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THE EVENING JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1910 9 Admiral P.F.Harrington Lauds Delaware's Naval Heroes

upon his tomb, 'His private character nada with such precipitation as to was no less beautiful than his public T- t "i /ÿÉ suggest the term Might, leaving be­ 2Z % * e v services were distinguished ’ The hind many valuable provisions of Student of naval warfare will find In WRC. ! I A the deliberate preparations of the ’ I he British were already in pos­ captain of the Wasp to meet the session of a pact of what is now the Frolic and her armed convoy, the ap­ ; State of Maine, and the invasion con­ A, ' proach towards an enemy of superior templated the occupation of the north­ r ^ force, and the conduct of that sanguin­ ern part of New York, with a view . /■ j j ary combat the highest proofs of pro­ is m to a re-allgnment of the frontier upon fessional competence and personal de­ the conclusion of terras of peace. r* mmm votion. The conflict was brilliant, a One year and a day before tbe battle. [-/■ m • w ./<• shining example of skill and valor, Perry’s victory on Lake Erie had se­ l ; W cured control of the upper lakes and • / but Its value is traced by Its bene­ •fj \n ’ f. ficent results, its Influence upon the ..t” freedom from hostile expeditions in jsx-. : -ip J people and effect upon the national that quarter It was Macdonough’s » *  2 iv.MWr i’rV '»I I Interests. fortune, one month after the British t had occupied Washington and burned Sp K ■ "During a quarter of a century fol­ Si ' ■ u-. lowing the close of the War of the our ca’.itol, to render a greater ser­ a mm h jk / i Revolution, the Navy had been aband­ vice to the nation, putting an end to the enemy’s northern invasion and in­ oned and at times re-established, re­ m n. luctantly and partially, under the de­ tended enlargement of territory. In i * 1. some degree the battle of Lake Cham­ Eÿ ! <4 /Jr mands and insults of the Barbary V, States and the, aggressions of the plain may well be classed as decisive. I French government. A few gallant "The war of 1812 was declared in deeds, like the capture of the In­ behalf of freedom from restrictions by < surgent by the Constellation and the England upon our sea trade and com­ it recapture and burning of the Phila­ plete relief from the assertion and V delphia. had marked the high spirit tyrantcal practice of an alleged right 1 of impressment of seamen of American of our seamen. But the policy of ADMIRAL PUHTEL F.HARRIYOTOY the administration of Jefferson and of vessels, ’fbe seamen of our navy had Madison did not include the mainten­ a personal interest in the conflict. a i ance of an efficient naval force and but few ships were kept in condition j.,, aça- «stLSt ; 40 BHSÂàX,aP,.hrmvror‘,b.'l!,' Ä“ lT. •A for active service. The British had v ships-of-the-line, frigates, sloops and British organized an army for too in- » »• j ,i <(.uink .u,. » ... va-if . tatlon and prestige which the Amer- n smaller vessels, a thousand of them. %asion of New York and in August. . N t . acaulrpd within two t Sir George Prévost marched south- .. Upon the approach of war, our gov­ ° i eh« years put an end to any later at- m •s’ ernment looked upon a contest with wardChamplain, along th*in 1 westerncommand shore of of aboutLake "" spaman haB bee , impressed fo^ the Masters of the Sea as impractic­ •V ' A ' J* able and contemplated laying up the sV tw.i&SkÂJt naval force or usipg it only to assist Crown V ôt . T,h Tirol.rteroe i P The "Congress voted to Macdonough a t in the defense of our ports It, was laf? fl nS w.» nto(Lf«rfdhv tghe a, commemorutive gold medal, and he r n S- # *> ' » upon the protest and entreaty of naval t l; was promated to the rank of captain, '£i - i lllf l tÉiii ^1 dtti * ADMIRAL SAMUEL FRAXCIS dnPOM. ish naval force on the Ldkp, under h•>fino »r„tv.. j # ,l i,n»»io 1». officers and. particularly, of