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txtmm&iMMut — d . r >11 ii ihy \ ta STAR AND WAVE PUB. CO. w Cfaeeeperstod) m CAPE MAY. NEW JERSEY 0, JL LEON EWINC . . . Mauager p ■>. ■t.-CRIPTlON PRICE $L50 PER JJ YSAR IN ADVANCE u This paper is entered at the pert- u affice ma aecand-daaa postal matter. 1 TOEiSSER^^^yS^lATTpN | b Publishing a communication in y theae columns does not necessarily f, Amply editorial endorsement. e Conunun'cations will not be con- ^ idde-H -nless signed. ^ RAISED ADMIRAL FARRAGITTS a FIRST FLAG v t The following letter is published { for the benefit of Captain Eli D. Ed- a round's many friends in Cape May j County. Besides the Captain Ed- r nuind's naval record, The Star and f Wave is prowd of the fact that he has j been a reader of this publication since c its first edition. <j Ambler, Pa., June 30th, 1920. r Chief of the Bureau of Navigation t and Detail, i Washington, D. C. I Sir:- c • I am submitting herewith, a j statementof services and some inci- ^ dents connected therewith, which may e not be quite correct as to dates, as I i have no diary with which to refresh J my memory; but I believe are suffi- t ciently approximate to warrant J5 p sonr-h of recordsmen the Bureau of ( Navigation, and also in the State De- ( partment, at Washington, D. C. < I served in the U. S. Navy as an , Volunteer officer from September 9th, ( 1862 until Sept 9th, 1868. I served as , match and division officer on the U. S. ] Steamer "Don" Flagship of the Potomac Flotilla, Commander, Foxhall A. Parker, U. S. N., Com'dg., lieutenant Commander, Thomas H. Eastman, D. S. N. Commanding -the ship, from ■ October, 1864 to June 1885. In Janu- .... - un » Ki. 1

«y, the was detailed — <he Navy Department to convey the Honorable Montgomery Blair ^ on a < supposed) peace mission from President Lincoln to the Honorable Jef- _ fereon Davis, at Richmond, Va., via ■ the Potomac River, Chesapeak Bay J and James River, passing through the _ ftnmi under a flag of truce at Harri- ■ son's Landing- After landing Com- | arissioner Blair, we dropped down the _ fiver and came to anchor off City ■ Point, While there, we received or- | ders to convey Admiral (or Vice) D. mm G. Farragut, (who at that time was ■ in conference with General U. S. | Grant) to Washington, D- C. Admir- ■ al Farragut came, on board our ship ■ after midnight. Acting Ensign, John | 3. Brice, U. S. N.) had -the midnight ■ watch. 1 relieved him at 4 A. M. am? "was in charge of the deck until 8 A. M. | Upon reporting Brice he gave me g verbal ordeis (^hich were also en- _ tered on the log slate) as follows, I "Edmunds, we have on board Admiral | Farragut, the orders are to get under- • weigh at daylight and to iprooeed with ■ all possible dispatch to Washington | via James River, Chesapeak Bay and ■ Potomac River. Yoy are to hoist the ■ Admiral's flag at sunrise." He also' | stated that as we had no flag in the ■ flag locker corresponding to the Ad- ■ jniral's rank, that our signal quarter- | master, Richard Dreit by name, who ■ bad been in the U. S. Navy some _ twenty-five or thirty years, had been I r op during the middle watch making J the flag from spare bunting, carried a fn the locker. ~ At daylight, in obidence to orders, | we got underweigh, at sunrise the | quartermaster on duty, bent on the _ flag to the signal halliard and 1 hoist- J «d the flag. The Quartermaster guid- I fag the flag up through the rigging on the mainmast My belief, is that Ad- I miral (or Vice) Farragut, received | notification of his promotion while at _ City Point, whiflfci accounts for the I "Don" not having a teg in the locker J corresponding to his rank. Had he ■ been promoted sometime previously ■ we , certainly would have had a flag | of his rank, as the "Don" was a flag- ■ chip. It will be quite easy to fixthe ' date of Rear' Admiral Fe rragut's pro- | motions to Vice Admiral and Admiral. ■ If either of the above promotions cor- J respond to the (fate of Admiral Far- | ragut's arrival on the "Don" at City | Point, I very humbly, ctaum to have been the first person in the U. S. Navf | ' to have had the distinguished honor | of hoisting such a flag in the U. S. . Navy. I would state for the informa- I tion of the Bureau, that we carried | the Honorable Montgomery Blair to ■ Richmond twice and I am not certain " on which occasion we received Ad- | miral Farragut on board the "Don." < As a further means of fixing the date J curately. I would state for the infor- | mation of the Bureau, we were not

