Show WAS SANTIAGO HERO rear admiral wainwright put on the retired list IS S KEPT ON ACTIVE DUTY d lieutenant tenant greble member of an army family la Is made junior at aide d e to the president veteran of merrimac Merrl Merr Imao mao dead by GEORGE CLINTON washington rear hear admiral richard wainwright aide tor for operation at the navy department has just been placed on the retired list by reason of his bis age the admiral to IB sixty two years old but like many another old sailor bailor he does not look it Wain wrights record of service has hasteen been such that secretary of the navy meyer bats baa decided to retain him on active duty in this city to hold membership in the general board of the navy of at which ad dewey to Is chairman dewey la Is a full admiral of the united states navy the highest ranking office held by any officer of either service any army officer tobo tobe to bo be of equal rank with dewey would have to bo be authorized to write general in front of MB his name not lieutenant general nor major general nor brigadier general but plain general there has been no general of tho the army since phil sheridan died admiral dewey la Is still in the active service by reason of his bis rank he ha can retire when he will and really his active service la is in n name only rear admiral wainwright having been continued on active duty although transferred to the retired list will receive the full pay of hla his grade wainwright himself was rather averse to remaining on active duty because he thinks it A Is not altogether a good precedent ts establish ile he thinks with general sherman that when an officer to Is retired he ought to be retired actually as well as in name it was richard wainwright it will be remembered who took command of at john pierpont pont morgans yacht corsair when it was turned over to the united states government tor for service in the spanish american war when this little yacht had been armed and wainwright had been put in command it was to serve as a supposedly minor part of the fleet fleat in front of santiago harbor when car veras ships came out of santiago two torpedo boat destroyers made straight tor for Wain wrights yacht which was unarmored although of at course not unarmed wainwright used his bis six and with such good effect that he be sank one of the formidable spanish craft in less leas than half an hour and drove the other on the beach disabled grebles an army family lieutenant E st john greble jr of 0 the field artillery formerly stationed at fort riley kan has baa been detailed asa aa a junior aide to the president at tho the white house succeeding capt ligon johnson Job who has been ordered to manila lieutenant greble la Is a son of col E st john greble of the artillery who la Is now on special duty with the general staff in washington hero here la Is an army family lieutenant grebles Gre blos grandfather colonel grebles Gre blea father was a graduate of 0 west point and the close friend ot of gen 0 0 howard the senior greble was killed at the battle battla of balls bluff va and he be was the first officer of the regulars to die in defense of the union served on the merrimac Merrl mac the death of hardle B littlepage in washington a day or two ago removed another member of the small band 0 of survivors ot of the engagement gage ga between the monitor and the merrimac near hampton roads in the war between the states etalea littlepage served on the merrimac Merrl mac as a midshipman ile he was a cadet at the united war broke out and he resigned at once onca to enter the confederate service mr littlepage at the time of hla bis death was employed by the united states government as an agent a 9 ant to gather data tor for the publication of the naval records of the civil war a 0 post which it was specifically provided in creating the position should be filled by a veteran of the confederate navy ile he had been at this work since the year 1889 and bad nearly completed what was a much more arduous task than at first it was supposed lt it would be here was wag a confederate veteran holding a position under uncle sams government most moat people think perhaps that such a thing Is unique but it Is not there are many ate veterans employed in various ca in the federal service and the fact that they once fought against the union in no wise was made a matter of dr objection to their preferment Bakh takes fairbanks house the russian ambassador mr air george la Is the last addition to the ambassadorial representation in n washington mr reported tor for duty only a fow few days daya ago and ho he takes a place because be Is the last ambassador appointed at the toot foot of the ambassadors list standing next below the representative from mexico senor crespo mr bachme tied iter is a roaster ot at the imperial court st t st petersburg Petern burg with him to arner amr lea caro caroo o tits bis wife mme ame anel ana their first tash task was wag house houe hunt ID ing they have hare rented tho the ormer former ft a heme liver ever since t ormer vice president ViOr ti irh inks banks left the capital the great awe or oc farragut Farraf fut square which he be 0 occupied ban baa it teen vacant meant peo P pie who have money and who intend to t 0 do a great eal of entertaining can afford to ta e such