Captains ____ . uAAn4nJACOB JONES. s /retiré i whJ' f 6°?16 l0ubt about tbp fate ot that try their fortune on the sea. burgy was defendedj u.by potioroiGeneral Ma-\fo land. .on LuniuGrlandc f hl Head,victory- o\erlooK**t New S. N. (retired), who made the speech vessel. Cooper’s History says that a laree oart of the oeoole were comb, with about two thousand regu- „ ' “ thL.in/.or«yAf when the portraits of Commodore John she grounded in action in the Delà- opposed to the war or indifferent to j _ J f kminorirl n,lll lOTH LTdllttfl ft MlOUSdllQ &CFP8 0Î 1(111(1 MaCcdonoughS’and0Tdm?ral S SΓ' was’captured by the TtsTrosecution. The Admlnistmion Ua uf piatttburg Bay half wav bi- and 8 8Word; and Uelaware present- lighthouse establishment, and he ! duPont was given the thanks of Con­ tween thStowJ and Cumberland Head ft/oSÄtoS Cid^unaB WM*- °" ** lmp0rt,,,1, b°ard °f gress, the highest honor to which a Macdonough and Admiral Samuel British. The records of the Navy De- mpt the crisis feeblv and failed to Francis duPont were presented to the partment Library state that she took Trfate and send to the front forces „ . eon»,«/! Drder of the Cincinnati made him loao. naval officer can attain, and. on the and about a mile from each. Corarao- an honorary member. To-day a ves- “In 1845 Commander duPont w’na 16th of July following, when the grade battleship Delaware to-day. is a na- an active part, as one of Commodore necessare to a successful camna /n thnRterrommin'rt«r,fh»ri 8el of ,he nav>’ t,Pars hls na“p His appointed to command the Congress, five Delawarean, with a long and hon- John Hazelwood's fleet, in engage- “;ce88ai7 a aucpessral ca™palgp; was established by law, he was com­ • Vi was that of a master commandant, had services are honored and hls memory flagship of Commodore Stockton. missioned as Rear Admiral In the orable record in the naval service. The ments In the Delaware river, was in \e dpclared war *e did cherished by all Americans; byname bound to the Pacific station Arrlv- portraits were painted by Clawson S action at the destruction of the British st,roJ)g . ..war So,.tb® *u,Ten j Navy. and ten galleys or gunboats. Hls small ,)as8t.s OI1 through all the future of I'1* on ,he C(,a8t of California at the “A brief consideration of the attack Hammitt of this city, and the repro- ships Augusta, of sfxty-four guns, and ?l Forts Mackinaw and Detroit and fleet was materially Inferior to that ^ur , K u u e 01 bpglnn,nR of the Mex)can War, he took ductions used herewith are from pho- Merlin, eighteen guns, October. 1777 tbe lmPofenPe and disaster of Queens- upon the Charleston forta by the under Commodore Downie; Indeed. In ■■DplawaJe ha8 )ven t th . command of the sloop-of-war Cyano, Ironclads under Admiral duPont’a tograpbs made by the Royal Studio. and, being unable to pass the British a*ld minor engagements brought free waters and under sail, the Brit- wh “ flnP 8Prvice In wai “nd ln tbat 8b,P r0»d«r0d Important command will furnish a further ex­ Admiral Harrington lb the second fortifications below Philadelphia, she fbe land campaign of 1812 to an end Ish frigate Confiance would have “y ™ b f ”ecord ln ,hP Nnvv aprvlces throughout the war Partlc- position of hls ability and character. v ; son of Samuel Maxwell Harrington, was set on fire, to prevent capture by °* humiliation and gloom, velsVsT Ur AmeriCa,‘ Gepnrtnienl. There were Com^odore t^e at“ “Sullivan’s Island stretches north­ late chancellor of this State, and was 1116 enemy, November 19, 1777. ‘ Some beams of radiance and cheer ward and eastward from the entrance born at Dover, June 6. 1844. At the age ‘ The second Delaware was a sloop- Illumined the sea horizon. The capture ’’The necessity attending Prevosfs B°hN0nesG1^sjf^geoi^vnmim'johnaon ‘ftck upon 8nd capture of Mttla,lan ,n to Charleston harbor, On the other of 17 years he entered the United of'war of twenty guns, commanded by °f the Guerrlere by the Constituting, advance was British control of the . .o 1847. and to bis work at San Jose in side Morris Island reaches southward, States Naval Academy and was gradu- Stephen Decatur, father of the famous *be Macedonian by the 1 nlted Lake. The American naval force must „emhered hv n,fP .bfi”e8 ,!.