STORY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 7

STORY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY

Sick Boy in Brooklyn Wanted to Se Slxn, ' But Sad to Be Xttst^K appointed. 'The souvenirs which hay pleased me most," said Admira Dewey to a friend, relates We man's Home Companion, "hnv. been those which the little folk have sent me. The admiration <> the children is unalloyed and gei. nine, and their gifts are so ori; inal." The admiral's correspondent with his little admirers wouh make an interesting story of itself. I and it would be one that wouk" show his big, kind heart as prob ably nothing else could. At the time of the Manila victory then was a young lad in Brooklyn, win for many months had been flat oi his back with that most cruel of afflictions, hip disease. From the Il:i ttlr* of Manila he read ever; word he could find about "Commo dore" Dewey, and he v kept a clos< tab on his movements. It was r crushing disappointment to the lit tie fellow that he would not be able to see his hero when he came to Brooklyn a few months after his return from the far east. He felt it so keenly, that without tell in-g him that he had done so, his father wrote Admiral Dewey, ex plaining the case, and asking i whether, if he should bring a car riage, the admiral could spare the time to ride over to his house. In the programme which had been ar ranged for him there was not ; moment at his disposal, but witl> his own hand the admiral "wrote a letter expressing his regret and in ! closing an autograph picture for the boy.