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Show 15 SANTIAGO HERO Rear Admiral Walnwright Put on the Retired List. IS KEPT ON ACTIVE DUTY Lieutenant Greble, Member of an Army Family, la Made Junior Aid to the President Veteran of Merrlmac Dead. i By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. Hear Admiral Hlcbard Walnwright, aide fur operation at tbei navy department, bus just been placed on the retired Hat by reason of bis age. The admiral la aUty-two years old, but like many another old aallor he does not look It Walnwrlght'a record rec-ord of service baa been such that Secretary Sec-retary of the Navy Meyer has decided to retain blm on active duty In this city, to bold membership In the general gen-eral board of the navy of which Admiral Ad-miral Dewey Is chairman. Rear Admiral Walnwright, having been coutluued on active duty ol though transferred to the retired list, will receive the full pay of his grade. Walnwright himself was ruther averse to remaining on active duty because he thinks It la not altogether a good precedent to establish, lie thinks wltJi General Sherman that when an officer is retired he ouyht to be retired actually ac-tually aa well aa In name. It was Hlcbard Walnwright. it will be remembered, remem-bered, who took command of John Plerpont Morgan'a yacht Corsair when It was turned over to the United States government for service In the Spanish-American war. When this little yacht bad been armed and Walnwright bad been put In command It waa to serve ss a supposedly sup-posedly minor part of the fleet in front of Santiago barbor. When Cer-vera's Cer-vera's ships came out of Santiago two torpedo boat destroyers made atralght for Walnwrlght'a yacht, which waa un-armored. un-armored. although, of course, not unarmed. un-armed. Walnwright used bis six-pounders six-pounders and three-pounders with such good effect that be sank one of the formidable Spanish craft In less than half an hour and drove tbe other on tbe beach disabled. |
