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20 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY Os the many interesting fea tures of HEARST S MAGAZINE none has been more eagerly awaited, from a historical point of view, than Admiral Dewey's Autobiography. The following excerpts are from the instalments in the Octo ber number, now on sale at the news stands. A FTER the battle of Pon Hud son. I had a radi< al change of occupation As prize < otn nis sloner at New Orleans I had to ad judicate controversies concerning ®®rgo captured on blockade, and. when I had declared it legitimate prize, to sell it for the government. My service as prize commission er was relatively /bi .es. Summer found me back on the river as ex ecutive officer on the sloop Monon gahela, stationed below Port Hudson, under my old Captain Mela net hon Smith, for a short time, until he was ordered north and Captain Ab ner Read took command. As the Hartford was aboVe Port Hudson. Farragut made the Monon gahela his flagship when he was looking after operations on the lower reaches of the river. He lived mostly on deck and naturally at such close quarters that I saw a groat deal of him Not For Red Tape. He was not given to paper work" or red tape, by which 1 mean length? written detail in hi- con duct of operations. I remember the simplicity of his methods, par ticularly in contrast with those of another admiral with less respon sibility, who could not get along w ithout a force of clerks. I here was a saying that his principal place for filing paper- was hi- own coat pocket His was the supreme gift of directness and simplicity* in great affairs so valuable In time of war. Generally he wrote bls orders himself, perhaps with his knee or the ship's rail as a test. I retail ‘hat one day when lie was writing up and said "Now. how In the devil do you spell Apalachicola? Some of these educated young fellows from An napolis must know!" A man who had such an Impor tant command could hardly have been more democratic. One night 1 had given orders for a thorough cleaning of the ship on the next morning I was awake very early, for it was stlflingly hot. Five o'clock came and 1 heard no sound of the holystones on the deck. So I went above to find out why my orders were not obeyed, and my frame of mind for the moment was entirely that of the disciplinarian There was no activity at all on deck. I looked around for the offi cer of the deck. He was an old New England whaler, brown as a buccaneer, who had enlisted for the war from the merchant service I recollect that he wore small gold rings in his ears, a custom with gome of the old-fashioned merchant sailors who had traveled (he world over 1 found him seated up in the hammock netting where it was cool, with Farragut at his side. Sitting With Farragut. ■ Why aren't you cleaning ship ’" I asked "I think I am to blame." said Far ragut, with his pleasant smile. "We two veterans have been swapping yarns about sailing ship days' As a rule, no captain or executive officer likes having his ship the flagship of a commander-in-chief Put Farragut was so simple in Ills I" " ■ ■ —— "■ ' ■— ■ ■' HALL CAINE’S GREAT NEW NOVEL “THE WOMAN THOU GA VEST ME,” IN HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER Among other interesting articles are: “More Standard Oil Letters” and Mr. Hearst’s answer to Senator Penrose; "Captain Kid in W all Street,” by George Randolph Chester, illustrated by Christy; “ Ihe Builder of the Big Fair,” by Richard oung; “Politics and Justice in An cient Rome, by the famous historian Guglielmo Ferrero; “I he Inside of the Cup,’ Winston Churchill's stirring novel, illustrated by Flagg; “W hy 1 Became a Socialist,'' by the Countess of W arwick, and reviews of books, art, finance and politics by the ablest writers. Now on sale at the news stands f ’—MAGAZINE SECTION. From Hearst’s Magazine for October manners and so free front the ex- [ , actions due to official tank that he was most welcome, crowded as our f i|...titers were. t Being a < mnpanionable man. he i liked company, even when he was under tire. 1 recall a certain after noon when Im announced that he > was going in his little steam tender to have a look at the Port Hudson ‘ battetl-s First, he asked Captain Thornton A. Jenkins, hl- chief of staff, if he would not like to come along The captain begged to be excused. Then he asked Captain Smith, who also begged to he ex cused Neither saw any purpose in an interruption of his duties to make a trip in the heat in order to b< shot at. But Farragut was not going alone. H” clapped me on the shoulfler and said: “Come along, youngster!" which was equivalent to a command to one of my rank. As I went over the side. Captain Jenkins said to me: "Did you ever know a man before who always had a hoe buzzing in his ear?" We went up-into the tango of the batteries and drew their fire. But s' ' i f s's' '' I // // V -< \ \ // f NX // > r ’ \\ / / M ‘ " fit" \ / z \\ \\ JI ~l\ wA\ / ~ Jll KJ A I ' \ I J 'T'.if. Ji ft. A : , . > \ 1 - . --z'/ /A Ijha M.' * * -»■ N-X- Juki Dewet as lieutenant-commander at the age of twenty-eight; was executive officer of the Kear sarge when the war ended. as we steamed rapidly and 1n a zigzag