Show CAPT COWLES PROMOTED Iff I U 7 i d e r4Lr gyp A w A c e Capt William Shefflolds Cowles who has been appointed rear admiral has been chief of tho bureau of equipment with headquarters In Washington DO Bjnco February 190C He was born at Farmlngton Conn August 1 184C and was graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis In 1867 He served in the Mediterranean Pacific < North Atlantic and Asiatic stations and at the Isthmus of Panama attaining his first command as captain in 1002 From 1893 to 1897 ho was naval attache at tho United States embassy In London Lon-don from 1899 to 1903 he was naval aid to the president and from 1903 to 190C ho commanded tho Missouri |