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Show chief of the bureau of navigation that the battleship fleet of 16 vessels which recently circled the globe, was assembled. assem-bled. Ills servlco to the navy wfjs largely Identified with torpedo and torpedo tor-pedo baa8; Ho was Inspector of or.I-nance or.I-nance at the naval torpedo stalioa. Newport, R. I., when smokeless powder pow-der was Introduced Into tho navy. A prominent naval officer today in speaking of Admiral Converse, declared declar-ed that his Influence in the navy bad been far reaching and that hla oarpr was In some ways without parallel, one of these being that h sfrved as head of thre Important bureaus. Admiral Converse was born In Norwich. Nor-wich. Vt In 1S44, graduated at Annapolis An-napolis in 1SC5, at tho head of hi class, and during this Spanish-American war, commanded the cruiser Montgomery, Mont-gomery, after which, previous to bcln made chief of the bureau of ooulpmfnt, he commanded the first class battleship battle-ship Illinois. REAR ADMIRAL j CONVERSE DEAD: Washington, March 29. Rear Admiral Ad-miral G. A. Converse, died at his home here tonight of uraemlc posonlng. Although Al-though placed ou the retired list several sev-eral years ago. he was in active ser-! ser-! vice at the time of his death, being president of the board of conduction |