* be r,®‘ 1848, where he landed with a hundred and the main ship channel In 1863 ated September, 1863, third in a class commodore of that name. In June, States and the Java by the Constitu- be captured or destroyed Macdon- J? , ‘ y 08r ow, c,,l*ena I'1 men and marching against a Mexican ran parallel with that shore until of 30 members, having accomplished near the Delaware capes, she tlon, under a new captain, proved the ough ohose the battleground and ““e. of p«“?’,the. l,f0 of ? ”aVal °® force three times as large, he rellev- nearly up with Sullivan’s Island, the regular course of four years In half took L* Crozable, the first capture of superiority of American gunnery; but, made his plans with regard to *8 l)aasPd ‘j1 routine duties, gain- ed thp gallant Heywood. where It turned westward towards the of that time. tbe French naval war. She took other in those actions, the American that necessity; and the forma- ‘“K *rom experience and study fltjiess .lieutenant and in March, h"s haid is preserved a?°the Naval the country, the victory of the Wasp both sides, but none more than the “There are many In Delaware, who p,ana ^“XSÎber” a« flaa nffl™rs^Of ' IngVot'would be held under th.- guns 1868, tç that of lieutenant commander. Academy preBened at Na a‘ was hailed with exultation. The spirit endurance of - Macdonough, twice knew Admiral duPont, and many llv- X^J^th Äflc ^uädron and üf of the forts. From 1868 to 1870, Lieutenant Com­ ’’Fourth vessel a small side-wheel of the people rose, hope and con- struck, once unconscious and ones l„g officer« of the Navy served under "a ld „f ,hP naval pari of tbe ' "For the attack duPont had under mander Harrington was at tbe Naval sfeamer. prominently and most credit- fldence returned, and preparations for again momenurily disabled but re- hls comtpand Older officers, hls as- ' , „JPdltlon against the forts at l.ls command the ironclads New Iron- Academy as assistant professor of mathematics and subsequently from ablv engaged In operations on the 1 the campaign of the next year were turning to the fight, alert, resource- sociales, who have passed away, hand- i, t R‘ ( j 8ldpB (flag ship) and Keokuk and 1873 to 1876, as instructor in astron­ sounds of North Carolina during the made with greater energy and de- fui and determined The course of the ed down to their successors recollec- „Thp 'xpedlflon hnd been prepared | seven monitors, mounting twenty-five omy. navigation and bydrogapbic sur­ Civil War She was the flagship of ; termination. war on Lake Champlain and the bat- lions of service with their commander gpcr8,|y< ypf (he Confederates had re-I guns la all, counting one broadside veying. ’ In the interval between the Captain Rowan, afterward vlce-ad- i "The size and force of the Wasp °f September 11, 1814, placed Mac- and friend. Me can gather clear Im-Jcejved ampiP notice of Its destination, only of the New Ironsides. Of tthese academic employments he served as mirai. In many Important expeditions. h - d . frieate yet the . 1 :r.av --■■■j i t_=_ Fort Walker, on Hilton Head, and guns ono-thlrd were of IB Inch« and executive officer on board the Pensa­ Shertwas sold after the war J ^ # vlctory was lnferior to none, and Fort Besuregard, _op_ Bay_Polnt. Port the remainder 11 inches calibre, shell cola. flagship of the South Pacific squadron. In May, 1873, he commanded the Navy during the Civil War. was p°“*a. By.aa ralJktfd’Haf, ^eratu'^and /^?PT' T ">1 !» 'Zt armed with heavy guns and well ,.The problem of successful attack the naval battalion at Panama, during renamed Delaware imd did good ser- a"d 1 ’ rnnfprrPd on » -.