•Me fa reach Washington via the Potomic fever mCaot of It being by ice, and we are tarred fa back and proceed to Annapolis, S where we landed the Admiral between sunset and dark. I was detailed as the o officer in charge of the barge. I sup- tl Commissioner Blair was acting ii under instructions from the State De- tl partment, and the date of his mission" to Richmond, Va., can easily be ob- tl tained from the State Department. a I am fully aware all the dates giv- 3 en are quite indefinite, but it is the o host I can do, dhd I am writing from \ memory alone, which at my eighty t years of age, is becoming misty and l: somewhat like the weather I n encountered in the North Pacific 2 Ocean, while in command of the U. S. I Survey Schooner " Win. fc. Marcy" c during the years 1866, 1867 and 1868 } on the coasts of California, Oregon j and Washington Territory. I would j respectfully ask if any, or all of t the above statements can be verified the log of the' "Don", or from ^ any other records in possession of the j or Navy Department. I fully 1 realize that I am asking a good deal ] the Bureau for which I have no t right, my only excuse is, six* yeans t of faithful service in the U. S- Navy, all of which time I never received a reprimand of any kind. If supfK>sed claims can be substantiated by any date in possession of the ] Navy Department, it will be an honor • I am anxious to leave to my . two . daughters, if borne out by facts, if not desire to set up on fictitious claims whatever. During my six years of . serve ice, I served under "Acting Rear : Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, Rear ' Admiral David D. Porter and Com- I mander Foxhall A. Parker. During my service in the Pacific Ocean, in ! command of the Coast Survey Schoon- : "W. L. Marcy." I had an independent command, but reported with my ship every three months to -Commodore David M. Dougal, Comdt of the Yard , at Mare Island for supplies. I am Sir, Very respectfully yours, (Signed) ELI D. E1DMUNDS, Late Acting Master, U. S. Navy. 707 Forrest Avenue.

NAVY DEPARTMENT I BUREAU OF NAVIGATION « WASHINGTON, D. C. . In reply to your communication of June 80, 19», you are advised that Bureau has made a very careful I investigation of the assertion made The records of the Bureau show the late Admiral Farragut was appointed Vice- Admiral on DeceaAer 1864 and inasmuch as the records | of the War Department show that 1 Vice Admiral Farragut "left Washing- ' for the James River, via Aimap- ' on December 25, 1864 and re- ( mamed in that vicinity until January , 1865 when he went on board the ] DON, it would appear that, as I claimed, you were the first officer to ' have the honor of raising his flag as J Vice- Admiral, as the logs show a«t| you- were on duty as Watch Officer at that time. . 1 For your information you are advised that Mr. Blair who was appointed a representative to the Confederate Government was Francis Preston Blair, sr., and not Montgomery Blair who was then acting Postmaster General. By direction of Chief or Bureau, Very truly yours, D. B. Beery. lieutenant-Commander, U. S. N. ! Mr, Eli D. Edmunds, ' Forest Avenue, > Ambler, Pa. Captain Eli Downs Edmunds, married at Philadelphia, 14 April, 1866, Lydia Jane Crowell, who was born at Philadelphia, 10 March, 1842, died at Philadelphia, February, 1905. Lydia ' Jane Crowell was a descendant of the 1 Pilgrim, John Howland; her ancestry leading bade through the successive generations as follows: ' Lydia Jane Crowell, Hannah Matt- | hews, Eleanor Hughes, Ellis Hughes, : Hannah Gorham, Desire Howland, John Howland, the Pilgrim. We washed the glass in our front' office door this morning and one of • our boy friends tried to stick his hand through the opening.

EDCMSSWMM6 1 WAR ON DISEASE ' ,p Efchtan Health Centers Estab- j 1 lished in Atlantic DMsion•Much Educational Work Carried On. • UBTiM_un. \" Substantial headway has been made I by the Red Oroes chapters In New York. New Jersey sad Connecticut la * the health program of the 1 organisation -since the work was 'start- J ad in the Atlantic Division sbont nine ; months ago. according to reports fast ^ compiled at Division Headquarters, York city. Eighteen Bed Cross j centers, the establishment of I; which throughout the country is one ]* of the Important feat urea of the na- it tlonal program, are already In opera- ' < tion in the three etatea, twelve In New ( York, four In New Jersey and two In ' Connecticut Twenty -one more are In. t process of organization. « During th"» period named the Red j, Cross has also assisted In the organ- ' lsation of nine health weeks, nine In- ' fant welfare clinics and four tnber- , culosis clinics, while 1.740 students ; _ divided Into eighty-three classes have ' received first aid Instruction. Noon < hour health talks at 126 factories In , New York city and vicinity was one of the most Interesting features of the ! summer's work. Swimming and llfo : saving Instruction, long one of the , chief activities in the Atlantic Division. were given to more than 40.000 1 persons. Red Croea Instructors visiting i about one hundred places In the three ( states for the purpose of teaching end preaching' water safety. Upwards of ; , 400 demonstrations were given by these •. ■ r pert swimmers t The establishment of first aid stations at state and county fairs and 1 other points where large crowds aa- • aembled proved to be a practical and ' highly appreciated aorvlce. • Speakers : from the division headquarters discussed the Red Cross health program at Columbia University. Syracuse University. Chautauqua Institute and at ' the gatherings of many health sad wel- ■ fare organizations. Home brew motto: Jug not that ye t' be not jugged. 1 A muie makes no progress when it is kicking. Neither does a human.

