Show r aRE a-RE Ut AMI HAL MUM I MAN WHO COMMANDS OUR CAI1IBBBAN SEA PLICIT lit llrrrnllr llnl a Meets tmfseeeee nltli II In Ieesbtot lI Itsees Mewled Itrdees alum lIp meeteen 8101on In Cenesael I I9AU ADMIUAI J Irancls DL lIunce m J or the United Stale navy commanding ti the North Atlantic r 3 I squadron It ono of f4 thus veterans of tho I sertlee Ha was lately called I to the capital I on a hasty nnd of course secret < < mil Non Ills I not luown what questions were considered during the conference but tho Impression among thoso In touch with high officials Is I that the nd ntlral wanted l oral Instructions ns toil to-il operations In the Caribbean Sen In Irgard to Venezuela Tho conference was at his own request which Implies that ho had some Important Information Informa-tion to Impart ns well ns n desire to receive re-ceive such direction as It Is I dnlrnblo In bo poMOMwd of Admiral Ilunco Is I ft native of Connecticut and entered the natal academy May 211 IMS graduate Ing In 1857 On leaving the academy be WM salyncd to the sloop Herman town of the liast India squadron where lie served two years and was then transferred to the sloop Macedonia In April I 1HI he was commlMlonc Han tenant nnd asslinod lo the PcnobMOt on the North Atlantic blockading station sta-tion and In the early period of thor tho-r participated In sklrmlshe nt Yorktown York-town and l Illaucoster and lln MI In en UNITED STATES NAVY STBCL CnUIBnit UBTIIOIT s 11 si fi = ir r < f A < 7 < Y 5 t4rl 0 fSifJ J wear wea-r u Speed 1871 knots Dimensions tons Protective deckSlope 710 CrowO officers 264 men llullt by length on water line 257 feel beam Inch Hat GIG Inch Armament Main Columbian Iron works Ilalllmore Md 31 feet draft 16 feel 8 Inches displace battery nine 6Inch rapid l fire guns Keel Inhl February 1890 Launched nient 2089 tons two propellers driven secondary battery six pound l rapid Oct 28 1891 Wont Into commission by vertical triple expansion engines fire guns two pound rapidfire guns July 201893 Now with tbo North At horse power S227 Coal capacity 310 ono Calling gun three torpedo tubes lands squadron u gagcmenU at Port Klihcr and other rebol baltcrles at the mouth of tho Cape Tear River After these events ho was transferred to tho Pawnee and suheo quently to the Catsklll On Jan It 18C3 Lieutenant Dunce was commissioned commis-sioned lieutenant commander and l In trusted with tho command of tho Dictator Dic-tator and subsequently the Ironclad l Monadnock In the assault and capture cap-ture of Morris Island July 18C3 he hid command of ono of the boats employed In landing troops on folly Island which was so successfully accomplished I that the army was In a great measure ADMIRAL DUNC15 Indebted to him Ills last sea command com-mand l was on the Atlanta For two years ho has been on shoro duty as president of mho naval college at Now porL When ho left Washington It was with sealed orders for tho Caribbean Sea fleet |