-j£manned; but how well armed duPont yed to b(1 diffprent from that at the revolution there, and preserved vice as flagship of Admiral Rowan on ßalnbrldg . g • prised the regular naval vessels. Ma- forts Jn rPar, it differed also the thanks of the commander-ln-chlef caved and passed from the Navy Hat. promoted to the rank ot , v • _ -'/id hash and Susquehanna . ml a few gun- conditions In the Mississippi and of the president of the State of To-day we stand on the quarter Legislature ot Delaware took ttPfl ‘ | boats, together with some purchased Mobile Bay where the ob- Panama In 1877 he went to Brazil in deck of a ssxth vessel of the name, a Prlate action In bis honor an gate vessels vulnerable as paper to the • •_ • , ,,,, ll0, fully close the pass- batUeshlp, the finest of all. It Is not him a service of silver. n'p rin of smallest projectiles Fallu-e entailed «n* w| thp attnPk w:18 made at the flagship Hartford, on which vessel to the weapon, hut chiefly to the m»n New ^ ork bestowed a sw ord and h j.'I serious results, a disheartening Influ- „ wa8 found that tbs he occupied for three years the diffi­ cult position of executive officer, and who use it that we must look for its treedom of the city Philadelphia pr ^ Pn<’<’ np0n ’h°. 1 n ?,? peop P n, rpad^ fnrI„ silenced before the oh- for more than a year performed the place in history In this hour of sented a silver urn The Order of fH depressed by the military disasters of on* could be removed sufficient- gratification that the name of Dels- the Cincinnati made him an honorary | ,br yPnr- a bplp ,f! ^'a^,|,,8 ln forP*Kn 8 ( enter the harbor, duties of captain and chief of staff. Im­ ware is Joined to the most potential member. M’herever he went he was i i countries, who designed a recognition ’> duPont hid made ample posed upon him by the Illness and agent of peace and, in the last re- received w ith grateful attentions M of the Southern Confeden cy and h“ death of the late Captain Henry A. Adams. Upon hls return to the United wareanselwh06e>fcharacter^anï ?^eds Delîw.rean, ‘° ThomT.“'Macdonough. ^fWÊÊÊÊÊÊt \ yiJ courage'«'« a'S" apTeclaUon"ol So^M^sTan^XYterward.MLhrs.. States. In the spring of 1880, Com­ K'Sä’äs;»t*™“...... /ÊSÊÊÊêmMm xsütt^Trissi. AÙirvuusing one mander Harrington was employed as head of the department of astronomy, supplied' much toward the efficiency w t'o was born on December -o. I '83- 'i mJ fl the impending danger and an entire Tbo Admiral reached the conviction, navigation and surveying at the Naval of the Navy and the fame of its ships, a* 'ho Trap, now known as Ms- don- . willingness to meet |t. That high bugerly from the results of the at- Academy at Annapolis and In the com­ Honor for Statt Hernes ough, in New Castle County, and. a f - jf >,m courage springs from training, from tacks on Fort McAllister and examln- mand of the practice ship for cadets The Delaware Society United the age of sixteen 'ears, was ap- i'-WÊ a sense of responsibility, from long atton 0f the forts at the entrance of In May, 1881, he was commissioned Danghters of 1812 will present to the pointe,1 a Midshipman in 'he Navy. \,JMk contemplation of duty, until it rises r)larl. ston, that the works could be commander In the navy. battleship Delaware a portrait of Februar' 5. IvV ’JA Into self-devotion and enables a man rPducpd and Charleston taken only by Commander Harrington was In com­ Commodore Jacob Jones. The Delà- "Macdonough server) on hoard the ’ ,\1 ,n approach calmly a supreme mo- jotIlt operations of the Army and mand of the Juniata in East Indies and ware Society of the Colone] Dames of Philadelphia, but hv his absence In a ment in hls country s need and he sjavy He recommended to the gov- China, 1883-6; Head of Department of America, on» of Commodore Thomas pr(z,. P8caped e ip'ure by the Tripoli- U crisis of hls own life Hav ng^ mad ernment that a large force of the Seamanship and Naval Architecture j Mat.donough, and Mrs Amy F duPont fans Joining 'he Enterprise, he 1 »n.'jfl U1« pl.tns and ssued his ord 's du- Arm>. b(. piarpd on James Island, west and Commandant of Midshipmen. Na­ i one of Admiral Samuel Francis du- ’ thr friendship of Decatur, under | k Font led hls columns Int Fort R yal of Murrig island, from which posi- val Academy. 