course we were not hit. Meanwhile. Farragut seemed to be having the best kind "f a doubt he got the information that lie wanted. It was while serving on the Mon ongahela that I had the closest call in my career We were steaming up the river escorting a small gun- > boat with ammunition for Banks’ army. As I have previously men tioned, all that a held battery had to do in order to have a little prac tice against a Union man-of-war was to cut embrasures for their guns in the levee and let drive. The levee furnished both an excellent screen and excellent protection. In fact, the gunners used these embrasures with much the effect of the modern disappearing gun They ran the muzzle through the open ing when they wanted to fit e and then drew it back out of sight for loading, with' neither themselves nor the gun a| all exposed, while mu shots would either be buried in the levee walls or whistle harm-- lessly overhead. Rut a man-of-war was a big target, and a single shot striking in a vital part might do great damage When a field butte; y. hidden in the fashion I have descrlljed, un expectedly opened on the Monon gahela at close range In the vicinity of Donnelsonvllle. Captain Jenkins. Farragut s chief of staff, who was aboard, thought that the only thing to do was to get out of range at full speed. This did seem the part wisdom Certainly our expe- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1912. I w r I ■ ' .MB ' ■ ''ZU rience proved that it was for poor Read. He paid the penalty for tak ing a tontrary view. Slowed the Boat. "1 have never run from any rebel yet." Read declared, "and I'm not going to inn now." So he slowed the Monongahela down to engage the battery. He and Captain Jenkins aad myself were standing near one another on the quarter deck and we had tired only a few shots when there was a blinding flash in my eyes. I felt the stunning effect of the concus sion of an exploding shell—which always raises the question of whether you will be alive or dead the next second. However, I realized that I was unhurt, anti as the air cleared ami 1 was once mote standing solidly on my feet, with full possession of my faculties, I saw Read prostrate on the deck, his clothing badly torn and blood pouring from several places Jenkins was also down. It was clear that the com mand of Hie ship had devolved upon me. so I gave the order, "Full speed aheadl" The .Monongahela being very fuel for a ship of her time was soon out of range of the ba 11 ertes. Captain Read had been mortally wounded and died th'' next day. While t’aptain Jenkins had been wounded slightly, but in a curious way The shell had exploded at a point in the ship's side where a rack of cutlasses was located, and had hurled fragments of cutlass in all directions. Although our station on the quarter deck was some distance from the point of explosion, a cut lass blade (about half length) nad struck Captain Jenkins' leg with such force as to knock him down. That nothing worse than a bruise resulted was due to the fact that the blade struck fairly with its flat surface. Had the edge been turned a se: ious injury would have been inflicted. When we examined the spread of the shell by the places where the fragments had struck, it was inex plicable how I had ever escaped without a scratch. It almost made me believe in luck. For that mat ter. any one who has seen much fighting becomes a fatalist. Evi dently my time had not yet come With the taking of Vicksburg In July, Port Hudson fell in conse quence. At last President Lincoln had his wish. The Mississippi "flowed unvexed to the sea." There was no longer the need of any large naval force on the river. I w r as transferred to the Brooklyn, Cap tain Emmons, which had been or dered North. Do You Know— t Portugal digs less coal than any other European country Her total product of coal is only- 22.000 tons a year. New South Wales digs yearl just twice as much coal as all Spain produces. A remarkable instance of red tape I on the part of railway officials has oc- I eurred on the Hungarian State rail- d ways near Neutra. While a train was passing across the bridge over th- Waag liver a passenger saw a boat keel uppermost and a man struggling n i« watei below. He stopped the t'a n >v pulling the cord, jumped into the river, and brought the dtowning man safely to the bank He then cut " 'i’cdiv re 1 "’ a *? a . in a, ‘ d tnthuTt ee swh , V *’ d . by his Passen- a '>'"‘ d " ,,h eaeh other hi offer ever hl "° ,hp!i Th *“ <uard. how eyi. was not sympathetic, and when i'*' reach, d Neutra the life saver as es.e (l tor having pulled the cord «hen no one in thejrain was in danger. English silvei plate has on it four it's First, the initials of it makei. second, the mark of the "‘the lion fne,j the -'ereign's mark ' , In|l , ' fou,th - a letter denoting the Saved By His Wife. bhe s a w is-, woman who knows just . what tl , do when hn husband's life is ' in danger, but Mrs, R. J F i int tree, \t . is of that kind. "She insisted on my using Dr King's New Discov ery. writes Mr. F. for a dreadful lougn. when I was so weak my friends all thought 1 had only a short time to live, and it completely cured me." 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