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Show Betired Naval Officer Dead. NEW YORK, March 25. Chief Engineer A. W. Morley, U. S. N., retired. Is dead at his home in Brooklyn. He was one of the best-known and most capable officers of the old engineer corps of the navy. Chief Engineer Morley was bom in Hartford. Hart-ford. Conn., and entered the navy at the outbreak of the Ctvll war By the close of the war he had attained the grade of first assistant engineer. Upon his recommendations recom-mendations the reorganization of the navy was begun. In 1889 he was specially selected se-lected as inspector of machinery for the battleship Maine, then under construction at the New York yard, and was detailed as chief engineer when that historic ship was first commissioned. He was retired from active duty in 1896. |