1887-9; Light House In­ Pont Under the commands of the wh command he took part in the *«• hay, on Nov ember *• 18’1- h,B lbp Hon artillery could attack the fort* spector, 1890-3; command of York­ donors. 1 beg to submit brief remarks b ’ , ot the Philadelphia, of which ^>iE composed a',d .yeapon8'v L. . h in rear, when the fleet could remove town, 1894; President of Steel Board, upon the services of those Illustrious I I fl ifb«Ä’ü cr^.°i 1895; promoted to captain. 1895; com- 'and of Terror. 1896-7; command of iritan, in charge of blockade ot 1768. on a farm near Smyrna, in Kent '.VXd" *Vw as In a Yunho-P with nine best vessel, led by t'he flagship had discovered the same tauzas and Cardquas. J898; captain county. Delaware. He married and w hen the' boarded a gun- V-M '„ Hmon Head Yhe other 'fl'-e light weakness, reported it and asked for he yard. Navy Yard. Portsmouth. N. practiced medicine and surgery in his P®ca,ur’ h lv nnd found Its crew l ii ^« „„«n Fort Beauregard additional regiments at about the time . 1899-1901 ; captain of the yard. New native county. Soon after the death ^' rld nr v. d of an open ha-ch • TI röTdnrste flo, u in duPont’s view had marked the road (Ork, 1902; promoted to Rear Ad­ of his Wife having no children, he gathered for . onP sldP . Æ and F*pp ,hp C' formerU r in success Had the plan been adopt- miral. 1903: Commandant Naval Sta­ tion and Fifth Naval District, Norfolk. -| jääkä Va.. 1903. t He was retired under the statute for James age and after 46 years’ service in 1906, and was representative of the Navy Department at the Jamestown Exposi­ SKÄä: » SÄ'Sä { Wh% ’g-Ï. L• V J STZSSZ “Î SÄ-jÄi'Ä tion 1906-8. Has the medals for ser­ s.Äo.rÄu«ÄT,,?;.ss wassku*i*^^sr-sras^irisrs vice. issued under the act of Congress, for the Civil War and the War against Spain He is commander of the New N2“î'*îvl‘râd H. «Slt'pbUrtl? ,”“4o,,0',eh """ lOJOHIDORF THOMAS MACDOSOCBH. rtlîb'ÎJStîltiî’toS »“K ““o»°a Atolîïï'dïîwi U»ï rlpomd hl. W- York Commandery of the Naval and i'sT- LtWm.* ïîâts , risrr* “,ore' h t Military Order of the Spanish-Ameri- can War, and retains hls citizenship in wine cemeterv beneath a monument Macdonough was Informed, ln don ough ln the Hat of great naval pressions of hls person and character tlon as the flag officer successively -The Admiral’» order for the attack Delaware unbroken. rrected bv hls natlve state »h^ Ihsencs This Commander, that a commanders. , »nd supplement the record of history ! lightened the minor axis and each dtrected the fleet to pass through the Admiral Harrington’s Speech. “Jones was Second Lieutenant of ,.hore from a British frigate “Gentlemen Keep Your Swords.” by the estimates of hls professional time drew nearer to tbe forts. The pntrance and fire upon the northweat Admiral Harrington in his presenta­ *h» frieate Philadelphia when she v a imnr«tod one of the seamen of There must have been many pleas- brethren, the surest measure of the broadsides of the frigate Wabash and or jnner face ,ot Sumter. In that tion speech said. Itlok «non a shoal and was taken ^merchant vessel. Mac- mg traits In Macdonough’s character man 1 vessels of the column, all firing shell. po#ltlcm the fleet could assail Sumter “Delaware has an honorable dis­ by thke Tripolitans. October 31. 1803 dono^lTpursued and, overhauling the His kindly toast. To the memory of -Born at Bergen Point, New Jersey, were effective, and ina little less than [n lhe rear. flank all the forta on Sul- tinction In the history of the Navy. .nd ha remained a prisoner until .. iLv hi took the man. The 1 Commodore Downie, our brave enemy, September 27. 