Evening star

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of shore duty in the office of naval intelligence

at Washington In 1S97 he

attended the queen's jubilee in England

as a lieutenant of the Brooklyn.

In August of that year he was sent out

to the Pacific coast as an officer of the

little gunboat Marietta?the same Marietta,

by the way. that now forms part

of his squadron in Haiti.

The opening of the Spanish-American

war found the Marietta cruising off the

west coast of Central America She

was dispatched at once for the Atlantic,

via tljp Straits of Magellan, as advance

agent for the Oregon, her duty being

to provide for a coal supply for the big

flcbter at the various norts

June 4 the Marietta reached Key

West, after three months of continuous

steaming and after traveling 13,000

miles. Her performances were really

quite as remarkable as those of the

Oregon, but were lost sight of at the

moment. Too small to be an effective

craft for the battle.line, the Marietta

did not take part in the battle of Santiago,

being at Key West as a dispatch

boat at the time.

In 1899, following the war. Admiral

Caperton. then a lieutenant commander,

was put on duty at the navy gun factory

in Washington as inspector of

ordnance. From 1901 to 1904 he was on

the Prairie, cruising in West Indian

waters and getting acquainted with the

rery sort of a situation he is now handling.

A year at the Naval War College

at Newport, three years as inspector

of lighthouses, and then a long

cruise to China, via Sues, followed He

took the Denver out to the orient, and

then brought back the Maine from Manila,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1915). Washington, D.C., 1915-10-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1915-10-03/ed-1/?sp=50

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1915-10-03.