relief e.vpcditon was formed, under tho late Winficld Scott Sehloy, at that timo a commander. Lieutenant Badger was executive officer of-ficer of tho Alert, which steamed from Now York May in, 1SS-I, in command of Commander George W. Coffin. On their return to the United States Commander Schley and the other officers offi-cers of the rescue expedition wero rc- oivrwl wiMi rrrnnf on tlilluifl Km. Thfi state of "Marvfand, which counted sov- " oral of the officers as natives, commended commend-ed them for their bravery and young Lieutenant Banger was among thoso mentioned in the resolutions adopted unanimously by the Maryland legislature. legisla-ture. Rapidly Promoted. Tn tho Spanish war he was attached lo the Cincinnati and served with credit, cred-it, if fato gave him no chance of great distinction. On March 3. 1S90. he was promoted to tho rank of lieutenant commander. com-mander. Eight years later bo attained tho rank of captain and lor two years after this promotion he was superintendent superin-tendent at. the Annapolis academy. Then he took command of the battleship battle-ship Arkansas, and on March S, 1911. ho became a rear admiral and received the command of tho second division of the Atlantic fleet. Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher is slightly better known than his superior, supe-rior, for he has invented several important im-portant ordnance devices which have brought him before the public. Among these inventions arc the famous fa-mous Fletcher broech-closiug mechanism, a gun mount, vhich is an arrangement of tmncated cones on a roller path so reducing friction that a weapon weighing weigh-ing several tons can bo trained with ono finger and clamped instantly to fix it upon the target, and revolutionary improvements im-provements in torpedoes. Fletcher was graduated from Aunap-olis Aunap-olis in 1875, and was assigned to tho Tuscarora, which turveyed a submarine subma-rine route for a trans-Pacific cable. Hero he dovclopod Iuh scientific bent. He wa3 lator aboard the Ticoudcroga, which made an important voyago to Korea. Ko-rea. While ho was in command of differ-out differ-out vessels, ho spent his spare moments on hits inventions. Through tho Spanish war ho was assistant chief of tho ord-i ord-i nance department at Washington, an unprecodcnledly high position for a lieutenant. Mayo Is Junior. Rear Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, whose demand for a twonty-one-guu salute sa-lute in reparation for tho insult to tho Stars ami Stripes at Tampico, precipitated precipi-tated tho crisis, is the youngest of the twenty-five rpar admirals. Ho was appointed ap-pointed to the naval academy -when lo vears old. Ho was bom December S, 1S56. Mayo has had a total sea sorvire of twenty-throe years and two mouths. ; This figured prominently when he came before the examining board as the firt candidate for tho rank of rear admiral I under Secretary Daniels's plau, .Tulv 17, J 0 1 H. The board, consisting of Bear Admiral Badger, Rear Admiral Win-slc, Win-slc, and Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, found him fit for promotion and he was shortly transferred from the post, of aido for personnel of the navy department to the naval war college at Newport in order to obtain certain important im-portant information boforo taking charge of the fourth division of tho Atlantic At-lantic fleet. He has had his command since December 18 last. Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, who was at the head of the fourth division, was born in Wisconsin in 1S'53 and graduated from the Annapolis academy in 187.1. He married Anne Meein of Virginia iu 189 1. Ho was commander on the trip of the fleet around tho world in 190S, and later commander of I the battleship Wisconsin of the navy yard at Washington and superintendent superinten-dent of the naval gun factor Rear Admiral Clifford Joseph Boush, commanding the second division of the Atlantic fleet, was born in Virginia in 1S."4, and appointed to Annapolis in IS72. Ho has held his present command com-mand since October 22 last. Rear Admiral Howard was born in Galena, HI., in 1S54. and was appointed lo the academv by President Grant. He graduated in 1S73. In 1879 he married Anne J. Claude of Annapolis. Howard was navigator of the Concord Con-cord at the battle of Manila bay in tho Spanish war. Ho saw much service boforo bo-foro hostilities were over, being on the vessels which were used against tho insurgents. in-surgents. He commanded the Caravel Pinta on its trio from Barcelona to Havana Ha-vana in 1892-93 in celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Christo-pher Columbus's voyage. Ho commanded com-manded the fourth division of tho Atlantic squadron from 1910 to 1912. |