Show DEWEY OF MANILA 60 DEAR FOREMOST I 1 NAVAL OFFICER of NATION IDOLIZED DY BY PEOPLE ANSWERS SUMMONS life was full of honorable achieve merits ments from the days of the civil war down to the his last earthly efforts WasI washington Ington admiral george dowey heio beco of the battle ol oj manila bay bar und veteran ot of the elvil civil war the foremost moat naval officer of 0 tho the states died at his home here tuesday the naval liero hero went to hla his death quietly its his hand clasped la in that of his devoted wife who lias has been tit lit his bedside throughout ills his fatal illness which began a weik week previous despite the seventy nine years us u s which marked ills his birthday tho the day attai christmas the admiral had been liale hale anil and hearty heart admiral dewey fought and won the first great brent american naval battle against a borega foo since the war ot of 1812 ills whole life was full of honorable achievement front from the days davs of the civil war down to the time when as the head of the general board ho he begun began the last chapter of his work by laying lading plans for tho the defense of his country n time of war ills life was a striking flea tion of the poss b I 1 t es ol of a I 1 career based upon the exact and in te of every ever routine duty which molds a man mail on inflexible lines of auty autv and lionor honor ono of tho the curious freaks of fortune in deleys deweys ease was that for perhaps the first and only time in ills hla naval career lie was vaa disposed to protest against the tha cd edict ct of tile the navy depart ment which carriel carried him into the far eust east where lie ho was destined to perform tile tho greatest teat feat of ills his life and to win imperishable renown that was back lit in when tile the war clouds were gathering and dewoy dewey felt that lib was being sli shela elv ed that the war witia spain was to be fought fough out in III the gulf of mexico and in the caribbean sea and that lie he distant by halt half the circumference ot of the globe would stand no chinco chance ot of lanns aloi glory tor for at that moment no lie thought whatever had been div given on to A the philippines but lie he took ills his or MR 4 f deit and like a aue sailor obeyed them the result I 1 ly a page of history under date of may ma 1 WS 1898 contrary to spanish expectations dewey sailed into manila bay on the night inight of april 30 and lit in tho the morning of if the next day ho he annihilated ad mini montejon montejos Monte jos squadron destroying destro destroy yng hig eleven warships and capturing all other and all the lind land batteries gitlic without at the loss of a nuan man on tho american it rican s side de apon his triumphant return to tile lift nit td lie he by the lation irs presented him hill with th a beautiful homo home in tile nations capital a pital congress congre gave eap him an enc n graved sword and raised him from the rank of commodore comm to re rear ir admiral and then to tho the full rank of admiral of tile tho navy george dewey wis horn in the shadow ot of vermont 3 3 state capitol at AI on the day following christmas in 1837 at the age ot of 17 lio lie entered annapolis at the outbreak of the civil war dewey dewcy was 23 years of ago age lie he was vas commissioned a lieutenant and guided the mississippi as its executive officer in Farra Parra guts historic dash past now new orleans and its forts from the close of the civil war until the opening of the spanish amerlean american the life of the american naval officer was made up tip of routine duty tit at sen sea and ashore admiral dewey was the third american ic an to reach that pinn pinnacle aclo of naval rank farragut was the first and porter tho second it waa under farragut that dewey received hla his first lap of war |