auch a house as that occupied by the former vice president 1 it h baa great leaching parlors and a b ball aai room room of adequate size it Is understood der stood that tho the will enter largely into the life ol of the capital newspaper men man at tho the crib comparatively recently ft a good wany many washington correspondents have left the newspaper service temporarily at any rate rale to join the force or government laborers the list of lally aily paper writers who from the beginning i of washington correspondents abo who have been taken over by uncle sam to IB a long one year after year the going out continues but also year after year abere la Is a coming back ono one or two of these newspaper men who have stepped from the write path temporarily have been mentioned in these dispatches before but only briefly some ot them have been draft ed ad into the ranks ks ot of government em aloyes because they know how to write to tho the point representative victor derger berger socialist member ol of congress from milwaukee ex pressed expressed one reason la in another connection the other day ile he salil said that it if tho the bills which are ara introduced into congress con gresa were written by newspaper menthe men the substance of them would bo be put in ten tell lines and everybody would understand what they meant allen alien in the white house sherman allen alien who toy toi some years was waa connected with the washington bureau of tho tao new york herald la is now assistant secretary to president taft allen alien now does docs not have much writing to do but he be Is known for hla his ability tact and the pleasantness ol of hla his ways also ho be Is a fine looking fellow and although perhaps it ought not to bo be so BO this helps a lot with visitors at the white house when trueman C newberry ot of de da troit was secretary ot at the navy sher roan man allen alien was wall his als secretary from that position mr allen alien went vent to the bureau of the new york herald politics like the whirligig of time brings changes and some day probably sherman allen alien will be back la in the corps of correspondents with his a assigned ad seats in the galleries of the two houses A word or two was said bald recently ot of thomas W braband Br abany tom brabank probably Is thirty three years yeara old but ho he Is extraordinarily youthful in appearance pe arance his head and his abilities outrun his bis years yeara even though they be thirty three in number for a long time brahany was waa connected with the milwaukee journal as a washington correspondent ile he was for a while secretary to senator john to spooner there were bills introduced ln v A to the last congress and it you ask tom brahany the amount asked tor for the improvement of 0 podunk harbor in dill bill no he will tell you or off hand and moreover probably will give you amount occurs it if you look it up and you will find that brahany has hit it right at present he be la Is the secretary ot of the tarin tariff board cockran and leupp J L cockran an ohio newspaper man and tor for a EC long time city editor ot of a cleveland to la the publicity man tor for the bureau ot at mines ha fie writes today as aa he always has written well and he Is an authority on everything connected with if efforts forts to prevent mining disasters and rescue work after the disasters occur the bureau ot of mines as a separate bureau Is of recent creation its work la Is large an anit and it growing francis E leupp Is the man who wrote the inspired interview with president tatt taft which recently appeared in the outlook to which colonel one roosevelt Is a contributing adl editor leupp Is a newspaper man of distinction for a long time be was tho the washington correspondent of the new york evening post a place from which colonel roosevelt when he was president took him to make him COTO com oi of L was as greatly interested in hla now duties and he took the cause causa of the tha indians to heart gus gua J karger of the cincinnati times star la Is another newspaper man who was waa mentioned casually in one of these newspaper recently K karger a r g a r b has a s n not 0 k g gone 0 a e IT into t 0 t the h e g government 0 v a r n m e n t 0 service a ry 1 e 0 b but u t b he e I 1 Is 0 one n e 0 t the b p po 0 1 lotical advisers in chief 0 of president tatt taft gus gua Is looked upon by hla his fel ellow as aa something in the nature of 0 a wonder ile he was born on the other side of 0 the water and caroe came to this country when a boy unable to speak a word of english ile he developed been political sense bensa and strong journalistic ability the corre spon denta like him and the tha president leans on him it Is probable that kar ger knobb the name auche and the factional leanings of every politician in the tha united states no mutter matter haw bow obscure he may inay be L iwhite bushey busbey today Is a secretary of the high joint commission otherwise known as tho the international boundary commission mr busbey for years was the washington correspondent ol of the chicago inter ocean prior to coming to washington ho he was a member of the inter ocean staff in chicago speaker cannon made bus bua bey his private secretary and from 1 that position he went to tho the 0 ona which lie he now holds |