1803, whence hls father. four hours the Confederates abandon- u > l8i&I1(i and pe screened from The name appears In the seaservlce of liberated'fiy the rteaty of June 3 S'nTRin of the BrYish man-of-war de-1 hls words upon the surrender of the 800n rpmoved and fixed hls residence ad Fort Walker and duPont took pos- flre o{ ^ on Morris Island, the first lasting occupation ot our liberated By tne treaty ot June i. Captain of the mn» (he man and ! vanquished captains, ‘Gentlemen, keep am0ng hls relatives on the banks of session. Later on the same day ‘he 1 Accordln.ly. on the afternoon ot April land by English people. For. when 1 who« the United States declared maj?v,«ot. of force, to which Mac- your swords, you are wortljy to w»j the Brandywine, duPont was appoint-1 other fort fell Into hla hands. _ .gg3 tbe fleat 0( nme vessels the falling remnant of the original war against Great Britain June 18 S***1 renlied that he would hold them,’ hls teider care of the wounded ed a midshipman In the Navy on De- “The tactical method used was Its ’BCend4d the main channel, the flag settlers sailed for England, they were SS Jones e Master Commandant’ fl mfn as long as t ehSyren floated 1 and honors he paid to the killed at- cember 19. P18i5. at the age of 12 1 first practical demonstration and du- ^“„the center of the column. The met at the mouth of the James river coiwRsnondlng to the present rank of iat®years, Macdonough test hls generosity and humane con- years. During the long period subs;- Pont fixed the tactics which vu Wpphawke„ iPbrig for tbe on Lake Champlain in the capture on the Mediterranean station, in the “The victory gave the Union the beat c°ud v?°’v<,..Pfdrew near th« line of “In the Delaware river, about nd Tn Oc ÄVSÄiL* ?a9BafVantPs anddfed^at set. Novem- of one frigate, one brigand two congress on the West Indian and harbor oltlM coast below the Cheaa- when^m.”*^^*0* Burnt* Christmas, 1776, there was hoisted on 8bp da vs ^Yer southward anf east w^o 1826 at the age of forty-one sloops-of-war of the enemy.’ Hls per- Brazil station, in the North Carolina peake. Coaling and supply stations °b,^“Cuf11t°rie. Rodgers saw that tbe board the Alfred, by the hands of Fite days later, sont narrt and east- ber 10, 18J». ^ Middletown sonal attentions to the captured #nd Ontario In the Mediterranean, in and repair shops were established h> ’ ln,practlcabl*, »nd ^ John Paul Jones, the first ensign ever ward °f the Delaware capes the IVasp years. HIa.remains lie rtMUMUU>wn from ^ a grate{ul ,,ttçr ^ Warren and ConstelaUon In the there, and from It as a base duPont I«««0 the U*U «d shown by a regular American man-of- overhauled and “ptuhred tb0 ®yltl8k Connecticut, country and of thanks; and. upon hls relinquish- Gulf of Mexico, and again In the enlarged and closed the blockade and aJ°§ped„h attack there wltiUn.*^ war. ^ cruiser Frolic. On the same day the cords b s services to^ms u h|g comraand, hls o*vn officers and Mediterranean on board the Ohio. He directed the numerous expeditions of made at ^ enajny, run*. ^J“0 “At the .mouth of the Delaware,. on April 8. 1782, was fought that re­ markable action between the Hyderal- ly and the British crulaer General ä rxtars fSSHsr SiSHB S-I ttSrS&Sw« Sä HrifÄ % war. XYnreoaratlon and organization of n capture of the British squadron, Sir source, must he ascribed the profes- se8a. it8.^t1f- a“dwbo tere Mostlfe to pierce the ob.8truPti0“Lnn«L the fis a Monk. “Commodore Jones held the friend­ “The name has always been a fav­ ship of his associates in the navy and orite In the Navy. The first Delaware was a sloop-of-war of twenty-four of the public men of hls native State. guns, built at Philadelphia under a The foundation upon which was fixed resolution of the Continental Con- the esteem of the people Is well P the time of the Civil War 1 Ing night, he retreated towards Ca- report a plan ot reorgaaizauuu u* «ress. dated December 13. 1776. There epitomized in a sentence engraved ‘down to I

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