Iba reMly ofkfafa workman is mrt ■gmmg fa be hurt by the i—djasfamfa | of industrial conditions. But what '.is going to happen to the four-flashing ; pay-day sponge is enough is enough j to make the angels weep. J Corn is now so cheap and labor so 'high that the farmers have to give their eomhuskers all their corn as part for husking it.

Sm year pesatias a mi fwr Mrs -r— '.ttt . There we eld ha eery Utile fcttkiaR on a ait in the wage of ata. — It may take a doctor's preeerlptisn ^ before lung to obtain a -yeast cake. t Many a campaign cigar leans another role at Christmas. —

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1 r cox's 1 1 I [NEW PALACE I g : FOOT OF WASHINGTON STREET : ^ |W MONDAY, JANUARY Sth X X Grace Darmond in § "The Invisable Divorce" § y£ BY LEILA BURTON WELLS X V Despite the fact that legal divorces seem to be fa style these V days, there's one form of divorce which although existing in O A plenty, we see or hear little of — that's the invisible divorce. ft V Hundreds of our patrons who have seen parts of or its A Q entirity— RUTH OF THE ROCKIES— will be anxious V ft to see chapter 15, the final episode. w S TUESDAY, JANUARY Uth l V ft ONE PERFORM ANCE^NLY, STARTING AT 8:00 O'CLOCK C FOUR ACTS OF i ft g NIXON'S BIG TIME VAUDEVILLE | V Everyone knows the name "Nixon's Vaudeville" is a gna rfattee S ' cj of quality entertainment. This is the - first time NIKON Vf ft VAUDEVILLE has ever been presented in Cape May. JVtoe ft Vf expecting to see the greatest show we have ever offerM tor ft ' © the money and you'll not be disappointed. o ft IN ADDITION— The Six-Act Associated Producers Attraction ft § "A Thousand to One" § with HOBART BOSWORTH if V ADMISSION 55 CENTS TAX PAID W eft. NO RESERVED SEATS COME EARLY ft V WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th aad 13th O V REALART PICTURES PRESENT Q ' X Bebe Daniels in "You Can Nevef Tell" § >C From Saturday Evening Post Story by Grace Lovefl Bryan JJ W IF YOU LIKE TO LAUGH, COME! For we have another of O ft those MERMAID COMEDIES which have been the talk of the ft ft town. It's entitled "DYNAMITE" on account of the explosive ft ft FRIDAY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 14th and 15th ft ft Wanda Hawley and Harrison Ford in ft 5,-. "Food for Scandal" O ft ISNT IT AWFUL TO NEED MONEY T § O Or maybe you wtre never in such a plight. But if you ever ft ft have been you will appreciate the way Sylvia and Watt felt ft JANE and KATHERINE LEE in a two reel comedy playlet * Q "THE CIRCUS IMPS" at the SATURDAY MATINEE Q xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<xxxxxxxx | — c71ie | Liberty Theatre | « Ii ?asfiinyfon. § K Street. g ft ft O MONDAY— MARY PICKFORD in ^ X ' 'Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm' ' ft Also Opening Chapter of "FIGHTING FATE" with ^ ft _ William Duncan and Edith Johnson * O O TUESDAY— ENID BENNETT in V ft "Hairpins" ft ft CLOSING CHAPTER of "BRIDE 18" ft ft First Chapter of "FIGHTING FATE" will also be shown ft ft WEDNESDAY— DOROTHY DALTON in ' O g "Guilty of Love" X & THURSDAY— DUSTIN FARNUM in W X "The Iron Strain" n S. ft ADDED— FATTY ARBUCKLE in— J Q ft "A LUNCH ROOM ROMANCE,, * ft S FRIDAY and SATURDAY— V? ft MAE MURRAY and DAVID POWELL in Q g "Idojs of Clay" X 33^ ■ A colorful drama of a great city's lights and shadows, and of XL ft the languor of the South seas ft ft FRIDAY— LARY SEMON in "SOLID CONCRETE" ft X YOU WERE THRILLED by "ON WITH THE DANCE" ft ft AMAZED by "THE RIGHT TO LOVE" ft ft But wait till you see ft S "Idols of Clay" - § ft DONT MISS " . ft,-J o ^Country Store Night'' § ft MONDAY, JANUARY 10th. ft